hermeline's Personal Name List
Abaris
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἄβαρις(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
Meaning unknown. In Greek mythology Abaris was a sage, healer and priest of
Apollo who came to the Athenians as envoy from the Hyperboreans when famine was affecting Greece.
Ace 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AYS
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
From the English word meaning "highest rank". More commonly a nickname, it is occasionally used as a given name.
Adamir
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Bosnian (Rare)
Rating: 77% based on 3 votes
Meaning uncertain. A known bearer of this name is the Bosnian politician Adamir Jerković (b. 1958).
Adi 1
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: עֲדִי(Hebrew)
Pronounced: ah-DEE
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Means "jewel, ornament" in Hebrew.
Alica
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Slovak
Pronounced: A-lee-tsa
Alvis
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norse Mythology, Latvian
Rating: 10% based on 3 votes
From the Old Norse
Alvíss meaning
"all wise". In Norse
mythology this was the name of a dwarf who was to marry
Thor's daughter
Thrud. Thor was not pleased with this so he tricked Alvis by asking him questions until the sun rose, at which time the dwarf was turned into stone.
Alyse
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: ə-LEES, AL-is
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
Ambrus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hungarian
Pronounced: AWM-broosh
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Hungarian form of
Ambrosius (see
Ambrose).
Ameline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, French (Belgian), Flemish
Rating: 73% based on 3 votes
Amias
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Andrey
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian, Bulgarian, Belarusian
Other Scripts: Андрей(Russian, Bulgarian) Андрэй(Belarusian)
Pronounced: un-DRYAY(Russian)
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Russian, Bulgarian and Belarusian form of
Andrew.
Angelo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: AN-jeh-lo
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
Italian form of
Angelus (see
Angel).
Arek
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: A-rehk
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Arela
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אראלה(Hebrew)
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Alternate transcription of Hebrew אראלה (see
Erela).
Arius
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἄρειος(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Latinized form of
Areios. Arius (AD 250 or 256–336) was an ascetic Christian presbyter of Libyan birth, possibly of Berber extraction, and priest in Alexandria, Egypt, of the church of the Baucalis.
Arvin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, English (Archaic)
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
Either a Scandinavian form of
Arwin (see
Erwin) or a combination of the Old Norse name elements
ari "eagle" and
vinr "friend".
Asheron
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Popular Culture
Rating: 10% based on 2 votes
Possibly an altered form of
Acheron, the name of a god of an underworld river in Greek mythology. This was used for Asheron Realaidain, the titular character in the fantasy online role-playing game
Asheron's Call.
Asterius
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized), Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἀστέριος(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Latinized form of Greek
Ἀστέριος (Asterios) meaning
"starry", a derivative of
ἀστήρ (aster) meaning "star". This is the name of several figures from Greek
mythology. It was also borne by a few early
saints.
Atley
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (British, Anglicized, Rare)
Pronounced: At-lee(British English)
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Atley.
Audrey
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, French
Pronounced: AWD-ree(English) O-DREH(French)
Rating: 77% based on 3 votes
Medieval
diminutive of
Æðelþryð. This was the name of a 7th-century
saint, a princess of East Anglia who founded a monastery at Ely. It was also used by William Shakespeare for a character in his comedy
As You Like It (1599). At the end of the Middle Ages the name became rare due to association with the word
tawdry (which was derived from
St. Audrey, the name of a fair where cheap lace was sold), but it was revived in the 19th century. A famous bearer was British actress Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993).
Audris
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Filipino (Rare)
Rating: 80% based on 3 votes
Aufrey
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval French, English (Archaic), French (African, Rare)
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Aurelek
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish (Rare)
Pronounced: ow-RE-lek
Rating: 10% based on 2 votes
Auremir
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Brazilian
Auremir Evangelista dos Santos is a Brazilian professional footballer.
Auva
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Astronomy
Auva is the medieval name of Delta Virginis, a star in the zodiac constellation of Virgo.
The name is derived from Arabic عوى ((c)awwa’), meaning "barking (dog)".
Auzilie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Dutch
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Azalias
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek (Rare, Archaic), Hebrew (Rare, Archaic)
Pronounced: az-al-AYE-us
Rating: 73% based on 3 votes
The masculine variant of
Azalia, and a variant of
Azaliah.
Azalia is a girl's name of mixed origins. In Greek traditions, it means “dry.” However, in Hebrew Azalia means "reserved by God," and is related to the name of the biblical figure Azaliah. He was believed to be the son Meshullam and father of Shaphan the scribe.
Babylas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Late Greek, French (Rare)
Other Scripts: Βαβύλας(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: BA-BEE-LA(French)
Rating: 73% based on 3 votes
Derived from the name of the ancient Mesopotamian city of Babylon.
Saint Babylas was a 3rd-century patriarch of Antioch who was martyred during the reign of the Roman emperor Decius.
Bailey
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BAY-lee
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
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.
Balbus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Roman
cognomen meaning
"stammerer" in Latin. This was a family name of the mother of Emperor Augustus, Atia Balba Caesonia.
Baldrich
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval German, Medieval Dutch
Rating: 63% based on 3 votes
Medieval German and Dutch form of
Baldric.
Bambis
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Μπάμπης(Greek)
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
Variant transcription of Μπάμπης (see
Mpampis).
Banguiry
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Afro-American (Slavery-era)
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Bara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Croatian
Rating: 78% based on 4 votes
Barnaby
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (British)
Pronounced: BAH-nə-bee(British English) BAHR-nə-bee(American English)
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
English form of
Barnabas, originally a medieval vernacular form.
Barsaly
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Romani (Caló)
Pronounced: bar-SA-lee(Caló)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Bastian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German
Pronounced: BAS-tee-an
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
Bastiana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Galician (Rare), Corsican, Gascon
Rating: 50% based on 4 votes
Bayan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Buryat
Other Scripts: Баян(Buryat Cyrillic)
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Means "rich" in Buryat.
Bazeus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Hebrew
Rating: 80% based on 4 votes
Bea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Hungarian, Dutch
Pronounced: BEE(English)
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
Beauvis
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval French
Rating: 58% based on 4 votes
Derived from Middle French beau (via Old French biau, bel) "beautiful, fair; handsome, comely" and Old French viz or vit "sight, visage".
Beckham
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: BEHK-əm
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
From an English surname that was derived from a place name meaning "Becca's homestead". The Old English byname Becca meant "pickaxe". A famous bearer of the surname is retired English soccer player David Beckham (1975-).
Belias
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Gnosticism
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Benhail
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical Hebrew
Pronounced: Ben-hael
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Hebrew boy's name meaning "son of strengths"
Benza
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Guanche
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
Borne by a Guanche noble from Tenerife.
Benzi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Rating: 10% based on 2 votes
Berich
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval Catalan
Rating: 77% based on 3 votes
Derived from Old High German, Old Saxon
bero meaning "bear" combined with Old High German
rih "ruler".
Berthony
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Haitian Creole
Rating: 63% based on 3 votes
Besara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Albanian
Rating: 70% based on 3 votes
Bienna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Obscure
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
In the case of French swimmer Bienna Pélégry (1899-1989), it is a short form of one of her names,
Bibiena.
Bodan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: South Slavic
Pronounced: IPA(key): /ˈbo.dɑn/
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
The name Bodan is a name of South Slavic or possibly Germanic origin, it is a shortened form of the name Slobodan which is of Serbian origin and means Freedom. Alternatively it could derive from Proto-Germanic *butmaz (ground) via Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn (bottom)
Bram
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Dutch
Pronounced: BRAM(English) BRAHM(Dutch)
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
Short form of
Abraham. This name was borne by Bram Stoker (1847-1912), the Irish author who wrote
Dracula.
Braulia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Rare), Spanish (Latin American), Galician
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Brodie
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: BRO-dee
Rating: 55% based on 4 votes
Bryok
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Cornish
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Cadenus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Invented by author Jonathan Swift for his 1726 poem Cadenus and Vanessa. The name is an anagram for the latin word decanus, meaning
Dean, because he was the dean of St. Patricks.
Cajus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History (Ecclesiastical)
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Calix
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (American, Modern, Rare)
Pronounced: KAL-iks(American English)
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Modern name taken from the Latin word calix meaning "wine cup, chalice".
Callandrea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (Modern, Rare)
Rating: 60% based on 4 votes
Camarie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Rating: 78% based on 4 votes
Canyon
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KAN-yən
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
From the English word canyon, ultimately from Greek kanna "small reed", after the plants that grow in the bottom of canyons.
Carmelie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), French (Rare)
Pronounced: CAR-mə -lee(English)
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Cathal
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish, Old Irish [1]
Pronounced: KA-həl(Irish)
Rating: 10% based on 2 votes
Derived from Old Irish
cath "battle" and
fal "rule". This was the name of a 7th-century Irish
saint. It was also borne by several Irish kings. It has sometimes been Anglicized as
Charles.
