ABENE f BasqueDerived from Basque
abe meaning "pillar". It is a Basque equivalent of
Pilar.
AGURNE f BasqueFrom Basque
agur meaning "greeting, salutation".
AINHOA f BasqueFrom the name of a town in southwest France where there is a famous image of the Virgin
Mary.
AITOR m BasquePossibly means "good fathers" from Basque
aita "father" and
on "good". This was the name of a legendary ancestor of the Basques.
AMAIA f BasqueMeans "the end" in Basque. This is also the name of a mountain and a village in the Basque region of Spain.
ANNE (1) f French, English, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, German, Dutch, BasqueFrench form of
ANNA. In the 13th-century it was imported to England, where it was also commonly spelled
Ann. The name was borne by a 17th-century English queen and also by the second wife of Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn (the mother of Queen Elizabeth I), who was eventually beheaded in the Tower of London. This is also the name of the heroine in 'Anne of Green Gables' (1908) by Canadian author L. M. Montgomery.
ARANTZAZU f BasqueFrom the name of a place near the Spanish town of Oñati where there is a sanctuary dedicated to the Virgin
Mary. Its name is derived from Basque
arantza "thornbush".
ARGIDER m BasqueDerived from Basque
argi "light" and
eder "beautiful".
AROA f BasqueDerived from Basque
aro meaning "era, age, time".
BASAJAUN m BasqueMeans "lord of the woods" from Basque
baso "woods" and
jaun "lord". This is the name of a character in Basque folklore, the Old Man of the Woods.
EDURNE f BasqueMeans "snow" in Basque, from
edur, a variant of
elur "snow". It is a Basque equivalent of
Nieves.
ENEKO m BasquePossibly derived from Basque
ene "my" and
ko, a diminutive suffix. This was the name of the first king of Pamplona or Navarre (9th century), whose name is usually rendered as
Íñigo.
GOIZEDER f BasqueDerived from Basque
goiz "morning" and
eder "beautiful".
HIRUNE f BasqueMeans "trinity" in Basque, derived from
hiru meaning "three".
ITZIAR f Basque, SpanishFrom the name of a Basque village that contains an important shrine to the Virgin
Mary, possibly meaning "old stone".
IZARO f BasqueMeaning unknown, from the name of a small island off the Spanish coast in the Bay of Biscay.
MARIA f & m Italian, Portuguese, Catalan, Occitan, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Faroese, Dutch, Frisian, Greek, Polish, Romanian, English, Finnish, Corsican, Sardinian, Basque, Russian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Biblical Greek, Biblical Latin, Old Church SlavicLatin form of Greek
Μαρια, from Hebrew
מִרְיָם (see
MARY).
Maria is the usual form of the name in many European languages, as well as a secondary form in other languages such as English (where the common spelling is
Mary). In some countries, for example Germany, Poland and Italy,
Maria is occasionally used as a masculine middle name.
... [more] NAGORE f BasqueFrom the name of a Basque village where there is a sanctuary dedicated to the Virgin
Mary.
NAIARA f BasqueFrom the Basque name of the Spanish city of Nájera, which is Arabic in origin. In the 12th century there was a reported apparition of the Virgin
Mary in a nearby cave.
UDANE f BasqueDerived from Basque
uda meaning "summer".
UXUE f BasqueFrom the Basque name of the Spanish town of Ujué where there is a church dedicated to the Virgin
Mary. Its name is derived from Basque
usoa "dove".