protobo998's Personal Name List
Zinnia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: ZIN-ee-ə
From the name of the flower, which was itself named for the German botanist Johann Zinn.
Zane 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ZAYN
Rating: 63% based on 3 votes
From an English surname of unknown meaning. It was introduced as a given name by American author Zane Grey (1872-1939). Zane was in fact his middle name — it had been his mother's maiden name.
Yūki
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 優希, 悠希, 優輝, 悠生, etc.(Japanese Kanji) ゆうき(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: YOO-KYEE
From Japanese
優 (yū) meaning "excellence, superiority, gentleness" or
悠 (yū) meaning "permanence" combined with
希 (ki) meaning "hope",
輝 (ki) meaning "brightness" or
生 (ki) meaning "living". Other combinations of kanji can form this name as well.
Yuki
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 幸, 雪, 由貴, 由紀, etc.(Japanese Kanji) ゆき(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: YOO-KYEE
From Japanese
幸 (yuki) meaning "happiness" or
雪 (yuki) meaning "snow". It can also come from
由 (yu) meaning "reason, cause" combined with
貴 (ki) meaning "valuable" or
紀 (ki) meaning "chronicle". Other kanji or kanji combinations are also possible.
York
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: YAWRK
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
From an English surname that was derived from York, the name of a city in northern England. The city name was originally
Eburacon, Latinized as
Eboracum, meaning "yew" in Brythonic. In the Anglo-Saxon period it was corrupted to
Eoforwic, as if from Old English
eofor "boar" and
wic "village". This was rendered as
Jórvík by the Vikings and eventually reduced to
York.
Yang
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Chinese
Other Scripts: 洋, 阳, etc.(Chinese) 洋, 陽, etc.(Traditional Chinese)
Pronounced: YANG
From Chinese
洋 (yáng) meaning "ocean" or
阳 (yáng) meaning "light, sun, male" (which is typically only masculine), as well as other Chinese characters pronounced similarly.
Wystan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
From the Old English name
Wigstan, composed of the elements
wig "battle" and
stan "stone". This was the name of a 9th-century Anglo-Saxon
saint. It became rare after the
Norman Conquest, and in modern times it is chiefly known as the first name of the British poet W. H. Auden (1907-1973).
Wynona
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: wi-NO-nə, wie-NO-nə
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Wisteria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: wis-TEHR-ee-ə, wis-TEER-ee-ə
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
From the name of the flowering plant, which was named for the American anatomist Caspar Wistar.
Wisdom
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: WIZ-dəm
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Simply from the English word, a derivative of Old English wis "wise".
Winfield
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: WIN-feeld
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
From a surname that originated from various English place names, themselves derived from Old English winn "meadow, pasture" and feld "field".
Windsor
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: WIN-zər
Rating: 50% based on 2 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.
Wilder
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
From an English surname meaning "wild, untamed, uncontrolled", from Old English wilde.
Weldon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: WEHL-dən
From an English surname that was derived from a place name meaning "hill near a spring" in Old English.
Weiss
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Popular Culture
Pronounced: WIES, WISE
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Derived from German
weiß (which is also found spelled as
weiss) meaning "white".
In popular culture, Weiss is the name of one of the villains from the video game Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus as well as the name of Weiss Schnee, the main character of the popular web series RWBY.
Warwick
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: WAWR-ik
From a surname that was derived from the name of a town in England, itself from Old English wer "weir, dam" and wic "settlement".
Wardell
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
From a surname that was derived from a place name meaning "watch hill" in Old English.
Wally
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: WAHL-ee
Wallis
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: WAWL-is
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.
Wade
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: WAYD
Voltaire
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History
Pronounced: VAWL-TEHR(French) vol-TEHR(English)
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Pen name of François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), a French philosopher and writer, the author of Candide. It is not known how Arouet devised his name. He may have reversed the syllables of Airvault, a town where his family owned property; it may have been an anagram of the Latin spelling of his surname Arovet and LI standing for le jeune "the young"; or it may have come from French volontaire "determined".
Virgo
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Astronomy
Pronounced: WEER-go(Latin) VUR-go(English)
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Means "maiden, virgin" in Latin. This is the name of a constellation and the sixth sign of the zodiac.
Viona
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Viking
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish
Pronounced: VEE-king
From the Old Norse name Víkingr meaning "viking, raider", ultimately from vík "cove, inlet".
Vi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: VIE
Veronica
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Romanian, Late Roman
Pronounced: və-RAHN-i-kə(American English) və-RAWN-i-kə(British English) veh-RAW-nee-ka(Italian)
Rating: 63% based on 3 votes
Latin alteration of
Berenice, the spelling influenced by the ecclesiastical Latin phrase
vera icon meaning
"true image". This was the name of a legendary
saint who wiped
Jesus' face with a towel and then found his image imprinted upon it. Due to popular stories about her, the name was occasionally used in the Christian world in the Middle Ages. It was borne by the Italian saint and mystic Veronica Giuliani (1660-1727). As an English name, it was not common until the 19th century, when it was imported from France and Scotland.
Verity
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: VEHR-i-tee
From the English word meaning
"verity, truth", from Latin
verus "true, real". This was one of the virtue names adopted by the
Puritans in the 17th century.
Venus
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Pronounced: WEH-noos(Latin) VEE-nəs(English)
Means
"love, sexual desire" in Latin. This was the name of the Roman goddess of love and sex. Her character was assimilated with that of the Greek goddess
Aphrodite. As the mother of
Aeneas she was considered an ancestor of the Roman people. The second planet from the sun is named after her.
Venetia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Greek
Other Scripts: Βενετία(Greek)
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
From the Latin name of the Italian region of Veneto and the city of Venice (see the place name
Venetia). This name was borne by the celebrated English beauty Venetia Stanley (1600-1633), though in her case the name may have been a Latinized form of the Welsh name
Gwynedd [1]. Benjamin Disraeli used it for the heroine of his novel
Venetia (1837).
Van
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: VAN
Short form of names containing
van, such as
Vance or
Ivan.
Valerius
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Pronounced: wa-LEH-ree-oos(Latin) və-LIR-ee-əs(English)
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
Roman family name that was derived from Latin
valere "to be strong". This was the name of several early
saints.
Valerian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian, Georgian, Romanian, History
Other Scripts: Валериан(Russian) ვალერიან(Georgian)
Pronounced: və-LIR-ee-ən(English)
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
From the Roman
cognomen Valerianus, which was itself derived from the Roman name
Valerius. This was the name of a 3rd-century Roman emperor (Publius Licinius Valerianus) who was captured by the Persians. Several
saints have also borne this name, including a 2nd-century martyr of Lyons.
Vale
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: VAYL
From the English word meaning "wide river valley".
Valary
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: VAL-ə-ree
Unity
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: YOO-ni-tee
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
From the English word unity, which is ultimately derived from Latin unitas.
Týr
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norse Mythology
Pronounced: TUYR(Old Norse)
Troy
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: TROI
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Originally from a surname that denoted a person from the city of Troyes in France. It is now more likely used in reference to the ancient city of Troy that was besieged by the Greeks in
Homer's
Iliad. The city's name, from Greek
Τροία (Troia), is said to derive from its mythical founder
Τρώς (Tros), but is more likely of Luwian or Hittite origin. This name was popularized in the 1960s by the actor Troy Donahue (1936-2001)
[1], who took his
stage name from that of the ancient city.
Trevor
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh, English
Pronounced: TREHV-ər(English)
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
From a Welsh surname, originally taken from the name of towns in Wales meaning
"big village", derived from Middle Welsh
tref "village" and
maur "large". As a given name it became popular in the United Kingdom in the middle of the 20th century, then caught on in the United States in the 1960s.
Treasure
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: TREZH-ər
From the English word, ultimately from Greek
θησαυρός (thesauros) meaning "treasure, collection".
Tracy
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: TRAY-see
From an English surname that was taken from a Norman French place name meaning
"domain belonging to Thracius". Charles Dickens used it for a male character in his novel
The Pickwick Papers (1837). It was later popularized as a feminine name by the main character Tracy Lord in the movie
The Philadelphia Story (1940). This name is also sometimes used as a
diminutive of
Theresa.
Torgeir
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norwegian
From the Old Norse name
Þórgeirr, which meant
"Thor's spear" from the name of the Norse god
Þórr (see
Thor) combined with
geirr "spear".
Topsy
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: TAHP-see
From a nickname that is of unknown meaning, perhaps deriving from the English word top. This is the name of a young slave in Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852).
Topaz
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: TO-paz
From the English word for the yellow precious stone, the traditional birthstone of November, ultimately derived from Greek
τόπαζος (topazos).
Toby
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: TO-bee
Rating: 50% based on 2 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).
Þórr
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norse Mythology
Original Old Norse form of
Thor.
Thor
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norse Mythology, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish
Pronounced: THAWR(English) TOOR(Norwegian, Swedish) TOR(Danish)
From the Old Norse
Þórr meaning
"thunder", ultimately from Proto-Germanic *
Þunraz. In Norse
mythology Thor is a god of storms, thunder, war and strength, a son of
Odin. He is portrayed as red-bearded, short-tempered, armed with a powerful hammer called Mjölnir, and wearing an enchanted belt called Megingjörð that doubles his strength. During Ragnarök, the final battle at the end of the world, it is foretold that Thor will slay the monstrous sea serpent
Jörmungandr but be fatally poisoned by its venom.
Theseus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Θησεύς(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: TEH-SEWS(Classical Greek) THEE-see-əs(English)
Possibly derived from Greek
τίθημι (tithemi) meaning
"to set, to place". Theseus was a heroic king of Athens in Greek
mythology. He was the son of Aethra, either by
Aegeus or by the god
Poseidon. According to legend, every seven years the Cretan king
Minos demanded that Athens supply Crete with seven boys and seven girls to be devoured by the Minotaur, a half-bull creature that was the son of Minos's wife Pasiphaë. Theseus volunteered to go in place of one of these youths in order to slay the Minotaur in the Labyrinth where it lived. He succeeded with the help of Minos's daughter
Ariadne, who provided him with a sword and a roll of string so he could find his way out of the maze.
William Shakespeare made Theseus a central character in his play A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595), about his upcoming marriage to the Amazon queen Hippolyta. Shakespeare revisited the character in his later play The Two Noble Kinsmen (1613).
Thane
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: THAYN
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
From the Scottish and English noble title, which was originally from Old English thegn.
Tex
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: TEHKS
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
From a nickname denoting a person who came from the state of Texas. A famous bearer was the American animator Tex Avery (1908-1980), real name Frederick, who was born in Texas.
Tevin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: TEHV-in
Invented name, probably inspired by
Kevin and
Devin. This name was popularized by the American singer Tevin Campbell (1976-).
Terrell
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, African American
Pronounced: TEHR-əl(English) tə-REHL(English)
From an English surname that was probably derived from the Norman French nickname tirel "to pull", referring to a stubborn person. It may sometimes be given in honour of civil rights activist Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954). It was common in the African-American community from the 1970s to the 1990s, typically stressed on the second syllable. A famous bearer is American football player Terrell Owens (1973-).
Terra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: TEHR-ə
Variant of
Tara 1, perhaps influenced by the Latin word
terra meaning "land, earth".
Terminus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Pronounced: TEHR-mee-noos(Latin) TUR-mə-nəs(English)
Means "limit, boundary, end" in Latin. This was the name of the Roman god of boundaries.
Tempest
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: TEHM-pist
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
From the English word meaning "storm". It appears in the title of William Shakespeare's play The Tempest (1611).
Taurus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Astronomy
Pronounced: TOW-roos(Latin) TAW-rəs(English)
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Means "bull" in Latin. This is the name of a constellation and the second sign of the zodiac.
Tatiana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, French, Slovak, Polish, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, Dutch, Greek, Georgian, English, Russian, Bulgarian, Ancient Roman
Other Scripts: Τατιάνα(Greek) ტატიანა(Georgian) Татьяна(Russian) Татяна(Bulgarian)
Pronounced: ta-TYA-na(Italian, Spanish, Polish, German) TAH-tee-ah-nah(Finnish) ta-TYAHN-ə(English) tu-TYA-nə(Russian)
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Feminine form of the Roman name
Tatianus, a derivative of the Roman name
Tatius. This was the name of a 3rd-century
saint who was martyred in Rome under the emperor Alexander Severus. She was especially venerated in Orthodox Christianity, and the name has been common in Russia (as
Татьяна) and Eastern Europe. It was not regularly used in the English-speaking world until the 1980s.
