263 Beautiful & Unique Ethereal Girl Names With Meanings

Ethereal comes from Greek aithēr, the pure upper air of myth. Most names on this list live up there: clouds, stars, dawn, wind, a fairy or two.

List Of Beautiful & Unique Ethereal Girl Names And Their Meanings:

Nephele

Nephele means “cloud.”

Eglė

Spruce tree.

Vega

From Arabic an-nasr al-wāqi‘, “the swooping eagle,” shortened by medieval astronomers. Vega is the brightest star in Lyra and one of the first Arabic star names used in Europe.

Alaia

Alaia comes from Basque alai, joyful, happy.

Ilmatar

Floating on the sea in the first poem of the Kalevala, Ilmatar (“daughter of the air”).

Dulcinea

Sweet, in Spanish

Zora

Dawn, in Slavic languages. In 1937 Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) published Their Eyes Were Watching God.

Angharad

Much loved, from the prefix an- and a form of caru, to love.

Guinevere

Say Gwenhwyfar, the Welsh original, and the meaning is white phantom.

Lucero

Spanish for morning star or light source.

Sif

Old Norse form of Siv, bride, kinswoman, and the wife of Thor.

Deepa

Light, lamp.

Ethereal Japanese Girl Names:

Name	Meaning	Pronunciation
Hotaru	firefly	hoh-TAH-roo
Tsukiko	“moon child”	tsoo-KEE-koh
Kasumi	haze, or mist	kah-SOO-mee
Sora	the sky	SOH-rah
Hanabi	“fire flower.”	hah-NAH-bee or HAH-nah-bee
Yume	dream	YOO-meh
Kazane	sound of wind	kah-ZAH-neh
Mizuki	“beautiful moon”	mee-ZOO-kee
Yuki	snow, in Japanese	YOO-kee
Hoshiko	star child	hoh-SHEE-koh
Haruka	distant, or far	hah-ROO-kah
Tsubasa	wings	tsoo-BAH-sah
Sayuri	“small lily.”	sah-YOO-ree
Hikari	the light	hee-KAH-ree
Shizuka	quiet, hopefully	shee-ZOO-kah
Asahi	morning sun	ah-SAH-hee

More bellow.

Aisling

‘Dream’ or ‘vision’.

Celestine

Celestine means “heavenly.” Save

Parisa

Parisa (پریسا, puh-REE-sa) – Means “like a fairy”.

Sunniva

Sun gift, from Old English Sunngifu.

Lyra

Latin for ‘lyre’.

Fionnuala

“White shoulder”

Ondine

Inside it is Latin unda, ‘wave’.

Ethereal Fantasy Names For Females:

Name	Meaning	Pronunciation
Galadriel	“glittering garland”	guh-LAD-ree-el
Mistrael	mist-born	MIS-tray-el
Nimue	root disputed	NIM-oo-ay or NIM-way
Melian	“dear gift.”	MEL-ee-ahn
Aelyria	invented, sound only	ay-LEER-ee-ah
Titania	of the Titans	tih-TAH-nee-ah or ty-TAY-nee-ah
Lunavelle	little moon	loo-nah-VEL
Undómiel	“evenstar”	oon-DOH-mee-el
Vaelora		vay-LOR-ah
Vána	fair, or pale	VAH-nah
Celestra	of heaven	seh-LES-trah
Sylphide	air spirit, in French	seel-FEED
Ithilwen	coined, moon maiden	ITH-il-wen
Arwen	“noble maiden”	AR-wen
Aurelune	golden moon	or-eh-LOON

The list continues.

Alcyone

Alcyone comes from Greek alkyon, kingfisher.

Aria

Italian for ‘air’.

Noor

“Light.” Noor (NOOR) is the Arabic word, and Surah 24 is An-Nur. Save

Theia

Theia means ‘goddess’ or ‘divine’.

Eirwen

With Welsh eira, snow, and gwen, white or blessed, Eirwen comes out as white snow (IRE-wen up north, AYR-wen in the south).

Solveig

Old Norse sól and veig, sun strength.

Mira

‘Wonderful,’ in Latin, and peace in Slavic languages.

Ariel

Shakespeare made Ariel the air spirit of The Tempest, and in Act 5 Ariel sings: “Where the bee sucks, there suck I.” The roots are Hebrew ari’el (אֲרִיאֵל), “lion of God.”

