kingdom_of_daydreams's Personal Name List
Abeba
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Amharic
Other Scripts: አበባ(Amharic)
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Means "flower" in Amharic.
Acantha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἄκανθα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: ə-KAN-thə(English)
Rating: 87% based on 7 votes
Latinized form of Greek
Ἄκανθα (Akantha), which meant
"thorn, prickle". In Greek legend she was a nymph loved by
Apollo.
Achlys
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Αχλυς(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: AY-klis, AK-lis, ak-LOOS
Rating: 87% based on 6 votes
Means "death-mist, mist-over-eyes" in Greek. In Greek mythology Achlys was the personification of misery and sadness as well as daemon of the "death-mist", i.e., the clouding over of the eyes preceding death. She was portrayed on the shield of Heracles as a pale, emaciated wraith of a woman, covered in tears, blood and dust.
Adamantia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Αδαμαντία(Greek)
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
Addolorata
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ad-do-lo-RA-ta
Rating: 95% based on 4 votes
Means
"grieving" in Italian, from the title of the Virgin
Mary,
Maria Addolorata. It is most common in southern Italy. It is the equivalent of Spanish
Dolores.
Aderyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh (Rare)
Rating: 92% based on 5 votes
Means "bird" in Welsh. This is a modern Welsh name.
Adrasteia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἀδράστεια(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: A-DRAS-TEH-A(Classical Greek)
Rating: 92% based on 6 votes
Feminine form of
Adrastos. In Greek
mythology this name was borne by a nymph who fostered the infant
Zeus. This was also another name of the goddess
Nemesis.
Adrastos
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἄδραστος(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: A-DRAS-TOS(Classical Greek)
Rating: 92% based on 5 votes
Means
"not inclined to run away" in Greek, from the negative prefix
ἀ (a) and
διδράσκω (didrasko) meaning "to run away". This was the name of a king of Argos in Greek legend.
Adsila
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Cherokee
Rating: 79% based on 7 votes
From Cherokee
ᎠᏥᎳ (atsila) "fire" or
ᎠᏥᎸᏍᎩ (atsilunsgi) "flower, blossom".
Aelita
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature, Russian, Latvian
Other Scripts: Аэлита(Russian)
Pronounced: ui-LYEE-tə(Russian)
Rating: 86% based on 7 votes
Created by Russian author Aleksey Tolstoy for his science fiction novel Aelita (1923), where it belongs to a Martian princess. In the book, the name is said to mean "starlight seen for the last time" in the Martian language.
Aella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἄελλα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: A-EHL-LA(Classical Greek)
Rating: 87% based on 6 votes
Means
"whirlwind" in Greek. In Greek
myth this was the name of an Amazon warrior killed by
Herakles during his quest for Hippolyta's girdle.
Aether
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Αἰθήρ(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 87% based on 6 votes
Latinized form of Greek
Αἰθήρ (Aither) meaning
"ether, heaven", derived from
αἴθω (aitho) meaning "to burn, to ignite". In Greek
mythology this was the name of the god of the upper sky.
Afsaneh
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Persian
Other Scripts: افسانه(Persian)
Pronounced: af-sah-NEH
Rating: 66% based on 7 votes
Means
"legend, myth, fable" in Persian.
Ahtahkakoop
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Cree (Anglicized)
Other Scripts: ᐊᑖᐦᑲᑯᐦᑊ(Cree)
Rating: 56% based on 8 votes
From Cree ᐊᑖᐦᑲᑯᐦᑊ (Atâhkakohp) meaning "star blanket", derived from ᐊᑖᕁ (atâhk) "star" and ᐊᑯᐦᑊ (akohp) "blanket". This was the name of an early 19th-century chief of a Plains Cree people.
Aidana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Kazakh
Other Scripts: Айдана(Kazakh)
Rating: 88% based on 4 votes
Means
"wise moon" in Kazakh, from
ай (ay) meaning "moon" and
дана (dana) meaning "wise".
Ailill
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Irish [1], Irish Mythology
Pronounced: A-lyil(Irish)
Rating: 87% based on 3 votes
Means
"elf" in Irish. This name was borne by several early Irish kings. It also occurs frequently in Irish legend, borne for example by the husband of Queen
Medb. It was also the name of two
saints, both bishops of Armagh in the 6th century.
Ailsa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Scottish
Pronounced: AYL-sə(English)
Rating: 87% based on 3 votes
From Ailsa Craig, the name of an island off the west coast of Scotland, which is of uncertain derivation.
Áine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish, Irish Mythology, Old Irish [1]
Pronounced: A-nyə(Irish)
Rating: 83% based on 6 votes
Means
"radiance, brilliance" in Irish. This was the name of a goddess of love and fertility in Irish legend, thought to dwell at the hill of Cnoc Áine in Limerick. It has sometimes been Anglicized as
Anne.
Aisling
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: ASH-lyən
Rating: 87% based on 6 votes
Means "dream" or "vision" in Irish. This name was created in the 20th century.
Aizhan
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Kazakh
Other Scripts: Айжан(Kazakh)
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
From Kazakh
ай (ay) meaning "moon" and
жан (zhan) meaning "soul".
Alienòr
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Occitan
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Altansarnai
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Mongolian
Other Scripts: Алтансарнай(Mongolian Cyrillic)
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
Altantsetseg
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Mongolian
Other Scripts: Алтанцэцэг(Mongolian Cyrillic)
Rating: 57% based on 7 votes
Amadeus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Late Roman
Pronounced: ahm-ə-DAY-əs(English) ahm-ə-DEE-əs(English)
Rating: 86% based on 5 votes
Means
"love of God", derived from Latin
amare "to love" and
Deus "God". A famous bearer was the Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), who was actually born Wolfgang
Theophilus Mozart but preferred the Latin translation of his Greek middle name. This name was also assumed as a middle name by the German novelist E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822), who took it in honour of Mozart.
Amaryllis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: am-ə-RIL-is(English)
Rating: 84% based on 8 votes
Derived from Greek
ἀμαρύσσω (amarysso) meaning
"to sparkle". This is the name of a character appearing in
Virgil's pastoral poems
Eclogues [1]. The amaryllis flower is named for her.
Amaterasu
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese Mythology
Other Scripts: 天照(Japanese Kanji) あまてらす(Japanese Hiragana) アマテラス(Japanese Katakana)
Pronounced: A-MA-TEH-RA-SOO(Japanese)
Rating: 98% based on 4 votes
Means
"shining over heaven", from Japanese
天 (ama) meaning "heaven, sky" and
照 (terasu) meaning "shine". This was the name of the Japanese sun goddess, the ruler of the heavens. She was born when
Izanagi washed his left eye after returning from the underworld. At one time the Japanese royal family claimed descent from her.
Ambra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Ámé'há'e
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Cheyenne
Rating: 83% based on 6 votes
Means "flying woman" in Cheyenne.
Amonet
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Egyptian Mythology
Pronounced: AM-ə-neht(English)
Rating: 93% based on 3 votes
From Egyptian
jmnt (reconstructed as
Yamanut), the feminine form of
Amon. In Egyptian
mythology she was a primordial goddess, a consort of Amon. She was later overshadowed by
Mut.
Amyntas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek
Other Scripts: Ἀμύντας(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: A-MUYN-TAS
Rating: 83% based on 7 votes
Derived from Greek
ἀμύντωρ (amyntor) meaning
"defender". This was the name of several kings of Macedon.
Anahita
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Persian, Persian Mythology
Other Scripts: آناهیتا(Persian) 𐎠𐎴𐏃𐎡𐎫(Old Persian)
Pronounced: aw-naw-hee-TAW(Persian)
Rating: 88% based on 4 votes
Means
"immaculate, undefiled" in Old Persian, from the Old Iranian prefix *
an- "not" combined with *
āhita "unclean, dirty". This was the name of an Iranian goddess of fertility and water. In the Zoroastrian religious texts the
Avesta she is called
𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬛𐬎𐬎𐬍 (Arəduuī) in Avestan, with
𐬀𐬥𐬁𐬵𐬌𐬙𐬀 (anāhita) appearing only as a descriptive epithet
[1]. In origin she is possibly identical to the Indian goddess
Saraswati. She has historically been identified with the Semitic goddess
Ishtar and the Greek goddess
Artemis.
Anastasia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, English, Spanish, Italian, Georgian, Ancient Greek
Other Scripts: Αναστασία(Greek) Анастасия(Russian) Анастасія(Ukrainian, Belarusian) ანასტასია(Georgian) Ἀναστασία(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: a-na-sta-SEE-a(Greek) u-nu-stu-SYEE-yə(Russian) u-nu-stu-SYEE-yu(Ukrainian) a-na-sta-SYEE-ya(Belarusian) an-ə-STAY-zhə(English) a-na-STA-sya(Spanish) a-na-STA-zya(Italian) A-NA-STA-SEE-A(Classical Greek)
Rating: 83% based on 7 votes
Feminine form of
Anastasius. This was the name of a 4th-century Dalmatian
saint who was martyred during the persecutions of the Roman emperor Diocletian. Due to her, the name has been common in Eastern Orthodox Christianity (in various spellings). As an English name it has been in use since the Middle Ages. A famous bearer was the youngest daughter of the last Russian tsar Nicholas II, who was rumoured to have escaped the execution of her family in 1918.
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: 86% based on 7 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.
Aneira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: a-NAY-ra
Rating: 93% based on 4 votes
Feminine form of
Aneirin, also considered a combination of Welsh
an, an intensifying prefix, and
eira "snow" (see
Eira 1), with the intended meaning of "much snow" or "very snowy". It was first used in the late 19th century.
Anima 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hindi
Other Scripts: अणिमा(Hindi)
Rating: 82% based on 6 votes
Means
"minuteness" from Sanskrit
अणिमन (animan). In yoga texts, this is the name of the ability to make oneself infinitely small so to be invisible.
