Felie's Personal Name List
Adi 1
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: עֲדִי(Hebrew)
Pronounced: ah-DEE
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Means "jewel, ornament" in Hebrew.
Adige
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Italian (Archaic)
Pronounced: A-dee-je
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 38% based on 4 votes
Name of an Italian river that runs through the regions of Trentino-Alto-Adige-Südtirol and Veneto.
Agricola
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman, Italian (Rare)
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
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".
Alceste
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: French, Italian
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
French and Italian masculine and feminine form of
Alcestis.
Alcide
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, French
Pronounced: al-CHEE-deh(Italian) AL-SEED(French)
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Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Italian and French form of
Alcides.
Alcione
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Italian
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Rating: 33% based on 4 votes
Portuguese and Italian form of
Alcyone. This name is borne by Brazilian samba singer Alcione Dias Nazareth.
Aloe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern, Rare)
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 15% based on 4 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.
Amabile
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare), French (Rare), French (Belgian, Rare), Dutch (Rare)
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 30% based on 4 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.
Amore
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 23% based on 4 votes
Anemone
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: ə-NEHM-ə-nee
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 40% based on 12 votes
From the name of the anemone flower, which is derived from Greek
ἄνεμος (anemos) meaning "wind".
Angelo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: AN-jeh-lo
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
Italian form of
Angelus (see
Angel).
Anice
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Archaic), Romani (Archaic)
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 50% based on 5 votes
Aprile
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Modern, Rare)
Pronounced: a-PREE-le
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 30% based on 4 votes
Italian form of
April as the common word for that month.
Aquila
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Biblical, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: AK-wil-ə(English) ə-KWIL-ə(English)
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 42% based on 5 votes
Ariele
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: a-RYE-le
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 24% based on 5 votes
Aster
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: AS-tər
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
From the name of the flower, which is derived via Latin from Greek
ἀστήρ (aster) meaning "star".
Beda
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Swedish, Italian, Spanish, Finland Swedish, Finnish
Pronounced: BEH-dah(Swedish, Italian) BEH-da(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Form of
Bede in various languages. Beda is a feminine name in Sweden and Finland.
Blu
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Italian (Modern), English (Rare)
Pronounced: BLOO
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 32% based on 20 votes
Italian form of
Blue and English diminutive of
Bluford.
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: 64% based on 17 votes
Italian feminine and masculine form of
Caelestis. It is also the Portuguese, Spanish and English feminine form.
Cielo
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: SYEH-lo(Latin American Spanish) THYEH-lo(European Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 17% based on 3 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).
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: 💜⚧️
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of
Clemens (see
Clement).
Cleo
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KLEE-o
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 40% based on 5 votes
Costante
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ko-STAN-te
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 24% based on 18 votes
Italian form of
Constans. It is also a common-used adjective in Italian with the same meaning of the name.
Crizia
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 15% based on 4 votes
Csaba
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hungarian
Pronounced: CHAW-baw
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Possibly means either
"shepherd" or
"gift" in Hungarian. According to legend this was the name of a son of
Attila the Hun.
Desiderio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: deh-see-DHEH-ryo(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 15% based on 4 votes
Diamante
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Judeo-Italian
Pronounced: dya-MAN-te(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 43% based on 21 votes
Directly from the Italian word diamante meaning "diamond".
Eco
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: EH-koh
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Italian form of
Echo, both the mythological figure and the word.
Elia
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: eh-LEE-a
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 47% based on 7 votes
Estate
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Georgian (Rare)
Other Scripts: ესტატე(Georgian)
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Modern Georgian form of
Eustathios (see
Eustathius). The older Georgian form of the name is
Evstati. Both are currently rare in Georgia.
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
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
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.
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) AN-jeh-la(Italian) ANG-geh-la(German) AN-gyi-lə(Russian)
Personal remark: 💜2️⃣
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Feminine form of
Angelus (see
Angel). As an English name, it came into use in the 18th century. A notable bearer is the former German chancellor Angela Merkel (1954-).
Angiolina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Romansh
Personal remark: 💜2️⃣
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
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
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
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: 43% based on 4 votes
Feminine form of
Antonius (see
Anthony).
Antonietta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: an-to-NYEHT-ta
Personal remark: 💜2️⃣
Rating: 52% based on 25 votes
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
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
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.