Blodeuwedd

In Welsh, Blodeuwedd is pronounced as bluh-DIE-weth and is meaning “flower face.”

Stella

Latin: star.

Anahita

Anahita is Old Persian Anāhitā (𐎠𐎴𐏃𐎡𐎫), “immaculate, undefiled”: an- (not) and āhita (unclean). She was a goddess of water and fertility.

Fay

Three letters, and I like that Fay hides a whole word: “fairy,” from Middle English faie.

Selene

“Moon.” She’s the goddess who loved Endymion. Save

Lorelei

Clemens Brentano invented the siren in an 1801 ballad.

Elfreda

At Bath in 973, Ælfthryth was crowned with King Edgar. Her name, Ælfþryþ, means elf strength.

Niamh

Pronounced NEEV, Niamh means “bright.” Spelled Neve? Same sound.

Avalon

Avalon means isle of apples. Geoffrey of Monmouth said Arthur’s sword was forged there.

Calypso

Greek Calypso is meaning “she who conceals,”.

Mahsa

“Like the moon,” from Persian mah, moon.

Lucia

Latin root lux, light.

Evangeline

Made up by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow for his 1847 poem and means “good news.”

Danica

Danica: morning star.

Alfhild

“Elf battle,” from Old Norse álfr and hildr.

Aurora

Latin for ‘dawn’. Galileo named the northern lights aurora borealis.

Phoebe

Greek, means ‘bright, pure’. Save

Áine

Áine means ‘radiance, brilliance’.

Angelica

‘Angelic,’ from Latin angelicus.

Astraea

Astraea means ‘starry one’ in Greek. In Ovid she is the last immortal to leave earth.

Vesper

Latin for evening.

Seraphina

Seraphim, “fiery ones,” come from Hebrew saraph, to burn, and Seraphina is symbolizing them.

Elowen

Cornish for ‘elm tree’.

Capella

‘Goat, little,’ in Latin.

Qamar

Mentioned in Quran, Qamar (قمر) means “moon”. Surah 54, Al-Qamar, opens with the moon split in two.

Ophelia

“help”

Nyx

Night in Greek.

Liora

Liora: my light.

Psyche

Psyche has origins in Greek psychē (ψυχή), “soul.” John Keats wrote in Ode to Psyche (1820) about her: “O latest born and loveliest vision far / Of all Olympus’ faded hierarchy!”

Gloriana

Latin gloria, glory.

Lumi

Finnish: snow.

Thurayya

Thurayya (ثريّا) – Means “the Pleiades” and Turkish spells it Süreyya.

Urania

“heavenly”

Talia

Hebrew, dew from God.

Seren

Star in Welsh.

Odette

Odette means wealth, fortune and is a diminutive of Oda and Odilia.

Rhiannon

Great queen, from Celtic Rīgantonā.

Ileana

Romanian form of Helen (Greek Helénē, ‘light’ or ‘torch’). In fairy tales Ileana Cosânzeana is kidnapped by a Zmeu.

Aella

‘Storm-swift’ or ‘whirlwind’.

Roxana

Meaning bright, shining, Roxana has roots in Old Iranian rauxšnā (Greek Ῥωξάνη). She was Alexander the Great’s wife.

Yue

月, moon, Yüeh in Wade-Giles. Li Bai: 舉頭望明月，低頭思故鄉.

Hemera

In Hesiod, Hemera (‘day’) is a daughter of Erebos and Nyx.

Leilani

Heavenly garland of flowers. in 1937 Bing Crosby sang Sweet Leilani.

Snezhana

Slavic, from sneg (снег), snow, and written Снежана in Cyrillic.

Miranda

‘Admirable’, from Latin mirandus, same family as Mira.

Arianrhod

Silver wheel.

Giselle

Germanic gisal, hostage, pledge.

Carina

Latin for ‘keel’

Tara

Star (तारा, Sanskrit)

Vesna

Vesna means spring in Slavic languages.

Andromeda

Andromeda (“ruler of men”) is the princess Perseus freed from a rock by the sea.

Oona

‘Lamb’

Eos

Dawn (Ἠώς). She asked Zeus to make Tithonus immortal.

Morwenna

From Old Cornish moroin, maiden, girl. Morwenna was a daughter of Brychan Brycheiniog.

