erb816's Personal Name List

Means "born into wealth" in Yoruba.

Means "justice" in Turkish, ultimately from Arabic عدل (ʿadala) meaning "to act justly".

Means "eldest daughter of the father" in Igbo.

Means "eldest daughter of her father" in Igbo.

Means "the crown of wealth" in Yoruba. It is also a surname.

Variant of Alafare.

Italian feminine form of Alexius.

Alternate transcription of Russian Алексей (see Aleksey).

From French alizé meaning "trade wind".

Means "fighter" in Turkish, a word derived from alp "brave, hero" and eren "holy person".

Derived from Arabic العذراء (al-ʿadhrāʾ) meaning "the maiden". This is the name of a star in the constellation Canis Major.

Means "hope, aspiration" in Arabic, from the root أمل (ʾamala) meaning "to hope for".

Italian cognate of Amber.

French form of Amelia.

Form of Amina 1 used in West Africa.

Means "angel" in Maori.

Meaning uncertain, possibly a derivative of Anne 1 or Agnès. It was used in Jean-Henri Guy's opera Anacréon chez Polycrate (1798), where it is borne by the daughter (otherwise unnamed in history) of the 6th-century BC tyrant Polycrates of Samos. Guy could have adapted it from a classical name such as Anaitis or Athénaïs.

A famous bearer was the Cuban-French writer Anaïs Nin (1903-1977), known for her diaries.

From Kazakh and Kyrgyz анар (anar) meaning "pomegranate", a word ultimately derived from Persian.

French, Portuguese and Galician form of Andreas (see Andrew).

Spanish and Icelandic form of Andrew.

Dutch and French diminutive of Anna.

Spanish and Italian form of Antonius (see Anthony). This has been a common name in Italy since the 14th century. In Spain it was the most popular name for boys in the 1950s and 60s.

Famous bearers include the Renaissance painter Antonio Pisanello (c. 1395-1455) and the Baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741). It is also the name of the main character in The Merchant of Venice (1596) by William Shakespeare.

Uzbek, Tajik, Kyrgyz and Tatar form of Anwar.

Russian diminutive of Anna.

From Old Irish Aífe, derived from oíph meaning "beauty" (modern Irish aoibh). This was the name of several characters in Irish legend, including a woman at war with Scáthach (her sister in some versions). She was defeated in single combat by the hero Cúchulainn, who spared her life on the condition that she bear him a child (Connla). Another legendary figure by this name appears in the Children of Lir as the jealous third wife of Lir.

This name is sometimes Anglicized as Eve or Eva.

Means "appeared" in Portuguese, taken from the Brazilian title of the Virgin Mary Nossa Senhora da Conceição Aparecida, meaning "Our Lady of the Conception Who Appeared". It refers to a statue of the Virgin Mary that was said to have been pulled from a river by fishermen in the 18th century. Our Lady of Aparecida is regarded as the patron saint of Brazil.

Means "altar of the sky" from Latin ara "altar" and coeli "sky". This is an epithet of the Virgin Mary in her role as the patron saint of Lucena, Spain.

Modern Persian form of Ardashir.

Polish form of Arkadios.

Feminine form of Arsenios.

Feminine form of Artemisios. This was the name of the 4th-century BC builder of the Mausoleum, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. She built it in memory of her husband, the Carian prince Mausolus.

Means "reddish brown, dawn" in Sanskrit. The Hindu god Aruna (अरुण) is the charioteer who drives the sun god Surya across the sky. The modern feminine form अरुणा (spelled with a final long vowel) is also transcribed as Aruna, however the modern masculine form is Arun.

Means "honey" in Persian (of Arabic origin).

From the name of an Islamic holy day that commemorates the death of Husayn ibn Ali. It is so named because it falls on the tenth day of Muharram, deriving from Arabic عشرة (ʿashara) meaning "ten" [1].

Feminine variant of Aviv.

Greek form of Aura.

French form of April. A famous bearer is the Canadian musician Avril Lavigne (1984-).

Yiddish form of Abraham.

From an element of uncertain meaning combined with Kazakh жан (zhan) meaning "soul" (of Persian origin).

From Mapuche ayelen "laughing", ayliñ "clear" or aylen "ember".