Bianca
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Romanian
Pronounced: BYANG-ka
Personal remark: 💜2️⃣
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Italian
cognate of
Blanche. Shakespeare had characters named Bianca in
The Taming of the Shrew (1593) and
Othello (1603).
Bruna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Portuguese, Croatian
Pronounced: BROO-na(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜2️⃣
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
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 23 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.
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
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
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.
Clarice
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: klə-REES, KLAR-is, KLEHR-is
Personal remark: 💜2️⃣
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
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
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Latinate form of
Clarice. This is the name of the title character in a 1748 novel by Samuel Richardson. In the novel Clarissa Harlowe is a virtuous woman who is tragically exploited by her family and her lover. Another literary character by this name is Clarissa Dalloway from the novel
Mrs. Dalloway (1925) by Virginia Woolf.
Cristoforo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜2️⃣
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Elisabetta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: eh-lee-za-BEHT-ta
Personal remark: 💜2️⃣
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
Abigaille
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare), Theatre
Pronounced: a-bee-ga-EEL-le(Italian) a-bee-GIEL-le(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
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: 54% based on 14 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: 35% based on 6 votes
Achillea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 53% based on 6 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, Finnish, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: AY-də(English) A-dha(Spanish) A-da(Polish) AH-dah(Finnish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
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: 💜
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
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: 💜
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Adamo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: a-DA-mo
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 34% based on 7 votes
Adara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אַדָרָה(Hebrew)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Means "noble" in Hebrew.
Ade
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Italianized)
Pronounced: AH-deh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 30% based on 3 votes
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: 40% based on 3 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: 💜
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
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: 💜
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
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: 43% based on 3 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.
Adina 1
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek, Hebrew
Other Scripts: עֲדִינָא(Ancient Hebrew) Ἀδινά(Ancient Greek) עֲדִינָה(Hebrew)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
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.
Adorinda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Esperanto
Pronounced: a-do-REEN-da
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Means "adorable" in Esperanto.
Adriano
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Portuguese
Pronounced: a-dree-A-no(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 61% based on 21 votes
Italian and Portuguese form of
Adrian.
Adso
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: A-tso, A-dzo
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 33% based on 3 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.
Africa 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: African American (Rare)
Pronounced: AF-ri-kə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
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: 38% based on 8 votes
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: 55% based on 21 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: 25% based on 6 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.
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 25 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.
Alba 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Catalan
Pronounced: AL-ba(Italian, Spanish) AL-bə(Catalan)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 57% based on 15 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 25 votes
Combination of
Alba 1 and
Chiara. Use of this name is most likely influenced by the song 'Albachiara' by Vasco Rossi.
Alcesti
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: al-CHE-stee
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 48% based on 5 votes
Alea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: ə-LEE-ə
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Alessio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: a-LEHS-syo
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Alfeo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: al-FEH-o
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 5 votes
Alfonso
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Italian
Pronounced: al-FON-so(Spanish) al-FAWN-so(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 45% based on 17 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: 58% based on 4 votes
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of
Alfred.
Algesira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: ahl-jeh-ZEE-rah
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
Possibly derived from the name of the Spanish town Algeciras. which is from the Arabic الجزيرة (al-jazira) meaning "the island".
Alisea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Modern)
Pronounced: ah-lee-ZEH-ah
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 63% based on 4 votes
Aliseo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Italianized)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 28% based on 4 votes
Allegra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, English (Rare)
Pronounced: al-LEH-gra(Italian) ə-LEHG-rə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 56% based on 25 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: 56% based on 18 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".
Alodia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Gothic (Latinized)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
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.
Altabella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Italian
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 42% based on 5 votes
From Latin alta “high” and bella “beautiful”.
Altea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Polish (Rare), Swedish (Rare), Sicilian, Albanian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 40% based on 5 votes
Alvise
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: al-VEE-zeh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 27% based on 23 votes
Amaranta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Rare), Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: a-ma-RAN-ta
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 45% based on 19 votes
Amarilli
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: a-ma-REEL-lee
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 30% based on 4 votes
Amata
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Amato
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: a-MA-to
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 5 votes
Ambra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 22 votes
America
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ə-MEHR-i-kə
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 34% based on 5 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.
Ametista
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: a-me-TEE-sta
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 33% based on 4 votes
Amleto
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: am-LEH-to
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 18% based on 5 votes
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 6 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: 66% based on 16 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: 35% based on 4 votes
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: 💜
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
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.
