quintus's Personal Name List
Zosime
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Ζωσίμη(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Feminine form of
Zosimos (see
Zosimus).
Zoran
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Macedonian
Other Scripts: Зоран(Serbian, Macedonian)
Rating: 25% based on 4 votes
Živa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Slavic Mythology, Slovene, Serbian
Other Scripts: Жива(Serbian)
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
From the Old Slavic word
živŭ meaning
"alive, living". According to the 12th-century Saxon priest Helmold, this was the name of a Slavic goddess possibly associated with life or fertility.
Zinovia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Ζηνοβία(Greek)
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
Modern Greek transcription of
Zenobia.
Zinnia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: ZIN-ee-ə
Rating: 83% based on 7 votes
From the name of the flower, which was itself named for the German botanist Johann Zinn.
Zimri
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Hebrew [1]
Other Scripts: זִםְרִי(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: ZIM-ree(English) ZIM-rie(English)
Rating: 32% based on 5 votes
Probably means
"my music" in Hebrew, a possessive form of
זִםְרָה (zimra) meaning "music, song". This was the name of a king of Israel according to the
Old Testament. He ruled for only seven days, when he was succeeded by the commander of the army
Omri. Another Zimri in the Old Testament was the the lover of the Midianite woman
Cozbi.
Zéphyrine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Rare)
Rating: 55% based on 6 votes
French feminine form of
Zephyrinus (see
Zeferino).
Zeno
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized), Italian
Other Scripts: Ζήνων(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: DZEH-no(Italian)
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
From the Greek name
Ζήνων (Zenon), which was derived from the name of the Greek god
Zeus (the poetic form of his name being
Ζήν). Zeno was the name of two famous Greek philosophers: Zeno of Elea and Zeno of Citium, the founder of the Stoic school in Athens.
Zénaïde
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Rare)
Pronounced: ZEH-NA-EED
Rating: 30% based on 5 votes
Zenaida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Greek
Other Scripts: Ζηναΐδα(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 32% based on 5 votes
Apparently a Greek derivative of
Ζηναΐς (Zenais), which was derived from the name of the Greek god
Zeus. This was the name of a 1st-century
saint who was a doctor with her sister Philonella.
Zakiah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: زكيّة(Arabic)
Pronounced: za-KEE-ya
Rating: 24% based on 5 votes
Zahrah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: زهرة(Arabic)
Pronounced: ZAH-ra
Rating: 30% based on 5 votes
Zahra 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic, Persian
Other Scripts: زهراء(Arabic) زهرا(Persian)
Pronounced: zah-RA(Arabic)
Rating: 55% based on 4 votes
From Arabic
زهراء (zahrāʾ), the feminine form of
أزهر (ʾazhar) meaning
"shining, brilliant, bright". This is an epithet of the Prophet
Muhammad's daughter
Fatima.
See also the related name Zahra 2.
Yves
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: EEV
Rating: 57% based on 6 votes
Medieval French form of
Ivo 1. This was the name of two French
saints: an 11th-century bishop of Chartres and a 13th-century parish priest and lawyer, also known as Ivo of Kermartin, the patron saint of Brittany.
Wynne 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: WIN
Rating: 30% based on 6 votes
Variant of
Wyn, sometimes used as a feminine form.
Wulfric
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Anglo-Saxon [1][2]
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
Old English name meaning
"wolf ruler", from the elements
wulf "wolf" and
ric "ruler, king".
Wolfgang
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: VAWLF-gang(German) WUWLF-gang(English)
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
Derived from the Old German elements
wolf meaning "wolf" and
gang meaning "path, way".
Saint Wolfgang was a 10th-century bishop of Regensburg. Two other famous bearers of this name were Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) and German novelist and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832).
Winifred
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Welsh
Pronounced: WIN-ə-frid(English)
Rating: 94% based on 8 votes
From Latin
Winifreda, possibly from a Welsh name
Gwenfrewi (maybe influenced by the Old English masculine name
Winfred).
Saint Winifred was a 7th-century Welsh martyr, probably legendary. According to the story, she was decapitated by a prince after she spurned his advances. Where her head fell there arose a healing spring, which has been a pilgrimage site since medieval times. Her story was recorded in the 12th century by Robert of Shrewsbury, and she has been historically more widely venerated in England than in Wales. The name has been used in England since at least the 16th century.
Willem
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch
Pronounced: VI-ləm
Rating: 70% based on 4 votes
Dutch form of
William. Willem the Silent, Prince of Orange, was the leader of the Dutch revolt against Spain that brought about the independence of the Netherlands. He is considered the founder of the Dutch royal family. In English he is commonly called William of Orange.
Wilfred
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: WIL-frəd
Rating: 95% based on 4 votes
Means
"desiring peace" from Old English
willa "will, desire" and
friþ "peace".
Saint Wilfrid was a 7th-century Anglo-Saxon bishop. The name was rarely used after the
Norman Conquest, but it was revived in the 19th century.
Walter
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Polish, Italian, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: WAWL-tər(English) VAL-tu(German) VAL-tehr(Swedish, Italian)
Rating: 77% based on 7 votes
From the Germanic name
Waltheri meaning
"power of the army", from the elements
walt "power, authority" and
heri "army". In medieval German tales (notably
Waltharius by Ekkehard of
Saint Gall) Walter of Aquitaine is a heroic king of the Visigoths. The name was also borne by an 11th-century French saint, Walter of Pontoise. The
Normans brought it to England, where it replaced the Old English
cognate Wealdhere.
A famous bearer of the name was the English courtier, poet and explorer Walter Raleigh (1552-1618). It was also borne by Walter Scott (1771-1832), a Scottish novelist who wrote Ivanhoe and other notable works.
Vivian
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Pronounced: VIV-ee-ən(English)
Rating: 73% based on 3 votes
From the Latin name
Vivianus, which was derived from Latin
vivus "alive".
Saint Vivian was a French bishop who provided protection during the Visigoth invasion of the 5th century. It has been occasionally used as an English (masculine) name since the Middle Ages. In modern times it is also used as a feminine name, in which case it is either an Anglicized form of
Bébinn or a variant of
Vivien 2.
Vitus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Rating: 73% based on 3 votes
Roman name that was derived from Latin
vita "life".
Saint Vitus was a child martyred in Sicily in the early 4th century. From an early date this name was confused with the Germanic name
Wido.
Vitalia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Rating: 40% based on 4 votes
Violeta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Romanian, Spanish, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian, Albanian, Lithuanian
Other Scripts: Виолета(Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian)
Pronounced: byo-LEH-ta(Spanish)
Rating: 85% based on 4 votes
Form of
Violet in several languages.
Vincent
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Slovak
Pronounced: VIN-sənt(English, Dutch) VEHN-SAHN(French) VIN-sent(Dutch) VEEN-tsent(Slovak)
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
From the Roman name
Vincentius, which was derived from Latin
vincere meaning
"to conquer". This name was popular among early Christians, and it was borne by many
saints. As an English name,
Vincent has been in use since the Middle Ages, though it did not become common until the 19th century. Famous bearers include the French priest Saint Vincent de Paul (1581-1660) and the Dutch post-impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890).
Viggo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norwegian, Danish, Swedish
Pronounced: VEE-go(Danish) VIG-go(Swedish)
Rating: 58% based on 4 votes
Short form of names containing the Old Norse element
víg "war".
Victoire
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: VEEK-TWAR
Rating: 62% based on 5 votes
Viatrix
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman
Rating: 37% based on 3 votes
Verity
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: VEHR-i-tee
Rating: 42% based on 5 votes
From the English word meaning
"verity, truth", from Latin
verus "true, real". This was one of the virtue names adopted by the
Puritans in the 17th century.
Verena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Late Roman
Pronounced: veh-REH-na(German)
Rating: 58% based on 5 votes
Possibly related to Latin
verus "true". This might also be a Coptic form of the Ptolemaic name
Berenice.
Saint Verena was a 3rd-century Egyptian-born nurse who went with the Theban Legion to Switzerland. After the legion was massacred she settled near Zurich.
Vercingetorix
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Gaulish
Pronounced: wehr-king-GEH-taw-riks(Latin) vər-sin-JEHT-ə-riks(English)
Rating: 30% based on 5 votes
Means "king over warriors" from Gaulish wer "on, over" combined with kingeto "marching men, warriors" and rix "king". This name was borne by a 1st-century BC chieftain of the Gaulish tribe the Arverni. He led the resistance against Julius Caesar's attempts to conquer Gaul, but he was eventually defeated, brought to Rome, and executed.
Vera 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian, English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, Slovene, Serbian, Croatian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Belarusian, Georgian
Other Scripts: Вера(Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Belarusian) ვერა(Georgian)
Pronounced: VYEH-rə(Russian) VEE-rə(English) VEHR-ə(English) VEH-ra(German, Dutch) VEH-rah(Swedish) BEH-ra(Spanish) VEH-raw(Hungarian)
Rating: 50% based on 5 votes
Means "faith" in Russian, though it is sometimes associated with the Latin word verus "true". It has been in general use in the English-speaking world since the late 19th century.
Vasco
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Portuguese, Spanish, Italian
Pronounced: VASH-koo(European Portuguese) VAS-koo(Brazilian Portuguese) BAS-ko(Spanish) VA-sko(Italian)
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
From the medieval Spanish name Velasco, which possibly meant "crow" in Basque. A famous bearer was the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama (c. 1460-1524), the first person to sail from Europe around Africa to India.
Valérian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
French form of
Valerianus (see
Valerian).
Valentin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French, Romanian, German, Czech, Russian, Bulgarian, Slovene, Croatian, Swedish, Danish, Finnish
Other Scripts: Валентин(Russian, Bulgarian)
Pronounced: VA-LAHN-TEHN(French) va-lehn-TEEN(Romanian) VA-lehn-teen(German) VA-lehn-kyin(Czech) və-lyin-TYEEN(Russian)
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Form of
Valentinus (see
Valentine 1) in several languages.
Ulysses
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Roman Mythology, English
Pronounced: yoo-LI-seez(Latin) yoo-LIS-eez(American English) YOOL-i-seez(British English)
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
Latin form of
Odysseus. It was borne by Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885), the commander of the Union forces during the American Civil War, who went on to become an American president. Irish author James Joyce used it as the title of his book
Ulysses (1922), which loosely parallels
Homer's epic the
Odyssey.
Tuva
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
Swedish and Norwegian variant of
Tove.
Tuuli
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish, Estonian
Pronounced: TOO-lee(Finnish)
Rating: 68% based on 5 votes
Means "wind" in Finnish and Estonian.
Tündér
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hungarian (Rare)
Pronounced: TUYN-dehr
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
Means "fairy" in Hungarian.
Tullius
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Pronounced: TOOL-lee-oos
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Tullia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: TOOL-lya(Italian)
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
Feminine form of
Tullius (see
Tullio).
Tristram
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (British)
Pronounced: TRIS-trəm
Rating: 25% based on 4 votes
Trevelyan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: tri-VEHL-yən
Rating: 60% based on 5 votes
From a surname that was derived from a Cornish place name meaning "homestead on the hill".
Torleif
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norwegian
Rating: 34% based on 5 votes
From the Old Norse name
Þórleifr, derived from the name of the Norse god
Þórr (see
Thor) combined with
leif "inheritance, legacy".
Torin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Rating: 38% based on 4 votes
Meaning unknown. It has been suggested that it is of Irish origin, though no suitable derivation can be found.
