Girls' names beginning with E
Names official statistics record as used for girls, whose recorded spelling begins with this letter.
Usage is read from official statistics — which of a registrar's lists published the name — never from an opinion about the name and never as a statement about any child. A name published on both lists is recorded as used for both and is not in either of these pages.
646 names beginning with "E"
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A shortened form of Germanic names beginning with the element 'irmin' ('whole, great'), from Proto-Germanic *ermunaz. Introduced to England by Emma of Normandy, wife of King Ethelred II and later King Canute; further popularised by Jane Austen's 1816 novel Emma.
Rival, striving, eager (traditional interpretation of the Latin root).
A diminutive of Eleanor, Ellen and other names beginning with 'El-', also used as a short form of names ending in '-ella'. Widely used across Scandinavian and Germanic languages as well as English.
The German, Scandinavian and Czech feminine form of Aemilius (see Emily).
A diminutive of several longer names, particularly Eleanor, Ellen and Elizabeth.
From the Greek Elisabet, from Hebrew Elisheva, combining 'el' (God) with 'shava' ('oath') — 'my God is an oath'. Appears in the Old Testament as Elisheba, Aaron's wife, and in the New Testament as the mother of John the Baptist.
A form of Eve used across many languages, from the Hebrew root 'hawa'.
From an English surname derived from the given name Aveline. Originally more common for boys in the 17th century, now used almost entirely as a feminine name.
Shares the root meaning of Elizabeth: 'my God is an oath', inherited via the Scots form Elspeth.
Traditionally treated as the Irish form of the name Eve, carrying the same underlying sense of 'life' or 'living one'.
A short form of Elizabeth, used across Germanic and Scandinavian languages.
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