Tian Tian's Personal Name List
Zoe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Spanish, German, Czech, Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Ζώη, Ζωή(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: ZO-ee(English) DZAW-eh(Italian) THO-eh(European Spanish) SO-eh(Latin American Spanish)
Means
"life" in Greek. From early times it was adopted by Hellenized Jews as a translation of
Eve. It was borne by two early Christian
saints, one martyred under Emperor Hadrian, the other martyred under Diocletian. The name was common in the Byzantine Empire, being borne by a ruling empress of the 11th century.
As an English name, Zoe (sometimes with a diaeresis as Zoë) has only been in use since the 19th century. It has generally been more common among Eastern Christians (in various spellings).
Zoë
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch, English
Pronounced: ZO-veh(Dutch) ZO-ee(English)
Dutch form and English variant of
Zoe.
Zarathustra
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History
Pronounced: zar-ə-THOOS-trə(English)
From Avestan
𐬰𐬀𐬭𐬀𐬚𐬎𐬱𐬙𐬭𐬀 (Zarathushtra), in which the second element is
𐬎𐬱𐬙𐬭𐬀 (ushtra) meaning "camel". Proposed meanings for the first element include "old", "moving", "angry" and "yellow". Zarathustra was an Iranian prophet who founded the ancient religion of Zoroastrianism around the 10th century BC. He is also called
Zoroaster in English, from the Greek form of his name
Ζωροάστρης (Zoroastres).
Zarah
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: זֵרַח(Ancient Hebrew)
Form of
Zerah used in some translations of the Bible.
Za-michael
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History (Ecclesiastical)
Xanadu
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Various (Modern)
Pronounced: ZAN-ə-doo(English)
From the name of the summer capital of the 13th-century Mongol ruler Kublai Khan, located in Inner Mongolia, China. It is an anglicized form of Chinese 上都 (Shangdu), derived from 上 (shàng) meaning "above, upper" and 都 (dū) meaning "city".
Woodlock
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Romani (Archaic)
Transferred use of the surname
Woodlock.
Wolfgang
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: VAWLF-gang(German) WUWLF-gang(English)
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).
Wisp
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (American), Indian
Wincenty
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: veen-TSEHN-ti
Weakly
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Puritan)
Meaning, "sickly."
Vivi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian
Vitalina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian, Ukrainian, Italian, Ancient Roman
Other Scripts: Виталина(Russian, Ukrainian)
Russian, Ukranian, Italian, and Ancient Roman feminine form of
Vitale.
Vitale
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: vee-TA-leh
Italian form of the Late Latin name
Vitalis, which was derived from Latin
vitalis meaning
"of life, vital". Vitalis was the name of several early
saints and martyrs.
Villanelle
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (Modern, Rare), Literature
This was used by English writer Jeanette Winterson in her novel 'The Passion' (1987). She may have taken it from the English word for a form of poetry, which is ultimately cognate with
Villana.
Victrix
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Means "a female victor" in Latin (corresponding to masculine
victor "conqueror"; see
Victor). This was an epithet the Roman goddess
Venus ("Venus the Victorious").
Victorique
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: French (Quebec, Rare, Archaic)
When borne by a female, this name is the French form of
Victorica, which is the original feminine form of
Victoricus. When borne by a male, this name is a variant spelling of
Victoric.
Victoriana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman, Spanish
Pronounced: beek-to-RYA-na(Spanish)
Victorian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History (Ecclesiastical), Provençal
English and Provençal form of
Victorianus. This name was borne by two obscure saints, from the 5th and 6th centuries AD.
Verticordia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Means "turner of hearts" from Latin
vertere "to turn, turn about" and
cor "heart" (genitive
cordis). This was an epithet of the Roman goddess
Venus.
Vance
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: VANS
From an English surname that was derived from Old English fenn meaning "marsh, fen".
Valerio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: va-LEH-ryo(Italian) ba-LEH-ryo(Spanish)
Valentyn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ukrainian
Other Scripts: Валентин(Ukrainian)
Uxi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Norse, Icelandic (Rare)
Old Norse byname and given name meaning "ox".
Utopia
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: Yoo-TOH-Pee-Uh(English) Ooh- TOH-Pyah(Italian)
As a word, "Utopia" stands for an ideal state or place.
Italian artist Anna Utopia Giordano is a bearer, which suggest potential usage in Italy.
Ulva
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish (Rare), Norwegian (Rare)
Swedish and Norwegian form of
Ulfva, an Old Swedish byname meaning "she-wolf".
This is a cognate of Ylva. Also compare the masculine equivalent Ulv.
Tyltyl
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Theatre
Meaning unknown. This is the name of a character from the 1908 play 'The Blue Bird' (French: 'L'Oiseau bleu') by Belgian playwright and poet Maurice Maeterlinck.
Torii
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Pronounced: Tor-e
Means "gates" in Japanese.
Tinsel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern, Rare)
Pronounced: tin-SUL
A "glittering metallic thread" invented in Nuremberg around 1610. It is usually found woven in fabric to give a shimmery aesthetic or hung in strands on trees, usually Christmas trees, during the winter season to simulate icicles. From the Middle French 'estincelle' meaning a "spark" or "flash", itself from the Vulgar Latin stincilla, a variant of scintilla meaning 'spark'.
A noted bearer is Canadian actress Tinsel Korey, born Harsha Patel, best known for her roles in the Twilight saga and the television series Blackstone.
Tell-no
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Puritan)
Referring to telling no lies.
Tancred
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Norman [1]
Pronounced: TANG-krid(English)
Norman form of the Germanic name
Thancrat meaning
"thought and counsel", derived from the elements
thank meaning "thought, consideration, thanks" (Old High German
danc, Old Frankish
þank) and
rat meaning "counsel, advice". This name was common among the medieval Norman nobility of southern Italy, being the name of the founder of the Hauteville family. It was borne by a leader of the First Crusade, described by Torquato Tasso in his epic poem
Jerusalem Delivered (1580).
Taffy
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: TAF-ee(English)
Anglicized form of
Dafydd. It has been used as a slang term for a Welshman.
Sweet
Usage: English
Pronounced: SWEET
From a nickname meaning "sweet, pleasant", from Old English swete.
