Dianatiger's Personal Name List
Adelissa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Dutch, Spanish (Latin American, Rare)
Adora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Rare)
Pronounced: a-DHO-ra
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Adrastea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἀδράστεια(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
Latinized form of
Adrasteia. One of Jupiter's moons bears this name.
Agrona
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Celtic Mythology (Hypothetical)
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Perhaps derived from the old Celtic root *agro- meaning "battle, slaughter". This is possibly the name of a Brythonic goddess for whom the River Ayr in Scotland and River Aeron in Wales were named.
Ahava
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אַהֲבָה(Hebrew)
Rating: 53% based on 4 votes
Means "love" in Hebrew.
Aimée
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: EH-MEH
Alandria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Rating: 50% based on 8 votes
Alaria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Gascon
Rating: 59% based on 22 votes
Aldora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greenlandic
Pronounced: AL-do-ra
Rating: 46% based on 9 votes
Aldreda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Aludra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Astronomy
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
Derived from Arabic
العذراء (al-'adhra) meaning
"the maiden". This is the name of a star in the constellation Canis Major.
Amandine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: A-MAHN-DEEN
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Amaryllida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek (Rare)
Other Scripts: Αμαρυλλίδα(Greek)
Greek variant of
Amaryllis, from the genitive form Αμαρυλλίδος
(Amaryllidos). This is also the Greek name for the amaryllis flower.
Amatheia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἀμάθεια(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Meaning, "rears, nurses."
Ambrosina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Portuguese (Brazilian)
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Ameline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, French (Belgian), Flemish
Rating: 60% based on 20 votes
Amoretta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (Rare), Theatre, Afro-American (Slavery-era)
Latinate form of
Amoret, from Edmund Spenser's epic poem
The Faerie Queene (1590).
Amory
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Literature, English (Rare)
Pronounced: AM-ə-ree
Rating: 100% based on 4 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Amory.
Annadora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Rare)
Pronounced: an-a-DO-ra
Rating: 35% based on 6 votes
Annora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Personal remark: Annora Lorraine
Rating: 69% based on 39 votes
Medieval English variant of
Honora.
Anticlea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἀντίκλεια(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Anwen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Rating: 38% based on 9 votes
Means
"very beautiful" in Welsh, from the intensive prefix
an- combined with
gwen "white, blessed".
Apollinaria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian, History (Ecclesiastical)
Other Scripts: Аполлинария(Russian)
Rating: 39% based on 9 votes
Russian feminine form of
Apollinaris. According to Orthodox Christian ecclesiastical traditions, Apollinaria is venerated as a Virgin-Martyr alongside Saint
Drosis.
Aracelia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American), Portuguese (Brazilian)
Arcangela
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Arilda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: History (Ecclesiastical), French (Quebec, Rare), French (Acadian, Archaic)
Rating: 38% based on 5 votes
Saint Arilda is an obscure female saint from Oldbury-on-Severn in the English county of Gloucestershire who probably lived in the 5th or 6th century. She may have been of either Anglo-Saxon or Welsh origin.
Asherah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Semitic Mythology
Pronounced: ə-SHEER-ə(English)
Rating: 78% based on 4 votes
Perhaps derived from Semitic roots meaning "she who walks in the sea". This was the name of a Semitic mother goddess. She was worshipped by the Israelites before the advent of monotheism.
Asterodia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἀστεροδία(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Possibly derived from the Greek noun ἀστήρ
(aster) meaning "star" (genitive ἀστέρος; compare
Asteria and
Asterope) and an uncertain second element. In Greek mythology this name belonged to multiple characters, including a nymph who inhabited a Caucasian mountain stream that bore gold.
Astrid
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, French, English
Pronounced: AS-strid(Swedish) AHS-tri(Norwegian) AS-trit(German) AS-TREED(French) AS-trid(English)
Rating: 73% based on 42 votes
Modern Scandinavian form of
Ástríðr. This name was borne by the Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002), the author of
Pippi Longstocking. It was also borne by a Swedish princess (1905-1935) who became the queen of Belgium as the wife of Leopold III.
Astris
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Αστρις(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 77% based on 3 votes
Derived from
αστερ (aster) meaning "star, starry". It is the name of a star-nymph daughter of the sun-god
Helios.
Atlantia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
A hamadryad (tree nymph) and the wife of
Danaus in Greek Mythology.
Attica
Usage: English, Ancient Roman
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
From Greek
Ἀττική (Attike), derived from the name of the city of
Ἀθήναι (see
Athens). This is the name of the peninsula where Athens is located.
Attracta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish, Medieval Irish (Latinized), History (Ecclesiastical)
Latinized form of the Gaelic name Athracht, which is of uncertain meaning. The Latinization was perhaps influenced by attractus "attracted". This was the name of a 6th-century Irish saint who was known as a healer and miracle worker.
Aubriana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: aw-bree-AN-ə, aw-bree-AHN-ə
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
Aurelia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman, Romanian, Italian, Spanish, Polish
Pronounced: ow-REH-lee-a(Latin) ow-REH-lya(Italian, Spanish, Polish)
Auxiliatrix
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch (Rare)
Derived from Latin
auxiliatrix, which refers to a helper, aide or assistant of the female sex (the masculine equivalent is
auxiliator). The word is ultimately derived from the Latin noun
auxilium meaning "help, aid, assistance". Also see
Auxilius and
Auxiliadora. As a personal name, Auxiliatrix is usually bestowed on a newborn girl in honour of the Virgin Mary, since Auxiliatrix is one of her many epithets (sometimes she is even called Mary Auxiliatrix). But despite this significant religious connection, Auxiliatrix is extremely rare as a personal name. For example, in The Netherlands, there were less than 5 bearers with the name (in the entire country) in 2014.
Ayala
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אַיָּלָה(Hebrew)
Pronounced: ie-ah-LAH
Rating: 56% based on 5 votes
Means "doe, female deer" in Hebrew.
