Place Names for Girls

There are 54 Place names for baby girls. Displayed on this page are Place names 1 to 20. Within these names, Caroline (English and French) was the most popular in 2007, followed in descending order by Chelsea (English), Carmen (English, Romanian, and Spanish), Cynthia (English and German), Hayley (English), Brittany (English), and Harley (English). The unusual Place names are Dallas (English), Petronia (German), Tracy (English), Abilene (English), Ainhoa (Basque and Spanish), Aphra (Arabic and English), Arlie (English), Belén (Spanish), Beverly (English and German), Carmel (English and Hebrew), Chantal (Dutch, English, and French), Elysia (English), and Ida (English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Scandinavian, and Spanish).

Place names are rather popular as baby girl names. The names' popularity increased from the 1910s up to the 1930s; before that, they were of moderate use only. Their usage peaked in 1935 with 5.741% of baby girls being given Place names. Within the top 1000 baby names then, there were 15 Place names. The names have slipped in popularity since then. In 2007, their total usage was 1.089% with 20 Place names listed among the top 1000. Among all Place names, Caroline (English and French) was the most widely used, with a ranking of #99 and a usage of 0.1616%.

WORD/MEANING MATCH:

Chelsea 209 ... landing place for chalk ... Chelsea means landing place for chalk or limestone ...

Dallas ... resting place, dweller ... of Dallas is 'resting place, dweller in the dale' ...

Petronia ... from a rocky place; ... means 'from a rocky place; bumpkin' ...

Tracy ... place of Thracius; hunter; harvest; guardian; woman from Therasia ...

DESCRIPTION MATCH:

Abilene ... grass ... after the biblical place name ...

Ainhoa ... virgin ... is derived from the place name of Ainhoa, a ...

Aphra ... dust; whitish red, pink ... it was derived from a place name 'the house of ...

Arlie ... eagle wood ... which is itself from a place name. ...

Belén ... house of bread ... place name is itself derived via Greek from the ...

Beverly ... beaver meadow ... name is from a place name, possibly Beverly in ...

Brittany 355 ... from Little Britain ... place name Brittany was used in the Middle Ages to ...

Carmel ... fruit garden, fruitful ... culture, as a high place it had been considered ...

Carmen 275 ... fruit garden, fruitful ... which is from the place name of Mount Carmel in ...

Caroline 99 ... man, free man ... growing trend in using place or state names as first ...

Chantal ... stone, boulder; song ... whose surname is of a place name in Saône-et-Loire, ...

Cynthia 276 ... woman from Kynthos ...The place name is ultimately of pre-Greek origin ...

Elysia ... blissful ... as the final resting place of the souls of the ...

Harley 481 ... hare clearing, hare ... is itself taken from a place name ...

Hayley 305 ... hay clearing, hay meadow ... which is itself from a place name Hailey in ...

Ida ... labor, work; woman, ... Greek mythology as the place where Zeus was brought ...