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13 Poetry-Inspired Baby Names

By Sarah Stiefvater
| Jan. 3, 2018
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13 Poetry-Inspired Baby Names
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You can recite no fewer than four works by Keats off the top of your head and you’re having a really hard time deciding which Shel Silverstein book to introduce your kid to first. Consider, then, one of these gorgeous poetry-inspired baby names.

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Annabel

For a girl

In addition to being, like, really pretty, it’s also the name of the last complete poem composed by Edgar Allan Poe.

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Eliot

For a boy

He can say he was named for T.S. or George, depending on his mood.

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Maya

For a girl

With a namesake like Maya Angelou, she’s destined for nothing short of greatness.

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Emerson

For a boy or girl

Inspired by Ralph Waldo.

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Whitman

For a boy

Hey, did you guys know Walt Whitman was a volunteer nurse during the Civil War? Little Whit certainly will.

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Evangeline

For a girl

Inspired by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 1847 narrative poem  "Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie," of course.

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Byron

For a boy

We having a feeling this dude—named for noted Romantic Lord Byron—will have a sensitive side.

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Miranda

For a girl

As in the titular character of the W.H. Auden poem, not our secret favorite Sex and the City character.

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Ezra

For a boy

You know, like the American expat Ezra Pound.

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Gwendolyn

For a girl

An homage to American poet Gwendolyn Brooks (who was the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry), you can call this little cutie Gwen.

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Pablo

Pablo Neruda became known as a poet when he was just ten years old, so yeah, we've got high hopes. 

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Larkin

For a girl

British poet Philip Larkin’s early pen name—Brunette Coleman—is a bit less practical.

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Vincent

For a boy

Naming your little guy after Pulitzer Prize-winner and noted feminist activist Edna St. Vincent Millay will set him up for a life of respecting *all* people.

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