15 Artist-Inspired Baby Names for Your Creative-in-Training

For a girl

Let’s just say there are worse people to be named for than the woman widely considered the mother of American modernism, Georgia O’Keeffe.

For a boy

Depending on your preference, this classic moniker could refer to painter Wyeth or pop artist Warhol.

For a boy

In addition to being known for his volatile marriage to Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera helped establish the Mexican mural movement.

For a girl

For fans of the painter, sculptor and printmaker Frank Stella, of course.

For a boy

We always did think Pollock’s drip paintings looked a little like they were done by a kid.

For a boy

With predecessors like Cézanne, Gauguin and Klee, Paul seems destined for artistic greatness.

For a boy

The famed visual artist was born Emmanuel Radnitzky, but we like Man Ray a little bit more.

For a girl

Here’s hoping she’ll have the same knack for portraiture as Ms. Leibovitz.

For a girl

Conceptual artist Kara Walker received a MacArthur fellowship at age 28 and has been named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People. So yeah, big shoes. 

For a boy

Like Da Vinci before him, we’re predicting great things for little Leo.

For a girl

Photographer and director Cindy Sherman’s real name is Cynthia, but no one has to know that.

For a boy

Last names count, too, especially when they belong to the Canadian-born American abstract painter Agnes Martin.

For a boy

You can call him Gus, though we’re not sure his namesake, the Austrian painter Klimt, would’ve been so casual.

For a girl

Think of this pretty nomme as the girl version of Rene, as in Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte.