Names beginning with N

Nadezhda

Hope

Russian/Slavic

Nadine

Hope (Nadine Gordimer, Nobel Prize in Literature)

French/Russian

Nafissatou

Precious (Nafissatou Thiam Belgian Olympic heptathlete)

Arabic/Other

Naina

Eyes

Hindi/Sanskrit

Naja

Little sister (Greenlandic Inuit)

Greenlandic/Inuit

Nana

Seven (Japanese); grandmother (Greek)

Japanese/Akan/Greek

Naree

Woman

Thai/Sanskrit

Nargis

Daffodil / narcissus (Nargis, 1957 Mother India)

Persian/Urdu

Nasreen

Wild rose

Arabic/Other/Urdu

Nephthys

Egyptian goddess of mourning (sister of Isis)

Ancient Egyptian/Greek

Nicki

Iconic Nicki Minaj - 10 BET Hip-Hop + Queen of Rap

English/Greek

Niguma

11th-century female mahasiddha (Shangpa Kagyu founder)

Sanskrit/Tibetan

Nika

Victory (Russian short)

Russian/Greek

Nikki

Victory of the people (Nikki Haley; Nikki Giovanni)

English/Greek

Nikolina

Victory of the people (South Slavic Nicole)

Croatian/Bulgarian

Nila

Moon, blue

Tamil/Sanskrit

Nitocris

Old Kingdom Egyptian queen (possibly first female pharaoh)

Ancient Egyptian/Greek

Nokomis

Grandmother (Hiawatha's grandmother in Algonquin tradition)

Ojibwe/Algonquin

Novalee

New meadow (Where the Heart Is)

American/Latin

Noémi

Pleasant (Hungarian Naomi)

Hebrew/Hungarian

Noémie

Pleasantness (Noémie Lenoir + biblical Naomi)

French/Hebrew

Nur

Light (Surah An-Nur + 99 Names of Allah)

Arabic/Urdu

Nya

Purpose / queen (Swahili + modern American)

Swahili/American