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Woya
Cherokee
"dove"
Lovely and peaceful Cherokee option for a baby girl.
Wrenna
English
"wren"
The Old English word for a male wren has now become an elaboration of the bird name for girls. Rising up alongside Wrenley, Renli, Wrenn, Wrenlynn, and so on, in the US, Wrenna was given to 67 girls…
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Yona
Cherokee or variation of Jonah, Hebrew
"bear; dove"
A name with a double animal connection via two distinct origins, one Native American and the other Hebrew and Biblical. Yona is rare in the US but not unknown: It was given to a dozen baby girls in…
Yonina
Feminine variation of Jonah, Hebrew
"dove"
Unlikely to catch on the way the male original has, though it may appeal to some parents as a more formal version of Nina.
Zamira
Arabic, Hebrew, Albanian, "mind, heart, conscious; lean, slender; nightingale; sweet voice"
"mind, heart, conscious; lean, slender; nightingale; sweet voice"
An elegant, powerful, and multi-cultural name with various origins. Used occasionally in the US since the 80s, the name has seen more significant use since the mid-2010s and is now given to around…
Zippora
Variation of Tziporah, Hebrew
"bird"
This upstanding Old Testament name of the wife of Moses would almost inevitably provoke some tricky zipper teasing.
Zipporah
Variation of Tziporah, Hebrew
"bird"
There are many variations of this name, with or without the initial T and the final h, with one p or two. In the Bible she was the wife of Moses.
Dovie
Diminutive of Dove or Deborah, English, Hebrew
"dove; bee"
Dovie was a fairly popular nickname name a century or more ago, dropping off the Top 1000 in the 1940s only to be heading back uphill now. Given to around 30 girls in a recent year, Dovie has a way…
