SOUTHERN FEMALE NAMES
BEGINNING WITH "B"

I want to share my list of classic southern female names beginning with the letter B. I plan to list more classic as well as unique southern names for girls as well as to list some odd surnames that may have been used as first names for girls that are not commonly regarded girl's names nor will you find them on most lists of baby names.

My idea, when starting this list was to locate popular feminine southern baby names whose origin was from European countries such as the Irish, French or English. I was amazed to find that the popular southern female names were peppered with Latin, Hebrew with a few Greek names.

Southern Female Names	Gender	Country of Origin	Meanings	Nicknames
Babette	female	French	lovely	Babs,Baby
Bailey	unisex	French, English, Teutonic	bailiff	Bay,Baily, Bayley, Bailee, Baylor
Baird	Unisex in south	Scottish	minstrel	Bay,Bard
Ballard	Family Oriented Southern Female Names, Unisex	Old English, French	a song of dancing
Bambi	female	Italian	baby, child
Bancroft	Southern Female Names - Family	Old English	Fields of Beans
Barbara	female	Greek, Latin	exotic,mysterious	Barbera, Barbie,Barbs,Barb,Babs, Bobbie
Barclay	Southern Female Names - Family	Old English	birch meadow	Barklay, Barkley
Barnett	Unisex Southern Family Name	Old English	noble, honorable	Barnet
Barrett	Unisex Southern Family Name	Teutonic	bear-like
Barretta	female	unknown	Cap, beret
Berry	female southern name	French, Celtic, Welsh	spear master, marksman	Barrie
Barton	unisex family name	English	of the barley farm
Bathsheba	female	Hebrew	daughter of promise or the oath	Sheba
Baxter	unisex	Old English	baker	Bax, Baxley
Bay	female	Scottish	N/a
Beatrice	female	Latin	happy, bringer of joy	Bea, Beatrix,Tricey, Patrice, Trixie, Trixy
Bebe	Female	French	baby,babe	Babe,Baby
Beccalynn	female	English		Becca,Lynn,Becky Lynn
Beck	Female	Swedish	brook	Becky,Becca
Bedelia	female	French	strength	Bea,Delia
Bela	female	Czech	white	Bella,Belle
Beldon	Female	Old English	beautiful pasture, child of the pretty glen	Belden
Belicia	female	Spanish	dedicated to gods	Belle,Bella, Isabel, Isabelle
Belinda	female	Spanish, Italian	beautiful serpent	Belle, Linda
Belladonna	female	Italian	beautiful woman	Bella, Bel
Bellamy	Female	Old French	handsome friend	Belle,Bell
Bellanca	female	Greek	stronghold or fort	Belle,Bella
Belle	female	French	beautiful,lovely	Bea,Bella
Benita	female	Latin	blessed	Bente
Benito	male	Latin	blessed one	Bonita
Bentley	female	Old English	of the moor	Bennie,Bea
Bergen	female	German	mountain dweller	n/a
Berkeley	female	Anglo-Saxon	from the birch meadow	n/a
Bernadette	female	German	boldness of a bear	Bernie
Bernice	female	Greek	bringer of victories	Bernie, Berry, Nicey
Berta	female	Germanic	glorious,learning	Robert,Bertie
Beryl	female	Hebrew	dazzling jewel	Berry
Beth	female	Hebrew	house of god	Elizabeth, Betty
Bethany	female	Hebrew	house	Beth, Betty,Bett, Bethanie, Betheny, Annie,Bethannie
Beulah	female	Swedish	married	Lalah,Lallie
Berk	male	Turkish	solid and firm
Berkeley	male	Anglo-Saxon	from the birch meadow	Berkley
Beverly	unisex	Old English	meadow of beavers	Bev, Lee, Beverley, Beverely,
Bevin	Gender Neutral	Celtic	Female with a sweet song, Son of Evan	Bevan,Bev
Bianca	female	Italian	white	Biancha,Blanca
Birch	female	Old English	white	N/A
Birget	female	Norwegian	Caring, protecting	Briget,Birge
Birkita	female	Celtic	Having Strength	Birket,Birkie,Burkett
Blaine	female	Gaelic, Old English	thin,lean,source of a stream or river	Blain, Blane
Blair	female	Gaelic	of the plains,child of the fields	Blaire
Blaise	female	Latin	one who stammers	Blase,Blaze,Bliss
Blake	female	Old English	fair-haired,pale	Blakeley
Bliss	female	Anglo-Saxon	joyful,joy	Lissie
Blossom	female	Old English	lovely, like a flower	n/a
Bly	female	Native American	with height, high, tall	n/a
Blythe	female	Old English	joyful,joyous	Blithe,Bly
Bonnie	female	Scottish	sweet and good, pretty of face	Bonny
Bradley	female	Old English	broad meadow	Bradly,Lee
Branch	female	Latin	extension	Branche
Brandi	female	n/a	beacon light	Brandy,Brandee
Bray	female	Old English	to call, cry out	Bree,Brea
Bree	female	Celtic	broth	Brea,Bray
Brenda	female	Old English, German	firey hill, sword-blade	Brendi,Bren,Bryn
Brenna	female	Celtic	dark-haired,Raven haired maiden	Brynn,Bren,Brynna
Brett	female	Old English, Celtic	a daughter of Britain	Bretta, Bretton
Briana	female	Celtic	strong, forceful	Bree,Brea,Brianne, Brianna
Brice	gender neutral	Celtic	swift,quick-moving,Rice's son	Bryce
Bridget	female	Celtic	saintly, resolute, strength	Brigetta, Brigette, Brigitte, Brigid, Britta, Brita, Brit, Bree, Birdie, Bryde, Bridge, Gidget, Gita, Gidgey
Brie	female	French	French region	Brea,Bree
Brier	female	French	heather	Bry,Bryer
Brietta	female	Celtic	strong	Bree,Brie,Etta
Brilynn	female		strength, casade	Brylinn,Bry Lynne,Brie
Brina	female	Celtic	protector	Ina,Bry,Brena
Briony	female	Latin	plant name	Bry,Bree,Ona,Ony
Britt	female	Hebrew	the helpful one	Britta
Brittany	female	Latin	strong,from England, industrious	Britney, Brittny, Brittney, Britany, Brit, Britt, Brittyn, Brits, Britny
Brody	female	Gaelic	ditch, unusual facial hair, beard	Brodey,Bro
Bronwyn	female	Welsh	fair of breast	Wyn,Wynne
Brook	female	Old English	stream	Brooke,Brooklynne
Bryn	female	Welsh, Norwegian	hill, coat	Brynne,Breanna,Bree,Brea
Bryce	female	N/A	N/A	Bry, Brice, Bryse
Brysen	female	N/A	N/A	N/A
Buffy	female	Hebrew	God's promise	Buffie,Buffi
Bunny	female	English	little rabbit	Bunnie,Bonny
Burdette	female	Middle English	small bird	Birdy,Birdette

If you've made it this far down our list of unique, southern female names beginning with the letter B, you may have made note of the fact that many popular baby names for baby boys are considered to be unisex or gender neutral names in the south. The reason for this would be that in the days of high infant mortality, southern gentlemen might not want to take a chance that there would be no sons to be their namesakes.

The answer to this problem might be to name their first daughters with a variation of the father's name along with the mother's maiden name. Once the naming process according to tradition was on the legal documents, the baby girl was tagged with a clever nickname that was more in keeping with popular southern female names of the day.

The odd thing is that this tradition for baby names in the modern south is still in practice even though infant mortality is at all time lows.

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