Tarquin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History
Pronounced: TAHR-kwin(English)
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
From Tarquinius, a Roman name of unknown meaning, possibly Etruscan in origin. This was the name of two early kings of Rome.
Tamsin
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (British)
Pronounced: TAM-zin
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Contracted form of
Thomasina. It was traditionally used in Cornwall.
Symphony
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: SIM-fə-nee
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Simply from the English word, ultimately deriving from Greek
σύμφωνος (symphonos) meaning "concordant in sound".
Sylvia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish
Pronounced: SIL-vee-ə(English) SIL-vee-ya(Dutch) SUYL-vee-ah(Finnish)
Rating: 73% based on 4 votes
Variant of
Silvia. This has been the most common English spelling since the 19th century.
Sydney
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SID-nee
Rating: 63% based on 4 votes
From a surname that was a variant of the surname
Sidney. This is the name of the largest city in Australia, which was named for Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney in 1788. Formerly used by both genders, since the 1980s this spelling of the name has been mostly feminine.
Syd
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SID
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
Sybil
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SIB-əl
Variant of
Sibyl. This spelling variation has existed since the Middle Ages.
Sutton
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: SUT-ən
From a surname, itself derived from the name of numerous English towns, of Old English origin meaning "south town".
Stuart
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Scottish
Pronounced: STOO-ərt(English) STYOO-ərt(English)
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
From a Scottish occupational surname originally belonging to a person who was a steward. It is ultimately derived from Old English stig "house" and weard "guard". As a given name, it arose in 19th-century Scotland in honour of the Stuart royal family, which produced several kings and queens of Scotland and Britain between the 14th and 18th centuries.
Stafford
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: STAF-ərd
From a surname that was from a place name meaning "landing-place ford" in Old English.
Spirit
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: SPIR-it
From the English word spirit, ultimately from Latin spiritus "breath, energy", a derivative of spirare "to blow".
Sophocles
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Σοφοκλῆς(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: SAHF-ə-kleez(English)
From the Greek name
Σοφοκλῆς (Sophokles), which was derived from Greek
σοφός (sophos) meaning "skilled, clever" and
κλέος (kleos) meaning "glory". Sophocles was a celebrated 5th-century BC dramatist from Athens.
Sophie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, English, German, Dutch
Pronounced: SAW-FEE(French) SO-fee(English) zo-FEE(German) so-FEE(Dutch)
Rating: 74% based on 5 votes
Sophia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Greek, German, Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Σοφία(Greek)
Pronounced: so-FEE-ə(English) sə-FIE-ə(British English) so-FEE-a(Greek) zo-FEE-a(German)
Rating: 58% based on 5 votes
Means
"wisdom" in Greek. This was the name of an early, probably mythical,
saint who died of grief after her three daughters were martyred during the reign of the emperor Hadrian. Legends about her probably arose as a result of a medieval misunderstanding of the phrase
Hagia Sophia "Holy Wisdom", which is the name of a large basilica in Constantinople.
This name was common among continental European royalty during the Middle Ages, and it was popularized in Britain by the German House of Hanover when they inherited the British throne in the 18th century. It was the name of characters in the novels Tom Jones (1749) by Henry Fielding and The Vicar of Wakefield (1766) by Oliver Goldsmith.
In the United States this name was only moderately common until the 1990s when it began rising in popularity, eventually becoming the most popular for girls from 2011 to 2013. A famous bearer is the Italian actress Sophia Loren (1934-).
Sonya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian, English
Other Scripts: Соня(Russian)
Pronounced: SO-nyə(Russian) SON-yə(English) SAWN-yə(English)
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Russian
diminutive of
Sophia. This is the name of a character in Leo Tolstoy's novel
War and Peace (1869, English translation 1886).
Skaði
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norse Mythology
Means
"damage, harm" in Old Norse. In Norse
mythology she was a giantess (jǫtunn) associated with the winter, skiing and mountains. After the gods killed her father, they offered her a husband from among them as compensation. She ended up marrying
Njord.
Silvius
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Late Roman, Roman Mythology
Pronounced: SEEL-wee-oos(Latin) SIL-vee-əs(English)
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Derived from Latin
silva meaning
"wood, forest". This was the family name of several of the legendary kings of Alba Longa. It was also the name of an early
saint martyred in Alexandria.
Silvio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: SEEL-vyo(Italian) SEEL-byo(Spanish)
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Italian and Spanish form of
Silvius.
Silver
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: SIL-vər
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
From the English word for the precious metal or the colour, ultimately derived from Old English seolfor.
Sigrid
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, German, Estonian, Finnish (Archaic)
Pronounced: SEE-grid(Swedish) SEEG-reed(Finnish)
Rating: 63% based on 3 votes
From the Old Norse name
Sigríðr, which was derived from the elements
sigr "victory" and
fríðr "beautiful, beloved".
Sienna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: see-EHN-ə
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
From the English word meaning "orange-red". It is ultimately from the name of the city of Siena in Italy, because of the colour of the clay there.
Shura
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Шура(Russian)
Pronounced: SHOO-rə
Shin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 真, etc.(Japanese Kanji) しん(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: SHEEN
From Japanese
真 (shin) meaning "real, genuine" or other kanji with the same pronunciation.
Sheridan
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SHEHR-i-dən
From an Irish surname (Anglicized from Irish Gaelic Ó Sirideáin), which was derived from the given name Sirideán possibly meaning "searcher".
Shelly
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SHEHL-ee
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Shay 1
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: SHAY(English)
Anglicized form of
Séaghdha, sometimes used as a feminine name.
Seymour
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SEE-mawr
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
From a Norman surname that originally belonged to a person coming from the French town of
Saint Maur (which means "Saint
Maurus").
Severus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Pronounced: seh-WEH-roos(Latin) si-VIR-əs(English) SEHV-ə-rəs(English)
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Roman family name meaning
"stern" in Latin. This name was borne by several early
saints including a 6th-century patriarch of Antioch.
Septimus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Pronounced: SEHP-tee-moos
Roman
praenomen, or given name, which meant
"seventh" in Latin.
Seong-Jin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Korean
Other Scripts: 성진(Korean Hangul) 成震, 星鎭, etc.(Korean Hanja)
Pronounced: SUNG-JEEN
From Sino-Korean
成 (seong) meaning "completed, finished, succeeded" or
星 (seong) meaning "star, planet" combined with
鎭 (jin) meaning "town, marketplace" or
震 (jin) meaning "shake, tremor, excite". Other hanja character combinations are also possible.
Scout
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: SKOWT
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
From the English word scout meaning "one who gathers information covertly", which is derived from Old French escouter "to listen". Harper Lee used this name in her novel To Kill a Mockingbird (1960).
Scorpio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Astronomy
Pronounced: SKAWR-pi-o(English)
Rating: 63% based on 3 votes
Means
"scorpion" in Latin, from Greek
σκορπίος (skorpios). This is the name of the eighth sign of the zodiac, associated with the constellation
Scorpius.
Scarlet
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: SKAHR-lit
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
Either a variant of
Scarlett or else from the English word for the red colour (both of the same origin, a type of cloth).
Sayuri
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 小百合, etc.(Japanese Kanji) さゆり(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: SA-YOO-REE
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
From Japanese
小 (sa) meaning "small" and
百合 (yuri) meaning "lily". This name can also be composed of other kanji combinations.
Sapphire
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: SAF-ie-ər
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
From the name of the gemstone, typically blue, which is the traditional birthstone of September. It is derived from Greek
σάπφειρος (sappheiros), ultimately from the Hebrew word
סַפִּיר (sappir).
Saoirse
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: SEER-shə
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Means "freedom" in Irish Gaelic. It was first used as a given name in the 20th century.
Santana
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American), Portuguese (Brazilian), English (Modern)
Pronounced: san-TA-na(Spanish) sun-TU-nu(Portuguese) san-TAN-ə(English)
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
From a contraction of
Santa Ana (referring to
Saint Anna) or from a Spanish and Portuguese surname derived from any of the numerous places named for the saint. It can be given in honour of the Mexican-American musician Carlos Santana (1947-), the founder of the band Santana. The name received a boost in popularity for American girls after the character Santana Andrade began appearing on the soap opera
Santa Barbara in 1984.
Salem 2
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: SAY-ləm
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
From the name of a biblical town,
שָׁלֵם (Shalem) in Hebrew, meaning
"complete, safe, peaceful". According to the
Old Testament this was the town where Melchizedek was king. It is usually identified with
Jerusalem. Many places are named after the biblical town, most in America, notably a city in Massachusetts where the infamous Salem witch trials occurred in 1692.
Sakura
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 桜, 咲良, etc.(Japanese Kanji) さくら(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: SA-KOO-RA
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
From Japanese
桜 (sakura) meaning "cherry blossom", though it is often written using the hiragana writing system. It can also come from
咲 (saku) meaning "blossom" and
良 (ra) meaning "good, virtuous, respectable" as well as other kanji combinations.
Sadie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SAY-dee
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Sable
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: SAY-bəl
From the English word meaning "black", derived from the name of the black-furred mammal native to northern Asia, ultimately of Slavic origin.
Ryland
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: RIE-lənd
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
From an English surname, which was originally derived from a place name meaning "rye land" in Old English.
Rupert
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, English
Pronounced: ROO-pehrt(German) ROO-pərt(English)
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
German variant form of
Robert, from the Old German variant
Hrodperht. It was borne by the 7th century
Saint Rupert of Salzburg and the 8th-century Saint Rupert of Bingen. The military commander Prince Rupert of the Rhine, a nephew of Charles I, introduced this name to England in the 17th century. A notable bearer is the Australian-American businessman Rupert Murdoch (1931-).
Rune
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norwegian, Danish, Swedish
Pronounced: ROO-nə(Norwegian) ROO-neh(Danish, Swedish)
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Derived from Old Norse
rún meaning
"secret lore, rune".
Rufus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Roman, English, Biblical
Pronounced: ROO-foos(Latin) ROO-fəs(English)
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Roman
cognomen meaning
"red-haired" in Latin. Several early
saints had this name, including one mentioned in one of
Paul's epistles in the
New Testament. As a nickname it was used by William II Rufus, a king of England, because of his red hair. It came into general use in the English-speaking world after the
Protestant Reformation.
Rue
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ROO
From the name of the bitter medicinal herb, ultimately deriving from Greek
ῥυτή (rhyte). This is also sometimes used as a short form of
Ruth 1.
Rudy
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ROO-dee
Roy
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish, English, Dutch
Pronounced: ROI(English, Dutch)
Anglicized form of
Ruadh. A notable bearer was the Scottish outlaw and folk hero Rob Roy (1671-1734). It is often associated with French
roi "king".
Rover
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Pet
Pronounced: RO-vər(English)
From an English word, the agent noun of the verb rove meaning "roam, wander". This a stereotypical name for a dog.
Rosalynne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: RO-zə-lin, RAHZ-ə-lin
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Rosalyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: RO-zə-lin, RAHZ-ə-lin
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Variant of
Rosaline. It can also be considered an elaboration of
Rose with the common name suffix
lyn.
Rosalin
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: RO-zə-lin, RAHZ-ə-lin
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Ron 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: RAHN
Romina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ro-MEE-na
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Romana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Polish, Slovene, Croatian, Czech, Slovak, Late Roman
Pronounced: ro-MA-na(Italian) RO-ma-na(Czech) RAW-ma-na(Slovak)
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Feminine form of
Romanus (see
Roman).
Roger
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French, Catalan, Swedish, Norwegian, German, Dutch
Pronounced: RAHJ-ər(American English) RAWJ-ə(British English) RAW-ZHEH(French) roo-ZHEH(Catalan) RO-gu(German) ro-ZHEH(Dutch)
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
From the Germanic name
Hrodger meaning
"famous spear", derived from the elements
hruod "fame" and
ger "spear". The
Normans brought this name to England, where it replaced the Old English
cognate Hroðgar (the name of the Danish king in the Anglo-Saxon epic
Beowulf). It was a common name in England during the Middle Ages. By the 18th century it was rare, but it was revived in following years. The name was borne by the Norman lords Roger I, who conquered Sicily in the 11th century, and his son Roger II, who ruled Sicily as a king.
This name was very popular in France in the first half of the 20th century. In the English-speaking world it was popular especially from the 1930s to the 50s. Famous bearers include British actor Roger Moore (1927-2017) and Swiss tennis player Roger Federer (1981-).