Chandrika

Chandrika: moonlight/moonshine, from Sanskrit चन्द्रिका.

Aura

Breeze.

Maia

“Good mother,” “dame,” “foster mother” or “midwife.” Eldest of the Pleiades, she was Hermes’ mother.

Najma

Najma means star and is the feminine of Arabic Najm (نجم).

Étaín

From Old Irish ét, ‘passion, jealousy’.

Calliope

Beautiful-voiced in Greek.

Orla

Golden princess, from Irish Órfhlaith.

Nova

I like that Nova is only Latin for new.

Ariadne

Most holy

Ziva

Radiance.

Mahina

Moon or moonlight in Hawaiian.

Svanhild

Swan battle, Old Norse.

Aurelia

It is derived from Aurelius, a Roman family, and comes from aureus, golden. Caesar’s mother was Aurelia Cotta.

Brisa

‘Breeze’ in Spanish

Haneul

Korean 하늘: heaven, sky.

Alva

Alva Myrdal (1902-1986) won a Nobel Peace Prize. Alva, feminine of Alf, means elf.

Luna

Latin lūna, moon. Tenth for American girls in 2022 (SSA).

Freya

‘lady’

Layla

Being of Arabic origin, Layla (ليلى) means “night.”

Galatea

‘She who is milk-white’

Mélisande

French form of Millicent, which comes from Germanic amal, work, and swinth, strength.

Dagny

New day.

Noelani

Heavenly mist

Idunn

Ever young (Old Norse Iðunn).

Ushas

Forty Rigvedic hymns are for Ushas (उषस्). Sanskrit: dawn.

Iolanthe

Iolanthe (“violet flower”) is banished from fairyland for marrying a mortal in Gilbert and Sullivan’s opera.

Rasa

Dew.

Heulwen

Here, a Welsh choice with a cheerful meaning of “sunshine,” from haul, sun, and gwen.

Electra

‘Amber’. That’s the Pleiad Ovid has covered her eyes with her hands so she won’t see Troy fall.

Naledi

Star, in Tswana and Sotho, according to Behind the Name.

Tuuli

Wind

Mahtab

Mahtab (مهتاب) is Persian moonlight, and it’s Turkish form is Mehtap.

Svetlana

From Slavic svet, light. In 1802 Alexander Vostokov invented Svetlana in 1802.

Olwen

Olwen comes from Welsh ol, footprint, and gwen, white. Culhwch and Olwen explains it: “Four white trefoils sprang up behind her wherever she went”.

Hebe

Youth

Ilargi

Ilargi means moon and is from Basque hil, month, and argi, light.

Satu

Fairy tale, fable.

Callisto

‘Most beautiful’. She’s the nymph changed into a bear.

Columba

Symbolizing the Holy Spirit, Columba is Latin for dove. Saint Columba founded a monastery on Iona.

Grian

Tuamgraney in County Clare means Tomb of Grian, and Grian means “sun.”

Afsaneh

Afsaneh (افسانه) – Means “legend” or “myth”.

Rohini

Rohini means ‘red’, and she personifies Aldebaran in the constellation Taurus.

Usva

Usva: mist/fog.

Delphine

Delphine: dolphin, or from Delphi, home of Apollo’s oracle.

Clio

Latin form of Kleio (Κλειώ), from kleos, glory, as well as the Muse of history in Greek myth.

Tünde

Tünde is Hungarian for fairy (I nearly put it down as folk, but Mihály Vörösmarty invented it for Csongor és Tünde).

Aino

The only one, in Finnish.

Hala

Arabic هالة, light around the moon.

Ayelet

Ayelet – “Doe.” “To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David.” (Psalm 22, title, KJV)

Fand

Fand (“tear”) is married to Manannán.

Kailani

It combines Hawaiian kai, sea, and lani, sky.

Indu

“moon”/“drop”/“bright drop”/“spark”

Enfys

Enfys is pronounced as EN-vis and is meaning rainbow.

Sahar

Just before dawn, in Arabic (سحر). Persians use it for sunrise, and you know the Hebrew סהר, means moon.

Euterpe

From eu and terpō, giver of much delight. Her attribute is the double flute.

Csilla

Star, from Hungarian csillag.

Serena

Latin serenus: clear, bright, fair, joyous.

