Browse Names

Rowina f English (Rare)
Variant of Rowena.

Royale f & m English (Rare)
Variant of Royal.

Rozárie f Czech (Rare)
Czech form of Rosaria.

Rubina f Portuguese, Italian (Rare)
Derived from Portuguese rubi or Italian rubino meaning "ruby", ultimately from Latin ruber "red".

Ryana f English (Rare)
Feminine form of Ryan.

Ryanne f English (Rare)
Feminine form of Ryan.

Sabella f English (Rare)
Short form of Isabella.

Sabryna f English (Rare)
Variant of Sabrina.

Saffron f English (Rare)
From the English word that refers either to a spice, the crocus flower from which it is harvested, or the yellow-orange colour of the spice. It is derived via Old French from Arabic زعفران (zaʿfarān), itself probably from Persian meaning "gold leaves".

Saibh f Irish (Rare)
Variant of Sadhbh.

Sailor f English (Rare)
Variant of Saylor. This is the less common spelling.

Salome f English (Rare), German (Rare), Georgian, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
From an Aramaic name that was related to the Hebrew word שָׁלוֹם (shalom) meaning "peace". According to the historian Josephus this was the name of the daughter of Herodias (the consort of Herod Antipas, the tetrarch of Galilee). In the New Testament, though a specific name is not given, it was a daughter of Herodias who danced for Herod and was rewarded with the head of John the Baptist, and thus Salome and the dancer have traditionally been equated.... [more]

Salomè f Italian (Rare)
Italian form of Salome.

Salomea f Polish (Rare)
Polish form of Salome.

Sammi f English (Rare)
Diminutive of Samantha.

Şan m & f Turkish (Rare)
Means "fame, reputation" in Turkish.

Sancha f Spanish (Rare), Portuguese (Rare)
Feminine form of Sancho.

Santuzza f Italian (Rare)
Diminutive of Santa 1.

Saranna f English (Rare)
Combination of Sarah and Anna, in occasional use since the 18th century.

Sárika f Hungarian (Rare)
Hungarian diminutive of Sarah.

Sarolt f Hungarian (Rare)
From the Old Hungarian name Saroldu, probably of Turkic origin meaning "white weasel, ermine". This was the wife of the 10th-century Hungarian grand prince Géza.

Sassa f Swedish (Rare)
Swedish diminutive of Astrid, Alexandra or Sara.

Scholastique f French (Rare)
French form of Scholastica. It is more common in French-speaking Africa than France.

Schwanhild f German (Rare)
Variant of Swanhild.

Seanna f English (Rare)
Feminine form of Seán.

Şehrazad f Turkish (Rare)
Turkish form of Shahrazad.

Sela f English (Rare)
From the name of a city, the capital of Edom, which appears in the Old Testament. It means "rock" in Hebrew.

Selby m & f English (Rare)
From an English surname that was from a place name meaning "willow farm" in Old Norse.

Selvaggia f Italian (Rare)
Means "wild" in Italian.

September f English (Rare)
From the name of the ninth month (though it means "seventh month" in Latin, since it was originally the seventh month of the Roman year), which is sometimes used as a given name for someone born in September.

Sequoia f & m English (Rare)
From the name of huge trees that grow in California. The tree got its name from the 19th-century Cherokee scholar Sequoyah (also known as George Guess), the inventor of the Cherokee writing system.

Sera f English (Rare)
Either a variant of Sarah or a short form of Seraphina.

Serafina f Italian, Spanish, Portuguese (Rare)
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of Seraphina.

Seraphina f English (Rare), German (Rare), Late Roman
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.... [more]

Serrena f English (Rare)
Variant of Serena.

Sévérine f French (Rare)
Variant of Séverine.

Seweryna f Polish (Rare)
Polish form of Severina.

Shaelyn f English (Rare)
Elaboration of Shae using the popular name suffix lyn.

Shahrazad f Persian (Rare), Arabic
Possibly means "noble lineage" from Persian چهر (chehr) meaning "lineage, origin" and آزاد (āzād) meaning "free, noble". Alternatively, it might mean "child of the city" from شهر (shahr) meaning "city, land" combined with the suffix زاد (zād) meaning "child of". This is the name of the fictional storyteller in The 1001 Nights. She tells a story to her husband the king every night for 1001 nights in order to delay her execution.

Shaindel f Yiddish (Rare)
Diminutive of Shayna.

Shanene f English (Rare)
Combination of the phonetic elements sha and neen.

Shannah f English (Rare)
Variant of Shanna.

Shantae f African American (Rare)
Variant of Chanté.

