hermeline's Personal Name List
Zyrenia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Rare, Archaic), English (American, Rare, Archaic)
Pronounced: tsuy-RAY-ni-a(German)
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
Zuriel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: צוּרִיאֵל(Ancient Hebrew)
Rating: 73% based on 4 votes
Means
"my rock is God" in Hebrew. In the
Old Testament this name is borne by a chief of the Merarite Levites at the time of the Exodus.
Zuri
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swahili
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Means "beautiful" in Swahili.
Zuberi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swahili
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
Zoel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French (Quebec, Rare)
French form of
Zoellus.
According to several French publications dating to the 1700s and 1800s, Saint Zoel was a martyr from either Istria or Cordoba. His feast day is allegedly May 24.
Zephalinda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Literature
Pronounced: zef-ə-LIN-də(English)
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
A name coined by the English poet Alexander Pope, appearing in his poem "Epistle to Miss Blount" (1715).
Zenoby
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (South, Rare, Archaic), Cornish (Rare, Archaic), English (Rare, Archaic)
Rating: 83% based on 3 votes
Archaic variant of
Zenobia, prevalent in Cornwall and Devon as well as in the southern states of the US.
Zelma
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ZEHL-mə
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Zebulon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: זְבוּלֻן(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: ZEHB-yə-lən(English)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Zaccheus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical Latin
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Latin form of
Zakchaios (see
Zacchaeus) used in the Vulgate.
Yuzhael
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval Breton
Yoni
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: יוֹני(Hebrew)
Rating: 85% based on 2 votes
Yolinia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Filipino (Rare)
Yıldıray
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Turkish
Pronounced: yul-du-RIE
Means "shining moon", derived from Turkic yuldura meaning "to shine" combined with ay "moon, month".
Yestin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Cornish
Rating: 85% based on 2 votes
Yester
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Armenian
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Yeoville
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Yangchen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Tibetan, Bhutanese
Other Scripts: དབྱངས་ཅན(Tibetan, Dzongkha)
From Tibetan དབྱངས་ཅན
(dbyangs can) meaning "singer" or "vowel, song". This is the Tibetan name for the Hindu goddess
Saraswati.
Xyriel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Filipino (Rare)
Rating: 83% based on 3 votes
There is a Filipina actress who bears this name.
Xylina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), African American (Rare)
Pronounced: zie-LEE-nə
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Modern name coined in the early 20th century either as a variant of
Xylia or directly from Greek ξύλινος
(xylinos) meaning "wooden; of wood" (a derivative of ξύλον
(xylon) "wood", a word used in the New Testament to mean "the Cross"). Also compare
Xyla,
Xyliana,
Xylon,
Xylo.
Xulián
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Galician (Rare)
Pronounced: shoo-lee-AN
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Xóchitl
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Nahuatl (Hispanicized)
Pronounced: SO-cheetl(Spanish) SHO-cheetl(Spanish)
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Xerach
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish (Canarian)
Rating: 85% based on 2 votes
Derived from Guanche *šərak, a masculine plural noun meaning "bad omens". This was recorded as the name of a 17-year-old Guanche girl from Tenerife who was sold at the slave market in Valencia in 1497. It is used as a masculine name in modern times.
Xénophon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History (Gallicized)
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
Xenie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Czech
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
Xaviel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish (Rare)
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
This name is possibly a combination of
Xavier with a Hebrew name ending in
-iel, such as
Gabriel. However, given the fact that this name has been around in the Spanish-speaking world since at least the 18th century, it could also be an independent name of its own (in which case its etymology is unknown), as combining names in that manner generally seems to be a fairly modern phenomenon in the Spanish-speaking world.
A known bearer of this name was the Asturian (Spanish) writer Xaviel Vilareyo (1967-2015).
Xavi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Catalan
Pronounced: SHA-bee
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Xanthus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ξάνθος(Ancient Greek)
Xanther
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Possibly an elaboration on
Xanthe, used in Mark Z. Danielewski's 'The Familiar' series.
Xandrie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Australian, Rare)
Pronounced: ZAN-dree(Australian English)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Xandrie is the name of a fiction character, played by Adelaide Clemens, in a 2010 Australian film called "Wasted on the Young."
Xandres
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Basque
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Xandrel
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Filipino (Rare)
Pronounced: SAN-drehl, sun-DREHL
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Wrenley
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: REHN-lee
Elaboration of
Wren using the popular name suffix
ley.
Wismar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic
Winnold
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: WINN-uhld
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Old English form of Winwaloe, Gunwalloe or Guenole. A
Breton name which means “he who is fair”.
Saint Winnold was a 6th century Cornish saint. He was the son of a prince and a holy woman called Gwen who is supposed to have had three breasts as a sign of God’s favour (almost certainly a confusion with some local pagan deity).
His family fled to Brittany to avoid the Saxons, and this is where he grew up. He founded an abbey, and his Rule was the standard one for monks until Saint Benedict.
His feast day is the 3rd of March. According to English weather folklore, this day of the year is supposed to be especially windy, as seen in this piece of verse:
“First comes David
Next comes Chad
Then comes Winnold, roaring like mad”.
(St David’s Day is the first day of March and St Chad’s Day is the second day).
Wilsie
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (American, Rare), Filipino (Rare)
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Possibly a feminine diminutive form and masculine diminutive of
Wilson.
Willow
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: WIL-o
Rating: 80% based on 3 votes
From the name of the tree, which is ultimately derived from Old English welig.
Willory
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (South, Archaic)
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
Wilbur
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: WIL-bər
From an English surname that was originally derived from the nickname Wildbor meaning "wild boar" in Middle English. This name was borne by Wilbur Wright (1867-1912), one half of the Wright brothers, who together invented the first successful airplane. Wright was named after the Methodist minister Wilbur Fisk (1792-1839). A famous fictional bearer is the main character (a pig) in the children's novel Charlotte's Web (1952) by E. B. White.
Wilbeth
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Germanic Mythology
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
"Sister goddess" of
Embeth and
Borbeth and one of "The Three Bethen" or "Three Virgins", a group of allegedly pre-Christian goddesses who later became "unofficial" saints.
Their cult is somewhat of a mystery: having been known since the Middle Ages, it is only regionally distributed, mainly in Bavaria, Baden, South Tyrol, Alsace (above all Strasbourg) and the Rhineland. If there had ever been antique records of this Triple Goddess cult, those have been lost. The oldest authentic records of Wilbeth date back to the 14th century, when she was quickly linked to Embeth whose veneration had been attested since the 12th century.
Either way, their cult became fairly popular when the "girls" got appointed companions of Saint Ursula in the 15th century.
The origins and meanings of their names have been lost to time. Since the Romantic period, there have been speculations that their names might be corruptions of some not yet identified Ancient Germanic names - a theory which in recent times is being taken more and more seriously. Research on it is being done.
Wilbert
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch
Pronounced: VIL-bərt
Means
"bright will", derived from the Old German elements
willo "will, desire" and
beraht "bright".
Wesley
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: WEHS-lee, WEHZ-lee
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
From an English surname that was derived from a place name, itself meaning
"west meadow" from Old English
west "west" and
leah "woodland, clearing". It has been sometimes given in honour of John Wesley (1703-1791), the founder of Methodism.
Virella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (Rare, Archaic), Caribbean (Rare, Archaic)
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Viorel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Romanian
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Derived from viorea, the Romanian word for the alpine squill flower (species Scilla bifolia) or the sweet violet flower (species Viola odorata). It is derived from Latin viola "violet".
Violet
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: VIE-lit, VIE-ə-lit
From the English word violet for the purple flower, ultimately derived from Latin viola. It was common in Scotland from the 16th century, and it came into general use as an English given name during the 19th century.
Vilana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese (Brazilian, Rare)
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
Vigletus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History (Latinized)
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Vidonia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Vidonia is a girl's name of Portuguese origin meaning "vine branch"
Vertis
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: African American (Rare)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Verona
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Various
From the name of the city in Italy, which is itself of unknown meaning.
Velda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: VEHL-də
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Meaning unknown, possibly a derivative of the Old German element
walt meaning
"power, authority".
Valerie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, German, Czech
Pronounced: VAL-ə-ree(English) VA-lə-ree(German)
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
English and German form of
Valeria, as well as a Czech variant of
Valérie.
Valera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 85% based on 2 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Valera in honour of Irish statesman
Éamon De Valera, who was born in New York to a Spanish father and an Irish mother.
Ursulita
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Philippines, Rare)
Pronounced: oor-suw-LEE-ta(Filipino Spanish)
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Ursuline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch (Rare), French (Rare, Archaic)
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Urenna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Igbo
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
Means "father's pride" in Igbo.
Uraias
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
Meaning unknown.
Tycho
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History, Dutch
Pronounced: TUY-go(Danish) TIE-ko(English)
Rating: 85% based on 2 votes
Latinized form of
Tyge. This name was used by the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546-1601), who was born as
Tyge.
Twyler
Gender: Feminine
Usage: African American (Modern, Rare)
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
Trevi
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: TREV-ee
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Diminutive or feminine form of
Trevor.
Torben
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Danish, German
Pronounced: TOR-behn(Danish) TAWR-bən(German)
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Tomris
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Turkish
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
Tinúviel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Rating: 85% based on 2 votes
Means "daughter of twilight, nightingale" in the fictional language Sindarin. In the Silmarillion (1977) by J. R. R. Tolkien, Tinuviel was another name of Lúthien, the daughter of Thingol the elf king. She was the beloved of Beren, who with her help retrieved one of the Silmarils from the iron crown of Morgoth.
Thorley
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: THAWR-lee
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
From a surname that was derived from a place name meaning "thorn clearing" in Old English.
Thorin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature, Germanic Mythology, German (Modern), Popular Culture
Pronounced: THOR-in(Literature) TO-reen(German)
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
German male name representing the Germanic god
Thor.
Used by JRR Tolkien as the name of a dwarf, Thorin Oakensheild, who is the main dwarf in 'The Hobbit'. Tolkien took the name from the Dvergatal "Catalogue of Dwarves" in the Völuspá, a part of the Poetic Edda.
Thorald
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Swedish
Old Swedish form of
Þórvaldr (see
Torvald).
Thera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch
Theola
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (South, Rare), Afrikaans (Rare), South African
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Théoden
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: THAY-aw-den
Means "king, ruler" in Old English, probably from þeud "people" and þegen "thane, warrior" 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) Théoden is the king of Rohan.
Thelonius
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Various (Rare)
Latinized form of
Tielo (see
Till). A famous bearer was jazz musician Thelonious Monk (1917-1982).
