krisjanisliepins's Personal Name List
Aarne
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish, Estonian
Pronounced: AHR-neh(Finnish)
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Finnish and Estonian form of
Arne 1.
Abd al-Aziz
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: عبد العزيز(Arabic)
Pronounced: ‘ab-dool-‘a-ZEEZ
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Means
"servant of the powerful" from Arabic
عبد (ʿabd) meaning "servant" combined with
عزيز (ʿazīz) meaning "powerful". This was the name of the first king of modern Saudi Arabia.
Abel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Georgian, Armenian, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek [1]
Other Scripts: აბელ(Georgian) Աբել(Armenian) הֶבֶל(Ancient Hebrew) Ἄβελ, Ἅβελ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: AY-bəl(English) A-BEHL(French) a-BEHL(Spanish, European Portuguese) a-BEW(Brazilian Portuguese) A-bəl(Dutch) ah-BEHL(Eastern Armenian) ah-PEHL(Western Armenian)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From the Hebrew name
הֶבֶל (Hevel) meaning
"breath". In the
Old Testament he is the second son of
Adam and
Eve, murdered out of envy by his brother
Cain. In England, this name came into use during the Middle Ages, and it was common during the
Puritan era.
Abhijit
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hindi, Marathi, Bengali
Other Scripts: अभिजीत, अभिजित(Hindi, Marathi) অভিজিৎ(Bengali)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From Sanskrit
अभिजित (abhijita) meaning
"victorious". This is the Sanskrit name for the star
Vega.
Abram 2
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian, Georgian
Other Scripts: Абрам(Russian) აბრამ(Georgian)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Russian and Georgian form of
Abraham.
Achilleas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Αχιλλέας(Greek)
Pronounced: a-khee-LEH-as
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Adam
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French, German, Polish, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Czech, Slovak, Russian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian, Romanian, Catalan, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Georgian, Malay, Indonesian, Dhivehi, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek [1], Biblical Hebrew [2]
Other Scripts: Адам(Russian, Ukrainian, Serbian, Macedonian) Αδάμ, Άνταμ(Greek) אָדָם(Hebrew) آدم(Arabic) ადამ(Georgian) އާދަމް(Dhivehi) Ἀδάμ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: AD-əm(English) A-DAHN(French) A-dam(German, Polish, Czech, Arabic, Indonesian) A-dahm(Dutch) AH-dam(Swedish) u-DAM(Russian, Ukrainian) ə-DHAM(Catalan)
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
This is the Hebrew word for
"man". It could be ultimately derived from Hebrew
אדם (ʾaḏam) meaning
"to be red", referring to the ruddy colour of human skin, or from Akkadian
adamu meaning
"to make".
According to Genesis in the Old Testament Adam was created from the earth by God (there is a word play on Hebrew אֲדָמָה (ʾaḏama) meaning "earth"). He and Eve were supposedly the first humans, living happily in the Garden of Eden until they ate the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. As a result they were expelled from Eden to the lands to the east, where they gave birth to the second generation, including Cain, Abel and Seth.
As an English Christian name, Adam has been common since the Middle Ages, and it received a boost after the Protestant Reformation. A famous bearer was Scottish economist Adam Smith (1723-1790).
Adéla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Czech
Pronounced: A-deh-la
Rating: 25% based on 4 votes
Adelheid
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Dutch (Rare)
Pronounced: A-dəl-hiet(German) A-dəl-hayt(Dutch)
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Adrian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Romanian, Polish, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Russian
Other Scripts: Адриан(Russian)
Pronounced: AY-dree-ən(English) a-dree-AN(Romanian) A-dryan(Polish) A-dree-an(German) u-dryi-AN(Russian)
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Form of
Hadrianus (see
Hadrian) used in several languages. Several
saints and six popes have borne this name, including the only English pope, Adrian IV, and the only Dutch pope, Adrian VI. As an English name, it has been in use since the Middle Ages, though it was not popular until modern times.
Aelita
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature, Russian, Latvian
Other Scripts: Аэлита(Russian)
Pronounced: ui-LYEE-tə(Russian)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Created by Russian author Aleksey Tolstoy for his science fiction novel Aelita (1923), where it belongs to a Martian princess. In the book, the name is said to mean "starlight seen for the last time" in the Martian language.
Agatha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, German, Dutch, Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἀγαθή(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: AG-ə-thə(English) a-GHA-ta(Dutch)
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
Latinized form of the Greek name
Ἀγαθή (Agathe), derived from Greek
ἀγαθός (agathos) meaning
"good".
Saint Agatha was a 3rd-century martyr from Sicily who was tortured and killed after spurning the advances of a Roman official. The saint was widely revered in the Middle Ages, and her name has been used throughout Christian Europe (in various spellings). The mystery writer Agatha Christie (1890-1976) was a famous modern bearer of this name.
Aino
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish, Estonian, Finnish Mythology
Pronounced: IE-no(Finnish)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Means
"the only one" in Finnish. In the Finnish epic the
Kalevala this is the name of a girl who drowns herself when she finds out she must marry the old man
Väinämöinen.
Akash
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hindi, Marathi, Bengali
Other Scripts: आकाश(Hindi, Marathi) আকাশ(Bengali)
Pronounced: a-KASH(Hindi)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From Sanskrit
आकाश (ākāśa) meaning
"open space, sky".
Akhil
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam
Other Scripts: अखिल(Hindi) అఖిల్(Telugu) അഖിൽ(Malayalam)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From Sanskrit
अखिल (akhila) meaning
"whole, complete".
Alekos
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Αλέκος(Greek)
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Alena 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Czech, Slovak, Slovene
Pronounced: A-leh-na(Czech, Slovak)
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Short form of
Magdalena or
Helena. This was the name of a
saint, possibly legendary, who was martyred near Brussels in the 7th century.
Alvar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish, Estonian
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From the Old Norse name
Alfarr, formed of the elements
alfr "elf" and
herr "army, warrior".
Amadahy
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Cherokee
Other Scripts: ᎠᎹᏕᎯ(Cherokee)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Means "forest water" from Cherokee a ma "water" and a do hi i na ge "forest" or a da "wood".
Amar 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Punjabi
Other Scripts: अमर(Hindi, Marathi) অমর(Bengali) ਅਮਰ(Gurmukhi)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From Sanskrit
अमर (amara) meaning
"immortal".
Amatha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Cherokee
Pronounced: Am-ah-tha
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Means "fish" in Cherokee.
Amrit
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hindi
Other Scripts: अमृत(Hindi)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Means
"immortal" from Sanskrit
अ (a) meaning "not" and
मृत (mṛta) meaning "dead". In Hindu texts it refers to a drink that gives immortality.
Ana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese, Slovene, Bulgarian, Romanian, Croatian, Serbian, Albanian, Macedonian, Georgian, Fijian, Tongan
Other Scripts: Ана(Bulgarian, Serbian, Macedonian) ანა(Georgian)
Pronounced: A-na(Spanish, Romanian) U-nu(European Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese) AH-NAH(Georgian)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Form of
Anna used in various languages.