Means "doe, female deer, gazelle". It is taken from the Hebrew phrase אַיֶלֶת הַשַׁחַר (ʾayeleṯ hashaḥar), literally "gazelle of dawn", which is a name of the morning star.

Means "free" in Persian. This word has derivatives in several other languages, such as Hindi and Turkish.

Perhaps a form of Azalaïs. It was borne by Saint Marie-Azélie Guérin (1831-1877), also called Zélie, the mother of Thérèse of Lisieux.

Alternate transcription of Persian بهروز (see Behrouz).

Means "noble, high-born" in Persian, from به (beh) meaning "good, excellent" and the suffix زاد (zād) meaning "child of".

Variant of Cassiopeia.

Diminutive of Ecaterina.

Elaboration of Catherine, possibly influenced by Catrina. It may also be a Gallicized form of Catrinel.

Anglicized form of Caitríona (Irish) or Caitrìona (Scottish Gaelic).

Possibly from cyrrid "bent, crooked" (a derivative of Old Welsh cwrr "corner") combined with ben "woman" or gwen "white, blessed". According to the medieval Welsh legend the Tale of Taliesin (recorded by Elis Gruffyd in the 16th century) this was the name of a sorceress who created a potion that would grant wisdom to her son Morfan. The potion was instead consumed by her servant Gwion Bach, who was subsequently reborn as the renowned bard Taliesin.

This name appears briefly in a poem in the Black Book of Carmarthen in the form Kyrridven [1] and in a poem in the Book of Taliesin in the form Kerrituen [2]. Some theories connect her to an otherwise unattested Celtic goddess of inspiration, and suppose her name is related to Welsh cerdd "poetry".

Medieval short form of Durante. The most notable bearer of this name was Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), the Italian poet who wrote the Divine Comedy.

Feminine form of Dardan.

Modern Persian form of Darayavauš (see Darius).

Polish form of Darius.

Feminine form of Darshan.

Russian and Ukrainian form of Damian.

Means "of the snows" in French, taken from the title of the Virgin Mary Notre Dame des Neiges meaning "Our Lady of the Snows" (see Nieves).

Hebrew form of Deborah.

Feminine form of Dieudonné.

Spanish and Portuguese form of Dismas.

Meaning uncertain, perhaps from Arabic دينار (dīnār), a currency used in several Muslim countries, ultimately derived from Latin denarius. Alternatively it may be a derivative of دين (dīn) meaning "religion".

Modern form of Dinesha.

Derived from Greek δῶρον (doron) meaning "gift".

Latinized form of Étaín. This was the name of an early Irish saint.

Diminutive of Eilionoir, also taken to be a Gaelic form of Helen.

Means "hazel light", from Turkish ela meaning "hazel" combined with Arabic نور (nūr) meaning "light".

Polish form of Elijah.

Turkish form of Alif, the name of the first letter of the Arabic alphabet, ا. It also means "slender", from the Turkish phrase elif gibi, literally "shaped like elif".

Possibly from a Breton word meaning "light". This name was borne by an obscure 6th-century saint who is now venerated mainly in Brittany and Cornwall.

Means "elm tree" in Cornish. This is a recently coined Cornish name.

Derived from Mapuche elun meaning "give".

Derived from Turkish emir meaning "amir, prince" and han meaning "khan, ruler, leader".

French feminine form of Emmanuel.

Means "swallow (bird)" in Basque.

Anglicized form of Endelienta, the Latin form of a Welsh or Cornish name. It was borne by a 5th or 6th-century Cornish saint whose birth name is lost. According to some traditions she was a daughter of Brychan Brycheiniog (identifying her with Cynheiddon).

Means "snowdrop (flower)" in Georgian (genus Galanthus).

Probably derived from Welsh enaid meaning "soul, spirit, life". In Arthurian tales she first appears in the 12th-century French poem Erec and Enide by Chrétien de Troyes, where she is the wife of Erec. In later adaptations she is typically the wife of Geraint. The name became more commonly used after the publication of Alfred Tennyson's Arthurian poem Enid in 1859, and it was fairly popular in Britain in the first half of the 20th century.

Means "person of wealth" in Yoruba.

Means "person with a story, storied person" in Yoruba.

Derived from Finnish ensi meaning "first".

Anglicized form of Eithne.

From Turkish er meaning "man, hero, brave" and han, which is from the title khan meaning "leader".

