Names That Mean Beautiful
Names whose recorded root means beautiful — the Latin bellus names (Bella, Belle), Gaelic Bonnie and Fiona, and their kin.
| Save name | Name & meaning | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cainnech — “handsome” | 1,148#294 | Down 51 rank positions in five years | 1957 | ||
Rivka — “enchantingly beautiful, captivating, snare” | 872#350 | Down 101 rank positions in five years | 1981 | ||
bonnie — “fine, beautiful” | 785#396 | Up 210 rank positions in five years | 1947 | ||
oíph — “radiance, beauty” | 437#654 | Up 47 rank positions in five years | 1947 | ||
glân — “holy, fair” | 20#5,986 | Down 775 rank positions in five years | 1950 | ||
Rivka — “enchantingly beautiful, captivating, snare” via Rebecca | 36#3,991 | Down 366 rank positions in five years | 1959 | ||
Riḇqāh — “enchantingly beautiful, captivating, snare” | 302#884 | Down 111 rank positions in five years | 1996 | ||
bella — “beautiful” | 110#1,819 | Down 225 rank positions in five years | 1961 | ||
Cainnech — “handsome” via Kenneth | 155#1,271 | Down 182 rank positions in five years | 1960 | ||
fionn — “fair, white” | 654#470 | Down 175 rank positions in five years | 2017 | ||
jamāl — “beauty” | 169#1,197 | Down 285 rank positions in five years | 1993 | ||
Cainnech — “handsome” via Kenneth | 36#3,276 | Down 894 rank positions in five years | 1960 | ||
gwen + dolen — “white, fair, blessed + ring, bow, hair, brow” via Gwendolen | 384#725 | Up 98 rank positions in five years | 1959 | ||
buidhe — “blond, yellow, fair” | 78#1,959 | Down 431 rank positions in five years | 1922 | ||
belle — “beauty, beautiful” | 247#1,013 | Down 13 rank positions in five years | 1915 | ||
sheyn — “beautiful” | 72#2,479 | Down 385 rank positions in five years | 1991 | ||
zayn — “beauty” | 1,381#253 | Up 59 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
fríðr — “beautiful, beloved” | 135#1,565 | Down 675 rank positions in five years | 2017 | ||
jamīla — “beautiful” | 122#1,686 | Up 71 rank positions in five years | 1977 | ||
Kállistos — “most beautiful” | 131#1,597 | Up 330 rank positions in five years | 1999 | ||
oíph — “radiance, beauty” via Eileen | 313#863 | Up 109 rank positions in five years | 2012 | ||
kăllĭ- — “beautiful” | 682#451 | Up 241 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
šakīl — “handsome” | 43#2,926 | Down 432 rank positions in five years | 1993 | ||
ḥasan — “fine, good, good-looking, handsome, manly; strong” | 184#1,147 | Up 153 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
bel + ami — “fair + friend” | 341#797 | Up 1 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
Rivka — “enchantingly beautiful, captivating, snare” via Rebecca | 35#4,079 | Down 1,293 rank positions in five years | 1993 | ||
fionn — “fair” | 119#1,487 | Down 69 rank positions in five years | 2016 | ||
Rivka — “enchantingly beautiful, captivating, snare” via Rebecca | —Unranked | — | 1959 | ||
Rivka — “enchantingly beautiful, captivating, snare” via Rebecca | —Unranked | — | 1961 | ||
měi — “beautiful” | 117#1,744 | Up 875 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Fionnlagh — “fair warrior/hero” | 50#2,614 | Down 53 rank positions in five years | 2015 | ||
caol + fionn — “thin, slender + light, fair” | —Unranked | — | 2002 | ||
nfrt-jj.tj — “The Beautiful One has Come” | 11#9,287 | Down 1,443 rank positions in five years | 1980 | ||
gwen + dolen — “white, fair, blessed + ring, bow, hair, brow” | 11#9,069 | Down 2,638 rank positions in five years | 1971 | ||
Crist + -bel — “Christ + beauty” | 8#11,146 | Down 3,080 rank positions in five years | 2014 | ||
Rivka — “enchantingly beautiful, captivating, snare” via Rebecca | —Unranked | — | 1992 | ||
lāvaṇya — “beauty” | 10#9,813 | new | 2007 | ||
wasīm — “handsome, graceful” | —Unranked | — | 1999 | ||
Rivka — “enchantingly beautiful, captivating, snare” via Rebecca | 19#5,061 | Up 953 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Rivka — “enchantingly beautiful, captivating, snare” via Rebecca | —Unranked | — | 1959 | ||
Rivka — “enchantingly beautiful, captivating, snare” via Rebecca | 5#12,276 | new | 2024 | ||
mañju — “beautiful, lovely, charming, pleasant, sweet” | —Unranked | — | 1988 | ||
aglaḯa — “splendour, beauty” | —Unranked | — | 2006 | ||
Caoimhe — “beautiful, precious” | —Unranked | — | 2018 |
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Every name here has a documented root whose literal meaning matches this theme. Each name’s subtitle gives its documented root and meaning. Where it says "via", the name is a recorded form of another name (Maggie of Margaret) and the meaning is the base name's. Roots are extracted from etymologies on Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0). Ranks come from official birth card-application data; "—" means fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, a genuinely rare pick rather than an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.