Ever thought about naming your kid after a car? The names below each have some sort of car-connection. Most are traditional names that happen to have been used for cars. Several, though, are often bestowed specifically in honor of certain automobiles.
The rankings indicate how often each name has placed among the top 1,000 baby names in the United States.
- Alvis – British car manufacturer. Ranked for boys a total of 69 years (most recently in 1958).
- Bentley – British luxury car manufacturer named for founder W. O. Bentley. Ranked for boys in 1890 and 1961-1962.
- Carlton – Executive car produced by British car manufacturer Vauxhall. Ranked for boys in 1880-2002 and 2005.
- Dino – Brand of sports car made by Italian manufacturer Ferrari. Ranked for boys a total of 33 years (most recently in 1983).
- Elva – British sports car maker named for French elle va (“she goes”). Ranked for girls in 1880-1969 and 1973.
- Florian – Mid-size car made by Japanese auto manufacturer Isuzu. Ranked for boys a total of 39 years (most recently in 1941).
- Ford – American car manufacturer named for founder Henry Ford. Ranked for boys at total of 55 years (most recently in 1951).
- Jetta – Sedan made by German car manufacturer Volkswagen. Ranked for girls in 1890.
- Kia – South Korean car manufacturer. Ranked for girls in 1971-1987, 1989-1996 and 1998.
- Lexus – Brand of luxury car made by Japanese manufacturer Toyota. Ranked for girls from 1992 to 2004.
- Porsche – German sports car maker named for founder Ferdinand Porsche.
Ranked for girls in 1987 and 1988.
This list includes car names that ranked before 2006. Tomorrow I’ll post a list of car names that are currently popular. Then Friday I’ll post a list of car names that have never ranked, but could one day. (Sort of a ‘past, present, future’ mini-series.) Stay tuned!
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umm… so like ford is an Australian brand.. get it right!! go Holdens!!!
Hehe. :)
I’m not sure I could name my kid after a car; especially a well known manufacture. It would just sound way to weird every time you’d have to use your kids name. It’s like when you first get married and you have to get used to calling your wife “my wife”.
Actually, Ford is an american vehicle….not australian.
How about Mercedes? The car name came from a little girl after all!
Yup, Mercedes is in Part II.
We named our daughter Porsche Rose and it suits her down to a key. We are expecting a son in april and are naming him Aston James. We have started a tradition and are sticking with it. We are car lovers but look at it just like any other name you can give to a child. we do not think of the car when we call our daughter we think of her as a person.
Our daughter is Riviera Lee, after the Buick Riviera. We get nothing but compliments about it. It is beautiful. We are trying to figure out a boys name.
My father is a mechanic and I car fanatic. It runs in the family. I am the first born of three children and the first in my family to be named after a car. My name is Nova Chevy. My sister is named Shelby Carroll, and my brother is Cooper Austin. We each have are namesake car. My 1967 Baby Blue Chevy Nova is my baby. My sister is very protective of her 1963 Shelby Cobra and my brother absolutely adores his 1966 Austin Cooper. All three of us intend to continue the car name tradition.