wolvin's Personal Name List
Wren
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: REHN
Rating: 80% based on 3 votes
From the English word for the small songbird. It is ultimately derived from Old English wrenna.
Winter
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: WIN-tər
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
From the English word for the season, derived from Old English winter.
Winslow
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: WINZ-lo
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
From a surname that was derived from an Old English place name meaning
"hill belonging to Wine". A famous bearer of this name was American painter Winslow Homer (1836-1910).
Windsor
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: WIN-zər
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
From an English surname that was from a place name meaning "riverbank with a windlass" in Old English (a windlass is a lifting apparatus). This has been the surname of the royal family of the United Kingdom since 1917.
Waverly
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: WAY-vər-lee
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
From the rare English surname
Waverley, derived from the name of a place in Surrey, itself possibly from Old English
wæfre "flickering, wavering" and
leah "woodland, clearing".
The surname was borne by the title character in the novel Waverley (1814) by Walter Scott. Streets in New York and San Francisco have been named Waverly after the novel, and a female character in Amy Tan's novel The Joy Luck Club (1989) is named after the San Francisco street. The name received a small boost in popularity for girls after the 1993 release of the novel's movie adaptation, and it rose further after the debut of the television series Wizards of Waverly Place (2007-2012).
Wallis
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: WAWL-is
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
From a surname that was a variant of
Wallace. Wallis Simpson (1895-1986) was the divorced woman whom Edward VIII married, which forced him to abdicate the British throne.
Vlinder
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Dutch
Pronounced: VLIN-dər
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Derived from the Dutch word
vlinder meaning "butterfly".
A known Dutch bearer of this name is Vlinder Medina Kamerling (b. 2005), the only daughter of the late Dutch actor Antonie Kamerling (1966-2010) and his wife Isa Hoes (b. 1967).
Vesper
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology, Dutch (Modern)
Pronounced: WEHS-pehr(Latin) VEHS-pər(English, Dutch)
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
Latin
cognate of
Hesperos. This name was used by the British author Ian Fleming for a female character, a love interest of James Bond, in his novel
Casino Royale (1953). She also appears in the film adaptations of 1967 and 2006.
Valentine 1
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: VAL-in-tien
Rating: 100% based on 3 votes
From the Roman
cognomen Valentinus, which was itself a derivative of the cognomen
Valens meaning
"strong, vigorous, healthy" in Latin.
Saint Valentine was a 3rd-century martyr. His feast day was the same as the Roman fertility festival of Lupercalia, which resulted in the association between Valentine's Day and love.
As an English name, it has been used occasionally since the 12th century. It is the name of a central character in Shakespeare's play The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1594).
Torin
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Meaning unknown. It has been suggested that it is of Irish origin, though no suitable derivation can be found.
Toby
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: TO-bee
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
Medieval form of
Tobias. It was sometimes used as a feminine name in the 1930s and 40s due to the influence of American actress Toby Wing (1915-2001).
Thatcher
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: THACH-ər
From an English surname that referred to a person who thatched roofs by attaching straw to them, derived from Old English þæc "thatch". The surname was borne by British prime minister Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013).
Tai
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Chinese
Other Scripts: 太, etc.(Chinese)
Pronounced: TIE
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
From Chinese
太 (tài) meaning "very, extreme" or other characters pronounced in a similar way.
Sunday
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SUN-day
Rating: 77% based on 3 votes
From the name of the day of the week, which ultimately derives from Old English sunnandæg, which was composed of the elements sunne "sun" and dæg "day". This name is most common in Nigeria and other parts of Africa.
Storm
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Modern), Dutch (Modern), Danish (Modern), Norwegian (Modern)
Pronounced: STAWRM(English, Dutch)
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
From the vocabulary word, ultimately from Old English or Old Dutch storm, or in the case of the Scandinavian name, from Old Norse stormr. It is unisex as an English name, but typically masculine elsewhere.
