Calling -AYA - IA - YA and -INA names (Name Hunt, Girls 2)

Still searching for some great girl names to put on our list. Thanks to our first message thread, we realized the thing that has been staring us in the face all along – the “ends in -IA” names. We have already used D u l c i n e a (which ends in -aya) and middle name A n a s t a s i a, so it seems like a no-brainer, and yet it didn’t dawn on us until now.

Similar names that have made the list but not the final cut in the past: [name_f]Nadia[/name_f], [name_f]Daria[/name_f], [name_f]Lydia[/name_f], [name_f]Anya[/name_f], [name_f]Enya[/name_f], [name_f]Fia[/name_f]. Also [name_f]Seraphina[/name_f] and [name_f]Delphina[/name_f], so it seems we do like the occasional -[name_f]INA[/name_f] name. I like [name_f]Sophronia[/name_f], [name_f]Anatolia[/name_f], [name_f]Georgiana[/name_f]/[name_f]Georgina[/name_f], but those are “too much” for him. Something like [name_f]Sophia[/name_f] is going to be way too mainstream for us, but [name_f]Georgia[/name_f] is alright. My sister is using [name_f]Freya[/name_f] for her girl due this summer.

Currently on the list, we have [name_f]Constance[/name_f], [name_f]Rilla[/name_f], [name_f]Petra[/name_f], and [name_f]Katya[/name_f]. Hubby doesn’t like [name_f]Constantia[/name_f]; he says it’s “[name_f]Constance[/name_f], weird-ified.” I definitely want to use [name_f]Constance[/name_f], either as a first or a middle, so I have some room for more lacy-sounding names.

Ideas? Thank you in advance!

I love your list. :slight_smile:

[name_f]Amaia[/name_f]/[name_f]Amaya[/name_f]
[name_f]Emilia[/name_f]
[name_f]Thalia[/name_f]
[name_f]Cordelia[/name_f]
Proserpina
[name_f]Marina[/name_f]
Blandina
[name_f]Faustina[/name_f]
[name_f]Cassia[/name_f]
[name_f]Sylvia[/name_f]
[name_f]Elysia[/name_f]
[name_f]Aurelia[/name_f]
[name_f]Wilhelmina[/name_f]
[name_f]Venetia[/name_f]
[name_f]Mattea[/name_f]
[name_f]Hestia[/name_f]
[name_f]Catalina[/name_f]
[name_f]Florina[/name_f]
[name_f]Zelia[/name_f]
[name_f]Demetria[/name_f]
[name_f]Livia[/name_f]

oh I love the names currently on your list, especially [name_f]Katya[/name_f], and [name_f]Petra[/name_f] because that is my good friend’s name so I have a lovely association with it.

[name_f]Acacia[/name_f]
[name_f]Adelia[/name_f]
Aetheria
[name_f]Aletheia[/name_f]
[name_f]Amaya[/name_f]
[name_f]Arcadia[/name_f]
[name_f]Artemisia[/name_f]
[name_f]Aurelia[/name_f]
[name_f]Caecilia[/name_f]
[name_f]Caledonia[/name_f]
[name_f]Catalina[/name_f]
[name_f]Cerelia[/name_f]
[name_f]Camellia[/name_f]
[name_f]Cassiopeia[/name_f]
[name_f]Celestia[/name_f]
[name_f]Coralia[/name_f]
[name_f]Demetria[/name_f]
[name_f]Elodia[/name_f]
[name_f]Elysia[/name_f]
[name_f]Emmeleia[/name_f]
[name_f]Eulalia[/name_f]
[name_f]Euphemia[/name_f]
[name_f]Evelina[/name_f]
[name_f]Felicia[/name_f]
[name_f]Flavia[/name_f]
[name_f]Florencia[/name_f]
[name_f]Florentina[/name_f]
[name_f]Florina[/name_f]
[name_f]Forsythia[/name_f]
[name_f]Gaia[/name_f]
Illyria
[name_f]Irina[/name_f]
[name_f]Iphigenia[/name_f]
[name_f]Junia[/name_f]
[name_f]Lavinia[/name_f]
[name_f]Leia[/name_f]
[name_f]Letizia[/name_f]
[name_f]Ligeia[/name_f]
[name_f]Mahalia[/name_f]
[name_f]Mireia[/name_f]
[name_f]Magnolia[/name_f]
[name_f]Nahia[/name_f]
[name_f]Naia[/name_f]
[name_f]Nydia[/name_f]
[name_f]Odilia[/name_f]
[name_f]Ophelia[/name_f]
[name_f]Rosalia[/name_f]
[name_f]Saskia[/name_f]
[name_f]Soraya[/name_f]
[name_f]Thalia[/name_f]
[name_f]Valenzia[/name_f]
[name_f]Valeria[/name_f]
[name_f]Zenobia[/name_f]
[name_f]Zinnia[/name_f]

Really love your list, especially [name_f]Constance[/name_f] (so glad you definitely want to use it somewhere!).

You’ve had some great suggestions so far but I’ll add:

Aelia
[name_f]Alethea[/name_f]
[name_f]Aloisia[/name_f]
[name_f]Althea[/name_f]
[name_f]Amalia[/name_f]
[name_f]Ambrosia[/name_f]
[name_f]Anthea[/name_f]
Apphia
[name_u]Arya[/name_u]
[name_f]Caitria[/name_f]
[name_f]Cambria[/name_f]
[name_f]Cecilia[/name_f]
[name_f]Claudia[/name_f]
[name_f]Clelia[/name_f]
[name_f]Cornelia[/name_f]
[name_f]Cytherea[/name_f]
[name_f]Eugenia[/name_f]
[name_f]Helia[/name_f]
[name_f]Ilaria[/name_f]
[name_f]Jesenia[/name_f]
[name_f]Laelia[/name_f]
[name_f]Lucia[/name_f]
[name_f]Melia[/name_f]
[name_f]Melodia[/name_f]
Mercia
[name_f]Natalia[/name_f]/[name_f]Natalya[/name_f]
[name_f]Ottilia[/name_f]
[name_f]Talya[/name_f]
[name_f]Tullia[/name_f]
Zuzia

Aglaia
[name_f]Astraea[/name_f]/[name_f]Astraia[/name_f]
[name_f]Mireya[/name_f]

[name_f]Irina[/name_f]
Melusina
[name_f]Philomena[/name_f]
[name_f]Rowena[/name_f]
[name_f]Sabrina[/name_f]
[name_f]Zarina[/name_f] (remember reading somewhere else that you loved [name_f]Zara[/name_f] until you heard a pronunciation you didn’t like - maybe this has some similar appeal?)

[name_f]Cynthia[/name_f]
[name_f]Delia[/name_f]
[name_f]Adalia[/name_f]
[name_f]Zinnia[/name_f]
[name_f]Emilia[/name_f]
[name_f]Lillia[/name_f]
[name_f]Livia[/name_f]
[name_f]Acadia[/name_f]
[name_f]Astoria[/name_f]
Corinthia
[name_f]India[/name_f]
[name_f]Lydia[/name_f]
[name_f]Virginia[/name_f]
[name_f]Valencia[/name_f]
[name_f]Acacia[/name_f]
[name_f]Astraia[/name_f]
[name_f]Begonia[/name_f]
[name_f]Celestia[/name_f]
[name_f]Dahlia[/name_f]
[name_f]Florencia[/name_f]
[name_f]Olympia[/name_f]
[name_f]Sylvia[/name_f]
Adrasteia
[name_f]Honoria[/name_f]
[name_f]Fidelia[/name_f]
[name_f]Gloria[/name_f]
[name_f]Laetitia[/name_f]
[name_f]Portia[/name_f]
[name_f]Gaia[/name_f]
Hesperia
[name_f]Cecilia[/name_f]
Athanasia
[name_f]Dulcia[/name_f]
[name_f]Eulalia[/name_f]
[name_f]Ionia[/name_f]
[name_f]Octavia[/name_f]
[name_f]Thalia[/name_f]
[name_f]Thea[/name_f]
Cloelia
[name_f]Claudia[/name_f]
[name_f]Arria[/name_f]
[name_f]Junia[/name_f]
[name_f]Lavinia[/name_f]
[name_f]Odilia[/name_f]
[name_f]Hania[/name_f]

[name_f]Dulcia[/name_f]
[name_f]Malia[/name_f]
[name_f]Melina[/name_f]

What about [name_f]Constance[/name_f] [name_f]Ayla[/name_f]?

I am a [name_f]Constance[/name_f] btw - Not to stop you but everyone laughs at my name. Not like making fun of it but everyone is taken aback by it for some reason. Maybe because it seems so formal and I am not. I do get the occasional Constantly or Constipated but I just laugh it off. With all that said, I wouldn’t change my name!

THANKS @c@29, @melusina, @morganlefaye, @bellerose & @bailibsmum for all of these amazing ideas! My favorites are [name_f]Naia[/name_f], Zuzia, [name_f]Ionia[/name_f], [name_f]Junia[/name_f], and [name_f]Celestia[/name_f].

[name_f]Junia[/name_f] - I just found this in the guest blog and was really admiring it, and then found it suggested a couple of times over here! [name_f]Do[/name_f] you think it will just end up sounding like [name_f]Julia[/name_f], though? Would it just be one of those “too close, not worth it” names?

[name_f]Naia[/name_f] - is it too repetitive since our last daughter’s name is D u l c i n e a? It’s pronounced like dulcie+naya, so is [name_f]Naia[/name_f] just too close?

Zuzia might be too close to another girl we know, but I’m still going to think about it.

[name_f]Ionia[/name_f] is one I’ve never heard before! My husband might think it’s too weird…we’ll see.

[name_f]Celestia[/name_f] - would this be just too weird to use since my older daughter’s most favorite TV show is the reboot of “My [name_m]Little[/name_m] Pony” and the queen pony character is named “[name_f]Princess[/name_f] [name_f]Celestia[/name_f]”?? Would people who have little girls think it was just a “pony name”?

I also like [name_f]Aurelia[/name_f] (I finally went to Forvo and got a prn for this. People keep suggesting it and I was saying it ah-really-ah, which seemed ugly and not right. Au-rail-ee-ah is much nicer and I might come around to it), [name_f]Zelia[/name_f], [name_f]Adelia[/name_f], [name_f]Caledonia[/name_f], [name_f]Cerelia[/name_f], [name_f]Cassiopeia[/name_f], [name_f]Elodia[/name_f], [name_f]Forsythia[/name_f], [name_f]Gaia[/name_f], [name_f]Magnolia[/name_f], [name_f]Odilia[/name_f], [name_f]Soraya[/name_f], [name_f]Zinnia[/name_f], [name_f]Ambrosia[/name_f], [name_f]Natalia[/name_f], [name_f]Delia[/name_f], [name_f]Virginia[/name_f], [name_f]Valencia[/name_f], [name_f]Begonia[/name_f], [name_f]Dahlia[/name_f], [name_f]Octavia[/name_f]. We’ll see how they hold up once I go check out all the meanings (I’m ridiculously picky on that point) and once my husband weighs in. Lots of really lovely ideas here, thanks so much.

Oh, also I do like [name_f]Dulcia[/name_f] and [name_f]Zarina[/name_f], but they are definitely out. Since we already have a D u l c i n e a, I can’t very well use [name_f]Dulcia[/name_f], but I do like it. My daughter recently named a stuffed animal [name_f]Zarina[/name_f], after some character in a Tinkerbell movie. It sounds so much like [name_f]Serena[/name_f] that I’d probably end up using that instead, but mostly I don’t want to “name steal” from a 6-year-old. o.O

A special thank you to @cengel73 for your perspective about the name [name_f]Constance[/name_f]. I guess I was taken aback by [name_f]Constance[/name_f] at first, but it grew on me. I’m sorry that people don’t receive it well, but I’m glad you love it anyway! Thank you for sharing your experience; it’s very helpful for me to consider. Originally, I was thinking a combo like [name_f]Georgiana[/name_f] (prn jor-[name_f]JANE[/name_f]-ah) [name_f]Georgiana[/name_f] [name_f]Sarah[/name_f] [name_f]Constance[/name_f], but my husband unceremoniously shot down [name_f]Georgiana[/name_f] (either prn, plus [name_f]Georgina[/name_f]).