Oriana

Gold, or dawn, and the princess Amadís de Gaula loves. Alfred Tennyson wrote in The Ballad of Oriana (1830): “My heart is wasted with my woe, / Oriana.”

Vellamo

From Finnish velloa, to surge, to swell.

Lusine

Armenian lusin, moon (Լուսինե).

Ambrosia

Immortal, and the food of the gods.

Síofra

Elf or changeling. It is pronounced as SHEE-frə.

Hilal

Crescent moon (هلال), and also the new moon of the Islamic calendar. Arabic gives it mostly to boys, Turkish to girls.

Aglaia

Ἀγλαΐα: splendour, beauty.

Jasna

Clear, sharp.

Shabnam

Persian شبنم is dew, night (shab) and moisture (nam).

Cynthia

An epithet of Artemis, ‘woman from Kynthos’.

Aušrinė

‘Dawning’

Malak

Angel (ملاك)

Luminița

Luminița means little light and is a diminutive of Romanian lumină, light.

Ione

From Greek ion, violet flower. Ione was a sea nymph.

Eirene

‘peace’

Rüya

Dream.

Aegle

Αἴγλη: light, radiance.

Ayla

Turkish ay is moon, and Ayla is a halo of light around the moon.

Lucasta

Lucasta comes from Latin lux casta, pure light, and it was Richard Lovelace’s nickname for Lucy Sacheverel. He wrote in To Lucasta, Going to the Wars (1649): “I could not love thee (Dear) so much, / Lov’d I not Honour more.”

Izar

Izar is Basque for star.

Gwawr

Welsh for dawn

Saulė

Sun, in Lithuanian.

Darya

Persian for sea or ocean.

Bellatrix

Female warrior, in Latin.

Eir

Mercy, in Old Norse. Eir looks after healing and medicine for the Norse gods.

Doina

‘Folk song’, from Romanian doină.

Laima

Laima is derived from Latvian laime and comes from the same word as Lithuanian laimė, luck, fate. Fate, luck, pregnancy and childbirth were her work in Baltic belief.

Merope

It combines Greek meros, share, part, and ops, face, eye. Merope is the seventh Pleiad.

Branwen

Branwen means white raven, from Old Welsh bran, raven, and gwen, white, blessed.

Hülya

Daydream, in Turkish.

Aditi

Boundless, entire, in Sanskrit, and Hinduism knows Aditi as a deity of the cosmos and of motherhood.

Wendy

Friend

Sigrun

Sigrún is Old Norse sigr, victory, and rún, secret lore, rune, and in Norse tales a valkyrie.

Nieves

‘Snows’ in Spanish.

Hajnal

Dawn in Hungarian..

Sepideh

‘Dawn, first light’ in Persian.

Malvina

James Macpherson created Malvina for his Ossian poems.

Jumana

Jumana is the Arabic word for pearl.

Kore

‘Maiden’ in Greek, and another title for Persephone.

Brândușa

Crocus.

Erato

‘Lovely’ in Greek

Itsaso

Basque: ocean.

Simin

Silvery, in Persian.

Pleione

From Greek pleion, more, greater. The seven Pleiades are her daughters by Atlas.

Edurne

Edurne comes from Basque edur, a variant of elur, snow.

Iara

Lady of the water, in Tupi, from y, water, and îara, lady.

Ffion

Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea), in Welsh.

Lluvia

Rain.

Bébinn

White woman, from Old Irish bé, woman, and finn, white

Cielo

Sky, heaven, in Spanish.

Rán

Robbery, theft, in Old Norse.

Noga

Noga – “Brightness.” “And Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia,” (1 Chronicles 3:7, KJV)

Talvikki

From Finnish talvi, winter, and also the word for wintergreen (Pyrola).

Golnar

Pomegranate flower: Persian gol, flower, and nār, pomegranate.

Pandora

Pan, all, and doron, gift: all gifts.

Austėja

‘To weave’, in Lithuanian, and in Lithuanian lore she is the bee deity.

Sânziana

Sânziana is a fairy of Romanian folklore.

Divya

Sanskrit divya means divine, heavenly.

Arista

Ear of grain (Latin), and also Spica.

Nasrin

Nasrin is Persian for wild rose.

Signy

Old Norse words, sigr, victory, and nýr, new.

