Category Archives: Female Names

Vīksna

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  • Origin: Latvian
  • Meaning: “elm tree.”
  • Gender: Female
  • Pronunciation: VEEKS-nah

A rare autumnal Latvian female name, it comes directly from the Latvian word for “elm tree.” It was recorded in use in the 16th-century but is now obsolete.

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Nihar, Nihara

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  • Origin: Sanskrit
  • Nihar: निहार, नीहार
  • Nihara: निहारा, नीहारा
  • Meaning: “mist; dew; fog; hoarfrost; snow.”

Nihara is a Sanskrit female name which comes directly from the word for “mist; dew; fog; hoarfrost; snow.”

The masculine form is Nihar.

Another female form is Nihari.

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Ptelea

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  • Origin: Greek Πτελέα
  • Meaning: “elm tree.”
  • Gender: Female
  • Eng (TEL-ee-ah)

The name is from the Greek word for the elm tree, in Greek mythology, this was the name of one of the Hamadryad nymphs. Ptelea presided over elm trees.

In botany, this is the name of a genus of flowering plants in the citrus family, Rutaceae. Thus names by Carl Linnaeus due to its similar appearance to the elm tree.

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Eimyrja

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  • Origin: Old Norse
  • Meaning: “embers.”
  • Gender: Female
  • Pron: (i-MEER-yah)

From the Old Norse word for “embers,” in Norse Mythology, this was the daughter of the jötunn known as Logi (fire), the latter who is considered the personification of fire, a long with his wife Glöð (glowing embers). He fathered another daughter Eisa (glowing ember), both of whom were said to be stunningly beautiful.

Its status as a given-name in most Scandinavian countries is a relic from the past but may appeal to parents drawn to authentic early Nordic names.

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Anthracia

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  • Origin: Greek Ανθρακια
  • Original Greek form: Anthrakia
  • Meaning: “ember; burning charcoal.”
  • Gender: female
  • Eng (an-THRAY-shuh; Grk ahn-THRAH-kee-ah)

The name comes from the Ancient Greek noun ἄνθραξ (ánthrax), meaning “ember; burning charcoal.”

Anthracia is best known from Greek myth as one of the nymphs who nursed the infant Zeus in secret to protect him from Cronus.

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Sārta

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Bonfire nature
  • Gender: Feminine
  • Origin: Latvian
  • Meaning: “reddish; rosy; glowing; bonfire”
  • Pron: SAHR-tuh

From the Latvian adjective sārts, which has two closely related meanings, either “reddish, rosy, flushed with color” or “bonfire, blaze.”

An extremely rare traditional Latvian female name, it was first and only recorded in Zemgale (Dobele) in 1929, even though it had already appeared in the Latvian name calendar of 1879.
(Source: Kalnājiņa & Švābe, KS 285.)

A rare masculine form is Sārtis, documented only once in Riga in the 1930s.

Sārtone is another variation, which is also only been record one time in Latvia in the 1920s.

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Mihirimah, Mehrmah

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  • Origin: Persian
  • Meaning: “sun & moon; affection of the moon; kindness of the moon.”
  • Gender: Female

The name is composed of the Persian elements mehr / mihr / meher (مِهر) — a Persian word meaning “sun,” “affection,” “kindness,” or “love” (and often with connotations tied to the ancient Iranian / Zoroastrian deity Mithra) and māh (ماه), meaning “moon” or “month.”

The name entered wider use through Ottoman royal history, where Mihrimah Sultan (1522–1578) — the daughter of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and Hürrem Sultan — became one of the most powerful and educated women of her time.

A modern Persian form is Mehrmah.

An Urdu form is Meharmah and another Turkish form is Mihrümah.

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