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24 Names That Mean Snow
Names that mean snow include Eira (Welsh), Neve (Italian and Portuguese), Yuki (Japanese), Lumi (Finnish), Edurne (Basque), and Tushar (Sanskrit). Khione, the Greek goddess of snow, and the English word names Winter and Frost round out the wintriest corner of the naming world.
Snow names are crisp, quiet, and rarer than you might expect, which gives them an instant distinction. Welsh offers the lovely Eira, Basque names daughters Edurne, and Japanese parents have long used Yuki. For winter babies especially, these names land like the first flakes of the season.
- Edur MasculineBasque“snow”
- Edurne FeminineBasque“snow”
- Eira FeminineWelsh“snow”
- Eirwen FeminineWelsh“white as snow”
- Fannar MasculineIcelandic“snowdrift”
- Frost MasculineEnglish“frozen dew”
- Fuyuko FeminineJapanese“winter child”
- Haukea FeminineHawaiian“white snow”
- Himani FeminineSanskrit“mass of snow, glacier”
- Khione FeminineGreek“snow”
- Kirsi FeminineFinnish“frost”
- Lumi FeminineFinnish“snow”
- Miyuki FeminineJapanese“beautiful snow”
- Morana FeminineSlavic“goddess of winter and death”
- Neus FeminineCatalan“snows”
- Neve FeminineItalian and Portuguese“snow”
- Skadi FeminineOld Norse“harm (possible); goddess of winter”
- Talvi UnisexFinnish“winter”
- Tuhina FeminineSanskrit“snow, frost”
- Tushar MasculineSanskrit“frost, snow”
- Vetle MasculineNorwegian“winter traveler”
- Winter UnisexEnglish“the cold season”
- Yuki UnisexJapanese“snow, or happiness”
- Yukio MasculineJapanese“snow man, or fortunate man”
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Questions
Eira is the Welsh word for snow and a quietly fashionable choice in Wales itself. Neve means snow in Italian and Portuguese, Lumi is the Finnish word for snow, and Edurne is a Basque name honoring Our Lady of the Snows.
Tushar, a Sanskrit-derived name meaning frost or snow, is well used across India. Fannar, an Icelandic name drawn from an Old Norse word for snowdrift, and the frosty English surname Frost offer two colder-climate options.
It can. Yuki written with the character for snow means exactly that, but the same sound written with a different character means happiness or good fortune. The meaning of any individual Yuki depends on the kanji the family chooses.
They are separate names that converged in spelling. Neve is the Italian and Portuguese word for snow, while Niamh is an Irish name meaning bright or radiant that is often anglicized as Neve or Neave, as with actress Neve Campbell.