Felie's Personal Name List

Abigaille
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare), Theatre
Pronounced: a-bee-ga-EEL-le(Italian) a-bee-GIEL-le(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Italian form of Abigail, used for a character in Verdi's opera 'Nabucco' (1842).
Acacia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: ə-KAY-shə
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 55% based on 13 votes
From the name of a type of tree, ultimately derived from Greek ἀκή (ake) meaning "thorn, point".
Achille
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French, Italian
Pronounced: A-SHEEL(French) a-KEEL-leh(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 30% based on 5 votes
French and Italian form of Achilles.
Achillea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 52% based on 5 votes
Feminine form of Achille. It is also the botanical name of the genus of flowering plants (Yarrow).
Ada 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Spanish, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Hungarian, Finnish, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: AY-də(English) A-dha(Spanish) A-da(Polish) AW-daw(Hungarian) AH-dah(Finnish)
Personal remark: 💜
Originally a short form of Germanic names such as Adelaide or Adelina that begin with the element adal meaning "noble". Saint Ada was a 7th-century Frankish abbess at Le Mans. This name was also borne by Augusta Ada King (1815-1852), the Countess of Lovelace (known as Ada Lovelace), a daughter of Lord Byron. She was an assistant to Charles Babbage, the inventor of an early mechanical computer.
Adalgisa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Theatre
Personal remark: 💜
Feminine form of Adalgiso. Adalgisa is a character in Vincenzo Bellini's opera Norma (1831).
Adamina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: ad-ə-MEEN-ə
Personal remark: 💜
Feminine form of Adam.
Adamo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: a-DA-mo
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 33% based on 6 votes
Italian form of Adam.
Adara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אַדָרָה(Hebrew)
Personal remark: 💜
Means "noble" in Hebrew.
Ade
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Italianized)
Pronounced: AH-deh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 15% based on 2 votes
Italian form of Hades.
Adela
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Spanish, Romanian, Polish, Slovak, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: ə-DEHL-ə(English) a-DHEH-la(Spanish) a-DEH-la(Polish) A-deh-la(Slovak)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Originally a short form of names beginning with the Old German element adal meaning "noble" (Proto-Germanic *aþalaz). Saint Adela was a 7th-century Frankish princess who founded a monastery at Pfazel in France. This name was also borne by a daughter of William the Conqueror.
Adelaide
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Portuguese
Pronounced: A-də-layd(English) a-deh-LIE-deh(Italian) a-di-LIE-di(European Portuguese) a-di-LIED(European Portuguese) a-deh-LIE-dee(Brazilian Portuguese)
Personal remark: 💜
Means "nobleness, nobility", from the French form of the Germanic name Adalheidis, which was composed of adal "noble" and the suffix heit "kind, sort, type". It was borne in the 10th century by Saint Adelaide, the wife of the Holy Roman emperor Otto the Great.

In Britain the parallel form Alice, derived via Old French, has historically been more common than Adelaide, though this form did gain some currency in the 19th century due to the popularity of the German-born wife of King William IV, for whom the city of Adelaide in Australia was named in 1836.

Adelasia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Italian, Theatre, Italian, Sardinian
Personal remark: 💜
Medieval Italian variant of Adelaide.

Adelasia of Torres (1207-1259) was the Judge of Logudoro from 1236 and Judge of Gallura from 1238, while Adelasia del Vasto (c. 1075 – 16 April 1118) was the third wife of Roger I of Sicily and mother of Roger II of Sicily, as well as Queen consort of Jerusalem due to her later marriage to Baldwin I of Jerusalem, as his third wife.

Adelasia ed Aleramo (1806) is an opera composed by Johann Simon Mayr.

Adelchi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Rare), Lombardic (Italianized), Theatre
Pronounced: a-DEHL-kee(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Italian form of Adelgis. Adelchi was an associate king of the Lombards from August 759, reigning with his father, Desiderius, until their deposition in June 774. He is also remembered today as the hero of the play Adelchi (1822) by Alessandro Manzoni.
Adi 1
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: עֲדִי(Hebrew)
Pronounced: ah-DEE
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Means "jewel, ornament" in Hebrew.
Adige
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Italian (Archaic)
Pronounced: A-dee-je
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 30% based on 3 votes
Name of an Italian river that runs through the regions of Trentino-Alto-Adige-Südtirol and Veneto.
Adina 1
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek, Hebrew
Other Scripts: עֲדִינָא(Ancient Hebrew) Ἀδινά(Ancient Greek) עֲדִינָה(Hebrew)
Personal remark: 💜
From Hebrew עֲדִינָא ('adina') meaning "delicate". This name is borne by a soldier in the Old Testament. It is also used in modern Hebrew as a feminine name, typically spelled עֲדִינָה.
Adone
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: a-DO-neh
Rating: 8% based on 4 votes
Italian form of Adonis.
Adorinda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Esperanto
Pronounced: a-do-REEN-da
Personal remark: 💜
Means "adorable" in Esperanto.
Adriano
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Portuguese
Pronounced: a-dree-A-no(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 61% based on 20 votes
Italian and Portuguese form of Adrian.
Adriatico
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: a-dree-A-tee-ko
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
Originally denoted a person who lived near the Adriatic sea.
Adso
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: A-tso, A-dzo
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Form of Azzo. Adso da Melk is a fictional Medieval character in Umberto Eco masterpiece 'Il nome della rosa' (1980). That character is loosely based on a real person: the monk Adso de Montier-en-Der (910/915 – 992). In Italy this name is no longer used and known just for the character and as a Medieval name.
Afra 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman, Italian
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Originally used by the Romans as a nickname for a woman from Africa. This was the name of two early saints.
Africa 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: African American (Rare)
Pronounced: AF-ri-kə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
From the name of the continent, which is of Latin origin, possibly from the Afri people who lived near Carthage in North Africa. This rare name is used most often by African-American parents.
Afrodite
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Italianized, Portuguese-style)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 30% based on 7 votes
Italian and Portuguese form of Aphrodite.
Agape
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek
Other Scripts: Ἀγάπη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: A-GA-PEH
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
Derived from Greek ἀγάπη (agape) meaning "love". This name was borne by at least two early saints.
Agapeto
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History (Ecclesiastical), Basque
Basque form of Agapetos.
Agata
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Polish, Slovene, Russian, Croatian, Serbian, Swedish
Other Scripts: Агата(Russian, Serbian)
Pronounced: A-ga-ta(Italian) a-GA-ta(Polish) u-GA-tə(Russian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 53% based on 20 votes
Form of Agatha in various languages.
Aglaia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, Greek
Other Scripts: Ἀγλαΐα(Ancient Greek) Αγλαΐα(Greek)
Pronounced: ə-GLIE-ə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 5 votes
Means "splendour, beauty" in Greek. In Greek mythology she was one of the three Graces or Χάριτες (Charites). This name was also borne by a 4th-century saint from Rome.
Agricola
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman, Italian (Rare)
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Means "farmer; grower" in Latin from ager; agri meaning "field, land" combined with the verb colere meaning "to cultivate; to grow".

Currently it is an Italian feminine adjective meaning "agricultural; farming; rural".

Aiace
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ah-YAH-cheh
Rating: 3% based on 4 votes
Italian form of Ajax.
Aida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic, Bosnian, Albanian, Literature
Other Scripts: عائدة(Arabic)
Pronounced: ‘A-ee-dah(Arabic) ah-EE-də(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 52% based on 24 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.
Alarico
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Galician, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: a-la-REE-ko(Italian)
Personal remark: Old
Rating: 24% based on 5 votes
Galician, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of Alaric.
Alba 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Catalan
Pronounced: AL-ba(Italian, Spanish) AL-bə(Catalan)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 57% based on 14 votes
This name is derived from two distinct names, Alba 2 and Alba 3, with distinct origins, Latin and Germanic. Over time these names have become confused with one another. To further complicate the matter, alba means "dawn" in Italian, Spanish and Catalan. This may be the main inspiration behind its use in Italy and Spain.
Albachiara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: AHL-bah-kee-AH-rah
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 47% based on 24 votes
Combination of Alba 1 and Chiara. Use of this name is most likely influenced by the song 'Albachiara' by Vasco Rossi.
Alceste
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: French, Italian
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
French and Italian masculine and feminine form of Alcestis.
Alcesti
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: al-CHE-stee
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 40% based on 4 votes
Italian form of Alcestis.
Alcide
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, French
Pronounced: AL-SEED(French)
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Italian and French form of Alcides.
Alcione
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Italian
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Portuguese and Italian form of Alcyone. This name is borne by Brazilian samba singer Alcione Dias Nazareth.
Alea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: ə-LEE-ə
Personal remark: 💜
Variant of Aaliyah.
Alessandria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: al-less-an-dria
Personal remark: ❤️
Rating: 52% based on 5 votes
Italian form of Alexandria.
Alessio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: a-LEHS-syo
Personal remark: 💜
Italian form of Alexis.
Alfeo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: al-FEH-o
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 13% based on 4 votes
Italian form of Alphaeus.
Alfio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Rating: 15% based on 4 votes
Italian form of Alphius.
Alfonso
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Italian
Pronounced: al-FON-so(Spanish) al-FAWN-so(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 44% based on 16 votes
Spanish and Italian form of Alphonsus, the Latin form of the Visigothic name *Aþalafuns meaning "noble and ready", derived from the Gothic elements aþals "noble" and funs "ready". This was the name of several kings of Spain (Asturias, León, Castile and Aragon) and Portugal, starting with Alfonso I of Asturias in the 8th century. His name was sometimes recorded in the Latin spelling Adefonsus, and on that basis it is theorized that first element might be from another source (perhaps haþus meaning "battle"). It is possible that two or more names merged into a single form.
Alfredo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: al-FREH-do(Italian) al-FREH-dho(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of Alfred.
Algesira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: ahl-jeh-ZEE-rah
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Possibly derived from the name of the Spanish town Algeciras. which is from the Arabic الجزيرة (al-jazira) meaning "the island".
Aligi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Italian (Tuscan)
Pronounced: a-LEE-jee(Italian, Tuscan Italian)
Rating: 15% based on 2 votes
Short form of Fiordiligi as well as Tuscan form of Aloisio.
Alisea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Modern)
Pronounced: ah-lee-ZEH-ah
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Cognate of Alizée (compare Aliséa).
Aliseo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Italianized)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
Italian form of Alyzeus.
Alissa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ə-LIS-ə
Rating: 35% based on 13 votes
Variant of Alyssa.
Allegra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, English (Rare)
Pronounced: al-LEH-gra(Italian) ə-LEHG-rə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 56% based on 24 votes
Means "cheerful, lively" in Italian. It was borne by a short-lived illegitimate daughter of Lord Byron (1817-1822).
Alma 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Albanian, Slovene, Croatian
Pronounced: AL-mə(English) AL-ma(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 58% based on 17 votes
This name became popular after the Battle of Alma (1854), which took place near the River Alma in Crimea and ended in a victory for Britain and France. However, the name was in rare use before the battle; it was probably inspired by Latin almus "nourishing". It also coincides with the Spanish word meaning "the soul".
Almarina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Albanian (Rare)
Personal remark: 'Almarina' Valeria Parrella (2019)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Almirena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Theatre
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
The name of a character in Georg Friedrich Händel's opera 'Rinaldo' (1711).
Alodia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Gothic (Latinized)
Personal remark: 💜
Possibly from a Visigothic name, maybe from Gothic elements such as alls "all" or aljis "other" combined with auds "riches, wealth". Saint Alodia was a 9th-century Spanish martyr with her sister Nunilo.
Aloe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern, Rare)
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Aloe is a genus containing over 500 species of flowering succulent plants. The most widely known species is Aloe vera, or "true aloe". It is called this because it is cultivated as the standard source for assorted pharmaceutical purposes.
Altabella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Italian
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 40% based on 4 votes
From Latin alta “high” and bella “beautiful”.
Altaluna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Italian
Rating: 45% based on 4 votes
Derived from Italian alta, the feminine form of the adjective alto, meaning "high; deep; big; towering; elevated" and, when used in a poetic context, "grand; sublime; noble" and luna "moon".