Stevie
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: STEE-vee
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Stellan
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Swedish
Pronounced: STEHL-lan
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Meaning unknown, perhaps related to Old Norse stilling "calm", or perhaps of German origin.
Spencer
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SPEHN-sər
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
From an English surname that meant "dispenser of provisions", derived from Middle English spense "larder, pantry". A famous bearer was American actor Spencer Tracy (1900-1967). It was also the surname of Princess Diana (1961-1997).
Sparrow
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: SPAR-o, SPEHR-o
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
From the name of the bird, ultimately from Old English spearwa.
Snowbird
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (American), Popular Culture
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Sirius
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Astronomy
Pronounced: SIR-ee-əs(English)
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
The name of a bright star in the constellation Canis Major, derived via Latin from Greek
σείριος (seirios) meaning
"burning".
Sinclair
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: sin-KLEHR
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
From a Scottish surname that was derived from a Norman French town called "
Saint Clair". A notable bearer was the American author Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951).
Shelby
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SHEHL-bee
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
From an English surname, which was possibly a variant of
Selby. Though previously in use as a rare masculine name, it was popularized as a feminine name by the main character in the movie
The Woman in Red (1935). It was later reinforced by the movie
Steel Magnolias (1989) in which Julia Roberts played a character by this name.
Seven
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: SEHV-ən
Rating: 15% based on 2 votes
From the English word for the number, derived from Old English
seofon (from an Indo-European root shared by Latin
septem and Greek
ἑπτά (hepta)).
Scottie
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SKAHT-ee
Rating: 10% based on 2 votes
Schuyler
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SKIE-lər
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
From a Dutch surname meaning
"scholar". Dutch settlers brought the surname to America, where it was subsequently adopted as a given name in honour of the American general and senator Philip Schuyler (1733-1804)
[1].
Sasha
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Russian, Ukrainian, English, French
Other Scripts: Саша(Russian, Ukrainian)
Pronounced: SA-shə(Russian) SASH-ə(English) SAH-shə(English) SA-SHA(French)
Sage
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: SAYJ
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
From the English word sage, which denotes either a type of spice or else a wise person.
Roshan
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Persian, Hindi, Marathi, Nepali
Other Scripts: روشن(Persian) रोशन(Hindi, Marathi, Nepali)
Pronounced: ro-SHAN(Persian) RO-shən(Hindi)
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Means "light, bright" in Persian.
Rose
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English, French
Pronounced: ROZ
Rating: 37% based on 3 votes
Originally a Norman French form of the Germanic name
Hrodohaidis meaning
"famous type", composed of the elements
hruod "fame" and
heit "kind, sort, type". The
Normans introduced it to England in the forms
Roese and
Rohese. From an early date it was associated with the word for the fragrant flower
rose (derived from Latin
rosa). When the name was revived in the 19th century, it was probably with the flower in mind.
Ripley
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: RIP-lee
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
From a surname that was derived from the name of various English towns, from Old English
rippel "grove, thicket" and
leah "clearing". A famous fictional bearer is the character Ellen Ripley (usually only called by her surname) from the
Alien series of movies, beginning 1979.
Rio 1
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Various
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Means "river" in Spanish or Portuguese. A city in Brazil bears this name. Its full name is Rio de Janeiro, which means "river of January", so named because the first explorers came to the harbour in January and mistakenly thought it was a river mouth.
Rin
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 凛, etc.(Japanese Kanji) りん(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: REEN
Rating: 10% based on 2 votes
From Japanese
凛 (rin) meaning "dignified, severe, cold" or other kanji that are pronounced the same way.
Riley
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: RIE-lee
Rating: 37% based on 3 votes
From a surname that comes from two distinct sources. As an Irish surname it is a variant of
Reilly. As an English surname it is derived from a place name meaning
"rye clearing" in Old English.
