One Syllable Names for Girls

An icy weather name that was surprisingly used for both sexes among enslaved people in 19th-century America.

Typically a masculine name in Turkey and Arabic countries.

This spelling of Blyss was used for about 20 baby girls in the US last year, but it doesn't add anything to the original.

Icelandic short form of Birgitta, which may derive from the Irish Brighid "exalted one" or from the male Norse name Birger, meaning "help, rescue". A famous bearer is Icelandic feminist Bríet Bjarnhéðinsdóttir (1856-1940), founder of the first women's magazine in Iceland.

A Quaker-feeling modern virtue name. Possibly a bit too literal for a first name, but we could see it working as a middle.