There’s nothing quite like looking up to the night sky to remind you how expansive and beautiful the universe is. Share the wonder with your new bundle of joy by giving them a celestial inspired name.
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Girls
- Andromeda – A spiral galaxy 2.5 million light-years from Earth – rescued
- Artemis – Greek goddess of the moon and hunt
- Aurora – A natural light display – goddess of the dawn
- Belinda – One of Uranus’ Moons – beautiful
- Carina – One of three constellations that form a ship – dear one
- Celeste – heavenly
- Cordelia – One of Uranus’ Moons – jewel of the sea
- Elara – One of Jupiter’s Moons.
- Haley – A comet that is viewable to the human eye occuring only twice in a lifetime – hero
- Helene – One of Saturn’s Moons – the light of the sun
- Larissa – One of Neptune’s Moons – cheerful
- Leda – One of Jupiter’s Moons – mother creator
- Luna – Roman goddess of the moon – moon
- Lyra – A constellation of stars in the northern hemispere – of the lyre
- Nova – Explosion of a white dwarf star – new
- Phoebe – One of Saturn’s Moons – bright shining one
- Portia – The largest moon on Venus – doorway
- Rhea – One of Saturn’s Moons – rivers
- Soleil – French for Sun – sun
- Selene – Greek for Moon – moon
- Starlight – light from the stars
- Terra – Earth
- Tierra – Spanish for Earth – earth
- Umbriel – One of Uranus’ Moons – shadows
- Venus – Second planet from the sun – love
Boys
- Atlas – One of Saturn’s Moons – support
- Apollo – God of Light and NASA’s famous space program – truth & light
- Ares – Greek for Mars
- Betelgeuse – a star in the Orion constellation that is nearing the end of it’s life
- Caelum – A constellation in the Southern Sky – dove
- Castor – The brightest star in the Gemini Constellation – brother
- Dorado – Dolphin shaped constellation
- Draco – The dragon Constellation
- Giovanni – After Giovanni Cassini a 17th century Italian Astronmer & Engineer – gracious
- Helios – Greek for Sun
- Hektor – Asteroid discovered in 1907 – tenacious
- Houston – After the Texas Space Center – town of houses
- Jericho – Arabic for City of the Moons
- Jorden – Danish for Earth – to flow down
- Kalyke – One of Jupiter’s Moons
- Kennedy – After the Florida Space Center – helmet
- Ko – A slowly rotating asteroid
- Leo – Constellation – lion
- Lynx – Constellation
- Neil – After Neil Degrass Tyson – American Astrophysicist and cosmologist – champion
- Newton – AFter Sir Issac Newton an English physicist and mathematician – from the new town
- Orion – Constellation – hunter
- Perseus – A constellation named after the Greek Hero
- Phoenix – Mars spacecraft
- Rigel – the brightest star in the Orion constellation
- Sirius – Brightest star in the sky – dog star
- Stellar – relating to the stars
- Sol – Latin for Sun
- Titan – One of Saturn’s Moons – land of giants
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Sol is most commonly used to name girls in Spanish. 🙂
You didn’t use STELLAR? Rigel? Betelgeuse?
Sounds like I missed a few good ones! I’ll add them to the list. 🙂
My daughter is named Theia – Mother of the Moon in Greek mythology, also the (theoretical) planet-sized asteroid that crashed into the earth and formed the Moon.