Eluned

From Welsh eilun, image, likeness.

Frigg

Frigg means ‘beloved’, and Norse myth makes her Odin’s consort.

Haizea

Wind.

Tähti

Star, Finnish and Estonian.

Parvaneh

Butterfly in Persian.

Eha

Eha is the Estonian word for dusk.

Mignon

French for cute, darling.

Gyöngyi

Hungarian gyöngy, pearl

Gabija

From Lithuanian gaubti, to cover.

Csenge

From Hungarian cseng, to ring, to clang.

Christabel

It combines Christina with -bel, from Latin bella, beautiful. Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Christabel (1816) opens with “’Tis the middle of night by the castle clock,” and further on he writes: “The lovely lady, Christabel, / Whom her father loves so well,”

Ailbhe

From a Celtic root meaning light, white.

Jyoti

Sanskrit jyotis, light.

Zvezdana

Звездана, from Slavic gvězda, star, in Serbian and Slovene.

Aamu

Morning.

Polyhymnia

‘Abounding in song’. In Greek tradition Polyhymnia is the Muse who looks after dance and sacred song.

Eirlys

In Welsh it is the snowdrop flower, a compound of eira, snow, and llys, plant.

Gökçe

Azure, sky blue, from Turkish gök, sky.

Phaenna

‘Shining’

Adhara

From Arabic عذارى, maidens.

Lăcrămioara

Lily of the valley, and inside it is lacrămă, tear, in diminutive form.

Vanessa

Jonathan Swift formed Vanessa for his poem Cadenus.

Laleh

Laleh is a tulip in Persian.

Boann

From bó, cow, and finn, white, blessed. Boann is the deity of the River Boyne in Ireland.

Saga

From Old Norse Sága, seeing one, and a figure in Norse lore.

Jaci

Tupi: moon.

Alba

Dawn.

Nazanin

Sweetheart, darling.

Gwenllian

Gwen, white, blessed, with lliain, flaxen, or lliant, flood.

Amets

Amets is the Basque word for dream.

Esmeralda

Emerald, in Spanish and Portuguese. Victor Hugo wrote her into The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.

Rashmi

In Sanskrit raśmi means a ray of sunlight or a rope.

Helmi

Finnish: pearl.

Jūratė

From Lithuanian jūra, sea, and the undersea ruler of a Lithuanian folktale.

Medb

Medb comes from Old Irish and means intoxicating.

Muirne

Irish muirn means affection or endearment. In Irish legend Fionn mac Cumhaill is her son.

Crina

Lily.

Gauri

White, pale, and another title for Parvati, given for her fair complexion.

Bahar

Spring, in Persian and Turkish.

Lalage

‘To babble’ in Greek, and Horace used it.

Zlata

Zlata, from Slavic zolto, gold, is the feminine form of Zlatan, and Croats, Serbs, Slovenes, Macedonians, Bulgarians, Czechs, Slovaks, Russians and Ukrainians all use it.

Irati

Fern field, in Basque.

Arianwen

Welsh arian, silver, with gwen, white, blessed.

Eudora

Good gift (eu, doron), and one of the Hyades.

Nanna

From Old Norse nanþ, daring, brave. She dies of grief after Balder is killed.

Golnaz

It combines Persian gol, flower or rose, with nāz, which is delight or comfort.

Boglárka

Buttercup, in Hungarian.

Perdita

Lost, from Latin perditus, and the abandoned princess at the heart of William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale.

Warda

Arabic for rose, from an Iranian language.

Daphne

Laurel, in Greek.

Daina

‘Song’ in Lithuanian and Latvian.

Suvi

Finnish summer.

Amaryllis

To sparkle, in Greek. Amaryllis is a shepherdess in Virgil’s Eclogues.

Iracema

Tupi for honey lips.

Enid

Welsh enaid, soul.

Azar

Fire, in Persian.

Sigyn

Sigyn combines Old Norse sigr, victory, with vinr, friend.

Phaedra

Phaedra is meaning bright, from Greek phaidros.

Luz

Light.

Gefjon

‘The giving one’, from Old Norse gefa, to give,.

Morgan

Sea-born (Old Welsh mor and gen). Morgan le Fay is Arthurian sorceress.

Bláthnaid

Little flower, the modern Irish form of Bláthnat.