A known bearer of this name was Altaluna della Scala, daughter of Mastino II della Scala, a 14th-cenutry lord of Verona, sister of Viridis and wife of Louis V, Duke of Bavaria.

Whether Altalune, the name Uma Thurman gave her daughter born in 2012, is a medieval variant of this name, is still debated.

Altea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Polish (Rare), Swedish (Rare), Sicilian, Albanian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 40% based on 4 votes
Cognate of Althea.
Alvaro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ahl-VAH-ro
Personal remark: 💜
Italian form of Álvaro.
Alvise
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: al-VEE-zeh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 25% based on 22 votes
Venetian form of Louis.
Amabile
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare), French (Rare), French (Belgian, Rare), Dutch (Rare)
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Italian form of Amabilis and also rare French form of Amabilis. The name is unisex in Italy and strictly feminine in the francophone world. Also compare Amable.
Amanda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Hungarian, Latvian, Late Roman
Pronounced: ə-MAN-də(English) a-MAN-da(Spanish, Italian)
Personal remark: 💜2️⃣
In part this is a feminine form of Amandus. However, it was not used during the Middle Ages. In the 17th century it was recreated by authors and poets who based it directly on Latin amanda meaning "lovable, worthy of love". Notably, the playwright Colley Cibber used it for a character in his play Love's Last Shift (1696). It came into regular use during the 19th century.
Amaranta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Rare), Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: a-ma-RAN-ta
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 44% based on 18 votes
Spanish and Italian form of Amarantha.
Amarilli
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: a-ma-REEL-lee
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Italian form of Amaryllis.
Amata
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman
Personal remark: 💜
Feminine form of Amatus.
Amato
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: a-MA-to
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 13% based on 4 votes
Italian form of Amatus.
Ambra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 49% based on 21 votes
Italian cognate of Amber.
America
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ə-MEHR-i-kə
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 40% based on 4 votes
In the English-speaking world, this name is usually given in reference to the United States of America (see Amerigo). It came into use as an American name in the 19th century.
Amerigo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: a-meh-REE-go
Personal remark: Old
Rating: 36% based on 5 votes
Medieval Italian form of Emmerich. Amerigo Vespucci (1451-1512) was the Italian explorer who gave the continent of America its name (from Americus, the Latin form of his name).
Ametista
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: a-me-TEE-sta
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
Italian form of Amethyst
Aminta
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature
Personal remark: Old
Rating: 43% based on 11 votes
Form of Amyntas used by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso for his play Aminta (1573). In the play Aminta is a shepherd who falls in love with a nymph.
Amleto
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: am-LEH-to
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 5% based on 4 votes
Italian form of Hamlet.
Amore
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Italian form of Amor.
Amos
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Hebrew, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek, Biblical Hebrew
Other Scripts: עָמוֹס(Hebrew) Ἀμώς(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: AY-məs(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 48% based on 5 votes
From Hebrew עָמַס ('amas) meaning "load, burden". Amos is one of the twelve minor prophets of the Old Testament, the author of the Book of Amos, which speaks against greed, corruption and oppression of the poor. Written about the 8th century BC, it is among the oldest of the prophetic books. As an English name, Amos has been used since the Protestant Reformation, and was popular among the Puritans.
Anastasia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, English, Spanish, Italian, Georgian, Ancient Greek
Other Scripts: Αναστασία(Greek) Анастасия(Russian) Анастасія(Ukrainian, Belarusian) ანასტასია(Georgian) Ἀναστασία(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: a-na-sta-SEE-a(Greek) u-nu-stu-SYEE-yə(Russian) u-nu-stu-SYEE-yu(Ukrainian) a-na-sta-SYEE-ya(Belarusian) an-ə-STAY-zhə(English) a-na-STA-sya(Spanish) a-na-STA-zya(Italian) A-NA-STA-SEE-A(Classical Greek)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 63% based on 15 votes
Feminine form of Anastasius. This was the name of a 4th-century Dalmatian saint who was martyred during the persecutions of the Roman emperor Diocletian. Due to her, the name has been common in Eastern Orthodox Christianity (in various spellings). As an English name it has been in use since the Middle Ages. A famous bearer was the youngest daughter of the last Russian tsar Nicholas II, who was rumoured to have escaped the execution of her family in 1918.
Andromaca
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: ahn-DROH-mah-kah
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Italian form of Andromache.
Andromeda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἀνδρομέδα, Ἀνδρομέδη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: AN-DRO-MEH-DA(Classical Greek) an-DRAH-mi-də(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Derived from Greek ἀνήρ (aner) meaning "man" (genitive ἀνδρός) combined with one of the related words μέδομαι (medomai) meaning "to be mindful of, to provide for, to think on" or μέδω (medo) meaning "to protect, to rule over". In Greek mythology Andromeda was an Ethiopian princess rescued from sacrifice by the hero Perseus. A constellation in the northern sky is named for her. This is also the name of a nearby galaxy, given because it resides (from our point of view) within the constellation.
Anemone
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: ə-NEHM-ə-nee
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 40% based on 11 votes
From the name of the anemone flower, which is derived from Greek ἄνεμος (anemos) meaning "wind".
Angela
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, German, Dutch, Romanian, Slovene, Slovak, Russian, Macedonian, Greek, Late Roman
Other Scripts: Ангела(Russian, Macedonian) Άντζελα(Greek)
Pronounced: AN-jəl-ə(English) ANG-jeh-la(Italian) ANG-geh-la(German) AN-gyi-lə(Russian)
Personal remark: 💜2️⃣
Feminine form of Angelus (see Angel). As an English name, it came into use in the 18th century.
Angelica
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Romanian
Pronounced: an-JEHL-i-kə(English) an-JEH-lee-ka(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 65% based on 22 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 it belongs to Orlando's love interest. It has been used as a given name since the 18th century.
Angelo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ANG-jeh-lo
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 10% based on 2 votes
Italian form of Angelus (see Angel).
Angiolina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Romansh
Personal remark: 💜2️⃣
Romansh diminutive of Angela (compare Angelina).
Anice
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Archaic), Romani (Archaic)
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 38% based on 4 votes
Aniceto
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Galician, Aragonese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Spanish, Galician, Aragonese, Portuguese, and Italian form of Anicetus.
Anicetta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Feminine form of Aniceto.
Anissa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Personal remark: 💜
This name was first brought to public attention in 1966 by the child actress Anissa Jones (1958-1976) [1]. In her case it was a transcription of the Arabic name أنيسة (see Anisa), given to honour her Lebanese heritage. Other parents who have since used this name may view it simply as an elaboration of Anna using the popular name suffix issa.
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)
Personal remark: 💜2️⃣
Spanish, Portuguese, Croatian and Slovene diminutive of Ana.
Antea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Italian (Swiss), Corsican, Hungarian (Rare), Maltese (Rare), Polish (Rare)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Form of Anthea used in various languages.
Anteo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Galician
Personal remark: 💜
Italian, Galician and Spanish form of both Antaeus and Antheus.
Antonia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Romanian, Greek, Croatian, Bulgarian, Ancient Roman
Other Scripts: Αντωνία(Greek) Антония(Bulgarian)
Pronounced: an-TO-nya(Italian, Spanish, German) an-TO-nee-ə(English) ahn-TO-nee-a(Dutch) an-TO-nee-a(Latin)
Personal remark: 💜2️⃣
Rating: 30% based on 3 votes
Feminine form of Antonius (see Anthony).
Antonietta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: an-to-NYEHT-ta
Personal remark: 💜2️⃣
Rating: 51% based on 24 votes
Italian diminutive of Antonia.
Apollo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἀπόλλων(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: ə-PAHL-o(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 25% based on 4 votes
From Greek Ἀπόλλων (Apollon), which is of unknown meaning, though perhaps related to the Indo-European root *apelo- meaning "strength". Another theory states that Apollo can be equated with Appaliunas, an Anatolian god whose name possibly means "father lion" or "father light". The Greeks later associated Apollo's name with the Greek verb ἀπόλλυμι (apollymi) meaning "to destroy". In Greek mythology Apollo was the son of Zeus and Leto and the twin of Artemis. He was the god of prophecy, medicine, music, art, law, beauty, and wisdom. Later he also became the god of the sun and light.
Apollodoro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 15% based on 4 votes
Italian form of Apollodorus.
Apollonia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek, Italian
Other Scripts: Ἀπολλωνία(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: A-POL-LAW-NEE-A(Classical Greek)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 74% based on 5 votes
Feminine form of Apollonios. This was the name of a 3rd-century saint and martyr from Alexandria.
Aprile
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Modern, Rare)
Pronounced: a-PREE-le
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Italian form of April as the common word for that month.
Aprilia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Modern, Rare)
Pronounced: a-PREE-lya
Rating: 51% based on 20 votes
It comes from the Italian name of the month aprile (April). It is the name of a town in the same region of Rome which was given this name because it was established on April, 25 1936 during Fascism on a reclaimed swamps. It is also the name of a company making motorcycles and rollers. This name has been always rare. The latest year it was given to babies was in 2001 where less than five newborns were called Aprilia.
Aquila
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Biblical, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: AK-wil-ə(English) ə-KWIL-ə(English)
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 40% based on 4 votes
From a Roman cognomen meaning "eagle" in Latin. In Acts in the New Testament Paul lives with Aquila and his wife Priscilla (or Prisca) for a time.
Arabella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ar-ə-BEHL-ə
Personal remark: 💜
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).

