Our son is named Jack Atlas and we found out we’re having a girl now. We absolutely love his travel inspired middle name! We are having trouble thinking of cool, adventurous, travel-inspired middle name options for our baby girl. We like that Atlas is both travel-related and also a classical Greek name (vs. a location-based name).
We are partial to Zoe for the first name, but we aren’t sold on it yet. We’re still open to other options. My husband loves short names that don’t really take on nicknames. We’d both like a more conventional first name paired with a unique middle name, ideally, like our son’s. Thank you!
[name_u]Love[/name_u] [name_u]Jack[/name_u] & [name_u]Zoe[/name_u] together! [name_m]Classic[/name_m] charm with a good dose of playfulness.
Here are some short(er) first name ideas that I think have a similar vibe:
[name_u]Ruby[/name_u]
[name_f]Eve[/name_f]
[name_f]Ellie[/name_f] / [name_f]Elly[/name_f]
[name_f]Willa[/name_f]
[name_f]Meg[/name_f]
[name_u]Hazel[/name_u]
[name_f]Zara[/name_f]
[name_u]Abby[/name_u]
[name_f]Leah[/name_f]
[name_f]Sadie[/name_f]
[name_f]Amber[/name_f]
[name_f]Maya[/name_f] / [name_f]Maia[/name_f]
[name_f]Lila[/name_f] / [name_f]Lilah[/name_f]
[name_f]Mia[/name_f]
[name_u]Skye[/name_u]
Middle ideas, based off of [name_u]Atlas[/name_u]:
[name_f]Thalia[/name_f]
[name_f]Athena[/name_f]
[name_f]Daphne[/name_f]
[name_f]Callista[/name_f]
[name_f]Selene[/name_f]
[name_f]Ariadne[/name_f]
[name_f]Rhea[/name_f]
[name_f]Phoebe[/name_f]
[name_f]Ianthe[/name_f]
[name_f]Ione[/name_f]
[name_f]Theia[/name_f]
I’d also like to suggest [name_f]Cora[/name_f] and [name_u]Cleo[/name_u] / [name_f]Clio[/name_f], as I think they fit your criteria/vibe really well and would work as a first or middle name.
And just for fun, what I would name a sister to [name_u]Jack[/name_u] [name_u]Atlas[/name_u]
I love [name_u]Jack[/name_u] and [name_u]Zoe[/name_u] together!
Here are some other options:
Firsts
[name_f]Hannah[/name_f] (maybe a bit long?)
[name_f]May[/name_f]
[name_f]Callie[/name_f] / [name_f]Carrie[/name_f] (a bit long?)
[name_f]Anna[/name_f]
[name_f]Laila[/name_f] / [name_f]Layla[/name_f]
[name_u]Vivian[/name_u] (too long/nicknameable?)
[name_f]Lilly[/name_f] / [name_f]Lillie[/name_f] / [name_f]Lily[/name_f]
[name_f]Violet[/name_f] (quite long?)
[name_f]Lila[/name_f]
[name_u]Brooke[/name_u] (again quite long?)
[name_f]Mari[/name_f] / [name_f]Mairi[/name_f] (quite common where I live but idk about you)
[name_f]Jane[/name_f]
[name_f]Eve[/name_f]
[name_u]Ivy[/name_u]
[name_f]Iris[/name_f]
[name_u]Rose[/name_u]
[name_f]Ada[/name_f]
[name_u]Esme[/name_u]
[name_f]Flora[/name_f]
[name_f]Meg[/name_f]
[name_f]Lola[/name_f]
[name_u]Cleo[/name_u]
[name_f]Ava[/name_f]
Middles
Greek meaning with travel
[name_f]Circe[/name_f] (bird- so travel and it’s Greek)
Myrine (swiftly bounding- again movement and Greek)
[name_f]Ida[/name_f] (maybe too short but she is the mountain goddess)
[name_f]Gaia[/name_f] (meaning earth)
[name_f]Melissa[/name_f] (bee- earth and travel?)
[name_f]Avra[/name_f] (breeze)
I adore [name_u]Zoe[/name_u]!
Some other ideas for firsts:
[name_f]Kate[/name_f]
[name_f]Mae[/name_f]
[name_f]Calla[/name_f]
[name_f]Emma[/name_f]
[name_f]Dawn[/name_f]
[name_f]Leta[/name_f]
[name_u]Skye[/name_u]
[name_f]Eliza[/name_f]
[name_f]Mara[/name_f]
[name_u]Shea[/name_u]
Fern(e)
[name_f]Fleur[/name_f]
[name_f]Anna[/name_f]
[name_f]Ella[/name_f]
Some ideas for middles:
[name_f]Elissa[/name_f] (wanderer)
[name_u]Halcyon[/name_u] (an idyllic time of the past)
[name_f]Euodia[/name_f] (good journey)
Ithaka (place name but so pretty!)
[name_f]Xenia[/name_f] (foreigner, guest)
[name_f]Iris[/name_f] (rainbow!)
Antalya (also a place name that’s technically Turkey not Greece but I love it with Atlas)
[name_f]Hermione[/name_f] (from [name_m]Hermes[/name_m], messenger god who protected travellers)
[name_f]Hermia[/name_f] (also from Hermes)
[name_f]Zephyrine[/name_f] (west wind)
Lycia (from the Lycian way, Byzantine)
[name_f]Delia[/name_f] (from the Delios islands)
[name_f]Elysia[/name_f] (from the mythical [name_u]Elysian[/name_u] Fields)
[name_f]Neria[/name_f] (from [name_u]Nerio[/name_u], ‘sea traveller’)
[name_f]Calliope[/name_f] (she’s the muse of epic poetry so stories/songs about adventures but it does rhyme a bit with [name_u]Zoe[/name_u] so that’s a bummer)
[name_f]Cybel[/name_f] is the goddess of the wild/nature/animals.
Abeona in [name_m]Roman[/name_m] mythology is the goddess of journeys.