Azalaïs
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Occitan
Basilissa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Swiss, Rare, Archaic), Romansh (Rare, Archaic), Italian (Rare), Portuguese (Rare)
Bat-Sheva
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical Hebrew
Other Scripts: בַּת־שֶׁבַע(Ancient Hebrew)
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Belvidera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Theatre
Rating: 77% based on 3 votes
Derived from Italian
belvedere meaning "a fair sight" (compare
Belvedere). This was used by English dramatist Thomas Otway for a character in his tragedy
Venice Preserv'd (1682).
Boadicea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Brythonic (Latinized)
Pronounced: bo-di-SEE-ə(English)
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Medieval variant of
Boudicca, possibly arising from a scribal error.
Brava
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Esperanto
Pronounced: BRA-va
Means "valiant, brave" in Esperanto.
Brixia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Celtic Mythology
Cadiga
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic (Latinized), Literature
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Archaic transcription of
Khadija. This form is mostly used in older English translations of the Koran, as well as early translations of the Arabian Nights. A notable bearer of this name is the titular character's wife from the Arabian Nights-inspired novel "The History of Nourjahad" (1767) by Frances Sheridan.
Callasandra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
Calpurniana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman
Late Roman elaboration of Calpurnia
Calypatric
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Manx (Archaic)
Derived from Manx
caillagh, a cognate of Old Irish
caillech "veiled one; (and by extension) nun; female servant" (ultimately from Old Irish
caille "veil") and the given name
Patric with the intended meaning of "servant of Saint
Patrick" (since the names of saints were considered too holy for everyday use, they were usually prefixed until the 17th century).
Cameria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ottoman Turkish, History
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Variant of
Qamariya.
Sultana Cameria was the name Europeans used to refer to
Mihrimah Sultan (1522 – 25 January 1578), an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Ottoman Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent and his wife, Hürrem Sultan. She was the most powerful imperial princess in Ottoman history according to historian Mustafa Selaniki who described her as the greatest and most respected princess and a prominent figure in the so-called Sultanate of Women.
Carenza
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Cornish
Variant of
Kerensa, which has been 'used since the early 1970s, but more often in its variant form
Karenza' (Dunkling, 1983). However, the name also occurs in medieval France; it belonged to a woman who composed the last two stanzas of an Occitan poem that begins
Na Carenza al bel cors avinen, meaning "Lady Carenza of the lovely, gracious body".
Caroline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch
Pronounced: KA-RAW-LEEN(French) KAR-ə-lien(English) KAR-ə-lin(English) ka-ro-LEE-nə(German)
Rating: 76% based on 16 votes
Castellana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Italian, Medieval Spanish, Medieval Catalan
Directly taken from Latin castellana "a (female) castellan; a damsel" as well as "of or pertaining to a castle".
Catherine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, English
Pronounced: KA-TU-REEN(French) KA-TREEN(French) KATH-ə-rin(English) KATH-rin(English)
Rating: 74% based on 18 votes
French form of
Katherine, and also a common English variant.
Cecila
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese (Brazilian, Rare), English (American, Rare)
Celestina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Italian
Pronounced: theh-lehs-TEE-na(European Spanish) seh-lehs-TEE-na(Latin American Spanish) cheh-leh-STEE-na(Italian)
Celestra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (Rare)
Rating: 51% based on 7 votes
Celestria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Ceridwen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: keh-RID-wehn
Rating: 43% based on 9 votes
Possibly from
cyrrid "bent, crooked" (a derivative of Old Welsh
cwrr "corner") combined with
ben "woman" or
gwen "white, blessed". According to the medieval Welsh legend the
Tale of Taliesin (recorded by Elis Gruffyd in the 16th century) this was the name of a sorceress who created a potion that would grant wisdom to her son Morfan. The potion was instead consumed by her servant Gwion Bach, who was subsequently reborn as the renowned bard
Taliesin.
This name appears briefly in a poem in the Black Book of Carmarthen in the form Kyrridven [1] and in a poem in the Book of Taliesin in the form Kerrituen [2]. Some theories connect her to an otherwise unattested Celtic goddess of inspiration, and suppose her name is related to Welsh cerdd "poetry".
Channah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical Hebrew
Other Scripts: חַנָּה(Ancient Hebrew)
Rating: 68% based on 5 votes
Biblical Hebrew form of
Hannah.
Chantria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Khmer
Pronounced: CHAN-try-ah
Variant of
Chantrea. Meaning - moon, moonlight.
Charikleia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek, Ancient Greek
Other Scripts: Χαρίκλεια(Greek)
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
From Greek
χάρις (charis) meaning "grace, kindness" and
κλέος (kleos) meaning "glory". This is the name of the heroine of the 3rd-century novel
Aethiopica, about the love between Charikleia and Theagenes, written by Heliodorus of Emesa.
Charissa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Dutch
Pronounced: kə-RIS-ə(English)
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Elaborated form of
Charis. Edmund Spencer used it in his epic poem
The Faerie Queene (1590).
Chelidonia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Italian name derived from the Greek word chelidon meaning "swallow". This name was borne by a 12th-century Italian saint.
Christabel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: KRIS-tə-behl
Rating: 97% based on 3 votes
Combination of
Christina and the name suffix
bel (inspired by Latin
bella "beautiful"). This name occurs in medieval literature, and was later used by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his 1816 poem
Christabel [1].
Christiane
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, French
Pronounced: kris-tee-A-nə(German) KREES-TYAN(French)
Rating: 61% based on 9 votes
German and French feminine form of
Christian.
Chryséis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Gallicized)
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
Chrysopeleia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Χρυσοπέλεια(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Means "golden dove", from Greek χρυσός
(chrysos) meaning "gold" and πελεία
(peleia) meaning "dove", which is a common name element associated with female seers. In Greek mythology this was the name of a hamadryad (a type of nymph) who married Arkas, the eponymous king of Arkadia.
Ĉiela
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Esperanto
Pronounced: chee-EH-la
Means "heavenly, from the sky" in Esperanto, from ĉielo "sky", ultimately derived from Latin caelum.
