You are looking for a girl’s name for your baby? No easy task, because the choice is large. Should it be an unusual or rather trendy name? Or would you like an old German name for your daughter? We present you the most beautiful first names for girls, where you will surely find the right name for your child.

Popular Girls’ Names

Mia

Mia is a short form of the name Maria. As the mother of Jesus, she symbolizes deep and pure love.

Hannah / Hanna

Hannah has its origin in the Bible. The name is a derivative of the Hebrew word Channa, which means grace and mercy. So according to the meaning, Hannah is the one who is gracious to God.

Emilia

The name Emilia is the feminine form of the Romance name Emilio. The name has its origin in the Latin language area.

Sofia / Sophia

Origin of the name is the Greek word for wisdom Sophia, which means divine wisdom and virtue.

Emma

Emma has its origin in Germanic. The name was derived from the Germanic word ermana (great, mighty, all-encompassing) and from the Old High German irmin (mighty, great) respectively. Thus Emma is “the great one”, the “mighty one”.

Mila

Mila is also the Arabic cose form of the name Jamila, which means beauty. In Slavic the name means “The Love”, in Spanish it is derived from the word for miracle milagro. In Hebrew it means “she who brings peace”

Marie

Marie is a variant of the name Mary. The name should be familiar to everyone from the Bible, because Mary is the mother of Jesus. She is the symbol of pure love. The name is also significant in Hebrew, where it means “the well-fed one”.

Lea / Leah

In Latin, Leah is the lioness and thus symbolically also stands for strength, charisma and courage.

Lina

In Germanic, the word lina stands for “gentle”. In ancient Greek, Lina is “the lamenting one,” derived from the word alinon (to lament). Lina is also an African name, there Lina is “the tender one”.

Ella

Ella is a given name with several roots. On the one hand, it may be derived from the Greek. Here it is either the short form of Helena “the sunny, the radiant, beautiful” or a derivative of the Greek-language proper name for Greece Hellas.

Clara / Klara

Clara is a traditional Old German given name for women. It comes from the Latin word clarus, which means bright, beautiful, shining. Clara is therefore “the beautiful” or “the radiant”.

Luisa / Louisa

The name is derived from the words hlut (famous, loud, strong) and wig (war). Luisa is thus a “famous warrior” or “strong warrior”.

Lia / Liah / Lya

Lia is a feminine given name derived from the biblical name Leah.

Frieda / Frida

The name Frieda comes from the Old High German word fridu, which means “peace”.

Ida

The name meaning of Ida is “the seeress” or “wise woman.” However, it may also come from the Old High German syllable id, which in turn means “capable, diligent”.

Amelie

Amelie is the modern form of Amalia or Amelia, a Germanic name meaning “the capable one”.

Mathilda / Matilda

Mathilda is an Old High German name. It originates from the words maht (power, strength) and hiltja (fight). It can be interpreted as “Mighty heroine” or “Mighty fighter”.

Sophie / Sofie

The Greek word Sophia means wisdom. Thus, the name Sophie represents virtue and divine wisdom.

Charlotte

Charlotte is the French feminine form of the name Charles. The (female) suffix -otte means as much as small or can also stand as belittlement.

Lena

Origin Helena: As the daughter of Leda and Zeus, Helena played an important role in Greek mythology. She is “the shining one” or “the sun-like one”, “the shining one”.

Johanna

Johanna is the feminine counterpart of the Greek name John. The name has its origin in Hebrew. It is a word composition of yahweh (God) and chanan (to be gracious, favored) and thus means “God is gracious”, “God is gracious” or “the God-graced”.

Anna

The first name Anna is derived from the Hebrew name Hannah. This in turn comes from the word Channa, which means grace or merciful. Anna is therefore the graceful, the gracious or lovely.

Emily / Emilie

Emily is the English-language variant of the given name Emile. Other forms include Emilia, Emilja, Emeley, Amelia, and Amalia.

Leni

Depending on the origin, the name can have different meanings. Helene comes from the Greek word hele for “shine, shine, shine”.

Maja / Maya

In Latin, the name comes from the word maius for “greater, higher”. In Greek as well as in Roman mythology there is a Maya. She is the goddess of growth and fertility.

Leonie

As the female counterpart to the first name Leon, it refers to the lion. Thus, Leonie is a strong and courageous personality.

Lara

The name can be traced back to different origins. In Roman mythology according to Ovid, she is a garrulous water nymph (from the Greek word lala for “garrulous, chatty”.

Nele / Neele

Nele is a Low German Frisian name. As a short form of Cornelia, it has now established itself as an independent name.

Laura

Laura is not only in Germany a very popular girl’s name. In many European countries, especially Romance-speaking countries such as Spain and Italy, it is often heard.

Lotta

Lotta is the Swedish short form of the first name Charlotte. This means as much as “the small capable” or also “the small Karline”.

Nora

Nora is a female given name that can be traced back to different origins, each with a correspondingly different meaning.

Lilly / Lilli

Lilly is a short form or cose form of the female given name Elisabeth and is also the name of a flower.

Sarah / Sara

The meaning of the name from Hebrew is princess, princess or mistress.

