Insect Names
Names that mean firefly, lightning bug, grasshopper, locust, spider,
bumble bee, honey bee, yellow jacket, etc. Also see Butterfly Names.
 
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• UNISEX:

  1. DEDE: African Luo unisex name meaning "grasshopper; locust."

  2. ERLEA: Basque unisex name meaning "bee."

• MALE:

  1. CHANSOMPS: Native American Algonquin name meaning "locust."

  2. HESUTU: Native American Miwok name meaning "yellow jacket nest rising out of the ground."

  3. LUZIGE: Egyptian name meaning "locust."

  4. MADHUKAR: Hindi name meaning "bee."

  5. MUATA: Native American Miwok name meaning "yellow jackets inside a nest."

  6. XICOHTENCATL: Nahuatl name meaning "angry bumblebee."

• FEMALE:

  1. ADEDE: African Luo name meaning "grasshopper."

  2. ARACHNE: Greek myth name of a young girl who was turned into a spider by Athena, meaning "spider."

  3. BINA: Yiddish name derived from the word bin(e), meaning "bee."

  4. BINAH: Variant of Yiddish Bina, meaning "bee."

  5. BINE: Variant of Yiddish Bina, meaning "bee."

  6. BINKE: Pet form of Yiddish Bina, meaning "bee." 

  7. CORIANDER: "Resembling a bedbug." English spice name derived from Latin coriandrum, itself from Greek corys "bedbug," with the added element -ander "resembling," which refers to the smell of the spice which is similar to the odor of bedbugs. 

  8. DEB: English nickname for Deborah, meaning "bee."
  9. DEBBI: Variant of English Debbie, meaning "bee."
  10. DEBBIE: English pet form of Deborah, meaning "bee."
  11. DEBBY: Variant of English Debbie, meaning "bee."
  12. DEBI: English pet form of Deborah, meaning "bee."
  13. DÉBORA: Portuguese/Spanish form of Deborah, meaning "bee."
  14. DEBORA: Italian form of Deborah, meaning "bee."
  15. DEBORAH: "Bee." Biblical name of Rebecca's nurse, and another biblical character who was the only female judge and prophet mentioned in the bible. 
  16. DEBRA: English nickname for Deborah, meaning "bee."
  17. DEBS: English pet form of Deborah, meaning "bee."

  18. DEVORA: Variant of Hebrew Devorah, meaning "bee."

  19. DEVORAH: Hebrew form of biblical Deborah, meaning "bee."

  20. DVORAH: Variant of Hebrew Devorah, meaning "bee." 
  21. DVOIRE: Yiddish form of Hebrew Devorah, meaning "bee."

  22. HOTARU: Japanese name meaning "firefly; lightning bug."

  23. JELISSA: Modern name, probably an altered form of Greek Melissa, meaning "honey-bee." 

  24. KOKYANGWUTI: Native American Hopi name meaning "spider woman at middle-age."

  25. LISSA: Nickname for Melissa ("honey-bee") meaning "bee."

  26. MELIKA: Hawaiian form of Melissa, meaning "honey-bee." 

  27. MELISA: Variant of Melissa, meaning "honey-bee."

  28. MÉLISSA: French form of Melissa, meaning "honey-bee."
  29. MELISSA: Greek myth name of a nymph who cared for Zeus in his infancy, derived from the word melissa, meaning "honey-bee." 
  30. MELITA: Variant of Greek Melitta, meaning "honey-bee."
  31. MELITTA: Old Greek form of Melissa, meaning "honey-bee."
  32. MELYSSA: Modern English variant of Melissa, meaning "honey-bee."
  33. MISSIE: Variant of English Missy, meaning "honey-bee."
  34. MISSY: Pet form of English Melissa, meaning "honey-bee."
  35. PHUENG: Thai name meaning "bee."