Animikii
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ojibwe, New World Mythology
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Means
"thunder, thunderer" in Ojibwe. In Anishinaabe
mythology this is the name of the thunderbird, an immense flying creature that makes thunder with its flapping wings.
Aoide
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἀοιδή(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: ay-EE-dee(English)
Rating: 86% based on 5 votes
Means
"song" in Greek. In Greek
mythology she was one of the original three muses, the muse of song.
Aoife
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish, Irish Mythology
Pronounced: EE-fyə(Irish)
Rating: 78% based on 6 votes
From Old Irish
Aífe, derived from
oíph meaning
"beauty" (modern Irish
aoibh). This was the name of several characters in Irish legend, including a woman at war with
Scáthach (her sister in some versions). She was defeated in single combat by the hero
Cúchulainn, who spared her life on the condition that she bear him a child (
Connla). Another legendary figure by this name appears in the
Children of Lir as the jealous third wife of
Lir.
This name is sometimes Anglicized as Eve or Eva.
Ararat
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Armenian
Other Scripts: Արարատ(Armenian)
Pronounced: ah-rah-RAHT
Rating: 66% based on 5 votes
From the name of a mountain in eastern Turkey (formerly part of Armenia), the place where
Noah's Ark came to rest according to the
Old Testament.
Artemis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, Greek
Other Scripts: Ἄρτεμις(Ancient Greek) Άρτεμις(Greek)
Pronounced: AR-TEH-MEES(Classical Greek) AHR-tə-mis(English)
Rating: 89% based on 8 votes
Meaning unknown, possibly related either to Greek
ἀρτεμής (artemes) meaning
"safe" or
ἄρταμος (artamos) meaning
"a butcher". Artemis was the Greek goddess of the moon and hunting, the twin of
Apollo and the daughter of
Zeus and
Leto. She was known as
Diana to the Romans.
Artemisia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek
Other Scripts: Ἀρτεμισία(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 100% based on 6 votes
Feminine form of
Artemisios. This was the name of the 4th-century BC builder of the Mausoleum, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. She built it in memory of her husband, the Carian prince Mausolus.
Arwen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Means
"noble maiden" in the fictional language Sindarin. In
The Lord of the Rings (1954) by J. R. R. Tolkien, Arwen was the daughter of
Elrond and the lover of
Aragorn.
Asdzáán Nádleehé
Gender: Feminine
Usage: New World Mythology
Rating: 70% based on 4 votes
Means
"changing woman", from Navajo
asdzáán "woman" and
nádleeh "become, change". In Navajo
mythology this is the name of a being who created humans from parts of her body.
Asherah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Semitic Mythology
Pronounced: ə-SHEER-ə(English)
Rating: 94% based on 7 votes
Perhaps derived from Semitic roots meaning "she who walks in the sea". This was the name of a Semitic mother goddess. She was worshipped by the Israelites before the advent of monotheism.
Aspasia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek, Greek
Other Scripts: Ἀσπασία(Ancient Greek) Ασπασία(Greek)
Pronounced: A-SPA-SEE-A(Classical Greek)
Rating: 90% based on 4 votes
Derived from Greek
ἀσπάσιος (aspasios) meaning
"welcome, embrace". This was the name of the lover of Pericles (5th century BC).
Asra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: أسرى(Arabic)
Pronounced: AS-ra
Rating: 87% based on 7 votes
Means
"travel at night" in Arabic. It is related to
Isra.
Aster
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: AS-tər
Rating: 83% based on 7 votes
From the name of the flower, which is derived via Latin from Greek
ἀστήρ (aster) meaning "star".
Asterion
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἀστερίων(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
Means
"of the stars", derived from Greek
ἀστήρ (aster) "star". This is the name of several figures in Greek
mythology, including a river god.
Asterius
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized), Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἀστέριος(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 100% 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.
Astrid
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, French, English
Pronounced: AS-strid(Swedish) AHS-tri(Norwegian) AS-trit(German) AS-TREED(French) AS-trid(English)
Rating: 90% based on 7 votes
Modern Scandinavian form of
Ástríðr. This name was borne by the Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002), the author of
Pippi Longstocking. It was also borne by a Swedish princess (1905-1935) who became the queen of Belgium as the wife of Leopold III.
Astrit
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Albanian
Means "green whip snake, dragon" in Albanian.
Atlas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἄτλας(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: A-TLAS(Classical Greek) AT-ləs(English)
Rating: 78% based on 6 votes
Possibly means
"enduring" from Greek
τλάω (tlao) meaning "to endure". In Greek
mythology he was a Titan punished by
Zeus by being forced to support the heavens on his shoulders.
Audovera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Germanic [1]
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Derived from Old Frankish
aud "wealth, fortune" combined with
war "true" or
war "aware, cautious". This was the name of the first wife of
Chilperic I of Neustria.
Aureliusz
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: ow-REH-lyoosh
Rating: 80% based on 7 votes
Ausma
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Latvian
Rating: 97% based on 3 votes
Means "dawn" in Latvian.
Avra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Αύρα(Greek)
Rating: 100% based on 3 votes
Awinita
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Cherokee
Rating: 93% based on 3 votes
Means
"fawn" in Cherokee, derived from
ᎠᏫ (awi) meaning "deer".
Ayda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic, Persian, Turkish
Other Scripts: عائدة(Arabic) آیدا(Persian)
Pronounced: ‘A-ee-dah(Arabic)
Rating: 68% based on 5 votes
Means "returning, visitor" in Arabic. In Turkey this is also associated with ay meaning "moon".
Ayelet
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אַיֶלֶת(Hebrew)
Rating: 90% based on 4 votes
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.
Aylintá
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Western African
Pronounced: Uh- Lynn - Tay
Rating: 90% based on 3 votes
The name Aylintá comes from the West African nation of Senegal and means Bearer of Light or Bringer of Light.
Aýnabat
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Turkmen
Rating: 88% based on 4 votes
Derived from Turkmen aý "moon" and nabat, a type of crystallized sugar candy.
Aysel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Turkish, Azerbaijani
Rating: 84% based on 7 votes
Means
"moon flood" in Turkish and Azerbaijani, derived from
ay "moon" and
sel "flood, stream" (of Arabic origin).
Aysima
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Turkish
Rating: 85% based on 4 votes
Derived from Turkish
ay meaning "moon" and
sima meaning "face" (of Persian origin).
Azzurra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ad-DZOOR-ra
Rating: 88% based on 5 votes
Means "azure, sky blue" in Italian.
Basemath
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Latin
Other Scripts: בָּשְׂמַת(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: BAS-ə-math(English)
Rating: 95% based on 4 votes
Means
"fragrance" in Hebrew. In the
Old Testament this is the name of a wife of Esau.
Bhavana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Malayalam
Other Scripts: भावना(Hindi, Marathi) ಭಾವನಾ(Kannada) ഭാവന(Malayalam)
Rating: 93% based on 3 votes
Means "producing, manifesting, thought, emotion" in Sanskrit.
Bhumi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hinduism
Other Scripts: भूमि(Sanskrit)
Rating: 87% based on 3 votes
Means "earth, soil" in Sanskrit. This is the name of a Hindu earth goddess. She is the wife of Varaha, an avatar of Vishnu.
Bláthnat
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish Mythology
Rating: 100% based on 3 votes
Means
"little flower" from Irish
bláth "flower" combined with a
diminutive suffix. In Irish legend she was a maiden abducted and married by Cú Roí. She was rescued by
Cúchulainn, who killed her husband, but was in turn murdered by one of Cú Roí's loyal servants.
Blodeuwedd
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh Mythology
Pronounced: blaw-DAY-wedh(Welsh)
Rating: 90% based on 6 votes
Means
"face of flowers" in Welsh. According to the Fourth Branch of the
Mabinogi [1], she was created out of flowers by
Gwydion to be the wife of his nephew
Lleu Llaw Gyffes. Originally she was named
Blodeuedd meaning simply "flowers". She was eventually transformed into an owl by Gwydion after she and her lover
Gronw attempted to murder Lleu, at which point he renamed her
Blodeuwedd.
Bragi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norse Mythology, Icelandic
Pronounced: BRAH-gee(English)
Rating: 74% based on 7 votes
Derived from Old Norse
bragr meaning
"first, foremost" or
"poetry". In Norse
mythology Bragi is the god of poetry and the husband of
Iðunn.
Brân
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh Mythology
Pronounced: BRAN(Welsh)
Rating: 86% based on 5 votes
Means
"raven" in Welsh. According to the Second Branch of the
Mabinogi [1], Brân the Blessed (called
Bendigeidfran) was a giant king of Britain. He was the son of the divine figure
Llŷr. After his sister
Branwen was mistreated by her husband the Irish king Matholwch, Brân led an attack on Ireland (the text says that he was so big he was able to wade there). Although victorious, the British lost all except seven men with Brân being mortally wounded by a poisoned spear. He asked the survivors to cut of his head and return with it to Britain. The head continued to speak for many years until it was buried in London.
Branwen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh, Welsh Mythology
Pronounced: BRAN-wehn(Welsh)
Rating: 92% based on 5 votes
Means
"white raven" from Old Welsh
bran "raven" and
gwen "white, blessed". According to the Second Branch of the
Mabinogi [1] she was the daughter of
Llŷr. After she was mistreated by her husband Matholwch, the king of Ireland, she managed to get a message to her brother
Brân, the king of Britain. Brân launched a costly invasion to rescue her, but she died of grief shortly after her return.
Briallen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh (Rare)
Pronounced: bri-A-shehn
Rating: 85% based on 4 votes
Derived from Welsh briallu meaning "primrose". This is a modern Welsh name.
Bronwen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: BRAWN-wehn
Rating: 92% based on 6 votes
Seemingly derived from Welsh
bron "breast" and
gwen "white, blessed", though it has sometimes occurred as a variant spelling of the legendary name
Branwen [1]. It has been used as a given name in Wales since the 19th century. It is borne by a character in Richard Llewellyn's 1939 novel
How Green Was My Valley, as well as the 1941 movie adaptation.
