Latin Names for Girls

Like Quentin, Quintin and Quintana, Quintia was once reserved for the fifth child in a family, but now would make an interesting choice for a child coming anywhere in the birth order.

Quintia

The daintiest and most accessible of the many Q names for a fifth child, now used for girls situated anywhere in the birth order. 

Quintina

Sounds like a fictional rank of royalty. 

Quintessa

Quirina is the feminine form of Quirinus, the name of the Sabine god of war. This is one mythological name that has not traveled to the modern world -- we've found no babies ever name Quirina or Quirinus in the US -- but with this newly-trendy class of names, anything is possible. 

Quirina

Faunia is more often rendered as Fauna, who was a Roman goddess of fertility, women and healing. Faunia was the downtrodden yet loving heroine of Philip Roth's Human Stain. Faunia and Fauna have more gravitas than the doe-like Fawn.

Faunia

Common French and German alternative to Renata. 

Renate

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

Reseda

Most modern parents would probably prefer the cooler Rowan. 

Roanna

Romola is a literary name most notably used by George Eliot for her eponymous 1862 novel set in fifteenth-century Florence. It just may appeal to the parent looking for a name that embodies the ideal blend of the feminine, unusual, and strong. A current bearer is British actress Romola Garai.


Romola

Faustine has a positive meaning, although the association with the character who sold his soul to the devil may be off-putting. This name is among the Top 100 girls' names in France, but was given to fewer than five baby girls in the US last year.

Faustine

Fantine is a rarely heard French name except as a character in the Victor Hugo novel Les Misérables.

Fantine

Fabia is one of several pleasant international-accented female versions of Fabian. 

Fabia

Another name for the herb sage -- which sounds younger and more modern than this version. 

Salvia

Winter, Summer, and Autumn are all mainstream names; this covers all bases. 

Season

Sebastiane is not a common feminization but may become more so as Sebastian achieves international popularity.

Sebastiane

The name of Beethoven's third symphony, and too close to the word erotica. 

Eroica

Neo, indeed--though it was a male character in "The Matrix."

 In the Southern African language of Tswana, it is a unisex name meaning "gift".

Name for a seventh child, back when people had them. 

Septima

Has a sweetness via its relation to such words as dulcet; other similar possibilities are DULCE, DULCINA, and the down-home DULCIE. Though this <a href="https://nameberry.com/baby-names/515/latin-names-for-girls">Latin names for girls</a> is rarely heard in contemporary times in this form, Dulcie is found.

Dulcia

Pleasingly quaint and dainty New Testament possibility; the nickname Dru modernizes it. 

Drucilla

Latin names for girls derive, ultimately, from ancient Rome, which stretched from Spain to Iraq at its height. Latin girls’ names, for that reason, reflect a multitude of cultures and languages. Current favorites in the US include Olivia and Ava.

Along with Olivia and Ava, other

 include Camila, Clara, Eliana, Lillian, Lucy, Ruby, Stella, and Valentina.

Baby girl names popular in Rome include Viola — the

 in Italy — Cecilia, Gloria, and Celeste.

Some Latin names for girls have been altered somewhat from their original form by the passage of time. But other Latin girls’ names can be found carved into rocks from thousands of years ago. 

Popular modern girls’ names with Latin roots

 include Beatrice, Cecilia, Felicity, Hillary, Julia, Laura, Patricia, Violet, and Vivian, but there are dozens of other Latin girls’ names worth exploring for your baby girl.

Below, our full menu of Latin names for girls, ordered by popularity on Nameberry.

Latin names for baby girls, including top girl names and unique girl names of Latin origin, with meanings and popularity. (Page 27)