Names ending in a

  1. Idalina
    • Origin:

      English elaboration of Ida
    • Description:

      Makes Ida more feminine but no more fashionable.
  2. Onacona
    • Origin:

      Cherokee
    • Meaning:

      "white owl"
    • Description:

      Owls are very important to the Cherokee people — folklore associates them with warfare.
  3. Brienna
    • Origin:

      American, invented name
    • Description:

      An amalgam of Brianna and Sienna that doesn't quite work.
  4. Petya
    • Origin:

      Diminutive of Pyotr, Russian, Greek
    • Meaning:

      "stone"
    • Description:

      A diminutive of the Russian form of Peter, used on a character in Leo Tolstoy's novel, War and Peace. In Bulgaria, it is used as a feminine name.
  5. Anelia
    • Origin:

      Bulgarian
    • Meaning:

      "grace"
    • Description:

      Bulgarian diminutive of Anna, a pretty alternative to Amelia which may often be confused with the latter.
  6. Gola
    • Origin:

      Cherokee
    • Meaning:

      "winter"
    • Description:

      Traditional Cherokee choice for a winter-born daughter.
  7. Margherita
    • Cerelisa
      • Andretta
        • Artemisa
          • Origin:

            Spanish; Galician; Albanian, from Greek
          • Meaning:

            "safe or butcher"
          • Description:

            A romantic form of Artemis used in Spain and Albania.
        • Amalisa
          • Origin:

            Modern invented name
          • Description:

            Amalisa is a smoosh of the prefix of Amabel and Amanda, which means lovable, and Lisa, a diminutive of Elizabeth that's long been used on its own. In some ways, it's an improvement on all of its root names -- fresher and more distinctive than Amanda or Lisa and easier to understand than Amabel, which is often confused with Annabel. Though Amalisa can be similarly confused with Annalisa which will inevitably become annoying.
        • Brigita
          • Iowa
            • Origin:

              Dakota
            • Meaning:

              "sleepy ones"
            • Description:

              American place and tribe name, derived via French from the Dakota word ayúxba "sleepy ones".
          • Chila
            • Edka
              • Baptista
                • Origin:

                  Latin
                • Meaning:

                  "the baptized one"
                • Description:

                  Probably too evangelical for mass importation.
              • Ritva
                • Origin:

                  Finnish
                • Meaning:

                  "birch branch"
                • Description:

                  Ritva is a Finnish name last trendy in the 1940s, starting to make a comeback today.
              • Dafna
                • Origin:

                  Hebrew
                • Meaning:

                  "laurel"
                • Description:

                  The Hebrew form of Daphne, typically only heard among Jewish families in the US.
              • Ekela
                • Origin:

                  Hawaiian variant of Ezra
                • Description:

                  One of the many Hawaiian versions of biblical names to come out of King Kamehamaha IV's 1860 edict requiring his citizens to adopt Western-style names.
              • Maka
                • Origin:

                  Georgian
                • Description:

                  Georgian diminutive for names starting with Ma-, such as Margalita or Mariam. Notable bearers of this name include the former First Lady Maka Chichua and writer Maka Jokhadze.