Angelica
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Romanian, Carolingian Cycle
Pronounced: an-JEHL-i-kə(English) an-JEH-lee-ka(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 65% based on 23 votes
Derived from Latin
angelicus meaning
"angelic", ultimately related to Greek
ἄγγελος (angelos) meaning "messenger". The poets Boiardo and Ariosto used this name in their
Orlando poems (1483 and 1532), where she is the love interest of both
Orlando and
Rinaldo. It has been used as a given name since the 18th century.
Aniceto
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Galician, Aragonese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Spanish, Galician, Aragonese, Portuguese, and Italian form of
Anicetus.
Anicetta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 30% based on 4 votes
Anissa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
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.
Antea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Italian (Swiss), Corsican, Hungarian (Rare), Maltese (Rare), Polish (Rare)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 28% based on 4 votes
Form of
Anthea used in various languages.
Anteo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Galician
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Apollo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἀπόλλων(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: ə-PAHL-o(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 40% based on 5 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: 30% based on 5 votes
Apollonia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek, Italian
Other Scripts: Ἀπολλωνία(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: A-POL-LAW-NEE-A(Classical Greek)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 77% based on 6 votes
Feminine form of
Apollonios. This was the name of a 3rd-century
saint and martyr from Alexandria.
Arabella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ar-ə-BEHL-ə
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
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).
Archimede
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Ares
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἄρης(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: A-REHS(Classical Greek) EHR-eez(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 16% based on 5 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: 20% based on 4 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.
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: 48% based on 6 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: 💜
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
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.
Ariella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: ar-ee-EHL-ə, ehr-ee-EHL-ə
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Strictly feminine form of
Ariel.
Ario
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Javanese
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 25% based on 4 votes
Aristea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek, Spanish (Mexican), English (American, Modern, Rare, ?)
Other Scripts: Αριστέα(Greek)
Pronounced: a-rees-TEH-a(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 40% based on 4 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: 23% based on 6 votes
Arnaldo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Portuguese
Pronounced: ar-NAL-do(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 26% based on 5 votes
Italian and Portuguese form of
Arnold.
Arno
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch, German
Pronounced: AR-no(German)
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
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: 65% based on 4 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: 34% based on 5 votes
Artemisia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek
Other Scripts: Ἀρτεμισία(Ancient Greek)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 78% based on 5 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: 18% based on 5 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: 42% based on 5 votes
Asclepio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Galician, Italian, Spanish
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
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: 38% based on 4 votes
From the name of the continent, which is perhaps derived from Akkadian asu, meaning "east".
Asterope
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἀστεροπή(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: a-STER-ə-pee
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 23% based on 3 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.
Astrid
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, French, English
Pronounced: AS-strid(Swedish) AHS-tri(Norwegian) AS-trit(German) AS-TREED(French) AS-trid(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
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: 33% based on 3 votes
Modern Hebrew transcription of
Athaliah.
Atena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Catalan (Rare), Croatian (Rare), Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovene, Serbian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 51% based on 20 votes
Catalan, Croatian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Romanian form of
Athena.
Atlante
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Italianized)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Attila
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History, Hungarian, Turkish
Pronounced: ə-TIL-ə(English) AW-teel-law(Hungarian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
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: 35% based on 2 votes
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 20 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 1768.
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 5 votes
Spanish, Italian and Portuguese form of
Augustus. This name was borne by the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet (1915-2006).
Aura
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Spanish, Finnish
Pronounced: AWR-ə(English) OW-ra(Spanish) OW-rah(Finnish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 7 votes
From the word
aura (derived from Latin, ultimately from Greek
αὔρα meaning "breeze") for a distinctive atmosphere or illumination.
Aurelio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: ow-REH-lyo
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 16 votes
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: 💜
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
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: 23% based on 3 votes
Austra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Latvian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
Azzurra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ad-DZOOR-ra
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 43% based on 20 votes
Means "azure, sky blue" in Italian.
Azzurro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: adz-DZOOR-roh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 14% based on 5 votes
Bacco
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 14% based on 5 votes
Baldassare
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: bal-das-SA-reh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Baldovino
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: bal-do-VEE-no
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 33% based on 4 votes
Balsamina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Archaic), Italian
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Bartolomeo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: bar-to-lo-MEH-o
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Basilio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: ba-ZEE-lyo(Italian) ba-SEE-lyo(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 38% based on 23 votes
Italian and Spanish form of
Basil 1.
