Names That Mean Sweet

Rihanna, the name of the Barbados-born singer, whose birth name was Robyn Rihanna, attracted a fair number of parents for several years, but has now dropped out of the Top 1000 again. It has generated several spelling variations, including Rihana, Rhianna and even the Brianna-inspired Brihanna.

Interesting Old Testament name that embraces many traditional female attributes; also name of a place in the Jordan Valley. In the Bible, a daughter of King Ammon and wife of Solomon.

Various characters name Deucalion exist in Greek Mythology, including Deucalion, the son of Prometheus; Deucalion of Crete; Deucalion, son of Zeus; and Deucalion the solider, who is killed by Achilles.

Too sugary sweet and inconsequential for a modern girl.

You can call your daughter Sugar, but only as a term of endearment. Her real name has to be something, almost anything, else.

A coffee filter.

Sadbh is the modern Irish form of the more streamlined but equally confusing Sadb or Sadhbh: these names are pronounced to rhyme with five. In Irish mythology Sadb or Sadbh or Sadhbh, a goddess lover of Finn McCool's, was turned into a deer only to vanish and (somewhere in there) give birth to Oisin.

This name is sometimes connected with Chandra, the Hindu moon god.

This unusual name found in Scottish poetry would make a distinctive Gaelic pick.

An attractive unisex choice heard in several countries, including Armenia. Can be pronounced sheer-IN or sheer-EEN.

From the Irish Leannan, this, unfortunately, would be constantly mistaken for Lennon.

A French surname turned Spanish masculine given name, Rosamel likely derives from the combination of rose + Greek mel "honey".

Whether it's an Asian surname-name or short for Channing, has a sound and feel that's both simple and stand-out.

Top 10 in Turkey and Top 500 in the Netherlands (which has a high Turkish population), this sleek and pretty name is virtually unknown elsewhere.

This sweet-sounding and sweet meaning name is popular across the Middle East and Central Asia. Notable bearers include actress Nazanin Boniadi and British-Iranian citizen Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, whose arrest and imprisonment in Iran in 2016 continues to make headlines.

A twentieth-century Greek saint's name redolent of the beverage of the gods that imparted immortality.

Javor is the Serbian word for Maple tree. It makes a definitively masculine and interesting choice for the nature inclined namer.

Cookie is most often used as a dog name, and it should stay that way.

This attractive Indian unisex name has a number of interesting variations with equally appealing meanings, including Manjula and Manjusha.