kiirakirsi's Personal Name List
Žydrė
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Lithuanian
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
From Lithuanian žydra meaning "light blue".
Zóra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hungarian
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Zora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Slovene, Czech, Slovak
Other Scripts: Зора(Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian)
Pronounced: ZO-ra(Czech) ZAW-ra(Slovak)
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Means "dawn, aurora" in the South Slavic languages, as well as Czech and Slovak.
Zofia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: ZAW-fya
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Zlatica
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Croatian, Slovak
Pronounced: ZLA-kyee-tsa(Slovak)
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Zlata
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Czech, Slovak, Russian, Ukrainian
Other Scripts: Злата(Serbian, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Russian, Ukrainian)
Pronounced: ZLA-ta(Czech) ZLA-tə(Russian)
Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
Zhivka
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Bulgarian, Macedonian
Other Scripts: Живка(Bulgarian, Macedonian)
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Zhanna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian
Other Scripts: Жанна(Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian)
Pronounced: ZHAN-nə(Russian)
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian form of
Jeanne.
Zeppelin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Popular Culture, English
Pronounced: ZEHP-lin(English)
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Zeppelin; from the surname of Count Ferdinand
von Zeppelin (1838-1917), a German aeronautical pioneer, designer and manufacturer of airships. The feminine variant
Zeppelina was 'given to one or two English girls during the First World War when Zeppelins arrived over England. The airships took their name from Count von Zeppelin, whose family name according to German scholars was of Slavic origin, but of unknown meaning' (Dunkling & Gosling, 1986).
Modern usage of the name may also be inspired by the English rock band Led Zeppelin (formed 1968).
Zazie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: ZAH-ZEE
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
French diminutive of
Isabelle. The French author Raymond Queneau used this for the title character of his novel 'Zazie dans le métro' (1959; English: 'Zazie in the Metro'), which was adapted by Louis Malle into a film (1960).
Zara 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature, English
Pronounced: ZAHR-ə(English)
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
Used by William Congreve for a character in his tragedy
The Mourning Bride (1697), where it belongs to a captive North African queen. Congreve may have based it on the Arabic name
Zahra. In 1736 the English writer Aaron Hill used it to translate
Zaïre for his popular adaptation of Voltaire's French play
Zaïre (1732).
In England the name was popularized when Princess Anne gave it to her daughter in 1981. Use of the name may also be influenced by the trendy Spanish clothing retailer Zara.
Zara 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Bulgarian
Other Scripts: Зара(Bulgarian)
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
Žanna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Latvian
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
Žaklina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Macedonian, Croatian, Serbian
Other Scripts: Жаклина(Macedonian, Serbian)
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
Macedonian, Croatian and Serbian form of
Jacqueline.
Zahida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic, Urdu
Other Scripts: زاهدة(Arabic) زاہدہ(Urdu)
Pronounced: ZA-hee-dah(Arabic)
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Yarrow
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare), Afro-American (Slavery-era)
Pronounced: YAR-o(English)
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Yarrow, and/or from the word for the flowering plant (Achillea millefolium).
Yana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Bulgarian, Russian, Ukrainian
Other Scripts: Яна(Bulgarian, Russian, Ukrainian)
Pronounced: YA-nə(Russian)
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Bulgarian, Russian and Ukrainian form of
Jana 1.
Xoana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Galician
Pronounced: SHWA-nu
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
Galician feminine form of
John.
Xanthe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, Ancient Greek
Other Scripts: Ξανθή(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: KSAN-TEH(Classical Greek)
Derived from Greek
ξανθός (xanthos) meaning
"yellow, blond, fair-haired". This was the name of a few minor figures in Greek
mythology.
Wioleta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: vyaw-LEH-ta
Wiola
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: VYAW-la
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Willia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (South, Rare), Dutch (Rare)
Wilder
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
From an English surname meaning "wild, untamed, uncontrolled", from Old English wilde.
Wallis
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: WAWL-is
From a surname that was a variant of
Wallace. Wallis Simpson (1895-1986) was the divorced woman whom Edward VIII married, which forced him to abdicate the British throne.
Walden
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: WOHL-den
Place name from
Old English: “wooded valley”.
Most famous as the name of Walden Pond in Massachusetts where philosopher Henry David Thoreau wrote his book “Walden”.
Used as a male name by J.K. Rowling in the "Harry Potter" books.
Volya
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian (Rare)
Other Scripts: Воля(Russian)
Pronounced: VO-lyə
Vivienne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: VEE-VYEHN
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Viggo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norwegian, Danish, Swedish
Pronounced: VEE-go(Danish) VIG-go(Swedish)
Short form of names containing the Old Norse element
víg "war".
Vienne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Various (Rare)
Pronounced: VYEHN(French)
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
From the French name for
Vienna, the capital city of Austria.
Victory
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (African), English (Puritan)
Pronounced: VIK-tər-ee(English)
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Simply from the English word, which is ultimately from Latin
victoria (itself from the past participle stem of
vincere "to conquer", making it a (distant) relative of
Vincent). For Puritans, the name was given in reference to 1 Corinthians 15:55, "O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?"
A male bearer was Victory Birdseye (1782-1853), a U.S. Representative from New York.
Vianne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Meaning unknown, perhaps a combination of
Vi and
Anne 1 or a short form of
Vivianne.
Vesta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Pronounced: WEHS-ta(Latin) VEHS-tə(English)
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Probably a Roman
cognate of
Hestia. Vesta was the Roman goddess of the hearth. A continuous fire, tended by the Vestal Virgins, was burned in the Temple of Vesta in Rome.
Vesper
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology, Dutch (Modern)
Pronounced: WEHS-pehr(Latin) VEHS-pər(English)
Latin
cognate of
Hesperos. This name was used by the British author Ian Fleming for a female character, a love interest of James Bond, in his novel
Casino Royale (1953). She also appears in the film adaptations of 1967 and 2006.
Vesa 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: VEH-sah
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Means "sprout, young tree" in Finnish.
Vesa 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Albanian
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
From Albanian vesë meaning "dew".
Verona
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Various
From the name of the city in Italy, which is itself of unknown meaning.
Vere
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
From a Norman surname, which was from a French place name, which was itself derived from a Gaulish word meaning "alder".
Vanja
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Swedish, Norwegian
Other Scripts: Вања(Serbian)
Croatian, Serbian and Slovene (masculine and feminine) form of
Vanya. It is also used in Scandinavia, where it is primarily feminine.
Valériane
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: VA-LEH-RYAN
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
French feminine form of
Valerianus (see
Valerian).
Valentine 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: VA-LAHN-TEEN
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Valdemar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Danish, Swedish, Finnish
Pronounced: VAHL-deh-mahr(Finnish)
Scandinavian form of
Waldemar, also used as a translation of the Slavic
cognate Vladimir. This was the name of four kings of Denmark and a king of Sweden. It was introduced to Scandinavia by the 12th-century Danish king Valdemar I who was named after his mother's grandfather: Vladimir II, a grand prince of Kievan Rus.
Vadim
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Вадим(Russian)
Pronounced: vu-DYEEM
Meaning uncertain. It is used as a Russian form of the saintly name
Bademus. Alternatively it may be derived from Slavic
vaditi "to accuse, to argue" or from an Old Norse source. According to legend, this was the name of a legendary leader of the Ilmen Slavs who fought against the Varangians.
Uzoma
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Igbo
Means "good way" in Igbo.
Uxue
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque
Pronounced: oo-SHOO-eh
From the Basque name of the Spanish town of Ujué where there is a church dedicated to the Virgin
Mary. Its name is derived from Basque
usoa "dove".
Usko
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: OOS-ko
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Means "faith" in Finnish.
Ulloriaq
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Greenlandic
Means
"star" in Greenlandic
[1].
Uliana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian, Ukrainian
Other Scripts: Ульяна(Russian) Уляна(Ukrainian)
Pronounced: uw-LYA-nə(Russian)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Tycho
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History, Dutch
Pronounced: TUY-go(Danish) TIE-ko(English)
Latinized form of
Tyge. This name was used by the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546-1601), who was born as
Tyge.
True
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Puritan)
Pronounced: TROO
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
From the English word "true" meaning "conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct; loyal, faithful; genuine; legitimate; accurate". From the Middle English
trewe, from the Old English
trīewe, (Mercian)
trēowe 'trusty, faithful'.
True was first used as a virtue name by the Puritans, mainly as a feminine name back then. The name had almost died out by the end of the 1800s, but was revived in the last years of the 20th century.
Tristin
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: TRIS-tən
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Variant of
Tristan, sometimes used as a feminine form.
Tristen
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: TRIS-tən
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Variant of
Tristan, sometimes used as a feminine form.
Tristan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French, Arthurian Cycle
Pronounced: TRIS-tən(English) TREES-TAHN(French)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Probably from the Celtic name
Drustan, a
diminutive of
Drust, which occurs as
Drystan in a few Welsh sources. As
Tristan, it first appears in 12th-century French tales, probably altered by association with Old French
triste "sad". According to the tales Tristan was sent to Ireland by his uncle King Mark of Cornwall in order to fetch
Iseult, who was to be the king's bride. On the way back, Tristan and Iseult accidentally drink a potion that makes them fall in love. Later versions of the tale make Tristan one of King
Arthur's knights. His tragic story was very popular in the Middle Ages, and the name has occasionally been used since then.
Torin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Meaning unknown. It has been suggested that it is of Irish origin, though no suitable derivation can be found.
Tierney
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish
Theron
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Θήρων(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: TEH-RAWN(Classical Greek) THEHR-ən(English)
Theophania
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Θεοφάνια(Ancient Greek)
Personal remark: aug 1, 2012
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Teagan
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: TEE-gən
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Variant of
Tegan. It also coincides with a rare Irish surname
Teagan. This name rose on the American popularity charts in the 1990s, probably because of its similarity to names like
Megan and
Reagan.
Tashi
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Tibetan, Bhutanese
Other Scripts: བཀྲ་ཤིས(Tibetan)
Means "good fortune" in Tibetan.
Taegan
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Taavi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Estonian, Finnish
Pronounced: TAH-vee(Finnish)
Estonian and Finnish form of
David.
Sumner
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SUM-nər, SOME-nərr
Transferred use of the surname
Sumner.
Søren
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Danish
Pronounced: SUUW-ən
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Danish form of
Severinus. Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was a Danish philosopher who is regarded as a precursor of existentialism.
Solenne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, Breton
Pronounced: SO-LEN(French) so-LEN(Breton)
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Sofia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Catalan, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, Finnish, Estonian, Slovak, Romanian, English, Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian
Other Scripts: Σοφία(Greek) София(Russian, Bulgarian) Софія(Ukrainian)
Pronounced: saw-FEE-a(Greek) so-FEE-a(Italian) soo-FEE-u(European Portuguese) so-FEE-u(Brazilian Portuguese) soo-FEE-ə(Catalan) suw-FEE-a(Swedish) zo-FEE-a(German) SO-fee-ah(Finnish) su-FYEE-yə(Russian)
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
Form of
Sophia used in various languages.
