This is a list of submitted names in which the gender is feminine; and the usage is American; and the length is 4.
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Iowa f American (Modern)By way of French
Aiouez, from the Dakota word
ayúxba/
ayuxwe and named after the Iowa tribe. The name seems to have no further known etymology though some give it the meaning "sleepy ones".
Irie m & f Jamaican Patois, African AmericanIrie is used in the music and culture of Jamaica. The meaning is to have no worries or be at peace with everything around you. You hear the saying feeling Irie in many Regea songs.
Ivey f & m EnglishTransferred use of the surname
Ivey. In the case of the feminine name, it is also considered a variant of
Ivy.
Jacy f & m EnglishPopular in Westerns and Western romances for both male and female, white and Native American characters. It is probably a variant of
Jessie 1 or
Jesse, a name popular in the American West for both men and women.
Jazz f & m English (Modern)Diminutive of
Jazmine/
Jasmine or
Jazper/
Jasper, or possibly given in reference to "jazz", the genre of music, or the English word
jazz meaning "energy, excitement, excitability; very lively; of excellent quality, the genuine article".
Juli f & m English, Georgian, Spanish, PortugueseEnglish variant spelling of
Julie as well as the Georgian form of the name. It is also a short form of given names that start with
Juli-, which not only applies to English, but also to Georgian, Spanish and Portuguese.... [
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Jynx m & f EnglishLatinized form of
Iynx, or directly from the English word meaning “wryneck” (a bird used in witchcraft and divination).
Kass m & f English (Rare)Variant of
Cass, though it may also be from a East German surname
Kass derived from Czech
kos "blackbird".
Leaf m & f EnglishEither from the surname or from the English word
leaf.
Lira f American (Archaic)Of uncertain origin and meaning. Introduced in the 19th century, it faded out of general use by the early to mid-twentieth century.
Loie f English (American)In the case of American actress and dancer Loie Fuller (1862-1928) and American painter Loie Hollowell (1983-).
Loni f American (Rare)Derived from the second element of the Hawaiian name
Leilani,
lani, "heaven, sky, royal, majesty". The American actress Loni Kaye Anderson (1946-) was given this name as a shortened form of Leiloni, a variant spelling of Leilani.
Loxi f English (American, Rare), LiteraturePerhaps originally a diminutive of some name. This was used by Thelma Strabel for the heroine of her novel 'Reap the Wild Wind' (1940), about the wreckers in and around Key West, Florida in the 1840s, which Cecil B. DeMille adapted into a popular film starring Paulette Goddard and John Wayne (1942).
Meda f EnglishA short form of names ending in -meda such as Andromeda.
Mena f Irish, EnglishCommon diminutive of Philomena, derived from ancient Greek/Roman sources originally and means 'friend of strength' or 'loved strongly'. Mena is the most common nickname for Philomena and it sometimes used as a forename itself.
Moll f EnglishDiminutive of
Molly. Daniel Defoe used this name for the heroine of his 1722 novel "The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders".
Nini f & m EnglishDiminutive of names beginning with or containing the sound N. It is also a short form or diminutive of the Scottish name
Ninian.
Nion m & f EnglishPossibly from the Irish name of the fifth letter of the Ogham alphabet, an Early Medieval alphabet used to write the early Irish language and later the Old Irish language.
Nyri f English (Rare)Anglicization of
Nairi, derived from the Assyrian name for a confederation of tribes in the Armenian Highlands.
Odie m & f EnglishDiminutive of names such as Otis, Odell, Odessa, and Oda.
Oney m & f American (Rare)Oney is possibly of Irish (Gealic) origin as the name of a town in Ireland.
Opha f EnglishDiminutive of
Ophelia. Opha May Johnson (1878–1955) was the first woman to have enlist in the United States Marine Corps.
Orma f African American, EnglishAllegedly from a Kenyan word meaning "free men." The Orma people live in Eastern Kenya along the lower Tana River. However, this name may be a feminine form of
Ormond.
Orra f EnglishVariant of
Ora 1. A famous bearer is American botanical and scientific illustrator Orra White Hitchcock (1796–1863).
Plum f & m EnglishFrom Middle English
ploume, from Old English
plume "plum, plum tree," from an early Germanic borrowing (Middle Dutch
prume, Dutch
pruim, Old High German
pfluma, pfruma, German
Pflaume) from Vulgar Latin
*pruna, from Latin
prunum "plum," from Greek
prounon, a later form of
proumnon, a word of unknown origin, which is probably, like the tree itself, of Anatolian origin.
Poem m & f EnglishFrom French
poème or Latin
poema, from Greek
poēma, early variant of
poiēma ‘fiction, poem,’ from
poiein ‘create.’ See also
Poema.
Poet f & m English (American, Modern, Rare)From the English word meaning "someone who writes poems". From the Old French
poete, from Latin
poēta 'poet, author', from Ancient Greek
poiētēs (ποιητής) 'creator, maker, author, poet', from
poieō (poieō) 'I make, compose'.
Reef f & m EnglishFrom late 16th century (earlier as riff ) from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch
rif, ref, from Old Norse
rif, literally ‘rib’, used in the same sense.