100 Roman names for girls you will love

A curated selection of beautiful ancient Roman names for girls to add a historical touch to your baby name list.

Ancient Roman female names make beautiful names for girls.

Elegant and, often, easy to pronounce in different languages, female Roman names are often good international names and tend to sound intriguing, refined and sweet.

Roman girls’ names tend to have the following origins:

Family names: in Ancient Rome, women took the family name as their official name, to which they would add the name of their husband in genetic form. Example: Clodia Metelli was a woman of the gens (family) ‘Clodia’, married to a Metellus.

Family names are the most popular type of female Roman names for baby girls both in Ancient Rome and now.

Birth order names: these would be names based on the numeral order of birth: Second (second), Tertia (Third) etc

Geographical names: some Roman female names seem to suggest the origin of the person.

Goddess names: several Roman baby names we hear today come from the names of Roman Goddesses: Juno or Diana are perfect examples of this.

Mythological names: names taken from important female figures appearing in Roman legends such as Camilla or Lucretia

Christian names: the success and the spreading of Christianity brought to popularity Latin names for girls associated with the Christian religion.

These would have been popular in late Imperial times and are often now associates with martyrs and saints.

You can read more about female naming conventions in Ancient Rome here.

Love ancient names? Don’t forget to also check out our list of ancient roman names for boys!

30 popular Roman names for girls and their origin

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100 more Roman names for girls: common and less common ancient Latin baby names

1. Aelia – of the sun
2. Aemilia – ancient Roman family name  
3. Adriana – ancient Roman family name
4. Agrippina – ancient Roman family name, the most famous women by this name are Agrippina the Elder and Agrippina the Younger from the Julio-Claudian dynasty
5. Alba – white
6. Alma – nourishing
7. Amanda – to be loved (from the latin verb: amare=to love)
8. Antonia – ancient Roman family name
9. Apollonia – latin versos of a Greek name meaning ‘sacred to the God Apollo’
10. Appia – Ancient Roman Family name
11. Aurora  – dawn
12. Augusta – Venerable, sacred
13. Balbina – Ancient Roman family name
14. Benedicta – blessed
15. Bibiana – name of uncertain origin, usually associated with Saint Bibiana, martyr in the IV century
16. Caecilia – ancient Roman family name
17. Calpurnia – Ancient Roman family name
18. Camilla – ancient Roman family name, also associated with the Roman legend of Camilla the Virgin
19. Cintia – from Cintus (place)
20. Clara – clear, radiant
21. Claudia – ancient Roman family name
22. Clelia – fame, glory
23. Clodia  – ancient Roman family name
24. Cornelia – ancient Roman family name
25. Costantia – constant, reliable
26. Decima – tenth
27. Diana – name of Goddess
28. Domitia – Ancient Roman family name
29. Domitilla – see Domitia
30. Domna – lady,
31. Donata – gifted
32. Dora – probably the latin version of the Greek name meaning ‘golden’
33. Drusilla – female form of Drusus, probably meaning ‘fruitful’
34. Ennia – Ancient Roman family name
35. Fabricia – ancient Roman family name
36. Fausta – favorable
37. Felicia – happy
38. Flaminia – ancient Roman family name 
39. Flavia – ancient Roman family name
40. Flora -name of Goddess
41. Fosca – dark (said about hair color)
42. Fulvia  – ancient Roman family name, also meaning ‘blond’
43. Galeria – ancient Roman family name
44. Galla – ancient Roman family name
45. Germana – ‘from Germania’
46. Helena – name of Greek origin, popular in Rome. The mother of Emperor Constantine the Great was called Elena
47. Herminia – probably meaning ‘from Armenia’
48. Hilaria – happy, joyful
49. Hortensia – ancient Roman family name, probably associated with the latin word ‘hortus‘=garden
50. Ignatia – ancient Roman family name
51. Iris – Name of Goddess
52. Iulia  – ancient Roman family name
53. Iuliana  – ‘devout to Jovis’
54. Iuno – name of Goddess
55. Iustina – female of Iustus= righteous
56. Laura – from the latin word ‘laurus‘=laurel
57. Lavinia – ancient roman family name, associated with Aeneas and the myth of the birth of Rome
58. Lesbia – popularised by the woman loved by poet Catullus
59. Letitia – joy
60. Licia – Roman family names, probably meaning ‘from Licia’
61. Livia – ancient Roman family name
62. Lucia – ancient roman first name, possibly associated with the word lux=light
63. Maecia – probably a nickname from Marcia, associated with God Mars
64. Marcella – ancient Roman family name
65. Marcia – ancient Roman family name, probably associated with the God Mars
66. Marina – of the sea
67. Massima – greatest
68. Messalina – ancient Roman family names, the most famous female figure by this name was Valeria Messalina, third wife of Emperod Claudius
69. Metella – female of Metellus, male Roman cognomen
70. Mirta – myrtle
71. Naevia – ancient Roman family name
72. Octavia – ancient Roman family name
73. Olivia – from the latin word ‘oliva’= olive
74. Oppia – ancient Roman family name
75. Oriana – probably from the latin word aurus=gold
76. Patricia – patrician, aristocratic
77. Paula –  ancient Roman cognomen, female version of Oculus. Popular in the Christian Era as the name taken by St Paul
78. Pia – devout, pius
79. Plotina – ancient Roman family name, a famous womand by this name was Plotina, ice of Emperor Trajan
80. Porcia – ancient Roman family name
81. Prima – first
82. Priscilla – probably from priscus=ancient, long lasting
83. Regina – queen
84. Romana – Roman
85. Rosa – rose
86. Sabina – geographical name, from Sabina
87.  Serena – clear, serene
88. Servia – ancient Roman family name
89.  Severa – ancient Roman family name
90. Silvana – of the forest, from the latin silva=woods
91. Terentia – ancient Roman family name
92. Titiana – ancient Roman family name
93. Tosca – geographical name, ‘from Tuscia’
94. Tullia – ancient Roman family name
95. Ulpia – ancient Roman family name
96. Urbana – urban, of the city
97. Ursula – from the latin word ursus=bear
98. Valentina – probably from the latin ‘valens=’strong, healthy
99. Valeria – ancient Roman family name 
100. Virginia – ancient Roman family name

I hope you enjoyed this list of baby girl names from Roman times and they gave you new ideas for your list!