Mira

Mira is a female given name that can be traced to several roots. First, it has developed from the short name of various first names beginning or ending with -mira-, such as Miriam or Mirabella

Helena

Helena goes back to the Greek name Helene and means “the sunny, the radiant, the beautiful”.

Juna / Yuna

The translation from Latin is “to blossom, the blooming one”.

Melina

Melina can have different origins and meanings. In Greece, Melina is “the [honey]sweet,” “[honey]wine,” derived from the Greek mel for honey.

Elisa

Elisa is a feminine given name that developed as a short form of Elizabeth

Elena

Elena is a variant of the Greek name Helena.

Mara / Marah

The name has many origins and meanings. As a short and cose form of Mary, the mother of Jesus, it is of biblical origin and stands for pure love.

Victoria / Victoria

Victoria was not only the queen of England, but also appears in Roman mythology as the goddess of victory.

Pia

The name comes from Latin. Pia is therefore “the pious, the respectable or the God-fearing”.

Isabella

Isabella is the Italian variant of the biblical name Elizabeth. This has Hebrew roots and means something like “God is fullness, God swears, the eternally beautiful”.

Luna

Luna derives directly from the Latin word luna and means moon.

Olivia

The exact origin of the name is unknown.It is apparently an invention of the author William Shakespeare. Olivia was a rich countess in Shakespeare’s comedy.

Paula

Paula is the feminine form of the Latin name Paul. The name means “the little one, the lowly one, or even the younger one”.

Alina

Finja / Finnja

Pauline

Amalia

Carla / Karla

Malia

Romy

Thea

Zoe

Eva

Marlene

Anni / Annie / Anny

Elina

Isabell / Isabel / Isabelle

Josephine / Josefine

Lisa

Paulina

Stella

Julia

Tilda

Carlotta / Karlotta

Antonia

Fiona

Amelia

Luise / Louise

Emely / Emelie

Jasmin / Yasmin

Lucy / Lucie

Catherine

Merle

Mina

Valentina

Lotte

Luana

Melissa

Rosalie

Hailey / Haylie

Maria

Ronja

Ava

Elli / Elly

Franziska

Leila / Leyla

Maila / Mayla

Nina

Theresa / Teresa

Annabell / Annabelle

Linda

Lucia

Elisabeth

Martha / Marta

Alma

Amy

Chiara / Kiara

Old German girls names

Rare Girl Names

You want an unusual and rather rare name for your daughter, which does not exist so often? We have compiled the most beautiful and unusual girls’ names here for you:

Adriana

Alma

Anouk

Aurela

Charlotta

Cleo

Elodie

Enja

Elin

Elea

Felipa

Fjella

Fritza

Hanni

Iska

Inga

Janita

Julina

Josina

Jola

Jonna

Kiana

Kaia

Kora

Lyra

Lilith

Lola

Malina

Marielle

Moja

Mare

Nea

Noelia

Nike

Ophelia

Patricia

Philina

Rosalie

Sanja

Smilla

Suna

Taraneh

Tabea

Tilda

Tiara

Valentina

Yumi

Yoko

Zhara

Star

Old German Girls Names

Emma

Lina

Anna

Marie

Johanna

Ella

Ida

Charlotte

Hanna

Laura

Sophie

Paula

Frieda

Klara

Isabella

Pauline

Luise

Eva

Katharina

Toni

Elisabeth

Martha

Lilli

Victoria

Franziska

Josephine

Lotte

Helene

Rosa

Alma

Emilie

Lene

Elsa

Elise

Karla

Alice

Henriette

Veronika

Selma

Julie

Hermine

Florentine

Valeria

Käthe

Lieselotte

Wilma

Mathilde

Friederike

Hedda

Erna

Ada

Annemarie

Irma

Adele

Ruth

Leonore

Erika

Henrike

Minna

Margarete

Dorothea

Wanda

Hilde

Karoline

Anneliese

Josefa

Liesbeth

Dora

Liese

Lore

Wilhelmine

Barbara

Angela

Stefanie

Amalie

Agnes

Edith

Gabriele

Hedwig

Angelica

Fanni

Therese

Bettina

Elvira

Gerda

Grete

Magdalene

Marianne

Thekla

Christine

Christel

Irene

Roberta

Susanne

Alberta

Berta

Gretel

Olga

Ottilie

Senta

Auguste

Babette

Dagmar

Else

Genoveva

Helga

Helma

Inge

Irmgard

Jutta

Malwine

Tilla

Trude

Ute

Adelheid

Aloisia

Alwine

Beate

Brunhild

Brunhilde

Cecilia

Ernestine

Gerlind

Gesine

Gisela

Herta

Hildegard

Ilsa

Irmela

Renate

Tine

Trine

Scandinavian Girls Names

Svea

Finja

Andrea

Ylva

Hilda

Smilla

Inge

Selma

Greta

Björk

Silke

Hilde

Helga

Hanna

Annika

Gudrun

Christine

Ingvild

Kjellrun

Agnes

Frauke-Juliane

Lia

Svea-Linn

Romy

Ronja

Runa

Liv

Birgit

Lynn

Livia