I like the suggestions [name_f]Junia[/name_f], [name_f]Zelia[/name_f], [name_f]Aurelia[/name_f] and [name_f]Dahlia[/name_f]

A few more ideas:

  • [name_f]Suria[/name_f] or [name_f]Surya[/name_f] (meaning “sun god”)

  • [name_f]Amaya[/name_f] or [name_f]Amaia[/name_f] (a bit trendy?)

  • [name_f]Cassia[/name_f]

  • [name_f]India[/name_f]

  • [name_f]Priya[/name_f]

  • [name_f]Rafaela[/name_f] ([name_m]Rafi[/name_m] would be so cute)

Or [name_f]Rafya[/name_f] (Hebrew variation of [name_f]Raphaela[/name_f])

  • [name_f]Ondine[/name_f]

  • [name_f]Silvia[/name_f] or [name_f]Sylvia[/name_f] (doesn’t seem quite special enough)

  • [name_f]Viola[/name_f]

  • [name_f]Rosalia[/name_f] (since you already have a [name_f]Daisy[/name_f], would another flower name be too much?)

  • [name_f]Elenola[/name_f]

Sorry for any repeats, I think I’m even repeating myself

Berries mention so many names, I don’t think I could think of any new names…

My suggestions
[name_f]Celestina[/name_f]
[name_f]Alina[/name_f]
[name_f]Rosina[/name_f]
[name_f]Rosalina[/name_f]
Berengaria
[name_f]Saskia[/name_f]
[name_f]Dorothea[/name_f]
[name_f]Elysia[/name_f]
[name_f]Ottilia[/name_f]
[name_f]Emilia[/name_f]

(not -ina name, but I would suggest it anyway)
[name_f]Cressida[/name_f]
[name_f]Sunniva[/name_f]
[name_f]Cosima[/name_f]
[name_f]Brigitta[/name_f]/[name_f]Brigita[/name_f]/[name_f]Birgitta[/name_f]

[name_f]Naia[/name_f] is pronounced sort of like Ny-ah in Spanish / Basque (I know because of my Spanish exchange student from a few years ago) so I don’t think it’d be too matchy if you’d pronounce it like that?

@gr19 - Great ideas, thank you! I’ll thinking about [name_f]Rafaela[/name_f], [name_f]Rafya[/name_f], and [name_f]Ondine[/name_f]. I do like [name_f]Viola[/name_f] and [name_f]Cassia[/name_f], but I can’t use them ([name_f]Viola[/name_f] is spelled the same way as a string instrument; I’ve played violin and cello but not viola, so it seems weird. [name_f]Cassia[/name_f] is too close to C a s p i a n, sadly).

@sorceress - Well, I’m impressed at how many you came up with; I haven’t seen [name_f]Dorothea[/name_f] suggested before, or [name_f]Saskia[/name_f], and those make sense. I like Berengaria from your list best. [name_f]Cosima[/name_f] comes and goes, it never seems to make it. I like [name_f]Cressida[/name_f] and [name_f]Sunniva[/name_f], but neither of them hits the sweet spot for meaning/history to make them hot contenders.

@melusina - Thanks, I was saying sort of like Ny-ah, sort of like [name_f]Maya[/name_f], though now it occurs to me that it could get confused with that one, since it’s more common. Thanks for your input!

Omgoodness! [name_f]Petra[/name_f]! I love [name_f]Petra[/name_f] for you guys. I used to not like it, but it’s slowly grown on me, over the past five or six years, haha, and I think [name_f]Petra[/name_f] works really well with your other girls (consequently, also your boys, haha). We get this magazine of missionary stories to our house, and one family (who is in Scandinavia somewhere, I think?) has three kids, [name_m]Reuben[/name_m], [name_f]Kaia[/name_f], and [name_f]Petra[/name_f]. Besides finding it a really mismatched sibset, haha, I think I’ve just fallen in love with [name_f]Petra[/name_f] because that [name_f]Petra[/name_f] is the cutest little toddler I’ve seen in years! White-blond hair, wide eyes, the most innocent smile you’ve ever seen.

Hmm.

