I meant to publish this several weeks ago, but never got around it. Here is a list of lovely Latin names that would make awesome female names. What do you think? Would you use any of these?

• Abellana (hazelnut)
• Acerra: name of a type of small box that held incense for sacrifices
• Aerizusa: name of a kind of precious stone, speculated to pertain to “turquoise”
• Aeruca “verdigris”
• Aethra: “the upper, pure air; the bright, clear, serene sky; the air, heavens, sky”
• Alauda “lark”
• Albuelis: name of a kind of vine
• Alica: a form of wheat, grits or a type of drink produced from the aformentioned wheat.
• Alicula: a short tunic with a cape
• Alsine: “chickweed”
• Anima “soul”
• Apella “small bee”
• Aqua “water”
• Ara “altar; sanctuary”
• Aranea “spider; spider web”
• Ardissa: name of an unknown type of plant
• Arianis: name of a type of wild plant that grew in what is now Afghanistan
• Arinca: a kind of grain
• Aris: name of a plant in the arum family
• Arista “ear of grain; harvest; summer”
• Atrusca: name of a kind of grape
• Auraria “goldmine; female goldsmith”
• Aurata “golden; gilded; sea bream”
• Avena “wild oat”
• Avicella/Avicula “little bird”
• Avis “bird”
• Bacalia: name of a type of laurel with berries
• Banderia “banner; flag”
• Barneca “barnacle goose”
• Bellatrix “warrior woman”
• Bellis “daisy”
• Berula “watercress”
• Betula “birch”
• Bolis: a term for a meteor shaped like an arrow
• Boria: name of a kind of jasper
• Brassica “cabbage”
• Bria “winecup”
• Brisa “refuse of grapes after pressing”
• Brontea “thunderstone; precious stone”
• Bruma “winter solstice; winter cold”
• Bryonia “bryony”
• Bucardia: name of a type of precious stone
• Cacalia “coltsfoot plant”
• Cadmitis: name of a type of precious stone
• Caesura “a pause in a verse”
• Cala “burning log”
• Calabrix: name of a shrub speculated to be the buckthorn
• Caliditas “warmth; heat”
• Callais: name of a precious stone that was green, perhaps the turqoise
• Callis “path”
• Caltha “marigold”
• Camella “wine-goblet”
• Campana “bell”
• Canna “reed”
• Cantatio “charm; spell; music; song”
• Cantilena “old song; gossip; oft-repeated saying”
• Cantio “song”
• Cantrix “songstress”
• Cappella “cloak; chapel”
• Caprea “roe deer; wild female goat”
• Carex “reedgrass; rushes”
• Carica: name of a type of fig
• Carissa “artful woman”
• Cassia “cinnamon”
• Cassita “crested lark”
• Castanea “chestnut”
• Cathedra “ceremonial chair”
• Cedrus “cedar”
• Cembra “Swiss pine”
• Ceraunia: name of a light blue gemstone
• Cerceris: name of a type of bird, exact translation has been lost in history
• Ceresia “cherry”
• Chara: name of a type of root plant, exact translation has been lost in history
• Chelidonia “celandine swallow”
• Chelys “tortoise”
• Chilias “the number one thousand”
• Cicindela “firefly”
• Ciconia “stork”
• Cidaris “diadem; tiara”
• Cifra “zero”
• Cinis “cold ashes”
• Cinnabaris “dragon’s blood; cinnabar”
• Cynira “10-stringed lyre”
• Codia “head of the poppy”
• Coris “hypericon plant”
• Dabla “Arabian date palm”
• Damalio “calf”
• Damma “fallow deer”
• Dammula “small deer”
• Dextra “right hand”
• Docis: meteor in the form of a beam
• Dolba “caterpiller”
• Dos “gift; dowry; endowment”
• Dracaena “she-dragon”
• Dracontia: name of a precious stone allegedly found in serpent heads
• Dravoca “darnel grass”
• Eclipsis “solar eclipse”
• Emys: name of a type of tortoise
• Equa “mare”
• Erice “heath
• Fabella “story; play”
• Fera “wild animal; beast”
• Feria “festival; holiday”
• Ferula “fennel”
• Filiola “young daughter”
• Filix “fern”
• Fulica “waterfowl”
• Galbina: name of a type of small bird
• Gallina “hen”
• Gavia: name of a type of bird
• Gelela “bitter apple”
• Gemmula “small plant; small gem”
• Genista “broom plant”
• Glena “a bundle of ears of grain”
• Glis “dormouse”
• Hadra “stone”
• Harena “sand”
• Helix “ivy; willow”
• Iberis “cress”
• Ilex “holm oak”
• Irio: name of a type of plant
• Isatis “woad”
• Lada: name of a type of shrub
• Lanterna “torch; lantern”
• Lapsana: name of a type of plant similar to mustard
• Larix “larch”
• Laurea “laurel tree”
• Laus “praise; glory”
• Lautitia “elegance; splendour”
• Leaena “lioness”
• Leros: name of a kind of precious stone
• Lex “law”
• Lexis “word”
• Libellula “dragonfly”
• Libra “a pound; balance; scale”
• Loba “nightshade”
• Luella “atonement”
• Luma “thorn”
• Lunula: moon-shaped ornament
• Lutra “otter”
• Lux “light”
• Lychnis: name of a type of rose or precious stone
• Macaerinthe “rosemary”
• Maena “a small sea-fish”
• Magia “magic; sorcery”
• Martes “marten”
• Mataxa “silk”
• Meles “badger”
• Mellilla “sweetheart”
• Mellinia “sweetness”
• Melongena “aubergine”
• Merenda “taste” also a small evening meal
• Merula “blackbird”
• Musica “music”
• Nabla: name of a type of lyre
• Narita: name of a type of sea-snail
• Natula “little daughter”
• Natura “nature”
• Nebula “cloud; fog”
• Nepa “scorpion; crab”
• Nitela “brightness; splendour”
• Nix “snow”
• Noticula “moon; candle; lamp; lantern”
• Noctua “owl”
• Nodia: name of a type of plant
• Nox “night”
• Nubes “stormcloud”
• Nubicula “little cloud”
• Nux “tree-nut”
• Olea “olive”
• Olla “pot; jar”
• Olyra “spelt”
• Ombria: name of a precious stone
• Ononis “restharrow” a type of shrub”
• Palara: name of a type of bird
• Pandia: name of a precious stone
• Penna “feather”
• Persica “walnut; peach”
• Phalaena “moth”
• Pluvia “rain”
• Poetria “poem; poesy; poetess”
• Porphirio: name of a type of bird “purple swampen.”
• Principissa “princess”
• Quiescentia “quiet; rest”
• Rana “frog”
• Rhodora: name of a type of plant
• Rica “veil”
• Rubecula “robin”
• Rubia “red dye; madder”
• Rubrica “red ochre; rubric”
• Runa “dart; javelin”
• Sacristia “vestry”
• Saeta “silk; bristle”
• Saga “sage; fortune-teller”
• Sagitta “arrow”
• Salina “salt”
• Saliunca “nard-tree”
• Salix “willow”
• Salvia “sage-plant”
• Samara: name of a plant
• Sambuca: name of a type of harp
• Sampsa: “olive pomace”
• Sapphirus “sapphire”
• Sarissa: name of a type of pike or weapon
• Satureia “savory herb”
• Seris: name of a type of Chicory
• Seselis “saxifrage”
• Sitella “voting urn”
• Sozusa “artemisia plant”
• Sphaera “globe; sphere”
• Spica “ear of grain”
• Spuma “foam”
• Stiria “icicle”
• Taeda “pinewood; torch”
• Taleola “small shoot”
• Talpa “mole (animal)”
• Talpona: name of a type of vine
• Tamarix “tamarisk”
• Tarrupia: name of a type of grape
• Tela “web; loom”
• Telis “fenugreek”
• Terra “earth; soil; world”
• Thymbra “savory”
• Tiara “turban; ornamental headdress”
• Tilia “linden tree”
• Tisana “pearl barley”
• Umbra “shadow; ghost”
• Unda “wave”
• Uria: name of a type of seabird
• Ursa “female bear”
• Urtica “stinging nettle”
• Vallis “valley”
• Venia “indulgence; kindness; grace; mercy”
• Verbena “herb”
• Virga “twig; magical wand”
• Vox “voice; accent”
• Zea “emmer wheat; rosemary”
• Zeta: the Letter Z
• Zmintha: name of a type of mint
• Zona “belt; girdle”
• Zura “seed; Christ’s Thorn (type of plant)”

