City Names for Girls

There are 21 City names for baby girls. Displayed on this page are City names 1 to 20. Within these names, Katherine (English) was the most popular in 2007, followed in descending order by Brooklyn (English), Caroline (English and French), Bethany (English), Samara (English and Spanish), and Larissa (German and Russian). The unusual City names are Almudena (Spanish), Medina (Italian and Spanish), Palmira (Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish), Urbana (Czech, English, German, Polish, and Scandinavian), Abilene (English), Arta (Albanian), Belén (Spanish), Candia (English), Ilia (English and German), Kimberley (English), Lavinia (English, German, and Italian), Naiara (Basque and Spanish), Roma (Italian and Romanian), and Sybil (English).

City names are rather popular as baby girl names. The names' popularity increased from the 1930s up to the 1990s. Their usage peaked in 1996 with 0.932% of baby girls being given City names. Within the top 1000 baby names then, there were 6 City names. The names have slipped in popularity since then. In 2007, their total usage was 0.781% with 6 City names listed among the top 1000. Among all City names, Katherine (English) was the most widely used, with a ranking of #39 and a usage of 0.2753%.

WORD/MEANING MATCH:

Almudena ... the city ... which means 'the city' ... for the original Arabic city center of Madrid, which ...

Medina ... city ...Derived from the word medina which means 'city'. ...

Palmira ... pilgrim; city of palms ...The name Palmira means 'pilgrim; city of palms' ...

Urbana ... citizen, city dweller ... the meaning 'citizen, city dweller'. ...

DESCRIPTION MATCH:

Abilene ... grass ... city of Abilene in Kansas is named after the ...

Arta ... golden; gold ... be derived from Arta, a city in north-western ...

Belén ... house of bread ... King David's and Jesus' city of birth, Bethlehem, ...

Bethany 292 ... house of figs ... Bible, Bethany was a city outside Jerusalem where ...

Brooklyn 57 ... broken land ... borough of New York City, itself originally from ...

Candia ... white ... Heraklion, the largest city and capital of Crete. ...

Caroline 99 ... man, free man ... series Sex And the City (1998-2004) did not ...

Ilia ... Remus, who founded the city of Rome; she was also ...

Katherine 39 ... pure; torture ... peace among the Italian city states ...

Kimberley ... wood, clearing, meadow ... is from the English city of Kimberley ...

Larissa 590 ... lovely ... the name of the capital city of Thessaly in Greece ...

Lavinia ... the name of the ancient city of Lavinium in Rome ... hero Aeneas named the city after his wife, ...

Naiara ... wanderer (?) ... the name of the Spanish city of Nájera, which is ...

Roma ... from the name of the city Rome ...

Samara 456 ... watch mountain ... name of the biblical city of Samaria in Israel, ...

Sybil ... oracle, prophetess ... century Latin book, The City of God, written by ...