Brunhilde
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German
Pronounced: bruwn-HIL-də
Rating: 73% based on 4 votes
Calixta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese (Rare)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Spanish and Portuguese feminine form of
Calixtus.
Candelaria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: kan-deh-LA-rya
Rating: 84% based on 5 votes
Means
"Candlemas" in Spanish, ultimately derived from Spanish
candela "candle". This name is given in honour of the church festival of Candlemas, which commemorates the presentation of Christ in the temple and the purification of the Virgin
Mary.
Cathassach
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Irish [1]
Pronounced: KA-hə-səkh
Rating: 63% based on 3 votes
Means "vigilant" in Irish.
Celestyna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: tseh-leh-STI-na
Rating: 68% based on 5 votes
Chaim
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: חַיִּים(Hebrew)
Pronounced: KHA-yeem
Rating: 78% based on 4 votes
Derived from the Hebrew word
חַיִּים (chayyim) meaning
"life". It has been used since medieval times.
Chandra
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hinduism, Bengali, Assamese, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Nepali
Other Scripts: चन्द्र, चन्द्रा(Sanskrit, Hindi, Nepali) চন্দ্র(Bengali) চন্দ্ৰ(Assamese) चंद्रा(Marathi) చంద్ర(Telugu) சந்திரா(Tamil) ಚಂದ್ರ(Kannada)
Pronounced: CHAWND-ro(Bengali)
Rating: 95% based on 4 votes
Means
"moon" in Sanskrit, derived from
चन्द (chand) meaning "to shine". This is a transcription of the masculine form
चण्ड (a name of the moon in Hindu texts, which is often personified as a deity) as well as the feminine form
चण्डा.
Channary
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Khmer
Means
"moon-faced girl" from Khmer
ចន្ទ (chan) meaning "moon" and
នារី (neari) meaning "woman, girl".
Charikleia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek, Ancient Greek
Other Scripts: Χαρίκλεια(Greek)
Rating: 90% based on 3 votes
From Greek
χάρις (charis) meaning "grace, kindness" and
κλέος (kleos) meaning "glory". This is the name of the heroine of the 3rd-century novel
Aethiopica, about the love between Charikleia and Theagenes, written by Heliodorus of Emesa.
Chetan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Kannada
Other Scripts: चेतन(Hindi, Marathi) ચેતન(Gujarati) ಚೇತನ್(Kannada)
Rating: 79% based on 7 votes
Means "visible, conscious, soul" in Sanskrit.
Chrysanthos
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek, Ancient Greek
Other Scripts: Χρύσανθος(Greek)
Rating: 87% based on 7 votes
Means
"golden flower" from Greek
χρύσεος (chryseos) meaning "golden" combined with
ἄνθος (anthos) meaning "flower". This name was borne by a semi-legendary 3rd-century Egyptian
saint.
Chrysostomos
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Χρυσόστομος(Greek)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Means
"golden mouth", from Greek
χρυσός (chrysos) meaning "gold" and
στόμα (stoma) meaning "mouth". This was an epithet applied to eloquent orators, notably
Saint John Chrysostom, a 4th-century archbishop of Constantinople.
Citlalli
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Nahuatl
Pronounced: see-CHAL-lee
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Means
"star" in Nahuatl
[1].
Cívánka
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hopi
Rating: 66% based on 7 votes
Means "the one who writes blossoms" from Hopi cíhu "blossom, flower" combined with bána "to figure, write, draw" and ka "the one that".
Constantine
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History
Pronounced: KAHN-stən-teen(English)
Rating: 90% based on 4 votes
From the Latin name
Constantinus, a derivative of
Constans. Constantine the Great (272-337), full name Flavius Valerius Constantinus, was the first Roman emperor to adopt Christianity. He moved the capital of the empire from Rome to Byzantium, which he renamed Constantinople (modern Istanbul).
Crescentia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Rare), Late Roman
Rating: 86% based on 5 votes
Feminine form of
Crescentius.
Saint Crescentia was a 4th-century companion of Saint
Vitus. This is also the name of the eponymous heroine of a 12th-century German romance.
Daciana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Romanian
Pronounced: da-chee-AN-a
Rating: 88% based on 4 votes
Dara 2
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Khmer
Other Scripts: ដារា, តារា(Khmer)
Pronounced: dah-RAH
Means
"star" in Khmer, ultimately from Sanskrit
तारा (tara).
Deianeira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Δηϊάνειρα, Δῃάνειρα(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 95% based on 4 votes
From Greek
δηιόω (deioo) meaning "to slay" and
ἀνήρ (aner) meaning "man". In Greek
mythology this was the name of the wife of
Herakles. She unwittingly poisoned her husband by giving him the Shirt of Nessus.
Delphina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman
Rating: 92% based on 5 votes
Feminine form of the Latin name
Delphinus, which meant
"of Delphi". Delphi was a city in ancient Greece, the name of which is possibly related to Greek
δελφύς (delphys) meaning "womb". The Blessed Delphina was a 14th-century Provençal nun.
Demelza
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (British, Rare)
Pronounced: də-MEHL-zə
Rating: 94% based on 5 votes
From a Cornish place name meaning "fort of Maeldaf". It has been used as a given name since the middle of the 20th century. It was popularized in the 1970s by a character from the British television series Poldark, which was set in Cornwall.
Demeter 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Δημήτηρ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: DEH-MEH-TEHR(Classical Greek) də-MEET-ər(English)
Rating: 88% based on 8 votes
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.
Demgul
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Kurdish
Rating: 78% based on 5 votes
Derived from Kurdish dema meaning "time" and gula meaning "rose".
Desneiges
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Quebec, Rare)
Rating: 77% based on 6 votes
Means "of the snows" in French, taken from the title of the Virgin Mary
Notre Dame des Neiges meaning "Our Lady of the Snows" (see
Nieves).
Dilyéhé
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Navajo (?), Astronomy
Rating: 82% based on 6 votes
Means "planting stars" in Navajo. This is the Navajo name of the star cluster known in English as the Pleiades.
Dipali
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hindi, Marathi
Other Scripts: दीपाली(Hindi, Marathi)
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
Means "row of lamps" in Sanskrit.
Dzvezda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Macedonian
Other Scripts: Ѕвезда(Macedonian)
Pronounced: DZVEHZ-da
Rating: 70% based on 4 votes
Means "star" in Macedonian.
Edurne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque
Pronounced: eh-DHOOR-neh
Rating: 90% based on 3 votes
Means
"snow" in Basque, from
edur, a variant of
elur "snow". It is an equivalent of
Nieves, proposed by the writer Sabino Arana in his 1910 list of Basque
saints names.
Eliora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אֱלִיאוֹרָה(Hebrew)
Elspeth
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Scottish
Pronounced: EHLS-peth
Rating: 90% based on 4 votes
Enid
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh, English, Arthurian Cycle
Pronounced: EH-nid(Welsh) EE-nid(English)
Rating: 90% based on 5 votes
Probably derived from Welsh
enaid meaning
"soul, spirit, life". In Arthurian tales she first appears in the 12th-century French poem
Erec and Enide by Chrétien de Troyes, where she is the wife of Erec. In later adaptations she is typically the wife of
Geraint. The name became more commonly used after the publication of Alfred Tennyson's Arthurian poem
Enid in 1859, and it was fairly popular in Britain in the first half of the 20th century.
Enkeleida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Albanian
Rating: 82% based on 5 votes
Derived from the name of the Enchelei, an Illyrian tribe. Their name itself is probably derived from Ancient Greek ἔγχελῠς (énkhelus) und thus popularly interpreted as "eel-people".
Énna
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Irish
Rating: 92% based on 5 votes
Possibly from Old Irish
én meaning
"bird". This was the name of several Irish kings and heroes. It was also borne by a 6th-century
saint who built the monastery of Killeany on Aran.
Éowyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: AY-ə-win(English)
Means "horse joy" in Old English. This name was invented by J. R. R. Tolkien who used Old English to represent the Rohirric language. In his novel The Lord of the Rings (1954) Eowyn is the niece of King Theoden of Rohan. She slays the Lord of the Nazgul in the Battle of the Pelennor Fields.
Éponine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: EH-PAW-NEEN(French)
French form of
Epponina. Victor Hugo used this name in his novel
Les Misérables (1862) for a daughter of the Thénardiers. Her mother got her name from a romance novel.
Esmeralda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese, English, Albanian, Literature
Pronounced: ehz-meh-RAL-da(Spanish) izh-mi-RAL-du(European Portuguese) ehz-meh-ROW-du(Brazilian Portuguese) ehz-mə-RAHL-də(English)
Rating: 83% based on 6 votes
Means "emerald" in Spanish and Portuguese. Victor Hugo used this name in his novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831), in which Esmeralda is the Romani girl who is loved by Quasimodo. It has occasionally been used in the English-speaking world since that time.
Esperanza
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: ehs-peh-RAN-tha(European Spanish) ehs-peh-RAN-sa(Latin American Spanish)
Rating: 98% based on 4 votes
Spanish form of the Late Latin name Sperantia, which was derived from sperare "to hope".
Evander 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized), Roman Mythology
Other Scripts: Εὔανδρος(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: ee-VAN-dər(English) ə-VAN-dər(English)
Rating: 88% based on 4 votes
Variant of
Evandrus, the Latin form of the Greek name
Εὔανδρος (Euandros) meaning
"good of man", derived from
εὖ (eu) meaning "good" and
ἀνήρ (aner) meaning "man" (genitive
ἀνδρός). In Roman
mythology Evander was an Arcadian hero of the Trojan War who founded the city of Pallantium near the spot where Rome was later built.
Evren
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Turkish
Rating: 86% based on 7 votes
Means
"cosmos, the universe" in Turkish. In Turkic
mythology the Evren is a gigantic snake-like dragon.
Ffion
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: FEE-awn, FI-awn
Rating: 95% based on 4 votes
Means "foxglove" in Welsh (species Digitalis purpurea). This is a recently created Welsh name.
Fiachra
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish, Irish Mythology
Pronounced: FYEEKH-rə(Irish)
Rating: 82% based on 5 votes
From Old Irish
Fiachrae, possibly from
fiach "raven" or
fích "battle" combined with
rí "king". This was the name of several legendary figures, including one of the four children of
Lir transformed into swans for a period of 900 years. This is also the name of the patron
saint of gardeners: a 7th-century Irish abbot who settled in France, usually called Saint Fiacre.
Fiadh
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish (Modern)
Pronounced: FYEE
Means "wild, wild animal, deer" (modern Irish fia) or "respect" in Irish.
Fionnuala
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish, Irish Mythology
Rating: 70% based on 4 votes
Means
"white shoulder" from Old Irish
finn "white, blessed" and
gúala "shoulder". In Irish legend Fionnuala was one of the four children of
Lir who were transformed into swans for a period of 900 years.
Gaia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, Italian
Other Scripts: Γαῖα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: GIE-A(Classical Greek) GIE-ə(English) GAY-ə(English) GA-ya(Italian)
Rating: 93% based on 4 votes
From the Greek word
γαῖα (gaia), a parallel form of
γῆ (ge) meaning
"earth". In Greek
mythology Gaia was the mother goddess who presided over the earth. She was the mate of
Uranus and the mother of the Titans and the Cyclopes.
Gelgéis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Old Irish, Medieval Irish
Rating: 78% based on 6 votes
Means "bright swan" in Old Irish, from geal "bright" and geiss "swan".
Gentian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Albanian
Rating: 62% based on 6 votes
From the name of the flowering plant called the gentian, the roots of which are used to create a tonic. It is derived from the name of the Illyrian king
Gentius, who supposedly discovered its medicinal properties.
Geoffrey
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French
Pronounced: JEHF-ree(English) ZHAW-FREH(French)
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
From a Norman French form of a Frankish name. The second element is Old German
fridu "peace", while the first element could be *
gautaz "Geat" (a North Germanic tribe),
gawi "territory" or
walah "foreigner". It is possible that two or more names merged into a single form. In the later Middle Ages
Geoffrey was further confused with the distinct name
Godfrey.
The Normans introduced this name to England where it became common among the nobility. Famous medieval literary bearers include the 12th-century chronicler Geoffrey of Monmouth and the 14th-century poet Geoffrey Chaucer, writer of The Canterbury Tales. By the end of the Middle Ages it had become uncommon, but it was revived in the 20th century, often in the spelling Jeffrey.
Giada
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: JA-da
Rating: 97% based on 3 votes
Glaphyra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Γλαφύρα(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 98% based on 4 votes
From Greek
γλαφυρός (glaphyros) meaning
"polished, subtle".
Gostimira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian
Rating: 82% based on 6 votes
Meaning "guest of peace and earth". Combined with gost "guest" and miru "peace, world".
Gry
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norwegian, Danish, Swedish
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Means "to dawn" in Norwegian, Danish and Swedish.
Guinevere
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arthurian Cycle
Pronounced: GWIN-ə-vir(English)
Rating: 93% based on 4 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.
Gwydion
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh, Welsh Mythology
Rating: 100% based on 3 votes
Probably means
"born of trees" from Old Welsh
guid "trees" and the suffix
gen "born of". In the Fourth Branch of the
Mabinogi [1], Gwydion is the nephew of King
Math of Gwynedd, and like him a powerful magician. In an elaborate plot to give his brother a chance to rape his uncle's footbearer, he arranged a war between Gwynedd and the neighbouring kingdom of Dyfed. Gwydion himself killed King
Pryderi of Dyfed at the end of the war. In punishment for the rape, Math transformed Gwydion and his brother into different animals over the course of three years. Gwydion was the uncle of
Lleu Llaw Gyffes, whom he fostered. Math and Gwydion fashioned Lleu a wife,
Blodeuwedd, out of flowers and they later aided him after her betrayal. Gwydion also appears in older Welsh poetry such as the
Book of Taliesin.
Gwynedd
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Rating: 98% based on 4 votes
From the name of the kingdom of Gwynedd, which was located in northern Wales from the 5th century. It is now the name of a Welsh county. The name may be related to Old Irish
Féni meaning "Irish people", itself possibly related to the Celtic root *
wēnā meaning "band of warriors"
[1].
Hala
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: هالة(Arabic)
Pronounced: HA-lah
Rating: 93% based on 4 votes
Means
"halo around the moon" in Arabic. This was the name of a sister-in-law of the Prophet
Muhammad.
Haneul
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Korean
Other Scripts: 하늘(Korean Hangul)
Pronounced: HA-NUL
Rating: 80% based on 6 votes
Means "heaven, sky" in Korean.
Hayao
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 隼雄, 隼男, 隼夫, 隼郎, 勇夫, etc.(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: HAH-YAH-O
From Japanese 隼 (haya) meaning "falcon" or 勇 (haya) meaning "brave" combined with 雄 (o) meaning "hero, manly", 男 (o) meaning "male", 夫 (o) meaning "man, husband" or 郎 (o) meaning "son". Other kanji combinations are possible.
Famous bearer of this name is Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter, animator, author, and manga artist Hayao Miyazaki.
Heidi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, English
Pronounced: HIE-dee(German, English) HAY-dee(Finnish)
Rating: 84% based on 7 votes
German
diminutive of
Adelheid. This is the name of the title character in the children's novel
Heidi (1880) by the Swiss author Johanna Spyri. The name began to be used in the English-speaking world shortly after the 1937 release of the movie adaptation, which starred Shirley Temple.
Hiram
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Hebrew, English
Other Scripts: חִירָם(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: HIE-rəm(English)
Rating: 85% based on 4 votes
From Phoenician
𐤇𐤓𐤌 (Ḥirom) meaning
"exalted brother". This was the name of a king of Tyre in the
Old Testament. He may have reigned in the 10th century BC. As an English given name,
Hiram came into use after the
Protestant Reformation. In the 17th century the
Puritans brought it to America, where it gained some currency.
Hora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Sanskrit, Indian, Hindi
Other Scripts: होरा(Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi, Nepali)
Pronounced: horA(Sanskrit)
Rating: 90% based on 4 votes
"horoscope", "horoscopy", "hour" ,a branch of traditional Indian astrology dealing with finer points of predective methods"
Hortensia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman, Spanish
Pronounced: or-TEHN-sya(Spanish)
Rating: 95% based on 4 votes
Feminine form of the Roman family name Hortensius, possibly derived from Latin hortus meaning "garden".
Ianthe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἰάνθη(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 83% based on 4 votes
Means
"violet flower", derived from Greek
ἴον (ion) meaning "violet" and
ἄνθος (anthos) meaning "flower". This was the name of an ocean nymph in Greek
mythology.
Iara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Tupi
Rating: 97% based on 3 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.
Ifunanya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Igbo
Means "love" in Igbo (literally "to see in one's eye").
Ilham
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Arabic, Indonesian, Uyghur
Other Scripts: إلهام(Arabic) ئىلھام(Uyghur Arabic)
Pronounced: eel-HAM(Arabic) IL-ham(Indonesian)
Rating: 85% based on 2 votes
Means "inspiration" in Arabic.
Illasisa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Quechua
Rating: 77% based on 6 votes
Means "flower amulet" in Quechua.
Imelda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: ee-MEHL-da
Rating: 97% based on 3 votes
Italian and Spanish form of
Irmhild. The Blessed Imelda Lambertini was a young 14th-century nun from Bologna.
Ingrid
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Estonian, German, Dutch
Pronounced: ING-rid(Swedish) ING-ri(Norwegian) ING-grit(German) ING-greet(German) ING-ghrit(Dutch)
Rating: 90% based on 5 votes
From the Old Norse name
Ingríðr meaning
"Ing is beautiful", derived from the name of the Germanic god
Ing combined with
fríðr "beautiful, beloved". A famous bearer was the Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman (1915-1982).
Inola
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Cherokee
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Derived from Cherokee
ᎢᏃᎵ (inoli) meaning
"black fox".
Iolana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hawaiian
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Means "to soar" in Hawaiian.
Iphigeneia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἰφιγένεια(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: EE-PEE-GEH-NEH-A(Classical Greek)
Rating: 90% based on 5 votes
Derived from Greek
ἴφιος (iphios) meaning "strong, stout" and
γενής (genes) meaning "born". In Greek
myth Iphigenia was the daughter of King
Agamemnon. When her father offended
Artemis it was divined that the only way to appease the goddess was to sacrifice Iphigenia. Just as Agamemnon was about to sacrifice his daughter she was magically transported to the city of Taurus.
In Christian tradition this was also the name of a legendary early saint, the daughter of an Ethiopian king Egippus.
Isra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: إسراء(Arabic)
Pronounced: ees-RA
Means
"nocturnal journey", derived from Arabic
سرى (sara) meaning "to travel at night".
Jacira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Tupi
Pronounced: zha-SEE-ru(Brazilian Portuguese)
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Means "honey moon" in Tupi, from îasy "moon" and yra "honey".
Jahanara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Persian (Archaic), Bengali
Other Scripts: جهانآرا(Persian) জাহানারা(Bengali)
From Persian
جهان (jahan) meaning "world" and
آرا (ara) meaning "decorate, adorn". This was the name of the eldest daughter of the 17th-century Mughal emperor Shah Jahan.
Jannatul Ferdous
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Bengali
Other Scripts: জান্নাতুল ফেরদৌস(Bengali)
Rating: 100% based on 3 votes
From the Arabic phrase
جنّات الفردوس (jannat al-firdaws) meaning
"gardens of paradise".
