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A, B, C
Abaza
Abjad
Abkhaz
Abugida
Acehnese
Adyghe
African Names
African-American Names
Afrikaans
Afro-Asiatic Language Family
Agatu
Aghul
Agnomen
Ainu
Akan
Akkadian
Albanian
Aleut
Algic Language Family
Algonquin
Alphabet
Alphasyllabary
Altai
Altaic Language Family
American Names
Amharic
Anaang
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek Names
Ancient Hebrew Names
Anglo-Norman
Antillean Creole
Apache
Arabic
Arabic Alphabet
Arabic Names
Aragonese
Aramaic
Aramaic Alphabet
Arapaho
Araucanian Language Family
Arawakan Language Family
Armenian
Arthurian Cycle
Assamese
Assyrian
Asturian
Australian Aboriginal Languages
Austro-Asiatic Language Family
Austronesian Language Family
Avar
Avestan
Aymara
Azerbaijani
Baatonum
Babylonian
Bahamian Creole
Bajan
Balinese
Balochi
Baltic Languages
Bambara
Bamileke
Bandial
Banjar
Bantu Languages
Bashkir
Basque
Belarusian
Bemba
Bengali
Bengali Alphabet
Berber Languages
Bible
Biblical Names
Black Names
Blackfoot
Bodo
Bosnian
Brahmi Alphabet
Brand Name
Breton
British
Brythonic
Brythonic Languages
Buginese
Bulgarian
Bulgarian Names
Burmese
Burmese Alphabet
Buryat
Byname
Caló
Cantonese
Carian
Carolingian Cycle
Catalan
Caucasian Languages
Cebuano
Celtic Languages
Celtic Names
Central Atlas Tamazight
Chadic Languages
Chamorro
Chaoshan
Chechen
Cherokee
Chewa
Cheyenne
Chickasaw
Chinese
Chinese Characters
Chinese Names
Chipewyan
Chippewa
Chiyao
Choctaw
Christian Name
Christian Names
Chukchi
Chuukese
Chuvash
Circassian
Classical Hebrew
Cognate
Cognomen
Comanche
Cook Islands Maori
Coptic
Cornish
Corsican
Cree
Creek
Creole
Crimean Tatar
Croatian
Cuman
Cushitic Languages
Cyrillic Alphabet
Czech
Czech and Slovak Names
Czech Names
D, E, F
Dagbani
Dakota
Danish
Dargin
Delaware
Devanagari Alphabet
Dhivehi
Dialect
Diminutive
Dinka
Dithematic
Dogrib
Dolgan
Dravidian Language Family
Dungan
Dutch
Dutch Names
Dyula
Dzongkha
Edo
Efik
Eggon
Egyptian
Egyptian Hieroglyphics
Egyptian Languages
Elamite
Element
Emilian
English
English Names
Erzya
Esan
Eskimo-Aleut Language Family
Esperanto
Estonian
Ethiopic
Etruscan
Etymology
European Names
Euskara
Even
Evenki
Ewe
Family Name
Fante
Faroese
Farsi
Fijian
Filiation
Filipino
Finnic Languages
Finnish
First Name
Forename
Formal Name
Formosan
Frankish
French
French Names
Frisian
Frisian Names
Friulian
Fula
Fulani
G, H, I
Gaelic
Gaelic Languages
Gaelic Names
Gagauz
Galician
Gallo
Gamilaraay
Ganda
Gaulish
Ge'ez
Generation Name
Georgian
German
German Names
Germanic Languages
Germanic Names
Gilaki
Given Name
Goidelic Languages
Goon Reading
Gothic
Greek
Greek Alphabet
Greek Names
Greenlandic
Guanche
Guarani
Guernésiais
Gujarati
Gujarati Alphabet
Gurani
Gurmukhi Alphabet
Gusii
Haida
Haitian Creole
Hakka
Hangul Alphabet
Hanja
Hausa