Thayer
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: THAY-ər
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Thayer.
Terence
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: TEHR-əns
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
From the Roman family name
Terentius, which is of unknown meaning. Famous bearers include Publius Terentius Afer, a Roman playwright, and Marcus Terentius Varro, a Roman scholar. It was also borne by several early
saints. The name was used in Ireland as an Anglicized form of
Toirdhealbhach, but it was not found as an English name until the late 19th century. It attained only a moderate level of popularity in the 20th century, though it has been common as an African-American name especially since the 1970s.
Tenerus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Τήνερος(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Etymology unknown. This was the name of a Theban hero and prophet in Greek mythology, a son of
Apollo and
Melia.
Tauriel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Popular Culture, English (Modern)
Pronounced: tow-ree-el(Popular Culture)
Rating: 85% based on 2 votes
Means "young woman of the forest" in Sindarin, from taur "forest" and riel "maiden". It was created by Peter Jackson for the last two films of 'The Hobbit' trilogy, for the name of an elf.
Tarquin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History
Pronounced: TAHR-kwin(English)
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
From Tarquinius, a Roman name of unknown meaning, possibly Etruscan in origin. This was the name of two early kings of Rome.
Tarek
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: طارق(Arabic)
Pronounced: TA-reek
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Alternate transcription of Arabic
طارق (see
Tariq).
Tarben
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Danish (Rare)
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Tamsine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Cornish (Archaic)
Tamrin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic (Rare), Indonesian, Malay
Other Scripts: تمرين(Arabic, Malay Jawi)
Pronounced: tam-REEN(Arabic) TAM-reen(Indonesian)
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Means "practice, habituation, accustoming" in Arabic.
Tallis
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare), Popular Culture
Pronounced: TAL-is(English)
Transferred use of the surname Tallis, which comes from the Old French taillis, referring to a clearing of woodland.
Talitha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical
Pronounced: TAL-i-thə(English) tə-LEE-thə(English)
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
Means
"little girl" in Aramaic. The name is taken from the phrase
talitha cumi meaning "little girl arise" spoken by
Jesus in order to restore a young girl to life (see
Mark 5:41).
Sybranda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: West Frisian
Pronounced: see-BRAHND-ah
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Sybilla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Polish, Late Roman
Pronounced: si-BEEL-la(Polish)
Polish form and Latin variant of
Sibylla.
Sybella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: si-BEHL-ə
Syaoran
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Chinese, Japanese, Literature
Pronounced: Sh-ow-ron(Chinese, Japanese, Literature) See-ow-ran(Chinese)
Means "little wolf", most notable as the name of the chinese transfer student, Syaoran Li, from the popular CLAMP manga Cardcaptor Sakura.
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Means "Little wolf." It's the name of the main character of the childrens anime "Tsubasa Chronicles."
Sweeney
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish Mythology
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
Anglicized form of
Suibhne. In fiction, this name is borne by the murderous barber Sweeney Todd, first appearing in the British serial
The String of Pearls: A Romance (1846-1847).
Suhaila
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: سهيلة(Arabic)
Pronounced: soo-HIE-lah
Stevie
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: STEE-vee
Rating: 80% based on 3 votes
Stafford
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: STAF-ərd
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
From a surname that was from a place name meaning "landing-place ford" in Old English.
Soheila
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Persian
Other Scripts: سهیلا(Persian)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Persian feminine form of
Suhail.
Skyler
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: SKIE-lər
Rating: 70% based on 2 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.
Siona
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Judeo-Anglo-Norman
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Similde
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Rare, Archaic), Germanic Mythology
In the "King
Laurin Legend" Similde is the princess whom the dwarf king falls in love with and eventually abducts to his magical rose garden.
Her name is a contracted form of Sigmilde, which is derived from Middle High German sige "victory" and milte "grace; clemency; kindness; endearment; tenderness; love".
Silenus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Σειληνός(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: sie-LEE-nəs(English)
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Latinized form of Greek
Σειληνός (Seilenos), of unknown meaning. In Greek
mythology he was a companion and teacher of
Dionysos, often depicted as an intoxicated, portly old man.
Sigrun
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norwegian, German
Siegeminne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Germanic Mythology
Pronounced: ZEE-gə-min-ə
The name is formed from the German name elements
Sieg "victory" and
Minne "courtly love".
It is the name of the mermaid Rauch Else in the Wolfdietrich epic after being transformed to a beautiful women.
Siboney
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Caribbean), Arawak
Pronounced: see-bo-ney(Caribbean Spanish)
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
Means "people of the precious stone" or "cave dweller" in Arawak, spoken in Cuba.
It is an ethnic name as the Ciboney, or Siboney, were a Taíno people of Cuba, Jamaica and Hispaniola (Haiti and Dominican Republic).
As given name is probably after Siboney a 1929 song written by Ernesto Lecuona, inspired by the village Siboney near Santiago de Cuba.
Shirin
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Persian
Other Scripts: شیرین(Persian)
Pronounced: shee-REEN
Means "sweet" in Persian. This was the name of a character in Persian and Turkish legend.
Shiloh
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: שִׁלוֹ, שִׁילֹה(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: SHIE-lo(English)
Rating: 70% based on 3 votes
From an
Old Testament place name possibly meaning
"tranquil" in Hebrew. It is also used prophetically in the Old Testament to refer to a person, often understood to be the Messiah (see
Genesis 49:10). This may in fact be a mistranslation.
This name was brought to public attention after actors Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt gave it to their daughter in 2006.
Shamsa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: شَمْسَة(Arabic)
Strictly feminine form of
Shams
Shadrach
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: שַׁדְרַך(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: SHAD-rak(English) SHAY-drak(English)
Means
"command of Aku" in Akkadian,
Aku being the name of the Babylonian god of the moon. In the
Old Testament Shadrach is the Babylonian name of
Hananiah, one of the three men cast into a fiery furnace but saved by God.
Seren
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: SEH-rehn
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Means "star" in Welsh. This is a recently created Welsh name.
Senna
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Dutch (Modern)
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Meaning uncertain. In some cases it is given in honour of the Brazilian racecar driver Ayrton Senna (1960-1994). It could also be inspired by the senna plant.
Sella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: African, Southern African, Eastern African, Indonesian
Meaning unknown. It may be a loan word from Arabic صَلَّى (ṣallā), meaning "to pray, to bless," or Arabic سَلَّى (sallā), meaning "to amuse, entertain, comfort." It may also be a variation of
Selah.
Selby
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: SEHL-bee
From an English surname that was from a place name meaning "willow farm" in Old Norse.
Seiji
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 誠二, 誠治, 誠司, 清二, 清治, etc.(Japanese Kanji) せいじ(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: SEH-JEE
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
From Japanese 誠
(sei) meaning "sincerity, truth, fidelity" or 清
(sei) meaning "clear, pure, clean" combined with 二
(ji) meaning "two", 治
(ji) meaning "reign, rule, calm, peace" or 司
(ji) meaning "officer, boss". Other kanji combinations can form this name as well.
Saundrie
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Cornish (Archaic)
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
Sashi
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Kannada
Other Scripts: ಶಶಿ(Kannada)
Alternate transcription of Kannada
ಶಶಿ (see
Shashi).
Sarla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hindi
Sarla Thakral firs Indian woman to earn a pilots license
Salmacis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Σαλμακίς(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Latinized form of Greek Σαλμακίς
(Salmakis). This was the name of a fountain and nymph at Halicarnassus, featured in Ovid's
Metamorphoses. The nymph Salmacis fell in love with
Hermaphroditus. When he rejected her, she attempted to rape him and prayed to the gods to be bound with him forever. As a result their bodies fused together to create the Hermaphrodite. The fountain Salmacis was said to cause men who drank its waters to be weak and effeminate.
Sage
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: SAYJ
Rating: 73% based on 3 votes
From the English word sage, which denotes either a type of spice or else a wise person.
Sachin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Telugu
Other Scripts: सचिन(Hindi, Marathi) સચિન(Gujarati) సచిన్(Telugu)
From Sanskrit
सत्य (satya) meaning
"true, real". A famous bearer is the retired Indian cricket player Sachin Tendulkar (1973-).
Sacharissa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Based on Latin sacharum "sugar". This name was invented by poet Edmund Waller (1606-1687), who used it as a nickname for Lady Dorothy Sidney, countess of Sunderland.
Sachara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Sabelina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Asturian
Pronounced: sa-be-LEE-na
Rating: 85% based on 2 votes
Ruthina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (Rare)
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
Rumina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: るみな(Japanese Hiragana) 流水奈, 輝月, 琉実菜, 留美菜, 留未南, 瑠美菜, 瑠美成, 瑠美奈, 瑠魅那, etc.(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: ṘUU-MEE-NAH
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From Japanese 流 (ru) meaning "to flow", 水 (mi) meaning "water" combined with 奈 (na) meaning "apple tree". Other kanji combinations are possible.
Rumilia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
Royan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Indonesian
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Roslyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: RAHZ-lin
Rating: 85% based on 2 votes
Roscoe
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: RAHS-ko
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
From an English surname, originally derived from a place name, itself derived from Old Norse rá "roebuck" and skógr "wood, forest".
Ronan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Breton, Irish, French, English (Modern)
Pronounced: RO-nahn(Breton) RAW-NAHN(French) RO-nən(English)
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Breton and Anglicized form of
Rónán.
Romish
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Tajik
Other Scripts: Ромиш(Tajik)
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Tajik form of the Persian name
Ramish, which is derived from Persian رامش
(ramish) meaning "joy, happiness, cheerfulness, delight", itself ultimately derived from Middle Persian or Pahlavi
rāmišn meaning "peace, ease, pleasure". Also compare the related names
Raman 2 and
Ramin.
Romiel
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew (Modern, Rare)
Other Scripts: רוֹמִיאֵל(Hebrew)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Combination of the names
Romi and
El means "God is my exaltation" in Hebrew.
Roldán
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: rol-DAN
Rating: 85% based on 2 votes
Roland
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French, German, Swedish, Dutch, Hungarian, Polish, Slovak, Albanian, Georgian, Carolingian Cycle
Other Scripts: როლანდ(Georgian)
Pronounced: RO-lənd(English) RAW-LAHN(French) RO-lant(German) RO-lahnt(Dutch) RO-lawnd(Hungarian) RAW-lant(Polish)
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
From the Old German elements
hruod meaning "fame" and
lant meaning "land", though some theories hold that the second element was originally
nand meaning "brave"
[1].