Jawahir
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: جواهر(Arabic)
Pronounced: ja-WA-heer
Rating: 90% based on 4 votes
Means
"jewels" in Arabic, ultimately from Persian
گوهر (gohar) meaning "jewel, essence".
Jing
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Chinese
Other Scripts: 静, 精, 晶, 京, etc.(Chinese) 靜, 精, 晶, 京, etc.(Traditional Chinese)
Pronounced: CHEENG
From Chinese
静 (jìng) meaning "quiet, still, gentle",
精 (jīng) meaning "essence, spirit",
晶 (jīng) meaning "clear, crystal" or
京 (jīng) meaning "capital city". Other characters can also form this name.
Kaguya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Other Scripts: 赫映(Japanese Kanji) かぐや(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: KA-GOO-YA(Japanese)
Means
"bright, shining" in Japanese. It is spelled with the kanji
赫 (kagaya) meaning "bright" and
映 (ya) meaning "reflect". The name originates from the old Japanese folktale
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, about a bamboo cutter who finds a tiny baby in a bamboo stalk and names her
Kaguya-hime "shining princess". When she grows up she rejects all proposals for marriage (including that from the Emperor) and eventually returns to her true home on the moon.
Many characters from Japanese anime and other popular culture bear this name, after her.
Kainaat
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic, Urdu, Persian
Other Scripts: کائنات(Arabic, Urdu, Persian) कायनात(Hindi) коинот(Tajik)
Rating: 90% based on 5 votes
Means "all-beings; universe" in Arabic, Urdu and Persian. It is the plural of كَائن (kâ'in) meaning "being" coming from the Arabic root ك و ن (k-w-n) meaning “to be; to exist in a place”.
Kalomoira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Καλομοίρα(Greek)
Rating: 84% based on 5 votes
Means "beautiful fate", derived from the Greek elements καλος (kalos) "beautiful, fair" and μοιρα (moira) "share, fate". A known bearer is the Greek-American pop singer Kalomira Sarantis (1985-).
Kalpana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Nepali
Other Scripts: कल्पना(Hindi, Marathi, Nepali) கல்பனா(Tamil) ಕಲ್ಪನಾ(Kannada) కల్పనా(Telugu)
Rating: 72% based on 5 votes
Means "imagining, fantasy" in Sanskrit.
Kartikeya
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hinduism
Other Scripts: कार्त्तिकेय(Sanskrit)
Rating: 84% based on 5 votes
From Sanskrit
कृत्तिका (krttika), the name for the constellation of the Pleiades, ultimately from
कृत् (krt) meaning "to cut, to divide". This is another name for the Hindu god
Skanda.
Kazimiera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Polish, Lithuanian
Pronounced: ka-zhee-MYEH-ra(Polish)
Rating: 93% based on 3 votes
Kazimierz
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: ka-ZHEE-myesh
Personal remark: "the one"
Rating: 88% based on 5 votes
Kelebek
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Turkish (Rare)
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
Means "butterfly" in Turkish.
Khadijah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic, Malay
Other Scripts: خديجة(Arabic)
Pronounced: kha-DEE-jah(Arabic)
Rating: 97% based on 3 votes
Alternate transcription of Arabic
خديجة (see
Khadija), as well as the usual Malay form.
Kohinoor
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Various
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
From Koh-i-noor, the name of a famous gemstone, meaning "mountain of light" in Persian.
Kolab
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Khmer (Rare)
Other Scripts: កុលាប(Khmer)
Pronounced: ko-LAP
Rating: 93% based on 3 votes
Means
"rose" in Khmer, ultimately from Persian
گلاب (golab).
Kordian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish
Coined by Polish writer Juliusz Słowacki for the title character of his drama Kordian (1833). Słowacki likely based the name on Latin cor "heart" (genitive cordis).
Kusuma
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Indonesian
Pronounced: koo-SOO-mah
Rating: 80% based on 5 votes
Derived from Sanskrit
कुसुम (kusuma) meaning
"flower".
Květoslav
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Czech
Pronounced: KVYEH-to-slaf
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Derived from the Slavic elements
květŭ "flower" and
slava "glory".
Lăcrămioara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Romanian
Rating: 87% based on 7 votes
Means
"lily of the valley" in Romanian (species Convallaria majalis). It is derived from a
diminutive form of
lacrămă "tear".
Leichan
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Manipuri
Rating: 90% based on 5 votes
Means "mosaic of flowers" in Meitei.
Lestari
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Indonesian
Pronounced: ləs-TA-ree
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Means "eternal, abiding" in Indonesian.
Licarayen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Mapuche
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Means "stone flower" in Mapuche, from likan "a type of black stone" and rayen "flower". According to a Mapuche legend this was the name of a maiden who sacrificed herself in order to stop the wrath of the evil spirit of a volcano.
Lilith
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Semitic Mythology, Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend
Other Scripts: לילית(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: LIL-ith(English)
Rating: 93% based on 3 votes
Derived from Akkadian
lilitu meaning
"of the night". This was the name of a demon in ancient Assyrian myths. In Jewish tradition she was
Adam's first wife, sent out of Eden and replaced by
Eve because she would not submit to him. The offspring of Adam (or
Samael) and Lilith were the evil spirits of the world.
Ling
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Chinese
Other Scripts: 灵, 铃, etc.(Chinese) 靈, 鈴, etc.(Traditional Chinese)
Pronounced: LEENG
From Chinese
灵 (líng) meaning "spirit, soul",
铃 (líng) meaning "bell, chime", or other Chinese characters that are pronounced similarly.
Linnéa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish
Pronounced: lin-NEH-a
Rating: 77% based on 3 votes
From the name of a flower, also known as the twinflower. The Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus named it after himself, it being his favourite flower.
Liyana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Zulu, English (Modern, Rare)
Rating: 83% based on 3 votes
Directly taken from Zulu
liyana "it is raining". As an English name, it is a variant of
Liana.
Llywelyn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: shəw-EH-lin(Welsh) loo-EHL-in(English)
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Probably a Welsh form of an unattested old Celtic name *
Lugubelinos, a combination of the names of the gods
Lugus and
Belenus, or a compound of
Lugus and a Celtic root meaning "strong". Alternatively it may be derived from Welsh
llyw "leader". This was the name of several Welsh rulers, notably the 13th-century Llywelyn the Great who fought against the English.
Lochlainn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish, Old Irish [1]
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Means "Viking, Scandinavian" from Old Irish Lochlann, a name for Scandinavia. It means "land of the lakes", derived from loch "lake".
Lucinda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Portuguese, Literature
Pronounced: loo-SIN-də(English)
Rating: 63% based on 4 votes
An elaboration of
Lucia created by Cervantes for his novel
Don Quixote (1605). It was subsequently used by Molière in his play
The Doctor in Spite of Himself (1666).
Luljeta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Albanian
Rating: 85% based on 2 votes
Means "flower of life" in Albanian, from lule "flower" and jetë "life".
Luningning
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Tagalog
Pronounced: loo-neeng-NEENG
Rating: 100% based on 3 votes
Means "brilliance" in Tagalog.
Lusine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Armenian
Other Scripts: Լուսինե(Armenian)
Pronounced: loo-see-NEH
From Armenian
լուսին (lusin) meaning
"moon".
Lyra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Astronomy
Pronounced: LIE-rə(English)
Rating: 92% based on 6 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).
Maëline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Modern), French (Belgian, Modern)
Rating: 83% based on 4 votes
Magnolia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: mag-NO-lee-ə
Rating: 90% based on 4 votes
From the English word magnolia for the flower, which was named for the French botanist Pierre Magnol.
Mahpiya
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Sioux
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From Dakota or Lakota maȟpíya meaning "cloud, sky". This is the first part of the names of the Dakota chief Mahpiya Wicasta (1780-1863), known as Cloud Man, and the Lakota chiefs Mahpiya Luta (1822-1909), known as Red Cloud, and Mahpiya Iyapato (1838-1905), known as Touch the Clouds.
Maira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Μαῖρα(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
From Greek
μαρμαίρω (marmairo) meaning
"sparkle, gleam, flash". This name was borne by several characters in Greek
mythology, including one of the Nereids.
Máire
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: MA-ryə
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Irish form of
Maria (see
Mary). The form
Muire is used to refer to the Virgin Mary.
Malalai
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Pashto
Other Scripts: ملالۍ(Pashto)
Pronounced: ma-lah-LIE
Rating: 90% based on 3 votes
Means "sad, grieved" in Pashto. This was the name of a Pashtun woman who encouraged the Afghan forces during the 1880 Battle of Maiwand against the British.
Marama
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Maori, Polynesian Mythology
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Means
"moon" in Maori. This is the name of a moon god (or goddess) in Maori
mythology.
Maristella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Marnie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MAHR-nee
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Possibly a
diminutive of
Marina. This name was brought to public attention by Alfred Hitchcock's movie
Marnie (1964), itself based on a 1961 novel by Winston Graham.
Mawar
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Indonesian, Malay
Pronounced: MA-war(Indonesian)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Means "rose" in Malay and Indonesian.
Melchior
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend, French (Rare), Dutch (Rare)
Pronounced: MEHL-kee-awr(English) MEHL-KYAWR(French) MEHL-khee-awr(Dutch)
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Possibly from the Hebrew roots
מֶלֶכְ (melekh) meaning "king" and
אוֹר ('or) meaning "light". This was a name traditionally assigned to one of the wise men (also known as the Magi, or three kings) who were said to have visited the newborn
Jesus. According to medieval tradition he was a king of Persia.
Milagros
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: mee-LA-ghros
Means
"miracles" in Spanish. It is taken from the title of the Virgin
Mary,
Nuestra Señora de los Milagros, which means "Our Lady of Miracles".
Mirèlha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Occitan
Variant of
Mirèio using classical Occitan spelling conventions.