Cindora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: sin-DAWR-ə, SIN-dər-ə
Rating: 54% based on 7 votes
Combination of
Cindy and the name suffix
dora, possibly based on similar-sounding names such as
Cinderella or
Cindra.
Cipressa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Judeo-Anglo-Norman
Clärenore
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Rare)
Pronounced: KLA-rə-no-rə
Rating: 44% based on 5 votes
A contraction of the names
Cläre and
Eleonore.
The name was borne by Clärenore Stinnes, the first woman to circumnavigate the world in an automobile.
Clarentia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Rare), English (American, Archaic), Danish (Archaic), Dutch (Rare)
Rating: 43% based on 4 votes
Clarissant
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arthurian Cycle
In Arthurian legends Clarissant was a daughter of King
Lot and
Morgause who married Sir
Guiromelant. She was the mother of
Guigenor. According to a single Arthurian romance she was the sister of
Gawain, who lived in a magic castle. In the same text,
Sir Percevelle,
Percival overcomes her lover Guiromelant. Nowhere else is Gawain said to have a sister.
Clarity
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: KLAR-i-tee
Personal remark: Clarity Belle
Rating: 60% based on 49 votes
Simply means "clarity, lucidity" from the English word, ultimately from Latin clarus "clear".
Cleonora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese (Brazilian, Rare)
Rating: 71% based on 7 votes
Clerina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American, Archaic), History (Ecclesiastical)
Rating: 28% based on 6 votes
Saint Clerina of Carthage was a 3rd-century saint. She is said to have been the aunt of Saint
Celerinus.
Columbia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Judeo-Anglo-Norman (Latinized)
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Judeo-Anglo-Norman form of
Colombe.
Cosima
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: KAW-zee-ma
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Italian feminine form of
Cosimo.
Cosmia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized), Greek (Latinized, Rare), Spanish (Rare), Italian (Rare), English (Rare)
Other Scripts: Κοσμία(Greek)
Latinized form of the Greek name Κοσμία (Kosmia), which meant "orderly, decent".
Crescentia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Rare), Late Roman
Rating: 50% based on 21 votes
Feminine form of
Crescentius.
Saint Crescentia was a 4th-century companion of Saint
Vitus. This is also the name of the eponymous heroine of a 12th-century German romance.
Cristeta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Aragonese (Rare), Spanish (Rare), Spanish (Philippines, Rare), History (Ecclesiastical)
Rating: 8% based on 5 votes
Possibly a diminutive of
Cristiana, a derivative of Latin
christiana meaning "Christian (woman)". This was the name of a Spanish saint (from Talavera, Toledo) who was martyred during the persecutions of the Roman emperor Diocletian in the early 4th century.
Crucificia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman, Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: kru-cheh-fee-sah(Italian)
Earliest known usage stemmed from the mid 4th century in Rome, following the rule of Constantine. The meaning of the name is "Crucifixion."
Cypriana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch (Rare), English (Rare), German (Rare), Romansh (Rare), Ancient Roman
Dalmatia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval French
From Latin Dalmatia meaning "Dalmatian, of Dalmatia".
Decentia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman
Late Roman female equivalent to Decentius
Deianira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Δηϊάνειρα, Δῃάνειρα(Ancient Greek)
Deirdre
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Irish, Irish Mythology
Pronounced: DIR-drə(English) DIR-dree(English) DYEHR-dryə(Irish)
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
From the Old Irish name
Derdriu, meaning unknown, possibly derived from
der meaning
"daughter". This was the name of a tragic character in Irish legend who died of a broken heart after
Conchobar, the king of Ulster, forced her to be his bride and killed her lover
Naoise.
It has only been commonly used as a given name since the 20th century, influenced by two plays featuring the character: William Butler Yeats' Deirdre (1907) and J. M. Synge's Deirdre of the Sorrows (1910).
Delphia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DEHL-fee-ə
Rating: 45% based on 17 votes
Possibly from the name of the Greek city of Delphi, the site of an oracle of
Apollo, which is possibly related to Greek
δελφύς (delphys) meaning "womb". It was used in the play
The Prophetess (1647), in which it belongs to the title prophetess.
Dexamene
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Δεξαμένη(Ancient Greek)
Means "strength of the right hand". Name borne by one of the Nereids.
Diadora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Sardinian
Rating: 33% based on 4 votes
Dionisia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: dyo-NEE-zya(Italian) dyo-NEE-sya(Spanish)
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Italian and Spanish feminine form of
Dionysius.
Diopatra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Latinized form of
Diopatre. This was the name of a nymph in Greek mythology.
Domitilla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: do-mee-TEEL-la(Italian)
Feminine
diminutive of the Roman family name
Domitius. This was the name of the wife of the Roman emperor Vespasian and the mother of emperors Titus and Domitian.
Dracaena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: drə-SEE-nə
From the name of a genus of about forty species of trees and succulent shrubs, which is the Latinized form of Greek δράκαινα
(drakaina) meaning "she-dragon", the feminine form of δράκων
(drakon) - compare
Drakon. In Greek mythology a drakaina is a female dragon, sometimes with human-like features; the mythological characters of
Ceto,
Lamia,
Echidna, and
Scylla were all considered drakaina.
Dulcelina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval French (Latinized), Spanish (Latin American), Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazilian)
Dulcia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Judeo-Catalan (Latinized), Gascon
Latinized form of
Dulcie, used particularly in Iberian countries. As a Jewish name, Dulcia was occasionally used as a translation of
Naomi 1 in former times.
Eilwen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Rating: 43% based on 8 votes
Perhaps means
"white brow", derived from Welsh
ael "brow" and
gwen "white, blessed". This is a recently created Welsh name.
Eldora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American, Rare), Romani (Archaic)
Pronounced: ehl-DAWR-ə(American English)
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Perhaps a combination of
Elnora and
Dora. This is the name of a small former mining town in Boulder County, Colorado, United States, which was originally named
El Dorado.
Elfreda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Middle English form of the Old English name
Ælfþryð meaning
"elf strength", derived from the element
ælf "elf" combined with
þryþ "strength".
