Nature Girl Names

Flowers, trees, weather, stones and creatures. The oldest layer is Victorian and almost entirely floral; the current one is broader and much less tidy.

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79 names, most popular first in the United States

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Paloma Paloma is a girl's name from the Spanish word for a dove.
Spanish #793 in US
Honey Honey is a girl's name of Old English origin taken from the word itself, from hunig.
English #847 in US
Lilia Lilia is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "lily," and it is also a separate Arabic and Slavic name that the spelling merges.
Latin #860 in US
Violette Violette is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "violet," and in France it belongs to an agent executed at Ravensbrück at twenty-three.
French #894 in US
Fern Fern seed was believed to make you invisible, and Shakespeare has a character say so — ferns produce spores rather than visible seeds, so the seed itself was thought to be unseeable.
English #1,221 in US
Alba Alba is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "dawn" or "white."
Latin #1,262 in US
Heather Heather is a girl's name taken directly from the flowering shrub that covers Scottish and northern English moorland.
English #1,264 in US
Rue Rue is a unisex name, used mostly for girls, with several meanings.
Greek, English #1,323 in US
Maeva Maeva is a girl's name of Tahitian origin meaning "welcome."
Tahitian #1,399 in US
Jasmin Jasmin names a flower whose own name is Persian, and it traveled the length of Eurasia — yasmin passed through Arabic into Europe with the plant itself, arriving as a word and a cutting together.
German #1,408 in US
Robyn Robyn is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "bright fame."
Germanic #1,439 in US
Fiadh Fiadh is a girl's name of Irish origin meaning "wild" or "deer," from the Irish fia.
Irish #1,993 in US
Dawn Dawn is a girl's name taken directly from the English word for daybreak, and it is the English counterpart of Aurora rather than a translation of it.
English #2,193 in US
Ria Ria is a girl's name with two unrelated sources — a Spanish word for a river mouth, and a Dutch and German short form of Maria.
Spanish #2,337 in US
Primrose Primrose is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "first rose."
Latin #2,556 in US
Hollie Hollie is a girl's name from the holly tree, whose name comes from a word meaning "prickly" rather than anything festive.
English #2,832 in US
Coralie Coralie names a skeleton — coral is the calcium structure built by colonies of tiny animals, so the name describes an object made by living things rather than a plant or a stone.
French #2,986 in US
Ginger Ginger reached English from Sanskrit by way of four languages — shringavera, horn-root, named for the rhizome's antler shape, and every step of that journey is documented.
English #3,325 in US
Camélia Camélia is a girl's name taken from the camellia, a flower Linnaeus named after a Jesuit missionary botanist called Kamel — so the name is a surname twice removed.
French #3,721 in US
Ebony Ebony reached English from ancient Egyptian, which makes it one of the oldest borrowings in the language — hbny passed into Greek and Latin with the timber itself, and English kept both the wood and the word.
English #5,427 in US
Saffron Saffron is a girl's name taken from the golden spice, which comes from the stigmas of a crocus.
Arabic, French #6,670 in US
Océane Océane means of the ocean, and it is almost entirely French — 283rd there against 2,998th in England and Wales and 10,001st in the United States.
French #10,001 in US
Ambre Ambre is a girl's name, the French word for amber, the fossilised tree resin used as a gemstone.
French 66,158 births
Sylviane Sylviane means of the forest, and Rome had a god for exactly that — Silvanus presided over woodland and field boundaries, and Rhea Silvia, mother of Romulus and Remus, carries the same root.
French 53,090 births
Hortense Hortense is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "of the garden," from hortus.
French 21,733 births
Garance Garance is a girl's name taken from the madder plant, whose root gave Europe its most important red dye before synthetic colors.
French 14,250 births
Muireann Muireann is a girl's name from Irish meaning sea-fair, built from the words for sea and white.
Irish 1,822 births
Éala Éala is a girl's name of Irish origin meaning "swan," from the Irish eala.
Irish 701 births
Bluebell Bluebell is a girl's name taken from the woodland flower, a compound of the English words blue and bell.
English 587 births
Clova Clova is a rare girl's name with two likely sources: it's a respelling of Clover, the meadow plant, and it's also a place name in Scotland, as in Glen Clova in Angus.
English, Scottish 125 births
Lerryn Lerryn is a rare girl's name from Cornwall, taken from the River Lerryn and the village beside it.
Cornish 58 births

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