  • ina:

[name_f]Florentina[/name_f]
[name_f]Valentina[/name_f]
[name_f]Catherina[/name_f]/[name_f]Catarina[/name_f]/[name_f]Katarina[/name_f]
[name_f]Carolina[/name_f] (omgoodness. I love her!)
[name_f]Catalina[/name_f] (this, too! I think E v e, D u l c i n e a, and [name_f]Catalina[/name_f] is adorable! And I love [name_f]Catalina[/name_f]'s versatile nicknames…)
[name_f]Madelina[/name_f] (although I love the Italian [name_f]Maddalena[/name_f] so much more!)
[name_f]Adelina[/name_f]
[name_f]Josefina[/name_f] (I like the Scandinavian/[name_m]German[/name_m] pronunciation more than the Spanish one, or even [name_f]Josephina[/name_f]? I like the [name_u]JO[/name_u] and [name_f]YO[/name_f] beginning sound)
[name_f]Adamina[/name_f] (I guess lots of people see this as [name_m]Adam[/name_m]-ina, but I just see [name_f]Ada[/name_f]-[name_f]Mina[/name_f], which I think are gorgeous together!)
[name_f]Jamesina[/name_f]
[name_f]Thomasina[/name_f] (or even [name_f]Tamsin[/name_f]. I think [name_f]Thomasina[/name_f] nn [name_f]Tamsin[/name_f] is cool)
[name_f]Marina[/name_f]
[name_f]Mina[/name_f]
[name_f]Serena[/name_f] ([name_f]Serena[/name_f]! I sort of love [name_f]Serena[/name_f] for you guys, too! I think she fits right in with E v i e and D a i s y.)
[name_f]Amina[/name_f]
[name_f]Adina[/name_f] (although I much prefer [name_f]Adara[/name_f] and [name_f]Adaya[/name_f], which I adore!)
[name_f]Angelina[/name_f]
[name_f]Anina[/name_f] (this intrigues me a lot!)
[name_f]Augustina[/name_f]
[name_f]Davina[/name_f] (I also have a strange obsessing with [name_f]Davida[/name_f], haha)
[name_f]Ekaterina[/name_f]
[name_f]Emelina[/name_f] (I think [name_f]Evelina[/name_f] suits your style more, but that’s out for obvious reasons!)
[name_f]Galina[/name_f]
[name_f]Gracina[/name_f] (? I found it in Nameberry’s database, and I’m not sure what to think of it, honestly…)
[name_f]Justina[/name_f]? (It seems a little bit dated, a la [name_f]Justine[/name_f], but the one [name_f]Justina[/name_f] I’ve met was this elegant, poised, beautiful African woman, and so I just find it unspeakably gorgeous.)
[name_f]Clementina[/name_f] (I would go hard-core Polish with the [name_f]Klementyna[/name_f] spelling, but I think that’s probably way over the top for him, hahaha! I think [name_f]Clementina[/name_f] is adorable, though!)
[name_f]Lucina[/name_f] (I like [name_f]Lucia[/name_f] and [name_f]Lucilla[/name_f] more, but [name_f]Lucina[/name_f] is very dainty and sweet! I could really see her as a little sister to E v i e and D a i s y.)
[name_f]Lina[/name_f]/[name_f]Lena[/name_f]
[name_f]Sabina[/name_f]
[name_f]Severina[/name_f]
[name_f]Paulina[/name_f] (I don’t know, there’s just something about [name_f]Paulina[/name_f]! [name_f]Lina[/name_f]'s a really sweet nn, and I like the tie to the apostle [name_m]Paul[/name_m], even though I’m generally not a [name_m]Paul[/name_m] fan?)
[name_f]Natalina[/name_f] (sort of odd, but I think it’s really cute at the same time. Of course, I’m biased, as my little sister is [name_f]Natalie[/name_f]. :))
[name_f]Penina[/name_f] (apparently a Hebrew name meaning “pearl”? I think it’s adorable! I was thinking of [name_f]Hannah[/name_f]'s husband’s second wife, originally, which is [name_f]Peninnah[/name_f], I think? But [name_f]Penina[/name_f] is sweet! [name_u]Penny[/name_u] or even [name_f]Poppy[/name_f] could be cute nns, I think)
[name_f]Petrina[/name_f] (although I don’t like this nearly so much as simple [name_f]Petra[/name_f])
[name_f]Romina[/name_f]
[name_f]Rowena[/name_f]
[name_f]Selena[/name_f]
Zephyrina/Zeferina
[name_f]Wilhelmina[/name_f]
[name_f]Yanina[/name_f] (There’s a [name_f]Yanina[/name_f] that frequently comes into where I work–also a Zerena!–and I think those are really intriguing, too)

