Meaning & Origin
infante
Infant is a girl's and boy's baby name of Latin origin, from the Latin infans ('speechless, infant') — from in- ('not') + fari ('to speak'). In Spanish tradition, 'Infanta' is the title of a Spanish princess, and Infant as a given name in the Americas may carry this royal reference or be used as a name that celebrates the child's newness and precious beginning.
Infant carries either the royal Spanish Infanta's heritage or the simple declaration of the precious new beginning — the child who has not yet spoken, who is still entirely potential, whose life is all future. A name from the Latin tradition that is also the most fundamental possible declaration: here is a new person, here is pure beginning.