Celine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, English
Pronounced: sə-LEEN(English)
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Chandler
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: CHAND-lər
Rating: 15% based on 2 votes
From an occupational surname that meant "candle seller" or "candle maker" in Middle English, ultimately from Latin candela via Old French. It surged in popularity after the 1994 debut of the American sitcom Friends, featuring a character by this name.
Chantrea
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Khmer
Other Scripts: ចន្ទ្រា(Khmer)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Means "moonlight" in Khmer.
Chesterine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare, Archaic)
Pronounced: CHEHS-tər-een
Rating: 50% based on 4 votes
Chiura
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Japanese (Rare)
Other Scripts: 千浦(Japanese Kanji) ちうら(Japanese Hiragana) チウラ(Japanese Katakana)
Pronounced: CHEE-UU-ṘAH
This name is used as 千浦 with 千 (sen, chi) meaning "thousand" and 浦 (ho, ura) meaning "inlet, seacoast, seashore."
One bearer of this name was Japanese-American artist Chiura Obata (小圃 千浦) (1885-1975).
This name is very rarely given to boys, if given at all.
Chiura is also used as a surname.
Chronis
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Χρόνης(Greek)
Rating: 70% based on 3 votes
Chrysanthe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Χρυσάνθη(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Ciander
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Obscure
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Cimorene
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: sim-or-een
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
The meaning is unknown. This name is used in the book Dealing With Dragons, by Patricia C. Wrede.
Cinda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SIN-də
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Claris
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English (Rare)
Pronounced: CLAH-riss(Middle English)
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Claudel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French (Rare)
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Cleobulina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Κλεοβουλίνη(Ancient Greek)
Latinized form of Greek Κλεοβουλίνη
(Kleobouline), derived from the name
Kleoboulos combined with the feminine adjectival suffix -ινη
(-ine). This was the name of a 6th-century BC Greek poet from Lindos, a small town on the island of Rhodes. She was the daughter of Cleobulus, one of the Seven Sages of Greece. According to Plutarch, her real name was
Eumetis.
Crescens
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Late Roman, Biblical Latin
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Latin name that was derived from
crescere "to grow". This name is mentioned briefly in one of
Paul's epistles in the
New Testament.
Cyrenus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: American (Rare)
Rating: 58% based on 4 votes
Cyrus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Old Persian (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Κῦρος(Ancient Greek) 𐎤𐎢𐎽𐎢𐏁(Old Persian)
Pronounced: SIE-rəs(English)
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Latin form of Greek
Κῦρος (Kyros), from the Old Persian name
𐎤𐎢𐎽𐎢𐏁 (Kuruš), possibly meaning
"young" or
"humiliator (of the enemy)" [1]. Alternatively it could be of Elamite origin. The name has sometimes been associated with Greek
κύριος (kyrios) meaning "lord".
The most notable bearer of the name was Cyrus the Great, the founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire in the 6th century BC. He is famous in the Old Testament for freeing the captive Jews and allowing them to return to Israel after his conquest of Babylon. As an English name, it first came into use among the Puritans after the Protestant Reformation.
Dacheline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Haitian Creole
Pronounced: Dosh-Leen
Rating: 55% based on 4 votes
Dalek
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Slovak
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Means “far away” in Slovak.
Dannelie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (Hispanic, Rare)
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
Danya 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: דַּןְיָה(Hebrew)
Rating: 60% based on 4 votes
Feminine form of
Dan 1. It can also be considered a compound meaning
"judgement from God", using the element
יָהּ (yah) referring to the Hebrew God.
Daulis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Δαυλίς(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: dow-lees(Attic Greek) dha-BLEES(Koine Greek) dha-VLEES(Byzantine Greek)
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Etymology uncertain, possibly derived from Greek δαῦλος
(daulos) meaning "bushy, leafy, dense", "forest, thicket", and figuratively "intricate, inscrutable", or from the related δαλός
(dalos) meaning "firebrand, torch". This was the name of a nymph in Greek mythology, the supposed namesake of an Ancient Greek settlement. She was a daughter of the local river-god
Cephisus.
Daunus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Δαῦνος(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
The name of at least three different figures in Greek mythology.
Davin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DAV-in
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
Delara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, African American (Modern)
Pronounced: də-LA-ra
Rating: 80% based on 4 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Delara or combination of the popular prefix
De- with
Lara 1.
Della
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DEHL-ə
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Delroy
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: DEHL-roi
Rating: 10% based on 1 vote
Possibly an alteration of
Leroy.
Denna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Literature
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
The name of a character from the book series The Sword of Truth written by Terry Goodkind.
Dennis
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, German, Dutch
Pronounced: DEHN-is(English) DEH-nis(German, Dutch)
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
Usual English, German and Dutch form of
Denis.
Deo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hindi
Other Scripts: देव(Hindi)
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
Alternate transcription of Hindi
देव (see
Dev).
Dianus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
Masculine form of
Diana. This was the name of an obscure god in Roman mythology. Some experts theorize that Dianus is not a separate god on his own; they claim that Dianus is merely a different name for
Ianus (see
Janus).
Diomar
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish (Latin American), Spanish (Philippines, Rare)
Pronounced: jeew-MAR(Brazilian Portuguese) dee-o-MAR(Latin American Spanish)
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
Dismas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Derived from Greek
δυσμή (dysme) meaning
"sunset". This is the name traditionally assigned to the repentant thief who was crucified beside
Jesus.
Dolly
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DAHL-ee
Rating: 85% based on 4 votes
Diminutive of
Dorothy.
Doll and
Dolly were used from the 16th century, and the common English word
doll (for the plaything) is derived from them. In modern times this name is also sometimes used as a diminutive of
Dolores.
Dorela
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Albanian
Pronounced: doh-REL-ah
Rating: 10% based on 1 vote
Dorilda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Quebec, Archaic), French (Acadian, Archaic), Portuguese (Brazilian)
Rating: 70% based on 3 votes
Dorothea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Dutch, English, Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Δωροθέα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: do-ro-TEH-a(German) dawr-ə-THEE-ə(English)
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
Feminine form of the Greek name
Δωρόθεος (Dorotheos), which meant
"gift of god" from Greek
δῶρον (doron) meaning "gift" and
θεός (theos) meaning "god". The name
Theodore is composed of the same elements in reverse order. Dorothea was the name of two early
saints, notably the 4th-century martyr Dorothea of Caesarea. It was also borne by the 14th-century Saint Dorothea of Montau, who was the patron saint of Prussia.
Doshie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American
Pronounced: DO-shə, DO-shee
Rating: 80% based on 3 votes
Drexel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (American, Rare)
Pronounced: DREH-ksəl(American English)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Transferred use of the surname
Drexel.
Dugald
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish
Rating: 63% based on 3 votes
Duilio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: DWEE-lyo
From the Roman name Duilius, which is possibly derived from Latin duellum "war". This was the name of a Roman consul who defeated the Carthaginians in a naval battle.
Ebilea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare, Archaic)
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Edgaras
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Lithuanian
Rating: 85% based on 2 votes
Lithuanian form of
Edgar.
Edonus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἠδωνός(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
In Greek mythology, Edonus was the ancestor of the Edonians in Thrace and Thracian Macedonia. He was the son of Ares (god of war) and Calliope (muse of epic poetry).
Edric
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: EHD-rik
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
From the Old English elements
ead "wealth, fortune" and
ric "ruler, king". After the
Norman Conquest this Old English name was not commonly used. It has occasionally been revived in modern times.
Edris
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Eilgerus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Dutch (Latinized)
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Elbur
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Popular Culture, Literature
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Used by the popular British novelist Eleanor Burford (1906-1993) as a pen name, in which case it was formed from a contraction of her birth name, i.e., by combining the initial syllables of Eleanor (
El) and Burford (-
bur). She wrote four novels under the pseudonym
Elbur Ford between 1950 and 1953, in which period a few boys were named Elbur, possibly after her literary alias.
It is also a surname which may be related to the surname and given name Wilbur.
Eldineia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Brazilian
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
Elmus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (American, Rare)
Rating: 100% based on 3 votes
Elmus Wicker, author of "Banking Panics of the Gilded Age", was one famous bearer of this name
Eluney
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Mapuche
Pronounced: i-loo-NAY
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Derived from Mapuche elun meaning "give".
Elvin 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHL-vin
Emek
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew (Modern, Rare)
Other Scripts: עֶמֶק, עֵמֶק, עמק(Hebrew)
Pronounced: E-mek
Rating: 63% based on 3 votes
Means "valley" in Hebrew.
Emelian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norwegian (Rare)
Rating: 100% based on 3 votes
Emelinda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (Hispanic)
Emilis
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Lithuanian
Lithuanian form of
Aemilius (see
Emil).
