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Choosing a special name for your baby is one of the most exciting rites of passage for expecting parents, but choosing a baby name that feels *just right* is actually a lot tougher than it seems.
That’s why I’ve scoured piles of baby name books, statistics, social media posts, and YouTube videos to pull together this baby names list of my favorite nature names for boys.
For each baby name, you can learn all about the origin and the meaning of the name, as well as how popular it is right now.
The rankings we’ve provided are taken from the United States Social Security Administration data for 2021, which is the most recent provided.
With that, let’s dive in –
The Best Nature Names for Boys with Meanings
Here are my very favorite nature names for boys:
Oak
- Origin: English
- Meaning: a tree, and symbol of strength
- Popularity: > 1000
Arden
- Origin: Latin
- Meaning: great forest
- Popularity: > 1000
Coast
- Origin: Latin
- Meaning: land near the sea
- Popularity: > 1000
Samson
- Origin: Hebrew
- Meaning: little sun
- Popularity: #590
Forrest
- Origin: Scottish
- Meaning: outside
- Popularity: #414
River
- Origin: British
- Meaning: a flowing body of water
- Popularity: #110
Hartley
- Origin: British
- Meaning: deer meadow
- Popularity: > 1000
Brooks
- Origin: German, English
- Meaning: small stream
- Popularity: #77
Roscoe
- Origin: Germanic, Old Norse
- Meaning: deer wood
- Popularity: > 1000
Everest
- Origin: British
- Meaning: dweller of the Eure river
- Popularity: #903
Briar
- Origin: British
- Meaning: thorny bush of wild roses
- Popularity: #713
Elm
- Origin: British
- Meaning: someone who lived near an elm grove
- Popularity: > 1000
Hollis
- Origin: English
- Meaning: the holly tree
- Popularity: > 1000
Iver
- Origin: French
- Meaning: winter
- Popularity: > 1000
Morgan
- Origin: Scottish
- Meaning: born of the sea
- Popularity: #612
Kai
- Origin: Hawai’in
- Meaning: sea
- Popularity: #71
Rudy
- Origin: Germanic
- Meaning: famous wolf
- Popularity: #819
Finn
- Origin: Irish
- Meaning: fair
- Popularity: #184
Bentley
- Origin: English
- Meaning: grassy wood clearing
- Popularity: #151
Murphy
- Origin: Scottish
- Meaning: sea warrior
- Popularity: > 1000
Devereaux
- Origin: French
- Meaning: riverbank
- Popularity: > 1000
Elmore
- Origin: English
- Meaning: moore with elm trees
- Popularity: > 1000
Jasper
- Origin: English
- Meaning: bearer of treasure, also a national park in Canada’s Rocky Mountains
- Popularity: #128
Fox
- Origin: English
- Meaning: a wild animal from the dog family
- Popularity: #939
Garnet
- Origin: English
- Meaning: pomegranate, or a precious stone
- Popularity: > 1000
Wolfe
- Origin: English
- Meaning: wolf-like
- Popularity: > 1000
Zev
- Origin: Hebrew
- Meaning: wolf
- Popularity: #996
Wilder
- Origin: English
- Meaning: wild
- Popularity: #368
Marshall
- Origin: English
- Meaning: one who loves horses
- Popularity: #379
Bear
- Origin: German
- Meaning: strong and brave bear
- Popularity: #826
Oakley
- Origin: English
- Meaning: meadow of oak trees
- Popularity: #403
Clifford
- Origin: Old English
- Meaning: fjord by the cliff
- Popularity: > 1000
Lowell
- Origin: Old French
- Meaning: young wolf
- Popularity: > 1000
Heath
- Origin: English
- Meaning: someone who lived at a moor or heath
- Popularity: #958
Oakes
- Origin: English
- Meaning: one who lives by an oak tree
- Popularity: > 1000
Oleander
- Origin: Greek
- Meaning: evergreen tree
- Popularity: > 1000
Sterling
- Origin: English
- Meaning: little star
- Popularity: #382
Dale
- Origin: English
- Meaning: from the valley
- Popularity: > 1000
Linder
- Origin: German
- Meaning: lime tree
- Popularity: > 1000
Weldon
- Origin: English
- Meaning: from the hill near a spring
- Popularity: > 1000
Easton
- Origin: English
- Meaning: East town
- Popularity: #70
Alder
- Origin: German
- Meaning: alder tree
- Popularity: > 1000
Griffin
- Origin: Welsh
- Meaning: a bird of prey
- Popularity: #232
Oren
- Origin: Irish
- Meaning: light and fair, or pine tree
- Popularity: > 1000
Oliver
- Origin: French
- Meaning: olive tree
- Popularity: #3
Ash
- Origin: Hebrew
- Meaning: of the ash tree
- Popularity: > 1000
Fjord
- Origin: Norwegian
- Meaning: a passage in the sea
- Popularity: > 1000
Adair
- Origin: Gaelic
- Meaning: ford of the oaks
- Popularity: > 1000
Cyrus
- Origin: Greek, Persian
- Meaning: like the sun
- Popularity: #350
Weston
- Origin: British
- Meaning: from the western town
- Popularity: #95
Sage
- Origin: Latin
- Meaning: an herb
- Popularity: #427
Elwood
- Origin: British
- Meaning: elder tree forest
- Popularity: > 1000
Cedar
- Origin: Latin
- Meaning: cedar tree
- Popularity: > 1000
Lyndon
- Origin: English
- Meaning: lives by the linden tree
- Popularity: > 1000
Nash
- Origin: English
- Meaning: by the ash tree
- Popularity: #233
Perry
- Origin: English
- Meaning: one who dwells by the pear tree
- Popularity: > 1000
Berg
- Origin: German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish
- Meaning: mountain or cliff
- Popularity: 000
Grover
- Origin: English
- Meaning: living near a grove of trees
- Popularity: > 1000
Beaumont
- Origin: French
- Meaning: beautiful mountain
- Popularity: > 1000
Moses
- Origin: Hebrew
- Meaning: delivered from the water
- Popularity: #519
More Nature Names for Boys
- Cove
- Ray
- Douglas
- Dune
- Clay
- Ridge
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