Names That Mean Beautiful
- Jamilla
Origin:
ArabicMeaning:
"beautiful, graceful"Description:
Soft and appealing, with a whiff of vanilla.
- Venusa
Origin:
LatinMeaning:
"Goddess of beauty"Description:
The variation on Venus might soften the name and avoid tennis connotations, given its markedly different pronunciation.
- Bello
Origin:
ItalianMeaning:
"handsome, beautiful"Description:
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.
- Ramana
Origin:
SanskritMeaning:
"beautiful"Description:
Has a sound as lovely as its meaning.
- Beale
Origin:
English from FrenchMeaning:
"fair, handsome"Description:
Surname of a character in Henry James' What Maisie Knew.
- Argider
Origin:
BasqueMeaning:
"beautiful light"Description:
Argider is a somewhat used boys' name in Basque-speaking parts of Spain.
- Tasanee
Origin:
ThaiMeaning:
"beautiful view"Description:
This name could get shortened to Tass or Sanee.
- Aruzhan
Origin:
KazakhMeaning:
"beautiful soul"Description:
Gorgeous Kazakh name with a poetic meaning. Aruzkhan ranked as high as Number 3 in Kazakhstan in 2011.
- Beauchamp
Origin:
FrenchMeaning:
"the beautiful field"Description:
Pronounced Beecham, but still too fancy and fey. Likewise Beaufort (beautiful fort), Beaufoy (beautiful beech tree), and Beaumont (beautiful mountain).
- Ezhil
Origin:
TamilMeaning:
"beauty"Description:
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.
- Elili
Origin:
TamilMeaning:
"beautiful"Description:
Unusual yet accessible name with the fashionable double-L sound. Lilting and lovely.
- Sundari
Origin:
HinduMeaning:
"beautiful"Description:
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.
- Grażyna
Origin:
Polish, from LithuanianMeaning:
"pretty, beautiful"Description:
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
Origin:
ArabicMeaning:
"beautiful"Description:
Maliha comes from the Arabic word malih, meaning "beautiful."
- Keshika
Origin:
Sanskrit, modern variation of Keziah, HebrewMeaning:
"one with beautiful hair; cinnamon"Description:
Spiky but pretty in sound, Keshika has its origins in both Sanskrit and Hebrew, making it a rare choice that also crosses cultures.
- Belles
Origin:
English, Scottish, French, SpanishMeaning:
"bell ringer; handsome, beautiful; beauties"Description:
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.
- Jaffa
Origin:
Hebrew place-nameMeaning:
"beautiful"Description:
A pleasant and adaptable place name for a part of Tel Aviv.
- Aglaia
Origin:
GreekMeaning:
"beauty, splendour"Description:
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".
- Mrignayani
Origin:
Indian, SanskritMeaning:
"one with eyes like a deer"Description:
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".
- Ulanni
Origin:
HawaiianMeaning:
"heavenly beauty"Description:
This name is a variation of U'i lani, which means heavenly beauty in Hawaiian.