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Colorful Names That Mean Blue

Names meaning blue got a big visibility boost when Beyonce and Jay-Z named their daughter Blue Ivy. The meaning blue relates to names in a range of styles, for both baby girls and baby boys.

Along with Sky on the girls' side, names that mean blue in the US Top 1000 include Celeste, Jay, Royal, Iris, and Lake.

Our collection of names with blue meanings also includes names that mean sky, names that mean heaven, and names related to blue elements of nature.

If you want to evoke the color blue in your child's name, you don't need to choose a literal color name but can look to other names the mean or are related to blue, such as Robin (those blue eggs!) and Iris, which comes in a beautiful purple-y blue color.

Indigo

Meaning: Indian dye

Origin:Greek
1370
Origin:Word name
2521
Livia

Meaning: blue, envious

Origin:Diminutive of Olivia or Latin
275
Bluebell

Meaning: blue bell

Origin:Flower name from English
830
Lilac

Meaning: bluish or lilac

Origin:English, from Persian
411
Juno

Meaning: queen of the heavens

Origin:Latin
324
Celine

Meaning: heavenly

Origin:French variation of Celeste
395
Celia

Meaning: heavenly

Origin:Latin
198
Royal

Meaning: royal

Origin:English word name
1
Maya

Meaning: water

Origin:Greek; Central American Indian empire name; Latinate variation of May; Spanish, diminutive of Amalia; variation of Maia; Hebrew
82
Aaliyah

Meaning: heavens, highborn, exalted

Origin:Variation of Aliya, Arabic
260
Celeste

Meaning: heavenly

Origin:Latin
512
River A name as beautiful as River is another grea...
Origin:Nature name
114
Dion

Meaning: child of heaven and earth

Origin:Diminutive of Dionysius, Greek
207
Caelum

Meaning: heaven

Origin:Latin
685
Sapphire

Meaning: blue

Origin:Hebrew, Greek, and Latin jewel name
520
Sky The name Sky is derived from Scandinavian or...
Origin:Nature name
702
Ocean

Meaning: ocean

Origin:English, nature name
598
Neelam

Meaning: blue sapphire

Origin:Hindi
1955
Skye The meaning of Skye is ‘sky’ or ‘cloud’. It ...
Origin:Scottish place-name
669