Roland was an 8th-century military commander, serving under Charlemagne, who was killed by the Basques at the Battle of Roncevaux. His name was recorded in Latin as Hruodlandus. His tale was greatly embellished in the 11th-century French epic La Chanson de Roland, in which he is a nephew of Charlemagne killed after being ambushed by the Saracens. The Normans introduced the name to England.
Rienna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Australian)
Pronounced: re-EH-na(Australian English)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Rhynie
Usage: Jamaican Patois
Rating: 93% based on 3 votes
Rhoda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical, English
Other Scripts: Ῥόδη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: RO-də(English)
Derived from Greek
ῥόδον (rhodon) meaning
"rose". In the
New Testament this name was borne by a maid in the house of Mary the mother of John Mark. As an English given name,
Rhoda came into use in the 17th century.
Rhealyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Filipino
Pronounced: RAY-yu-lin
Rating: 85% based on 2 votes
Combination of
Rhea and the popular suffix
-lyn.
Resilda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Kosovar, Albanian
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Resham
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Indian, Marathi, Hindi, Nepali
Other Scripts: रेशम(Marathi, Hindi, Nepali)
Means "silk" in Hindi.
Reno
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Italian, Popular Culture, Spanish
Pronounced: REH-noh(Italian, Spanish) ree-no(Popular Culture)
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Short form of
Moreno and other names ending in -reno.
Remiel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Rayner
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Archaic)
Pronounced: RAY-nər
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
From the Germanic name
Raginheri, composed of the elements
regin "advice, counsel, decision" and
heri "army".
Saint Rainerius was a 12th-century hermit from Pisa. The
Normans brought this name to England where it came into general use, though it was rare by the end of the Middle Ages.
Raymie
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: RAY-MEE
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Diminutive of
Raymond and similar names.
Raven
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: RAY-vən
Rating: 73% based on 3 votes
From the name of the bird, ultimately from Old English
hræfn. The raven is revered by several Native American groups of the west coast. It is also associated with the Norse god
Odin.
Raudel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Caribbean (Rare)
Rami
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic, Albanian
Other Scripts: رامي(Arabic)
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
Means "archer, shooter, thrower" in Arabic, derived from رام (rām) meaning "to wish, to aim at, to dream, to be ambitious".
Raleigh
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: RAW-lee, RAH-lee
Rating: 85% based on 2 votes
From an English surname that was derived from a place name meaning either "red clearing" or "roe deer clearing" in Old English. A city in North Carolina bears this name, after the English courtier, poet and explorer Walter Raleigh (1552-1618).
Rainer
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: RIE-nu(German)
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Quinevere
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Obscure (Modern)
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Quindoline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Obscure
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Quincey
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: KWIN-see
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Quigley
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Popular Culture
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Quigley.
Quaylen
Gender: Masculine
Usage: American (Modern, Rare)
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Quacey
Gender: Masculine
Usage: African American, Caribbean
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Quaashie
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Jamaican Patois (?)
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
Qaiser
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Urdu
Other Scripts: قیصر(Urdu)
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Alternate transcription of Urdu قیصر (see
Qaisar).
Qais
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic, Pashto
Other Scripts: قيس(Arabic) قیس(Pashto)
Pronounced: KIES(Arabic)
Alternate transcription of
Qays as well as the Pashto form.
Pyramus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized), Literature, Romani (Archaic)
Other Scripts: Πύραμος(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
From the Greek Πυραμος
(Pyramos), taken from the name of the river Pyramos and derived from Greek πυρ
(pyr) "fire" or πυρος
(pyros) "wheat". In classical mythology, he was the lover of
Thisbe.
Presley
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: PREHS-lee
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
From an English surname that was originally derived from a place name meaning "priest clearing" (Old English preost and leah). This surname was borne by musician Elvis Presley (1935-1977).
Pieria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Πιερία(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: pie-EE-ree-ə(English)
This was the name of one of the multiple wives of King
Danaus of Libya.
Phoebo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Popular Culture
Pronounced: FEE-bo
Comedic male veriant of the name
Phoebe from the popular American sitcom
Friends.
Phillisco
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: American (Modern, Rare)
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
Philidore
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French, Literature
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Philidore likely meaning "gift of love", from the Greek
philos (φιλος) meaning "friend, lover" and
doron (δωρον) meaning "gift".
Philadore is also the name of the protagonist in Eliza Haywood's 1727 novel 'Philadore and Placentia'.
Persinette
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature, Theatre
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
"Persinette" is a 1698 French fairy-tale by novelist Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force adapted from earlier '
Petrosinella' by Giambattista Basil and later adapted by the Grimms brothers to become '
Rapunzel'. The name was revived in the title of a child opera by the Austrian composer Albin Fries in 2019.
Persa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek (Rare), Serbian (Rare), Medieval Italian
Other Scripts: Перса(Serbian) Πέρσα(Greek)
A form of
Persis. In Serbian usage, also a short form of
Persida.
Percília
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese (Brazilian)
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
Portuguese form of Percilia, the name of a genus of perch-like fish native to Chile. It is a diminutive of Latin perca, from Ancient Greek πέρκη (perke) "perch", cognate with περκνός (perknos) "dark-spotted".
Pepeline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature (Modern)
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
The name of a female kitten in the 1989 novel Felidae, which was made into a 1994 German animated, film noir, mystery, featuring cats as the central characters.
Paschalis
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Late Roman, Greek
Other Scripts: Πασχάλης(Greek)
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Latin and Greek form of
Pascal.
Panaghia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Moldovan (Rare), Romanian (Archaic)
Palma
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Croatian (Rare), Italian, Medieval Italian, Catalan, Norwegian (Rare)
Pronounced: PAHL-ma(Spanish) PAHL-mah(Croatian)
Spanish, Catalan, Italian and Croatian word for "palm". This name typically referred to Palm Sunday, the Sunday before Easter, and was historically given to girls born on this day.
Paimon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend
Paimon is a spirit named in The Lesser Key of Solomon (in the Ars Goetia), Johann Weyer's Pseudomonarchia Daemonum, Collin de Plancy's Dictionnaire Infernal, the Livre des Esperitz (as "Poymon"), the Liber Officiorum Spirituum (as Paymon), The Book of Abramelin, and certain French editions of The Grimoire of Pope Honorius (as Bayemon); as well as British Library, Sloane MS 3824.
In Abramelin, King Paimon's powers include knowledge of past and future events, clearing up doubts, making spirits appear, creating visions, acquiring and dismissing servant spirits, reanimating the dead for several years, flight, remaining underwater indefinitely, and general abilities to "make all kinds of things" (and) "all sorts of people and armor appear" at the behest of the magician.
Paimon teaches all arts, philosophy and sciences, and secret things; he can reveal all mysteries of the Earth, wind and water, what the mind is, and everything the conjurer wants to know, gives good familiars, dignities and confirms them, binds men to the conjurer's will.
Ottilie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German
Pronounced: aw-TEE-lyə
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Oswin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: AHZ-win
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From the Old English elements
os "god" and
wine "friend".
Saint Oswin was a 7th-century king of Northumbria. After the
Norman Conquest this name was used less, and it died out after the 14th century. It was briefly revived in the 19th century.
Orthey
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval German
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
Ornus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish (Philippines)
Orison
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare, Archaic)
Rating: 85% based on 2 votes
Directly taken from the archaic word meaning "prayer", which is derived from Anglo-Norman
oreison and ultimately from Latin
oro (via Latin
oratio) "to beg; to beseech".
As a given name, it has found occasional usage from the 19th century onwards. One known bearer is Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924), who wrote books on positive thinking.
Oriel
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
Probably a form of
Auriel or
Oriole, the spelling influenced in Britain, perhaps, by Oriel College, Oxford. The college takes its name from Latin
oriolum "gallery, porch", but there was a medieval personal name,
Orieldis or
Aurildis, which came from Old German and meant "fire-strife". It was that name in the Middle Ages which led to the surname
Oriel. Auriel and Oriel were revived at roughly the same time, at the beginning of the 20th century, and were clearly heard by parents as the same name. The
Au- spelling was the first to appear in official records, but one cannot be sure which name was a variant of the other.
Oriole is an occasional variant. (Source: Dunkling & Gosling, 1983)
Orélien
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French (Modern, Rare), French (Belgian, Modern, Rare), Haitian Creole, French Creole
Rating: 85% based on 2 votes
Ophelion
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek, English (American, Rare, Archaic)
Other Scripts: Ὠφελίων, Ὀφελίων(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
Derived from the Greek noun ὠφέλεια
(opheleia) meaning "help, aid" as well as "profit, benefit", which is ultimately derived from the Greek verb ὠφελέω
(opheleo) meaning "to help, to aid". Also compare the related Greek noun ὄφελος
(ophelos) meaning "help, advantage" (see
Ophelia).
This name was borne by a Greek comic poet from the 4th century BC.
Ophéline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Modern, Rare), French (Belgian, Modern, Rare)
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
Onuris
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Egyptian Mythology (Latinized)
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Latinized form of
Onouris, which is the Greek form of
Anhur.
Onnolee
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Folklore, Literature, English (American, Archaic)
Rating: 85% based on 2 votes
According to legend, Onnolee was the last survivor of the Munsee nation, which dwelt on the west shore of Canadice lake and near Bald Hill (in the Finger Lakes region, New York) during the latter part of the fourteenth century, and met their death by the hands of the Mengnees; all except Onnolee, who was taken, bound to the belt of the famous leader, Mickinac, and compelled to follow him. At their first rest for dinner, Onnolee grasped the knife from her captor's belt, and buried it deep in his side. She knew her life was forfeited and fled while arrows whizzed by her in all directions. At Hemlock Lake, she jumped to her own death. It is said that, for more than three hundred years afterwards, the ghost of the once beautiful Onnolee could be seen to rise from its watery grave and either vanish in upper air or return again to the bosom of the deep.
This legend was also the subject of one of the poems of 19th-century poet W.H.C. Hosmer.
The origin and meaning of the name itself are unknown.
Olynthia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
Odilien
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French (Rare), French (African, Rare), French (Caribbean, Rare)
Pronounced: AW-DEE-LYEHN(French)
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
Odilie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Archaic)
Pronounced: o-DEE-lyə
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Oberley
Usage: English
Rating: 83% based on 3 votes
Of debated origin and meaning; theories include an Anglicized form of
Oberle.
Norville
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Popular Culture, English (Rare), Jamaican Patois (Rare)
Pronounced: NOHR-vil(Popular Culture)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Norville. The character Shaggy, of Scooby-Doo fame, bears this name.
Norris
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: NAWR-is
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Norella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Norélie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Rare), Occitan (Gallicized, ?)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Noralie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch (Modern, Rare), Flemish (Rare)
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Combination of
Nora 1 and the popular suffix
-lie.
