What’s your favorite color? Do you love it enough to consider using it as inspiration for your baby’s name?

There’s always been a special place in my heart for names with color meanings. When I was researching Baby Names Made Easy, I always did a little happy dance when I found a new name for my Colors chapter. With May in full swing and a few May showers in the forecast, I thought it would be a good time to share some rainbow-inspired names.

*FYI – some of these names have multiple definitions, I’m only including the meanings that are color-related*

PINK

AKALA – (Hawaiian) pink

KAMALA – (Sanskrit) pink

RED

CARMINE – (Latin) crimson

CERISE – (French) cherry, red

CLANCY – (Irish) red

MAGENTA

OMAIRA – (Afghan) red

PHOENIX – (Egyptian) dark red, purple

REED / REID – (English) red

RORY – (Gaelic) red ruler

ROSS – (French) red

RUBY

SCARLET / SCARLETT

ORANGE

CORAL / CORALIE

YELLOW

BLAINE – (English) yellow

FLAVIA / FLAVIO – (Latin) golden yellow

MELINA – (Latin) bright yellow

XANTHE – (Greek) yellow

GREEN

CHLOE – (Greek) green

EMERALD

ESME / ESMÉ- (Persian) emerald

JADA / JADE

MIDORI – (Japanese) green

ORAN – (Irish) green

BLUE

AZURE – (Persian) blue

BLUE

INDIGO

NILA – (Hindi) blue

SAPPHIRE

SLATE – (French) blue-gray

SUNIL – (Sanskrit) dark blue

PURPLE

AMETHYST

FIALA – (Czech) violet

IOLA – (Greek) violet

LAVENDER

LILAC

PHOENIX – (Egyptian) dark red, purple

VIOLA – (Italian)(Spanish) violet

VIOLET

BLACK

ADRIA – (Latin) black

CIARA / CIARAN – (Irish) black

DONOVAN – (Irish) brown, black

EBONY

KALI – (Sanskrit) black

KEIRA / KIERAN – (Irish) black

MELANIA / MELANIE – (Greek) black

ONYX

BROWN

BRUNA / BRUNO – (Italian) brown

DONOVAN – (Irish) brown, black

HAZEL

RODERICK – (Welsh) reddish-brown

SIENA / SIENNA

WHITE

BIANCA – (Italian) white

BLAKE – (English) white

CANDACE – (Ethiopian) white

DWIGHT – (English) white

FINN – (Irish) white

FIONA – (Celtic) white

IVORY – (Egyptian) creamy white

KENT – (Celtic) white

GOLD

AURELIA / AURELIUS / AURELIO – (Latin) golden

CRESSIDA – (Greek) gold

GOLDIE

KANE – (Japanese) golden

VANNA – (Cambodian) golden

ZARINA – (Persian) golden

SILVER

GIN – (Japanese) silver

OTHER COLOR NAME IDEAS

GRAY / GREY

IRIS – (Greek) rainbow

KESHET – (Hebrew) rainbow

RAINBOW

CELEBRITIES WITH COLOR-THEMED NAMES

Blake Lively

Blue Ivy – daughter of Beyoncé and Jay-Z

Candace Cameron-Bure

Goldie Hawn

Jada Pinkett Smith

Joaquin Phoenix

Kamala Harris

Keira Knightley

Melania Trump

Rainbow Rowell

Scarlett Johannson

Sienna Miller

Vanna White

After reading all the colorful options, I’m sure you’re loving these color-themed names as much as I am. What one is your favorite?

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Happy naming ♥ Amanda