protobo998's Personal Name List
Abélard
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French (Rare, Archaic)
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Abelart
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Provençal, Niçard
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Abelin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Provençal, Niçard
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Niçard diminutive of
Abel.
Acaire
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Provençal, Niçard
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Acarius
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Frankish (Latinized), History (Ecclesiastical)
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Variant of
Acharius. Saint Acarius (died 14 March 642) was bishop of Doornik and Noyon, which today are located on either side of the Franco-Belgian border. He was especially attentive to the poor and afflicted, whose needs he enjoyed relieving and calming their suffering.
Achilles
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized), Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἀχιλλεύς(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: ə-KIL-eez(English) a-KEEL-lehs(Latin)
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From the Greek
Ἀχιλλεύς (Achilleus), which is of unknown meaning, perhaps derived from Greek
ἄχος (achos) meaning
"pain" or else from the name of the Achelous River. This was the name of a warrior in Greek legend, one of the central characters in
Homer's
Iliad. The bravest of the Greek heroes in the war against the Trojans, he was eventually killed by an arrow to his heel, the only vulnerable part of his body.
This name was sometimes used as a personal name, and was borne by a few early saints, including a Roman soldier martyred with Nereus in the 1st century.
Achilou
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Provençal, Niçard
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Adalart
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Provençal, Niçard
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Adalhard
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic [1]
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Derived from the Old German elements
adal "noble" and
hart "hard, firm, brave, hardy".
Saint Adalhard or Adalard was a cousin of
Charlemagne who became an abbot of Corbie.
Adonis
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἄδωνις(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: A-DAW-NEES(Classical Greek) ə-DAHN-is(English) ə-DO-nis(English)
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From Phoenician
𐤀𐤃𐤍 (ʾadon) meaning
"lord, master". In Greek
myth Adonis was a handsome young shepherd killed while hunting a wild boar. The anemone flower is said to have sprung from his blood. Because he was loved by
Aphrodite,
Zeus allowed him to be restored to life for part of each year. The Greeks borrowed this character from Semitic traditions, originally Sumerian (see
Dumuzi).
Aegidius
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Late Roman
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Original Latin form of
Giles.
Aerie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern, Rare)
Pronounced: ER-ee, EE-ree
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Diminutive of names beginning with Aer, coinciding with the English word aerie, "a bird of prey's nest".
Agilulf
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic [1]
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Old German name derived from the elements
agil meaning "edge, blade" and
wolf meaning "wolf". This name was borne by a 6th-century king of the Lombards and by an 8th-century
saint (a bishop of Cologne).
Aika
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 愛華, 愛花, 愛香, 愛加, 愛歌, 愛嘉, 藍花, 藍香, 藍加, 藍華, 藍嘉, 藍歌(Japanese Kanji) あいか(Japanese Hiragana) アイカ(Japanese Katakana)
Pronounced: AH-EE-KAH
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This name combines 愛 (ai, ito.shii, o.shimu, kana.shii, mana, me.deru) meaning "affection, love" or 藍 (ran, ai) meaning "indigo" with 華 or 花 (ka, ke, hana) which both mean "flower," 香 (kyou, kou, ka, kao.ri, kao.ru) meaning "incense, perfume, smell", 加 (ka, kuwa.eru, kuwa.waru) meaning "add, include, join", 歌 (ka, uta, uta.u) meaning "sing, song, poem" or 嘉 (ka, yoi, yomi.suru) meaning "applaud, esteem, praise."
Aimery
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval French
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Aimon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Lengadocian, Provençal, Medieval Walloon
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Medieval Walloon, Languedocian and Provençal form of
Haimo.
Ainara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque, Spanish
Pronounced: ie-NA-ra
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Ajax
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Αἴας(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: AY-jaks(English)
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From the Greek name
Αἴας (Aias), perhaps deriving from Greek
αἰαστής (aiastes) meaning
"mourner" or
αἶα (aia) meaning
"earth, land". In Greek
mythology this was the name of two of the heroes who fought for the Greeks in the Trojan War: the son of
Telamon and the son of Oileus. When the armour of the slain hero
Achilles was not given to Ajax Telamonian, he became mad with jealousy and killed himself.
Ákos
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hungarian
Pronounced: A-kosh
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Possibly of Turkic origin meaning "white falcon". This was the name of a medieval Hungarian clan.
Aksel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Danish, Norwegian
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Akseli
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: AHK-seh-lee
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Alari
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Provençal
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Alaric
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Gothic (Anglicized)
Other Scripts: 𐌰𐌻𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌺𐍃(Gothic)
Pronounced: AL-ə-rik(English)
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From the Gothic name *
Alareiks meaning
"ruler of all", derived from the element
alls "all" combined with
reiks "ruler, king". This was the name of a king of the Visigoths who sacked Rome in the 5th century.
Alastair
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish
Pronounced: AL-i-stər(English)
Alderic
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic, Provençal, Niçard
Aldo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: AL-do(Italian)
Originally a short form of Germanic names beginning with the element
alt meaning
"old" (Proto-Germanic *
aldaz), and sometimes also with
adal meaning
"noble" (Proto-Germanic *
aþalaz).
Aldric
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French (Rare), Germanic [1]
Pronounced: AL-DREEK(French)
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From a Germanic name, derived from the elements
alt "old" and
rih "ruler, king".
Saint Aldric was a 9th-century bishop of Le Mans.
Aleks
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian, Ukrainian, Slovene, Polish, Armenian
Other Scripts: Алекс(Russian, Ukrainian) Ալեքս(Armenian)
Pronounced: A-lyiks(Russian) A-lehks(Polish)
Alèssì
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Provençal, Niçard
Alik
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Алик(Russian)
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Alin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Romanian
Possibly a Romanian masculine form of
Alina. Alternatively it may derive from Romanian
alina "to soothe".
Alphard
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Astronomy
Derived from Arabic الفرد (al-fard) "the solitary one". Alphard is the brightest star in the constellation Hydra, with no other bright stars near it.
Alphonse
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: AL-FAWNS
Alucard
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Popular Culture
Pronounced: AH-loo-kard
The name
Dracula spelled backwards. Though regularly featured in (animated) films, notably 'Son of Dracula' (1943), it is perhaps best known in more recent times from Kouta Hirano's 'Hellsing' manga and the 'Castlevania' video games.
Amadeus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Late Roman
Pronounced: ahm-ə-DAY-əs(English) ahm-ə-DEE-əs(English)
Means
"love of God", derived from Latin
amare "to love" and
Deus "God". A famous bearer was the Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), who was actually born Wolfgang
Theophilus Mozart but preferred the Latin translation of his Greek middle name. This name was also assumed as a middle name by the German novelist E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822), who took it in honour of Mozart.
Amadieu
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Provençal
Amaterasu
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese Mythology
Other Scripts: 天照(Japanese Kanji) あまてらす(Japanese Hiragana) アマテラス(Japanese Katakana)
Pronounced: A-MA-TEH-RA-SOO(Japanese)
Means
"shining over heaven", from Japanese
天 (ama) meaning "heaven, sky" and
照 (terasu) meaning "shine". This was the name of the Japanese sun goddess, the ruler of the heavens. She was born when
Izanagi washed his left eye after returning from the underworld. At one time the Japanese royal family claimed descent from her.
Ambroży
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish (Rare)
Pronounced: am-BRAW-zhi
Polish form of
Ambrosius (see
Ambrose).
Amphelise
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English
Meaning unknown. It is attested from the 12th century in the Latin form Amphelisia and the vernacular form Anflis.
Anastasi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Lengadocian, Provençal, Niçard
Languedocian, Provençal and Niçard form of
Anastasius.
Anaya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: ə-NIE-ə, ə-NAY-ə
Meaning unknown, possibly from the Spanish surname
Anaya (itself from the name of a Spanish town), used because of its similarity to
Amaya [1].
Andor 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norwegian
From the Old Norse name
Arnþórr, derived from the element
ǫrn "eagle" combined with the name of the Norse god
Þórr (see
Thor).
Aneurin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: a-NAY-rin
Angelus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Late Roman
Anicet
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: A-NEE-SEH
Anna-Liisa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: AHN-nah-lee-sah
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Annelie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Swedish
Pronounced: A-nə-lee(German)
Anselm
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, English (Rare), Germanic [1]
Pronounced: AN-zelm(German) AN-selm(English)
Derived from the Old German elements
ansi "god" and
helm "helmet, protection". This name was brought to England in the late 11th century by
Saint Anselm, who was born in northern Italy. He was archbishop of Canterbury and a Doctor of the Church.