Araldo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: a-RAL-do
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Italian form of Harald.
Arcadia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Various
Pronounced: ahr-KAY-dee-ə(English)
Rating: 74% based on 5 votes
Feminine form of Arcadius. This is the name of a region on the Greek Peloponnese, long idealized for its natural beauty.
Arcangelo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ar-KAN-jeh-lo
Personal remark: Old-fave
Rating: 8% based on 4 votes
Means "archangel" in Italian.
Archimede
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Italian form of Archimedes.
Ardita
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Italian (Tuscan)
Rating: 40% based on 4 votes
Feminine form of Ardito.
Ares
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἄρης(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: A-REHS(Classical Greek) EHR-eez(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 8% based on 4 votes
Perhaps from either Greek ἀρή (are) meaning "bane, ruin" or ἄρσην (arsen) meaning "male". The name first appears as a-re in Mycenaean Greek writing. Ares was the bloodthirsty god of war in Greek mythology, a son of Zeus and Hera.
Argante
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature, Italian
Pronounced: ar-GAN-Te
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Name used by Italian author Torquato Tasso in his masterpiece 'Gerusalemme Liberata' (1581) and 'Gerusalemme Conquistata' (1583). Argante is a Muslim, king of Jerusalem. The name's origin is uncertain. Some hypotesis claim the tie with the Italian word argano meaning "capstan, windlass" or from Breton argant meaning "silver". Another possible origin is related with the argan tree (Sideroxylon spinosum) where argan is a Berber word (ⴰⵔⴳⴰⵏ) referred to the Northern African tree and its oil.
Argentina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Medieval English, Portuguese (Brazilian), Italian (Rare)
Rating: 40% based on 4 votes
From Argentina, the name of a country in South America. It is derived from the Latin argentum (silver), which in turn comes from the Ancient Greek ἀργήντος (argēntos), from ἀργήεις (argēeis), "white, shining". Αργεντινός (argentinos) was an ancient Greek epithet meaning "silvery". The first use of the name Argentina to refer to the country can be traced back to the first voyages made by the Spanish and Portuguese conquerors to the Río de la Plata which means "Silver River", in the early 16th century. As a personal name, it was borne by Argentine actress Argentina Brunetti (1907-2005).
Aria 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: AHR-ee-ə
Rating: 58% based on 22 votes
Means "song, melody" in Italian (literally means "air"). An aria is an elaborate vocal solo, the type usually performed in operas. As an English name, it has only been in use since the 20th century, its rise in popularity accelerating after the 2010 premier of the television drama Pretty Little Liars, featuring a character by this name. It is not traditionally used in Italy.
Ariadne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἀριάδνη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: A-REE-AD-NEH(Classical Greek) ar-ee-AD-nee(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 54% based on 5 votes
Means "most holy", composed of the Greek prefix ἀρι (ari) meaning "most" combined with Cretan Greek ἀδνός (adnos) meaning "holy". In Greek mythology, Ariadne was the daughter of King Minos. She fell in love with Theseus and helped him to escape the Labyrinth and the Minotaur, but was later abandoned by him. Eventually she married the god Dionysus.
Ariela
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew, Albanian, Croatian, Italian (Rare), Polish
Personal remark: 💜
Hebrew variant of Ariella, Polish feminine form of Ariel, Italian feminine form of Ariele as well as a Croatian and Albanian borrowing of the Italian name.
Ariele
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: a-RYE-le
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 10% based on 4 votes
Italian form of Ariel.
Ariella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: ar-ee-EHL-ə, ehr-ee-EHL-ə
Personal remark: 💜
Strictly feminine form of Ariel.
Ario
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Javanese
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 7% based on 3 votes
Javanese form of Arya 1.
Aristea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek, Spanish (Mexican), English (American, Modern, Rare, ?)
Other Scripts: Αριστέα(Greek)
Pronounced: a-rees-TEH-a(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
Feminine form of Aristeo (Spanish). As a Greek name, it is a feminine form of names beginning with the element ἄριστος (aristos) meaning "best". Aristea is also a genus of purple/lilac flowers of African origin; the species Aristea ecklonii is known under the common names blue flies, blue stars, blue-eyed iris, or blue corn-lily.
Aristide
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French, Italian
Pronounced: A-REES-TEED(French) a-REES-tee-deh(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 12% based on 5 votes
French and Italian form of Aristides.
Aristotele
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ah-ree-STOH-teh-leh
Personal remark: Old
Rating: 8% based on 5 votes
Italian form of Aristotle.
Armida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish (Latin American)
Pronounced: ar-MEE-da(Italian) ar-MEE-dha(Spanish)
Personal remark: Old-fave
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
Probably created by the 16th-century Italian poet Torquato Tasso for his epic poem Jerusalem Delivered (1580). In the poem Armida is a beautiful enchantress who bewitches many of the crusaders.
Armonía
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Rare)
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Means "harmony" in Spanish.
Arnaldo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Portuguese
Pronounced: ar-NAL-do(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 18% based on 4 votes
Italian and Portuguese form of Arnold.
Arno
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch, German
Pronounced: AR-no(German)
Personal remark: 🌐
Short form of Arnoud or Arnold.
Artemide
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Georgian (Archaic), Italian (Rare)
Other Scripts: არტემიდე(Georgian)
Pronounced: AR-TE-MEE-DEH(Georgian) ahr-TEM-ee-de(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Georgian and Italian form of Artemis.

In Georgia, Artemide is an alternative name for the Greek goddess: the standard Georgian name for her is Artemida.

Artemio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: ar-TEH-myo
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 18% based on 4 votes
Italian and Spanish form of Artemios.
Artemisia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek
Other Scripts: Ἀρτεμισία(Ancient Greek)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 73% based on 4 votes
Feminine form of Artemisios. This was the name of the 4th-century BC builder of the Mausoleum, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. She built it in memory of her husband, the Carian prince Mausolus.
Artù
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval Italian, Literature, Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: ar-TOO
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 8% based on 4 votes
Medieval Italian and literarian form of Arturo. This is the form used to refers to King Arthur, the legendary figure.
Ascanio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 35% based on 4 votes
Italian form of Ascanius.
Asclepio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Galician, Italian, Spanish
Personal remark: 💜
Galician, Italian and Spanish form of Asklepios via Asclepius.
Asia 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern), Italian (Modern)
Pronounced: AY-zhə(English) A-zya(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
From the name of the continent, which is perhaps derived from Akkadian asu, meaning "east".
Aspasia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek, Greek
Other Scripts: Ἀσπασία(Ancient Greek) Ασπασία(Greek)
Pronounced: A-SPA-SEE-A(Classical Greek)
Personal remark: ❤️
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Derived from Greek ἀσπάσιος (aspasios) meaning "welcome, embrace". This was the name of the lover of Pericles (5th century BC).
Aster
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: AS-tər
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
From the name of the flower, which is derived via Latin from Greek ἀστήρ (aster) meaning "star".
Asterope
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἀστεροπή(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: a-STER-ə-pee
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Derived from the Greek noun ἀστεροπή (asterope) meaning "lightning". Also compare ἀστεροπός (asteropos), which is a variant spelling of the Greek adjective ἀστερωπός (asteropos) meaning "starry-eyed" or "star-faced". This word consists of the Greek noun ἀστήρ (aster) meaning "star" combined with the Greek noun ὤψ (ops) meaning "eye, face, countenance".

Asterope is the name of several characters from Greek mythology. Among them is a Naiad who died fleeing prince Aesacus (although her name is more reminiscent of a star-nymph than a Naiad, so perhaps she was envisioned as a shooting star, dying upon the Earth). Asterope is also an alternative name for the Pleiad Sterope and the Hesperid Hesperia.

