English Submitted Names

Dolcie f English (British, Modern)
Variant of Dulcie. Popular in the UK.

Dolena f English (British, Rare), English (Canadian, Rare)
Variant of Dolina.

Doll m English (American, Rare)
Transferred use of the surname Doll.

Dollar f & m English (American, Rare)
From the English word for the US currency.... [more]

Dolleta f English (American, Rare)

Dolley f English
Variant of Dolly.

Dollye f English
Variant of Dolly.

Dolola f English (American)
Variant of Dolores, influenced by its nickname Lola

Dolorette f English (American, Rare), French (Quebec, Rare)
Combination of Dolores with the suffix -ette.

Doloris f English (Rare)
Variant of Dolores.

Dolphus m English (Archaic), Romani (Archaic)
Truncated form of Adolphus.

Domanic m English (Modern, Rare)
Variant of Dominic.

Domenick m English
Variant of Dominic.

Domina f & m English (American, Rare)
Transferred use of the surname of Domina.

Dominiq m & f English (American, Rare), African American
Variant of Dominic and Dominique.

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]

Dominyck m English (Rare)
Variant spelling of Dominick, which itself is a variant of Dominic.

Dominyk m English (American, Rare), Lithuanian
Variant of Dominic or Dominykas.

Domonick m English (Rare)
Variant of Dominic.

Donaldine f English (American, Rare, Archaic)
Feminine form of Donald.

Donasha f English (Rare)

Donatian m English
English form of Donatianus.

Donation m South African, English (Puritan)
From the word donation, meaning "an act or instance of presenting something as a gift, grant, or contribution."

Donavan m English
Variant of Donovan.

Donavin m English
Variant of Donovan.

Donavon m English
Variant of Donovan.

Donda f English

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.

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.

Donelda f English (American), English (Canadian)
Variant of Donalda.

Donelson m English (American)
Transferred use of the surname Donelson.

Donetta f English
Elaboration of Danette.

Doni f English
Diminutive of Donalda Donna Donella Donaldina or Donnelle, also a feminine diminutive form of Donald

Donicia f English (American, Rare)

Donick m English (Rare)

Doniel m English (American)

Donielle f & m African American, English
Unisex variant of Donal, Donald, Donnell, Donelle and other names containing the same sound.

Doniphon m English (American)
Most likely given in reference to any of a few American towns, or the character Tom Doniphon of the 1962 film "The Man Who Shot Liberty Vance".

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]

Donivan m English (American, Rare)
Variant of Donavan.

Donmichael m English (Rare)
Combination of Don and Michael.

Donn m English (Rare)
Variant of Don.

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]

Donnald m English (Rare)
Variant of Donald.

Donnamarie f English
Combination of Donna and Marie.

Donnarae f English
Combination of Donna and Rae.

Donnatella f Italian, English (Rare)
Variant of Donatella.... [more]

Donnatello m English (Rare)
Rare English variant of Donatello.

Donnell m English
Variant of Donal.

Donnelle f & m English (American, Rare), African American (Rare)
Variant of Donelle and Donal/Donel/Donnell/Donell.

Donnelly m English (American), English (Canadian)
Transferred use from the surname Donnelly.

Donni f & m English (Rare)
Variation of Donnie

Donnis f English

Donnita f English (American, Americanized, Rare)

Donnovan m English (Rare)
Variant of Donovan.

Donrick m English (Rare)

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]

Doogie m English
Diminutive of Douglas. This is the name of the titular character of the American comedy-drama television series 'Doogie Howser, M.D.' (1989-1993) portrayed by actor Neil Patrick Harris.

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]

Dor m & f English (Modern)
Short form of Dorian, Doris and other names that starting with dor.

Dorah f English (Rare), South African (Rare), African, Haitian Creole (Rare)
Variant of Dora.

Doraine f English (Rare), Dutch (Rare)

Dorald m Danish (Archaic), Dutch (Rare), English (American, Rare)
Possibly a variant spelling of Thorald in Denmark, but elsewhere (especially in the anglophone world), this name is most likely a combination of a name that contains the Greek element δῶρον (doron) meaning "gift" (such as Dorus and Theodore) with a name that ends in -ald (such as Archibald, Gerald and Ronald).... [more]

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.

Doralyn f English (Rare)
Combination of Dora and the popular name suffix -lyn.

Dorann f English (Rare)
Combination of Dora and Ann, perhaps used as a variant of Doreen or a feminine variant of Doran.