Means "bee" in Basque.

Cornish form of Iseult.

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.

Derived from Turkish esmer "dark" and ay "moon".

French cognate of Esperanza, currently most common in Francophone Africa.

Spanish form of the Late Latin name Sperantia, which was derived from sperare "to hope".

Possibly an Icelandic female form of Esteban (thus a variant of Estefanía).

Means "cosmos, the universe" in Turkish. In Turkic mythology the Evren is a gigantic snake-like dragon.

From a biblical place name, also called עַבְדּוֹן (ʿAvdon) meaning "servile", for which it may be a clerical error.

Anglicized form of Eòghann.

Variant of Fayruz.

Tajik form of Fereydoun.

Means "horseman, knight" in Arabic.

Feminine form of Fen 2.

Means "flame" in Italian.

Diminutive of Fiamma. This is the name of a character appearing in several works by the 14th-century Italian author Boccaccio. She was probably based on the Neapolitan noblewoman Maria d'Aquino.

Means "butterfly" in Albanian.

Feminine form of Fortunato.

Combination of Francesca and Pia.

Breton feminine form of Franciscus (see Francis).

Georgian form of Gaius.

French form of Gustav. This name was borne by the French artist Gustave Doré (1832-1883) and the French engineer Gustave Eiffel (1832-1923).

Feminine form of Gwenael.

Feminine form of Gwenaël.

From Hebrew הֲדַס (haḏas) meaning "myrtle tree". In the Old Testament this is the Hebrew name of Queen Esther.

Alternate transcription of Arabic هنيّة (see Haniyya).

Bosnian, Urdu, Indonesian and Malay form of Harith, as well as an alternate transcription of the Arabic name.

Arabic form of Aaron. Harun ar-Rashid was a 9th-century Abbasid caliph featured in the stories of The 1001 Nights.

From Japanese 晴 (haru) meaning "clear weather", 遥 (haru) meaning "distant, remote" or 春 (haru) meaning "spring" combined with 菜 (na) meaning "vegetables, greens". Other kanji combinations are possible.

Most commonly this is a variant of the Arabic name حسن, which is typically transcribed Hasan.

Alternatively, this spelling can represent the distinct but related Arabic name حسّان (having a doubled middle consonant and a final long vowel) meaning "beautifier, improver". Hassan ibn Thabit was a 7th-century poet who was a companion of the Prophet Muhammad.

From Japanese 日向 (hinata) meaning "sunny place", 陽向 (hinata) meaning "toward the sun", or a non-standard reading of 向日葵 (himawari) meaning "sunflower". Other kanji compounds are also possible. Because of the irregular readings, this name is often written using the hiragana writing system.

Derived from Sanskrit हीर (hīra) meaning "diamond". It is typically feminine in Pakistan and unisex in India and Nepal.

Arabic form of Elijah, also used in several other languages.

Meaning unknown.

The name of a lake, municipality, and village in Finland (Aanaar in the Inari Sami language). Their names are derived from the name of the Inari Sami people who live in the area around Lake Inari.

Means "care, concern" in Arabic.

Means "beauty" in Sanskrit. This is another name of Lakshmi, the wife of the Hindu god Vishnu. A notable bearer was India's first female prime minister, Indira Gandhi (1917-1984).

Spanish variant of Isidora.

Spanish variant of Isidore.

Means "sinew, tendon, thread" in Greenlandic. It was used by the Danish explorer and author Peter Freuchen for the heroine of his novel Ivalu, the Eskimo Wife (1930).

From Japanese 泉 (izumi) meaning "fountain, spring". This name can also be constructed from other combinations of kanji.

Means "honey moon" in Tupi, from îasy "moon" and yra "honey".

Polish form of Hedwig. This was the name of a 14th-century ruling queen of Poland who has recently been canonized as a saint.

It's Hindu name meaning "flower queen". In Punjabi meaning "Lord's glory". Other form is Jesminder.

Means "eternal" in Persian.

Spanish form of Xavier.

Unaccented form of Joaquín used mainly in America.

Latin form of Greek Ioannes (see John). Notable bearers include the inventor of the printing press Johannes Gutenberg (1398-1468), astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), painter Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675), and composer Johannes Brahms (1833-1897).