Astoria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: as-TAWR-ee-ə
Rating: 38% based on 8 votes
Feminine form of Astor. This is also the name of several American towns, after the businessman John Jacob Astor.
Astra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: AS-trə
Rating: 62% based on 11 votes
Means "star", ultimately from Greek ἀστήρ (aster). This name has only been (rarely) used since the 20th century.
Astrea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Catalan, Italian and Spanish form of Astraea.
Astrid
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, French, English
Pronounced: AS-trid(Swedish, English) AHS-tree(Norwegian) AS-trit(German) AS-TREED(French)
Personal remark: 💜
Modern Scandinavian form of Ástríðr. This name was borne by the Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002), the author of Pippi Longstocking. It was also borne by a Swedish princess (1905-1935) who became the queen of Belgium as the wife of Leopold III.
Atalia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: עֲתַלְיָה(Hebrew)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Modern Hebrew transcription of Athaliah.
Atanasio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: a-ta-NA-syo(Spanish)
Rating: 15% based on 4 votes
Spanish and Italian form of Athanasius.
Atena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Catalan (Rare), Croatian (Rare), Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovene, Serbian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 51% based on 19 votes
Catalan, Croatian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Romanian form of Athena.
Atenodora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
Feminine form of Atenodoro.
Atlante
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Italianized)
Personal remark: 💜
Italian form of Atlas.
Attila
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History, Hungarian, Turkish
Pronounced: ə-TIL-ə(English) AW-teel-law(Hungarian)
Personal remark: 💜
Probably means "little father" from Gothic atta "father" combined with a diminutive suffix. This was the name of a 5th-century leader of the Huns, a nomadic people from Central Asia who had expanded into Eastern Europe by the 4th century. Attila was likely the name given to him by his Gothic-speaking subjects in Eastern Europe; his real name may have been Avitohol.
Attilio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: at-TEE-lyo
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Italian form of the Roman family name Atilius, which is of unknown Etruscan origin. Marcus Atilius Regulus was a Roman consul and hero of the First Punic War.
Augusta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Portuguese, English, German, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: ow-GOOS-ta(Italian) ə-GUS-tə(English) ow-GUWS-ta(German)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 66% based on 19 votes
Feminine form of Augustus. It was introduced to Britain when King George III, a member of the German House of Hanover, gave this name to his second daughter in the 18th century.
Augusto
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
Pronounced: ow-GHOOS-to(Spanish) ow-GOOS-to(Italian) ow-GOOSH-too(European Portuguese) ow-GOOS-too(Brazilian Portuguese)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 58% based on 4 votes
Spanish, Italian and Portuguese form of Augustus.
Aura
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Spanish, Finnish
Pronounced: AWR-ə(English) OW-ra(Spanish) OW-rah(Finnish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 52% based on 6 votes
From the word aura (derived from Latin, ultimately from Greek αὔρα meaning "breeze") for a distinctive atmosphere or illumination.
Aurea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Late Latin name that was derived from aureus "golden". This was the name of a 3rd-century saint from Ostia (near Rome), as well as an 11th-century Spanish saint.
Aureliano
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Italian
Pronounced: ow-reh-LYA-no(Spanish)
Rating: 50% based on 4 votes
Spanish and Italian form of Aurelianus.
Aurelio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: ow-REH-lyo
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 61% based on 15 votes
Italian and Spanish form of Aurelius.
Aurora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, English, Romanian, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Roman Mythology
Pronounced: ow-RAW-ra(Italian) ow-RO-ra(Spanish, Latin) ə-RAWR-ə(English) OW-ro-rah(Finnish)
Personal remark: 💜
Means "dawn" in Latin. Aurora was the Roman goddess of the morning. It has occasionally been used as a given name since the Renaissance.
Ausilia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Italian form of Auxilia.
Austra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Latvian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Latvian cognate of Aušra.
Ave
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Estonian
Pronounced: A-veh(Italian) AH-veh(Estonian)
Personal remark: Old
Rating: 29% based on 7 votes
Possibly from the name of the prayer Ave Maria, in which Ave is Latin meaning "greetings, salutations". In Estonian it is also associated with the word ava meaning "open".
Avia
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אֲבִיָה(Hebrew)
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Modern Hebrew form of Abijah.
Azzurra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ad-DZOOR-ra
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 43% based on 19 votes
Means "azure, sky blue" in Italian.
Azzurro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: adz-DZOOR-roh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 8% based on 4 votes
Masculine form of Azzurra.
Bacco
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 5% based on 4 votes
Italian form of Bacchus.
Baldassare
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: bal-das-SA-reh
Personal remark: 💜
Italian form of Balthazar.
Baldovino
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: bal-do-VEE-no
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Italian form of Baldwin.
Balsamia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Derived from Greek βάλσαμον (balsamon), originally from Hebrew basam, "spice; scent, perfume" and ultimately coming to mean "balm, balsam, ointment", folk etymology likes to interpret this name as "she who soothes; she who comforts; she who revitalizes". The name was usually given in honor of Blessed Balsamo di Cava as well as Pietro Balsamo (known as Peter Balsamus and Peter Abselamus in English), and occasionally in honor of Blessed Carino Pietro of Balsamo.
Balsamina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Archaic), Italian
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Diminutive of Balsamia.
Bambi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BAM-bee
Personal remark: Bambi
Rating: 26% based on 8 votes
Derived from Italian bambina meaning "young girl". The American novelist Marjorie Benton Cooke used it in her novel Bambi (1914). This was also the name of a male deer in a cartoon by Walt Disney, which was based on a 1923 novel by Swiss author Felix Salten.
Bartolomeo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: bar-to-lo-MEH-o
Personal remark: 💜
Italian form of Bartholomew.
Basilio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: ba-ZEE-lyo(Italian) ba-SEE-lyo(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 37% based on 22 votes
Italian and Spanish form of Basil 1.
Beatrice
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, English, Swedish, Romanian
Pronounced: beh-a-TREE-cheh(Italian) BEE-ə-tris(English) BEET-ris(English) BEH-ah-trees(Swedish) beh-ah-TREES(Swedish)
Personal remark: 💜2️⃣
Italian form of Beatrix. Beatrice Portinari (1266-1290) was the woman who was loved by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri. She serves as Dante's guide through paradise in his epic poem the Divine Comedy (1321). This is also the name of a character in Shakespeare's comedy Much Ado About Nothing (1599), in which Beatrice and Benedick are fooled into confessing their love for one another.
Beda
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Swedish, Italian, Spanish, Finland Swedish, Finnish
Pronounced: BEH-dah(Swedish, Italian) BEH-da(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Form of Bede in various languages. Beda is a feminine name in Sweden and Finland.
Begonia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Spanish (Rare), Romani (Archaic)
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
From the name of a flowering plant, which was named for the French botanist Michel Bégon. In some cases it may be a variant of the Spanish Begoña.
Bella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BEHL-ə
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
Short form of Isabella and other names ending in bella. It is also associated with the Italian word bella meaning "beautiful". It was used by the American author Stephenie Meyer for the main character in her popular Twilight series of novels, first released 2005, later adapted into a series of movies beginning 2008.
Beltramo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: bel-TRA-mo
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Italian form of Bertram.
Benedetta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: beh-neh-DEHT-ta
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Italian feminine form of Benedict.
Beniamino
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: beh-nya-MEE-no
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 30% based on 14 votes
Italian form of Benjamin.
Benigna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Italian (Rare), Portuguese (Rare), Late Roman
Pronounced: beh-NEEGH-na(Spanish) beh-NEEN-nya(Italian)
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Feminine form of Benigno.
Benvolio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 16% based on 7 votes
Means "good will" in Italian. This name appears in William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet (1596) belonging to a friend of Romeo. The character had been created earlier by the Italian writer Matteo Bandello, whose story Giulietta e Romeo (1554) was one of Shakespeare's sources.
Berenice
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Βερενίκη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: bər-NEES(English) behr-ə-NIE-see(English) behr-ə-NEE-see(English) beh-reh-NEE-cheh(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Latinized form of Βερενίκη (Berenike), the Macedonian form of the Greek name Φερενίκη (Pherenike), which meant "bringing victory" from φέρω (phero) meaning "to bring" and νίκη (nike) meaning "victory". This name was common among the Ptolemy ruling family of Egypt, a dynasty that was originally from Macedon. It occurs briefly in Acts in the New Testament (in most English bibles it is spelled Bernice) belonging to a sister of King Herod Agrippa II. As an English name, Berenice came into use after the Protestant Reformation.
Berenilde
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese (Brazilian), French (Rare)
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Portuguese and French form of Bernhild.

It has been recently used by French fantasy author Christelle Dabos in her book series: 'La Passe-miroir' (2013-).

Bernardo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: behr-NAR-do(Italian) behr-NAR-dho(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 4 votes
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of Bernard.
Berta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Polish, Czech, Hungarian, German, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Slovene
Pronounced: BEHR-ta(Polish, Czech, German, Spanish, Italian) BEHR-taw(Hungarian)
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Form of Bertha in several languages.
Biagio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: BYA-jo
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 35% based on 4 votes
Italian form of Blaise.
Bianca
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Romanian
Pronounced: BYANG-ka
Personal remark: 💜2️⃣
Italian cognate of Blanche. Shakespeare had characters named Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew (1593) and Othello (1603).
Bice
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: BEE-cheh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Short form of Beatrice.
Bilbo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: BIL-bo(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 10% based on 4 votes
This is the name of the hero of The Hobbit (1937) by J. R. R. Tolkien. His real hobbit name is Bilba, which is of unknown meaning, but this was altered by Tolkien in order to use the more masculine o ending. In the novel Bilbo Baggins is recruited by the wizard Gandalf to join the quest to retake Mount Erebor from the dragon Smaug.
Bisera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Bulgarian, Macedonian
Other Scripts: Бисера(Bulgarian, Macedonian)
Personal remark: 💜
Derived from the South Slavic word бисер (biser) meaning "pearl" (ultimately of Arabic origin).
Blu
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Italian (Modern), English (Rare)
Pronounced: BLOO
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 32% based on 19 votes
Italian form of Blue and English diminutive of Bluford.
Bluetta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: bloo-EHT-tah
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Italian form of Bluette.
Bora 3
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Korean
Other Scripts: 보라(Korean Hangul)
Pronounced: PO-RA
Personal remark: 💜
Means "purple" in Korean.
Boris
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Bulgarian, Russian, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian, Czech, Slovak, Georgian, German, French
Other Scripts: Борис(Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian, Macedonian) ბორის(Georgian)
Pronounced: bu-RYEES(Russian) BAWR-is(English) BO-rees(Croatian) BO-ris(Czech, German) BAW-rees(Slovak) BAW-REES(French)
Personal remark: 💜
From a Bulgar Turkic name, also recorded as Bogoris, perhaps meaning "short" or "wolf" or "snow leopard". It was borne by the 9th-century Boris I of Bulgaria who converted his realm to Christianity and is thus regarded as a saint in the Orthodox Church. To the north in Kievan Rus it was the name of another saint, a son of Vladimir the Great who was murdered with his brother Gleb in the 11th century. His mother may have been Bulgarian.

Other notable bearers of the name include the 16th-century Russian emperor Boris Godunov, later the subject of a play of that name by Aleksandr Pushkin, as well as the Russian author Boris Pasternak (1890-1960), the Bulgarian king Boris III (1894-1943), and the Russian president Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007).