Dorathea f English, Afrikaans, Dutch, Romansh
Variant of Dorothea.

Dorathey f English (American, Rare)
Variant of Dorothy.

Dorathy f English
Variant of Dorothy.

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).

Dorcie f English (Rare)

Dorcus f English (American, Rare, Archaic)
Variant of Dorcas.

Dorelia f English (Archaic), Spanish (Latin American)
Elaboration of Dora.

Dorene f English
Variant of Doreen.

Doresa f English (American, Modern, Rare)
Probably an elaboration of Doris.

Doretha f English
Likely a variant of Doretta.

Dorethia f English (American, Rare, Archaic)
Variant of Dorothea.

Dorett f English (Rare)
Variant of Dorrit.

Dori f English
Variant of Dory.

Doriah f English (American, Rare, Archaic)
Variant of Doria.

Dorice f English, French (Rare), French (Belgian, Rare)
Variant of Doris.

Dorie f English (American)
Diminutive of Dorothy.

Dorienne f French (Rare), French (Belgian, Rare), Dutch (Rare), English (Rare), Maltese (Rare)
French feminine form of Dorien.

Do-right m English (Puritan)
An exhortatory puritanical name, thus rarely used. See Do-good.

Dorilyn f English (Rare), Filipino (Rare), Spanish (Caribbean, Rare)
Variant of Doralyn.

Dorisa f English (Rare), Polish (Rare), Albanian (Rare), Portuguese (Rare)

Dorissa f English

Dorissana f English (Americanized, Rare)

Dorkis f English (American, Archaic)
Variant of Dorcas.

Dorla f English (Modern)
A combination of Dora and Darla.

Dorlisa f English

Dorliska f Theatre, English (American, Archaic)
Torvaldo e Dorliska (1815) is an operatic dramma semiserio in two acts by Gioachino Rossini based on the novel Les Amours du chevalier de Faublas (1787–1790) by the revolutionary Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai, whose work was the source of the Lodoïska libretto set by Luigi Cherubini (1791), and Lodoiska set by Stephen Storace (1794), and Simon Mayr (1796).

Dorma f English (Rare)

Dorman m English (American)
Transferred use of the surname Dorman.

Dorotha f English
Variant of Dorothy.

Dorothey f English (American, Rare)
Variant of Dorothy.

Dorothia f English (Rare), Swedish (Archaic), Old Swedish
Variant of Dorothea.

Dorr m English
Transferred use of the surname Dörr.

Dorraine f English (American)
Possibly a blend of Doreen and Lorraine.... [more]

Dorreen f English
Variant of Doreen.

Dorrett f English (Rare)
Variant of Dorrit.

Dorrie f English, Dutch
Diminutive of Dorothy, Doris, or other names containing the dor sound.

Dorrit f English, Literature
Transferred use of a surname deriving either from Durward or Dorothy. Made famous by Charles Dickens in his novel Little Dorrit (1855-7) and first-name usage probably derives from it... [more]

Dorry f English
Variant of Dory.

Dorsey m English (American, Rare)
Transferred use of the surname Dorsey.

Dorthey f English (American, Rare)
Variant of Dorothy.

Dortheya f English (American, Rare)
Variant of Dorothea.

Dorynne f English (Rare)

Dorys f English
Variant of Doris.

Doryss f English
Variant of Doris.

Dosha f English (American)
Variant of Doshia.

Doshia f English (American)
Possibly a diminutive of Theodosia. (Cf. Docia.)

Dosie f English
Diminutive of Dorothy or Theodosia.

Doska f English (American, Archaic), American (South, Archaic)
Short form of Ladoska.

Doss m English (American, Rare)
Transferred use of the surname Doss.

Dossie f English (Rare)
Diminutive of Dorothy, Eudoxia, Theodosia, and other names with a similar sound.

Dothan m English (Rare)
English variant of Dotan.

Dotsi f English
Variant of Dotsie.

Dotsie f English
Diminutive of Dorothy.

Dotsy f English
Variant of Dotsie.

Dottye f English
Alternative spelling of Dotty.

Doud m English (Rare)
Transferred use of the surname Doud.

Dougie m English
Diminutive of Douglas.

Dow m English (American)
Transferred use of the surname Dow.

Do-well m English (Puritan)
An exhortatory puritanical name, hence it is used rarely. See also Do-good.

Dowell m English
Transferred use of the surname Dowell.

Doylene f English (American, Rare)
Likely a feminine form of Doyle.