Emir
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Turkish, Bosnian
Pronounced: eh-MEER(Turkish)
Turkish form and Bosnian variant of
Amir 1.
Erzulie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Afro-American Mythology, Haitian Creole
Rating: 85% based on 2 votes
This is the Haitian Voodoo love goddess and goddess of elemental forces. She is personified as a water snake. She is also called Ezili.
Eshel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אשל(Hebrew)
Pronounced: e-she-l
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
it's a kind of a tree-tamarisk.
Estha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Afrikaans (Rare)
Rating: 100% based on 3 votes
Etheline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
Euezonis
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Dutch
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
Eula
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: YOO-lə
Rating: 70% based on 3 votes
Euphranor
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Εὐφράνωρ(Ancient Greek)
Derived from Greek
εὐφραίνω (euphraino) meaning
"to delight, to cheer". This was the name of a 4th-century BC Athenian artist.
Evanthe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Εὐάνθη(Ancient Greek)
Everelda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (British, Archaic)
Everetta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: African American
Everic
Gender: Masculine
Usage: African American (Rare)
Rating: 83% based on 3 votes
Of uncertain etymology.
Faline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature, Popular Culture
Pronounced: fə-LEEN(English) fah-LEE-nə(German)
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
Used by Disney and Austrian author Felix Salten for a female roe deer in his novel 'Bambi' (1923).
Fanya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Yiddish
Other Scripts: Фаня(Russian, Belarusian) פאַניע(Yiddish)
Pronounced: FAHN-yah
From the Spanish
Estefania, brought to Eastern Europe by the Jews expelled from Spain during the Spanish Inquisition.
Farelie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Louisiana Creole, French (Acadian)
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Felisa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: feh-LEE-sa
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Fenna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Frisian, Dutch
Pronounced: FEH-na(Dutch)
Ferlin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: American (Rare)
Pronounced: FUR-lən
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Name of country music artist Ferlin Husky (1925-2011).
Fidel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: fee-DHEHL
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
From the Late Latin name Fidelis meaning "faithful", a derivative of fides "faith". A famous bearer was the revolutionary leader and Cuban president Fidel Castro (1926-2016).
Fidus
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: FIE-dəs, FEE-dəs
This name might have been derived from Latin fidus meaning "faithful."
Finella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Scottish
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Finnegas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish Mythology
Finnian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish
Rating: 80% based on 3 votes
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).
Floriane
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: FLAW-RYAN
Foley
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (American)
Pronounced: FO-lee(American English)
Transferred use of the surname
Foley.
Foris
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Φόρης(Greek)
Rating: 100% based on 3 votes
Franca
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: FRANG-ka
Francis
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English, French
Pronounced: FRAN-sis(English) FRAHN-SEES(French)
Rating: 70% based on 3 votes
English form of the Late Latin name
Franciscus meaning
"Frenchman", ultimately from the Germanic tribe of the Franks, who were named for a type of spear that they used (Proto-Germanic *
frankô). This name was borne by the 13th-century
Saint Francis of Assisi, who was originally named Giovanni but was given the nickname Francesco by his father, an admirer of the French. Francis went on to renounce his father's wealth and devote his life to the poor, founding the Franciscan order of friars. Later in his life he apparently received the stigmata.
Due to the renown of the saint, this name became widespread in Western Europe during the Middle Ages. However, it was not regularly used in Britain until the 16th century. Famous bearers include Saint Francis Xavier (1506-1552), a missionary to East Asia, the philosopher and scientist Francis Bacon (1561-1626), the explorer and admiral Francis Drake (1540-1595), and Pope Francis (1936-).
In the English-speaking world this name is occasionally used for girls, as a variant of the homophone Frances.
Fraylee
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American)
Pronounced: Fray-lee(American English)
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
Combination of the names Freya and Kaylee.
Fronia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Fumeia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Romansh (Archaic)
Gabian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Lengadocian, Gascon
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
Gabin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: GA-BEHN
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
French form of
Gabinus (see
Gavino).
Gable
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: GAY-bəl
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Transferred use of the surname
Gable.
Galdur
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Icelandic (Modern, Rare)
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
Means "magic" in Icelandic, from Old Norse galdr "magic chant; magic".
Galene
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Γαλήνη(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 77% based on 3 votes
Ancient Greek feminine form of
Galen.
Galia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Bulgarian
Other Scripts: Галя(Bulgarian)
Variant transcription of
Галя (see
Galya).
Galilaeus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Late Roman
Original Latin form of
Galileo, meaning "Galilean, from Galilee".
Galilee is a region in northern Israel, mentioned in the New Testament as the site of several of Jesus's miracles. It is derived from the Hebrew root גָּלִיל (
galil) meaning "district, roll".
Gallie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish (Rare)
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Gargarus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Γάργαρος(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 93% based on 3 votes
The name of a son of Zeus, from whom the town and mountain of Gargara in Mysia, Greece were believed to have derived their name.
Garlen
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (American, Rare)
Pronounced: GAHR-lən(American English)
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Garvin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish (Anglicized), Scottish (Anglicized), Scottish Gaelic (Anglicized)
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Transferred use of the surname
Garvin.
Garyfalia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Γαρυφαλιά(Greek)
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Genek
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish (Rare)
Rating: 90% based on 3 votes
Gennady
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Геннадий(Russian)
Pronounced: gyi-NA-dyee
Georgius
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Γεώργιος(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: geh-OR-gee-oos(Latin)
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
Gesander
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Latinized form of Γέσανδρος
(Gesandros). This given name could possibly be derived from Greek γῆ
(ge) "the earth, soil, land" combined with Greek ανδρος
(andros) "of a man", but most likely it is actually of Scythian origin. After all, in Greek mythology, Gesander was a Scythian warrior who fought for
Perses in the Colchian civil war(1). He slayed the Argonaut
Canthus(2) and the Amazon
Lyce(3) during that war. A son of
Voraptus, Gesander was king of the Iazyges, a Scythian tribe(4). It should be mentioned that an other source states that the Iazyges were actually a Sarmatian tribe(5), even though that should not matter all that much in practice, since both the Sarmatians and the Scythians were ultimately an Iranian people(6) who spoke a Scythian language(7). Either way, it is not known what the original Scythian form was of the name Gesander, which makes it very difficult to find out what its meaning must have been in Scythian.
Ghosha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Sanskrit
Other Scripts: Sanskrit: घोषा
Ghosha was an ancient Vedic period Indian philosopher and seer.
Gibby
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: GIB-ee
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Gilander
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Manx (Archaic)
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
Derived from Manx
guilley "servant; boy, lad" and the given name
Andreays with the intended meaning of "servant of Saint
Andrew" (since the names of saints were considered too holy for everyday use, they were usually prefixed until the 17th century).
Gilderic
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
Derived from Gothic gild "sacrifice" combined with rîcja "powerful, strong, mighty." The second element is also closely related to Celtic rîg or rix and Gothic reiks, which all mean "king, ruler."
Gilderoy
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare), Romani (Archaic)
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Gilma
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American)
Rating: 73% based on 4 votes
Glory
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: GLAWR-ee
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Simply from the English word glory, ultimately from Latin gloria.
Gower
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh, Anglo-Norman
Pronounced: GOW- ER(Welsh)
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
Gower means "pure" from Welsh origin.
Gracie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: GRAY-see
Rating: 83% based on 3 votes
Greeley
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 85% based on 2 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Greeley.
Greteliese
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Rare)
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Guillemette
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, French (Belgian)
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Variant of
Guillaumette. A known bearer of this name was the French noblewoman Guillemette of Neufchâtel (1260-1317).
Guinevere
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arthurian Cycle
Pronounced: GWIN-ə-vir(English)
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
From the Norman French form of the Welsh name
Gwenhwyfar meaning
"white phantom", ultimately from the old Celtic roots *
windos meaning "white" (modern Welsh
gwen) and *
sēbros meaning "phantom, magical being"
[1]. In Arthurian legend she was the beautiful wife of King
Arthur. According to the 12th-century chronicler Geoffrey of Monmouth, she was seduced by
Mordred before the battle of Camlann, which led to the deaths of both Mordred and Arthur. According to the 12th-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes, she engaged in an adulterous affair with Sir
Lancelot.
The Cornish form of this name, Jennifer, has become popular in the English-speaking world.
Guiren
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Chinese
Other Scripts: 桂任(Chinese)
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
From the Chinese 桂 (guì) meaning "laurel, cassia" and 任 (rèn) meaning "allow, appoint, trust, rely on".
Gustas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Lithuanian
Pronounced: GUWS-tus
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
Short form of
Augustas and other names containing
gust.
Guthrie
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish, English
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Guthrie, borne by the jazz musician Guthrie Govan.
Gyhldeptis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: New World Mythology
Pronounced: gill-DEHP-tis
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
She is a kindly forest goddess in Haida mythology whose name translates to "Lady Hanging Hair."
Gytha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Archaic)
Rating: 87% based on 3 votes
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.
Gyula
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hungarian
Pronounced: GYOO-law
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
From a Hungarian royal title, which was probably of Turkic origin. This name is also used as a Hungarian form of
Julius.
Habryllis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek
Other Scripts: Ἁβρυλλίς(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Derived from Greek ἁβρὸς (habros) "refined".
Hadara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: הֲדָרָה(Hebrew)
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Hadelin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History (Ecclesiastical), Frankish, French (Belgian, Rare)
Rating: 80% based on 3 votes
Possibly from a diminutive of Old High German
hadu meaning "battle". This was the name of a 7th-century Frankish saint.
Hadeon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ukrainian
Other Scripts: Хадеон(Ukrainian)
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Meaning "Destroyer".
Halley
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English, Portuguese (Brazilian)
Pronounced: HAL-ee(English) HA-lay(Brazilian Portuguese)
Rating: 80% based on 4 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Halley. It peaked in popularity in 1986, when Halley's Comet was last spotted from Earth. It rose again in the US in the mid 1990's when similar-sounding names (like
Haley and
Hallie) were increasing in popularity.
Hańža
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Sorbian
Pronounced: HIEN-zha
Upper Sorbian form of
Agnes. Hańža Bjeńšowa (*1919) is a Sorbian writer.
Harim
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Hebrew
Other Scripts: חָרִם(Ancient Hebrew)
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Meaning "with pierced nose." May also mean "destroyed" or "dedicated to God" depending on your source.
Harleth
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
One notable bearer of this name is rising supermodel Harleth Kuusik.
Hasherin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic (Mashriqi)
Pronounced: H(Mashriqi Arabic) ə(Mashriqi Arabic) SH(Mashriqi Arabic) E(Mashriqi Arabic) R(Mashriqi Arabic) I,N(Mashriqi Arabic)
Hashim It means Strong or Destroyer of Evil
Havel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Czech (Rare), Slovak (Rare)
Pronounced: HA-vehl(Czech)
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Czech and Slovak form of
Gallus.
Helaine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American)
Pronounced: heh-LAYN(American English)
Rating: 74% based on 5 votes
Combination of
Helen with a feminine name that ends in
-aine, such as
Elaine and
Lorraine.
There might be cases where the name is actually derived from the French surname Hélaine, but these should be few and far between, as the surname is extremely rare in the USA.
Heleia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἑλεία(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
From a Greek title of the goddess
Artemis meaning "of marshes" (which may reflect her role as a goddess of streams and marshes). It is derived from Greek ἕλειος
(heleios), from ἕλος
(helos) "marsh-meadow". This is also the genus name of a type of bird.
Hemera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἡμέρα(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Means
"day" in Greek. This was the name of the Greek goddess who personified the daytime. According to Hesiod she was the daughter of
Nyx, the personification of the night.
Herena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Maori
Rating: 80% based on 3 votes
Hersilie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Archaic)
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Hilaera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἱλάειρα(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 73% based on 3 votes
Hilderich
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German
Hughen
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval Dutch
Huxley
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: HUKS-lee
Rating: 10% based on 1 vote
From an English surname that was derived from the name of a town in Cheshire. The final element is Old English
leah "woodland, clearing", while the first element might be
hux "insult, scorn". A famous bearer of the surname was the British author Aldous Huxley (1894-1963).
Idela
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Idelaine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese (Brazilian, Rare)
Rating: 77% based on 3 votes
Ignas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Lithuanian
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
Ilan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אִילָן(Hebrew)
Means "tree" in Hebrew.
Iolanthe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Various (Rare)
Pronounced: ie-o-LAN-thee(English)
Rating: 55% based on 4 votes
Probably a variant of
Yolanda influenced by the Greek words
ἰόλη (iole) meaning "violet" and
ἄνθος (anthos) meaning "flower". This name was (first?) used by Gilbert and Sullivan in their comic opera
Iolanthe (1882).
Irelia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Spanish (Latin American)
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Irmelin
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norwegian, German (Swiss, Rare), Swedish, Danish (Rare)
Pronounced: IR-mə-leen(Swiss German) eer-mə-LEEN(Swedish)
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Isalie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Louisiana Creole (Archaic), American (South, Archaic), French (Acadian), French (Rare)
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Isela
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American), American (Hispanic)
Pronounced: ee-SEH-la(Latin American Spanish)
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Elaborated form of
Isel as well as a truncated form of
Marisela and
Gisela. This was borne by Mexican actress Isela Vega (1939-2021).
Ishaq
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic, Urdu
Other Scripts: إسحاق(Arabic) اسحاق(Urdu)
Pronounced: ees-HAK(Arabic) is-HAHK(Urdu)
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Ismail
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic, Malay, Indonesian, Urdu, Bengali, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Chechen, Avar, Albanian, Dhivehi
Other Scripts: إسماعيل(Arabic) اسماعیل(Urdu) ইসমাইল(Bengali) ئىسمائىل(Uyghur Arabic) Ысмайыл(Kazakh) Исмаил(Kyrgyz, Chechen) ИсмагӀил(Avar) އިސްމާއިލް(Dhivehi)
Pronounced: ees-ma-‘EEL(Arabic) ees-MA-eel(Malay, Indonesian)
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
Arabic form of
Ishmael, also used in several other languages. According to the
Quran and Islamic tradition Ismail was a prophet and the founder of the Arab people.
Isola
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Italian (Rare)
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Popularly claimed to be derived from the Italian word
isola "island", this name might actually rather be a variant of
Isolda.
Isola Wilde was the younger sister of author and playwright Oscar Wilde. Isola died aged eight of meningitis, and her brother dedicated the poem Requiescat to her memory.
Isolene
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: IES-o-LEEN
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
19th-century elaboration of
Isola.
Isolinda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese
Pronounced: i-SOL-inda
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Isumbras
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Means “iron arm”, from a combination of French and Anglo-Saxon. Sir Isumbras is a famous character from medieval English literature.
Italus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Pronounced: EE-ta-loos(Latin)
Means
"of Italy" in Latin. In Roman legend Italus was the father of
Romulus and
Remus, the founders of Rome. He supposedly gave his name to the region known as Italia or Italy (in fact the region may have gotten its name from Oscan
Víteliú meaning "land of bulls").
Ivalie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American, Rare, Archaic)
Rating: 77% based on 3 votes
Ivanor
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Portuguese (Brazilian)
Rating: 80% based on 3 votes
Ivonia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American)
Pronounced: AH VAH' NU(American English)
Rating: 63% based on 3 votes
Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian
Ivy
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: IE-vee
Rating: 80% based on 4 votes
From the English word for the climbing plant that has small yellow flowers. It is ultimately derived from Old English ifig.
Izarak
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Haitian Creole
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Haitian Creole form of
Isaac.
Janellie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American)
Pronounced: jan-EL-ee(American English)
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
Jared
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Biblical
Other Scripts: יָרֶד, יֶרֶד(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: JAR-əd(English)
From the Hebrew name
יָרֶד (Yareḏ) or
יֶרֶד (Yereḏ) meaning
"descent". This is the name of a close descendant of
Adam in the
Old Testament. It has been used as an English name since the
Protestant Reformation, and it was popularized in the 1960s by the character Jarrod Barkley on the television series
The Big Valley [1].
Jarek
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish, Czech
Pronounced: YA-rehk
Diminutive of names beginning with the Slavic element
jarŭ meaning
"fierce, energetic", such as
Jarosław or
Jaroslav. It is sometimes used independently.
Jase
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: JAYS
Jassy
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
The title character of a 1944 melodramatic novel by Norah Lofts, made into a film in 1947. In the story, Jassy is a wild gypsy girl. The name seems to be a form of
Jessie 1 – probably not short for
Jessica, but a pet form of
Jane.
Javen
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JA-VIN
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
Jax
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: JAKS
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Short form of
Jackson. It appeared in the video game
Mortal Kombat II in 1993. It first registered as a given name in the United States in 1995 (when it was used only five times) but steadily grew in popularity for two decades, probably inspired by similar names like
Max and
Dax and helped by a character of this name on the American television series
Sons of Anarchy (2008-2014).
Jericó
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
"jericho"
Jeriel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Latin, Hebrew
Other Scripts: יְרִיאֵל(Hebrew)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Means "taught by God" in Hebrew (see also
Jeriah). In the Bible, this was the name of a chief of
Issachar.
Jerusha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: יְרוּשָׁה(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: jə-ROO-shə(English)
Jeselaine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Obscure
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Jevon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: American (Modern)
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Jian
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Chinese
Other Scripts: 建, 健, etc.(Chinese)
Pronounced: CHYEHN
From Chinese
建 (jiàn) meaning "build, establish",
健 (jiàn) meaning "strong, healthy", or other characters that are pronounced in a similar fashion.
Jilly
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JIL-ee
Rating: 63% based on 3 votes
Joah
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: יוֹאָח(Ancient Hebrew)
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Means
"Yahweh is brother" in Hebrew, from
יוֹ (yo) referring to the Hebrew God and
אָח (ʾaḥ) meaning "brother". This is the name of four people in the
Old Testament.
Joby
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: JO-bee
Rating: 10% based on 1 vote
Joland
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch (Rare)
Pronounced: YO-lahnt
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Meaning uncertain. It might perhaps be a masculinization of
Jolanda, or a combination of a name starting with
Jo- (such as
Johan) with a name that contains the Germanic element
lant meaning "land" (such as
Roeland).
Jorin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Low German, North Frisian, Dutch
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Dutch, Low German and North Frisian name derived from both
Georg and
Gregor.
Joselaine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese (Brazilian), Haitian Creole
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Jubin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Indian (Christian, Modern)
Pronounced: Jew-bin
Judica
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Rare)
Pronounced: yoo-DEE-ka
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
Latin "judge!" (imperative).
Judica is the name of the fifth Sunday of lent, after first word of the antiphon used on that Sunday. It is occasionally used as a given name in Germany.
Juline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Modern), French (Belgian, Rare), Flemish (Rare), German (Rare)
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Juniel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: South American
Rating: 77% based on 3 votes
Juniel Querecuto is an infielder in major league baseball.
Katrell
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: African American (Modern, Rare)
Pronounced: kə-TREHL
Rating: 53% based on 4 votes
Likely an invented name, possibly a blend of the name prefix
ka with
Latrell or
Montrell.
Katrine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Danish, Norwegian
Pronounced: kaht-REE-neh(Danish)
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
Danish and Norwegian contracted form of
Katherine.
Kaya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: KIE-ə
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Short form of
Kaya'aton'my', a name invented for the Native American girl of the Nimíipuu or Nez Percé tribe in the
American Girl series of dolls, accompanied by books. The doll was the eighth historical character in the series and released together with the book in 2002.
It was made clear by the creators that in reality a Nez Percé girl wouldn't shorten her name, however it was used in this manner to make it easier for younger readers.
Kealan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: Kay-lan
Irish meaning for Kealan is Slender
Kenza
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic (Maghrebi)
Other Scripts: كنزة(Arabic)
Pronounced: KEHN-ZA(French)
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
Derived from Arabic كَنْز (kanz) meaning "treasure".
Kenzer
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Romani (Archaic)
Rating: 70% based on 3 votes
Khaliq
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: خليق(Arabic)
Pronounced: kha-LEEK
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Means
"creator" in Arabic. In Islamic tradition
الخليق (al-Khalīq) is one of the 99 names of Allah.
Kiran
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil, Gujarati, Nepali, Urdu
Other Scripts: किरण(Hindi, Marathi, Nepali) ಕಿರಣ್(Kannada) కిరణ్(Telugu) കിരൺ(Malayalam) கிரண்(Tamil) કિરણ(Gujarati) کرن(Urdu)
Derived from Sanskrit
किरण (kiraṇa), which can mean
"dust" or
"thread" or
"sunbeam".
Kirby
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KUR-bee
Rating: 60% based on 4 votes
From an English surname that was originally from a place name meaning "church settlement" in Old Norse. This name briefly spiked in popularity for American girls in 1982 after the character Kirby Anders Colby was introduced to the soap opera Dynasty.
Lamis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: لميس(Arabic)
Pronounced: la-MEES
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
Means "soft" in Arabic.
Larney
Gender: Masculine
Usage: African American
Pronounced: LAR-nee
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Laurice
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American), Italian (Rare), Swedish (Rare), Flemish (Rare), French (Rare), French (Quebec, Rare)
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Lauritz
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Danish, Norwegian
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Danish and Norwegian form of
Laurentius (see
Laurence 1).
Laveran
Usage: French
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
The surname Laveran probably became popular as a first name thanks to the French Nobel Prize in Medicine Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran. Laveran discovered that protozoan parasites were the causative agent of malaria.
Lavinie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Rare), French (Belgian, Rare)
Léonce
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: LEH-AWNS
French form of
Leontios, also used as a feminine name.
Leonis
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Judeo-Anglo-Norman, Medieval Spanish
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Latinized form of
Leon.
Leonis is also the brightest star in the constellation Leo and one of the brightest stars in the night sky.
Leos
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Λεώς(Ancient Greek)
Derived from Attic Greek λεώς
(leos) meaning "the people". Also compare Greek λαος
(laos), which has the same meaning and is found in names like
Archelaus and
Menelaus.
Leylan
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Kurdish
Means "mirage" in Kurdish.
Lilaine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese (Brazilian, Rare)
Rating: 85% based on 2 votes
Liza
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Russian, Greek, Georgian
Other Scripts: Лиза(Russian) Λίζα(Greek) ლიზა(Georgian)
Pronounced: LIE-zə(English) LEE-zə(English) LEE-ZA(Georgian)
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Loleina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hawaiian (Rare)
Pronounced: lo-le-I-na
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Lomán
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Lovis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish
Pronounced: LOO-vis
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Lowen
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French (Modern)
Rating: 85% based on 2 votes
Lugus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Gaulish Mythology (Hypothetical)
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Possibly from one of the Indo-European roots *
lewk- "light, brightness", *
lewg- "dark" or *
lewgh- "oath". This was the name of a Celtic (Gaulish) god of commerce and craftsmanship, who was equated by the Romans with
Mercury. He probably forms the basis for the characters and names of
Lugh (Irish) and
Lleu (Welsh).
Lulach
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval Scottish, History
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
Medieval Scottish form of
Lughlagh. Lulach mac Gille Coemgáin ( before 1033 – 17 March 1058) was King of Scots between 15 August 1057 and 17 March 1058.
Luther
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LOO-thər
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
From a German surname, itself derived from the Old German given name
Leuthar. The surname was borne by Martin Luther (1483-1546), a monk and theologian who started the
Protestant Reformation by nailing his famous 95 theses to a church door. It has since been used as a given name in his honour, especially among Protestants. A notable bearer from the modern era was the American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968).
Lyriane
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Rare)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Mabelie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Dutch, Medieval Flemish
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Maddalo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval Italian, Literature
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Contraction of
Maddaleno.
In literature, this is the name of the eponymous character from the poem Julian and Maddalo (1819) written by the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822). In the poem, the philosophical Julian is based on himself, whilst the cynical Maddalo is based on the English poet Lord Byron (1788-1824).
Maella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish, Old Celtic, Breton
Maggila
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Baltic Mythology
Alleged Prussian Lithuanian goddess of wrath.
Maggila was first mentioned in the form Magyla in Matthäus Prätorius' work Deliciae Prussica, published in 1703, and later corroborated by the writings of Jakob Brodowski and Philipp Ruhig.
As the goddess of wrath, her role is akin to that of the Furiae in Roman mythology. According to Prätorius, she is a servant of the goddess Giltinė and will act as the executor of her wishes.
The meaning of her name is yet unknown.
Mahalie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ma-HA-lee
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Makariy
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian (Archaic)
Other Scripts: Макарий(Russian)
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
Russian form of
Makarios (see
Macario).
Malma
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Indian
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Indian name coming from the Urdu word for “gilded”.
Maogli
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hindi, Bengali, Assamese, Urdu, Punjabi, Odia, Gujarati, Dogri, Konkani, Marathi, Nepali, Sindhi, Literature
Other Scripts: मोगली(Hindi, Dogri Devanagari, Konkani, Marathi, Nepali) মোগলি, মৌগলী(Bengali, Assamese) ماوگلی, موگلي(Urdu, Shahmukhi, Dogri Arabic, Sindhi-Arabic) ਮੋਗਲੀ(Gurmukhi) ମାଉଗଲି |(Odia) મોગલી(Gujarati)
Pronounced: [Maow-Glee](Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Gujarati, Dogri, Sindhi) [Maoa-Glee](Bengali, Assamese, Odia, Nepali) [Mao-Glee](Konkani, Marathi)
Hindi, Nepali, Sindhi, Bengali, Dogri, Odia, Konkani, Urdu, Assamese, Gujarati, Punjabi and Marathi form of
Mowgli.
Marden
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
The author Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols is a famous bearer of this name.
Marla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MAHR-lə
Marlys
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (Hispanic), Spanish (Latin American)
Pronounced: MAHR-lis(Hispanic American)
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Maroldine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American, Rare, Archaic), English (Canadian, Rare, Archaic)
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Marquis
Gender: Masculine
Usage: African American
Pronounced: mahr-KEE(English) MAHR-kwəs(English) mahr-KEES(English)
From a noble title that derives from the Old French word marche meaning "march, borderland". The title originally referred to someone who ruled on the borderlands of a realm.
Massaro
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: mas-SA-ro
Regional or archaic form of Italian massaio meaning "tenant farmer, share cropper".
Meldrick
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
This English name means 'strong mill'. Meldrick Taylor, a two-weight world champion in boxing, is a famous bearer of this name.
Melibea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Rare), Greek Mythology (Hispanicized), Literature
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
Spanish form of
Meliboea. This is the name of the female protagonist in the Spanish novel
La Celestina (1499).
Michaias
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical Greek
Other Scripts: Μιχαίας(Ancient Greek)
Milara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (Rare, Archaic)
Millie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MIL-ee
Minda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norwegian, Swedish, Danish (Rare)
Miyong
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Filipino
Morrin
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish (Anglicized, Archaic)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Moschus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek
Other Scripts: Μόσχος(Ancient Greek)
Means "young shoot or twig; young of an animal (especially a calf)" or "musk" in Ancient Greek.
Moshi
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Pronounced: Mo-she
Rating: 80% based on 3 votes
Moshi has an unknown origin, although bears a resemblance to the Japanese phrase "Moshi moshi".
Muriel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, French, Irish, Scottish, Medieval Breton (Anglicized)
Pronounced: MYUWR-ee-əl(English) MUY-RYEHL(French)
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Anglicized form of Irish
Muirgel and Scottish
Muireall. A form of this name was also used in Brittany, and it was first introduced to medieval England by Breton settlers in the wake of the
Norman Conquest. In the modern era it was popularized by a character from Dinah Craik's novel
John Halifax, Gentleman (1856).
Nadalinde
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval, Germanic, Belgian (Archaic), Medieval French
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Latin natalis "natal, of birth" + Proto-Germanic linþaz "gentle, sweet, mild".
Nadus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arthurian Cycle
According to some sources, a King of Syria during the Arthurian period. One of the allies of Emperor Thereus of Rome. Nadus joined Thereus in a war against Arthur, and he was slain in battle against Claris and Laris.
Narice
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature, English (Rare)
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Coined for a short story called The Dice of God by South African romance novelist Cynthia Stockley (1863-1936). The short story was serialized in Cosmopolitan magazine starting in February of 1926, and appears to have been expanded and published as a stand-alone book the same year.
Nashali
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Caribbean), American (Hispanic)
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
Nazariy
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ukrainian, Russian (Rare)
Other Scripts: Назарій(Ukrainian) Назарий(Russian)
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
Nedra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American), Literature
Pronounced: NEE-drə(American English) NEHD-rə(American English)
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Inspired by the name of a fictional place from the 1905 novel Nedra by George Barr McCutcheon. In the novel, Nedra is an island where some of the protagonists are stranded, but the cover illustration featuring a lady probably gave the impression that it was a personal name belonging to a female character. This name was then reused for several characters in early films.
Nedrick
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (American, Rare)
Pronounced: NEHD-rik(American English)
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Nedrick.
A notable bearer of this name is the American actor Nedrick Young (1914-1968).
Nestor
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology, Russian, Portuguese, French
Other Scripts: Νέστωρ(Ancient Greek) Нестор(Russian)
Pronounced: NEHS-TAWR(Classical Greek, French) NEHS-tər(English) NYEHS-tər(Russian)
Rating: 10% based on 1 vote
Means
"returner, homecomer" in Greek, from
νέομαι (neomai) meaning "to return". In
Homer's
Iliad this was the name of the king of Pylos, famous for his great wisdom and longevity, who acted as a counselor to the Greek allies.
Noelie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Louisiana Creole (Rare), German (Swiss, Rare)
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Nolan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French (Modern)
Pronounced: NO-lən(English)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From an Irish surname, the Anglicized form of
Ó Nualláin, itself derived from the given name
Nuallán. The baseball player Nolan Ryan (1947-) is a famous bearer. This name has climbed steadily in popularity since the 1970s.
Nolie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (South, Rare), English (Canadian, Rare), Filipino (Rare)
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Nouli
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Νούλη(Greek)
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Novis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Odrich
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old High German, Old Saxon, Medieval, Medieval Italian, Medieval French
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Old High German ōt, Old Saxon ōd "wealth, riches" + Old High German rih "ruler".
Ophélie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: AW-FEH-LEE
Orseida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Bulgarian
Other Scripts: Орсеида(Bulgarian)
Ottolis
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Obscure
Ouriel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical Greek
Other Scripts: Οὐριήλ(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Ozren
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Croatian, Serbian
Other Scripts: Озрен(Serbian)
Pronounced: AWZ-ren(Croatian) AWZ-rren(Croatian, Serbian)
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Derived from the passive voice of an older Slavic verb ozreti se meaning "to look, glance".
This is the name of three mountains, two in Serbia and one in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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From Serbian озарити/ozariti meaning "to make radiant".
Paghul
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Yukaghir
Other Scripts: Паҕул(Yukaghir) Пагул(Russian)
Palmer
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: PAHL-mər, PAH-mər
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
From an English surname meaning "pilgrim". It is ultimately from Latin palma "palm tree", since pilgrims to the Holy Land often brought back palm fronds as proof of their journey.
Pameline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek
Pamphylia
Usage: Ancient Greek
Other Scripts: Παμφυλία(Ancient Greek)
Pandarus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized), Literature, Theatre
Other Scripts: Πάνδαρος(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Latinized form of Greek Πάνδαρος
(Pandaros), which was possibly derived from παν
(pan) "all" and an uncertain second element. This is the name of a mythical archer who appears in stories of the Trojan War, and "who by an arrow-shot violates the truce between the Trojans and Greeks, and is afterwards slain by Diomedes." In Homer's 'Iliad' he is portrayed as an energetic and impetuous warrior, but in medieval literature he becomes a witty and licentious figure who facilitates the affair between
Troilus and
Cressida. In Shakespeare's play 'Troilus and Cressida' (1602) he is portrayed as an aged degenerate and coward, who ends the play by telling the audience he will bequeath them "my diseases".
Parthi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Judeo-Greek
In Greek, “virgin, pure.” Related to
Parthena.
Paştea
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval Romanian
Derived from Romanian Paște "Easter".
Perilla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare, Archaic)
Pronounced: per-RILL-uh
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Petrus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch, Biblical Latin
Pronounced: PEH-truys(Dutch)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Latin form of
Peter. As a Dutch name, it is used on birth certificates though a vernacular form such as
Pieter is typically used in daily life.
Phileine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch, Literature, Popular Culture
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
The use of Phileine as a feminine first name in The Netherlands is due to the 2003 film "Phileine Zegt Sorry" (English: "Phileine Says Sorry"). The film is based on a book written by Dutch author Ronald Giphart (b. 1965), which carries the same title and was published in 1996. Phileine is the first name of the book's main character, and the author derived the name from the Dutch adjective
vilein, which means "mean, evil" in English and is etymologically related to the English noun
villain. This is both fitting and deliberate, as it points to the unlikability of the main character.
The name Phileine first started to get used in 2004, which is the year immediately following the release year of the book's film adaptation. The name was not in use before that, despite the book having been released in 1996 already. It was the film that finally popularised the name. According to the first names database of the Meertens Institute, the name was at its most popular in 2009, in which year 59 girls were given this name. However, according to the popularity statistics on this website, Phileine was at its most popular in 2011, i.e. more popular in 2011 than it was in 2009 (while the Meertens Institute states the reverse).
It is easy to mistake the name Phileine as being a variant of Philine, which is derived from the Greek verb philein "to love". However, this is not the case, as Phileine as a first name in The Netherlands is completely inspired by the film (and thus indirectly, the book). And since the author derived it from Dutch vilein (as I explained before), that is really the only correct meaning for Phileine.
Pieros
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek (Cypriot, Rare), Greek (Rare)
Other Scripts: Πιέρος(Greek)
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Polymnia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Πολύμνια, Πολυύμνια(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: PO-LUYM-NEE-A(Classical Greek)
Means
"abounding in song", derived from Greek
πολύς (polys) meaning "much" and
ὕμνος (hymnos) meaning "song, hymn". In Greek
mythology she was the goddess of dance and sacred songs, one of the nine Muses.
Psychoula
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Ψυχούλα(Greek)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Qabus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic (Rare)
Other Scripts: قابوس(Arabic)
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Means "handsome" in Arabic.
Qacha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Mongolian (Rare)
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
Possibly derived from Mongolian хацар (khatsar) meaning "cheek, face; flank".
Quaddrus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Obscure
Rating: 63% based on 3 votes
Quaden
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Australian, Modern, Rare)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Elaboration of
Quade using the popular phonetic suffix
den.