Shantelle f English (Rare)
Variant of Chantel.

Shaquila f African American (Rare)
Variant of Shakila.

Sharalyn f English (Rare)
Variant of Cherilyn.

Sharise f English (Rare)
Variant of Charisse.

Sharmaine f English (Rare)
Variant of Charmaine.

Sharona f English (Rare)
Elaborated form of Sharon.

Shaunte f African American (Rare)
Variant of Chanté.

Shaye f & m English (Rare)
Variant of Shea.

Shaylyn f English (Rare)
Invented name, based on Shayla and using the popular name suffix lyn.

Shaynah f Yiddish (Rare)
Alternate transcription of Yiddish שיינאַ (see Shayna).

Sheelagh f English (Rare)
Variant of Sheila.

Sheine f Yiddish (Rare)
Variant of Shayna.

Shelagh f English (Rare)
Variant of Sheila.

Shelena f African American (Rare)
Combination of the phonetic prefix sha and the name Lena.

Sherill f English (Rare)
Variant of Cheryl.

Sherisse f English (Rare)
Variant of Charisse.

Sherley f English (Rare)
Variant of Shirley.

Shevaun f English (Rare)
Variant of Shavonne.

Shevon f English (Rare)
Variant of Shavonne.

Shprintza f Yiddish (Rare)
Variant of Shprintze.

Shprintze f Yiddish (Rare)
Possibly a Yiddish form of Esperanza. This is the name of Tevye's fourth daughter in the musical Fiddler on the Roof (1964), based on the late 19th-century Yiddish stories of Sholem Aleichem.

Shprintzel f Yiddish (Rare)
Diminutive of Shprintze.

Siddiqa f Arabic (Rare), Urdu
Feminine form of Siddiq.

Sieghild f German (Rare)
Derived from the Old German elements sigu "victory" and hilt "battle".

Sigfrid 2 f Norwegian (Rare)
Norwegian variant of Sigrid.

Silver m & f English (Rare)
From the English word for the precious metal or the colour, ultimately derived from Old English seolfor.

Silvestra f Slovene, Italian (Rare)
Feminine form of Silvester.

Šimona f Czech (Rare)
Czech variant of Simona.

Simonette f English (Rare)
Diminutive of Simone 1.

Sinclair m & f English (Rare)
From a Scottish surname that was derived from a Norman French town called "Saint Clair". A notable bearer was the American author Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951).

Sindy f English (Rare)
Variant of Cindy.

Síomha f Irish (Rare)
Modern Irish form of Síthmaith.

Sira f Spanish, Italian (Rare)
Spanish and Italian feminine form of Syrus.

Sisel f Yiddish (Rare)
Variant of Zisel.

Skylynn f English (Rare)
Elaboration of Sky using the popular name suffix lyn.

Slàine f Scottish Gaelic (Rare)
Scottish Gaelic form of Sláine.

Slavitsa f Bulgarian (Rare)
Bulgarian form of Slavica.

Snow f English (Rare)
From the English word, derived from Old English snāw.

Sobiesława f Polish (Rare)
Polish feminine form of Sobiesław.

Sonje f German (Rare)
German variant of Sonja.

Sonnhild f German (Rare)
From German Sonne meaning "sun" combined with the Old German element hilt meaning "battle". This name was created in the modern era.

Sophy f English (Rare)
Variant of Sophie or a diminutive of Sophia.

Sorne f Basque (Rare)
Means "conception" in Basque. It was coined by Sabino Arana in 1910 as an equivalent of the Spanish name Concepción.

Sorrel f English (Rare)
From the name of the sour tasting plant, derived from Old French sur "sour", a word of Frankish origin.

Sparrow m & f English (Rare)
From the name of the bird, ultimately from Old English spearwa.

Spirit f English (Rare)
From the English word spirit, ultimately from Latin spiritus "breath, energy", a derivative of spiro "to blow, to breathe".

Stacee f English (Rare)
Feminine variant of Stacy.

Steffie f German (Rare)
Diminutive of Stephanie.

Stošija f Croatian (Rare)
Form of Anastazija, used in particular to refer to the saint.

Susanita f Spanish (Rare)
Spanish diminutive of Susana.

Suzume f Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 雀 (suzume) meaning "sparrow", as well as other kanji or kanji combinations that are pronounced the same way.

Swanhild f German (Rare)
Derived from the Old German elements swan "swan" and hilt "battle". Swanhild (or Swanachild) was the second wife of the Frankish ruler Charles Martel in the 8th century.

