Names ending in ia

A minor figure in Greek mythology, who was apparently quite fond of incest; she married her uncle and bore several children by Poseidon, god of the sea, who was her grandfather.

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.

Derived from an ancient Roman name, this is best known in its male form Placido, thanks to the tenor.

Domitia derives from the Latin word domitus, meaning "having been tamed."