Baby Names That Mean Light

Nour and Noura mean light in Arabic. Nuria in Aramaic.

Love Abner, Eliora, Helena, Lucian, Nera and Raiden!

Best list I have seen in a long time. Very lovely compilation. I prefer the original Avner to Abner (a little softer & bonus nickname Avi). I also really like the name Lucienne for a girl which seems perky to me.

The cat is definately out of the bag with Eliora as the best Hebrew spin on the starts-with-El trend. I know several mamas with little Elioras so expect half a dozen at your local Hebrew Day School. The unelaborate Lior simply means “my light” and seems to captures a lot more sentiment.

My daughter’s double middle name is Helen Lucille. It’s after my grandmothers, but I always liked that the two names had the same meaning. Great list today!

Raiden doesn’t rhyme with Aidan, traditionally. It is RYE-den, but because of the whole Aidan trend, many of the people who choose it probably pronounce it Ray-den.

Thank you, Aurra. I’m going to correct the entry here and in the database. We are adding audio pronunciations very soon but until then it’s great to get guidance on names from other cultures.

My youngest daughter is named Eliora. I hope the cat doesn’t fly too far out of the bag!

Eliora, Lucia and Helena would make a beautiful sibset!

I love Aurora and Helena!

Great list! I have Aurora and Helena on my list.

Forgot to mention Seraphina is on my list as well.

Love these names. I wish Nera was pronounced Near-a. I wonder if there is a proper name (maybe Neara) with that pronunciation.

Well, Freemebean, it IS kind of pronounced Near-a. The only person I’ve met in real life with a version of this name was called Neri and pronounced it Near-ee. The NEE-ra in the pronunciation guide is really to distinguish it from NEH-ra

you can bet all those Raiden’s in the US pronounce their names like Aiden. Especially because Rayden is also charting, even higher.

I love Aurora and Eliora. Lucian and Kiran are pretty nice for boys.

Abner still sounds old and dusty to me, as does Ignatius.

I love a lot of “light” names on this list: Helen/Helena, Lucian/Lucia/Lucy, Ignatius, and Kiran to name a few.

Unfortunately when I see the name Abner it just makes me think of the nosy and irritating neighbor Gladys Kravitz on “Bewitched” calling hysterically to her husband: ABNER!!!! Turns me off the name completely.

Can’t believe Claire/Clara wasn’t on this list!

Eliora is beautiful! I’ve just added it to my list for future children.

Did you leave Claire and Lucy/Lucia off the list on purpose?

For what it’s worth, I thought Nera was pronounced more like Sera. I looked up its root word, נר, which is just Ner & rhymes with pear. Of course I’ve never met one so who really knows.

We will get to the bottom of this! Now I remember that the Neri I met explained it as “Mary but with an N”. Which would
mean that Nera kind of rhymes with Sarah

Katybug, yes they would!

My little chap is Lior, and it’s the most wonderfully elegant yet masculine name, I can’t emphasize how we’ll it works. Love this list, some great options to continue the light theme for baby 2.0. Thankyou!

I love Aurora, nn Rory. And I know a 9yr old Aurora who fits the name so well.

My friend also has a 3 yr old Lucian, and it fits to well. They call him Luc too.

For myself, now that we sort of have the pronunciation figured out, I’m starting to love Nera, like Sarah.

I love Aurora, Rory could be a cute nickname. Seraphina is also super sweet but it would be a bold choice.

Thanks Pam. I would be very interested in knowing the results of your Near-a search as I’ve been wondering this for a long time and haven’t quite figured it out.

My middle name, Aileen, means light as well. Great list!

I like a lot of these. Lucian/Lucien is a big guilty pleasure of mine; it would probably be on my shortlist if I could decide how I prefer to pronounce it. Of course I always have to speak up for Aurora , and I’m going to have to get used to Tanwen and decide if I like it. I’m liking a lot of the Welsh -wen names lately, but Tanwen is new to me. Lovely meaning. Eliora is gorgeous but a bit too–I don’t know–”vowelly?” for my taste. Abner is growing on me. Ignatius I think would be awesome in the middle. I’m wondering, though, how you’re getting Hugo from it…

Okay, you HAVE to add just plain Zora to last entry. It means dawn, and it’s just so gorgeous and underused!

I love love love Lucian/Lucien. It will be my son’s name one day. Every time I hear it I fall in love with the name again.

On the names we omitted, there were so many great choices that might have been on this list that we left off some we love. The Lucy family is represented by Lucian and Claire and Clara just fit into so many wonderful categories that we felt it was a less surprising choice here.

Abner is cute, but by grandpa calls me Abner for short, and I’m a girl. Not a bad association, but it would always remind me of that nickname. Aurora has always been on my list, and Nera is pretty!

What about Lux?

What about Lux? That name means light in Latin.

This is a nice idea, but does anyone else find it annoying to have to click through the options one by one? It would be nice to have the names on a single page!

Dawn and Aurora