Ælfþryð was common amongst Anglo-Saxon nobility, being borne for example by the mother of King
Æðelræd the Unready. This name was rare after the
Norman Conquest, but it was revived in the 19th century.
Elfriede
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German
Pronounced: ehl-FREE-də
Eligia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Polish (Rare), Late Roman
Pronounced: eh-LEE-khya(Spanish) eh-LEE-gya(Polish)
Rating: 32% based on 5 votes
Elisabeth
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, English, Biblical, Biblical Latin
Pronounced: eh-LEE-za-beht(German) eh-LEE-sa-beht(Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian) eh-LEE-sa-behd(Danish) i-LIZ-ə-bəth(English)
Personal remark: Rosebelle / Kate
Rating: 75% based on 58 votes
German and Dutch form of
Elizabeth. It is also a variant English form, reflecting the spelling used in the Authorized Version of the
New Testament.
Elisheva
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew
Other Scripts: אֱלִישֶׁבַע(Hebrew)
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
Elladora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature, Filipino
Pronounced: el-ə-DAWR-ə(Literature)
Rating: 35% based on 6 votes
Combination of the popular name elements
Ella (see
Ella 2) and
dora (see
Dora), perhaps based on similar-sounding names such as
Eldora and
Eleanora. This occurs in J. K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix' (2003) belonging to a member of the Black family.
Elsiana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American), Portuguese (Brazilian), Italian (Rare)
Elvia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Embla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norse Mythology, Icelandic, Swedish, Norwegian
Pronounced: EHM-blah(Icelandic, Swedish, Norwegian)
Meaning uncertain, perhaps related to Old Norse
almr "elm". In Norse
mythology Embla and her husband
Ask were the first humans. They were created by three of the gods from two trees.
Émeraude
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Modern), French (Belgian, Modern, Rare)
Pronounced: EHM-RAWD(French, Belgian French)
Derived from French émeraude "emerald".
Emerencia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hungarian, Spanish (Rare)
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
Emerentia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman, Dutch, German (Rare), Swedish (Rare), Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend
Feminine form of
Emerentius. This name belonged to an early Christian martyr, and is also assigned to the mother of Saint Anna and grandmother of the Virgin Mary in some late 15th-century European traditions.
Emeria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Shorter form of
Emerentia.
According to "'Ancient Magnificence': St Andrews in the Middle Ages", this name belonged to one of the three consecrated virgins, along with Saint Triduana, who accompanied Saint Regulus to Scotland with the bones of Saint Andrew.
Emerose
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Filipino (Rare)
Rating: 65% based on 4 votes
Engelise
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English
Rating: 55% based on 4 votes
Eponine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: ehp-ə-NEEN(English)
Esmeralda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese, English, Albanian, Literature
Pronounced: ehz-meh-RAL-da(Spanish) izh-mi-RAL-du(European Portuguese) ehz-meh-ROW-du(Brazilian Portuguese) ehz-mə-RAHL-də(English)
Rating: 61% based on 30 votes
Means "emerald" in Spanish and Portuguese. Victor Hugo used this name in his novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831), in which Esmeralda is the Romani girl who is loved by Quasimodo. It has occasionally been used in the English-speaking world since that time.
Estera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Polish, Slovak, Romanian, Lithuanian
Pronounced: eh-STEH-ra(Polish)
Polish, Slovak, Romanian and Lithuanian form of
Esther.
Estrildis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English (Latinized)
Rating: 40% based on 5 votes
From
Estrild, a medieval form of the Old English name
Eastorhild that survived in England only until the 12th century (according to the 1984 'Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names'). In Geoffrey of Monmouth's 12th-century Arthurian tales, Estrildis was a German princess who became the wife or mistress of King Locrine of Britain and the mother of
Sabrina. The king's scorned wife
Gwendolen raised an army against him, defeated him battle, and drowned both Estrildis and Sabrina in the river Severn.
Ethelfleda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English
Ethelinda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Archaic)
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
English form of the Germanic name
Adallinda. The name was very rare in medieval times, but it was revived in the early 19th century.
Euphrosyne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Εὐφροσύνη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: yoo-FRAH-si-nee(English)
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Means
"mirth, merriment, cheerfulness" in Greek, a derivative of
εὖ (eu) meaning "good" and
φρήν (phren) meaning "mind, heart". She was one of the three Graces or
Χάριτες (Charites) in Greek
mythology.
Evarista
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized), Spanish (Rare), Italian (Archaic)
Other Scripts: Ευαριστα(Ancient Greek)
Evelinda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Philippines), Spanish (Latin American)
Pronounced: e-ve-LEEN-da(Filipino Spanish, Latin American Spanish)
Rating: 56% based on 9 votes
Felicianna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Obscure
Felicitas
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman, Roman Mythology, German, Spanish
Pronounced: feh-LEE-kee-tas(Latin) feh-LEE-tsee-tas(German) feh-lee-THEE-tas(European Spanish) feh-lee-SEE-tas(Latin American Spanish)
Latin name meaning
"good luck, fortune". In Roman
mythology the goddess Felicitas was the personification of good luck. It was borne by a 3rd-century
saint, a slave martyred with her master Perpetua in Carthage.
Fiera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Esperanto
Pronounced: fee-EH-ra
Means "proud" in Esperanto.
Florentina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Romanian, Late Roman
Pronounced: flo-rehn-TEE-na(Spanish)
Florianna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Polish, Hungarian
Pronounced: FLO-ree-yawn-naw(Hungarian)
Francesca
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Catalan
Pronounced: fran-CHEHS-ka(Italian) frən-SEHS-kə(Catalan)
Rating: 66% based on 27 votes
Italian and Catalan feminine form of
Franciscus (see
Francis).
Francisca
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese, Late Roman
Pronounced: fran-THEES-ka(European Spanish) fran-SEES-ka(Latin American Spanish) frun-SEESH-ku(Portuguese) frun-SEES-ku(Portuguese)
Spanish and Portuguese feminine form of
Franciscus (see
Francis).
