The names listed here are used in English-speaking countries. Modern spelling variations of traditional names are not included. See also about English names.

CLAIR   m   French, English
French form of Clarus (see CLARA).

CLAIRE   f   French, English
French form of CLARA

CLARA   f   Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Romanian, English
Feminine form of the Late Latin name Clarus which meant "clear, bright, famous"... [more]

CLARE   f   English
Medieval English form of CLARA... [more]

CLARENCE   m   English
From the Latin title Clarensis which belonged to members of the British royal family... [more]

CLARIBEL   f   English
Combination of CLARA and the popular name suffix bel... [more]

CLARICE   f   English, French
Medieval French diminutive of CLARA, also used in England since the Middle Ages.

CLARINDA   f   English
Combination of CLARA and the popular name suffix inda... [more]

CLARISSA   f   English, Italian, Portuguese
Latinate form of CLARICE

CLARK   m   English
From a surname meaning "cleric" or "scholar" in Middle English... [more]

CLAUD   m   English
Variant of CLAUDE

CLAUDE   m & f   French, English
French masculine and feminine form of CLAUDIUS... [more]

CLAUDIA   f   English, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Biblical, Ancient Roman
Feminine form of CLAUDIUS... [more]

CLAY   m   English
From an English surname meaning "clay", originally referring to a person who lived near or worked with a source of clay... [more]

CLAYTON   m   English
From a surname which was originally from an Old English place name meaning "clay settlement".

CLEM   m   English
Short form of CLEMENT

CLEMENCE   f   English
Feminine form of Clementius (see CLEMENT)... [more]

CLEMENT   m   English
English form of the Late Latin name Clemens (or sometimes of its derivative Clementius) which meant "merciful, gentle"... [more]

CLEO   f   English
Short form of CLEOPATRA

CLETUS   m   English
Short form of ANACLETUS... [more]

CLEVE   m   English
Short form of CLEVELAND

CLEVELAND   m   English
From a surname which was derived from an Old English place name meaning "hilly land"... [more]

CLIFF   m   English
Short form of CLIFFORD or CLIFTON

CLIFFORD   m   English
From a surname which was originally from a place name meaning "ford by a cliff" in Old English.

CLIFTON   m   English
From a surname which was originally derived from a place name meaning "settlement by a cliff" in Old English.

CLINT   m   English
Short form of CLINTON... [more]

CLINTON   m   English
From a surname which was originally from an Old English place name meaning "settlement on the summit"... [more]

CLIVE   m   English
From a surname meaning "cliff" in Old English, originally belonging to a person who lived near a cliff.

CLOTILDA   f   English
Latinized form of CLOTILDE

CLYDE   m   English
From the name of the River Clyde in Scotland, which is of unknown origin... [more]

COBY   m & f   English, Dutch
Masculine or feminine diminutive of JACOB

CODY   m   English, Irish
From the Gaelic surname Mac Óda, which means "son of OTTO"... [more]

COLBERT   m   English
From an English surname which was derived from a Germanic name composed of the elements col, possibly meaning "helmet", and beraht, meaning "bright".

COLBY   m   English
From a surname, originally from various English place names, derived from the Old Norse nickname Koli (meaning "coal, dark") and býr "town".

COLE   m   English
From a surname which was originally derived from the Old English nickname Cola "charcoal", denoting a person with a dark features.

COLEEN   f   English
Variant of COLLEEN

COLEMAN   m   English, Irish
Variant of COLMÁN

COLIN (1)   m   Scottish, English
Anglicized form of CAILEAN

COLIN (2)   m   English
Medieval diminutive of Colle, a French and Norman form NICHOLAS.

COLLEEN   f   English
Derived from the Irish word cailín meaning "girl"... [more]

COLLIN   m   English
Variant of COLIN (2)

CONNIE   f   English
Diminutive of CONSTANCE

CONOR   m   Irish, English
Variant of CONNOR

CONRAD   m   English, German
Derived from the Germanic elements kuon "bold" and rad "counsel"... [more]

CONSTANCE   f   English, French
Medieval form of CONSTANTIA... [more]

CONWAY   m   English
From a surname which was derived from the name of the River Conwy, which possibly means "holy water" in Welsh.

