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This is a list of submitted names in which the gender is feminine; and the first letter is D.
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Dolya f Bulgarian, Slavic Mythology
Goddess of fate in East Slavic Mythology, personification of the fate bestowed upon a man at birth. She is described as a plainly dressed woman able to turn herself into various shapes. When she is positive she is named Dolya, when negative she turns into Nedolya.
Dolza f Medieval Jewish, Jewish (Archaic), Gascon, Judeo-Provençal
Variant of Dolça. It was recorded in what is modern-day Germany from the 12th century onwards.
Dolze f Medieval Jewish
Variant of Dolza. It was recorded in what is present-day Germany from the 12th century onwards.
Doma f Croatian
Either from the noun dom meaning ‘'home'’ or a short form of Dominika.
Domaczaja f Medieval Polish
Derived from the Slavic name element *domъ "home" and czaj "to expect".
Domakha f Ukrainian
Ukrainian folk form of Domna.
Doman f Kurdish
Possibly from the Kurdish dom meaning "persistence, perseverance".
Domaslava f Medieval Russian
Derived from the Slavic elements domu "home" and slava "glory".
Dombi f Sanskrit
MEANING - a kind of drama... [more]
Dombina f Spanish (Archaic), Galician
Spanish and Galician feminine form of Dombert.
Dome m & f Occitan
Diminutive of Domenge, Domengina and their variants.
Domė f Lithuanian
Short form of feminine names that start with Dom-, such as Domantė, Domicelė and Dominyka.
Domeka f Basque, Medieval Basque
Medieval Basque form of Dominica.
Domelch f Pictish
Mother of a 6th century Pictish king
Domencha f Aragonese
Aragonese form of Dominga.
Domenga f Medieval Spanish, Medieval Basque
Medieval Spanish and Medieval Basque form of Dominica.
Domengina f Gascon
Feminine form of Domenge.
Domenika f Albanian, Greek (Rare)
Albanian feminine form of Dominic. It is also a Greek variant transcription of Ντομένικα (see Ntomenika).
Domenja f Gascon, Provençal, Lengadocian
Gascon feminine form of Domenjon and Provençal feminine form of Domenic.
Domerga f Provençal
Feminine form of Domergue.
Dómhildr f Old Norse
Derived from Old Norse dómr "judgement", "legal sentence", "fate", "doom" and hildr "battle", "fight".
Dómhildur f Icelandic
Younger form of Dómhildr.
Domi m & f Spanish
Short form of Domingo and Dominga.
Domicela f Polish
Polish form of Domitilla.
Domicelė f Lithuanian
Derived from medieval Latin domicella, which is the feminine form of domicellus, which literally means "little master" and was a term used to denote a young nobleman and/or junker. The term is a contraction of dominicellus, which is a diminutive of the Latin noun dominus meaning "master (of the house), lord".... [more]
Domicetta f German (Bessarabian)
Variant of Domicella influenced by names ending in -etta.
Domicia f Spanish
Spanish form of Domitia.
Domiciána f Hungarian
Feminine form of Domicián.
Domicila f Asturian
Asturian form of Domitilla.
Domicjana f Polish
Feminine form of Domicjan.
Domicussa f Medieval Basque
Feminine form of Domicu.
Domiduca f Roman Mythology
Feminine form of Domiducus. In Roman mythology, the goddess Domiduca protected children on the way back to their parents' home. She and her male counterpart Domiducus were also deities of marriage who accompanied the bridal procession as the newlywed couple arrived to their new home together on the wedding night... [more]
Domikutza f Medieval Basque
Combination of Domiku and the Basque feminine suffix -tza.
Domina f & m English (American, Rare)
Transferred use of the surname of Domina.
Domina f Romansh
Variant of Dumina.
Domingas f Portuguese
Feminine form of Domingos.
Domínica f Spanish
Spanish archaic feminine form of Dominic which is equivalent to Dominga.
Dominiek f & m Dutch
Dutch form of Dominique, with its spelling phonetical in nature.
Domìniga f Sardinian
Feminine form of Dominigu.
Dominiki f Greek
Greek form of Dominica.
Dominilde f Medieval French
Derived from Latin dominus "lord" and Old High German hiltja "battle".
Dominixe f Basque
Feminine form of Dominix.
Dominka f Croatian (Rare)
Feminine form of Dominko.
Dominka f Hungarian
Contracted form of Dominika.