Begonia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Spanish (Rare), Romani (Archaic)
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 13% based on 3 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.
Beltramo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: bel-TRA-mo
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 28% based on 4 votes
Benedetta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: beh-neh-DEHT-ta
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
Beniamino
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: beh-nya-MEE-no
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 33% based on 15 votes
Benvolio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 24% based on 8 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: 63% based on 3 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.
Bernardo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: behr-NAR-do(Italian) behr-NAR-dho(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 58% based on 5 votes
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of
Bernard.
Biagio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: BYA-jo
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 40% based on 5 votes
Bice
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: BEE-cheh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Bilbo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: BIL-bo(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 14% based on 5 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: 💜
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Derived from the South Slavic word
бисер (biser) meaning
"pearl" (ultimately of Arabic origin).
Bluetta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: bloo-EHT-tah
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 7% based on 3 votes
Bora 3
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Korean
Other Scripts: 보라(Korean Hangul)
Pronounced: PO-RA
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
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: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
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 Russian emperor Boris Godunov (1552-1605), 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: 37% based on 14 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: 23% based on 3 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: 41% based on 24 votes
Germanic name derived from the element
brant meaning
"fire, torch, sword".
Brava
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Esperanto
Pronounced: BRA-va
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Means "valiant, brave" in Esperanto.
Brenno
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 30% based on 5 votes
Briana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: bree-AN-ə, bree-AHN-ə, brie-AN-ə
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
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: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
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: 54% based on 25 votes
German, Dutch and Hungarian form of
Bridget.
Cairo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: KIE-ro
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 10% based on 5 votes
From the name of the city in Egypt, called
القاهرة (al-Qahirah) in Arabic, meaning "the victorious".
Calipso
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Catalan, Galician, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Catalan, Galician, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of
Calypso.
Camillo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ka-MEEL-lo
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 20% based on 4 votes
Candela
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: kan-DEH-la
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Caris
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Carlo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: KAR-lo
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 47% based on 23 votes
Carmen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, English, Italian, French, Romanian, German
Pronounced: KAR-mehn(Spanish, Italian) KAHR-mən(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 3 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: 30% based on 2 votes
Italian masculine form of
Carmen.
Carminio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Carola
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, German, Dutch, Swedish
Pronounced: KA-ro-la(Italian) ka-RO-la(German, Swedish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Casimiro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian
Pronounced: ka-see-MEE-ro(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 52% based on 18 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: 64% based on 12 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: 23% based on 4 votes
Cassia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Pronounced: KAS-see-a(Latin) KA-shə(English) KAS-ee-ə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 9 votes
Cassio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: KAS-syo(Italian) KAS-ee-o(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
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: 32% based on 5 votes
Cato 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Pronounced: KA-to(Latin) KAY-to(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 4 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.
Celeno
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Italianized)
Pronounced: cheh-LEH-noh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
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: 60% based on 3 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, Portuguese, Galician, Spanish
Pronounced: CHEHL-so(Italian) THEHL-so(Galician, European Spanish) SEHL-so(Latin American Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 18% based on 4 votes
Italian, Portuguese, Galician and Spanish form of
Celsus.
Cerasella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Romanian, Italian
Pronounced: che-ra-sel-a(Romanian) che-ra-ZEL-la(Italian)
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 27% based on 3 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.
Cesare
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: CHEH-za-reh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 34% based on 7 votes
Cicero
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Pronounced: KEE-keh-ro(Latin) SIS-ə-ro(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 4 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: 💜
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Cinzia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
Circe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Κίρκη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: SUR-see(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 17% based on 3 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: 65% based on 4 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.
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: 35% based on 13 votes
Clizia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: KLEE-tsyah
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 35% based on 4 votes
Cloe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Spanish and Italian form of
Chloe.
Clorinda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Corsican, Galician (Rare), Literature, English (American, Rare)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
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) klo-TEEL-deh(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
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: 13% based on 3 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: 💜
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Colomba
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ko-LOM-ba
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 19% based on 8 votes
Colombina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 23% based on 3 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: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Consuelo
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: kon-SWEH-lo
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 3 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: 65% based on 16 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: 20% based on 3 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: 62% based on 13 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: 60% based on 28 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 28 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.
