Famous Names

137 Famous names that mean famous for girls, listing Famous baby names 41-60. Claire, Clara, Clare, Claribel, Clarice, Clarinda, Clarissa, Cleopatra, Courtney, Crystal, Danica and Delphine are popular names. Chiara, Cimarron, Clarette, Clea, Clotilda, Clymene, Cynara and Decca are uncommon names. View Famous baby names for name meanings, or search other baby names.

Chiara ... "Bright, famous." ... [4]

Cimarron ... It was made famous by an Edna Ferber novel that was the basis for movies made in 1933 and 1961. [3]

Claire ... "Bright, famous." ... [61]

Clara ... "Bright, famous." ... Made famous in the 1920s by the silent film actress Clara Bow ... [21]

Clare ... "Bright, famous." ... [1]

Clarette ... "Bright, famous." ...

Claribel ... "Bright, famous and beautiful." ... [1]

Clarice ... which may have meant "fame" (from "clarus" meaning famous"), but as a given name probably an elbaoration of Clara. Also an Ebglsih form of the French Clarisse, which is a form of Clarissa. It was borne by a character who appears in some versions of the medieval romances of Roland and other paladins of Charlemagne. [15]

Clarinda ... "Bright, famous." ... [1]

Clarissa ... "Most bright, most famous." Latin version of Clarice occasionally found in medieval documents and made famous by Samuel Richardson's novel "Clarissa" ... [24]

Clea ... Invented by author Lawrence Durrell for a character in his famous "Alexandria Quartet" (1958) ... [2]

Cleopatra ... the most famous of whom was retold by Shakespeare in "Anthony and Cleopatra" (1606) ... [7]

Clotilda ... "Famous battle." ... [5]

Clymene ... "Famous one." ...

Courtney ... which was the nickname of a famous hero from a medieval story who lost the tip of his nose in battle ... [37]

Crystal ... The TV series "Dynasty" made the name famous in the 1980s with a character named Krystle ... [75]

Cynara ... Made famous by the late-19th-century English poet Ernest Dowson's line "I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion". [1]

Danica ... There is a famous and expensive Royal Copenhagen china pattern known as "Flora Danica" ... [6]

Decca ... It was famous as the Mitford family nickname for the journalist sister Jessica ... [2]

Delphine ... home of a famous oracle ... [8]

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