Sunniva
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norwegian
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.
Sunnifa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Scandinavian
Strangeways
Means "person from Strangeways", Greater Manchester ("strong current").
Splinter
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Popular Culture
Pronounced: SPLIN-tər
Derived from the English word
splinter, which usually refers to a long and sharp fragment of material (often wood).
This is the name of several characters in popular culture, the most famous being Splinter from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series.
So-loved
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Puritan)
From John 3:16 of the New Testament of the Holy Bible, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him shall not perish, but have everlasting life."
Solomiya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ukrainian
Other Scripts: Соломія(Ukrainian)
Siri
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Pronounced: SEE-ree(Swedish, Norwegian)
Sigita
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Lithuanian, Latvian
Lithuanian feminine form of
Sigitas which also got adopted into Latvian usage.
Shinku
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Pronounced: Shi-n-ku
Red Rose or Real Red.
Shinju
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 真珠(Japanese Kanji) しんじゅ(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: SHEEN-JOO
From Japanese
真珠 (shinju) meaning
"pearl".
Shari
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SHAR-ee, SHEHR-ee
Shangrila
Usage: Pakistani, Tibetan
Shangrila is a name of Tibetan origin. The name means "heaven on earth". The name is mainly known in northern Pakistan. The "Shangrila Lake" in northern Pakistan is very famous among the country.
Shanghai
Usage: Chinese, English, German, French
Other Scripts: 上海(Chinese)
Pronounced: SHANG-KHIE(Chinese) SHANG-hie(English) shang-HIE(English)
Means
"upon the sea" in Chinese, from
上 (shàng) meaning "above" and
海 (hǎi) meaning "sea, ocean". This is the name of the largest city in
China.
Schwangau
From the name of a town in southern Germany, possibly related to German Schwan meaning "swan".
Sânziana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Romanian, Romanian Mythology, Theatre
Sânziana, also known as
Iana Sânziana, is a fairy in Romanian mythology. Her name is a contraction of Romanian
sfânt "holy" and
zână "fairy" - but, according to Mircea Eliade, ultimately also influenced by the Latin phrase
Sancta Diana "Holy
Diana". Its use as a personal given name was at least partly due to a comedy written by Vasile Alecsandri, 'Sânziana și Pepelea' (1881), which George Stephănescu then made into an opera. The legendary creature was often associated with an annual folk festival celebrated on June 24, as well as the
Galium verum or
Cruciata laevipes flowers.
Sakurako
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 桜子, etc.(Japanese Kanji) さくらこ(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: SA-KOO-RA-KO
From Japanese
桜 (sakura) meaning "cherry blossom" and
子 (ko) meaning "child". Other kanji combinations are also possible.
Səbinə
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Azerbaijani
Derived from Arabic صَبِيَّة (ṣabiyya) meaning "girl, young woman".
Ruthella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: roo-THEL-lə, roo-THEL-lah
Ruth 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Estonian, Spanish, Biblical, Biblical Latin
Other Scripts: רוּת(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: ROOTH(English) ROOT(German, Spanish)
From the Hebrew name
רוּת (Ruṯ), probably derived from the word
רְעוּת (reʿuṯ) meaning
"female friend". This is the name of the central character in the Book of Ruth in the
Old Testament. She was a Moabite woman who accompanied her mother-in-law
Naomi back to Bethlehem after Ruth's husband died. There she met and married
Boaz. She was an ancestor of King
David.
As a Christian name, Ruth has been in use since the Protestant Reformation. In England it was associated with the archaic word ruth meaning "pity, compassion" (now only commonly seen in the word ruthless). The name became very popular in America following the birth of "Baby" Ruth Cleveland (1891-1904), the daughter of President Grover Cleveland.
Ruf
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Руфь(Russian)
Rose-of-Sharon
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ROWS-of-SHARE-on
From the flower. This name was used in The Pony Express Rider.
Roj
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Kurdish
Means "day" in Kurdish.
Rex
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: REHKS
From Latin rex meaning "king". It has been used as a given name since the 19th century.
Renzo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish (Latin American)
Pronounced: REHN-tso(Italian) REHN-so(Latin American Spanish)
Regenbogen
From a German nickname meaning "rainbow", probably a habitational name for someone who lived in a house with the sign of a rainbow. As a Jewish surname it is ornamental.
Red
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: REHD
From the English word for the colour, ultimately derived from Old English read. It was originally a nickname given to a person with red hair or a ruddy complexion.
Rapp 2
From Middle High German raben meaning "raven", a nickname for a person with black hair.
Raphaëlle
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: RA-FA-EHL
Rafaela
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese
Other Scripts: Рафаела(Macedonian)
Pronounced: ra-fa-EH-la(Spanish)
Spanish and Portuguese feminine form of
Raphael.
Prinzander
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Filipino (Rare)
Přemysl
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Czech
Pronounced: PREH-mi-səl
From an Old Slavic name that meant
"trick, stratagem", from the prefix
pre "over, again, very" and
myslĭ "thought, idea". This was the name of the legendary founder of the Přemyslid dynasty, which ruled Bohemia from the 9th to the 14th century.
Polina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Greek
Other Scripts: Полина(Russian, Bulgarian) Поліна(Ukrainian) Πωλίνα(Greek)
Pronounced: pu-LYEE-nə(Russian)
Either a Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian and Greek form of
Paulina or a short form of
Apollinariya.
Pola
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Catalan, Breton
Poesy
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (South, Rare, Archaic)
Originally a variant of
Posy, this name was sometimes associated with
poetry, from Old French
poesie, ultimately from Greek
poesis "composition, poetry," from
poein "to make or compose"
Pionke
Germanized form of Slavic Pinoek, which is a nickname from pionek ‘puppet’.
Perfectus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Late Roman
Derived from Latin
perfectus meaning "achieved, finished, completed" as well as "perfected".
This name was borne by a Spanish saint, who was one of the 48 martyrs that were beheaded in Córdoba by the Moors in the middle of the 9th century.
Peninnah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: ףְּנִנָּה(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: pi-NIN-ə(English) pi-NEE-nə(English)
Means
"pearl, coral, precious stone" in Hebrew. In the
Old Testament this is the name of one of the wives of
Elkanah, the other being
Hannah.
