Browse Names

Almas f & m Arabic
Means "diamond" in Arabic, ultimately from Persian الماس (almas).

Almast f Armenian
Means "diamond" in Armenian, ultimately from Persian الماس (almas).

Almazbek m Kyrgyz
From Kyrgyz алмаз (almaz) meaning "diamond", ultimately from Persian الماس (almas), combined with the Turkic military title beg meaning "chieftain, master".

Châu f & m Vietnamese
From Sino-Vietnamese 珠 (châu) meaning "pearl, gem".

Deimantė f Lithuanian
From Lithuanian deimantas meaning "diamond".

Diamanda f Various (Rare)
Variant of Diamond.

Diamantis m Greek
Derived from Greek διαμάντι (diamanti) meaning "diamond".

Diamanto f Greek
Derived from Greek διαμάντι (diamanti) meaning "diamond".

Diamond f English (Rare), African American (Modern)
From the English word diamond for the clear colourless precious stone, the traditional birthstone of April. It is derived from Late Latin diamas, from Latin adamas, which is of Greek origin meaning "unconquerable, unbreakable".

Dorji f & m Tibetan, Bhutanese
Means "diamond" in Tibetan.

Elmas f Turkish
Means "diamond" in Turkish, ultimately from Persian.

Emerald f English (Modern)
From the word for the green precious stone, which is the traditional birthstone of May. The emerald supposedly imparts love to the bearer. The word is ultimately from Greek σμάραγδος (smaragdos).

Esmeralda f Spanish, Portuguese, English, Albanian, Literature
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.

Gemma f Italian, Catalan, English (British), Dutch
Medieval Italian nickname meaning "gem, precious stone". It was borne by the wife of the 13th-century Italian poet Dante Alighieri.

Hira f & m Urdu, Nepali, Punjabi, Gujarati, Hindi
Derived from Sanskrit हीर (hira) meaning "diamond". It is typically feminine in Pakistan and unisex in India and Nepal.

Intan f Indonesian, Malay
Means "diamond" in Malay and Indonesian.

Khamphet m & f Lao
From Lao ຄຳ (kham) meaning "gold" and ເພັດ (phet) meaning "diamond, gem".

Lali f Georgian
Means "ruby" in Georgian, of Sanskrit origin.

Lin m & f Chinese
From Chinese 林 (lín) meaning "forest" or 琳 (lín) meaning "fine jade, gem". Other characters can also form this name.

Mererid f Welsh
Means "pearl, gem" in Welsh, derived from Latin margarita.

Ngọc f & m Vietnamese
From Sino-Vietnamese 玉 (ngọc) meaning "jade, precious stone, gem".

Nilam f & m Hindi, Marathi
Means "dark blue, sapphire" in Sanskrit.

Pich f & m Khmer
Means "diamond" in Khmer.

Rubena f Esperanto
From Esperanto rubeno meaning "ruby", ultimately from Latin ruber "red".

Rubina f Portuguese, Italian (Rare)
Derived from Portuguese rubi or Italian rubino meaning "ruby", ultimately from Latin ruber "red".

Ruby f English
Simply from the name of the precious stone (which ultimately derives from Latin ruber "red"), which is the traditional birthstone of July. It came into use as a given name in the 16th century.

Ruwan m Sinhalese
From Sinhala රුවන (ruvana) meaning "gem".

Safira f Portuguese
Portuguese form of Sapphira. It coincides with the Portuguese word for "sapphire".

Sapir f Hebrew
Means "sapphire" in Hebrew.

Sappheire f Biblical Greek
Greek form of Sapphira.

Sapphira f Biblical
From the Greek name Σαπφείρη (Sappheire), which was from Greek σάπφειρος (sappheiros) meaning "sapphire" or "lapis lazuli" (ultimately derived from the Hebrew word סַפִּיר (sappir)). Sapphira is a character in Acts in the New Testament who is killed by God for lying.

Sapphire f English (Modern)
From the name of the gemstone, typically blue, which is the traditional birthstone of September. It is derived from Greek σάπφειρος (sappheiros), ultimately from the Hebrew word סַפִּיר (sappir).

Sappho f Ancient Greek
Possibly from Greek σάπφειρος (sappheiros) meaning "sapphire" or "lapis lazuli". This was the name of a 7th-century BC Greek poetess from Lesbos.

Sengphet f & m Lao
From Lao ແສງ (saeng) meaning "light" and ເພັດ (phet) meaning "diamond, gem".

Smaragdos m Late Greek
Means "emerald" in Greek, of Semitic origin. This was the name of a 3rd-century Roman martyr and saint, better known by the Latinized form of his name Smaragdus.

Yu f & m Chinese
From Chinese 玉 (yù) meaning "jade, precious stone, gem", 愉 (yú) meaning "pleasant, delightful" or 雨 (yǔ) meaning "rain". Other characters can form this name as well.

Zümra f Turkish
From Turkish zümrüt meaning "emerald", derived via Arabic from Greek σμάραγδος (smaragdos).

Zümrüd f Azerbaijani
Means "emerald" in Azerbaijani, of Persian origin.