Lula-Rose Girls List

  1. Sable
    • Origin:

      English
    • Meaning:

      "animal name"
    • Description:

      Sable is often associated with the Dynsaty soap opera, but it is actually a type of animal historically hunted for its fur. Sable is also used as a word for a warm, rich black color. Both associations carry hints of luxury.
  2. Saorla
    • Origin:

      Irish
    • Meaning:

      "free princess"
    • Description:

      Less well known internationally than Saoirse, but equally appealing, Saorla is also spelled Saorlaith or Saorfhlaith.
  3. Scholastica
    • Origin:

      Latin
    • Meaning:

      "scholarly"
    • Description:

      The 6th-century Saint Scholastica was an Benedictine abbess, and is the patron saint of education. In modern times, her name has been connected to various educational institutions. This clunky name probably works best on groups rather than people.
  4. Sephora
    • Origin:

      French variation of Tziporah, Hebrew
    • Meaning:

      "bird"
    • Description:

      This lovely name is a softened French version of Tziporah, the biblical wife of Moses. Unfortunately, in the US, it's become attached to the cosmetics franchise.
  5. Seren
    • Origin:

      Welsh, Turkish
    • Meaning:

      "star or sail mast"
    • Description:

      Seren is a top girls' name in Wales – and a lovely choice almost unknown elsewhere. Seren, in the Sirona form, was an ancient goddess of the hot springs.
  6. Stella
    • Origin:

      Latin
    • Meaning:

      "star"
    • Description:

      Stella is a name with star quality and sparkle, that manages to sound both ethereal and earthy. Celestial but not otherworldly, it lands somewhere between the popular Ella and bold Seraphina.
  7. Tara
    • Origin:

      Irish
    • Meaning:

      "rocky hill"
    • Description:

      Despite a rich history in Irish myth preceding its plantation appearance in Gone with the Wind, widespread use in the seventies caused Tara to lose its Irish accent.
  8. Tilda
    • Origin:

      Estonian, diminutive of Matilda
    • Description:

      Actress Tilda Swinton injected this dated nickname name with some modern charm.
  9. Trine
    • Trudie
      • Ulla
        • Origin:

          Scandinavian
        • Meaning:

          "will, determination"
        • Description:

          Ulla, the beautiful Swedish secretary in The Producers (played by Uma Thurman in the movie) who purrs, "Ven you got it, flaunt it," has changed the image of this name forever. Ulla may stand on its own or be an abbreviation of Ursula or Ulrika; Ula may be seen as another spelling.
      • Ursula
        • Origin:

          Latin
        • Meaning:

          "little female bear"
        • Description:

          A saint's name with a noteworthy literary background, including uses by Shakespeare in Two Gentlemen of Verona and Much Ado About Nothing, by Ben Johnson, Walter Scott, Longfellow, D. H. Lawrence and Neil Gaiman. In real life, her two most well known representatives are writer Ursula Le Guin and actress Ursula Andress. In literature, there is also Ursula Iguaran, a key, long-lived character in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's major work, One Hundred Years of Solitude.
      • Ulyssa
        • Wenna
          • Origin:

            Cornish
          • Meaning:

            "white / fair"
          • Description:

            Wenna is an early Cornish forms of Gwen, belonging to two 5th-century Cornish saints. Wenna could also be a shortened form of Conwenna, another beautiful Cornish name.
        • Wren
          • Origin:

            English
          • Meaning:

            "small bird"
          • Description:

            Wren, a lilting songbird name, could be the next Robin. Wren entered the Top 1000 for the first time in 2012 and is among the new wave of popular English names for girls.
        • Yara
          • Origin:

            Arabic, Persian, Brazilian, Hebrew
          • Meaning:

            "friend, helper; strength; water nymph; honeycomb"
          • Description:

            The multicultural Yara is a sweet but substantial choice that could make a more unusual take on Sara and also work in multiple languages Popular in Portugal, The Netherlands, and Switzerland, familiar in the UK and France, it entered the US Top 1000 in 2017 and has been climbing the charts ever since.
        • Ysella
          • Origin:

            Cornish
          • Meaning:

            "modest"
          • Description:

            A subtle virtue name, a name that can be shortened to two popular nicknames (Izzy and Ella) and a rare Cornish name - what isn't to love about this modest appellation? It has been used as a name in Cornwall since the 1970s.
        • Zadie
          • Origin:

            English variation of Sadie
          • Meaning:

            "princess"
          • Description:

            When aspiring British writer Sadie Smith decided to change her name to the more distinctive and zippy Zadie at the age of fourteen, this attention-magnet name was born. But though it might sound like a modern initial-switch, Zadie was actually Number 539 in 1881, remaining in the Top 1000 for almost thirty years.
        • Zelda
          • Origin:

            Diminutive of Griselda
          • Meaning:

            "gray fighting maid"
          • Description:

            Classified as an early beauty, Zelda has long and often been used as such for characters in books and films. Since 1986, Zelda has been a prime Nintendo name, as in the Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.
        • Zelie
          • Origin:

            French
          • Meaning:

            "noble"
          • Description:

            A cute, zippy French saint's name that's picking up in popularity there, and starting to in the US as well. Zélie originated as a short form of Azélie, thought to derive from Adelaide via the Occitan form Azalaïs. Saint Zélie was born Marie-Azélie.