Anso
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic [1]
Short form of Germanic names beginning with the element
ansi meaning
"god" (Proto-Germanic *
ansuz).
Antero
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: AHN-teh-ro
Antoni
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish, Catalan
Pronounced: an-TAW-nyee(Polish) ən-TAW-nee(Catalan)
Polish and Catalan form of
Antonius (see
Anthony). A notable bearer was the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926).
Aodhán
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish
From the Old Irish name
Áedán meaning
"little fire", a
diminutive of
Áed (see
Aodh). This name was borne by a 6th-century king of Dál Riata. It was also the name of a few early Irish
saints, including a 6th-century bishop of Ferns and a 7th-century bishop of Lindisfarne.
Aras
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Lithuanian
Means "eagle" in Lithuanian (a poetic word).
Archander
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized), Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Arild
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norwegian
Arman 2
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Armenian
Other Scripts: Արման(Armenian)
Pronounced: ahr-MAHN
Armand
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French, Catalan
Pronounced: AR-MAHN(French) ər-MAN(Catalan)
French and Catalan form of
Herman.
Árni
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Norse [1], Icelandic
Old Norse and Icelandic form of
Arne 1.
Arsenios
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Ἀρσένιος(Ancient Greek)
Means
"virile" in Greek.
Saint Arsenius was a 5th-century deacon who was tutor to the two sons of the Roman emperor Theodosius. The two sons, Arcadius and Honorius, divided the empire into eastern and western halves upon their father's death.
Ásdís
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Icelandic, Old Norse [1]
Pronounced: OWS-tees(Icelandic)
Derived from the Old Norse elements
áss "god" and
dís "goddess".
Aslak
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norwegian, Danish, Swedish (Rare), Old Danish, Old Swedish, Finnish
Pronounced: AHS-lahk(Finnish)
Younger form of
Áslákr, derived from Old Norse
áss "god" and
leikr "game, play".
Áslákr
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Norse
Atilius
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Atréju
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature
Created by German author Michael Ende for the hero of his fantasy novel 'Die unendliche Geschichte' (1979; English: 'The Neverending Story'). The character is a boy warrior whose name is explained as meaning "son of all" in his fictional native language, given to him because he was raised by all of the members of his village after being orphaned as a newborn.
Attilio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: at-TEE-lyo
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.
Beckett
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: BEHK-it
From an English surname that could be derived from various sources, including from Middle English bec meaning "beak" or bekke meaning "stream, brook".
Birk
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Norwegian, Danish
Pronounced: BIRK(German)
Short form of
Burkhard. This is the name of a character in Astrid Lindgren's book
Ronia the Robber's Daughter (1981).
Bleddyn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: BLEDH-in
From Welsh
blaidd "wolf" combined with a
diminutive suffix. This was the name of an 11th-century king of Gwynedd and Powys.
Brancai
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Provençal
Briseis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Βρισηΐς(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: brie-SEE-is(English)
Patronymic derived from
Βρισεύς (Briseus), a Greek name of unknown meaning. In Greek
mythology Briseis (real name Hippodameia) was the daughter of Briseus. She was captured during the Trojan War by
Achilles. After
Agamemnon took her away from him, Achilles refused to fight in the war.
Bronwen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: BRAWN-wehn
Seemingly derived from Welsh
bron "breast" and
gwen "white, blessed", though it has sometimes occurred as a variant spelling of the legendary name
Branwen [1]. It has been used as a given name in Wales since the 19th century. It is borne by a character in Richard Llewellyn's 1939 novel
How Green Was My Valley, as well as the 1941 movie adaptation.
Brynhildur
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Icelandic
Brynja
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Icelandic, Old Norse
Pronounced: PRIN-ya(Icelandic)
Means "armour" in Old Norse.
Caelestis
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Late Roman
Late Latin name meaning "of the sky, heavenly", a derivative of Latin caelum "heaven, sky".
Caesonius
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Calendau
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Provençal
Pronounced: ka-lehn-DOW
Derived from Provençal calendau "(of) Christmas", ultimately derived from Latin calendalis. Calendau is the name of the hero of Mistral’s poem Calendau (1867).
Calico
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
From the English word
calico referring to something having a pattern of red and contrasting areas, specially the tri-coloured cat, resembling the color of calico cloth, a kind of rough cloth often printed with a bright pattern. Derived from
Calicut, an Anglicized form of
Kozhikode (from Malayalam കോഴിക്കോട്
(kōḻikkōṭ),
koyil "palace" combined with
kota "fort, fortified palace"), the name of a city in southwestern India from where the cloth was originally exported.
A noted bearer is John Rackham (1682 – 1720), commonly known as Calico Jack, an English pirate captain operating in the Bahamas and in Cuba during the early 18th century, his nickname derived from the calico clothing he wore.
Callahan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KAL-ə-han
From an Irish surname, the Anglicized form of
Ó Ceallacháin, itself from the given name
Cellachán.
Camillo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ka-MEEL-lo
Cass
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KAS
Castor
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Κάστωρ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: KAS-tər(English)
From the Greek name
Κάστωρ (Kastor), possibly related to
κέκασμαι (kekasmai) meaning
"to excel, to shine" (pluperfect
κέκαστο). Alternatively it could be derived from the Greek word
κάστωρ (kastor) meaning
"beaver", though the legends about Castor do not mention beavers, which were foreign animals to the Greeks. In Greek
myth Castor was a son of
Zeus and the twin brother of
Pollux. The constellation Gemini, which represents the two brothers, contains a star by this name.
Cecilio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: theh-THEE-lyo(European Spanish) seh-SEE-lyo(Latin American Spanish) cheh-CHEE-lyo(Italian)
Celio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Rare), Spanish (Rare)
Pronounced: CHEH-lyo(Italian) THEHL-yo(European Spanish) SEHL-yo(Latin American Spanish)
Italian and Spanish form of
Caelius.
Celsus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Roman family name meaning
"tall" in Latin. This was the name of a 2nd-century philosopher who wrote against Christianity. It was also borne by an early
saint martyred with Nazarius in Milan.
Cénéric
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norman
Cepheus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Κηφεύς(Ancient Greek)
Latinized form of the Greek
Κηφεύς (Kepheus), which is of unknown meaning. In Greek legend he was a king of Ethiopia, the husband of
Cassiopeia. After he died he was made into a constellation and placed in the sky.
Cherise
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: shə-REES
Chesley
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: CHEHS-lee
From a surname that was originally from a place name meaning "camp meadow" in Old English.
Chizuru
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 千鶴(Japanese Kanji) ちづる(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: CHEE-ZOO-ROO
From Japanese
千 (chi) meaning "thousand" and
鶴 (tsuru) meaning "crane (bird)". A Japanese legend says that a person who folds a thousand origami cranes within one year will be granted a wish.
Chrysanthe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Χρυσάνθη(Ancient Greek)
Chrysanthi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Χρυσάνθη(Greek)
Chrysanthos
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek, Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Χρύσανθος(Greek)
Means
"golden flower" from Greek
χρύσεος (chryseos) meaning "golden" combined with
ἄνθος (anthos) meaning "flower". This name was borne by a semi-legendary 3rd-century Egyptian
saint.
Ciel
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Various (Rare)
Means "sky" in French. It is not used as a given name in France itself.
Cipriano
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: chee-PRYA-no(Italian) chee-pree-A-no(Italian) thee-PRYA-no(European Spanish) see-PRYA-no(Latin American Spanish)
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of
Cyprianus (see
Cyprian).
Constantijn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch (Rare)
Pronounced: kawn-stahn-TAYN
Cornelio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Italian
Pronounced: kor-NEH-lyo
Crestian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Provençal
Crowley
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Irish
Pronounced: KRAW-lee(English)
Transferred use of the surname
Crowley.
Cyneric
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Anglo-Saxon [1][2]
Derived from Old English
cyne "royal" and
ric "ruler, king".
Cyprien
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: SEE-PREE-YEHN
French form of
Cyprianus (see
Cyprian).
Cyriel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Flemish
Dutch (Flemish) form of
Cyril.