Nobie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American
Pronounced: NO-bee
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Nitocris
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Egyptian (Rare, Archaic)
Pronounced: NITOKRHIS
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Nitocris is a semi-legendary queen of the 6th egyptian dynasty. According to tradition, she was the first "pharaoh" woman (king of Upper and Lower Egypt) in the history of ancient Egypt.She is the daughter of Merenrê I and Queen Neith. She is said to have succeeded her murdered husband, Merenrê-Nemtyemsaf (Merenrê II), and to have ruled for twelve years according to Manetho or two years according to the Turin papyrus. For specialists who recognize this queen, the duration of her reign ranges from one to five years: -2152 to -21502.
There were several important women in the ancient Egypte called Nitocris
Nimona
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Popular Culture
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
The name of a shapeshifter in the eponymous graphic novel by ND Stevenson (2015) and a film by Nick Bruno and Troy Quane (2023). The main shape of the shapeshifter is a teenage girl but she can assume the shape of any animal or human, including male ones.
Nicola 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: nee-KAW-la
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Italian form of
Nicholas. A notable bearer was the 13th-century sculptor Nicola Pisano.
Nexhmi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Albanian
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Nero 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Pronounced: NEH-ro(Latin) NIR-o(English)
Rating: 73% based on 3 votes
Roman
cognomen, which was probably of Sabine origin meaning
"strong, vigorous". It was used by a prominent branch of the gens Claudia starting from the 3rd century BC. It was borne most famously by a Roman emperor of the 1st century, remembered as a tyrant. His birth name was Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, but after he was adopted as the heir of
Claudius his name became Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus.
Nerine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Afrikaans (Rare), English (Rare)
Mylan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French (Modern)
Rating: 85% based on 2 votes
Musetta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Theatre, Italian (Tuscan)
Pronounced: moo-ZET-tah(Italian)
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Latinate form of
Musette, which was possibly based on the dance style, popular in Paris in the 1880s, which took its name from a kind of small bagpipe. It was used by Puccini for the lover of Marcello in his opera
La Bohème (1896), which was based on
La Vie de Bohème (1851) by Henri Murger (who named the character
Musette).
As an Italian name, it is found almost exclusively in Tuscany.
Muirgen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish Mythology
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Means "born of the sea" in Irish. In Irish legend this was the name of a woman (originally named Lí Ban) who was transformed into a mermaid. After 300 years she was brought to shore, baptized, and transformed back into a woman.
Morna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Scottish
Anglicized form of
Muirne used by James Macpherson in his poem
Fingal (1761), in which it is borne by the mother of the hero
Fingal.
Morin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German (Sudeten, Archaic)
Possibly variation of
Moritz it's recorded as the name of a nobleman in the 16th century in Moravia.
Morgiana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Form of
Marjanah used in some versions of 'Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves', one of the tales of 'The 1001 Nights', where it is the name of a clever slave girl. It was also used by Shinobu Ohtaka for a character in her manga 'Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic' (2009-), based loosely on 'The 1001 Nights'.
Morgelyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Cornish (Rare)
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
Derived from Cornish morgelyn "sea holly".
Mithila
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Bengali, Odia, Hindi
Other Scripts: মিথিলা(Bengali) ମିଥିଲା(Odia) मिथिला(Hindi)
From the name of an ancient region and city located in what is now India and Nepal, said to be derived from the name of King Mithi.
Miseretta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Romani (Archaic)
Rating: 85% based on 2 votes
Miramis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish (Rare), Literature
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Truncated form of
Semiramis. This is the name of
Mio's horse in the children's book 'Mio, min Mio' (1954) by Astrid Lindgren.
Mikaylin
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (Modern, Rare)
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
Migo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Filipino, Spanish
Pronounced: Mig-AW(Filipino)
Michié
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Guernésiais
Micha 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek, German, Dutch
Other Scripts: Μιχά(Ancient Greek)
Form of
Micah used in the Greek and Latin
Old Testament (when referring to the man from the Book of Judges). It is also the German and Dutch form.
Mélodine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Rare)
Pronounced: MEH-LAW-DEEN
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
Melaina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Μέλαινα(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Mayelin
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Filipino
Rating: 85% based on 2 votes
Mauro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: MOW-ro(Italian, Spanish)
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of
Maurus.
Matticus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Americanized, Rare)
Pronounced: MA-ti-kus
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Marjolaine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: MAR-ZHAW-LEHN
Rating: 73% based on 3 votes
Means "marjoram" in French, from Latin maiorana. Marjoram is a minty herb.
Mariette
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: MA-RYEHT
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Maribeth
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MER-ee-beth, MA-rə-beth
Rating: 85% based on 2 votes
Marianthe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Μαριανθη(Greek)
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Margette
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American, Rare)
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
A rare variant of Margaret.
Marek
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish, Czech, Slovak, Estonian
Pronounced: MA-rehk(Polish, Czech, Slovak)
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Polish, Czech and Slovak form of
Mark.
Marbella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Mexican), English (Rare)
Possibly from the name of a resort town in southern Spain, which likely derives from Arabic مربلة
(Marbal·la) and resembles Spanish
mar bella "beautiful sea" (also compare
Mar). As an English name, this might be a contracted form of
Mariabella.
Marabel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Rating: 85% based on 2 votes
Mansel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
From an English surname that originally referred to a person who came from the French city of Le Mans.
Malchus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Pronounced: MAHL-chus(Biblical English) Mal-Kus(Biblical English)
Means "my king" in Hebrew, from the root
melek, meaning "king". According to the Gospel of John in the New Testament, this was the name of a servant of
Caiaphas who participated in the arrest of Jesus at Gethsemane. The apostle Simon Peter cut off Malchus' ear with a sword.
Magalie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: MA-GA-LEE
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Maegor
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature
Created by author George R. R. Martin for a character in his series "A Song of Ice and Fire". In the series, Maegor Targaryen is the third Targaryen monarch and one of the most tyrannical rulers of Westeros.
Maben
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Indian
Lylie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Medieval English
Pronounced: LIE-Lee(English, Middle English)
Rating: 80% based on 3 votes
Lylie was first recorded as a diminutive of
Elizabeth in 13th century England.
It was later, in England in the 19th and early 20th centuries, revived as a diminutive of Eliza.
Luthera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Obscure
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Lumi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: LOO-mee
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Means "snow" in Finnish.
Luciel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Popular Culture
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
This is the baptismal name of the fictional character Saeyoung Choi (also known as 707) from the hit Korean app "Mystic Messenger". The cheritz company says that he got his baptismal name from Lucifer (Satan) with intentions of having a life that will not end up as a fallen angel.
Lucasta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
This name was first used by the poet Richard Lovelace for a collection of poems called Lucasta (1649). The poems were dedicated to Lucasta, a nickname for the woman he loved Lucy Sacheverel, whom he called lux casta "pure light".
Loleini
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Tongan
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Lochie
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Liran
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: לירן(Hebrew)
Pronounced: lee-RAN
Combination of the names
Li 2 and
Ran , Ran in Hebrew means "(he) sang". it is also used as a variant of
Liron which means "my song; my joy" in Hebrew.
Lihuén
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Mapuche (Hispanicized)
Pronounced: lee-WEHN(Spanish)
Variant of
Liwen using Spanish spelling conventions.
Leonore
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German
Pronounced: leh-o-NO-rə
Rating: 73% based on 3 votes
Lenya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Modern)
Pronounced: LENN-ya, LEHN-ya
Leatrix
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: LEE-ə-triks
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
A modern English combination of the names
Leah and
Beatrix. Possibly a variant of the name
Leatrice.
Leatrice
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Possibly a combination of
Leah and
Beatrice. This name was first brought to public attention by the American actress Leatrice Joy (1893-1985).
Laxmi
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Telugu, Marathi, Hindi, Nepali
Other Scripts: లక్ష్మి(Telugu) लक्ष्मी(Marathi, Hindi, Nepali)
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Alternate transcription of Telugu
లక్ష్మి or Marathi/Hindi
लक्ष्मी (see
Lakshmi), as well as the most common Nepali transcription.
Laureline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, French (Belgian), Flemish (Rare), Popular Culture
Rating: 85% based on 2 votes
Medieval diminutive of
Laura. This name was used for a character in the French series of science fiction comics
Valérian et Laureline (1967-2010) as well as the 2017 movie adaptation
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.
Laurelin
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: Lor-ə-lynn
This name was used by J.R.R. Tolkien in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. It was the name of one of the Two Trees of Valinor. Laurelin was the gold and green tree. Laurelin means "Land of the Valley of Singing Gold".
Kestrel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: KEHS-trəl
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
From the name of the bird of prey, ultimately derived from Old French crecelle "rattle", which refers to the sound of its cry.
Kestra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Popular Culture
Pronounced: KEHS-trə(English)
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Kensa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Cornish (Modern)
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
Derived from Cornish kensa "first". This is a modern Cornish name.
Kennard
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: KEHN-ərd
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
Jurian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval Low German
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Medieval Low German form of
George.
Julik
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German (Silesian)
Rating: 85% based on 2 votes
Joses
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: Ἰωσῆς(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: JO-səs(English)
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
From
Ἰωσῆς (Ioses), a Greek variant of
Joseph used in the
New Testament to distinguish Joseph the brother of James from the many other characters of that name.
Joris
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch, Frisian
Pronounced: YO-ris(Dutch)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Dutch and Frisian form of
George.
Joliette
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American, Modern, Rare)
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Jolien
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch
Pronounced: yo-LEEN
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Variant form of
Joline, with its spelling phonetical in nature.
Jolie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JO-lee(English) ZHAW-LEE(French)
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
Means "pretty" in French. This name was popularized by American actress Angelina Jolie (1975-), whose surname was originally her middle name. It is not used as a given name in France.
Jincey
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (South, Rare)
Pronounced: JIN-see
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Meaning uncertain. This name first appeared in the 1770s. Apparently it was a Southern American invention, or perhaps it was related to the Danish given name
Jensine. It was often used as a diminutive of
Jane but was also used independently, especially in the 19th century. Bearer Virginia "Jincey" Lumpkin (1979-) is an American content producer, originally from Georgia (Southern United States).
Jezelinda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Miss Jezelinda Fitzroy is a character in a short story titled “Frederic & Elfrida,” dated to about 1787 or 1788, one of Jane Austen's earliest works.
Jessamine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: JEHS-ə-min
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
From a variant spelling of the English word
jasmine (see
Jasmine), used also to refer to flowering plants in the cestrum family.
