49 gender-neutral baby names

Waiting until birth to find out the gender of your baby makes for a fantastic surprise – but it also means you have to come up with double the names.

Or does it?

Most parents will make a list of boys’ names and another for girls’ names. But there’s another option: make one list of gender-neutral baby names and pick your favourite.

“Daring and creative”

So what is a gender-neutral name? A gender-neutral or unisex name is one that has been given to babies over the years regardless of their gender. 

Not surprisingly, gender-neutral names typically started as being male or female-specific, but as an article in Bustle says, “Then, as people start to get more daring and creative with how they name their offspring, these monikers begin to drift away from the gender binary, becoming not’ names for boys’ or ‘names for girls,’ but just simply, ‘names.'”

We think this is pretty great. 

So to get your list started, here are some of our favourite gender-neutral baby names.

49 gender-neutral baby names

1. Alex
2. Aiden
3. Andy
4. Aubrey
5. Adrian
6. Bailey
7. Billie, 
8. Blaine
9. Blair
10. Blake 
11. Bobby
12. Brooklyn
13. Cameron
14. Casey
15. Charlie
16. Drew
17. Elliot
18. Emerson
19. Finley
20. Frankie
21. Glenn
22. Harper
23. James
24. Jamie
25. Jessie
26. Jules
27. Kennedy
28. Lincoln
29. Lennon
30. Lou
31. Max
32. Morgan
33. Oakley
34. Paris, 
35. Parker
36. Peyton
37. Piper
38. Reese
39. Remy
40. Riley
41. River
42. Robin
43. Rudy
44. Ryan
45. Sam
46. Shawn
47. Sunny
48. Sutton
49. Taylor

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