Animal Names for Girls

Avianna is the most popular "avian" name, sitting in the US Top 500 names. But the French-esque version Avianne is significantly less so: it was given to 7 girls in 2021, and fewer than 5 in 2022, meaning it didn't even make it onto the extended charts. Although it's equally pretty and elegant, parents at the moment tend to prefer names ending in "ana" or "anna" to "anne": see also Julianna versus Julianne, Diana versus Diane, and many more.

In Semitic mythology, Anat was the goddess of fertility, hunting, and war.

An early form of Elizabeth, especially used to refer to the wife of Aaron in the Old Testament.

A super-popular name in its native Lithuania: Top 10 there from 2003-2017 and just outside the Top 10 now. Austėja is the Lithuanian goddess of bees.

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.

Dynamo is a newly-invented word name that's on trend in several different ways. It's got an o ending, an uplifting meaning, and it's gender-neutral. And what kid wouldn't want Dynamo as a middle name?

A word that's been used, very infrequently, as a name for hundreds of years. Interesting sound and meaning.

Variation of Aiva.