Andre
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Estonian
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Variant of
Andres. Theories include, however, also a derivation from
Antonius.
Andres
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Estonian
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Andrzej
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: AN-jay
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Á:nen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Mohawk
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Anthea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἄνθεια(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: AN-thee-ə(English)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From the Greek
Ἄνθεια (Antheia), derived from
ἄνθος (anthos) meaning
"flower, blossom". This was an epithet of the Greek goddess
Hera.
Antheia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἄνθεια(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Apurva
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hindi, Marathi
Other Scripts: अपूर्व, अपूर्वा(Hindi, Marathi)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From Sanskrit
अपूर्व (apūrva) meaning
"unpreceded, new". This is a transcription of both the masculine form
अपूर्व and the feminine form
अपूर्वा.
Ardashir
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Middle Persian
Other Scripts: 𐭠𐭥𐭲𐭧𐭱𐭲𐭥(Pahlavi)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Middle Persian form of Old Persian
Artaxšaça (see
Artaxerxes). This was the name of a 3rd-century king of Persia who defeated the Parthians and founded the Sasanian Empire. He also reestablished Zoroastrianism as the state religion.
Arianell
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Derived from Welsh
arian "silver" and Middle Welsh
gell "yellow" (which apparently also carried the connotations of "shining", ultimately going back to Proto-Celtic
*gelwo- "yellow; white", compare Old Irish
gel(o) white; fair; shining").
According to legend, Arianell was a member of the Welsh royal family who became possessed by an evil spirit and was exorcised by Saint
Dyfrig. Soon after, Arianell became a nun and spiritual student of Dyfrig.
Ariodante
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Carolingian Cycle, Literature, Theatre, Italian (Rare)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
This is the name of an Italian knight from canto V of the 16th-century epic poem
Orlando furioso written by the Italian poet Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533). Two centuries later, the character became the subject of George Frideric Handel's opera seria
Ariodante (1735).
Ariodante is most likely a compound name, of which the meaning is uncertain. It has been suggested that the name is a combination of the Italian forenames Ario and Dante. However, given the literary origin of the name, it is probably more likely that the name is a combination of words instead.
For the first element of the name, at least three theories have been proposed for its etymology. The first is that it is derived from Italian aria meaning "air, melody, tune" (which ultimately comes from Latin aer meaning "air"). The second is that it is derived from Old Germanic harjaz meaning "army". Also compare its Frankish descendant hari meaning "army".
The third theory derives the first element from Latin hariolus (variantly ariolus) meaning "fortune-teller". It is closely related to archaic Italian ariolo meaning "fortune-teller" and Latin haruspex meaning "diviner, soothsayer".
The second element of the name appears to be a bit more straightforward. It is said to be derived from Latin dante, which is the ablative singular of dans meaning "giving, offering" as well as "yielding, conceding". In turn, dans is the present active participle of the Latin verb do meaning "to give, to offer" as well as "to yield, to concede, to surrender". Also compare modern Italian dante, which is the present participle of the verb dare meaning "to give".
Lastly, known real-life bearers of this name include the Italian singer Ariodante Dalla (1919-1966) and the Italian historian and politician Ariodante Fabretti (1816-1894).
Arjun
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Gujarati, Bengali, Nepali
Other Scripts: अर्जुन(Hindi, Marathi, Nepali) ಅರ್ಜುನ್(Kannada) అర్జున్(Telugu) அர்ஜுன்(Tamil) അർജുൻ(Malayalam) અર્જુન(Gujarati) অর্জুন(Bengali)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Arkadiusz
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: ar-KA-dyoosh
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Armen
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Armenian
Other Scripts: Արմեն(Armenian)
Pronounced: ahr-MEHN
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Derived from the name of the country of
Armenia (which is in fact named
Հայաստան (Hayastan) in Armenian).
Árpád
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hungarian
Pronounced: AR-pad
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
From Hungarian árpa meaning "barley". This was the name of a 9th-century Magyar ruler who led his people into Hungary. He is considered a Hungarian national hero.
Arthur
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Welsh Mythology, Arthurian Cycle
Pronounced: AHR-thər(English) AR-TUYR(French) AR-tuwr(German) AHR-tuyr(Dutch)
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
The meaning of this name is unknown. It could be derived from the Celtic elements *
artos "bear" (Old Welsh
arth) combined with *
wiros "man" (Old Welsh
gur) or *
rīxs "king" (Old Welsh
ri). Alternatively it could be related to an obscure Roman family name
Artorius.
Arthur is the name of the central character in Arthurian legend, a 6th-century king of the Britons who resisted Saxon invaders. He may or may not have been based on a real person. He first appears in Welsh poems and chronicles (perhaps briefly in the 7th-century poem Y Gododdin and more definitively and extensively in the 9th-century History of the Britons [1]). However, his character was not developed until the chronicles of the 12th-century Geoffrey of Monmouth [2]. His tales were later taken up and expanded by French and English writers.
The name came into general use in England in the Middle Ages due to the prevalence of Arthurian romances, and it enjoyed a surge of popularity in the 19th century. Famous bearers include German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), mystery author and Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), and science-fiction author Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008).
Ásbjǫrn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Norse [1]
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Old Norse name derived from the elements
áss "god" and
bjǫrn "bear". It is therefore a
cognate of
Osborn.
Aurelius
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Pronounced: ow-REH-lee-oos(Latin) aw-REEL-ee-əs(English)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Roman family name that was derived from Latin
aureus meaning
"golden, gilded". Marcus Aurelius was a 2nd-century Roman emperor and philosophical writer. This was also the name of several early
saints.
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)
Rating: 100% 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.
Aušra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Lithuanian
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Means "dawn" in Lithuanian.
Austregilde
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Frankish
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Queen Austregilde (548 - 580) was the third wife of Guntram, King of Orléans. She was not born into high social status and was possibly a servant of Queen Marcatrude, the second wife of Guntram; a servant of one of Guntram's courtiers; or even a slave in the household of Marcatrude's father. After Guntram's repudiation of his earlier queen in 565, she became his third wife. Objections to this marriage and to the legitimacy of Austregilde's children led to the deaths of Marcatrude's brothers and the banishment to a monastery of the Bishop of Gap, both on the orders of Guntram.
Austregilde and Guntram had two sons, Clotaire and Clodomir, and two daughters, Clodoberge and Clotilde. She died in 580, possibly of smallpox. According to Gregory of Tours, she angrily blamed her doctors Nicolas and Donat, claiming their medicines were responsible for her death. She asked Guntram to kill her doctors after her death, which he did. Gregory compares her actions to those of King Herod.
Modern historians have suggested skepticism about Gregory's account of Austregilde's death. E. T. Dailey notes that it "is difficult to square this passage" with Gregory's "supposedly heroic" overall portrayal of Guntram and that "marriage to lowborn women was never likely to impress Gregory". Mark A. Handley contrasts Gregory's depiction of Austregilde with that of her "glowing" epitaph, which describes her as "mother of kings, a surpassing royal wife, the light of her homeland, the world, and the court" and praises her charitable nature. Handley is critical of those that have "unnecessarily followed" Gregory's lead, saying that the "opportunity to compare and contrast... has been universally missed."
