home > girl names > starting names

Starting Names for Girls

There are 15 Starting names for baby girls. Displayed on this page are Starting names 1 to 15. Within these names, Sierra (English) was the most popular in 2007, followed in descending order by Ellie (English), Courtney (English), Ciara (Irish and English), Melody (English), Ada (English, German, Hungarian, Polish, and Romanian), and Raina (Czech, German, Polish, Russian, and Slavic). The unusual Starting names are Avis (English), Åsa (Scandinavian), Bertha (French), Donna (English), Ebba (German), Femke (Dutch, Frisian, and German), Kai (English and German), and Tova (Scandinavian and Hebrew).

Starting names are somewhat popular as baby girl names. Their usage peaked in 1959 with 1.918% of baby girls being given Starting names. Within the top 1000 baby names then, there were 5 Starting names. The names have slipped in popularity since then, and are currently of modest use. In 2007, their total usage was 0.420% with 7 Starting names listed among the top 1000. Among all Starting names, Sierra (English) was the most widely used, with a ranking of #168 and a usage of 0.0996%.

Boy [Girl]


DESCRIPTION MATCH:

Ada Popularity Trend of Ada
from 1900 to 2007.
2007 Rank: 646 646 ... noble, honorable; ornament, ... Germanic compound names starting with 'adal', or else it ...

Avis Popularity Trend of Avis
from 1900 to 2007. ... bird, desired; struggle; ... from various names starting with 'av-', and first ...

Åsa ... god ... form of Old Norse names starting with the element ...

Bertha Popularity Trend of Bertha
from 1900 to 2007. ... bright, famous ... of other Germanic names starting with the element ...

Ciara Popularity Trend of Ciara
from 1900 to 2007.
2007 Rank: 258 258 ... little dark one, little ... Ciara and other names starting with 'C-'; however, in ...

Courtney Popularity Trend of Courtney
from 1900 to 2007.
2007 Rank: 233 233 ... short nose; domain of Curtius; domain of the short one ... used in 20th century, starting from the USA ...

Donna Popularity Trend of Donna
from 1900 to 2007. ... lady ... of the 20th century, starting from the USA ...

Ebba Popularity Trend of Ebba
from 1900 to 2007. ... boar; wealth; protection, ... Germanic compound names starting with 'Eber-' and hence ...

Ellie Popularity Trend of Ellie
from 1900 to 2007.
2007 Rank: 174 174 ... noble maiden; swan ... pet form of other names starting with the syllable ...

Femke ... little girl; peace, ... form of Germanic names starting with the element ...

Kai ... sea ... form of other names starting with 'K-' or 'C-', such ...

Melody Popularity Trend of Melody
from 1900 to 2007.
2007 Rank: 295 295 ... melody ... of girl names starting with 'Mel-'. ...

Raina Popularity Trend of Raina
from 1900 to 2007.
2007 Rank: 933 933 ... advice, decision, protection ... 'ragin' and thus starting with 'Rein-' ...

Sierra Popularity Trend of Sierra
from 1900 to 2007.
2007 Rank: 168 168 ... mountain range ... the forms starting with 'C-' are pronounced with ...

Tova ... thunder, thunder god; ... the short form of names starting with 'Thor-' ...



Popularity Trend
for Starting Names
from 1900 to 2006Variant Popularity Chart
for Starting Names
in 2006