French form of the Old Breton name Iudicael, derived from the elements iudd "lord" and hael "generous". This was the name of a 7th-century Breton king, also regarded as a saint.

Breton form of Iudocus (see Joyce).

Form of Khadija used in parts of French-influenced West Africa.

Polish form of Katherine.

Dutch form of Katherine, used especially in Flanders.

Diminutive of Ecaterina.

Russian diminutive of Yekaterina.

Meaning unknown. In the 10th-century Persian epic the Shahnameh Kaveh is a blacksmith who leads a rebellion against the evil ruler Zahhak.

From Japanese 一 (kazu) meaning "one" or 和 (kazu) meaning "harmony, peace" combined with 男 (o) meaning "male, man" or 夫 (o) meaning "husband, man". Other kanji combinations can also form this name.

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.

Feminine form of Kenneth.

From Japanese 謙 (ken) meaning "humble, modest" and 信 (shin) meaning "trust, believe". Other kanji combinations can also form this name.

From Japanese 健 (ken) meaning "healthy, strong", 太 (ta) meaning "thick, big, great" and 郎 (rō) meaning "son". Other combinations of kanji characters can also form this name.

Alternate transcription of Japanese Kanji 謙三 or 健三 or 賢三 (see Kenzō). Use of the name in France can probably be attributed to the fashion brand Kenzo, founded in 1970 by the Japanese-French designer Kenzō Takada (1939-2020).

Means "love" in Cornish.

Georgian form of Katayoun. It is sometimes used as a Georgian form of Katherine.

From the Hebrew name קְטוּרָה (Qeṭura) meaning "incense". In the Old Testament she is Abraham's wife after Sarah dies.

Alternate transcription of Hebrew כִּנֶּרֶת (see Kineret).

French form of Lauriana.

French form of Lazarus.

Yiddish variant of Eliezer. This is the name of a character in the musical Fiddler on the Roof (1964).

Means "heavenly flowers" or "royal child" from Hawaiian lei "flowers, lei, child" and lani "heaven, sky, royal, majesty".

Feminine form of Lelisa.

Anglicized variant of Liora.
In some cases, however, it might have been given as a contracted form of Leonora.

Hebrew form of Lebanah. In modern Hebrew it is typically a feminine name.

From the Ottoman Turkish term levend, referring to a member of the navy, which is possibly ultimately derived from Italian levante "person from the eastern Mediterranean". The Turkish word has now come to mean "tall, handsome, roguish".

Armenian form of Leon. This was the name of several kings of Cilician Armenia, including the first king Levon I the Magnificent.

Yiddish variant of Lev 2. A famous bearer is Liev Schreiber, an American actor.

Means "morning" in Mapuche.

Variant of Lore 2.

From the name of a French town. It became a popular center of pilgrimage after a young girl from the town had visions of the Virgin Mary in a nearby grotto.

French form of Lucina.

Possibly from a feminine form of Leutwin. It was popularized in the 1970s by a character from the French miniseries Les Gens de Mogador.

Means "snow" in Finnish.

Derived from Dutch madeliefje meaning "daisy".

From the Ottoman Turkish مهارت, from Arabic مَهَارَة (mahāra) & means, "skill (capacity to do something well)".

Basque form of Magdalene.

From Tupi maya arya meaning "great-grandmother".

Means "pearl" in Hebrew, ultimately from Greek μαργαρίτης (margarites).

Form of Maria used in the Greek Old Testament. In the Greek New Testament both this spelling and Μαρία (Maria) are used. It is also the Georgian, Armenian and Malay form, as well as an alternate transcription of Arabic مريم (see Maryam).

Polish form of Matthew.

Hebrew form of Merab 1.

Spanish, Portuguese and Galician form of Michael. A notable bearer of this name was Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616), the Spanish novelist and poet who wrote Don Quixote.

From the Occitan name Mirèio, which was first used by the poet Frédéric Mistral for the main character in his poem Mirèio (1859). He probably derived it from the Occitan word mirar meaning "to admire". It is spelled Mirèlha in classical Occitan orthography. A notable bearer is the French singer Mireille Mathieu (1946-).

Occitan (Mistralian) form of Mireille.

Yiddish diminutive of Miriam.

Means "peace" in Luganda.