Toivo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish, Estonian
Pronounced: TOI-vo(Finnish)
Rating: 32% based on 5 votes
Means "hope" in Finnish.
Titania
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: tie-TAY-nee-ə(American English) ti-TAH-nee-ə(British English)
Rating: 48% based on 6 votes
Perhaps based on Latin
Titanius meaning
"of the Titans". This name was (first?) used by William Shakespeare in his comedy
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595) where it belongs to the queen of the fairies, the wife of
Oberon. This is also a moon of Uranus, named after the Shakespearean character.
Till
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German
Pronounced: TIL
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
From
Tielo, a medieval Low German
diminutive of
Dietrich and other names beginning with Old High German
diota or Old Frankish
þeoda meaning "people". Till Eulenspiegel is a trickster in German folklore.
Tiberius
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Pronounced: tee-BEH-ree-oos(Latin) tie-BEHR-ee-əs(English)
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Roman
praenomen, or given name, meaning
"of the Tiber" in Latin. The Tiber is the river that runs through Rome. Tiberius was the second Roman emperor, the stepson of Emperor
Augustus. He was born Tiberius Claudius Nero, but was renamed Tiberius Julius Caesar after he was designated as the heir of Augustus.
Thora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norwegian, Danish
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
Théodore
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: TEH-AW-DAWR
Rating: 83% based on 6 votes
Theodora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Greek, Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Θεοδώρα(Greek)
Pronounced: thee-ə-DAWR-ə(English)
Rating: 82% based on 6 votes
Feminine form of
Theodore. This name was common in the Byzantine Empire, being borne by several empresses including the influential wife of Justinian in the 6th century.
Theodor
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Czech, Romanian
Pronounced: TEH-o-do(German) TEH-o-dor(Czech) teh-O-dor(Romanian)
Rating: 70% based on 5 votes
German form of
Theodore, as well as a Scandinavian, Czech and Romanian variant of
Teodor. A famous bearer was American children's book creator Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904-1991), better known as Dr. Seuss.
Theoderich
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic [1]
Rating: 58% based on 5 votes
Théo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: TEH-O
Rating: 70% based on 5 votes
Thane
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: THAYN
Rating: 53% based on 4 votes
From the Scottish and English noble title, which was originally from Old English thegn.
Teodor
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Romanian, Bulgarian, Slovak, Czech, Polish, Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Macedonian, Swedish, Norwegian
Other Scripts: Теодор(Bulgarian, Serbian, Macedonian)
Pronounced: teh-O-dor(Romanian) TEH-aw-dawr(Slovak) TEH-o-dor(Czech, Croatian) teh-AW-dawr(Polish)
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Form of
Theodore used in various languages.
Tenzin
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Tibetan, Bhutanese
Other Scripts: བསྟན་འཛིན(Tibetan)
Pronounced: TEHN-TSEEN(Tibetan) tehn-ZIN(English)
Rating: 10% based on 5 votes
From Tibetan
བསྟན་འཛིན (bstan-'dzin) meaning
"upholder of teachings". This is one of the given names of the current Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso (1935-).
Tennyson
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: TEHN-ə-sən
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
From an English surname that meant
"son of Tenney",
Tenney being a medieval form of
Denis. A notable bearer of the surname was the British poet Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892), commonly called Lord Tennyson after he became a baron in 1884.
Tena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Croatian
Pronounced: TEH-na
Rating: 38% based on 4 votes
Tavish
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish
Rating: 63% based on 3 votes
Anglicized form of
a Thàmhais, vocative case of
Tàmhas. Alternatively it could be taken from the Scottish surname
McTavish, Anglicized form of
Mac Tàmhais, meaning "son of
Tàmhas".
Tarquin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History
Pronounced: TAHR-kwin(English)
Rating: 32% based on 6 votes
From Tarquinius, a Roman name of unknown meaning, possibly Etruscan in origin. This was the name of two early kings of Rome.
Taline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Armenian
Other Scripts: Թալին(Armenian)
Pronounced: tah-LEEN
Rating: 34% based on 5 votes
Alternate transcription of Armenian
Թալին (see
Talin).
Taliesin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh, Welsh Mythology
Pronounced: tal-YEH-sin(Welsh) tal-ee-EHS-in(English)
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Means
"shining brow", derived from Welsh
tal "brow, head" and
iesin "shining, radiant". This was the name of a semi-legendary 6th-century Welsh poet and bard, supposedly the author of the collection of poems the
Book of Taliesin. He appears briefly in the Welsh legend
Culhwch and Olwen and the Second Branch of the
Mabinogi. He is the central character in the
Tale of Taliesin, a medieval legend recorded in the 16th century, which tells how
Ceridwen's servant Gwion Bach was reborn to her as Taliesin; how he becomes the bard for Elffin; and how Taliesin defends Elffin from the machinations of the king
Maelgwn Gwynedd.
Tali
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: טַלִי(Hebrew)
Rating: 28% based on 5 votes
Means "my dew" in Hebrew.
Taavi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Estonian, Finnish
Pronounced: TAH-vee(Finnish)
Rating: 42% based on 5 votes
Estonian and Finnish form of
David.
Synnøve
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norwegian
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
Swithin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History
Rating: 30% based on 5 votes
From the Old English name
Swiðhun or
Swiþhun, derived from
swiþ "strong" and perhaps
hun "bear cub".
Saint Swithin was a 9th-century bishop of Winchester.
Sverre
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norwegian
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
From the Old Norse name Sverrir meaning "wild, swinging, spinning".
Svea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish
Pronounced: SVEH-ah
Rating: 30% based on 4 votes
From a personification of the country of Sweden, in use since the 17th century. It is a derivative of Svear, the Swedish name for the North Germanic tribe the Swedes. The Swedish name of the country of Sweden is Sverige, a newer form of Svear rike meaning "the realm of the Svear".
Suvi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: SOO-vee
Rating: 30% based on 4 votes
Means "summer" in Finnish.
Suraya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic, Malay
Other Scripts: ثريّا, ثريّة(Arabic)
Pronounced: thoo-RIE-ya(Arabic)
Rating: 23% based on 4 votes
Alternate transcription of Arabic
ثريّا or
ثريّة (see
Thurayya), as well as the usual Malay form.
Sunniva
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norwegian
Rating: 53% based on 6 votes
Scandinavian form of the Old English name
Sunngifu, which meant
"sun gift" from the Old English elements
sunne "sun" and
giefu "gift". This was the name of a legendary English
saint who was shipwrecked in Norway and killed by the inhabitants.
Stellan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish
Pronounced: STEHL-lan
Rating: 60% based on 4 votes
Meaning unknown, perhaps related to Old Norse stilling "calm", or perhaps of German origin.
Søren
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Danish
Pronounced: SUUW-ən
Rating: 28% based on 5 votes
Danish form of
Severinus. Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was a Danish philosopher who is regarded as a precursor of existentialism.
Sora
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 空, 昊, etc.(Japanese Kanji) そら(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: SO-RA
Rating: 24% based on 5 votes
From Japanese
空 (sora) or
昊 (sora) both meaning "sky". Other kanji with the same pronunciations can also form this name.
Somerled
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Norse (Anglicized)
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Anglicized form of the Old Norse name Sumarliði meaning "summer traveller". This was the name of a 12th-century Norse-Gaelic king of Mann and the Scottish Isles.
Solveig
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norwegian, Swedish, Danish
Pronounced: SOOL-vie(Norwegian) SOOL-vay(Swedish)
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
From an Old Norse name, which was derived from the elements
sól "sun" and
veig "strength". This is the name of the heroine in Henrik Ibsen's play
Peer Gynt (1876).
Sollemnia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Sofija
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Macedonian, Latvian, Lithuanian
Other Scripts: Софија(Serbian, Macedonian)
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
Form of
Sophia in several languages.
Skyler
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: SKIE-lər
Personal remark: GP only
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Variant of
Schuyler, based on the pronunciation of the surname but respelled as if it was a blend of the English word
sky with names such as
Tyler. It was rare before 1980, and first gained popularity as a name for boys. It is now more common for girls, though it is more evenly unisex than the mostly feminine variant
Skylar.
Sixten
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
From the Old Norse name
Sigsteinn, which was derived from the elements
sigr "victory" and
steinn "stone".
Sirius
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Astronomy
Pronounced: SIR-ee-əs(English)
Rating: 74% based on 5 votes
The name of a bright star in the constellation Canis Major, derived via Latin from Greek
σείριος (seirios) meaning
"burning".
Sindre
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norwegian
Rating: 26% based on 5 votes
Silje
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norwegian, Danish
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Sidney
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SID-nee
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
From the English surname
Sidney. It was first used as a given name in honour of executed politician Algernon Sidney (1622-1683). Another notable bearer of the surname was the poet and statesman Philip Sidney (1554-1586).
As a given name, it has traditionally been more masculine than feminine. In America however, after the variant Sydney became popular for girls, Sidney was used more for girls than boys between 1993 and 2019.
Severus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Pronounced: seh-WEH-roos(Latin) si-VIR-əs(English) SEHV-ə-rəs(English)
Rating: 40% based on 6 votes
Roman family name meaning
"stern" in Latin. This name was borne by several early
saints including a 6th-century patriarch of Antioch.
Sevda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Turkish, Azerbaijani
Pronounced: sehv-DA(Turkish) sehv-DAH(Azerbaijani)
Rating: 30% based on 5 votes
Means
"love, infatuation" in Turkish and Azerbaijani, ultimately from Arabic
سوداء (sawdāʾ) meaning "black bile, melancholy, sadness"
[1].
Seneca
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Pronounced: SEH-neh-ka(Latin) SEHN-ə-kə(English)
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
From a Roman
cognomen derived from Latin
senectus meaning
"old". This was the name of both a Roman orator (born in Spain) and also of his son, a philosopher and statesman.
This name also coincides with that of the Seneca, a Native American tribe that lived near the Great Lakes, whose name meant "place of stones".
Senan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish
Rating: 34% based on 5 votes
Anglicized form of
Senán.
Sem
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek [1], Dutch
Other Scripts: Σήμ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: SEHM(Dutch)
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Form of
Shem used in the Greek and Latin Bibles.
Saveli
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Савелий(Russian)
Pronounced: su-VYEH-lyee
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Saskia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch, German
Pronounced: SAHS-kee-a(Dutch) ZAS-kya(German)
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
From the Old German element
sahso meaning
"a Saxon". The Saxons were a Germanic tribe, their name ultimately deriving from the Germanic word *
sahsą meaning "knife". Saskia van Uylenburgh (1612-1642) was the wife of the Dutch painter Rembrandt.
Sasha
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian, Ukrainian, English, French
Other Scripts: Саша(Russian, Ukrainian)
Pronounced: SA-shə(Russian) SASH-ə(English) SAH-shə(English) SA-SHA(French)
Rating: 52% based on 5 votes
Samira 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic, Persian
Other Scripts: سميرة(Arabic) سمیرا(Persian)
Pronounced: sa-MEE-ra(Arabic) sa-mee-RAW(Persian)
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
Saga
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norse Mythology, Swedish, Icelandic
Pronounced: SAH-gah(Swedish) SA-gha(Icelandic)
Rating: 88% based on 4 votes
From Old Norse
Sága, possibly meaning
"seeing one", derived from
sjá "to see". This is the name of a Norse goddess, possibly connected to
Frigg. As a Swedish and Icelandic name, it is also derived from the unrelated word
saga "story, fairy tale, saga".