Silvija
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Latvian, Lithuanian, Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Macedonian
Other Scripts: Силвија(Serbian, Macedonian)
Form of
Silvia in several languages.
Seoc
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish Gaelic [1]
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Scottish Gaelic form of
Jack.
Seneca
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Pronounced: SEH-neh-ka(Latin) SEHN-ə-kə(English)
From a Roman
cognomen derived from Latin
senectus meaning
"old". This was the name of both a Roman orator (born in Spain) and also of his son, a philosopher and statesman.
This name also coincides with that of the Seneca, a Native American tribe that lived near the Great Lakes, whose name meant "place of stones".
Schuyler
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SKIE-lər
From a Dutch surname meaning
"scholar". Dutch settlers brought the surname to America, where it was subsequently adopted as a given name in honour of the American general and senator Philip Schuyler (1733-1804)
[1].
Sawyer
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: SOI-ər, SAW-yər
From an English surname meaning
"sawer of wood". Mark Twain used it for the hero in his novel
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876).
Very rare as an American given name before 1980, it increased in popularity in the 1980s and 90s. It got a boost in 2004 after the debut of the television series Lost, which featured a character by this name.
Saskia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch, German
Pronounced: SAHS-kee-a(Dutch) ZAS-kya(German)
Rating: 63% based on 3 votes
From the Old German element
sahso meaning
"a Saxon". The Saxons were a Germanic tribe, their name ultimately deriving from the Germanic word *
sahsą meaning "knife". Saskia van Uylenburgh (1612-1642) was the wife of the Dutch painter Rembrandt.
Sarah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, French, German, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, Hebrew, Arabic, Biblical, Biblical Hebrew
Other Scripts: שָׂרָה(Hebrew) سارة(Arabic)
Pronounced: SEHR-ə(English) SAR-ə(English) SA-RA(French) ZA-ra(German) SA-ra(Danish, Dutch) SA-rah(Arabic)
Means
"lady, princess, noblewoman" in Hebrew. In the
Old Testament this is the name of
Abraham's wife, considered the matriarch of the Jewish people. She was barren until she unexpectedly became pregnant with
Isaac at the age of 90. Her name was originally
Sarai, but God changed it at the same time Abraham's name was changed (see
Genesis 17:15).
In England, Sarah came into use after the Protestant Reformation. It was consistently popular in the 20th century throughout the English-speaking world, reaching the top of the charts for England and Wales in the 1970s and 80s.
Notable bearers include Sarah Churchill (1660-1744), an influential British duchess and a close friend of Queen Anne, and the French actress Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923).
Sara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, French, Catalan, Galician, Romanian, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Finnish, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Albanian, Macedonian, Polish, English, Hebrew, Arabic, Persian, Biblical Greek
Other Scripts: Σάρα(Greek) Сара(Serbian, Macedonian) שָׂרָה(Hebrew) سارة(Arabic) سارا(Persian)
Pronounced: SA-ra(Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Danish, Icelandic, Polish) SA-RA(French) ZA-ra(German) SAH-rah(Finnish) SEHR-ə(English) SAR-ə(English) SA-rah(Arabic)
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Form of
Sarah used in various languages.
Sander
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch, Estonian, Danish, Norwegian
Pronounced: SAHN-dər(Dutch)
Dutch, Estonian, Danish and Norwegian short form of
Alexander.
Sakari
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: SAH-kah-ree
Saga
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norse Mythology, Swedish, Icelandic
Pronounced: SAH-gah(Swedish) SA-gha(Icelandic)
From Old Norse
Sága, possibly meaning
"seeing one", derived from
sjá "to see". This is the name of a Norse goddess, possibly connected to
Frigg. As a Swedish and Icelandic name, it is also derived from the unrelated word
saga "story, fairy tale, saga".
Saara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: SAH-rah
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Ryker
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: RIE-kər
Possibly a variant of the German surname
Riker, a derivative of Low German
rike "rich". As a modern English name, it has become popular because it shares the same trendy sounds found in other names such as
Ryan and
Ryder.
Ryder
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: RIE-dər
From an English occupational surname derived from Old English
ridere meaning
"mounted warrior" or
"messenger". It has grown in popularity in the 2000s because it starts with the same sound found in other popular names like
Ryan and
Riley.
Rowan
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Irish, English (Modern)
Pronounced: RO-ən(English)
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Anglicized form of the Irish name
Ruadhán. As an English name, it can also be derived from the surname Rowan, itself derived from the Irish given name. It could also be given in reference to the rowan tree, a word of Old Norse origin (coincidentally sharing the same Indo-European root meaning "red" with the Irish name).
Ronja
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Finnish
Pronounced: RON-yah(Swedish)
Invented by Swedish children's author Astrid Lindgren, who based it on the middle portion of Juronjaure, the name of a lake in Sweden. Lindgren used it in her 1981 book Ronia the Robber's Daughter (Ronia is the English translation).
Romy
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew (Modern)
Other Scripts: רומי(Hebrew)
Pronounced: RO-mee
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Romy
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Dutch, French, English
Pronounced: RO-mee(German, English)
Rolan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Ролан(Russian)
Rohan 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
From the novel The Lord of the Rings (1954) by J. R. R. Tolkien, where it is a place name meaning "horse country" in the fictional language Sindarin.
Roar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norwegian
Modern Norwegian form of
Hróarr.
Riikka
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: REEK-kah
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Rhian
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: REE-an
Derived from Welsh rhiain meaning "maiden, young woman".
René
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Slovak, Czech
Pronounced: RU-NEH(French) rə-NEH(German) reh-NEH(Spanish) REH-neh(Slovak, Czech)
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
French form of
Renatus. A famous bearer was the French mathematician and rationalist philosopher René Descartes (1596-1650).
Rémy
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: REH-MEE
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
French form of the Latin name
Remigius, which was derived from Latin
remigis "oarsman, rower".
Saint Rémy was a 5th-century bishop who converted and baptized Clovis, king of the Franks.
Réka
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hungarian
Pronounced: REH-kaw
Reed
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: REED
From an English surname that was derived from Old English read meaning "red", originally a nickname given to a person with red hair or a ruddy complexion. Unconnected, this is also the English word for tall grass-like plants that grow in marshes.
Ransu
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish (Rare)
Pronounced: RAHN-soo
Finnish form of
Franciscus (see
Francis).
Rain 1
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: RAYN
Simply from the English word rain, derived from Old English regn.
Rafe
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: RAYF
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Variant of
Ralph. This form became common during the 17th century, reflecting the usual pronunciation.
Radley
Usage: English
Pronounced: RAD-lee
From rēadlēah meaning "red clearing". Radley is a village and civil parish in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England.
Quintus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Pronounced: KWEEN-toos(Latin) KWIN-təs(English)
Roman
praenomen, or given name, meaning
"fifth" in Latin. Originally, during the time of the early Roman Republic, it was spelled
Quinctus. This name was traditionally given to the fifth child, or possibly a child born in the fifth month. It was a common praenomen, being more popular than the other numeric Roman names. A notable bearer was the poet Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus).
Quinlan
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: KWIN-lən
From an Irish surname, an Anglicized form of
Ó Caoindealbháin, itself from the given name
Caoindealbhán (Old Irish
Caíndelbán).
Psyche
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ψυχή(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: PSUY-KEH(Classical Greek) SIE-kee(English)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Means
"the soul", derived from Greek
ψύχω (psycho) meaning "to breathe". The Greeks thought that the breath was the soul. In Greek
mythology Psyche was a beautiful maiden who was beloved by Eros (or Cupid in Roman mythology). She is the subject of Keats's poem
Ode to Psyche (1819).
Priita
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish (Rare)
Pronounced: PREE-tah
Praise
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (African)
Pronounced: PRAYZ
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
From the English word praise, which is ultimately derived (via Old French) from Late Latin preciare, a derivative of Latin pretium "price, worth". This name is most common in English-speaking Africa.
Piran
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Cornish
Possibly derived from
Ciarán. This was the name of a 5th-century Irish monk who founded a monastery in Cornwall. He is the patron
saint of Cornwall.
Pippin 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic [1]
Old German form of
Pepin. The 1972 musical
Pippin is loosely based on the life of
Charlemagne's eldest son Pepin the Hunchback.
Piia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish, Estonian
Pronounced: PEE-ah(Finnish)
Finnish and Estonian form of
Pia.
Piers
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (British), Medieval French
Pronounced: PEEZ(British English) PIRZ(American English)
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Medieval form of
Peter. This is the name of the main character in the 14th-century poem
Piers Plowman [1] by William Langland.
Phineas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: פִּינְחָס(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: FIN-ee-əs(English)
Philomène
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: FEE-LAW-MEHN
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Philippa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (British), German
Pronounced: FI-li-pə(British English)
Latinate feminine form of
Philip. As an English name, it is chiefly British.
Peta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Australian)
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Chiefly Australian feminine form of
Peter.
Peregrine
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: PEHR-ə-grin
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
From the Late Latin name
Peregrinus, which meant
"traveller". This was the name of several early
saints.
Pépin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: PEH-PEHN
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Padrig
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh, Breton
Pádraic
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: PA-drək
Paavo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish, Estonian
Pronounced: PAH-vo(Finnish)
Finnish and Estonian form of
Paul.
Paavali
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish (Rare)
Pronounced: PAH-vah-lee
Finnish form of
Paul used in the Bible.
Ollivander
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (American, Modern, Rare), Popular Culture
Pronounced: AHL-i-van-dər(American English, Popular Culture)
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Surname of
Garrick Ollivander, a wizard and the owner of Ollivander's Wand Shop in the Harry Potter book series and movie franchise by J. K. Rowling. In the Harry Potter universe the name is said to be of Mediterranean origin and mean "he who owns the olive wand".
Olivie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Czech
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Oliver
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Estonian, Catalan, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, Czech, Slovak, Carolingian Cycle
Other Scripts: Оливер(Serbian, Macedonian)
Pronounced: AHL-i-vər(English) O-lee-vu(German) O-lee-vehr(Finnish) oo-lee-BEH(Catalan) O-li-vehr(Czech) AW-lee-vehr(Slovak)
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
From Old French
Olivier, which was possibly derived from Latin
oliva "olive tree" [1]. Alternatively there could be an underlying Germanic name, such as Old Norse
Áleifr (see
Olaf) or Frankish
Alawar (see
Álvaro), with the spelling altered by association with the Latin word. In the Middle Ages the name became well-known in Western Europe because of the French epic
La Chanson de Roland, in which Olivier is a friend and advisor to the hero
Roland.
In England Oliver was a common medieval name, however it became rare after the 17th century because of the military commander Oliver Cromwell, who ruled the country following the civil war. The name was revived in the 19th century, perhaps due in part to the title character in Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist (1838), about a poor orphan living on the streets of London. It became very popular at the beginning of the 21st century, reaching the top rank for boys in England and Wales in 2009 and entering the top ten in the United States in 2017.
