Butterfly Names
This page contains names associated with butterflies.
Names meaning butterfly, chasing butterflies, butterfly activities, etc.
 
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• MALE:

  1. PAPILLION: French name derived from the word papillon, meaning "butterfly."

• FEMALE:

  1. APONI: Native American name meaning "butterfly."

  2. CHO: Japanese name meaning "butterfly."

  3. EUTHALIA: "Well-blooming/flourishing." Greek name composed of the element eu "good, well" and a Greek myth name (Thalia "blooming, flourishing") that belonged to one of the Graces and the Muse of Comedy. Some species of butterflies bear this name, too. 

  4. FLUTURA: Albanian name meaning "butterfly."

  5. KELEBEK: Turkish name meaning "butterfly."

  6. KIMAMA: Native American Shoshone name meaning "butterfly."

  7. KIMIMELA: Native American Sioux name meaning "butterfly."

  8. KUWANYAUMA: Native American Hopi name meaning "butterfly showing beautiful wings."

  9. NOVA: Native American Hopi name meaning "chases butterflies."

  10. PARVANA: Persian name meaning "butterfly."

  11. POLIKWAPTIWA: Native American Hopi name meaning "butterfly sitting on a flower."

  12. TETER: Armenian name meaning "butterfly."

  13. VANESSA: This name is usually chosen for its association with the butterfly genus. Its origin remains a mystery despite the many sources claiming that it was invented by Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver's Travels, for his intimate friend Esther Vanhomrigh. It is said that he created it by combining the first syllable of her surname, Van-, with her first name, Esther, or the suffix -essa; but, if he created it at all, it seems more likely that he based it on the Greek name Phanessa, substituting the "Ph" with the "V" from Esther's surname. The name may have existed before Swift's time. It is also possible that the original form of the Vanessa butterfly genus was Phanessa, as the name is a feminine form of Orphic Phanes, the name of a primeval, hermaphroditic golden-winged god, meaning "appear."

  14. VARTITER: Armenian name meaning "rose-butterfly."