Names That Mean Beautiful

Soft and appealing, with a whiff of vanilla.

The variation on Venus might soften the name and avoid tennis connotations, given its markedly different pronunciation.

Bello is as handsome as Bella is beautiful, but rarely heard outside the Italian community. With its energetic 'o' ending, it could be ripe for export.

Has a sound as lovely as its meaning.

Surname of a character in Henry James' What Maisie Knew.

Argider is a somewhat used boys' name in Basque-speaking parts of Spain.

This name could get shortened to Tass or Sanee.

Gorgeous Kazakh name with a poetic meaning. Aruzkhan ranked as high as Number 3 in Kazakhstan in 2011.

Pronounced Beecham, but still too fancy and fey. Likewise Beaufort (beautiful fort), Beaufoy (beautiful beech tree), and Beaumont (beautiful mountain).

A spirited yet sophisticated name of Tamil origin, Ezhil is a unisex choice that leans just slightly feminine in India. Meaning "beauty", some sources suggest the 'zh' sound is pronounced softly, almost silently, while others suggest it is said somewhere between a "h" and a "sh" sound.

Unusual yet accessible name with the fashionable double-L sound. Lilting and lovely.

Derived from Sanskrit, Sundari is a name and a descriptive word meaning "beautiful, handsome, good, or nice". It is the feminine form of Sundara, which appears in the Hindu epic poem the Ramayana.

An attractive Polish name, reminiscent of Grace and its related names. Grażyna has its roots in poetry, having been invented by Adam Mickiewicz for his 1823 poem entitled Grażyna. Mickiewicz invented the name from the Lithuanian word gražus, meaning beautiful, making this name an especially sweet choice for your beautiful baby girl. Famous women named Grażyna include the actresses Grażyna Wolszczak and Grażyna Szapołowska, the composer and violinist Grażyna Bacewicz, and the soprano singer Grażyna Brodzińska.

Maliha comes from the Arabic word malih, meaning "beautiful."

Spiky but pretty in sound, Keshika has its origins in both Sanskrit and Hebrew, making it a rare choice that also crosses cultures.

Belles may look like a playful nickname to any of the stylish belle related names — and it could easily be used as such — however, it is also an occupational English surname, originally given to bell ringers, a Scottish surname meaning "handsome" or a French or Spanish word name meaning "beauties". It is currently rarely used as a given name.

A pleasant and adaptable place name for a part of Tel Aviv.

The name of one of the three Graces or Charites in Greek mythology, sometimes spelt Aglaea. The anglicized pronunciation would be "ah-GLY-ah", while the traditional Greek would "ah-glah-EE-uh".

A name with evocative imagery, Mrignayani combines the Sanskrit elements mriga meaning "deer" with nayani meaning "eyes" to create a name which can be inteperated as "one with eyes like a deer" or "one with eyes as beautiful as a deer or gazelle".

This name is a variation of U'i lani, which means heavenly beauty in Hawaiian.