Names That Mean Light

Occult name for babies born under water signs -- Pisces, Cancer, and Scorpio.

Lucero is a relative or nickname of Luz, meaning light. This intriguing name is swimming just beneath the Top 1000 for girls in the US.

Claribel improves on its mother name Clarabelle by distancing itself from the clown and the cow.

A li'l hell-raiser name in the Ryder-Rogue-Rebel vein.

Javiera, pronounced ha-vee-AIR-a, is not as well used as twin brother JAVIER, but makes an attractive Latina choice.

A rare but historic English name bestowed upon girls in the 19th century. Fairlight seems to have been particularly popular among baby girls in the Appalachian region of the US. It appeared as a character name in Catherine Mashall's 1967 novel Christy, which was turned into a TV show in 1994.

A bit blunt.

Gwenno originated as a diminutive of Gwenllian, Gwynhwyfar or Gwendolen, but it is increasingly being bestowed as a full name, with between 10 and 20 births a year in England & Wales. Musician Gwenno (full name Gwenno Mererid Saunders) is a famous bearer.

Evocative of hulas, leis, and luaus.

A common Vietnamese name heard evenly for boys and girls in the U.S. Sounds like tahn or tong, depending on what part of Vietnam you come from.

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

The viv syllable adds vitality.

Almost unheard of in recent years, Dagobert has some connections to the French diaspora. Pere Dagobert was an eighteenth century Capuchin monk who immigrated to New Orleans from Quebec. Dagobert I was a king of the Merovingian dynasty in the seventh century.

Evocative African choice.

This name may mean light but is likely to be heavy to wear outside of Spain.

A cross-cultural name that can be a nickname for David and can be pronounced Day (preferable to die), but is also the name of a vicious Asian villain.

One of the more familiar Hindu choices, with built-in depth and a suggestion of enlightenment.

Spiritual author Deepak Chopra made this familiar, if not particularly accessible, outside the Indian community.