Animal Names for Girls

Albertine and Alberta are old-fashioned feminizations ala Geraldine and Roberta. This is the kind of name that sounds very dowdy until a hip celebrity chooses it, at which point we don't know how we missed its coolness all this time.

The site of Napoleon's exile became the great-great-aunt in the purple hat.

While Amorie might be strictly a feminizing way to spell the unisex Amory, it also relates to the word Amore and the name Amoris, which mean love,

Bardot joined the first and last names of other glamour girl icons such as (Jean) Harlow when David Boreanaz chose the surname of '50s French sex symbol Brigitte Bardot for his daughter. Bardot debuted in the US charts in 2022.

A fresh and summery — if rather long — color that sounds namelike, but is extremely rarely used.

Names that sound and/or are spelled like Dalila exist in several languages, from the Swahili Dalili to the Arabic Dalil to the Hebrew Delilah. A beautiful cross-cultural choice.

Croia is an unusual name with a loving meaning that jumped into the limelight when an Irish celebrity chose it for his daughter. Virtually unknown before, it's now among the most popular names in Ireland.

South African-raised actress Embeth Davidtz added this unique smooth name to the mix. Perfect if you can't decide between Emma and Elizabeth and more unusual than Annabeth.

The Spanish word for "berry" makes a deliciously intriguing word name possibility.

Variant of Corinne

An anagram of Mama, in tune with its Tamil meaning.

Pronounced like Evie, this sweet Irish nickname may be a variant spelling of the English name, or a short form of Aoibhe or Aoibhín.

A poetic name first used in Edmund Spenser's "The Faerie Queene" in 1596, it had a literary vogue in the 18th century, especially favored by Robert Burns. "inda" names--Melinda, Belinda, Linda" are not particularly in right now.

This Irish Gaelic name would be more accessible in other cultures in its modern Dervla form.

A Dorothy nickname name with a measure of nostalgic charm. Kids will associate it with the funny fish character voiced by Ellen DeGeneres in the Pixar animated instant classic Finding Nemo.

Poetic though thorny.

Bonnie meets Annabel (or Belle, or any other name ending in this sound) in this jaunty modern compound.