Rodger
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: RAHJ-ər(American English) RAWJ-ə(British English)
Robyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: RAHB-in(American English) RAWB-in(British English)
Feminine variant of
Robin.
Robina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Feminine form of
Robin. It originated in Scotland in the 17th century.
Robby
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: RAHB-ee
Ripley
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: RIP-lee
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.
Riggs
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: RIGZ
Transferred use of the surname Riggs.
Rigel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Astronomy
Pronounced: RIE-jəl(English)
Derived from Arabic
الرجل (al-Rijl) meaning
"foot". This is the name of the star that forms the left foot of the constellation Orion.
Rigby
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: RIG-bee
From an English surname that was originally derived from a place name meaning "ridge farm" in Old Norse.
Ridley
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: RID-lee
From an English surname that was originally derived from various place names meaning either "reed clearing" or "channel clearing" in Old English.
Rich
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: RICH
Rhiannon
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh, English, Welsh Mythology
Pronounced: ri-AN-awn(Welsh) ree-AN-ən(English)
Rating: 63% based on 3 votes
Probably derived from an unattested Celtic name *
Rīgantonā meaning
"great queen" (Celtic *
rīganī "queen" and the divine or augmentative suffix
-on). It is speculated that Rigantona was an old Celtic goddess, perhaps associated with fertility and horses like the Gaulish
Epona. As
Rhiannon, she appears in Welsh legend in the
Mabinogi [1] as a beautiful magical woman who rides a white horse. She was betrothed against her will to
Gwawl, but cunningly broke off that engagement and married
Pwyll instead. Their son was
Pryderi.
As an English name, it became popular due to the Fleetwood Mac song Rhiannon (1976), especially in the United Kingdom and Australia.
Reva
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hinduism, Hindi
Other Scripts: रेवा(Sanskrit, Hindi)
Means
"one that moves" in Sanskrit. This is another name of the Hindu goddess
Rati.
Rena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Latinate feminine form of
René.
Remington
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: REHM-ing-tən
From an English surname that was derived from the name of the town of Rimington in Lancashire, itself meaning "settlement on the Riming stream". It may be given in honour of the American manufacturer Eliphalet Remington (1793-1861) or his sons, founders of the firearms company that bears their name.
Remigio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: reh-MEE-jo(Italian) reh-MEE-khyo(Spanish)
Italian and Spanish form of
Remigius (see
Rémy).
Remei
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Catalan
Pronounced: rə-MAY
Means
"remedy" in Catalan, a Catalan equivalent of
Remedios.
Rembrandt
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch (Rare)
Pronounced: REHM-brahnt
From a Germanic name that was composed of the elements
regin "advice, counsel, decision" and
brant "fire, torch, sword". This name belonged to the Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669).
Regulus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Roman, Astronomy
Pronounced: REH-goo-loos(Latin)
Roman
cognomen meaning
"prince, little king", a
diminutive of Latin
rex "king". This was the cognomen of several 3rd-century BC consuls from the gens Atilia. It was also the name of several early
saints. A star in the constellation Leo bears this name as well.
Ravyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American, Modern, Rare)
Pronounced: RAY-vən(American English)
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Ravenna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: rə-VEHN-ə
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Either an elaboration of
Raven, or else from the name of the city of Ravenna in Italy.
Randell
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: RAN-dəl
Randall
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: RAN-dəl
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
From an English surname that was derived from the medieval given name
Randel.
Ramsey
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: RAM-zee
From an English and Scottish surname that was derived from a place name meaning "garlic island" in Old English.
Ramon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Catalan
Pronounced: rə-MON
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Rain 1
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: RAYN
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Simply from the English word rain, derived from Old English regn.
Rachael
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: RAY-chəl
Rating: 70% based on 4 votes
Variant of
Rachel, the spelling probably influenced by that of
Michael.
Puck
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Anglo-Saxon Mythology, Dutch
Pronounced: PUK(English) PUYK(Dutch)
Meaning unknown, from Old English puca. It could ultimately be of either Germanic or Celtic origin. In English legend this was the name of a mischievous spirit, also known as Robin Goodfellow. He appears in Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595). It is used in the Netherlands as mainly a feminine name.
Prudence
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English, French
Pronounced: PROO-dəns(English) PRUY-DAHNS(French)
Medieval English form of
Prudentia, the feminine form of
Prudentius. In France it is both the feminine form and a rare masculine form. In England it was used during the Middle Ages and was revived in the 17th century by the
Puritans, in part from the English word
prudence, ultimately of the same source.
Prosper
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French, English
Pronounced: PRAWS-PEHR(French) PRAHS-pər(English)
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
From the Latin name
Prosperus, which meant
"fortunate, successful". This was the name of a 5th-century
saint, a supporter of Saint
Augustine. It has never been common as an English name, though the
Puritans used it, partly because it is identical to the English word
prosper.
Praise
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (African)
Pronounced: PRAYZ
From the English word praise, which is ultimately derived (via Old French) from Late Latin preciare, a derivative of Latin pretium "price, worth". This name is most common in English-speaking Africa.
Portia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: PAWR-shə
Rating: 63% based on 3 votes
Variant of
Porcia, the feminine form of the Roman family name
Porcius, used by William Shakespeare for the heroine of his play
The Merchant of Venice (1596). In the play Portia is a woman who disguises herself as a man in order to defend
Antonio in court. It is also the name of a moon of Uranus, after the Shakespearean character.
Poppy
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: PAHP-ee
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
From the word for the red flower, derived from Old English popæg.
Phoenix
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: FEE-niks
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".
Philomena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, German, Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Φιλουμένη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: fil-ə-MEE-nə(English)
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
From Greek
Φιλουμένη (Philoumene) meaning
"to be loved", an inflection of
φιλέω (phileo) meaning "to love". This was the name of an obscure early
saint and martyr. The name came to public attention in 1802 after a tomb seemingly marked with the name
Filumena was found in Rome, supposedly belonging to another martyr named Philomena. This may have in fact been a representation of the Greek word
φιλουμένη, not a name.
Pete
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: PEET
Peredur
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh Mythology, Arthurian Cycle
Pronounced: peh-REH-dir(Welsh)
Meaning uncertain. It possibly means
"hard spears" from Welsh
peri "spears" and
dur "hard, steel"
[1]. In early Welsh poetry and histories, the brothers Peredur and Gwrgi were chieftains in Cumbria who defeated
Gwenddoleu at the Battle of Arfderydd. This name was later used by the 12th-century chronicler Geoffrey of Monmouth in the Latin form
Peredurus for an early (fictitious) king of Britain. Entering into Arthurian romance, Peredur is an aspiring knight in the 14th-century Welsh tale
Peredur son of Efrawg (an adaptation or parallel of Chrétien de Troyes' hero
Percival).
Penny
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: PEHN-ee
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Diminutive of
Penelope. It can also be given in reference to the copper coin (a British pound or an American dollar are worth 100 of them), derived from Old English
penning.
Peggy
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: PEHG-ee
Medieval variant of
Meggy, a
diminutive of
Margaret. The reason for the change in the initial consonant is unknown.
Peace
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (African)
Pronounced: PEES
From the English word peace, ultimately derived from Latin pax. This name is most common in Nigeria and other parts of Africa.
Pandora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Πανδώρα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: PAN-DAW-RA(Classical Greek) pan-DAWR-ə(English)
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Means
"all gifts", derived from a combination of Greek
πᾶν (pan) meaning "all" and
δῶρον (doron) meaning "gift". In Greek
mythology Pandora was the first mortal woman.
Zeus gave her a jar containing all of the troubles and ills that mankind now knows, and told her not to open it. Unfortunately her curiosity got the best of her and she opened it, unleashing the evil spirits into the world.
Paislee
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: PAYZ-lee
Paden
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: PAY-dən
From a surname, itself probably a derivative of the given name
Pate, a short form of
Patrick. It was an obscure given name in America until 1985, when it appeared in the western movie
Silverado. Its modest usage after that can probably be attributed to the fact that it ends in the popular
den sound found in more-popular names such as
Braden,
Hayden and
Aidan.
Pace
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: PAYS
From an English surname that was derived from the Middle English word pace meaning "peace".
Øyvind
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norwegian
From the Old Norse name
Eyvindr, which was derived from
ey meaning "island" or "good fortune" and
vindr possibly meaning "victor".
Oscar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Irish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Italian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, French, Irish Mythology
Pronounced: AHS-kər(English) AWS-kar(Italian, Swedish) AWS-kahr(Dutch) AWS-KAR(French)
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Possibly means
"deer friend", derived from Old Irish
oss "deer" and
carae "friend". Alternatively, it may derive from the Old English name
Osgar or its Old Norse
cognate Ásgeirr, which may have been brought to Ireland by Viking invaders and settlers. In Irish legend Oscar was the son of the poet
Oisín and the grandson of the hero
Fionn mac Cumhaill.
This name was popularized in continental Europe by the works of the 18th-century Scottish poet James Macpherson [1]. Napoleon was an admirer of Macpherson, and he suggested Oscar as the second middle name of his godson, who eventually became king of Sweden as Oscar I. Other notable bearers include the Irish writer and humorist Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) and the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012).
Orville
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AWR-vil
This name was invented by the 18th-century writer Fanny Burney, who perhaps intended it to mean "golden city" in French. Orville Wright (1871-1948), together with his brother Wilbur, invented the first successful airplane.
Orvar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish (Rare), Norse Mythology
Means "arrow" in Old Norse. Orvar Odd is a legendary Norse hero who is the subject of a 13th-century Icelandic saga.
Orval
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AWR-vəl
Oren
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אֹרֶן(Hebrew)
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Means "pine tree" in Hebrew.
Omega
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Various
Pronounced: o-MAY-gə(English)
From the name of the last letter in the Greek alphabet,
Ω. It is often seen as a symbol of completion.
Ólafur
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Icelandic
Pronounced: O-la-vuyr
Olaf
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norwegian, Danish, German, Dutch, Polish
Pronounced: O-laf(German) O-lahf(Dutch) AW-laf(Polish)
From the Old Norse name
Áleifr meaning
"ancestor's descendant", derived from the elements
anu "ancestor" and
leif "inheritance, legacy". This was the name of five kings of Norway, including
Saint Olaf (Olaf II).
Odysseus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ὀδυσσεύς(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: O-DUYS-SEWS(Classical Greek) o-DIS-ee-əs(English)
Perhaps derived from Greek
ὀδύσσομαι (odyssomai) meaning
"to hate". In Greek legend Odysseus was one of the Greek heroes who fought in the Trojan War. In the
Odyssey Homer relates Odysseus's misadventures on his way back to his kingdom and his wife
Penelope.
October
Gender: 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.
Octavia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Spanish, Romanian, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: ahk-TAY-vee-ə(English) ok-TA-bya(Spanish) ok-TA-wee-a(Latin)
Rating: 10% based on 1 vote
Feminine form of
Octavius. Octavia was the wife of Mark Antony and the sister of the Roman emperor Augustus. In 19th-century England it was sometimes given to the eighth-born child.
Océane
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: AW-SEH-AN
Derived from French océan meaning "ocean".
Novella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: no-VEHL-la
Derived from Latin
novellus meaning
"new, young, novel", a
diminutive of
novus "new". This name was borne by the 14th-century Italian scholar Novella d'Andrea, who taught law at the University of Bologna.
Njáll
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Norse [1], Icelandic
Pronounced: NYOWTL(Icelandic)
Old Norse form of
Niall (see
Neil). This is the name of the hero of a 13th century Icelandic saga, based on the life of a 10th-century Icelandic chieftain.
Njål
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norwegian
Pronounced: NYAWL
Niall
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish, Old Irish [1]
Pronounced: NYEEL(Irish)
Nevada
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: nə-VAD-ə
From the name of the American state, which means "snow-capped" in Spanish.
Nestor
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology, Russian, Portuguese, French
Other Scripts: Νέστωρ(Ancient Greek) Нестор(Russian)
Pronounced: NEHS-TAWR(Classical Greek, French) NEHS-tər(English) NYEHS-tər(Russian)
Means
"returner, homecomer" in Greek, from
νέομαι (neomai) meaning "to return". In
Homer's
Iliad this was the name of the king of Pylos, famous for his great wisdom and longevity, who acted as a counselor to the Greek allies.
Nerys
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Probably a feminized form of Welsh nêr meaning "lord".