Mirembe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ganda
Means "peace" in Luganda.
Miroslav
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Czech, Slovak, Russian, Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Macedonian
Other Scripts: Мирослав(Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian)
Pronounced: MI-ro-slaf(Czech) MEE-raw-slow(Slovak) myi-ru-SLAF(Russian)
Rating: 65% based on 6 votes
Derived from the Slavic elements
mirŭ "peace, world" and
slava "glory". This was the name of a 10th-century king of Croatia who was deposed by one of his nobles after ruling for four years.
Miruna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Romanian
Possibly derived from the Slavic word mir meaning "peace" or Romanian mira meaning "to wonder, to astound".
Moira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish, Scottish, English
Pronounced: MOI-rə(English)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Anglicized form of
Máire. It also coincides with Greek
Μοῖρα (Moira) meaning "fate, destiny", the singular of
Μοῖραι, the Greek name for the Fates. They were the three female personifications of destiny in Greek
mythology.
Montserrat
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Catalan
Pronounced: moon-sə-RAT
Rating: 82% based on 5 votes
From the name of a mountain near Barcelona, the site of a monastery founded in the 10th century. The mountain gets its name from Latin mons serratus meaning "jagged mountain".
Morana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Slavic Mythology, Croatian
Rating: 90% based on 3 votes
From Old Slavic
morŭ meaning
"death, plague" [1]. In Slavic
mythology this was the name of a goddess associated with winter and death.
Müge
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Turkish
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
Means "lily of the valley" in Turkish (species Convallaria majalis).
Myra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MIE-rə
Rating: 83% based on 3 votes
Created by the 17th-century poet Fulke Greville. He possibly based it on Latin
myrra meaning "myrrh" (a fragrant resin obtained from a tree). Otherwise, he may have simply rearranged the letters from the name
Mary. Although unrelated etymologically, this is also the name of an ancient city of Anatolia.
Myron
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Ukrainian, Ancient Greek
Other Scripts: Мирон(Ukrainian) Μύρων(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: MIE-rən(English) MUY-RAWN(Classical Greek)
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Derived from Greek
μύρον (myron) meaning
"sweet oil, perfume". Myron was the name of a 5th-century BC Greek sculptor.
Saints bearing this name include a 3rd-century bishop of Crete and a 4th-century martyr from Cyzicus who was killed by a mob. These saints are more widely revered in the Eastern Church, and the name has generally been more common among Eastern Christians. As an English name, it has been used since the 19th century.
Naira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Aymara
From Aymara nayra meaning "eye" or "early".
Narayana
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hinduism, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil
Other Scripts: नारायण(Sanskrit) ನಾರಾಯಣ(Kannada) నారాయణ(Telugu) நாராயணா(Tamil)
Rating: 88% based on 4 votes
Means
"path of man" in Sanskrit. In Hindu belief this is the name of the god of creation, later synonymous with the god
Brahma, and even later with
Vishnu.
Nausicaa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ναυσικάα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: naw-SIK-ee-ə(English)
Rating: 88% based on 5 votes
Latinized form of Greek
Ναυσικάα (Nausikaa) meaning
"burner of ships". In
Homer's epic the
Odyssey this is the name of a daughter of Alcinous who helps
Odysseus on his journey home.
Nephele
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Νεφέλη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: NEH-PEH-LEH(Classical Greek) NEHF-ə-lee(English)
Rating: 85% based on 4 votes
From Greek
νέφος (nephos) meaning
"cloud". In Greek legend Nephele was created from a cloud by
Zeus, who shaped the cloud to look like
Hera in order to trick Ixion, a mortal who desired her. Nephele was the mother of the centaurs by Ixion, and was also the mother of Phrixus and Helle by Athamus.
Nereida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: neh-RAY-dha
Rating: 83% based on 6 votes
Derived from Greek
Νηρηΐδες (Nereides) meaning
"nymphs, sea sprites", ultimately derived from the name of the Greek sea god
Nereus, who supposedly fathered them.
Nerida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Indigenous Australian
Possibly means "water lily" in an Australian Aboriginal language.
Nesrîn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Kurdish
Other Scripts: نەسرین(Kurdish Sorani)
Rating: 100% based on 3 votes
Means "eglantine, sweetbrier" in Kurdish.
Niamh
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish, Irish Mythology
Pronounced: NYEEW(Irish) NYEEV(Irish)
Rating: 100% based on 4 votes
Means
"bright" in Irish. She was the daughter of the sea god
Manannán mac Lir in Irish legends. She fell in love with the poet
Oisín, the son of
Fionn mac Cumhaill. It has been used as a given name for people only since the early 20th century.
Nishant
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati
Other Scripts: निशान्त, निशांत(Hindi) निशांत(Marathi) નિશાંત(Gujarati)
Rating: 87% based on 3 votes
Means "night's end, dawn" in Sanskrit.
Nolwenn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Breton
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
From the Breton phrase
Noyal Gwenn meaning
"holy one from Noyal". This was the epithet of a 6th-century
saint and martyr from Brittany.
Nyx
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Νύξ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: NUYKS(Classical Greek) NIKS(English)
Rating: 84% based on 5 votes
Means "night" in Greek. This was the name of the Greek goddess of the night, the daughter of Khaos and the wife of Erebos.
Odessa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Various
Rating: 88% based on 5 votes
From the name of a Ukrainian city that sits on the north coast of the Black Sea, which was named after the ancient Greek city of
Ὀδησσός (Odessos), of uncertain meaning. This name can also be used as a feminine form of
Odysseus.
Odtsetseg
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Mongolian
Other Scripts: Одцэцэг(Mongolian Cyrillic)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Means
"star flower" in Mongolian, from
од (od) meaning "star" and
цэцэг (tsetseg) meaning "flower".
Olympia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek, Slovak
Other Scripts: Ολυμπία(Greek)
Rating: 65% based on 4 votes
Oswald
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, German
Pronounced: AHZ-wawld(English) AWS-valt(German)
Rating: 90% based on 3 votes
Derived from the Old English elements
os "god" and
weald "powerful, mighty".
Saint Oswald was a king of Northumbria who introduced Christianity to northeastern England in the 7th century before being killed in battle. There was also an Old Norse
cognate Ásvaldr in use in England, being borne by the 10th-century Saint Oswald of Worcester, who was of Danish ancestry. Though the name had died out by the end of the Middle Ages, it was revived in the 19th century.
Palesa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Sotho
Means "flower" in Sotho.
Parvaneh
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Persian
Other Scripts: پروانه(Persian)
Pronounced: par-vaw-NEH
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Means "butterfly" in Persian.
Parvin
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Persian, Urdu, Hindi
Other Scripts: پروین(Persian, Urdu) परवीन(Hindi)
Means "the Pleiades" in Persian. The Pleiades are a group of stars in the constellation Taurus. This name is typically feminine in Iran, but unisex in India.
Percival
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arthurian Cycle, English
Pronounced: PUR-si-vəl(English)
Rating: 70% based on 3 votes
Created by the 12th-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes for his poem
Perceval, the Story of the Grail. Chrétien may have derived the name from Old French
perce val "pierce the valley", or he may have based it loosely on the Welsh name
Peredur [1]. In the poem Perceval is a boy from Wales who hopes to become a knight under King
Arthur. Setting out to prove himself, he eventually comes to the castle of the Fisher King and is given a glimpse of the Grail.
Peregrine
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: PEHR-ə-grin
Rating: 93% based on 4 votes
From the Late Latin name
Peregrinus, which meant
"traveller". This was the name of several early
saints.
Persis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Greek
Other Scripts: Περσίς(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Greek name meaning
"Persian woman". This was the name of a woman mentioned in
Paul's epistle to the Romans in the
New Testament.
Petra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Dutch, Spanish, Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Croatian, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Swedish, Finnish, English
Other Scripts: Петра(Bulgarian) Πέτρα(Greek)
Pronounced: PEH-tra(German, Dutch, Czech, Slovak) PEH-traw(Hungarian) PEHT-rah(Finnish) PEHT-rə(English)
Rating: 88% based on 5 votes
Feminine form of
Peter. This was also the name of an ancient city in the region that is now Jordan.
Pleiades
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, Astronomy
Pronounced: pliːədiːz, plaɪədiːz
Rating: 87% based on 3 votes
Name of a star cluster, likely meaning "to sail", from the ancient Greek 'plein'. Also used in Greek mythology, the Pleiades were the seven daughters of
Pleione and
Atlas, thus meaning "daughters of Pleione".
Qamariyya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: قَمَرِيَّة(Arabic)
Rating: 87% based on 3 votes
From masculine
قَمَرِيّ (
qamariyy) or feminine
قَمَرِيَّة (
qamariyya), both meaning "lunar, related to the moon" in Arabic. It may therefore be seen as a strictly feminine variant of
Qamar.
Ravenna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: rə-VEHN-ə
Personal remark: also "the one"
Rating: 90% based on 6 votes
Either an elaboration of
Raven, or else from the name of the city of Ravenna in Italy.
Rayyan
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: ريّان(Arabic)
Pronounced: rie-YAN
Rating: 85% based on 2 votes
Means "watered, luxuriant" in Arabic. According to Islamic tradition this is the name of one of the gates of paradise.
Raziela
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew (Rare)
Other Scripts: רָזִיאֵלָה(Hebrew)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
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: 100% based on 2 votes
French form of
Renatus. A famous bearer was the French mathematician and rationalist philosopher René Descartes (1596-1650).
Rhea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, Roman Mythology
Other Scripts: Ῥέα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: REH-A(Classical Greek) REE-ə(English) REH-a(Latin)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Roimata
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Maori
Rating: 63% based on 3 votes
Means "teardrop" in Maori.
Róisín
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: ro-SHEEN
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Diminutive of
Róis or the Irish word
rós meaning
"rose" (of Latin origin). It appears in the 17th-century song
Róisín Dubh.