From Old Cornish moroin meaning "maiden, girl" (related to the Welsh word morwyn [1]). This was the name of a 6th-century Cornish saint, said to be one of the daughters of Brychan Brycheiniog.

Feminine form of Munir.

Means "wish, desire" in Arabic. This name was borne by five Ottoman sultans.

Means "hope" in Russian and Bulgarian.

Means "drinking companion" in Arabic, derived from ندم (nadima) meaning "to drink together" [1].

From the Basque name of the Spanish city of Nájera, which is Arabic in origin. In the 12th century there was a reported apparition of the Virgin Mary in a nearby cave.

Feminine form of Naim.

Means "breeze" in Arabic.

Means "wild rose" in Persian.

Means "good news" in Persian.

From Sanskrit नव (nava) meaning "new, fresh".

Means "gift" in Arabic.

Possibly from Zapotec nadxiie lii meaning "I love you" or nayele' meaning "open".

Russian, Ukrainian, Turkmen and Armenian form of Nazarius.

Means "Sunday" in Bulgarian.

Possibly from Basque nere, a dialectal variant of nire meaning "mine". Alternatively, it could be a feminine form of Nereus. This name arose in Basque-speaking regions of Spain in the first half of the 20th century, though it is now popular throughout the country.

Possibly means "water lily" in an Australian Aboriginal language.

Arabic (chiefly North African) form of Nasrin.

Derived from South Slavic neven meaning "marigold".

Turkish form of Nawra.

Means "bright" in Irish. She was the daughter of the sea god Manannán mac Lir in Irish legends. She fell in love with the poet Oisín, the son of Fionn mac Cumhaill. It has been used as a given name for people only since the early 20th century.

Polish form of Nicodemus.

Alternate transcription of Russian/Bulgarian Николай (see Nikolay).

Meaning unknown. In Arthurian legends this is the name of a sorceress, also known as the Lady of the Lake, Vivien, or Niniane. Various versions of the tales have Merlin falling in love with her and becoming imprisoned by her magic. She first appears in the medieval French Lancelot-Grail Cycle.

From Navajo nizhóní meaning "beautiful" [1].

Means "heavenly mist" from Hawaiian noe "mist" and lani "heaven, sky, royal, majesty".

From the Breton phrase Noyal Gwenn meaning "holy one from Noyal". This was the epithet of a 6th-century saint and martyr from Brittany.

Strictly feminine form of Nur.

Spanish form of Núria.

Means "buttercup (flower)" in Hebrew (genus Ranunculus).

French form of Octavia.

Anglicized form of Úna, as well as a Finnish form.

Portuguese form of Hosea.

Hebrew form of Obed.

Alternate transcription of Azerbaijani Pərvanə.

Variant of Perle.

Variant of Piran.

Feminine form of Pius.

Means "pillar" in Spanish. It is taken from the title of the Virgin Mary, María del Pilar, meaning "Mary of the Pillar". According to legend, when Saint James the Greater was in Saragossa in Spain, the Virgin Mary appeared on a pillar.

Derived from Albanian pranverë meaning "spring", itself from pranë "nearby, close" and verë "summer".

From Sanskrit पूर्णिमा (pūrṇimā) meaning "full moon".

From the name of a Spanish sanctuary (in Catalonia) that is devoted to the Virgin Mary.

Variant of Quetzalli.

Originally a diminutive of names beginning with the Slavic element radŭ meaning "happy, willing". In Poland it is usually a diminutive of Radosław.

Possibly a Georgian form of Ramadan. It appears in the 12th-century Georgian epic The Knight in the Panther's Skin.

Catalan form of Raymond.

Alternate transcription of Arabic رانية (see Raniya).

Means "sun" in Sanskrit. Ravi is a Hindu god of the sun, sometimes equated with Surya. A famous bearer was the musician Ravi Shankar (1920-2012).

Means "ornament, necklace" in Hebrew.

Feminine form of Raziel.

Finnish form of Gregory.

Means "one that moves" in Sanskrit. This is another name of the Hindu goddess Rati.

Possibly of Persian origin meaning "wealthy, successful".

Diminutive of Rivka.

Possibly a variant of Romana.

Strictly feminine form of Ron 2.

Means "rose" in Breton.

Feminine form of Rune.

