Pregnancy
2000 Cool Baby Names
Editor's Picks for the Year

Wondering what the coolest names of 2000 were? Here's a list of our favorites. Maybe one will fit your soon-to-be born baby girl or baby boy!
We're not claiming to be experts on the subject, but we do deal with baby names everyday! We run a popular baby name board and have tons of articles and advice on finding the perfect baby name. Here we've chosen our list of favorite names for the year; names which aren't overly popular but sound interesting, unique, important, classy or just plain cool, without being too unusual or trendy.
Here are appropriate name selections for a new millennium:
Girl Names
Audny - Scandanavian - New Prosperity
Nova - Latin: New
Ramla - African: One who Predicts the future
Desiree - French: So long hoped for
Sesha - Hindi: Serpent who symbolizes time
Blossom - English: Fresh
Boy Names
Horace - Latin: Hour in time
Milo - English: Merciful
Arden - Celtic: Lofty; eager
Achir - Indian: New
Keegan - Gaelic: Small and fiery
Nikolai - Slavic: Victorious
Anwar - Welsh: Wild
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