Four Syllable Names for Girls

A beautiful plant and a rare botanical name probably deriving from Greek.

Providentia was an ancient Roman goddess that was important to religion and the Imperial cult of ancient Rome. She personified the ability to foresee and make provisions. As a baby name, Providentia is an elaborate and feminine alternative to Providence.

Feminine form of Herod.

Another, more feminine, female form of Jacob sometimes heard in Scotland.

Best known as the title of a song by prog rock group Deep Purple, itself named after Emmaretta Marks, an actress and singer who was in the musical Hair at the time. Now that Emma is the most popular name in America, some may no doubt be attracted to this more elaborate version -- but honestly, what's the point?

Kimimela joins Mariposa as one of the long and lovely girl names meaning "butterfly".

This Hawaiian name breathes new (warm) life into the traditional Cecilia and offers the added attraction of the spunky "Kiki" as an obvious nickname option.

The title of a Maori poem and also used to reference Mary, mother of Jesus, adapted from the Latin Marian title Stella Maris "star of the sea".

A lovely name most commonly used by Judeo-Italian families — also the name of a fictional city in Ambrose Bierce's short story "An Inhabitant of Carcosa", written in the late 1800s.

Feminine form of Gottlieb