Beautiful Female Names

Premina Parker
7 min readJan 2, 2020

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List of the most beautiful names for girls and their meanings

  • Augusta / Augustine (old) — summer
  • Avdotya (people from Evdokia) — famous
  • Aurelius (new) — golden
  • Aurora (nov.) — Goddess of the morning dawn
  • Agapia (old) — from the Greek. Agapao — I love it.
  • Agatha (new) / Agafya / Agafia (old) — from Greek agatos — good, honest, kind.
  • Aglaida (old) — sparkling / daughter of beauty, charms
  • Aglaya (new) — brilliant
  • Agnes / Agnes (old) — chaste
  • Agnia (old) — immaculate or fiery
  • Agrippina / Agrefena (old) — from the Roman generic name Agrippus (Agrippa)
  • Ada (old) — decoration
  • Adele / Adelia / Adelaide (dr.-germ.) — from adal — noble and heid — state, estate.
  • Aza (old) — first
  • Azalea (new) — flowering bush
  • Aida (nov.) — Giving a harvest
  • Akilina / Akulina (old) — eagle
  • Aksinya (nar.ot Ksenia) — hospitable or vice versa alien (“xenos”)
  • Alevtina (old) — foreign to the evil
  • Alexandra (old) — protector of people
  • Alena (adv. From Elena) — sunny
  • Alina (new) — a stranger
  • Alice (new) — charming
  • Alla (old) — selfish
  • Albina (old, cf. new. Alvina) — “white”
  • Anastasia (old) — resurrected
  • Anatolia (new) — eastern
  • Angelina (old) — angel
  • Angela (new) — angelic
  • Animaisa (old) — sincere
  • Anisia / Anisya (old) — smelling sweet
  • Anita (new) — obstinate
  • Anna (old) — “grace”
  • Antonina / Antonida (old) — kind
  • Antonia (old) — entering the battle
  • Anfisa / Anfusa (old) — blooming
  • Anfiya (old) — …
  • Apollinaris (old) — the goddess of the sun
  • Ariadne (old) — sleeping
  • Arina (Nar from Irina) — calm
  • Arcadia (new) — shepherdess
  • Arsenia (new) — courageous
  • Artemia (old) — unscathed
  • Astra (new) — “flower”
  • Astrid (Scand.) — passionate
  • Athanasius (old) — immortal
  • Aphrodite (old) — arising from seafoam
  • Aelita (nov.) — from Greek. aero — air and lithos — stone
  • Aella (nov.) — from Greek. airlo — a whirlwind, hurricane
  • Bazhena (dr.) — holy
  • Beata (nov.) — the blessing
  • Beatrice (old) — the blessing
  • Bela (glor.) — beautiful
  • Bella (new) — beautiful
  • Berta (new) — great
  • Bogdan (glor.) — given by God
  • Boleslaw (glor.) — more glorious
  • Borislav (fame) — fighting for fame
  • Bronislava (glor.) — glorious protector
  • Valentina (old) — healthy
  • Valeria (old) — strong
  • Wanda (fame) — hospitable
  • Barbara (old) — wild
  • Vasilina (new) — royal
  • Vasilisa (old) — regal
  • Vassa (old) — Queen
  • Wenceslas (glor.) — more glorious
  • Venus (old) — “love”
  • Faith (old) — “faith”
  • Veronica (old) — the biblical name
  • Veselina (glor.) — cheerful
  • Vesta (old) — the patroness of home. hearth
  • Vidana (glor.) — prominent
  • Quiz (old) — winner
  • Victoria (old) — “victory”
  • Vilena (new) — by V.I. LENIN
  • Viola / Violet / Violanta (new) — “violet”
  • Virinea (old) — green, fresh
  • Vitaly / Vitalina (new) — vital
  • Vlada (fame) — owning
  • Vladilena (new) — abbreviation from “Vladimir Ilyich Lenin”
  • Vladimir (nov.) — owning the world
  • Vladislav (glor.) — owning fame
  • Vladlena (new) — similar to Vladilena
  • Vlasta (glor.) — sovereign
  • Will (new) — freestyle
  • Vseslav (glor.) — everywhere glorious
  • Gaia (nov.) — wife
  • Gali (old) — bright
  • Galina (old) — calm
  • Gayana / Gayaniya (old) — from the Greek. ge — earth
  • Gelena (new Polish from Elena) — bright
  • Helium (new) — solar (Helios)
  • Gella (old) — falling into the water
  • Gertrude (new) — patroness of women
  • Glafira (old) — refined
  • Glyceria (old) — sweet
  • Gloria (old) — “glory”
  • Golub (other Russian) — tender
  • Gorislava (glor.) — inciting glory
  • Dyne (nov.) — another reading of Diana
  • Dana (new) — moon goddess
