Names ending in a

When the once-popular Barbara makes a comeback, so might Baba.

Madeira is an island off Morocco where the wine comes from. Despite the alcohol association, Madeira has a gorgeous sound.

Fabia is one of several pleasant international-accented female versions of Fabian.

Variant of Marianna

In Greek mythology, Nomia was a nymph and companion of Callisto.

In Roman mythology, Libera was the female equivalent of the god Liber. She would eventually become assimilated into the goddess Prosperina.

Name your daughter Duana after a Duane relative if you like, but please pronounce it doo-ahn-a and not doo-wain-a.

Sassy but slight nickname name.

Poetic name that's terminally mournful.

Made famous by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, whose parents fashioned her name from a musical term meaning "with sweetness".

Orleanna was the young heroine of Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible.

This obscure biblical name is only mentioned twice in the Bible — first as a divorced Israelite and then as a priest.

This gender-neutral Arabic name was a fast riser for girls in 2022, possibly in part thanks to a beauty blogger and influencer of the same name. The name can also be spelled Hoda or Houda.

This is a rarely heard feminization of the rarely heard Roland.

Hafsa, the name of a wife of Muhammad, is one of the most popular girls' names among Muslims.

A celestial name from the extinct Taíno language of the Caribbean.

A mighty lion in sheep's clothing. Though Amandla looks, to the untrained eye, like a variant of milquetoast Amanda, it actually derives from the word for "power" in the Zulu and Xhosa languages, two of the major languages of South Africa. Anti-Apartheid activists often used the phrase "Amandla Awethu!", meaning "power to the people," as a rallying cry at protests. There was also a 2002 documentary about the role of music in the downfall of Apartheid called "Amandla."