Some babies arrive on schedule, and some arrive after years of hoping, waiting and quietly praying. For parents who’ve been through that long stretch, the word “blessing” stops being a figure of speech and starts being the only word that fits. If that’s where you are, a name that says it outright can feel like a small, private way of marking everything it took to get here. Across Sanskrit, Hebrew, Arabic, Swahili and Latin, there are names that carry the idea beautifully. Here are seven worth considering.