Domino f Popular Culture, English (Rare)
Short form of Dominique. It was used by author Ian Fleming in his James Bond novel 'Thunderball' (1961), where the nickname belongs to Bond's Italian love interest Dominetta "Domino" Vitali (renamed Dominique "Domino" and simply Domino in the 1965 and 1983 film adaptations, respectively)... [more]
Dominyka f Lithuanian
Lithuanian form of Dominica.
Domisława f Polish
Feminine form of Domisław.
Domithilde f French (Quebec)
Variant of Domitille influenced by Mathilde.
Domitilda f Louisiana Creole
Louisiana Spanish form of Domitilde.
Domizia f Italian
Italian form of Domitia.
Domiziana f Italian
Feminine form of Domiziano.
Domka f Croatian, Slovene
Either from the noun dom meaning ‘'home'’ or a short form of Dominika.
Domnica f Romanian, Moldovan, Late Roman, History
Late Roman feminine form of Domnicus, this name is also considered a Romanian cognate of Dominica. Albia Domnica (ca... [more]
Domuša f Czech (Rare), Slovak (Rare)
Czech and Slovak diminutive of Dominika. Also compare Domuška.
Domuška f Czech, Slovak
Czech and Slovak diminutive of Dominika. Also compare Domuša.
Dona f Slovene (Rare)
Short form of Donata.
Dona f Kashubian
Diminutive of Aldona.
Dona f Judeo-Spanish, Judeo-Catalan, Judeo-Italian
Derived from Italian donna or Spanish doña, both meaning "lady".
Dona f Kongo
Princess/ Queen
Donaciana f Spanish
Spanish form of Donatiana.
Donají f Zapotec
Means "great soul" in Zapotec. According to legend, Donají was the last princess of the Zapotec and was prophesied at birth that she would sacrifice her life for her people.
Donalyn f Filipino
from Donna and Lyn
Donara f Soviet, Russian (Rare), Armenian
Contraction of Russian дочь народа (doč naroda) meaning "daughter of the people". This name was created by Communist parents who were eager to reject traditional names.
Donáta f Hungarian
Hungarian form of Donata.
Donate f French (Rare), Dutch (Rare)
French form of Donata. This French given name is also in use in the Netherlands, where it is about equally rare.
Donatela f Croatian, Albanian
Croatian and Albanian borrowing of Donatella.
Donathilde f Louisiana Creole, French (Quebec, Archaic)
Variant of Donatille influenced by names ending in -hilde.
Donatilė f Lithuanian
Lithuanian form of Donatilla.
Donatilia f Louisiana Creole, Portuguese (Brazilian)
Louisiana Spanish form of Donatilla as well as a Brazilian Portuguese elaborated form.
Donatilla f Late Roman, Sicilian
Diminutive of Donata. Also compare Donatella, which is basically a younger form of the name.... [more]
Donatille f French (Belgian, Rare), French (African)
French form of Donatilla. The name basically fell out of use in France in the early years of the 20th century, but it is still in use in the French-speaking regions in Africa.
Donatuccia f Medieval Italian, Italian (Rare)
Medieval Italian diminutive of Donata, as -uccia is an Italian feminine diminutive suffix.
Döndi f Turkmen
Means "returned" in Turkmen
Dondi m & f Popular Culture, English
From a comic strip first published in 1955. In this comicstrip, Dondi was an Italian orphan asking for his parents saying "dondi" all the time. In the comic strip this comes from people calling him dandy boy.
Do'ndiq f Uzbek
Means "pretty" in Uzbek.
Do'ndiqcha f Uzbek
Means "pretty" in Uzbek, also the name of a kind of silk or cotton fabric.
Dondrea f American (Rare)
Feminine form of Dondre.
Döndü f Turkish
Directly taken from Turkish döndü meaning "returned".
Donea f English (American, Rare)
Meaning unknown. Possibly a form of Danae, or diminutive of Idonea, or a feminized version of Don or a variation or feminized version of any name beginning with Don.
Donetta f English
Elaboration of Danette.
Dong m & f Korean
From the Korean Hangul 동 (dong) that can translate the Hanja 冬 meaning "winter" or 東 meaning "east" or 銅 meaning "copper" or 洞 meaning "neighborhood".
Dong-chim f Vietnamese
Means "eastern bird" in Vietnamese.
Dongdong m & f Chinese
From Chinese 冬 (dōng) meaning "winter" or 东 (dōng) meaning "east" combined with themselves... [more]
Dongluan f Chinese
From the Chinese 冬 (dōng) meaning "winter" and 銮 (luán) meaning "bells".