Dracaena f English (Rare)
From the name of a genus of about forty species of trees and succulent shrubs, which is the Latinized form of Greek δράκαινα (drakaina) meaning "she-dragon", the feminine form of δράκων (drakon) - compare Drakon... [more]

Draden m English (American, Rare)
Variant of Drayden.

Draevyn m English (American)

Dragon m English
Ancient Greek δράκων, Latin draco "dragon; snake".

Drahcir m English (American, Rare), Filipino (Rare), Spanish (Latin American, Rare)
Richard spelled backwards.

Draiden m English (American, Rare)
Variant of Drayden.

Draik m English
Variant of Drake.

Dramaine m English (American, Rare)

Draper m English (American)
Used after the character Don Draper of Mad Men.

Dray m & f English
Variant of Dre.

Draya f English

Drayana f English (Rare)

Drayden m English (American, Rare)
Variant of Drayton.

Drayke m English (American, Modern, Rare)
Variant of Drake.

Drayson m English (Rare)
Combination of Dray and the popular suffix -son.

Dreama f English
Feminized form of Dream or variant of Drema... [more]

Dreamer f & m English (Rare)
From the English word dreamer meaning "one who dreams; idler, daydreamer".

Dred m English (American), Afro-American (Slavery-era)
Short form of (feminine) Etheldred. Dred Scott (c. 1799-1858) was an African American slave who unsuccessfully sued for his and his family's freedom before the Supreme Court of the United States in the landmark case Dred Scott v. Sandford... [more]

Dredyn m English (American, Rare)
Variant of Drayden.

Dree f & m English, American
Dree Hemingway is Mariel Hemingway's daughter. (Born Dree Crisman.)

Drema f English
Either a variant of Dreama, or from the Slavic surname derived from Proto-Slavic *drěmati "to sleep, nap, doze".

Dresden f & m English, Popular Culture
From the name of the city in Germany, which is derived from Old Sorbian Drežďany, meaning "people of the riverside forest".

Drewann f English (American, Rare)
Combination of Drew and Ann, or a flip-flopped version of Andrew used as a feminine given name.

Drewe m English (British, ?)

Drewsella f English (Rare, Archaic), Romani (Archaic)
Variant of Drusilla.

Drexel m English
Based off of surname.

Dreya f English (Rare)
Short form of Andrea 2.

Dreyden m English (American, Rare)
Variant of Drayden.

Dreyfus m English
Transferred use of the surname Dreyfus.

Dreyson m English (Rare)
Variant of Drayson.

Dreyton m English (Rare)
Variant of Drayton.

Dri m & f English, Brazilian
Short form of any name containing -dri-, such as Adrian or Adriana.

Dria f English (Rare)
Short form of Adriana.

Driana f English (Rare), Brazilian (Rare)
Possibly a truncated from of Adriana.

Drisana f English (Rare), Indian (Rare, Expatriate, ?)
Meaning uncertain, though popularly claimed to mean "daughter of the sun" in Sanskrit. Supposedly it occurs in Hindu mythology as a name (perhaps a title or epithet) of the Dānava demon Virochana (a son of Prahlāda and father of Bali)... [more]

Dristan m English (Rare)
Variant of Tristan.

Drover m English (Rare)
Transferred use of the surname Drover. It was used in the 2008 movie 'Australia' by Baz Luhrmann. The character Drover was played by Hugh Jackman.

Dru m English
Variant of Drew.

Dru f English (American, Archaic)
Short form of Drusilla.

Drucilla f English
Variant of Drusilla.

Drue m & f English (Rare)
Variant of Drew.

Druella f English, Literature
Feminine version of the masculine abbreviated form of Andrew, Drew. It is also the name of Druella Black (née Rosier) –wife of Cygnus Black, mother of Bellatrix, Andromeda and Narcissa Black - out of the Harry Potter series of books by J.K. Rowling.

Drum m English
Diminutive of Drummond.

Drury m English
Transferred use of the surname Drury. Drury Lane is a famous street in London, home to the Theatre Royal, and well known as the nursery rhyme locale of The Muffin Man.

Druscilla f English (African, Rare), English (American, Rare)
Variant of Drusilla.

Drusella f English (Archaic)
Variant of Drusilla.

Dryden m English (Rare)
Transferred use of the surname Dryden.... [more]

Drysen m English (Modern)
Variant of Dryson.

Duaine m English
Duane

Duard m English
A diminutive of Edward or Eduard.

