Names That Mean Delicate

Melodic and lively, Delilah has cut itself (mostly) free from its treacherous past to become a contemporary favorite.

Nadia, an accessible Slavic favorite, has a strong run of popularity in the US in the early 2000s, partially thanks to the character on Lost called Nadia but actually named Noor, but it's since slumped down the rankings. An earlier inspiration was Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci, who won the 1976 Olympics.

An evocative Zulu name which would be perfect for a baby born during a rainstorm. In Arabic, the name is related to Liyyan, meaning "soft, delicate".

Name of an Old Testament soldier that's been also used as a girls' name in modern Israel. An alternate spelling is Adinah. Some mistake Adina and Adinah to be the root of Dinah, but the Biblical name Dinah is borne by a different figure and has a different meaning. You can consider the modern short forms Dena and Dina as stemming from either Adina or Dinah.

Dina is a 20th century version of either Dinah or Adinah, two Old Testament names not related to each other. Dinah was the beautiful daughter of Jacob and Leah, while Adinah or Adina was a male soldier, though the name is also used for girls in modern Israel.

The modern name Dena can be considered to come from either of two Old Testament names. Adina, which means delicate, was the name of a male soldier in the Bible. Dinah, meaning judged, Dinah was the daughter of Jacob and Leah. Dena is a common name in Amish communities.

A twist on Alina or Alena, this name popped into the Top 500 for the first time in 2014. Also an Arabic name, meaning "soft, pliable, delicate".

Your zany neighbor, the one who's a potter and has five cats.

Loman is one of those rare names that is at once simple and very unusual, with fewer than five baby boys given the name in the US in the most recent year.

The Old Testament Adinah was a male soldier, not the same as the beautiful daughter of Jacob and Leah, Dinah. But in modern Israel, Adinah and Adina are also used as names fori girls.

In Turkish, the name is transcribed as Nazlı, with a dotless I.

Perhaps too similar to the word "idol," but Eidel is a pretty (and largely forgotten) Yiddish name.

Sounds incomplete, like a pet form of Miranda.

Takes Delilah out of the Bible and into the 21st century.

This spelling of Delilah is disproportionately common among the Amish.

Adinah or Adina was a male figure in the Old Testament, though it's also used as agirls' name in modern Israel. It can be considered the grandmother of Dina or Dena.