Five Letter Girl Names

A sleek and simple Thai name with a wonderful floral meaning.

Feline nickname for Tabitha — a bewitching vintage choice.

Arty seventies name usually pronounced AHN-dra.

This Arabic name, which can be used for either boys or girls, can also mean "wide-eyed" in the sense of someone who is studious and perceptive. Ayaan is most familiar to people in the West from its connection to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali women's right activist.

Fashionable choice in modern Israel, also a place-name there, not likely to succeed here.

Edris was used occasionally for baby girl 100 years ago, but one can't help but wonder whether those girls might really have been named Edie but with bad handwriting. Edrie is cute, though, and unusual.

Malli is one of those simple-yet-unusual names that are intrinsically fascinating. In the US last year, only seven baby girls were named Malli.

A diminutive of the Yiddish name Yente, ultimately from French gentille meaning "noble, aristocratic". Barbra Streisand played a character named Yentl in a 1983 film of the same name.

Barra is a Gaelic-speaking island in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, that’s been inhabited since the Neolithic era. A male nickname for Finbarr in Ireland, as well as a stand-alone name, Barra was used by George R.R. Martin as a girl’s name. It means ‘fair-haired’.

An offbeat word name referring to the speed of a piece of music.

A sweet and punchy Japanese name with a celestial meaning.

Replaced Patsy as the midcentury's popular, peppy babysitter.

Japanese mountaineer Junko Tabei was the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest, and the first to reach the summits of the tallest peaks on all seven continents.

Turkish cognate of the name River among English-speakers. However, unlike River, Nehir is an exclusively feminine name in Turkey.

Briefly cool in the 1950s, but now gone the way of Ricki and Nikki.

A shimmery name with a wonderful meaning; another intriguing variation is Siroun.

Trevor with a New York accent.