Names ending in a

Unusual Honor or Nora alternative, but we prefer the originals.

Feminine form of Qamar, also used occasionally in Malay.

Welsh Romani harpist Eldra Roberts is the best-known bearer of this rare El- name.

A possible addition to the Ava / Ada / Adah collection, with a Jewish twist.

The Roman goddess of care and concern was said to have created humans out of clay.

Friendly Slavic rarity.

This operatic Italian name -- it appears in Mozart's "The Magic Flute" -- is a more unusual route to the nickname Pam/Pammy.

Melvina ranked in the Top 1000 for over 65 years in the US, coinciding to a large extent with the years its much more popular masculine counterpart Melvin ranked in the Top 100. Today, Melvin is still hanging on in the Top 1000 for boys, but Melvina hasn't been given to more than 20 babies in a year since 1991.

Kyza debuted for boys in 2021, when it was given to nine baby boys. It has two likely influencers: Artist and social media influencer Khyzal Saleem, who uses the handle @the_kyza on Instagram, and musician Alex Kyza.