A Rainbow of Baby Names: Names with Colorful Meanings
What’s your favorite color? Do you love it enough to consider using it as inspiration for your baby’s name?
There’s always been a special place in my heart for names with color meanings. When I was researching Baby Names Made Easy, I always did a little happy dance when I found a new name for my Colors chapter. With May in full swing and a few May showers in the forecast, I thought it would be a good time to share some rainbow-inspired names.
*FYI – some of these names have multiple definitions, I’m only including the meanings that are color-related*
PINK
AKALA – (Hawaiian) pink
KAMALA – (Sanskrit) pink
RED
CARMINE – (Latin) crimson
CERISE – (French) cherry, red
CLANCY – (Irish) red
MAGENTA
OMAIRA – (Afghan) red
PHOENIX – (Egyptian) dark red, purple
REED / REID – (English) red
RORY – (Gaelic) red ruler
ROSS – (French) red
RUBY
SCARLET / SCARLETT
ORANGE
CORAL / CORALIE
YELLOW
BLAINE – (English) yellow
FLAVIA / FLAVIO – (Latin) golden yellow
MELINA – (Latin) bright yellow
XANTHE – (Greek) yellow
GREEN
CHLOE – (Greek) green
EMERALD
ESME / ESMÉ- (Persian) emerald
JADA / JADE
MIDORI – (Japanese) green
ORAN – (Irish) green
BLUE
AZURE – (Persian) blue
BLUE
INDIGO
NILA – (Hindi) blue
SAPPHIRE
SLATE – (French) blue-gray
SUNIL – (Sanskrit) dark blue
PURPLE
AMETHYST
FIALA – (Czech) violet
IOLA – (Greek) violet
LAVENDER
LILAC
PHOENIX – (Egyptian) dark red, purple
VIOLA – (Italian)(Spanish) violet
VIOLET
BLACK
ADRIA – (Latin) black
CIARA / CIARAN – (Irish) black
DONOVAN – (Irish) brown, black
EBONY
KALI – (Sanskrit) black
KEIRA / KIERAN – (Irish) black
MELANIA / MELANIE – (Greek) black
ONYX
BROWN
BRUNA / BRUNO – (Italian) brown
DONOVAN – (Irish) brown, black
HAZEL
RODERICK – (Welsh) reddish-brown
SIENA / SIENNA
WHITE
BIANCA – (Italian) white
BLAKE – (English) white
CANDACE – (Ethiopian) white
DWIGHT – (English) white
FINN – (Irish) white
FIONA – (Celtic) white
IVORY – (Egyptian) creamy white
KENT – (Celtic) white
GOLD
AURELIA / AURELIUS / AURELIO – (Latin) golden
CRESSIDA – (Greek) gold
GOLDIE
KANE – (Japanese) golden
VANNA – (Cambodian) golden
ZARINA – (Persian) golden
SILVER
GIN – (Japanese) silver
OTHER COLOR NAME IDEAS
GRAY / GREY
IRIS – (Greek) rainbow
KESHET – (Hebrew) rainbow
RAINBOW
CELEBRITIES WITH COLOR-THEMED NAMES
Blake Lively
Blue Ivy – daughter of Beyoncé and Jay-Z
Candace Cameron-Bure
Goldie Hawn
Jada Pinkett Smith
Joaquin Phoenix
Kamala Harris
Keira Knightley
Melania Trump
Rainbow Rowell
Scarlett Johannson
Sienna Miller
Vanna White
After reading all the colorful options, I’m sure you’re loving these color-themed names as much as I am. What one is your favorite?
Happy naming ♥ Amanda