Dongmei f & m Chinese
From Chinese 冬 (dōng) meaning "winter" or 东 (dōng) meaning "east" combined with 梅 (méi) meaning "plum, apricot", 妹 (mèi) meaning "younger sister, girl" or 美 (měi) meaning "beautiful"... [more]
Dongming m & f Chinese
From Chinese 东 (dōng) meaning "east" or 冬 (dōng) meaning "winter" combined with 明 (míng) meaning "bright, light, clear"... [more]
Dongrao f & m Chinese
From the Chinese 冬 (dōng) meaning "winter" and 娆 (ráo) meaning "graceful, charming, fascinating".
Dongxiang m & f Chinese
From Chinese 东 (dōng) meaning "east" combined with 香 (xiāng) meaning "fragrant". Other character combinations can form this name as well.
Dongyang f Chinese
From the Chinese 冬 (dōng) meaning "winter" and 鸯 (yāng) meaning "female mandarin duck".
Dongying f Chinese
From the Chinese 冬 (dōng) meaning "winter" and 樱 (yīng) meaning "cherry, cherry blossom" or 瑛 (yīng) meaning "luster of gems, crystal".
Doni f English
Diminutive of Donalda Donna Donella Donaldina or Donnelle, also a feminine diminutive form of Donald
Donia f American (South, Archaic)
Short form of names ending in -donia, such as Aldonia, Fredonia, and Caledonia.
Donia f Arabic (Egyptian)
Egyptian Arabic form of Dunya.
Donie f American
Variant of Donnie or a diminutive of Donna.
Donielle f & m African American, English
Unisex variant of Donal, Donald, Donnell, Donelle and other names containing the same sound.
Donika f Albanian
Albanian form of Andronika. Donika Arianiti was the wife of 15th-century Albanian lord Gjergj Kastrioti Skënderbeu, Albania's most important national hero and a key figure of the Albanian National Awakening.
Donika f Slovene
Diminutive of Donata via Dona.
Donikë f Albanian
Variant of Donika.
Donisia f Aragonese
Feminine form of Donisio.
Donita f Spanish, English (American)
Spanish diminutive of Donata. As an English name, Donita may perhaps have been derived from Spanish doñita meaning "little lady", which is comparable to how Donna was derived from Italian donna meaning "lady".... [more]
Döníz f Hungarian
Hungarian phonetic rendering of French Denise.
Donja f Russian (Rare), Dutch, German (Rare), Swedish (Rare)
Alternate transcription of Russian Доня (see Donya). In languages other than Russian, the name Donja can also be derived from the Spanish word doña meaning "lady", in which case it is a more phonetical spelling of the word.... [more]
Donja f Esperanto
Spelling variant of Donya.
Donjeta f Albanian
Derived from Albanian don "will; desire" and jetë "life".
Dónka f Kashubian
Diminutive of Aldona via Aldónka and Donata.
Donkira f African American
Combination of Dawn and Kira 2.
Donnae f English (Rare)
Meaning uncertain. It might possibly be a feminization of Donnie, or a combination of Donna with a feminine name ending in -ae... [more]
Donnalyn f Filipino
Combination of Donna and the popular suffix -lyn.
Donnamarie f English
Combination of Donna and Marie.
Donnamira f Literature
Combination of Donna and Mira. This is the name of a hobbit mentioned in Tolkien's legendarium. Donnamira is one of the daughters of Gerontius Took, who married into the Boffin family... [more]
Donnarae f English
Combination of Donna and Rae.
Donnetta f American
Possibly a coined as a diminutive of Donna by way of adding the diminutive suffix -etta.
Donni f & m English (Rare)
Variation of Donnie
Donogo‘zal f Uzbek
Derived from dono meaning "wise" and go'zal meaning "beauty".
Donojamol f Uzbek
Derived from the Uzbek dono meaning "wise" and jamol meaning "beautiful".
Donoma f Omaha-Ponca
Means "sight of the sun" in Omaha–Ponca, from Omaha dóⁿbe "to see, look at, perceive" and miⁿ "sun, moon".
Dontrelle m & f African American (Modern, Rare)
A modern invented name of unknown meaning.
Dön’ya f Tatar
Tatar form of Dunya.
Donya f Russian (Rare)
Diminutive of Avdotya and Yevdokiya. Also compare Dunya.
Donya f Persian
Means "world".
Donyell m & f English (American), Dutch (Rare)
Variant form of Daniel (for men) and Danielle (for women), which was perhaps influenced by the name Don and its diminutive Donny... [more]
Donyella f African American
Probably a variant of Daniella, or possibly Donella
Donzaleigh f African American (Rare, ?)
