Girl Names That Mean Life

Hillbilly twang.

A lovely Arabic name for girls mostly used for Muslim girls of South Asian descent.

Norwegian city name heard much more often as a last name than a first.

Another candidate for mispronunciation.

An energetic and distinctive choice.

Pretty Slavic name, with some obvious pronunciation challenges.

We all know that Chaka really means disco.

Anima is a name that could work in so many languages, blessed as it is with easy spelling and pronunciation. It works equally well in the East and in the West, as its roots can either come from Latin, where it means "soul", or from Sanskrit, where it means "minute, tiny".

This pretty African girls' name has not one but two admirable meanings.

A hauntingly lovely Indian name.

A name rarely heard outside Russia; the first syllable could cause problems.

Shaw is a streamlined and more modern-sounding Shawn, with many notable surname namesakes.

A vibrant and lively name, Živanka is likely to be a variation of Živa or Živana. Deriving from the Old Slavic word živŭ meaning "alive, living", it is also related to a Slavic goddess, associated with life and fertility.

A perfectly fine Eastern European girls' name, tainted slightly by its use as the name of a village near Chernobyl in Ukraine that has been devastated by radiation.

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