Before 1980, this was an uncommon masculine name in America. During the 1980s and 90s this name steadily increased in popularity for both boys and girls, and from 2003 onwards it has been more common for girls in the United States. Elsewhere in the English-speaking world, such as the United Kingdom and Australia, it has remained largely masculine.
Reyes
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: REH-yehs
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
Means
"kings" in Spanish. It is taken from the title of the Virgin
Mary,
La Virgen de los Reyes, meaning "The Virgin of the Kings". According to legend, the Virgin Mary appeared to King Ferdinand III of Castile and told him his armies would defeat those of the Moors in Seville.
Rex
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: REHKS
From Latin rex meaning "king". It has been used as a given name since the 19th century.
Raven
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: RAY-vən
Rating: 40% based on 2 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.
Raine
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: RAYN
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
From a surname derived from the Old French nickname
reine meaning
"queen". A famous bearer was the British socialite Raine Spencer (1929-2016), the stepmother of Princess Diana. In modern times it is also considered a variant of
Rain 1.
Quinn
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KWIN
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
From an Irish surname, an Anglicized form of Irish Gaelic
Ó Cuinn, itself derived from the given name
Conn. In the United States it was more common as a name for boys until 2010, the year after the female character Quinn Fabray began appearing on the television series
Glee.
Piper
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: PIE-pər
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
From an English surname that was originally given to a person who played on a pipe (a flute). It was popularized as a given name by a character from the television series
Charmed, which debuted in 1998
[1].
Pierce
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: PEERS
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
From an English surname that was derived from the given name
Piers. In America this name slowly started to grow in popularity in 1982 when actor Pierce Brosnan (1953-) began starring on the television series
Remington Steele.
Phoenix
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: FEE-niks
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
From the name of a beautiful immortal bird that appears in Egyptian and Greek
mythology. After living for several centuries in the Arabian Desert, it would be consumed by fire and rise from its own ashes, with this cycle repeating every 500 years. The name of the bird was derived from Greek
φοῖνιξ (phoinix) meaning "dark red".
Pepper
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: PEHP-ər
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
From the English word for the spice, which is prepared from the dried berries of the pepper plant. The word is derived from Latin piper, ultimately from an Indo-Aryan source. In popular culture, Pepper is the nickname of Virginia Potts from the Iron Man series of comic books and movies, created 1963.
Parker
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: PAHR-kər
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
From an English occupational surname that meant "keeper of the park".
Ozzie
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AWZ-ee
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
Owen 1
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Welsh, English
Pronounced: O-in(English)
Rating: 93% based on 4 votes
Anglicized form of
Owain.
Ophir
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Biblical, Hebrew
Other Scripts: אוֹפִיר(Hebrew)
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
From the Hebrew name
אוֹפִיר (ʾOfir), meaning unknown. This is the name of a son of
Joktan in the
Old Testament (where it is also used as a place name).
Onyx
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AHN-iks
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
From the English word for the gemstone (a variety of chalcedony), which can be black, red or other colours. It is derived from Greek
ὄνυξ (onyx) meaning "claw, nail".
Odell
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: o-DEHL
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
From an English surname that was originally from a place name, itself derived from Old English wad "woad" (a plant that produces a blue dye) and hyll "hill".
October
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: ahk-TO-bər
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
From the name of the tenth month. It is derived from Latin octo meaning "eight", because it was originally the eighth month of the Roman year.
Noire
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Medieval French
Pronounced: NWAHR(Old French)
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
Taken from French noire meaning "black".
Nikki
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: NIK-ee
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Monroe
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: mən-RO
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
From a Scottish surname meaning
"from the mouth of the Roe". The Roe is a river in Northern Ireland. Two famous bearers of the surname were American president James Monroe (1758-1831) and American actress Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962).
As a given name it was mostly masculine in America until around 2009. It was already rising in popularity for girls when singer Mariah Carey gave it to her daughter born 2011 (though this probably helped accelerate it).