Safira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese
Pronounced: su-FEE-ru(European Portuguese) sa-FEE-ru(Brazilian Portuguese)
Rating: 52% based on 5 votes
Portuguese form of
Sapphira. It coincides with the Portuguese word for
"sapphire".
Sable
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: SAY-bəl
Rating: 30% based on 6 votes
From the English word meaning "black", derived from the name of the black-furred mammal native to northern Asia, ultimately of Slavic origin.
Rupert
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, English
Pronounced: ROO-pehrt(German) ROO-pərt(English)
Rating: 71% based on 7 votes
German variant form of
Robert, from the Old German variant
Hrodperht. It was borne by the 7th century
Saint Rupert of Salzburg and the 8th-century Saint Rupert of Bingen. The military commander Prince Rupert of the Rhine, a nephew of Charles I, introduced this name to England in the 17th century. A notable bearer is the Australian-American businessman Rupert Murdoch (1931-).
Runa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norwegian, Danish, Swedish
Pronounced: ROO-nah(Norwegian) ROO-na(Danish, Swedish)
Rating: 35% based on 6 votes
Rowena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ro-EEN-ə
Rating: 73% based on 6 votes
Meaning uncertain. According to the 12th-century chronicler Geoffrey of Monmouth, this was the name of a daughter of the Saxon chief Hengist. It is possible (but unsupported) that Geoffrey based it on the Old English elements
hroð "fame" and
wynn "joy", or alternatively on the Old Welsh elements
ron "spear" and
gwen "white". It was popularized by Walter Scott, who used it for a character in his novel
Ivanhoe (1819).
Rowan
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Irish, English (Modern)
Pronounced: RO-ən(English)
Rating: 46% based on 5 votes
Anglicized form of the Irish name
Ruadhán. As an English name, it can also be derived from the surname Rowan, itself derived from the Irish given name. It could also be given in reference to the rowan tree, a word of Old Norse origin (coincidentally sharing the same Indo-European root meaning "red" with the Irish name).
Rosemary
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ROZ-mə-ree, ROZ-mehr-ee
Rating: 74% based on 8 votes
Combination of
Rose and
Mary. This name can also be given in reference to the herb, which gets its name from Latin
ros marinus meaning "dew of the sea". It came into use as a given name in the 19th century.
Rosalia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Late Roman
Pronounced: ro-za-LEE-a(Italian)
Rating: 73% based on 4 votes
Late Latin name derived from
rosa "rose". This was the name of a 12th-century Sicilian
saint.
Rosabel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: RO-zə-behl
Rating: 74% based on 5 votes
Combination of
Rosa 1 and the common name suffix
bel, inspired by Latin
bella "beautiful". This name was created in the 18th century.
Rosa 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Catalan, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Dutch, German, English
Pronounced: RO-sa(Spanish, Dutch) RAW-za(Italian) RAW-zu(European Portuguese) HAW-zu(Brazilian Portuguese) RAW-zə(Catalan) RO-za(German) RO-zə(English)
Rating: 85% based on 6 votes
Generally this can be considered to be from Latin
rosa meaning
"rose", though originally it may have come from the unrelated Germanic name
Roza 2. This was the name of a 13th-century
saint from Viterbo in Italy. In the English-speaking world it was first used in the 19th century. Famous bearers include the Polish-German revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) and the American civil rights activist Rosa Parks (1913-2005).
Roi 2
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: רוֹעִי(Hebrew)
Rating: 9% based on 7 votes
Means "my shepherd" in Hebrew.
Rohan 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Kannada
Other Scripts: रोहन(Hindi, Marathi) রোহন(Bengali) ರೋಹನ್(Kannada)
Rating: 58% based on 4 votes
Derived from Sanskrit
रोहण (rohaṇa) meaning
"ascension".
Riordan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 50% based on 4 votes
From an Irish surname (Anglicized from Irish Gaelic
Ó Ríoghbhárdáin), which was derived from the given name
Rígbarddán.
Riku 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: REE-koo
Rating: 29% based on 7 votes
Remigius
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Late Roman
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
Reijo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: RAY-yo
Rating: 22% based on 6 votes
Regulus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Roman, Astronomy
Pronounced: REH-goo-loos(Latin)
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Roman
cognomen meaning
"prince, little king", a
diminutive of Latin
rex "king". This was the cognomen of several 3rd-century BC consuls from the gens Atilia. It was also the name of several early
saints. A star in the constellation Leo bears this name as well.
Rasmus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Estonian
Pronounced: RAHS-moos(Danish, Norwegian, Finnish) RAS-smuys(Swedish)
Rating: 54% based on 5 votes
Scandinavian, Finnish and Estonian form of
Erasmus.
Ptolemy
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History
Other Scripts: Πτολεμαῖος(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: TAHL-ə-mee(English)
Rating: 48% based on 5 votes
From the Greek name
Πτολεμαῖος (Ptolemaios), derived from Greek
πολεμήϊος (polemeios) meaning
"aggressive, warlike". Ptolemy was the name of several Greco-Egyptian rulers of Egypt, all descendants of Ptolemy I Soter, one of the generals of Alexander the Great. This was also the name of a 2nd-century Greek astronomer.
Prosper
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French, English
Pronounced: PRAWS-PEHR(French) PRAHS-pər(English)
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
From the Latin name
Prosperus, which meant
"fortunate, successful". This was the name of a 5th-century
saint, a supporter of Saint
Augustine. It has never been common as an English name, though the
Puritans used it, partly because it is identical to the English word
prosper.
Prem
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Nepali
Other Scripts: प्रेम(Hindi, Marathi, Nepali) பிரேம்(Tamil) ప్రేమ్(Telugu) ಪ್ರೇಂ(Kannada) പ്രേം(Malayalam)
Rating: 22% based on 6 votes
From Sanskrit
प्रेम (prema) meaning
"love, affection".
Pietro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: PYEH-tro
Rating: 55% based on 4 votes
Italian form of
Peter. Pietro was the given name of the Renaissance painter known as Perugino.
Piers
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (British), Medieval French
Pronounced: PEEZ(British English) PIRZ(American English)
Rating: 28% based on 6 votes
Medieval form of
Peter. This is the name of the main character in the 14th-century poem
Piers Plowman [1] by William Langland.
Petru
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Romanian, Corsican
Pronounced: PEH-troo
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Romanian and Corsican form of
Peter.
Petro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ukrainian, Esperanto
Other Scripts: Петро(Ukrainian)
Pronounced: PEH-tro(Esperanto)
Rating: 30% based on 6 votes
Ukrainian and Esperanto form of
Peter.
Persephone
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Περσεφόνη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: PEHR-SEH-PO-NEH(Classical Greek) pər-SEHF-ə-nee(English)
Rating: 52% based on 5 votes
Meaning unknown, probably of Pre-Greek origin, but perhaps related to Greek
πέρθω (pertho) meaning "to destroy" and
φόνος (phonos) meaning "murder". In Greek
myth she was the daughter of
Demeter and
Zeus. She was abducted to the underworld by
Hades, but was eventually allowed to return to the surface for part of the year. The result of her comings and goings is the changing of the seasons. With her mother she was worshipped in the Eleusinian Mysteries, which were secret rites practiced at the city of Eleusis near Athens.
Peregrine
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: PEHR-ə-grin
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
From the Late Latin name
Peregrinus, which meant
"traveller". This was the name of several early
saints.
Pax
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Pronounced: PAKS(Latin, English)
Rating: 23% based on 7 votes
Means
"peace" in Latin. In Roman
mythology this was the name of the goddess of peace.
Pascal
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French, German, Dutch
Pronounced: PAS-KAL(French) pas-KAL(German) pahs-KAHL(Dutch)
Rating: 60% based on 6 votes
From the Late Latin name
Paschalis, which meant
"relating to Easter" from Latin
Pascha "Easter", which was in turn from Hebrew
פֶּסַח (pesaḥ) meaning "Passover"
[1]. Passover is the ancient Hebrew holiday celebrating the liberation from Egypt. Because it coincided closely with the later Christian holiday of Easter, the same Latin word was used for both. The name Pascal can also function as a surname, as in the case of Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), the French philosopher, mathematician and inventor.
Parisa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Persian
Other Scripts: پریسا(Persian)
Rating: 64% based on 5 votes
Means
"like a fairy" in Persian, derived from
پری (parī) meaning "fairy, sprite, supernatural being".
Ovidiu
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Romanian
Rating: 33% based on 4 votes
Romanian form of
Ovidius (see
Ovid). In the 1st century the Roman poet Ovid was exiled to the city of Tomis, now Constanța in Romania.
Ovid
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History
Pronounced: AHV-id(English)
Rating: 30% based on 4 votes
From the Roman family name Ovidius, which was possibly derived from Latin ovis "a sheep". Alternatively, it could have a Sabellic origin. Publius Ovidius Naso, better known as Ovid, was a 1st-century BC Roman poet who is best known as the author of the Metamorphoses. He was sent into exile on the coast of the Black Sea by Emperor Augustus for no apparent reason.
Oskar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Polish, Czech, Slovene, Basque
Pronounced: AWS-kar(German, Swedish, Polish) OS-kar(Basque)
Rating: 63% based on 7 votes
Form of
Oscar in several languages. A famous bearer was Oskar Schindler (1908-1974), who is credited for saved over 1,000 Polish Jews during World War II.
Osiris
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Egyptian Mythology (Hellenized)
Other Scripts: Ὄσιρις(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: o-SIE-ris(English)
Rating: 66% based on 7 votes
Greek form of the Egyptian
wsjr (reconstructed as
Asar,
Usir and other forms), which is of unknown meaning, possibly related to
wsr "mighty" or
jrt "eye". In Egyptian
mythology Osiris was the god of fertility, agriculture, and the dead and served as the judge of the underworld. In one tale he was slain by his brother
Seth, but restored to life by his wife
Isis in order to conceive their son
Horus, who would go on to avenge his father.
Ophélie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: AW-FEH-LEE
Rating: 60% based on 7 votes
Odin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norse Mythology, English (Modern)
Pronounced: O-din(English)
Rating: 60% based on 4 votes
Anglicized form of Old Norse
Óðinn, which was derived from
óðr meaning
"inspiration, rage, frenzy". It ultimately developed from Proto-Germanic *
Wōdanaz. The name appears as
Woden in Anglo-Saxon sources (for example, as the founder of several royal lineages in the
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle) and in forms such as
Wuotan,
Wotan or
Wodan in continental Europe, though he is best known from Norse sources.
In Norse mythology Odin is the highest of the gods, presiding over war, wisdom and death. He is the husband of Frigg and resides in Valhalla, where warriors go after they are slain. He is usually depicted as a one-eyed older man, carrying two ravens on his shoulders who inform him of all the events of the world. At the time of Ragnarök, the final battle, it is told that he will be killed fighting the great wolf Fenrir.
Octavia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Spanish, Romanian, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: ahk-TAY-vee-ə(English) ok-TA-bya(Spanish) ok-TA-wee-a(Latin)
Rating: 66% based on 5 votes
Feminine form of
Octavius. Octavia was the wife of Mark Antony and the sister of the Roman emperor Augustus. In 19th-century England it was sometimes given to the eighth-born child.
Océane
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: AW-SEH-AN
Rating: 63% based on 6 votes
Derived from French océan meaning "ocean".
Oberon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: O-bər-ahn(English)
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Variant of
Auberon. Oberon and
Titania are the king and queen of the fairies in Shakespeare's comedy
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595). A moon of Uranus bears this name in his honour.
