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Amaranta f Spanish (Rare), Italian (Rare)
Spanish and Italian form of Amarantha.

Amarilis f Spanish (Latin American)
Spanish form of Amaryllis.

Azahar f Spanish (Rare)
Means "orange blossom" in Spanish, ultimately from Arabic زهْرة (zahra) meaning "flower". It is taken from the title of the Virgin Mary, Nuestra Señora del Azahar, meaning "Our Lady of the Orange Blossom", because of the citrus trees that surround a church devoted to her near Murcia.

Azahara f Spanish
Variant of Azahar. It can also be given in reference to the ruined Moorish city of Medina Azahara in Córdoba, which derives from the related Arabic root زهر (zahara) meaning "to shine".

Azucena f Spanish
Means "madonna lily" in Spanish.

Carmelina f Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish diminutive of Carmela.

Carmelita f Spanish
Spanish diminutive of Carmel.

Carmelo m Spanish, Italian
Spanish and Italian masculine form of Carmel.

Carmen f Spanish, English, Italian, Portuguese, French, Romanian, German
Medieval Spanish form of Carmel, appearing in the devotional title of the Virgin Mary Nuestra Señora del Carmen meaning "Our Lady of Mount Carmel". The spelling has been altered through association with the Latin word carmen meaning "song". This was the name of the main character in George Bizet's opera Carmen (1875).

Carmenza f Spanish (Latin American)
Elaboration of Carmen.

Dalia 1 f Spanish, Arabic
Spanish and Arabic form of Dahlia. The Dahlia is the national flower of Mexico.

Deisy f Spanish (Latin American, Modern)
Spanish form of the English name Daisy.

Deysi f Spanish (Latin American, Modern)
Spanish form of the English name Daisy.

Emilia f Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Finnish, Polish, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, English, Greek, Bulgarian
Feminine form of Aemilius (see Emily). In Shakespeare's tragedy Othello (1603) this is the name of the wife of Iago.

Esperanza f Spanish
Spanish form of the Late Latin name Sperantia, which was derived from spero "to hope".

Fabiana f Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Ancient Roman
Feminine form of Fabianus (see Fabian).

Flor f Spanish, Portuguese
Either directly from Spanish or Portuguese flor meaning "flower", or a short form of Florencia.

Flora f English, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Dutch, French, Greek, Albanian, Roman Mythology
Derived from Latin flos meaning "flower" (genitive case floris). Flora was the Roman goddess of flowers and spring, the wife of Zephyr the west wind. It has been used as a given name since the Renaissance, starting in France. In Scotland it was sometimes used as an Anglicized form of Fionnghuala.

Florencia f Spanish
Spanish feminine form of Florentius (see Florence).

Florencio m Spanish
Spanish form of Florentius (see Florence).

Florentina f Spanish, Romanian, Late Roman
Feminine form of Florentinus.

Florina f Romanian, Spanish, Late Roman
Feminine form of Florinus.

Florinda f Spanish, Portuguese
Elaborated form of Spanish or Portuguese flor meaning "flower".

Floro m Italian (Rare), Spanish (Rare), Portuguese (Rare)
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of Florus.

Hortensia f Ancient Roman, Spanish
Feminine form of the Roman family name Hortensius, possibly derived from Latin hortus meaning "garden".

Iris f Greek Mythology, English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, French, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Slovene, Croatian, Greek
Means "rainbow" in Greek. Iris was the name of the Greek goddess of the rainbow, also serving as a messenger to the gods. This name can also be given in reference to the word (which derives from the same Greek source) for the iris flower or the coloured part of the eye.

Jacinta f Spanish, Portuguese
Spanish and Portuguese feminine form of Hyacinthus.

Jacinto m Spanish, Portuguese
Spanish and Portuguese form of Hyacinthus.

Jazmín f Spanish
Spanish form of Jasmine.

Lilia f Spanish, Italian, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian
Latinate form of Lily, as well as an alternate transcription of Russian Лилия or Ukrainian Лілія (see Liliya).

Liliana f Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Polish, Czech, English
Latinate form of Lillian.

Loreto f & m Spanish, Italian
From the name of a town in Italy, originally called Lauretum in Latin, meaning "laurel grove". Supposedly in the 13th century the house of the Virgin Mary was miraculously carried by angels from Nazareth to the town. In Spain it is a feminine name, from the Marian title Nuestra Señora de Loreto, while in Italy it is mostly masculine.

Maravillas f Spanish
Means "marvels, wonders", from the Spanish title of the Virgin Mary, Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas, meaning "Our Lady of Wonders".

Margarita f Spanish, Russian, Bulgarian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Greek, Albanian, Late Roman
Latinate form of Margaret. This is also the Spanish word for the daisy flower (species Bellis perennis, Leucanthemum vulgare and others).

Mirta f Spanish, Italian, Croatian
Spanish, Italian and Croatian cognate of Myrtle.

Narcisa f Romanian, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian (Rare)
Feminine form of Narcissus.

Narciso m Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of Narcissus. This is also the word for the narcissus flower in those languages.

Orquídea f Spanish, Portuguese
Means "orchid" in Spanish and Portuguese, from Latin orchis, Greek ὄρχις (orchis).

Rosa 1 f Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Catalan, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Dutch, German, English
Generally this can be considered to be from Latin rosa meaning "rose", though originally it may have come from the unrelated Germanic name Roza 2. This was the name of a 13th-century saint from Viterbo in Italy. In the English-speaking world it was first used in the 19th century. Famous bearers include the Polish-German revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) and the American civil rights activist Rosa Parks (1913-2005).

Rosalía f Spanish, Galician
Spanish and Galician form of Rosalia.

Rosalina f Portuguese, Spanish
Latinate form of Rosaline.

Rosalinda f Spanish, Italian
Latinate form of Rosalind.

Rosalva f Spanish
Variant of Rosalba.

Rosaura f Spanish
Means "golden rose", derived from Latin rosa "rose" and aurea "golden". This name was (first?) used by Pedro Calderón de la Barca for a character in his play Life Is a Dream (1635).

Rosita f Spanish
Spanish diminutive of Rosa 1.

Susana f Spanish, Portuguese
Spanish and Portuguese form of Susanna.

Susanita f Spanish (Rare)
Spanish diminutive of Susana.

Valeriana f Spanish, Ancient Roman
Feminine form of Valerianus (see Valerian).

Violeta f Romanian, Spanish, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian, Albanian, Lithuanian
Form of Violet in several languages.

Yasmin f Arabic, Hebrew, Urdu, English (Modern), Spanish (Modern), Portuguese (Modern)
Means "jasmine" in Arabic and Hebrew, derived from Persian یاسمین (yāsamīn). In modern times it has been used in the western world, as an Arabic-influenced variant of Jasmine.

Yasmina f Arabic, Spanish (Modern), French (Modern)
Variant of Yasmin.

Yolanda f Spanish, English
From the medieval French name Yolande, which was probably a form of the name Violante, which was itself a derivative of Latin viola "violet". Alternatively it could be of Germanic origin.... [more]

Zaira f Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form of Zaïre. It was used by Vincenzo Bellini for the heroine of his opera Zaira (1829), which was based on Voltaire's 1732 play Zaïre.