Daedalus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Δαίδαλος(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: DEHD-ə-ləs(English) DEED-ə-ləs(English)
Latinized form of the Greek
Δαίδαλος (Daidalos), which was derived from
δαιδάλλω (daidallo) meaning
"to work cunningly". In Greek
myth Daedalus was an Athenian inventor who was banished to Crete. There he designed the Labyrinth for King
Minos, but he and his son
Icarus were eventually imprisoned inside it because he had aided
Theseus in his quest against the Minotaur. Daedalus and Icarus escaped using wings fashioned from wax, but Icarus fell from the sky to his death.
Daiki
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 大輝, 大樹, 大貴, etc.(Japanese Kanji) だいき(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: DA-EE-KYEE
From Japanese
大 (dai) meaning "big, great" combined with
輝 (ki) meaning "brightness",
樹 (ki) meaning "tree" or
貴 (ki) meaning "valuable". Other combinations of kanji can also form this name.
Danièu
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Provençal
Danís
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Gascon, Provençal
Gascon and Provençal form of
Denis.
Decker
Gender: Masculine
Usage: American (South), English (American, Rare)
Transferred use of the surname
Decker. This was used for a character on the American soap opera
General Hospital: Decker Moss, a character that debuted on the show in 1989.
Denzel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: dehn-ZEHL
Possibly a variant of
Denzil. This spelling of the name was popularized by American actor Denzel Washington (1954-), who was named after his father.
Dermot
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish
Dew
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: Doo
Rare name from english word “dew”.
Dewi 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: DEW-i
Possibly from
Dewydd, an Old Welsh form of
David.
Saint Dewi, the patron saint of Wales, was a 6th-century bishop of Mynyw. A later Welsh form of David was
Dafydd, which was more common in the medieval period. Dewi was revived in the 19th century.
Dex
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DEHKS
Dian
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Indonesian
Pronounced: DEE-an
Means "candle" in Indonesian.
Diede
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Dutch
Pronounced: DEE-də
Short form of names beginning with the Old High German element
diota (Old Frankish
þeoda) meaning "people".
Diodato
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Dionysius
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized), Biblical
Other Scripts: Διονύσιος(Ancient Greek)
Latin form of
Dionysios. Dionysius the Areopagite, who is mentioned in the
New Testament, was a judge converted to Christianity by
Saint Paul. This was also the name of many other early saints, including a 3rd-century pope.
Django
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Popular Culture
Pronounced: JANG-go(English)
The name of Romani-French musician Django Reinhardt (1910-1953), whose real name was Jean. It is possibly from a Romani word meaning
"I awake", though it might in fact be derived from the name
Jean 1. This is the name of the title character in the Italian western movie
Django (1966), as well as numerous subsequent films.
Dominicus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Late Roman, Dutch (Rare)
Pronounced: do-MEE-nee-kuys(Dutch)
Original Latin form of
Dominic. This is also the official Dutch form, used on birth certificates but not typically in daily life.
Donato
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: do-NA-to(Italian, Spanish)
From the Late Latin name
Donatus meaning
"given". Several early
saints had this name. The name was also borne by two Renaissance masters: the sculptor Donato di Niccolo di Bette Bardi (also known as Donatello), and the architect Donato Bramante.
Dragan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Macedonian, Bulgarian
Other Scripts: Драган(Serbian, Macedonian, Bulgarian)
Derived from the Slavic element
dorgŭ (South Slavic
drag) meaning
"precious".
Eero
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish, Estonian
Pronounced: EH-ro(Finnish)
Finnish and Estonian form of
Eric. A famous bearer was the architect Eero Saarinen (1910-1961).
Elden
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Elian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch (Rare)
Pronounced: EH-lee-yahn
Eliander
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American, Rare), Portuguese (Brazilian, Rare)
This given name is predominantly used in South America. In the Spanish-speaking countries of that continent, it is probably a combination of a name starting with
Eli- (such as
Elisa) with a name ending in
-ander (such as
Alexander). After all, it is fairly common in especially Latin-American countries for parents to give their child a name that is a combination of their own names. Also compare
Elián and
Eliandro.
As for Brazil: Eliander is usually a short form of Elianderson there, though of course the explanation described above is possible in Brazil as well.
Elin
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Welsh
Pronounced: EH-lin(Swedish, Norwegian, Welsh)
Scandinavian and Welsh form of
Helen.
Emilian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Romanian, Polish
Pronounced: eh-MEE-lyan(Polish)
Romanian and Polish form of
Aemilianus (see
Emiliano).
Emrys
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: EHM-ris
Welsh form of
Ambrose. Emrys Wledig (or Ambrosius Aurelianus) was a Romano-British military leader who fought against the invading Anglo-Saxons in the 5th century. Tales of his life were used by the 12th-century chronicler Geoffrey of Monmouth to help shape the early character of
Merlin, whom he called Merlinus Ambrosius in Latin.
Ennio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: EHN-nyo
Italian form of the Roman family name Ennius, which is of unknown meaning. Quintus Ennius was an early Roman poet.
Eos
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἠώς(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: EH-AWS(Classical Greek) EE-ahs(English)
Means "dawn" in Greek. This was the name of the Greek goddess of the dawn.
Ephesius
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Late Roman
Ephraim
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Hebrew, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Other Scripts: אֶףְרָיִם(Hebrew) Ἐφραίμ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: EEF-ree-əm(English) EEF-rəm(English)
From the Hebrew name
אֶףְרָיִם (ʾEfrayim) meaning
"fruitful". In the
Old Testament Ephraim is a son of
Joseph and
Asenath and the founder of one of the twelve tribes of Israel. This name was also borne by two early
saints: Ephraim or Ephrem the Syrian, a 4th-century theologian, and Ephraim of Antioch, a 6th-century patriarch of Antioch.
Erato
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἐρατώ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: EH-RA-TAW(Classical Greek) EHR-ə-to(English)
Means
"lovely" in Greek. In Greek
mythology she was one of the nine Muses, the muse of lyric poetry.
Eryx
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἔρυξ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: ERIKS
Derived from the Greek verb ἐρύκω (eruko) or (eryko) meaning "to keep in, to curb, to hold back, to restrain". This is the name of several characters in Greek mythology, one of them being a king of the Elymian people from Sicily. A mountain and city in Sicily were named after him, but are now called Erice.
Eske
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Danish
Modern Danish form of
Esger.
Eske Willerslev (born 1971) is a Danish evolutionary geneticist.
Eskender
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Amharic
Other Scripts: እስክንድር(Amharic)
Esperanza
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: ehs-peh-RAN-tha(European Spanish) ehs-peh-RAN-sa(Latin American Spanish)
Spanish form of the Late Latin name Sperantia, which was derived from sperare "to hope".
Evgeny
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Евгений(Russian)
Pronounced: yiv-GYEH-nyee, iv-GYEH-nyee
Ezio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: EHT-tsyo
Fabrice
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: FAB-REES
French form of the Roman family name Fabricius, which was derived from Latin faber meaning "craftsman". Gaius Fabricius Luscinus was a 3rd-century BC Roman general and statesman.
Fáelán
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Irish [1]
Falco
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Late Roman, Italian, German
Means "hawk" in Italian. It derives from Late Latin falco, ultimately from Latin falx meaning "scythe" referring to the raptor's claws.
Fargo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (American)
Pronounced: FAR-go(American English)
Transferred use of the surname
Fargo.
Fenris
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norse Mythology, Literature
Short form of the Old Norse
Fenrisúlfr (literally "
Fenrir-wolf"). The form Fenris Ulf was used for a talking wolf (originally named Maugrim) in the now defunct American edition of C. S. Lewis' 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'.
Ferenc
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hungarian
Pronounced: FEH-rents
Hungarian form of
Francis. This is the Hungarian name of the composer Franz Liszt (1811-1886).
Ferox
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Roman, Pet
Pronounced: FEHROKS(Latin)
Personal remark: Entry says "pet name" but this might make a cool boy name.
Roman cognomen which was derived from the Latin adjective ferox meaning "wild, bold, ferocious." In his work De re rustica, the 1st-century Roman writer Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella recommends this as a good name for dogs.
Fiera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Esperanto
Pronounced: fee-EH-ra
Means "proud" in Esperanto.
Fillin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish (Rare)
Fiore
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: FYO-reh
Means
"flower" in Italian. It can also be considered an Italian form of the Latin names
Flora and
Florus.
Fiorello
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Italian (Swiss)
Flæmingr
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Norse [1]
Flavia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: FLA-vya(Italian) FLA-bya(Spanish) FLA-wee-a(Latin)
Floris
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch
Pronounced: FLO-ris
Dutch form of
Florentius (see
Florence).