Nyx
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Νύξ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: NUYKS(Classical Greek) NIKS(English)
Rating: 23% based on 7 votes
Means "night" in Greek. This was the name of the Greek goddess of the night, the daughter of Khaos and the wife of Erebos.
Nuada
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish Mythology
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
From Old Irish
Nuadu, probably from
Nodens. In Irish
mythology he was the first king of the Tuatha Dé Danann. After he lost an arm in battle it was replaced with one made from silver, and he received the byname
Airgetlám meaning "silver hand". He was later killed fighting the monstrous Fomorians led by
Balor. This name was also borne by a few semi-legendary Irish kings.
Nolwenn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Breton
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
From the Breton phrase
Noyal Gwenn meaning
"holy one from Noyal". This was the epithet of a 6th-century
saint and martyr from Brittany.
Noémie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: NAW-EH-MEE
Rating: 38% based on 5 votes
Nimue
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arthurian Cycle
Pronounced: NIM-ə-way(English)
Rating: 46% based on 7 votes
Meaning unknown. In Arthurian legends this is the name of a sorceress, also known as the Lady of the Lake, Vivien, or Niniane. Various versions of the tales have
Merlin falling in love with her and becoming imprisoned by her magic. She first appears in the medieval French
Lancelot-Grail Cycle.
Niamh
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish, Irish Mythology
Pronounced: NYEEW(Irish) NYEEV(Irish)
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Means
"bright" in Irish. She was the daughter of the sea god
Manannán mac Lir in Irish legends. She fell in love with the poet
Oisín, the son of
Fionn mac Cumhaill. It has been used as a given name for people only since the early 20th century.
Nerissa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: nə-RIS-ə(English)
Rating: 44% based on 5 votes
Created by Shakespeare for a character in his play
The Merchant of Venice (1596). He possibly took it from Greek
Νηρηΐς (Nereis) meaning "nymph, sea sprite", ultimately derived from the name of the Greek sea god
Nereus, who supposedly fathered them.
Nea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Finnish
Pronounced: NEH-ah(Finnish)
Rating: 48% based on 5 votes
Natale
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: na-TA-leh
Rating: 27% based on 6 votes
Murdoch
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish
Pronounced: MUR-dahk(English)
Rating: 45% based on 4 votes
Morwenna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Cornish, Welsh
Rating: 67% based on 6 votes
From Old Cornish
moroin meaning
"maiden, girl" (related to the Welsh word
morwyn [1]). This was the name of a 6th-century Cornish
saint, said to be one of the daughters of
Brychan Brycheiniog.
Mircea
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Romanian
Pronounced: MEER-chya, MEER-cha
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
Romanian form of
Mirče. This name was borne by a 14th-century ruler of Wallachia, called Mircea the Great.
Minerva
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology, English, Spanish
Pronounced: mee-NEHR-wa(Latin) mi-NUR-və(English) mee-NEHR-ba(Spanish)
Rating: 67% based on 6 votes
Possibly derived from Latin
mens meaning
"intellect", but more likely of Etruscan origin. Minerva was the Roman goddess of wisdom and war, approximately equivalent to the Greek goddess
Athena. It has been used as a given name in the English-speaking world since after the Renaissance.
Meadow
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: MEHD-o
Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
From the English word meadow, ultimately from Old English mædwe. Previously very rare, it rose in popularity after it was used as the name of Tony Soprano's daughter on the television series The Sopranos (1999-2007).
Maxima
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Matthieu
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: MA-TYUU
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Marlowe
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: MAHR-lo
Rating: 16% based on 7 votes
From a surname that was derived from a place name meaning "remnants of a lake" in Old English. A famous bearer of the surname was the English playwright Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593).
Malachy
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish
Rating: 40% based on 4 votes
Anglicized form of
Máel Sechnaill or
Máel Máedóc, influenced by the spelling of
Malachi.
Saint Malachy (in Irish, Máel Máedóc) was a 12th-century archbishop of Armagh renowned for his miracles.
Madoc
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh (Rare)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From the Old Welsh name
Matauc, derived from
mad meaning
"good, fortunate" combined with a
diminutive suffix. This is the name of a warrior mentioned in the 7th-century Welsh poem
Y Gododdin. It was also borne by several medieval rulers, including the 12th-century Madoc ap Maredudd, the last prince of Powys. Another bearer, according to later folklore, was a son of the 12th-century
Owain the Great who sailed to the Americas.
Lysander
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Λύσανδρος(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 56% based on 5 votes
Latinized form of the Greek name
Λύσανδρος (Lysandros), derived from Greek
λύσις (lysis) meaning "a release, loosening" and
ἀνήρ (aner) meaning "man" (genitive
ἀνδρός). This was the name of a notable 5th-century BC Spartan general and naval commander.
Lydie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, Czech
Pronounced: LEE-DEE(French)
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
French and Czech form of
Lydia.
Lycus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized), Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Λύκος(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Latinized form of the Greek name
Λύκος (Lykos) meaning
"wolf". This name was borne by several characters in Greek
mythology including a legendary ruler of Thebes.
Lux
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Various
Pronounced: LUKS(English)
Rating: 26% based on 5 votes
Derived from Latin lux meaning "light".
Lumi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: LOO-mee
Rating: 34% based on 5 votes
Means "snow" in Finnish.
Lucien
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: LUY-SYEHN
Rating: 70% based on 3 votes
Lucan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History
Rating: 58% based on 5 votes
From the Roman
cognomen Lucanus, which was derived from the name of the city of Luca in Tuscany (modern Lucca). Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, commonly called Lucan, was a 1st-century Roman poet.
Lorcán
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: LAWR-kan
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
Means
"little fierce one", derived from Old Irish
lorcc "fierce" combined with a
diminutive suffix.
Saint Lorcán was a 12th-century archbishop of Dublin.
Llyr
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh Mythology
Rating: 30% based on 5 votes
Unaccented variant of
Llŷr.
Linnet
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: li-NEHT, LIN-it
Rating: 63% based on 4 votes
Either a variant of
Lynette or else from the name of the small bird, a type of finch.
Linnéa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish
Pronounced: lin-NEH-a
Rating: 66% based on 5 votes
From the name of a flower, also known as the twinflower. The Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus named it after himself, it being his favourite flower.
Lilja
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Icelandic, Faroese, Finnish
Pronounced: LIL-ya(Icelandic) LEEL-yah(Finnish)
Rating: 74% based on 5 votes
Lilias
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Scottish
Rating: 53% based on 6 votes
Form of
Lillian found in Scotland from about the 16th century
[1].
Lilac
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: LIE-lək
Rating: 45% based on 4 votes
From the English word for the shrub with purple or white flowers (genus Syringa). It is derived via Arabic from Persian.
Lex
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Dutch
Pronounced: LEHKS
Rating: 13% based on 6 votes
Léontine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: LEH-AWN-TEEN
Rating: 45% based on 6 votes
Leonidas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek, Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Λεωνίδας(Greek)
Rating: 58% based on 6 votes
Derived from Greek
λέων (leon) meaning "lion" combined with the patronymic suffix
ἴδης (ides). Leonidas was a Spartan king of the 5th century BC who sacrificed his life and his army defending the pass of Thermopylae from the Persians. This was also the name of a 3rd-century
saint and martyr, the father of Origen, from Alexandria.
Langdon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: LANG-dən
Rating: 35% based on 6 votes
From a surname that was a variant of the surname
Landon.
Laelia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Pronounced: LIE-lee-a
Rating: 24% based on 5 votes
Feminine form of Laelius, a Roman family name of unknown meaning. This is also the name of a type of flower, an orchid found in Mexico and Central America.
Lachlan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish, English
Pronounced: LAKH-lən(Scottish) LAWK-lən(British English) LAK-lən(American English)
Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
Anglicized form of
Lachlann, the Scottish Gaelic form of
Lochlainn. In the English-speaking world, this name was especially popular in Australia towards the end of the 20th century.
Kyveli
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Κυβέλη(Greek)
Pronounced: kyee-VEH-lee
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
Kyros
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Persian (Hellenized), Biblical Greek
Other Scripts: 𐎤𐎢𐎽𐎢𐏁(Old Persian) Κῦρος(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 50% based on 6 votes
Greek form of Old Persian
Kuruš (see
Cyrus).
Kuno
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: KOO-no(German)
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
Short form of names beginning with the Old German element
kunni meaning
"clan, family". It can also be a short form of
Konrad.
Kielo
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: KEE-lo
Rating: 52% based on 5 votes
Means "lily of the valley" in Finnish (species Convallaria majalis).
Keturah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: קְטוּרָה(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: kə-TOO-rə(English)
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Kester
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Kelda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 28% based on 5 votes
Possibly derived from Old Norse kildr meaning "a spring".
Kavi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hindi
Other Scripts: कवि(Hindi)
Rating: 36% based on 5 votes
From a title for a poet, meaning "wise man, sage, poet" in Sanskrit.
Jurek
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: YOO-rehk
Rating: 32% based on 6 votes
Jove
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Roman Mythology (Anglicized)
Pronounced: JOV(English)
Rating: 21% based on 7 votes
From Latin
Iovis, the genitive case of
Iuppiter (see
Jupiter). Though this form is grammatically genitive, post-classically it has been used nominatively as another name for Jupiter.
Jehanne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval French
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
Old French feminine form of
Iohannes (see
John).
Jasper
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Dutch, Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend
Pronounced: JAS-pər(English) YAHS-pər(Dutch)
Rating: 76% based on 9 votes
From Latin
Gaspar, perhaps from the Biblical Hebrew word
גִּזְבָּר (gizbar) meaning
"treasurer" [1], derived from Old Persian
ganzabarah. This name was traditionally assigned to one of the wise men (also known as the Magi, or three kings) who were said to have visited the newborn
Jesus. It has occasionally been used in the English-speaking world since the Middle Ages. The name can also be given in reference to the English word for the gemstone.
Jaromír
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Czech, Slovak
Pronounced: YA-ro-meer(Czech) YA-raw-meer(Slovak)
Rating: 46% based on 5 votes
Derived from the Slavic elements
jarŭ "fierce, energetic" and
mirŭ "peace, world". This name was borne by an 11th-century duke of Bohemia.
Janek
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Estonian, Polish, Czech
Pronounced: YA-nehk(Polish, Czech)
Rating: 55% based on 6 votes
Jane
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JAYN
Rating: 74% based on 7 votes
Medieval English form of
Jehanne, an Old French feminine form of
Iohannes (see
John). This became the most common feminine form of
John in the 17th century, surpassing
Joan. In the first half of the 20th century
Joan once again overtook
Jane for a few decades in both the United States and the United Kingdom.
Famous bearers include the uncrowned English queen Lady Jane Grey (1536-1554), who ruled for only nine days, British novelist Jane Austen (1775-1817), who wrote Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice, British primatologist Jane Goodall (1934-), and American actress Jane Fonda (1937-). This is also the name of the central character in Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre (1847), which tells of Jane's sad childhood and her relationship with Edward Rochester.
Jáchym
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Czech
Pronounced: YA-khim
Rating: 25% based on 6 votes
Jacenty
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish (Rare)
Pronounced: ya-TSEHN-ti
Rating: 15% based on 6 votes
Polish form of
Hyacinthus.
Saint Jacenty was a 13th-century Dominican monk from Krakow who was said to have taken missionary journeys throughout Northern Europe and Asia.
