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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