Supermodel Names

Luiza livens up Louisa. The insertion of the letter "Z" adds a lot more pizzazz. Luiza Perote is a Brazilian model.

This slightly unusual spelling of the '80s cheerleader name is now associated with two appealing young celebrities: model Chrissy Teigen and This Is Us star Chrissy Metz. Both have Christine on their birth certificate.

Hunter is gaining favor among girls—for those in search of something less common, we recommend Hutton.

Model and activist Quannah Chasinghorse has Hän Gwich’in and Oglala Lakota ancestry, but her name originally comes from the Comanche Nation. In Comanche, kwana means "odor" or "smell". A famous male bearer was Quanah Parker, a Comanche war leader.

Dutch model Iekeliene Stange is a famous bearer of this one-of-a-kind name. Its meaning is unknown, but it may be a combo name formed from Ieke + the common suffix -liene.

A positive, festive English word name with potential. Rejoice Chuol is a South Sudanese fashion model.

One supermodel name--that of the Lithuanian Egle Tvirbutaite--which is far from as beautiful to American ears as she is.

The name America is given to around 100 baby girls each year, mostly within the Hispanic and Latin American communities. The national charts do not record diacritical marks like accents, but at least some of those baby girls spell their names with one. Model América González is among them.

This Muslim girls' name has never gotten much use in the US, but Somali model Rawdah Mohamed may draw more attention to her name.

Variation of the West African name Abeni, borne by the South Sudanese-Australian model Abény Nhial.

Annemary is a familiar yet unusual compound name reminiscent of more popular cousins Maryanne and Annemarie. Dutch model Annemary Aderibigbe gives it a welcome touch of glamour.

A spelling variation of the uniquely Brazilian name Rainara. Raynara Negrine is an up-and-coming Brazilian model.

This unique name is best known as that of Angolan model Blésnya Minher.

Tindi Mar is a young Mexican model and climate activist with a one-of-a-kind name. Names that end in I are at the height of fashion right now, and Tindi has real potential.