Jacek
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: YA-tsehk
Rating: 44% based on 5 votes
Ithamar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Other Scripts: אִיתָמָר(Ancient Hebrew) Ἰθάμαρ(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Isolda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arthurian Cycle
Pronounced: i-SOL-də(English) i-ZOL-də(English)
Rating: 70% based on 3 votes
Isidora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Serbian, Portuguese (Rare), Italian (Rare), English (Rare), Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Исидора(Serbian, Russian) Ἰσιδώρα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: ee-see-DHO-ra(Spanish) ee-zee-DAW-ra(Italian) iz-ə-DAWR-ə(English)
Rating: 62% based on 6 votes
Feminine form of
Isidore. This was the name of a 4th-century Egyptian
saint and hermitess.
Inigo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: IN-i-go
Rating: 24% based on 5 votes
English form of
Íñigo. It became well-known in Britain due to the English architect Inigo Jones (1573-1652). He was named after his father, a Catholic who was named for
Saint Ignatius of Loyola.
Indira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hinduism, Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Tamil
Other Scripts: इन्दिरा(Sanskrit) इन्दिरा, इंदिरा(Hindi) इंदिरा(Marathi) ಇಂದಿರಾ(Kannada) இந்திரா(Tamil)
Pronounced: IN-di-ra(Hindi)
Rating: 50% based on 5 votes
Means
"beauty" in Sanskrit. This is another name of
Lakshmi, the wife of the Hindu god
Vishnu. A notable bearer was India's first female prime minister, Indira Gandhi (1917-1984).
Imogen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (British)
Pronounced: IM-ə-jehn
Rating: 50% based on 6 votes
The name of the daughter of King
Cymbeline in the play
Cymbeline (1609) by William Shakespeare. He based her on a legendary character named
Innogen, but it was printed incorrectly and never emended.
Innogen is probably derived from Gaelic
inghean meaning
"maiden". As a given name it is chiefly British and Australian.
Imke
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Frisian, Dutch, Low German
Pronounced: IM-kə(Dutch, Low German)
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Ilyas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: إلياس(Arabic)
Pronounced: eel-YAS
Rating: 34% based on 5 votes
Ilan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אִילָן(Hebrew)
Rating: 40% based on 4 votes
Means "tree" in Hebrew.
Ignatius
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Late Roman
Pronounced: ig-NAY-shəs(English)
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
From the Roman family name
Egnatius, meaning unknown, of Etruscan origin. The spelling was later altered to resemble Latin
ignis "fire". This was the name of several
saints, including the third bishop of Antioch who was thrown to wild beasts by Emperor Trajan, and by Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556), founder of the Jesuits, whose real birth name was in fact
Íñigo.
Idris 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Rating: 30% based on 3 votes
Means
"ardent lord" from Old Welsh
iudd "lord" combined with
ris "ardent, enthusiastic". This name was borne by Idris the Giant, a 7th-century king of Meirionnydd.
Icarus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἴκαρος(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: IK-ə-rəs(English)
Rating: 64% based on 5 votes
From the Greek
Ἴκαρος (Ikaros), of unknown meaning. In Greek
myth Icarus was the son of
Daedalus, locked with his father inside the Labyrinth by
Minos. They escaped from the maze using wings devised from wax, but Icarus flew too close to the sun and the wax melted, plunging him to his death.
Ianto
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: YAN-taw
Rating: 37% based on 3 votes
Hieronymus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized), German (Archaic), Dutch (Archaic)
Other Scripts: Ἱερώνυμος(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: hie-ə-RAHN-i-məs(English) hee-RO-nuy-muws(German) hyeh-RO-nuy-muws(German) hee-yeh-RO-nee-muys(Dutch)
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Latin form of
Jerome, formerly common in Germany and the Netherlands. Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) was a Dutch painter known for his depictions of the torments of hell.
Hestia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἑστία(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: HEHS-TEE-A(Classical Greek) HEHS-tee-ə(English)
Rating: 84% based on 7 votes
Derived from Greek
ἑστία (hestia) meaning
"hearth, fireside". In Greek
mythology Hestia was the goddess of the hearth and domestic activity.
Herakles
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἡρακλῆς(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: HEH-RA-KLEHS(Classical Greek) HEHR-ə-kleez(English)
Rating: 60% based on 4 votes
Means
"glory of Hera" from the name of the goddess
Hera combined with Greek
κλέος (kleos) meaning "glory". This was the name of a hero in Greek and Roman
mythology, the son of
Zeus and the mortal woman
Alcmene. After being driven insane by
Hera and killing his own children, Herakles completed twelve labours in order to atone for his crime and become immortal.
Henrik
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Low German, German, Hungarian, Slovene, Croatian, Armenian
Other Scripts: Հենրիկ(Armenian)
Pronounced: HEHN-rik(Swedish, Norwegian, German) HEHN-rag(Danish) HEHN-reek(Hungarian) hehn-REEK(Eastern Armenian) hehn-REEG(Western Armenian)
Rating: 69% based on 7 votes
Form of
Heinrich (see
Henry) in several languages. A famous bearer was the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906).
Hemera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἡμέρα(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 37% based on 3 votes
Means
"day" in Greek. This was the name of the Greek goddess who personified the daytime. According to Hesiod she was the daughter of
Nyx, the personification of the night.
Hannelore
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German
Pronounced: HA-nə-lo-rə
Rating: 90% based on 4 votes
Halsten
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish (Rare)
Rating: 12% based on 6 votes
Old Swedish form of
Hallsteinn (see
Hallstein).
Hakim
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic, Malay, Indonesian
Other Scripts: حكيم(Arabic)
Pronounced: ha-KEEM(Arabic)
Rating: 35% based on 4 votes
Means
"wise" in Arabic, from the root
حكم (ḥakama) meaning "to pass judgement, to decide". In Islamic tradition
الحكيم (al-Ḥakīm) is one of the 99 names of Allah.
Gyatso
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Tibetan
Other Scripts: རྒྱ་མཚོ(Tibetan)
Pronounced: GYA-TSO, GYAM-TSO
Rating: 22% based on 6 votes
From Tibetan
རྒྱ་མཚོ (rgya-mtsho) meaning
"ocean". This is one of the given names of the current Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso (1935-).
Gwyneira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: gwi-NAY-ra
Rating: 52% based on 6 votes
Means
"white snow" from the Welsh element
gwyn meaning "white, blessed" combined with
eira meaning "snow". This is a recently created Welsh name.
Gwyn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh, Welsh Mythology
Pronounced: GWIN(Welsh)
Rating: 32% based on 6 votes
Means
"white, blessed" in Welsh. In Welsh legend Gwyn was a king of the Otherworld and the leader of the Wild Hunt. He appears in the Welsh tale
Culhwch and Olwen, where he is one of the many who help
Culhwch hunt the monstrous boar Trwyth. The story also tells of his rivalry with
Gwythyr for the beautiful
Creiddylad.
Guinevere
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arthurian Cycle
Pronounced: GWIN-ə-vir(English)
Rating: 63% based on 6 votes
From the Norman French form of the Welsh name
Gwenhwyfar meaning
"white phantom", ultimately from the old Celtic roots *
windos meaning "white" (modern Welsh
gwen) and *
sēbros meaning "phantom, magical being"
[1]. In Arthurian legend she was the beautiful wife of King
Arthur. According to the 12th-century chronicler Geoffrey of Monmouth, she was seduced by
Mordred before the battle of Camlann, which led to the deaths of both Mordred and Arthur. According to the 12th-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes, she engaged in an adulterous affair with Sir
Lancelot.
The Cornish form of this name, Jennifer, has become popular in the English-speaking world.
Gratian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History
Pronounced: GRAY-shən(English)
Rating: 38% based on 5 votes
From the Roman name
Gratianus, which meant
"grace" from Latin
gratus.
Saint Gratian was the first bishop of Tours (4th century). This was also the name of a Roman emperor.
Giulietta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: joo-LYEHT-ta
Rating: 55% based on 4 votes
Giedrius
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Lithuanian
Rating: 33% based on 6 votes
Derived from Lithuanian giedras meaning "clear, serene".
Gian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: JAN
Rating: 33% based on 4 votes
Gerard
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Dutch, Catalan, Polish
Pronounced: ji-RAHRD(American English) JEHR-əd(British English) GHEH-rahrt(Dutch) zhə-RART(Catalan) GEH-rart(Polish)
Rating: 63% based on 6 votes
Derived from the Old German element
ger meaning "spear" combined with
hart meaning "hard, firm, brave, hardy". This name was borne by
saints from Belgium, Germany, Hungary and Italy. The
Normans introduced it to Britain. It was initially much more common there than the similar name
Gerald [1], with which it was often confused, but it is now less common.
Georgiana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Romanian
Pronounced: jawr-JAY-nə(English) jawr-jee-AN-ə(English)
Rating: 89% based on 7 votes
Feminine form of
George. This form of the name has been in use in the English-speaking world since the 18th century.
Galila
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: جليلة(Arabic)
Pronounced: ja-LEE-la
Rating: 32% based on 6 votes
Frida 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Germanic [1]
Rating: 62% based on 6 votes
Originally a short form of names containing the Old German element
fridu meaning
"peace" (Proto-Germanic *
friþuz). A famous bearer was the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907-1954).
Freyr
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norse Mythology, Icelandic
Pronounced: FRAYR(English, Icelandic)
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
Means
"lord" in Old Norse, derived from the Germanic root *
fraujô. This is the name of a Norse god. He may have originally been called
Yngvi, with the name
Freyr being his title. Freyr is associated with fertility, sunlight and rain, and is the husband of the giantess
Gerd. With his twin sister
Freya and father
Njord he is one of the group of deities called the Vanir.
Frej
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Danish, Swedish
Pronounced: FRIE(Danish) FRAY(Swedish)
Rating: 40% based on 4 votes
Danish and Swedish form of
Freyr.
Frederick
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: FREHD-ə-rik, FREHD-rik
Rating: 68% based on 6 votes
English form of an Old German name meaning
"peaceful ruler", derived from
fridu "peace" and
rih "ruler, king". This name has long been common in continental Germanic-speaking regions, being borne by rulers of the Holy Roman Empire, Germany, Austria, Scandinavia, and Prussia. Notables among these rulers include the 12th-century Holy Roman emperor and crusader Frederick I Barbarossa, the 13th-century emperor and patron of the arts Frederick II, and the 18th-century Frederick II of Prussia, known as Frederick the Great.
The Normans brought the name to England in the 11th century but it quickly died out. It was reintroduced by the German House of Hanover when they inherited the British throne in the 18th century. A famous bearer was Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), an American ex-slave who became a leading advocate of abolition.
Fleur
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, Dutch, English (British)
Pronounced: FLUUR(French, Dutch) FLU(British English) FLUR(American English)
Rating: 63% based on 7 votes
Means
"flower" in French.
Saint Fleur of Issendolus (
Flor in Gascon) was a 14th-century nun from Maurs, France. This was also the name of a character in John Galsworthy's novels
The Forsyte Saga (1922).
Fauna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Pronounced: FOW-na(Latin) FAW-nə(English)
Rating: 44% based on 7 votes
Feminine form of
Faunus. Fauna was a Roman goddess of fertility, women and healing, a daughter and companion of Faunus.
Faris
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic, Bosnian
Other Scripts: فارس(Arabic)
Pronounced: FA-rees(Arabic)
Rating: 33% based on 4 votes
Means "horseman, knight" in Arabic.
Fabian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Dutch, Polish, Romanian, English
Pronounced: FA-bee-an(German) FA-bee-ahn(Dutch) FA-byan(Polish) FAY-bee-ən(English)
Rating: 35% based on 6 votes
From the Roman
cognomen Fabianus, which was derived from
Fabius.
