Finnish names for girls are light, bright, and beautiful! Vowel-rich versions of international favorites like Eeva, Saara and Noora are joined at the top of Finland's baby name rankings by stunning Finnish girl names inspired by nature, like Nameberry favorites Lilja ("lily") and Lumi ("snow"). If sweet and simple — but virtually undiscovered — girls' names are your style, then a Finnish baby girl name could be the way to go.
 
Find all of our fabulous Finnish names for girls here. The top names below rank among the current US Top 1000 Baby Names and are ordered by popularity. Unique names rank below the Top 1000 and are listed alphabetically.

Finnish Names for Girls

A name made most famous by the operetta The Merry Widow which features "The Vilja's Song". A vila is a woodland spirit or fairy in Slavic mythology. Vilja also means "grain" in Finnish and "will, intent" in Swedish, and is very popular as a girls' name in Scandinavia, ranking in the Top 100 in both Finland and Norway.

Vilja

Lumi may be a rare <a href="https://nameberry.com/girls-names">girls' name</a> in the USA and England, but it comes in the Top 50 in Finland, where it means snow. Given the popularity of Winter, Holly, Ivy and many other wintery-christmassy names, we think that short and spunky Lumi definitely has potential for greater usage outside its home country as one of the more unusual <a href="https://nameberry.com/list/412/christmas-baby-names">names for Christmas babies</a>. 
 
Lumi can also be considered an Albanian name, derived from the word lumë meaning "river" and inspired by the name of the northern Albanian Luma tribe. In this case, it would be considered a unisex choice and has been used evenly, though very rarely, between the sexes in Albania.
 
Another possibility is that it could come from the Filipino word lumay meaning "gentleness, moderation, manners", making it a sweet and friendly choice but with a grounded meaning. 
 
Given to nearly 90 babies in the US in 2024, use of the name had increased tenfold since 2014.

Lumi

Finnish names for girls are light, bright, and beautiful! Vowel-rich versions of international favorites like Eeva, Saara and Noora are joined at the top of Finland's baby name rankings by stunning Finnish girl names inspired by nature, like Nameberry favorites Lilja ("lily") and Lumi ("snow"). If sweet and simple — but virtually undiscovered — girls' names are your style, then a Finnish baby girl name could be the way to go.

Find all of our fabulous Finnish names for girls here. The top names below rank among the current US Top 1000 Baby Names and are ordered by popularity. Unique names rank below the Top 1000 and are listed alphabetically. (Page 3)