Other Scripts:अदिति(Sanskrit, Hindi)अदिती(Marathi)অদিতি(Bengali)ಅದಿತಿ(Kannada)
Rating:38% based on 8 votes
Means "boundless, entire" or "freedom, security" in Sanskrit. This is the name of an ancient Hindu goddess of the sky and fertility. According to the Vedas she is the mother of the gods.
Andraste
Gender:Feminine
Usage: Celtic Mythology (Hellenized)
Other Scripts:Ἀνδράστη(Ancient Greek)
Rating:51% based on 8 votes
Possibly means "invincible" in Celtic. According to the Greco-Roman historian Cassius Dio [1], this was the name of a Briton goddess of victory who was invoked by Boudicca before her revolt.
Andromache
Gender:Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts:Ἀνδρομάχη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced:AN-DRO-MA-KEH(Classical Greek)
Rating:46% based on 8 votes
Derived from the Greek elements ἀνήρ (aner) meaning "man" (genitive ἀνδρός) and μάχη (mache) meaning "battle". In Greek legend she was the wife of the Trojan hero Hector. After the fall of Troy Neoptolemus killed her son Astyanax and took her as a concubine.
Means "jewel" in French. It is mostly used in French-speaking Africa.
Camellia
Gender:Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced:kə-MEE-lee-ə, kə-MEHL-ee-ə
Rating:53% based on 4 votes
From the name of the flowering shrub, which was named for the botanist and missionary Georg Josef Kamel.
Candelaria
Gender:Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced:kan-deh-LA-rya
Rating:57% based on 7 votes
Means "Candlemas" in Spanish, ultimately derived from Spanish candela "candle". This name is given in honour of the church festival of Candlemas, which commemorates the presentation of Christ in the temple and the purification of the Virgin Mary.
Desideria
Gender:Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare), Spanish (Rare), Late Roman
Pronounced:deh-see-DHEH-rya(Spanish)
Rating:52% based on 6 votes
Feminine form of Desiderio. This was the Latin name of a 19th-century queen of Sweden, the wife of Karl XIV. She was born in France with the name Désirée.
Electra
Gender:Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts:Ἠλέκτρα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced:i-LEHK-trə(English)
Rating:65% based on 6 votes
Latinized form of Greek Ἠλέκτρα (Elektra), derived from ἤλεκτρον (elektron) meaning "amber". In Greek myth she was the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra and the sister of Orestes. She helped her brother kill their mother and her lover Aegisthus in vengeance for Agamemnon's murder. Also in Greek mythology, this name was borne by one of the Pleiades, who were the daughters of Atlas and Pleione.
Means "life of Zeus", derived from Greek Ζηνός (Zenos) meaning "of Zeus" and βίος (bios) meaning "life". This was the name of the queen of the Palmyrene Empire, which broke away from Rome in the 3rd-century and began expanding into Roman territory. She was eventually defeated by the emperor Aurelian. Her Greek name was used as an approximation of her native Aramaic name.