Animal Names for Girls

Elswyth was the queen of Alfred the Great.

A pretty, prickly nature name from the Basque Country, also spelled Eloria.

Also spelled Achinoam, this Biblical name belonged to wives of both King Saul and King David.

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

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.

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.

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

This Judeo-Italian name combines Alta, meaning "high", with Donna, meaning "woman" — translating to a woman of high status or rank. A grand but beautiful name choice.