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

LINCOLN   m   English
From a surname which was originally from the name of a city in England, derived from Welsh llyn "lake, pool" and Latin colonia "colony"... [more]

LINDEN   m   English
From a surname which was a variant of LYNDON.

LINDSAY   f & m   English, Scottish
From an English and Scottish surname which was originally derived from a place name in Lincolnshire meaning "island of Lincoln" in Old English... [more]

LINDSEY   f & m   English, Scottish
Variant of LINDSAY

LINDY   m & f   English
Originally this was a masculine name, coming into use in America in 1927 when the dance called the Lindy hop became popular... [more]

LINTON   m   English
From a surname which was originally from place names meaning either "flax town" or "lime tree town" in Old English.

LINWOOD   m   English
From a surname which was originally from a place name meaning "stream forest" in Old English.

LLOYD   m   English
From a surname which was derived from Welsh llwyd meaning "grey"... [more]

LOCKIE   m   English
Diminutive of LACHLAN

LOGAN   m & f   Scottish, English
From a surname which was originally derived from a Scottish place name meaning "little hollow" in Scottish Gaelic.

LON   m   English
Short form of ALONZO and other names containing the same sound... [more]

LONNIE   m   English
Short form of ALONZO and other names containing the same sound.

LONNY   m   English
Short form of ALONZO and other names containing the same sound.

LOREN   m & f   English
Either a short form of LAURENCE (1) (masculine) or a variant of LAUREN (feminine).

LORIN   m   English
Variant of LOREN

LORNE   m   English
From the title 'Marquis of Lorne', which was based on the Scottish place name Lorne, of unknown meaning... [more]

LOU   f & m   English, French
Short form of LOUISE or LOUIS

LOUIE   m   English
Diminutive of LOUIS

LOUIS   m   French, English, Dutch
French form of Ludovicus, the Latinized form of LUDWIG... [more]

LOVELL   m   English
From a surname which was a variant of LOWELL.

LOWELL   m   English
From an English surname which was derived from a Norman French nickname, from lou "wolf" and a diminutive suffix... [more]

LOYD   m   English
Variant of LLOYD

LUCAS   m   English, Dutch, French, Portuguese, Spanish
Latin form of Loukas (see LUKE).

LUCIAN   m   Romanian, English
From the Roman family name Lucianus, which was derived from the Roman name LUCIUS.

LUCIUS   m   Ancient Roman, Biblical, English
Roman praenomen, or given name, which was derived from Latin lux "light"... [more]

LUCKY   m   English
From a nickname given to a lucky person... [more]

LUKE   m   English, Biblical
English form of the Greek name Λουκας (Loukas) which meant "from Lucania", Lucania being a region in Italy... [more]

LUTHER   m   English
From a German surname, itself from a Germanic given name composed of the elements liut "people" and heri "army"... [more]

LYLE   m   English
From an English surname which was derived from Norman French l'isle "island".

LYNDON   m   English
From an English surname which was derived from a place name meaning "lime tree hill" in Old English... [more]

LYNN   f & m   English
From an English surname which was derived from Welsh llyn "lake"... [more]

LYNWOOD   m   English
Variant of LINWOOD

MACK   m   English
From a surname which was originally a shortened form of various Gaelic surnames beginning with Mac or Mc (from Gaelic mac meaning "son")... [more]

MACKENZIE   f & m   English
From the Gaelic surname Mac Coinnich, which means "son of COINNEACH"... [more]

MADISON   f & m   English
From an English surname meaning "son of MAUD"... [more]

MAJOR   m   English
From a surname which was originally derived from the given name Mauger, an Old French form of the Germanic name Malger meaning "council spear"... [more]

MALACHI   m   Biblical, Jewish, English
Means "my messenger" or "my angel" in Hebrew... [more]

MALCOLM   m   Scottish, English
From Scottish Mael Coluim which means "disciple of Saint COLUMBA"... [more]

MALCOM   m   English
Variant of MALCOLM

MANLEY   m   English
From an English surname, originally a place name, meaning "common clearing" in Old English.

