Celtic Names for Girls

Like Minnie and Winnie, eccentric enough to appeal to the iconoclastic parent.

Though Tristan was the male figure in the romantic legend and his name has become trendy for boys, it's used now for girls, too: About 15 percent of the baby Tristans are female. And about three times as many girls are named Tristan as are named Isolde, Tristan's mythical female counterpart. There are also feminizations of Tristan, such as Tristana and Tristine, but these are much more rare than the original.

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

If you're looking for a girl's name that honors an ancestral Arthur, try Artis.

Makes Donna into a cool twenty-first-century unisex Irish surname.

Suggests the salty, windswept air of the seashore.

If you're looking for a girl's name that honors an ancestral Arthur, try Artis.

This name of a saint martyred in Cornwall makes an unusual choice with traditional roots.

If you're looking for a girl's name that honors an ancestral Arthur, try Artis.