Floro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Rare), Spanish (Rare), Portuguese (Rare)
Pronounced: FLAW-ro(Italian) FLO-ro(Spanish)
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of
Florus.
Freyde
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Yiddish (Rare)
Other Scripts: פֿריידע(Yiddish)
From Yiddish
פֿרייד (freid) meaning
"joy".
Friede
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German
Pronounced: FREE-də
Gaius
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Roman, Biblical Latin, Biblical
Pronounced: GA-ee-oos(Latin) GIE-əs(English)
Roman
praenomen, or given name, of uncertain meaning. It is possibly derived from Latin
gaudere "to rejoice", though it may be of unknown Etruscan origin. This was a very common Roman praenomen, the most famous bearers being Gaius Julius Caesar, the great leader of the Roman Republic, and his adopted son Gaius Octavius (later known as Augustus), the first Roman emperor. This name also appears in the
New Testament belonging to a bishop of Ephesus who is regarded as a
saint.
Gale 1
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: GAYL
Personal remark: See this name as unisex but male first. "Gail" is the female name of it to me.
Variant of
Gail. It also coincides with the English word
gale meaning
"storm".
Genesius
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Late Roman
From Greek
γένεσις (genesis) meaning
"birth, origin". This was the name of various early Christian
saints, notably Genesius of Rome, the patron saint of actors.
Gratian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History
Pronounced: GRAY-shən(English)
From the Roman name
Gratianus, which meant
"grace" from Latin
gratus.
Saint Gratian was the first bishop of Tours (4th century). This was also the name of a Roman emperor.
Graysen
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: GRAY-sən
Guðrún
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Old Norse [1][2], Norse Mythology, Icelandic
Old Norse form of
Gudrun, as well as the modern Icelandic form.
Gwaine
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh, Arthurian Cycle
Variant of
Gawain. Gwaine is a character on the BBC television series 'Merlin', meant to represent the Gawain of Arthurian legend.
Helga
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, German, Dutch, Finnish, Hungarian, Czech, Portuguese, Old Norse [1]
Pronounced: HEHL-ga(German) HEHL-gha(Dutch) HEHL-gaw(Hungarian) EHL-gu(European Portuguese) EW-gu(Brazilian Portuguese)
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Helgi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Icelandic, Old Norse [1]
Old Norse and Icelandic form of
Helge.
Hildegarde
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Rare)
Pronounced: EEL-DU-GARD
Hlynur
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Icelandic
Means "maple" in Icelandic.
Hogan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Transferred use of the surname
Hogan.
Hylo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: American (Rare)
Pronounced: HIE-lo
Nickname given to bluegrass singer and guitarist
Frank "Hylo"
Brown, Jr. (1922-2003) due to his broad vocal range.
Hypatia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Ὑπατία(Ancient Greek)
Derived from Greek
ὕπατος (hypatos) meaning
"highest, supreme". Hypatia of Alexandria was a 5th-century philosopher and mathematician, daughter of the mathematician Theon.
Iago
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh, Galician, Portuguese
Pronounced: YA-gaw(Welsh) ee-AH-go(English) YA-ghuw(Galician)
Welsh and Galician form of
Iacobus (see
James). This was the name of two early Welsh kings of Gwynedd. It is also the name of the villain in Shakespeare's tragedy
Othello (1603).
Iñaki
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Basque
Pronounced: ee-NYA-kee
Indriði
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Icelandic
Pronounced: IN-tri-dhi
Inga
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Estonian, Finnish, Latvian, Lithuanian, German, Polish, Russian, Old Norse [1][2], Germanic [3]
Other Scripts: Инга(Russian)
Pronounced: ING-ah(Swedish) ING-ga(German) EENG-ga(Polish) EEN-gə(Russian)
Strictly feminine form of
Inge.
Ingvar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish, Icelandic, Norwegian, Danish
From the Old Norse name
Yngvarr, which was derived from the name of the Germanic god
Yngvi combined with
herr meaning "army, warrior".
Ishtar
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Semitic Mythology
Other Scripts: 𒀭𒈹, 𒌋𒁯(Akkadian Cuneiform)
Pronounced: ISH-tahr(English)
From the Semitic root
ʿṯtr, which possibly relates to the Evening Star. Ishtar was an Akkadian, Assyrian and Babylonian goddess who presided over love, war and fertility. She was
cognate with the Canaanite and Phoenician
Ashtoreth, and she was also identified with the Sumerian goddess
Inanna. Her name in Akkadian cuneiform
𒀭𒈹 was the same as the Sumerian cuneiform for Inanna.
Isidro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: ee-SEE-dhro
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.
Jaakko
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: YAHK-ko
János
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hungarian
Pronounced: YA-nosh
Jasmin 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Finnish, English
Pronounced: yas-MEEN(German) YAHS-meen(Finnish) JAZ-min(English)
German and Finnish form of
Jasmine, as well as an English variant.
Jaxon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: JAK-sən
Jaylin
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: African American (Modern), English (Modern), Dutch (Modern)
Pronounced: JAY-lən(English)
Jenessa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: jə-NEHS-ə
Combination of
Jen and the popular name suffix
essa.
Jeremias
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German (Rare), Portuguese, Finnish, Biblical
Pronounced: yeh-reh-MEE-as(German) YEH-reh-mee-ahs(Finnish)
German, Portuguese and Finnish form of
Jeremiah. It is also the form used in some English translations of the
New Testament.
Jethro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: יִתְרוֹ(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: JETH-ro(English)
From the Hebrew name
יִתְרוֹ (Yiṯro), which was derived from the Hebrew word
יֶתֶר (yeṯer) meaning
"abundance" [1]. According to the
Old Testament, Jethro was a Midianite priest who sheltered
Moses when he fled Egypt. He was the father of
Zipporah, who became Moses's wife. A famous bearer of the name was Jethro Tull (1674-1741), an English inventor and agriculturist.
Jip
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Frisian, Dutch
Pronounced: YIP(Dutch)
Originally a Frisian short form of names beginning with the Old German element
geba meaning
"gift". This is the name of a boy in the Dutch children's book series
Jip and Janneke, first published 1952.
Joakim
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Serbian, Macedonian
Other Scripts: Јоаким(Serbian, Macedonian)
Pronounced: YOO-a-kim(Swedish, Norwegian, Danish) YO-ah-keem(Finnish) YAW-a-keem(Macedonian)
Scandinavian, Macedonian and Serbian form of
Joachim.
Jolian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Provençal
Joni 2
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: YO-nee
Jovian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Roman (Anglicized)
From Latin
Iovianus, a Roman
cognomen that was a derivative of
Iovis (see
Jove). This was the name of a 4th-century Roman emperor.
Jovien
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History (Gallicized)
Judikael
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Breton
Judoc
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Breton, Medieval Breton
Breton form of
Iudocus (see
Joyce).
Juho
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: YOO-ho
Finnish short form of
Juhani, now used independently.
Jurian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval Low German
Medieval Low German form of
George.
Kace
Gender: Masculine
Usage: American
Pronounced: KAYS
Kae
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: KAY
Kaelyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: KAY-lin
Kaourintin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Breton
Karine 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: KA-REEN
French form of
Carina 1. It can also function as a short form of
Catherine, via Swedish
Karin.
Kasper
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish
Pronounced: KAHS-pər(Dutch) KAS-bu(Danish) KAHS-pehr(Swedish)
Dutch and Scandinavian form of
Jasper.
Keir
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish
From a surname that was a variant of
Kerr.
Kieron
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish, English
Pronounced: KEER-ən(English) KEER-awn(English)
Kinley
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: KIN-lee
From a Scottish surname, an Anglicized form of
Mac Fhionnlaigh, itself derived from the given name
Fionnlagh.
Kirby
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KUR-bee
From an English surname that was originally from a place name meaning "church settlement" in Old Norse. This name briefly spiked in popularity for American girls in 1982 after the character Kirby Anders Colby was introduced to the soap opera Dynasty.
Kolbein
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norwegian
Kora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Rare)
Pronounced: KO-ra
Kóri
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Norse [1]
Old Norse name of unknown meaning.
Kristoffer
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Kylan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: KIE-lən
Invented name based on the sounds found in other names such as
Kyle and
Rylan.
Kyllian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Landulf
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic [1]
Old German name derived from the elements
lant meaning "land" and
wolf meaning "wolf". This name was borne by several Lombard nobles.
Laz
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Lelio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: LEH-lyo
Italian form of
Laelius (see
Laelia).