Saint Fabian was a 3rd-century pope.
Eydís
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Old Norse [1], Icelandic
Rating: 48% based on 4 votes
Derived from the Old Norse elements
ey "good fortune" or "island" and
dís "goddess".
Ewan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish
Pronounced: YOO-ən(English)
Rating: 36% based on 8 votes
Evren
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Turkish
Pronounced: ehv-REHN
Rating: 44% based on 5 votes
Means
"cosmos, the universe" in Turkish. In Turkic
mythology the Evren is a gigantic snake-like dragon.
Everild
Gender: Feminine
Usage: History (Ecclesiastical)
Rating: 48% based on 4 votes
Latinized form of
Eoforhild. This was the name of a 7th-century English
saint.
Everard
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 45% based on 4 votes
From
Everardus, the Latinized form of
Eberhard. The
Normans introduced it to England, where it joined the Old English
cognate Eoforheard. It has only been rarely used since the Middle Ages. Modern use of the name may be inspired by the surname
Everard, itself derived from the medieval name.
Evelina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Swedish, Lithuanian, Greek, Russian, Bulgarian
Other Scripts: Εβελίνα(Greek) Эвелина(Russian) Евелина(Bulgarian)
Pronounced: ehv-ə-LEE-nə(English) eh-veh-LEE-na(Italian, Swedish)
Rating: 71% based on 7 votes
Latinate form of
Aveline. It was revived by the author Fanny Burney for the heroine of her first novel
Evelina (1778). It is often regarded as a variant of the related name
Evelyn or an elaboration of
Eve.
Evander 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized), Roman Mythology
Other Scripts: Εὔανδρος(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: ee-VAN-dər(English) ə-VAN-dər(English)
Rating: 46% based on 7 votes
Variant of
Evandrus, the Latin form of the Greek name
Εὔανδρος (Euandros) meaning
"good of man", derived from
εὖ (eu) meaning "good" and
ἀνήρ (aner) meaning "man" (genitive
ἀνδρός). In Roman
mythology Evander was an Arcadian hero of the Trojan War who founded the city of Pallantium near the spot where Rome was later built.
Eulalie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: UU-LA-LEE
Rating: 50% based on 6 votes
Eulalia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Italian, Polish, English, Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Εὐλαλία(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: ew-LA-lya(Spanish, Italian) yoo-LAY-lee-ə(English)
Rating: 36% based on 7 votes
Derived from Greek
εὔλαλος (eulalos) meaning
"sweetly-speaking", itself from
εὖ (eu) meaning "good" and
λαλέω (laleo) meaning "to talk". This was the name of an early 4th-century
saint and martyr from Mérida in Spain. Another martyr by this name, living at the same time, is a patron saint of Barcelona. These two saints might be the same person.
Euanthe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1], Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Εὐάνθη(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 34% based on 5 votes
Derived from Greek
εὐανθής (euanthes) meaning
"blooming, flowery", a derivative of
εὖ (eu) meaning "good" and
ἄνθος (anthos) meaning "flower". According to some sources, this was the name of the mother of the three Graces or
Χάριτες (Charites) in Greek
mythology.
Étienne
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: EH-TYEHN(European French) EH-TSYEHN(Quebec French)
Rating: 48% based on 5 votes
Estienne
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval French
Rating: 56% based on 5 votes
Esmé
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHZ-may, EHZ-mee
Rating: 59% based on 9 votes
Means "esteemed" or "loved" in Old French. It was first recorded in Scotland, being borne by the first Duke of Lennox in the 16th century. It is now more common as a feminine name.
Esen
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Turkish
Pronounced: eh-SEHN
Rating: 32% based on 5 votes
Means "the wind" in Turkish.
Erminia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ehr-MEE-nya
Rating: 52% based on 5 votes
Ermengard
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Germanic [1]
Rating: 36% based on 5 votes
Derived from the Old German elements
irmin meaning "whole, great" and
gart meaning "enclosure, yard". This name was borne by the wife of the Frankish king Louis the Pious (9th century). This was also the name of one of her granddaughters, an abbess of Frauenwörth who is regarded as a
saint.
Eponine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: ehp-ə-NEEN(English)
Rating: 78% based on 4 votes
Éowyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: AY-ə-win(English)
Rating: 56% based on 7 votes
Means "horse joy" in Old English. This name was invented by J. R. R. Tolkien who used Old English to represent the Rohirric language. In his novel The Lord of the Rings (1954) Eowyn is the niece of King Theoden of Rohan. She slays the Lord of the Nazgul in the Battle of the Pelennor Fields.
Enver
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Turkish, Bosnian, Albanian
Rating: 24% based on 5 votes
Turkish, Bosnian and Albanian form of
Anwar.
Enoch
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Other Scripts: חֲנוֹך(Ancient Hebrew) Ἐνώχ, Ἑνώχ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: EE-nək(English)
Rating: 33% based on 6 votes
From the Hebrew name
חֲנוֹך (Ḥanoḵ) meaning
"dedicated". In Genesis in the
Old Testament this is the name of the son of
Cain. It is also the name of a son of
Jared and the father of
Methuselah, who was the supposed author of the apocryphal Books of Enoch.
Enfys
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: EHN-vis
Rating: 25% based on 4 votes
Means "rainbow" in Welsh. This name was first used in the 19th century.
Endymion
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἐνδυμίων(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: EHN-DUY-MEE-AWN(Classical Greek) ehn-DIM-ee-ən(English)
Rating: 33% based on 7 votes
Derived from Greek
ἐνδύω (endyo) meaning
"to dive into, to enter". In Greek
mythology he was an Aeolian mortal loved by the moon goddess
Selene, who asked
Zeus to grant him eternal life. Zeus complied by putting him into an eternal sleep in a cave on Mount Latmos.
Endre 2
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norwegian
Rating: 17% based on 6 votes
Ender
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Turkish
Rating: 28% based on 5 votes
Means "very rare" in Turkish.
Emrys
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: EHM-ris
Rating: 28% based on 4 votes
Welsh form of
Ambrose. Emrys Wledig (or Ambrosius Aurelianus) was a Romano-British military leader who fought against the invading Anglo-Saxons in the 5th century. Tales of his life were used by the 12th-century chronicler Geoffrey of Monmouth to help shape the early character of
Merlin, whom he called Merlinus Ambrosius in Latin.
Emre
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Turkish
Pronounced: ehm-REH
Rating: 28% based on 5 votes
Means "friend, brother" in Turkish. This name was borne by the 13th-century Turkish poet Yunus Emre.
Émeric
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: EHM-REEK
Rating: 38% based on 4 votes
Emerentius
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Late Roman
Rating: 12% based on 6 votes
Derived from Latin emereo meaning "to fully deserve".
Emerens
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch (Rare)
Rating: 8% based on 6 votes
Emer
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish Mythology
Pronounced: EE-mər(English)
Rating: 33% based on 4 votes
Meaning unknown. In Irish legend she was the wife of
Cúchulainn. She was said to possess the six gifts of womanhood: beauty, voice, speech, needlework, wisdom and chastity.
Emelina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: eh-meh-LEE-na
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Éloïse
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: EH-LAW-EEZ
Rating: 75% based on 8 votes
Élodie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: EH-LAW-DEE
Rating: 57% based on 6 votes
Ellinor
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Rating: 50% based on 6 votes
Elizaveta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Елизавета(Russian)
Pronounced: yi-lyi-zu-VYEH-tə, i-lyi-zu-VYEH-tə
Rating: 76% based on 5 votes
Elizabeth
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Biblical
Pronounced: i-LIZ-ə-bəth(English)
Rating: 75% based on 8 votes
From
Ἐλισάβετ (Elisabet), the Greek form of the Hebrew name
אֱלִישֶׁבַע (ʾElishevaʿ) meaning
"my God is an oath", derived from the roots
אֵל (ʾel) referring to the Hebrew God and
שָׁבַע (shavaʿ) meaning "oath". The Hebrew form appears in the
Old Testament where Elisheba is the wife of
Aaron, while the Greek form appears in the
New Testament where Elizabeth is the mother of
John the Baptist.
Among Christians, this name was originally more common in Eastern Europe. It was borne in the 12th century by Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, a daughter of King Andrew II who used her wealth to help the poor. In medieval England it was occasionally used in honour of the saint, though the form Isabel (from Occitan and Spanish) was more common. It has been very popular in England since the reign of Queen Elizabeth I in the 16th century. In American name statistics (as recorded since 1880) it has never ranked lower than 30, making it the most consistently popular name for girls in the United States.
Besides Elizabeth I, this name has been borne (in various spellings) by many other European royals, including a ruling empress of Russia in the 18th century. Famous modern bearers include the British queen Elizabeth II (1926-2022) and actress Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011).
Elisedd
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Welsh
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Derived from Welsh elus meaning "kind, benevolent". This was the name of two kings of Powys in Wales.
Elias
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Portuguese, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, English, Dutch, Greek, Amharic, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Ηλίας(Greek) ኤልያስ(Amharic) Ἠλίας(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: i-LEE-ush(European Portuguese) eh-LEE-us(Brazilian Portuguese) eh-LEE-as(German) EH-lee-ahs(Finnish) i-LIE-əs(English) ee-LIE-əs(English) EH-lee-yahs(Dutch)
Rating: 62% based on 5 votes
Form of
Elijah used in several languages. This is also the form used in the Greek
New Testament, as well as some English translations.
Eitan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אֵיתָן(Hebrew)
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Modern Hebrew form of
Ethan.
Eirwen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Rating: 48% based on 5 votes
Means
"white snow" from the Welsh elements
eira "snow" and
gwen "white, blessed". This name was created in the early 20th century.
Eirian
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Rating: 28% based on 5 votes
Means
"bright, beautiful" in Welsh
[1].
Eha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Estonian
Rating: 37% based on 3 votes
Means "dusk" in Estonian.
Edmund
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, German, Polish
Pronounced: EHD-mənd(English) EHT-muwnt(German) EHD-moont(Polish)
Rating: 48% based on 6 votes
Means
"rich protection", from the Old English elements
ead "wealth, fortune" and
mund "protection". This was the name of two Anglo-Saxon kings of England. It was also borne by two
saints, including a 9th-century king of East Anglia who, according to tradition, was shot to death with arrows after refusing to divide his Christian kingdom with an invading pagan Danish leader. This Old English name remained in use after the
Norman Conquest (even being used by King Henry III for one of his sons), though it became less common after the 15th century.
Famous bearers of the name include the English poet Edmund Spenser (1552-1599), the German-Czech philosopher Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) and New Zealand mountaineer Edmund Hillary (1919-2008), the first person to climb Mount Everest.
Edgar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French, Portuguese, German
Pronounced: EHD-gər(English) EHD-GAR(French)
Rating: 70% based on 3 votes
Derived from the Old English elements
ead "wealth, fortune" and
gar "spear". This was the name of a 10th-century English king, Edgar the Peaceful. The name did not survive long after the
Norman Conquest, but it was revived in the 18th century, in part due to a character by this name in Walter Scott's novel
The Bride of Lammermoor (1819), which tells of the tragic love between Edgar Ravenswood and Lucy Ashton
[1]. Famous bearers include author and poet Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), French impressionist painter Edgar Degas (1834-1917), and author Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950).