Pearlita
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), American (Hispanic), Jamaican Patois, Trinidadian Creole
Anglicized variant of
Perlita, or a combination of
Pearl and the Spanish diminutive suffix -
ita (to mean "little pearl").
Parfait
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French (Rare), French (Quebec, Rare), French (African)
Pronounced: PARH-FE(French)
Pamphiel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch (Archaic), Flemish (Archaic)
Pronounced: pahm-FEEL
Orpheus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ὀρφεύς(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: OR-PEWS(Classical Greek) AWR-fee-əs(English)
Perhaps related to Greek
ὄρφνη (orphne) meaning
"the darkness of night". In Greek
mythology Orpheus was a poet and musician who went to the underworld to retrieve his dead wife Eurydice. He succeeded in charming Hades with his lyre, and he was allowed to lead his wife out of the underworld on the condition that he not look back at her until they reached the surface. Unfortunately, just before they arrived his love for her overcame his will and he glanced back at her, causing her to be drawn back to Hades.
Orphélie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Modern, Rare), French (Belgian, Modern, Rare)
Of debated origin and meaning. Theories include a contraction of
Orphée and
Ophélie.
Orphée
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Gallicized), French (Rare), French (Belgian, Rare)
French form of
Orpheus. Although the mythological character is masculine, this name is now more frequently borne by women than by men.
Orphéa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Belgian, Modern, Rare)
Orphea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American, Rare)
Orange
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AWR-inj
First found as a feminine given name in medieval times, in the forms
Orenge and
Orengia. The etymology is uncertain, and may be after the place in France named
Orange. This is a corruption of
Arausio, the name of a Celtic water god which possibly meant "temple (of the forehead)". Later it was conflated with the name of the fruit, which comes from the Sanskrit for "orange tree",
naranga. The word was used to describe the fruit's colour in the 16th century.
Orange is also a surname, which may be derived from the medieval feminine name, or directly from the French place name. First used with the modern spelling in the 17th century, apparently due to William, Prince of Orange, who later became William III. His title is from the French place name.
Ophélianne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Quebec, Modern, Rare)
Oona
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish, Finnish
Pronounced: OO-nə(English) O-nah(Finnish)
Anglicized form of
Úna, as well as a Finnish form.
Nuh
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic, Turkish
Other Scripts: نوح(Arabic)
Pronounced: NOOH(Arabic)
Arabic and Turkish form of
Noah 1.
Noé
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French, Spanish, Portuguese, Hungarian, Biblical French, Biblical Spanish, Biblical Portuguese
Pronounced: NAW-EH(French) no-EH(Spanish)
French, Spanish, Portuguese and Hungarian form of
Noah 1.
Nivi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greenlandic
Short form of Greenlandic niviarsiaq meaning "young girl".
Nellie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Swedish
Pronounced: NEHL-ee(English) NEH-li(Swedish)
Nectaire
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History (Ecclesiastical)
Nari
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Korean
Other Scripts: 나리(Korean Hangul)
Pronounced: NA-REE
Means "lily" in Korean.
Narcisse
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: NAR-SEES
French masculine and feminine form of
Narcissus. This is also the French word for the narcissus flower.
Nadeshiko
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese (Modern, Rare), Popular Culture
Other Scripts: 撫子(Japanese Kanji) なでし子(Kanji/Hiragana) なでしこ(Japanese Hiragana) ナデシコ(Japanese Katakana)
Pronounced: NA-DEH-SHKO(Japanese) na-deh-shko(Popular Culture)
From 撫子
(nadeshiko), generally referring to any flower belonging to the Dianthus genus but can also refer to a lovable, caressable child. It is derived from 撫で
(nade), the continuative form of classical verb 撫づ
(nadzu) meaning "to stroke, caress," combined with a continuative suffix
shi and 子
(ko) meaning "child."
Fictional examples include Nadeshiko Kinomoto (木之本 撫子) from 'Cardcaptor Sakura' and Nadeshiko Fujisaki (藤咲 なでしこ) from 'Shugo Chara!'.
This name is rarely used.
Mosha
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Russian
Morpheus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Μορφεύς(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: MOR-PEWS(Classical Greek) MAWR-fee-əs(English)
Derived from Greek
μορφή (morphe) meaning
"shape", referring to the shapes seen in dreams. In Greek
mythology Morpheus was the god of dreams.
Morfeu
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Catalan, Portuguese, Romanian
Catalan, Portuguese and Romanian form of
Morpheus.
Monimos
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Semitic Mythology (Hellenized)
Greek name of a god worshipped at Edessa in northern Mesopotamia, from Arabic Mun‘îm meaning "the favourable one", which is derived from the root n‘m "to be pleasing".
Monime
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek, History
Other Scripts: Μονίμη(Ancient Greek)
Feminine form of
Monimos. This was the name of a wife of King
Mithradates VI of Pontus. A character in Jean Racine's tragic play
Mithridate (1673) was based on her.
Momi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hawaiian
Pronounced: MO-mee
Means "pearl" in Hawaiian.
Moll
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MAHL
Diminutive of
Molly. Daniel Defoe used this name for the heroine of his 1722 novel "The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders".
Moll
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval English
Pronounced: MAHL(Middle English) MAWL(Middle English)
Medieval English diminutive of
Oliver.
Miuccia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Italian diminutive of
Maria (via
Mariuccia). It is borne by Italian fashion designer Miuccia Prada (1949-), born Maria Bianchi.
Mira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Judeo-Spanish, Judeo-Catalan
Judeo-Spanish short form of
Mirian and Judeo-Catalan short form of
Miriam. In some cases it might also be a direct adoption of Judeo-Spanish
mira "myrrh" (compare Spanish
mirra) or an adoption of the popular Catalan feminine Mira, meaning "notable".
Mina 3
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Persian
Other Scripts: مینا(Persian)
Pronounced: mee-NAW
Means "azure, enamel" in Persian.
Midnight
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Obscure (Modern)
From Middle English midnight (also as middelniȝte), from Old English midniht, middeniht, middeneaht, (also as midderneaht and middelniht), from Proto-Germanic *midjanahts, equivalent to mid- + night.