Jessaline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Filipino (Rare)
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
Jerusa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical German, Biblical Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazilian)
Pronounced: ye-roo-za(Biblical German)
German form of
Jerusha occurring in older bible translations as well as the Portuguese form of this name occuring in some bible translations.
Jerra
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American)
Pronounced: J--A-R-A(Latin American Spanish)
Jaydel
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: American
Rating: 100% based on 3 votes
Jarah
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: יֲעְרָה(Ancient Hebrew)
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Means
"honeycomb" and
"honeysuckle" in Hebrew. In the
Old Testament this is the name of a descendant of
Saul.
Janella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: jə-NEHL-ə
Jamir
Gender: Masculine
Usage: African American (Modern)
Pronounced: jə-MEER(English)
Variant of
Jamar, probably influenced by names such as
Jamil.
Jamilie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese (Brazilian, Rare)
Rating: 100% based on 3 votes
Jadiel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical (Hellenized)
Other Scripts: יְדִיעֲאֵל(Ancient Hebrew) Ιδιηλ(Greek)
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Variant transcription of
Jediael, as used in 1 Chronicles 26:2.
This transcription is used in the Septuagint Bible.
Jacey
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: JAY-see
An invented name, using the popular phonetic element
jay and the same sound found in names such as
Casey and
Macy.
Izel
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American)
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Ivony
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Obscure (Rare)
Rating: 77% based on 3 votes
Iverine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Jamaican Patois (Modern, Rare), Norwegian (Archaic)
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Isora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American), Spanish (Rare)
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
Iselin
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norwegian
Pronounced: is-e-LEEN
Rating: 100% based on 4 votes
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).
Irelyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: IER-lən, IER-lin
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Variant of
Ireland using the popular name suffix
lyn.
Indrid
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Popular Culture, Folklore
Indrid Cold is the name of a being originating in North American folklore, whose appearance usually coincides with sightings of UFOs or other cryptids.
Ignotus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: ig-NO-təs
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Means "unknown" in Latin. This was the pen name of the Hungarian writer Hugó Veigelsberg (1869-1949), and was also borne by his son, writer Pál Ignotus (1901-1978). It was later employed by author J. K. Rowling for a character in her Harry Potter series of books.
Ignoto was the baptismal name of a son of one Anne Manners, Lady Roos, a 17th-century English noblewoman, presumably given because his paternity was unknown.
Iden
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: IE-DEN
Masculine form of "Idena".
Hugolin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval French, Polish
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
Hugo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese, English, Dutch, German, French, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: OO-gho(Spanish) OO-goo(Portuguese) HYOO-go(English) HUY-gho(Dutch) HOO-go(German) UY-GO(French)
Rating: 83% based on 3 votes
Old German form of
Hugh. As a surname it has belonged to the French author Victor Hugo (1802-1885), the writer of
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and
Les Misérables.
Hoshi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 星, etc.(Japanese Kanji) ほし(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: HO-SHEE
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
From Japanese
星 (hoshi) meaning "star" or other kanji with the same pronunciation.
Hobey
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Dutch
Pronounced: HO-bee
Hindley
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Literature
Pronounced: HIND-lee
Transferred use of the surname
Hindley.
Hieron
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek
Other Scripts: Ἱέρων(Ancient Greek)
Derived from the Greek adjective ἱερός
(hieros) meaning "sacred". This name was borne by two tyrants of Syracuse, the earliest of which lived in the 5th century BC. Both are better known under the latinized form of their name, which is
Hiero.
Hetha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Old Norse, Norse Mythology
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Meaning unknown. This is the name of a warrior-queen in Norse mythology.
Hesperis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek, Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἑσπερίς(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: HEHS-PEH-REES(Classical Greek)
Rating: 90% based on 3 votes
Feminine form of
Hesperos. According to some Greek legends this name belonged to one of the Horae, namely, the goddess who personified the evening.
Hesperie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Gallicized), Greek Mythology (Gallicized)
Rating: 93% based on 4 votes
Hendry
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scots
Rating: 97% based on 3 votes
Hellenore
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Literature
Pronounced: HEL-en-or(English)
Rating: 95% based on 4 votes
Borne by a character in Edmund Spenser's 1590 masterpiece,
The Faerie Queene.
Hellenore is the young and beautiful wife of an old miser, Malbecco. Hellenore's name is very likely meant to be an elaboration of the name
Helen, as the text implies a connection between Hellenore and Helen of Troy.
Heliabel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arthurian Cycle
Pronounced: HEL-ee-ə-bel
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
The Grail heroine and the sister of Perceval.
Often in the Grail romances, Perceval's sister doesn't appear to have any name, nor does she appear in every tale with her brother. Her name could be Dindraine or Dindrane as found in Le Haut Livre du Graal also known as Perlesvaus (c. 1210). In the Italian romance, Tavola ritonda, her name was Agrestizia.
In the beginning of pre-cycle Prose Lancelot (non-Vulgate, c. 1220), she was possibly named Heliabel, where her beauty was compared to Guinevere; Heliabel surpassed Guinevere. In this romance, Perceval was still identified as the Grail hero.
This identity of Heliabel with Perceval is found in the notes of Lancelot of the Lake, translated by Corin Corley.
Helewise
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
Medieval English form of
Eloise.
Heiderose
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Haurana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Obscure
Harris
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: HAR-is, HEHR-is
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
From an English surname that was derived from the given name
Harry.
Harla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern, Rare)
Perhaps in invented name, intended to be a feminine form of
Harlan or a shortened form of
Harlene. Influence by the sound of similar names such as
Marla.
Hannelise
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Danish (Rare), Afrikaans, Flemish (Rare)
Rating: 73% based on 4 votes
Hannelie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Afrikaans
Rating: 94% based on 5 votes
Hagen
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Germanic Mythology
Pronounced: HA-gən(German)
Rating: 93% based on 4 votes
Derived from the Old German element
hag meaning
"enclosure" (Proto-Germanic *
hagô). In the medieval German saga the
Nibelungenlied he is the cunning half-brother of
Gunther. He killed the hero
Siegfried by luring him onto a hunting expedition and then stabbing him with a javelin in his one vulnerable spot.
Gwyneira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: gwi-NAY-ra
Rating: 90% based on 4 votes
Means
"white snow" from the Welsh element
gwyn meaning "white, blessed" combined with
eira meaning "snow". This is a recently created Welsh name.
Gwenora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Cornish
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Gwaine
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh, Arthurian Cycle
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
Variant of
Gawain. Gwaine is a character on the BBC television series 'Merlin', meant to represent the Gawain of Arthurian legend.
Guilder
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American)
Rating: 93% based on 4 votes
Guffin
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: GUF-in
Rating: 88% based on 4 votes
Gracelyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: GRAYS-lin
Rating: 73% based on 3 votes
Elaboration of
Grace using the popular name suffix
lyn.
Goudarz
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Persian
Other Scripts: گودرز(Persian)
Pronounced: goo-DARZ
Goran
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Macedonian, Bulgarian
Other Scripts: Горан(Serbian, Macedonian, Bulgarian)
Pronounced: GO-ran(Croatian, Serbian)
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Derived from South Slavic gora meaning "mountain". It was popularized by the Croatian poet Ivan Goran Kovačić (1913-1943), who got his middle name because of the mountain town where he was born.
Godeliève
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (African), French (Rare)
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Glady
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 85% based on 2 votes
Possibly a masculine form of
Gladys.
Giovan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Rare), Romansh (Archaic), History (Ecclesiastical)
Italian short form of
Giovanni and Romansh short form of
Giovannes. Giovan Giuseppe della Croce (
John Joseph of the Cross in English; 15 August 1654 – 5 March 1739) was an Italian priest and a professed member from the Order of Friars Minor who hailed from the island of Ischia. He had a reputation for austerity and for the gift of miracles and was appointed Master of Novices. Beatified in 1789 and later canonized in 1839, he is the patron saint of the Italian island of Ischia.
Gilona
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Gascon
Gilo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval French, Medieval Italian, Medieval Spanish, Medieval Catalan
Short form of various names beginning with Proto-Germanic *gailaz "merry, excited; beautiful; lush, lustful".
Gilla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Sardinian
Sardinian form of
Cecilia, originally derived from a contraction of this name.
Gildan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: GIL-DAN
Masculine form of "Gilda".
Gidget
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature, Popular Culture
Pronounced: GIJ-et(Literature)
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
Originally from a novel by Frederick Kohner, which was made into a movie. Gidget's real name was Franzie.
Gideon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Hebrew, English, Dutch
Other Scripts: גִּדְעוֹן(Hebrew)
Pronounced: GID-ee-ən(English) GHEE-deh-awn(Dutch)
Means
"feller, hewer" in Hebrew. Gideon is a hero and judge of the
Old Testament. He led the vastly outnumbered Israelites against the Midianites, defeated them, and killed their two kings. In the English-speaking world,
Gideon has been used as a given name since the
Protestant Reformation, and it was popular among the
Puritans.
Gidea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), German (Rare, Archaic), Afrikaans, Italian (Rare, Archaic)
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Ghislaina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Flemish (Rare)
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Gesabel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American, Rare)
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Gergely
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hungarian
Pronounced: GEHR-gay
Gercyon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Puritan)
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Genie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JEE-nee
Géméline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Quebec, Rare, Archaic)
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
Most likely derived from Latin
Gemella. Compare the English name
Gemelle.
Gavi
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: גבי(Hebrew)
Pronounced: gah-vee
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
Gauvain
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French, Arthurian Cycle
Pronounced: GO-VEHN(French)
French form of
Gawain used in the works of Chrétien de Troyes.
Garrus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Popular Culture
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
Garrus Vakarian is a fictional character in BioWare's Mass Effect franchise, who acts as a party member (or "squadmate") in each of the three games in the original trilogy.
Gali
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: גַּלִי(Hebrew)
Means "my wave" in Hebrew.
Galen
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: GAY-lən
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Modern form of the Greek name
Γαληνός (Galenos), which meant
"calm" from Greek
γαλήνη (galene). It was borne by a 2nd-century BC Greco-Roman physician who contributed to anatomy and medicine. In modern times the name is occasionally given in his honour.
Galdric
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Catalan (Rare)
Pronounced: gald-reek
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Galaxaura
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Γαλαξαύρη(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 88% based on 4 votes
Means "milky breeze", from Greek γάλα
(gala) meaning "milk" (genitive γάλακτος) and αὔρα
(aura) meaning "breeze". This was the name of an Oceanid in Greek mythology.