  • Daria / Daria (old) — winner
  • Darina (new) — giving
  • Daryana (new) — winner
  • Dekabrina (new) — winter
  • Deya / Diya (nov.) — divine
  • Juliet (old) — analog of Julia
  • Diana (nov.) — Divine
  • Dina / Dinah (from the old. Signa) — “faith”
  • Diodorus (old) — given by God
  • Dionysia (old) — patroness of winemaking
  • Dobrava (other Russian) — kind
  • Domna / Domina (old) — mistress, mistress of the house.
  • Dominica / Dominica (old) — belongs To God
  • Dorothea / Dorothea (old) — from the Greek. Doron — gift, gift, and Theos — God.
  • Eve (old) — the giver of life
  • Eugene (old) — noble
  • Evdokia (old) — well-known
  • Eupraxia (old) — doing good deeds, virtue
  • Catherine (old) — Immaculate
  • Elena (old) — the chosen one
  • Elizabeth (old) — worshiping God
  • Euphemia / Euphemia (old) — pious
  • Euphrosyne / Euphrosyne (old) — from the Greek. eufrosine — joy, fun.
  • Jeanne (nov.) — “the gift of God.”
  • Zhdana (other Russian) — waiting
  • Zarina / Zorina (new) — light
  • Zvenislava (glor.) — Carrying Glory
  • Zinaida (old) — born of Zeus
  • Zinovia (old) — “Zeus Force.”
  • Zlata (fame) — gold
  • Zoya (old) — “life”
  • Ivanna (from John) — “God’s gift”
  • Ida (new) — mountain, “descendant”
  • Hilaria (old) — funny
  • Inga (new) — from Dr. Scand. ingvio is the name of the God of plenty.
  • Inessa (new) — serene
  • Inna (old) — name of Rome / stormy stream
  • John (old) — “God’s gift”
  • Jonah (old) — “dove”
  • Hypatia (new) — related to horses, equine (hippos)
  • Hippolyta (nov.) — from “(g) Ippo” — horse and “lithos” — stone, plate
  • Iraida (old) — the goddess of the rainbow
  • Iroid (old) — heroic, daughter of a hero
  • Irina (old) — “world”
  • Isidora (old) — the patroness of fertility
  • Spark (new) — bright
  • Iphigenia (old) — immortal
  • Oia (old) — from the Greek. Eeyore — Violet
  • Capitolina (old) — home
  • Carolina (New) — Bold
  • Katerina (People: from Catherine) — Immaculate
  • Kira (old) — “mistress”
  • Cyril (old) — mistress
  • Claudia (old) — lame or of the claudian clan
  • Clara (new) — clear
  • Clarice / Clarissa (new) — light
  • Cleopatra (old) — beauty
  • Concordia (old) — consonant, agreeing
  • Constance (old) — persistent
  • Christina (new) — baptized
  • Ksenia (old) — a stranger
  • Lada (dr.) — dear
  • Larisa (old) — “the seagull”
  • Leniana (new) — from Lenin
  • Lenin (new) — from Lenin
  • Leonida (old) — “a descendant of a lion”
  • Leonila (old) — lioness
  • Leonty (new) — the lion
  • Lesya (new) — courageous
  • Libya (old) — originally from Libya
  • Lydia (old) — first
  • Liliana (new) — blooming
  • Lily (new) — “flower”
  • Lina (nov.) — an independent name or a diminutive of Elina
  • Leah / Leah (old) — …
  • Lyubava (dr. Russian) — beauty
  • Love (old) — “love”
  • Lyubomir (glor.) — the darling of the world
  • Lyudmila (old, glory) — sweet to people
  • Mavra (old) — dark-skinned, dark-skinned
  • Magda (new) — see Magdalene
  • Magdalene (old) — sounding / originally from Magdala, in Palestine
  • Madeleine (new) — see Magdalene
  • Maya / Maya (new) — the goddess of spring
  • Malvina (dr.-germ.) — From mal — justice and wine — friend.
  • Margarita (old) — “pearl”
  • Marina (old) — sea
  • Mary / Marya (old) — bitter
  • Marie (new) — a variant of Mary
  • Martha (new) — mistress
  • Martha (old) — Mentor
  • Matilda (dr.-germ.) — from the mast — strength and hild — battle.
  • Matryona / Matrona (old) — mistress, mother of the family, mother
  • Melania / Melania (old) — dark, dark
  • Milada (glor.) — good
  • Milan / Milena / (fame) — dear
  • Militsa (old, glor.) — cute on the face
  • Miloslava (glor.) — glory sweetheart
  • Peace (glor.) — peaceful
  • Mirra (glor.) — fragrant, fragrant
  • Miroslava (fame) — winner
  • Mirador (gr.) — a gift from the mother.
  • Mlada (fame) — young
  • Mstislava (fame) — conqueror
