Behind the Name: debonair.lady's Personal Name List

Zuri

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Swahili

Rating: 48% based on 11 votes

Means "beautiful" in Swahili.

Tahnee

Gender: Feminine

Usage: English (Rare)

Pronounced: TAW-nee

Rating: 27% based on 11 votes

Variant of Tawny.

Tahira

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Arabic, Urdu

Other Scripts: طاهرة(Arabic) طاہرہ(Urdu)

Pronounced: TA-hee-ra(Arabic)

Rating: 35% based on 11 votes

Feminine form of Tahir.

Mei 1

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Chinese

Other Scripts: 美, 梅, etc.(Chinese)

Pronounced: MAY

Rating: 40% based on 10 votes

From Chinese 美 (měi) meaning "beautiful" or 梅 (méi) meaning "Chinese plum" (species Prunus mume), as well as other characters that are pronounced similarly.

Maiara

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Tupi

Rating: 34% based on 10 votes

From Tupi maya arya meaning "great-grandmother".

Maia 2

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Roman Mythology

Pronounced: MIE-ya(Latin) MAY-ə(English) MIE-ə(English)

Rating: 45% based on 13 votes

Probably from Latin maior meaning "greater". This was the name of a Roman goddess of spring, a companion (sometimes wife) of Vulcan. She was later conflated with the Greek goddess Maia. The month of May is named for her.

Luna

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Roman Mythology, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, English

Pronounced: LOO-na(Latin, Spanish, Italian) LOO-nə(English)

Rating: 35% based on 13 votes

Means "the moon" in Latin (as well as Italian, Spanish and other Romance languages). Luna was the Roman goddess of the moon, frequently depicted driving a white chariot through the sky.

Callie

Gender: Feminine

Usage: English

Pronounced: KAL-ee

Rating: 34% based on 12 votes

Diminutive of Caroline, or sometimes of names beginning with Cal.

Arielle

Gender: Feminine

Usage: French, English

Pronounced: A-RYEHL(French)

Rating: 21% based on 12 votes

French feminine form of Ariel, as well as an English variant.

Annette

Gender: Feminine

Usage: French, English, German, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch

Pronounced: A-NEHT(French) ə-NEHT(English) a-NEH-tə(German)

Rating: 47% based on 12 votes

French diminutive of Anne 1. It has also been widely used in the English-speaking world, and it became popular in America in the late 1950s due to the fame of actress Annette Funicello (1942-2013).