Corona
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman, Italian (Rare), Spanish (Rare)
Pronounced: ko-RO-na(Italian, Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
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: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Italian form of
Conrad. This was a 14th-century
saint from Piacenza, Italy.
Cosetta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 45% based on 4 votes
Cosimo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: KAW-zee-mo
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 52% based on 5 votes
Italian form of
Cosmas. A famous bearer was Cosimo de' Medici (1389-1464), the 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: 32% based on 5 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.
Costantino
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 42% based on 18 votes
Costanza
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ko-STAN-tsa
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 63% based on 4 votes
Cressida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: KREHS-i-də(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
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: 💜
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
Crono
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Italian and Spanish form of
Cronus.
Cupido
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Pronounced: koo-PEE-do(Latin)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Dacia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman, Italian, Sicilian
Pronounced: DAT-sha(Italian, Sicilian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
Dafina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Albanian, Bulgarian, Macedonian
Other Scripts: Дафина(Bulgarian, Macedonian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Means "laurel" in Albanian, Bulgarian and Macedonian, of Greek origin.
Dafne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: DAF-neh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 55% based on 18 votes
Italian and Spanish form of
Daphne.
Dafni
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Δάφνη(Greek)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Daina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Lithuanian, Latvian
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
Means "song" in Lithuanian and Latvian.
Dalia 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American), Arabic
Other Scripts: داليا(Arabic)
Pronounced: DA-lya(Latin American Spanish) DA-lee-ya(Arabic)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 63% based on 26 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) da-LEE-la(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 66% based on 10 votes
Form of
Delilah used in the Latin
Old Testament, as well as in French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.
Damiano
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: da-MYA-no
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Danae
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: dah-NAH-eh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 38% based on 4 votes
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: 💜
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
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: 28% based on 4 votes
Form of
Daniel in various languages.
Dante
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: DAN-teh(Italian) DAHN-tay(English) DAN-tee(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 67% based on 24 votes
Medieval short form of
Durante. The most notable bearer of this name was Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), the Italian poet who wrote the
Divine Comedy.
Dario
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Croatian
Pronounced: DA-ryo(Italian) DA-ree-o(Croatian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 48% based on 4 votes
Davide
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: DA-vee-deh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Dea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Danish, Swedish, Croatian, Slovene, English, Albanian, Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
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: 37% based on 3 votes
Italian, Dutch and German form of
Deborah.
Dedalo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 15% based on 4 votes
Deianira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Δηϊάνειρα, Δῃάνειρα(Ancient Greek)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
Delfina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: dehl-FEE-na(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 59% based on 18 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: 55% based on 4 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: 49% based on 10 votes
Demetrio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: deh-MEH-tryo
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 36% based on 16 votes
Denisa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Czech, Slovak, Romanian, Albanian
Pronounced: DEH-ni-sa(Czech) DEH-nee-sa(Slovak) deh-NEE-sa(Romanian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
Desdemona
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: dehz-də-MO-nə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
Derived from Greek
δυσδαίμων (dysdaimon) meaning
"ill-fated". This is the name of the wife of
Othello in Shakespeare's play
Othello (1603).
Despina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Δέσποινα(Greek)
Pronounced: DHEH-spee-na
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
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: 79% based on 19 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.
Diego
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Italian
Pronounced: DYEH-gho(Spanish) DYEH-go(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
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 Spanish painter Diego Velázquez (1599-1660), 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: 60% based on 4 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: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
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: 40% based on 4 votes
Russian variant of
Dmitriy, as well as the Georgian form.
Dino
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Croatian
Pronounced: DEE-no(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 3% based on 3 votes
Short form of names ending in dino or tino.
Diogene
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Romanian
Pronounced: DYO-jeh-neh(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
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: 20% based on 3 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: 15% based on 4 votes
Dioniso
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Italianized), Greek Mythology (Hispanicized)
Pronounced: DYOH-nee-zoh, dyo-NEE-so
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 15% based on 4 votes
Disma
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Italian form of Δυσμάς
(Dysmas) (see
Dismas).
Diva
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: DEE-vah
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
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: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Italian feminine form of
Dominicus (see
Dominic).
Domitilla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: do-mee-TEEL-la(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 57% based on 7 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 21 votes
Doria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Possibly a feminine form of
Dorian or an elaboration of
Dora.
