Three Syllable Girl Names

This popular old Swedish name is not one that would appeal to many modern American parents, though shortening it to Nilla helps.

Similar to Malaysia, except completely invented.

Melvina ranked in the Top 1000 for over 65 years in the US, coinciding to a large extent with the years its much more popular masculine counterpart Melvin ranked in the Top 100. Today, Melvin is still hanging on in the Top 1000 for boys, but Melvina hasn't been given to more than 20 babies in a year since 1991.

This operatic Italian name -- it appears in Mozart's "The Magic Flute" -- is a more unusual route to the nickname Pam/Pammy.

Sidereal is the English spelling of Sideræl, one of the middle names Grimes and Elon Musk chose for their daughter. They used "a more elven" spelling of the word sidereal, which Grimes defined as "the true time of the universe, star time, deep space time, not our relative earth time."

Friendly Slavic rarity.

Variation of Deveraux. Poppy Montgomery used this spelling as one of the middles for her daughter Violet.

Abital is popular for boys as well as girls in Israel, but we rarely hear it here. In the Old Testament, Abital was one of King David's wives and the mother of his fifth son.

Possibly derived from the Sanskrit word aaryah meaning noble, or from the Finnish "Airi" meaning "messenger, herald". Reminiscent of Ayla, Ira, and Arya, it is no wonder Aaira was one of the fastest rising names in the UK in 2022.

Andarta was a warrior goddess thought to have been associated with victory.

A halfway house between full-on Anglo-Saxon Eoforhild, and the modern-day version Averil. Everild makes for an interesting blend of medieval with the on-trend "Ever" sound.

Khalani debuted on the US Top 1000 in 2020 thanks to the influence of Khalani Simon — known as Lani Love — a child model and budding star.

Form of Lucia currently popular in Slovenia and Croatia.