Browse Names

WASHINGTON   m   English
From a surname which was originally derived from the name of a town in England (which meant "town belonging to Wassa's people")... [more]

WAT   m   English
Medieval short form of WALTER

WAYLAND   m   English
From Weland, the Old English cognate of WIELAND.

WAYLON   m   English
Variant of WAYLAND... [more]

WAYNE   m   English
From an occupational surname meaning "wagon maker", derived from Old English wægn "wagon"... [more]

WEBSTER   m   English
From an occupational surname meaning "weaver", derived from Old English webba.

WELDON   m   English
From a surname which was derived from a place name meaning "hill near a spring" in Old English.

WENDELL   m   English
From a surname which was derived from the given name WENDEL.

WES   m   English
Short form of WESLEY

WESLEY   m   English
From a surname which was derived from a place name meaning "west meadow" in Old English... [more]

WESTLEY   m   English
From a surname which was a variant of WESLEY.

WESTON   m   English
From a surname which was derived from a place name meaning "west town" in Old English.

WHITNEY   f & m   English
From a surname which was originally derived from a place name meaning "white island" in Old English... [more]

WIL   m & f   English, Dutch
Short form of WILLIAM and other names beginning with Wil.

WILBUR   m   English
From an English surname which was originally derived from the nickname Wildbor meaning "wild boar" in Middle English... [more]

WILBURN   m   English
From a surname which was probably originally derived from an unknown place name... [more]

WILEY   m   English
From a surname which was derived either from a place name meaning "temple clearing" in Old English or from a nickname meaning "wily, tricky" in Middle English.

WILF   m   English
Short form of WILFRED

WILFORD   m   English
From a surname which was originally derived from a place name meaning "willow ford" in Old English.

WILFRED   m   English
Means "desiring peace" from Old English wil "will, desire" and frið "peace"... [more]

WILFRID   m   English
Variant of WILFRED

WILKIE   m   English
From an English surname which was originally derived from a diminutive of the given name WILLIAM.

WILL   m   English
Short form of WILLIAM

WILLARD   m   English
From an English surname which was derived from the Germanic given name WILLIHARD (or the Old English cognate Wilheard).

WILLIAM   m   English
From the Germanic name Willahelm, which was composed of the elements wil "will, desire" and helm "helmet, protection"... [more]

WILLIE   m & f   English
Masculine or feminine diminutive of WILLIAM

WILLIS   m   English
From an English surname which was derived from Will, a diminutive of WILLIAM.

WILLY   m & f   English, German, Dutch
Diminutive of WILLIAM, WILHELM or WILLEM... [more]

WILMER   m   English
From an English surname which was derived from the given name WILMǢR

WILSON   m   English
From an English surname meaning "son of WILLIAM"... [more]

WILTON   m   English
From a surname which was derived from a place name meaning "town on the River Wylye" in Old English... [more]

WINFRED   m   English
Means "friend of peace" from the Old English elements wine "friend" and frið "peace"... [more]

WINSTON   m   English
From a surname derived from an English place name, which was in turn derived from the Old English given name Wynnstan meaning "joy stone"... [more]

WINTHROP   m   English
From a surname which was originally taken from a place name meaning "WINE's village" in Old English.

WINTON   m   English
From a surname which was derived from a place name meaning "enclosure belonging to WINE" in Old English.

WOODROW   m   English
From a surname which was originally derived from a place name meaning "row of houses by a wood" in Old English... [more]

WOODY   m   English
Either a diminutive of WOODROW, or else from a nickname derived from the English word wood... [more]

WRIGHT   m   English
From an occupational surname meaning "craftsman", ultimately from Old English wyrhta... [more]

WYATT   m   English
From an English surname which was derived from the medieval given name WYOT... [more]

XAVIER   m   English, French, Portuguese, Catalan, Spanish (Archaic)
Derived from the Basque place name Etxaberri meaning "the new house"... [more]

YANCY   m   English
From a surname, which was an Americanized form of the Dutch surname Jansen meaning "JAN (1)'s son".

YORICK   m   Literature, English, Dutch
Altered form of JØRG... [more]

YORK   m   English
From a surname, which was derived from York, the name of a city in northern England... [more]

ZAC   m   English
Short form of ZACHARY

ZACH   m   English
Short form of ZACHARY

ZACHARIAH   m   English, Biblical
Variant of ZECHARIAH... [more]

ZACHARY   m   English
Usual English form of ZACHARIAS... [more]

ZACHERY   m   English
Variant of ZACHARY

ZACK   m   English
Short form of ZACHARY

ZACKARY   m   English
Variant of ZACHARY

ZACKERY   m   English
Variant of ZACHARY

ZAK   m   English
Short form of ZACHARY

ZANE   m   English
From an English surname of unknown meaning... [more]

ZECHARIAH   m   Biblical, English
From the Hebrew name זְכַרְיָה (Zekharyah) meaning "YAHWEH remembers"... [more]

ZED   m   English
Short form of ZEDEKIAH

ZEKE   m   English
Short form of EZEKIEL

ZEPH   m   English
Short form of ZEPHANIAH