Doriano
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 43% based on 4 votes
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: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
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: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Dorotea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Croatian, Swedish (Rare)
Pronounced: do-ro-TEH-a(Italian, Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
Doroteo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of
Dorotheos.
Drusilla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical, Ancient Roman, Biblical Latin
Pronounced: droo-SIL-ə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 52% based on 22 votes
Duccio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval Italian (Tuscan), Italian (Tuscan)
Pronounced: DOOCH-choh(Medieval Tuscan Italian, Tuscan Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 4 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: 20% based on 3 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: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Italian form of the Late Latin name Durans, which meant "enduring".
Durga
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Hinduism, Hindi, Nepali, Telugu
Other Scripts: दुर्गा(Sanskrit, Hindi, Nepali) దుర్గ(Telugu) துர்கா(Tamil) দুর্গা(Bengali)
Pronounced: DOOR-gah(Sanskrit) DOOR-gə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
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.
Eberardo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish (Rare)
Pronounced: eh-beh-RAR-dho
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Editta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: eh-DEET-tah
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Edmondo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Edvige
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ehd-VEE-jeh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
Efesto
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Italianized)
Pronounced: eh-FEH-stoh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 13% based on 4 votes
Egidio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Italian form of
Aegidius (see
Giles).
Eitan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew
Other Scripts: אֵיתָן(Hebrew)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Elettra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: eh-LEHT-tra
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 36% based on 5 votes
Eleuterio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Italian
Pronounced: eh-lew-TEH-ryo(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Elfrida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Elga
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Latvian, Estonian, Hungarian (Rare), English (American, Rare, Archaic), German (Rare)
Pronounced: EL-ga(German)
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Latvian, Estonian and Italian cognate of
Helga.
Elio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: EH-lyo
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 5 votes
Eliodora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Eliodoro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Elisio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Greek Mythology (Italianized)
Pronounced: eh-LEE-zyo
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 23% based on 4 votes
Eloisa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: eh-lo-EE-za
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 69% based on 25 votes
Elsa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Finnish, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, English
Pronounced: EHL-za(German) EHL-sah(Finnish) EHL-sa(Italian, Spanish) EHL-sə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 58% based on 20 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: 13% based on 4 votes
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 13 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: 17% based on 3 votes
Emerico
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: eh-meh-REE-koh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Emira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Bosnian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Enea
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: eh-NEH-a
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 40% based on 5 votes
Eolo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Rare), Spanish (Rare)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Italian and Spanish form of
Aiolos.
Eracle
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Rare, Archaic)
Pronounced: E-ra-kle
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 17% based on 15 votes
Erasmo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: eh-RAZ-mo(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of
Erasmus.
Ercole
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: EHR-ko-leh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 43% based on 4 votes
Eriberto
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Erica
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Swedish, Italian
Pronounced: EHR-i-kə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 59% based on 9 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: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Ermes
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 13% based on 4 votes
Erminio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Ermione
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: ehr-mee-OH-neh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 28% based on 4 votes
Ernesto
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: ehr-NEHS-to(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of
Ernest.
Eros
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἔρως(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: EH-RAWS(Classical Greek) EHR-ahs(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 15% based on 4 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: 53% based on 3 votes
Erveo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ehr-VEH-oh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
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 28 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 Romani girl who is loved by Quasimodo. It has occasionally been used in the English-speaking world since that time.
Espero
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Esperanto
Pronounced: es-PEH-ro
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
The word “hope.”
Estella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ehs-TEHL-ə
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 35% based on 6 votes
Latinate form of
Estelle. This is 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: 67% based on 16 votes
Form of
Esther used in several languages.
Ettore
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: EHT-to-reh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 4 votes
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: 💜
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
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: 53% based on 3 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 4 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: 58% based on 4 votes
Europa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Εὐρώπη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: yuw-RO-pə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 23% based on 3 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: 13% based on 3 votes
Ezio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: EHT-tsyo
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Arcangelo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ar-KAN-jeh-lo
Personal remark: Old-fave
Rating: 18% based on 5 votes
Means "archangel" in Italian.
Armida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish (Latin American)
Pronounced: ar-MEE-da(Italian) ar-MEE-dha(Latin American Spanish)
Personal remark: Old-fave
Rating: 38% based on 4 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.
Alarico
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Galician, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: a-la-REE-ko(Italian)
Personal remark: Old
Rating: 37% based on 6 votes
Galician, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of
Alaric.