Ofydd
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh (Rare)
Nyyrikki
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish Mythology
Pronounced: NUY-reek-kee(Finnish)
Meaning unknown. This was the name of a Finnish god of the hunt, the son of
Tapio.
Nyree
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (New Zealand)
Pronounced: NIE-ree
Anglicized form of
Ngaire. It was borne by New Zealand actress Nyree Dawn Porter (1936-2001).
Nowell
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
From the surname
Nowell (a variant of
Noel).
Nolwenn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Breton
From the Breton phrase
Noyal Gwenn meaning
"holy one from Noyal". This was the epithet of a 6th-century
saint and martyr from Brittany.
Noela
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Galician
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Galician feminine form of
Noël.
Noam
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew, French
Other Scripts: נוֹעַם(Hebrew)
Pronounced: NO-am(Hebrew) NOM(English) NAW-AM(French)
Means "pleasantness" in Hebrew. A famous bearer is Noam Chomsky (1928-), an American linguist and philosopher.
Nizar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: نزار(Arabic)
Pronounced: nee-ZAR
Perhaps from Arabic
نزير (nazir) meaning
"little".
Niviarsiaq
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greenlandic
Means
"young girl" in Greenlandic
[1]. This is the name of a variety of flower that grows on Greenland, the dwarf fireweed (species Chamaenerion latifolium).
Niviaq
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Greenlandic
Derived from the Greenlandic word
niviarsiaq "girl" (compare
Niviarsiaq), possibly meaning "reincarnated as a girl".
Nivi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greenlandic
Short form of Greenlandic niviarsiaq meaning "young girl".
Nina 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian, Italian, English, German, French, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Lithuanian, Dutch, Polish, Slovene, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Belarusian
Other Scripts: Нина(Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian) Ніна(Ukrainian, Belarusian)
Pronounced: NYEE-nə(Russian) NEE-na(Italian, German, Slovak) NEE-nə(English) NEE-NA(French) NEE-nah(Finnish) nyi-NU(Lithuanian) NYEE-na(Polish) NI-na(Czech)
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Short form of names that end in
nina, such as
Antonina or
Giannina. It was imported to Western Europe from Russia and Italy in the 19th century. This name also nearly coincides with the Spanish word
niña meaning
"little girl" (the word is pronounced differently than the name).
A famous bearer was the American jazz musician Nina Simone (1933-2003).
Nima 1
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: نعمة(Arabic)
Pronounced: NEE‘-mah
Means "blessing" in Arabic.
Nils
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Pronounced: NILS
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Niles
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: NIELZ
From an English surname that was derived from the given name
Neil.
Nikora
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Maori
Nikole
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque, English
Pronounced: nee-KO-leh(Basque) ni-KOL(English)
Basque form of
Nicole, as well as an English variant.
Nikolas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek, English
Other Scripts: Νικόλας(Greek)
Pronounced: NIK-ə-ləs(English) NIK-ləs(English)
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Nikolai
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian, Bulgarian
Other Scripts: Николай(Russian, Bulgarian)
Pronounced: nyi-ku-LIE(Russian)
Nikolaas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch (Rare)
Pronounced: NEE-ko-las
Nikodemos
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1], Biblical Greek
Other Scripts: Νικόδημος(Ancient Greek)
Niko
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish, Croatian, Slovene, Georgian, German
Other Scripts: ნიკო(Georgian)
Pronounced: NEE-ko(Finnish)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Finnish form of
Nicholas, as well as a Croatian, Slovene, Georgian and German short form.
Niklas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish, Finnish, Danish, Norwegian, German
Pronounced: NIK-las(Swedish) NEEK-lahs(Finnish) NI-klas(German)
Nika 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Slovene, Croatian
Niilo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: NEE-lo
Nicolette
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: NEE-KAW-LEHT
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Nicolet
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch (Rare)
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Nicodemus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Latin, Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Νικόδημος(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: nik-ə-DEE-məs(English) nee-ko-DEH-moos(Latin)
From the Greek name
Νικόδημος (Nikodemos) meaning
"victory of the people", derived from Greek
νίκη (nike) meaning "victory" and
δῆμος (demos) meaning "the people". This is the name of a character in the
New Testament who helps
Joseph of Arimathea entomb
Jesus.
Nickolas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: NIK-ə-ləs, NIK-ləs
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Nicholas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: NIK-ə-ləs, NIK-ləs
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
From the Greek name
Νικόλαος (Nikolaos) meaning
"victory of the people", derived from Greek
νίκη (nike) meaning "victory" and
λαός (laos) meaning "people".
Saint Nicholas was a 4th-century bishop from Anatolia who, according to legend, saved the daughters of a poor man from lives of prostitution. He is the patron saint of children, sailors and merchants, as well as Greece and Russia. He formed the basis for the figure known as Santa Claus (created in the 19th century from Dutch
Sinterklaas), the bringer of Christmas presents.
Due to the renown of the saint, this name has been widely used in the Christian world. It has been common in England since the 12th century, though it became a bit less popular after the Protestant Reformation. The name has been borne by five popes and two tsars of Russia.
Nestori
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: NEHS-to-ree
Nels
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Danish (Rare)
Neilina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Scottish
Narcisse
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: NAR-SEES
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
French masculine and feminine form of
Narcissus. This is also the French word for the narcissus flower.
Naia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque
Pronounced: NIE-a
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Means "wave, sea foam" in Basque.
Nadav
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew
Other Scripts: נָדָב(Hebrew)
Muir
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish
From a Scottish surname, derived from Scots muir meaning "moor, fen". This name could also be inspired by Scottish Gaelic muir meaning "sea".
Moss
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Archaic), Jewish
Pronounced: MAWS(English)
Monet
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Various
From a French surname that was derived from either
Hamon or
Edmond. This was the surname of the French impressionist painter Claude Monet (1840-1926).
Mireille
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, Dutch
Pronounced: MEE-RAY(French)
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
From the Occitan name Mirèio, which was first used by the poet Frédéric Mistral for the main character in his poem Mirèio (1859). He probably derived it from the Occitan word mirar meaning "to admire". It is spelled Mirèlha in classical Occitan orthography. A notable bearer is the French singer Mireille Mathieu (1946-).
Miles
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MIELZ
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
From the Germanic name
Milo, introduced by the
Normans to England in the form
Miles. The meaning is not known for certain. It is possibly connected to the Slavic name element
milŭ meaning
"gracious, dear". From an early date it was associated with Latin
miles meaning
"soldier".
A notable bearer was the American musician Miles Davis (1926-1991). In Scotland this name was historically used to Anglicize Maoilios.
Miléna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hungarian
Pronounced: MEE-leh-naw
Merritt
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MEHR-it
From an English surname, originally from a place name, which meant "boundary gate" in Old English.
Merrick
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: MEHR-ik
From a Welsh surname that was originally derived from the given name
Meurig.
Merit 1
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: MEHR-it
Either a variant of
Merritt or else simply from the English word
merit, ultimately from Latin
meritus "deserving".
Merav
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew
Other Scripts: מֵרַב(Hebrew)
Maxwell
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MAKS-wehl
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
From a Scottish surname meaning
"Mack's stream", from the name
Mack, a short form of the Scandinavian name
Magnus, combined with Old English
wille "well, stream". A famous bearer of the surname was James Maxwell (1831-1879), a Scottish physicist who studied gases and electromagnetism.
As a given name it has increased in popularity starting from the 1980s, likely because it is viewed as a full form of Max [1].
Maximilian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, English, Swedish, Norwegian (Rare), Danish (Rare)
Pronounced: mak-see-MEE-lee-an(German) mak-sə-MIL-yən(English)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
From the Roman name
Maximilianus, which was derived from
Maximus. It was borne by a 3rd-century
saint and martyr. In the 15th century the Holy Roman emperor Frederick III gave this name to his son and eventual heir. In this case it was a blend of the names of the Roman generals Fabius Maximus and Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus (see
Emiliano), whom Frederick admired. It was subsequently borne by a second Holy Roman emperor, two kings of Bavaria, and a short-lived Habsburg emperor of Mexico.
Mateo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Croatian
Pronounced: ma-TEH-o(Spanish)
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Spanish form of
Matthew. This form is also sometimes used in Croatia, from the Italian form
Matteo.
Marketta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: MAHR-keht-tah
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Marika
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Czech, Slovak, Polish, Hungarian, Greek, Finnish, Estonian, Swedish, Georgian, Italian, German
Other Scripts: Μαρίκα(Greek) მარიკა(Georgian)
Pronounced: MA-ri-ka(Czech) ma-REE-ka(Polish, Swedish, German) MAW-ree-kaw(Hungarian) MAH-ree-kah(Finnish)
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Mariel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MEHR-ee-əl, MAR-ee-əl
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Diminutive of
Mary influenced by
Muriel. In the case of actress Mariel Hemingway (1961-), the name is from the Cuban town of Mariel.
Mariánne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Sami
Marianne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish
Pronounced: MA-RYAN(French) mar-ee-AN(English) ma-RYA-nə(German) MAH-ree-ahn-neh(Finnish)
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Originally a French
diminutive of
Marie. It is also considered a combination of
Marie and
Anne 1. Shortly after the formation of the French Republic in 1792, a female figure by this name was adopted as the symbol of the state.
Margit
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hungarian, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Estonian, German
Pronounced: MAWR-geet(Hungarian) MAR-git(German)
Hungarian and Scandinavian form of
Margaret.
Maren
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Danish, Norwegian
Pronounced: MAH-rehn(Danish)
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Mara 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Hebrew, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Other Scripts: מָרָא(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: MAHR-ə(English) MAR-ə(English) MEHR-ə(English)
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Means
"bitter" in Hebrew. In the
Old Testament this is a name that
Naomi calls herself after the death of her husband and sons (see
Ruth 1:20).
Mara 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hungarian, Croatian, Serbian
Other Scripts: Мара(Serbian)
Pronounced: MAW-raw(Hungarian)
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Hungarian variant of
Mária, and a Croatian and Serbian variant of
Marija.
Mar
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Catalan
Pronounced: MAR
Means
"sea" in Spanish and Catalan. It is from a devotional title of the Virgin
Mary,
Nuestra Señora del Mar "Our Lady of the Sea", the patron
saint of the Spanish province of Almería.
Malone
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: mə-LON
From an Irish surname, an Anglicized form of
Ó Maoil Eoin meaning
"descendant of a disciple of Saint John".
Maldwyn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
From
Maldwyn, another name for the old Welsh county of Montgomeryshire. It is so called from
Trefaldwyn, the Welsh name for the county town of Montgomery, misinterpreting it as if meaning "town of Maldwyn". In fact it means "town of
Baldwin" (in Welsh both
m and
b mutate to
f).
Malachy
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish
Anglicized form of
Máel Sechnaill or
Máel Máedóc, influenced by the spelling of
Malachi.
