By Pamela Redmond · Updated September 2026
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Modern invented name
Mother of rising star actress Quvenzhané Wallis.
Sister to rising young actress Quvenzhané Wallis.
Spanish
"scarlet"
Scarlet or Scarlett with a Spanish twist, based on the Spanish pronunciation of the name. Escarlett and Escarlet are also occasionally used.
Diminutive of Mae
Maeby sprang into the modern consciousness via the cult TV favorite Arrested Development , in which the appealing teen character Maeby's name is a nickname for Mae. It's also a homonym for Maybe,…
American name combination
Funky, boyish, old-style combo name chosen for their daughter by hip couple Donna D'Ericco and Nikki Sixx.
American, a combination of Qadira and Aisha
Familiar-sounding hybrid name, made more unusual by virtue of the Q.
American variation of Denise, French from Greek
"god of Nysa"
Typical of formula that takes a traditional name syllable and adds -isha ending.
Spanish, English
"wild, untamed"
Cimarron is a Great Plains city and river name used by Edna Ferber as the title of a popular novel. The Cimarron people of Panama were previously enslaved Africans who had escaped from their Spanish…
American variation of Shawna
One of many now-downscale names that begin with Da- or De-, a prefix that originally indicated patrimony.
American, phonetic spelling of Siobhan
Shevonne is proof that a name can be pretty and tacky at the same time.
