American Girl Names

Name used for girls in the Choctaw tribe of Mississippi and Oklahoma.

Blending the sounds of Bryce, Brian, Riley and Kylie, Bryleigh is a modern invention that ranked in the US Top 1000 from 2010 to 2017, alongside its more popular counterpart, Brylee. Peaking in 2015 when it was given to 320 girls, Bryleigh has since been in decline, pushed out by Brynleigh and Everleigh.

If you want to move beyond Maya.

The lynn suffix makes this one of the more feminine spellings of the popular name Jaelynn, which can also be spelling Jaelyn, Jaylin, and Jalen, among many other variations.

Traditional Choctaw name, but close to the word "silly." The similar name Sillin sidesteps this.

Shevonne is proof that a name can be pretty and tacky at the same time.

Shy Anne? The original place-name spelling Cheyenne is preferable to this phonetic and slyly jokey spelling in every way.

Pretty and unusual bird-related name.

A rare name that rose briefly in the trail of Donna. Tonna has Choctaw roots.

A feminine name in Choctaw culture.

This traditional Cherokee name could easily be borne by a modern baby girl with connections to the tribe.

Upbeat Native American name with a wonderful meaning.

Carries a different meaning in American English. You may also like Sootima.

Olympic skier Picabo Street was allowed to choose her name at the age of three, and picked it possibly (a) after a nearby Idaho town or (b) because she loved to play peekaboo. No longer a single-person name, it is now worn by a number of satisfied bearers.

Marilee is one of the cheeriest – if least substantial – combinations of Mary with another name.

Fresher sounding than Mandy or Brandy, but Thandie might be a more original way to go.

Palin has suddenly become a hot new surname-name given usually to girls. The inspiration can only be former Alaska governor Sarah, though the name Palin is her husband's -- her original surname is Heath. Palin herself is no stranger to the adventurous baby name, as the mother of daughters Bristol, Piper, and Willow, and sons Track and Trig.

Traditional Cherokee choice that could work for a daughter born on a rainy day.

Cherokee is the name of a Native American tribe, the largest in the United States stretching from North Carolina through Oklahoma. The meaning of the word Cherokee is uncertain: It may be Choctaw for "those who live in the mountains" or "those who live in the cave country" or it may be an Anglicization of the word the Cherokee use to refer to themselves, Tsalagi. The name was given to 19 baby girls in the U.S. in 2013 but was not recorded on the boys' roster, though we'd consider it a gender neutral name.