COOPER   m   English
From a surname meaning "barrel maker" in Middle English.

CORA   f   English
Created by James Fenimore Cooper for his novel 'The Last of the Mohicans' (1826)... [more]

CORAL   f   English
From the English word coral for the underwater skeletal deposits which can form reefs... [more]

CORBIN   m   English
From a French surname which was derived from corbeau "raven", originally denoting a person who had dark hair... [more]

CORDELIA   f   English
From Cordeilla, possibly a Celtic name of unknown meaning... [more]

CORDELL   m   English
From a surname meaning "maker of cord" or "seller of cord" in Middle English.

CORETTA   f   English
Diminutive of CORA... [more]

COREY   m   English
From a surname which was derived from the Old Norse given name Kori, of unknown meaning... [more]

CORI   f   English
Feminine form of COREY

CORIE   f   English
Variant of CORRIE

CORINA   f   English, German, Romanian
Variant of CORINNA

CORINE   f   English
Variant of CORINNE

CORINNA   f   English, German, Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Latinized form of the Greek name Κοριννα (Korinna), which was derived from κορη (kore) "maiden"... [more]

CORINNE   f   French, English
French form of CORINNA... [more]

CORNELIA   f   English, Italian, German, Dutch, Romanian, Ancient Roman
Feminine form of CORNELIUS... [more]

CORNELIUS   m   Ancient Roman, English, Dutch, German, Biblical
Roman family name which possibly derives from the Latin element cornu "horn"... [more]

CORNELL   m   English
From a surname which was derived from an Anglicized form of Corneille, the medieval French form of CORNELIUS.

CORRIE   f   English
Diminutive of CORINNA, CORA, and other names starting with Cor... [more]

CORRINA   f   English
Variant of CORINNA

CORRINE   f   English
Variant of CORINNE

CORTNEY   f & m   English
Variant of COURTNEY

CORWIN   m   English
From an English surname, perhaps derived from Old French cordoan "leather".

CORY   m   English
Variant of COREY

COSMO   m   English
English form of COSMAS... [more]

COURTNEY   f & m   English
From an aristocratic English surname which was derived either from the French place name Courtenay (originally a derivative of the personal name Curtenus, itself derived from Latin curtus "short") or else from a Norman nickname meaning "short nose"... [more]

CRAIG   m   Scottish, English
From a Scottish surname which was derived from Gaelic creag meaning "crag" or "rocks"... [more]

CRAWFORD   m   English
From a surname which was derived from a place name meaning "crow ford" in Old English.

CRISTAL   f   English
Variant of CRYSTAL

CRYSTAL   f   English
From the English word crystal for the clear, colourless glass, sometimes cut into the shape of a gemstone... [more]

CULLEN   m   English
From a surname which was derived from an Old French form of Cologne, the name of a city in Germany.

CURT   m   English
Either a variant of KURT or short form of CURTIS

CURTIS   m   English
From an English surname which originally meant "courteous" in Old French.

CY   m   English
Short form of CYRUS or CYRIL

CYNDI   f   English
Short form of CYNTHIA

CYNTHIA   f   English, Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Latinized form of Greek Κυνθια (Kynthia) which means "woman from Kynthos"... [more]

CYRIL   m   English, Czech, Slovak
From the Greek name Κυριλλος (Kyrillos) which was derived from Greek κυριος (kyrios) "lord"... [more]

CYRUS   m   English, Biblical
From Κυρος (Kyros), the Greek form of the Persian name Kûrush, which may mean "far sighted" or may be related to the Persian word khur "sun"... [more]

DAISY   f   English
Simply from the English word for the white flower, ultimately derived from Old English dægeseage meaning "day eye"... [more]

DALE   m & f   English
From an English surname which originally belonged to a person who lived near a dale or valley.

