Gardener is surely one of the most pleasant and evocative of the occupational options, calling up images of green grass and budding blooms. The name can also be spelled without the first 'e', as in Gardner (born George Cadogan Gardner) McCay, a hunky TV heartthrob of the 1950s and 60s. Gardner is a much more common surname spelling, associated with screen legend Ava, mystery writer Erle Stanley and art collector and patron Isabella Stewart, founder of Boston's Gardner Museum.

Carminho is a Portuguese singer who popularized her stage name — she was born Maria do Carmo Carvalho Rebelo de Andrade. Carminho is a nickname for Carmo, the Portuguese form of the Hebrew name Carmel.

Currently considered a grandma name in Catalonia, but fresh and unusual (though easily confused with Karma) elsewhere.

Variation of Kamala.

One of the best of this fashionable occupational group, strong and particularly well suited to a girl, also with alluring connection to glamour girl Ava Gardner.

One of the most pleasant and evocative of the hot new occupational names. Related name: Gardner, as in Ava.

Tanya with a G.