Monday
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (African)
Pronounced: MUN-day
Rating: 10% based on 2 votes
From the English word for the day of the week, which was derived from Old English mona "moon" and dæg "day". This can be given to children born on Monday, especially in Nigeria.
Memphis
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: MEHM-fis
Rating: 15% based on 2 votes
From the name of an important city of ancient Egypt, or the city in Tennessee that was named after it. It is derived from a Greek form of Egyptian mn-nfr meaning "enduring beauty".
Mars
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Pronounced: MARS(Latin) MAHRZ(English)
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
Possibly related to Latin
mas meaning
"male" (genitive
maris). In Roman
mythology Mars was the god of war, often equated with the Greek god
Ares. This is also the name of the fourth planet in the solar system.
Maitland
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 15% based on 2 votes
From an English surname that was from a Norman French place name possibly meaning "inhospitable".
Lucky
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English, Hindi
Other Scripts: लकी(Hindi)
Pronounced: LUK-ee(English)
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
From a nickname given to a lucky person. It is also sometimes used as a
diminutive of
Luke. A famous bearer was the Italian-American gangster "Lucky" Luciano (1897-1962).
Lucero
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Spanish (Mexican), Spanish (Latin American)
Pronounced: loo-SEH-ro(Latin American Spanish) loo-THEH-ro(European Spanish)
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Means
"light source, bright star, morning star" in Spanish, a derivative of
luz "light". Occasionally it is used as a
diminutive of the name
Luz. It is most common in Mexico and Colombia.
Leif
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Pronounced: LAYF
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
From the Old Norse name Leifr meaning "descendant, heir". Leif Eriksson was a Norse explorer who reached North America in the early 11th century. He was the son of Erik the Red.
Layton
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LAY-tən
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
From a surname that was originally derived from the name of English towns meaning
"town with a leek garden" in Old English. Like similar-sounding names such as
Peyton and
Dayton, this name began rising in popularity in the 1990s.
Layne
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LAYN
Rating: 15% based on 2 votes
Knives
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Popular Culture, Literature
Pronounced: NIEVZ
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
From the English words "Knife" and "Knives."
A character from Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and the Scott Pilgrim book series is Knives Chau. She's Chinese.
Kestrel
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: KEHS-trəl
Rating: 10% based on 2 votes
From the name of the bird of prey, ultimately derived from Old French crecelle "rattle", which refers to the sound of its cry.
Juniper
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: JOON-i-pər
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
From the English word for the type of tree, derived ultimately from Latin iuniperus.
Julien
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: ZHUY-LYEHN
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
French form of
Iulianus (see
Julian).
Johnnie
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JAHN-ee(American English) JAWN-ee(British English)
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
Joey
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JO-ee
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Jericho
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Other Scripts: יְרִיחוֹ(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: JEHR-i-ko
From the name of a city in Israel that is mentioned several times in the
Old Testament. The meaning of the city's name is uncertain, but it may be related to the Hebrew word
יָרֵחַ (yareaḥ) meaning "moon"
[1], or otherwise to the Hebrew word
רֵיחַ (reyaḥ) meaning "fragrance"
[2].
Jasper
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English, Dutch, Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend
Pronounced: JAS-pər(English) YAHS-pər(Dutch)
Rating: 48% based on 4 votes
From Latin
Gaspar, perhaps from the Biblical Hebrew word
גִּזְבָּר (gizbar) meaning
"treasurer" [1], derived from Old Persian
ganzabarah. This name was traditionally assigned to one of the wise men (also known as the Magi, or three kings) who were said to have visited the newborn
Jesus. It has occasionally been used in the English-speaking world since the Middle Ages. The name can also be given in reference to the English word for the gemstone.
Ivory
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: African American
Pronounced: IE-və-ree(English) IEV-ree(English)
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
From the English word for the hard, creamy-white substance that comes from elephant tusks and was formerly used to produce piano keys.