Friederike
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German
Pronounced: free-də-REE-kə
Gabriana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), English (American, Rare)
Galaxaura
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
In Greek mythology, Galaxaura (Ancient Greek: Γαλαξαύρη Galaxaurê) was the 'lovely' Oceanid, one of the 3,000 water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-spouse Tethys. Her name means "calm" or "the charmer" or "like the refreshing coolness of a shady stream"
Gaspara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Galician (Rare)
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Italian feminine form of
Gaspare and Galician feminine form of
Gaspar.
Géméline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Quebec, Rare, Archaic)
Rating: 57% based on 6 votes
Most likely derived from Latin
Gemella. Compare the English name
Gemelle.
Germania
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Bessarabian), English (Rare)
Giovanetta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Meaning "young girl"
Glycera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Glyceria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Greek (Latinized), History (Ecclesiastical)
Gratiana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Feminine form of
Gratianus (see
Gratian).
Gwenora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Cornish
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
Haruka
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 遥, 春花, 晴香, etc.(Japanese Kanji) はるか(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: HA-ROO-KA
Rating: 30% based on 4 votes
From Japanese
遥 (haruka) meaning "distant, remote". It can also come from
春 (haru) meaning "spring" or
晴 (haru) meaning "clear weather" combined with
花 (ka) meaning "flower, blossom" or
香 (ka) meaning "fragrance". Additionally, other kanji combinations can form this name.
Haruko
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 春子, 陽子, etc.(Japanese Kanji) はるこ(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: HA-ROO-KO
Rating: 46% based on 5 votes
From Japanese
春 (haru) meaning "spring" or
陽 (haru) meaning "light, sun, male" combined with
子 (ko) meaning "child", as well as other kanji combinations.
Hecate
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἑκάτη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: HEHK-ə-tee(English)
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
From the Greek
Ἑκάτη (Hekate), possibly derived from
ἑκάς (hekas) meaning
"far off". In Greek
mythology Hecate was a goddess associated with witchcraft, crossroads, tombs, demons and the underworld.
Hecatia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Popular Culture
Pronounced: heh-CAH-TEE-uh
Variant of
Hecate. A notable user of this name is Hecatia Lapislazuli from the Touhou Project.
Hecuba
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἑκάβη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: HEHK-yuw-bə(English)
Latinized form of Greek
Ἑκάβη (Hekabe), which is of uncertain meaning. According to Greek
mythology this was the name of the primary wife of King
Priam of Troy. By him she was the mother of
Hector,
Paris,
Cassandra and many others.
Hekate
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἑκάτη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: HEH-KA-TEH(Classical Greek)
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Helaena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Rating: 44% based on 7 votes
Possibly a spelling variant of
Helena. In George R. R. Martin's fantasy series "A Song of Ice and Fire" and the television adaptation "House of the Dragon", Helaena Targaryen is the queen consort of Westeros to her brother, Aegon II, during his reign which is disputed by their older half-sister Rhaenyra.
Helaina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Heraclea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized), Spanish (Philippines, Rare), Spanish (Mexican, Rare), Portuguese (Brazilian, Rare)
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Hesperia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, Spanish
Other Scripts: Ἑσπερια(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: hes-PEER-ee-ə(Greek Mythology)
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Derived from Greek
hesperos "evening" (see
Hesperos). In Greek myth this was the name of one of the three Hesperides, goddesses of the evening and sunsets. Hesperia was also a Greek name of Italy, meaning "the land where the sun sets" (as in the case of asteroid 69 Hesperia).
Hestia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἑστία(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: HEHS-TEE-A(Classical Greek) HEHS-tee-ə(English)
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Derived from Greek
ἑστία (hestia) meaning
"hearth, fireside". In Greek
mythology Hestia was the goddess of the hearth and domestic activity.
Hillevi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Finnish
Pronounced: HIL-leh-vee(Swedish) HEEL-leh-vee(Finnish)
Swedish and Finnish form of
Heilwig.
Hyacinthia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Folklore
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
Variant of
Hyacintha used by Andrew Lang for a character in his version of the Russian fairy tale King Kojata. It also coincides with the name of an ancient Spartan festival that celebrated the death of
Hyacinthus.
Iaera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἴαιρα(Ancient Greek)
Latinized form of the Greek Ἴαιρα
(Iaira) possibly meaning "the honeyed". This was borne by one of the Nereids (daughters of
Nereus and
Doris) in Greek mythology.
Ianassa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Ianassa was one of the nereides
Ianeira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἰάνειρα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: ie-ə-NIE-rə(English)
Rating: 37% based on 6 votes
Possibly from Greek
Ἰάν (Ian), a variant of
Ἴων (Ion) meaning
"Ionian", the Ionians being a Greek tribe. The name Ianeira was borne by a few characters in Greek
mythology, including one of the Nereids and one of the Oceanids.
Illyria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek, Various (Rare)
Other Scripts: Ίλλυρία(Ancient Greek)
Immaculada
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Catalan
Pronounced: eem-ma-koo-LA-dhə
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Ināra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Latvian
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Meaning unknown, possibly an elaboration of
Ina.
Innogen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
Probably derived from Old Irish
ingen meaning "daughter" or "girl" (see
Imogen).
This was the form of
Ignoge used by Milton. (According to Geoffrey of Monmouth, Ignoge was the name of a princess who was given in marriage by her father, King Pandrasus of Greece, to the Trojan exile Brutus in exchange for Pandrasus' freedom. In Britain, she became the mother of Locrine, Albanact and Humber.)
The spelling
Inogen was used by Richard Hole in his prose
Arthur (1789), where the name belonged to the daughter of Merlin, later the wife of Arthur.
Invidia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Pronounced: een-WEE-dee-a(Latin)
Means
"envy" in Latin. This was the Roman goddess of vengeance, equivalent to the Greek goddess
Nemesis.
