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

CECELIA   f   English
Variant of CECILIA

CECILIA   f   English, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Finnish
Latinate feminine form of the Roman family name Caecilius, which was derived from Latin caecus "blind"... [more]

CECILY   f   English
English form of CECILIA... [more]

CELESTE   f & m   Italian, English
Italian feminine and masculine form of CAELESTIS... [more]

CELESTINE   f & m   English
English form of CAELESTINUS... [more]

CELIA   f   English, Spanish, Italian
Feminine form of the Roman family name Caelius (see CELIO)... [more]

CHANEL   f   English
From a French surname which meant "pipe"... [more]

CHANTAL   f   French, English, Dutch
From a French surname which was derived from a place name meaning "stony"... [more]

CHANTEL   f   English
Variant of CHANTAL

CHANTELLE   f   English
Variant of CHANTAL

CHARISSA   f   English
Elaborated form of CHARIS... [more]

CHARISSE   f   English
From a French surname of unknown meaning... [more]

CHARITY   f   English
From the English word charity, ultimately derived from Late Latin caritas meaning "generous love", from Latin carus "dear, beloved"... [more]

CHARLA   f   English
Feminine form of CHARLES

CHARLEEN   f   English
Variant of CHARLENE

CHARLENE   f   English
Feminine diminutive of CHARLES

CHARLEY   m & f   English
Diminutive or feminine form of CHARLES

CHARLIE   m & f   English
Diminutive or feminine form of CHARLES... [more]

CHARLOTTE   f   French, English, German, Scandinavian, Dutch
French feminine diminutive of CHARLES... [more]

CHARMAINE   f   English
Meaning unknown, perhaps a combination of CHARLOTTE, CHARLENE or the English word charm with the aine suffix from LORRAINE... [more]

CHASITY   f   English
Variant of CHASTITY

CHASTITY   f   English
From the English word chastity, which is ultimately from Latin castus "pure"... [more]

CHELLE   f   English
Diminutive of MICHELLE

CHELSEA   f   English
From the name of a district in London, originally derived from Old English and meaning "landing place for chalk or limestone"... [more]

CHER   f   English
Short form of CHERYL... [more]

CHERI   f   English
Variant of CHERIE

CHERIE   f   English
Derived from French chérie meaning "darling"... [more]

CHERILYN   f   English
Combination of CHERYL and the popular name suffix lyn.

CHERISE   f   English
Variant of CHARISSE

CHERISH   f   English
From the English word meaning "to treasure".

CHERRY   f   English
Simply means "cherry" from the name of the fruit... [more]

CHERYL   f   English
Elaboration of CHERIE, perhaps influenced by BERYL... [more]

CHEYENNE   f & m   English
Derived from the Dakota word shahiyena meaning "unintelligible speakers"... [more]

CHLOE   f   English, Biblical, Greek Mythology
Means "green shoot" in Greek... [more]

CHRIS   m & f   English
Short form of CHRISTOPHER, CHRISTIAN, CHRISTINE, and other names that begin with Chris.

CHRISSIE   f   English
Diminutive of CHRISTINE

CHRISSY   f   English
Diminutive of CHRISTINE

CHRISTA   f   German, Danish, English
Short form of CHRISTINA

CHRISTAL   f   English
Variant of CRYSTAL

CHRISTI   f   English
Diminutive of CHRISTINE

CHRISTIANA   f   English
Latinate feminine form of CHRISTIAN

CHRISTIE (1)   f   English
Diminutive of CHRISTINE

CHRISTINA   f   English, German, Scandinavian, Dutch
From Christiana, the Latin feminine form of CHRISTIAN... [more]

CHRISTINE   f   French, English, German, Scandinavian, Dutch
French form of CHRISTINA, used as a variant in other languages.

CHRISTY (1)   f   English
Diminutive of CHRISTINE

CHRYSTAL   f   English
Variant of CRYSTAL

CICELY   f   English
Medieval variant of CECILY

CINDI   f   English
Diminutive of CYNTHIA

CINDY   f   English
Diminutive of CYNTHIA

CISSY   f   English
Variant of SISSY

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]

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

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]

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

CLEO   f   English
Short form of CLEOPATRA

CLOTILDA   f   English
Latinized form of CLOTILDE

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

COLEEN   f   English
Variant of COLLEEN

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

CONNIE   f   English
Diminutive of CONSTANCE

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

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]

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

CORETTA   f   English
Diminutive of CORA... [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]

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

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]

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]

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]

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.

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

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]

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

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]

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

DARIAN   m & f   English
Probably an elaborated form of DARREN

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]

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

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

DAYNA   f   English
Feminine variant of DANA (2)

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

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]

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

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]

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

DENICE   f   English
Variant of DENISE

DENISE   f   French, English
French feminine form of DENIS

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

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]

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

DINA   f   English
Variant of DINAH

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

DIONE (2)   f   English
Feminine form of DION

DIONNE   f   English
Feminine form of DION

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

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]

DONA   f   English
Variant of DONNA

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

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

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

DREA   f   English
Short form of ANDREA (2)

DULCIE   f   English
From Latin dulcis meaning "sweet"... [more]

DUSTY   m & f   English
From a nickname originally given to a person who was perceived as being dusty... [more]

DYAN   f   English
Variant of DIANE

EARLENE   f   English
Feminine form of EARL

EARLINE   f   English
Feminine form of EARL

EARNESTINE   f   English
Variant of ERNESTINE

EARTHA   f   English
Combination of the English word earth with the feminine name suffix a... [more]

EASTER   f   English
From the English name of the Christian festival celebrating the resurrection of Jesus... [more]

EBBA (2)   f   English
From the Old English name Æbbe, meaning unknown, perhaps a contracted form of a longer name... [more]

EBONY   f   English
From the English word ebony for the black wood which comes from the ebony tree... [more]

EDDIE   m & f   English
Diminutive of EDWARD, EDMUND, and other names beginning with Ed.

EDIE   f   English
Diminutive of EDITH

EDITH   f   English, German, Scandinavian, Dutch
From the Old English name Eadgyð, derived from the elements ead "rich, blessed" and gyð "war"... [more]

EDNA (1)   f   Irish, Scottish, English
Anglicized form of EITHNE

EDWINA   f   English
Feminine form of EDWIN

EDYTHE   f   English
Variant of EDITH

EFFIE   f   English, Scottish
Diminutive of EUPHEMIA... [more]

EILEEN   f   Irish, English
Anglicized form of EIBHLÍN... [more]