Names ending in a
- Idalina
Origin:
English elaboration of IdaDescription:
Makes Ida more feminine but no more fashionable.
- Onacona
Origin:
CherokeeMeaning:
"white owl"Description:
Owls are very important to the Cherokee people — folklore associates them with warfare.
- Brienna
Origin:
American, invented nameDescription:
An amalgam of Brianna and Sienna that doesn't quite work.
- Petya
Origin:
Diminutive of Pyotr, Russian, GreekMeaning:
"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.
- Anelia
Origin:
BulgarianMeaning:
"grace"Description:
Bulgarian diminutive of Anna, a pretty alternative to Amelia which may often be confused with the latter.
- Gola
Origin:
CherokeeMeaning:
"winter"Description:
Traditional Cherokee choice for a winter-born daughter.
- Margherita
- Cerelisa
- Andretta
- Artemisa
Origin:
Spanish; Galician; Albanian, from GreekMeaning:
"safe or butcher"Description:
A romantic form of Artemis used in Spain and Albania.
- Amalisa
Origin:
Modern invented nameDescription:
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:
DakotaMeaning:
"sleepy ones"Description:
American place and tribe name, derived via French from the Dakota word ayúxba "sleepy ones".
- Chila
- Edka
- Baptista
Origin:
LatinMeaning:
"the baptized one"Description:
Probably too evangelical for mass importation.
- Ritva
Origin:
FinnishMeaning:
"birch branch"Description:
Ritva is a Finnish name last trendy in the 1940s, starting to make a comeback today.
- Dafna
Origin:
HebrewMeaning:
"laurel"Description:
The Hebrew form of Daphne, typically only heard among Jewish families in the US.
- Ekela
Origin:
Hawaiian variant of EzraDescription:
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:
GeorgianDescription:
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.