Names ending in ia

Metaria was created for Queen Metaria of the Sailor Moon franchise. Her name is derived from the word "metal" — all Sailor Moon villains have metal or mineral names.

This Polish form of Victoria is popular in its native country, where it was in the Top 3 for 8 consecutive years from 2000 to 2008, and it still hangs on to the Top 20.

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.