  • ia:

[name_f]Lilia[/name_f]
[name_f]Talia[/name_f]
[name_f]Dahlia[/name_f] (or the Hebrew [name_f]Dalia[/name_f]?)
[name_f]Zinnia[/name_f]
[name_f]Azalea[/name_f]
[name_f]Julia[/name_f]
[name_f]Sofia[/name_f]
[name_f]Sylvia[/name_f]
[name_f]Lavinia[/name_f]
[name_f]Ophelia[/name_f]/[name_f]Ofelia[/name_f]
[name_f]Olivia[/name_f]
[name_f]Odilia[/name_f] (though I’m not Catholic, I love the story of St. [name_f]Odilia[/name_f]! At least, one of the St. Odilias, haha. The story I have heard, anyway, was that she was blinded from some disease in her childhood (or she was blind from birth? I don’t remember), and when she was baptized, she received her sight. I adore her. She’s one of my MNs for [name_f]Grace[/name_f].)
[name_f]Natalia[/name_f]
[name_f]Nadia[/name_f] (I just had to echo this. I think [name_f]Nadia[/name_f] [name_f]Constance[/name_f] would be gorgeous, and oh.my.goodness. I adore [name_f]Nadia[/name_f]. She is perfection!)
[name_f]Cecilia[/name_f]
[name_f]Emilia[/name_f]/[name_f]Amelia[/name_f]
[name_f]Adelia[/name_f]/[name_f]Adalia[/name_f] (I have a coworker with an [name_f]Ada[/name_f]!ea, which she says add-ah-lee-ah, rather than ah-DAHL-ee-ah, but I still think she’s gorgeous!)
Anatalia
[name_f]Aurelia[/name_f]
[name_f]Portia[/name_f]
[name_f]Claudia[/name_f]
[name_f]Eulalia[/name_f]
[name_f]Flavia[/name_f]
[name_f]Junia[/name_f]
[name_f]Lucia[/name_f]
[name_f]Zenobia[/name_f]
[name_f]Zaria[/name_f]
[name_f]Leocadia[/name_f]
[name_f]Gracia[/name_f]/[name_f]Grazia[/name_f]
[name_f]Ksenia[/name_f]
[name_f]Saskia[/name_f]

  • ya:

Brynja [[name_u]BRIN[/name_u]-yah]
[name_f]Olesya[/name_f] (Russian form of [name_f]Alexandra[/name_f], I believe?)

Random other -a ending names that I can sort of see you liking:

[name_f]Zoya[/name_f]/Zoja (Russian form of [name_f]Zoe[/name_f], said ZOY-ah, fairly obviously. :))
[name_f]Zara[/name_f]
[name_f]Adela[/name_f]
[name_f]Leona[/name_f]/[name_f]Lenore[/name_f]/[name_f]Lenora[/name_f]
[name_f]Milena[/name_f]
[name_f]Gemma[/name_f]
[name_f]Giovanna[/name_f]
[name_f]Leina[/name_f]? (I came across it on a [name_m]French[/name_m] popularity database several months ago, and it really intrigues me? I think it’s said like [name_m]LAY[/name_m]-nah, but I think it makes it more clear-cut than [name_f]Lena[/name_f], and less trendified than [name_f]Layna[/name_f] or [name_f]Laina[/name_f], although [name_f]Laina[/name_f] isn’t TOO bad, I suppose)
[name_f]Reina[/name_f]?
[name_f]Zana[/name_f]/[name_f]Zanna[/name_f]

And though it doesn’t fit your criteria at all, haha, [name_u]Malin[/name_u]? I read somewhere it’s the Scandinavian form of [name_f]Magdalena[/name_f] (which I think I read somewhere you campaigned for for a really long time?), so I feel like that could honor your ancestry, too. I don’t know. I sort of see it as a name you could like, but I don’t know for sure, haha. (Also, [name_f]Aster[/name_f]? For some reason, I see that suiting your style, too. I think I just keep throwing out random girls names I can see you liking because I never got around to responding to your first thread, haha. Also [name_f]Xanthe[/name_f]/[name_f]Ianthe[/name_f]… I just keep tacking them on as I think of them, haha!)

