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[Opinions] Favourite girls names that don't end in A
by Anya Mel’nik or Mel’nyk (Tovaryshka_Anya)
2/3/2025, 5:33 AM
In my country girls names usually end in A, so when I find one that doesn't it's a bit strange to me. So what are your favourite girls names that don't end in in A? Mine would beAdalet
Arevik
Erzsébet
Eylül
Mabel
Nurshat
Ruthĭ
Shital
Sohvi
Takyan
Veriko
Yuko
Zaynap

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- DarkLily243
2/7/2025, 3:13 AM
Vivienne
Estelle (my daughter's name)
Stephanie
Louise
Lauren
Liese
Winter
Florisse
Wivine (French form of my daughter's middle)
Noelle
Esther
Juliette

This message was edited 2/7/2025, 3:16 AM

- Flute (meganmichele)
2/6/2025, 4:35 PM
I have quite a lot of names on my favorites list that don't end in A, so here's my favorites of those:Alys
Annabel
Astrid
Colette
Darcy
Elanor / Eleanor
Enid
Florence
Frances
Imogen
Ingrid
Juliet
Maxine
Noelle
Ruth
Tamsin
Thomasin
Vesper
Winifred
- ViviLC
2/4/2025, 5:44 PM
I actually prefer names that don't finish with the letter A. My list goes more towards names ending in ''e'', which is more common for feminine names in French. I do like some names in ''A'', don't get me wrong. A lot of these names are very pretty, but where I am from, names finishing in ''A'' can be easily mispronounced like ''aw''. I don't like that sound too much. Maybe I'd be less afraid to choose names ending in ''A'' if I knew it would be well pronounced orally. Anywho, here's my list: Adelaide
Adele
Anaïs
Aurélie
Autumn
Béatrice
Blanche
Céleste
Charlotte
Clémence
Constance
Edith
Éléonore
Elizabeth
Élodie
Emmeline
Esther
Evangeline
Evelyn
Florence
Héloïse
Hortense
Inès
Iseult
Juliette
Louise
Margot
Marguerite
Marianne
Marion
Marjorie
Mathilde
Miriam
Ophélie
Roseline
Victoire
- CJ (CJMusic)
2/4/2025, 1:56 PM
Emily
Elizabeth
Gabrielle
Hermione
Jacqueline
Kaitlyn
Odette
Rose
Serenity
Sophie
- KK (I-love-baby-names)
2/3/2025, 3:54 PM
Helen
Charlotte
Sophie
Miriam
Caroline
Josephine
Madeline
Rosalie
Eleni
Alice
- (Is-rah-el) Israelle (Israella)   +1
2/3/2025, 11:57 AM
Astrid
Emmeline
Heilwig
Patience
Mildred
Lieselotte
Laurel
- DarkLily243
2/7/2025, 3:34 AM
Heilwig and Lieselotte are new to me and I love them.
- wolvin
2/3/2025, 10:48 AM
I really like Fleur, Melody, Winifred, and Iris.
- Mara (miakendall1075)   +3
2/3/2025, 10:43 AM
I'm also excluding those that end in E, or my list would be far too long!Annabel
Ariel
Edith
Eleanor
Elizabeth
Gwendolyn
Hazel
Ivy
Juliet
Lillian / Lily
Mirabel
Piper
Ruth
Scarlett
Violet
Vivian
- Anya Mel’nik or Mel’nyk (Tovaryshka_Anya)   +2
2/3/2025, 11:47 AM
I also love the name Ruth. It sounds like roof
when I say it with my accent but it's very pretty when it's said properly. It's a very underrated name. I've heard it's an old lady name in the English speaking countries, I think it should be brought back to popularity. On my list there was Ruthĭ, the Old Slavic form of Ruth. I believe it is said like Ruth with a rolled r and a palatised th.
- Mara (miakendall1075)   +1
2/3/2025, 3:05 PM
Yes, it's considered an old lady name by many but I love it! It was my great-aunt's name and I always thought it was cool. It is starting to recover in popularity after being super popular in ~1895-1930s, which I think is great!
- Anneza
2/4/2025, 12:17 PM
I've known a couple of Ruth people in South Africa who were born in the 1940s. I also know one who was born at the cusp of the 1970s and 1980s: her names are Ruth Mary. I'd happily use Ruth myself; I see it as classic rather than dated.
- Rosebeth (Rosanne)
2/3/2025, 10:27 AM
- Anneza
2/3/2025, 10:01 AM
In no particular order:
Alice, Emily, Heather, Bryony, Eloise, Vickie (my good friend Vickie is not Victoria!), Esme, Helen, Suzanne, Joy, Lucy, Michele, Elizabeth, Imogen, Cecily, Clare, Jean, Penelope, Ruth, Rosamond, Jane, Gillian, Juliet, Margaret, Mary, Sally, Eve or Evelyn, Beatrice, Caroline, Florence, Jocelyn, Harriet, Isobel, Marianne, Daisy, Nancy, Polly, Alison, Chloe, Clodagh, Betsan, Karen, Lyndall, Morag, Anne.
- erb816
2/3/2025, 9:13 AM
In my case, a lot of my favorite feminine names that don't end in -a are of French origin:Adrienne
Alice (English & French)
Anouk (Dutch & French)
Arielle
Arlette
Claire
Elaine
Genevieve
Guinevere (French & Welsh)
Jade (English & French)
Josephine
Justine
Katharine / Katherine / Katharyn (last variant is solely English)
Margot
Marjolaine
Nadine
Nesrine (Arabic transcription used in the Maghreb, which was colonized by France)
Odette
Rochelle
Rose (English & French)
Sabine
Simone
Solenne
Sylvie
Verveine
Yvette & YvonneThe majority of these end with an -n sound (even if the final letter is "e"). This is actually one of my favorite sounds for the end of a name, feminine or masculine. Other names that end with an -n sound:Arden
Bronwen
Jocelyn
Maxine (looks French, but it's actually English)
Robin
Rowan
Saffron
Sheridan
Sloane
Valerian (historically masculine, but I think it can be unisex)The long-E sound has historically not been one of my favorite endings for names, but the ones I like are often Greek in origin:
Ariadne (Ariadna in Russian)
Audrey
Beverly & Everly
Heidi
Inari
Ivy
Naomi
Penelope
Persephone
Phoebe
Ruby
Sadie
Xanthe
Zoe (Zoya in Russian & Ukrainian)L and T sounds at the end are also popular endings, and common for French names. These are the ones that are not French:April
Catrinel / Katrinel
Harriet
Hazel
Juliet
Kendall
Rachael & Raquel
VioletGoing through my favorites, I didn't realize how many of my favorite feminine names end with the letter R!Blair
Eleanor
Esther & Hester
Heather
Hesper & Vesper
SkylarThen there is the S-sound:Frances
Iris
Mercedes
Onyx
Phoenix
TallisFinally, we have a hodgepodge of other sounds:
Brooke
Juno
Maeve
Maude
Miriam
Paige
Sage
WillowOne name, Deirdre... I'm not sure if it belongs here, because while it doesn't literally end in -a, it ends in a similar sound with the way I pronounce it: "DEER-druh" (similar to the Irish way: "DEHR-dreh"). I don't like the "DEER-dree" long-E pronunciation common in British English.
- better_nit_bitter   +5
2/3/2025, 7:21 AM
Some names below are my long-time favourites, some are just stuck in my mind lately.Aifric
Aspen
Bernadette
Bjork
Ciji
Danielle
Egyptus
Éowyn
Fallon
Fearne
Fenchurch
Galadriel
Garance
Goretti
Gunhild
Harriet
Heather
Hind
Hrotsvit
Imani
Kennedy
Laken
Margaux
Mehetabel
Mildred
Myfanwy
Nell
Opportune
Paraskeve
Scheherazade
Semiramis
Sian
Susan
Sutherlyn
T9C (yes, there's a number there)
Thymian
Vinyet
Xochitl
Yarrow
Yseult
ZasuIn Ukrainian, what about Lyubov?
- Anya Mel’nik or Mel’nyk (Tovaryshka_Anya)   +4
2/3/2025, 8:13 AM
I always forget about Lyubov. I really like the name but I forget it exists. That's the only one we have here as far as I know.
- Kirke   +1
2/3/2025, 11:55 PM
In Ukrainian don't the translations of some feminine names from Greek mythology not end in A? This is the case in other Slavic languages where almost all feminine names end in A. I am thinking specifically of my native Polish.So, for example, Hebe is also Hebe(HEH-beh) in Polish although I would have expected it to be Heba. And Phoebe is Febe(FEH-beh)Are there any names invented by Ukrainian writers that don't end in A? Like the Polish Ellenai, as an example.