MANNY   m   English
Short form of EMMANUEL

MANUEL   m   Spanish, Portuguese, German, Romanian, English
Spanish and Portuguese form of EMMANUEL, as well as the German, Romanian and English short form of EMANUEL... [more]

MARCUS   m   Ancient Roman, English, Biblical (Variant)
Roman praenomen, or given name, which was probably derived from the name of the Roman god MARS... [more]

MARIA   f & m   Italian, Portuguese, Catalan, German, Scandinavian, Dutch, Greek, Polish, Romanian, English, Finnish, Icelandic, Corsican, Basque
Latin form of Greek Μαρια, from Hebrew מִרְיָם (see MARY)... [more]

MARION (2)   m   English
From a French surname which was derived from MARION (1)... [more]

MARK   m   English, Russian, Biblical
English and Russian form of MARCUS... [more]

MARLIN   m   English
Variant of MERLIN

MARLON   m   English
Possibly from Marcelon, a French diminutive of MARCEL... [more]

MARLYN   f & m   English
Feminine form or variant of MARLIN

MARSHAL   m   English
Variant of MARSHALL

MARSHALL   m   English
From a surname which originally denoted a person who was a marshal... [more]

MARTIE   m   English
Diminutive of MARTIN

MARTIN   m   English, French, German, Scandinavian, Russian, Romanian, Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Hungarian, Bulgarian
From the Roman name Martinus, which was derived from Martis, the genitive case of the name of the Roman god MARS... [more]

MARTY   m   English
Diminutive of MARTIN

MARVIN   m   English, German
Probably from an English surname which was derived from the given name MERVYN... [more]

MASON   m   English
From an English surname meaning "stoneworker", from an Old French word of Germanic origin (akin to Old English macian "to make").

MAT   m   English
Short form of MATTHEW

MATHEW   m   English
Variant of MATTHEW

MATT   m   English
Short form of MATTHEW

MATTHEW   m   English, Biblical
English form of Ματθαιος (Matthaios), which was a Greek form of the Hebrew name מַתִּתְיָהוּ (Mattityahu) meaning "gift of YAHWEH"... [more]

MATTIE   f & m   English
Diminutive of MATILDA or MATTHEW

MATTY   m   English
Diminutive of MATTHEW

MAURICE   m   English, French
From the Roman name Mauricius, a derivative of MAURUS... [more]

MAVERICK   m   English
Derived from the English word maverick meaning "independent"... [more]

MAX   m   German, English, Scandinavian, Dutch
Short form of MAXIMILIAN (or sometimes of MAXWELL in English).

MAXIMILIAN   m   German, English
From the Roman name Maximilianus, which was derived from MAXIMUS... [more]

MAXIMILLIAN   m   English
Variant of MAXIMILIAN

MAXWELL   m   English
From a Scottish surname meaning "Mack's stream", from the name Mack, a short form of the Scandinavian name MAGNUS, combined with Old English wella "stream"... [more]

MAYNARD   m   English
From an English surname which was derived from the Germanic given name Mainard, composed of the elements magin "strength" and hard "brave, hardy".

MEL   m & f   English
Short form of MELVIN, MELANIE, MELISSA, and other names beginning with Mel.

MELVILLE   m   English
From a Scottish surname which was originally from a French place name meaning "bad settlement"... [more]

MELVIN   m   English
From a Scottish surname which probably originated as a variant of MELVILLE.

MELVYN   m   English
Variant of MELVIN

MEREDITH   m & f   Welsh, English
From the Welsh name Maredudd or Meredydd, possibly meaning "great lord" or "sea lord"... [more]

MERLE   f & m   English
Variant of MERRILL or MURIEL... [more]

MERLIN   m   Welsh Mythology, English
Form of the Welsh name Myrddin (meaning "sea fortress") used by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his 12th-century Arthurian tales... [more]

MERLYN   m & f   English
Variant of MERLIN, sometimes used as a feminine form... [more]

MERRILL   m   English
From an English surname which was derived from the given name MURIEL.

MERRITT   m   English
From an English surname, originally from a place name, which meant "boundary gate" in Old English.

MERTON   m   English
From a surname which was derived from a place name meaning "town on a lake" in Old English.

MERV   m   English
Short form of MERVYN

MERVIN   m   Welsh, English
Variant of MERVYN

MERVYN   m   Welsh, English
From the Welsh name Merfyn, which possibly meant "marrow famous"... [more]

MICAH   m   Biblical, English
Contracted form of MICAIAH... [more]

MICHAEL   m   English, German, Czech, Biblical
From the Hebrew name מִיכָאֵל (Mikha'el) meaning "who is like God?"... [more]

MICHEAL   m   English
Variant of MICHAEL

MICK   m   English
Short form of MICHAEL

MICKEY   m & f   English
Diminutive or feminine form of MICHAEL... [more]

MICKY   m   English
Diminutive of MICHAEL

MIKE   m   English
Short form of MICHAEL

MILBURN   m   English
From an English surname which was from a place name meaning "mill stream" in Old English.

