13 Poetry-Inspired Baby Names
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.
1.
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.
2.
Eliot
For a boy
He can say he was named for T.S. or George, depending on his mood.
3.
Maya
For a girl
With a namesake like Maya Angelou, she’s destined for nothing short of greatness.
4.
Emerson
For a boy or girl
Inspired by Ralph Waldo.
5.
Whitman
For a boy
Hey, did you guys know Walt Whitman was a volunteer nurse during the Civil War? Little Whit certainly will.
6.
Evangeline
For a girl
Inspired by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 1847 narrative poem "Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie," of course.
7.
Byron
For a boy
We having a feeling this dude—named for noted Romantic Lord Byron—will have a sensitive side.
8.
Miranda
For a girl
As in the titular character of the W.H. Auden poem, not our secret favorite Sex and the City character.
9.
Ezra
For a boy
You know, like the American expat Ezra Pound.
10.
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.
11.
Pablo
Pablo Neruda became known as a poet when he was just ten years old, so yeah, we've got high hopes.
12.
Larkin
For a girl
British poet Philip Larkin’s early pen name—Brunette Coleman—is a bit less practical.
13.
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.
