Names That Are Variations

Stuck in the Old Country.

Adelita is a more recent entry into the popular group of girl names starting with Adel -- Adele, Adela, Adeline, and Adelaide. Adelita is technically a diminutive itself, but also carries the nickname Alita.

Although it gives of a somewhat Spanish vibe (a la Beatriz), Gladez is in fact a Welsh variation of the more familiar English name Gladys. That being said, while around 5 girls are named Gladys each year in the UK, none are recorded as being named Gladez. We recommend sticking with the more familiar version, which is in any case, rare enough.

Soft, gentle, and non-Germanic, but the final s almost makes it sound plural.

Feminizes Dylan -- but why bother.

This spelling of Sophia is primarily used in Russia and Armenia.

Similar sounding to the English Jacoby, but with a Judeo-Italian flair. Might cause a few pronunciation and spelling issues, but a lovely name nonetheless.

Typical of formula that takes a traditional name syllable and adds -isha ending.

Yesterday's Jaylen.

The form of Kwaku commonly used by enslaved people in America and the Caribbean in the 18th and 19th centuries. Quaco was sometimes nicknamed or Anglicized as Jack, Jacco, or Jacky.

Common Slovene spelling of Olivia, pronounced the same way.

Despite sounding like Kate, the double E is likely to trip up English speakers who will want to pronounce this "Keat" instead of "Kate".

With Jace in the Top 100 and Jase almost there, we're seeing more and more variations -- this is one of the fastest-rising names of recent years.

Aoua is a Malian variation of Eve - the original woman’s name - which is fitting for a name so closely connected to Mali's first female parliamentarian.

This distinctly Russian name derives from the Greek Hermolaos. Yermolai can also be spelled without the initial Y, as Ermolai.

Paulin's -in suffix and two-syllable rhythm make this a fashionable alternative to the original, though it looks like an abbreviation of Pauline.

Elegant Italian translation.