Names That Are Variations

Australian olympic champion Giann Rooney brought this modern take on the traditional Italian name Gianna or Giovanna into many households.

Jaap is a common if not exactly fashionable first name for boys' in The Netherlands. For more on Dutch names and their pronunciation, check out this specialty website: http://www.heardutchhere.net/names.html

The translation of Katarina and Katherine used in Finland and Estonia.

Sounds too much like the name of a hotel.

All the femininity of Luciana, with added zing.

Nicandra is the name of a plant known as apple-of-peru and also shoo-fly plant. It's also the feminine form of Nicander, an ancient Greek poet, physician, and grammarian.

This Gaelic version of the enduring Michael was chosen by Natasha Richardson and Liam Neeson for their first son.

A Top 50 choice in Iceland, where this is the common spelling of Diana.

Carly and company have had a good run, fueled by Nickelodeon's popular series iCarly, as well as Canadian pop singer Carly Rae Jepsen.

A relatively stylish choice in Slovenia, where it is the standard form of Ulrich. Unlikely to catch on in the US, where U is the least common initial.

This is one case where removing a letter makes a name more complicated, not more simple.

See COREY.

One of many variants of the classic Alexander — this particular one is used in Ukraine.

The Czech form of Andrew, pronounced much like Andre.

Once a Top 15 name in Slovenia, now at risk of falling out of the Top 100. In Slovene, the Ž is pronounced like an English ZH.