62 Cute & Old Country Baby Girl Names & Meanings


One in five Americans chooses to live in a rural community. As such, I have hand-picked 62 cute and old country baby girl names with their meanings included.

List Of 62 Country Girl Names:

Teah

Teah is derived from the Greek name Theos, meaning ”deity” or ”god.” It is also possible to have roots in the Hebrew Tia which is interpreted as ”goddess.”

Clara

Clara has roots in the Latin Clarus (famous or clear). Clara became a popular feminine name after Clare of Assisi one of the first followers of Francis of Assisi.

Rue

Rue is a variation of the Greek name Rhea, which is translated as ”ease.” In Greek mythology Rhea is the mother of the gods and the daughter of Gaia and Uranus.

Ellery

Ellery has Old Norse and English origins and means ”cheerful.” Ellery would be a beautiful name with which to adorn your daughter.

Shania

Shania is from the Ojibwe culture. These are Indigenous people in Canada and the US. It was popularized by Canadian singer Shania Twain, who has sold over 100 million records.

Hattie

Hattie is interpreted as ”home ruler” or “estate ruler.” It is a diminutive form of Henrietta which is derived from the Germanic Heinrich.

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Cree

Cree has its origins in the Native American culture. The Cree are an Indigenous people located in Canada, numbering more than 350,000 people.

Pearl

Pearl comes from the Old French perle. Pearlie and Perla are nicknames that I like.

Etta

Etta was initially a diminutive of Loretta and Marietta. The -etta ending is a suffix borrowed from Italian and French. It is pronounced as ET-uh.

Ashton

Ashton has English origins and means “ash tree town.” American actor Ashton Kutcher is one of the most famous people with this name.

Willa

Willa is a feminine form of Will which is derived from the Old German Willahelm (“determined guardian”). Willa has an informal and fun-loving feel to it.

Priscilla

From the Latin word priscus, Priscilla is symbolizing “time-honored” or “venerable.” Priscilla Presley was married to Elvis Presley from 1967 to 1973.

Juliette

Juliette is a variation of Julie (youthful).

Magnolia

Magnolia takes its name from the flowering tree which is named after the French botanist Pierre Magnol.

Dixie

Dixie is thought to be rooted in the Mason-Dixon line as well as in the ten-dollar notes printed in Louisiana that is spelled as dix and is French for ten, and locals supposedly called Dixies.

Sutton

“Southern homestead.”

Blossom

Blossom means ”bloom” or ”flower.” Blossom is also a surname. American jazz singer Blossom Dearie released the album That’s Just the Way I Want to Be in 1970.

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Roseanna

Roseanna has English origins and means ”rose of grace.”

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Fallyn

Fallyn is a derivative of the Irish Fallon which means “descended from a ruler.”

Daisy

Daisy is from the Old English day’s eye. It is also a nickname for Margaret due to the fact that the French call the flower marguerite.

Hazel

Hazel is connected with the hazel tree and comes from the Old English word ”hæse.”

Felicity

Rooted in the Latin word felicitas, Felicity means ”good fortune.” Diminutives include Lissy, Fee, Lissie, Liccy, Flossy, and Flossie. In ancient Rome, Fortuna was the goddess of fortune or luck. Her Greek equivalent is Tyche.

Dorothy

Dorothy has a meaning that I love, “the gift of God.”

Hilma

Hilma has its roots in the classic Germanic Wilhelmina and is meaning “resolute protector.”

Bonnie-Lou

Bonnie-Lou is a combination of Bonnie (that means ”charming”) and Lou (”renowned in battle”). So, Bonnie-Lou is symbolizing “beautiful warrior.”

Trinity

Trinity has English origin, meaning “threefold.” In Christianity the doctrine of the Trinity holds that one God exists in three divine persons. There is also a Trinity in Hinduism called Trimurti, a trinity of gods: Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva. Trimūrti is Sanskrit for “three forms.”

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Miranda

”To admire” or “worthy of admiration.” It is derived from the Latin word mirandus. In William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, one of the main characters, Miranda, is the living representation of female virtue.

