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The names listed here are used in Spain and other Spanish-speaking countries (such as those in South America). See also about Spanish names.

PEDRO   m   Spanish, Portuguese
Spanish and Portuguese form of PETER... [more]

PEPE   m   Spanish
Spanish diminutive of JOSEPH

PEPITA   f   Spanish
Spanish feminine diminutive of JOSEPH

PEPITO   m   Spanish
Spanish diminutive of JOSEPH

PERLA   f   Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish cognate of PEARL

PERLITA   f   Italian, Spanish
Diminutive of PERLA

PERPETUA   f   Spanish
Derived from Latin perpetuus meaning "continuous".

PETRONA   f   Spanish
Possibly a feminine form of PETRONIUS

PÍA   f   Spanish
Spanish feminine form of PIUS

PIEDAD   f   Spanish
Means "mercy" in Spanish.

PILAR   f   Spanish
Means "pillar" in Spanish... [more]

PILI   f   Spanish
Diminutive of PILAR

PÍO   m   Spanish
Spanish form of PIUS

PLÁCIDO   m   Spanish, Portuguese
Spanish and Portuguese form of Placidus (see PLACIDO).

PLINIO   m   Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form of Plinius (see PLINY).

PONCIO   m   Spanish
Spanish form of PONTIUS

PORFIRIO   m   Italian, Spanish
Derived from the Greek name Πορφυριος (Porphyrios), which was derived from the word πορφυρα (porphyra) meaning "purple dye"... [more]

PRIMITIVA   f   Spanish, Late Roman
Feminine form of PRIMITIVUS... [more]

PRIMITIVO   m   Spanish
Spanish form pf PRIMITIVUS

PRIMO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of the Late Latin name Primus, which meant "first"... [more]

PRISCILA   f   Portuguese, Spanish
Portuguese and Spanish form of PRISCILLA

PROSPERO   m   Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form of PROSPER... [more]

PRUDENCIA   f   Spanish
Spanish feminine form of PRUDENTIUS

PRUDENCIO   m   Spanish
Spanish form of PRUDENTIUS

QUIQUE   m   Spanish
Diminutive of ENRIQUE

RAFA   m   Spanish
Spanish short form of RAFAEL

RAFAEL   m   Spanish, Portuguese, German, Slovene
Spanish, Portuguese, German and Slovene form of RAPHAEL

RAFAELA   f   Spanish, Portuguese
Spanish and Portuguese feminine form of RAPHAEL

RAIMUNDO   m   Spanish, Portuguese
Spanish and Portuguese form of RAYMOND

RAINERIO   m   Spanish
Spanish form of RAYNER

RAMIRO   m   Spanish
Spanish form of Ramirus, a Latinized form of a Visigothic name derived from the Germanic elements ragin "advice" and mari "famous"... [more]

RAMÓN   m   Spanish
Spanish form of RAYMOND

RAMONA   f   Spanish, Romanian, English
Feminine form of RAMÓN... [more]

RAQUEL   f   Spanish, Portuguese, English
Spanish and Portuguese form of RACHEL

RAÚL   m   Spanish
Spanish form of RADULF

RAYEN   f   Native American, Spanish
Means "flower" in Mapuche.

RAYMUNDO   m   Spanish, Portuguese (Brazilian)
Spanish and Portuguese form of RAYMOND

REBECA   f   Spanish, Portuguese
Spanish and Portuguese form of REBECCA

RÉGULO   m   Spanish
Spanish form of the Roman cognomen Regulus, which meant "rule" in Latin... [more]

REINA (1)   f   Spanish
Means "queen" in Spanish.

REINALDO   m   Portuguese, Spanish
Portuguese and Spanish form of REYNOLD

REMEDIOS   f   Spanish
Means "remedies" in Spanish... [more]

REMIGIO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of Remigius (see RÉMY).