Awentia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Cherokee
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Aya
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Cherokee
Pronounced: A-yuh
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Aya in the Cherokee language is a term for one's self. Usually used as "I" or "Me". If a family member uses this for someone it would me that they see a bit of themself in that person and it would be meant as a compliment.It is also a type of fern that is known as a symbol of endurance and resourcefulness. The fern is a hardy plant that can grow in difficult places.
Bahadur
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hindi, Nepali
Other Scripts: बहादुर(Hindi, Nepali)
Pronounced: bə-HA-duwr(Hindi)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From Persian
بهادر (bahādor), itself from Turkic
bagatur meaning
"hero, warrior". This was the name of rulers of the Mughal Empire.
Bahram
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Persian, Persian Mythology
Other Scripts: بهرام(Persian)
Pronounced: bah-RAWM(Persian)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Modern Persian form of Avestan
𐬬𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬚𐬭𐬀𐬖𐬥𐬀 (Vərəthraghna) meaning
"victory over resistance". This was the name of a Zoroastrian god (one of the Amesha Spenta) associated with victory and war. It was also borne by several Sasanian emperors. It is also the Persian name for the planet Mars.
Bartłomiej
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: bar-TWAW-myay
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Bartosz
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: BAR-tawsh
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Basilodika
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
βασίλεια (basileia) "rule, royal power, queen" + δικη (diké) "justice"
Batraz
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ossetian, Caucasian Mythology
Other Scripts: Батырадз(Ossetian)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Possibly from Turkic
bagatur meaning
"hero, warrior, brave". This is the name of the leader of the superhuman Narts in Caucasian
mythology.
Bau
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Sumerian Mythology
Other Scripts: 𒀭𒁀𒌑(Sumerian Cuneiform)
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Meaning unknown. This was the name of a Sumerian mother goddess, also associated with healing and midwifery.
Biserka
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Croatian, Serbian
Other Scripts: Бисерка(Serbian)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Croatian and Serbian form of
Bisera.
Björg
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Icelandic
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Bjørg
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norwegian
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Derived from Old Norse
bjǫrg meaning
"help, save, rescue".
Blago
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Croatian, Bulgarian
Other Scripts: Благо(Bulgarian)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Croatian form of
Blagoy, as well as a Bulgarian variant.
Blaž
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Slovene, Croatian
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Slovene and Croatian form of
Blaise.
Blaženka
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Croatian
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Croatian feminine form of
Blaž.
Bogdan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish, Russian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, Romanian
Other Scripts: Богдан(Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Macedonian)
Pronounced: BAWG-dan(Polish) bug-DAN(Russian) BOG-dan(Serbian, Croatian) bog-DAN(Romanian)
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Means
"given by God" from the Slavic elements
bogŭ "god" and
danŭ "given". This pre-Christian name was later used as a translation of
Theodotus.
Borislav
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Macedonian, Russian
Other Scripts: Борислав(Bulgarian, Serbian, Macedonian, Russian)
Pronounced: bə-ryi-SLAF(Russian)
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Derived from the Slavic element
borti "battle" combined with
slava "glory".
Brünhild
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Germanic Mythology
Pronounced: BRUYN-hilt(German)
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
German form of
Brunhild, used when referring to the character from the
Nibelungenlied.
Brynhildr
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norse Mythology, Old Norse [1]
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Old Norse
cognate of
Brunhild. In the Norse epic the
Völsungasaga Brynhildr was rescued by the hero
Sigurd in the guise of
Gunnar. Brynhildr and Gunnar were married, but when Sigurd's wife
Gudrun let slip that it was in fact Sigurd who had rescued her, Brynhildr plotted against him. She accused Sigurd of taking her virginity, spurring Gunnar to arrange Sigurd's murder.
Candace
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Biblical, Biblical Latin
Other Scripts: Κανδάκη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: KAN-dis(English) KAN-də-see(English)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From the hereditary title of the queens of Ethiopia, as mentioned in Acts in the
New Testament. It is apparently derived from Cushitic
kdke meaning
"queen mother". In some versions of the Bible it is spelled
Kandake, reflecting the Greek spelling
Κανδάκη. It was used as a given name by the
Puritans after the
Protestant Reformation. It was popularized in the 20th century by a character in the 1942 movie
Meet the Stewarts [1].
Ceallach
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish (Rare)
Pronounced: KYA-ləkh
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From Old Irish
Cellach, of uncertain origin, traditionally said to mean
"bright-headed". Alternatively it could be derived from Old Irish
cellach "war, strife" or
cell "church". This name was borne by several early Irish kings and by a 12th-century
saint, an archbishop of Armagh.
Chae-Won
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Korean
Other Scripts: 채원(Korean Hangul) 采原, 采元, 彩原, 彩媛, etc.(Korean Hanja)
Pronounced: CHEH-WUN
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From Sino-Korean
采 (chae) meaning "collect, gather, pluck" or
彩 (chae) meaning "colour" combined with
原 (won) meaning "source, origin, beginning". Other hanja combinations can also form this name.
Chavdar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Bulgarian
Other Scripts: Чавдар(Bulgarian)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Derived from a Persian word meaning "leader, dignitary".
Chimalma
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Aztec and Toltec Mythology
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Means
"shield hand" in Nahuatl, derived from
chīmalli "shield" and
māitl "hand". This was the name of an Aztec goddess who was the mother of
Quetzalcoatl and
Xolotl.
Chlodovech
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic (Latinized) [1]
From
Chlodovechus, a Latinized form of the Germanic name
Hludwig (see
Ludwig).
Chrysanta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: kri-SAN-tə
Shortened form of the word chrysanthemum, the name of a flowering plant, which means "golden flower" in Greek.
Citlali
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Nahuatl
Cuauhtémoc
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Nahuatl (Hispanicized)
Cuhtahlatah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Cherokee
Means "wild hemp" in Cherokee.
Cyneburg
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Anglo-Saxon [1]
Means
"royal fortress" from Old English
cyne "royal" and
burg "fortress".
Saint Cyneburga, a daughter of a king of Mercia, was the founder of an abbey at Castor in the 7th century.
Cynethryth
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Anglo-Saxon, History
Derived from Old English
cyne "royal" and
þryþ "strength".
This name was borne by an 8th-century queen of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia.
Cynewise
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Anglo-Saxon
Pronounced: KUY-neh-WEE-seh(Old English)
Derived from Old English
cyne "royal" and
wīs "wise". A notable bearer of this name was the wife of King Penda of Mercia, also referred to as Kyneswitha (see
Cyneswið).
Czesław
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: CHEHS-waf
Derived from the Slavic elements
čĭstĭ "honour" and
slava "glory".
Daenerys
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Rating: 37% based on 3 votes
Created by author George R. R. Martin for a character in his series A Song of Ice and Fire, first published 1996, and the television adaptation Game of Thrones (2011-2019). An explanation for the meaning of her name is not provided, though it is presumably intended to be of Valyrian origin. In the series Daenerys Targaryen is a queen of the Dothraki and a claimant to the throne of Westeros.
