Names Ending in -ica for Girls

The name of Beethoven's third symphony, and too close to the word erotica.

Catalan and Italian form of Nausicaa, a daughter of Alcinous in Greek mythology who helps Odysseus on his journey home. In pop culture, it is the name of the eponymous heroine in the 1984 Japanese anime movie Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.

The name America is given to around 100 baby girls each year, mostly within the Hispanic and Latin American communities. The national charts do not record diacritical marks like accents, but at least some of those baby girls spell their names with one. Model América González is among them.

This spelling variation of Angelica was popularized by actress Anjelica Huston.

Calls to mind the world Jellicle, as in CATS. But still classier than Angie.

An extremely rare Elizabeth variant.

Created by novelist Clive Barker for an entire universe in his book Imajica: strange but magical.