Saint Malachy (in Irish, Máel Máedóc) was a 12th-century archbishop of Armagh renowned for his miracles.
Mairenn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Old Irish [1]
Maddox
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: MAD-əks
From a Welsh surname meaning
"son of Madoc". It was brought to public attention when the actress Angelina Jolie gave this name to her adopted son in 2002.
Mackenzie
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: mə-KEHN-zee
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
From a Scottish surname, an Anglicized form of Gaelic
Mac Coinnich, itself derived from the given name
Coinneach. As a feminine given name it was popularized by the American actress Mackenzie Phillips (1959-), especially after she began appearing on the television comedy
One Day at a Time in 1975. In the United Kingdom it is more common as a masculine name.
Mabon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh Mythology
Later Welsh form of
Maponos [1][2][3]. In the Welsh tale
Culhwch and Olwen he is a prisoner freed by
Arthur's warriors in order to help hunt the great boar Trwyth. His mother is
Modron.
Maarja
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Estonian
Pronounced: MAH:RR-yah
Lysanne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Lyric
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: LIR-ik
Means simply
"lyric, songlike" from the English word, ultimately derived from Greek
λυρικός (lyrikos).
Lýra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Icelandic (Modern, Rare)
Lyra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Astronomy
Pronounced: LIE-rə(English)
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
The name of the constellation in the northern sky containing the star Vega. It is said to be shaped after the lyre of Orpheus. This is the name of the main character in the His Dark Materials series of books by Philip Pullman (beginning 1995).
Lux
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Various
Pronounced: LUKS(English)
Derived from Latin lux meaning "light".
Luule
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Estonian
Means "poetry" in Estonian.
Luciana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: loo-CHA-na(Italian) loo-THYA-na(European Spanish) loo-SYA-na(Latin American Spanish)
Lúcia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese, Hungarian
Pronounced: LOO-tsee-aw(Hungarian)
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Portuguese and Hungarian form of
Lucia.
Loyal
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English, English (Puritan)
Pronounced: LOI-əl(English)
From the English word meaning "firm in allegiance, faithful, to a person, cause, or institution", ultimately from Latin lēgalis meaning "legal, law".
Loren
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LAWR-ən
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Either a short form of
Laurence 1 (masculine) or a variant of
Lauren (feminine).
Locryn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Cornish
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Possibly from
Lloegyr, the medieval Welsh name for a region of southeastern Britain, which is of unknown meaning. According to Geoffrey of Monmouth, the historical realm (which he Latinized as Loegria) was named after
Locrinus, the eldest son of Brutus of Troy and
Innogen.
Liucija
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Lithuanian
Pronounced: LYUW-tsyi-yu
Lithuanian form of
Lucia.
Lisette
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, English
Pronounced: LEE-ZEHT(French)
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Lisanne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch
Pronounced: lee-SAH-nə
Liron
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: לִירוֹן(Hebrew)
Means
"my song, my joy" in Hebrew, from
לִי (li) "for me" and
רֹן (ron) "joy, song".
Lira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Croatian (Rare)
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
From the name of the musical instrument lira (from Latin lira, from Ancient Greek λύρα (lúra)), called "lyre" in English.
Lira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (Archaic)
Pronounced: LEER-ə
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Of uncertain origin and meaning. Introduced in the 19th century, it faded out of general use by the early to mid-twentieth century.
Liora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: לִיאוֹרָה(Hebrew)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Strictly feminine form of
Lior.
Linnaea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: li-NAY-ə, li-NEE-ə
From the word for the type of flower, also called the twinflower (see
Linnéa).
Linden
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LIN-dən
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
From a German and Dutch surname that was derived from Old High German
linta meaning
"linden tree".
Lilja
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Icelandic, Faroese, Finnish
Pronounced: LIL-ya(Icelandic) LEEL-yah(Finnish)
Lilijana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Slovene, Lithuanian
Slovene and Lithuanian form of
Lillian.
Lilija
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Lithuanian, Latvian
Lilianne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: LEE-LYAN
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Liberty
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LIB-ər-tee
Simply from the English word
liberty, derived from Latin
libertas, a derivative of
liber "free". Interestingly, since 1880 this name has charted on the American popularity lists in three different periods: in 1918 (at the end of World War I), in 1976 (the American bicentennial), and after 2001 (during the War on Terrorism)
[1].
Lėja
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Lithuanian
László
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hungarian
Pronounced: LAS-lo
Hungarian form of
Vladislav.
Saint László was an 11th-century king of Hungary, looked upon as the embodiment of Christian virtue and bravery.
Laszlo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hungarian (Anglicized), English (Rare), Dutch (Rare)
Larkin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval English
Pronounced: LAHR-kin(English)
Lark
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: LAHRK
From the English word for the type of songbird.
Lára
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Icelandic
Pronounced: LOW-ra
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Lane
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LAYN
From an English surname, meaning "lane, path", which originally belonged to a person who lived near a lane.
Lake
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: LAYK
From the English word lake, for the inland body of water. It is ultimately derived from Latin lacus.
Lael
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Hebrew
Other Scripts: לָאֵל(Ancient Hebrew)
Means
"of God" in Hebrew. This is the name of the father of Eliasaph in the
Old Testament. It is misspelled as
Δαήλ (Dael) in the Greek translation, the Septuagint.
Lachlan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish, English
Pronounced: LAKH-lən(Scottish) LAWK-lən(British English) LAK-lən(American English)
Anglicized form of
Lachlann, the Scottish Gaelic form of
Lochlainn. In the English-speaking world, this name was especially popular in Australia towards the end of the 20th century.
Kyriel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: Kay.riel
It derives from the same root of the name Karly, that means "free".
Kylli
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: KUYL-lee
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Kristjana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Icelandic
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Kristjan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Estonian, Slovene
Kristin
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norwegian, Swedish, German, Estonian, English
Pronounced: kris-TEEN(Swedish, German) KRIS-tin(English)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Kristijonas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Lithuanian
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Krista
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, English, Finnish, Estonian, Latvian
Pronounced: KRIS-ta(German) KRIS-tə(English) KREES-tah(Finnish)
Krissika
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Estonian (Modern, Rare)
Kreszentia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Rare)
Pronounced: krehs-TSEHN-tsya
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Konstantyn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish (Rare)
Pronounced: kawn-STAN-tin
Kismine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Used by F. Scott Fitzgerald for a character in his novella
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz (1922). Perhaps he based it on the English word
kismet meaning "fate, destiny". In the story Kismine has a sister named
Jasmine.
Kirsimarja
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish (Rare)
Kirsikka
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: KEER-seek-kah
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Means "cherry" in Finnish.
Kirsike
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Estonian (Rare)
Cognate of Finnish
Kirsikka, derived from Estonian
kirss "cherry".
Kirsi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: KEER-see
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Finnish form of
Christina, or a short form of
Kirsikka. It also means "frost" in Finnish.
Kira 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian
Other Scripts: Кира(Russian) Кіра(Ukrainian, Belarusian)
Pronounced: KYEE-rə(Russian)
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Russian feminine form of
Cyrus.
Kira 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KEER-ə
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
Kinnon
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: American (Rare)
Kinneret
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: כִּנֶּרֶת(Hebrew)
From the name of a large lake in northern Israel, usually called the Sea of Galilee in English. Its name is derived from Hebrew
כִּנּוֹר (kinnor) meaning "harp" because of its shape.
Kika
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese
Kiira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: KEE-rah
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Finnish feminine form of
Cyrus.
Kiera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish, English
Pronounced: KEER-ə(English)
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
Kielo
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: KEE-lo
Means "lily of the valley" in Finnish (species Convallaria majalis).
Keziah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: קְצִיעָה(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: kə-ZIE-ə(English)
From the Hebrew name
קְצִיעָה (Qetzi'ah) meaning
"cassia, cinnamon", from the name of the spice tree. In the
Old Testament she is a daughter of
Job.
Kestra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Popular Culture
Pronounced: KEHS-trə(English)
Kenojuak
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Inuit (Anglicized)
Other Scripts: ᕿᓐᓄᐊᔪᐊᖅ(Inuktitut)
Katsiaryna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Belarusian
Other Scripts: Кацярына(Belarusian)
Pronounced: ka-tsya-RI-na
Katrin
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Swedish, Estonian
Pronounced: ka-TREEN(German) kah-TREEN(Swedish)
German, Swedish and Estonian short form of
Katherine.
Katarzyna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: ka-ta-ZHI-na
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Katariina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish, Estonian
Pronounced: KAH-tah-ree-nah(Finnish)
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Karsten
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Low German, Danish, Norwegian
Pronounced: KAR-stən(Low German) KAS-dən(Danish)
Kalevi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish, Finnish Mythology
Pronounced: KAH-leh-vee(Finnish)
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Kaleva
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish, Finnish Mythology
Pronounced: KAH-leh-vah(Finnish)
From the name of the mythological ancestor of the Finns, which is of unknown meaning. The name of the Finnish epic the Kalevala means "the land of Kaleva".
Kalan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Kaja 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Estonian, Slovene
Pronounced: KA-ya(Swedish) KAH-yah(Estonian)
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
Kairo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: KIE-ro
Kaija
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: KIE-yah
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Kaarina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: KAH-ree-nah
Juniper
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: JOON-i-pər
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
From the English word for the type of tree, derived ultimately from Latin iuniperus.
Jules 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: ZHUYL
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
French form of
Julius. A notable bearer of this name was the French novelist Jules Verne (1828-1905), author of
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and other works of science fiction.
Jules 2
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JOOLZ
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Jovana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Serbian, Macedonian
Other Scripts: Јована(Serbian, Macedonian)
Serbian and Macedonian feminine form of
John.
Jǫrð
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Old Norse, Norse Mythology
Derived from Old Norse
jǫrð meaning "earth". In Norse mythology, Jǫrð was the goddess of the earth and the mother of Þórr (see
Thor). Other names for her included
Hlóðyn and
Fjǫrgyn.
Jord
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norwegian (Archaic)
Jóna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Icelandic, Faroese
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Icelandic and Faroese feminine form of
John.
Jocelyn
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English, French
Pronounced: JAHS-lin(English) JAHS-ə-lin(English) ZHO-SEH-LEHN(French)
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
From a Frankish masculine name, variously written as
Gaudelenus,
Gautselin,
Gauzlin, along with many other spellings. It was derived from the Germanic element *
gautaz, which was from the name of the Germanic tribe the Geats, combined with a Latin
diminutive suffix. The
Normans brought this name to England in the form
Goscelin or
Joscelin, and it was common until the 14th century. It was revived in the 20th century primarily as a feminine name, perhaps an adaptation of the surname
Jocelyn (a medieval derivative of the given name). In France this is a masculine name only.
Jessamyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: JEHS-ə-min
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
Jessamine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: JEHS-ə-min
From a variant spelling of the English word
jasmine (see
Jasmine), used also to refer to flowering plants in the cestrum family.
Jennings
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JEN-ings
Transferred use of the surname
Jennings.