Danette
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: də-NEHT
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)
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.
Danita
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Dawit
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Amharic
Other Scripts: ዳዊት(Amharic)
Deyan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Bulgarian
Other Scripts: Деян(Bulgarian)
Deyani
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Cherokee
Pronounced: Dee-ani
Deyani means "successful" and "determined" in Cherokee.
Dita
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Czech, German, Latvian
Pronounced: GYI-ta(Czech)
Short form of names containing
dit, such as
Judita, and German names beginning with
Diet, such as
Dietlinde.
Dóra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hungarian, Icelandic
Pronounced: DO-raw(Hungarian)
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Doruk
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Turkish
Pronounced: do-ROOK
Means "mountaintop" in Turkish.
Dragomir
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Serbian, Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovene, Romanian
Other Scripts: Драгомир(Serbian, Bulgarian)
Derived from the Slavic element
dorgŭ (South Slavic
drag) meaning "precious" combined with
mirŭ meaning "peace, world".
Ebba 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Danish
Pronounced: EHB-ba(Swedish)
Ebe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Estonian
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.
Electra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἠλέκτρα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: i-LEHK-trə(English)
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Latinized form of Greek
Ἠλέκτρα (Elektra), derived from
ἤλεκτρον (elektron) meaning
"amber". In Greek
myth she was the daughter of
Agamemnon and
Clytemnestra and the sister of
Orestes. She helped her brother kill their mother and her lover Aegisthus in vengeance for Agamemnon's murder. Also in Greek mythology, this name was borne by one of the Pleiades, who were the daughters of
Atlas and
Pleione.
Elliana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: ehl-lee-AN-ə, ehl-lee-AHN-ə
Eloise
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHL-o-eez, ehl-o-EEZ
From the Old French name
Héloïse, which was probably from the Germanic name
Helewidis, composed of the elements
heil meaning "healthy, whole" and
wit meaning "wide". It is sometimes associated with the Greek word
ἥλιος (helios) meaning "sun" or the name
Louise, though there is no etymological connection. This name was borne by the 12th-century French scholar and philosopher Héloïse. Secretly marrying the theologian Peter Abelard at a young age, she became a nun (and eventually an abbess) after Abelard was violently castrated by order of her uncle Fulbert.
There was a medieval English form of this name, Helewis, though it died out after the 13th century. In the 19th century it was revived in the English-speaking world in the form Eloise.
Emebet
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ethiopian, Amharic
Other Scripts: እመቤት(Amharic)
Derived from Amharic ’əmäbēt "royal lady", this (former) honorific is nowadays used as a given name.
As a "title" it is still used to refer to the Virgin Mary.
Epp
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Estonian
Of uncertain origin and meaning. Theories include a derivation from Estonian
hepp "lively" and a variant of
Ebe.
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)
Rating: 70% based on 2 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.
Eun-Jeong
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Korean
Other Scripts: 은정(Korean Hangul) 恩廷, 恩婷, 慇婷, 銀貞, etc.(Korean Hanja)
Pronounced: UN-JUNG
From Sino-Korean
恩 (eun) meaning "kindness, mercy, charity" or
慇 (eun) meaning "careful, anxious, attentive" combined with
廷 (jeong) meaning "courtyard" or
婷 (jeong) meaning "pretty, graceful". This name can be formed by other hanja character combinations as well.
Eun-Jung
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Korean
Other Scripts: 은정(Korean Hangul) 恩廷, 恩婷, 慇婷, 銀貞, etc.(Korean Hanja)
Pronounced: UN-JUNG
Alternate transcription of Korean Hangul
은정 (see
Eun-Jeong).
Finn
Usage: Irish
Rating: 85% based on 2 votes
Derived from the given name
Fionn.
Flannery
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: FLAN-ə-ree
From an Irish surname, an Anglicized form of Ó Flannghaile, derived from the given name Flannghal meaning "red valour". A famous bearer was American author Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964).
Galilhai
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Cherokee
Pronounced: gɑlɪlhaɪ
Garegin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Armenian
Other Scripts: Գարեգին(Armenian)
Pronounced: gah-reh-GEEN(Eastern Armenian) kah-reh-KEEN(Western Armenian)
Old Armenian name of unknown meaning.
Gerald
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, German, Dutch
Pronounced: JEHR-əld(English) GEH-ralt(German) GHEH-rahlt(Dutch)
From a Germanic name meaning
"power of the spear", from the elements
ger meaning "spear" and
walt meaning "power, authority". The
Normans brought it to Britain. Though it died out in England during the Middle Ages, it remained common in Ireland. It was revived in the English-speaking world in 19th century.
There were a few medieval French and German saints bearing this name. It was also borne by an 8th-century Anglo-Saxon saint. In this case his name may represent an Old English cognate of the continental Germanic name.
Gola
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Cherokee
Other Scripts: ᎪᎳ(Cherokee)
Means "winter" in Cherokee.
Goran
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Macedonian, Bulgarian
Other Scripts: Горан(Serbian, Macedonian, Bulgarian)
Pronounced: GO-ran(Croatian, Serbian)
Derived from South Slavic gora meaning "mountain". It was popularized by the Croatian poet Ivan Goran Kovačić (1913-1943), who got his middle name because of the mountain town where he was born.
Gundahar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic [1], Germanic Mythology
Gunnar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Norse Mythology
Pronounced: GUYN-nar(Swedish, Icelandic) GOON-nahr(Norwegian)
From the Old Norse name
Gunnarr, which was derived from the elements
gunnr "war" and
herr "army, warrior" (making it a
cognate of
Gunther). In Norse legend Gunnar was the husband of
Brynhildr. He had his brother-in-law
Sigurd murdered based on his wife's false accusations that Sigurd had taken her virginity.
Gunnarr
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Norse [1][2], Norse Mythology
Günther
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German
Pronounced: GUYN-tu
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Variant of
Gunther. It was especially popular in Germany in the 1920s and 30s.
Gyeong-Ja
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Korean
Other Scripts: 경자(Korean Hangul) 慶子, 敬子, etc.(Korean Hanja)
Pronounced: KYUNG-JA
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
From Sino-Korean
慶 (gyeong) meaning "congratulate, celebrate" or
敬 (gyeong) meaning "respect, honour" combined with
子 (ja) meaning "child". This name can be formed of other hanja character combinations as well. Korean feminine names ending with the character
子 (a fashionable name suffix in Japan, read as
-ko in Japanese) became less popular after Japanese rule of Korea ended in 1945.
Haile
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ge'ez, Amharic, Ethiopian
Other Scripts: ኃይለ(Ge'ez) ኃይሌ(Amharic)
Pronounced: HIE-lə(Amharic)
Means "power, force, strength" in Ge'ez and Amharic. This was the Ge'ez (baptismal) name of Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie (1892-1975), who was born as
Tafari Makonnen.
Halona
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Iroquois
Halona is a unisex name that means "Of good fortune"
Hastiin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Navajo
Means
"man, elder" in Navajo
[1]. This is typically an honorific preceding the name.