Means "greatest beauty" from Sanskrit रूप (rūpa) meaning "beauty, form" combined with the name of the Hindu god Indra, used here to mean "greatest".

Means "beauty" in Arabic.

Feminine form of Sadi.

Alternate transcription of Arabic صفيّة (see Safiyya).

From Japanese 桜 (sakura) meaning "cherry blossom", though it is often written using the hiragana writing system. It can also come from 咲 (saku) meaning "blossom" and 良 (ra) meaning "good, virtuous, respectable" as well as other kanji combinations.

Variant transliteration of Saniyya.

Means "freedom" in Irish Gaelic. It was first used as a given name in the 20th century.

From the Hebrew form סַרְגּוֹן (Sargon) of the Akkadian name Sharru-ukin, from šarru meaning "king" and kīnu meaning "legitimate, true". This was the name of the first king of the Akkadian Empire, beginning in the 24th century BC. It was also borne by the 8th-century BC Assyrian king Sargon II, who appears briefly in the Old Testament. The usual English spelling of the name is based on this biblical mention, applied retroactively to the earlier king.

From the Old German element sahso meaning "a Saxon". The Saxons were a Germanic tribe, their name ultimately deriving from the Germanic word *sahsą meaning "knife". Saskia van Uylenburgh (1612-1642) was the wife of the Dutch painter Rembrandt.

From Japanese 小 (sa) meaning "small" and 百合 (yuri) meaning "lily". This name can also be composed of other kanji combinations.

Means "cypress" in Turkish (derived from Persian, ultimately from Sumerian).

Turkish form of Samra.

Meaning uncertain. In some cases it is given in honour of the Brazilian racecar driver Ayrton Senna (1960-1994). It could also be inspired by the senna plant.

French form of Sergius.

Polish form of Sergius.

Derived from Turkish ser meaning "head, top" and han, which is from the title khan meaning "leader".

Possibly means "noble lineage" from Persian چهر (chehr) meaning "lineage, origin" and آزاد (āzād) meaning "free, noble" [1]. Alternatively, it might mean "child of the city" from شهر (shahr) meaning "city, land" combined with the suffix زاد (zād) meaning "child of". This is the name of the fictional storyteller in The 1001 Nights. She tells a story to her husband the king every night for 1001 nights in order to delay her execution.

Means "calm, tranquil" in Hebrew.

Alternate transcription of Persian شیرین (see Shirin).

Variant of Sigal.

Italian and Galician feminine form of Silverio.

Russian and Bulgarian form of Snježana, as well as an alternate transcription of Macedonian Снежана (see Snežana).

Variant of Solange.

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).

Form of Sonya in various languages.

Variant of Sovann.

Italian cognate of Esperanza. Edmund Spenser used it in his epic poem The Faerie Queene (1590) for the sister of Fidelia. It was also assumed as a pen name by the Irish poet Lady Wilde (1821-1896), the mother of Oscar Wilde.

Italian, Polish and Greek feminine form of Stephen.

Romanian feminine form of Stylianos.

Meaning unknown, perhaps related to Old Norse stilling "calm", or perhaps of German origin.

Means "patience" in Swahili, from Arabic صبر (ṣabara).

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.

Means "summer" in Finnish.

Derived from Russian свет (svet) meaning "light, world". It was popularized by the poem Svetlana (1813) by the poet Vasily Zhukovsky. It is sometimes used as a translation of Photine.

Urdu, Punjabi and Bengali form of Sayyid.

Urdu form of Sayyida.

Polish form of Thaddeus. This name is borne by Tadeusz Soplica, the title character in Adam Mickiewicz's epic poem Pan Tadeusz (1834), which is considered to be the national epic of Poland.

Means "virtuous, pure, chaste" in Arabic.

Alternate transcription of Russian Таисия or Ukrainian Таїсія (see Taisiya).

From Japanese 武 (take) meaning "military, martial" combined with 夫 (o) meaning "man, husband" or 雄 (o) meaning "hero, manly". Other kanji combinations can form this name as well.