MILES   m   English
From the Germanic name Milo, introduced by the Normans to England in the form Miles... [more]

MILFORD   m   English
From an English surname which was originally derived from various place names all meaning "ford by a mill" in Old English.

MILLARD   m   English
From an occupational English surname which meant "guardian of the mill" in Old English.

MILO   m   English
Latinized form of MILES... [more]

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

MITCH   m   English
Short form of MITCHELL

MITCHELL   m   English
From a surname, itself derived from the given name MICHAEL.

MO   f & m   English
Short form of MAUREEN, MAURICE, MORRIS, and other names beginning with a similar sound.

MOE (1)   m   English
Short form of MAURICE or MORRIS, or sometimes of other names beginning with a similar sound.

MONROE   m   Scottish, English
From a Scottish surname meaning "the mouth of the Roe" in Gaelic... [more]

MONTE   m   English
Diminutive of MONTGOMERY

MONTGOMERY   m   English
From an English surname meaning "Gomeric's mountain" in Norman French, Gomeric being a Germanic personal name meaning "man power"... [more]

MONTY   m   English
Variant of MONTE

MORGAN   m & f   Welsh, English
From the Old Welsh masculine name Morcant, which was possibly derived from Welsh mor "sea" and cant "circle"... [more]

MORRIS   m   English
Usual medieval form of MAURICE

MORT   m   English
Short form of MORTON or MORTIMER

MORTIMER   m   English
From an English surname which was derived from a place name meaning "still water" in Old French.

MORTON   m   English
From a surname which was originally from a place name meaning "moor town" in Old English.

MORTY   m   English
Diminutive of MORTON or MORTIMER

MOSES   m   English, Biblical
From the Hebrew name מֹשֶׁה (Mosheh) which is most likely derived from Egyptian mes meaning "son", but could also possibly mean "deliver" in Hebrew... [more]

MURPHY   m & f   Irish, English
From an Irish surname which was derived from Ó Murchadha meaning "descendent of MURCHADH".

MURRAY   m   Scottish, English
From a Scottish surname which was derived from the region in Scotland called Moray.

MYLES   m   English
Variant of MILES

MYRON   m   English, Ancient Greek
Means "myrrh" in Greek... [more]

NAT   m   English
Short form of NATHAN or NATHANIEL

NATE   m   English
Short form of NATHAN or NATHANIEL

NATHAN   m   English, French, Biblical
Means "giver" in Hebrew... [more]

NATHANIEL   m   English, Biblical (Variant)
Variant of NATHANAEL... [more]

NEAL   m   English
Variant of NEIL

NED   m   English
Diminutive of EDWARD or EDMUND... [more]

NEELY   m   English
From a Scottish surname, an Anglicized form of Mac an Fhilidh meaning "son of the poet" in Gaelic.

NEIL   m   Irish, Scottish, English
From the Gaelic name Niall, which is of disputed origin, possibly meaning "champion" or "cloud"... [more]

NELSON   m   English
From an English surname meaning "son of NEIL"... [more]

NEWT   m   English
Short form of NEWTON

NEWTON   m   English
From a surname which was originally derived from a place name meaning "new town" in Old English... [more]

NIC   m   English
Short form of NICHOLAS, or sometimes DOMINIC.

NICHOLAS   m   English, French
From the Greek name Νικολαος (Nikolaos) which meant "victory of the people" from Greek νικη (nike) "victory" and λαος (laos) "people"... [more]

NICK   m   English, Dutch
Short form of NICHOLAS

NICKOLAS   m   English
Variant of NICHOLAS

NICKY   m & f   English
Diminutive of NICHOLAS or NICOLE

NIGEL   m   English
From Nigellus, a medieval Latinized form of NEIL... [more]

NIKOLAS   m   English, Greek
Variant of NICHOLAS or NIKOLAOS

NILES   m   English
From a surname which was derived from the given name NEIL.

NOAH (1)   m   English, Biblical
Derived from the Hebrew name נוֹחַ (Noach) meaning "rest, comfort"... [more]

NOBLE   m   English
From an English surname meaning "noble, notable"... [more]

NOEL   m   English
English form of NOËL

NOLAN   m   Irish, English
From an Irish surname which was derived from Ó Nualláin meaning "descendent of Nuallán"... [more]

NORBERT   m   German, English, Dutch, Hungarian, Polish
Derived from the Germanic elements nord "north" and beraht "bright"... [more]

NORM   m   English
Short form of NORMAN

NORMAN   m   English
From an old Germanic byname meaning "northman", referring to a Viking... [more]

NORMAND   m   English
From a surname which was dervived from the given name NORMAN.

NORRIS   m   English
From an English surname which meant "northerner" in Old French.

NORTON   m   English
From a surname which was originally derived from a place name meaning "north town" in Old English.

NORWOOD   m   English
From a surname which was originally taken from a place name meaning "north wood" in Old English.

ODELL   m & f   English
From a surname which was originally from a place name meaning "woad hill" in Old English... [more]

OGDEN   m   English
From a surname which was derived from a place name meaning "oak valley" in Old English... [more]

OLI   m   English
Short form of OLIVER

OLIVER   m   English, German, Serbian
Norman French form of a Germanic name, possibly the name Alfihar meaning "elf army"... [more]

OLLIE   m & f   English
Diminutive of OLIVER, OLIVE or OLIVIA

ORA (1)   f & m   English
Perhaps based on Latin oro "to pray"... [more]

ORSON   m   English
From an English surname which was originally a nickname meaning "bear cub", from a diminutive of Norman French ors "bear", ultimately from Latin ursus... [more]

ORVAL   m   English
Variant of ORVILLE

ORVILLE   m   English
This name was invented by the 18th-century writer Fanny Burney, who perhaps intended it to mean "golden city" in French... [more]

OSBORN   m   English
Derived from the Old English elements os "god" and beorn "bear"... [more]

OSBORNE   m   English
From a surname which was a variant of OSBORN.

OSCAR   m   English, Irish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Scandinavian, Irish Mythology
Possibly means "deer lover", derived from Gaelic os "deer" and cara "lover"... [more]

OSWALD   m   English, German
Derived from the Old English elements os "god" and weald "rule"... [more]

OTIS   m   English
From an English surname which was derived from the medieval given name Ode, a cognate of OTTO... [more]

OTTO   m   German, Scandinavian, Dutch, English, Finnish
Later German form of ODO... [more]

OWEN (1)   m   Welsh, English
Modern form of OWAIN

OZ (1)   m   English
Short form of OSWALD, OSBORN, and other names beginning with a similar sound.

OZZIE   m   English
Diminutive of OSWALD, OSBORN, and other names beginning with a similar sound.

OZZY   m   English
Variant of OZZIE

PAGE   m   English
From a surname which was a variant of PAIGE.

PALMER   m   English
From an English surname meaning "pilgrim"... [more]

PARKER   m & f   English
From an English occupational surname which meant "keeper of the park".

PAT   m & f   English
Short form of PATRICK or PATRICIA... [more]

PATRICK   m   Irish, English, French, German
From the Roman name Patricius, which meant "nobleman" in Latin... [more]

PATSY   f & m   Irish, English
Variant of PATTY, also used as a diminutive of PATRICK.

PAUL   m   English, French, German, Dutch, Scandinavian, Romanian, Biblical
From the Roman family name Paulus, which meant "small" or "humble" in Latin... [more]

PAULIE   m   English
Diminutive of PAUL

PEARL   f & m   English
From the English word pearl for the concretions formed in the shells of some mollusks... [more]

PERCE   m   English
Short form of PERCY

PERCIVAL   m   Welsh Mythology, English
Created by the 12th-century French poet Chretien de Troyes for his poem 'Perceval, the Story of the Grail'... [more]

PERCY   m   English
From an English surname which was derived from the name of a Norman town Perci, which was itself perhaps derived from a Gaulish personal name which was Latinized as Persius... [more]

PERRY   m   English
From a surname which is either English or Welsh in origin... [more]

PETE   m   English
Short form of PETER

PETER   m   English, German, Dutch, Scandinavian, Slovene, Slovak, Biblical
Derived from the Greek Πετρος (Petros) meaning "stone"... [more]

PEYTON   m & f   English
From a English surname, originally a place name meaning "Pœga's town"... [more]

PHIL   m   English
Short form of PHILIP and various other names beginning with Phil, often a Greek element meaning "friend, dear, beloved".

PHILIP   m   English, Scandinavian, Dutch, Biblical
From the Greek name Φιλιππος (Philippos) which means "friend of horses", composed of the elements φιλος (philos) "friend" and ‘ιππος (hippos) "horse"... [more]

PHILLIP   m   English
Variant of PHILIP, inspired by the usual spelling of the surname.

PIERCE   m   English
From a surname which was derived from the given name PIERS.