Leonid
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian, Ukrainian
Other Scripts: Леонид(Russian) Леонід(Ukrainian)
Pronounced: lyi-u-NYEET(Russian)
Lilou
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: LEE-LOO
Linnéa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish
Pronounced: lin-NEH-a
From the name of a flower, also known as the twinflower. The Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus named it after himself, it being his favourite flower.
Lio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German (Modern), Dutch (Modern)
Pronounced: LEE-yo(Dutch)
Lionç
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Provençal
Lissandrou
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Provençal (Archaic), Niçard (Archaic)
Llewellyn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: loo-EHL-in(English)
Longinus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Roman
cognomen derived from Latin
longus "long". According to Christian legend
Saint Longinus was the name of the Roman soldier who pierced
Jesus' side with a spear, then converted to Christianity and was martyred. The name was also borne by the 3rd-century Greek philosopher Cassius Longinus.
Louisiane
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Lucien
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: LUY-SYEHN
Lucious
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Lucrèce
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: LUY-KREHS
French form of both
Lucretia and its masculine form
Lucretius.
Ludovicus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic (Latinized) [1], Dutch
Pronounced: luy-do-VEE-kuys(Dutch)
Latinized form of
Hludwig (see
Ludwig). This form is also used as a baptismal name by Dutch and Flemish speakers, though it is commonly rendered
Lodewijk in daily life.
Ludoviko
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Esperanto
Pronounced: loo-do-VEE-ko
Esperanto form of
Ludwig. This is the Esperanto name of the philologist Ludwig Zamenhof (1859-1917), the creator of the Esperanto language.
Ludvík
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Czech
Pronounced: LOOD-veek
Lukyan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian (Archaic), Ukrainian (Archaic)
Other Scripts: Лукьян(Russian) Лук'ян(Ukrainian)
Pronounced: luw-KYAN(Russian)
Lupus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Original Latin form of
Loup.
Macari
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Catalan, Gascon, Provençal
Macsen
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh Mythology
Pronounced: MAK-sehn(Welsh)
Welsh form of
Maximus. Magnus Maximus (known as Macsen Wledig in Welsh) was a 4th-century co-ruler of the Western Roman Empire. In Wales he was regarded as the founder of several royal lineages. He appears in the medieval Welsh tale
The Dream of Macsen.
Mael
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Breton
Magnar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norwegian
From the Old Norse elements
magn "power, strength" and
herr "army, warrior". This name was coined in the 19th century
[1].
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.
Maissemin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Provençal
Maïus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Provençal
Meaning unknown. It has been in use in Provence since at least the late nineteenth century.
Maixent
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French, Provençal
Poitevin and Provençal form of
Maxence.
Makai
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hawaiian
Pronounced: mah-KIE, mə-KIE
Makai is an adverb in the Hawaiian language combining the directional particle ma with Hawaiian kai meaning "ocean". It literally means "toward or by the sea, seaward". It is sometimes used as a given name, particularly within the Hawaiian Islands but is also found within the continental United States.
Maks
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian, Ukrainian, Slovene
Other Scripts: Макс(Russian, Ukrainian)
Pronounced: MAKS(Russian)
Maksim
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian, Belarusian, Macedonian, Ukrainian
Other Scripts: Максим(Russian, Macedonian, Ukrainian) Максім(Belarusian)
Pronounced: muk-SYEEM(Russian)
Russian, Belarusian and Macedonian form of
Maximus, as well as an alternate transcription of Ukrainian
Максим (see
Maksym).
Malik 2
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greenlandic
Means
"wave, sea" in Greenlandic
[1].
Malo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Breton
Means
"bright pledge", derived from Old Breton
mach "pledge, hostage" and
lou "bright, brilliant". This was the name of a 6th-century Welsh
saint, supposedly a companion of Saint
Brendan on his trans-Atlantic journey. He later went to Brittany, where he founded the monastic settlement of Saint-Malo.
Mannix
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish
Mārcis
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Latvian
Originally a short form of
Mārtiņš, now used independently.
Mari 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Estonian, Finnish, Welsh, Breton, Hungarian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Georgian, Armenian
Other Scripts: მარი(Georgian) Մարի(Armenian)
Pronounced: MAH-ree(Finnish) MAW-ree(Hungarian) mah-REE(Swedish)
Estonian, Finnish, Welsh and Breton form of
Maria, as well as a Hungarian
diminutive of
Mária. It is also a Scandinavian, Georgian and Armenian form of the French name
Marie.
Marie-Ève
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: MA-REE-EHV
Mariot
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Anglo-Norman, Medieval English, Medieval French, Medieval Scottish, Manx (Archaic), Cornish, Judeo-Anglo-Norman
Marnix
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch
Pronounced: MAHR-niks
From a Dutch surname, derived from the name of a village in Savoy, France. It is given in honour of the Flemish and Dutch statesman Philips of Marnix (1540-1598), also a notable writer.
Martijn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch
Pronounced: mahr-TAYN
Marzio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: MAR-tsyo
Masaki
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 正樹, 政樹, 真樹, etc.(Japanese Kanji) まさき(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: MA-SA-KYEE
From Japanese
正 (masa) meaning "right, proper" and
樹 (ki) meaning "tree", as well as other combinations of kanji having the same reading.
Matvey
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Матвей(Russian)
Pronounced: mut-VYAY
Matxin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Basque
Pronounced: ma-CHEEN
Mátyás
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hungarian
Pronounced: MA-kyash
Hungarian form of
Matthias. This was the name of two Hungarian kings.
Maxen
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: MAK-sən(English)
Maybellene
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Popular Culture (Rare)
Variant of
Maybelline, used by Chuck Berry in his 1955 song by this name.
Mazarine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Rare)
Usage of this still relatively new French given name first started with Mazarine Pingeot (b. 1974), the illegitimate daughter of former French president François Mitterrand (1916-1996) and his mistress Anne Pingeot (b. 1943), whose existence was only brought to light in 1994 or 1995. Her parents' love of books is said to have inspired them to name their daughter after the
Bibliothèque Mazarine, the oldest public library in France. The library itself was named after the 17th-century cardinal Jules Raymond Mazarin, who had been born in Italy as Giulio Raimondo Mazzarino. He came from a family that was originally from Sicily and had taken their surname from their ancestral town, Mazzarino.
The town's name is said to have been derived from Mazzara, which either originates from Arabic mazari or mazar meaning "shrine", or is a corruption of Mactorium, the name of a town that had existed in the area in ancient times. That town had been founded by ancient Greek colonists, who had called it Μακτώριον (Maktorion). It is uncertain what the town's name meant in Greek, but it is possibly related to the Greek noun μακτήριον (makterion) meaning "food". Also compare Μαιμακτηριών (Maimakterion), which is the name of one of the lunar months of the Hellenic calendar used in ancient Attica. Alternatively, an etymological relation with the Greek adjective μακτός (maktos) meaning "kneaded" is also possible. This word is ultimately derived from the Greek verb μάσσω (masso) meaning "to knead, to press into a mould".
With that said, the given name Mazarine is quite rare in France today. It was virtually unknown in the country, until the existence of Mitterrand's illegitimate daughter was revealed in 1994 or 1995. The name gained quite a bit of exposure after that, which made it possible for prospective parents to take a liking to the name and bestow it upon their daughters. This clearly shows in the available statistics for the name Mazarine: it suddenly appeared on the radar in the mid-1990s and has remained on it ever since, whereas in previous decades, the name was not used on a noteworthy scale at all (as was to be expected, since this name was more or less "invented" as a given name).
Mephisto
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: mə-FIS-to(English)
Mephistopheles
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: meh-fi-STAHF-i-leez(English)
Meaning uncertain. It might be based on Hebrew
מֵפִיץ (mefits) "scatterer, disperser" and
טָפַל (ṭafal) "liar", or on Greek
μή (me) "not",
φῶς (phos) "light" and
φίλος (philos) "friend, lover". Many other etymologies have been proposed. In a German legend, notably retold by Goethe, this is the name of a demon who makes a deal with
Faust to exchange his soul for magical powers.
Merethe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norwegian, Danish
Meridian
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: mə-RID-ee-ən
From the English word, which is directly from Latin meridianus meaning "of midday, of noon, southerly, to the south". It was used by Alice Walker for the heroine of her novel 'Meridian' (1976).
Merrin
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Cornish
Although the exact origin and meaning of this name are unknown, many modern-day academics believe this name to be the (possibly Anglicized) Cornish form of
Morien.