Irmhild
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German
Pronounced: IRM-hilt
Rating: 30% based on 5 votes
Isabeau
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval French, French (Rare), Dutch (Modern)
Medieval French variant of
Isabel. A famous bearer of this name was Isabeau of Bavaria (1385-1422), wife of the French king Charles VI.
Isaltina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare, Archaic)
Rating: 25% based on 4 votes
Archaic elaborated form of
Isolde.
Iseldis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English (Latinized)
Rating: 36% based on 5 votes
Isoletta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Theatre
Rating: 85% based on 2 votes
Diminutive of
Isola. This name is borne by a character in Vincenzo Bellini's opera
La straniera (1828).
Ivalu
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greenlandic
Means "sinew; tendon; thread" in Greenlandic (Thule dialect).
It was used by Danish explorer and writer Peter Freuchen for the heroine of his novel 'Ivalu' (1930).
Ivanie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Modern, Rare), French (Quebec, Modern, Rare)
Rating: 60% based on 7 votes
Jillianna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Jocasta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Anglicized)
Other Scripts: Ἰοκάστη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: jo-KAS-tə(English)
From the Greek name
Ἰοκάστη (Iokaste), which is of unknown meaning. In Greek
mythology she was the mother
Oedipus by the Theban king
Laius. In a case of tragic mistaken identity, she married her own son.
Junipera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Italian
Recorded in the 12th century.
Kassandreia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek (Rare)
Other Scripts: Κασσάνδρεια(Greek)
Pronounced: Kass-ahn-dray-ah
Rating: 40% based on 5 votes
Keturah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Hebrew
Other Scripts: קְטוּרָה(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: kə-TOO-rə(English)
Rating: 75% based on 4 votes
Kirrily
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Australian)
Pronounced: KEER-ə-lee
Rating: 56% based on 9 votes
Possibly an elaboration of
Kiri or
Kira 2. It seems to have been brought to attention in Australia in the 1970s by the actress Kirrily Nolan.
Laetissima
Gender: Feminine
Usage: History (Ecclesiastical)
Derived from Latin
laetissimus meaning "happiest; happy as can be". Also compare the related names
Laetitia and
Laetus. This was borne by an obscure saint who was martyred at Nicomedia in Bithynia, Asia Minor.
Lalita
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hinduism, Hindi, Marathi, Thai
Other Scripts: ललिता(Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi) ลลิตา(Thai)
Pronounced: la-lee-TA(Thai)
Rating: 27% based on 6 votes
Means
"playful, charming, desirable" in Sanskrit. In Hindu belief this is the name of one of the playmates of the young
Krishna. It is also another name of the goddess
Parvati.
Lalitha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu
Other Scripts: லலிதா(Tamil) ലളിത(Malayalam) లలితా(Telugu)
Rating: 37% based on 7 votes
Southern Indian form of
Lalita.
Laodice
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized), Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Λαοδίκη(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Latinized form of Greek
Λαοδίκη (Laodike) meaning
"justice of the people", derived from Greek
λαός (laos) meaning "people" and
δίκη (dike) meaning "justice, custom, order". In Greek
mythology this was the name of several women, notably the daughter of King
Priam of Troy. It was also common among the royal family of the Seleucid Empire, being borne by the mother of Seleucus himself (4th century BC).
Lecenta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
This is a female name used in the Medieval era.
Ledora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (South, Archaic)
Rating: 43% based on 7 votes
Licinia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman, Italian, Emilian-Romagnol, Spanish (Rare)
Feminine form of
Licinius. A known bearer of this name was Licinia Eudoxia, a Roman empress from the 5th century AD.
Liera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Belarusian
Other Scripts: Лера(Belarusian)
Lilaea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Λίλαια(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: lie-LEE-ə
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Directly taken from Greek λιλαία meaning "lilac". In Greek mythology, Lilaea was a Naiad of a spring of the same name, daughter of the river god Cephissus. The ancient city of Lilaea and the modern village of Lilaia in Phocis are named after her.
Lindora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (South, Archaic), Theatre
Rating: 41% based on 7 votes
Feminine form of
Lindor. This name was used in the comic operas
Le donne vendicate (
Revenge of the Women in English; 1763) by Piccinni and
La maga Circe (
Circe the Witch in English; 1788) by Anfossi.
Lorelei
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature, English
Pronounced: LAWR-ə-lie(English)
Rating: 68% based on 37 votes
From German
Loreley, the name of a rock headland on the Rhine River. It is of uncertain meaning, though the second element is probably old German
ley meaning "rock" (of Celtic origin). German romantic poets and songwriters, beginning with Clemens Brentano in 1801, tell that a maiden named the Lorelei lives on the rock and lures boaters to their death with her song.
In the English-speaking world this name has been occasionally given since the early 20th century. It started rising in America after the variant Lorelai was used for the main character (and her daughter, nicknamed Rory) on the television series Gilmore Girls (2000-2007).
Lucilda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 45% based on 6 votes
Luscinia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Roman Mythology
Pronounced: loos-KEE-nee-a, loosh-SHEE-nee-a
Derived from Latin luscinia "nightingale". This was an epithet of the Roman goddess Minerva. As an English name, it has been used sparingly since the 19th century.
Magdalena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Polish, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Lithuanian, Spanish, Catalan, Occitan, Slovene, Czech, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Croatian, Serbian, Romanian, English
Other Scripts: Магдалена(Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian)
Pronounced: mag-da-LEH-na(Polish) mak-da-LEH-na(German) magh-dha-LEH-na(Spanish) məg-də-LEH-nə(Catalan) MAG-da-leh-na(Czech) mag-də-LAY-nə(English)
Rating: 67% based on 27 votes
Marguerite
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: MAR-GU-REET
Personal remark: Marguerite Esme
Rating: 62% based on 31 votes
French form of
Margaret. This is also the French word for the daisy flower (species Leucanthemum vulgare).
Marie-Claire
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: MA-REE-KLEHR
Rating: 66% based on 31 votes
Mariska
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hungarian, Dutch
Pronounced: MAW-ree-shkaw(Hungarian) ma-RIS-ka(Dutch)
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
Marissa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: mə-RIS-ə
Rating: 53% based on 49 votes
Marjolaine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: MAR-ZHAW-LEHN
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Means "marjoram" in French, from Latin maiorana. Marjoram is a minty herb.
