Celtic Names for Girls

  1. Melvina
    • Origin:

      Celtic
    • Meaning:

      "chieftain"
    • Description:

      Melvina ranked in the Top 1000 for over 65 years in the US, coinciding to a large extent with the years its much more popular masculine counterpart Melvin ranked in the Top 100. Today, Melvin is still hanging on in the Top 1000 for boys, but Melvina hasn't been given to more than 20 babies in a year since 1991.
  2. Arthurette
    • Origin:

      Feminine form of Arthur, Celtic
    • Meaning:

      "bear"
    • Description:

      If you're looking for a girl's name that honors an ancestral Arthur, try Artis.
  3. Danu
    • Origin:

      Celtic, goddess of fruitfulness
    • Description:

      This sprightly Irish mythology name would make an attention-grabbing choice.
  4. Piala
    • Origin:

      Celtic, meaning unknown
    • Description:

      This name of a saint martyred in Cornwall makes an unusual choice with traditional roots.
  5. Donnelly
    • Origin:

      Irish
    • Meaning:

      "dark brave one"
    • Description:

      Makes Donna into a cool twenty-first-century unisex Irish surname.
  6. Arthurine
    • Origin:

      Feminine form of Arthur, Celtic
    • Meaning:

      "bear"
    • Description:

      If you're looking for a girl's name that honors an ancestral Arthur, try Artis.
  7. Arthurina
    • Origin:

      Feminine form of Arthur, Celtic
    • Meaning:

      "bear"
    • Description:

      If you're looking for a girl's name that honors an ancestral Arthur, try Artis.
  8. Gull
    • Origin:

      Celtic
    • Meaning:

      "long-winged swimming birds"
    • Description:

      Suggests the salty, windswept air of the seashore.
  9. Tristana
    • Origin:

      Celtic mythology name, feminine variation of Tristan
    • Meaning:

      "sorrow"
    • Description:

      A more substantial but less-popular feminization of Tristan, the originally-male mythological name now used for girls as well as boys.