DALLAS   m   English
From a surname which was originally taken from a Scottish place name meaning "meadow dwelling"... [more]

DALTON   m   English
From an English surname which was originally from a place name meaning "valley town" in Old English... [more]

DAMIAN   m   English, Polish
From the Greek name Δαμιανος (Damianos) which was derived from Greek δαμαω (damao) "to tame"... [more]

DAMION   m   English
Variant of DAMIAN

DAMON   m   Greek Mythology, English
Derived from Greek δαμαω (damao) meaning "to tame"... [more]

DAN (2)   m   English, Romanian
Short form of DANIEL

DANA (2)   m & f   English
From a surname which originally belonged to a person who was Danish... [more]

DANE   m   English
From a surname which was a variant of DEAN.

DANETTE   f   English
Feminine diminutive of DANIEL

DANI (1)   f   English
Diminutive of DANIELLE

DANICA   f   Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Slovak, Czech, English
From a Slavic word meaning "morning star"... [more]

DANIEL   m   English, Jewish, French, German, Scandinavian, Polish, Czech, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Biblical
From the Hebrew name דָנִיֵּאל (Daniyyel) meaning "God is my judge"... [more]

DANIELA   f   German, Polish, Czech, Romanian, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Slovene, English
Feminine form of DANIEL

DANIELLA   f   English
Feminine form of DANIEL

DANIELLE   f   French, English
French feminine form of DANIEL... [more]

DANITA   f   English
Feminine diminutive of DANIEL

DANNI   f   English
Diminutive of DANIELLE

DANNIE   m   English
Diminutive of DANIEL

DANNY   m   English
Diminutive of DANIEL

DAPHNE   f   Greek Mythology, English, Dutch
Means "laurel" in Greek... [more]

DARBY   m & f   English
From an English surname, originally a place name, meaning "deer town" in Old Norse.

DARCY   f & m   English
From an English surname which was derived from Norman French d'Arcy, originally denoting one who came from Arcy in France... [more]

DARELL   m   English
Variant of DARRELL

DAREN   m   English
Variant of DARREN

DARIA   f   Italian, Polish, Romanian, English
Feminine form of DARIUS... [more]

DARIAN   m & f   English
Probably an elaborated form of DARREN

DARIEN   m   English
Variant of DARIAN

DARIN   m   English
Variant of DARREN... [more]

DARIUS   m   English, Lithuanian, Biblical
Roman form of Δαρειος (Dareios), which was the Greek form of the Persian name Dârayavahush, which was composed of the elements dâraya "to possess" and vahu "good"... [more]

DARLA   f   English
Short form of DARLENE

DARLEEN   f   English
Variant of DARLENE

DARLENE   f   English
From the English word darling combined with the popular name suffix lene... [more]

DARNELL   m   English
From a surname, possibly derived from Old French darnel, a type of grass... [more]

DARREL   m   English
Variant of DARRELL

DARRELL   m   English
From an English surname which was derived from Norman French d'Airelle, originally denoting one who came from Airelle in France.

DARREN   m   English
The meaning of this name is not known for certain... [more]

DARRIN   m   English
Variant of DARREN

DARRYL   m   English
Variant of DARRELL

DARWIN   m   English
From a surname which was derived from the Old English given name Deorwine which meant "dear friend"... [more]

DARYL   m   English
Variant of DARRELL

DAVE   m   English
Short form of DAVID

DAVEY   m   English
Diminutive of DAVID

DAVID   m   English, Jewish, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Czech, Slovene, German, Scandinavian, Dutch, Biblical
Possibly derived from Hebrew דוד (dvd) meaning "beloved"... [more]

DAVIE   m   English
Diminutive of DAVID

DAVIN   m   English
Possibly a variant of DEVIN influenced by DAVID.

DAVINA   f   English (British)
Feminine form of DAVID... [more]

DAVIS   m   English
From a surname which was derived from the given name DAVID... [more]

DAVY   m   English
Diminutive of DAVID

DAWN   f   English
From the English word dawn, ultimately derived from Old English dagung.

DAWSON   m   English
From a surname meaning "son of DAVID"... [more]

DAX   m   English
From an English surname which was derived either from the town of Dax in France or else from the Old English given name Dæcca (of unknown meaning).

DAYNA   f   English
Feminine variant of DANA (2)

DAYTON   m   English
From an English surname which was derived from a place name which possibly meant either "dairy town" or "ditch town" in Old English.

DEAN   m   English
From a surname which means either "valley" from Middle English dene or else "dean" from Middle English deen (ultimately from Latin decanus meaning "chief of ten")... [more]

DEANA   f   English
Variant of DEANNA

DEANNA   f   English
Either a variant of DIANA or a feminine form of DEAN... [more]

DEANNE   f   English
Variant of DEANNA

DEB   f   English
Short form of DEBORAH

DEBBI   f   English
Diminutive of DEBORAH

DEBBIE   f   English
Diminutive of DEBORAH

DEBBY   f   English
Diminutive of DEBORAH

DEBI   f   English
Diminutive of DEBORAH

DEBORAH   f   English, Jewish, Biblical
Means "bee" in Hebrew... [more]

DEBRA   f   English
Variant of DEBORAH

DEE   f & m   English
Short form of names beginning with D... [more]

DEEANN   f   English
Variant of DEANNA

DEENA   f   English
Variant of DEANNA

DEFOREST   m   English
From a French surname meaning "from the forest"... [more]

DEIDRA   f   English
Variant of DEIRDRE

DEIDRE   f   English
Variant of DEIRDRE

DEIRDRE   f   English, Irish, Irish Mythology
From the older Gaelic form Derdriu, meaning unknown, possibly derived from a Celtic word meaning "woman"... [more]

DELBERT   m   English
Short form of ADELBERT... [more]

DELIA   f   English, Italian, Spanish, Greek Mythology
Means "of Delos" in Greek... [more]

DELILAH   f   Biblical, English
Means "delicate, weak, languishing" in Hebrew... [more]

DELL   m & f   English
From an English surname which originally denoted a person who lived in a dell or valley.

DELLA   f   English
Diminutive of ADELA or ADELAIDE... [more]

DELMA   f   Irish, English
Short form of FIDELMA

DELMAR   m   English
From an English surname which was derived from Norman French de la mare meaning "from the pond".

DELORA   f   English
Altered form of DOLORES

DELORES   f   English
Variant of DOLORES

DELORIS   f   English
Variant of DOLORES

DELPHIA   f   English
Possibly from the name of the Greek city of Delphi, the site of an oracle of Apollo, which is possibly related to Greek δελφις (delphis) "dolphin"... [more]

DELTA   f   English
From the name of the fourth letter in the Greek alphabet, Δ... [more]

DEMELZA   f   English (British)
From a Cornish place name meaning "fort of Maeldaf"... [more]

DEN   m   English
Short form of DENNIS

DENA   f   English
Possibly a short form of names ending with dena... [more]

DENICE   f   English
Variant of DENISE

DENIS   m   French, Russian, English, German, Czech, Slovene
From Denys or Denis, the medieval French forms of DIONYSIUS... [more]

DENISE   f   French, English
French feminine form of DENIS

DENNIS   m   English, German, Dutch
Usual English, German and Dutch form of DENIS

DENNY   m   English
Diminutive of DENNIS

DENTON   m   English
From a surname, originally from a place name, which meant "valley town" in Old English.

DENVER   m   English
From an English surname which was from a place name meaning "Dane ford" in Old English... [more]

DENZIL   m   English
From a surname which originally belonged to a person from Denzell in Cornwall... [more]

DEON   m   English
Variant of DION

DEREK   m   English
From a Low German form of THEODORIC... [more]

DERICK   m   English
Variant of DEREK

DERRICK   m   English
Variant of DEREK

DES   m   English
Short form of DESMOND

DESIREE   f   English
English form of DÉSIRÉE... [more]

DESMOND   m   English, Irish
From an Irish surname which was derived from Gaelic Deas-Mhumhan meaning "from south Munster (in Ireland)".

DESTINY   f   English
Means simply "destiny, fate" from the English word, ultimately from Latin destinare "to determine", a derivative of stare "to stand"... [more]

DEVIN   m & f   English, Irish
From an Anglicized Irish surname derived from either of the Irish surnames Ó Damháin (from the given name Damhán meaning "fawn") or Ó Dubháin (from the given name Dubhán meaning "little black one").

DEVON   m & f   English
Variant of DEVIN... [more]

DEWAYNE   m   English
Variant of DUANE

DEXTER   m   English
From an occupational surname meaning "one who dyes" in Old English... [more]

DI   f   English
Short form of DIANA

DIANA   f   English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Catalan, German, Dutch, Romanian, Russian, Lithuanian, Roman Mythology
Probably derived from an old Indo-European root meaning "heavenly, divine", related to dyeus (see ZEUS)... [more]

DIANE   f   French, English
French form of DIANA, also regularly used in the English-speaking world.

DIANN   f   English
Variant of DIANE

DIANNA   f   English
Variant of DIANA

DIANNE   f   French, English
Variant of DIANE

DICK (1)   m   English
Medieval diminutive of RICHARD... [more]

DILLON   m   English
Variant of DYLAN based on the spelling of the surname Dillon, which has an unrelated origin.

DINA   f   English
Variant of DINAH

DINAH   f   Biblical, English
Means "judged" in Hebrew... [more]

DION   m   Ancient Greek, English
Short form of DIONYSIOS and other Greek names beginning with the Greek element Διος (Dios) meaning "of ZEUS"... [more]

DIONE (2)   f   English
Feminine form of DION

DIONNE   f   English
Feminine form of DION

DIRK   m   Dutch, German, English
Short form of DIEDERIK... [more]

DIXIE   f   English
From the term that refers to the southern United States, used by Daniel D... [more]

DIXON   m   English
From an English surname meaning "DICK (1)'s son".

DOCIA   f   English
Diminutive of THEODOSIA

DODIE   f   English
Diminutive of DOROTHY

DOLLIE   f   English
Variant of DOLLY.

DOLLY   f   English
Diminutive of DOROTHY... [more]

DOLORES   f   Spanish, English
Means "sorrows", taken from the Spanish title of the Virgin Mary María de los Dolores, meaning "Mary of Sorrows"... [more]

DOLPH   m   English
Short form of ADOLPH

DOM   m   English
Short form of DOMINIC

DOMENIC   m   English
Variant of DOMINIC

DOMINIC   m   English
From the Late Latin name Dominicus meaning "of the Lord"... [more]

DOMINICK   m   English
Variant of DOMINIC

DON   m   English
Short form of DONALD

DONA   f   English
Variant of DONNA

DONALD   m   Scottish, English
From the Gaelic name Domhnall which means "ruler of the world", composed of the old Celtic elements dumno "world" and val "rule"... [more]

DONNA   f   English
From Italian donna meaning "lady"... [more]

DONNIE   m   English
Diminutive of DONALD

DONNY   m   English
Diminutive of DONALD

DORA   f   English, Spanish
Short form of DOROTHY, ISIDORA or THEODORA

DOREEN   f   English
Combination of DORA and the name suffix een... [more]

DORETTA   f   English
Diminutive of DORA

DORIAN   m   English, French
The name was first used by Oscar Wilde in his novel 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' (1891), which tells the story of a man whose portrait ages while he stays young... [more]

DORINDA   f   English
Combination of DORA and the name suffix inda.

DORINE   f   English
Variant of DOREEN

DORIS   f   English, German, Ancient Greek, Greek Mythology
From the ancient Greek name Δωρις (Doris) which meant "Dorian woman"... [more]

DOROTHEA   f   German, Dutch, Danish, English
Feminine form of the Late Latin name Dorotheus, from the Greek Δωροθεος (Dorotheos), which meant "gift of God" from Greek δωρον (doron) "gift" and θεος (theos) "god"... [more]

DOROTHY   f   English
Usual English form of DOROTHEA... [more]

DORRIS   f   English
Variant of DORIS

DORTHA   f   English
Variant of DOROTHY

DORTHY   f   English
Variant of DOROTHY

DORY   f   English
Diminutive of DOROTHY or DORIS

DOT   f   English
Diminutive of DOROTHY

DOTTIE   f   English
Diminutive of DOROTHY

DOTTY   f   English
Diminutive of DOROTHY

DOUG   m   English
Short form of DOUGLAS

DOUGLAS   m   Scottish, English
Anglicized form of the Scottish surname Dubhghlas, which meant "dark river" from Gaelic dubh "dark" and glais "water, river"... [more]