Unusual Girl Names

  1. Searria
    • Season
      • Origin:

        Latin
      • Meaning:

        "time of sowing"
      • Description:

        A generic possibility if you don't want to specify Spring or Summer.
    • Selah
      • Origin:

        Hebrew
      • Meaning:

        "praise, pause"
      • Description:

        The name is derived from the term commonly used in the Book of Psalms, which has a many Hebrew scholars in confusion over its meaning. Given its context in the Bible, Selah is likely to mean "to praise" or "pause and reflect upon what has just been said." Lauryn Hill used this name for her daughter. It is the last word in Anita Diamant's novel The Red Tent.
    • Seneca
      • Origin:

        Latin surname and Native American
      • Meaning:

        "people of the standing rock"
      • Description:

        Seneca was both a Roman philosopher-statesman and is a Native American Iroquois tribe. Occasionally used for both girls and boys, Seneca is now a Hunger Games character.
    • Serenade
      • Origin:

        Music name
      • Description:

        Peaceful and melodic, but a bit pretentious.
    • Serendipity
      • Origin:

        English
      • Meaning:

        "unexpected good fortune"
      • Description:

        A unique virtue name with a sound as happy and lively as its meaning.
    • Seva
      • Sevan
        • Seven
          • Origin:

            Numerical word name
          • Description:

            Seinfeld's George threatened to name his future child Seven, and then singer Erykah Badu actually did it.
        • Severine
          • Origin:

            French, feminine variation of Severus; Latin
          • Meaning:

            "stern"
          • Description:

            This long-popular name in France sounds fresh, elegant and unusual here. Severine is the name of the most recent gorgeous James Bond Girl in the film Skyfall. Students of film history will associate the name with the complex character Catherine Deneuve played in the 1967 Bunuel classic, Belle de Jour..
        • Shade
          • Origin:

            Word name
          • Description:

            Shade can be cool and refreshing -- or negative and dubious. Shade was the name of the daughter played by Fairuza Balk in the 90s film Gas Food Lodging.
        • Shellaine
          • Shellana
            • Shellany
              • Shelle
                • Shellee
                  • Shellene
                    • Shelliann
                      • Sibyl
                        • Origin:

                          Greek
                        • Meaning:

                          "seer, oracle"
                        • Description:

                          The original but less common spelling of the ancient mythological name, now used mostly for fictional witches. But the rise of the lovely Lady Sybil Crawley on television's Downton Abbey and the fall of the multiple personality Sybil, a self-confessed fake, may give Sibyl and Sybil more credibility as a name.
                      • Sicily
                        • Origin:

                          Place-name
                        • Description:

                          Sicily is a lilting Italian place-name that sounds like the elegant British Cicely -- which you might consider a plus or a minus.