Looking for a unique name for your new little pumpkin? Sometimes the best inspiration is right in front of us, including the kitchen. For a fresh baby name, try one of these inspired by fruits, veggies and herbs.
Girls
- Apple – sweet fruit in the rose family
- Aubergine – a type of eggplant
- Cherry – a sweet or tart red fruit
- Clary – from clary sage, an herb used in natural medicine
- Clementine – a hybrid fruit between a mandarin and sweet orange
- Fig – a flowering plant in the mulberry family
- Ginger – a flowering plant used both as a spice and herbally
- Juniper – a berry most commonly used to flavor sauces and beverages
- Lavendar –purple flowering plant in the mint family
- Maple – a genus of trees whose sap is used to produce maple syrup
- Melissa – alternative name for lemon balm, an herb used in natural medicine
- Mint – a spicy hybrid plant used both in flavorings and medicinally
- Pepper – a flowering vine fruit most commonly dried and used as a spice
- Persimmon a red orange fruit most commonly used in baking
- Pumpkin – a bright orange fruit native to North America
- Rosemary – a perinneal herb from the mint family
Boys
- August – a variety of peach
- Basil – ‘king of the herbs’, one the most popular herbs
- Bartlett – type of pear
- Bosc – A type of pear
- Caraway – a small plant used to spice bread
- Corey – from the herb, coriander
- Flint – a variety of corn
- Hudson – A type of cherry
- Kale – annual plant grown for both ornamental and consumptive purposes
- Rainier – a variety of cherry
- Rue – also known as the herb of grace
- Russett – variety of potato
- Sage – a small evergreen plant commonly used as a spice
- Serrano – a variety of pepper
- Thyme – an evergreen herb with both culinary and medicinal uses
Did I miss any great names? What did you name your child?
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