Its variant Merryn was the name of a Cornish saint.
In the English-speaking world, all forms have been occasionally used from the 19th century onwards.
Merryn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Cornish
Meaning unknown. This was the name of an early Cornish (male)
saint.
Micolau
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Provençal
Mika 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 美香, 美加, etc.(Japanese Kanji) みか(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: MEE-KA
From Japanese
美 (mi) meaning "beautiful" combined with
香 (ka) meaning "fragrance" or
加 (ka) meaning "increase". Other kanji combinations are also possible.
Mikael
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Breton
Pronounced: MEE-ka-ehl(Swedish, Norwegian) MEE-kal(Danish) MEE-kah-ehl(Finnish)
Scandinavian, Finnish and Breton form of
Michael.
Mikelo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Esperanto
Pronounced: mee-KEH-lo
Miklós
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hungarian
Pronounced: MEEK-losh
Miku
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 美空, 美久, 未来, etc.(Japanese Kanji) みく(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: MEE-KOO
From Japanese
美 (mi) meaning "beautiful" combined with
空 (ku) meaning "sky" or
久 (ku) meaning "long time". It can also come from a
nanori reading of
未来 (mirai) meaning "future". Other kanji combinations are possible as well.
Minik
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Greenlandic
Means
"seal oil" in Greenlandic
[1]. A notable bearer was the Inughuit boy Minik (1890-1918), who was among a group brought by the explorer Robert Peary from Greenland to New York in 1897.
Misha
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Миша(Russian)
Pronounced: MYEE-shə
Mishka
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Мишка(Russian)
Pronounced: MYEE-shkə
Mocha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Pet
Pronounced: MO-kə
This meaning of this name is Chocolate-coffee flavored because the coffee flavor "Mocha" originated in Yemen. There's also a town in Yemen called Mocha.
Mochán
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval Irish
Derived from Irish
moch meaning
"early" combined with a
diminutive suffix.
Montague
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: MAHN-tə-gyoo
From an aristocratic English surname meaning
"sharp mountain", from Old French
mont agu. In Shakespeare's tragedy
Romeo and Juliet (1596) this is the surname of
Romeo and his family.
Myrto
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek, Ancient Greek [1], Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Μυρτώ(Greek)
From Greek
μύρτος (myrtos) meaning
"myrtle". This was the name of a few characters from Greek
mythology, including one of the Maenads.
Nerine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Afrikaans (Rare), English (Rare)
Nic
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: NIK
Nicodemus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Latin, Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Νικόδημος(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: nik-ə-DEE-məs(English) nee-ko-DEH-moos(Latin)
From the Greek name
Νικόδημος (Nikodemos) meaning
"victory of the people", derived from Greek
νίκη (nike) meaning "victory" and
δῆμος (demos) meaning "the people". This is the name of a character in the
New Testament who helps
Joseph of Arimathea entomb
Jesus.
Nicolau
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Portuguese, Galician, Catalan
Pronounced: nee-koo-LOW(Portuguese, Catalan)
Portuguese, Galician and Catalan form of
Nicholas.
Niilo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: NEE-lo
Nikandr
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian (Rare), Ukrainian (Rare)
Other Scripts: Никандр(Russian) Нікандр(Ukrainian)
Pronounced: nyi-KANDR(Russian)
Nikodem
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: nyee-KAW-dehm
Nikodim
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Никодим(Russian)
Noey
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Various (Rare)
Possibly derived as a diminutive of
Noah 1 or
Noe.
Oaklynn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: OK-lin
Orin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature, English (Rare)
Pronounced: OR in
Used by Eugene O'Neill in
Mourning Becomes Electra as a deliberate link, it has been suggested, with Greek
Orestes.
More often spelt Orrin when used in modern times. Oren also occurs, and there may be confusion with Oran. George Bernard Shaw invented the feminine name Orinthia in The Apple Cart, two years before O'Neill's play. In the 17th century the poet Cowley made use of another feminine name which appears to belong to the same group, Orinda (though this may have been a shortening of Dorinda). (Source: Dunkling & Gosling, 1983)
Orrick
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ORIK
Transferred use of the surname
Orrick.
Orris
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare), Scottish
Pronounced: AWR-is
Transferred use of the surname
Orris.
Orso
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: OR-so
Italian form of
Ursus (see
Urs).
Ǫrvar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norse Mythology
Osric
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Anglo-Saxon, English (Rare), Literature
Derived from Old English
os "god" and
ric "power, rule". This name was borne by several Anglo-Saxon kings, one of the earliest being Osric of Deira (7th century AD).
In literature, Osric is the name of a courtier in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet.
Oswin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: AHZ-win
From the Old English elements
os "god" and
wine "friend".
Saint Oswin was a 7th-century king of Northumbria. After the
Norman Conquest this name was used less, and it died out after the 14th century. It was briefly revived in the 19th century.
Otello
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: o-TEHL-lo
Italian form of
Othello. This was the name of an 1887 opera by Giuseppe Verdi, based on Shakespeare's play.
Óðinn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norse Mythology, Icelandic
Old Norse and Icelandic form of
Odin.
Ovid
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History
Pronounced: AHV-id(English)
From the Roman family name Ovidius, which was possibly derived from Latin ovis "a sheep". Alternatively, it could have a Sabellic origin. Publius Ovidius Naso, better known as Ovid, was a 1st-century BC Roman poet who is best known as the author of the Metamorphoses. He was sent into exile on the coast of the Black Sea by Emperor Augustus for no apparent reason.
Pacian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Provençal, History (Ecclesiastical, Anglicized)
Perrine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: PEH-REEN
Petronilla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Late Roman
From a Latin name, a
diminutive of
Petronia, the feminine form of
Petronius. This was the name of an obscure 1st-century Roman
saint, later believed to be a daughter of Saint
Peter.
Pierrick
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Breton, French
Pippin 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic [1]
Old German form of
Pepin. The 1972 musical
Pippin is loosely based on the life of
Charlemagne's eldest son Pepin the Hunchback.
Plinio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: PLEE-nyo
Italian and Spanish form of
Plinius (see
Pliny).
Pollux
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Pronounced: POL-looks(Latin) PAHL-əks(English)
Roman form of Greek
Πολυδεύκης (Polydeukes) meaning
"very sweet", from Greek
πολύς (polys) meaning "much" and
δευκής (deukes) meaning "sweet". In
mythology he was the twin brother of
Castor and a son of
Zeus. The constellation Gemini, which represents the two brothers, contains a star by this name.
Pyotr
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Пётр(Russian)
Pronounced: PYUYTR
Russian form of
Peter. A famous bearer was the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893).
Pythagoras
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Πυθαγόρας(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: PUY-TA-GO-RAS(Classical Greek) pi-THAG-ər-əs(English)
Derived from
Pythios, a name of
Apollo, combined with Greek
ἀγορά (agora) meaning "assembly, marketplace". This was the name of a 6th-century BC Greek philosopher and mathematician from Samos. He was the founder of a school of philosophy whose members believed that numbers described the universe.
Quinto
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: KWEEN-to
Radley
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (American, Rare)
Transferred use of the surname
Radley.
Ragna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Icelandic, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Old Norse [1]
Short form of Old Norse names beginning with the element
regin "advice, counsel".
Ragnall
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval Irish [1]
Raivo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Estonian
Meaning uncertain. It is possibly a
diminutive of
Raimond or it could be related to the Old Estonian word
raivo meaning
"fury, rage".
Randel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval English
Medieval
diminutive of
Randolf and other names beginning with the Germanic element
rant meaning "rim (of a shield)".
Rayner
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Archaic)
Pronounced: RAY-nər
From the Germanic name
Raginheri, composed of the elements
regin "advice, counsel, decision" and
heri "army".
Saint Rainerius was a 12th-century hermit from Pisa. The
Normans brought this name to England where it came into general use, though it was rare by the end of the Middle Ages.
Reilly
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: RIE-lee
From an Irish surname, an Anglicized form of Ó Raghailligh, derived from the given name Raghailleach, meaning unknown.
Renat
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Ренат(Russian)
Russian form of
Renatus. In some cases communist parents may have bestowed it as an acronym of
революция наука техника (revolyutsiya nauka tekhnika) meaning "revolution, science, technics" or
революция наука труд (revolyutsiya nauka trud) meaning "revolution, science, labour".