Borne by US activist Donzaleigh Abernathy (1957-).
Dooakpo f & m Ijaw
Means "peaceful world" in Ijaw.
Doon f & m English, Literature
Transferred use of the surname Doon. Known bearers of this name include the American writer Doon Arbus (b. 1945) and the British comedian Doon Mackichan (b... [more]
Doona f Manx
Derived from Manx doo "black; black-haired, black headed".
Doo‘-pu‘un m & f Kelabit
Means "good from the beginning" in Kelabit.
Door f Literature
One of the main characters in Neil Gaiman's novel Neverwhere.
Door f & m Dutch, Limburgish
Dutch and Limburgish variant form of Dora (when borne by a female bearer) or a short form of Isidoor or Theodoor (when borne by a male bearer).
Doora f Estonian (Rare)
Estonian form of Dora.
Doorke f & m Limburgish
Limburgish diminutive form of Door. Although seen on both genders, it is most often used on females.
Doornroosje f Folklore, Literature
Dutch calque of Dornröschen. It consists of the Dutch words doorn meaning "thorn" and roos meaning "rose" combined with the Dutch diminutive suffix -je.
Doortje f Dutch
Dutch diminutive form of Door.
Dor m & f English (Modern)
Short form of Dorian, Doris and other names that starting with dor.
Dora f Romanian
Feminine form of Doru.
Dora f Indian, Sanskrit, Hindi, Tamil, Hinduism, Telugu, Marathi, Kannada, Bengali, Malayalam, Sinhalese, Nepali, Gujarati
MEANING : A fillet of thread or cord tied round the arm or wrist; it is also applied to the string tying a packet or parcel; string... [more]
Dora f Hebrew (Modern, Rare)
Feminine form of Dor.
Dorabella f Theatre, American (South, Rare, Archaic)
Dorabella is a character in Così fan tutte, ossia La scuola degli amanti (All Women Do It, or The School for Lovers; 1790 ), an opera buffa in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Doraci f & m Portuguese (Brazilian)
Combination of Dora and Juraci.
Doralba f Italian
Combination of Dora and Alba 1, with the overall meaning of "gift of dawn" or "white gift".
Doraldina f American (?)
This was the invented stage name of actress and dancer Dora Saunders (1888–1936), though she basically adapted this name for her everyday life.
Doralice f Literature, Theatre, Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian)
Name used by the poets Boiardo and Ariosto in their Orlando poems (1495 and 1532), where it belongs to a Saracen princess. Boiardo perhaps intended it to mean "gift of the dawn" from Greek δῶρον (doron) "gift" and λύκη (lyke) "dawn", or he may have formed it from a contraction of Dora and Alice.
Doraline f English (Rare), Portuguese (Brazilian, Rare)
Elaboration of Dora combining it with the productive name suffix -line or else a combination of Dora and Line.
Doralis f Spanish (Latin American)
Possibly a Hispanic variant of Doralice or simply an elaboration of Dora using the popular name suffix lis (which in turn is derived from Lisbeth or a related name).
Doralise f French (Cajun), American (South), Louisiana Creole, French (Acadian)
Variant of Doralice as well as an 18th- and 19th-century elaboration of Dora using the then-popular name suffix lise.
Doralyn f English (Rare)
Combination of Dora and the popular name suffix -lyn.
Doranda f Italian (Rare)
Truncated form of Adoranda.
Dorann f English (Rare)
Combination of Dora and Ann, perhaps used as a variant of Doreen or a feminine variant of Doran.
Dorarta f Albanian (Rare)
Feminine form of Dorart.
Dorastella f French (Rare)
Combination of Dora and Stella 1.
Doratea f Medieval Italian
Medieval Italian variant of Dorotea.
Dorathia f Scottish (Archaic)
Variant of Dorothea recorded in the 1600s.
Dorathy f English
Variant of Dorothy.
Doraura f Italian, Literature
Possibly a contraction of names Dora and Aura. It appears in tragicomedy "L'Armelindo" (1664) by Francesco Maria de Luco Sereni and in a novel "Il Floridoro ò vero Historia del conte di Racalmuto" (1703) by Gabriele Martiano.
Doray f Filipino
Diminutive of Dolores, Isadora and Teodora.
Dorcasina f Literature, English (American, Rare, Archaic)
Elaboration of Dorcas used by American author Tabitha Gilman Tenney for the title character in her novel 'Female Quixotism, Exhibited in the Romantic Opinions and Extravagant Adventures of Dorcasina Sheldon' (1801).