Hawaiian
Haya
Hebrew
Hebrew Alphabet
Hebrew Bible
Hebrew Names
Hidatsa
Hiligaynon
Hindi
Hindu Names
Hindu Scripture
Hiragana
Hittite
Hmong
Hmong-Mien Language Family
Ho
Hokkien
Hopi
Hungarian
Hungarian Names
Hunsrik
Hurrian
Hurro-Urartian Language Family
Ibibio
Icelandic
Idoma
Igbo
Igede
Ijaw
Illyrian
Ilocano
Indian Names
Indigenous American Languages
Indo-European
Indo-European Language Family
Indo-Iranian Languages
Indonesian
Indonesian Names
Ingush
Ingvaeonic Languages
Initial
Interlingua
Inuktitut
Inupiaq
Invented Names
Iranian Names
Irish
Irish Names
Iroquoian Language Family
Isoko
Istriot
Italian
Italian Names
Izere
J, K, L
Jamaican Patois
Japanese
Japanese Names
Javanese
Jèrriais
Jewish Names
Jin
Jivaroan Language Family
Jola
Judeo-Arabic
Judeo-French
Judeo-Greek
Judeo-Italian
Judeo-Provençal
Judeo-Spanish
Kabardian
Kabyle
Kalaallisut
Kalasha
Kalmyk
Kanji
Kanji Readings
Kannada
Kannada Alphabet
Kan'on Reading
Kanuri
Kan'yoon Reading
Karachay-Balkar
Karakalpak
Karelian
Kartvelian Language Family
Kasem
Kashmiri
Katakana
Kazakh
Kelabit
Ket
Khakas
Khanty
Khazar
Khmer
Khoekhoen
Khoisan Languages
Kiga
Kikuyu
Kinyarwanda
Kirundi
Koine
Komi
Kongo
Konkani
Korean
Korean Names
Koryak
Koyra Chiini
Kumyk
Kun Reading
Kurdish
Kven
Kyrgyz
Ladakhi
Lak
Lakota
Language
Language Family
Language Isolate
Lao
Last Name
Late Latin
Latin
Latin Alphabet
Latvian
Laz
Lenape
Lezgian
Ligurian
Limburgish
Limburgish names
Lingala
Linguistics
Literature
Lithuanian
Liturgical Language
Livonian
Loanword
Logogram
Lombard
Lombardic
Louisiana Creole
Low German
Luba-Kasai
Luganda
Luhya
Lunda
Luo
Luxembourgish
M, N, O
Maasai
Macedonian
Made-up Names
Madí
Madurese
Maguindanao
Mahabharata
Malagasy
Malay
Malayalam
Malayalam Alphabet
Maltese
Manchu
Mandarin
Manding
Mandinka
Maninka
Manipuri
Manjak
Mansi
Manx
Mao
Maori
Mapuche
Maranao
Marathi
Mari
Marian Names
Marshallese
Matronym
Matter of Britain
Matter of France
Mauritian Creole
Maya
Maya Hieroglyphics
Mayan Language Family
Mazanderani
Mbama
Melanesian Languages
Mende
Meroitic
Micronesian Languages
Middle Dutch
Middle English
Middle High German
Middle Low German
Middle Name
Middle Persian
Mi'kmaq
Min Bei
Min Dong
Min Nan
Minangkabau
Mingrelian
Miwok
Mizo
Modern Greek Names
Mohawk
Moksha
Mongolian
Mongolic Languages
Mordvin
Mossi
Munsee
Muskogean Language Family
Muslim Names
Mwanga
Mwera
Mythology
Na-Dené Language Family
Nahuatl
Nakh Languages
Name
Name Days
Name Element
Name Laws
Name Meaning
Names on the Internet
Namesake
Nanai
Nanori
Nanori Reading
Narragansett
Native American Languages
Nauruan
Navajo
Ndebele
Neapolitan
Nenets
Neo-Aramaic
Nepali
New Testament
Ngala
Nganasan
Ngarrindjeri
Ngas
Nickname
Niger-Congo Language Family
Nilo-Saharan Language Family
Nivkh
Nkore
Nobiin
Nogai
Nomen
Norman
Normans
North Caucasian Language Family
