Star Wars names

Malak is an Arabic and Turkish name high on the popularity list in several European countries on the girls' side.

Maris is an unusual and appealing name that has never appeared in the U.S. Top 1000, overshadowed by its twentieth century elaboration, Marisa/Marissa. It derives from the phrase "Stella Maris," star of the sea, one of the many epithets of the Virgin Mary, and became familiar via the unseen (but unliked) character of sitcom Frasier's ex-sister-in-law.

Most famous as a Dracula victim (where Mina is short for Wilhelmina), Mina is a name that can stand on its own or be a diminutive of any name ending in -mina, most usually Wilhelmina.

Gently pleasant English family name long associated with 60-Minuteman Morley Safer.

Rare, with a gleaming, golden image.

Warm-hued spelling spin on Rowan that was chosen by Sharon Stone for one of her three young sons.

Might suggest speed, excitement, even danger, were it not for its best-known bearer, conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh.