VallifHinduism Means "creeping plant" in Dravidian. In Dravidian mythology the goddess Valli was the wife of Murunga.
VanadísfNorse Mythology Means "goddess of the Vanir" in Old Norse. This was an epithet of the Norse goddess Freya, given because she was a member of the Vanir (as opposed to the Æsir).
VellamofFinnish Mythology From Finnish velloa"to surge, to swell". This was the name of a Finnish goddess of the sea, the wife of Ahti.
VenusfRoman Mythology Means "love, sexual desire" in Latin. This was the name of the Roman goddess of love and sex. Her character was assimilated with that of the Greek goddess Aphrodite. As the mother of Aeneas she was considered an ancestor of the Roman people. The second planet from the sun is named after her.
VerdandifNorse Mythology From Old Norse Verðandi meaning "becoming, happening". Verdandi was one of the three Norns, or goddesses of destiny, in Norse mythology. She was responsible for the present.
VeritasfRoman Mythology Means "truth" in Latin, a derivative of verus "true". The Roman goddess Veritas was the personification of truth.
VestafRoman Mythology Probably a Roman cognate of Hestia. Vesta was the Roman goddess of the hearth. A continuous fire, tended by the Vestal Virgins, was burned in the Temple of Vesta in Rome.
Vijayam & fHinduism, Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam, Marathi, Hindi Means "victory" in Sanskrit. This is a transcription of both the masculine form विजय and the feminine form विजया, both of which are used frequently in Hindu texts. It is the name of a grandson of Indra, a son of Krishna and it is another name of the goddess Durga. This was also the name of a semi-legendary 6th-century BC king of Sri Lanka.
XochiquetzalfAztec and Toltec Mythology, Nahuatl Derived from Nahuatl xōchitl "flower" and quetzalli "quetzal feather, precious thing". This was the name of the Aztec goddess of love, flowers and the earth, the twin sister of Xochipilli.
YamunafTamil, Telugu From the name of an Indian river, which is possibly derived from the name of the goddess Yami.
YemọjafYoruba Mythology Means "mother of fish" in Yoruba, derived from iye "mother", ọmọ "child" and ẹja "fish". In traditional Yoruba religion she is the goddess of the Ogun River, pregnancy and motherhood.
ŽivafSlavic Mythology, Slovene, Serbian From the Old Slavic word živŭ meaning "alive, living". According to the 12th-century Saxon priest Helmold, this was the name of a Slavic goddess possibly associated with life or fertility.