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Girls' names beginning with E

Names official statistics record as used for girls, whose recorded spelling begins with this letter.

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646 names beginning with "E"

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Emma

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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.

Germanic
Emily

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Rival, striving, eager (traditional interpretation of the Latin root).

Latin, from the Roman family name Aemilia
Ella

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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.

Germanic, diminutive form
Emilie

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The German, Scandinavian and Czech feminine form of Aemilius (see Emily).

Latin, via German/Scandinavian transmission
Ellie

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A diminutive of several longer names, particularly Eleanor, Ellen and Elizabeth.

Various, diminutive form
Éabha

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Elin

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Elizabeth

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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.

Biblical Hebrew
Erin

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An Anglicized form of Éireann, the Irish name for Ireland itself.

Irish
Eva

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A form of Eve used across many languages, from the Hebrew root 'hawa'.

Biblical Hebrew
Elisabeth

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Elaine

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Evie

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A diminutive of Eve or Evelyn.

Hebrew/English, diminutive form
Ellinor

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Evelyn

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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.

English (surname origin)
Elsie

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Shares the root meaning of Elizabeth: 'my God is an oath', inherited via the Scots form Elspeth.

Scottish, via Elizabeth
Éala

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Eabha

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Traditionally treated as the Irish form of the name Eve, carrying the same underlying sense of 'life' or 'living one'.

Irish
Ellen

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Else

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Eileen

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Eleanor

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Elise

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A short form of Elizabeth, used across Germanic and Scandinavian languages.

Hebrew, via German/Scandinavian transmission
Eimear

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