ETA: I couldn’t think of any AY-ah names when I first posted (although I suppose Adaya counts? Maybe? I’ve heard it said ah-DAY-ah and ah-DYE-ah…), but I just thought of one–Mireya! (mee-ray-ah) It’s the Spanish form of Mireille (which I like much better than Mireille, haha), and I think something like Constance Mireya might be really nice, or Petra Mireya Constance. :slight_smile: I don’t think I’d do it up front, though, since I think D u l c i n e a and Mireya are a bit too rhymey for my tastes. Still like it as a name, though. :slight_smile:

And wow, that’s a long response. lol.

Lots of good ones mentioned already, so here’s a few names of acquaintances not on NB yet…

Moraya (think more-aya) – a twist on [name_f]Mariah[/name_f]
Mistaya (mist-aya)

Ataya
[name_f]Lavinia[/name_f]
[name_f]Maya[/name_f]
[name_f]Saskia[/name_f] (I love this, but my cousin named her daughter this so it’s out for me… but I adore it)
Tanaya (Only ever met 2 girls with this name one is my age -almost 33 and the other is about 3 or 4 yrs old now)

I can’t think of many others that haven’t already been suggested by previous posters… some great options there too. Hopefully these help you. I really like [name_f]Saskia[/name_f] hehehe

Apologies if there are any repeats:

[name_f]Anya[/name_f]
[name_f]Enya[/name_f]
[name_f]Amaya[/name_f]
[name_u]Elia[/name_u]
[name_f]Lydia[/name_f]
[name_f]Lilia[/name_f]
[name_f]Ilaria[/name_f]
[name_f]Zaria[/name_f]
[name_f]Elina[/name_f]
[name_f]Selina[/name_f]
[name_f]Wilhelmina[/name_f]
[name_f]Angelina[/name_f]
[name_f]Lina[/name_f]
[name_f]Noelia[/name_f]
Vaya
[name_f]Carina[/name_f]
[name_f]Yonina[/name_f]
[name_f]Sabrina[/name_f]
[name_f]Davina[/name_f]

And…it doesn’t end in -ina but has the same sound: [name_f]Serena[/name_f].

[name_u]Love[/name_u] the names [name_f]Katya[/name_f] and [name_f]Petra[/name_f]!

[name_f]Adalia[/name_f]
[name_f]Adeliya[/name_f]
[name_f]Eulalia[/name_f]
[name_f]Lydia[/name_f]
[name_f]Jessenia[/name_f]
[name_f]Theia[/name_f] ([name_m]Thay[/name_m]-a)
[name_f]Vasilia[/name_f]
[name_f]Zafira[/name_f]

@ashthedreamer - WHOA!! You sent me the mother lode here. Thanks for the vote for [name_f]Petra[/name_f]. I don’t think [name_f]Petra[/name_f] and [name_f]Constance[/name_f] together works too well, but I could pull in a different middle, or Iselda for a similar meaning. [name_f]Petra[/name_f] Iselda [name_f]Imogene[/name_f], what do you think? I get the meaning from my dad, [name_m]Ethan[/name_m], in Iselda, and the “[name_u]Jean[/name_u]” of my [name_f]MIL[/name_f]’s middle name in [name_f]Imogene[/name_f]. Or just [name_u]Jean[/name_u]? [name_f]Petra[/name_f] Iselda [name_u]Jean[/name_u]/[name_f]Jeanne[/name_f]? I’m going to need a combos thread… Ok, so the new names! [name_f]Catalina[/name_f], oh, that silly salad dressing! I couldn’t do it. I could maybe get behind [name_f]Maddalena[/name_f], I’ll put it on the list. I rather like [name_f]Serena[/name_f] too. I don’t know if she can be anything other than a tennis queen to me though. My dad is a big tennis fan and I’m trying to work his name in as an honor this time, so…I just don’t know of it works, I know [name_f]Serena[/name_f] [name_m]Williams[/name_m] is not his most favorite player. [name_f]Ekaterina[/name_f], pity for my lack of Russian claim! [name_f]Penina[/name_f] I like and I never would have thought of it, on the list it goes; BTN says it means “precious stone” and that’s an ok meaning [name_f]IMO[/name_f]. [name_f]Odilia[/name_f] - actually, someone suggested this and when I went to look up meaning, I found [name_f]Odelia[/name_f], which seems to have meanings from several languages, Hebrew being “[name_f]Praise[/name_f] God,” Germanic is “wealth/fortune” and Greek is “song.” So that one has interesting possibilities. [name_f]Junia[/name_f]! You must be the third or fourth suggestion for this one, and I’ve been crushing on it. I’m going to put [name_f]Zaria[/name_f] back on the list, though I think my husband said this was one of the weird ones. I do like most of the “just because” names, but a lot of them have already been ruled out. We’d probably use [name_f]Lenore[/name_f] if it wasn’t so [name_u]Poe[/name_u]. [name_u]Malin[/name_u] is a good suggestion, but I have a friend [name_f]Maren[/name_f], and we’re trying to stay away from the ends-in-N this time. I like [name_f]Ianthe[/name_f] and [name_f]Xanthe[/name_f], but those Greek names are so tricky, I’m not really a fan of any of the gods stories. OOOH [name_f]Mireya[/name_f] is really nice, a great middle option. On the list it goes.

