International Baby Girl Names (with Meanings & Popularity)

There are several fine Ben-beginning boy's names, such as BENJAMIN and BENEDICT, but girls names like this and BENJAMINA don't fare as well.

Mexican place-name famously used by Joan Didion for her daughter, Quintana Roo.

Soft and appealing, with a whiff of vanilla.

With its upbeat Slavic/Scandinavian air, it has the most potential of all the Jan names.

Kimimela joins Mariposa as one of the long and lovely girl names meaning "butterfly".

The Olympic gymnast Sunisa "Suni" Lee was named after her mother's favorite Thai actress.

Seen as both a given name and a surname in Japan. There was a Princess Izumi in eighth-century Japan, forbidden from marriage as her older sisters had already been paired off with the Emperor's sons.

Feodora is an interesting choice for the intrepid name-giver, especially with the dynamic nickname Feo.

Unusual and appealing, Laurenza might make a perfect honor name for an ancestral Laura or Lawrence. Count Laurenza among the unknown-yet-usable Italian names for girls.

Aramide is a rare name in the US but better-known in Nigeria, where it's a choice from the Yoruba language.

Simple African name all-but-unknown in the U.S. and Europe, which is exactly why it might make a perfect choice. Similarity to such popular names as Ava and Eva (and the Irish Aoife) makes it more familiar, but potentially more confusing.

Short for Olukemi or a rare name in its own right, this Yoruba name has a beautiful meaning. A notable bearer is British MP Olukemi (Kemi) Badenoch.

Māori form of India, also found as a male name: the Māori form of Aeneas.

This Quechua name would fit in perfectly with names like Eliana and Liliana, but feels much more distinctive.

This phonetic spelling of the Gaelic Fionnuala (which also has many spelling variations) is sometimes rendered as Finola or Finella.

Unisex name with a gracious meaning, most often used in Zimbabwe.

If you love girls' names that start and end in A, this beautiful Mongolian option is one to consider!

Singer Ruslana Stepanivna Lyzhychko, who goes by her first name, won the Eurovision contest in 2004 and remains a popular artist in Ukraine.

Kantuta is the Quechua name for the national flower of both Bolivia and Peru, which is known for flowering around Christmas time. With its vivid green foliage and extremely bright red bell-shaped flowers, the plant encapsulates many traditional Christmas symbols, making Kantuta one of the great unique names for Christmas babies.