Princess Names

Oooh! I loved this entry! I think the Princesses Catharina-Amalia… and Eloise Sophie… have great names!

They aren’t listed here, but I adore some of the British royals’ names, such as Princesses Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise, Beatrice Elizabeth Mary, and Eugenie Victoria. I love Charlotte Marie Pomeline (Monaco), too.

As for names not yet attached to real royal babies (at least none of whom I know), Delphine, Arabella, Araminta, Aurelia, Cordelia, Esme, Flora, Liliana, Ophelia, Odessa, and Viviana feel very princessy to me.

Thanks for this entry, and have a great day!

No embarrassment here. I can’t help but want any daughters of mine to have names fit for a _real_ princess (just in case). Countess Luann just doesn’t have the right ring to me…

It doesn’t look all bad, does it?
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Here’s hoping Leonor and Ingrid get some love.

An interesting entry, but I’m a bit annoyed to see ‘England’ used as a synonym for ‘Great Britain’. I’m Scottish, not English; there are four countries in the UK, not one.

Fixed! Sorry. Chalk it up to American (I mean, United Statesian) ignorance.

Oh, I love Princess names! The real ones, I mean. Queens & Princesses generally have the neatest names. I’m not embarassed about loving Princess names (or Queens), It sure beats secretly loving Mekaelyia don’t it? )
I tried to give my daughter a name like a princess, something strong, regal and just a little frilly. I like to think I succeeded. She sure thinks so!

My favorites up there are :
Ariane Wilhelmina Maxima
Emma Talullah
Irene
Laetitia Maria
Leonor
and
Maud Angelica (which is beyond gorgeous!)

I love Irene. She is the princess in a George MacDonald book. I think it’s called “The Princess and the Goblins”.

Love Leah Isadora.

Cassandra and Marina sound princess-esque to me

My cousin named her daughter Princess and I have to say, she wears her name very well. She’s a bright confident little girl! Though, of course, I wouldn’t recommend the name because Princess is the only Princess to me.

How could I have forgotten Buttercup, the name of The Princess Bride.

What about Sasami’s sister? Aeka or Ayeka (either spelling works) I think transitions better in to english speaking countries than Sasami.

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Its funny how the Netherlands Princess is called Anastasia a parraell to one of my children favourite Princess Anastasia (the cartoon of course). The real princess was called Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia

• Just so you know: you listed Catharina-Amalia (who’s just called Amalia) and Ariane, but you forgot their middle sistier: Alexia. Catharina-Amalia Beatrix Carmen Victoria
Alexia Juliana Marcela Laurentien
Ariane Wilhelmina Máxima Ines
They are the children of our crown prince, Willem-Alexander and his wife Máxima. He’s gonna be king one day, and Amalia is gonna be our queen one day. Alexander also has a brother who has two girls with sweet names.
Emma Luana Ninette Sophie (she goes by the name Luana)
• Joanna Zaria Nicoline Milou (she goes by the name Zaria)
Although they aren’t princesses, they are countesses, but you mentioned Anastasia on the list too, and she doesn’t have an official title at all, so I guess that’s okay.
Also Eloise Sophie Beatrix Laurence, has a little sister; her name is Leonore Marie Irene Enrica.
Anastasia “Anna” Margriet Josephine also has a little sister, her name is Felicia Juliana Bénedicte Barbara.
And there is also a sweet little girl named Magali Margriet Eleonoor, she’ll be a big sister in July.
- Isabella Juliana Lily’s name is Isabella Lily Juliana-
Lol, sorry for bothering y’all with this list. I just saw this entry of yours and I was looking for names of the royals yesterday. As many of you, I’m obsessed with names, and I know that the royals usually have 3-4 names and that they go way back in their family tree so I went to check if there were some nice ‘old-fashioned’ names in there family tree that I would like too. Haha.

These are great — thank you! I’m going to amend the list immediately.

Analiza is a beautiful name i just adore it!… jk lol

Favs– Isabella Lily Juliana, Amelia, and Emma Luana Ninette Sophie. I also really like Ingrid. I knew a kind, wonderful woman with that name and isn’t a true noble someone who is benevolent?
Other Names that sound princess-esque to me : Francesca, Ariana and Graziella

Neat list. But I would enjoy reading a list of historical princess names, especially since 100+ year old names are stylishly appealing to me. My hubby and I will name the baby Cordelia Ruth if it is a girl. Is/was there a Princess Cordelia anywhere?

