122+ Beautiful Baby Names Inspired by Colleen Hoover Novels

If you are a CoHo reader, you already know.

There is something about the names Colleen Hoover gives her characters that just stays with you. They feel real and warm and a little bit broken and completely unforgettable. The kind of names that make you feel something before you even know the story behind them.

It makes complete sense that so many parents are now looking at their favourite CoHo characters and thinking, actually, that is a beautiful name for a baby.

So I went through the novels and pulled together 124 of the most beautiful names, from main characters to side characters to names that just lingered long after you closed the book.

The Heroines: Female Character Names From Colleen Hoover Novels

These are the women you fell in love with while reading.

The complicated ones, the ones who made you cry at 1 AM, the ones whose chapters you had to re-read because you could not believe what just happened. Their names carry all of that emotional weight with them.

1. Lily – from It Ends With Us, possibly the most talked-about name in the entire CoHo universe right now
2. Verity – from Verity, a name that means “truth” and feels increasingly haunting the more you think about it
3. Fallon – from November 9, warm and a little unconventional
4. Lowen – from Verity, rare and quietly beautiful
5. Sky – from Hopeless, open and free
6. Lake – from Slammed, nature name with real feeling in it
7. Tate – from Ugly Love, short and striking, works beautifully on a girl
8. Dovie – from Losing Hope, sweet and almost entirely unused
9. Avery – from Confess, clean and warm
10. Quinn – from All Your Perfects, sharp and modern
11. Maggie – from Point of Retreat, warm and completely timeless
12. Reese – from Maybe Not, friendly and modern
13. Kenna – from Reminders of Him, warm and Celtic-rooted
14. Ledger – wait, that is a hero. Moving on.
15. Allysa – from It Ends With Us, warm and familiar with a distinctive spelling

The Heroes: Male Character Names From Colleen Hoover Novels

Here is the thing about CoHo heroes.

They are complicated. They are not simple love interests. They have history and damage and depth that makes their names feel like they carry something heavy and beautiful at the same time.

These are the names that had readers swooning and arguing online in equal measure.

16. Atlas – from It Ends With Us, Greek Titan who held the world, genuinely one of the most beautiful boy names in recent literary history
17. Ryle – from It Ends With Us, uncommon and striking
18. Ledger – from Reminders of Him, occupational name with serious edge
19. Ben – from November 9, simple and warm and completely underrated
20. Will – from Slammed and Point of Retreat, minimal and strong
21. Holder – from Hopeless, surname energy, striking on a boy
22. Dean – from Hopeless, clean and classic
23. Asa – from Ugly Love, short and Biblical and beautiful
24. Miles – from Ugly Love, warm and modern
25. Ridge – from Maybe Someday, landscape name with real backbone
26. Warren – from Maybe Someday, old-soul and completely underused
27. Jonah – from All Your Perfects, Biblical and quietly beautiful
28. Graham – from All Your Perfects, Scottish and strong
29. Crew – from Reminders of Him, minimal and modern
30. Silas – from Without Merit, warm and grounded

Names From It Ends With Us That Are Having a Moment

I would be doing this list a disservice if I did not dedicate a whole section to this book.

It Ends With Us broke the internet in a way that very few books have. And along with it came a wave of parents falling in love with the names inside it. If you have read it, you know exactly why.

31. Lily
32. Atlas
33. Ryle
34. Allysa
35. Marshall
36. Jenny
37. Emerson
38. Sutton
39. Isabelle
40. Rylee

Names From Verity That Are Dark and Gorgeous

Verity is a different kind of CoHo book and the names in it feel different too.

Darker. More literary. The kind of names you would not necessarily expect to see on a baby name list, and yet here we are. Because they are genuinely beautiful.

41. Verity – means “truth” in Latin, striking and deeply meaningful
42. Lowen – Welsh-feeling, rare and beautiful
43. Jeremy
44. Crew
45. Chastin
46. Harper
47. Bennett

Names From Ugly Love That Feel Raw and Beautiful

Ugly Love is one of those books that hits you somewhere specific.

And the names in it carry that same rawness. Miles and Tate are not dramatic names. They are quiet and real and that is exactly what makes them so beautiful.

48. Tate
49. Miles
50. Cap
51. Corbin
52. Delaney
53. Rachel
54. Ian

Names From Reminders of Him That Linger

Kenna and Ledger. Two names I was not thinking about before this book and could not stop thinking about after it.

That is the CoHo effect. She gives names to characters and suddenly you feel the name differently than you did before.

55. Kenna
56. Ledger
57. Diem
58. Scotty
59. Grace
60. Patrick
61. Ivy

Names From November 9 That Feel Warm and Cinematic

November 9 has a specific kind of warmth to it. And the names feel the same way.

Ben and Fallon are not names that shout. They just settle in quietly and stay there.

62. Fallon
63. Ben
64. Kyle
65. Shannon
66. Amber
67. Benton
68. Grayson

Names From Hopeless and Losing Hope

These two books share a universe and the names in them feel connected by that same sense of searching and finding and losing and finding again.

69. Sky
70. Holder
71. Dean
72. Karen
73. Lesslie
74. Dovie
75. Daniel
76. Six

Names From Maybe Someday and Maybe Not

Ridge is one of those names that I had never really considered before this book and now I genuinely love it.

Warren too. Quiet, solid, underused, and completely beautiful.

77. Ridge
78. Warren
79. Sydney
80. Bridgette
81. Maggie
82. Brennan
83. Reese
84. Jake

Names From Confess and Other Colleen Hoover Novels

85. Avery – from Confess
86. Owen – from Confess
87. Hannah – from Confess
88. Adam – from Confess
89. Emory – from Too Late
90. Sloan – from Too Late
91. Carter – from Too Late
92. Merit – from Without Merit, a virtue name that feels completely fresh
93. Sagan – from Without Merit, named after Carl Sagan, completely original
94. Honor – from Without Merit
95. Luck – from Without Merit
96. Quarter – from Without Merit, an unusual name even within the novel
97. Utah – from Without Merit, a place name that works surprisingly well
98. Dallas – appears across multiple CoHo novels

Names That Feel Like They Belong in a Colleen Hoover Novel Even if They Are Not

Here is a section I added because I kept finding names that carry that same CoHo energy.

Complicated. Warm. A little broken. Beautiful.

You know the feeling I mean.

99. Wren
100. Beckett
101. Ellis
102. Sutton
103. Hayes
104. River
105. Story
106. Crew
107. Harbor
108. Blakely
109. Greyson
110. Beau
111. Sawyer
112. Remi
113. Jude
114. Callen
115. Rhett
116. Briar
117. Emerson
118. Wilder

A Few More Names That CoHo Readers Will Recognise Immediately

119. Lily
120. Atlas
121. Verity
122. Ledger
123. Kenna
124. Fallon

Wrapping It Up

If you are a CoHo reader choosing a baby name, you already have better taste than most.

The names in these books are not random. Colleen Hoover chooses names that feel lived in and real and carry something beneath the surface. And that is exactly what makes them so beautiful on a baby.

Go back through the ones that stayed with you. The names connected to your favourite characters, your most cried-over chapters, your most re-read passages.

The right name will feel obvious. It probably already does.