Natasha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian, Belarusian, English
Other Scripts: Наташа(Russian, Belarusian)
Pronounced: nu-TA-shə(Russian) nə-TAHSH-ə(English)
Rating: 68% based on 4 votes
Russian
diminutive of
Natalya. This is the name of a character in Leo Tolstoy's novel
War and Peace (1865). It has been used in the English-speaking world only since the 20th century.
Natalie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian
Pronounced: NAT-ə-lee(English) NA-ta-lee(German, Dutch)
Rating: 72% based on 5 votes
From the Late Latin name
Natalia, which meant
"Christmas Day" from Latin
natale domini. This was the name of the wife of the 4th-century martyr
Saint Adrian of Nicomedia. She is venerated as a saint in the Orthodox Church, and the name has traditionally been more common among Eastern Christians than those in the West. It was popularized in America by actress Natalie Wood (1938-1981), who was born to Russian immigrants.
Napier
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
From an English and Scots surname meaning "linen keeper" in Middle English, from Old French nappe "table cloth".
Naomi 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Hebrew, Biblical
Other Scripts: נָעֳמִי(Hebrew)
Pronounced: nay-O-mee(English) nie-O-mee(English)
Rating: 70% based on 4 votes
From the Hebrew name
נָעֳמִי (Naʿomi) meaning
"my pleasantness", a derivative of
נָעַם (naʿam) meaning "to be pleasant". In the
Old Testament this is the name of the mother-in-law of
Ruth. After the death of her husband and sons, she returned to Bethlehem with Ruth. There she declared that her name should be
Mara because of her misfortune (see
Ruth 1:20).
Though long common as a Jewish name, Naomi was not typically used as an English Christian name until after the Protestant Reformation. A notable bearer is the British model Naomi Campbell (1970-).
Myrtle
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MUR-təl
Simply from the English word
myrtle for the evergreen shrub, ultimately from Greek
μύρτος (myrtos). It was first used as a given name in the 19th century, at the same time many other plant and flower names were coined.
Morton
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MAWR-tən
From an English surname that was originally derived from a place name meaning "moor town" in Old English.
Morrígan
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish Mythology
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
Means either
"demon queen" or
"great queen", derived from Old Irish
mor "demon, evil spirit" or
mór "great, big" combined with
rígain "queen". In Irish
mythology Morrígan (called also The Morrígan) was a goddess of war and death who often took the form of a crow.
Monty
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MAHN-tee
Monday
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (African)
Pronounced: MUN-day
Rating: 50% 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.
Mona 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish, English
Pronounced: MO-nə(English)
Anglicized form of
Muadhnait. It is also associated with Greek
monos "one" and Leonardo da Vinci's painting the
Mona Lisa (in which case it is a contraction of Italian
ma donna meaning "my lady").
Modesty
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: MAHD-ə-stee
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
From the English word modesty, ultimately from Latin modestus "moderate", a derivative of modus "measure".
Mitzi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German
Pronounced: MIT-see
Mischa
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Dutch, German
Pronounced: MEE-sha
Dutch and German form of
Misha. It is occasionally used as a feminine name in Dutch.
Miracle
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: MIR-ə-kəl
From the English word miracle for an extraordinary event, ultimately deriving from Latin miraculum "wonder, marvel".
Minos
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Μίνως(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: MEE-NAWS(Classical Greek) MIE-nahs(English)
Possibly from a Cretan word or title meaning
"king". This was the name of a king of Crete in Greek
mythology. He was the son of
Zeus and
Europa. Because Minos had refused to sacrifice a certain bull to
Poseidon, the god had caused his wife Pasiphaë to mate with the bull, which produced the half-bull creature called the Minotaur. Minos had
Daedalus construct the Labyrinth to house the beast, but it was eventually slain by
Theseus.
Minerva
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology, English, Spanish
Pronounced: mee-NEHR-wa(Latin) mi-NUR-və(English) mee-NEHR-ba(Spanish)
Possibly derived from Latin
mens meaning
"intellect", but more likely of Etruscan origin. Minerva was the Roman goddess of wisdom and war, approximately equivalent to the Greek goddess
Athena. It has been used as a given name in the English-speaking world since after the Renaissance.
Mimi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MEE-mee
Mica
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Mia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, German, Italian, Slovene, Croatian, English
Pronounced: MEE-ah(Swedish, Norwegian, Danish) MEE-a(Dutch, German, Italian) MEE-ə(English)
Diminutive of
Maria. It coincides with the Italian word
mia meaning
"mine".
This name was common in Sweden and Denmark in the 1970s [1]. It rose in popularity in the English-speaking world in the 1990s, entering the top ten for girls in the United States in 2009. It was also popular in many other countries at that time. Famous bearers include American actress Mia Farrow (1945-) and American soccer player Mia Hamm (1972-), birth names Maria and Mariel respectively.
Metis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Μῆτις(Ancient Greek)
Means
"wisdom, skill, cunning" in Greek. In Greek
mythology she was a Titan. Because it was prophesied that her children would be wiser than
Zeus, he swallowed her after he had impregnated her. However, their daughter
Athena eventually burst from his head fully grown.
Merit 1
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: MEHR-it
Either a variant of
Merritt or else simply from the English word
merit, ultimately from Latin
meritus "deserving".
Mercia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Latinate form of
Mercy. This was also the name of an old Anglo-Saxon kingdom, though it has a different origin.
Mentor
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Μέντωρ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: MEHN-TAWR(Classical Greek) MEHN-tawr(English)
Possibly related to Greek
μένος (menos) meaning
"mind, strength, force". In Greek legend Mentor was the son of Alkimos. When
Odysseus left to fight in the Trojan War he entrusted Mentor with the care of his palace and the guardianship of his son Telemachos. When the goddess
Athena visited Telemachos she took the guise of Mentor.
Mei 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Chinese
Other Scripts: 美, 梅, etc.(Chinese)
Pronounced: MAY
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
From Chinese
美 (měi) meaning "beautiful" or
梅 (méi) meaning "Chinese plum" (species Prunus mume), as well as other characters that are pronounced similarly.
Meg
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MEHG
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
McKenna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: mə-KEHN-ə
From an Irish and Scottish surname, an Anglicized form of
Mac Cionaodha, itself derived from the given name
Cionaodh. As a given name, it was very rare before 1980. It rapidly increased in popularity during the 1990s, likely because it was viewed as an even more feminine alternative to
Mackenzie [1].
May
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MAY
Derived from the name of the month of May, which derives from
Maia, the name of a Roman goddess. May is also another name of the hawthorn flower. It is also used as a
diminutive of
Mary,
Margaret or
Mabel.
Maximino
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: mak-see-MEE-no(Spanish)
Maxie
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MAK-see
Matt
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MAT
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
Short form of
Matthew. Famous bearers include American actors Matt Dillon (1964-) and Matt Damon (1970-).
Marshall
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MAHR-shəl
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
From an English surname that originally denoted a person who was a marshal. The word marshal originally derives from Latin mariscalcus, itself from Germanic roots akin to Old High German marah "horse" and scalc "servant". A famous bearer is the American rapper Marshall Mathers (1972-), who performs under the name Eminem.
Marilyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MAR-ə-lin, MAR-lin
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Combination of
Mary and the common name suffix
lyn. It was very rare before the start of the 20th century. It was popularized in part by the American stage star Marilyn Miller (1898-1936), who was born Mary Ellen Reynolds and took her
stage name from a combination of her birth name and her mother's middle name
Lynn. It became popular in the United States during the 1920s, reaching a high point ranked 13th in 1936. Famous bearers include American actress Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962; real name Norma Jeane Mortenson) and American opera singer Marilyn Horne (1934-).
Marilou
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, English, Spanish (Philippines)
Pronounced: mar-ee-LOO(English)
Maple
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MAY-pəl
From the English word for the tree (comprising the genus Acer), derived from Old English mapul. This is the name of a girl in Robert Frost's poem Maple (1923) who wonders about the origin of her unusual name.
Mallory
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: MAL-ə-ree
Rating: 68% based on 4 votes
From an English surname that meant "unfortunate" in Norman French. It first became common in the 1980s due to the American sitcom Family Ties (1982-1989), which featured a character by this name.
Magnolia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: mag-NO-lee-ə
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
From the English word magnolia for the flower, which was named for the French botanist Pierre Magnol.
Mable
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MAY-bəl
Mabel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MAY-bəl
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Medieval feminine form of
Amabilis. This spelling and
Amabel were common during the Middle Ages, though they became rare after the 15th century. It was revived in the 19th century after the publication of C. M. Yonge's 1854 novel
The Heir of Redclyffe [1], which featured a character named Mabel (as well as one named Amabel).
Luvenia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Possibly a form of
Lavinia. It has been used in America since the 19th century.
Lumi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: LOO-mee
Means "snow" in Finnish.
Luisa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Italian
Pronounced: LWEE-sa(Spanish) LWEE-za(Italian)
Luella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: loo-EHL-ə
Lucille
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, English
Pronounced: LUY-SEEL(French) loo-SEEL(English)
Rating: 53% based on 4 votes
French form of
Lucilla. A famous bearer was American comedienne Lucille Ball (1911-1989).
Lucifer
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend
Pronounced: LOO-si-fər(English)
Means
"bringing light", derived from Latin
lux "light" and
ferre "to bring". In Latin this name originally referred to the morning star, Venus, but later became associated with the chief angel who rebelled against God's rule in heaven (see
Isaiah 14:12). In later literature, such as the
Divine Comedy (1321) by Dante and
Paradise Lost (1667) by John Milton, Lucifer became associated with Satan himself.
Lotus
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: LO-təs
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
From the name of the lotus flower (species Nelumbo nucifera) or the mythological lotus tree. They are ultimately derived from Greek
λωτός (lotos). In Greek and Roman
mythology the lotus tree was said to produce a fruit causing sleepiness and forgetfulness.
Lot 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Hebrew [1]
Other Scripts: לוֹט(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: LAHT(English)
Means
"covering, veil" in Hebrew. In the
Old Testament this is the name of a nephew of
Abraham. Before Sodom was destroyed by God, he was directed to flee the city without looking back. However, his wife looked back on the destruction and was turned into a pillar of salt.
Lot 2
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arthurian Cycle
From the name of the region of
Lothian in southern Scotland, of unknown meaning. A king of Lothian by this name appears in early Latin and Welsh texts (as
Leudonus and
Lewdwn respectively). He was inserted into Arthurian legend by the 12th-century chronicler Geoffrey of Monmouth, who makes him the father of
Gawain.
Lorraine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: lə-RAYN
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
From the name of a region in eastern France, originally meaning "kingdom of
Lothar". Lothar was a Frankish king, the great-grandson of
Charlemagne, whose realm was in the part of France that is now called
Lorraine, or in German
Lothringen (from Latin
Lothari regnum). As a given name, it has been used in the English-speaking world since the late 19th century, perhaps due to its similar sound with
Laura. It became popular after World War I when the region was in the news, as it was contested between Germany and France.
Loretta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian
Pronounced: lə-REHT-ə(English) lo-REHT-ta(Italian)
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
Perhaps a variant of
Lauretta or
Loreto. A famous bearer was the American actress Loretta Young (1913-2000), whose birth name was Gretchen.
Lorelei
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature, English
Pronounced: LAWR-ə-lie(English)
Rating: 63% based on 3 votes
From German
Loreley, the name of a rock headland on the Rhine River. It is of uncertain meaning, though the second element is probably old German
ley meaning "rock" (of Celtic origin). German romantic poets and songwriters, beginning with Clemens Brentano in 1801, tell that a maiden named the Lorelei lives on the rock and lures boaters to their death with her song.
In the English-speaking world this name has been occasionally given since the early 20th century. It started rising in America after the variant Lorelai was used for the main character (and her daughter, nicknamed Rory) on the television series Gilmore Girls (2000-2007).
Lon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LAHN
Short form of
Alonzo and other names containing the same sound. Famous bearers were American actors Lon Chaney Sr. (1883-1930) and Lon Chaney Jr. (1906-1973). The elder's birth name was Leonidas.
Loki
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norse Mythology
Pronounced: LO-kee(English)
Meaning unknown, possibly derived from the Germanic root *
luką meaning
"lock". In Norse
mythology Loki was a trickster god associated with magic and shape shifting. Loki's children include the wolf
Fenrir, the sea serpent
Jörmungandr, and the queen of the dead
Hel. After he orchestrated the death of
Balder, the other gods tied him to a rock below a snake that dripped venom onto his face. It is told that he will break free during Ragnarök, the final battle, and slay and be slain by
Heimdall.