Gaiseric
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Vandalic (Latinized)
From
Gaisericus, the Latin form of the Vandalic name *
Gaisarīx, derived from the Germanic elements *
gaizaz "spear" and *
rīks "ruler, king". This was the name of a 5th-century king of the Vandals, a Germanic tribe. He led his people through Hispania and established a kingdom in North Africa.
Gaheris
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arthurian Cycle, Welsh Mythology
Pronounced: gə-HE-ris
This is the name of a character in Arthurian tales, a brother of
Gawain (as well as
Gareth, Mordred and Agravain), and the son of King Lot and either
Belisent or
Morgause. 'The earliest form of his name is so similar to the earliest form of Gareth (
Gahariet) that the two brothers may have originally been the same character.' First mentioned by the 12th-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes, although scholars have suggested a derivation from the Welsh name
Gweir, which belongs to a number of warriors in Welsh legends and can mean "hay", "collar", "circle", "loop" or "bend".
Gabey
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: GAY-bee
Rating: 85% based on 2 votes
Franco
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: FRANG-ko
Italian form of
Frank, also used as a short form of the related name
Francesco.
Fiyero
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature
Based on the word 'furious'. The name for the love interest of the Wicked Witch of the West, Elphaba, in the book Wicked by Gregory Maguire.
Finley
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: FIN-lee
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
Variant of
Finlay. This is by far the preferred spelling in the United States, where it has lately been more common as a feminine name.
Fiera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Esperanto
Pronounced: fee-EH-ra
Rating: 90% based on 3 votes
Means "proud" in Esperanto.
Fidelma
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: fi-DEHL-mə(English)
Fernald
Usage: English
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Altered form of French
Fernel.
Fergus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish, Scottish, Irish Mythology, Old Irish [1]
Pronounced: FUR-gəs(English)
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Means
"man of vigour", derived from the Old Irish elements
fer "man" and
guss "vigour, strength, force". This was the name of several early rulers of Ireland and Dál Riata, as well as many characters from Irish legend. Notably it was borne by the hero Fergus mac Róich, who was tricked into giving up the kingship of Ulster to
Conchobar. However, he remained loyal to the new king until Conchobar betrayed
Deirdre and
Naoise, at which point he defected to Connacht in anger. The name was also borne by an 8th-century
saint, a missionary to Scotland.
This is the Old Irish form of the name, as well as the usual Anglicized form of Modern Irish Fearghas or Fearghus.
Fergina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Indonesian (Rare)
Pronounced: FUR-gee-na(English) FUR-jee-na(English)
Felonise
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Cajun), American (South), French (Acadian)
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Felix
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, English, Romanian, Ancient Roman, Biblical, Biblical Latin
Pronounced: FEH-liks(German, Dutch, Swedish) FEE-liks(English) FEH-leeks(Latin)
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
From a Roman
cognomen meaning
"lucky, successful" in Latin. It was acquired as an
agnomen, or nickname, by the 1st-century BC Roman general Sulla. It also appears in the
New Testament belonging to the governor of Judea who imprisoned
Saint Paul.
Due to its favourable meaning, this name was popular among early Christians, being borne by many early saints and four popes. It has been used in England since the Middle Ages, though it has been more popular in continental Europe. A notable bearer was the German composer Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847).
Fëanor
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature
Means "spirit of fire". In The Silmarillion, Fëanor was the mightiest of the Noldor and the creater of the legendary Silmarils.
Faunus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Pronounced: FOW-noos(Latin) FAW-nəs(English)
Possibly means "to befriend" from Latin. Faunus was a Roman god of fertility, forests, and agriculture.
Fauna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Pronounced: FOW-na(Latin) FAW-nə(English)
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Feminine form of
Faunus. Fauna was a Roman goddess of fertility, women and healing, a daughter and companion of Faunus.
Fasolt
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic Mythology, Theatre
In Richard Wagner's opera cycle "The Ring", Fasolt is the brother of
Fáfnir (here called Fafner) and is killed by him in an argument.
Faron
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French (Archaic), English
Rating: 100% based on 3 votes
French form of
Faro. As an English name, it is probably from a French surname that was derived from the given name.
Farley
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: FAHR-lee
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
From a surname that was originally from a place name meaning "fern clearing" in Old English. A notable bearer of this name was Canadian author Farley Mowat (1921-2014).
Farinus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
The god who invoked speech in children.
Faramund
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic [1]
Rating: 85% based on 2 votes
Derived from the Old German elements
fara "journey" and
munt "protection". This was the name of a semi-legendary 5th-century king of the Franks.
Faramir
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: FAH-rah-meer
Meaning uncertain. Probably "sufficient jewel" from the Sindarin far meaning "sufficient, adequate" and mir meaning "jewel, precious thing." In J.R.R. Tolkien's 'The Lord of the Rings', Faramir was the son of Denethor, brother of Boromir, and eventual husband of Eowyn.
Falbala
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature, Popular Culture
Worn by a beautiful blond-haired girl in The Adventures of Asterix a series of French comics
Evren
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Turkish
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Means
"cosmos, the universe" in Turkish. In Turkic
mythology the Evren is a gigantic snake-like dragon.
Everine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Everard
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
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.
Evangeline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: i-VAN-jə-leen, i-VAN-jə-lien
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Means
"good news" from Greek
εὖ (eu) meaning "good" and
ἄγγελμα (angelma) meaning "news, message". It was (first?) used by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his 1847 epic poem
Evangeline [1][2]. It also appears in Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) as the full name of the character Eva.
Eurus
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Εὖρος(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: Ear-ous
Eurus was the god of the east wind, one of the four directional Anemoi (Wind-Gods). He was associated with the season of autumn and dwelt near the palace of the sun-god Helios in the far east.
Euphrasia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Εὐπρασία(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 37% based on 3 votes
Means "good cheer" in Greek.
Euphelia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Literature
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Possibly a blend of
Euphemia and
Ophelia.
Euphelia is the title of a poem by Helen Maria Williams (1759-1827).
Esben
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Danish, Norwegian
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Emyr
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: EH-mir
Means "king, lord" in Welsh.
Emogene
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (Rare, Archaic)
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
Emmeline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHM-ə-leen, EHM-ə-lien
Rating: 100% based on 3 votes
From Old French
Emeline, a
diminutive of Germanic names beginning with the element
amal meaning
"unceasing, vigorous, brave". The
Normans introduced this name to England.
Emerose
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Filipino (Rare)
Rating: 83% based on 3 votes
Emerine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Rare), French (Belgian, Rare), French (African, Rare)
Rating: 85% based on 2 votes
Emeric
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Romanian (Rare)
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
Emerentia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman, Dutch, German (Rare), Swedish (Rare), Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend
Rating: 90% based on 3 votes
Feminine form of
Emerentius. This name belonged to an early Christian martyr, and is also assigned to the mother of Saint Anna and grandmother of the Virgin Mary in some late 15th-century European traditions.
Emerens
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch (Rare)
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Ebelin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval German
Pronounced: EH-bə-leen
Rating: 87% based on 3 votes
Derived from a name with the name element
ebur "boar". Borne by an abbot of Eberbach Monastery (1263–1271).
Eagan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Transferred use of the surname
Eagan.
Dylis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Rating: 95% based on 4 votes
Durlan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American, Rare), Portuguese (Brazilian, Rare), English (Rare)
Dragomir
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Serbian, Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovene, Romanian
Other Scripts: Драгомир(Serbian, Bulgarian)
Rating: 100% based on 4 votes
Derived from the Slavic element
dorgŭ (South Slavic
drag) meaning "precious" combined with
mirŭ meaning "peace, world".
Draco
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Δράκων(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: DRAY-ko(English)
Rating: 93% based on 3 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.
Dovie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (South)
Pronounced: DUV-ee
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
Diminutive of
Deborah, or sometimes simply from the English word
dove. (See also
Dove.)
Dorilyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Filipino (Rare), Spanish (Caribbean, Rare)
Rating: 87% based on 3 votes
Dorald
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Danish (Archaic), Dutch (Rare), English (American, Rare)
Pronounced: DO-rahlt(Dutch) DAWR-əld(American English)
Possibly a variant spelling of
Thorald in Denmark, but elsewhere (especially in the anglophone world), this name is most likely a combination of a name that contains the Greek element δῶρον
(doron) meaning "gift" (such as
Dorus and
Theodore) with a name that ends in
-ald (such as
Archibald,
Gerald and
Ronald).
Also compare the names Darold and Derald, which look similar and can be partially related in some cases.
A notable bearer of this name is the Dutch news presenter Dorald Megens.
Dorado
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Astronomy
Pronounced: do-RA-do
From Spanish dorar "to gild, to cover in gold". Dorado is one of the constellations created by Dutch explorers in the 16th century. It represents the dolphinfish.
Doni
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DAH-nee
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Dietrich
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German
Pronounced: DEET-rikh
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
German form of
Theodoric. The character Dietrich von Bern, loosely based on Theodoric the Great, appears in medieval German literature such as the
Hildebrandslied, the
Nibelungenlied and the
Eckenlied.
Devonia
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: African American (Rare)
Rating: 93% based on 4 votes
Devina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Indian
Devera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Desmia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (Rare), Literature
Rating: 90% based on 5 votes
The name of a character in The Palace of Mirrors by Margaret P. Haddix.
Demetris
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek (Cypriot)
Other Scripts: Δημήτρης(Greek)
Rating: 83% based on 3 votes
Alternate transcription of Greek Δημήτρης (see
Dimitris). This was borne by Cypriot president Demetris Christofias (1946-2019).
Delara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Persian
Other Scripts: دلآرا(Persian)
Means
"adorning the heart", from Persian
دل (del) meaning "heart" and
آرا (ara) meaning "decorate, adorn".
Dax
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DAKS
From an English surname, which was derived either from the town of Dax in France or from the Old English given name
Dæcca (of unknown meaning). The name was brought to public attention by the main character in the 1966 novel
The Adventurers and its 1970 movie adaptation. It became popular in the 2010s due to its similarity to other names like
Max and
Jax.
Davorin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Croatian, Slovene
Dascha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian, Ukrainian, Dutch (Rare), German (Rare)
Other Scripts: Даша(Russian, Ukrainian)
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
Variant transcription of
Dasha (for Russia and the Ukraine) as well as the main form of
Dasha in Germany and the Netherlands.
A known bearer of this name is the Dominican-American actress Dascha Polanco (b. 1982).
Darley
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Portuguese (Brazilian, Rare)
Rating: 100% based on 5 votes
Darleth
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Filipino
Pronounced: DAR-LETH
Rating: 84% based on 5 votes
Darana
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Indigenous Australian, Indigenous Australian Mythology
Pronounced: dah-RAH-nah
According to the legend of the Aboriginals, the original settlers of Australia, Darana was one of the Deities during Dreamtime (the time before humans occupied Earth).