Janika
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Estonian, Finnish
Pronounced: YAH-nee-kah(Finnish)
Feminine form of
Jaan (Estonian) or
Jani (Finnish).
Jalila
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: جليلة(Arabic)
Pronounced: ja-LEE-lah
Jaakkima
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish (Rare)
Pronounced: YAHK-kee-mah
Jaak
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Estonian, Flemish
Iustina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Feminine form of
Iustinus (see
Justin).
Itzal
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque
Pronounced: ee-TSAL
Means "shadow, protection" in Basque.
Isolde
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Arthurian Cycle
Pronounced: ee-ZAWL-də(German) i-SOL-də(English) i-ZOL-də(English) i-SOLD(English) i-ZOLD(English) EE-ZAWLD(French)
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
German form of
Iseult, appearing in the 13th-century German poem
Tristan by Gottfried von Strassburg. In 1865 the German composer Richard Wagner debuted his popular opera
Tristan und Isolde and also used the name for his first daughter.
Isaura
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese, Spanish, Late Roman
Pronounced: ee-SOW-ra(Spanish)
Late Latin name meaning "from Isauria". Isauria was the name of a region in Asia Minor.
Irit
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: עִירִית(Hebrew)
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Means "asphodel (flower)" in Hebrew.
Io
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἰώ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: EE-AW(Classical Greek) IE-o(English)
Meaning unknown. In Greek
mythology Io was a princess loved by
Zeus, who changed her into a heifer in order to hide her from
Hera. A moon of Jupiter bears this name in her honour.
Into
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: EEN-to
Means "enthusiasm" in Finnish.
Innocent
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History (Ecclesiastical), English (African)
Pronounced: IN-ə-sənt(English, African English)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
From the Late Latin name
Innocentius, which was derived from
innocens "innocent". This was the name of several early
saints. It was also borne by 13 popes including Innocent III, a politically powerful ruler and organizer of the Fourth Crusade.
As an English-language name in the modern era, it is most common in Africa.
Inkeri
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: EENG-keh-ree
Inés
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: ee-NEHS
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Inès
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: EE-NEHS
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Ilta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: EEL-tah
Means "evening" in Finnish.
Ilsa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German
Pronounced: IL-za
Illyria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek, Various (Rare)
Other Scripts: Ίλλυρία(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Iliya
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Bulgarian
Other Scripts: Илия(Bulgarian)
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Ilar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Welsh form of
Hilarius. This is the name of a 6th-century Welsh
saint.
Ilanit
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אִילָנִית(Hebrew)
Iestyn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Welsh form of
Justin. This was the name of a 6th-century Welsh
saint.
Iefan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh (Rare)
Pronounced: YEH-van
Older Welsh form of
Ifan.
Idril
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Means
"sparkle brilliance" in the fictional language Sindarin. In the
Silmarillion (1977) by J. R. R. Tolkien, Idril was the daughter of Turgon, the king of Gondolin. She escaped the destruction of that place with her husband
Tuor and sailed with him into the west.
Idan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: עִידָן(Hebrew)
Means "era" in Hebrew.
Iara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Tupi
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Means "lady of the water" in Tupi, from y "water" and îara "lady, mistress". In Brazilian folklore this is the name of a beautiful river nymph who would lure men into the water. She may have been based upon earlier Tupi legends.
Iain
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish Gaelic [1]
Pronounced: EE-an
Scottish Gaelic form of
Iohannes (see
John).
Honour
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: AHN-ər
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
From the English word
honour, which is of Latin origin. This was one of the virtue names adopted by the
Puritans in the 17th century. It can also be viewed as a form of
Honoria or
Honorata, which are ultimately derived from the same source.
Holden
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: HOL-dən
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
From a surname that was originally derived from a place name meaning "deep valley" in Old English. This is the name of the main character in J. D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye (1951), Holden Caulfield.
Hilmar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Icelandic, Norwegian, Danish
From the Old German name
Hildimar, derived from the elements
hilt "battle" and
mari "famous".
Hillevi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Finnish
Pronounced: HIL-leh-vee(Swedish) HEEL-leh-vee(Finnish)
Swedish and Finnish form of
Heilwig.
Hildr
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Old Norse [1], Norse Mythology
From Old Norse
hildr meaning
"battle", making it a
cognate of
Hilda. In Norse legend this was the name of a valkyrie.
Hilde
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Dutch, Norwegian
Pronounced: HIL-də(German, Dutch)
German, Dutch and Norwegian variant of
Hilda.
Hezekiah
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: חִזְקִיָהוּ(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: hehz-ə-KIE-ə(English)
From the Hebrew name
חִזְקִיָהוּ (Chizqiyahu), which means
"Yahweh strengthens", from the roots
חָזַק (chazaq) meaning "to strength" and
יָה (yah) referring to the Hebrew God. This name was borne by a powerful king of Judah who reigned in the 8th and 7th centuries BC. Also in the
Old Testament, this is the name of an ancestor of the prophet
Zephaniah.
Heron
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek
Other Scripts: Ἥρων(Ancient Greek)
Derived from Greek
ἥρως (heros) meaning
"hero". This was the name of a 1st-century Greek inventor (also known as
Hero) from Alexandria.
Hermione
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἑρμιόνη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: HEHR-MEE-O-NEH(Classical Greek) hər-MIE-ə-nee(English)
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Derived from the name of the Greek messenger god
Hermes. In Greek
myth Hermione was the daughter of
Menelaus and
Helen. This is also the name of the wife of
Leontes in Shakespeare's play
The Winter's Tale (1610). It is now closely associated with the character Hermione Granger from the
Harry Potter series of books, first released in 1997.
Hermes
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology, Ancient Greek, Spanish
Other Scripts: Ἑρμῆς(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: HEHR-MEHS(Classical Greek) HUR-meez(English) EHR-mehs(Spanish)
Probably from Greek
ἕρμα (herma) meaning
"cairn, pile of stones, boundary marker". Hermes was a Greek god associated with speed and good luck, who served as a messenger to
Zeus and the other gods. He was also the patron of travellers, writers, athletes, merchants, thieves and orators.
This was also used as a personal name, being borne for example by a 1st-century saint and martyr.
Hera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἥρα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: HEH-RA(Classical Greek) HEHR-ə(English) HEE-rə(English)
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Uncertain meaning, possibly from Greek
ἥρως (heros) meaning
"hero, warrior";
ὥρα (hora) meaning
"period of time"; or
αἱρέω (haireo) meaning
"to be chosen". In Greek
mythology Hera was the queen of the gods, the sister and wife of
Zeus. She presided over marriage and childbirth.
Henna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: HEHN-nah
Finnish feminine form of
Heinrich (see
Henry).
Heilyn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh Mythology
Means
"winebearer, dispenser" in Welsh. According to the Second Branch of the
Mabinogi [1] he was one of only seven warriors to return from
Brân's invasion of Ireland.
Heikki
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: HAYK-kee
Finnish form of
Heinrich (see
Henry).
Hedley
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: HEHD-lee
From a surname that was derived from a place name meaning "heather clearing" in Old English.
Heddwyn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Derived from Welsh
hedd "peace" and
gwyn "white, blessed". This name has been given in honour of the poet Ellis Humphrey Evans (1887-1917), who used Hedd Wyn as his bardic name
[1].
Heath
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: HEETH
Rating: 10% based on 1 vote
From an English surname that denoted one who lived on a heath. It was popularized as a given name by the character Heath Barkley from the 1960s television series
The Big Valley [1].
Hayley
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: HAY-lee
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
From an English surname that was originally derived from the name of an English town (meaning "hay clearing" from Old English
heg "hay" and
leah "clearing"). It was brought to public attention as a given name, especially in the United Kingdom, by the British child actress Hayley Mills (1946-)
[1].
This is the most common spelling of this name in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand; in the United States the spellings Haley and Hailey are more popular.
Haydn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (British)
Pronounced: HIE-dən
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
From a German surname meaning "heathen". It is used in honour of the Austrian composer Joseph Haydn (1732-1809).
Hayden
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: HAY-dən
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
From an English surname that was derived from place names meaning either
"hay valley" or
"hay hill", derived from Old English
heg "hay" and
denu "valley" or
dun "hill". Its popularity at the end of the 20th century was due to the sound it shared with other trendy names of the time, such as
Braden and
Aidan.
Haven
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: HAY-vən
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
From the English word for a safe place, derived ultimately from Old English hæfen.
Harrison
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: HAR-i-sən, HEHR-i-sən
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
From an English surname that meant
"son of Harry". This was the surname of two American presidents, William Henry Harrison (1773-1841) and his grandson Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901). As a given name it reached a low point in America in 1977 before it was revived by the career of actor Harrison Ford (1942-), who starred in such movies as
Star Wars in 1977 and
Indiana Jones in 1984.
Hanne 1
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Danish, Norwegian, German, Dutch
Pronounced: HAN-neh(Danish) HAHN-nə(Norwegian) HA-nə(German) HAH-nə(Dutch)
Danish and Norwegian short form of
Johanne, or a German and Dutch short form of
Johanna. This can also be a Dutch short form of
Johannes (masculine).
Hannah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Hebrew, German, Dutch, Arabic, Biblical
Other Scripts: חַנָּה(Hebrew) حنّة(Arabic)
Pronounced: HAN-ə(English) HA-na(German) HAH-na(Dutch) HAN-nah(Arabic)
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
From the Hebrew name
חַנָּה (Channah) meaning
"favour, grace", derived from the root
חָנַן (chanan). In the
Old Testament this is the name of the wife of
Elkanah. Her rival was Elkanah's other wife
Peninnah, who had children while Hannah remained barren. After a blessing from
Eli she finally became pregnant with
Samuel.
As an English name, Hannah was not regularly used until after the Protestant Reformation, unlike the vernacular forms Anne and Ann and the Latin form Anna, which were used from the late Middle Ages. In the last half of the 20th century Hannah surged in popularity and neared the top of the name rankings for both the United States and the United Kingdom.
Hana 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Slovene, Sorbian
Pronounced: HA-na(Czech)
Form of
Hannah in several languages.
Hammond
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: HAM-ənd
From an English surname that was derived from either the Norman given name
Hamo or the Old Norse given name
Hámundr.
Hamilton
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: HAM-il-tən
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
From a Scottish and English surname that was derived from Old English hamel "crooked, mutilated" and dun "hill". The surname was originally taken from the name of a town in Leicestershire, England (which no longer exists). A famous bearer of the surname was Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804), a founding father of the United States who was killed in a duel with Aaron Burr.
Halyna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ukrainian
Other Scripts: Галина(Ukrainian)
Pronounced: hu-LI-nu
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Halsten
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish (Rare)
Old Swedish form of
Hallsteinn (see
Hallstein).
Haleigh
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: HAY-lee
Haldor
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norwegian
From the Old Norse name
Hallþórr, which meant
"Thor's rock" from
hallr "rock" combined with the name of the Norse god
Þórr (see
Thor).
Haizea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque
Pronounced: ie-SEH-a
Means "wind" in Basque.
Hadrien
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: A-DREE-YEHN
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
French variant form of
Adrian.
Hadley
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: HAD-lee
From an English surname that was derived from a place name meaning "heather field" in Old English.
Hadewych
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch (Rare)
Pronounced: HA-də-veekh
Gyða
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Old Norse [1], Icelandic
Old Norse and Icelandic form of
Gytha.
Gytha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Archaic)
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
From
Gyða, an Old Norse
diminutive of
Guðríðr. It was borne by a Danish noblewoman who married the English lord Godwin of Wessex in the 11th century. The name was used in England for a short time after that, and was revived in the 19th century.
Gwenaël
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French, Breton
Pronounced: GWEH-NA-EHL(French)
Means
"blessed and generous" from Breton
gwenn meaning "white, blessed" and
hael meaning "generous".
Saint Gwenhael was a 6th-century abbot of Brittany.
Greyson
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: GRAY-sən
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Greetje
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch
Pronounced: GHREH-chə
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Grażyna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: gra-ZHI-na
From Lithuanian graži meaning "beautiful". This name was created by Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz for his poem Grażyna (1823).
Grayson
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: GRAY-sən
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
From an English surname meaning
"son of the steward", derived from Middle English
greyve "steward". It became common towards the end of the 20th century because of its similarity to popular names like
Jason,
Mason and
Graham.
Grace
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: GRAYS
Rating: 73% based on 4 votes
From the English word
grace, which ultimately derives from Latin
gratia. This was one of the virtue names created in the 17th century by the
Puritans. The actress Grace Kelly (1929-1982) was a famous bearer.
This name was very popular in the English-speaking world at the end of the 19th century. Though it declined in use over the next 100 years, it staged a successful comeback at the end of the 20th century. The American sitcom Will and Grace (1998-2006) may have helped, though the name was already strongly rising when it premiered. It was the top name for girls in England and Wales in 2006.
Glennon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Transferred use of the surname
Glennon.
Glennis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Giselle
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, English (Modern)
Pronounced: ZHEE-ZEHL(French) ji-ZEHL(English)
Derived from the Old German element
gisal meaning
"hostage, pledge" (Proto-Germanic *
gīslaz). This name may have originally been a descriptive nickname for a child given as a pledge to a foreign court. This was the name of both a sister and daughter of
Charlemagne. It was also borne by a daughter of the French king Charles III who married the Norman leader Rollo in the 10th century. Another notable bearer was the 11th-century Gisela of Swabia, wife of the Holy Roman emperor Conrad II.
The name was popular in France during the Middle Ages (the more common French form is Gisèle). Though it became known in the English-speaking world due to Adolphe Adam's ballet Giselle (1841), it was not regularly used until the 20th century.
Giedrė
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Lithuanian
Ghislaine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: ZHEES-LEHN, GEE-LEHN
Geneviève
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: ZHU-NU-VYEHV, ZHUN-VYEHV
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
From the medieval name
Genovefa, which is of uncertain origin. It could be derived from the Germanic elements *
kunją "clan, family, lineage" and *
wībą "wife, woman". Alternatively it could be of Gaulish origin, from the related Celtic element *
genos "kin, family" combined with a second element of unknown meaning. This name was borne by
Saint Geneviève, the patron saint of Paris, who inspired the city to resist the Huns in the 5th century.
Gaios
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek, Biblical Greek
Other Scripts: Γάϊος(Ancient Greek)
Frañseza
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Breton
Breton feminine form of
Franciscus (see
Francis).
Françoise
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: FRAHN-SWAZ
Flynn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: FLIN
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
From an Irish surname, an Anglicized form of
Ó Floinn, which was derived from the given name or byname
Flann. A famous bearer of the surname was American actor Errol Flynn (1909-1959). As a given name, it grew in popularity after it was featured as a character in the Disney movie
Tangled in 2010.
Fitzwilliam
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
From an English surname meaning
"son of William", formed using the Anglo-Norman French prefix
fitz-, derived from Latin
filius "son". This is the given name of Mr. Darcy, a character in Jane Austen's novel
Pride and Prejudice (1813).
Finnian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Derived from Old Irish
finn "white, blessed". This was the name of several Irish
saints, including the founders of monasteries at Clonard and Movilla (both 6th century).
Finlo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Manx
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Ezra
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, English, Hebrew
Other Scripts: עֶזְרָא(Hebrew)
Pronounced: EHZ-rə(English)
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Means
"help" in Hebrew. Ezra is a prophet of the
Old Testament and the author of the Book of Ezra. It has been used as a given name in the English-speaking world since the
Protestant Reformation. The American poet Ezra Pound (1885-1972) was a famous bearer.
Even
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norwegian
Eurwen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Derived from Welsh
aur "gold" and
gwen "white, blessed".
Estera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Polish, Slovak, Romanian, Lithuanian
Pronounced: eh-STEH-ra(Polish)
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Polish, Slovak, Romanian and Lithuanian form of
Esther.
Espen
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norwegian
Pronounced: EHS-pən
Esa
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: EH-sah
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Erland
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian
Pronounced: A-land(Swedish)
From the Old Norse byname Erlendr, which was derived from ørlendr meaning "foreigner".
Enzo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, French
Pronounced: EHN-tso(Italian) EHN-ZO(French)
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
The meaning of this name is uncertain. In some cases it seems to be an old Italian form of
Heinz, though in other cases it could be a variant of the Germanic name
Anzo. In modern times it is also used as a short form of names ending in
enzo, such as
Vincenzo or
Lorenzo.
A famous bearer was the Italian racecar driver and industrialist Enzo Ferrari (1898-1988).
Emrys
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: EHM-ris
Welsh form of
Ambrose. Emrys Wledig (or Ambrosius Aurelianus) was a Romano-British military leader who fought against the invading Anglo-Saxons in the 5th century. Tales of his life were used by the 12th-century chronicler Geoffrey of Monmouth to help shape the early character of
Merlin, whom he called Merlinus Ambrosius in Latin.
Elžbieta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Lithuanian
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Elžbeta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Latvian (Rare)
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Elowyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Cornish
Elowen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Cornish
Means "elm tree" in Cornish. This is a recently coined Cornish name.
Eliza
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Romanian, Hungarian, Georgian
Other Scripts: ელიზა(Georgian)
Pronounced: i-LIE-zə(English) eh-LEE-za(Polish) EH-lee-zaw(Hungarian)
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Short form of
Elizabeth. It was borne by the character Eliza Doolittle in George Bernard Shaw's play
Pygmalion (1913) and the subsequent musical adaptation
My Fair Lady (1956).
Eliisabet
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Estonian
Rating: 70% based on 3 votes
Eleri
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: eh-LEH-ri
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
From the name of a Welsh river, also called the Leri, of unknown meaning. This was also the name of a 7th-century Welsh
saint (masculine).
Eirwen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Means
"white snow" from the Welsh elements
eira "snow" and
gwen "white, blessed". This name was created in the early 20th century.
Eirlys
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: AYR-lis
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Means
"snowdrop (flower)" in Welsh, a compound of
eira "snow" and
llys "plant".
Eirian
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Means
"bright, beautiful" in Welsh
[1].
Eira 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: AY-ra
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
Means "snow" in Welsh. This is a recently created name.
Eir
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norse Mythology, Icelandic (Rare), Norwegian (Rare)
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Means "mercy" in Old Norse. This was the name of a Norse goddess of healing and medicine.
Einion
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
From the Old Welsh name
Enniaun, probably from the Latin name
Ennianus, a derivative of
Ennius (see
Ennio). It is also a modern Welsh word meaning "anvil". This was the name of a few early Welsh rulers including Einion Frenin (5th century), who is considered a
saint in some Christian traditions.
Eilwen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Perhaps means
"white brow", derived from Welsh
ael "brow" and
gwen "white, blessed". This is a recently created Welsh name.
Eija
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: AY-yah
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Possibly from the Finnish happy exclamation eijaa.
Eifion
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: AY-vyawn
From an Old Welsh given name of unknown meaning, the source of the place name Eifionydd (also called Eifion) in northwestern Wales. This name was revived in the 19th century, probably via the place name.
Eero
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish, Estonian
Pronounced: EH-ro(Finnish)
Finnish and Estonian form of
Eric. A famous bearer was the architect Eero Saarinen (1910-1961).
Edvin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian
Pronounced: EHD-vin(Swedish) EHD-veen(Finnish, Hungarian)
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Scandinavian, Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian form of
Edwin.
Edan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: עִידָן(Hebrew)
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Alternate transcription of Hebrew
עִידָן (see
Idan).
Ecaterina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Romanian
Ealisaid
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Manx
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Dulcinea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: dool-thee-NEH-a(European Spanish) dool-see-NEH-a(Latin American Spanish) dul-si-NEE-ə(English)
Derived from Spanish dulce meaning "sweet". This name was (first?) used by Miguel de Cervantes in his novel Don Quixote (1605), where it belongs to the love interest of the main character, though she never actually appears in the story.
Dorotėja
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Lithuanian
Dillon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DIL-ən
Variant of
Dylan based on the spelling of the surname
Dillon, which has an unrelated origin.
Destry
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Popular Culture, English
Pronounced: DES-tree(Popular Culture)
English form of
Destrier, a French surname derived from the Anglo-Norman word
destrer meaning "warhorse". This name was popularized by the western novel 'Destry Rides Again' (1930, by Max Brand) and two subsequent identically-named film adaptations (1932 and 1939).
Desta
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Amharic
Other Scripts: ደስታ(Amharic)
Means "joy" in Amharic.
Demeter 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Δημήτηρ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: DEH-MEH-TEHR(Classical Greek) də-MEET-ər(English)
Possibly means
"earth mother", derived from Greek
δᾶ (da) meaning "earth" and
μήτηρ (meter) meaning "mother". In Greek
mythology Demeter was the goddess of agriculture, the daughter of
Cronus, the sister of
Zeus, and the mother of
Persephone. She was an important figure in the Eleusinian Mysteries, which were secret rites performed at Eleusis near Athens.
Davis
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DAY-vis
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
From an English surname that was derived from the given name
David. A famous bearer of the surname was Jefferson Davis (1808-1889), the only president of the Confederate States of America.
Davia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian (Rare), Faroese, Corsican (Archaic)
Dáire
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish, Irish Mythology
Pronounced: DA-ryə(Irish)
Means
"fruitful, fertile" in Irish. This name is borne by many figures in Irish legend, including the Ulster chief Dáire mac Fiachna who reneged on his promise to loan the Brown Bull of Cooley to
Medb, starting the war between Connacht and Ulster as told in the Irish epic
The Cattle Raid of Cooley.
Daciana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Romanian
Pronounced: da-chee-AN-a
Cove
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: KOV
Either from the English surname
Cove or else directly from the vocabulary word
cove, which refers to a small coastal inlet.
