50+ Celestial Baby Names

There’s nothing quite like looking up to the night sky to remind you how expansive and beautiful the universe is. Share the wonder with your new bundle of joy by giving them a celestial inspired name.

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Girls

1. Andromeda – A spiral galaxy 2.5 million light-years from Earth – rescued
2. Artemis – Greek goddess of the moon and hunt
3. Aurora – A natural light display – goddess of the dawn
4. Belinda – One of Uranus’ Moons – beautiful
5. Carina – One of three constellations that form a ship – dear one
6. Celeste – heavenly
7. Cordelia – One of Uranus’ Moons – jewel of the sea
8. Elara – One of Jupiter’s Moons.
9. Haley – A comet that is viewable to the human eye occuring only twice in a lifetime – hero
10. Helene – One of Saturn’s Moons – the light of the sun
11. Larissa – One of Neptune’s Moons – cheerful
12. Leda – One of Jupiter’s Moons – mother creator
13. Luna – Roman goddess of the moon – moon
14. Lyra – A constellation of stars in the northern hemispere – of the lyre
15. Nova – Explosion of a white dwarf star – new
16. Phoebe – One of Saturn’s Moons – bright shining one
17. Portia – The largest moon on Venus – doorway
18. Rhea – One of Saturn’s Moons – rivers
19. Soleil – French for Sun – sun
20. Selene – Greek for Moon – moon
21. Starlight – light from the stars
22. Terra – Earth
23. Tierra – Spanish for Earth – earth
24. Umbriel – One of Uranus’ Moons – shadows
25. Venus – Second planet from the sun – love

Boys

1. Atlas – One of Saturn’s Moons – support
2. Apollo – God of Light and NASA’s famous space program – truth & light
3. Ares – Greek for Mars
4. Betelgeuse – a star in the Orion constellation that is nearing the end of it’s life
5. Caelum – A constellation in the Southern Sky – dove
6. Castor – The brightest star in the Gemini Constellation – brother
7. Dorado – Dolphin shaped constellation
8. Draco – The dragon Constellation
9. Giovanni – After Giovanni Cassini a 17th century Italian Astronmer & Engineer – gracious
10. Helios – Greek for Sun
11. Hektor – Asteroid discovered in 1907 – tenacious
12. Houston – After the Texas Space Center – town of houses
13. Jericho – Arabic for City of the Moons
14. Jorden – Danish for Earth – to flow down
15. Kalyke – One of Jupiter’s Moons
16. Kennedy – After the Florida Space Center – helmet
17. Ko – A slowly rotating asteroid
18. Leo – Constellation – lion
19. Lynx – Constellation
20. Neil – After Neil Degrass Tyson – American Astrophysicist and cosmologist – champion
21. Newton – AFter Sir Issac Newton an English physicist and mathematician – from the new town
22. Orion – Constellation – hunter
23. Perseus – A constellation named after the Greek Hero
24. Phoenix – Mars spacecraft
25. Rigel – the brightest star in the Orion constellation
26. Sirius – Brightest star in the sky – dog star
27. Stellar – relating to the stars
28. Sol – Latin for Sun
29. Titan – One of Saturn’s Moons – land of giants

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