Swanhilda f German (Rare)
Variant of Swanhild.

Swanhilde f German (Rare)
Variant of Swanhild.

Sybella f English (Rare)
Variant of Sibylla.

Sydne f English (Rare)
Variant of Sydney.

Symphony f English (Rare)
Simply from the English word, ultimately deriving from Greek σύμφωνος (symphonos) meaning "concordant in sound".

Taegan f English (Rare)
Variant of Tegan.

Tahnee f English (Rare)
Variant of Tawny.

Tähti f Finnish (Rare), Estonian (Rare)
Means "star" in Finnish and Estonian.

Taide f Italian (Rare)
Italian form of Thaïs.

Taika f Finnish (Rare)
Means "magic, spell" in Finnish.

Tallulah f English (Rare)
This is the name of waterfalls in Georgia. Popularly claimed to mean "leaping waters" in the Choctaw language, it may actually mean "town" in the Creek language. It was borne by American actress Tallulah Bankhead (1902-1968), who was named after her grandmother, who may have been named after the waterfalls.

Talulla f Irish (Rare)
Anglicized form of the Old Irish name Taileflaith, Tuileflaith or Tuilelaith, probably from tuile "abundance" and flaith "ruler, sovereign, princess". This was the name of an early saint, an abbess of Kildare.

Talvikki f Finnish (Rare)
Derived from Finnish talvi meaning "winter". This is also the Finnish word for the wintergreen plant (genus Pyrola).

Tammara f English (Rare)
Variant of Tamara.

Tamsen f English (Rare)
Variant of Tamsin.

Tamzen f English (Rare)
Variant of Tamsin.

Taniqua f African American (Rare)
Combination of the popular phonetic elements ta, nee and qua.

Tansy f English (Rare)
From the name of the flower, which is derived via Old French from Late Latin tanacita.

Tanzi f English (Rare)
Variant of Tansy.

Tarina f English (Rare)
Perhaps an elaborated form of Tara 1.

Tatienne f French (Rare)
French form of Tatiana.

Tawnee f English (Rare)
Variant of Tawny.

Tawnie f English (Rare)
Variant of Tawny.

Teal f English (Rare)
From the English word for the type of duck or the greenish-blue colour.

Teale f English (Rare)
Variant of Teal.

Teca f Hungarian (Rare)
Diminutive of Terézia.

Tecla f Italian, Spanish (Rare)
Italian and Spanish form of Thekla.

Tempest f English (Rare)
From the English word meaning "storm". It appears in the title of William Shakespeare's play The Tempest (1611).

Temple m & f English (Rare)
From an English surname that originally belonged to a person who was associated with the Knights Templar, a medieval religious military order.

Tennyson m & f English (Rare)
From an English surname that meant "son of Tenney", Tenney being a medieval form of Denis. A notable bearer of the surname was the British poet Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892), commonly called Lord Tennyson after he became a baron in 1884.

Teodolinda f Italian, Spanish, Portuguese (Rare)
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of Theodelinda (see Dietlinde).

Teodozja f Polish (Rare)
Polish form of Theodosia.

Teofila f Italian (Rare), Polish (Rare)
Italian and Polish feminine form of Theophilus.

Tércia f Portuguese (Rare)
Portuguese feminine form of Tertius.

Thecla f Dutch (Rare), Late Greek (Latinized)
Latinized form of Thekla.

Thekla f German (Rare), Greek (Rare), Late Greek
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.

Thorborg f Swedish (Rare)
Variant of Torborg.

Thyrza f Dutch (Rare)
Variant of Thirza.

Tiffiny f English (Rare)
Variant of Tiffany.

Tigerlily f English (Rare)
From tiger lily, a name that has been applied to several orange varieties of lily (such as the species Lilium lancifolium). Tiger Lily is also the name of the Native American princess in J. M. Barrie's play Peter Pan (1904).

Timotha f English (Rare)
Feminine form of Timothy.

Tivoli m & f Various (Rare)
From the name of a picturesque Italian town, used as a summer resort by the ancient Romans.

Toiba f Yiddish (Rare)
From Yiddish טויב (toib) meaning "dove".

Tomila f Russian (Rare)
Possibly from Slavic tomiti meaning "to torment". In some cases communist parents may have derived it from the phrase торжество Маркса и Ленина (torzhestvo Marksa i Lenina) meaning "victory of Marx and Lenin".

Topaz f English (Rare)
From the English word for the yellow precious stone, the traditional birthstone of November, ultimately derived from Greek τόπαζος (topazos).

Topsy f English (Rare)
From a nickname that is of unknown meaning, perhaps deriving from the English word top. This is the name of a young slave in Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852).

Torborg f Swedish (Rare), Norwegian (Rare)
Swedish and Norwegian form of Þórbjǫrg.

Torny f Norwegian (Rare)
From the Old Norse name Þórný, which was derived from the name of the Norse god Þórr (see Thor) combined with nýr "new".

Torø f Norwegian (Rare)
Norwegian variant of Tora.

Trecia f English (Rare)
Variant of Tricia.

Tresha f English (Rare)
Variant of Tricia.

Tressa f English (Rare)
Contracted form of Theresa. It may also be associated with the English word tress meaning "long lock of hair".

Tria f English (Rare)
Perhaps a short form of Demetria and other names ending in a similar sound.

Tsetsiliya f Russian (Rare)
Russian form of Cecilia.

Tsubame f Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 燕 (tsubame) meaning "swallow (bird)" or other kanji that have the same pronunciation.

Tudful f Welsh (Rare)
Welsh form of Tydfil.

Tuesday f English (Rare)
From the English word for the day of the week, which derives from Old English tiwesdæg meaning "Tiw's day".

Tündér f Hungarian (Rare)
Means "fairy" in Hungarian.

Tuule f Estonian (Rare)
Estonian variant of Tuuli.

Tylar m & f English (Rare)
Variant of Tyler.

Tzeitel f Yiddish (Rare)
Yiddish diminutive of Sarah. This is the name of Tevye's oldest daughter in the musical Fiddler on the Roof (1964), based on Sholem Aleichem's stories from the late 19th century.

Tzofiya f Hebrew (Rare)
Means "watching" in Hebrew.

Ulriikka f Finnish (Rare)
Finnish feminine form of Ulrich.

Ulyssa f English (Rare)
Feminine form of Ulysses.

Unice f English (Rare)
Variant of Eunice.

Unity f English (Rare)
From the English word unity, which is ultimately derived from Latin unitas.

Ursella f English (Rare)
Variant of Ursula.

Úrsula f Spanish, Portuguese (Rare)
Spanish and Portuguese form of Ursula.

Ursule f French (Rare)
French form of Ursula.

Ustinya f Russian (Rare)
Russian variant form of Iustina (see Justina).

Valary f English (Rare)
Variant of Valerie.

Vale f English (Rare)
From the English word meaning "wide river valley".

Valkyrie f Various (Rare)
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.

Varinia f Ancient Roman, Spanish (Rare)
Feminine form of Varinius.

Vasuda f Hindi (Rare)
Means "granting wealth" in Sanskrit. This is another name of the earth.

Velvela f Yiddish (Rare)
Feminine form of Velvel.

Venetia f English (Rare), Greek
From the Latin name of the Italian region of Veneto and the city of Venice (see the place name Venetia). This name was borne by the celebrated English beauty Venetia Stanley (1600-1633), though in her case the name may have been a Latinized form of the Welsh name Gwynedd. Benjamin Disraeli used it for the heroine of his novel Venetia (1837).

Verbena f Various (Rare)
From the name of the verbena plant, which is derived from Latin verbena meaning "leaves, twigs".

Vérène f French (Rare)
French form of Verena.

Vianne f English (Rare)
Meaning unknown, perhaps a combination of Vi and Anne 1 or a short form of Vivianne.

Vienne f Various (Rare)
From the French name for Vienna, the capital city of Austria.

Vieno f & m Finnish (Rare)
Means "gentle" in Finnish.

Vilhelmina f Swedish (Rare), Lithuanian
Swedish and Lithuanian feminine form of William.

Viltautė f Lithuanian (Rare)
Feminine form of Viltautas.

Viona f English (Rare)
Possibly a variant of Fiona influenced by Viola.

Vitalia f Italian (Rare)
Feminine form of Vitale.

Viviette f English (Rare)
Diminutive of Vivienne. William John Locke used this name for the title character in his novel Viviette (1910).

Vivyan f English (Rare)
Variant of Vivian.

Wacława f Polish (Rare)
Feminine form of Wacław.

Wallis m & f English (Rare)
From a surname that was a variant of Wallace. Wallis Simpson (1895-1986) was the divorced woman whom Edward VIII married, which forced him to abdicate the British throne.

Wasylyna f Ukrainian (Polonized, Rare)
Polonized form of Vasylyna.

Wenda f English (Rare)
Variant of Wendy.

