Names from Encara

Surname name with an uplifting meaning. Just beware that this is a well-known mattress brand.

Seraphina is one of the most-searched name on Nameberry, destined for even greater popularity. The highest-ranking angels, the six-winged seraphim, inspired the lovely name Seraphina.

Seren, meaning "star", is one of the top girls' names in Wales, but as a boys' name it has a different derivation. It's a rare Polish form of the Latin Serenus, mostly used to refer to the Saint and meaning "serene". It could make for a handsome and almost unknown alternative to rising star Soren.

Could there be a more poetic name than Sonnet? Actor Forest Whitaker was inspired to choose it for his daughter.

Grandparents are sure to link this to disgraced Nixon vice president Spiro Agnew.

Popular Russian name, familiar here via author Svetlana Stalin, the dictator's daughter.

A short but sophisticated, long-neglected name you might want to consider.

The more dignified and attractive Hebrew equivalent of Golda or Goldie.