Names That Mean Bear

If you're looking for a girl's name that honors an ancestral Arthur, try Artis.

Orsola is chic in Italy in a way that Ursula is not in the U.S. And English speakers will inevitably hear this chic, sleek name as Ursula, condemned to purgatory as the name of the hideous sea-witch who terrorized Disney's Little Mermaid.

Berangere has never seen much usage in the US, but it has an interesting meaning of "bear spear." The name it stems from—Berengaria—was used as a common royal name during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

If you're looking for a girl's name that honors an ancestral Arthur, try Artis.

If you're looking for a girl's name that honors an ancestral Arthur, try Artis.