RENATA   f   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Polish, Czech, Croatian, Slovene, Late Roman
Feminine form of RENATUS

RENATO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of RENATUS

REYES   f & m   Spanish
Means "kings" in Spanish... [more]

REYNA   f   Spanish
Variant of REINA (1)

REYNALDO   m   Spanish
Spanish form of REYNOLD

RICARDA   f   Spanish, German
Spanish and German feminine form of RICHARD

RICARDO   m   Spanish, Portuguese
Spanish and Portuguese form of RICHARD

RICO (1)   m   Spanish
Short form of RICARDO

RITA   f   English, Scandinavian, German, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Short form of MARGARITA and other names ending in rita... [more]

ROBERTA   f   English, Italian, Spanish
Feminine form of ROBERT

ROBERTINA   f   Italian, Spanish
Feminine diminutive of ROBERTO

ROBERTO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of ROBERT... [more]

ROCÍO   f   Spanish
Means "dew" in Spanish... [more]

RODOLFO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of RUDOLF... [more]

RODRIGO   m   Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Galician
Spanish, Portuguese and Italian form of RODERICK... [more]

ROGELIO   m   Spanish
Spanish form of the Late Latin name Rogelius, which was possibly derived the name Rogatus, which was itself derived from Latin rogatus "request".

ROLANDO   m   Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
Spanish, Italian and Portuguese form of ROLAND

ROLDÁN   m   Spanish
Spanish form of ROLAND

ROMINA   f   Spanish
Possibly a Spanish form of ROMANA

ROQUE   m   Spanish, Portuguese
Spanish and Portuguese form of ROCCO

ROSA (1)   f   Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Scandinavian, Dutch, German, English
Generally this is a Latin form of ROSE, though originally it may have come from the Germanic name ROZA (2)... [more]

ROSALINA   f   Portuguese, Spanish
Latinate form of ROSALINE

ROSALINDA   f   Spanish, Italian
Latinate form of ROSALIND

ROSALVA   f   Spanish
Variant of ROSALBA

ROSARIO   f & m   Spanish, Italian
Means "rosary", and is taken from the Spanish title of the Virgin Mary Nuestra Señora del Rosario meaning "Our Lady of the Rosary"... [more]

ROSENDA   f   Spanish
Feminine form of ROSENDO

ROSENDO   m   Spanish
Spanish form of a Visigothic name composed of the Germanic elements hrod "fame" and sinþs "path"... [more]

ROSITA   f   Spanish
Spanish diminutive of ROSA (1)

ROXANA   f   English, Spanish, Romanian
Latin form of Ρωξανη (Roxane), the Greek form of the Persian or Bactrian name Roshanak which possibly meant "bright" or "dawn"... [more]

RUBÉN   m   Spanish
Spanish form of REUBEN

RUBINA   f   Spanish
Elaborated form of RUBY

RUFINO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of RUFINUS

RUPERTA   f   Spanish
Spanish feminine form of RUPERT

RUPERTO   m   Spanish
Spanish form of RUPERT

RUT   f   Swedish, German, Italian, Spanish, Biblical Hebrew
Cognate of RUTH

RUY   m   Spanish, Portuguese
Medieval Spanish and Portuguese short form of RODRIGO... [more]

SABAS   m   Spanish, Late Greek
From a Greek name which was derived from Hebrew סַבָא (sava') meaning "old man"... [more]

SABINA   f   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Polish, Czech, Slovene, Russian, Ancient Roman
Feminine form of Sabinus, a Roman cognomen meaning "Sabine" in Latin... [more]

SALOMÓN   m   Spanish
Spanish form of SOLOMON

SALUD   f   Spanish
Spanish cognate of SALUT

SALVADOR   m   Spanish
From the Late Latin name Salvator, which meant "saviour"... [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]

SANCHA   f   Spanish
Feminine form of SANCHO

SANCHIA   f   Spanish
Feminine form of SANCHO

SANCHO   m   Spanish
Spanish form of Sanctius (see SANTO).

SANDALIO   m   Spanish
Spanish form of Sandalius, a Latinized form of the Gothic name Sandulf which meant "true wolf" from sand "true" and ulf "wolf"... [more]

SANTIAGO   m   Spanish, Portuguese
Means "Saint James", derived from Spanish santo "saint" combined with Yago, an old Spanish form of JAMES, the patron saint of Spain... [more]

SANTOS   m   Spanish
Means "saints" in Spanish.

SARA   f   Greek, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Scandinavian, German, Dutch, Slovene, Polish, English, Arabic
Cognate of SARAH

SARITA (1)   f   Spanish
Spanish diminutive of SARAH

SATURNINA   f   Ancient Roman, Spanish
Feminine form of SATURNINUS

SATURNINO   m   Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
Spanish, Italian and Portuguese form of SATURNINUS

SEBASTIÁN   m   Spanish
Spanish form of Sebastianus (see SEBASTIAN).

SELENA   f   Spanish, Russian, Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Latinized form of SELENE... [more]

SEPTIMA   f   Ancient Roman, Spanish
Feminine form of SEPTIMUS

SERGIO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of SERGIUS

SEVE   m   Spanish
Spanish diminutive of SEVERIANO or SEVERINO

SEVERIANO   m   Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form of the Roman cognomen Severianus, which was derived from SEVERUS.

SEVERINO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of SEVERINUS

SEVERO   m   Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form SEVERUS

SILVESTRE   m   Spanish
Spanish form of SILVESTER

SILVIA   f   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, English, German, Late Roman, Roman Mythology
Feminine form of SILVIUS... [more]

SILVIO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of SILVIUS

SIMÓN   m   Spanish
Spanish form of SIMON... [more]

SOCORRO   f   Spanish
Means "succour, help, relief" in Spanish... [more]

SOFÍA   f   Spanish
Spanish form of SOPHIA

SOFRONIO   m   Spanish
Spanish form of SOPHRONIUS

SOL (1)   f   Spanish, Portuguese
Means "the sun" in Spanish or Portuguese.

SOLEDAD   f   Spanish
Means "solitude" in Spanish... [more]

SONIA   f   English, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian
Variant of SONYA

SOSIMO   m   Spanish
Spanish form of ZOSIMUS

SUSANA   f   Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
Spanish, Italian and Portuguese form of SUSANNA

SUSANITA   f   Spanish
Spanish diminutive of SUSANNA

TACITO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of TACITUS

TADEO   m   Spanish
Spanish form of THADDEUS

TANCREDO   m   Spanish
Spanish form of TANCRED

TATIANA   f   Russian, Slovak, Bulgarian, Romanian, Polish, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, English, Ancient Roman
Feminine form of the Roman name Tatianus, a derivative of the Roman name TATIUS... [more]

TECLA   f   Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form of THEKLA

TELMA   f   Portuguese, Spanish
Feminine form of TELMO

TELMO   m   Portuguese, Spanish
Derived from a misdivision of Spanish Santelmo meaning "saint Elmo"... [more]

TEO   m   Italian, Spanish
Short form of TEODORO and other names that begin with Teo.

TEOBALDO   m   Spanish, Portuguese, Italian
Spanish, Portuguese and Italian form of THEOBALD

TEODORA   f   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Romanian, Polish, Bulgarian
Feminine form of Theodoros (see THEODORE).

TEODORO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of Theodoros (see THEODORE).

TEODOSIO   m   Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form of THEODOSIUS

TEÓDULO   m   Spanish
Spanish form of THEODULUS

TEÓFILA   f   Spanish
Spanish feminine form of THEOPHILUS

TEÓFILO   m   Spanish, Portuguese
Spanish and Portuguese form of THEOPHILUS

TERCERO   m   Spanish
Means "third" in Spanish. Traditionally given to the third child born.

TERE   f   Spanish
Spanish short form of TERESA

TERESA   f   Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Finnish, Polish, German, Scandinavian, English
Cognate of THERESA... [more]

TERESITA   f   Spanish
Spanish diminutive of TERESA

TIBURCIO   m   Spanish, Portuguese
Spanish and Portuguese form of the Roman cognomen Tiburtius which meant "of Tibur"... [more]

TIMOTEO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of TIMOTHY

TITO   m   Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form of TITUS

TOMÁS   m   Spanish, Portuguese, Irish
Spanish, Portuguese and Irish form of THOMAS

TOMASA   f   Spanish
Spanish feminine form of THOMAS

TORIBIO   m   Spanish
Spanish form of the Roman cognomen Turibius, of unknown meaning... [more]

TRINI   f   Spanish
Short form of TRINIDAD

TRINIDAD   f & m   Spanish
Means "trinity" in Spanish, referring to the Holy Trinity... [more]

TRISTÁN   m   Spanish
Spanish form of TRISTAN

ULISES   m   Spanish
Spanish form of ULYSSES

URBANO   m   Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form of Urbanus (see URBAN).

URSULA   f   English, Scandinavian, German, Dutch, Spanish, Finnish, Late Roman
Means "little bear", derived from a diminutive form of the Latin word ursa "she-bear"... [more]

VALENCIA   f   Spanish
From a Late Latin name which was derived from valentia "power"... [more]

VALENTÍN   m   Spanish, Slovak
Spanish and Slovak form of Valentinus (see VALENTINE (1)).

VALERIA   f   Italian, Spanish, Romanian, German, Ancient Roman
Feminine form of VALERIUS... [more]

VALERIO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of VALERIUS

VARINIA   f   Ancient Roman, Spanish
Feminine form of VARINIUS

VASCO   m   Spanish, Portuguese, Italian
From the medieval Spanish name Velasco, which came from the Spanish surname Velázquez, which possibly meant "crow" in Basque... [more]

VENCESLÁS   m   Spanish
Spanish form of WENCESLAS

VERÓNICA   f   Spanish
Spanish form of VERONICA

VICENTE   m   Spanish, Portuguese
Spanish and Portuguese form of VINCENT

VÍCTOR   m   Spanish, Catalan
Spanish and Catalan form of VICTOR

VICTORIA (1)   f   English, Spanish, Romanian, Late Roman
Feminine form of VICTORIUS, though later it was regarded as coming directly from Latin victoria meaning "victory"... [more]

VICTORINO   m   Spanish, Portuguese
Spanish and Portuguese form of VICTORINUS

VIDAL   m   Spanish
Spanish form of Vitalis (see VITALE).

VILMA   f   Spanish, Hungarian, German, Swedish, Czech, Slovak
Cognate of WILMA

VINICIO   m   Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form of the Roman name Vinicius, which was possibly derived from Latin vinum "wine".

VIOLETA   f   Romanian, Bulgarian, Spanish
Romanian, Bulgarian and Spanish form of VIOLET

VIRGILIO   m   Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form of VIRGIL

VIRGINIA   f   English, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Swedish, Romanian, Ancient Roman
Feminine form of the Roman family name Verginius which is of unknown meaning, but long associated with Latin virgo "maid, virgin"... [more]

VISITACIÓN   f   Spanish
Means "visitation" in Spanish... [more]

VITO   m   Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form of VITUS

VIVIANA   f   Italian, Spanish, Late Roman
Feminine form of Vivianus (see VIVIAN)... [more]

WILFREDO   m   Spanish
Spanish form of WILFRED

XAVIER   m   English, French, Portuguese, Catalan, Spanish (Archaic)
Derived from the Basque place name Etxaberri meaning "the new house"... [more]

XIMENA   f   Spanish
Feminine form of XIMENO... [more]

XIOMARA   f   Spanish
Possibly a Spanish form of GUIOMAR

XOCHILT   f   Spanish
Variant of XOCHITL

XOCHITL   f   Native American, Spanish
Means "flower" in Nahuatl.

YADIRA   f   Spanish (Latin American), English (Hispanic)
Meaning unknown, possibly derived from an Arabic name... [more]

YAGO   m   Spanish
Spanish form of JACOB (or JAMES).

YESENIA   f   Spanish (Latin American)
From Jessenia, the genus name of a type of tree found in South America... [more]

YESSENIA   f   Spanish (Latin American)
Variant of YESENIA

YOLANDA   f   Spanish, English
From the medieval French name Yolande, which was possibly a form of the name Violante, which was itself a derivative of Latin viola "violet"... [more]

YSABEL   f   Spanish (Archaic)
Medieval Spanish form of ISABEL

ZACARÍAS   m   Spanish
Spanish form of ZECHARIAH

ZARITA   f   Spanish
Spanish diminutive of SARAH

ZORAIDA   f   Spanish
Perhaps means "enchanting woman" in Arabic, but possibly a name invented by Cervantes for a character in his novel 'Don Quixote' (1606), in which Zoraida is a beautiful Moorish woman of Algiers who converts to Christianity and elopes with a Spanish officer.

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