The names listed here are used in English-speaking countries. For more information see about English names.

LEE   m & f   English
From a surname which was derived from Old English leah "meadow"... [more]

LEIGH   f & m   English
From a surname which was a variant of LEE.

LEIGHTON   m   English
From a surname which was a variant of LAYTON.

LEITH   m   English (Rare)
From a surname, originally from the name of a Scottish town, which is derived from Gaelic lìte "wet, damp".

LELAND   m   English
From a surname, originally from an English place name, which meant "fallow land" in Old English... [more]

LEMOINE   m   English (Rare)
From a French surname meaning "the monk" in French.

LEN   m   English
Short form of LEONARD

LENARD   m   English
Variant of LEONARD

LENNARD   m   English (Rare)
Variant of LEONARD

LENNIE   m & f   English, Swedish
Diminutive of LEONARD, LENNART or LENA

LENNON   m   Scottish, English (Rare)
Anglicized form of the Irish surname Ó Leannáin, which means "descendent of Leannán"... [more]

LENNOX   m   Scottish, English (Rare)
From a Scottish surname which was derived from the name of a district in Scotland, the Levenach.

LENNY   m   English, Swedish
Diminutive of LEONARD or LENNART

LENOX   m   Scottish, English (Rare)
From a surname which was a variant of LENNOX.

LEO   m   German, Dutch, English, Late Roman
Late Latin name meaning "lion", ultimately from Greek λεων (leon)... [more]

LEON   m   English, German, Polish, Slovene
Form of LEO... [more]

LEONARD   m   English, Polish
Means "brave lion", derived from the Germanic elements leon "lion" and hard "brave, hardy"... [more]

LEOPOLD   m   German, Dutch, English, Slovene, Polish
Derived from the Germanic elements liut "people" and bald "bold"... [more]

LEROI   m   English (Rare)
Variant of LEROY

LEROY   m   English
From the French nickname le roi meaning "the king"... [more]

LES   m   English
Short form of LESLIE or LESTER

LESLEY   f & m   English
Variant of LESLIE

LESLIE   f & m   English
From a Scottish surname which was derived from a Scottish place name, probably derived from Gaelic leas celyn meaning "garden of holly"... [more]

LESTER   m   English
From a surname which was derived from the name of the city of Leicester, originally denoting a person who was from that place... [more]

LEVI   m   Biblical, Jewish, English
Means "attached" in Hebrew... [more]

LEWIN   m   English (Rare)
From an English surname which was derived from the given name LEOFWINE.

LEWIS   m   English
Medieval English form of LOUIS... [more]

LEX   m   English
Short form of ALEXANDER

LEYTON   m   English (Rare)
From a surname which was a variant of LAYTON.

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.

LINDON   m   English (Rare)
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]

LINFORD   m   English (Rare)
From a surname which was originally taken from place names meaning either "flax ford" or "lime tree ford" in Old English.

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]

LONDON   m & f   English (Modern)
From the name of the capital city of the United Kingdom, the meaning of which is uncertain... [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

LORN   m   English (Rare)
Variant of LORNE

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

LORRIN   m   English (Rare)
Variant of LOREN

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]

LOVEL   m   English (Rare)
From a surname which was a variant of LOWELL.

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]

LYALL   m   English (Rare)
From a Scottish surname which was derived from the Old Norse given name Liulfr (which was derived in part from úlfr "wolf").

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]

LYNTON   m   English (Rare)
Variant of LINTON

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]

MADDOX   m   English (Modern)
From a Welsh surname meaning "son of MADOC"... [more]

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

MAITLAND   m   English (Rare)
From an English surname which was from a Norman French place name possibly meaning "inhospitable".

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]

MALAKAI   m   English (Modern)
Variant of MALACHI

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

MALCOM   m   English
Variant of MALCOLM

MALONE   m   English (Rare)
From an Irish surname, an Anglicized form of Ó Maoil Eoin meaning "descendent of a disciple of Saint JOHN".

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

MANNY   m   English
Short form of EMMANUEL

MANSEL   m   English (Rare)
From an English surname which originally referred to a person who came from the French city of Le Mans.

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]

MARLOWE   m   English (Rare)
From a surname which was derived from a place name meaning "drained lake" in Old English.

MARLYN   f & m   English
Feminine form or variant of MARLIN

MARMADUKE   m   English (British, Rare)
Derived from the Old Irish name Mael Maedoc meaning "disciple of Saint Maedoc"... [more]

MARQUIS   m   English (African American)
From a noble title which was derived from the Old French word marchis "march, borderland", which originally referred to someone who ruled on the borderlands of a realm.

MARQUISE   m   English (African American, Modern)
Variant of MARQUIS... [more]

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]

MARVYN   m   English (Rare)
Variant of MARVIN

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

MASTERMAN   m   English (Rare)
From a surname which originally belonged to a person who worked as a servant.

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".

MAYNERD   m   English (Rare)
Variant of MAYNARD

MAYSON   m   English (Rare)
Variant of MASON

MEADE   m & f   English (Rare)
From an English surname which indicated one who lived on a meadow (from Middle English mede) or one who sold or made mead (an alcoholic drink made from fermented honey; from Old English meodu).

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]

MERIT (1)   m   English (Rare)
From a surname which was a variant of MERRITT... [more]

MERIWETHER   m   English (Rare)
From a surname meaning "happy weather" in Middle English, originally belonging to a cheery person... [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]

MERRICK   m   English (Rare)
From an English surname which was originally derived from a Norman given name, composed of the Germanic elements meri "fame" and ric "power".

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]

MONTAGUE   m   English (Rare)
From a surname meaning "pointed mountain" in French.

MONTANA   f & m   English (Modern)
From the name of the American state, which is derived from Latin montanus "mountainous".

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

MORDIKAI   m   English (Rare)
Variant of MORDECAI

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

MORGEN   m & f   English (Rare)
Variant of MORGAN

MORLEY   m   English (Rare)
From a surname which was originally from an Old English place name meaning "marsh clearing".

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]

MOSS   m   English (Archaic), Jewish
Medieval form of MOSES

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]

NAPIER   m   English (Rare)
From an English surname which meant "linen keeper" in Middle English, from Old French nappe "table cloth".

NASH   m   English (Modern)
From a surname which was derived from the Middle English phrase atten ash "at the ash tree"... [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]

NEVIL   m   English (Rare)
Variant of NEVILLE

NEVILLE   m   English (Rare)
From an English surname which was originally derived from a place name meaning "new town" in Norman French.

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]

NOLL   m   English (Archaic)
Medieval diminutive of OLIVER

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.

NOWELL   m   English (Rare)
From a surname which was dervived from the given name NOEL.

OCEAN   m & f   English (Rare)
Simply from the English word ocean for a large body of water... [more]

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]

ORMOND   m   English (Rare)
From an Irish surname which was derived from Ó Ruaidh meaning "descendent of Ruadh"... [more]

ORMONDE   m   English (Rare)
Variant of ORMOND

ORRELL   m   English (Rare)
From a surname which was derived from a place name meaning "ore hill" in Old English.

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]