Two Syllable Names for Girls

Chic and lively Afrikaans variant of Elizabeth.

A male name in Italy, but in Basque a feminine word name, with a sweet meaning.

Female form of Syed.

Long forgotten Old Testament name with modern potential.

This Arabic name, which can be used for either boys or girls, can also mean "wide-eyed" in the sense of someone who is studious and perceptive. Ayaan is most familiar to people in the West from its connection to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali women's right activist.

Fashionable choice in modern Israel, also a place-name there, not likely to succeed here.

Edris was used occasionally for baby girl 100 years ago, but one can't help but wonder whether those girls might really have been named Edie but with bad handwriting. Edrie is cute, though, and unusual.

An important name in Irish myth, belonging to a beautiful giantess who was both mother and wife of Brian Boru. It is usually Anglicized as the phonetic Bevin, but also as Vivian.

Name used for girls in the Choctaw tribe of Mississippi and Oklahoma.

The initial X is pronounced like a Z. Confusing? Potentially. But there are enough Alexandras and Xanders through the Western World these days that this spelling wouldn't seem outlandish.

Not as common as brother Sergio, but still quite frequently heard in the Hispanic community, as in Bolivian singer Sergia Llanos.