  • Muse (old) — goddess of art / inspirer
  • Hope (old, glor.) — “hope.”
  • Nadia (nar., From Hope) — “hope”
  • Nana (old) — nymph
  • Nastasya (Nar., From Anastasia) — resurrected
  • Natalya / Natalia (old) — native
  • Nelly (new) — young
  • Neonila (old) — principled
  • Nika (old) — “victory”
  • Nina (old) — ruler
  • Ninel (new) — “Lenin” on the contrary
  • Short story (old) — new
  • Nora (new) — cold
  • Oksana (Ukrainian folk., From Ksenia) — hospitable
  • Octavia (old) — eighth
  • Oktyabrina (new) — autumn
  • Olesya (Ukrainian, from Alexander) — courageous
  • Olympiad (old) — keeping calm
  • Olympia (new) — named after Zeus
  • Olga (old, other Russian) — saint
  • Paul (old) — small
  • Pavlina (old) — beauty
  • Platonida (old) — a descendant of Plato
  • Polyxena (old) — Trojan princess
  • Polina (nov.) — forecaster
  • Pravdina (new) — honest
  • Praskovya (Nar., From the old. Paraskeva) — “Friday”
  • Rada (old, glor.) — bringing joy
  • Radmila (glor.) — joyful
  • Raisa (old) — submissive
  • Revmira (new) — REVOLUTIONARY WORLD
  • Regina (old) — Queen
  • Renata (new) — newly born
  • Rimma (old) — Roman
  • Rogneda (glor.) — admitted to the equal council / council of men
  • Rose (new) — “flower”
  • Rosalia (new) — blooming
  • Rosana (new) — flower
  • Rostislav (fame) — growing for fame
  • Ruslana (new) — lioness
  • Rufina / Ruth (old) — red, red
  • Sabina / Savina (old) — from the Sabine clan, Sabine
  • Svetlana (dr.Rus.) — bright
  • Svetozara (glor.) — light dawn
  • Svetoslav (new) — the glory of light
  • Freedom (New) — “Freedom”
  • Svyatoslav (glory) — holy glory
  • Severina (new) — northern
  • Selena / Selina (new) — the moon
  • Seraphim (old) — fiery
  • Glory (glory) — “glory”
  • Slav (Slav.) — Slav
  • Snezhana (new) — cold
  • Sophia / Sophia (old) — “wisdom”
  • Stanislava (glor.) — become glorious
  • Stella (old) — star
  • Stepanida / Stefanida (old) — “wreath”
  • Stefania (old) — “wreath”
  • Susanna / Sosanna (old) — stubborn / from Hebrew — “shushanakh” — “white lily”
  • Suzanne (new) — stubborn
  • Tahira (new) — persistent
  • Taisiah (old) — “God-pleasing” and “lover of children.”
  • Tamara (old) — “fig tree”
  • Tamila / Tomila (dr.Rus.) — languishing
  • Tatyana (old) — founder
  • Ulyana (nar., From the old. Juliana, cf. Juliana)
  • Ulada (new) — sweet-voiced
  • Ustinya (nar., From the old. Justin, cf. Justin)
  • Faina (old) — radiant
  • Felixana (new) — successful
  • Felicita / Felicitata (old) — happy
  • Felicia (old) — “happiness”
  • Fedora / Theodora (old) — “God’s gift”
  • Theodosius / Theodosia (old) — landowner
  • Philadelphia (nov.) — Loving Delphi
  • Flavia (old) — from the Flavian clan
  • Flora / Floria (new) — the goddess of flowers
  • Florentina (new) — blooming
  • Florence (new) — blooming
  • Floriana (new) — young or blooming
  • Fotina (old) — according to the Saints Svetlana
  • Harita (old) — the goddess of beauty
  • Haritina (old) — beauty
  • Chionia (old) — nymph
  • Christina (old, cf. new. Christina) — Christ
  • Cheslava (glory.) — honest glory
  • Eurydice (new) — bitten by a snake
  • Eleanor (nov.) — difficult
  • Elvira (nov.) — balanced
  • Elmira (new) — calm
  • Elsa (new) — courageous
  • Emma (nov.) — self-critical
  • Erica (new) — the creator of the temple
  • Juliana (old., From Juliana) — curly
  • Julia (old, from Julia) — fluffy
  • Humanita (nov.) — human, human
  • Juno (old) — patroness of marriage
  • Jadwiga (new) — a wealthy warrior
  • Yana (nov.) — “The Goddess of the Sun.”
  • Ioannina (new) — light
  • Jaromira (glor.) — “the solar world”
  • Yaroslav (glor.) — “burning glory” or similar to the male name Yaroslav

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Premina Parker

From Australia, Co-Founder & CEO at Gen Baby Carrier & Uniquelastnames.com - Lecturer | Medium Top Writer | Counsellor in Parenting