Merripen
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Romani
Romani name of uncertain origin and meaning. It might be derived from Romani miripen "manner; fashion" or else from Romani meriben or merapen meaning "death".
Maxime
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: MAK-SEEM
Mariuccia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Archaic)
Pronounced: mah-RYOOTCH-tchah
Pet form of
Maria (very old-fashioned)
Mari 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Estonian, Finnish, Welsh, Breton, Hungarian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Georgian, Armenian
Other Scripts: მარი(Georgian) Մարի(Armenian)
Pronounced: MAH-ree(Finnish) MAW-ree(Hungarian) mah-REE(Swedish)
Estonian, Finnish, Welsh and Breton form of
Maria, as well as a Hungarian
diminutive of
Mária. It is also a Scandinavian, Georgian and Armenian form of the French name
Marie.
Mari 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 真理, 真里, etc.(Japanese Kanji) まり(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: MA-REE
From Japanese
真 (ma) meaning "real, genuine" combined with
理 (ri) meaning "reason, logic" or
里 (ri) meaning "village". Many other combinations of kanji characters can form this name.
Managold
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic [1]
Old German name derived from the elements
manag "many" and
walt "power, authority".
Mánagarmr
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norse Mythology, Old Norse
Means "moon-hound". This is another name for
Hati.
Madara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Latvian
From the Latvian name for a type of flowering plant, known as cleavers or bedstraw in English.
Lulu 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: لؤلؤ(Arabic)
Pronounced: LOO-loo
Means "pearls" in Arabic.
Love-lust
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature
The name of a character in the novel The Pilgrim's Progress (1678) by John Bunyan.
Locke
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (American, Rare)
Transferred use of the surname
Locke.
Llewellyn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: loo-EHL-in(English)
Lita
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Short form of names ending in lita. This name was brought to the public eye in the 1920s due to Lita Grey (1908-1995), who was the second wife of Charlie Chaplin. Her birth name was Lillita Louise MacMurray.
Liselotte
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Danish, Swedish, Dutch, German
Pronounced: LEE-zeh-law-tə(German)
Licoricia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Jewish, Judeo-Anglo-Norman
This name was recorded in the Jewish community in medieval England. It was famously borne by Licoricia of Winchester who was one of the most prominent female bankers and one of the most notable English Jewish women of her time.
Licoricia is derived from the English word
licorice (via Old French
licoresse) and ultimately from Greek
glukurrhiza (
γλυκύρριζα):
glukus (
γλυκύς) "sweet" and
rhiza (
ῥίζα) "root".
Both the (folk) etymological meaning of "sweet" and the associative meaning of the licorice itself fit well into the Jewish naming conventions of the time: names whose meanings denote desirable traits were common (especially for girls, compare
Doltza,
Beila, etc.) as were names denoting valuable things (compare
Diamante, etc.).
Lemoine
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: lə-MOIN
From a French surname meaning "the monk" in French.
Leimomi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hawaiian
Pronounced: lay-MO-mee
Means "pearl lei" or "pearl child" from Hawaiian lei "flowers, lei, child" and momi "pearl".
Lala
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Romani
Directly taken from Romani lala "ruby; red; fiery".
Occasionally found in the 1800s.
Lafayette
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (American, Rare)
Pronounced: lə-fəy-ET(American English)
Transferred use of the surname
Lafayette. In the US, it was first used in the late 1700s as a masculine given name in honor of the Marquis de Lafayette, a hero of the American War of Independence (who also left his name in a city of west-central Indiana on the Wabash River northwest of Indianapolis).
Kunigunde
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Rare)
Pronounced: koo-nee-GUWN-də
Derived from the Old German element
kunni "clan, family" (or the related prefix
kuni "royal") combined with
gunda "war". It was borne by a 4th-century Swiss
saint, a companion of Saint
Ursula. Another saint by this name was the 11th-century wife of the Holy Roman emperor Henry II.
Krah
Nickname from Middle High German kra "crow" given to someone who resembles a crow.
Kappel
Name for a person who lived near or worked at a chapel, ultimately from Late Latin
cappella, a
diminutive of
cappa "cape", arising from the holy relic of the torn cape of
Saint Martin, which was kept in small churches.
Kandaĵa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Esperanto
Pronounced: kan-DA-zha
Means "made of candy" in Esperanto, a derivative of kando meaning "candy, rock sugar".
Kaloyan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Bulgarian
Other Scripts: Калоян(Bulgarian)
From Greek
καλός Ἰωάννης (kalos Ioannes) meaning
"handsome John", the nickname of a 13th-century emperor of Bulgaria. He successfully defended the empire from the Fourth Crusade.
Jūra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Lithuanian
Derived from the Lithuanian noun jūra meaning "sea".
Joséphine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: ZHO-ZEH-FEEN
French feminine form of
Joseph. A notable bearer of this name was the first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte, Joséphine de Beauharnais (1763-1814).
Jojo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JO-jo
Jinju
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Korean
Other Scripts: 진주(Korean Hangul) 珍珠, 眞珠, 鎭珠, 鎭周, 鎭柱, 鎭主, 珍住, etc.(Korean Hanja)
Pronounced: CHEEN-JOO
From Sino-Korean 珍珠/眞珠
(jinju) meaning "pearl," also written with other hanja like 鎭
(jin) meaning "quellable," 周
(ju) meaning "circumference," 柱
(ju) meaning "pillar, column; branch," 主
(ju) meaning "master, proprietor" or 住
(ju) meaning "live, reside, dwell."
Female bearers of this name include professional golfer Hong Jin-joo (1983-) and actress Park Jin-joo (1988-).
Jam
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Persian Mythology
Other Scripts: جم(Persian)
Pronounced: JAM(Persian)
Persian form of Avestan
𐬫𐬌𐬨𐬀 (Yima) meaning
"twin" (related to Sanskrit
Yama). This was the name of a mythological king, more commonly called
Jamshid.