Indigo
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: IN-di-go
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
From the English word
indigo for the purplish-blue dye or the colour. It is ultimately derived from Greek
Ἰνδικόν (Indikon) meaning "Indic, from India".
Indie
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: IN-dee
Possibly a
diminutive of
India or
Indiana, but also likely inspired by the term
indie, short for
independent, which is typically used to refer to media produced outside of the mainstream.
Hollis
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: HAHL-is
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
From an English surname that was derived from Middle English holis "holly trees". It was originally given to a person who lived near a group of those trees.
Hester
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English, Dutch, Biblical Latin
Pronounced: HEHS-tər(English, Dutch)
Latin form of
Esther. Like
Esther, it has been used in England since the
Protestant Reformation. Nathaniel Hawthorne used it for the heroine of his novel
The Scarlet Letter (1850), Hester Prynne, a
Puritan woman forced to wear a red letter
A on her chest after giving birth to a child out of wedlock.
Hesper
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare), Dutch (Rare)
Pronounced: HES-pər(English)
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
Harper
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: HAHR-pər
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
From an English surname that originally belonged to a person who played or made harps (Old English hearpe). A notable bearer was the American author Harper Lee (1926-2016), who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird. It rapidly gained popularity in the 2000s and 2010s, entering the American top ten for girls in 2015.
Harbor
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: HAR-BOR
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
From the English word
harbor, a body of water for anchoring ships, ultimately from the Old English
herebeorg "shelter, refuge". It may also be the transferred use of the surname
Harbor.
Grey
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: GRAY
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Ginger
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JIN-jər
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
From the English word
ginger for the spice or the reddish-brown colour. It can also be a
diminutive of
Virginia, as in the case of actress and dancer Ginger Rogers (1911-1995), by whom the name was popularized.
Garnet 1
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: GAHR-nət
Rating: 10% based on 2 votes
From the English word garnet for the precious stone, the birthstone of January. The word is derived from Middle English gernet meaning "dark red".
Freddie
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: FREHD-ee
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
Diminutive of
Frederick or
Freda. A noteworthy bearer was the musician Freddie Mercury (1946-1991), born Farrokh Bulsara, the lead vocalist of the British rock band Queen.
Frankie
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: FRANGK-ee
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Foster 1
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: FAWS-tər
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
Florizel
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Literature
Rating: 93% based on 3 votes
From Latin
floris, the genitive case of
flos meaning
"flower". This name was used by Shakespeare for the prince of Bohemia and the lover of
Perdita in his play
The Winter's Tale (1610).
Florence
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English, French
Pronounced: FLAWR-əns(English) FLAW-RAHNS(French)
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
From the Latin name
Florentius or the feminine form
Florentia, which were derived from
florens "prosperous, flourishing".
Florentius was borne by many early Christian
saints, and it was occasionally used in their honour through the Middle Ages. In modern times it is mostly feminine.
This name can also be given in reference to the city in Italy, as in the case of Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), who was born there to British parents. She was a nurse in military hospitals during the Crimean War and is usually considered the founder of modern nursing.
Fletcher
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: FLECH-ər
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
From a surname meaning "maker of arrows" in Middle English, ultimately from Old French flechier.
Finley
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: FIN-lee
Rating: 53% based on 3 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.
Finch
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Literature
Pronounced: FINCH(English)
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Finch.
Fern
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: FURN
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
From the English word for the plant, ultimately from Old English fearn. It has been used as a given name since the late 19th century.
Ezra
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English, Hebrew, Biblical
Other Scripts: עֶזְרָא(Hebrew)
Pronounced: EHZ-rə(English)
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
Means
"help" in Hebrew. Ezra is a prophet of the
Old Testament and the author of the Book of Ezra. It has been used as a given name in the English-speaking world since the
Protestant Reformation. The American poet Ezra Pound (1885-1972) was a famous bearer.
