Animal Names for Girls

This Basque name also has a variation: Aintzane.

Fluttery and flighty. But there are a couple of names that mean butterfly you might consider, such as Yara and Farasha.

Dael is cooler than Dale -- but why? Vowel switch gives an old nature name a hipper look.

Common in Wales, but would really stand out here. One of the middle names of Stella McCartney's daughter Reiley; Dilys Powell was a well-known British film critic, Professor Dilys Derwent a Harry Potter character., a witch who worked as a Healer at St. Mungo's Hospital, and was a celebrated Headmistress of Hogwarts School..

A recent favorite among boy names, now a top riser for girls.

The strong and unusual name of a medieval (male) saint and a contemporary (female) novelist, Benilde Little.

Originated as a nickname for Anastazija, but now is more popular as an independent name.

Duke has recently been seen on the TV show Better Things as the name of the youngest of three sisters, the other two having the very on trend names Max and Frankie.

The childhood name of the heroine of Memoirs of a Geisha is pretty and accessible. Chiyiko is a pet form.

A floral name, used in Romania and popular in Moldova too. Camellia is the English form, while Camélia is used in France. The flower itself is named after botanist George Josef Kamel.

Sometimes, a new name is created by lopping off the first letter or letters. Such is the case with Abrielle, which feels like Gabrielle without its shirt.

Spelled this way, Adine could be a relative of either the Irish Aideen, which means jealousy, or the Arabic Adina, meaning slender. We'll go with the slender.

A beautiful English and French flower name deriving from the Latin word for dove. Sadly, in America this name is now forever linked with a tragic terrorist attack on a Colorado high school.

Part Ava, part Lynn, and part cousin of the stylish Evelyn and Adeline, Avalynn is a recent 2014 entrant to the US Top 1000. But sometimes when a name is trying hard to have everything, it doesn't really impress. Avalyn is one spelling variation.

Eclipsa Butterfly, also called Eclipsa the Queen of Darkness, is a character on the Disney Channel show Star vs. the Forces of Evil. Both Eclipsa and Solaria, the name of her mother, debuted on the charts in 2021, two years after the series finale.

A medieval French name little used today, which certainly appeals to modern tastes.

Feminine form of Athanasius