Jagoda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian, Polish
Other Scripts: Јагода(Serbian, Macedonian)
Pronounced: ya-GAW-da(Polish)
Means
"strawberry" in South Slavic, and
"berry" in Polish. Also in Poland, this can be a
diminutive of
Jadwiga.
Jade
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English, French
Pronounced: JAYD(English) ZHAD(French)
From the name of the precious stone that is often used in carvings. It is derived from Spanish (piedra de la) ijada meaning "(stone of the) flank", relating to the belief that jade could cure renal colic. As a given name, it came into general use during the 1970s. It was initially unisex, though it is now mostly feminine.
Issa
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: عيسى(Arabic)
Pronounced: ‘EE-sa
Alternate transcription of Arabic
عيسى (see
Isa 1).
Isleen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish (Anglicized, Rare, Archaic)
Of uncertain origin and meaning. Theories include an Anglicization of
Aisling.
Iselin
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norwegian
Pronounced: is-e-LEEN
Norwegian adoption of an originally German short form of Old High German names containing the element
isarn meaning "iron" (e.g.,
Isengard,
Iselinde,
Isburg), as well as an adoption of an obsolete German diminutive of
Isa 2 and a Norwegian adoption and adaption of the Irish name
Aisling (compare
Isleen).
Hubert
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, German, Dutch, French, Polish, Czech, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: HYOO-bərt(English) HOO-behrt(German) HUY-bərt(Dutch) UY-BEHR(French) KHOO-behrt(Polish)
Means
"bright heart", derived from the Old German elements
hugu "mind, thought, spirit" and
beraht "bright".
Saint Hubert was an 8th-century bishop of Maastricht who is considered the patron saint of hunters. The
Normans brought the name to England, where it replaced an Old English
cognate Hygebeorht. It died out during the Middle Ages but was revived in the 19th century
[2].
Hortensia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman, Spanish
Pronounced: or-TEHN-sya(Spanish)
Feminine form of the Roman family name Hortensius, possibly derived from Latin hortus meaning "garden".
Hortense
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, English
Pronounced: AWR-TAHNS(French) HAWR-tehns(English)
Hold-the-world
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature
The name of a character in the novel The Pilgrim's Progress (1678) by John Bunyan.
Hiya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hindi, Urdu
Other Scripts: हिय(Hindi) حاِیآ(Urdu)
Pronounced: heeah
Meaning "Heart Full of Happiness and Joy".
Hime
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese (Rare)
Other Scripts: 姫, 妃, 陽芽, 陽女, 陽愛, 陽姫, 妃芽, 妃萌, 広愛, etc.(Japanese Kanji) ひめ(Japanese Hiragana) ヒメ(Japanese Katakana)
Pronounced: KHEE-MEH
From 姫 (hime) meaning "princess" (also used for this name as 妃), derived from a combination of 日 (hi) meaning "sun" (used as a prefix or appellation in reference to the imperial family) and 女 (me) meaning "woman."
It can also be written with two kanji, a (partial) hi kanji like 陽 (same as 日) or 広 meaning "spacious, vast, wide" combined with a me kanji such as 女, 芽/萌 meaning "bud, sprout" or 愛 meaning "love, admiration."
Helmut
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: HEHL-moot(German)
Derived from the Old German element
helm "helmet" (or perhaps
heil "healthy, whole") combined with
muot "mind, spirit".
Heledd
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: HEH-ledh
Meaning unknown. This is the narrator of the medieval poem Canu Heledd, which laments the loss of her family, including her brother Prince Cynddylan, and the destruction of the kingdom of Powys in the 7th century.
Heart
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Hazen
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (American, Rare)
Pronounced: HAY-zən(American English)
Transferred use of the surname
Hazen.
Hazel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: HAY-zəl
From the English word hazel for the tree or the light brown colour, derived ultimately from Old English hæsel. It was coined as a given name in the 19th century and quickly became popular, reaching the 18th place for girls in the United States by 1897. It fell out of fashion in the second half of the 20th century, but has since recovered.
Hasenkamp
From a northern German place name meaning "rabbit field", from Old Saxon haso "hare" and kamp "field" (from Latin campus).
Hase
From Middle High German and Middle Low German hase meaning "hare, rabbit". This was a nickname for a person who was quick or timid.
Harisha
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Kannada, Telugu
Other Scripts: ಹರೀಶ(Kannada) హరీష(Telugu)
Variant and feminine form of
Harish.
Haoli
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Chinese
Pronounced: HOW-LEE
From Chinese hao, meaning "pearl", and li, meaning "black". Note that other combinations are also possible.
Hannorah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish (Archaic), English (British, Rare)
Pronounced: huh-NOR-ah(Irish)
Haniel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend, Brazilian
Variant of
Hanniel used in the King James Version of 1 Chronicles 7:39, where it belongs to one of the sons of Ulla "and a prince and hero of the tribe of Asher". It has also been used to refer to the angel
Anael.
Guy 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French
Pronounced: GIE(English) GEE(French)
Old French form of
Wido. The
Normans introduced it to England, where it was common until the time of Guy Fawkes (1570-1606), a revolutionary who attempted to blow up the British parliament. The name was revived in the 19th century, due in part to characters in the novels
Guy Mannering (1815) by Walter Scott and
The Heir of Redclyffe (1854) by C. M. Yonge.
Grozdan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Bulgarian, Macedonian
Other Scripts: Гроздан(Bulgarian, Macedonian)
Derived from Bulgarian
грозде (grozde) or Macedonian
грозје (grozje) meaning
"grapes".
Graham
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish, English
Pronounced: GRAY-əm(English) GRAM(English)
From a Scottish surname, originally derived from the English place name
Grantham, which probably meant
"gravelly homestead" in Old English. The surname was first taken to Scotland in the 12th century by the Norman baron William de Graham
[1]. A famous bearer of the surname was Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), the Scottish-Canadian-American inventor who devised the telephone. A famous bearer of the given name was the British author Graham Greene (1904-1991).
During the 20th century, Graham was more common in the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada than it was in the United States. However, it has been rising on the American charts since around 2006.
Gosia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: GAW-sha
Goody
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), African American (Rare)
Transferred use of the surname
Goody.