According to legend, Darana created witchetty grubs and put two in a bag. He then hung the bag from a tree in Australia. Later, two human young men killed the grubs with a boomerang. Apparenty, this was a no-no because the dust of the destroyed grubs glowed with a light that turned the sunset red, which alerted evil spirits who killed the humans.
Daran felt bad for this, and turned the young men's bodies into sacred stones. If the stones are scratched, there will be famine. And if they are destroyed, the universe will turn to dust. For this reason, the stones were hidden in a bag in a secret location where they remain untouched to this very day.
Daphnis
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Δάφνις(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 88% based on 4 votes
From Greek δάφνη, meaning "laurel tree". In Greek mythology, Daphnis was the son of Hermes and an unnamed nymph. His mother left him under a laurel tree, where he was found by a shepherd and named after the tree. This is also the name of one of the main characters in the ancient Greek romance "Daphnis and Chloe".
Damara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Celtic Mythology
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
In Celtic mythology, Damara was a fertility goddess worshipped in Britain. She was associated with the month of May (Beltaine).
Dagorix
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Celtic
Means "good king", derived from Celtic dago "good, kind" combined with Celtic rix "king."
Dabris
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Latvian
Cuquis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Crispus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Roman
cognomen meaning
"curly-haired" in Latin.
Corvus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Derived from Latin corvus "raven." Marcus Valerius Corvus was a Roman hero of the 4th century BC.
Corin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French (Rare)
Rating: 96% based on 5 votes
Cleonora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese (Brazilian, Rare)
Rating: 92% based on 5 votes
Clarith
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American, Rare), Filipino (Rare)
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Clara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, Catalan, Romanian, English, Swedish, Danish, Late Roman
Pronounced: KLA-ra(German, Spanish, Italian) KLA-ru(Portuguese) KLA-RA(French) KLEHR-ə(American English) KLAR-ə(American English) KLAH-rə(British English)
Rating: 80% based on 3 votes
Feminine form of the Late Latin name
Clarus, which meant
"clear, bright, famous". The name
Clarus was borne by a few early
saints. The feminine form was popularized by the 13th-century Saint Clare of Assisi (called
Chiara in Italian), a friend and follower of Saint Francis, who left her wealthy family to found the order of nuns known as the Poor Clares.
As an English name it has been in use since the Middle Ages, originally in the form Clare, though the Latinate spelling Clara overtook it in the 19th century and became very popular. It declined through most of the 20th century (being eclipsed by the French form Claire in English-speaking countries), though it has since recovered somewhat.
Cicerón
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Roman (Hispanicized), Aragonese (Archaic)
Pronounced: thi-the-ROHN(European Spanish, Aragonese) si-se-ROHN(Latin American Spanish)
Rating: 83% based on 3 votes
Spanish and Aragonese form of
Cicero.
Chrysander
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish (Philippines, Rare)
Christophine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Rare, Archaic)
Rating: 75% based on 4 votes
Christabel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: KRIS-tə-behl
Rating: 80% based on 3 votes
Combination of
Christina and the name suffix
bel (inspired by Latin
bella "beautiful"). This name occurs in medieval literature, and was later used by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his 1816 poem
Christabel [1].
Chriselda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Afrikaans, South African, Filipino
Rating: 90% based on 3 votes
Presumably a variant of
Griselda, influenced by names beginning with "Chris-", such as
Christine.
Chogan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Siksika
Means "blackbird" in Siksika.
Chester
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: CHEHS-tər
Rating: 98% based on 4 votes
From an English surname that originally belonged to a person who came from Chester, an old Roman settlement in Britain. The name of the settlement came from Latin castrum "camp, fortress".
Chesera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern, Rare)
Pronounced: KAY-sar-ra, kay-SAR-a
Rating: 96% based on 5 votes
Cerintha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 73% based on 3 votes
From the name of a flower, literally "wax-flower" from Greek κηρος (keros) "beeswax" combined with ανθος (anthos) "flower".
Cerenita
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese (Brazilian, Rare)
Rating: 93% based on 4 votes
Celinda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: sə-LIN-də
Probably a blend of
Celia and
Linda. This is also the Spanish name for a variety of shrub with white flowers, known as sweet mock-orange in English (species Philadelphus coronarius).
Celiette
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Caribbean), French (Caribbean)
Rating: 63% based on 4 votes
Célien
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Rating: 73% based on 4 votes
French form of
Caelianus. Known bearers of this name are the Swiss singer Célien Schneider (b. 1986) and the late French general Charles-Célien Fracque (1875-1941).
Cedric
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SEHD-rik
Rating: 80% based on 4 votes
Invented by Walter Scott for a character in his novel
Ivanhoe (1819). Apparently he based it on the actual name
Cerdic, the name of the semi-legendary founder of the kingdom of Wessex in the 6th century. The meaning of
Cerdic is uncertain, but it does not appear to be Old English in origin. It could be connected to the Brythonic name
Caratācos. The name was also used by Frances Hodgson Burnett for the main character in her novel
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886).
Cecil
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SEE-səl, SEHS-əl
From the Roman name
Caecilius (see
Cecilia). This was the name of a 3rd-century
saint, a companion of Saint
Cyprian. Though it was in use during the Middle Ages in England, it did not become common until the 19th century when it was given in honour of the noble Cecil family, who had been prominent since the 16th century. Their surname was derived from the Welsh given name
Seisyll, which was derived from the Roman name
Sextilius, a derivative of
Sextus.
Caylus
Usage: French
Rating: 83% based on 6 votes
Of debated origin and meaning; theories include a Southern French corruption of Latin castellum "castle, fort, citadel, fortress, stronghold".
Cathan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History (Ecclesiastical)
Scottish form of
Cathán. The name coincides with Scottish Gaelic
cathan "barnacle goose".
Saint Cathan was a 6th-century Irish monk revered as a saint in parts of the Scottish Hebrides of whom very little is known. He appears in the
Aberdeen Breviary, Walter Bower's
Scotichronicon, and the
Acta Sanctorum, and a number of placenames in western Scotland are associated with him.
Cassarah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: kə-SEHR-ə, kə-SAR-ə, KAS-ə-rə
Rating: 73% based on 4 votes
Recently created name intended to mean "what will be, will be". It is from the title of the 1956 song Que Sera, Sera, which was taken from the Italian phrase che sarà sarà. The phrase que sera, sera is not grammatically correct in any Romance language.
Casper
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Pronounced: KAHS-pər(Dutch) KAHS-pehr(Swedish) KAS-bu(Danish)
Rating: 92% based on 6 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).
Casilda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Rating: 73% based on 3 votes
Meaning uncertain. This is the name of the 11th-century patron
saint of Toledo, Spain. It might have an Arabic origin (Saint Casilda was a Moorish princess), perhaps from
قصيدة (qasidah) meaning
"poem". Alternatively it could be derived from a Visigothic name in which the second element is
hilds meaning "battle".
Carmen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, English, Italian, French, Romanian, German
Pronounced: KAR-mehn(Spanish, Italian) KAHR-mən(English)
Rating: 65% based on 4 votes
Medieval Spanish form of
Carmel, appearing in the devotional title of the Virgin
Mary Nuestra Señora del Carmen meaning "Our Lady of Mount Carmel". The spelling has been altered through association with the Latin word
carmen meaning
"song". This was the name of the main character in George Bizet's opera
Carmen (1875).
Camry
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Modern, Rare)
Pronounced: KAM-ree
Rating: 95% based on 4 votes
From the name of a car model, made by Toyota, which derives from Japanese
kanmuri meaning "crown" and may be an anagram of the English phrase
my car. It could also be used as a diminutive of
Camryn.
Callan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KAL-ən
Rating: 98% based on 5 votes
From an Irish surname, the Anglicized form of
Ó Cathaláin, derived from the given name
Cathalán.
Caliban
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: KAL-i-ban(English)
Rating: 83% based on 3 votes
Created by Shakespeare for the monstrous son of
Sycorax in his play
The Tempest (1611). It has been suggested that it is a variant or anagram of the Spanish word
caníbal "cannibal".
Caitria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish (Rare)
Rating: 73% based on 4 votes
Cainan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Latin
Other Scripts: קֵינָן(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: KAY-nən(English) kay-IE-nən(English)
Caelus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Pronounced: KIE-luws(Classical Latin)
Rating: 93% based on 4 votes
Means "sky" or "the heavens" in Latin (related to the word
caelum). Caelus is the Roman god of the sky, the equivalent of the Greek god
Uranus.
Caelum
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Astronomy
Pronounced: KIE-loom(Latin) KAY-ləm(English)
Rating: 77% based on 3 votes
The name of a faint constellation in the southern sky, which is from Latin
caelum meaning "heaven, sky" (compare
Caelius) or (allegedly) "burin" (a tool for engraving on copper or other metals).
Cadel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Australian)
Pronounced: ka-DEL(Australian English)
Rating: 95% based on 4 votes
Variant of
Cadell. A famous namesake is Australian champion cyclist Cadel Evans.
Cadarius
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval Hungarian
Rating: 86% based on 5 votes
Cadarius was a nobleman in the Kingdom of Hungary who served as Judge royal in 1146, during the reign of Géza II of Hungary.
Bryonia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 70% based on 3 votes
From the Latin name for bryony, the wild twining plant (see
Bryony).
Briselda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Mexican), Spanish (Caribbean)
Pronounced: bree-SEHL-da(Spanish)
Rating: 88% based on 4 votes
Briseis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Βρισηΐς(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: brie-SEE-is(English)
Rating: 67% based on 3 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.
Briseida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Rating: 93% based on 6 votes
Form of
Briseis used in medieval tales about the Trojan War.
Briona
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: bree-AHN-ah, BRIE-awn-ah
Rating: 90% based on 5 votes
Brienna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern, Rare)
Rating: 84% based on 5 votes
Brielen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Brazilian (Modern, Rare)
Rating: 65% based on 4 votes
Breya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American, Rare)
Rating: 93% based on 6 votes
Breslin
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Modern, Rare)
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Breslin.
Brenya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American)
Pronounced: Bren-ya(American English)
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Brennus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Gaulish (Latinized)
Pronounced: BREHN-əs(English)
Rating: 78% based on 4 votes
Latinized form of a Celtic name (or title) that possibly meant either "king, prince" or "raven". Brennus was a Gallic leader of the 4th century BC who attacked and sacked Rome.