Rosaire
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: RO-ZEHR
Rating: 90% based on 3 votes
Means "rosary" in French.
Rowena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ro-EEN-ə
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Meaning uncertain. According to the 12th-century chronicler Geoffrey of Monmouth, this was the name of a daughter of the Saxon chief Hengist. It is possible (but unsupported) that Geoffrey based it on the Old English elements
hroð "fame" and
wynn "joy", or alternatively on the Old Welsh elements
ron "spear" and
gwen "white". It was popularized by Walter Scott, who used it for a character in his novel
Ivanhoe (1819).
Rúna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Old Norse [1], Icelandic, Faroese
Pronounced: ROO-na(Icelandic)
Rating: 90% based on 3 votes
Old Norse, Icelandic and Faroese feminine form of
Rune.
Ruqayyah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: رقيّة(Arabic)
Pronounced: roo-KIE-yah
Derived either from Arabic
رقى (ruqia) meaning
"rise, ascent" or from
رقية (ruqyah) meaning
"spell, charm, incantation". This was the name of one of the daughters of the Prophet
Muhammad. She became a wife of
Uthman, the third caliph of the Muslims. The name was also borne by daughters of
Ali and
Husayn.
Şahin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Turkish
Rating: 87% based on 3 votes
Means "hawk" in Turkish, of Persian origin.
Sandhya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hinduism, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam
Other Scripts: संध्या(Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi) సంధ్యా(Telugu) சந்தியா(Tamil) ಸಂಧ್ಯಾ(Kannada) സന്ധ്യ(Malayalam)
Rating: 80% based on 4 votes
Means
"twilight" in Sanskrit. This is the name of the daughter of the Hindu god
Brahma.
Saoirse
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: SEER-shə
Rating: 93% based on 4 votes
Means "freedom" in Irish Gaelic. It was first used as a given name in the 20th century.
Sarai
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Hebrew, Spanish
Other Scripts: שָׂרָי(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: SEHR-ie(English) sə-RIE(English)
Rating: 93% based on 4 votes
Sarıada
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Yakut
Other Scripts: Сарыада(Yakut)
Rating: 86% based on 5 votes
From сарыал (sarıal) meaning "radiance, halo, shining".
Saskia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch, German
Pronounced: SAHS-kee-a(Dutch) ZAS-kya(German)
Rating: 100% 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.
Selene
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Σελήνη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: SEH-LEH-NEH(Classical Greek) si-LEE-nee(English)
Rating: 93% based on 6 votes
Means
"moon" in Greek. This was the name of a Greek goddess of the moon, a Titan. She was sometimes identified with the goddess
Artemis.
Séphora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: SEH-FAW-RA
Rating: 83% based on 3 votes
Serafina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese (Rare)
Pronounced: seh-ra-FEE-na(Spanish)
Rating: 93% based on 6 votes
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of
Seraphina.
Séraphin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: SEH-RA-FEHN
Rating: 90% based on 4 votes
Seraphina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), German (Rare), Late Roman
Pronounced: sehr-ə-FEEN-ə(English) zeh-ra-FEE-na(German)
Rating: 88% based on 5 votes
Feminine form of the Late Latin name
Seraphinus, derived from the biblical word
seraphim, which was Hebrew in origin and meant
"fiery ones". The seraphim were an order of angels, described by Isaiah in the Bible as having six wings each.
This was the name of a 13th-century Italian saint who made clothes for the poor. As an English name, it has never been common.
Shachar
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: שַׁחַר(Hebrew)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Means "dawn" in Hebrew.
Shailaja
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hinduism, Telugu
Other Scripts: शैलजा(Sanskrit) శైలజ(Telugu)
Rating: 85% based on 2 votes
Means
"daughter of the mountain" in Sanskrit, from
शैल (shaila) meaning "mountain" and
ज (ja) meaning "born". This is another name of the Hindu goddess
Parvati.
Sharada
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hinduism, Hindi, Marathi, Nepali
Other Scripts: शारदा(Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi, Nepali)
Means
"autumnal, associated with autumn" in Sanskrit, a derivative of
शरद् (sharad) meaning "autumn". This is another name for the Hindu goddess
Saraswati.
Shiloh
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: שִׁלוֹ, שִׁילֹה(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: SHIE-lo(English)
Rating: 80% based on 5 votes
From an
Old Testament place name possibly meaning
"tranquil" in Hebrew. It is also used prophetically in the Old Testament to refer to a person, often understood to be the Messiah (see
Genesis 49:10). This may in fact be a mistranslation.
This name was brought to public attention after actors Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt gave it to their daughter in 2006.
Shira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: שִׁירָה(Hebrew)
Rating: 73% based on 3 votes
Means "singing" in Hebrew.
Shokoufeh
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Persian
Other Scripts: شکوفه(Persian)
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
Means "blossom" in Persian.
Síofra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: SHEE-frə
Rating: 82% based on 6 votes
Means "elf, sprite" in Irish. This name was created in the 20th century.
Sireli
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Estonian
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Derived from Estonian sireli, the genitive form of sirel, "lilac".
Sitara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Urdu
Other Scripts: ستارہ(Urdu)
Means "star" in Urdu, ultimately from Persian.
Soledad
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: so-leh-DHADH
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Means
"solitude" in Spanish. It is taken from the title of the Virgin
Mary,
María de la Soledad, meaning "Mary of Solitude".
Solikha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Khmer
Pronounced: SO-LEE-KAH
Rating: 80% based on 5 votes
Solikha means "Flower of death" but actually is the flower of salvation. It is noted in old Sanskrit text abut a mountain made of corpses. Atop that mountain was a large black flower with sweetest scented dew. Many men have trek the path up the mountain because rumor has it, that the flower grant wishes. In truth, it did not. The flower's nature was to reveal your true intentions. If you went to ask it in false, you'd smell the sweet dew and get poison and become part of the mountain. If you are true, then the path of enlightenment is revealed.
Solveig
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norwegian, Swedish, Danish
Pronounced: SOOL-vie(Norwegian) SOOL-vay(Swedish)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From an Old Norse name, which was derived from the elements
sól "sun" and
veig "strength". This is the name of the heroine in Henrik Ibsen's play
Peer Gynt (1876).
Sons-ee-ah-ray
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Apache
Possibly means
"morning star" from Apache
sons-ee-ah-ray [1]. This name was featured in the western movie
Broken Arrow (1950).
Sophron
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek
Other Scripts: Σώφρων(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Means "self-controlled, sensible" in Greek. This name was borne by the 5th-century BC writer Sophron of Syracuse.
Soraya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Persian, Spanish, French, Portuguese (Brazilian)
Other Scripts: ثریا(Persian)
Pronounced: so-ray-YAW(Persian) so-RA-ya(Spanish)
Persian form of
Thurayya. It became popular in some parts of Europe because of the fame of Princess Soraya (1932-2001), wife of the last Shah of Iran, who became a European socialite.
Sorcha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish, Scottish Gaelic [1]
Pronounced: SAWR-ə-khə(Irish) SUR-kə(English) SAWR-aw-khə(Scottish Gaelic)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Means
"radiant, bright" in Irish. It has been in use since late medieval times
[2]. It is sometimes Anglicized as
Sarah (in Ireland) and
Clara (in Scotland).
Stateira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Old Persian (Hellenized), History
Other Scripts: Στάτειρα(Greek) استاتیرای(Persian)
Pronounced: STAH-tee-rah(Greek)
Rating: 85% based on 2 votes
Allegedly means "creation of the stars", in which case it would be related to Persian
sitareh "star". This was probably the usual name of Alexander the Great's second wife, a daughter of the Persian king Darius III, formally named
Barsine. After Alexander's death Stateira was murdered by his first wife
Roxana.
Modern historians have tried to identify the biblical Vashti with that of the Persian queen Stateira, even suggesting that Vashti is a diminutive of Vashtateira.
Stelara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Esperanto
Pronounced: steh-LA-ra
Rating: 93% based on 3 votes
From Esperanto stelaro meaning "constellation", ultimately from Latin stella "star".
Sunniva
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norwegian
Rating: 93% based on 6 votes
Scandinavian form of the Old English name
Sunngifu, which meant
"sun gift" from the Old English elements
sunne "sun" and
giefu "gift". This was the name of a legendary English
saint who was shipwrecked in Norway and killed by the inhabitants.
Swapan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Bengali
Other Scripts: স্বপন(Bengali)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Derived from Sanskrit
स्वपन (svapana) meaning
"sleeping, dreaming".
Sybilla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Polish, Late Roman
Pronounced: si-BEEL-la(Polish)
Rating: 90% based on 4 votes
Polish form and Latin variant of
Sibylla.
Sylvan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Rating: 93% based on 3 votes
Either a variant of
Silvanus or directly from the Latin word
silva meaning
"wood, forest".
Tajeǧǧigt
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Berber
Other Scripts: ⵜⴰⵊⴻⴵⴵⵉⴳⵜ(Tifinagh)
Tāne
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Maori, Polynesian Mythology
Rating: 85% based on 6 votes
Means
"man" in Maori. In Maori and other Polynesian
mythology Tāne was the god of forests and light. He was the son of the sky god
Rangi and the earth goddess
Papa, who were locked in an embrace and finally separated by their son. He created the tui bird and, by some accounts, man.
Taras
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ukrainian, Russian, Belarusian
Other Scripts: Тарас(Ukrainian, Russian, Belarusian)
Pronounced: tu-RAS(Russian)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Ukrainian, Russian and Belarusian form of the Greek name
Ταράσιος (Tarasios), which possibly means
"from Taras". Taras was an Italian city, now called Taranto, which was founded by Greek colonists in the 8th century BC and was named for the Greek mythological figure Taras, a son of
Poseidon.
Saint Tarasios was an 8th-century bishop of Constantinople. It was also borne by the Ukrainian writer and artist Taras Shevchenko (1814-1861).