@justbrowsing - Oh, your Moraya is quite similar to [name_f]Mireya[/name_f] (above) and I really like that one. [name_f]Mariah[/name_f] is a great name, too.

@iraasuup - I wish I could love [name_f]Saskia[/name_f]! It has been a “Nameberry Darling” for the past couple of years, but I just never can quite see the appeal. It’s not very pretty in my accent. I’m sorry that your cousin got to it first, though! Tanaya is really pretty, I’ll put that on the middles list. Oh, apparently it’s related to [name_f]Tanya[/name_f]…which is related to [name_f]Tatiana[/name_f]…and I really love that one, but I have a T last name, boo hoo!

Okay, this finishes out page 3, so I’m going to go ahead and post and move on to the next page to reply.

@bookish - It’s ok! It’s actually really interesting to me when I see the same name suggested by several people. Sometimes it makes me take another look when I might have glanced over a name. I’m adding [name_f]Zaria[/name_f] to the considerations. [name_f]Yonina[/name_f] is fascinating; I’ve never seen that one before. Vaya is interesting too, but I can’t seem to find it around anywhere for the meaning. [name_f]Serena[/name_f] is a lovely suggestion, it does have the same sound, and really I was looking for the sound, not necessarily the spelling. Thank you for your ideas!

@jj1010 - Thank you! I thought maybe [name_f]Katya[/name_f] and [name_f]Petra[/name_f] would be too aggressive, but a few people have commented on those so it makes me happy! Ooh, [name_f]Theia[/name_f] is nice, I like it much better than [name_f]Thea[/name_f].

Ok, I think this finishes up page 4. Thank you so much for the lovely ideas and for the comments about my list so far. If anyone has more ideas to throw in the pile, I’m happy to look through them.

It’s interesting that when you mentioned “lacy-sounding names” I immediately thought… [name_f]Lacy[/name_f]!

[name_f]Lacy[/name_f]/[name_f]Lacey[/name_f]
[name_f]Lavinia[/name_f]
[name_f]Letitia[/name_f]
[name_f]Tatiana[/name_f]
Lilaia [lil-eye-a]
Lycia
[name_f]Marcia[/name_f] (mar-see-a)
[name_f]Olympia[/name_f] ([name_f]Olympia[/name_f] [name_f]Constance[/name_f] is stunning)
Elaia (el-eye-a)
[name_f]Acacia[/name_f]
[name_f]Diantha[/name_f] (perhaps too close to [name_f]Dulcinea[/name_f])
[name_f]Valentina[/name_f]
[name_f]Apollonia[/name_f]
[name_f]Theodosia[/name_f]
Mysia (mee-sha)
Heraclea (amazing name. [name_f]Hera[/name_f]-clee-a)
[name_f]Valencia[/name_f] (very lacy!)
[name_f]Zenobia[/name_f]
[name_f]Audrina[/name_f]
Caria
Coria
[name_f]Cassia[/name_f]