Cosette
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, Literature
Pronounced: KAW-ZEHT(French)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
From French
chosette meaning
"little thing". This is the nickname of the illegitimate daughter of Fantine in Victor Hugo's novel
Les Misérables (1862). Her real name is
Euphrasie, though it is seldom used. In the novel young Cosette is the ward of the cruel Thénardiers until she is retrieved by Jean Valjean.
Corisande
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature, Theatre, French (Rare), Dutch (Rare)
Meaning uncertain, from the name of a character in medieval legend, possibly first recorded by Spanish writer Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo. Perhaps it was derived from an older form of Spanish
corazón "heart" (e.g., Old Spanish
coraçon; ultimately from Latin
cor "heart", with the hypothetic Vulgar Latin root
*coratione,
*coraceone) or the Greek name
Chrysanthe. As a nickname it was used by a mistress of King Henry IV of France: Diane d'Andoins (1554-1620),
la Belle Corisande. Some usage may be generated by Jean-Baptiste Lully's opera
Amadis (1684; based on Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo), in which it belongs to the lover of the prince Florestan. The name was also used by Benjamin Disraeli for a character in his play
Lothair (1870).
Corisanda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American, Rare)
Coralie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: KAW-RA-LEE
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Either a French form of
Koralia, or a derivative of Latin
corallium "coral" (see
Coral).
Concord
Usage: English
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
Cole
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KOL
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
From an English surname, itself originally derived from either a medieval short form of
Nicholas or the byname
Cola. A famous bearer was the songwriter Cole Porter (1891-1964), while a bearer of the surname was the musician Nat King Cole (1919-1965).
This name got more popular in the early 1980s, then got a boost in 1990 when it was used by the main character in the movie Days of Thunder.
Circe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Κίρκη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: SUR-see(English)
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Latinized form of Greek
Κίρκη (Kirke), possibly from
κίρκος (kirkos) meaning
"hawk". In Greek
mythology Circe was a sorceress who changed
Odysseus's crew into hogs, as told in Homer's
Odyssey. Odysseus forced her to change them back, then stayed with her for a year before continuing his voyage.
Christos 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Theology, Greek
Other Scripts: Χριστός(Ancient Greek) Χρίστος(Greek)
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
From Greek
Χριστός (Christos) meaning
"anointed", derived from
χρίω (chrio) meaning "to anoint". This was a name applied to
Jesus by early Greek-speaking Christians. It is a translation of the Hebrew word
מָשִׁיחַ (mashiyach), commonly spelled in English
messiah, which also means "anointed".
This is a Modern Greek name as well. It has been conflated with the name Χρήστος (see Christos 2), which is spelled differently but pronounced identically in Modern Greek.
Christophe
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: KREES-TAWF
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Chrisanne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch (Rare), Afrikaans, English (Rare)
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Chrisander
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norwegian (Modern)
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Chizoba
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Igbo
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Means "God continues to save" in Igbo.
Channing
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: CHAN-ing
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
From an English surname of uncertain origin.
Ceridwen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: keh-RID-wehn
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Possibly from
cyrrid "bent, crooked" (a derivative of Old Welsh
cwrr "corner") combined with
ben "woman" or
gwen "white, blessed". According to the medieval Welsh legend the
Tale of Taliesin (recorded by Elis Gruffyd in the 16th century) this was the name of a sorceress who created a potion that would grant wisdom to her son Morfan. The potion was instead consumed by her servant Gwion Bach, who was subsequently reborn as the renowned bard
Taliesin.
This name appears briefly in a poem in the Black Book of Carmarthen in the form Kyrridven [1] and in a poem in the Book of Taliesin in the form Kerrituen [2]. Some theories connect her to an otherwise unattested Celtic goddess of inspiration, and suppose her name is related to Welsh cerdd "poetry".
Ceres
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Pronounced: KEH-rehs(Latin) SIR-eez(English)
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Derived from the Indo-European root *
ker- meaning
"grow, increase". In Roman
mythology Ceres was the goddess of agriculture, equivalent to the Greek goddess
Demeter.
Céline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: SEH-LEEN
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
French feminine form of
Caelinus. This name can also function as a short form of
Marceline.
Céleste
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: SEH-LEST
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
French feminine and masculine form of
Caelestis.
Ceinwen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Derived from Welsh
cain "good, lovely" and
gwen "white, blessed". This was the name of a 5th-century Welsh
saint also known as
Cain or
Keyne.
Cedar
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: SEE-dər
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
From the English word for the coniferous tree, derived (via Old French and Latin) from Greek
κέδρος (kedros).
Ceara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Cassia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Pronounced: KAS-see-a(Latin) KA-shə(English) KAS-ee-ə(English)
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Caspian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: KAS-pee-ən(English)
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Used by author C. S. Lewis for a character in his Chronicles of Narnia series, first appearing in 1950. Prince Caspian first appears in the fourth book, where he is the rightful king of Narnia driven into exile by his evil uncle Miraz. Lewis probably based the name on the Caspian Sea, which was named for the city of Qazvin, which was itself named for the ancient Cas tribe.
Carys
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: KAHR-is
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Derived from Welsh caru meaning "love". This is a relatively modern Welsh name, in common use only since the middle of the 20th century.
Cara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KAHR-ə, KEHR-ə, KAR-ə
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
From an Italian word meaning "beloved" or an Irish word meaning "friend". It has been used as a given name since the 19th century, though it did not become popular until after the 1950s.
Caoimhe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: KEE-vyə
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Derived from Irish caomh meaning "dear, beloved, gentle".
Cameron
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KAM-rən
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
From a Scottish surname meaning
"crooked nose" from Gaelic
cam "crooked" and
sròn "nose". As a given name it is mainly used for boys. It got a little bump in popularity for girls in the second half of the 1990s, likely because of the fame of actress Cameron Diaz (1972-). In the United States, the forms
Camryn and
Kamryn are now more popular than
Cameron for girls.
Callister
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Calla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KAL-ə
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
From the name of two types of plants, the true calla (species Calla palustris) and the calla lily (species Calla aethiopica), both having white flowers and growing in marshy areas. Use of the name may also be inspired by Greek
κάλλος (kallos) meaning
"beauty".
Caleb
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Biblical
Other Scripts: כָּלֵב(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: KAY-ləb(English)
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Most likely related to Hebrew
כֶּלֶב (kelev) meaning
"dog". An alternate theory connects it to Hebrew
כָּל (kal) meaning "whole, all of" and
לֵב (lev) meaning "heart". In the
Old Testament this is the name of one of the twelve spies sent by
Moses into Canaan. Of the Israelites who left Egypt with Moses, Caleb and
Joshua were the only ones who lived to see the Promised Land.
As an English name, Caleb came into use after the Protestant Reformation. It was common among the Puritans, who introduced it to America in the 17th century.
Calanthe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: kə-LAN-thee
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From the name of a type of orchid, ultimately meaning "beautiful flower", derived from Greek
καλός (kalos) meaning "beautiful" and
ἄνθος (anthos) meaning "flower".
Cairistìona
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Scottish Gaelic [1]
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Caelan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KAY-lən
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Caden
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: KAY-dən
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Sometimes explained as deriving from the Irish surname
Caden, which is an Anglicized form of Irish Gaelic
Mac Cadáin, itself from the given name
Cadán (of unknown meaning). In actuality, the popularity of this name in America beginning in the 1990s is due to its sound — it shares its fashionable
den suffix sound with other trendy names like
Hayden,
Aidan and
Braden.
Cade
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KAYD
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
From an English surname that was originally derived from a nickname meaning "round" in Old English.
Byrne
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: BURN
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
From an Irish surname, the Anglicized form of
Ó Broin, which was derived from the given name
Bran 1.
Bryn
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Welsh, English (Modern)
Pronounced: BRIN(English)
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Means
"hill, mound" in Welsh. In Wales it is almost always a masculine name, though elsewhere in the English-speaking world it can be unisex (see
Brynn).
Bronte
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: BRAHN-tee
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From a surname, an Anglicized form of Irish
Ó Proinntigh, itself derived from the given name
Proinnteach, probably from Irish
bronntach meaning "generous". The Brontë sisters — Charlotte, Emily, and Anne — were 19th-century English novelists. Their father changed the spelling of the family surname from
Brunty to
Brontë, possibly to make it coincide with Greek
βροντή meaning "thunder".
Briar
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: BRIE-ər
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
From the English word for the thorny plant.
Brett
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BREHT
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From a Middle English surname meaning
"a Breton", referring to an inhabitant of
Brittany. A famous bearer is the American football quarterback Brett Favre (1969-).
Brent
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BRENT
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
From an English surname, originally taken from various place names, perhaps derived from a Celtic word meaning "hill".
Brennan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BREHN-ən
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
From an Irish surname (Anglicized from Irish Gaelic
Ó Braonáin) that was derived from the byname
Braonán, itself from Irish
braon meaning "rain, moisture, drop" combined with a
diminutive suffix. As a given name, it has been used since the 1960s as an alternative to
Brendan or
Brandon, though it has not been as popular as them.
Brendan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish, English, Breton
Pronounced: BREHN-dən(English) BREHN-dahn(Breton)
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
From
Brendanus, the Latinized form of the Old Irish name
Bréanainn, which was derived from Old Welsh
breenhin meaning
"king, prince".
Saint Brendan was a 6th-century Irish abbot who, according to legend, crossed the Atlantic and reached North America with 17 other monks.
Brannon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BRAN-ən
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
From an Irish surname, a variant of
Brennan.
Bran 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish, Irish Mythology, Old Irish [1]
Pronounced: BRAN(Irish)
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Means "raven" in Irish. In Irish legend Bran mac Febail was a mariner who was involved in several adventures on his quest to find the Otherworld.
Bran 2
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh Mythology
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Unaccented variant of
Brân. This is also the Middle Welsh form.
Braden
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BRAY-dən
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
From an Irish surname, an Anglicized form of
Ó Bradáin, which was in turn derived from the byname
Bradán. Like other similar-sounding names such as
Hayden and
Aidan, it and its variant
Brayden became popular in America at the end of the 20th century.
Booker
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BUWK-ər
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From an English occupational surname meaning "maker of books". A famous bearer was Booker T. Washington (1856-1915), an African-American leader.
Blair
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Scottish, English
Pronounced: BLEHR(English)
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
From a Scottish surname that was derived from Gaelic
blàr meaning
"plain, field, battlefield". In Scotland this name is typically masculine.
In the United States it became more common for girls in the early 1980s, shortly after the debut of the television sitcom The Facts of Life (1979-1988), which featured a character named Blair Warner. The name left the American top 1000 rankings two decades later, but was resurrected by another television character, this time Blair Waldorf from the series Gossip Girl (2007-2012).
Blaine
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BLAYN
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From a Scottish surname that was derived from the Old Irish given name
Bláán.
Björn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish, Icelandic, German
Pronounced: BYUUN(Swedish) PYUURTN(Icelandic) BYUURN(German)
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
From an Old Norse byname derived from
bjǫrn meaning
"bear".
