15,000+ Two-Syllable Girl Names

Basha bears a family resemblance to other newly popular Slavic names Sasha and Mischa, all of them hearty, warm and welcoming.

A classic reimagined. Noemia is a very feminine elaboration of Naomi, also spelled Noémia in Portugal and Noêmia in Brazil.

Original form of the more familiar Calliope, the muse of epic poetry.

The literal word for "spring" in many Slavic languages and the name of an ancient Slavic springtime deity.

A once very common Irish diminutive of Bridget that has unfortunately been associated since the 18th century with a pejorative slang term for an old or fussy woman.

Tanya with a G.

That er sound -- as in Myrna, Myrtle, and Bernice -- sounds terminally dated.

In the 21st century, Exa is best known as the given name of Grimes and Elon Musk's daughter Y, a sibling for X Æ A-XII. The celebrity parents were inspired by the supercomputer terms exaFLOPS, which is the "ability for a supercomputer to perform 1 quintillion floating-point operations per second."

In the Bible, nardos is a perfume poured on Jesus. It is related to spikenard, an essential oil from a Himalayan flower, historically used for medicinal and religious purposes as well as perfume.

Repetitive Japanese name with a flittering meaning.

Porter is one clubby surname or occupational that was given to around 80 baby girls in the US last year -- and nearly 600 baby boys.

For such a short, simple name, Pela has many possible derivations and meanings. It's most commonly cited as a short form of Penelope, but can also be a nickname for Pelagia, a name related to the sea.

The Welsh word for the artistic muse or inspiration is used regularly for girls in Wales, and occasionally for boys.

While Kayla has been a mainstay in the US Top 1000 list since the 1960s, alternate version Keyla is relatively new, first entering the charts in 2002. While this spelling also has the possibility of being pronounced KEE-lah, it's most likely to cause confusing and frustration in the shadow of the much more popular spelling.