Beautiful Baby Names Inspired by Spring

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Spring is in the air, and if you're pregnant, you're probably leafing (leafing? get it?) through baby name books, trying to come up with the all-important NAME that your little human will carry around for the rest of its life. So perhaps you're thinking of a nice spring-like name for your nice spring-like baby. Lucky you, we came up with some!

Here are 30 names inspired by spring.

Girls

1. Brooke
2. Tulip/Iris/Rose/Laurel or just about any flowery "so-bouquet"
3. Jade/Emerald/Olive or anything greeny
4. Poppy
5. Robin (boy or girl)
6. April/May/June
7. Avril (no, not Avril Lavigne — April in French!)
8. Chloe/Khloe (no, not a Kardashian — it's Greek for "green shoot")
9. Spring (hey, why not just say what you mean?)
10. Flora/Fawn/Fauna
11. Blossom
12. Cherry (as in cherry blossom)
13. Easter
14. Laverna/Laverne (French for born in spring)
15. Paris (nothing like Paris in the springtime!)

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Boys

1. Rain/Raine
2. Thoreau (as in Henry David Thoreau, famous naturalist)
3. Walden (his famous book)
4. Wells/Wellington
5. River
6. Hawk
7. Vernal (as in Equinox)
8. Aries
9. Springsteen (not Bruce, you silly muffins! Although that's a bonus)
10. Frost (as in Robert, who wrote many famous spring-inspired poems)
11. Blake (as in William — he did too)
12. Leaf (not Garrett!)
13. Bud
14. Heath/Heathcliff
15. Brooks
16. Blue

And then there's always Allergies (jooooke)

Do you like any of these names?