Northeast Caucasian Language Family
Northwest Caucasian Language Family
Norwegian
Nsenga
Nuer
Numerology
Numidian
Nuosu
Nuu-chah-nulth
Nyakyusa
Nyamwezi
Nyoro
Occitan
Odia
Odia Alphabet
Ogoni
Ojibwe
Old Celtic Names
Old Dutch
Old English
Old French
Old Frisian
Old High German
Old Norman
Old Norse
Old Persian
Old Prussian
Old Saxon
Old Testament
Omaha-Ponca
On Reading
Oneida
Onomastics
Oriya
Oromo
Oscan
Ossetian
Oto-Manguean Language Family
P, Q, R
Pahlavi
Pali
Pama-Nyungan Language Family
Pampangan
Pangasinan
Papiamento
Papuan Languages
Pare
Parthian
Pashto
Patronym
Pawnee
Pen Name
Persian
Persian Names
Personal Name
Pet Form
Pet Name
Phoenician
Phoenician Alphabet
Phrygian
Picard
Pictish
Pidgin
Piedmontese
Pintupi
Pitjantjatjara
Place Name
Polish
Polish Names
Polynesian Languages
Portuguese
Portuguese Names
Powhatan
Praenomen
Prakrit
Proper Name
Protestant Reformation
Provençal
Pseudonym
Punjabi
Punu
Purépecha
Puritan Names
Quechua
Quenya
Quran
Ramayana
Rarotongan
Riffian
Rigveda
Romagnol
Roman Names
Romance Languages
Romani
Romanian
Romansh
Rotuman
Rundi
Runic Alphabet
Russian
Russian Names
Rusyn
Rutul
S, T, U
Sabaean
Saint
Sakha
Sami
Samoan
Sanskrit
Sardinian
Scandinavian Languages
Scandinavian Names
Scots
Scottish
Scottish Names
Script
Selkup
Semitic Languages
Seneca
Serbian
Serbo-Croatian
Serer
Shakespeare
Shakespearian Names
Shan
Shawiya
Shawnee
Shilha
Shona
Shor
Short Form
Shoshoni
Shuadit
Shuar
Sicilian
Sikh Names
Siksika
Sindarin
Sindhi
Sinhala
Sinhalese
Sino-Tibetan Language Family
Siouan Language Family
Sioux
Slavic
Slavic Languages
Slavic Names
Slovak
Slovak Names
Slovene
Somali
Sorbian
Sotho
Spanish
Spanish Names
Stage Name
Sumerian
Sundanese
Surname
Svan
Swahili
Swazi
Swedish
Syllabary
Tabasaran
Tagalog
Tahitian
Tai-Kadai Language Family
Taíno
Talysh
Tamazight
Tamil
Tamil Alphabet
Tanakh
Tarascan
Tarifit
Tashelhit
Tatar
Tausug
Telugu
Telugu Alphabet
Teochew
Thai
Thai Alphabet
Thracian
Tibetan
Tibetan Alphabet
Tigrinya
Title
Tiv
Tłı̨chǫ
Tlingit
Tobagonian Creole
Tolkien
Tonga
Tongan
Tooro
Toponym
Transcription
Transliteration
Transparent Meaning
Trinidadian Creole
Tsakonian
Tshiluba
Tsonga
Tswana
Tuareg
Tumbuka
Tungusic Languages
Tupi
Turkic Languages
Turkish
Turkish Names
Turkmen
Tuvan
Twi
Ubykh
Udmurt
Ugaritic
Ukrainian
Umbundu
Unami
Uralic Language Family
Urartian
Urdu
Urhobo
Usual Name
Ute
Uto-Aztecan Language Family
Uyghur
Uzbek
V, W, X, Y, Z
Variant
Vedas
Vedic
Venda
Venetian
Veps
Vernacular
Vietnamese
Vietnamese Names
Vilamovian
Virgin Mary
Vocabulary
Vulgar Latin
Wakashan Language Family
Walloon
Wampanoag
Warang Citi Alphabet
Warlpiri
Welsh
Welsh Names
Western Yugur
Wiradjuri
Wolof
Writing System
Wu
Xhosa
Yakan
Yakut
Yao
Yevanic
Yi
Yiddish
Yolngu
Yoruba
Yucatec Maya
Yue
Yupik
Zapotec
Zarma
Zhuang
Zulu