Duayna f English (American, Rare)

Dub m & f English (American), Old Celtic
In North America the name Dub is most often used by men with a name beginning with the letter W, such as William and Walter.... [more]

Dublin f & m English (Modern)
From the English name of the capital city of Ireland, which derives from Gaelic Duiḃlinn. This is not used on Irish children.

Dubois m English
Transferred use of the surname Dubois.

Dubya m English
Nickname given to the former U.S. president George W. Bush (1946-) after the colloquial pronunciation of his middle initial.

Duchess f English (American, Rare)
Old French from medieval Latin ducissa, from Latin dux, duc- (see Duke).

Dud m English
Short form of Dudley.

Dude m English (American, Archaic)
Transferred use of the surname Dude.

Dudly m English
Variant of Dudley.

Dug m English (American)
Variant of Doug, used for the dog in the Disney film 'Up' (2009).

Duggie m English
Variant of Dougie.

Dukey m English
Diminutive of Duke.

Dukie m English, American (South)
Diminutive of Duke.

Dulcy f English (American, Rare), Portuguese (Brazilian), Dutch (Surinamese)
Variant of Dulcie.

Dulie f & m English (?)
No known origin nor meaning. a person with this given name was Dulie Delic an athlete for the Geelong SC.

Dumaine m English, Literature
Dumaine, a character in Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost. Dumaine and DuMaine are surnames.

Dunbar m & f English
Transferred use of the surname Dunbar.

Dune m & f English
Early 17th century from Dutch duin, from Middle Dutch dūne, probably ultimately from the same Celtic base as down3.

Dunkan m English (Modern, Rare)
Variant of Duncan

Dunlap m English (Modern)
Transferred use of the surname Dunlap.

Dunston m English (Rare)
Variant of Dunstan.

Duodecima f English (British, Rare, Archaic)
Femine form of Duodecimus.

Duodecimus m English (British, Rare, Archaic)
The Latin word duodecimus means "twelfth".

Durell m English (Modern)
Variant of Durrell.

Durham m English (American)
Transferred use of the Surname Durham; also, the name of a city in the state of North Carolina

Durlan m Spanish (Latin American, Rare), Portuguese (Brazilian, Rare), English (Rare)

Durriken m Romani, English
Means "he who forecasts" in Romani.

Durwood m English
Of Old English Origin, meaning "Gatekeeper"

Duryea m & f English (American, Rare)

Dusky f English

Dust f English (Puritan)
Simply from the English word, apparently used as an English translation of Hebrew Aphrah (see Aphra) from the biblical passage: 'Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust' (Micah 1:10)... [more]

Dustan m English (Modern)
Variant of Dustin.

Dustee m & f English
Variant of Dusty.

Dusten m English (American, Rare)
Variant of Dustin.

Dustey m English
Variant of Dusty.

Dusti f & m English (Modern)
Variant of Dusty.

Dustie m & f English
Variant of Dusty.

Dustii m English
Variant of Dusty.

Dustina f English (Rare)
Feminine form of Dustin.

Duston m English (Rare)
Variant of Dustin

Dustyn m & f English (Rare)
Variant or feminine form of Dustin.

Dutton m English (Modern, Rare)
Transferred use of the surname Dutton.

Duvall m English
Transferred use of the surname Duvall.

Dux m English (Rare)
Means “duke/leader” in Latin, making it a cognate of Duke.

Dwade m English (Modern)
Combination of Dwayne and Wade.

Dwaina f English
Feminine form of Dwain.

Dwan f English (American)
From the 1976 King Kong. This is an anagram of Dawn.

Dwane m English
Variant of Dwayne.

Dwier m English (American)

Dwyane m English
Variant of Dwayne.

Dwyer m English (Rare)
Transferred use of the surname Dwyer.

Dyamon f English (American, Rare)
Variant of Diamond.

Dyana f English
Variant of Diana.

Dyandra f English (Modern), Portuguese (Brazilian)
Variant of Diandra.

Dyane f English (American, Modern, Rare)
Variant of Diane.

Dyann f English (American)
Variant of Diane.

Dyanna f English (Modern)
Variant of Diana.

Dyanne f English (American)
Variant of Diane.

Dyantha f English
Variant of Diantha.

Dychaun m English (American)

Dykwan m English
Variant of Dykwon.

Dylah f English (Rare)
Variant of Dyla.

Dylana f English, Dutch
Feminine form of Dylan.

Dylanda f English
Combination of the Welsh name, Dylan, meaning “born of the ocean”, and the Latin name, Amanda, meaning “worthy of love”.