Heino
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Finnish, Estonian
Pronounced: HIE-no(German) HAY-no(Finnish)
German form of
Haimo (see
Hamo).
Hendrik
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch, German, Estonian
Pronounced: HEHN-drik(Dutch, German)
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Hosteen
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Navajo
Pronounced: hu-STEEN
A term of respect meaning "man, grown man, elder, mister, husband." Transferred use of the Navajo word Hastiin of the same meanings. Found as Áłtsé Hastiin, the first man in the Navajo creation story. Notable namesake Hosteen Klah (1867-1937), Navajo weaver, artist and medicine man.
Hyeon-U
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Korean
Other Scripts: 현우(Korean Hangul) 賢祐, 顯雨, etc.(Korean Hanja)
Pronounced: KHYUN-OO
From Sino-Korean
賢 (hyeon) meaning "virtuous, worthy, able" or
顯 (hyeon) meaning "manifest, clear" combined with
祐 (u) meaning "divine intervention, protection" or
雨 (u) meaning "rain". This name can be formed by other hanja character combinations as well.
Ida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Italian, French, Polish, Finnish, Hungarian, Slovak, Slovene, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: IE-də(English) EE-da(German, Dutch, Italian, Polish) EE-dah(Swedish, Norwegian, Danish) EE-daw(Hungarian)
Derived from the Germanic element
id possibly meaning
"work, labour" (Proto-Germanic *
idiz). The
Normans brought this name to England, though it eventually died out there in the Middle Ages. It was strongly revived in the 19th century, in part due to the heroine in Alfred Tennyson's poem
The Princess (1847), which was later adapted into the play
Princess Ida (1884) by Gilbert and Sullivan.
Though the etymology is unrelated, this is the name of a mountain on the island of Crete where, according to Greek myth, the god Zeus was born.
Igor
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian, Polish, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian, Slovak, Czech, Italian, Portuguese, Basque
Other Scripts: Игорь(Russian) Игор(Serbian, Macedonian)
Pronounced: EE-gər(Russian) EE-gawr(Polish, Slovak) EE-gor(Croatian, Serbian, Italian) I-gor(Czech) ee-GHOR(Basque)
Russian form of the Old Norse name
Yngvarr (see
Ingvar). The Varangians brought it with them when they began settling in Eastern Europe in the 9th century. It was borne by two grand princes of Kyiv, notably Igor I the son of
Rurik and the husband of
Saint Olga. Other famous bearers include Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), a Russian composer known for
The Rite of Spring, and Igor Sikorsky (1889-1972), the Russian-American designer of the first successful helicopter.
Iina 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Navajo
From Navajo
iiná meaning
"life" [1].
Ilmar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Estonian
Inanna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Sumerian Mythology
Other Scripts: 𒀭𒈹(Sumerian Cuneiform)
Pronounced: i-NAH-nə(English)
Possibly derived from Sumerian
nin-an-a(k) meaning
"lady of the heavens", from
𒎏 (nin) meaning "lady" and the genitive form of
𒀭 (an) meaning "heaven, sky". Inanna was the Sumerian goddess of love, fertility and war. She descended into the underworld where the ruler of that place, her sister
Ereshkigal, had her killed. The god
Enki interceded, and Inanna was allowed to leave the underworld as long as her husband
Dumuzi took her place.
Inanna was later conflated with the Semitic (Akkadian, Assyrian and Babylonian) deity Ishtar.
Indrek
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Estonian
Estonian form of
Heinrich (see
Henry).
Iris
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, French, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Slovene, Croatian, Greek
Other Scripts: Ἶρις(Ancient Greek) Ίρις(Greek)
Pronounced: IE-ris(English) EE-ris(German, Dutch) EE-rees(Finnish, Spanish, Catalan, Italian) EE-REES(French)
Rating: 97% based on 3 votes
Means "rainbow" in Greek. Iris was the name of the Greek goddess of the rainbow, also serving as a messenger to the gods. This name can also be given in reference to the word (which derives from the same Greek source) for the iris flower or the coloured part of the eye.
Ivaylo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Bulgarian
Other Scripts: Ивайло(Bulgarian)
Perhaps derived from an old Bulgar name meaning "wolf". This was the name of a 13th-century emperor of Bulgaria. It is possible that this spelling was the result of a 15th-century misreading of his real name Vulo from historical documents.
Jaan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Estonian
Pronounced: YAHN
Jadzia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: YA-ja
Jakub
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish, Czech, Slovak
Pronounced: YA-koop
Polish, Czech and Slovak form of
Jacob (or
James). In Polish and Slovak this refers to both the
Old Testament patriarch and the
New Testament apostles, while in Czech this is used only for the apostles (with
Jákob for the patriarch).
Jan 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Czech, Polish, Slovene, German, Catalan, Sorbian
Pronounced: YAHN(Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian) YAN(Czech, Polish, German, Sorbian) ZHAN(Catalan)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Form of
Johannes used in various languages. This name was borne by the Czech church reformer Jan Hus (1370-1415), the Flemish painter Jan van Eyck (1390-1441), and the Dutch painters Jan Steen (1626-1679) and Jan Vermeer (1632-1675).
Jasiba
Gender: Feminine
Usage: African (Rare)
Pronounced: Jasi-ba, Ja-si-ba
Meaning "wealthy noble princess" and "one who descends from the highest regal nobility"
Senegalese origin.
Jiamu
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Chinese
Other Scripts: 佳穆, 佳慕(Chinese)
From the Chinese 佳 (jiā) meaning "good, fine, auspicious, beautiful" and 穆 (mù) meaning "majestic, solemn, reverent, calm" or 慕 (mù) meaning "long for, desire, admire".
Jimmu
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Japanese Mythology
Other Scripts: 神武(Japanese Kanji) じんむ(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: JEEM-MOO(Japanese)
Means
"divine warrior", from Japanese
神 (jin) meaning "god" and
武 (mu) meaning "military, martial". In Japanese legend this was the name of the founder of Japan and the first emperor, supposedly ruling in the 7th century BC.
Joseph
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French, German, Biblical
Other Scripts: יוֹסֵף(Ancient Hebrew) ജോസഫ്(Malayalam)
Pronounced: JO-səf(English) ZHO-ZEHF(French) YO-zehf(German)
From
Ioseph, the Latin form of Greek
Ἰωσήφ (Ioseph), which was from the Hebrew name
יוֹסֵף (Yosef) meaning
"he will add", from the root
יָסַף (yasaf) meaning "to add, to increase". In the
Old Testament Joseph is the eleventh son of
Jacob and the first with his wife
Rachel. Because he was the favourite of his father, his older brothers sent him to Egypt and told their father that he had died. In Egypt, Joseph became an advisor to the pharaoh, and was eventually reconciled with his brothers when they came to Egypt during a famine. This name also occurs in the
New Testament, belonging to
Saint Joseph the husband of
Mary, and to Joseph of Arimathea.
In the Middle Ages, Joseph was a common Jewish name, being less frequent among Christians. In the late Middle Ages Saint Joseph became more highly revered, and the name became popular in Spain and Italy. In England it became common after the Protestant Reformation. In the United States it has stayed within the top 25 names for boys since 1880, making it one of the most enduringly popular names of this era.