Bosco
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Italian (Archaic)
Pronounced: BOH-sko
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 35% based on 13 votes
Transferred use of the surname Bosco borne by the catholic saint Giovanni Bosco (also known as Don Bosco).
Boudicca
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Brythonic (Latinized)
Pronounced: BOO-di-kə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Derived from Brythonic boud meaning "victory" [1]. This was the name of a 1st-century queen of the Iceni who led the Britons in revolt against the Romans. Eventually her forces were defeated and she committed suicide. Her name is first recorded in Roman histories, as Boudicca by Tacitus [2] and Βουδουῖκα (Boudouika) by Cassius Dio [3].
Brando
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic [1]
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 42% based on 23 votes
Germanic name derived from the element brant meaning "fire, torch, sword".
Brava
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Esperanto
Pronounced: BRA-va
Personal remark: 💜
Means "valiant, brave" in Esperanto.
Brendano
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish (Archaic)
Pronounced: brehn-DAH-noh
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Variant of Brendán.
Brenno
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 18% based on 4 votes
Italian form of Brennus.
Briana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: bree-AN-ə, bree-AHN-ə, brie-AN-ə
Personal remark: 💜
Feminine form of Brian. It appears in Edmund Spenser's epic poem The Faerie Queene (1590). The name was not commonly used until the 1970s, when it rapidly became popular in the United States.
Brianna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: bree-AN-ə, bree-AHN-ə
Personal remark: 💜
Variant of Briana. This is currently the more popular spelling of the name.
Brigitta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Dutch, Hungarian
Pronounced: bree-GI-ta(German) BREE-geet-taw(Hungarian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 52% based on 24 votes
German, Dutch and Hungarian form of Bridget.
Bruna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Portuguese, Croatian
Pronounced: BROO-na(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜2️⃣
Feminine form of Bruno.
Brunilda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Albanian, Spanish (Rare), Italian (Rare), Portuguese (Rare)
Pronounced: broo-NEEL-da(Spanish, Italian)
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Albanian, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese form of Brunhild.
Brunilde
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: broo-NEEL-deh
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Italian form of Brunhild.
Bruno
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Croatian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Latvian, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: BROO-no(German, Italian, Spanish, Czech) BROO-noo(Portuguese) BRUY-NO(French) BROO-naw(Polish, Slovak)
Personal remark: 💜2️⃣
Rating: 57% based on 22 votes
Derived from the Old German element brunna meaning "armour, protection" (Proto-Germanic *brunjǭ) or brun meaning "brown" (Proto-Germanic *brūnaz). Saint Bruno of Cologne was a German monk of the 11th century who founded the Carthusian Order. The surname has belonged to Giordano Bruno, a philosopher burned at the stake by the Inquisition. A modern bearer is the American singer Bruno Mars (1985-), born Peter Gene Hernandez.
Cairo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: KIE-ro
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 8% based on 4 votes
From the name of the city in Egypt, called القاهرة (al-Qahirah) in Arabic, meaning "the victorious".
Calimera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare, Archaic)
Pronounced: kah-lee-MEH-rah
Personal remark: Old
Rating: 47% based on 20 votes
Feminine form of Calimero.
Calipso
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Catalan, Galician, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Personal remark: 💜
Catalan, Galician, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of Calypso.
Calliope
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Καλλιόπη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: kə-LIE-ə-pee(English)
Rating: 67% based on 17 votes
Latinized form of Kalliope.
Camilla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, German, Ancient Roman, Roman Mythology
Pronounced: kə-MIL-ə(English) ka-MEEL-la(Italian) kah-MEEL-lah(Danish) KAH-meel-lah(Finnish) ka-MI-la(German)
Rating: 67% based on 12 votes
Feminine form of Camillus. This was the name of a legendary warrior maiden of the Volsci, as told by Virgil in the Aeneid. It was popularized in the English-speaking world by Fanny Burney's novel Camilla (1796).
Camillo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ka-MEEL-lo
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 7% based on 3 votes
Italian form of Camillus.
Candela
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: kan-DEH-la
Personal remark: 💜
Short form of Candelaria.
Caris
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Personal remark: 🌐
Variant of Carys.
Carlo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: KAR-lo
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 47% based on 22 votes
Italian form of Charles.
Carmen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, English, Italian, French, Romanian, German
Pronounced: KAR-mehn(Spanish, Italian) KAHR-mən(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Medieval Spanish form of Carmel, appearing in the devotional title of the Virgin Mary Nuestra Señora del Carmen meaning "Our Lady of Mount Carmel". The spelling has been altered through association with the Latin word carmen meaning "song". This was the name of the main character in George Bizet's opera Carmen (1875).
Carmine
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: KAR-mee-neh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Italian masculine form of Carmen.
Carminio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Personal remark: 💜
Italian and Spanish form of Carminius.
Carola
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, German, Dutch, Swedish
Pronounced: KA-ro-la(Italian) ka-RO-la(German, Swedish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Feminine form of Carolus.
Carolina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, English, Swedish
Pronounced: ka-ro-LEE-na(Italian, Spanish) ka-roo-LEE-nu(European Portuguese) ka-ro-LEE-nu(Brazilian Portuguese) kar-ə-LIE-nə(English)
Personal remark: 💜2️⃣
Latinate feminine form of Carolus. This is the name of two American states: North and South Carolina. They were named for Charles I, king of England.
Casimiro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian
Pronounced: ka-see-MEE-ro(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 17 votes
Spanish, Portuguese and Italian form of Casimir.
Cassandra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, French, Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Κασσάνδρα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: kə-SAN-drə(English) kə-SAHN-drə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 65% based on 11 votes
From the Greek name Κασσάνδρα (Kassandra), possibly derived from κέκασμαι (kekasmai) meaning "to excel, to shine" and ἀνήρ (aner) meaning "man" (genitive ἀνδρός). In Greek myth Cassandra was a Trojan princess, the daughter of Priam and Hecuba. She was given the gift of prophecy by Apollo, but when she spurned his advances he cursed her so nobody would believe her prophecies.

In the Middle Ages this name was common in England due to the popularity of medieval tales about the Trojan War. It subsequently became rare, but was revived in the 20th century.

Cassandro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Portuguese
Pronounced: kas-SAN-dro
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 10% based on 3 votes
Italian and Portuguese form of Cassander.
Cassia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Pronounced: KAS-see-a(Latin) KA-shə(English) KAS-ee-ə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 49% based on 8 votes
Feminine form of Cassius.
Cassio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: KAS-syo(Italian) KAS-ee-o(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Italian form of Cassius. This is the surname of Othello's lieutenant Michael Cassio in Shakespeare's tragedy Othello (1603).
Cassiopea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Κασσιόπεια, Κασσιέπεια(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: kas-ee-ə-PEE-ə(English)
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 25% based on 4 votes
Variant of Cassiopeia.
Castalia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Κασταλια(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: kə-STAY-lee-ə
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Latinized form of the Greek Κασταλία (Kastalia), which is of uncertain origin, possibly related to Greek καθαρός (katharos) meaning "clean, spotless, pure" or κασσύω (kassuô) "to stitch". This was the name of a nymph of the prophetic springs of the Delphic oracle on Mount Parnassos. She may be the same as the nymph Κασσωτίς (Kassôtis) (see Cassotis).
Cato 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Pronounced: KA-to(Latin) KAY-to(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 3 votes
Roman cognomen meaning "wise" in Latin. This name was bestowed upon Cato the Elder (Marcus Porcius Cato), a 2nd-century BC Roman statesman, author and censor, and was subsequently inherited by his descendants, including his great-grandson Cato the Younger (Marcus Porcius Cato Uticencis), a politician and philosopher who opposed Julius Caesar.
Catullo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ka-TOOL-lo
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Italian form of Catullus.
Cedrella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare, ?), Literature
Pronounced: sə-drelə, si-drelə
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Perhaps intended to be a feminine variant of Cedric. This is the name of a minor character in J. K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter' series of books; the character is Cedrella Weasley, née Black.
Celeno
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Italianized)
Pronounced: cheh-LEH-noh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Italian form of Kelaino.
Celeste
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, English
Pronounced: cheh-LEH-steh(Italian) theh-LEHS-teh(European Spanish) seh-LEHS-teh(Latin American Spanish) sə-LEST(English)
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 63% based on 16 votes
Italian feminine and masculine form of Caelestis. It is also the Portuguese, Spanish and English feminine form.
Celia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Spanish
Pronounced: SEEL-yə(English) SEE-lee-ə(English) THEHL-ya(European Spanish) SEHL-ya(Latin American Spanish)
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Feminine form of the Roman family name Caelius. Shakespeare used it in his play As You Like It (1599), which introduced the name to the English-speaking public at large. It is sometimes used as a short form of Cecilia.
Celso
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: CHEHL-so(Italian) THEHL-so(European Spanish) SEHL-so(Latin American Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 3% based on 3 votes
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of Celsus.
Cerasella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Romanian, Italian
Pronounced: che-ra-sel-a(Romanian) che-ra-ZEL-la(Italian)
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
Diminutive of cerasa, an alternative Italian term to say ciliegia, both meaning "cherry". Cerasella is a 1959 Canzone Napoletana song performed by Gloria Christian and Wilma De Angelis. The song also inspired a comedy film with the same name, directed by Raffaello Matarazzo and starring Claudia Mori and Terence Hill.
Cerere
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology (Italianized)
Personal remark: Divinità
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Italian form of Ceres.
Cesare
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: CHEH-za-reh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 30% based on 6 votes
Italian form of Caesar.
Ciano
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Diminutive of Luciano.
Cicero
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Pronounced: KEE-keh-ro(Latin) SIS-ə-ro(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 7% based on 3 votes
Roman cognomen derived from Latin cicer meaning "chickpea". Marcus Tullius Cicero (now known simply as Cicero) was a statesman, orator and author of the 1st century BC. He was a political enemy of Mark Antony, who eventually had him executed.
Cicerone
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: chee-cheh-ROH-neh
Personal remark: 💜
Italian form of Cicero.
Cielo
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: SYEH-lo(Latin American Spanish) THYEH-lo(European Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Means "sky, heaven" in Spanish. In Mexico this name was popularized by a character named María del Cielo, called Cielo, on the telenovela Por tu amor (1999).
Cinzia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Italian form of Cynthia.
Circe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Κίρκη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: SUR-see(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
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.
Clara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, Catalan, Romanian, English, Swedish, Danish, Late Roman
Pronounced: KLA-ra(German, Spanish, Italian) KLA-ru(Portuguese) KLA-RA(French) KLEHR-ə(American English) KLAR-ə(American English) KLAH-rə(British English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
Feminine form of the Late Latin name Clarus, which meant "clear, bright, famous". The name Clarus was borne by a few early saints. The feminine form was popularized by the 13th-century Saint Clare of Assisi (called Chiara in Italian), a friend and follower of Saint Francis, who left her wealthy family to found the order of nuns known as the Poor Clares.

As an English name it has been in use since the Middle Ages, originally in the form Clare, though the Latinate spelling Clara overtook it in the 19th century and became very popular. It declined through most of the 20th century (being eclipsed by the French form Claire in English-speaking countries), though it has since recovered somewhat.

