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Girl Names That Mean Sun

Warm and gold. Girl names for the sun and its light, from every corner of the world.

July 5, 20266 min readBaby Names for Girls

If the moon is calm and silver, the sun is warm and gold. A sun name carries brightness, life and cheer — a wish for a daughter who lights up the world around her. From the Persian Mehr to the Amazigh Tafukt and the Georgian Mzia, here are girl names that mean sun and sunlight.

Girl names that mean sun, from around the world

AmraAbkhaz · The sun DiellaAlbanian · The sun DielleAlbanian · The sun DiellzaAlbanian · Sunny one ShoroukArabic · Sunrise TaleenArabic · Sunlight TuleenArabic · Sunlight AregnazArmenian · Graced by the sun AreknazArmenian · Adorned by the sun ArevArmenian · The sun ArevikArmenian · Little sun ArpiArmenian · The sun ArpineArmenian · Of the rising sun AygunAzerbaijani · Moon and sun GunelAzerbaijani · The sun TafuktBerber · The sun XiaChinese · Summer, glow of sunrise XiheChinese · Chinese sun goddess ShamsiyatDagestani · Sun-like, radiant RaeEnglish · Ewe / sun ray SolsticeEnglish · The turning of the sun SunniEnglish · Of the sun SunnyEnglish · Bright, cheerful, sun SunnvaFaroese · A gift of the sun SilahisFilipino · A ray of sunshine PaivatarFinnish · Goddess of the sun LorraineFrench · From Lorraine SoleilFrench · Sun SolineFrench · Solemn, of the sun MzekalaGeorgian · Sun woman MzevinarGeorgian · The light of the sun MziaGeorgian · Of the sun; sunny HelenaGreek · Light, sun's ray, bright HeliaGreek · Sun IdaliaGreek · Behold the sun; from Idalium MalinaGreenlandic · The sun goddess KuarahyGuarani · The sun IliyanaHebrew · Sunshine ArinnitiHittite · The sun goddess SolbjorgIcelandic · Protected by the sun SolbjortIcelandic · Bright as the sun SoldisIcelandic · A sun goddess MentariIndonesian · The sun TikaIndonesian · Sun, dot of vermilion GrainneIrish · Grace, sun SolandraItalian · A gift of the sun AmaterasuJapanese · The sun goddess HaruJapanese · Spring, sunlight

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