Amerigo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: a-meh-REE-go
Personal remark: Old
Rating: 33% based on 6 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).
Aminta
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Literature, Spanish (Latin American)
Personal remark: Old
Rating: 43% based on 12 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.
In Latin America this is typically used as a feminine name.
Aristotele
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ah-ree-STOH-teh-leh
Personal remark: Old
Rating: 17% based on 6 votes
Ave
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Estonian
Pronounced: A-veh(Italian) AH-veh(Estonian)
Personal remark: Old
Rating: 30% based on 8 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".
Calimera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare, Archaic)
Pronounced: kah-lee-MEH-rah
Personal remark: Old
Rating: 48% based on 21 votes
Dennis
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, German, Dutch
Pronounced: DEHN-is(English) DEH-nis(German, Dutch)
Personal remark: Old
Rating: 23% based on 4 votes
Usual English, German and Dutch form of
Denis.
Cerere
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology (Italianized)
Personal remark: Divinità
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Era
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: Divinità
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Estia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Italianized), Greek (Rare), Afrikaans
Other Scripts: Εστία(Greek)
Personal remark: Divinità
Rating: 40% based on 4 votes
Modern Greek and Italian form of
Hestia.
Bambi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BAM-bee
Personal remark: Bambi
Rating: 29% based on 9 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.
Alessandria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: al-less-an-dria
Personal remark: ❤️
Rating: 55% based on 6 votes
Aspasia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek, Greek
Other Scripts: Ἀσπασία(Ancient Greek) Ασπασία(Greek)
Pronounced: A-SPA-SEE-A(Classical Greek)
Personal remark: ❤️
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Derived from Greek
ἀσπάσιος (aspasios) meaning
"welcome, embrace". This was the name of the lover of Pericles (5th century BC).
Almarina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Albanian (Rare)
Personal remark: 'Almarina' Valeria Parrella (2019)
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Adone
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: a-DO-neh
Rating: 18% based on 5 votes
Adriatico
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: a-dree-A-tee-ko
Rating: 30% based on 4 votes
Originally denoted a person who lived near the Adriatic sea.
Afra 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman, Italian
Rating: 33% based on 4 votes
Originally used by the Romans as a nickname for a woman from Africa. This was the name of two early
saints.
Agape
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek
Other Scripts: Ἀγάπη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: A-GA-PEH
Rating: 35% based on 4 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
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Aiace
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ah-YAH-cheh
Rating: 18% based on 5 votes
Alfio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Rating: 24% based on 5 votes
Aligi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Italian (Tuscan)
Pronounced: a-LEE-jee(Italian, Tuscan Italian)
Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
Alissa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ə-LIS-ə
Rating: 39% based on 14 votes
Almirena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Theatre
Rating: 35% based on 4 votes
The name of a character in Georg Friedrich Händel's opera 'Rinaldo' (1711).
Altaluna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Italian
Rating: 46% based on 5 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.
Alvaro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: AL-va-ro
Italian form of
Alvarus (see
Álvaro).
Aprilia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Modern, Rare)
Pronounced: a-PREE-lya
Rating: 52% based on 21 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.
Araldo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: a-RAL-do
Rating: 38% based on 4 votes
Arcadia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American)
Pronounced: ar-KA-dhya
Rating: 78% based on 6 votes
Feminine form of
Arcadius. This is the name of a region on the Greek Peloponnese, long idealized for its natural beauty.
Ardita
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Italian (Tuscan)
Rating: 42% based on 5 votes
Argentina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Medieval English, Portuguese (Brazilian), Italian (Rare)
Rating: 38% based on 5 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: 57% based on 23 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.
Armonía
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Rare)
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Means "harmony" in Spanish.
Astoria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: as-TAWR-ee-ə
Rating: 38% based on 9 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: 63% based on 13 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: 44% based on 5 votes
Catalan, Italian and Spanish form of
Astraea.
Atanasio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: a-ta-NA-syo(Spanish)
Rating: 24% based on 5 votes
Atenodora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Aurea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman
Rating: 13% based on 3 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, Portuguese, Italian
Pronounced: ow-reh-LYA-no(Spanish)
Rating: 48% based on 5 votes
Spanish, Portuguese and Italian form of
Aurelianus.
Avia
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אֲבִיָה(Hebrew)
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Balsamia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Rating: 20% based on 3 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.