Dylann f & m English (Modern, Rare)
Variant of Dylan.

Dylanne f English (Rare)
Feminine form of Dylan.

Dylano m English, Dutch
Variant of Dylan, most likely influenced by Delano.

Dylen m English (American)
Variant of Dylan.

Dylin m & f English (American, Modern, Rare)
Variant of Dylan.

Dyllan m English (Modern, Rare)
Variant of Dylan.

Dyllis f English
Variant of Dilys.

Dyllon m English (American, Rare)
Variant of Dylan and Dillon. 100 boys in the USA were named Dyllon in 1992.

Dylon m English
Variant of Dylan.

Dylyn m & f English (Modern, Rare)
Variant of Dylan.

Dylynn f English (Modern, Rare)
Feminine form of Dylan

Dymond f English (American)
Variant of Diamond.

Dyna f English
Variant of Dina 2.

Dynel f English (American, Modern, Rare)

Dynver f English (Modern, Rare)
Variant of Denver.

Dyrck m Medieval Dutch, English (Modern)
Medieval Dutch variant spelling of Dirck, as well as a modern English variant of Dirk.

Dyrk m English (Rare), German (Rare)
English and German variant spelling of Dirk. Also compare Dyrck.... [more]

Dystiny f English
Variant of Destiny.

Dzire f English (American, Rare)
Variant of Desire.

Dzyre f English (American, Rare)
Variant of Desire.

Eachan m English (Rare)

Eaddy f English (American, Rare, ?)
Variant of Edie, influenced by the surname Eaddy. Compare Eadie.

Eadelyn f English
Elaborated version of Eadlyn.

Eaden m & f English (Rare)
Variant of Eden.

Eadie f English
Variant of Edie.

Eadith f English (Rare)
Variant of Edith.

Eadka f English (American)
Possibly an elaboration or diminutive of Eada.

Eadlin f English (Rare)
Possibly derived from an English surname that was derived from the given name Adeline.

Eadlyn f English (Rare)
Variant of Eadlin.

Eagan m English
Transferred use of the surname Eagan.

Eagle m English
From the English word eagle, ultimately from Latin aquila. Also from the surname Eagle, originally a nickname for a lordly or sharp-eyed man.

Eames m English (American)
Transferred use of the surname Eames. Popularized after the surname of the artist, Eames.

Eamus m English

Eann m English (American, Modern, Rare)
Variant of Ian. Eann was given to 10 boys in 2012.

Eanna f English (Modern, Rare), English (American, Modern, Rare)
Possibly a female variant of Ean or a variant of Ianna. Eanna was given to 6 girls in 2014 according to the Social Security Administration.

Earla f English (Rare)
Feminine form of Earl

Earlan m & f English (American, Rare), Caribbean (Rare), Filipino (Rare)

Earldene f English (Rare)
Feminine form of Earl.

Earlean f English (American)
Variant of Earlene.

Earlee f & m English (Rare)
Variant of Early.

Earlena f English
Latinate form of Earline; variant of Erlena and Earleen.

Earletta f English (Rare)
Feminine form of Earl using the name suffix etta.

Earlette f English (Rare)
Feminine form of Earl using the name suffix ette.

Earley m English (American)
Variant of Early or a nickname for Earl.

Earlie m & f English (Rare)
Variant of Early and diminutive of Earline.

Earlina f English
Variant of Earline.

Early m English (Rare)
Transferred use of the surname Early.

Earlyn m & f English (American, Rare)

Earlyne f English (American)
Alternate spelling of Earline. A known bearer of this name was the American mystic and author Earlyne Chaney (1916-1997).

Earskin m English (American, Rare)
Variant of Erskine.

Earth f & m English (Rare), English (Puritan)
From the English word earth, referring to the planet, the soil, or the alchemical element. Ultimately from Old English eorthe.

Earyn f English (American)
Alternate spelling of Erin.

Eason m English (American)
Transferred use of the surname Eason.

East m & f English
From the English word, from the Old English ēast-, ultimately from the Proto-Germanic *aust- "east; toward the sunrise". It is also used as a short form of Easton.

Easten m English (American, Modern)
Variant of Easton.

Easther f English (American, Modern, Rare)
Variant of Easter.

Eastin m English (American, Modern, Rare)
Variant of Easton.

Eastley m & f English (Rare)
Transferred use of the surname Eastley.

Eastlyn f English (American, Modern, Rare), Trinidadian Creole
Combination of east and the popular name suffix lyn.