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

OSBERT   m   English (Rare)
Derived from the Old English elements os "god" and beorht "bright"... [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.

OSBOURNE   m   English (Rare)
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]

OSMOND   m   English (Rare)
From the Old English elements os "god" and mund "protector"... [more]

OSMUND   m   English (Rare)
Variant of OSMOND

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

OSWIN   m   English (Rare)
From the Old English elements os "god" and wine "friend"... [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

PACE   m   English (Rare)
From an English surname which was derived from the Middle English word pace meaning "peace".

PACEY   m   English (Rare)
From an English surname which was derived from the French place name Pacy, itself derived from Gaulish given name of unknown meaning.

PADEN   m   English (Rare)
From an Irish and Scottish surname which was derived from a diminutive of PÁDRAIG.

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

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

PANCRAS   m   English (Archaic)
Medieval English form of PANCRATIUS... [more]

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

PARRIS   m & f   English (Rare)
From an English surname which originally denoted a person who came from the French city of Paris (see PARIS (2)).

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.

PATTON   m   English (Rare)
From an English surname which was either derived from a diminutive of PATRICK or else from Middle English pate "skull", originally a nickname for a bald man... [more]

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

PAXTON   m   English (Modern)
From a surname which was derived from an English place name meaning "Pœcc's town"... [more]

PAYTON   f & m   English (Modern)
Variant of PEYTON

PEARCE   m   English (Rare)
Variant of PIERCE

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

PEERS   m   English (Rare)
Variant of PIERS

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]

PEREGRINE   m   English (Rare)
From the Late Latin name Peregrinus, which meant "traveller"... [more]

PERLIE   m & f   English (Rare)
From an occupational surname derived from Middle English perle "pearl", originally given to a person who traded in pearls.

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".

PHILANDER   m   English (Archaic)
From the Greek name Φιλανδρος (Philandros) meaning "friend of man" from Greek φιλος (philos) "friend" and ανδρος (andros) "of a man"... [more]

PHILBERT   m   French (Rare), English (Rare)
Variant of PHILIBERT

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.

PHOENIX   m & f   English (Modern)
From the name of a beautiful immortal bird which appears in Egyptian and Greek mythology... [more]

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]

PLACID   m   English (Rare)
English form of Placidus (see PLACIDO).

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]

PURDIE   m & f   English (Rare)
From an English surname which was derived from the Norman French expression pur die "by God"... [more]

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

QUIN   m   English (Rare)
Variant of QUINN

QUINCEY   m   English (Rare)
Variant of QUINCY

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

QUINLAN   m   English (Rare)
From an Irish surname which was derived from Ó Caoinlean meaning "descendent of Caoinlean"... [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.

RADCLIFF   m   English (Rare)
From a surname which was derived from a place name meaning "red cliff" in Old English.

RADCLYFFE   m   English (Rare)
From a surname, a variant of RADCLIFF.

RAEBURN   m   English (Rare)
From a surname which was originally derived from a Scottish place name meaning "stream where does drink" in Middle English... [more]

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

RAIN   f & m   English (Rare)
Simply from the English word rain, derived from Old English regn.

RAINARD   m   English (Rare)
Variant of REYNARD

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

RALF   m   German, Scandinavian, English (Rare)
Variant of RALPH

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]

RASHAUN   m   English (African American, Rare)
Combination of the prefix Ra with the name SHAUN.

RASHAWN   m   English (African American, Modern)
Combination of the prefix Ra with the name SHAWN.

RASTUS   m   English (Rare)
Short form of ERASTUS

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]

RAYMUND   m   English (Rare)
Variant of RAYMOND

RAYNARD   m   English
Variant of REYNARD

RAYNER   m   English (Archaic)
From the Germanic name Reginhar, composed of the elements ragin "advice" and heri "army"... [more]

READ   m   English (Rare)
From a surname which was a variant of REED.

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]

REDD   m   English (Rare)
Variant of RED

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.

REILLY   m & f   English (Modern)
From an Irish surname which is derived from the given name Raghailleach, meaning unknown.

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

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

REYNARD   m   English (Rare)
From the Germanic name Reginhard, composed of the elements ragin "advice" and hard "brave, hardy"... [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

RIDLEY   m   English (Rare)
From a surname which was originally derived from a place name meaning "reed clearing" or "cleared wood" in Old English.

RIGBY   m   English (Rare)
From a surname which was originally derived from a place name meaning "ridge farm" in Old Norse.

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.

RIPLEY   m   English (Rare)
From a surname which originally came from a place name that meant "strip clearing" in Old English.

