50 Bold Baby Names Inspired by American History

By Alessia Santoro

Published on 10/27/2016 at 3:30 PM

From artists and activists to First Ladies and inventors, there are so many significant Americans who pepper our history books. Whether you're a history buff or just love the good ole US of A, there are a ton of notable people within our country's rich history who are worth honoring when it comes to naming your baby (and who knows, maybe your little babe will make it into the history books one day, too).

Scroll through for 50 bold baby names inspired by American history.

Boys

  1. Aaron (Burr) — third vice president
  2. Benjamin (Franklin) — Founding Father, inventor
  3. Carver (George Washington) — inventor
  4. Christopher (Columbus) — discovered America
  5. Clark (William) — explorer
  6. Eli (Whitney) — inventor
  7. Edison (Thomas Alva) — inventor
  8. Emerson (Ralph Waldo) — poet
  9. Frederick (Douglass) — abolitionist
  10. George (Washington) — first president
  11. Grant (Ulysses S.) — 18th president, US general
  12. Harry (Truman) — 33rd president
  13. Hawthorne (Nathaniel) — novelist
  14. Jackson (Pollock) — painter
  15. Jefferson (Thomas) — Founding Father, third president
  16. Lewis (Meriwether) — explorer
  17. Lincoln (Abraham) — 16th president
  18. Luther (King, Martin) — African-American civil rights activist
  19. Malcolm (X) — African-American civil rights activist
  20. Neil (Armstrong) — astronaut, first man on the moon
  21. Parks (Rosa) — African-American civil rights activist
  22. Quincy (Adams, John) — sixth President
  23. Smith (John) — explorer
  24. Theodore (Roosevelt) —26th President, military leader
  25. Wright (Orville and Wilbur) — inventors of the first airplane

Girls

  1. Abigail (Adams) — second First Lady
  2. Alva (Edison, Thomas) — inventor
  3. Amelia (Earhart) — first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic
  4. Betsy (Ross) — made the first American flag
  5. Cady (Stanton, Elizabeth) — suffragist, social activist, abolitionist
  6. Eleanor (Roosevelt) — longest-serving First Lady, activist
  7. Elizabeth (Blackwell) — first woman to receive a medical degree in the US
  8. Frances (Francis Scott Key) — wrote the National Anthem
  9. Georgia (O'Keefe) — painter
  10. Harriet (Beecher Stowe) — author of the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin
  11. Harper (Lee) — author of To Kill a Mockingbird
  12. Hellen (Keller) — first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree
  13. Jackie (Robinson) — first African American to play in Major League Baseball
  14. Jane (Addams) — activist, first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize
  15. Kennedy (John F.) — youngest man to be elected president
  16. Lucy (Stone) — suffragist
  17. Madison (James) — fourth president
  18. Martha (Washington) — first First Lady (though the title was not coined until after her death)
  19. Morgan (J.P.) — banker
  20. Reagan (Ronald) — 40th president
  21. Rosa (Parks) — African-American civil rights activist
  22. Rosie (the Riveter) — cultural icon representing the women who worked in factories and shipyards during World War II
  23. Sojourner (Truth) — abolitionist, women's rights activist
  24. Susan (B. Anthony) — women's rights activist
  25. Whitney (Eli) — inventor