Marlene
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, English
Pronounced: mar-LEH-nə(German) MAHR-leen(English) mahr-LEEN(English)
Blend of
Maria and
Magdalene. It refers, therefore, to Mary Magdalene, a character in the
New Testament. The name was popularized by the German actress and singer Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992), whose real name was Maria Magdalene Dietrich.
Maxima
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Maximilla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman, Medieval Italian, Hungarian
Latin diminutive of
Maxima. Maximilla was a prophetess and an early advocate of Montanism, a heretical Christian sect founded in the third century A.D. by Montanus.
Melaina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Μέλαινα(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
Melora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Arthurian Cycle
Pronounced: mə-LAWR-a(English)
Personal remark: Melora Juniper/Indigo
Rating: 56% based on 36 votes
Probably a variant of
Meliora. This name was (first?) used in the Arthurian romance
The Adventures of Melora and Orlando (1696).
Meridiana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), American (Hispanic, Rare), Literature
According to Walter Map's 12th-century work
De nugis curialium (
Courtiers' Trifles), Pope Sylvester II owed his powerful position in the Catholic Church to the influence of a succubus named Meridiana.
Perhaps relatedly,
Meridian was used as a name for the Devil in the early 15th century.
Metrodora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Μητροδώρα(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 26% based on 5 votes
Derived from Greek
μήτηρ (meter) meaning "mother" (genitive
μητρός) and
δῶρον (doron) meaning "gift". This was the name of a 4th-century
saint and martyr who was killed with her sisters Menodora and Nymphodora.
Miela
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Esperanto
Pronounced: mee-EH-la
Means "sweet" in Esperanto, derived from mielo "honey", ultimately from Latin mel.
Miharu
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 美晴(Japanese Kanji) みはる(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: ME-HAH-ROO
Rating: 30% based on 5 votes
"Mi"=beauty or "Mi"=ocean and "haru"= clear or "haru"= Sun(light) or "haru"=spring. Mostly feminine.
-------------------------------------
Means "beautiful clear sky".
Minoru
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 実, etc.(Japanese Kanji) みのる(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: MEE-NO-ROO
From Japanese
実 (minoru) meaning "to bear fruit", as well as other kanji or kanji combinations with the same pronunciation.
Miranda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Dutch
Pronounced: mi-RAN-də(English)
Rating: 70% based on 49 votes
Derived from Latin
mirandus meaning
"admirable, wonderful". The name was created by Shakespeare for the heroine in his play
The Tempest (1611), in which Miranda and her father
Prospero are stranded on an island. It did not become a common English given name until the 20th century. This is also the name of one of the moons of Uranus, named after the Shakespearean character.
Nadra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: نضرة(Arabic)
Pronounced: NAD-rah
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Means "radiance" in Arabic.
Nalini
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi
Other Scripts: ನಳಿನಿ(Kannada) നളിനി(Malayalam) நளினி(Tamil) नलिनी(Hindi)
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Means "lotus" in Sanskrit.
Nanaea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Semitic Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: 𒀭𒈾𒈾𒀀(Akkadian Cuneiform)
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Naoko
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 直子, etc.(Japanese Kanji) なおこ(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: NA-O-KO
Rating: 43% based on 7 votes
From Japanese
直 (nao) meaning "straight, direct" and
子 (ko) meaning "child", as well as other kanji combinations.
Nélia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese (Rare), Portuguese (Brazilian, Rare), French (Modern)
Portuguese form of
Nelia.
Nelissa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern, Rare), Spanish (Latin American, Rare)
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
Nereida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: neh-RAY-dha
Rating: 38% based on 6 votes
Derived from Greek
Νηρηΐδες (Nereides) meaning
"nymphs, sea sprites", ultimately derived from the name of the Greek sea god
Nereus, who supposedly fathered them.
Neriah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Hebrew
Other Scripts: נֵרִיָה(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: ni-RIE-ə(English)
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Nerida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Indigenous Australian
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Possibly means "water lily" in an Australian Aboriginal language.
Nivaria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Canarian, Rare)
From the Roman name for the island of Tenerife (present-day Canary Islands, Spain), which was derived from Latin nivarius meaning "of snow, pertaining to snow" - itself from nix "snow" (genitive nivis, plural nives) - after the snow-covered peak of Mount Teide.
Norella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 56% based on 5 votes
Olaya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Asturian, Spanish
Pronounced: o-LA-ya(Spanish)
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Orenda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: New World Mythology
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Orenda roughly translates into "Great Spirit", "divine essence", "Holy Spirit", or simply "God" in Iroquois.
The Iroquois believed Orenda to be the "Great Spirit and Creator" (basically, God). Many baby name books claim this name means 'magical', 'magic power', or 'tribal soul on the right path', but these are mistranslations.
Oriana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: o-RYA-na
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Possibly derived from Latin
aurum "gold" or from its derivatives, Spanish
oro or French
or. In medieval legend Oriana was the daughter of a king of England who married the knight
Amadis.
Ortansa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Romanian
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Ortensia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Gascon, Aragonese, Piedmontese
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Italian, Piedmontese, Gascon and Aragonese form of
Hortensia. Ortensia is also the Italian name of the plant Hydrangea.
Ottessa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American)
Feminine diminutive form of
Otto.
Pandosia
Usage: Ancient Greek
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Pandosia (Ancient Greek: Πανδοσία) was an ancient city of Bruttium, in what is now Calabria, southern Italy. According to Livy it was situated near the border between Bruttium and Lucania (now Basilicata).
Perpetua
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Late Roman
Pronounced: pehr-PEH-twa(Spanish)
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
Derived from Latin
perpetuus meaning
"continuous". This was the name of a 3rd-century
saint martyred with another woman named Felicity.