Bella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BEHL-ə
Rating: 38% based on 4 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.
Benigna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Italian (Rare), Portuguese (Rare), Late Roman
Pronounced: beh-NEEGH-na(Spanish) beh-NEEN-nya(Italian)
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Berenilde
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese (Brazilian), French (Rare)
Rating: 57% based on 3 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-).
Berta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Polish, Czech, Hungarian, German, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Slovene
Pronounced: BEHR-ta(Polish, Czech, German, Spanish, Italian) BEHR-taw(Hungarian)
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Form of
Bertha in several languages.
Brendano
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Archaic), Spanish (Latin American, Rare)
Pronounced: brehn-DAH-noh(Latin American Spanish)
Rating: 33% based on 4 votes
Brunilda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Albanian, Spanish (Rare), Italian (Rare), Portuguese (Rare)
Pronounced: broo-NEEL-da(Spanish, Italian)
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
Albanian, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese form of
Brunhild.
Brunilde
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: broo-NEEL-deh
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Calliope
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Καλλιόπη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: kə-LIE-ə-pee(English)
Rating: 66% based on 18 votes
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: 66% based on 13 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).
Castalia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Κασταλια(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: kə-STAY-lee-ə
Rating: 30% based on 3 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).
Catullo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ka-TOOL-lo
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Cedrella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare, ?), Literature
Pronounced: sə-drelə, si-drelə
Rating: 23% based on 3 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.
Ciano
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Cleopatra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Κλεοπάτρα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: klee-o-PAT-rə(English)
Rating: 49% based on 22 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.
Clodia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman, Italian, Galician (Rare)
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Feminine form of
Clodius and
Clodio. This name was borne by one of the Vestal Virgins.
Cornelio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Italian
Pronounced: kor-NEH-lyo
Rating: 25% based on 4 votes
Curzio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: KOORTSYO, KOOR-tsyo
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
Dalmazia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Rating: 30% based on 3 votes
Damaride
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: da-MAH-ree-deh
Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
Damaris
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Other Scripts: Δάμαρις(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: DAM-ə-ris(English)
Rating: 33% based on 3 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.
Dana 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Romanian, Czech, Slovak, German, Hebrew
Other Scripts: דָּנָה(Hebrew)
Pronounced: DA-na(Czech, Slovak, German)
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Danio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: DA-nyo
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
Desideria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare), Spanish (Rare), Late Roman
Pronounced: deh-see-DHEH-rya(Spanish)
Rating: 20% based on 3 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.
Didone
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: dee-DO-neh
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Diodato
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Rating: 13% based on 4 votes
Diomede
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Rating: 15% based on 4 votes
Draco
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Δράκων(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: DRAY-ko(English)
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
From the Greek name
Δράκων (Drakon), which meant
"dragon, serpent". This was the name of a 7th-century BC Athenian legislator. This is also the name of a constellation in the northern sky.
Drago
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Bulgarian
Other Scripts: Драго(Serbian, Bulgarian)
Rating: 26% based on 14 votes
Originally a short form of names beginning with the Slavic element
dorgŭ (South Slavic
drag) meaning
"precious".
Ebba 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Danish
Pronounced: EHB-ba(Swedish)
Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
Ebe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Estonian
Rating: 20% based on 3 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.
Edda 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: EHD-da
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Edera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Albanian (Rare), Romanian (Rare), Maltese (Rare)
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Means "ivy" in Italian, from Latin hedera "ivy", perhaps related to the Latin root -hendere "to grasp; to take; to cling onto".
Eglantina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare), Albanian
Rating: 35% based on 4 votes
Egle
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: EHG-leh
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Elmo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, English, Finnish, Estonian
Pronounced: EHL-mo(Italian, English)
Rating: 10% based on 3 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.
Enedina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque, Medieval Basque, Basque Mythology, Spanish, Sardinian, Portuguese (Brazilian), History (Ecclesiastical)
Rating: 28% based on 4 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.
Epona
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Gaulish Mythology
Rating: 13% based on 3 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 was worshipped not only in Gaul, but elsewhere in the Roman Empire.
Erminia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Rating: 53% based on 4 votes
Esperia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare), Greek (Rare, ?)
Other Scripts: Εσπερία(Greek)
Pronounced: eh-speh-REE-a(Greek)
Rating: 27% based on 3 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.
Eufemia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: ew-FEH-mya(Spanish)
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
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