King Lear’s daughter in Shakespeare was Cordelia, so guess that makes her a princess!

And a little googling just told me there was a Princess Cordelia on Buffy the Vampire Slayer!

I am a name nut and, even if the idea of royalty is “embarrassing” in this day and age, I get a kick out of it anyway. (I’m an amateur writer as well and have a huge story series going online that revolves around a fictional royal family, which is where my interest in royalty probably got started.) Most royal names seem very stuffy and stodgy to me, though the males less so than the females. I recall reading somewhere that people thought “Diana” wasn’t a proper name for a princess, but I say that’s just plain silly. No reason royalty can’t give their offspring modern, popular names if they want.

That said…I have to say I am just plain fed up to the gills with the name Sarah. I’ve never liked that name. I don’t know why, but I’ve always associated “Sarah” with a prim, overly proper nineteenth-century spinster schoolteacher with no sense of humor, a skinny face and body, a long pointy nose down which she glares at you, half-round glasses on a chain, gray hair severely subdued in a bun, and a generally sour disposition. Honestly, I don’t even know what turned me off the name so much. All I know is, I’ve disliked it just about ever since I can remember. It might mean “princess”, but it sure doesn’t conjure up that image for me!

I know this is going to be incredibly unusual, but I love unusual names. I was once in a Girl Scout troop with a girl whose surname was Susina. I thought from the start that it would be a fabulous variation on Susan (another of my perennial favorites), and I think it would make a neat princess name. If I’m ever lucky enough to have a daughter, her name will be Susina Skye. I have never seen “Susina” in any baby-name books, and I’ve looked for it in an awful lot of them! Would love to know the actual origins of this one. I think it may be Italian; I’ve heard of surnames Susi, Susino, etc. Any ideas?

One of my female friends is pregnant, and her three year old daughter wants to name her new sister Cinderella. My friend rolls her eyes when she says this, but I think she could substitute Ella and still make her daughter happy.

I love Sleeping Beauty, and Aurora has always been a personal favorite of mine. And call her Rory for short. I have always liked Eleanor, too.

i can just say this is increadible.

1. Amalia= <3 my favorite name
2. Cordelia on Buffy was not a Princess, just a spoiled rich girl (who ended up not being so rich as time went on).

My name is a royal name- Anastasia. It’s a royal name, with the frills, but it’s not one of those too-hard-to-read names that sound made up. Additionally to Anastasia, I like Sofia, Cassandra and Jasmine.

Cordelia (from Buffy) had a brief stint as a Princess (on the world of Pylea) but it was in the series “Angel”.

I named my daughter Cordelia after the Buffy Cordelia

Does it sound like a princess name?

Mia bella……do u like?

I have always liked the name Aquamarine, for a girl. it would be even beter if she was a Piscean, just so she had water fr her element and neptune for her chosen planet, so her god would be Posieden, kind of the sea.

Ariel, Alba, Mariella, Adriana, Esme, Isadora, Elenora, Cassandra.

Ariel Alba and
Adriana Esme, are my fav! So Princess like.

My favourite names which has the feel of princesses are:
Angelica
Arianne
Anastasia
Amelia
Julianna
Leah
Katarina

Some of my favourite princess-esque names are
Cassandra
Athene
Thea
Alyss (Alice spelt differently)
Phoebe
Scarlett
Morgana
and Persephone (per-sef-on-ee)

i love these names a lot:
austabella
Anastasia
Arabella and
Rosabella
what do you think

i luv amelia dats da best name ever and when i turn 18, this is gonna be my name: princess fikile amelia roselinah eiszabella and surnames renaldo morris… i wanna be a princess ………….i luv amelia from da princess diaries……

@ Boston Girl Susina means little plum in Italian. Susina Skye…I like it!

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I was thinking of suggesting Elizabeth, but then I realized that sounds more queenly than princessy. Same with Katherine, Victoria, and Beatrix, IMO.