PIERS   m   English (British)
Medieval form of PETER... [more]

PIP   m   English
Diminutive of PHILIP... [more]

PORTER   m   English
From an occupational English surname meaning "doorkeeper", ultimately from Old French porte "door", from Latin porta.

PRESLEY   f & m   English
From an English surname which was originally derived from a place name meaning "priest clearing" (Old English preost and leah)... [more]

PRESTON   m   English
From an English surname which was originally derived from a place name meaning "priest town" (Old English preost and tun).

PRINCE   m   English
From the English word prince, a royal title, which comes ultimately from Latin princeps... [more]

PROSPER   m   French, English
From the Roman name Prosperus, which meant "fortunate, successful" in Latin... [more]

QUENTIN   m   French, English
French form of the Roman family name Quintinus, which was originally derived from QUINTUS... [more]

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

QUINN   m & f   Irish, English
From an Irish surname which was derived from Ó Cuinn meaning "descendent of Cuinn"... [more]

QUINTEN   m   English
Variant of QUENTIN

QUINTIN   m   English
Variant of QUENTIN

QUINTON   m   English
Variant of QUENTIN, also coinciding with an English surname meaning "queen's town" in Old English.

RAFE   m   English
Variant of RALPH... [more]

RALEIGH   m   English
From a surname which was from a place name meaning either "red clearing" or "roe deer clearing" in Old English.

RALPH   m   English, Scandinavian, German
Contracted form of the Old Norse name RAÐÚLFR (or its Norman form Radulf)... [more]

RALPHIE   m   English
Diminutive of RALPH

RAMSEY   m   English
From a surname which was derived from a place name meaning "wild-garlic island" in Old English.

RANDAL   m   English
Variant of RANDALL

RANDALL   m   English
From an English surname which was derived from the medieval given name Randel, which was a diminutive of RANDOLF and other names beginning with the Germanic element rand meaning "rim (of a shield)".

RANDELL   m   English
Variant of RANDALL

RANDOLF   m   English
From the Germanic elements rand meaning "rim (of a shield)" and wulf meaning "wolf"... [more]

RANDOLPH   m   English
Variant of RANDOLF... [more]

RANDY   m   English
Short form of RANDALL or RANDOLF

RAPHAEL   m   German, French, English, Biblical
From the Hebrew name רְפָאֵל (Refa'el) which meant "God has healed"... [more]

RAVEN   f & m   English
From the name of the bird, ultimately from Old English hræfn... [more]

RAY   m   English
Short form of RAYMOND, often used as an independent name... [more]

RAYMOND   m   English, French
From the Germanic name Reginmund, composed of the elements ragin "advice" and mund "protector"... [more]

RAYNARD   m   English
Variant of REYNARD

REAGAN   f & m   English, Irish
From an Irish surname, an Anglicized form of Ó Ríagáin meaning "descendent of Riagán"... [more]

RED   m   English
From the English word, ultimately derived from Old English read... [more]

REED   m   English
From an English surname which comes from multiple sources, including Old English read meaning "red" (originally a nickname given to a person with red hair or a ruddy complexion) and Old English ried meaning "clearing" (given to a person who lived in a clearing in the woods).

REG   m   English
Short form of REGINALD

REGGIE   m   English
Diminutive of REGINALD

REGINALD   m   English
From Reginaldus, a Latinized form of REYNOLD

REID   m   English
From a surname which is a variant of REED.

REUBEN   m   Biblical, Jewish, English
Means "behold, a son" in Hebrew... [more]

REX   m   English
From Latin rex "king"... [more]

REYNOLD   m   English
From the Germanic name Reginwald, composed of the elements ragin "advice" and wald "rule"... [more]

RHETT   m   English
From a surname, an Anglicized form of the Dutch de Raedt, derived from raet "advice, counsel"... [more]

RIAN   m   English
Variant of RYAN

RICH   m   English
Short form of RICHARD

RICHARD   m   English, French, German, Czech, Dutch
Means "brave power", derived from the Germanic elements ric "power, rule" and hard "brave, hardy"... [more]

RICHIE   m   English
Diminutive of RICHARD

RICK   m   English
Short form of RICHARD or names ending in rick.

RICKEY   m   English
Diminutive of RICHARD

RICKI   m & f   English
Masculine and feminine diminutive of RICHARD

RICKIE   m   English
Diminutive of RICHARD

RICKY   m   English
Diminutive of RICHARD

RILEY   m & f   English
From a surname which is either a variant of REILLY or is derived from a place name meaning "rye clearing" in Old English.

RITCHIE   m   English
Variant of RICHIE