Everett
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHV-ə-rit, EHV-rit
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
From an English surname that was derived from the given name
Everard.
Everest
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: EHV-ə-rist
Rating: 15% based on 2 votes
From the English name for the world's highest mountain, itself named after the British surveyor George
Everest (1790-1866).
Esmé
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHZ-may, EHZ-mee
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Means "esteemed" or "loved" in Old French. It was first recorded in Scotland, being borne by the first Duke of Lennox in the 16th century. It is now more common as a feminine name.
Envy
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (American, Modern, Rare), Literature
Pronounced: EHN-vee(English)
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
From the English word
envy meaning "envy, resentful desire", itself ultimately from Latin
invidia, of the same meaning (compare
Invidia). Use of the name has been influenced by the brand of perfume called Envy, which was introduced by Gucci in 1997.
Emory
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHM-ə-ree
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Elwyn
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHL-win
Rating: 10% based on 2 votes
Elliott
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHL-ee-ət
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
From an English surname that was derived from a
diminutive of the medieval name
Elias.
Ellington
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Eden
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Hebrew, English (Modern), French (Modern)
Other Scripts: עֵדֶן(Hebrew)
Pronounced: EE-dən(English)
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
From the biblical place name, itself possibly from Hebrew
עֵדֶן (ʿeḏen) meaning "pleasure, delight"
[1], or perhaps derived from Sumerian
𒂔 (edin) meaning "plain". According to the
Old Testament the Garden of Eden was the place where the first people,
Adam and
Eve, lived before they were expelled.
Eddie
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHD-ee
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Dusty
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DUS-tee
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
From a nickname originally given to people perceived as being dusty. It is also used a
diminutive of
Dustin. A famous bearer was British singer Dusty Springfield (1939-1999), who acquired her nickname as a child.
Dorian
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English, French, Romanian
Pronounced: DAWR-ee-ən(English) DAW-RYAHN(French)
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
The name was first used by Oscar Wilde in his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), which tells the story of a man whose portrait ages while he stays young. Wilde may have taken it from the name of the ancient Greek tribe the Dorians.
Devon
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DEHV-ən
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Variant of
Devin. It may also be partly inspired by the name of the county of Devon in England, which got its name from the Dumnonii, a Celtic tribe.
Deimos
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Δεῖμος(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: DEH-MOS(Classical Greek) DIE-məs(English)
Means
"terror" in Greek. This was one of the sons of the Greek god
Ares. Also, a moon of Mars bears this name.
Davey
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DAY-vee
Rating: 15% based on 2 votes
Coyote
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: American (Rare)
From the name of the small dog-like animal. Has been used rarely as a given name since the 1800s, though its use is steadily increasing since the 2000s.
Clover
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: KLO-vər
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
From the English word for the wild flower, ultimately deriving from Old English clafre.
Cloud
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Popular Culture
Pronounced: KLOWD
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
Derived from the English word cloud. In Popular Culture, this is the name of the main protagonist (Cloud Strife) in "Final Fantasy VII", who also makes an appearance in "Dissidia: Final Fantasy".
Cleo
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KLEE-o
Rating: 77% based on 3 votes
Claude
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: French, English
Pronounced: KLOD(French) KLAWD(English)
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
French masculine and feminine form of
Claudius. In France the masculine name has been common since the Middle Ages due to the 7th-century
Saint Claude of Besançon. It was imported to Britain in the 16th century by the aristocratic Hamilton family, who had French connections. A famous bearer of this name was the French impressionist painter Claude Monet (1840-1926).
Cirrus
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: SEE-rəs
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
Possibly named for the cirrus cloud or from the Latin word, meaning "a lock of hair, tendril, curl, ringlet of hair," that the word originates from.
Charley
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: CHAHR-lee
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Channing
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: CHAN-ing
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
From an English surname of uncertain origin.
