Names That Mean Rare

A beautiful name with a meaning befitting a treasured baby, Nadira is a feminine form of Nadir. Also spelled as Nadirah and appearing as Nadire in Albanian and Turkish, it means "precious, rare", though is sometimes listed as meaning "treasured" and "unique" too. 
 
Similar in sound or appearance to other international choices like Mira and Nadia, Nadira could work in multiple languages. 
 
It has been notably borne by actresses Nadira Babbar and Nadira (Florence Ezekiel) and by singer and TV host Nina Nadira. There are characters called Nadira in the novel Skybreaker by Kenneth Oppel, and in the Islamic legends of Hatra, in which Al-Nadirah is a princess who falls in love with the king besieging her city.

Nadira

Yeghisapet

This popular Turkish name has a very on-trend sound and is familiar to English speakers thanks to Orson Scott Card’s sci-fi novel Ender’s Game. The book has recently been turned into a movie, starring Asa Butterfield as Andrew "Ender" Wiggin.
 
Ender was chosen by Halsey and her partner Alev Aydin for their son born in 2021. It was an ideal choice for the couple, nodding to their love of Sci-Fi (Ender's middle name is Ripley) and Aydin's Turkish heritage.

Ender

A variant of Nadira, this is an Arabic name that appears in the Quran, used as a word to describe the faces of those in Jannah, the final resting place of the righteous. 

Names That Mean Rare

The names

Nadira

Yeghisapet

Ender

Nadirah