The Ultimate List of Saint Names for Girls

If you are a Christian and you want to choose a baby name that honors God, consider naming your baby girl after a female saint. Catholic families traditionally give their children saint names, but not all Christian denominations venerate the saints.

There are more than 10,000 Catholic saints recognized by the Roman Catholic Church. The Orthodox Church venerates saints as well, but they are not always the same saints as those in Rome. The original Protestant movement did not recognize saints in favor of a direct connection with and an exclusive holy relationship with God.

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Saints' names usually have Greek or Latin origins, and there are variations in Italian, Spanish, English, and more languages. For example, Irish children may be named with English variations of saint names, like Ambrose or Mary.

You don't have to be religious to name your child after a saint. Many of these women were inspirational and embodied traits you may want to instill in your little girl. You may also want to name her for the patron saint of a place or concept of personal importance.

Take a look through our list of saint names for your baby girl:

Saint Names for Girls from A-B

1. Abigail - Hebrew, patron saint of honeybees and beekeepers
2. Adela - Germanic, patron saint of poets and writers
3. Adele - German, patron saint of the eyes
4. Adelaide - Portuguese, patron saint of abuse victims and second marriages
5. Adeline - French, a blood saint of the Healing Church
6. Agatha - Greek, patron saint of rape victims, breast cancer patients, wet nurses, and bellfounders
7. Agnes - patron saint of girls and one of the most-celebrated Roman martyrs.
8. Apollonia - Greek, patron saint of dentistry
9. Ana - Spanish, patron saint of unmarried women, housewives, women in labor or who want to be pregnant, grandmothers, mothers, and educators
10. Anastasia - Greek, healer and exorcist
11. Anne - French, patron saint of unmarried women, housewives, women in labor or who want to be pregnant, grandmothers, mothers and educators
12. Amata - Roman, patron saint of mental illness and anxiety
13. Audrey - English, French, patron saint of throat and neck complaints
14. Aurelia - Ancient Roman, a 4th-century saint whose tomb in Strasbourg became the center of a popular cult in the Middle Ages.
15. Ava - English, patron saint of the falsely accused, hoboes, homeless, insane, orphaned, mentally ill, midwives, penitents, single mothers, reformed prostitutes, stepchildren, and tramps
16. Barbara - Greek, patron saint of miners
17. Beatrice - Latin, patron saint of prisoners
18. Bernadette - French, patron saint of the ill, poor, sheep tenders, and those ridiculed for their piety
19. Bibiana - Latin, patron saint of hangovers
20. Bridget - Irish, the second patron saint of Ireland
21. Brigid - Irish, the second patron saint of Ireland

Saint Names for Girls from C-I

22. Camilla - Italian, an Italian princess and a Poor Clare nun and abbess
23. Carmen - Spanish, patron saint of education
24. Catherine - French, thought to protect against fire, patron saint of miscarriages, sexual temptation, sickness, and nurses; patron saint of Pennsylvania, Europe, Italy, and the Philippines
25. Cecilia - Latin, patron saint of music
26. Charity - English, patron saint of charity
27. Clare - English, patron saint of television
28. Clarita - Spanish, patron saint of television
29. Colette - French, patron saint of women seeking to conceive, expectant mothers, and sick children
30. Diana - Indo-European, a Dominican nun who founded a convent for her order dedicated to Saint Agnes in Italy
31. Dominica - English, an Irish princess who ran away to Egypt
32. ​Edith - English, one of the six patron saints of Europe
33. Elizabeth - English, patron saint of bakers, countesses, death of children, falsely accused, the homeless, nursing services, widows, and young brides
34. Emma - English, a countess popularly venerated as a saint for her good works
35. Esther - English, patron saint of crypto-Jews
36. Eva - Greek, Latin, patron saint of the falsely accused, hoboes, homeless, insane, orphaned, mentally ill, midwives, penitents, single mothers, reformed prostitutes, stepchildren, and tramps
37. Felicity - English, patron saint of healing
38. Fina - Italian, patron saint of disabled people and spinners
39. Flavia - Italian, the wife of the Roman official Titus Flavius Clemens
40. Flora - Latin, patron saint of the abandoned, single laywomen, and victims of betrayal
41. Francesca - Italian, patron saint of motorists
42. Gabrielle - French, female form of the patron saint of messengers, those who work for broadcasting and telecommunications such as radio and television, postal workers, clerics, diplomats, and stamp collectors
43. Gemma - Italian, a modern saint, Gemma Galgani was an Italian mystic
44. Genevieve - French, patron saint of Paris
45. Gertrude - English, patron saint of travelers and the recently dead, gardeners, and the mentally ill
46. Helena - Greek, patron saint of new discoveries
47. Inez - English, patron saint of those seeking chastity and purity
48. Imma - Italian, a countess popularly venerated as a saint for her good works
49. Irene - Portuguese, patron saint of Portugal
50. ​Isabella - Italian, patron saint of the sick
51. Ita - Irish, an early Irish nun and patron saint of Killeedy

Saint Names for Girls from J-Z

52. Jane - English, founded the religious Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary
53. Joan - English, a national heroine of France (Joan of Arc)
54. Josephine - French, patron saint of Sudan and human trafficking survivors
55. Julia - Ancient Roman, patron saint of Corsica
56. Louise - French, patron saint of sick people, widows and orphans
57. Lucia - Italian, patron saint of the blind
58. Lucretia - Ancient Roman, a concecrated virgin who was killed during the Roman Persecutions
59. Lucy - Italian, patron saint of the blind
60. Mary - English, the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus
61. Marina - Latin, patron saint of kidney sufferers
62. Matilda - Germanic, patron saint of parents with large families
63. Paula - Germanic, patron saint of widows
64. Philomena - Greek, patron saint of infants, babies, and youth
65. Phoebe - Greek, a deaconess of the Church at Cenchreae, the port of Corinth
66. Priscilla - Latin, patron saint of marriage
67. Rosa - Spanish, patron saint of embroidering, gardeners, and florists
68. Sofia - Italian, patron saint of wisdom
69. Theodora - Greek, education advocate and founder of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College
70. Theresa - English, Teresa of Avila was a Spanish noblewoman who felt called to convent life
71. Therese - French, patron saint of missions and florists
72. Ursula - English, patron saint of the Order of St. Ursula, a congregation of nuns dedicated to educating girls
73. Victoria - Latin, patron saint of Anticoli Corrado, Italy
74. Zita - Italian, patron saint of maids and domestic servants
75. Zoe - Greek, patron saint of the Saint Zoe parish church in Rome

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