Placidia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman, English (African, Rare), English (Puritan)
Prisca
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical, Ancient Roman, Biblical Latin
Pronounced: PRIS-kə(English)
Feminine form of
Priscus, a Roman family name meaning
"ancient" in Latin. This name appears in the epistles in the
New Testament, referring to
Priscilla the wife of Aquila.
Pulcheria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman, History, English, Italian, Polish, Corsican (Rare, Archaic), German (Bessarabian)
Derived from Latin pulcher "beautiful". This name was borne by Saint Pulcheria, elder sister of the Byzantine emperor Theodosius II. It was also the name of a character in 'Crime and Punishment' by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Quiteria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Rare), Late Roman
Meaning uncertain, possibly a form of
Kythereia.
Saint Quiteria was a semi-legendary 2nd-century Iberian martyr.
Raedora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Catalan
Rating: 27% based on 6 votes
Rhaella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Created by author George R.R. Martin for use in the series "A Song of Ice and Fire." Queen Rhaella Targaryen is the mother of the character Daenerys.
Rhodia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
In Greek mythology (Ῥόδεια, Ῥοδία):
Rhodea, Rhodeia, or Rhodia, one of the Oceanids.
Roseline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: ROZ-LEEN
French form of
Rosalind.
Saint Roseline of Villeneuve was a 14th-century nun from Provence.
Rosmerta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Celtic Mythology
Pronounced: roz-MER-tə(English)
Rating: 42% based on 6 votes
Probably means "great provider" from Gaulish ro, an intensive prefix (hence "very, most, great"), combined with smert "purveyor, carer" and the feminine name suffix a. This was the name of an obscure Gallo-Roman goddess of fertility, abundance and prosperity. The author J. K. Rowling borrowed the name for a witch in her 'Harry Potter' series.
Sadira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Persian
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Salvadora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Galician (Rare)
Rating: 43% based on 8 votes
Sandria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American, Rare)
Rating: 33% based on 7 votes
Sarah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, French, German, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, Hebrew, Arabic, Biblical, Biblical Hebrew
Other Scripts: שָׂרָה(Hebrew) سارة(Arabic)
Pronounced: SEHR-ə(English) SAR-ə(English) SA-RA(French) ZA-ra(German) SA-ra(Danish, Dutch) SA-rah(Arabic)
Rating: 76% based on 47 votes
Means
"lady, princess, noblewoman" in Hebrew. In the
Old Testament this is the name of
Abraham's wife, considered the matriarch of the Jewish people. She was barren until she unexpectedly became pregnant with
Isaac at the age of 90. Her name was originally
Sarai, but God changed it at the same time Abraham's name was changed (see
Genesis 17:15).
In England, Sarah came into use after the Protestant Reformation. It was consistently popular in the 20th century throughout the English-speaking world, reaching the top of the charts for England and Wales in the 1970s and 80s.
Notable bearers include Sarah Churchill (1660-1744), an influential British duchess and a close friend of Queen Anne, and the French actress Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923).
Serena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Late Roman
Pronounced: sə-REEN-ə(English) seh-REH-na(Italian)
Rating: 76% based on 35 votes
From a Late Latin name that was derived from Latin
serenus meaning
"clear, tranquil, serene". This name was borne by an obscure early
saint. Edmund Spenser also used it in his poem
The Faerie Queene (1590). A famous bearer from the modern era is tennis player Serena Williams (1981-).
Solaria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Modern, Rare), Spanish (Modern, Rare)
Rating: 41% based on 8 votes
Sophoclea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek
Female variant to Sophocles
Sylvélie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Modern, Rare)
Rating: 47% based on 16 votes
Sylvestia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Sylvestra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare, Archaic)
Pronounced: sil-VES-tra
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
Temperance
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: TEHM-prəns, TEHM-pər-əns
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
From the English word meaning
"moderation" or
"restraint". This was one of the virtue names adopted by the
Puritans in the 17th century. It experienced a modest revival in the United States during the run of the television series
Bones (2005-2017), in which the main character bears this name.
Theoclea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Θεοκλεία(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Tryphena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: Τρύφαινα(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
Ursalina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Romansh
Rating: 73% based on 3 votes
Usagi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Popular Culture
Pronounced: OO-SA-GYEE(Japanese)
Rating: 28% based on 5 votes
Means "rabbit" in Japanese. This name was used on the Japanese television show Sailor Moon, which first aired in the 1990s.
Valentiniana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman
Late Roman elaboration of Valentine
Valora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Esperanto
Pronounced: va-LO-ra
Means "valuable" in Esperanto.
Veronika
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian, Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian, German, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Slovene, Croatian, Macedonian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Estonian, Lithuanian, Latvian
Other Scripts: Вероника(Russian, Bulgarian, Macedonian) Вероніка(Ukrainian)
Pronounced: vyi-ru-NYEE-kə(Russian) VEH-ro-ni-ka(Czech) VEH-raw-nee-ka(Slovak) veh-RO-nee-ka(German, Croatian) VEH-ro-nee-kaw(Hungarian) vyeh-RAW-nyi-ku(Lithuanian)
Personal remark: Veronika Lily
Rating: 60% based on 51 votes
Violet
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: VIE-lit, VIE-ə-lit
Rating: 86% based on 43 votes
From the English word violet for the purple flower, ultimately derived from Latin viola. It was common in Scotland from the 16th century, and it came into general use as an English given name during the 19th century.
Viridiana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman, Spanish, Galician (Archaic), Corsican (Archaic), Italian (Archaic)
Yvaine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature, Various
Pronounced: ee-VAYN(Literature)
Rating: 58% based on 23 votes
It is most probable that it is the feminine form of the name
Yvain. Though, it is commonly thought of as a combination of
Yvonne and
Elaine.
The name is most popularly recognized as the name of the fallen star in Neil Gaiman's novella 'Stardust'.
Zephyria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek, Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ζεφυρια(Ancient Greek)
Derived from Greek ζεφύριος (zephyrios) "of the West". This was an epithet of the Greek goddess Aphrodite.
Zsuzsanna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hungarian
Pronounced: ZHOO-zhawn-naw
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