Heroine Names for Girls

There are 30 Heroine names for baby girls. Displayed on this page are Heroine names 1 to 20. Within these names, Grace (English) was the most popular in 2007, followed in descending order by Anna (Hebrew, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian, Scandinavian, and Slavic), Cecilia (English, Finnish, German, Italian, Scandinavian, and Spanish), Carmen (English, Romanian, and Spanish), Ayla (Hebrew and English), and Clare (English). The unusual Heroine names are Afric (Irish), Aideen (Irish), Amaryllis (English), Bertha (French), Blanche (English and French), Candida (English, German, and Italian), Clelia (English, German, Italian, and Spanish), Deirdre (English and Irish), Elettra (Italian), Fleur (Dutch, English, and French), Genoveva (German and Spanish), Gudrun (German and Scandinavian), Jael (German), and Loredana (German and Italian).

Heroine names are rather popular as baby girl names. In 1900, 4.401% of baby girls were given Heroine names. Within the top 1000 baby names then, there were 11 Heroine names. The names have slipped in popularity since then, and they are of moderate use in recent times. In 2007, their total usage was only 1.182% with 9 Heroine names listed among the top 1000. Among all Heroine names, Grace (English) was the most widely used, with a ranking of #20 and a usage of 0.4593%.

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Afric ... pleasant ... the name of the titular heroine in the Irish television ...

Aideen ... jealousy; face ... Irish mythology by the heroine of "The Wooing of ...

Amaryllis ... sparkling eyes ... 19th century Arcadian heroine. ...

Anna 25 ... God was gracious, God ... known from the titular heroine of the novel Anna ...

Ayla 383 ... moonlight, halo; deer, ... for the heroine of his novel The Clan of the Cave ...

Bertha ... bright, famous ... appeared as a romantic heroine in medieval romantic ...

Blanche ... white, bright, beautiful ... (1345-1369), the heroine of The Book of the ...

Candida ... white ... Shaw named his titular heroine after the young titular ...

Carmen 275 ... fruit garden, fruitful ... Bizet's tragic romantic heroine in the highly popular ...

Cecilia 274 ... blind ... the name of the titular heroine Cecilia Beverley in ...

Clare 625 ... clear, bright, famous ... was borne by the heroine of Samuel Richardson's ...

Clelia ... by a semi-legendary heroine who swam across the ...

Deirdre ... raging, tempestuous ... by a tragic Irish folk heroine Deirdre of the Sorrows; ...

Elettra ... by Electra, the heroine who took revenge for ...

Fleur ... flower ... its appearance as the heroine in the John Galsworthy ...

Genoveva ... Genoveva of Brabant, a heroine of medieval legend who ...

Grace 20 ... charm, grace ... due to the British heroine Grace Darling ...

Gudrun ... wily in battle ... name was borne by the heroine and sister of Gunnar in ...

Jael ... mountain goat ... alternatively Jael, a heroine in the Book of Judges ...

Loredana ... laurel grove ... Luciano Zuccoli for the heroine in his novel L'amore de ...