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I love Basque names. Some of them are so lovely and light, and some of them look like a mouth full of marbles. I like that many of the names have nature meanings, and I like Basque forms of common European names. Of the ones you listed, my favorites are Maialen (LOVE), Ainara, Esti, Eder, Erramun, and Iñaki. I also like:

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Alaia
Amaia
Irati
Izar
Katalin
Miren
Naia
Nerea

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Beñat
Ibai
Julen
Petri

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And last of all an Admiral came,
A terrible man with a terrible name,—
A name which you all know by sight very well;
But which no one can speak, and no one can spell.

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Robert Southey, "The March to Moscow"