As with many grandmother-y names, this choice may be coming back into style.

Name of a major figure in Indigenous history, Quanah Parker, a Comanche chief who became a judge on the Court of Indian Affairs.

Distinctive and charming nature name that blends elements of Jacqueline and Amanda.

You could think of this lovely name as Alma after a month on the beach in Maui.

A town in the San Fernando Valley: slightly better than Encino or Tarzana.

Five sets of parents were recently inspired to use this floral Japanese name by the anime series Dead or Alive, which features a martial artist and student character named Honoka.

Too close to Nada.

An intriguing Arabic option, also spelled Qitara.

Popular choice for female anime characters.

Model and activist Quannah Chasinghorse has Hän Gwich’in and Oglala Lakota ancestry, but her name originally comes from the Comanche Nation. In Comanche, kwana means "odor" or "smell". A famous male bearer was Quanah Parker, a Comanche war leader.

Kyōka Izumi was a 19th-century surrealist author. He was a man, but a female character in the anime series Bungo Stray Dogs was named after him in full.