This message was edited 2/4/2025, 12:03 AM

- Anya Mel’nik or Mel’nyk (Tovaryshka_Anya)
2/4/2025, 4:10 AM
Nobody uses those names on people here really. I don't study Greek mythology so I can't say for sure but there probably are. I can say there's Mokosh though – a female Slavic pagan god. Though some people call her Mokosha. As for authors, well there's a lot of books out there. The A thing is true in Russia as well and off of the top of my head I can think of Assol because I loved Alye Parusa (a Soviet era movie based on a book) when I was younger. Maybe we can consider that part Ukrainian because the movie director was from Lugansk as was as the music director. But the original story was written by a Russian.
- Anya Mel’nik or Mel’nyk (Tovaryshka_Anya)
2/3/2025, 9:11 AM
The only people who use those are weird people. I've never met a Natali or a Nelli. I have seen one Nelli online (and she was Russian) and nobody called Natali. They're mostly used similarly to how for example, Dzhuliya and Dzhon are used-- which is for story characters set in the anglosphere or people from there. Though, I do believe some people in the USSR used western names at times as a tribute to historical figures.
- Mar (X-Mar)   +2
2/3/2025, 5:59 AM
Faye
Noor
Elodie
Carmen
Valerie
Rosalie
Rozemarijn (Dutch form of Rosemary)
Jasmijn
Hilde (while I intensely dislike Hilda)
Veerle
Jet (Pron. YET)
Josephine

This message was edited 2/3/2025, 5:59 AM

- Anya Mel’nik or Mel’nyk (Tovaryshka_Anya)   +1
2/3/2025, 6:02 AM
I like Rozemarijn (this is pronounced rro-zeh-mah-reyn I assume) and Jasmijn (yahs-meyn).
- Mar (X-Mar)
2/3/2025, 6:07 AM
Yes! Like that.
- Kerilyntaryn21
2/3/2025, 5:38 AM
Amy
Sophie
Juliet
Celeste
Felicity
Grace
Heidi
Holly
Imogen
Jasmine
Lauren
Michelle
May
Naomi
Nadine
Odette
Phoebe
Lily
Sadie
Ruby
Suzanne
Xanthe
Zoe
Chloe
Elsie