Ainsley

Ainsley has British origins and the meaning of “one’s own clearing.”

Iris

In Greek myths Iris was the gods’ messenger who traveled the rainbow between sky and earth.

Josephine

Josephine is the feminine variant of the Hebrew Joseph (”he will add”). Joséphine Bonaparte was the first wife of Emperor Napoleon I and he preferred to call her Josephine.

Loretta

Loretta is a diminutive of Lora, which is rooted in Laura (”bay laurel”).

Shiloh

Shiloh means tranquil and has Hebrew roots. It is ranked in the top 1000 most popular girl names in the US. American author Shiloh Walker published her first book, Her Best Friend’s Lover, in 2003.

Nadine

Rooted in the French Nadia, Nadine is interpreted as ”hope.”

Juneau

Juneau means ”young.”

Odessa

Odessa has roots in the Black Sea port, which Catherine the Great named in 1794. Diminutives include Dessa and Odie.

Ottilie

Ottilie comes from the Germanic od (that means ”wealth”) and is also the female variant of Otto. Saint Odilia of Alsace was born blind and gained her sight at baptism. It is pronounced as aw-TILL-ee or ot-TEE-lee-uh.

Misty

”Blurred in form” or “light fog.”

Liberty

From the Latin libertas, Liberty symbolizes ”free choice.” Roman goddess Libertas is the personification of liberty. The Greek equivalent of the goddess Libertas is Eleutheria.

Perpetua

From Latin perpetuus, Perpetua means “continuous.” Perpetua was a Christian martyr whcih was arrested for refusing to worship Roman deities in North Africa.

Martina

”Servant of Mars.”

Elsie

Elsie is from Elizabeth, the Hebrew name that is meaning ”pledged to God.”

Ruby

Ruby comes from the Latin rubeus (”red”). Rubies and sapphires are the same mineral, corundum.

Bellevue

”Lovely view.”

Maisie

Maisie has Scottish roots and is meaning “pearl.”

Wren

Wren is from the Old English word wrenna.

Opal

Opal has origins in the Sanskrit upala that is symbolizing ”jewel” or ”precious stone.” Romans called the gem the queen of stones.

Della

Della comes from Adela and Adelaide, Germanic names that have roots in ”adal” (”noble”). It was in heavy use in the late 1800s and Dell is the short form.

Cora

Cora is the Latin form of the Greek Kore and is meaning maiden. It is an old title for the goddess Persephone.

Georgia

Georgia is the feminine variant of George and comes from the Greek georgos (means ”an earth-worker” or ”farmer”). Georgie is a popular nickname.

Mabel

Mabel is the short variant of Amabel which is from the Latin amabilis and is symbolizing lovable or dear.

Effie

Effie is the pet form of the Greek Euphemia and is made from ”eu” (that means ”good”) and pheme (”speech”). In the 1900s, it was a top 100 name in Scotland.

Tallulah

Tallulah comes from Tallulah Falls in Georgia. Actress Tallulah Bankhead was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1972.

Clementine

Clementine is the feminine of the Latin Clemens (”merciful”).

Sadie

Sadie was initially the pet form of Sarah, the Hebrew name for ”noblewoman.”

Winnie

Winnie is a variant of Winifred, a Welsh name that means ”blessed peace.” Winnie-the-Pooh took his name from a black bear that was living at the London Zoo.

Goldie

Goldie has roots in the Yiddish Golde.

Ida

Ida comes from an old Germanic root meaning ”labor.” In Scandinavia it is pronounced as EE-da. According to legends Zeus was raised at Mount Ida in Crete.

Faye

Faye is linked with the Middle English fay which translates to ”fairy.” Spelling variations include Fay or Fae.

Marigold

“Golden flower.”

Dolly

Dolly is a form of Dorothy, the Greek name for gift of God. Dolly Parton received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1984.

Reba

Reba comes from the Hebrew Rebecca (”to bind” or ”to join”).

Patsy

Patsy has roots in Patricia, the Latin for noble. In 1973 Patsy Cline became the first solo woman voted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

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