The Basque name, meaning shadow, has the virtue of having both an interesting meaning and an obvious pronunciation.

Although this Old Testament name is soft and delicate, it runs the risk of conjuring up the monstrous Godzilla.

Created by English poet Alexander Pope for a melancholy sprite in the 1712 poem The Rape of the Lock. He likely took the Latin word umbra "shadow". A moon of Uranus is named after the character.

Pretty French sound, but there might be a lot of "umbrella" cracks.

An unusual, haunting name, a distant cousin to the more popular Amber and Ember.

Étienne de Silhouette (1709–67), French author and politician, gave his name to this portraiture technique – although, strangely, no one knows why.