Quissik
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greenlandic, Inuit Mythology
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Means "urinated on" in Greenlandic. Quissik was the name of a shaman, still remembered in local legends, who acquired that name when foxes in human figure urinated on him.
Rafi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Various, Jewish, Spanish
Pronounced: rah-fee(Jewish)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Raqueli
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese (Brazilian)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Rebus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch (Rare), Flemish (Rare)
Recha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew, Literature
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Derived from Hebrew
rekhah "soft; tender; velvety; silky".
Recha Freier (1892-1984) was a German-born Jewish teacher and poet who founded the Youth Aliyah organization in 1933. The organization saved the lives of 22,000 Jewish children by helping them to leave Nazi Germany for Palestine.
Recha is also a prominent character in Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's play Nathan the Wise, a fervent plea for religious tolerance published in 1779.
Regas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek (Cypriot, Rare)
Other Scripts: Ρήγας(Greek)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Apparently a Greek form of
Régis.
Remonia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: African American
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Rheda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Anglo-Saxon Mythology (Latinized)
Latinized form of Old English
Hrêðe or
Hrêða. Rheda is a goddess attested solely by Bede in his 8th-century work
De temporum ratione, where she is connected with the month "Rhedmonth" (which is the equivalent of modern day March).
Rhodri
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: RAW-dri
From the Old Welsh name
Rotri, derived from
rod "wheel" and
ri "king". This name was borne by several medieval Welsh rulers, including Rhodri the Great, a 9th-century king of Gwynedd.
Richel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: East Frisian (Archaic)
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
Variant of
Rickel, last recorded in the 1700s.
Rohy
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Malagasy
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
Means "cord" in Malagasy.
Rolan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Ролан(Russian)
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Rolandos
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek (Cypriot), Greek (Rare)
Other Scripts: Ρολάνδος(Greek)
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
Romelio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: South American
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
Romie
Gender: Masculine
Usage: American (Rare, Archaic)
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Transferred use of the surname
Romie.
Rómulo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese (European)
Pronounced: RO-moo-lo(Spanish)
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Spanish and European Portuguese form of
Romulus.
Rosmina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Theatre
Possibly a variant of
Rosmunda or
Romina. This name was used by Francesco Cavalli for a character in his opera
Giasone (1649).
Roulis
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Ρούλης(Greek)
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Rowley
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Rating: 70% based on 3 votes
Ruslan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian, Tatar, Bashkir, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Turkmen, Azerbaijani, Ossetian, Chechen, Ingush, Avar, Circassian, Indonesian, Malay
Other Scripts: Руслан(Russian, Tatar, Bashkir, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Ossetian, Chechen, Ingush, Avar) Руслъан(Western Circassian, Eastern Circassian)
Pronounced: ruws-LAN(Russian)
Form of
Yeruslan used by Aleksandr Pushkin in his poem
Ruslan and Ludmila (1820), which was loosely based on Russian and Tatar folktales of Yeruslan Lazarevich.
Ryken
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: Rai-ken
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Rynagh
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish (Rare, ?)
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Rynagh O'Grady, Irish actress.
Sabela
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Galician
Pronounced: sa-BEHL-a
Sadler
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (American, Rare)
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Sadler.
Sahalia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: سحلية(Arabic)
Pronounced: sah-HALL-eeya
Means "lizard" in Arabic.
Sahalie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American, Rare)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Transferred use of the name of the Sahalie Falls, Oregon.
Salma
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic, Urdu, Bengali, Indonesian
Other Scripts: سلمى(Arabic) سلمیٰ(Urdu) সালমা(Bengali)
Pronounced: SAL-ma(Arabic)
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Means
"safe" in Arabic, derived from
سلم (salima) meaning "to be safe".
Samarinde
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch, Literature, Popular Culture
Pronounced: sah-mah-RIN-də
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
The use of this extremely rare name was inspired by a character from the 1992 book "Ik ook van jou" (English: "I love you too" - the literal translation is "I also of you"), who is featured much more prominently in the 2000 sequel "Ik omhels je met duizend armen" (English: "I embrace you with a thousand arms"). Both books were written by Dutch author Ronald Giphart (b. 1965) and both have been made into films. The author has stated that he derived the name from Samarinda, a major city on the Indonesian island Borneo. The city derives its name from Indonesian samarenda meaning "equal in height", which was a term originally used in reference to the way in which the Bugis people constructed their houses.
Samarna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Rating: 10% based on 1 vote
Samela
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature, English
Pronounced: SAM-əl-ə
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Likely coined by the English poet Robert Greene in the late sixteenth century for his poem "Samela", Samela is most likely a reworking of
Semele.
Saya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 沙耶(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: SIE-YAH
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
This is a Japanese name which refers to a scabbard or sheath for a sword. Beyond being a simple noun, Saya connotes peace because of the image of a sword that remains in its scabbard.
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From 沙 (sa) "sand" and 耶 (ya), a kanji used exclusively in names meaning "question mark."
Shailen
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hindi
A Hindi name meaning 'king of mountains'. One notable bearer is Shailen Bhatt, the administrator of the American Federal Highway Administration.
Shalaine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American, Modern, Rare)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Shanglin
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Chinese
Sherwin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Transferred use of surname
Sherwin.
Shivali
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hindi
Other Scripts: शिवाली(Hindi)
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Possibly means
"beloved of Shiva 1".
Shosha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Jewish, Yiddish, Dutch (Rare), Literature
Yiddish diminutive of
Shoshana.
In Yiddish literature, Shosha is the name of the eponymous character of the novel Shosha (1978) written by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1903-1991).
Shula
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: شعلة(Arabic)
Pronounced: SHOO‘-la
Means "flame" in Arabic.
Siberanie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Romani (Archaic)
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Siddhartha
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Sanskrit, Buddhism, Bengali
Other Scripts: सिद्धार्थ(Sanskrit) সিদ্ধার্থ(Bengali)
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Means
"one who has accomplished a goal", derived from Sanskrit
सिद्ध (siddha) meaning "accomplished" and
अर्थ (artha) meaning "goal". Siddhartha Gautama was the real name of the
Buddha.
Sigourney
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: si-GAWR-nee
Rating: 10% based on 1 vote
From an English surname that was derived from the French town of Sigournais, called Segurniacum in medieval Latin, itself of unknown meaning. The American actress Sigourney Weaver (1949-), real name Susan, adopted this name in 1963 after the minor character Sigourney Howard in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby (1925).
Silvina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: seel-BEE-na(Spanish)
Simuna
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish
Si-yeon
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Korean
Other Scripts: 시연(Korean Hangul)
Pronounced: SHEE-YUN
Smithens
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Afro-American (Slavery-era)
Rating: 10% based on 1 vote
Soélie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Modern, Rare)
Rating: 85% based on 2 votes
Sofana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: New World Mythology
Pronounced: so-fan-a
Nicaragua-spanish
Air Headed
Soleila
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Obscure
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Sonny
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SUN-ee
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
From a nickname that is commonly used to denote a young boy, derived from the English word son.
Sophus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Σόφος(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
From the Greek name
Σόφος (Sophos) meaning
"skilled, clever".
Starly
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Obscure
Pronounced: STAHR-lee(English)
Rating: 70% based on 3 votes
Stellan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish
Pronounced: STEHL-lan
Meaning unknown, perhaps related to Old Norse stilling "calm", or perhaps of German origin.
Stephy
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Various
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Stojan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Macedonian, Serbian, Croatian, Slovene
Other Scripts: Стојан(Macedonian, Serbian)
Macedonian, Serbian, Croatian and Slovene form of
Stoyan.
Suren
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Armenian
Other Scripts: Սուրեն(Armenian)
Pronounced: soo-REHN
Derived from Parthian surena meaning "warrior" or sura meaning "strong".
Sushila
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Hinduism, Hindi, Marathi, Nepali
Other Scripts: सुशीला, सुशील(Sanskrit) सुशीला(Hindi, Marathi, Nepali)
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Means
"good-tempered, well-disposed", derived from the Sanskrit prefix
सु (su) meaning "good" combined with
शील (śīla) meaning "conduct, disposition". This is a transcription of both the feminine form
सुशीला (long final vowel, borne by a consort of the Hindu god
Yama) and the masculine form
सुशील (short final vowel).
Swarna
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Telugu, Hindi
Other Scripts: స్వర్ణ(Telugu) स्वर्ण, स्वर्णा(Hindi)
Means
"good colour" or
"golden", a contraction of the Sanskrit prefix
सु (su) meaning "good" and
वर्ण (varṇa) meaning "colour". This is a transcription of both the masculine form
स्वर्ण and the feminine form
स्वर्णा (spelled with a long final vowel).
Tabarek
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: تبارك(Arabic)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Tabarus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic
Taber
Gender: Masculine
Usage: American (Rare)
Transferred use of the surname
Taber.