This name was borne by rulers of the Holy Roman Empire and Portugal. Other notable bearers include Austrian composer Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), the founder of Mormonism Joseph Smith (1805-1844), Polish-British author Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) and Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin (1878-1953).
Jurģis
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Latvian
Pronounced: YUWR-gyis
Kaan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Turkish
Pronounced: KAN
Kağan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Turkish
Pronounced: ka-AN
From a Turkish title meaning "king, ruler", ultimately of Mongolian origin. The title is usually translated into English as Khan.
Kai 4
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Chinese
Other Scripts: 凯, etc.(Chinese) 凱, etc.(Traditional Chinese)
Pronounced: KIE
From Chinese
凯 (kǎi) meaning "triumph, victory, music of triumph", as well as other characters pronounced in a similar way.
Karen 2
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Armenian
Other Scripts: Գարեն(Armenian)
Western Armenian transcription of
Garen.
Keiko
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 慶子, 敬子, 啓子, 恵子, etc.(Japanese Kanji) けいこ(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: KEH-KO
From Japanese
慶 (kei) meaning "celebration",
敬 (kei) meaning "respect",
啓 (kei) meaning "open, begin" or
恵 (kei) meaning "favour, benefit" combined with
子 (ko) meaning "child". Other kanji combinations are possible.
Kjersti
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norwegian
Pronounced: SHESH-tee
Kunigunde
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Rare)
Pronounced: koo-nee-GUWN-də
Derived from the Old German element
kunni "clan, family" (or the related prefix
kuni "royal") combined with
gunda "war". It was borne by a 4th-century Swiss
saint, a companion of Saint
Ursula. Another saint by this name was the 11th-century wife of the Holy Roman emperor Henry II.
Kyzdygoi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Kazakh (Rare)
Other Scripts: Қыздыгой(Kazakh)
László
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hungarian
Pronounced: LAS-lo
Hungarian form of
Vladislav.
Saint László was an 11th-century king of Hungary, looked upon as the embodiment of Christian virtue and bravery.
Lilakai
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Navajo
Meaning uncertain, perhaps derived from Navajo łį́į́ʼ "horse" and łigaii "white". It was borne by Lilakai "Lily" Neil (1900-1961), the first woman to be elected to the Navajo Tribal Council (served 1946-1951).
Loliannah
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Navajo
Pronounced: Loh lee ana
Lorraine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: lə-RAYN
From the name of a region in eastern France, originally meaning "kingdom of
Lothar". Lothar was a Frankish king, the great-grandson of
Charlemagne, whose realm was in the part of France that is now called
Lorraine, or in German
Lothringen (from Latin
Lothari regnum). As a given name, it has been used in the English-speaking world since the late 19th century, perhaps due to its similar sound with
Laura. It became popular after World War I when the region was in the news, as it was contested between Germany and France.
Louise
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, English, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, German
Pronounced: LWEEZ(French) loo-EEZ(English) loo-EE-sə(Danish) loo-EE-zə(German)
French feminine form of
Louis.
Lulu 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, German
Pronounced: LOO-loo
Magni
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Norse [1], Norse Mythology
Derived from the Old Norse element
magn meaning
"power, strength". In Norse
mythology this name is borne by a son of
Thor and the giant Járnsaxa.
Magnus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Late Roman
Pronounced: MANG-nuys(Swedish) MAHNG-noos(Norwegian) MOW-noos(Danish) MAG-nəs(English)
Late Latin name meaning
"great". It was borne by a 7th-century
saint who was a missionary in Germany. It became popular in Scandinavia after the time of the 11th-century Norwegian king Magnus I, who was said to have been named after
Charlemagne, or Carolus Magnus in Latin (however there was also a Norse name
Magni). The name was borne by six subsequent kings of Norway as well as three kings of Sweden. It was imported to Scotland and Ireland during the Middle Ages.
Mahpiya
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Sioux
From Dakota or Lakota maȟpíya meaning "cloud, sky". This is the first part of the names of the Dakota chief Mahpiya Wicasta (1780-1863), known as Cloud Man, and the Lakota chiefs Mahpiya Luta (1822-1909), known as Red Cloud, and Mahpiya Iyapato (1838-1905), known as Touch the Clouds.
Malik 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: ملك(Arabic)
Pronounced: MA-leek
Means
"king" in Arabic. In Islamic tradition
الملك (al-Malik) is one of the 99 names of Allah. This can also be another way of transcribing the name
مالك (see
Maalik).
Marcus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Roman, Biblical Latin, English, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Pronounced: MAR-koos(Latin) MAHR-kəs(English) MAR-kuys(Swedish)
Roman
praenomen, or given name, that was probably derived from the name of the Roman god
Mars. This was among the most popular of the Roman praenomina. Famous bearers include Marcus Tullius Cicero (known simply as Cicero), a 1st-century BC statesman and orator, Marcus Antonius (known as Mark Antony), a 1st-century BC politician, and Marcus Aurelius, a notable 2nd-century emperor. This was also the name of a pope of the 4th century. This spelling has occasionally been used in the English-speaking world, though the traditional English form
Mark has been more common.
Mikiel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Maltese
Pronounced: mi-KIL
Mikina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish (Rare)
Mikina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 海来奈, 幹菜, 幹奈, 光岐奈, 光輝奈, 実輝奈, 実綺奈, 樹菜, 心祈奈, 美希奈, 美祈菜, 美紀奈, 美輝奈, 未季南, 未来奈, 巳希奈, etc.(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: MEE-KEE-NAH
From Japanese 海 (mi) meaning "sea, ocean", 幹 (miki) meaning "tree trunk", 光 (mi) meaning "light", 実 (mi) meaning "seed; fruit; nut", 樹 (miki) meaning "tree; plant", 心 (mi) meaning "heart, mind, soul", 美 (mi) meaning "beautiful", 未 (mi) meaning "the Sheep, the eighth of the twelve Earthly Branches" or 巳 (mi) meaning "sign of the snake", 来 (ki) meaning "to come", 岐 (ki) meaning "majestic", 輝 (ki) meaning "brightness", 綺 (ki) meaning "elegant, beautiful", 祈 (ki) meaning "prayer", 希 (ki) meaning "hope, rare", 紀 (ki) meaning "century" or 季 (ki) meaning "youngest brother" combined with 奈 (na) meaning "apple tree", 菜 (na) meaning "vegetables, greens" or 南 (na) meaning "south". Other kanji combinations are possible.
Mi-Suk
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Korean
Other Scripts: 미숙(Korean Hangul) 美淑, etc.(Korean Hanja)
Pronounced: MEE-SOOK
From Sino-Korean
美 (mi) meaning "beautiful" and
淑 (suk) meaning "good, pure, virtuous, charming", as well as other combinations of hanja characters with the same pronunciations.
Morrígan
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish Mythology
Means either
"demon queen" or
"great queen", derived from Old Irish
mor "demon, evil spirit" or
mór "great, big" combined with
rígain "queen". In Irish
mythology Morrígan (called also The Morrígan) was a goddess of war and death who often took the form of a crow.
