By Emma Waterhouse · Updated October 2026
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Arabic
"pensive, wistful, melancholic"
Akan, Fante, Ghanaian
"born on Thursday"
Ewe, Ghanian
"child that keeps coming back"
Yoruba, Nigerian
"we begged to have this one to lift up"
Variation of Abilene, place name
Twi, Ghanian
"second child after twins"
"pleasant meeting"
Variation of Aba or Abena, Akan, Ghanaian
"born on Thursday; born on Tuesday"
Variation of Apollonia or Abilene, or invented name
Invented name, meaning unknown
English word name or short form of Abigail
Diminutive of Abigail
"my father is joyful"
Spelling variation of Abigail, Hebrew
Ugandan
"vegetable"
English, Aramaic, Hebrew
"priest, father"
Diminutive of Abigail, Hebrew
Amharic
"flower"
Variation of Abeni, Yoruba
"we asked for her and she arrived"
Pakistani, Arabic
"her father"
"we asked to have this one"
Yoruba, Nigeria
"we begged for her to pet her"
Hebrew
"sigh, breath"
Feminine form of Abel, Abba, Adalbert, or Apollonius, German, Spanish, French, Dutch
"breath; strength; noble and bright; father"
English, German, Spanish, Hebrew
"breath, or grassy meadow"
French, meaning 'breath'
Danish form of Apollonia
"destroyer, strength, father of light"
"born on Tuesday"
Twi
"Born on a Tuesday"
"we prayed for her and she arrived"
"her birth brings happiness"
Scottish place-name
Sanskrit
"splendor, light"
"great"
"God is my father"
English, Hebrew
"my father has answered; my father is joyful and gracious"
"born during father's absence"