Llywelyn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: shəw-EH-lin(Welsh) loo-EHL-in(English)
Probably a Welsh form of an unattested old Celtic name *
Lugubelinos, a combination of the names of the gods
Lugus and
Belenus, or a compound of
Lugus and a Celtic root meaning "strong". Alternatively it may be derived from Welsh
llyw "leader". This was the name of several Welsh rulers, notably the 13th-century Llywelyn the Great who fought against the English.
Llewelyn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Variant of
Llywelyn influenced by the Welsh word
llew "lion".
Lizzie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LIZ-ee
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Linzi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: LIN-zee
Linton
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LIN-tən
From a surname that was originally from place names meaning either "flax town" or "linden tree town" in Old English.
Linnet
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: li-NEHT, LIN-it
Either a variant of
Lynette or else from the name of the small bird, a type of finch.
Linden
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LIN-dən
From a German and Dutch surname that was derived from Old High German
linta meaning
"linden tree".
Lina 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Lithuanian, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Slovene
Pronounced: LEE-nə(English) LEE-na(Italian, Spanish)
Short form of names ending in lina.
Lilibet
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Libby
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LIB-ee
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Liana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, English, Georgian
Other Scripts: ლიანა(Georgian)
Pronounced: LYA-na(Italian)
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Short form of
Juliana,
Liliana and other names that end in
liana. This is also the word for a type of vine that grows in jungles.
Lexus
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LEHK-səs
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Short form of
Alexus. Its use has been influenced by the Lexus brand name (a line of luxury automobiles made by Toyota).
Lewin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
From an English surname that was derived from the given name
Leofwine.
Lennon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: LEHN-ən
From an Irish surname, derived from the Irish byname
Leannán meaning "lover". The surname was borne by musician and Beatle member John Lennon (1940-1980), and it may be used as a given name in his honour. In America it is now more common as a feminine name, possibly inspired in part by the singer Lennon Stella (1999-), who began appearing on the television series
Nashville in 2012
[1].
Lenard
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LEHN-ərd
Lefty
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LEHF-tee
From a nickname, in most cases given to a left-handed person.
Leary
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish (Rare)
Pronounced: LEE-ree(English)
Leander
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Λέανδρος(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: lee-AN-dər(English)
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
Latinized form of the Greek name
Λέανδρος (Leandros), derived from
λέων (leon) meaning "lion" and
ἀνήρ (aner) meaning "man" (genitive
ἀνδρός). In Greek legend Leander was the lover of Hero. Every night he swam across the Hellespont to meet her, but on one occasion he was drowned when a storm arose. When Hero saw his dead body she threw herself into the waters and perished.
Layla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic, English
Other Scripts: ليلى(Arabic)
Pronounced: LIE-la(Arabic) LAY-lə(English)
Rating: 10% based on 1 vote
Means
"night" in Arabic. Layla was the love interest of the poet
Qays (called Majnun) in an old Arab tale, notably retold by the 12th-century Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi in his poem
Layla and Majnun. This story was a popular romance in medieval Arabia and Persia. The name became used in the English-speaking world after the 1970 release of the song
Layla by Derek and the Dominos, the title of which was inspired by the medieval story.
Law
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval English
Lark
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: LAHRK
From the English word for the type of songbird.
Lana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Russian, Croatian, Slovene, Georgian
Other Scripts: Лана(Russian) ლანა(Georgian)
Pronounced: LAHN-ə(English)
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Short form of
Alana (English) or
Svetlana (Russian). In the English-speaking world it was popularized by actress Lana Turner (1921-1995), who was born Julia Jean Turner.
Lakeisha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: African American
Pronounced: lə-KEE-shə(English)
Combination of the popular prefix
la with the name
Keisha. It can be spelled
LaKeisha or
Lakeisha.
Lacy
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LAY-see
From a surname that was derived from Lassy, the name of a town in Normandy. The name of the town was Gaulish in origin, perhaps deriving from a personal name that was Latinized as Lascius. Formerly more common for boys in America, this name began to grow in popularity for girls in 1975.
Kordian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish
Coined by Polish writer Juliusz Słowacki for the title character of his drama Kordian (1833). Słowacki likely based the name on Latin cor "heart" (genitive cordis).
Kohaku
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 琥珀(Japanese Kanji) こはく(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: KO-HA-KOO
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
From Japanese
琥珀 (kohaku) meaning "amber".
Kent
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KENT
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
From a surname that was originally derived from Kent, the name of a county in England, which may be derived from a Brythonic word meaning "coastal district".
Kenna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Scottish
Kendall
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KEHN-dəl
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
From an English surname that comes from the name of the city of Kendale in northwestern England meaning "valley on the river Kent". Originally mostly masculine, the name received a boost in popularity for girls in 1993 when the devious character Kendall Hart began appearing on the American soap opera All My Children.
Kelsey
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KEHL-see
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
From an English surname that is derived from town names in Lincolnshire. It may mean "Cenel's island", from the Old English name Cenel "fierce" in combination with eg "island".
Keegan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KEE-gən
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
From an Irish surname, the Anglicized form of Irish Gaelic
Mac Aodhagáin, which was derived from the given name
Aodhagán, a double
diminutive of
Aodh.
Keaton
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: KEE-tən
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
From an English surname that was derived from a few different place names (see the surname
Keaton).
Kaya 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: KIE-ə
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Possibly from the Scandinavian name
Kaia, or simply an invented name based on the sounds found in other names such as
Maya.
Kay 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KAY
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Short form of
Katherine and other names beginning with
K.
Katsumi
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 克美, 克己, 勝美, 勝巳, etc.(Japanese Kanji) かつみ(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: KA-TSOO-MEE
From Japanese
克 (katsu) meaning "overcome" or
勝 (katsu) meaning "victory" combined with
美 (mi) meaning "beautiful" or
己 (mi) meaning "self". Other kanji combinations having the same pronunciation can also form this name.
Kaoru
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 薫, 香, 馨, etc.(Japanese Kanji) かおる(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: KA-O-ROO
From Japanese
薫 (kaoru),
香 (kaoru),
馨 (kaoru) all meaning "fragrance, fragrant", as well as other kanji having the same reading.
Justice
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JUS-tis
From an occupational surname meaning "judge, officer of justice" in Old French. This name can also be given in direct reference to the English word justice.
June
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JOON
From the name of the month, which was originally derived from the name of the Roman goddess
Juno. It has been used as a given name since the 19th century.
Julyan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: JOOL-yən
Julio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: KHOO-lyo
Joy
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JOI
Simply from the English word joy, ultimately derived from Norman French joie, Latin gaudium. It has been regularly used as a given name since the late 19th century.
Journey
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: JUR-nee
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
From the English word, derived via Old French from Latin diurnus "of the day".
Joséphine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: ZHO-ZEH-FEEN
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
French feminine form of
Joseph. A notable bearer of this name was the first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte, Joséphine de Beauharnais (1763-1814).
Josephina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: jo-sə-FEEN-ə
Rating: 73% based on 4 votes
Jonquil
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: JAHNG-kwəl
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
From the English word for the type of flower, derived ultimately from Latin iuncus "reed".
Jocelin
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: French, English (Rare)
Pronounced: ZHO-SEH-LEHN(French) JAHS-lin(English) JAHS-ə-lin(English)
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Joby
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: JO-bee
Jess
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JEHS
Jerry
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JEHR-ee
Diminutive of
Jeremy,
Jerome,
Gerald,
Geraldine and other names beginning with the same sound. Notable bearers include the American comedians Jerry Lewis (1926-2017) and Jerry Seinfeld (1954-), as well as the American football player Jerry Rice (1962-).
Jerome
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: jə-ROM
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
From the Greek name
Ἱερώνυμος (Hieronymos) meaning
"sacred name", derived from
ἱερός (hieros) meaning "sacred" and
ὄνυμα (onyma) meaning "name".
Saint Jerome was responsible for the creation of the Vulgate, the Latin translation of the Bible, in the 5th century. He is regarded as a Doctor of the Church. The name was used in his honour in the Middle Ages, especially in Italy and France, and has been used in England since the 12th century
[1].
Jeremy
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Biblical
Pronounced: JEHR-ə-mee(English) JEHR-mee(English)
Rating: 68% based on 4 votes
English form of
Jeremiah, originally a medieval vernacular form. This is the spelling used in some English versions of the
New Testament.
Jepson
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: JEHP-sən
From an English surname that meant
"son of Jep".
Jenae
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Jazmin
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: JAZ-min
Jared
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Biblical
Other Scripts: יָרֶד, יֶרֶד(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: JAR-əd(English)
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
From the Hebrew name
יָרֶד (Yareḏ) or
יֶרֶד (Yereḏ) meaning
"descent". This is the name of a close descendant of
Adam in the
Old Testament. It has been used as an English name since the
Protestant Reformation, and it was popularized in the 1960s by the character Jarrod Barkley on the television series
The Big Valley [1].
Jake
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JAYK
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Medieval variant of
Jack. It is also sometimes used as a short form of
Jacob.
Jacquelyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JAK-ə-lin, JAK-wə-lin
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Jacoby
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: JAK-ə-bee, jə-KO-bee
Transferred use of the surname
Jacoby.
Jack
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JAK
Derived from
Jackin (earlier
Jankin), a medieval
diminutive of
John [1]. There could be some early influence from the unrelated French name
Jacques [2]. It is often regarded as an independent name. During the Middle Ages it was very common, and it became a slang word meaning "man", as seen in the terms
jack-o'-lantern,
jack-in-the-box,
lumberjack and so on. It was frequently used in fairy tales and nursery rhymes, such as
Jack and the Beanstalk,
Jack and Jill,
Little Jack Horner, and
Jack Sprat.
American writers Jack London (1876-1916) and Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) were two famous bearers of this name. It is also borne by the actor Jack Nicholson (1937-) and the golfer Jack Nicklaus (1940-). Apart from Nicklaus, none of these famous bearers were given the name Jack at birth.
In the United Kingdom this form has been bestowed more frequently than John since the 1990s, being the most popular name for boys from 1996 to 2008.
Ivanka
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Bulgarian, Czech, Slovak, Serbian, Croatian, Slovene
Other Scripts: Иванка(Bulgarian, Serbian)
Pronounced: I-vang-ka(Czech)
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
Isolde
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Arthurian Cycle
Pronounced: ee-ZAWL-də(German) i-SOL-də(English) i-ZOL-də(English) i-SOLD(English) i-ZOLD(English) EE-ZAWLD(French)
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
German form of
Iseult, appearing in the 13th-century German poem
Tristan by Gottfried von Strassburg. In 1865 the German composer Richard Wagner debuted his popular opera
Tristan und Isolde and also used the name for his first daughter.
Isla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Scottish, English
Pronounced: IE-lə
Rating: 73% based on 4 votes
Variant of
Islay, typically used as a feminine name. It also coincides with the Spanish word
isla meaning "island".
Isidore
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French, Georgian (Rare), Jewish
Other Scripts: ისიდორე(Georgian)
Pronounced: IZ-ə-dawr(English) EE-ZEE-DAWR(French)
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
From the Greek name
Ἰσίδωρος (Isidoros) meaning
"gift of Isis", derived from the name of the Egyptian goddess
Isis combined with Greek
δῶρον (doron) meaning "gift".
Saint Isidore of Seville was a 6th-century archbishop, historian and theologian.
Though it has never been popular in the English-speaking world among Christians, it has historically been a common name for Jews, who have used it as an Americanized form of names such as Isaac, Israel and Isaiah.
Irina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Romanian, Georgian, Finnish, Estonian
Other Scripts: Ирина(Russian, Bulgarian, Macedonian) ირინა(Georgian)
Pronounced: i-RYEE-nə(Russian) EE-ree-nah(Finnish)
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Form of
Irene in several languages.
Iona 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Scottish
Pronounced: ie-O-nə(English)
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
From the name of the island off Scotland where
Saint Columba founded a monastery. The name of the island is Old Norse in origin, and apparently derives simply from
ey meaning "island".
Ion 2
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἴων(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: EE-AWN(Classical Greek)
Of unknown etymology, possibly Pre-Greek. According to Greek
mythology he was a son of Creusa and Xuthus (or alternatively the god
Apollo). He was said to be the ancestor of the Greek tribe of the Ionians.
Iola
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Probably a variant of
Iole.