Godric
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Anglo-Saxon [1]
Pronounced: GAHD-rik(English)
Means
"god's ruler", derived from Old English
god combined with
ric "ruler, king". This name died out a few centuries after the
Norman Conquest.
Glyke
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek
γλυκύς (glykys) "sweet taste"
Ginta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Latvian
Of uncertain origin and meaning. Theories include a feminine form of
Gints, a feminine form of
Gintars and a purely phonetic coinage. This name is borne by Latvian model Ginta Lapina (b. 1989).
Freeman
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: FREE-mən
From an English surname meaning "free man". It originally denoted a person who was not a serf.
Frankincense
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Popular Culture (Modern, Rare)
Derived from Old French
franc encens meaning "high quality incense"; the word is primarily used to refer to an aromatic resin from trees of the genus
Boswellia, and is mentioned in the Christian Bible as one of the three gifts given to the baby Jesus by the wise men.
Character in the movie "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers," 1954.
Flossy
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Fayette
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Dutch (Rare)
Pronounced: fah-YET(English)
Short form of
Lafayette, or else from a surname ultimately derived from Old French
faie "beech", which originally denoted a person who lived in or by a beech wood, or who was from any of various places in France named with the word.
Fawnie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Romani
Derived from the Romani word fawnie "ring; finger ring".
Faeryn
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Scottish, English
Evaluna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American), American (Hispanic, Modern)
Pronounced: eh-ba-LOO-na(Latin American Spanish)
Combination of
Eva and
Luna. This is the name of Venezuelan actress and singer Evaluna Montaner (1997-).
Ephraim
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Hebrew, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Other Scripts: אֶףְרָיִם(Hebrew) Ἐφραίμ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: EEF-ree-əm(English) EEF-rəm(English)
From the Hebrew name
אֶףְרָיִם (ʾEfrayim) meaning
"fruitful". In the
Old Testament Ephraim is a son of
Joseph and
Asenath and the founder of one of the twelve tribes of Israel. This name was also borne by two early
saints: Ephraim or Ephrem the Syrian, a 4th-century theologian, and Ephraim of Antioch, a 6th-century patriarch of Antioch.
Elza
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (American), Hebrew
Pronounced: EL-za(American English)
Possibly a variant or short form of
Eliezer used in the Southern United States.
Eliyahu
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אֵלִיָּהוּ(Hebrew)
Pronounced: eh-lee-YAH-hoo
Elephantis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek
Other Scripts: Ἐλεφαντίς(Ancient Greek)
Derived from Greek ἐλέφας
(elephas) meaning "elephant". The name of a Greek poet and physician who was renowned in classical literature, likely not her real name as taking animal names was common at the time. Also the name of a wife of
Danaus in Greek mythology.
Edom
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Hebrew [1]
Other Scripts: אֱדוֹם(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: EE-dəm(English)
From Hebrew
אָדֹם (ʾaḏom) meaning
"red" [2]. According to the
Old Testament,
Esau, who is described as having red skin, was given this name because he traded his birthright for a helping of red broth. The bible goes on to tell that Esau was the founder of the ancient nation of Edom, located to the south of the kingdom of Judah.
Edelweiss
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Various
Pronounced: AY-dəl-vies(English) EH-DEHL-VIES(French) EH-DEHL-VEHS(French) eh-dehl-VIES(Italian) EH-dehl-vies(Italian)
From the name of the edelweiss flower (species Leontopodium alpinum). It is derived from the German elements edel "noble" and weiß "white." The name of the flower is spelled Edelweiß in German; Edelweiss is an Anglicized spelling.
Ebbe
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Danish, Swedish
Pronounced: EHB-beh(Swedish)
Ebba 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Danish
Pronounced: EHB-ba(Swedish)
Dulcie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DUL-see
From Latin
dulcis meaning
"sweet". It was used in the Middle Ages in the spellings
Dowse and
Duce, and was recoined in the 19th century.
Dulcibella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Archaic)
From Latin
dulcis "sweet" and
bella "beautiful". The usual medieval spelling of this name was
Dowsabel, and the Latinized form
Dulcibella was revived in the 18th century.
Dubi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: דובי(Hebrew)
Pronounced: DOO-bee
Means "teddy bear" in Hebrew. It's typically used as a diminutive form of
Dov.
Douglas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish, English
Pronounced: DUG-ləs
From a Scottish surname that was from the name of a town in Lanarkshire, itself named after a tributary of the River Clyde called the Douglas Water. It means "dark river", derived from Gaelic dubh "dark" and glais "water, river" (an archaic word related to glas "grey, green"). This was a Scottish Lowland clan, the leaders of which were powerful earls in the medieval period. The Gaelic form is Dùghlas or Dùbhghlas. It has been used as a given name since the 16th century.
Doru
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Romanian
Derived from Romanian dor meaning "longing".
Dolly
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DAHL-ee
Diminutive of
Dorothy.
Doll and
Dolly were used from the 16th century, and the common English word
doll (for the plaything) is derived from them. In modern times this name is also sometimes used as a diminutive of
Dolores.
Dimple
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Indian
Pronounced: DIM-pəl(English)
From the English word dimple, likely of Germanic origin; related to German Tümpel "pond".
Die-well
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Puritan)
Referring to living, and ultimately dying, a godly life.
Diana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan, German, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Estonian, Lithuanian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Armenian, Georgian, Roman Mythology
Other Scripts: Диана(Russian, Bulgarian) Діана(Ukrainian) Դիանա(Armenian) დიანა(Georgian)
Pronounced: die-AN-ə(English) DYA-na(Spanish, Italian, Polish) dee-U-nu(European Portuguese) jee-U-nu(Brazilian Portuguese) dee-A-nə(Catalan) dee-A-na(German, Dutch, Latin) dyee-A-nu(Ukrainian) DI-ya-na(Czech) DEE-a-na(Slovak)
Means
"divine, goddesslike", a derivative of Latin
dia or
diva meaning
"goddess". It is ultimately related to the same Indo-European root *
dyew- found in
Zeus. Diana was a Roman goddess of the moon, hunting, forests and childbirth, often identified with the Greek goddess
Artemis.
