1798 Four Letter Girl Names

A small number of girls are given this Irish surname as a first name each year.

Baby is rarely seen as a given name — or even nickname — these days, although it did rank in the Top 1000 from 1989 to 2003. These instances can be accounted for in two ways. Firstly, infants whose birth certificates are not filled out on time are given generic placeholders for registration, such as Infant, Unknown, or Baby. But more influential during this decade was the 1987 movie Dirty Dancing, starring Jennifer Grey as Frances "Baby" Houseman. It's the origin of the famed line, "Nobody puts Baby in a corner."

Hawa is the Arabic equivalent of Eve in that it is the name used for the wife of first man Adam.

In Turkey, as in many countries around the world, word names are on the rise. Doğa is among the most popular for baby girls.

An attractive and easily translatable Finnish name.

As Nerea, in the Spanish Top 100, but this streamlined version is one of those golden choices that's both supremely simple and intriguingly rare.

This rare Russian name ultimately derives from the masculine Greek name Kyriakos.

Slovene Mia cognate, rarely seen in the US.

In baby name limbo along with Ronni, Connie, and Bonnie.

This concise but playful diminutive name comes from Yianna, Gianna, Johana, Janka and similar, which are all international feminine forms of classic John. In the US, it is a gender-neutral name, currently on the rise.

One of several fascinating names used in Charlaine Harris's Midnight, Texas books and the NBC adaptation thereof, Fiji is a pleasingly quirky place name that's been little used for babies. Though it has been used quite a lot for fancy bottled water, we don't think it quite qualifies as a water name.