Innocent
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History (Ecclesiastical), English (African)
Pronounced: IN-ə-sənt(English, African English)
From the Late Latin name
Innocentius, which was derived from
innocens "innocent". This was the name of several early
saints. It was also borne by 13 popes including Innocent III, a politically powerful ruler and organizer of the Fourth Crusade.
As an English-language name in the modern era, it is most common in Africa.
Inigo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: IN-i-go
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
English form of
Íñigo. It became well-known in Britain due to the English architect Inigo Jones (1573-1652). He was named after his father, a Catholic who was named for
Saint Ignatius of Loyola.
Indy 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Popular Culture
Pronounced: IN-dee(English)
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Diminutive of
Indiana. This is the nickname of the hero of the
Indiana Jones movies, starring Harrison Ford.
Ina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, English, Slovene, Latvian
Pronounced: EE-na(Dutch) EE-nah(Swedish) EE-nə(English) IE-nə(English)
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Ignatius
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Late Roman
Pronounced: ig-NAY-shəs(English)
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
From the Roman family name
Egnatius, meaning unknown, of Etruscan origin. The spelling was later altered to resemble Latin
ignis "fire". This was the name of several
saints, including the third bishop of Antioch who was thrown to wild beasts by Emperor Trajan, and by Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556), founder of the Jesuits, whose real birth name was in fact
Íñigo.
Iggy
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: IG-ee
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Idella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ie-DEHL-ə, i-DEHL-ə
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Icarus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἴκαρος(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: IK-ə-rəs(English)
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
From the Greek
Ἴκαρος (Ikaros), of unknown meaning. In Greek
myth Icarus was the son of
Daedalus, locked with his father inside the Labyrinth by
Minos. They escaped from the maze using wings devised from wax, but Icarus flew too close to the sun and the wax melted, plunging him to his death.
Hyacinth 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: HIE-ə-sinth
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
From the name of the flower (or the precious stone that also bears this name), ultimately from Greek
hyakinthos (see
Hyacinthus).
Huxley
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: HUKS-lee
From an English surname that was derived from the name of a town in Cheshire. The final element is Old English
leah "woodland, clearing", while the first element might be
hux "insult, scorn". A famous bearer of the surname was the British author Aldous Huxley (1894-1963).
Huey
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: HYOO-ee
Honour
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: AHN-ər
From the English word
honour, which is of Latin origin. This was one of the virtue names adopted by the
Puritans in the 17th century. It can also be viewed as a form of
Honoria or
Honorata, which are ultimately derived from the same source.
Honor
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: AHN-ər
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Variant of
Honour, using the American spelling.
Holger
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, German, Carolingian Cycle
Pronounced: HAWL-gu(German)
From the Old Norse name
Hólmgeirr, derived from the elements
holmr "small island" and
geirr "spear". In Scandinavia and Germany this is the usual name for the hero
Ogier the Dane from medieval French romance.
Hina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 陽菜, 日菜, etc.(Japanese Kanji) ひな(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: KHEE-NA
From Japanese
陽 (hi) meaning "light, sun" or
日 (hi) meaning "sun, day" combined with
菜 (na) meaning "vegetables, greens". Other kanji combinations are possible.
Hewie
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: HYOO-ee
Heron
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Ἥρων(Ancient Greek)
Derived from Greek
ἥρως (heros) meaning
"hero". This was the name of a 1st-century Greek inventor (also known as
Hero) from Alexandria.
Herminia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: ehr-MEE-nya(Spanish)
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Hermes
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology, Ancient Greek [1], Spanish
Other Scripts: Ἑρμῆς(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: HEHR-MEHS(Classical Greek) HUR-meez(English) EHR-mehs(Spanish)
Probably from Greek
ἕρμα (herma) meaning
"cairn, pile of stones, boundary marker". Hermes was a Greek god associated with speed and good luck, who served as a messenger to
Zeus and the other gods. He was also the patron of travellers, writers, athletes, merchants, thieves and orators.
This was also used as a personal name, being borne for example by a 1st-century saint and martyr.
Hercules
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Pronounced: HEHR-koo-lehs(Latin) HUR-kyə-leez(English)
Heracles
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἡρακλῆς(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: HEHR-ə-kleez(English)
Latinized form of
Herakles. However, the spelling used by the Romans was
Hercules.
Hephaestus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἥφαιστος(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: hi-FEHS-təs(English) hi-FEES-təs(English)
Latinized form of Greek
Ἥφαιστος (Hephaistos), meaning unknown. It probably shares its origin with the Minoan city of
Φαιστός (Phaistos), which is of Pre-Greek origin. In Greek
mythology Hephaestus was the god of fire and forging, the husband of the unfaithful
Aphrodite. It was said that when he was born
Hera, his mother, was so displeased with his physical deformities that she hurled him off the top of Mount Olympus.
Hale 2
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: HAYL
From a surname that was derived from a place name meaning "nook, retreat" from Old English healh.
Gustav
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, German, Czech
Pronounced: GUYS-stav(Swedish) GUWS-taf(German) GOOS-taf(Czech)
Possibly means
"staff of the Geats", derived from the Old Norse elements
gautr meaning "Geat" and
stafr meaning "staff". However, the root name
Gautstafr is not well attested in the Old Norse period. Alternatively, it might be derived from the Old Slavic name
Gostislav.
This name has been borne by six kings of Sweden, including the 16th-century Gustav I Vasa. Another notable bearer was the Austrian painter Gustav Klimt (1862-1918).
Gus 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: GUS
Gunner
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: GUN-ər
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
English variant of
Gunnar, influenced by the vocabulary word
gunner.
Guinevere
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arthurian Cycle
Pronounced: GWIN-ə-vir(English)
Rating: 62% based on 5 votes
From the Norman French form of the Welsh name
Gwenhwyfar meaning
"white phantom", ultimately from the old Celtic roots *
windos meaning "white" (modern Welsh
gwen) and *
sēbros meaning "phantom, magical being"
[1]. In Arthurian legend she was the beautiful wife of King
Arthur. According to the 12th-century chronicler Geoffrey of Monmouth, she was seduced by
Mordred before the battle of Camlann, which led to the deaths of both Mordred and Arthur. According to the 12th-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes, she engaged in an adulterous affair with Sir
Lancelot.
The Cornish form of this name, Jennifer, has become popular in the English-speaking world.
Griffin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: GRIF-in
Latinized form of
Gruffudd. This name can also be inspired by the English word
griffin, a creature with the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle, ultimately from Greek
γρύψ (gryps).
Glory
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: GLAWR-ee
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Simply from the English word glory, ultimately from Latin gloria.
Ginger
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JIN-jər
Rating: 53% based on 3 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.
Gilbert
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French, Dutch, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: GIL-bərt(English) ZHEEL-BEHR(French) GHIL-bərt(Dutch)
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Means
"bright pledge", derived from the Old German elements
gisal "pledge, hostage" and
beraht "bright". The
Normans introduced this name to England, where it was common during the Middle Ages. It was borne by a 12th-century English
saint, the founder of the religious order known as the Gilbertines.
Gerulf
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic [1]
Derived from Old German
ger meaning "spear" and
wolf meaning "wolf". This was the name of an 8th-century
saint and martyr from Drongen, Belgium.
Gero
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: GEH-ro(German)
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Originally a short form of Germanic names beginning with Old Frankish
gair or Old High German
ger meaning
"spear" (Proto-Germanic *
gaizaz).
Gemini
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Roman Mythology, Astronomy
Pronounced: GEH-mee-nee(Latin) JEHM-i-nie(English)
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Means
"twins" in Latin. This is the name of the third sign of the zodiac. The two brightest stars in the constellation,
Castor and
Pollux, are named for the mythological twin sons of
Leda.
Gail
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: GAYL
Gabriel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Catalan, English, Romanian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Georgian, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek [1]
Other Scripts: გაბრიელ(Georgian) גַּבְרִיאֵל(Ancient Hebrew) Γαβριήλ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: GA-BREE-YEHL(French) ga-BRYEHL(Spanish) ga-bree-EHL(European Portuguese, Romanian) ga-bree-EW(Brazilian Portuguese) GA-bree-ehl(German, Slovak, Latin) GAH-bri-ehl(Swedish) GAH-bree-ehl(Finnish) gə-bree-EHL(Catalan) GAY-bree-əl(English) GAB-ryehl(Polish) GA-bri-yehl(Czech)
Rating: 60% based on 5 votes
From the Hebrew name
גַבְרִיאֵל (Ḡavriʾel) meaning
"God is my strong man", derived from
גֶּבֶר (gever) meaning "strong man, hero" and
אֵל (ʾel) meaning "God". Gabriel is an archangel in Hebrew tradition, often appearing as a messenger of God. In the
Old Testament he is sent to interpret the visions of the prophet
Daniel, while in the
New Testament he serves as the announcer of the births of
John to
Zechariah and
Jesus to
Mary. According to Islamic tradition he was the angel who dictated the
Quran to
Muhammad.
This name has been used occasionally in England since the 12th century. It was not common in the English-speaking world until the end of the 20th century.
Gabe
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: GAYB
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Gabby
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: GAB-ee
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Fredric
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: FREHD-rik
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Frederick
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: FREHD-ə-rik, FREHD-rik
Rating: 50% based on 4 votes
English form of an Old German name meaning
"peaceful ruler", derived from
fridu "peace" and
rih "ruler, king". This name has long been common in continental Germanic-speaking regions, being borne by rulers of the Holy Roman Empire, Germany, Austria, Scandinavia, and Prussia. Notables among these rulers include the 12th-century Holy Roman emperor and crusader Frederick I Barbarossa, the 13th-century emperor and patron of the arts Frederick II, and the 18th-century Frederick II of Prussia, known as Frederick the Great.
The Normans brought the name to England in the 11th century but it quickly died out. It was reintroduced by the German House of Hanover when they inherited the British throne in the 18th century. A famous bearer was Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), an American ex-slave who became a leading advocate of abolition.
Frederic
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Catalan, Occitan
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
Catalan and Occitan form of
Frederik. A notable bearer was the French/Occitan writer Frederic Mistral (1830-1914), whose name was written Frédéric in French.
Francisca
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese, Late Roman
Pronounced: fran-THEES-ka(European Spanish) fran-SEES-ka(Latin American Spanish) frun-SEESH-ku(European Portuguese) frun-SEES-ku(Brazilian Portuguese)
Rating: 55% based on 4 votes
Spanish and Portuguese feminine form of
Franciscus (see
Francis).
Foster 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: FAWS-tər
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Fortune
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: French, English (Rare)
Pronounced: FAWR-TUYN(French) FAWR-chən(English)
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Simply from the word fortune, ultimately from Latin fortuna, a derivative of fors "luck".
Flip
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch
Pronounced: FLIP
Flick
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: FLIK
Flannery
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: FLAN-ə-ree
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
From an Irish surname, an Anglicized form of Ó Flannghaile, derived from the given name Flannghal meaning "red valour". A famous bearer was American author Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964).
Finnick
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: FIN-ik(English)
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Created by author Suzanne Collins for a character in the second book of The Hunger Games series, published 2009, later appearing in the 2013 movie adaptation. She may have derived it from the slang word finicky meaning "demanding, fussy".
Fife
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish (Rare)
From a Scottish place name that was formerly the name of a kingdom in Scotland. It is said to be named for a Pictish kingdom called Fib.
Fiadh
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish (Modern)
Pronounced: FYEE
Means "wild, wild animal, deer" (modern Irish fia) or "respect" in Irish.
Ferruccio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: fehr-ROOT-cho
Derived from the Late Latin name
Ferrutius, a derivative of
ferrum meaning
"iron, sword".
Saint Ferrutius was a 3rd-century martyr with his brother Ferreolus.
Fern
Gender: Feminine
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.
Felicity
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: fə-LIS-i-tee
Rating: 68% based on 5 votes
From the English word
felicity meaning
"happiness", which ultimately derives from Latin
felicitas "good luck". This was one of the virtue names adopted by the
Puritans around the 17th century. It can sometimes be used as an English form of the Latin name
Felicitas. This name jumped in popularity in the United States after the premiere of the television series
Felicity in 1998. It is more common in the United Kingdom.
Favour
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (African)
Pronounced: FAY-vər
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
From the English word favour, ultimately from Latin faveo "to favour". This name is most common in Nigeria and other parts of Africa.
