Names ending in ia

Way before January Jones made this month a fashionable girls' name, there was Princess Januaria of Brazil, daughter of the King of Portugal and the Archduchess of Austria. One of the most pointed yet most original January baby names.

While this name has some usage dating back to immigrants to the United States in the ninteenth and early twentieth centuries, today it would come off as nothing more than a creative variation of Cecelia/Cecilia. The one advantage of this spelling is that it could lead to the modern-feeling nickname Zelia.

If you're tired of Olivia, you could be the first on your block to introduce this unique sound-related place-name with Latin flair.

Young French actress and singer Cylia Malki put this international short form of Priscilla into the mix.

Inocencia is like Chastity or Immaculata. Few modern girls outside the Latino community -- or even in it -- would appreciate having to carry this name.

In Greek, symphonia literally translates to "agreement," but the word has been used to refer to a number of different concepts. It has been the term for many instruments in Ancient Greece, including bagpipes, a drum, and the clavichord. In Eastern Orthodox theology, Symphonia is the idea that the church and state should exist in harmony and neither should dominate.

A pretty, prickly nature name from the Basque Country, also spelled Eloria.

Tissaia de Vries is a sorceress character on the Netflix series The Witcher. The origins of this created name are uncertain, but a quick search will pull up many theories, from a variation of Tess, Taisia, or Tasia, or spawned from the Latin word "titulus" (we're not sure if we buy that one).