Female Occupational Names
Names that mean artist, bailiff, baker, butcher, carpenter, clerk, craftsman,
deacon, doctor/healer, door-keeper, farmer, forester, gardener, guard, harvester, hunter,
mason, merchant, musician, nurse, park- keeper, peddler, priest, scribe, secretary,
servant, smith, tailor, tanner, teacher, wagon builder/driver, weaver, worker.
 
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1. AJUOGA: African Luo name meaning "doctor; witchdoctor."

2. AMALASUINTHA: "Strong worker." Old Germanic name composed of the elements amal "work" and swinth "strength."

3. ATICH: African Luo name meaning "hard worker."

4. BAILEY: English occupational surname transferred to unisex forename use, meaning "bailiff." 

5. CHONSIE: Feminine form of English Chauncey, meaning "keeper of records; secretary."

6. DACEY: "Tenant, vassal." Irish surname transferred to unisex forename use, itself originally a nickname for a feudal servant, a member of the Déise, a word which ultimately traces back to Indo-European *dem-s, meaning "house."

7. FABRIZIA: Feminine form of Italian Fabrizio, meaning "craftsman."

8. GEORGEANNA: Elaborated form of English Georgina, meaning "earth-worker, farmer."
9. GEORGENE: Variant of French Georgine, meaning "earth-worker, farmer."
10. GEORGETA: Feminine form of Romanian Gheorghe, meaning "earth-worker, farmer."
11. GEORGETTE: Feminine form of French Georges, meaning "earth-worker, farmer."
12. GEORGIA: Feminine form of English George, meaning "earth-worker, farmer." 
13. GEORGIANA: Feminine form of English George, meaning "earth-worker, farmer." 
14. GEORGIE: Unisex pet form of English George and Georgia, meaning "earth-worker, farmer." 
15. GEORGINA: Abbreviated form of English Georgiana, meaning "earth-worker, farmer." 
16. GEORGINE: Feminine form of French Georges, meaning "earth-worker, farmer."

17. GERGANA: Bulgarian feminine form of Georgi, meaning "earth-worker, farmer."

18. GIGI: Pet form of French Georgine, meaning "earth-worker, farmer." 

19. GINETTE: French diminutive form of Virginie "maiden, virgin," Georgine "earth-worker, farmer," and Régine "queen."

20. GIORGIA: Feminine form of Italian Giorgio, meaning "earth-worker, farmer."
21. GIORGINA: Pet form of Italian Giorgia, meaning "earth-worker, farmer." 
22. GOBINET: Variant of Irish Gobnait, possibly meaning "little smith."
23. GOBNAIT: Feminine form of Irish Goban, possibly meaning "little smith."
24. GOBNATA: Latin form of Irish Gobnait, possibly meaning "little smith."
25. GOBNET: Variant of Irish Gobnait, possibly meaning "little smith." 
26. GYORGYI (Györgyi): Feminine form of Hungarian György, meaning "earth-worker, farmer."
27. GYORGYIKE (Györgyike): Pet form of Hungarian Györgyi, meaning "earth-worker, farmer."

28. HARPER: English occupational surname transferred to unisex forename use, meaning "harp player."

29. HUNTER: English occupational surname transferred to unisex forename use, meaning "hunter."

30. IRJA: Feminine form of Finnish Yrjö, meaning "earth-worker, farmer."

31. JIRINA (Jiřina): Feminine form of Czech Jiří, meaning "earth-worker, farmer."

32. JORJA: Variant of English Georgia, meaning "earth-worker, farmer." 

33. MALASINTHA: Old Germanic name derived from Amalasuintha, meaning "strong worker."

34. MELICENT: Variant of English Millicent, meaning "strong worker."

35. MELISANDE: Modern French form of Old Norman French Melisende, meaning "strong worker."
36. MELISENDE: Variant of Norman French Melisent, meaning "strong worker."
37. MELISENT: Norman French form of Germanic Malasintha, meaning "strong worker."
38. MILICENT: Variant of English Milisent, meaning "strong worker."
39. MILISENT: English variant of Norman French Melisent, meaning "strong worker."
40. MILLESANT: Variant of Milisent, meaning "strong worker."
41. MILLICENT: Variant of English Milicent, meaning "strong worker." 
42. MORIAH: Biblical name of the mountain where Abraham prepared to sacrifice Isaac to God, meaning "teacher."
43. MORIYA: Original Hebrew form of Moriah, meaning "teacher." 

44. PARKER: "Park-keeper." English occupational surname transferred to unisex forename use, itself from Middle English parc "park."

45. PIPALUK: Greenlandic name meaning "nurse."

46. PIPER: English occupational surname transferred to unisex forename use, itself from Middle English pipere, meaning "pipe-player."

47. SCARLETT: English occupational surname for a "dyer" or "seller of fabrics," transferred to forename use, itself from Old French escarlate, meaning "scarlet cloth." 

48. TANNER: "Tanner of skins." English occupational surname transferred to unisex forename use, itself from the Middle English word tanner which is possibly ultimately from a Celtic word for "oak."

49. TAYLER: Variant of English unisex Taylor, meaning "cutter of cloth, tailor."

50. TAYLOR: English occupational surname transferred to unisex forename use, meaning "cutter of cloth, tailor."

51. TECA: Pet form of Hungarian Terézia, meaning "harvester."

52. TEMPLE: English occupational surname transferred to unisex forename use, denoting someone who was employed at one of the houses, called "temples," maintained by the Knights Templar.

53. TERE: Spanish nickname for Teresa, meaning "harvester."

54. TERESA: Portuguese and Spanish name of Greek origin, probably from the element therizo, meaning "to harvest," thus "harvester."
55. TERESE: Basque form of Teresa, meaning "harvester." 
56. TERESIA: German and Swedish form of Teresa, meaning "harvester."
57. TERESINHA: Portuguese pet form of Teresa, meaning "harvester." 
58. TEREZ (Teréz): Nickname for Hungarian Terézia, meaning "harvester."
59. TEREZA: Czech and Bulgarian form of Teresa, meaning "harvester."
60. TEREZIA (Terézia): Hungarian form of Teresa, meaning "harvester."
61. TEREZIJA: Slovene form of Theresa, meaning "harvester."
62. TEREZINHA: Portuguese pet form of Teresa, meaning "harvester."

63. TERI: Nickname for English Theresa, meaning "harvester."

64. TERRI: Variant of English Terrie, meaning "harvester."
65. TERRIE: Pet form of English Theresa, meaning "harvester."
66. TERRY: Variant of English Terrie, meaning "harvester."
67. TESS: Nickname for English Tessa, meaning "harvester." 
68. TESSA: Pet form of English Theresa, meaning "harvester." 
69. TESSIE: Pet form of English Tessa, meaning "harvester." 
70. TETHYS: Greek myth name of a Titaness and sea goddess, a daughter of Uranus and Gaia, meaning "grandmother; nurse."
71. THERA: Nickname for English Theresa, meaning "harvester."
72. THERESA: English form of Teresa, meaning "harvester."

73. THERESE (Thérčse): French form of English Theresa, meaning "harvester."

74. THERESIA: Dutch and German form of English Theresa, meaning "harvester."

75. TOIREASA (Toiréasa): Irish form of English Theresa, meaning "harvester."

76. TREASA: Irish form of English Theresa, meaning "harvester."

77. TREES: Dutch pet form of Theresia, meaning "harvester."

78. TOLTECATL: Nahuatl unisex name meaning "artist."

79. TYLER: English occupational surname transferred to unisex forename use, meaning "roof-tiler."

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