Clarice
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: klə-REES, KLAR-is, KLEHR-is
Personal remark: 💜2️⃣
Medieval vernacular form of the Late Latin name Claritia, which was a derivative of Clara.
Clarissa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian
Pronounced: klə-RIS-ə(English)
Personal remark: 💜2️⃣
Latinate form of Clarice. This is the name of the title character in a 1748 novel by Samuel Richardson. In the novel Clarissa 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.
Clemente
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: kleh-MEHN-teh(Italian, Spanish) kli-MEHN-ti(European Portuguese) kleh-MEHN-chee(Brazilian Portuguese)
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of Clemens (see Clement).
Cleo
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KLEE-o
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 25% based on 4 votes
Short form of Cleopatra, Cleon or Cleopas.
Cleopatra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Κλεοπάτρα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: klee-o-PAT-rə(English)
Rating: 48% based on 21 votes
From the Greek name Κλεοπάτρα (Kleopatra) meaning "glory of the father", derived from κλέος (kleos) meaning "glory" combined with πατήρ (pater) meaning "father" (genitive πατρός). This was the name of queens of Egypt from the Ptolemaic royal family, including Cleopatra VII, the mistress of both Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. After being defeated by Augustus she committed suicide (according to popular belief, by allowing herself to be bitten by a venomous asp). Shakespeare's tragedy Antony and Cleopatra (1606) tells the story of her life.
Clio
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized), Italian (Rare)
Other Scripts: Κλειώ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: KLEE-o(English, Italian) KLIE-o(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 31% based on 12 votes
Latinized form of Kleio.
Clizia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: KLEE-tsyah
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
Italian form of Clytia.
Clodia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman, Italian, Galician (Rare)
Feminine form of Clodius and Clodio. This name was borne by one of the Vestal Virgins.
Cloe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Spanish and Italian form of Chloe.
Clorinda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Corsican, Galician (Rare), Literature, English (American, Rare)
Personal remark: 💜
Probably created by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso for a character of his poem 'Jerusalem Delivered' (1580). The name was also popular in the 19th century.
Clotilde
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
Pronounced: KLAW-TEELD(French)
Personal remark: 💜
French form of Chrodechildis, the Latin form of a Frankish name composed of the elements hruod "fame, glory" and hilt "battle". Saint Clotilde (whose name was originally recorded in forms such as Chrodechildis or Chrotchildis in Latin sources [1]) was the wife of the Frankish king Clovis, whom she converted to Christianity. It was also borne by others in the Merovingian royal family. In the Middle Ages this name was confused with Chlodechilda, in which the first element is hlut "famous, loud".
Cohen
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: KO-ən
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
From a common Jewish surname that was derived from Hebrew כֹּהֵן (kohen) meaning "priest". This surname was traditionally associated with the hereditary priests who claimed descent from the biblical Aaron.
Coletta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare), English (Rare)
Pronounced: ko-LET-tah
Personal remark: 💜
Truncated form of Nicoletta as well as a variant of Colette.
Colomba
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ko-LOM-ba
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 13% based on 7 votes
Italian feminine form of Columba.
Colombina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Italian feminine diminutive of Columba. In traditional Italian pantomimes this is the name of a stock character, the female counterpart of Arlecchino (also called Harlequin). This is also the Italian word for the columbine flower.
Colombo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ko-LOM-bo
Personal remark: 💜
Italian form of Columba.
Consuelo
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: kon-SWEH-lo
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Means "consolation" in Spanish. It is taken from the title of the Virgin Mary, Nuestra Señora del Consuelo, meaning "Our Lady of Consolation".
Cora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, German, Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Κόρη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: KAWR-ə(English) KO-ra(German)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 64% based on 15 votes
Latinized form of Kore. It was not used as a given name in the English-speaking world until after it was employed by James Fenimore Cooper for a character in his novel The Last of the Mohicans (1826). In some cases it may be a short form of Cordula, Corinna and other names beginning with a similar sound.
Coralia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Romanian (Rare), Spanish, Galician, Italian (Rare)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Romanian, Italian, Galician and Spanish form of Coralie.
Cordelia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature, English
Pronounced: kawr-DEE-lee-ə(English) kawr-DEEL-yə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 61% based on 12 votes
From Cordeilla, a name appearing in the 12th-century chronicles [1] of Geoffrey of Monmouth, borne by the youngest of the three daughters of King Leir and the only one to remain loyal to her father. Geoffrey possibly based her name on that of Creiddylad, a character from Welsh legend.

The spelling was later altered to Cordelia when Geoffrey's story was adapted by others, including Edmund Spenser in his poem The Faerie Queene (1590) and Shakespeare in his tragedy King Lear (1606).

Corinna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Italian, English, Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Κορίννα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: ko-RI-na(German) kə-REEN-ə(English) kə-RIN-ə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 59% based on 27 votes
Latinized form of the Greek name Κορίννα (Korinna), which was derived from κόρη (kore) meaning "maiden". This was the name of a Greek lyric poet of the 5th century BC. The Roman poet Ovid used it for the main female character in his book Amores [1]. In the modern era it has been in use since the 17th century, when Robert Herrick used it in his poem Corinna's going a-Maying [2].
Cornelia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Romanian, Italian, Dutch, English, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: kawr-NEH-lya(German) kor-NEH-lya(Italian) kawr-NEH-lee-a(Dutch) kawr-NEE-lee-ə(English) kor-NEH-lee-a(Latin)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 67% based on 27 votes
Feminine form of Cornelius. In the 2nd century BC it was borne by Cornelia Scipionis Africana (the daughter of the military hero Scipio Africanus), the mother of the two reformers known as the Gracchi. After her death she was regarded as an example of the ideal Roman woman. The name was revived in the 18th century.
Cornelio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Italian
Pronounced: kor-NEH-lyo
Rating: 10% based on 3 votes
Spanish and Italian form of Cornelius.
Corona
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman, Italian (Rare), Spanish (Rare)
Pronounced: ko-RO-na(Italian, Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Means "crown" in Latin, as well as Italian and Spanish. This was the name of a 2nd-century saint who was martyred with her companion Victor.
Corrado
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: kor-RA-do
Personal remark: 💜
Italian form of Conrad. This was a 14th-century saint from Piacenza, Italy.
Cosetta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
Italian form of Cosette.
Cosimo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: KAW-zee-mo
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 4 votes
Italian form of Cosmas. A famous bearer was Cosimo de' Medici, the 15th-century founder of Medici rule in Florence, who was a patron of the Renaissance and a successful merchant. Other members of the Medici family have also borne this name.
Cosmo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, English
Pronounced: KAWZ-mo(Italian) KAHZ-mo(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 25% based on 4 votes
Italian variant of Cosimo. It was introduced to Britain in the 18th century by the second Scottish Duke of Gordon, who named his son and successor after his friend Cosimo III de' Medici. On the American sitcom Seinfeld (1989-1998) this was the seldom-used first name of Jerry's neighbour Kramer.
Costante
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ko-STAN-te
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 22% based on 17 votes
Italian form of Constans. It is also a common-used adjective in Italian with the same meaning of the name.
Costantino
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 39% based on 17 votes
Italian form of Constantinus (see Constantine).
Costanza
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ko-STAN-tsa
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Italian feminine form of Constans.
Cressida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: KREHS-i-də(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Form of Criseida used by Shakespeare in his play Troilus and Cressida (1602).
Criseide
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Italianized), Greek Mythology (Portuguese-style), Portuguese (Brazilian, Rare)
Personal remark: 💜
Cognate of Chryseis.
Cristoforo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜2️⃣
Italian form of Christopher.
Crizia
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 0% based on 3 votes
Italian form of Kritias and Krizia.
Crono
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Personal remark: 💜
Italian and Spanish form of Cronus.
Csaba
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hungarian
Pronounced: CHAW-baw
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Possibly means either "shepherd" or "gift" in Hungarian. According to legend this was the name of a son of Attila the Hun.
Cupido
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Pronounced: koo-PEE-do(Latin)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
Latin form of Cupid.
Curzio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: KOORTSYO, KOOR-tsyo
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Italian form of Curtius.
Dacia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman, Italian, Sicilian
Pronounced: DAT-sha(Italian, Sicilian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Feminine form of Dacius and Dacio.
Dafina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Albanian, Bulgarian, Macedonian
Other Scripts: Дафина(Bulgarian, Macedonian)
Personal remark: 💜
Means "laurel" in Albanian, Bulgarian and Macedonian, of Greek origin.
Dafne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: DAF-neh(Italian) DAV-neh(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 52% based on 17 votes
Italian and Spanish form of Daphne.
Dafni
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Δάφνη(Greek)
Personal remark: 💜
Modern Greek form of Daphne.
Daina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Lithuanian, Latvian
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Means "song" in Lithuanian and Latvian.
Dalia 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American), Arabic
Other Scripts: داليا(Arabic)
Pronounced: DA-lya(Spanish) DA-lee-ya(Arabic)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 64% based on 25 votes
Spanish and Arabic form of Dahlia. The Dahlia is the national flower of Mexico.
Dalila
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Biblical Latin
Pronounced: DA-LEE-LA(French)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 68% based on 9 votes
Form of Delilah used in the Latin Old Testament, as well as in French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.
Dalmazia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Feminine form of Dalmazio.
Damaride
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: da-MAH-ree-deh
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Italian form of Damaris.
Damaris
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Other Scripts: Δάμαρις(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: DAM-ə-ris(English)
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Probably means "calf, heifer, girl" from Greek δάμαλις (damalis). In the New Testament this is the name of a woman converted to Christianity by Saint Paul.
Damiano
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: da-MYA-no
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Italian form of Damian.
Dana 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Romanian, Czech, Slovak, German, Hebrew
Other Scripts: דָּנָה(Hebrew)
Pronounced: DA-na(Czech, Slovak, German)
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Feminine form of Daniel or Dan 1.
Danae
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: dah-NAH-eh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
Italian form of Danaë.
Danica
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Slovak, Macedonian, English
Other Scripts: Даница(Serbian, Macedonian)
Pronounced: DA-nee-tsa(Serbian, Croatian) DA-nyee-tsa(Slovak) DAN-i-kə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
From a Slavic word meaning "morning star, Venus". This name occurs in Slavic folklore as a personification of the morning star. It has sometimes been used in the English-speaking world since the 1970s.
Danilo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Slovene, Serbian, Croatian
Other Scripts: Данило(Serbian)
Pronounced: da-NEE-lo(Italian, Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Form of Daniel in various languages.
Danio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: DA-nyo
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Short form of Daniele.
Dante
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: DAN-teh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 68% based on 23 votes
Medieval short form of Durante. The most notable bearer of this name was Dante Alighieri, the 13th-century Italian poet who wrote the Divine Comedy.
Dario
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Croatian
Pronounced: DA-ryo(Italian) DA-ree-o(Croatian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
Italian form of Darius.
Davide
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: DA-vee-deh
Personal remark: 💜
Italian form of David.
Dea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Danish, Swedish, Croatian, Slovene, English, Albanian, Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Of debated origin and meaning. Theories include a derivation from Latin dea "goddess" and a short form of Dorotea, Andrea 2 and Desideria. As an English given name, it has been recorded since the 1700s, originally as a transferred use of the surname Dea.
Debora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Dutch, German (Rare)
Pronounced: DEH-bo-ra(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Italian, Dutch and German form of Deborah.
Dedalo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 0% based on 3 votes
Italian form of Daedalus.
Deianira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Δηϊάνειρα, Δῃάνειρα(Ancient Greek)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Latinized form of Deianeira.
Delfina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: dehl-FEE-na(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 58% based on 17 votes
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of Delphina.
Delia 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Δηλία(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: DEE-lee-ə(English) DEH-lya(Italian, Spanish) DEH-lee-a(Romanian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
Means "of Delos" in Greek. This was an epithet of the Greek goddess Artemis, given because she and her twin brother Apollo were born on the island of Delos. The name appeared in several poems of the 16th and 17th centuries, and it has occasionally been used as a given name since that time.
Demetra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare), Romanian (Rare), Greek
Other Scripts: Δήμητρα(Greek)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 48% based on 9 votes
Italian and Romanian form of Demeter 1, as well as an alternate transcription of Greek Δήμητρα (see Dimitra).
Demetrio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: deh-MEH-tryo
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 35% based on 15 votes
Italian and Spanish form of Demetrius.
Denisa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Czech, Slovak, Romanian, Albanian
Pronounced: DEH-ni-sa(Czech) DEH-nee-sa(Slovak) deh-NEE-sa(Romanian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Feminine form of Denis.
Dennis
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, German, Dutch
Pronounced: DEHN-is(English) DEH-nis(German, Dutch)
Personal remark: Old
Rating: 10% based on 3 votes
Usual English, German and Dutch form of Denis.
Desdemona
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: dehz-də-MO-nə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Derived from Greek δυσδαίμων (dysdaimon) meaning "ill-fated". This is the name of the wife of Othello in Shakespeare's play Othello (1603).
Desideria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare), Spanish (Rare), Late Roman
Pronounced: deh-see-DHEH-rya(Spanish)
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Feminine form of Desiderio. This was the Latin name of a 19th-century queen of Sweden, the wife of Karl XIV. She was born in France with the name Désirée.
Desiderio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: deh-see-DHEH-ryo(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 0% based on 3 votes
Italian and Spanish form of Desiderius.
Despina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Δέσποινα(Greek)
Pronounced: DHEH-spee-na
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Modern Greek form of Despoina.
Diamante
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Judeo-Italian
Pronounced: dya-MAN-te(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 40% based on 20 votes
Directly from the Italian word diamante meaning "diamond".
Diana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan, German, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Estonian, Lithuanian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Armenian, Georgian, Roman Mythology
Other Scripts: Диана(Russian, Bulgarian) Діана(Ukrainian) Դիանա(Armenian) დიანა(Georgian)
Pronounced: die-AN-ə(English) DYA-na(Spanish, Italian, Polish) dee-U-nu(European Portuguese) jee-U-nu(Brazilian Portuguese) dee-A-nə(Catalan) dee-A-na(German, Dutch, Latin) dyee-AH-nu(Ukrainian) DI-ya-na(Czech) DEE-a-na(Slovak)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 78% based on 18 votes
Means "divine, goddesslike", a derivative of Latin dia or diva meaning "goddess". It is ultimately related to the same Indo-European root *dyew- found in Zeus. Diana was a Roman goddess of the moon, hunting, forests and childbirth, often identified with the Greek goddess Artemis.

