Baby girl names beginning with F – with origins and meanings
Looking for baby name ideas for a girl that start with the 6th letter of the alphabet? We’ve got some fabulous suggestions, along with their origin and meaning
Are you compiling a possible baby name list? Look through our list of baby girl names beginning with F with their origins and meanings to find out if your daughter could be a Fabunni, Ffion or Fulvia
1. Fabia
- Origin: Italian
- Meaning: bean; this is the anglicized form of a Roman family name; the feminine form of Fabio
- Also: Fabiola
2. Fabunni
- Origin: African American
- Meaning: given by God or a gift
3. Fahari
- Origin: African American
- Meaning: smart, confident
4. Fahimah
- Origin: Arabic
- Meaning: astute
5. Faith
- Origin: Latin
- Meaning: Christian virtue used as a first name
- Also: Fay, Faye
6. Faizah
- Origin: African American
- Meaning: victory
7. Faline
- Origin: Latin
- Meaning: cat
8. Fallon
- Origin: Irish
- Meaning: descended from a leader
9. Fancy
- Origin: Greek
- Meaning: to make visible
10. Fanny
- Origin: French
- Meaning: free one
- Also: Frances
11. Farah
- Origin: Arabic
- Meaning: joy
- Also: Farrah
12. Faraja
- Origin: African American
- Meaning: comfortable life
13. Farhanah
- Origin: Arabic
- Meaning: overjoyed
14. Fariza
- Origin: Indian
- Meaning: light
15. Fatima
- Origin: Arabic
- Meaning: captivating
16. Faustine
- Origin: Latin
- Meaning: favoured
- Also: Fausta
17. Fawn
- Origin: French
- Meaning: a young deer
18. Fay
- Origin: Middle English
- Meaning: someone with supernatural properties
- Also: Faith (below), a variant of Euphemia, Faye
19. Fayme
- Origin: Latin
- Meaning: reputation, public esteem, acclaim
20. Feechi
- Origin: African American
- Meaning: a woman who worships the Almighty
21. Felicia
- Origin: Latin
- Meaning: happy; the feminine form of Felix
- Also: Felice
22. Felicity
- Origin: Latin
- Meaning: happiness
- Also: Felly
23. Fenella
- Origin: Gaelic
- Meaning: white-shouldered
- Also: Finola
24. Fern
- Origin: Old English
- Meaning: the name of a plant used as a first name
25. Ffion
- Origin: Welsh
- Meaning: foxglove
26. Fidelis
- Origin: Latin
- Meaning: faithful
- Also: Fidelia
27. Fidelma
- Origin: Irish
- Meaning: unknown
28. Fifi
- Origin: French
- Meaning: a shortened version of Josephine
- Also: Josephine
29. Filomena
- Origin: Greek
- Meaning: loving harmony, devoted to music
30. Fiona
- Origin: Gaelic
- Meaning: fair and white
- Also: Fi
31. Fionnuala
- Origin: Irish
- Meaning: white-shouldered
- Also: Nuala
32. Flavia
- Origin: Latin
- Meaning: yellow; a Roman family name used as a first name
33. Fleta
- Origin: Anglo-Saxon
- Meaning: clean, beautiful, inlet of water
34. Fleur
- Origin: French
- Meaning: a flower
- Also: Flower, Blossom
35. Flora
- Origin: Latin
- Meaning: flower
36. Florence
- Origin: Latin
- Meaning: blooming
- Also: Flo, Florrie and Flossie.
37. Fonda
- Origin: French
- Meaning: to melt, or from the Spanish meaning profound
38. Fortunata
- Origin: Latin
- Meaning: luck, chance
39. Frances
- Origin: Italian
- Meaning: from France or free man
- Also: Francesca (Italian form); Francine (French form), Françoise (French form), Fran, Francie, Fanny, Frankie
40. Frayda
- Origin: Yiddish
- Meaning: joy
41. Frederica
- Origin: Old German
- Meaning: peaceful ruler; the feminine form of Frederick
- Also: Freda, Frida, Frieda
42. Freya
- Origin: Scandinavian
- Meaning: the Norse goddess of love
- Also: Frea, Freja
43. Fulvia
- Origin: Latin
- Meaning: blonde one; a Roman family name
44. Fumiko
- Origin: Japanese
- Meaning: help someone
About our author Catherine Ball
Catherine Ball is a freelance journalist who specialises in writing about parenting and health. She has been a journalist for 20 years, writing for a wide range of regional and national publications. She is also mum to 4 children between the ages 3 and 12, so has drawn up many, many lists of baby names over the past few years.
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