30+ Baby Names Inspired by Fruit & Herbs

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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