Bjørn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norwegian, Danish
Pronounced: BYUUN(Norwegian) BYUURN(Danish)
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Danish and Norwegian form of
Björn.
Berwyn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Means
"white top" from the Welsh elements
barr "top, head" and
gwyn "white, blessed". This is the name of a mountain range in Wales.
Bertók
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hungarian (Rare)
Pronounced: BEHR-tok
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Bernt
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Pronounced: BENT(Swedish)
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Bernd
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German
Pronounced: BEHRNT
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Bente
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Danish, Norwegian, Dutch
Pronounced: BEHN-teh(Danish, Norwegian) BEHN-tə(Dutch)
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
Bent 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Danish
Pronounced: BENT
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Benedikte
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Danish, Norwegian
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Danish and Norwegian feminine form of
Benedict.
Bendt
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Danish
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Bellicent
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature, Arthurian Cycle
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
From an Old French form of the Germanic name
Belissendis, possibly composed of the elements
bili "suitable, proper, fitting, decent, amiable" (cf.
Biligard) and
swind "strong, brave, powerful".
The form Belisent belongs to a legendary daughter of Charlemagne in the poems 'Ami et Amile' (c.1200) and 'Otinel' or 'Otuel a Knight' (c.1330). In the late 13th-century Arthurian tale 'Arthour and Merlin', Belisent is Arthur's half-sister, the wife of Lot and mother of Gareth; Alfred Lord Tennyson also used the form Belicent in his Arthurian epic 'Gareth and Lynette'.
Béla
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hungarian
Pronounced: BEH-law
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
The meaning of this name is not known for certain. It could be derived from Hungarian
bél meaning
"guts, bowel" or Old Slavic
bělŭ meaning
"white". This was the name of four Hungarian kings. It was also borne by the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók (1881-1945).
Beckett
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: BEHK-it
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From an English surname that could be derived from various sources, including from Middle English bec meaning "beak" or bekke meaning "stream, brook".
Beau
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English, Dutch (Modern)
Pronounced: BO(English)
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Means
"beautiful, handsome" in French. It has been used as a given name since the middle of the 20th century. In Margaret Mitchell's novel
Gone with the Wind (1936) this is the name of Ashley and Melanie's son.
Although this is a grammatically masculine adjective in French, it is given to girls as well as boys in Britain and the Netherlands. In America it is more exclusively masculine. It is not commonly used as a name in France itself.
Baxter
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BAK-stər
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From an occupational surname that meant
"(female) baker", from Old English
bæcere and a feminine agent suffix.
Basil 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BAZ-əl
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
From the Greek name
Βασίλειος (Basileios), which was derived from
βασιλεύς (basileus) meaning
"king".
Saint Basil the Great was a 4th-century bishop of Caesarea and one of the fathers of the early Christian church. Due to him, the name (in various spellings) has come into general use in the Christian world, being especially popular among Eastern Christians. It was also borne by two Byzantine emperors.
Barrett
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BAR-it, BEHR-it
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
From a surname probably meaning "quarrelsome, deceptive" in Middle English, originally given to a quarrelsome person.
Baldric
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Archaic)
Pronounced: BAWLD-rik
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Derived from the Old German elements
bald "bold, brave" and
rih "ruler, king". It was borne by a 7th-century Frankish
saint, the founder of the monastery of Montfaucon. The
Normans introduced this name to Britain, and it was common in the Middle Ages.
Bailey
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BAY-lee
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
From an English surname derived from Middle English
baili meaning
"bailiff", originally denoting one who was a bailiff.
Already an uncommon masculine name, it slowly grew in popularity for American girls beginning in 1978 after the start of the sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati, which featured a character with this name. Though it remained more common as a feminine name, it got a boost for boys in 1994 from another television character on the drama Party of Five. In the United Kingdom and Australia it has always been more popular for boys.
Baer
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Limburgish
Pronounced: BEHR
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Short form of
Albaer and other Limburgish names ending in
baer, often derived from the Germanic element
beraht meaning "bright".
Ayelet
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אַיֶלֶת(Hebrew)
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Means
"doe, female deer, gazelle". It is taken from the Hebrew phrase
אַיֶלֶת הַשַׁחַר ('ayelet hashachar), literally "gazelle of dawn", which is a name of the morning star.
Aviya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אֲבִיָה(Hebrew)
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Averill
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
From an English surname that was originally derived from the feminine given name
Eoforhild.
Ave
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Estonian
Pronounced: A-veh(Italian) AH-veh(Estonian)
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Possibly from the name of the prayer Ave Maria, in which Ave is Latin meaning "greetings, salutations". In Estonian it is also associated with the word ava meaning "open".
Aušra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Lithuanian
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Means "dawn" in Lithuanian.
Atticus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature, Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἀττικός(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
Latinized form of Greek
Ἀττικός (Attikos) meaning
"from Attica", referring to the region surrounding Athens in Greece. This name was borne by a few notable Greeks from the Roman period (or Romans of Greek background). The author Harper Lee used the name in her novel
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) for an Alabama lawyer who defends a black man accused of raping a white woman.
Asher
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew, English, Biblical, Biblical Hebrew
Other Scripts: אָשֵׁר(Hebrew)
Pronounced: ASH-ər(English)
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Means
"happy, blessed" in Hebrew. Asher in the
Old Testament is a son of
Jacob by
Leah's handmaid
Zilpah, and the ancestor of one of the twelve tribes of Israel. The meaning of his name is explained in
Genesis 30:13.
Asa
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew
Other Scripts: אָסָא(Hebrew)
Pronounced: AY-sə(English)
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
Possibly means
"healer" in Hebrew. This name was borne by the third king of Judah, as told in the
Old Testament.
Arianwen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: ar-YAN-wehn
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Derived from Welsh
arian "silver" and
gwen "white, blessed". This was the name of a 5th-century Welsh
saint, one of the supposed daughters of
Brychan Brycheiniog.
Anwen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Means
"very beautiful" in Welsh, from the intensive prefix
an- combined with
gwen "white, blessed".
Anton
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Russian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Dutch, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Slovene, Slovak, Macedonian, Croatian, Romanian, Estonian, Finnish, Georgian, English
Other Scripts: Антон(Russian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Macedonian) ანტონ(Georgian)
Pronounced: AN-ton(German) un-TON(Russian) AHN-tawn(Dutch) un-TAWN(Ukrainian) an-TON(Belarusian, Slovene) AHN-ton(Finnish) AN-TAWN(Georgian) AN-tahn(English)
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Form of
Antonius (see
Anthony) used in various languages. A notable bearer was the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov (1860-1904).
Antero
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: AHN-teh-ro
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Annikki
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: AHN-neek-kee
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Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Annike
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norwegian (Rare), Danish (Rare), Dutch (Rare), Estonian (Rare), German (Rare)
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Annika
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Dutch, Finnish, Estonian, German, English (Modern)
Pronounced: AN-ni-ka(Swedish) AH-nee-ka(Dutch) AHN-nee-kah(Finnish) A-nee-ka(German) AN-i-kə(English) AHN-i-kə(English)
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
Annick
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Breton, French
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Anneliese
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Dutch
Pronounced: A-nə-lee-zə(German) ah-nə-LEE-sə(Dutch)
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Anneli
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish, Estonian, Swedish, German
Pronounced: AHN-neh-lee(Finnish) A-nə-lee(German)
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Finnish, Estonian and Swedish form of
Annelie, as well as a German variant.
Anneke
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch
Pronounced: AH-nə-kə
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Anna-Liisa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: AHN-nah-lee-sah
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
Andromeda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἀνδρομέδα, Ἀνδρομέδη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: AN-DRO-MEH-DA(Classical Greek) an-DRAH-mi-də(English)
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Derived from Greek
ἀνήρ (aner) meaning "man" (genitive
ἀνδρός) combined with one of the related words
μέδομαι (medomai) meaning "to be mindful of, to provide for, to think on" or
μέδω (medo) meaning "to protect, to rule over". In Greek
mythology Andromeda was an Ethiopian princess rescued from sacrifice by the hero
Perseus. A constellation in the northern sky is named for her. This is also the name of a nearby galaxy, given because it resides (from our point of view) within the constellation.
Anders
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Pronounced: AN-desh(Swedish) AHN-nəsh(Norwegian) AHN-us(Danish)
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Scandinavian form of
Andreas (see
Andrew). A famous bearer was the Swedish physicist Anders Jonas Ångström (1814-1874).
Amoret
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: a-mor-et, a-mor-ay
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
Perhaps based on the Italian word
amoretto which is a representation of
Cupid in a work of art. The word is based on
amore meaning "love" combined with a diminutive suffix.
This name was used by Edmund Spenser in his poem 'The Faerie Queene' (1590), where it belongs to a sister of Belphoebe who allegorically represents married love and chastity.
Amalija
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Lithuanian, Slovene, Croatian
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
Lithuanian, Slovene and Croatian form of
Amalia.
Amálie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Czech
Pronounced: A-ma-li-yeh
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
Alara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Turkish, Medieval Turkic (Rare)
Pronounced: Ah-LAH-rah(Turkish)
Rating: 70% based on 3 votes
Alara appears in Turkic Mythology as a beautiful water fairy. She lives in the lakes and rivers of the Caspian basin and grants the wishes of those she deems worthy. She is said to be capable of repairing broken hearts and making them capable of love again.
Aisivak
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greenlandic
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
Meaning unknown.
Aimo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: IE-mo
Rating: 70% based on 3 votes
Means "generous amount" in Finnish.
Ailsa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Scottish
Pronounced: AYL-sə(English)
Rating: 77% based on 3 votes
From Ailsa Craig, the name of an island off the west coast of Scotland, which is of uncertain derivation.
Aidan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish, English (Modern)
Pronounced: AY-dən(English)
Rating: 37% based on 3 votes
Anglicized form of
Aodhán. In the latter part of the 20th century it became popular in America due to its sound, since it shares a sound with such names as
Braden and
Hayden. It peaked ranked 39th for boys in 2003.
Adrienne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, English
Pronounced: A-DREE-YEHN(French)
Rating: 60% based on 4 votes
French feminine form of
Adrian.
Adelaide
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Portuguese
Pronounced: A-də-layd(English) a-deh-LIE-deh(Italian) a-di-LIE-di(European Portuguese) a-di-LIED(European Portuguese) a-deh-LIE-dee(Brazilian Portuguese)
Rating: 77% based on 3 votes
Means
"nobleness, nobility", from the French form of the Germanic name
Adalheidis, which was composed of
adal "noble" and the suffix
heit "kind, sort, type". It was borne in the 10th century by
Saint Adelaide, the wife of the Holy Roman emperor Otto the Great.
In Britain the parallel form Alice, derived via Old French, has historically been more common than Adelaide, though this form did gain some currency in the 19th century due to the popularity of the German-born wife of King William IV, for whom the city of Adelaide in Australia was named in 1836.
Aalis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval French
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Old French form of
Alice.
Aada
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: AH-dah
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
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