Ancient Roman Place Names

• Adrana: from the Latin name for the Eder River in Germany
• Aleria: name of a city in Corsica
• Allia: name of a river in Latium
• Alsa: Latin name for the Ausa River in Venetia
• Alyzia: name of a town in Ancient Greece
• Ameria: name of an ancient city in Umbria
• Ancyra: Latin name for Ankara, Turkey
• Aprusia: name of a small river in Umbria
• Avara: Latin name for the Yèvre river in France
• Aveia: name of a city near L’Aquila, Italy
• Brixia: Latin name for Brescia
• Caralis: Latin name for Cagliari
• Calauria: name of an island of the Saronic golf
• Caledonia: Latin name for Scotland
• Calela: name of a town in Apulia
• Caletra: name of an Etruscan city
• Edeta: name of a city in what is now Spain
• Hibernia “Ireland”
• Letoia: name of an island in the Ionian sea mentioned by Pliny
• Lutetia: ancient name for Paris
• Narnia: Latin name for Narni, Italy
• Nebrissa: name of a town in what is now Spain
• Noeta: name of a town in what is now Spain
• Priene: name of a town in Greece
• Prinoessa: name of an island on the Ionian sea
• Robrica: name of a town in what is now Belgium
• Rura: Latin name for the River Ruhr in Germany
• Saba: Latin name for Sheba
• Sabaria: name of a town in Pannonia
• Sabora: name of a town in what is now Andalusia
• Sabrata: name of a town in North Africa
• Sabrina: Latin name for the Severn river
• Samara: Latin name for the river Somme
• Samaria: Ancient city in the West Bank
• Samarobriva: Latin name for Amiens
• Sicoris: Latin name for the Segre river in Spain
• Silana: name of a town in Greece
• Silpia: name of a town in Spain
• Sina: Latin name for China
• Sinuessa: name of a town in Lazio
• Snelandia: Latin name for Iceland
• Talamina: name of a town in Spain
• Tamaris: name of the Tambre river in Spain
• Taruenna: Latin name for Thérouanne, a town in Belgium

Boys names to come soon…
Sources

• https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Latin_nouns