Wendel m & f Dutch (Rare), German (Rare), Portuguese (Brazilian)
Old short form of Germanic names beginning with the element wentil meaning "a Vandal". The Vandals were a Germanic tribe who invaded Spain and North Africa in the 5th century. Their tribal name, which may mean "wanderer", has often been confused with that of the Wends, a Slavic people living between the Elbe and the Oder.... [more]

Wenona f English (Rare)
Variant of Winona.

Wilfreda f English (Rare)
Feminine form of Wilfred.

Wilhelmina f Dutch, German (Rare), English
Dutch and German feminine form of Wilhelm. This name was borne by a queen of the Netherlands (1880-1962).

Willoughby m & f English (Rare)
From a surname that was originally derived from a place name meaning "willow town" in Old English.

Windsor m & f English (Rare)
From an English surname that was from a place name meaning "riverbank with a windlass" in Old English (a windlass is a lifting apparatus). This has been the surname of the royal family of the United Kingdom since 1917.

Winslow m & f English (Rare)
From a surname that was derived from an Old English place name meaning "hill belonging to Wine". A famous bearer of this name was American painter Winslow Homer (1836-1910).

Wisdom f & m English (Rare)
Simply from the English word, a derivative of Old English wis "wise".

Wisława f Polish (Rare)
Feminine form of Witosław.

Wisteria f English (Rare)
From the name of the flowering plant, which was named for the American anatomist Caspar Wistar.

Wojciecha f Polish (Rare)
Feminine form of Wojciech.

Wynne 2 m & f English (Rare)
From an English surname that was derived from the given name Wine.

Wynonna f English (Rare)
Variant of Winona.

Xanthia f English (Rare)
Modern elaborated form of Xanthe.

Xavia f English (Rare)
Modern feminine form of Xavier.

Xaviera f English (Rare)
Feminine form of Xavier.

Yachna f Hebrew (Rare)
Perhaps a feminine form of Yochanan.

Yente f Yiddish (Rare)
From French gentille meaning "noble, aristocratic". This is the name of a gossipy matchmaker in the musical Fiddler on the Roof (1964), based on late 19th-century stories by Sholem Aleichem. Due to the character, this name has also acquired the meaning "gossiper".

Yentl f Yiddish (Rare)
Diminutive of Yente.

Yevfrosiniya f Russian (Rare)
Russian form of Euphrosyne.

Yevpraksiya f Russian (Rare)
Russian form of Eupraxia. This was the name of a daughter of Vsevolod I, grand prince of Kyiv, who became the wife of the Holy Roman emperor Henry IV.

Yseult f French (Rare)
French form of Iseult.

Yudes f Yiddish (Rare)
Yiddish short form of Judith.

Yudif f Russian (Rare)
Russian form of Judith.

Yutke f Yiddish (Rare)
Yiddish diminutive of Judith.

Zaida f Arabic (Rare), Spanish
Feminine form of Zayd. This was the name of a Muslim princess who took refuge at the court of (and perhaps married) Alfonso VI of León and Castile in the 11th century.

Żaklina f Polish (Rare)
Polish form of Jacqueline.

Zavanna f English (Rare)
Variant of Savannah.

Zavia f English (Rare)
Modern feminine form of Xavier.

Zelde f Yiddish (Rare)
Possibly a feminine form of Zelig.

Zénaïde f French (Rare)
French form of Zenaida.

Zenia f English (Rare)
Variant of Xenia.

Zéphyrine f French (Rare)
French feminine form of Zephyrinus (see Zeferino).

Zinnia f English (Rare)
From the name of the flower, which was itself named for the German botanist Johann Zinn.

Zinoviya f Russian (Rare), Ukrainian (Rare)
Russian and Ukrainian form of Zenobia.

Zisel f Yiddish (Rare)
From Yiddish זיס (zis) meaning "sweet".

Zlota f Jewish (Rare)
From Polish złoto "gold", used as a translation of Yiddish Golda.

Zowie f English (Rare)
Variant of Zoe.

Zsazsa f Hungarian (Rare)
Diminutive of Zsuzsanna.

Zsófika f Hungarian (Rare)
Diminutive of Zsófia.

Zuhra 2 f Arabic (Rare)
Means "brilliancy, light" in Arabic, derived from the root زهر (zahara) meaning "to shine". This name is written identically to the related name Zahra, though it is pronounced differently.

Zula 1 f Polish (Rare)
Polish diminutive of Zuzanna.

Zulaykha f Arabic (Rare)
Arabic form of Zuleika.

Zusa f Yiddish (Rare)
Means "sweet" in Yiddish.

Zuzanna f Polish, Latvian (Rare)
Polish and Latvian form of Susanna.