Brenna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BREHN-ə
Rating: 86% based on 5 votes
Brawley
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Rating: 88% based on 4 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Brawley. A known bearer of this name is American actor Brawley Nolte (b. 1986), the son of American actor Nick Nolte (b. 1941).
Brahim
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic (Maghrebi)
Other Scripts: براهيم(Arabic)
North African short form of
Ibrahim.
Bowen
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: BO-ən
Rating: 88% based on 6 votes
From a Welsh surname, derived from
ap Owain meaning
"son of Owain".
Bouchra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic (Maghrebi)
Other Scripts: بشرى(Arabic)
Alternate transcription of
Bushra chiefly used in Northern Africa.
Blakeney
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BLAYK-nee
Rating: 96% based on 5 votes
From Old English blæc meaning "black, dark" or blac meaning "pale" combined with Old English eg meaning "island" or hæg meaning "enclosure".
Billura
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Uzbek
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Derived from the Uzbek billur meaning "crystal".
Billina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature, English (American)
Rating: 88% based on 4 votes
Character from a novel in the Oz series.
Bezlea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Baltic Mythology (Latinized)
Rating: 95% based on 8 votes
The name of an alleged Lithuanian goddess of the evening.
The form Bezlea was first recorded by Polish historian and theologian Jan Łasicki in his treatise on idolatry De diis Samagitarum caeterorumque Sarmatarum et falsorum Christianorum, written ca. 1582 and published in 1615, while Polish historian Theodor Narbutt referred to her as Bezelea in his work Dzieje starożytne narodu litewskiego, written between 1835 and 1841.
Both forms are Latinizations; the original form, if there ever was one, is lost, however a Lithuanian form has since been reconstructed: Bežlėja.
It has been suggested that Bežlėja might be derived from Lithuanian blista "to darken; to get dark".
Since neither Łasicki nor Narbutt were intimately familiar with Lithuanian culture or language, the academic opinion on the value of their documents ranges from a valuable resource to a practical joke.
Besarion
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Georgian
Other Scripts: ბესარიონ(Georgian)
Rating: 80% based on 4 votes
Bennon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History (Ecclesiastical)
French form of
Benno, this name refers to Saint Benno of Metz (927–940).
Benik
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German (Silesian)
Rating: 70% based on 4 votes
Belphegor
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend
Other Scripts: בַּעַל-פְּעוֹר(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: bel-FA-gor
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
From
Ba'al Pe'or, the name of a Semitic god mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, meaning "
Ba'al of Mount Pe'or" or "lord of the opening". In Christian demonology this is the name of a demon that represents the deadly sin of sloth.
Belma
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Bosnian, Turkish
Rating: 93% based on 8 votes
Meaning unknown.
Bellona
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Pronounced: behl-LO-na(Latin) bə-LON-ə(English)
Rating: 86% based on 5 votes
Derived from Latin
bellare meaning
"to fight". This was the name of the Roman goddess of war, a companion of
Mars.
Bellatrice
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Astronomy (Italianized)
Rating: 89% based on 8 votes
Bellamy
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Rating: 92% based on 9 votes
From an English surname derived from Old French bel ami meaning "beautiful friend".
Beburos
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend
Beburos is an angel mentioned in the Greek Apocalypse of Ezra whose name was revealed to Esdras as one of the nine angels who will govern "at the end of the world."
Beaujay
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Obscure
Rating: 87% based on 7 votes
Beauchiana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch (Rare)
Rating: 74% based on 7 votes
A combination of the French masculine adjective
beau meaning "beautiful, handsome" with the name
Chiana. Interestingly, this given name has a strong resemblance with the French surname
Beauchain and its variant
Beauchaine. As such, it might be possible that in some cases, Beauchiana was inspired by the surname or even an attempted feminization of it.
Bayard
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Derived from Old French baiart meaning "bay coloured". In medieval French poetry Bayard was a bay horse owned by Renaud de Montauban and his brothers. The horse could magically adjust its size to carry multiple riders.
Barsabas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Means "son of
Sabas". It is the name of multiple biblical characters and saints.
Auster
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Pronounced: OWS-tehr(Latin)
Means "south" in Latin (descended from the Indo-European root *hews- meaning "dawn", making it related to the English word east). Auster was the Roman god of the south wind.
Auremir
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Brazilian
Auremir Evangelista dos Santos is a Brazilian professional footballer.
Auréline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Modern), French (Belgian, Modern)
Rating: 98% based on 8 votes
Aurelia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman, Romanian, Italian, Spanish, Polish
Pronounced: ow-REH-lee-a(Latin) ow-REH-lya(Italian, Spanish, Polish)
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
Aubert
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: O-BEHR
Auberon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: AW-bər-ahn(English) O-bər-ahn(English)
Rating: 82% based on 6 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.
Athaliah
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: עֲתַלְיָה(Ancient Hebrew)
Possibly means
"Yahweh is exalted" in Hebrew. In the
Old Testament this is both a feminine and masculine name. It was borne by the daughter of
Ahab and
Jezebel, who later came to rule Judah as a queen.
Astrophel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature
Rating: 73% based on 3 votes
Probably intended to mean "star lover", from Greek
ἀστήρ (aster) meaning "star" and
φίλος (philos) meaning "lover, friend". This name was first used by the 16th-century poet Philip Sidney in his collection of sonnets
Astrophel and Stella.
Aster
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: AS-tər
Rating: 76% based on 5 votes
From the name of the flower, which is derived via Latin from Greek
ἀστήρ (aster) meaning "star".
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 2 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).
Artelus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Romani (Latinized)
Pronounced: AR-tə-loos
Arlan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AHR-lən
Rating: 87% based on 6 votes
Aribo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic
Rating: 85% based on 2 votes
Short form of
Aribert.
This name is often confused (as well as used interchangeably) with the Germanic names Arbeo and Arbo.
Arabel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature, Medieval English, English (British), Scottish
Rating: 77% based on 7 votes
Variant of
Arabella.
In medieval German literature, Arabel is the name of a character from the epic poem Willehalm (13th century) written by the German poet Wolfram von Eschenbach (died around 1220). She is the daughter of king Terramer and the wife of king Tybalt, who is wooed and won and eventually taken to wife by the protagonist Willehalm.
In her case, the name might possibly be a reference to Arabia, as she and her family are all Saracens. This would also add more significance to the fact that she changed her name to Gyburc (see Gyburg) after converting to Christianity for Willehalm.
Annora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 92% based on 9 votes
Medieval English variant of
Honora.
Annelie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Swedish
Pronounced: A-nə-lee(German)
Rating: 77% based on 7 votes
Angelie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish (Rare), Danish (Rare), Norwegian (Rare), Dutch (Rare)
Pronounced: ang-shə-LEE(Swedish) an-shə-LEE(Swedish)
Rating: 75% based on 6 votes
Andras
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend
Pronounced: AN-dras
The name of a demon as described in the Lesser Key of Solomon as a creature with the body of an angel and an owl's head who rides a wolf. Andras commands thirty legions of lesser demons and his main purpose is to spread discord and violence amongst mortals.
Anders
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Pronounced: AN-desh(Swedish) AHN-nəsh(Norwegian) AHN-us(Danish)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Scandinavian form of
Andreas (see
Andrew). A famous bearer was the Swedish physicist Anders Jonas Ångström (1814-1874).
Amory
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Literature, English (Rare)
Pronounced: AM-ə-ree
Rating: 93% based on 7 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Amory.
Alsephina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Astronomy
Pronounced: al-sə-FEE-nə
Rating: 57% based on 6 votes
Derived from Arabic al-safīnah meaning "the ship". Alsephina, also known as Delta Velorum, is a triple star system that is a part of the constellation Vela.
Almus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Rating: 93% based on 4 votes
Latinized form of Greek Ἄλμος (Almos), which is possibly derived from Greek ἄλμα (alma) meaning "grove", which in turn is apparently related to Greek ἄλσος (alsos) meaning "sacred grove". Another possibility might be that the name is derived from Greek ἅλμα (halma), which can mean "spring, leap" as well as "sea water, salt water" (for the latter, compare also Greek ἅλμη (halmē) meaning "sea water, brine"). In Greek mythology, Almus was a son of Sisyphus and brother of Glaucus, Ornytion and Thersander.
Almérie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Rating: 75% based on 6 votes
The name of a character in Jean-Pierre Camus' l'Iphigene (1625).
Aliyander
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature
Rating: 85% based on 4 votes
Name of a sorcerer and antagonist in "The Princess and the Frog" by Robin McKinley.
Aldous
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: AWL-dəs
Rating: 86% 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.
Alborz
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Persian
Other Scripts: البرز(Persian)
From the name of a mountain range (of unknown etymology) in northern Iran.
Alberina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Kosovar, Albanian (Rare)
Rating: 78% based on 6 votes
Alainne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval French
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Medieval French feminine form of
Alain.
Aidric
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History (Ecclesiastical)
From the Germanic name
Aldric. This was the name of a 9th-century saint.
Aella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἄελλα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: A-EHL-LA(Classical Greek)
Rating: 75% based on 4 votes
Means
"whirlwind" in Greek. In Greek
myth this was the name of an Amazon warrior killed by
Herakles during his quest for Hippolyta's girdle.
Adorestine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Acadian), Louisiana Creole
Rating: 67% based on 6 votes
Adena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 82% based on 6 votes
Adelma
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American), Portuguese (Brazilian), Italian (Rare), Literature
Rating: 72% based on 5 votes
Feminine form of
Adelmo. This name was used by Carlo Gozzi for a character in his play
Turandot (1762).
Adelie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Medieval English
Pronounced: AD-ə-lee(English)
Rating: 81% based on 8 votes
Anglicized form of
Adélie and medieval English short form of
Adelicia.
Adelice
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval French, Louisiana Creole, French (Modern)
Rating: 84% based on 7 votes
Variant of
Adelicia. In France, this name was revived in the 1990s.
Adelaine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Belgian, Rare), French (Quebec, Rare), Dutch (Rare), Portuguese (Brazilian)
Rating: 74% based on 8 votes
Adairis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Caribbean, Rare), Spanish (Latin American, Rare)
Pronounced: AH-dah-EE-ris(Caribbean Spanish)
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Abilyx
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Rating: 73% based on 3 votes
Abilyx was a Roman nobleman from Hispania who appeared in The Histories of Polybius.
Abeline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Rare), Dutch (Rare), Danish (Rare), Norwegian (Archaic)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Abalam
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Popular Culture, Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend
Pronounced: ab-a-lamb(Popular Culture)
Meaning unknown. In demonology, Abalam is a king of Jinnestan and one of the assistants of Paimon. This demon was featured in the 2010 film 'The Last Exorcism'.
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