Rene
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: rə-NAY
Reverie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: REHV-ə-ree
From the English word meaning "daydream, fanciful musing", derived from Old French resverie, itself from resver meaning "to dream, to rave".
Rheia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ῥεία(Ancient Greek)
Rie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch, Danish, Limburgish
Pronounced: RHEE(Dutch, Limburgish)
Dutch, Danish and Limburgish short form of
Maria and
Marie.
Riku 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: REE-koo
Ringo
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English, Japanese
Pronounced: RIN-go(English) RIN-GO(Japanese)
Transferred use of the surname
Ringo. A famous bearer of this name was Beatles drummer Richard Starkey (1940), who was nicknamed Ringo due to the many rings he would wear. He ultimately adopted this nickname into a stagename, Ringo Starr, with Starr being an abbreviated form of his surname.
This name can also be Japanese for "apple" or "peace be with you".
Rino
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: REE-no
Short form of names ending in rino.
Rivalen
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arthurian Cycle
Medieval form of
Rhiwallon used in the early German versions of the Tristan legend, where it belongs to Tristan's father, the king of Parmenie.
Riven
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (American, Modern, Rare)
Pronounced: RIV-ən(English)
Possibly a blend of
River with the popular name suffix
en. It coincides with an English adjective meaning "split, torn apart", related to Old Norse
rífa "to scratch, to rive".
Roffe
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish
Rohesia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English (Latinized)
Latinized form of the medieval name
Rohese (see
Rose).
Rollie
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: RO-lee
Romulus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Roman Mythology, Romanian
Pronounced: RO-moo-loos(Latin) RAHM-yuw-ləs(English)
From
Roma, the Latin name of the city of
Rome, combined with a
diminutive suffix. In Roman legend Romulus and
Remus were the twin sons of Rhea Silvia and the god
Mars. Romulus killed his brother when they argued about where to found Rome. According to the tale he gave the city its name, though in reality it was likely the other way around.
Rúna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Old Norse [1], Icelandic, Faroese
Pronounced: ROO-na(Icelandic)
Old Norse, Icelandic and Faroese feminine form of
Rune.
Rurik
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian (Rare)
Other Scripts: Рюрик(Russian)
Russian form of the Old Norse name
Hrǿríkr. This was the name of a 9th-century Varangian ruler of Novgorod.
Ruvim
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian (Rare), Ukrainian (Rare)
Other Scripts: Рувим(Russian) Рувім(Ukrainian)
Russian and Ukrainian form of
Reuben.
Saffron
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: SAF-rən
From the English word that refers either to a spice, the crocus flower from which it is harvested, or the yellow-orange colour of the spice. It is derived via Old French from Arabic
زعفران (zaʿfarān), itself probably from Persian meaning "gold leaves".
Saforian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Lengadocian, Provençal
Samo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Slovene, History
Meaning uncertain. This was the name of a 7th-century ruler of the Slavs, who established a kingdom including parts of modern Slovenia, Austria, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic. He was possibly of Frankish origin.
Sanctius
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Late Roman
Sander
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch, Estonian, Danish, Norwegian
Pronounced: SAHN-dər(Dutch)
Dutch, Estonian, Danish and Norwegian short form of
Alexander.
Sanni
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: SAHN-nee
Santeri
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: SAHN-teh-ree
Santino
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: san-TEE-no
Santo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: SAN-to
Means
"saint" in Italian, ultimately from Latin
sanctus.
Saornin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Provençal
Savino
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: sa-VEE-no
Italian variant form of
Sabinus (see
Sabina).
Sébire
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norman
Senn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch (Modern)
Pronounced: SEHN
Meaning unknown, possibly related to
Senne.
Settimo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Shai
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: שַׁי(Hebrew)
Sibyl
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SIB-əl
From Greek
Σίβυλλα (Sibylla), meaning
"prophetess, sibyl". In Greek and Roman legend the sibyls were female prophets who practiced at different holy sites in the ancient world. In later Christian theology, the sibyls were thought to have divine knowledge and were revered in much the same way as the
Old Testament prophets. Because of this, the name came into general use in the Christian world during the Middle Ages. The
Normans imported it to England, where it was spelled both
Sibyl and
Sybil. It became rare after the
Protestant Reformation, but it was revived in the 19th century, perhaps helped by Benjamin Disraeli's novel
Sybil (1845).
Sidòni
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Lengadocian, Provençal, Gascon
Languedocian, Provençal and Gascon form of
Sidonius.
Siim
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Estonian
Pronounced: SEEM
Estonian form of
Simon 1, originally a short form but now used independently.
Silvander
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: sil-VAN-də, sil-VAN-der
Derived from
Silvanus. Used as a literary name in the 17th and 18th centuries; one example is the character of Silvander in Thomas Killigrew's play "Claricilla" (c 1641).
Silvia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, German, Dutch, English, Late Roman, Roman Mythology
Pronounced: SEEL-vya(Italian) SEEL-bya(Spanish) SEEL-vyu(European Portuguese) SEEW-vyu(Brazilian Portuguese) ZIL-vya(German) SIL-vee-ya(Dutch) SIL-vee-ə(English)
Feminine form of
Silvius.
Rhea Silvia was the mother of
Romulus and
Remus, the founders of Rome. This was also the name of a 6th-century
saint, the mother of the pope Gregory the Great. It has been a common name in Italy since the Middle Ages. It was introduced to England by Shakespeare, who used it for a character in his play
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1594). It is now more commonly spelled
Sylvia in the English-speaking world.
Simo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish, Serbian
Other Scripts: Симо(Serbian)
Pronounced: SEE-mo(Finnish)
Finnish and Serbian form of
Simon 1.
Sìne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Scottish Gaelic [1]
Pronounced: SHEE-nyə
Siôn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: SHON
Sirius
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Astronomy
Pronounced: SIR-ee-əs(English)
The name of a bright star in the constellation Canis Major, derived via Latin from Greek
σείριος (seirios) meaning
"burning".
Sky
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: SKIE
Simply from the English word sky, which was ultimately derived from Old Norse ský "cloud".
Skylynn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: SKIE-lin
Elaboration of
Sky using the popular name suffix
lyn.
Solveig
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norwegian, Swedish, Danish
Pronounced: SOOL-vie(Norwegian) SOOL-vay(Swedish)
From an Old Norse name, which was derived from the elements
sól "sun" and
veig "strength". This is the name of the heroine in Henrik Ibsen's play
Peer Gynt (1876).
Sǫlvi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Norse [1][2]
From Old Norse sǫlr meaning "yellow, pale, sallow".
Spark
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Originally a transferred use of the surname
Spark. It is now used as an adoption of the English word (which is derived from Old English
spearca via Middle English
sparke "spark").
Spartak
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Albanian, Armenian, Georgian
Other Scripts: Спартак(Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian) Սպարտակ(Armenian) სპარტაკ(Georgian)
Pronounced: spur-TAK(Russian) spahr-TAHK(Eastern Armenian) sbahr-DAHG(Western Armenian)
Spiro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek (Anglicized)
Other Scripts: Σπύρο(Greek)
Spyro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek (Anglicized)
Other Scripts: Σπύρο(Greek)
Steinunn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Icelandic, Old Norse [1]
Derived from the Old Norse elements
steinn "stone" and
unnr "wave".
Sulo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: SOO-lo
Means "charm, grace" in Finnish.
Sun
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: SUN
Directly taken from the English word
sun which is ultimately derived from Middle English
sunne. From Old English
sunne (“sun; the Sun”), from Proto-Germanic
*sunnǭ, from the heteroclitic inanimate Proto-Indo-European
*sh̥₂uén (“sun; the Sun”), oblique form of
*sóh₂wl̥.
In the USA, 14 boys and 5 girls were named SUN in 2018.
Suni
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Norse
From Old Norse sunr meaning "son".
Svana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Icelandic
Svanhildr
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Old Norse [1], Norse Mythology
Sveinn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Icelandic, Old Norse [1][2]
Old Norse and Icelandic form of
Sven.
Tadeo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: ta-DHEH-o
Taki
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Danish
Tangi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Breton
Pronounced: TAHN-gee, TAHN-jee
Tapani
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: TAH-pah-nee
Tarja
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: TAHR-yah
Teemu
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: TEH-moo
Tenney
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval English
Terzo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: TEHR-tso
Tetsuya
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 哲也, 徹也, etc.(Japanese Kanji) てつや(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: TEH-TSOO-YA
From Japanese
哲 (tetsu) meaning "philosophy" combined with
也 (ya) meaning "to be". Other combinations of kanji with the same reading can form this name as well.