As a given name, Diana has been regularly used since the Renaissance. It became more common in the English-speaking world following Walter Scott's novel Rob Roy (1817), which featured a character named Diana Vernon. It also appeared in George Meredith's novel Diana of the Crossways (1885). A notable bearer was the British royal Diana Spencer (1961-1997), the Princess of Wales.

Didone
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: dee-DO-neh
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Italian form of Dido.
Diego
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Italian
Pronounced: DYEH-gho(Spanish) DYEH-go(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Spanish name, possibly a shortened form of Santiago. In medieval records Diego was Latinized as Didacus, and it has been suggested that it in fact derives from Greek διδαχή (didache) meaning "teaching". Saint Didacus (or Diego) was a 15th-century Franciscan brother based in Alcalá, Spain. Other famous bearers of this name include Mexican muralist Diego Rivera (1886-1957) and Argentine soccer player Diego Maradona (1960-2020).
Diletta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: dee-LEHT-ta
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Means "beloved" in Italian, from Latin dilectus.
Dima 2
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian, Georgian
Other Scripts: Дима(Russian) დიმა(Georgian)
Pronounced: DYEE-mə(Russian) DEE-MA(Georgian)
Personal remark: 💜
Diminutive of Dmitriy.
Dimitri
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian, Georgian, French
Other Scripts: Димитрий(Russian) დიმიტრი(Georgian)
Pronounced: dyi-MYEE-tryee(Russian) DEE-MEE-TREE(Georgian, French)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
Russian variant of Dmitriy, using the Church Slavic spelling, as well as the Georgian form.
Dino
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Croatian
Pronounced: DEE-no(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Short form of names ending in dino or tino.
Diodato
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Rating: 0% based on 3 votes
Italian form of Deodatus.
Diogene
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Romanian
Pronounced: DYO-jeh-neh(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Italian and Romanian form of Diogenes.
Diomede
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Rating: 0% based on 3 votes
Italian form of Diomedes.
Dione 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Διώνη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: DEE-AW-NEH(Classical Greek) die-O-nee(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
From Greek Διός (Dios) meaning "of Zeus". By extension, it means "goddess". This was the name of an obscure Greek goddess who, according to some legends, was the mother of Aphrodite.
Dionisio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Italian
Pronounced: dyo-NEE-syo(Spanish) dyo-NEE-zyo(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 3 votes
Spanish and Italian form of Dionysius.
Dioniso
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Italianized), Greek Mythology (Hispanicized)
Pronounced: DYOH-nee-zoh, dyo-NEE-so
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 3 votes
Italian and Spanish form of Dionysos.
Disma
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Italian form of Δυσμάς (Dysmas) (see Dismas).
Diva
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: DEE-vah
Personal remark: 💜
From Italian diva (“diva, goddess”), from Latin dīva (“goddess”), female of dīvus (“divine, divine one; notably a deified mortal”).
Domenica
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: do-MEH-nee-ka
Personal remark: 💜
Italian feminine form of Dominic.
Domitilla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: do-mee-TEEL-la(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 57% based on 6 votes
Feminine diminutive of the Roman family name Domitius. This was the name of the wife of the Roman emperor Vespasian and the mother of emperors Titus and Domitian.
Dora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian, English, German, Dutch
Other Scripts: Ντόρα(Greek) Дора(Serbian, Bulgarian)
Pronounced: DO-ra(Spanish, Croatian, Serbian) DAWR-ə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 36% based on 20 votes
Short form of Dorothy, Theodora or Isidora.
Doria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Personal remark: 💜
Possibly a feminine form of Dorian or an elaboration of Dora.
Doriano
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
Italian form of Dorian.
Doris
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, German, Swedish, Danish, Croatian, Ancient Greek [1], Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Δωρίς(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: DAWR-is(English) DO-ris(German)
Personal remark: 💜
From the Greek name Δωρίς (Doris), which meant "Dorian woman". The Dorians were a Greek tribe who occupied the Peloponnese starting in the 12th century BC. In Greek mythology Doris was a sea nymph, one of the many children of Oceanus and Tethys. It began to be used as an English name in the 19th century. A famous bearer is the American actress Doris Day (1924-2019).
Doro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Asturian, Italian
Pronounced: DO-ro
Personal remark: 💜
Short form of names such as Teodoro, Isidoro and Doroteo.
Dorotea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Croatian, Swedish (Rare)
Pronounced: do-ro-TEH-a(Italian, Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Form of Dorothea in several languages.
Doroteo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Personal remark: 💜
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of Dorotheos.
Draco
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Δράκων(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: DRAY-ko(English)
Rating: 0% based on 2 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.
Drago
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Bulgarian
Other Scripts: Драго(Serbian, Bulgarian)
Rating: 22% based on 13 votes
Derived from the Slavic element dragu meaning "precious". It is also a short form of other Slavic names beginning with that element.
Drusilla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical, Ancient Roman, Biblical Latin
Pronounced: droo-SIL-ə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 21 votes
Feminine diminutive of the Roman family name Drusus. In Acts in the New Testament Drusilla is the wife of Felix.
Duccio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval Italian (Tuscan), Italian (Tuscan)
Pronounced: DOOCH-choh(Medieval Tuscan Italian, Tuscan Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 7% based on 3 votes
Medieval masculine given name recently fashionable in Tuscany. It is a short form of Andreuccio, Leonarduccio (diminutive of Leonardo), Bernarduccio (diminutive of Bernardo), Armanduccio (diminutive of Armando) and other given names ending in -duccio.

A famous bearer of this name was the Sienese painter Duccio di Buoninsegna (1255-1318).