RITCHIE   m   English
Variant of RICHIE

RIVER   m   English (Modern)
From the English word that denotes a flowing body of water... [more]

ROB   m   English, Dutch
Short form of ROBERT

ROBBIE   m & f   English
Diminutive of ROBERT or ROBERTA

ROBBY   m   English
Diminutive of ROBERT

ROBERT   m   English, French, Scandinavian, German, Czech, Polish, Russian, Slovene, Romanian
Means "bright fame", derived from the Germanic elements hrod "fame" and beraht "bright"... [more]

ROBIN   m & f   English
Medieval diminutive of ROBERT... [more]

ROCKY   m   English
Diminutive of ROCCO, or else from a nickname referring to a tough person... [more]

ROD   m   English
Short form of RODERICK or RODNEY

RODDY   m   English
Diminutive of RODERICK or RODNEY

RODERICK   m   English
Means "famous power" from the Germanic elements hrod "fame" and ric "power"... [more]

RODGE   m   English
Short form of RODGER

RODGER   m   English
Variant of ROGER

RODNEY   m   English
From a surname, originally derived from a place name, which meant "Hroda's island" in Old English (where Hroda is a Germanic given name meaning "fame")... [more]

RODOLPH   m   English (Rare), French (Rare)
Variant of RUDOLF

ROGER   m   English, French
Means "famous spear" from the Germanic elements hrod "fame" and ger "spear"... [more]

ROLAND   m   English, French, Polish
Means "famous land" from the Germanic elements hrod "fame" and land... [more]

ROLF   m   German, Scandinavian, English
From the Germanic name Hrolf (or its Old Norse cognate Hrólfr), a contracted form of Hrodwulf (see RUDOLF)... [more]

ROLLAND   m   English
Variant of ROLAND

ROLLO   m   English
Latinized form of Roul, the Old French form of ROLF... [more]

ROLO   m   English (Rare)
Variant of ROLLO

ROLPH   m   English (Rare)
Variant of ROLF

ROLY   m   English
Diminutive of ROLAND

RON (1)   m   English
Short form of RONALD

RONALD   m   Scottish, English
Scottish form of RAGNVALD, a name introduced to Scotland by Scandinavian settlers and invaders... [more]

RONNIE   m & f   English
Diminutive of RONALD or VERONICA

RONNY   m   English
Diminutive of RONALD

ROOSEVELT   m   English
From a Dutch surname meaning "rose field"... [more]

ROSCOE   m   English
From an English surname, originally derived from a place name, which meant "doe wood" in Old Norse.

ROSS   m   Scottish, English
From a Scottish and English surname which meant "promontory" in Gaelic, originally belonging to someone who lived on a headland... [more]

ROSWELL   m   English
From a surname which was derived from an Old English place name meaning "horse spring".

ROWAN   m & f   Irish, English (Modern)
From an Irish surname, an Anglicized form of Ó Ruadháin meaning "descendent of RUADHÁN"... [more]

ROWLAND   m   English
Medieval variant of ROLAND

ROWLEY   m   English
Variant of ROLY

ROY   m   Scottish, English
Derived from Gaelic ruadh meaning "red"... [more]

ROYAL   m   English
From the English word royal, derived (via Old French) from Latin regalis, a derivative of rex "king"... [more]

ROYALE   m   English (Rare)
Variant of ROYAL

ROYCE   m   English
From a surname which was derived from either the name of the flower or else from the medieval given name Royse, a variant of ROSE.

ROYDON   m   English (Rare)
From a surname which was originally derived from a place name meaning "rye hill", from Old English ryge "rye" and dun "hill".

ROYLE   m   English (Rare)
From a surname which was derived from a place name meaning "rye hill" from Old English ryge "rye" and hyll "hill".

ROYSTON   m   English (Rare)
From a surname which was originally taken from an Old English place name meaning "town of Royse"... [more]

RUBE   m   English
Short form of REUBEN

RUDOLPH   m   English
English form of RUDOLF, imported from Germany in the 19th century... [more]

RUDY   m   English
Diminutive of RUDOLF

RUDYARD   m   English (Rare)
From a surname which was from a place name meaning "red yard" in Old English... [more]

RUFUS   m   Ancient Roman, English, Biblical
Roman cognomen which meant "red-haired" in Latin... [more]

RUPERT   m   German, Dutch, English, Polish
Low German form of ROBERT... [more]

RUSS   m   English
Short form of RUSSELL

RUSSEL   m   English
Variant of RUSSELL

RUSSELL   m   English
From a surname which meant "little red one" in French... [more]

RUSTY   m   English
From a nickname which was originally given to someone with a rusty, or reddish-brown, hair colour.

RYAN   m   Irish, English
From an Irish surname which was derived from Ó Riain meaning "descendent of Rian"... [more]

RYDER   m   English (Modern)
From an English occupational surname derived from Old English ridere meaning "mounted warrior" or "messenger".

RYKER   m   English (Modern)
Possibly a variant of the German surname Riker, a derivative of Low German rike "rich"... [more]

RYLAN   m   English (Modern)
Possibly a variant of the English surname Ryland, which was originally derived from a place name meaning "rye land" in Old English.

RYLEY   m   English (Modern)
Variant of RILEY

SACHEVERELL   m   English (Rare)
From a surname which was derived from a Norman place name... [more]

SACHIE   m   English (Rare)
Diminutive of SACHEVERELL

SAGE   f & m   English (Modern)
From the English word sage, which denotes either a type of spice or else a wise person.

SAL   f & m   English
Short form of SALLY, SALVADOR, and other names beginning with Sal.

SAM (1)   m & f   English
Short form of SAMUEL, SAMSON or SAMANTHA

SAMMIE   f & m   English
Diminutive of SAMUEL, SAMSON or SAMANTHA

SAMMY   m   English
Diminutive of SAMUEL or SAMSON

SAMPSON   m   English
From an English surname which was itself derived from a medieval form of the given name SAMSON.

SAMSON   m   Biblical, English
From the Hebrew name שִׁמְשׁוֹן (Shimshon) which probably meant "sun"... [more]

SAMUEL   m   English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Biblical
From the Hebrew name שְׁמוּאֵל (Shemu'el) which could mean either "name of God" or "God has heard"... [more]

SANDFORD   m   English (Rare)
From a surname which was a variant of SANFORD.

SANDY   f & m   English
Originally a diminutive of ALEXANDER... [more]

SANFORD   m   English
From an English surname, originally from a place name, which meant "sand ford" in Old English.

SATCHEL   m & f   English (Rare)
From a surname derived from Old English sacc meaning "sack, bag", referring to a person who was a bag maker.

SAWYER   m   English (Modern)
From a surname meaning "sawer of wood" in Middle English... [more]

SAXON   m   English (Rare)
From a surname which was derived from the name of the Germanic tribe the Saxons, ultimately deriving from the Germanic word sahs meaning "knife"... [more]

SCHUYLER   m   English
From a Dutch surname meaning "scholar"... [more]

SCOT   m   English, Scottish
Variant form of SCOTT

SCOTT   m   English, Scottish
From an English and Scottish surname which meant "a Scotsman"... [more]

SCOTTIE   m   English, Scottish
Diminutive of SCOTT

SCOTTY   m   English, Scottish
Diminutive of SCOTT

SEAN   m   Irish, English
Anglicized form of SEÁN

SEBASTIAN   m   German, English, Scandinavian, Polish, Finnish, Romanian
From the Roman name Sebastianus which meant "from Sebaste" in Latin... [more]

SEFTON   m   English (Rare)
From a surname which was derived from a place name meaning "town in the rushes" in Old English.

SELBY   m & f   English (Rare)
From an English surname which was from a place name meaning "willow farm" in Old Norse.

SELWYN   m   English (Rare)
From a surname which was originally derived from an Old English given name, which was formed of the elements sele "manor" and wine "friend".

SEPTEMBER   f & m   English (Rare)
From the name of the ninth month (though it means "seventh month" in Latin, since it was originally the seventh month of the Roman year), which is sometimes used as a given name for someone born in September.

SEQUOIA   f & m   English (Rare)
From the name of huge trees that grow in California... [more]

SETH (1)   m   Biblical, English
Means "placed" or "appointed" in Hebrew... [more]

SEWARD   m   English
From a surname which was itself derived from an Old English personal name, itself derived from the elements sige "victory" and weard "guard".

SEYMOUR   m   English
From a Norman surname which originally belonged to a person coming from the French town of Saint Maur (which means "Saint MAURUS").

SHAD (2)   m   English
Either a variant of CHAD or a short form of SHADRACH

SHANE   m   Irish, English
Anglicized form of SEÁN... [more]

SHANNON   f & m   English
From the name of the Shannon River, the longest river in Ireland... [more]

SHANON   f & m   English
Variant of SHANNON

SHAQUILLE   m   English (Modern)
Variant of SHAKIL... [more]

SHAUN   m   English
Anglicized form of SEÁN

SHAW (1)   m   English (Rare)
From a surname which was derived from a place name meaning "forest, copse" in Old English.

SHAWN   m   English
Anglicized form of SEÁN

SHAYE   m & f   English (Rare)
Variant of SHAI or SHEA

SHAYNE   m   English
Variant of SHANE

SHEARD   m   English (Rare)
From a surname which was originally from a place name meaning "gap between hills" in Old English.

SHEL   m   English
Short form of SHELDON

SHELBY   m & f   English
From a surname, which was possibly a variant of SELBY... [more]

SHELDON   m   English
From a surname which was originally derived from a place name meaning "valley with steep sides" in Old English... [more]

SHELLEY   f & m   English
From a surname which was originally derived from a place name meaning "clearing on a bank" in Old English... [more]

SHELLY   f & m   English
Variant of SHELLEY

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

SHERIDAN   m & f   English
From an Irish surname which was derived from Ó Sirideáin meaning "descendent of Sirideán"... [more]

SHERMAN   m   English
From a surname meaning "shear man" in Old English, originally denoting a person who cut cloth... [more]

SHERWOOD   m   English
From an English place name (or from a surname which was derived from it) meaning "bright forest"... [more]

SHIRLEY   f & m   English
From a surname which was originally derived from a place name meaning "bright clearing" in Old English... [more]