Muhamad
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Indonesian, Malay, Avar
Other Scripts: МухӀамад(Avar)
Pronounced: moo-HA-mad(Avar)
Indonesian, Malay and Avar variant of
Muhammad.
Muhammad
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic, Urdu, Punjabi, Pashto, Bengali, Tajik, Uzbek, Indonesian, Malay, Avar
Other Scripts: محمّد(Arabic, Urdu, Shahmukhi, Pashto) মুহাম্মদ(Bengali) Муҳаммад(Tajik, Uzbek) МухӀаммад(Avar) Мухаммад(Russian)
Pronounced: moo-HAM-mad(Arabic) muw-HAM-əd(English) muw-HUM-məd(Urdu) MOO-ham-mawd(Bengali)
Means
"praised, commendable" in Arabic, derived from the root
حمد (ḥamida) meaning "to praise". This was the name of the prophet who founded the Islamic religion in the 7th century. According to Islamic belief, at age 40 Muhammad was visited by the angel
Gabriel, who provided him with the first verses of the
Quran. Approximately 20 years later he conquered Mecca, the city of his birth, and his followers controlled most of the Arabian Peninsula at the time of his death in 632.
Since the prophet's time his name has been very popular in the Muslim world. It was borne by several Abbasid caliphs and six sultans of the Ottoman Empire (though their names are usually given in the Turkish spelling Mehmet). Other famous bearers include Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (9th century), a Persian mathematician and scientist who devised algebra, Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Rushd (1126-1198), an Andalusian scholar also called Averroes, and Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi (1207-1273), a Persian poet. In the modern era there is Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876-1948), the founder of Pakistan, and the American boxer Muhammad Ali (1942-2016).
Mulan
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Chinese Mythology
Other Scripts: 木兰(Chinese) 木蘭(Traditional Chinese)
Pronounced: MOO-LAN(Chinese)
From Chinese
木兰 (mùlán) meaning
"magnolia". This is the name of a legendary female warrior who disguises herself as a man to take her ailing father's place when he is conscripted into the army.
Mulian
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Chinese
Other Scripts: 穆莲, 慕莲(Chinese)
From the Chinese 穆 (mù) meaning "majestic, solemn, reverent, calm" or 慕 (mù) meaning "long for, desire, admire" and 莲 (lián) meaning "lotus, water lily".
Murad
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic, Urdu, Bengali, Azerbaijani, Avar
Other Scripts: مراد(Arabic, Urdu) মুরাদ(Bengali) Мурад(Avar)
Pronounced: moo-RAD(Arabic)
Means "wish, desire" in Arabic. This name was borne by five Ottoman sultans.
Musashi
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Japanese, Popular Culture
Other Scripts: 武蔵(Japanese Kanji) むさし(Japanese Hiragana) ムサシ(Japanese Katakana)
Pronounced: MOO-SA-SHEE(Japanese)
This name combines 武 (bu, mu, take.shi) meaning "military, warrior" with 蔵 (sou, zou, osa.meru, kaku.reru, kura, sashi) meaning "own, possess, storehouse", the combination also being read as Takezō.
Musashi is classified as a hyakkanna (百官名), a court rank-style name that samurai used to announce oneself and give himself authority, since it comes from the name of a pre-Meiji Period (1868-1912) province where Tōkyō (formerly known as Edo) is located, thus is used for a provincial governor, mainly on the lines of Musashi-no-kami (武蔵守).
There are two theories to the name's etymology with one (likely a folk etymology) being a corruption of 身狭下 (Musa-shimo) (the upper section of Musa, 身狭上 (Musa-gami), corrupted into 相模 (Sagami)). The other theory suggests that it is borrowed from Ainu, two possibilities being mun-sar-i(hi) which would mean "marsh/wetland of weeds/inedible or otherwise useless plants," and mun-sa-shir meaning "nettle plain land," both probably making some sense since the province was located in the middle of the Kantō plain.
One male bearer of this name was swordsman Musashi Miyamoto (宮本 武蔵) (1584-1645), his childhood name being Bennosuke (弁之助). He won a duel against Kojirō Sasaki who died shortly after.
One female (fictional) bearer of this name is more commonly known around the world as Jessie, who is a villain in Pokémon (written as ムサシ).
Despite it being used on a female character in Pokémon, in real life, it is only used for males.
Nanabah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Navajo
Means "returning warrior" in Navajo, derived from nááná "again" and baa' "warrior, heroine, raid, battle".
Nanook
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Inuit (Anglicized)
Other Scripts: ᓇᓄᖅ(Inuktitut)
Variant of
Nanuq. This was the (fictional) name of the subject of Robert Flaherty's documentary film
Nanook of the North (1922).
Nanuq
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Inuit
Other Scripts: ᓇᓄᖅ(Inuktitut)
Means "polar bear" in Inuktitut.
Niyol
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Navajo
Means "wind" in Navajo.
Nizhóní
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Navajo
From Navajo
nizhóní meaning
"beautiful" [1].
Nurmuhamad
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Avar
Other Scripts: НурмухӀамад(Avar)
Combination of Arabic
نور (nūr) meaning "light" and the name
Muhamad.
Odeserundiye
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Mohawk
Possibly means "lightning has struck" in Mohawk. This was the name of an 18th-century Mohawk chief, also called John Deseronto.
Ohiyesa
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Sioux
Means "winner" in Dakota or Lakota, from ohíya "winning" and the suffix s'a "commonly, frequently".
Onangwatgo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Oneida (Anglicized)
Means "big medicine" in Oneida, from onúhkwaht "medicine" and the suffix -koó "big, great". This was the name of a chief of the Oneida people, also named Cornelius Hill (1834-1907).
Oriol
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Catalan
Pronounced: oo-ree-AWL
From a Catalan surname meaning
"golden". It has been used in honour of
Saint Joseph Oriol (1650-1702).
Quinn
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KWIN
From an Irish surname, an Anglicized form of Irish Gaelic
Ó Cuinn, itself derived from the given name
Conn. In the United States it was more common as a name for boys until 2010, the year after the female character Quinn Fabray began appearing on the television series
Glee.
Raine
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: RAYN
From a surname derived from the Old French nickname
reine meaning
"queen". A famous bearer was the British socialite Raine Spencer (1929-2016), the stepmother of Princess Diana. In modern times it is also considered a variant of
Rain 1.
Rani 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Telugu, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Malayalam, Urdu, Indonesian
Other Scripts: రాణీ(Telugu) रानी(Hindi) राणी(Marathi) রাণী(Bengali) റാണി(Malayalam) رانی(Urdu)
Pronounced: RAH-nee(Hindi)
From Sanskrit
राणी (rāṇī) meaning
"queen".
Reanna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Regina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Lithuanian, Estonian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Late Roman
Pronounced: ri-JEE-nə(English) ri-JIE-nə(English) reh-GEE-na(German, Polish) reh-JEE-na(Italian) reh-KHEE-na(Spanish) ryeh-gyi-NU(Lithuanian) REH-gi-na(Czech) REH-gee-naw(Hungarian)
Means
"queen" in Latin (or Italian). It was in use as a Christian name from early times, and was borne by a 2nd-century
saint. In England it was used during the Middle Ages in honour of the Virgin
Mary, and it was later revived in the 19th century. A city in Canada bears this name, in honour of Queen Victoria.