Eastmund
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Anglo-Saxon [1]
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
Draco
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Δράκων(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: DRAY-ko(English)
Rating: 43% based on 6 votes
From the Greek name
Δράκων (Drakon), which meant
"dragon, serpent". This was the name of a 7th-century BC Athenian legislator. This is also the name of a constellation in the northern sky.
Diarmaid
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish, Irish Mythology
Pronounced: DYEER-ə-məd(Irish)
Rating: 32% based on 5 votes
Meaning unknown, though it has been suggested that it means
"without envy" in Irish. In Irish legend this was the name of a warrior who became the lover of
Gráinne. It was also the name of several ancient Irish kings.
Dermot
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish
Rating: 46% based on 5 votes
Demetria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1], English
Other Scripts: Δημητρία(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 50% based on 4 votes
Delphine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: DEHL-FEEN
Rating: 66% based on 7 votes
Delphina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Feminine form of the Latin name
Delphinus, which meant
"of Delphi". Delphi was a city in ancient Greece, the name of which is possibly related to Greek
δελφύς (delphys) meaning "womb". The Blessed Delphina was a 14th-century Provençal nun.
Delphia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DEHL-fee-ə
Rating: 62% based on 6 votes
Possibly from the name of the Greek city of Delphi, the site of an oracle of
Apollo, which is possibly related to Greek
δελφύς (delphys) meaning "womb". It was used in the play
The Prophetess (1647), in which it belongs to the title prophetess.
Cressida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: KREHS-i-də(English)
Rating: 63% based on 3 votes
Form of
Criseida used by Shakespeare in his play
Troilus and Cressida (1602).
Cove
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: KOV
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Either from the English surname
Cove or else directly from the vocabulary word
cove, which refers to a small coastal inlet.
Cosimo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: KAW-zee-mo
Rating: 87% based on 6 votes
Italian form of
Cosmas. A famous bearer was Cosimo de' Medici (1389-1464), the founder of Medici rule in Florence, who was a patron of the Renaissance and a successful merchant. Other members of the Medici family have also borne this name.
Corin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French (Rare)
Rating: 28% based on 4 votes
Corentin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Breton, French
Pronounced: ko-REHN-teen(Breton) KAW-RAHN-TEHN(French)
Rating: 33% based on 4 votes
French form of the Breton name Kaourintin, possibly from korventenn meaning "hurricane, storm". Alternatively, it could be connected to the Brythonic root *karid meaning "love" (modern Breton karout). This was the name of a 5th-century bishop of Quimper in Brittany.
Cordelia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature, English
Pronounced: kawr-DEE-lee-ə(English) kawr-DEEL-yə(English)
Rating: 85% based on 8 votes
From
Cordeilla, a name appearing in the 12th-century chronicles
[1] of Geoffrey of Monmouth, borne by the youngest of the three daughters of King
Leir and the only one to remain loyal to her father. Geoffrey possibly based her name on that of
Creiddylad, a character from Welsh legend.
The spelling was later altered to Cordelia when Geoffrey's story was adapted by others, including Edmund Spenser in his poem The Faerie Queene (1590) and Shakespeare in his tragedy King Lear (1606).
Coralie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: KAW-RA-LEE
Rating: 66% based on 7 votes
Either a French form of
Koralia, or a derivative of Latin
corallium "coral" (see
Coral).
Cloé
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese (Rare), French
Pronounced: KLO-EH(French)
Rating: 42% based on 6 votes
Portuguese form and French variant of
Chloe.
Clement
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KLEHM-ənt
Rating: 54% based on 5 votes
English form of the Late Latin name
Clemens (or sometimes of its derivative
Clementius), which meant
"merciful, gentle". This was the name of 14 popes, including
Saint Clement I, the third pope, one of the Apostolic Fathers. Another saint by this name was Clement of Alexandria, a 3rd-century theologian and church father who attempted to reconcile Christian and Platonic philosophies. It has been in general as a given name in Christian Europe (in various spellings) since early times. In England it became rare after the
Protestant Reformation, though it was revived in the 19th century.
Clemency
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: KLEH-mən-see, KLEH-mənt-see
Rating: 60% based on 6 votes
Medieval variant of
Clemence. It can also simply mean "clemency, mercy" from the English word, ultimately from Latin
clemens "merciful".
Cináed
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval Scottish, Old Irish [1]
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Possibly from Old Irish
cin "respect, esteem, affection" or
cinid "be born, come into being" combined with
áed "fire", though it might actually be of Pictish origin. This was the name of the first king of the Scots and Picts (9th century). It is often Anglicized as
Kenneth. The originally unrelated name
Coinneach is sometimes used as the modern Scottish Gaelic form.
Cilla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Dutch
Pronounced: SIL-lah(Swedish) SI-la(Dutch)
Rating: 40% based on 4 votes
Ceridwen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: keh-RID-wehn
Rating: 59% based on 8 votes
Possibly from
cyrrid "bent, crooked" (a derivative of Old Welsh
cwrr "corner") combined with
ben "woman" or
gwen "white, blessed". According to the medieval Welsh legend the
Tale of Taliesin (recorded by Elis Gruffyd in the 16th century) this was the name of a sorceress who created a potion that would grant wisdom to her son Morfan. The potion was instead consumed by her servant Gwion Bach, who was subsequently reborn as the renowned bard
Taliesin.
This name appears briefly in a poem in the Black Book of Carmarthen in the form Kyrridven [1] and in a poem in the Book of Taliesin in the form Kerrituen [2]. Some theories connect her to an otherwise unattested Celtic goddess of inspiration, and suppose her name is related to Welsh cerdd "poetry".
Ceinwen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Rating: 28% based on 4 votes
Derived from Welsh
cain "good, lovely" and
gwen "white, blessed". This was the name of a 5th-century Welsh
saint also known as
Cain or
Keyne.
Cecily
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SEHS-ə-lee
Rating: 91% based on 7 votes
English form of
Cecilia. This was the usual English form during the Middle Ages.
Casper
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Pronounced: KAHS-pər(Dutch) KAHS-pehr(Swedish) KAS-bu(Danish)
Rating: 76% based on 7 votes
Dutch and Scandinavian form of
Jasper. This is the name of a friendly ghost in an American series of cartoons and comic books (beginning 1945).
Casimir
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French
Pronounced: KAZ-i-meer(English) KA-ZEE-MEER(French)
Rating: 69% based on 7 votes
English form of the Polish name
Kazimierz, derived from the Slavic element
kaziti "to destroy" combined with
mirŭ "peace, world". Four kings of Poland have borne this name, including Casimir III the Great, who greatly strengthened the Polish state in the 14th century. It was also borne
Saint Casimir, a 15th-century Polish prince and a patron saint of Poland and Lithuania. The name was imported into Western Europe via Germany, where it was borne by some royalty.
Carwyn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Rating: 28% based on 5 votes
Derived from Welsh
caru "to love" and
gwyn "white, blessed". This name was created in the 20th century
[1].
Capucine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: KA-PUY-SEEN
Rating: 50% based on 4 votes
Means
"nasturtium" in French. This was the
stage name of the French actress and model Capucine (1928-1990).
Callum
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish
Pronounced: KAL-əm
Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
Calixte
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: KA-LEEKST
Rating: 37% based on 3 votes
Calidore
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: KAL-i-dawr
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Perhaps derived from Greek
kallos "beauty" and
doron "gift". It was used by Edmund Spenser in his poem 'The Faerie Queene' (1596), where Sir Calidore, the Knight of Courtesy, is the hero of Book VI who tames the Blatant Beast as requested by Queen
Gloriana.
Caius
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Pronounced: GA-ee-oos(Latin) KIE-əs(English)
Rating: 63% based on 3 votes
Caelina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Rating: 28% based on 5 votes
Briseis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Βρισηΐς(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: brie-SEE-is(English)
Rating: 28% based on 6 votes
Patronymic derived from
Βρισεύς (Briseus), a Greek name of unknown meaning. In Greek
mythology Briseis (real name Hippodameia) was the daughter of Briseus. She was captured during the Trojan War by
Achilles. After
Agamemnon took her away from him, Achilles refused to fight in the war.
Bram
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Dutch
Pronounced: BRAM(English) BRAHM(Dutch)
Rating: 63% based on 7 votes
Short form of
Abraham. This name was borne by Bram Stoker (1847-1912), the Irish author who wrote
Dracula.
Blaise
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: BLEHZ
Rating: 28% based on 6 votes
From the Roman name
Blasius, which was derived from Latin
blaesus meaning
"lisping".
Saint Blaise was a 4th-century Armenian martyr. A famous bearer was the French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal (1623-1662).
Benedikt
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Icelandic, Czech, Russian (Rare)
Other Scripts: Бенедикт(Russian)
Pronounced: BEH-nə-dikt(German) BEH-neh-dikt(Czech) byi-nyi-DYEEKT(Russian)
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
Form of
Benedictus (see
Benedict) in several languages.
Bedivere
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh Mythology, Arthurian Cycle
Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
From the Welsh name
Bedwyr, possibly from
bedwen "birch" and
gwr "man". In Arthurian legends Bedivere was one of the original companions of King
Arthur. He first appears in early Welsh tales, and his story was later expanded by Geoffrey of Monmouth in the 12th century. He is the one who throws the sword Excalibur into the lake at the request of the dying Arthur.
Bayram
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Turkish
Pronounced: bie-RAM
Rating: 27% based on 6 votes
Means "festival" in Turkish.
Bastien
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: BAS-TYEHN
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Azure
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: AZH-ər
Rating: 51% based on 7 votes
From the English word that means "sky blue". It is ultimately (via Old French, Latin and Arabic) from Persian
لاجورد (lājvard) meaning "azure, lapis lazuli".
Azura
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: ə-ZHUWR-ə, AZH-rə
Rating: 43% based on 6 votes
Aysel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Turkish, Azerbaijani
Rating: 33% based on 7 votes
Means
"moon flood" in Turkish and Azerbaijani, derived from
ay "moon" and
sel "flood, stream" (of Arabic origin).
Aylin
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Turkish, Azerbaijani, Kazakh
Other Scripts: Айлин(Kazakh)
Rating: 23% based on 6 votes
Means
"of the moon" in Turkish and Azerbaijani, from Turkic
ay "moon".
Aviv
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אֲבִיב(Hebrew)
Pronounced: a-VEEV
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Means "spring" in Hebrew.
Aviram
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew [1]
Other Scripts: אֲבִירָם(Hebrew)
Rating: 46% based on 5 votes
Aveline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: AV-ə-lien, AV-ə-leen
Rating: 56% based on 5 votes
From the Norman French form of the Germanic name
Avelina, a
diminutive of
Avila. The
Normans introduced this name to Britain. After the Middle Ages it became rare as an English name, though it persisted in America until the 19th century
[1].
Austen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: AWS-tin
Rating: 27% based on 6 votes
Austėja
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Lithuanian, Baltic Mythology
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Means "to weave" in Lithuanian. This was the name of the Lithuanian goddess of bees.
Aurelius
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Pronounced: ow-REH-lee-oos(Latin) aw-REEL-ee-əs(English)
Rating: 62% based on 5 votes
Roman family name that was derived from Latin
aureus meaning
"golden, gilded". Marcus Aurelius was a 2nd-century Roman emperor and philosophical writer. This was also the name of several early
saints.
Aurélie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: O-REH-LEE
Rating: 48% based on 6 votes
Aurelian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Romanian, History
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Romanian form of
Aurelianus, as well as the usual English form when referring to the Roman emperor.