Dunia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic, Spanish, Galician
Other Scripts: دُنْيا, دنيا(Arabic)
Pronounced: doon-ya(Arabic)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Derived from Arabic دُنْيَا (dunyā) "world (the Earth, or any this-worldly habitat, excluding the next world)".
Durante
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: doo-RAN-teh
Personal remark: 💜
Italian form of the Late Latin name Durans, which meant "enduring".
Durga
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Hinduism, Indian, Hindi, Nepali, Telugu
Other Scripts: दुर्गा(Sanskrit, Hindi, Nepali) దుర్గ(Telugu) துர்கா(Tamil) দুর্গা(Bengali)
Pronounced: DOOR-gah(Sanskrit) DOOR-gə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Means "unattainable" in Sanskrit. Durga is a Hindu warrior goddess, the fierce, twelve-armed, three-eyed form of the wife of Shiva. She is considered an incarnation of Parvati.
Ebba 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Danish
Pronounced: EHB-ba(Swedish)
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Feminine form of Ebbe.
Ebe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Estonian
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Short form of names beginning with the Germanic element eber meaning "wild boar", making it an Estonian cognate of Ebba. It is also sometimes used as a short form of Eliisabet.
Eberardo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish (Rare)
Pronounced: eh-beh-RAR-dho
Personal remark: 💜
Spanish form of Everard.
Eco
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: EH-koh
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Italian form of Echo, both the mythological figure and the word.
Edda 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: EHD-da
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Italian form of Hedda.
Edera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Albanian (Rare), Romanian (Rare), Maltese (Rare)
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Means "ivy" in Italian, from Latin hedera "ivy", perhaps related to the Latin root -hendere "to grasp; to take; to cling onto".
Editta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: eh-DEET-tah
Personal remark: 💜
Italian form of Edith.
Edmondo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Italian form of Edmund.
Edvige
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ehd-VEE-jeh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Italian form of Hedwig.
Efesto
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Italianized)
Pronounced: eh-FEH-stoh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 3 votes
Italian form of Hephaestus.
Egidio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Italian form of Aegidius (see Giles).
Eglantina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare), Albanian
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Cognate of Eglantine.
Egle
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: EHG-leh
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Italian form of Aegle.
Eitan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew
Other Scripts: אֵיתָן(Hebrew)
Personal remark: 💜
Hebrew form of Ethan.
Elettra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: eh-LEHT-tra
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 33% based on 4 votes
Italian form of Electra.
Eleuterio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Italian
Pronounced: eh-lew-TEH-ryo(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Spanish and Italian form of Eleutherius.
Elfrida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Personal remark: 💜
Variant of Elfreda.
Elga
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Latvian, Estonian, Hungarian (Rare), English (American, Rare, Archaic), German (Rare)
Pronounced: EL-ga(German)
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Latvian, Estonian and Italian cognate of Helga.
Elia
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: eh-LEE-a
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 45% based on 6 votes
Italian form of Elijah.
Elio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: EH-lyo
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 58% based on 4 votes
Italian form of Aelius or Helios.
Eliodora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Feminine form of Eliodoro.
Eliodoro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Italian form of Heliodoro.
Elisabetta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: eh-lee-za-BEHT-ta
Personal remark: 💜2️⃣
Italian form of Elizabeth.
Elisio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Greek Mythology (Italianized)
Pronounced: eh-LEE-zyo
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 3 votes
Variant of Eliseo and Italian form of Elysium.
Elmo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, English, Finnish, Estonian
Pronounced: EHL-mo(Italian, English)
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Originally a short form of names ending with the Old German element helm meaning "helmet, protection", such as Guglielmo or Anselmo. It is also a derivative of Erasmus, via the old Italian short form Ermo. Saint Elmo, also known as Saint Erasmus, was a 4th-century martyr who is the patron of sailors. Saint Elmo's fire is said to be a sign of his protection.

In the English-speaking world this name is now associated with a red muppet character from the children's television program Sesame Street.

Eloisa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: eh-lo-EE-za
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 68% based on 24 votes
Italian form of Eloise.
Elsa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Finnish, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, English
Pronounced: EHL-za(German) EHL-sah(Finnish) EHL-sa(Italian) EHL-sə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 59% based on 19 votes
Short form of Elisabeth, typically used independently. Elsa von Brabant is the lover of Lohengrin in medieval German tales, and her story was expanded by Richard Wagner for his opera Lohengrin (1850). The name had a little spike in popularity after the 2013 release of the animated Disney movie Frozen, which featured a magical princess by this name.
Elvia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 0% based on 3 votes
Italian feminine form of Helvius.
Elvira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Swedish, Hungarian, Russian
Other Scripts: Эльвира(Russian)
Pronounced: ehl-BEE-ra(Spanish) ehl-VEE-ra(Italian)
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 47% based on 12 votes
Spanish form of a Visigothic name, recorded from the 10th century in forms such as Geloyra or Giluira. It is of uncertain meaning, possibly composed of the Gothic element gails "happy" or gails "spear" combined with wers "friendly, agreeable, true". The name was borne by members of the royal families of León and Castille. This is also the name of a character in Mozart's opera Don Giovanni (1787).
Emanuele
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: eh-ma-noo-EH-leh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Italian form of Emmanuel.
Emerico
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: eh-meh-REE-koh
Personal remark: 💜
Variant of Amerigo (see Emmerich).
Emira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Bosnian
Personal remark: 💜
Bosnian form of Amirah.
Enea
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: eh-NEH-a
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 38% based on 4 votes
Italian form of Aeneas.
Enedina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque, Medieval Basque, Basque Mythology, Spanish, Sardinian, Portuguese (Brazilian), History (Ecclesiastical)
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Medieval Basque name, documented in Navarre. It has been speculated to be derived from Greek ἐνηδύνω (enedýno) meaning "to be courteous; to be obliging; to cheer, to gratify". This was the name of an early Christian saint from Sardinia, known as Henedina in Latin; she was martyred with Saints Justa and Justina. According to Basque folklore, this name belonged to the most beautiful girl in all of the Basque countries.
Eolo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Rare), Spanish (Rare)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Italian and Spanish form of Aiolos.
Epona
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Gaulish Mythology
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Derived from Gaulish epos meaning "horse" with the divine or augmentative suffix -on. This was the name of a Gaulish goddess of horses and fertility. She appears only in Roman sources.
Era
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: Divinità
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Italian form of Hera.
Eracle
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Rare, Archaic)
Pronounced: E-ra-kle
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 14% based on 14 votes
Italian rare form of Ercole, ultimately from Ancient Greek Herakles.
Erasmo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: eh-RAZ-mo(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of Erasmus.
Ercole
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: EHR-ko-leh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
Italian form of Hercules.
Eriberto
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Italian form of Heribert and variant of Erberto.
Erica
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Swedish, Italian
Pronounced: EHR-i-kə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 64% based on 8 votes
Feminine form of Eric. It was first used in the 18th century. It also coincides with the Latin word for "heather".
Ermanno
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ehr-MAN-no
Personal remark: 💜
Italian form of Herman.
Ermes
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 3 votes
Italian form of Hermes.
Erminia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Italian feminine form of Herminius.
Erminio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Italian form of Herminius.
Ermione
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: ehr-mee-OH-neh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Italian form of Hermione.
Ernesto
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: ehr-NEHS-to(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of Ernest.
Eros
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἔρως(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: EH-RAWS(Classical Greek) EHR-aws(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 3 votes
Means "love" in Greek. In Greek mythology he was a young god, the son of Aphrodite, who was armed with arrows that caused the victim to fall in love.
Ersilia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ehr-SEE-lya
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Italian form of Hersilia.
Erveo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ehr-VEH-oh
Personal remark: 💜
Italian form of Hervé.
Esmeralda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese, English, Albanian, Literature
Pronounced: ehz-meh-RAL-da(Spanish) izh-mi-RAL-du(European Portuguese) ehz-meh-ROW-du(Brazilian Portuguese) ehz-mə-RAHL-də(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 59% based on 27 votes
Means "emerald" in Spanish and Portuguese. Victor Hugo used this name in his novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831), in which Esmeralda is the Gypsy girl who is loved by Quasimodo. It has occasionally been used in the English-speaking world since that time.
Esperia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare), Greek (Rare, ?)
Other Scripts: Εσπερία(Greek)
Pronounced: eh-speh-REE-a(Greek)
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Italian form of Hesperia, as well as the modern Greek transcription. Ἑσπερία (Hesperia) meaning "land where the sun sets, western land" was an ancient Greek name for Italy.
Espero
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Esperanto
Pronounced: es-PEH-ro
Personal remark: 💜
The word “hope.”
Estate
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Georgian (Rare)
Other Scripts: ესტატე(Georgian)
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Modern Georgian form of Eustathios (see Eustathius). The older Georgian form of the name is Evstati. Both are currently rare in Georgia.
Estella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ehs-TEHL-ə
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 22% based on 5 votes
Latinate form of Estelle. This was the name of the heroine, Estella Havisham, in Charles Dickens' novel Great Expectations (1860).
Ester
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, Italian, Czech, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Finnish, Estonian, Hebrew
Other Scripts: אֶסְתֵר(Hebrew)
Pronounced: ehs-TEHR(Spanish) əs-TEHR(Catalan) EHS-tehr(Czech, Finnish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 65% based on 15 votes
Form of Esther used in several languages.
Estia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Italianized), Greek (Rare), Afrikaans
Other Scripts: Εστία(Greek)
Personal remark: Divinità
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Modern Greek and Italian form of Hestia.
Ettore
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: EHT-to-reh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
Italian form of Hector.
Eufemia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: ew-FEH-mya(Spanish)
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Italian and Spanish form of Euphemia.
Eugenia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Polish, English, Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Εὐγένεια(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: ew-JEH-nya(Italian) ew-KHEH-nya(Spanish) eh-oo-JEH-nee-a(Romanian) ew-GEH-nya(Polish) yoo-JEE-nee-ə(English) yoo-JEEN-yə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Feminine form of Eugenius (see Eugene). It was borne by a semi-legendary 3rd-century saint who escaped persecution by disguising herself as a man. The name was occasionally found in England during the Middle Ages, but it was not regularly used until the 19th century.
Eugenio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: ew-JEH-nyo(Italian) ew-KHEH-nyo(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Italian and Spanish form of Eugenius (see Eugene).
Eulalia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Italian, Polish, English, Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Εὐλαλία(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: ew-LA-lya(Spanish) yoo-LAY-lee-ə(English)
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Derived from Greek εὔλαλος (eulalos) meaning "sweetly-speaking", itself from εὖ (eu) meaning "good" and λαλέω (laleo) meaning "to talk". This was the name of an early 4th-century saint and martyr from Mérida in Spain. Another martyr by this name, living at the same time, is a patron saint of Barcelona. These two saints might be the same person.
Eunice
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical, English, Biblical Latin
Other Scripts: Εὐνίκη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: YOO-nis(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Latinized form of the Greek name Εὐνίκη (Eunike) meaning "good victory", derived from εὖ (eu) meaning "good" and νίκη (nike) meaning "victory". The New Testament mentions her as the mother of Timothy. As an English name, it was first used after the Protestant Reformation.
Europa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Εὐρώπη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: yuw-RO-pə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Latinized form of Greek Εὐρώπη (Europe), which meant "wide face" from εὐρύς (eurys) meaning "wide" and ὄψ (ops) meaning "face, eye". In Greek mythology Europa was a Phoenician princess who was abducted and taken to Crete by Zeus in the guise of a bull. She became the first queen of Crete, and later fathered Minos by Zeus. The continent of Europe said to be named for her, though it is more likely her name is from that of the continent. This is also the name of a moon of Jupiter.
Evangelina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, English
Pronounced: eh-ban-kheh-LEE-na(Spanish) i-van-jə-LEE-nə(English)
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Latinate form of Evangeline.
Ezio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: EHT-tsyo
Personal remark: 💜
Italian form of Aetius.
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