Girl Names That End with L

Faith is a classic virtue name, but Faithful is more modern, having only been in the charts since 2003, and somehow more word-like.

Grimes and Elon Musk created this name for their daughter Y, full name Exa Dark Sideræl. Grimes explained it is "a more elven" spelling of sidereal, "the true time of the universe, star time, deep space time, not our relative earth time."

A name found in 16th century marriage records, but still manages to sound like a modern, made-up elaboration of MERRY.

See RAIZEL.

Sidereal is the English spelling of Sideræl, one of the middle names Grimes and Elon Musk chose for their daughter. They used "a more elven" spelling of the word sidereal, which Grimes defined as "the true time of the universe, star time, deep space time, not our relative earth time."

A lovely underused member of the group of Hebrew names ending in -el.

A literary twist on rising star Nova, derived from the same Latin word.

A soft and sweet unisex Arabic name with an international sound. British broadcaster Mishal Husain is a notable bearer.

Etel may freshen up the dated Ethel that many may consider still a bit too dusty for revival. Etel is used in Hungarian speaking countries, but is sleek and simple enough to work well in the States.