Auberon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Carolingian Cycle
Pronounced: AW-bər-ahn(English) O-bər-ahn(English)
Rating: 42% based on 5 votes
From a
diminutive form of
Auberi, an Old French form of
Alberich. It is the name of the fairy king in the 13th-century epic
Huon de Bordeaux.
Atiya
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: عطيّة(Arabic)
Pronounced: ‘a-TEE-ya
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Means "gift" in Arabic.
Astrid
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, French, English
Pronounced: AS-strid(Swedish) AHS-tri(Norwegian) AS-trit(German) AS-TREED(French) AS-trid(English)
Rating: 55% based on 6 votes
Modern Scandinavian form of
Ástríðr. This name was borne by the Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002), the author of
Pippi Longstocking. It was also borne by a Swedish princess (1905-1935) who became the queen of Belgium as the wife of Leopold III.
Asherah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Semitic Mythology
Pronounced: ə-SHEER-ə(English)
Rating: 48% based on 4 votes
Perhaps derived from Semitic roots meaning "she who walks in the sea". This was the name of a Semitic mother goddess. She was worshipped by the Israelites before the advent of monotheism.
Ásdís
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Icelandic, Old Norse [1]
Pronounced: OWS-tees(Icelandic)
Rating: 35% based on 4 votes
Derived from the Old Norse elements
áss "god" and
dís "goddess".
Arthur
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Welsh Mythology, Arthurian Cycle
Pronounced: AHR-thər(English) AR-TUYR(French) AR-tuwr(German) AHR-tuyr(Dutch)
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
The meaning of this name is unknown. It could be derived from the Celtic elements *
artos "bear" (Old Welsh
arth) combined with *
wiros "man" (Old Welsh
gur) or *
rīxs "king" (Old Welsh
ri). Alternatively it could be related to an obscure Roman family name
Artorius.
Arthur is the name of the central character in Arthurian legend, a 6th-century king of the Britons who resisted Saxon invaders. He may or may not have been based on a real person. He first appears in Welsh poems and chronicles (perhaps briefly in the 7th-century poem Y Gododdin and more definitively and extensively in the 9th-century History of the Britons [1]). However, his character was not developed until the chronicles of the 12th-century Geoffrey of Monmouth [2]. His tales were later taken up and expanded by French and English writers.
The name came into general use in England in the Middle Ages due to the prevalence of Arthurian romances, and it enjoyed a surge of popularity in the 19th century. Famous bearers include German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), mystery author and Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), and science-fiction author Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008).
Artemisia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Ἀρτεμισία(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 46% based on 5 votes
Feminine form of
Artemisios. This was the name of the 4th-century BC builder of the Mausoleum, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. She built it in memory of her husband, the Carian prince Mausolus.
Armas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: AHR-mahs
Rating: 34% based on 5 votes
Means "beloved" in Finnish (an archaic poetic word).
Aristotle
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Anglicized)
Other Scripts: Ἀριστοτέλης(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: AR-i-staht-əl(English)
Rating: 42% based on 6 votes
From the Greek name
Ἀριστοτέλης (Aristoteles) meaning
"the best purpose", derived from
ἄριστος (aristos) meaning "best" and
τέλος (telos) meaning "purpose, result, completion". This was the name of a Greek philosopher of the 4th century BC who made lasting contributions to Western thought, including the fields of logic, metaphysics, ethics and biology.
Arcadia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American)
Pronounced: ar-KA-dhya
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Feminine form of
Arcadius. This is the name of a region on the Greek Peloponnese, long idealized for its natural beauty.
Aramis
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature
Rating: 38% based on 5 votes
The surname of one of the musketeers in The Three Musketeers (1844) by Alexandre Dumas. Dumas based the character on the 17th-century Henri d'Aramitz, whose surname was derived from the French village of Aramits (itself from Basque aran meaning "valley").
Apolline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: A-PAW-LEEN
Rating: 76% based on 5 votes
Antonella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: an-to-NEHL-la
Rating: 73% based on 4 votes
Antje
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Frisian, Dutch, Low German
Pronounced: AHN-tyə(Frisian, Low German) AHN-chə(Dutch)
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Anselm
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, English (Rare), Germanic [1]
Pronounced: AN-zelm(German) AN-selm(English)
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Derived from the Old German elements
ansi "god" and
helm "helmet, protection". This name was brought to England in the late 11th century by
Saint Anselm, who was born in northern Italy. He was archbishop of Canterbury and a Doctor of the Church.
Anraí
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish
Rating: 38% based on 5 votes
Annora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 77% based on 7 votes
Medieval English variant of
Honora.
Annabeth
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: AN-ə-beth
Rating: 50% based on 6 votes
Andromeda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἀνδρομέδα, Ἀνδρομέδη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: AN-DRO-MEH-DA(Classical Greek) an-DRAH-mi-də(English)
Rating: 82% based on 9 votes
Derived from Greek
ἀνήρ (aner) meaning "man" (genitive
ἀνδρός) combined with one of the related words
μέδομαι (medomai) meaning "to be mindful of, to provide for, to think on" or
μέδω (medo) meaning "to protect, to rule over". In Greek
mythology Andromeda was an Ethiopian princess rescued from sacrifice by the hero
Perseus. A constellation in the northern sky is named for her. This is also the name of a nearby galaxy, given because it resides (from our point of view) within the constellation.
Andrey
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian, Bulgarian, Belarusian
Other Scripts: Андрей(Russian, Bulgarian) Андрэй(Belarusian)
Pronounced: un-DRYAY(Russian)
Rating: 18% based on 6 votes
Russian, Bulgarian and Belarusian form of
Andrew.
Andor 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norwegian
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
From the Old Norse name
Arnþórr, derived from the element
ǫrn "eagle" combined with the name of the Norse god
Þórr (see
Thor).
Anders
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Pronounced: AN-desh(Swedish) AHN-nəsh(Norwegian) AHN-us(Danish)
Rating: 77% based on 6 votes
Scandinavian form of
Andreas (see
Andrew). A famous bearer was the Swedish physicist Anders Jonas Ångström (1814-1874).
Anđela
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Croatian, Serbian
Other Scripts: Анђела(Serbian)
Rating: 66% based on 5 votes
Croatian and Serbian form of
Angela.
Anatolia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Ἀνατολία(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 58% based on 5 votes
Feminine form of
Anatolius. This was the name of a 3rd-century Italian
saint and martyr. This is also a place name (from the same Greek origin) referring to the large peninsula that makes up the majority of Turkey.
Amyas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 7% based on 6 votes
Meaning unknown, perhaps a derivative of
Amis. Alternatively, it may come from a surname that originally indicated that the bearer was from the city of Amiens in France. Edmund Spenser used this name for a minor character in his epic poem
The Faerie Queene (1590).
Amis
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval English, Medieval French
Rating: 24% based on 7 votes
Medieval name, a masculine form of
Amice. It appears in the medieval French poem
Amis and Amiles, about two friends who make sacrifices for one another.
Ambrosia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Ἀμβροσία(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: AM-BRO-SEE-A
Rating: 43% based on 8 votes
Feminine form of
Ambrosios (see
Ambrose).
Ambrose
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AM-broz
Rating: 63% based on 6 votes
From the Late Latin name
Ambrosius, which was derived from the Greek name
Ἀμβρόσιος (Ambrosios) meaning
"immortal".
Saint Ambrose was a 4th-century theologian and bishop of Milan, who is considered a Doctor of the Church. Due to the saint, the name came into general use in Christian Europe, though it was never particularly common in England.
Alya 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic, Indonesian, Malay, Turkish
Other Scripts: علياء(Arabic)
Pronounced: ‘al-YA(Arabic)
Rating: 50% based on 5 votes
Means "sky, heaven, loftiness" in Arabic.
Altair
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Astronomy, Portuguese (Brazilian)
Pronounced: al-TEHR(English)
Rating: 75% based on 6 votes
Means "the flyer" in Arabic. This is the name of a star in the constellation Aquila.
Alix
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: A-LEEKS
Rating: 33% based on 7 votes
Medieval French variant of
Alice, also sometimes used as a masculine name. This is the name of the hero (a young Gaulish man) of a French comic book series, which debuted in 1948.
Aldous
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: AWL-dəs
Rating: 58% based on 5 votes
Probably a
diminutive of names beginning with the Old English element
eald "old". It has been in use as an English given name since the Middle Ages, mainly in East Anglia
[1]. The British author Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) was a famous bearer of this name.
Albus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Rating: 50% based on 6 votes
Roman
cognomen meaning
"white, bright" in Latin.
Alban
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, French, Albanian, English (Rare)
Pronounced: AL-ban(German) AL-BAHN(French) AL-bən(English) AWL-bən(English)
Rating: 58% based on 5 votes
From the Roman
cognomen Albanus, which meant
"from Alba". Alba (from Latin
albus "white") was the name of various places within the Roman Empire, including the city Alba Longa. This name was borne by
Saint Alban, the first British martyr (4th century). According to tradition, he sheltered a fugitive priest in his house. When his house was searched, he disguised himself as the priest, was arrested in his stead, and was beheaded. Another 4th-century martyr by this name was Saint Alban of Mainz.
As an English name, Alban was occasionally used in the Middle Ages and was revived in the 18th century, though it is now uncommon.
Albaer
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Limburgish
Pronounced: al-BEHR
Rating: 34% based on 7 votes
Limburgish form of
Albert. Its spelling has been influenced by the French pronunciation of Albert.
Alasdair
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish Gaelic [1]
Rating: 71% based on 9 votes
Aino
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish, Estonian, Finnish Mythology
Pronounced: IE-no(Finnish)
Rating: 47% based on 6 votes
Means
"the only one" in Finnish. In the Finnish epic the
Kalevala this is the name of a girl who drowns herself when she finds out she must marry the old man
Väinämöinen.
Ailsa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Scottish
Pronounced: AYL-sə(English)
Rating: 43% based on 6 votes
From Ailsa Craig, the name of an island off the west coast of Scotland, which is of uncertain derivation.
Agnès
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, Catalan
Pronounced: A-NYEHS(French) əng-NEHS(Catalan)
Rating: 66% based on 9 votes
French and Catalan form of
Agnes.
Aglaia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, Greek
Other Scripts: Ἀγλαΐα(Ancient Greek) Αγλαΐα(Greek)
Pronounced: ə-GLIE-ə(English)
Rating: 64% based on 5 votes
Means
"splendour, beauty" in Greek. In Greek
mythology she was one of the three Graces or
Χάριτες (Charites). This name was also borne by a 4th-century
saint from Rome.
Adonijah
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: אֲדֹנִיָה(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: ad-ə-NIE-jə(English)
Rating: 30% based on 8 votes
Means
"my lord is Yahweh" in Hebrew, from
אָדוֹן (ʾaḏon) meaning "lord, master" and
יָהּ (yah) referring to the Hebrew God. This is the name of one of King
David's sons in the
Old Testament. Though he was the eldest surviving son of David, he was passed over as heir to the throne in favour of
Solomon.
Adhara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Astronomy
Pronounced: ə-DEHR-ə(English)
Rating: 72% based on 6 votes
Derived from Arabic
عذارى (ʿadhārā) meaning
"maidens". This is the name of the second brightest star (after
Sirius) in the constellation Canis Major.
Achim 2
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: Ἀχείμ(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 27% based on 9 votes
Possibly from a Hebrew name meaning
"he will establish". In the
New Testament this name is listed as an ancestor of
Jesus.
Achille
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French, Italian
Pronounced: A-SHEEL(French) a-KEEL-leh(Italian)
Rating: 43% based on 7 votes
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