Means "shining brow", derived from Welsh tal "brow, head" and iesin "shining, radiant". This was the name of a semi-legendary 6th-century Welsh poet and bard, supposedly the author of the collection of poems the Book of Taliesin. He appears briefly in the Welsh legend Culhwch and Olwen and the Second Branch of the Mabinogi. He is the central character in the Tale of Taliesin, a medieval legend recorded in the 16th century, which tells how Ceridwen's servant Gwion Bach was reborn to her as Taliesin; how he becomes the bard for Elffin; and how Taliesin defends Elffin from the machinations of the king Maelgwn Gwynedd.

Form of Tīmūr e Lang (see Timur) used in several languages.

Ukrainian, Russian and Belarusian form of the Greek name Ταράσιος (Tarasios), which possibly means "from Taras". Taras was an Italian city, now called Taranto, which was founded by Greek colonists in the 8th century BC and was named for the Greek mythological figure Taras, a son of Poseidon. Saint Tarasios was an 8th-century bishop of Constantinople. It was also borne by the Ukrainian writer and artist Taras Shevchenko (1814-1861).

Alternate transcription of Japanese Kanji 太郎 (see Tarō).

French form of Tatiana.

Ossetian form of Tahmuras.

Means "warmth" in Welsh.

Means "we are with God", from Shona ti "we", na "with" and ishe "lord, God".

From the Hebrew name תִּרְצָה (Tirtsa) meaning "favourable". Tirzah is the name of one of the daughters of Zelophehad in the Old Testament. It also occurs in the Old Testament as a place name, the early residence of the kings of the northern kingdom.

Polish form of Tobias.

Polish form of Uriah.

Meaning uncertain. It is used as a Russian form of the saintly name Bademus. Alternatively it may be derived from Slavic vaditi "to accuse, to argue" or from an Old Norse source. According to legend, this was the name of a legendary leader of the Ilmen Slavs who fought against the Varangians.

Scandinavian form of Waldemar, also used as a translation of the Slavic cognate Vladimir. This was the name of four kings of Denmark and a king of Sweden. It was introduced to Scandinavia by the 12th-century Danish king Valdemar I who was named after his mother's grandfather: Vladimir II, a grand prince of Kievan Rus.

Diminutive of Valeria.

Feminine form of Vanderley.

Means "rose of God" in Hebrew.

Russian, Greek, Bulgarian and Macedonian form of Barbara.

Means "knowledge" in Sanskrit.

French form of Venantius.

Shortened form of Verdiana

Possibly related to Latin verus "true". This might also be a Coptic form of the Ptolemaic name Berenice. Saint Verena was a 3rd-century Egyptian-born nurse who went with the Theban Legion to Switzerland. After the legion was massacred she settled near Zurich.

French form of Verena.

Russian diminutive of Vera 1.

French form of Verbena.

Means "visible" in Persian.

Feminine form of Viorel.

Possibly derived from Finnish virvatuli meaning "will o' the wisp". In folklore, will o' the wisp is a floating ball of light that appears over water.

Sardinian feminine form of Vincent.

Swedish form of Vibeke.

From Sanskrit विवेक (viveka) meaning "wisdom, distinction, discrimination".

Variant of Gwenneg.

Derived from the Old German elements wolf meaning "wolf" and gang meaning "path, way". Saint Wolfgang was a 10th-century bishop of Regensburg. Two other famous bearers of this name were Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) and German novelist and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832).

From Persian یار (yār) meaning "friend, helper".

Variant of Yasmin.

Breton form of Iudicael (see Judicaël).

Hebrew form of Jochebed.

Amharic form of John.

Persian form of Yusuf, as well as an alternate Arabic transcription.

Combination of Yunus and Emre, given in reference to the 13th-century poet.

Polish form of Zechariah and Zacharias.

From Persian زرین (zarīn) meaning "golden". According to the 5th-century BC Greek historian Ctesias, this was the name of a Scythian queen.

Alternate transcription of Greek Ζηνοβία (see Zinovia).

Anglicized form of Zéphyrine.

Means "ornament" in Persian (of Arabic origin).

Feminine form of Ziv.

Polish form of Sophia.

Means "Venus (planet)" in Swahili and Dhivehi. Both are borrowed from Arabic الزهرة (al-Zuhara), derived from the root زهر (zahara) meaning "to shine".

Means "beautiful" in Swahili.

Derived from Georgian ზვიადი (zviadi) meaning "proud, arrogant".

Possibly means "forever, always" in Zapotec. It appears in the novel Aztec (1980) by the American author Gary Jennings.