As a given name, Diana has been regularly used since the Renaissance. It became more common in the English-speaking world following Walter Scott's novel Rob Roy (1817), which featured a character named Diana Vernon. It also appeared in George Meredith's novel Diana of the Crossways (1885). A notable bearer was the British royal Diana Spencer (1961-1997), the Princess of Wales.
Dean
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DEEN
From a surname, see
Dean 1 and
Dean 2. The actor James Dean (1931-1955) was a famous bearer of the surname.
Darya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew (Modern)
Other Scripts: דריה, דר-יה(Hebrew)
Pronounced: DAHR-yah
Combination of the name
Dar, means "(mother of) pearl" with the letters יה (ya) (which are part of the name of God) means "Pearl of God" in Hebrew.
Darel
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Hebrew (Rare)
Other Scripts: דראל(Hebrew)
Pronounced: DAR-əl(English) dahr-EL(Hebrew)
In Hebrew it’s a combination of the name
Dar, means "(mother of) pearl, nacre" and
El, reference to God. In English it’s used as variant of
Darell.
Cushla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Australian, Rare), English (New Zealand, Rare)
Derived form Irish Gaelic cuisle "pulse". This name was created in the early 1800s from the Irish term of endearment cuisle mo cridhe (usually anglicized as Cushla Macree, in former times also Cushlamachree) which translates to "pulse of my heart"; it is popularly interpreted to mean "beat of my heart".
This name has hardly ever been used in Ireland itself.
Cupidon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Roman Mythology (Gallicized), Literature, French (African, Rare), Afro-American (Slavery-era)
French form of
Cupid. It was mentioned in Marquis de Sade's novel 'The 120 Days of Sodom' (1785) as belonging to one of the male victims.
Croí
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Irish (Modern, Rare)
Pronounced: KREE
Means "heart; core; sweetheart" in Irish.
Cotton
English: habitational name from any of numerous places named from Old English
cotum (dative plural of
cot) ‘at the cottages or huts’ (or sometimes possibly from a Middle English plural,
coten). Examples include Coton (Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, Staffordshire), Cottam (East Yorkshire, Lancashire, Nottinghamshire), and Cotham (Nottinghamshire).
French: from a diminutive of Old French
cot(t)e ‘coat (of mail)’ (see
Cott).
Cordero
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (American, Modern), African American
Pronounced: kawr-DEHR-o(English)
From Spanish
cordero meaning "lamb", perhaps via the Spanish surname
Cordero (which originally denoted either a shepherd or someone thought to resemble a lamb). This name was popularized by a character on the soap opera
One Life to Live: Cordero "Cord" Roberts, a character that debuted in 1986.
Cordell
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: kawr-DEHL
From an English surname meaning "maker of cord" or "seller of cord" in Middle English.
Corbin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KAWR-bin
From a French surname that was derived from
corbeau "raven", originally denoting a person who had dark hair. The name was probably popularized in America by actor Corbin Bernsen (1954-)
[1].
Coppélia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Theatre, French (Rare)
The name of a life-sized mechanical doll created by the mysterious Doctor Coppélius in Léo Delibes' comic ballet
Coppélia (1870), based on two macabre stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann. The inventor's name is possibly a Latinized form of Yiddish
Koppel. Alternatively this name may be inspired by Greek κοπελιά
(kopelia) meaning "young woman", a dialectal variant of κοπέλα
(kopela).
Columba
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Late Roman
Pronounced: ko-LOOM-ba(Late Latin) kə-LUM-bə(English)
Late Latin name meaning
"dove". The dove is a symbol of the Holy Spirit in Christianity. This was the name of several early
saints both masculine and feminine, most notably the 6th-century Irish monk Saint Columba (or Colum) who established a monastery on the island of Iona off the coast of Scotland. He is credited with the conversion of Scotland to Christianity.
Cocytus
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Κωκυτός(Ancient Greek)
From Κωκυτός meaning "lamentation"
Cockburn
Originally indicated someone who came from Cockburn, a place in Berwickshire. The place name is derived from Old English cocc "rooster" and burna "stream".
Chrysalis
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Filipino (Rare)
Pronounced: KRIS-ə-lis(English)
From the word referring to the pupa of a butterfly or moth or the cocoon where the pupa is enclosed inside, derived via Latin from Ancient Greek χρυσαλλίς
(khrusallís), from χρυσός
(khrusós) meaning "gold."
A My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic villain bears this name.
Chimlim
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Thai (Rare)
Other Scripts: จิ้มลิ้ม(Thai)
Pronounced: cheem-LEEM
Means "lovely, beautiful, pleasing" in Thai.
Cherubino
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval Italian, Italian (Rare), Theatre
Derived from Latin
cherubin meaning "cherubs, cherubim", which refers to a class of angels known as the
cherubim. The term ultimately comes from Hebrew, but it has been theorized that the Jews borrowed the word from Akkadian
kuribu meaning "to bless" or from Assyrian ܟܪܘܒܐ
(karabu) meaning "great, mighty".
In theatre, Cherubino is the name of a character in Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro (1786).
Known real-life bearers of this name include the Italian painter and engraver Cherubino Alberti (1553-1615) and the Italian historian Cherubino Ghirardacci (1519-1598).
Charon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Χάρων(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: KEHR-ən(English)
Possibly means
"fierce brightness" in Greek. In Greek
mythology Charon was the operator of the ferry that brought the newly dead over the River Acheron into Hades.
Chariton
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Χαρίτων(Ancient Greek)
Derived from Greek
χάρις (charis) meaning
"grace, kindness". This was the name of a 1st-century Greek novelist.
Charibert
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic [1]
Old German (Frankish) variant of
Haribert. This name was borne by two Merovingian kings of the Franks (6th and 7th centuries).
Changed
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Puritan, Rare)
Used in reference to a "change of heart."
Carnevale
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: kar-neh-VA-leh
From an Italian nickname meaning "carnival", perhaps given to a festive person.
Cardinal
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: KAHRD-nəl, KAHR-də-nəl
From the name of the (sometimes) bright red bird.
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Possibly after the bird itself
Camion
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
From an archaic French word meaning "small pin". This is the name of the titular character in Mademoiselle de Lubert's fairy tale "Princess Camion" (1743). Camion is the name of a princess transformed into a tiny doll, given to the prince Zirphil to be his wife. In modern French the word ''camion'' means "truck".
