Naming your babies after one of the top thinkers is a cool idea; it may be just the nudge in the right direction to open his true potential. Check out our collection of smart baby names for your little boys or girls, most of these names have the annotations of clever, smart, intelligent and wisdom.
Alcott: Author of Little Women and 270 other books.
Alert: Albert Einstein is undoubtedly smartest people in history; he is the embodiment of intelligence.
Alex: Alexander Bell invented telephone.
Amelia: Amelia Earhart, 1st woman to fly across Atlantic Ocean.
Aristotle: Famous Greek philosophers.
Asimov: Isaac Asimov, smart science fiction author.
Bernanke: Ben Bernanke head of the Fed, liberal printer of money.
Biggs: John Biggs, science writer.
Bobby: Bobby Fischer, chess genius who was rather a recluse.
Bradbury: Ray Bradbury, famous author. He'd like this smart pup choice.
Charles: Charles Darwin was the man behind the theory of natural selection and how it applied to evolution.
Dawkins: Richard Dawkins, sociobiologist.
Dell: Michael Dell, inventor of Dell Computers.
Faraday: Michael Faraday, physicist and all around nice guy.
Fischer: Bobby Fischer, the smartest chess player of all time.
Fleming: Alexander Fleming, invented penicillin.
Franklin: Ben Franklin politician, and quite the ladies man.
Freud: Sigmund Freud, psychologist and one smart dude.
Galileo: After the bearded Italian physicist and astronomer.
Gates: Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, richest man in the world.
George: George Lucas was the creator of much-loved films such as Star Wars and Indiana Jones.
Hannibal: Hannibal Lechter, evil genius didn't like being restrained.
Hawk: Short for Stephen Hawking, theoretical physicist.
Hillary: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State.
Jobs: Steve Jobs was the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc.
Kasparov: Garry Kasparov, a successful chess player.
Kepler: Johannes Kepler, discovered the motion of planets.
Kofi: Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General, peacemaker.
Leonardo: Leonardo da Vinci was an artist, and so much more during the Italian Renaissance.
Marie: Marie Curie may be first on the list of great prize-winning women of our time.
Martin: Martin Luther King was a highly-regarded civil rights activist in the U.S. whose legend inspires and lives on to this day.
Milo: Milo Aukerman is not only a singer and songwriter but also a research biochemist.
Nilola: Nikola Tesla was an amazing inventor, engineer and physicist.
Palbo: Pablo Picasso was one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century.
Plato: Famous Greek philosophers.
Quentin: Quentin Tarantino, movie director with IQ of 160.
Roslin: President Laura Roslin, Battlestar Galactica.
Salk: Jonas Salk, scientist. Inventor of the Polio vaccine.
Samuel: Samuel Clemens is one of America's best-loved authors.
Socrates: Famous Greek philosophers.
Thatcher: Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister aka Iron Lady.
Thomas: Thomas Edison invented many things that we take for granted, such as the light bulb.
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