Chandler
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: CHAND-lər
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
From an occupational surname that meant "candle seller" or "candle maker" in Middle English, ultimately from Latin candela via Old French. It surged in popularity after the 1994 debut of the American sitcom Friends, featuring a character by this name.
Calypso
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Καλυψώ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: kə-LIP-so(English)
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
From Greek
Καλυψώ (Kalypso), which probably meant
"she that conceals", derived from
καλύπτω (kalypto) meaning "to cover, to conceal". In Greek
myth this was the name of the nymph who fell in love with
Odysseus after he was shipwrecked on her island of Ogygia. When he refused to stay with her she detained him for seven years until
Zeus ordered her to release him.
Basil 1
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BAZ-əl
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
From the Greek name
Βασίλειος (Basileios), which was derived from
βασιλεύς (basileus) meaning
"king".
Saint Basil the Great was a 4th-century bishop of Caesarea and one of the fathers of the early Christian church. Due to him, the name (in various spellings) has come into general use in the Christian world, being especially popular among Eastern Christians. It was also borne by two Byzantine emperors.
Azrael
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend
Rating: 7% based on 3 votes
Variant of
Azarel. This is the name of an angel in Jewish and Islamic tradition who separates the soul from the body upon death. He is sometimes referred to as the Angel of Death.
August
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: German, Polish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Catalan, English
Pronounced: OW-guwst(German) OW-goost(Polish, Norwegian) OW-guyst(Swedish) AW-gəst(English)
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
German, Polish, Scandinavian and Catalan form of
Augustus. This was the name of three Polish kings.
As an English name it can also derive from the month of August, which was named for the Roman emperor Augustus.
Atticus
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Literature, Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἀττικός(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: AT-i-kəs(English)
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Latinized form of Greek
Ἀττικός (Attikos) meaning
"from Attica", referring to the region surrounding Athens in Greece. This name was borne by a few notable Greeks from the Roman period (or Romans of Greek background). The author Harper Lee used the name in her novel
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) for an Alabama lawyer who defends a black man accused of raping a white woman.
Ashe
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: ASH
Rating: 3% based on 3 votes
Variant of
Ash. In the case of American singer Ashe, it is short for
Ashlyn.
Ash
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ASH
Rating: 37% based on 3 votes
Short form of
Ashley. It can also come directly from the English word denoting either the tree or the residue of fire.
Artemis
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, Greek
Other Scripts: Ἄρτεμις(Ancient Greek) Άρτεμις(Greek)
Pronounced: AR-TEH-MEES(Classical Greek) AHR-tə-mis(English)
Rating: 77% based on 3 votes
Meaning unknown, possibly related either to Greek
ἀρτεμής (artemes) meaning
"safe" or
ἄρταμος (artamos) meaning
"a butcher". Artemis was the Greek goddess of the moon and hunting, the twin of
Apollo and the daughter of
Zeus and
Leto. She was known as
Diana to the Romans.
Aries
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Astronomy
Pronounced: A-ree-ehs(Latin) EHR-eez(English)
Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
Means
"ram" in Latin. This is the name of a constellation and the first sign of the zodiac. Some Roman legends state that the ram in the constellation was the one who supplied the Golden Fleece sought by
Jason.
Archer
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AHR-chər
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
From an English surname meaning "bowman, archer", of Old French origin. Although already slowly growing in popularity, this name accelerated its rise after the premiere of the American television series Archer in 2009.
Aquarius
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Astronomy, English (Rare)
Pronounced: ə-KWEH-ri-əs(British English) ə-KWEHR-ee-əs(American English)
Rating: 10% based on 3 votes
Means "water-carrier" or "cup-carrier" in Latin. This is a constellation in the zodiac, between
Capricornus and
Pisces.
Aether
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Αἰθήρ(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
Latinized form of Greek
Αἰθήρ (Aither) meaning
"ether, heaven", derived from
αἴθω (aitho) meaning "to burn, to ignite". In Greek
mythology this was the name of the god of light and the upper sky.
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