Régine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: REH-ZHEEN
Reine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: REHN
Means "queen" in French, ultimately from Latin regina.
Rhianna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: ree-AN-ə
Rigantona
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Celtic Mythology (Hypothetical)
Reconstructed old Celtic form of
Rhiannon.
Sandra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian, Czech, Romanian
Other Scripts: Сандра(Serbian, Macedonian)
Pronounced: SAN-dra(Italian, Spanish, Polish, Czech, Romanian) SAN-drə(English) SAHN-DRA(French) ZAN-dra(German) SAHN-dra(Dutch)
Rating: 90% based on 3 votes
Short form of
Alessandra. It was introduced to the English-speaking world (where it is usually used independently of
Alexandra) by author George Meredith, who used it for the heroine in his novel
Emilia in England (1864) and the reissued version
Sandra Belloni (1887). A famous bearer is the American actress Sandra Bullock (1964-).
Sani
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Navajo
Means "the old one" in Navajo.
Saturnina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman, Spanish
Pronounced: sa-toor-NEE-na(Spanish)
Feminine form of
Saturninus. This was the name of a legendary
saint who was supposedly martyred in northern France.
Sauda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swahili
Meaning uncertain, possibly a variant of
Sawda.
Shamil
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic, Kazakh, Avar, Chechen, Tatar, Azerbaijani
Other Scripts: شاميل(Arabic) Шәміл(Kazakh) Шамил(Avar, Tatar) Шамиль(Chechen)
Pronounced: sha-MEEL(Arabic)
Means
"comprehensive, universal" in Arabic, a derivative of
شمل (shamila) meaning "to contain"
[1].
Shamira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: שָׁמִירָה(Hebrew)
Means
"guardian, protector" in Hebrew, from the root
שָׁמַר (shamar) "to guard, to watch".
Shandiin
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Navajo
From Navajo
sháńdíín meaning
"sunshine" [1].
Shenandoah
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Oneida (Anglicized)
Pronounced: shehn-ən-DO-ə(English)
Variant of
Skenandoa, or from the name of the Shenandoah River (names that may or may not be connected). The traditional American folk song
Oh Shenandoah may refer to the Oneida chief Skenandoa or to the river; it is unclear.
Shizhe'e
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Navajo
Means "father" in Navajo.
Sibylla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman, German
Other Scripts: Σίβυλλα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: zee-BI-la(German)
Sibylle
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, French
Pronounced: zee-BI-lə(German) SEE-BEEL(French)
German and French form of
Sibyl.
Skenandoa
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Oneida (Anglicized)
Possibly from Oneida oskanutú meaning "deer". This was the name of an 18th-century Oneida chief. According to some sources the Shenandoah River in Virginia was named after him, though the river seems to have borne this name from before his birth. It is possible that he was named after the river, or that the similarity in spellings is a coincidence.
Sunngifu
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Anglo-Saxon [1]
Sunniva
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norwegian
Scandinavian form of the Old English name
Sunngifu, which meant
"sun gift" from the Old English elements
sunne "sun" and
giefu "gift". This was the name of a legendary English
saint who was shipwrecked in Norway and killed by the inhabitants.
Taaniel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Estonian
Takeshi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 武, 健, etc.(Japanese Kanji) たけし(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: TA-KEH-SHEE
From Japanese
武 (takeshi) meaning "military, martial",
健 (takeshi) meaning "strong, healthy", or other kanji having the same reading.
Tatanka
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Sioux (Anglicized)
From Lakota tȟatȟáŋka meaning "male bison". This was the first part of the name of the Lakota holy man and chief Tatanka Iyotake (1831-1890), usually translated into English as Sitting Bull.
Tiburtius
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Torbjørg
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norwegian
Torborg
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish (Rare), Norwegian (Rare)
Tu
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Chinese
Other Scripts: 图, etc.(Chinese) 圖, etc.(Traditional Chinese)
Pronounced: TOO
From Chinese
图 (tú) meaning "chart, map" or other characters with similar pronunciations.
Tyler
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: TIE-lər
From an English surname meaning "tiler of roofs", derived from Old English tigele "tile". The surname was borne by American president John Tyler (1790-1862).
Vega 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Astronomy
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
The name of a star in the constellation Lyra. Its name is from Arabic
الواقع (al-Wāqiʿ) meaning "the swooping (eagle)".
Vidar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norwegian, Swedish, Norse Mythology
Pronounced: VEE-dahr(Swedish)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From Old Norse
Víðarr, which was possibly derived from
víðr "wide" and
herr "army, warrior". In Norse
mythology Víðarr was the son of
Odin and
Grid. At the time of the end of the world, Ragnarök, it is said he will avenge his father's death by slaying the wolf
Fenrir.
Víðarr
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norse Mythology
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Vladislav
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian, Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian
Other Scripts: Владислав(Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian)
Pronounced: vlə-dyi-SLAF(Russian) VLA-gyi-slaf(Czech) VLA-gyee-slow(Slovak)
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
From the Old Slavic name *
Voldislavŭ, derived from the elements
volděti "to rule" and
slava "glory". This name has been borne by kings, princes and dukes of Croatia, Serbia, Bohemia, Poland and Wallachia.
Wapasha
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Sioux
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Means "red leaf" in Dakota, from waȟpé "leaf" and šá "red". This was the name of several Dakota chiefs.
Wenilo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic [1]
Originally a short form of Germanic names beginning with Old Frankish
wani or Old High German
wan meaning
"hope, expectation".
Wielisław
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish (Rare)
Pronounced: vyeh-LEE-swaf
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Derived from the Slavic elements
velĭ "great" and
slava "glory".
Wiesław
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: VYEH-swaf
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Wigstan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Anglo-Saxon [1]
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Wisław
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish (Rare)
Pronounced: VEE-swaf
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Yeong-Suk
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Korean
Other Scripts: 영숙(Korean Hangul) 英淑, etc.(Korean Hanja)
Pronounced: YUNG-SOOK
From Sino-Korean
英 (yeong) meaning "flower, petal, brave, hero" and
淑 (suk) meaning "good, pure, virtuous, charming". Other hanja character combinations are possible.
Yordan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Bulgarian
Other Scripts: Йордан(Bulgarian)
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Yu
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Chinese
Other Scripts: 玉, 愉, 雨, 宇, 裕, etc.(Chinese)
Pronounced: UY
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
From Chinese
玉 (yù) meaning "jade, precious stone, gem",
愉 (yú) meaning "pleasant, delightful" or
雨 (yǔ) meaning "rain". Other characters can form this name as well.
Yu-Mi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Korean
Other Scripts: 유미(Korean Hangul) 有美, etc.(Korean Hanja)
Pronounced: YOO-MEE
From Sino-Korean
有 (yu) meaning "have, possess" and
美 (mi) meaning "beautiful". Other hanja character combinations can also form this name.
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