Cameo
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KAM-ee-0
It is of Italian and Middle French origin, and the meaning is "skin". From Italian cammeo which refers to a gem portrait carved in relief.
Calumina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Scottish (Rare, Archaic)
Calum
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish Gaelic
Pronounced: KAL-əm
Cain
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Latin
Other Scripts: קָיִן(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: KAYN(English)
From the Hebrew name
קָיִן (Qayin) possibly meaning
"acquired", from the root
קָנָה (qana) meaning "to acquire, to purchase". In Genesis in the
Old Testament Cain is the first son of
Adam and
Eve. He killed his brother
Abel after God accepted Abel's offering of meat instead of his offering of plant-based foods. After this Cain was banished to be a wanderer.
Buraunī
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese (Modern, Rare)
Other Scripts: ブラウニー(Japanese Katakana)
Pronounced: buwrowni
From ブラウニー (Buraunī) meaning "Brownie".
Bubi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German
Pronounced: BOO-bee
A nickname meaning "little boy" (from the German word
Bube "boy").
It was borne by the German boxing champion Bubi Scholz.
Bruce
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish, English
Pronounced: BROOS
From a Scottish surname, of Norman origin, which probably originally referred to the town of Brix in France. The surname was borne by Robert the Bruce, a Scottish hero of the 14th century who achieved independence from England and became the king of Scotland. It has been in use as a given name in the English-speaking world since the 19th century, becoming especially popular in the 1940s and 50s. Notable bearers include Chinese-American actor Bruce Lee (1940-1973), American musician Bruce Springsteen (1949-), and American actor Bruce Willis (1955-). It is also the real name of the comic book superheroes Batman (Bruce Wayne), created 1939, and the Hulk (Bruce Banner), created 1962.
Brownie
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Bram
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Dutch
Pronounced: BRAM(English) BRAHM(Dutch)
Short form of
Abraham. This name was borne by Bram Stoker (1847-1912), the Irish author who wrote
Dracula.
Braid
From the Braid Hills.
Bluebell
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Popular Culture
Pronounced: BLOO-bel(English)
From the name of the flower, used to some extent as a first name when flower names were in vogue at the end of the 19th century.
Bibi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 日々, 妃々, 美々, etc.(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: BEE-BEE
From Japanese 日 (
bi) meaning "day, sun, Japan", 妃 (
bi) meaning "a ruler's wife; queen; empress" or 美 (
bi) meaning "beautiful" and duplicated using 々. Other kanji with the same pronunciations can also be used to form this name.
Usage of this name is, most likely, influenced by the name Vivi.
Berlinerblau
Usage: German, Jewish
Other Scripts: בערלינערבלאו(Hebrew)
Means “Prussian blue” in German. A notable bearer of this surname is Jacques Berlinerblau, a professor of Jewish civilization, and Stefania Berlinerblau, an American anatomist and physician.
Baptistine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Rare)
Pronounced: BA-TEES-TEEN
Babiole
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Means "bauble" or "trinket" in French. According to the French fairytale, Babiole is the daughter of a queen. The fairy Fanfreluche tricks the queen into turning her daughter into a monkey.
Babe
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BAYB
From a nickname meaning
"baby", also a slang term meaning
"attractive person". As a feminine name, in some cases it is a
diminutive of
Barbara.
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)
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.
Ariel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew, English, French, Spanish, Polish, Biblical, Biblical Greek
Other Scripts: אֲרִיאֵל(Hebrew) Ἀριήλ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: a-ree-EHL(Hebrew) EHR-ee-əl(English) AR-ee-əl(English) A-RYEHL(French) a-RYEHL(Spanish) A-ryehl(Polish)
Means
"lion of God" in Hebrew, from
אֲרִי (ʾari) meaning "lion" and
אֵל (ʾel) meaning "God". In the
Old Testament it is used as another name for the city of Jerusalem. Shakespeare utilized it for a spirit in his play
The Tempest (1611) and Alexander Pope utilized it for a sylph in his poem
The Rape of the Lock (1712), and one of the moons of Uranus bears this name in his honour. As an English name, it became more common for females in the 1980s, especially after it was used for the title character in the Disney film
The Little Mermaid (1989).
Anthem
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: AN-THEM, An-THEM
From the English word anthem, "a rousing or uplifting song", ultimately from the Greek ἀντίφωνα (antíphōna), a call and response style of singing.
Ancilla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, German (Swiss), Dutch (Rare), Hungarian (Rare)
Meaning uncertain. Its use is probably influenced by the Latin title
ancilla Dei meaning "handmaid of God".
In the German-speaking world, the use of Ancilla and Anzilla dates back to at least the 10th century. In 990 AD, the birth of a certain Anzilla von Lenzburg was documented in Switzerland. She was the daughter of Arnold I, Count von Lenzburg, the imperial reeve of Zurich.
In the Netherlands, a known bearer of this name is Ancilla van de Leest (b. 1985), a former model and television presenter who is now a politician on behalf of the Dutch Pirate Party.
Amadeus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Late Roman
Pronounced: ahm-ə-DAY-əs(English) ahm-ə-DEE-əs(English)
Means
"love of God", derived from Latin
amare "to love" and
Deus "God". A famous bearer was the Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), who was actually born Wolfgang
Theophilus Mozart but preferred the Latin translation of his Greek middle name. This name was also assumed as a middle name by the German novelist E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822), who took it in honour of Mozart.
Alnilam
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Astronomy
Derived from Arabic
an-niżām, meaning "string of pearls". This is a star in the constellation
Orion.
Akahiko
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Japanese (Rare)
Other Scripts: 赤彦, 朱彦(Japanese Kanji) あかひこ(Japanese Hiragana) アカヒコ(Japanese Katakana)
Pronounced: A-KA-KHKO
From 赤/朱
(aka) meaning "red" combined with 彦
(hiko) meaning "boy, prince."
This name is extremely rare.
Acorn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Romani (Archaic)
Pronounced: AY-kawrn
In Romani lore, the acorn was an ancient fertility and phallic symbol.
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