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Amari -- possibly a Swahili or African-American form of an Arabic name meaning "long-lived".

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Amaris -- mostly Hispanic, possibly a short form of Amaryllis

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Anahi -- popularized by a Mexican actress and singer, from a Guarani (Paraguayan Native American) legend

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Anaya -- Spanish surname taken up as a twist on Amaya

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Aniya, Aniyah African-American, probably blends of Anna and Aaliyah

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Brisa --Spanish word for "breeze", popularized because of a character in a telenovela.

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Dasia -- alternate spelling of Deja

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Dayana -- Hispanic American spelling of Diana, to get native Spanish speakers to use the English "eye" sound in the first syllable

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Dayanara -- from the Puerto Rican celebrity Dayanara Torres, perhaps a blend of Dayana and Deyanira

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Galilea --Spanish form of Biblical place name Galilee

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Itzel -- probably a Mayan name meaning "evening star."

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Iyana,Iyanna -- respellings of Ayanna

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Jamya --probably an African-American creation blending Ja- with Maya.

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Janiah -- African-American creation
Janiya,Janiyah -- African-American creation
Kaliyah -- African-American creation blending Kalila and Aaliyah

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Kenia -- alternate spelling of Kenya

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Kimora -- from the celebrity Kimora Lee Simmons, probably invented by her parents

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Kya -- alternate spelling of Kaia

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Laisha -- popularized by the Mexican actress Laisha Wilkins

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Litzy -- probably a modern Hispanic pet form of Elizabeth influenced by the Hispanic-American love for the sound "itz"

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Maliyah -- alternate spelling of Malia

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Nyasia -- created by the singer Nyasia; she claims she "changed around" the name of a friend who died of leukemia to create it, but the original name of the friend is unknown

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Sarahi -- alternate spelling of Sarai

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Taya -- unknown

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Yareli -- probably a Hispanic-American creation

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Yaritza -- probably a Hispanic-American creation arbitrarily blending names like Yesenia and Maritza

Chana - would guess it's a variant of Channa; Channah
Dayana - maybe a variant of Diana?
Dayanara - I've seen Deianira, but don't know what it means
Itzel - Itzal is Basque for "shadow"
Iyanna - maybe a variant of Ioanna
Jamya - probably from Jamie
Kenia - probably a kre8tyv way to spell Kenya
Kya - probably from Kay
Laisha - maybe a variant of Lisa?
Litzy - probably from Lizzy
Maliyah - could be a variant of Mahalia
Nyasia - may be derived from Asia
Sarahi - other spelling of Sarai

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This message was edited 9/11/2005, 11:41 AM

Amari: Amara? Amariah? Amaryllis?
Amaris: ^
Anahi: would mean "my answer" in Hebrew, not sure if this is used as a name
Anaya: Anya? Amaya? Anaia is also a Hebrew name meaning "G-d anwered"
Aniya: Anya
Aniyah: Anya
Brisa: female form of Brice? Form of Briseis http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/Briseis.html
Chana: Chanah
Dasia: Dosia? Dassah?
Dayana: Diana? It is also a Hebrew name meaning "female judge"
Galilea http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galilee
Itzel: Itzal? Or Hitzel, a female Yiddish name http://data.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.dll?jg~jgsearch~model~GNDB_POLA~HITSEL~GT~~0~USRECORD626
Iyana: Yana?
Iyanna: ^
Jamya: female form of Jamie (a la Jayma) ? Jamila?
Janiah: form of Jane, like Jana, Janie, Jayna?
Janiya: ^
Janiyah: ^
Kaliyah: form of Kaila a la Kaelea? Form of Kala or Kalea? Kalia is also a Hebrew name meaning "lightness of G-d"
Kenia: Kenya? or female form of Ken?
Kya: Kaia?
Laisha: la (French female form of "the") + Aisha, a la Latoya?

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For Chana see Chanah - since Chana is in the Top 1000 and Chanah is not, I suspect that Chana is the more common variation in spelling.

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