Taborah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American)
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Famous bearer is Taborah Johnson (born March 21, 1953), also known as Tabby Johnson, a Canadian singer and actress.
Tadris
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: تَدْرِيس(Arabic)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Means "study, learning" in Arabic.
Tagus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Tahir
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic, Urdu, Turkish, Azerbaijani, Bosnian
Other Scripts: طاهر(Arabic) طاہر(Urdu)
Pronounced: TA-heer(Arabic) ta-HEER(Turkish)
Means "virtuous, pure, chaste" in Arabic.
Tahiry
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Malagasy
Pronounced: Ta-hee-rree
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Tailan
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Chinese
Other Scripts: 太兰, 太岚, etc.(Chinese)
Pronounced: TAH-EE-LAHN
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
Tamir
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Mongolian
Other Scripts: Тамир(Mongolian Cyrillic) ᠲᠠᠮᠢᠷ(Traditional Mongolian)
Pronounced: TA-myir
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Means "strength, vigour" in Mongolian.
Tammany
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: American (Rare)
Pronounced: TAM-ə-nee
Rating: 63% based on 3 votes
Tashlan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: tash-LON
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
This was a name given to a cross between a demon,
Tash and a god,
Aslan to trick citizens into thinking they were one, in the novel the Last Battle, by C.S. Lewis.
Taurin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History (Ecclesiastical)
Tevel
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew (Modern, Rare), Yiddish
Other Scripts: תבל, תֵבֵל(Hebrew)
Pronounced: te-VEL
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Means "world", "universe" or "macrocosm" in Hebrew.
Theodhori
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Albanian
Theonora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American, Archaic), Norwegian (Archaic)
Thyra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Danish
Tieran
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Chinese
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Tobin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: TO-bin
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
From an English surname that was itself derived from the given name
Tobias.
Tolbin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Pronounced: TOVEEÀH
Rating: 10% based on 1 vote
It means "God Is Good" It is derived from the Greek name Tobias
Tomer
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: תּוֹמֶר(Hebrew)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Means "palm tree" in Hebrew.
Trayan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Bulgarian
Other Scripts: Траян(Bulgarian)
Tzirel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Ulyssie
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (American, Rare, Archaic)
Rating: 63% based on 4 votes
Diminutive of
Ulysses which was occasionally used as a feminine form of this name.
Urelaine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: African American (Modern, Rare)
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Of uncertain etymology.
Valda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Latvian
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Vanadey
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Sanskrit
Velma
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: VEHL-mə
Probably a variant of
Wilma, the spelling with an
e perhaps due to the influence of
Selma 1. This name has been in use since the 19th century.
Virgina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American, Rare)
Pronounced: vər-JIN-ə(American English)
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Virineia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Moldovan (Rare), Medieval Russian
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Vox
Gender: Masculine
Usage: American (South, Rare, Archaic)
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Transferred use of the surname
Vox.
Vrinda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hinduism
Pronounced: VRIN-tha
This name comes from the ancient Indian language Sanskrit. It is one of the names given to the Hindu goddess Radha, one of the god Vishnu's many lovers. The name is also used for the tulsi plant, a sacred plant in Hinduism, because it is said Radha's hair was wavy and luxurious, like the leaves on the plant.
Vrishali
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hinduism
Pronounced: vrushali
Rating: 85% based on 2 votes
the history goes back to the Mahabharata where it is the name of karna's wife.
Walden
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: WOHL-den
Rating: 70% based on 3 votes
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.
Wendel
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Dutch (Rare), German (Rare), Portuguese (Brazilian)
Pronounced: VEHN-dəl(Dutch, German)
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Old short form of Germanic names beginning with the element
wentil meaning
"a Vandal". The Vandals were a Germanic tribe who invaded Spain and North Africa in the 5th century. Their tribal name, which may mean "wanderer", has often been confused with that of the Wends, a Slavic people living between the Elbe and the Oder.
This is another name for Saint Wendelin.
Whitley
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (American)
Pronounced: WIT-lee(American English)
Rating: 10% based on 1 vote
Transferred use of the surname
Whitley.
Wilbern
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Wilhelmus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch
Pronounced: vil-HEHL-muys
Latinized form of
Wilhelm. This is also the official Dutch form of the name, used on birth certificates but not commonly in daily life.
Willox
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Rating: 10% based on 1 vote
Transferred use of the surname
Willox.
Wilman
Gender: Masculine
Usage: American (Hispanic)
Rating: 70% based on 3 votes
Wilmer
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Spanish (Latin American), Swedish
Pronounced: WIL-mər(English) WEEL-mehr(Spanish)
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
From the Old English name
Wilmǣr, likely via a surname
[1] that was derived from it. In some cases it might be regarded as a masculine form of
Wilma.
Windell
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (American)
Pronounced: win-DEL(American English) WIN-del(American English)
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
Transferred use of the surname Windell.
Windell Dwain Middlebrooks, Jr. (1979–2015) was an American actor and singer.
Winifred
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Welsh
Pronounced: WIN-ə-frid(English)
Rating: 70% based on 3 votes
From Latin
Winifreda, possibly from a Welsh name
Gwenfrewi (maybe influenced by the Old English masculine name
Winfred).
Saint Winifred was a 7th-century Welsh martyr, probably legendary. According to the story, she was decapitated by a prince after she spurned his advances. Where her head fell there arose a healing spring, which has been a pilgrimage site since medieval times. Her story was recorded in the 12th century by Robert of Shrewsbury, and she has been historically more widely venerated in England than in Wales. The name has been used in England since at least the 16th century.
Xander
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch, English (Modern)
Pronounced: SAHN-dər(Dutch) KSAHN-dər(Dutch) ZAN-dər(English)
Rating: 70% based on 3 votes
Short form of
Alexander. It was popularized in the English-speaking world by a character on the television series
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003).
Xaniar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Kurdish
Pronounced: Zaniar
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Xylon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (American, Modern, Rare), African American (Rare)
Pronounced: ZIE-lahn(English)
Derived from Greek ξύλον
(xylon) meaning "wood, timber", a word used in the New Testament of the cross (for example, Acts of the Apostles 5:30 and 10:39).
Yaedin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Sanskrit
Yahira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 弥日羅(Japanese Kanji) やひら(Japanese Hiragana) ヤヒラ(Japanese Katakana)
Pronounced: YAHEERA
From Japanese 弥 (ya) meaning "universally" combined with 日 (hi) meaning "sun, day" and 羅 (ra) meaning "lightweight fabric".
Yonah
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: יוֹנָה(Hebrew)
Alternate transcription of Hebrew
יוֹנָה (see
Yona).
Yorrick
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Dutch
Youjin
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Korean
Other Scripts: 유진(Korean Hangul)
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Alternate transcription of
Yujin.
Youli
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Chinese
Other Scripts: 友莉(Chinese)
From the Chinese 友 (yǒu) meaning "friend, companion, friendly" and 莉 (lì) meaning "white jasmine".
Yulen
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Basque (Hispanicized, Modern), Spanish (Modern)
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Yuli
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Юлий(Russian)
Pronounced: YOO-lyee
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Alternate transcription of Russian
Юлий (see
Yuliy).
Yulie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: יוּלִי(Hebrew)
Rating: 73% based on 3 votes
Alternate transcription of Hebrew יולי (see
Yuli 3). A known bearer is Israeli documentary filmmaker Yulie Cohen (1956-).
Yūmi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Derived from the Japanese kanji 夕 (
yū) meaning "evening" combined with 湖 (
mi) meaning "lake".
Other kanji combinations are also possible.
Yunaida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Modern)
Pronounced: gyoo-NIE-dha
Zachely
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Zadie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ZAY-dee
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Variant of
Sadie. A known bearer of this name is British author Zadie Smith (1975-), who was born Sadie Smith.
Zaida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic (Rare), Spanish
Other Scripts: زيدة(Arabic)
Pronounced: ZIE-da(Arabic) THIE-dha(European Spanish) SIE-dha(Latin American Spanish)
Feminine form of
Zayd. This was the name of a Muslim princess who took refuge at the court of (and perhaps married) Alfonso VI of León and Castile in the 11th century.
Zakhar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Захар(Russian)
Pronounced: zu-KHAR
Zalie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Rare), French (Quebec, Rare)
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Zédéline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Archaic), French (Quebec, Rare, Archaic)
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Zinovy
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Зиновий(Russian)
Pronounced: zyi-NO-vyee
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
Zoltan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Banat Swabian
Banatswabian borrowing of
Zoltán.
Zuheilyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Central American (Rare)
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Probably an invented name, perhaps an elaboration of
Suhaila or
Sujey using the English name suffix
lyn. This is borne by Zuheilyn Clemente (2000-), a Honduran model and beauty pageant titleholder.
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