Þóra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Old Norse [1][2], Icelandic
Either a feminine form of
Þórr (see
Thor) or else a short form of the various Old Norse names beginning with the element
Þór. In Norse
myth Thora was the wife of the Danish king Ragnar Lodbrok.
Thunder
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English, English (American, Modern, Rare), Popular Culture
Pronounced: THUN-der(English)
From the English word thunder meaning "a loud rumbling or crashing noise heard after a lightning flash due to the expansion of rapidly heated air’ from Old English thunor.
Þýri
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Old Norse [1]
Tiberius
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Pronounced: tee-BEH-ree-oos(Latin) tie-BEHR-ee-əs(English)
Roman
praenomen, or given name, meaning
"of the Tiber" in Latin. The Tiber is the river that runs through Rome. Tiberius was the second Roman emperor, the stepson of Emperor
Augustus. He was born Tiberius Claudius Nero, but was renamed Tiberius Julius Caesar after he was designated as the heir of Augustus.
Tielo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval German
Tilen
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Slovene
Pronounced: TEE-lehn
Slovene form of
Aegidius (see
Giles).
Titas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Lithuanian
Lithuanian form of
Titus.
Tito
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: TEE-to(Italian, Spanish)
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of
Titus.
Tófi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Norse [1]
Tóki
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Norse [1]
Tollak
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norwegian (Rare)
From the Old Norse name
Þórleikr, which meant
"Thor's play" from the name of the Norse god
Þórr (see
Thor) combined with
leikr "play, game (involving weapons)".
Topi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: TO-pee
Trivia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Derived from Latin
trivium meaning "a place where three roads meet, a crossroads". In Roman mythology this was the name of a goddess of the night and crossroads, usually associated with witchcraft and sorcery as well as ghosts and childbirth. She was the Roman equivalent of the Greek goddess
Hecate (who was called in Greek Ἑκάτη Τριοδῖτις
(Hekate Trioditis) "Hecate of the crossroads", from τρίοδος
(triodos) "a meeting of three roads").
Tullio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: TOOL-lyo
Italian form of the Roman family name
Tullius, derived from the
praenomen Tullus, which is of unknown meaning. A famous bearer was Marcus Tullius Cicero, a Roman orator and author.
Twyla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: TWIE-lə
Tyrian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: TIE-ree-ən
Derived from Latin
Tyrianus "of Tyre", an ancient city which is located in modern-day Lebanon. The name of the city itself is said to be derived from a Semitic word meaning "rock".
In ancient times, the city was famous for the purple-red dye named Tyrian purple (also known as "royal purple", "imperial purple" or "imperial dye").
Tytus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: TI-toos
Uffe
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Danish
Úlfur
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Icelandic
Ulric
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: UWL-rik
Middle English form of the Old English name
Wulfric. When it is used in modern times, it is usually as a variant of
Ulrich.
Ùna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Scottish Gaelic
Pronounced: OO-nə
Scottish Gaelic form of
Úna.
Uni
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Norse [1]
Probably from Old Norse una meaning "to enjoy".
Vaast
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Flemish, Norman, Picard
Flemish, Norman and Picard form of
Vedastus.
Valko
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Bulgarian
Other Scripts: Вълко(Bulgarian)
Derived from Bulgarian
вълк (valk) meaning
"wolf".
Valtteri
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: VAHLT-teh-ree
Vašek
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Czech
Pronounced: VA-shehk
Vasiliy
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Василий(Russian)
Pronounced: vu-SYEE-lyee
Vedastus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History (Ecclesiastical)
Possibly a Latinized form of a Germanic or Celtic name, possibly Germanic
Widogast. This was the name of a 6th-century
saint who helped to convert the Frankish king
Clovis to Christianity. He is called
Gaston in French and
Vaast in Flemish.
Veikko
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: VAYK-ko
From a colloquial form of the Finnish word veli meaning "brother".
Ventura
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: behn-TOO-ra
Victorian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History (Ecclesiastical), Provençal
English and Provençal form of
Victorianus. This name was borne by two obscure saints, from the 5th and 6th centuries AD.
Victorin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: VEEK-TAW-REHN
Vidau
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Gascon, Provençal
Gascon and Provençal form of
Vitalis.
Vikentiy
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Викентий(Russian)
Pronounced: vyi-KYEHN-tyee
Vilmos
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hungarian
Pronounced: VEEL-mosh
Viridian
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Various (Modern, Rare)
From the name of the blue-green pigment, which is derived from Latin viridis, meaning "green".
Vissarion
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian (Archaic), Greek
Other Scripts: Виссарион(Russian) Βησσαρίων(Greek)
Russian form and Modern Greek transcription of
Bessarion.
Volkan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Turkish
Pronounced: vol-KYAN
Means "volcano" in Turkish.
Vuk
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Serbian
Other Scripts: Вук(Serbian)
Pronounced: VOOK
Means "wolf" in Serbian.
Vukašin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Serbian
Other Scripts: Вукашин(Serbian)
Derived from Serbian vuk meaning "wolf". This was the name of a 14th-century Serbian ruler.
Webb
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (American, Rare)
Transferred use of the surname
Webb.
Winton
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: WIN-tən
From a surname that was derived from a place name meaning
"enclosure belonging to Wine" in Old English.
Wrangler
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: wrang-lur
Wrenley
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: REHN-lee
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Elaboration of
Wren using the popular name suffix
ley.
Wymond
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval English
Middle English form of the Old English name
Wigmund, composed of the elements
wig "battle" and
mund "protection".
Xenos
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Ξενος(Greek)
Derived from Greek ξενος (xenos) meaning "stranger, foreigner".
Xinyi
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Chinese
Other Scripts: 欣怡, 心怡, etc.(Chinese)
Pronounced: SHEEN-EE
From Chinese
欣 (xīn) meaning "happy, joyous, delighted" or
心 (xīn) meaning "heart, mind, soul" combined with
怡 (yí) meaning "joy, harmony". This name can also be formed from other character combinations.
Yakov
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew, Russian, Bulgarian (Rare)
Other Scripts: יַעֲקֹב(Hebrew) Яков(Russian, Bulgarian)
Pronounced: YA-kəf(Russian)
Yann
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Breton, French
Pronounced: YAN
Yannick
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Breton, French
Pronounced: YA-NEEK(French)
Yasha
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Яша(Russian)
Yijun
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Chinese
Other Scripts: 怡君, etc.(Chinese)
Pronounced: EE-CHUYN
From Chinese
怡 (yí) meaning "joy, harmony" combined with
君 (jūn) meaning "king, ruler". This name can also be formed from other character combinations.
Ylva
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian
Means "she-wolf", a derivative of Old Norse úlfr "wolf".
Yūji
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 祐二, 雄二, 裕司, 祐司, 裕治, 裕二, etc.(Japanese Kanji) ゆうじ(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: YOO-ZHEE
From Japanese
祐 (yū) meaning "divine intervention, protection",
雄 (yū) meaning "hero, manly", or
裕 (yū) meaning "abundant" combined with
二 (ji) meaning "two" or
司 (ji) meaning "officer, boss". This name can also be formed from other combinations of kanji characters.
Zaxon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: American (Modern, Rare)
Rhyming variant of
Jaxon.
Zebadiah
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: זְבַדְיָה(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: zehb-ə-DIE-ə(English)
Zétény
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hungarian
Pronounced: ZEH-tehn
Possibly from the Old Slavic root zętĭ meaning "son-in-law".
Zia
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic, Urdu, Bengali
Other Scripts: ضياء(Arabic) ضیاء(Urdu) জিয়া(Bengali)
Pronounced: dee-YA(Arabic)
Alternate transcription of Arabic
ضياء (see
Ziya), as well as the usual Urdu and Bengali transcription.
Zinnia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: ZIN-ee-ə
From the name of the flower, which was itself named for the German botanist Johann Zinn.
Zoilos
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Ζωΐλος(Ancient Greek)
Zoraida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: tho-RIE-dha(European Spanish) so-RIE-dha(Latin American Spanish)
Perhaps means
"enchanting" or
"dawn" in Arabic. This was the name of a minor 12th-century Spanish
saint, a convert from Islam. The name was used by Cervantes for a character in his novel
Don Quixote (1606), in which Zoraida is a beautiful Moorish woman of Algiers who converts to Christianity and elopes with a Spanish officer.
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