Dorcha f & m Irish
Means "dark", from Irish and Scottish Gaelic (dorcha) meaning “dark, dusky, enigmatic”, from Old Irish (dorchae) "dark, gloomy, obscure". Compare to Feardorcha.
Dordei f Norwegian (Archaic)
Norwegian dialectal variant of Dordi recorded in Buskerud.
Dordi f Norwegian, Swedish (Rare)
Diminutive of Dorede, which was a variant of Dorete, the Old Swedish form of Dorothea. It has been used in Sweden since at least the 16th century.
Dore f & m Dutch (Rare)
Dutch short form of given names that contain the Greek element δῶρον (doron) meaning "gift", such as Isidore and Theodora.
Dore f German
Variant of Dora.
Doreida f Spanish (Latin American)
Of unknown meaning; possibly inspired by Nereida.
Dorel m & f Hebrew (Modern)
Combination of the names Dor and El means "God's Generation" in Hebrew.
Dorela f Romanian
Feminine form of Dorel.
Dorelia f Romanian, Romani
Elaboration of Dorela.
Doremi f Japanese
From Japanese 一 (do) meaning "one" or 瞳 (do) meaning "pupil of the eye", 二 (re) meaning "two", 麗 (re) meaning "beautiful, lovely", 憐 (re) meaning "pity, sympathize" or 澪 (re) meaning "waterway, channel" combined with 三 (mi) meaning "three" or 美 (mi) meaning "beautiful"... [more]
Dorene f English
Variant of Doreen.
Dorenia f Romani
Romani name of uncertain origin, most likely an elaboration of Dora or a corruption of a similar name, like Dorina 1, Doreen or Dorinda... [more]
Doresa f English (American, Modern, Rare)
Probably an elaboration of Doris.
Doreta f Swedish (Archaic)
Contracted form of Dorotea.
Doretha f English
Likely a variant of Doretta.
Dorethy f Medieval Irish
Variant of Dorothy, recorded in late medieval Ireland on women born into English and Anglo-Norman families.
Dóri f Hungarian
Diminutive of Dóra.
Dori f English
Variant of Dory.
Doriani f Brazilian
Brazilian phonetic variant of Doriane.
Dorica f Croatian, Slovene
Diminutive of Dora.
Dorie m & f Scots
Short form of both Theodore and Theodora.
Doriel m & f Hebrew, Literature
Possibly means "God's generation" in Hebrew, in which case it would be derived from Hebrew dor "generation" (see also Dor) combined with Hebrew el "God"... [more]
Dorien f Dutch, Flemish
Dutch form of Dorine, with its spelling phonetical in nature.
Doriet f Dutch (Rare)
Dutchification of Dorita and perhaps also of Dorit 2. There are likely also cases where this name is a combination of the names Dora and Riet.
Doriette f Maltese
Diminutive of Doria by way of combining it with the French diminutive ending -ette.
Dorigen f Literature
Meaning unknown, probably of Celtic origin. This is the name of the faithful wife in 'The Franklin's Tale', one of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
Dorija f Croatian, Slovene
Croatian and Slovene feminine form of Dorian.
Dorijana f Croatian, Slovene
Croatian and Slovene feminine form of Dorian.
Dorilea f Theatre
Dorilea is a shepherdess in the 17th-century play "Granida" by Dutch playwright Pieter Cornelisz.
Dorimène f French (Archaic), Theatre
Meaning unknown. It was used by Molière for a character in his play 'Le Bourgeois gentilhomme'.
Dori-mu m & f Japanese
From Japanese 夢 (dori-mu) meaning "dream", 童 (do) meaning "juvenile, child", 莉 (ri) meaning "pear" combined with 夢 (mu) meaning "dream". Other kanji or kanji combinations can form this name as well... [more]
Dorin f Hebrew (Modern)
Popular girls name in Israel, it is came from the name Doron
Dorina f Romansh
Romansh diminutive of Dora.
Dorinka f Hungarian
Diminutive of Dorina 2.
Dorisz f Hungarian
Variant of Dorottya, meaning "gift of God".
Doritha f Swedish
Variant of Dorita.
Doriya f Hebrew (Rare)
Combination of the names Dori (or Dor), means "(my) generation" with the letters יה (which are part of the name of God).
Dorja f Croatian, Slovene
Croatian and Slovene short form of Doroteja.
Dorjana f Croatian, Slovene
Feminine form of Dorjan.