Tatiana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, French, Slovak, Polish, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, Dutch, Greek, Georgian, English, Russian, Bulgarian, Ancient Roman
Other Scripts: Τατιάνα(Greek) ტატიანა(Georgian) Татьяна(Russian) Татяна(Bulgarian)
Pronounced: ta-TYA-na(Italian, Spanish, Polish, German) TAH-tee-ah-nah(Finnish) ta-TYAHN-ə(English) tu-TYA-nə(Russian)
Rating: 92% based on 5 votes
Feminine form of the Roman name
Tatianus, a derivative of the Roman name
Tatius. This was the name of a 3rd-century
saint who was martyred in Rome under the emperor Alexander Severus. She was especially venerated in Orthodox Christianity, and the name has been common in Russia (as
Татьяна) and Eastern Europe. It was not regularly used in the English-speaking world until the 1980s.
Tayanita
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Cherokee
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Means
"young beaver" in Cherokee, derived from
ᏙᏯ (doya) meaning "beaver".
Temperance
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: TEHM-prəns, TEHM-pər-əns
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
From the English word meaning
"moderation" or
"restraint". This was one of the virtue names adopted by the
Puritans in the 17th century. It experienced a modest revival in the United States during the run of the television series
Bones (2005-2017), in which the main character bears this name.
Terra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: TEHR-ə
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Variant of
Tara 1, perhaps influenced by the Latin word
terra meaning "land, earth".
Thalassa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Θάλασσα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: TA-LAS-SA(Classical Greek)
Rating: 93% based on 3 votes
Means
"sea" in Greek. In Greek
mythology she was the personification of the sea. A small moon of Neptune is named for her.
Thanatos
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Θάνατος(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: TA-NA-TOS(Classical Greek) THAN-ə-tahs(English)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Means
"death" in Greek. This was the name of the Greek god of death who resided with
Hades in the underworld.
Thea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, English
Pronounced: TEH-a(German) THEE-ə(English)
Rating: 93% based on 6 votes
Thekla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Rare), Greek (Rare), Late Greek
Other Scripts: Θέκλα(Greek)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
From the ancient Greek name
Θεόκλεια (Theokleia), which meant
"glory of God" from the Greek elements
θεός (theos) meaning "god" and
κλέος (kleos) meaning "glory". This was the name of a 1st-century
saint, appearing (as
Θέκλα) in the apocryphal
Acts of Paul and Thecla. The story tells how Thecla listens to Paul speak about the virtues of chastity and decides to remain a virgin, angering both her mother and her suitor.
Theophania
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Θεοφάνια(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 97% based on 3 votes
Thurayya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: ثريّا, ثريّة(Arabic)
Pronounced: thoo-RIE-ya, thoo-RIE-yah
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Means "the Pleiades" in Arabic. The Pleiades are a group of stars in the constellation Taurus.
Tiamat
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Semitic Mythology
Other Scripts: 𒀭𒋾𒊩𒆳, 𒀭𒌓𒌈(Akkadian Cuneiform)
Pronounced: TEE-ə-maht(English)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From Akkadian
tâmtu meaning
"sea". In Babylonian
myth Tiamat was the personification of the sea, appearing in the form of a huge dragon. By Apsu she gave birth to the first of the gods. Later, the god
Marduk (her great-grandson) defeated her, cut her in half, and used the pieces of her body to make the earth and the sky.
Tindra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish (Modern)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Means "to twinkle, to sparkle" in Swedish.
Tsvetan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Bulgarian
Other Scripts: Цветан(Bulgarian)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Derived from Bulgarian
цвет (tsvet) meaning
"flower, blossom".
Tuyết
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Vietnamese
Pronounced: TWEET, TWEEK
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
From Sino-Vietnamese
雪 (tuyết) meaning
"snow".
Úna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish, Medieval Irish [1]
Pronounced: OO-nə(Irish)
Probably derived from Old Irish úan meaning "lamb". This was a common name in medieval Ireland.
Ùna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Scottish Gaelic
Pronounced: OO-nə
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Scottish Gaelic form of
Úna.
Ursula
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Swedish, Danish, German, Dutch, Finnish, Late Roman
Pronounced: UR-sə-lə(English) UR-syoo-lə(English) UWR-zoo-la(German) OOR-soo-lah(Finnish)
Rating: 73% based on 4 votes
Means
"little bear", derived from a
diminutive form of the Latin word
ursa "she-bear".
Saint Ursula was a legendary virgin princess of the 4th century who was martyred by the Huns while returning from a pilgrimage. In England the saint was popular during the Middle Ages, and the name came into general use at that time.
Valdís
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Old Norse [1], Icelandic
Rating: 97% based on 3 votes
Derived from Old Norse
valr meaning "the dead, the slain" and
dís meaning "goddess".
Valkyrie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Various (Rare)
Pronounced: VAL-ki-ree(English)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Means
"chooser of the slain", derived from Old Norse
valr "the slain" and
kyrja "chooser". In Norse
myth the Valkyries were maidens who led heroes killed in battle to Valhalla.
Vardan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Armenian
Other Scripts: Վարդան(Armenian)
Pronounced: vahr-TAHN
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Derived from Armenian
վարդ (vard) meaning
"rose", ultimately from an Iranian language.
Vasilisa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Василиса(Russian)
Pronounced: və-syi-LYEE-sə
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Vered
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: וֶרֶד(Hebrew)
Means "rose" in Hebrew, originally a borrowing from an Iranian language.
Vesper
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology, Dutch (Modern)
Pronounced: WEHS-pehr(Latin) VEHS-pər(English)
Rating: 88% based on 6 votes
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.
Vespera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Esperanto
Pronounced: vehs-PEH-ra
Rating: 93% based on 4 votes
Means "of the evening", derived from Esperanto vespero "evening", ultimately from Latin vesper.
Victor
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French, Portuguese, Romanian, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Late Roman
Pronounced: VIK-tər(English) VEEK-TAWR(French) VEEK-tor(Romanian)
Rating: 88% based on 5 votes
Roman name meaning
"victor, conqueror" in Latin. It was common among early Christians, and was borne by several early
saints and three popes. It was rare as an English name during the Middle Ages, but it was revived in the 19th century. A famous bearer was the French writer Victor Hugo (1802-1885), who authored
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and
Les Misérables.
Viola
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak
Pronounced: vie-O-lə(English) vi-O-lə(English) VIE-ə-lə(English) VYAW-la(Italian) vi-OO-la(Swedish) VEE-o-la(German) vee-O-la(German) VEE-o-law(Hungarian) VI-o-la(Czech) VEE-aw-la(Slovak)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Means
"violet" in Latin. This is the name of the heroine of William Shakespeare's comedy
Twelfth Night (1602). In the play she is the survivor of a shipwreck who disguises herself as a man named Cesario. Working as a messenger for Duke
Orsino, she attempts to convince
Olivia to marry him. Instead Viola falls in love with the duke.
Viorel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Romanian
Derived from viorea, the Romanian word for the alpine squill flower (species Scilla bifolia) or the sweet violet flower (species Viola odorata). It is derived from Latin viola "violet".
Vittoria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: veet-TAW-rya
Rating: 100% based on 3 votes
Wâpanacâhkos
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Cree
Other Scripts: ᐋᐧᐸᓇᒑᐦᑯᐢ(Cree)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Means "morning star, Venus" in Cree.
Winifred
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Welsh
Pronounced: WIN-ə-frid(English)
Rating: 98% based on 4 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.
Xewali
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Assamese
Other Scripts: শেৱালি(Assamese)
Rating: 94% based on 7 votes
Means "night-flowering jasmine" in Assamese.
Xeyal
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Kurdish
Rating: 88% based on 5 votes
Means "daydream, illusion" in Kurdish.
Xiadani
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Zapotec
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Meaning uncertain, said to mean "the flower that arrived" in Zapotec.
Xochipilli
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Aztec and Toltec Mythology
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Means
"flower prince" in Nahuatl, from
xōchitl "flower" and
pilli "noble child, prince"
[1]. Xochipilli was the Aztec god of love, flowers, song and games, the twin brother of
Xochiquetzal.
Xochiquetzal
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Aztec and Toltec Mythology, Nahuatl
Pronounced: sho-chee-KEHT-sash(Nahuatl)
Derived from Nahuatl
xōchitl "flower" and
quetzalli "quetzal feather, precious thing"
[1]. This was the name of the Aztec goddess of love, flowers and the earth, the twin sister of
Xochipilli.
Yoloxochitl
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Nahuatl
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Derived from Nahuatl
yōllōtl "heart" and
xōchitl "flower"
[1].
Yume
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 夢, 裕芽, etc.(Japanese Kanji) ゆめ(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: YOO-MEH
Rating: 82% based on 5 votes
From Japanese
夢 (yume) meaning "dream, vision". It can also come from
裕 (yu) meaning "abundant, rich, plentiful" and
芽 (me) meaning "bud, sprout", as well as other kanji or kanji combinations.
Zephyr
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Anglicized)
Other Scripts: Ζέφυρος(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: ZEHF-ər(English)
Rating: 83% based on 7 votes
From the Greek
Ζέφυρος (Zephyros) meaning
"west wind". Zephyros was the Greek god of the west wind.
Zhansaya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Kazakh
Other Scripts: Жансая(Kazakh)
From Kazakh
жан (zhan) meaning "soul" and
сая (saya) meaning "shadow, shade, protection, comfort" (both of Persian origin).
Zozan
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Kurdish, Yazidi
Rating: 86% based on 5 votes
Means "flower garden" in Yezidi.
Zuhura
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swahili, Dhivehi
Other Scripts: ޒުހުރާ(Dhivehi)
Rating: 92% based on 5 votes
Means
"Venus (planet)" in Swahili and Dhivehi. Both are borrowed from Arabic
الزهرة (al-Zuharah), derived from the root
زهر (zahara) meaning "to shine".
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