Euphemia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1], English (Archaic)
Other Scripts: Εὐφημία(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: yoo-FEE-mee-ə(English) yoo-FEH-mee-ə(English)
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Means
"to use words of good omen" from Greek
εὐφημέω (euphemeo), a derivative of
εὖ (eu) meaning "good" and
φημί (phemi) meaning "to speak, to declare".
Saint Euphemia was an early martyr from Chalcedon.
Essie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHS-ee
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Erwin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Dutch, Polish, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: EHR-veen(German, Polish) EHR-vin(Dutch)
Derived from the Old German name
Hariwini, composed of the elements
heri "army" and
wini "friend". It may have merged somewhat with the name
Eberwin. A notable bearer was Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961), an Austrian physicist who made contributions to quantum theory.
Ervin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hungarian, Albanian, Croatian, Estonian
Pronounced: EHR-veen(Hungarian)
Hungarian, Albanian, Croatian and Estonian form of
Erwin.
Errol
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHR-əl
From a Scottish surname that was originally derived from village by this name in Perthshire. It was popularized as a given name by the Australian actor Errol Flynn (1909-1959).
Erin
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Irish
Pronounced: EHR-in(English)
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Anglicized form of
Éireann. It was initially used by people of Irish heritage in America, Canada and Australia. It was rare until the mid-1950s.
Epiphany
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: i-PIF-ə-nee
From the name of the Christian festival (January 6) that commemorates the visit of the Magi to the infant
Jesus. It is also an English word meaning "sudden appearance" or "sudden perception", ultimately deriving from Greek
ἐπιφάνεια (epiphaneia) meaning "manifestation".
Enrique
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: ehn-REE-keh
Spanish form of
Heinrich (see
Henry).
Enid
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh, English, Arthurian Cycle
Pronounced: EH-nid(Welsh) EE-nid(English)
Rating: 50% based on 4 votes
Probably derived from Welsh
enaid meaning
"soul, spirit, life". In Arthurian tales she first appears in the 12th-century French poem
Erec and Enide by Chrétien de Troyes, where she is the wife of Erec. In later adaptations she is typically the wife of
Geraint. The name became more commonly used after the publication of Alfred Tennyson's Arthurian poem
Enid in 1859, and it was fairly popular in Britain in the first half of the 20th century.
Ember
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: EHM-bər
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
From the English word ember, ultimately from Old English æmerge.
Emanuel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Romanian, Portuguese, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, Czech, Slovak, Croatian
Pronounced: eh-MA-nwehl(German) EH-ma-noo-ehl(Czech, Slovak)
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
Elnora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Elliot
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHL-ee-ət
From a surname that was a variant of
Elliott.
Elle
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: EHL
Diminutive of
Eleanor and other names beginning with
El. This name can also be given in reference to the French pronoun
elle meaning "she".
Already growing in popularity due to Australian model Elle Macpherson (1964-), this name received a boost in the United States after the release of the 2001 movie Legally Blonde featuring the main character Elle Woods. In the United Kingdom the name was already fairly common at the time the movie came out, and it actually started declining there shortly afterwards. A famous bearer is American actress Elle Fanning (1998-).
Eliana 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, English (Modern)
Pronounced: eh-LYA-na(Italian, Spanish) ehl-lee-AN-ə(English) ehl-lee-AHN-ə(English)
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of
Éliane.
Eldon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHL-dən
From a surname that was from a place name meaning "Ella's hill" in Old English.
Eivind
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norwegian
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Eileen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish, English
Pronounced: ie-LEEN(English) IE-leen(English)
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
Anglicized form of
Eibhlín. It is also sometimes considered an Irish form of
Helen. It first became popular in the English-speaking world outside of Ireland near the end of the 19th century.
Egino
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic [1]
Effie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Scottish
Pronounced: EHF-ee(English)
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Edythe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EE-dith
Edgar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French, Portuguese, German
Pronounced: EHD-gər(English) EHD-GAR(French)
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Derived from the Old English elements
ead "wealth, fortune" and
gar "spear". This was the name of a 10th-century English king, Edgar the Peaceful. The name did not survive long after the
Norman Conquest, but it was revived in the 18th century, in part due to a character by this name in Walter Scott's novel
The Bride of Lammermoor (1819), which tells of the tragic love between Edgar Ravenswood and Lucy Ashton
[1]. Famous bearers include author and poet Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), French impressionist painter Edgar Degas (1834-1917), and author Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950).
Easton
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: EES-tən
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
From an English surname that was derived from place names meaning "east town" in Old English.
Eartha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: UR-thə
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Combination of the English word earth with the feminine name suffix a. It has been used in honour of African-American philanthropist Eartha M. M. White (1876-1974). Another famous bearer was American singer and actress Eartha Kitt (1927-2008).
Dwain
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DWAYN
Dudley
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DUD-lee
From a surname that was originally from a place name meaning "Dudda's clearing" in Old English. The surname was borne by a British noble family.
Duane
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DWAYN
From an Irish surname, an Anglicized form of
Ó Dubháin, itself derived from the given name
Dubhán. Usage in America began around the start of the 20th century. It last appeared on the top 1000 rankings in 2002, though the variant
Dwayne lingered a few years longer.
Draco
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Δράκων(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: DRAY-ko(English)
Rating: 53% 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.
Dottie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DAHT-ee
Dot
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DAHT
Dollie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DAHL-ee
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Dillon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DIL-ən
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Variant of
Dylan based on the spelling of the surname
Dillon, which has an unrelated origin.
Devon
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DEHV-ən
Rating: 30% 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.
Desmond
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Irish
Pronounced: DEHZ-mənd(English)
Rating: 68% based on 4 votes
Anglicized form of Irish Deasmhumhain meaning "south Munster", referring to the region of Desmond in southern Ireland, formerly a kingdom. It can also come from the related surname (an Anglicized form of Ó Deasmhumhnaigh), which indicated a person who came from that region. A famous bearer is the South African archbishop and activist Desmond Tutu (1931-2021).
Derick
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DEHR-ik
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Denton
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DEHN-tən
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
From a surname, originally from a place name, which meant "valley town" in Old English.
Delta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DEHL-tə
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
From the name of the fourth letter in the Greek alphabet,
Δ. It is also the name for an island formed at the mouth of a river.
Delphine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: DEHL-FEEN
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Dell
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DEHL
From an English surname that originally denoted a person who lived in a dell or valley.
Delight
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: də-LIET
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Means simply "delight, happiness" from the English word.
Daryl
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DAR-il
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
Darrin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DAR-ən
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Dan 2
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Romanian, Czech, German, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian
Pronounced: DAN(English, Spanish, French, Romanian, Czech) DAHN(Swedish)
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
Damocles
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Δαμοκλῆς(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: DAM-ə-kleez(English)
Latinized form of the Greek name
Δαμοκλῆς (Damokles), which was derived from
δᾶμος (damos) meaning "the people", a Doric Greek variant of
δῆμος (demos), and
κλέος (kleos) meaning "glory". In Greek legend Damocles was a member of the court of Dionysius the Elder, the king of Syracuse. Damocles expressed envy of the king's station so Dionysius offered to switch roles with him for a day. To illustrate to Damocles the peril of a man in his position he suspended a sword over the throne.
Dacian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Romanian
Pronounced: da-chee-AN
Derived from Dacia, the old Roman name for the region that is now Romania and Moldova.
Cúán
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Irish [1]
Means
"little wolf" or
"little hound" from Old Irish
cú meaning "wolf, hound" combined with a
diminutive suffix. This was the name of an 8th-century
saint.
Crystal
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KRIS-təl
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
From the English word
crystal for the clear, colourless glass, sometimes cut into the shape of a gemstone. The English word derives ultimately from Greek
κρύσταλλος (krystallos) meaning "ice". It has been in use as a given name since the 19th century.
Cruz
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: KROOTH(European Spanish) KROOS(Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese) KROOSH(European Portuguese)
Means "cross" in Spanish or Portuguese, referring to the cross of the crucifixion.
Crescentia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Rare), Late Roman
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Feminine form of
Crescentius.
Saint Crescentia was a 4th-century companion of Saint
Vitus. This is also the name of the eponymous heroine of a 12th-century German romance.
Crawford
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KRAW-fərd
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
From a surname that was derived from a place name meaning "crow ford" in Old English.
Cory
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KAWR-ee
Conan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish
Means
"little wolf" or
"little hound" from Irish
cú "wolf, hound" combined with a
diminutive suffix. This was the name of several early
saints, including a 7th-century bishop of the Isle of Man. It appears in Irish legend as a companion
Fionn mac Cumhaill. A famous bearer of it as a middle name was Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), the author of the Sherlock Holmes mystery stories. It is also the name of the hero of the
Conan the Barbarian series of books, comics and movies, debuting 1932.
Comfort
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (African)
Pronounced: KUM-fərt
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
From the English word
comfort, ultimately from Latin
confortare "to strengthen greatly", a derivative of
fortis "strong". It was used as a given name after the
Protestant Reformation. It is now most common in parts of English-influenced Africa.
Clem
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KLEHM
Claud
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KLAWD
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Clark
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KLAHRK
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
From an English surname meaning "cleric" or "scribe", from Old English clerec originally meaning "priest". A famous bearer of the surname was William Clark (1770-1838), an explorer of the west of North America. As a first name it was borne by the American actor Clark Gable (1901-1960), as well as the comic book character Clark Kent, the mild-mannered alter ego of Superman, first created 1938.
Clarisse
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: KLA-REES
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Clarissa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian
Pronounced: klə-RIS-ə(English)
Rating: 75% based on 4 votes
Latinate form of
Clarice. This is the name of the title character in a 1748 novel by Samuel Richardson. In the novel Clarissa Harlowe is a virtuous woman who is tragically exploited by her family and her lover. Another literary character by this name is Clarissa Dalloway from the novel
Mrs. Dalloway (1925) by Virginia Woolf.
Clarice
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: klə-REES, KLAR-is, KLEHR-is
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Medieval vernacular form of the Late Latin name
Claritia, which was a derivative of
Clara.
Circe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Κίρκη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: SUR-see(English)
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Latinized form of Greek
Κίρκη (Kirke), possibly from
κίρκος (kirkos) meaning
"hawk". In Greek
mythology Circe was a sorceress who changed
Odysseus's crew into hogs, as told in Homer's
Odyssey. Odysseus forced her to change them back, then stayed with her for a year before continuing his voyage.
Cindy
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SIN-dee
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Cherish
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: CHEHR-ish
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
From the English word meaning "to treasure".
Celestine
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SEHL-ə-steen
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
English form of
Caelestinus. It is more commonly used as a feminine name, from the French feminine form
Célestine.
Carolyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KAR-ə-lin
Rating: 68% based on 4 votes
Carlos
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: KAR-los(Spanish) KAR-loosh(European Portuguese) KAR-loos(Brazilian Portuguese)
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Spanish and Portuguese form of
Charles.
Carlisle
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: kahr-LIEL
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
From a surname that was derived from the name of a city in northern England. The city was originally called by the Romans
Luguvalium meaning "stronghold of
Lugus". Later the Brythonic element
ker "fort" was appended to the name of the city.
Callum
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish
Pronounced: KAL-əm
Rating: 65% based on 4 votes
Callie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KAL-ee
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Cáel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish Mythology
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
From Old Irish
cáel meaning
"slender". In Irish legend Cáel was a warrior of the Fianna and the lover of Créd.
Bryant
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BRIE-ənt
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
From an English surname that was derived from the given name
Brian.
Bryan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BRIE-ən
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Variant of
Brian, based on the usual spelling of the surname that is derived from the name.
Briony
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: BRIE-ə-nee
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Bridget
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish, English
Pronounced: BRIJ-it(English)
Rating: 63% based on 4 votes
Anglicized form of the Irish name
Brighid, Old Irish
Brigit, from old Celtic *
Brigantī meaning
"the exalted one". In Irish
mythology this was the name of the goddess of fire, poetry and wisdom, the daughter of the god
Dagda. In the 5th century it was borne by
Saint Brigid, the founder of a monastery at Kildare and a patron saint of Ireland. Because of the saint, the name was considered sacred in Ireland, and it did not come into general use there until the 17th century. In the form
Birgitta this name has been common in Scandinavia, made popular by the 14th-century Saint Birgitta of Sweden, patron saint of Europe.
Bridger
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: BRIJ-ər
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
From an English surname that originally indicated a person who lived near or worked on a bridge.
Briar
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: BRIE-ər
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
From the English word for the thorny plant.
