A girl's name meaning or suggesting 'light' or 'vision' or similar?

[megandraper]

anyone think of some? I think Cecilia is one.

Heulwen is Welsh for sunshine.
Alaw means melody.

Zuva means sunshine in shona language (an African language). My friend who is from Zimbabwe has a gorgeous dd called Zuva.

Lucie means 'light'. From the old French and orignally from Lucia.

Jyoti is Sanskrit for light. Pretty name.

According to Greek Mythology Theia/Thea/Thia was the Titan Goddess of heavenly light. Her symbol is the eyes or glasses.

If you type light into Think Baby Names 65 come up!

Think Ilona is my favorite.

Four for 'vision'

Aisling
Fatima
Moriah (wasn't that where the Dwarves lived in Lord of the Rings?)
Roya

Not so keen on any of them.

Erm... Cecily / Cecilia means "blind".

Phoebe means shining light

How long before we have our first little 'OliviaMumsnet' christened?

Claire/Clair is light in French, and Helen is light in/derived from Greek
Ora is light in Hebrew (if it's a girl's name)

quite a number of Irish names carry those meanings eg:
Aine (splendor, radiance, brilliance);
Aoife (beautiful, radiant, joyful);
Ashling (vision or dream);
Radha (vision);
Sorcha (bright, radiant, light)

Aurora

Hester is 'star' in ancient Greek, I believe.

I think the Greek work for star is something like "aster". ("Disaster" = "bad star", as in bad luck )

How about Astrid?

LOVE Hester, another one DP was having none of. Grr.

in the same vane -

Astrid
Estelle
Celeste

iirc (and I might not) Hester is Persian in origin and means star

Pheobe (I think, can't remember why!)
Clare/ Claire/ Clair /Clara

Cecilia (French origin so an accent on the e) means 'one of the shining light'. She was also the patron saint of music.

Without the accent, it is derived from a Roman family name, which in itself was derived from the Latin word caecus (which means blind). So no, Cecilia doesn't actually mean blind.

FFS you could have posted that on my thread 5 years ago WW

Procrastination (love your name!) I am always way too late for everything! :)

It's been a while since I looked 'Hester' up, but nonetheless it is lovely and is DD's middle name

Chiara, very pretty

Eilidh - a Gaelic form of Helen. means light or torch