Names ending in a

An Ethiopian name that means "joy."

In Greek mythology, Euthenia was among the younger Charites. She was the spirit of prosperity.

The name of an American cosmetics company which was inspired by the ancient traditional medicine practices known as Ayurveda, literally "knowledge of longevity" in Sanskrit. Unfortunately, when shortened to Aveda, the literal meaning in Sanskrit becomes "not knowledge" – no doubt not what the company's founder intended. If you can get past this, a pretty and evocative name associated with holistic health and beauty.

Mythological Hersilia was the wife of Romulus, founder of Rome. She was later deified as Hora.

Derived from the Latin Crescentius and Crescens, Crescentia is a bold, strong but elaborate name borne by a 4th century saint and also the heroine of a 12th century German romance. Also spelled Kreszentia, it also feels connected to the moon, due to its similarity to the word crescent.

This female form of Qadir represents one of the ninety-nine attributes of Allah.

In Brazil, Iemanjá is the Portuguese variation of the Yoruba (Nigerian) water goddess Yemọja. She is the mother of humanity and is depicted as a mermaid. There is also a species of fish named Iemanja after the deity.

A rare and refined name, which could make for a surprising route to cute nickname Connie.

The kind of feminized male name that never caught on.

The daintiest and most accessible of the many Q names for a fifth child, now used for girls situated anywhere in the birth order.

Pania is a possible alternative to Tania, if you want to go the New Zealand rather than Russian route.

This phonetic spelling of the Gaelic Fionnuala (which also has many spelling variations) is sometimes rendered as Finola or Finella.

The usual form of Eleonara is Eleanora, with each syllable pronounced, but transposing, adding, or subtracting a vowel or syllable here or there works fine and adds to the international, feminine spin on a solid name.

Anatolian city visited by Paul in the Bible, though risks sounding a tad antiseptic.

Perhaps the best known of the La names that peaked in the 1980s, it stems from the biblical Keziah, plus the gallic La prefix that rose to prominence centuries ago among the Creole people and Free Blacks of New Orleans.