Brian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Irish, Old Irish [1]
Pronounced: BRIE-ən(English) BRYEEN(Irish)
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Meaning uncertain, possibly related to the old Celtic root *
brixs "hill, high" (Old Irish
brií) or the related *
brigā "might, power" (Old Irish
briíg). It was borne by the Irish king Brian Boru, who thwarted Viking attempts to conquer Ireland in the 11th century. He was slain in the Battle of Clontarf, though his forces were decisively victorious. This name was common in Ireland after his time, and it was introduced to northern England by Norse-Gael settlers. It was also used in Brittany, and was brought to England by Bretons in the wake of the
Norman Conquest. Though it eventually became rare in the English-speaking world, it was strongly revived in the 20th century, becoming a top-ten name for boys in most regions.
Braylon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: BRAY-lən
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
An invented name, using the same sounds found in names such as
Braden and
Jalen.
Brandr
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Norse [1]
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Old Norse byname meaning "fire, torch, sword".
Brady
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BRAY-dee
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
From an Irish surname, an Anglicized form of
Ó Brádaigh, itself derived from the byname
Brádach. A famous bearer of the surname is the American football quarterback Tom Brady (1977-). It was also borne by a fictional family on the television series
The Brady Bunch (1969-1974).
Brad
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BRAD
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
Short form of
Bradley,
Bradford and other names beginning with
Brad. A famous bearer is American actor Brad Pitt (1963-).
Booker
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BUWK-ər
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
From an English occupational surname meaning "maker of books". A famous bearer was Booker T. Washington (1856-1915), an African-American leader.
Blaze
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: BLAYZ
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Modern variant of
Blaise influenced by the English word
blaze.
Blaire
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: BLEHR
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Bertrand
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French, English, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: BEHR-TRAHN(French) BUR-trənd(English)
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Derived from the Old German elements
beraht meaning "bright" and
rant meaning "rim (of a shield)". From an early date it has been confused with
Bertram and the two names have merged to some degree.
Saint Bertrand was an 11th-century bishop of Comminges in France. Another famous bearer was the English philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872-1970).
Bertram
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, German, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: BUR-trəm(English) BEHR-tram(German)
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
Means
"bright raven", derived from the Old German element
beraht "bright" combined with
hram "raven". This name has long been conflated with
Bertrand. The
Normans introduced it to England, and Shakespeare used it in his play
All's Well That Ends Well (1603).
Benny
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BEHN-ee
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Beckham
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: BEHK-əm
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
From an English surname that was derived from a place name meaning "Becca's homestead". The Old English byname Becca meant "pickaxe". A famous bearer of the surname is retired English soccer player David Beckham (1975-).
Azura
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: ə-ZHUWR-ə, AZH-rə
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Avis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AY-vis
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Probably a Latinized form of the Germanic name
Aveza, which was derived from the element
awi, of unknown meaning. The
Normans introduced this name to England and it became moderately common during the Middle Ages, at which time it was associated with Latin
avis "bird".
Autry
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (American)
Pronounced: AW-tree(American English)
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Transferred use of the surname
Autry.
Aurelius
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Pronounced: ow-REH-lee-oos(Latin) aw-REEL-ee-əs(English)
Rating: 55% based on 4 votes
Roman family name that was derived from Latin
aureus meaning
"golden, gilded". Marcus Aurelius was a 2nd-century Roman emperor and philosophical writer. This was also the name of several early
saints.
Audrey
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, French
Pronounced: AWD-ree(English) O-DREH(French)
Rating: 65% based on 6 votes
Medieval
diminutive of
Æðelþryð. This was the name of a 7th-century
saint, a princess of East Anglia who founded a monastery at Ely. It was also used by William Shakespeare for a character in his comedy
As You Like It (1599). At the end of the Middle Ages the name became rare due to association with the word
tawdry (which was derived from
St. Audrey, the name of a fair where cheap lace was sold), but it was revived in the 19th century. A famous bearer was British actress Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993).
Audie
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AWD-ee
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
In the case of the famed American soldier Audie Murphy (1925-1971), it is of uncertain meaning. As a feminine name, it can be a
diminutive of
Audrey.
Asterius
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized), Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἀστέριος(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
Latinized form of Greek
Ἀστέριος (Asterios) meaning
"starry", a derivative of
ἀστήρ (aster) meaning "star". This is the name of several figures from Greek
mythology. It was also borne by a few early
saints.
Askanios
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἀσκάνιος(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Ashling
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: ASH-ling(English)
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Ascanius
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἀσκάνιος(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: as-KA-nee-oos(Latin)
Rating: 77% based on 3 votes
From Greek
Ἀσκάνιος (Askanios), of unknown meaning. In Greek and Roman
mythology Ascanius, also called
Julus, was the son of
Aeneas.
Arturo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: ar-TOO-ro
Italian and Spanish form of
Arthur.
Arnie
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AHR-nee
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
Arlo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AHR-lo
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Meaning uncertain. It was perhaps inspired by the fictional place name Arlo Hill from the poem The Faerie Queene (1590) by Edmund Spenser. Spenser probably got Arlo by altering the real Irish place name Aherlow, meaning "between two highlands".
Arline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ahr-LEEN
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Meaning unknown, possibly invented by Michael William Balfe for the main character in his opera The Bohemian Girl (1843).
Ariston
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Ἀρίστων(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: A-REES-TAWN
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
Arianwen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: ar-YAN-wehn
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Derived from Welsh
arian "silver" and
gwen "white, blessed". This was the name of a 5th-century Welsh
saint, one of the supposed daughters of
Brychan Brycheiniog.
Archimedes
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Ἀρχιμήδης(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: AR-KEE-MEH-DEHS(Classical Greek) ahr-ki-MEE-deez(English)
Rating: 73% based on 3 votes
Derived from the Greek elements
ἀρχός (archos) meaning "master" and
μήδεα (medea) meaning "plans, counsel, cunning". This was the name of a 3rd-century BC Greek mathematician, astronomer and inventor.
Arabella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ar-ə-BEHL-ə
Rating: 50% based on 4 votes
Medieval Scottish name, probably a variant of
Annabel. It has long been associated with Latin
orabilis meaning "invokable, yielding to prayer", and the name was often recorded in forms resembling this.
Unrelated, this was an older name of the city of Irbid in Jordan, from Greek Ἄρβηλα (Arbela).
Aoife
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish, Irish Mythology
Pronounced: EE-fyə(Irish)
Rating: 75% based on 4 votes
From Old Irish
Aífe, derived from
oíph meaning
"beauty" (modern Irish
aoibh). This was the name of several characters in Irish legend, including a woman at war with
Scáthach (her sister in some versions). She was defeated in single combat by the hero
Cúchulainn, who spared her life on the condition that she bear him a child (
Connla). Another legendary figure by this name appears in the
Children of Lir as the jealous third wife of
Lir.
This name is sometimes Anglicized as Eve or Eva.
Anwen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
Means
"very beautiful" in Welsh, from the intensive prefix
an- combined with
gwen "white, blessed".
Annis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AN-is
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Medieval English form of
Agnes.
Annette
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, English, German, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch
Pronounced: A-NEHT(French) ə-NEHT(English) a-NEH-tə(German)
Rating: 55% based on 4 votes
French
diminutive of
Anne 1. It has also been widely used in the English-speaking world, and it became popular in America in the late 1950s due to the fame of actress Annette Funicello (1942-2013).
Anita 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese, Croatian, Slovene, English, Dutch, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Polish, Latvian, Hungarian
Pronounced: a-NEE-ta(Spanish, Dutch, German) ə-NEET-ə(English) AH-nee-tah(Finnish) a-NYEE-ta(Polish) AW-nee-taw(Hungarian)
Rating: 54% based on 5 votes
Angelica
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Romanian, Carolingian Cycle
Pronounced: an-JEHL-i-kə(English) an-JEH-lee-ka(Italian)
Rating: 62% based on 5 votes
Derived from Latin
angelicus meaning
"angelic", ultimately related to Greek
ἄγγελος (angelos) meaning "messenger". The poets Boiardo and Ariosto used this name in their
Orlando poems (1483 and 1532), where she is the love interest of both
Orlando and
Rinaldo. It has been used as a given name since the 18th century.
Amy
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AY-mee
Rating: 72% based on 5 votes
English form of the Old French name Amée meaning "beloved" (modern French aimée), a vernacular form of the Latin Amata. As an English name, it was in use in the Middle Ages (though not common) and was revived in the 19th century.
Althea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἀλθαία(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
From the Greek name
Ἀλθαία (Althaia), perhaps related to Greek
ἄλθος (althos) meaning
"healing". In Greek
myth she was the mother of Meleager. Soon after her son was born she was told that he would die as soon as a piece of wood that was burning on her fire was fully consumed. She immediately extinguished the piece of wood and sealed it in a chest, but in a fit of rage many years later she took it out and set it alight, thereby killing her son.
Altair
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Astronomy, Portuguese (Brazilian)
Pronounced: al-TEHR(English)
Rating: 68% based on 4 votes
Means "the flyer" in Arabic. This is the name of a star in the constellation Aquila.
Alonzo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (American)
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
Variant of
Alonso in use in America.
Allen
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AL-ən
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Variant of
Alan, or from a surname that was derived from this same name. A famous bearer of this name was Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997), an American beat poet. Another is the American film director and actor Woody Allen (1935-), who took the
stage name Allen from his real first name.
Alicia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, English, Swedish, French
Pronounced: a-LEE-thya(European Spanish) a-LEE-sya(Latin American Spanish) ə-LEE-shə(English) ə-LEE-see-ə(English)
Rating: 64% based on 5 votes
Alice
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, French, Portuguese, Italian, German, Czech, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Dutch
Pronounced: AL-is(English) A-LEES(French) u-LEE-si(European Portuguese) a-LEE-see(Brazilian Portuguese) a-LEE-cheh(Italian) a-LEES(German) A-li-tseh(Czech)
Rating: 70% based on 4 votes
From the Old French name
Aalis, a short form of
Adelais, itself a short form of the Germanic name
Adalheidis (see
Adelaide). This name became popular in France and England in the 12th century. It was among the most common names in England until the 16th century, when it began to decline. It was revived in the 19th century.
This name was borne by the heroine of Lewis Carroll's novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass (1871).
Algar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: AL-gahr
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Means
"elf spear" from Old English
ælf "elf" and
gar "spear". This Old English name was rarely used after the
Norman Conquest, being absorbed by similar-sounding names and Norman and Scandinavian cognates. It was briefly revived in the 19th century.
Alexus
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: ə-LEHK-sis
Rating: 53% based on 4 votes
Alethea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: al-ə-THEE-ə, ə-LEE-thee-ə
Rating: 63% based on 3 votes
Derived from Greek
ἀλήθεια (aletheia) meaning
"truth". This name was coined in the 16th century.
Alan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Scottish, Breton, French, Polish
Pronounced: AL-ən(English) A-lahn(Breton) A-LAHN(French)
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
The meaning of this name is not known for certain. It was used in Brittany at least as early as the 6th century, and it possibly means either
"little rock" or
"handsome" in Breton. Alternatively, it may derive from the tribal name of the Alans, an Iranian people who migrated into Europe in the 4th and 5th centuries.
This was the name of several dukes of Brittany, and Breton settlers introduced it to England after the Norman Conquest. Famous modern bearers include Alan Shepard (1923-1998), the first American in space and the fifth man to walk on the moon, and Alan Turing (1912-1954), a British mathematician and computer scientist.
Aisling
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: ASH-lyən
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Means "dream" or "vision" in Irish. This name was created in the 20th century.
Aike
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Frisian
Rating: 87% based on 3 votes
Diminutive of names beginning with the Old German element
ekka meaning
"edge, blade" or
adal meaning
"noble".
Aida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic, Bosnian, Albanian, Literature
Other Scripts: عائدة(Arabic)
Pronounced: ‘A-ee-da(Arabic) ah-EE-də(English)
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Variant of
Ayda. This name was used in Verdi's opera
Aida (1871), where it belongs to an Ethiopian princess held captive in Egypt.
Aether
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Αἰθήρ(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 73% 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.
Adrien
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: A-DREE-YEHN
Rating: 58% based on 4 votes
Addison
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AD-i-sən
Rating: 73% based on 4 votes
From an English surname meaning
"son of Adam". Its recent popularity as a feminine name stems from its similarity in sound to
Madison.
Abe 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AYB
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
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