lakin5's Personal Name List

Zorica
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian
Other Scripts: Зорица(Serbian, Macedonian)
Rating: 51% based on 8 votes
Serbian, Croatian and Macedonian diminutive of Zora.
Zora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Slovene, Czech, Slovak
Other Scripts: Зора(Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian)
Pronounced: ZO-ra(Czech) ZAW-ra(Slovak)
Rating: 35% based on 8 votes
Means "dawn, aurora" in the South Slavic languages, as well as Czech and Slovak.
Zelda 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ZEHL-də
Rating: 25% based on 8 votes
Short form of Griselda. This is the name of a princess in the Legend of Zelda video games, debuting in 1986 and called ゼルダ (Zeruda) in Japanese. According to creator Shigeru Miyamoto she was named after the American socialite Zelda Fitzgerald (1900-1948).
Zayna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: زينة(Arabic)
Pronounced: ZIE-na
Rating: 51% based on 7 votes
Feminine form of Zayn.
Zaria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: ZAHR-ee-ə
Rating: 51% based on 8 votes
Possibly based on Zahra 2 or the Nigerian city of Zaria.
Zara 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature, English
Pronounced: ZAHR-ə(English)
Rating: 51% based on 8 votes
Used by William Congreve for a character in his tragedy The Mourning Bride (1697), where it belongs to a captive North African queen. Congreve may have based it on the Arabic name Zahra 1. In 1736 the English writer Aaron Hill used it to translate Zaïre for his popular adaptation of Voltaire's French play Zaïre (1732).

In England the name was popularized when Princess Anne gave it to her daughter in 1981. Use of the name may also be influenced by the trendy Spanish clothing retailer Zara.

Zandra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ZAN-drə
Rating: 49% based on 7 votes
Short form of Alexandra.
Zaina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: زينة(Arabic)
Pronounced: ZIE-na
Rating: 51% based on 7 votes
Alternate transcription of Arabic زينة (see Zayna).
Yumiko
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 弓子, 由美子, etc.(Japanese Kanji) ゆみこ(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: YOO-MEE-KO
Rating: 41% based on 7 votes
From Japanese (yumi) meaning "archery bow" or (yu) meaning "reason, cause" with (mi) meaning "beautiful" combined with (ko) meaning "child". Other kanji combinations are possible.
Yumi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 弓, 由美, 友美, 弓美, etc.(Japanese Kanji) ゆみ(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: YOO-MEE
Rating: 41% based on 7 votes
From Japanese (yumi) meaning "archery bow". It can also come from (yu) meaning "reason, cause", (yu) meaning "friend" or a nanori reading of (yu) meaning "archery bow" combined with (mi) meaning "beautiful". Other kanji or kanji combinations are also possible.
Yukiko
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 幸子, 雪子, 由喜子, 由貴子, etc.(Japanese Kanji) ゆきこ(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: YOO-KYEE-KO
Rating: 36% based on 7 votes
From Japanese (yuki) meaning "happiness" or (yuki) meaning "snow" combined with (ko) meaning "child". Alternatively, it can come from (yu) meaning "reason, cause" with (ki) meaning "joy" or (ki) meaning "valuable" combined with (ko) meaning "child". Other kanji combinations can also form this name.
Yuki
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 幸, 雪, 由貴, 由紀, etc.(Japanese Kanji) ゆき(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: YOO-KYEE
Rating: 30% based on 7 votes
From Japanese (yuki) meaning "happiness" or (yuki) meaning "snow". It can also come from (yu) meaning "reason, cause" combined with (ki) meaning "valuable" or (ki) meaning "chronicle". Other kanji or kanji combinations are also possible.
Xene
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Greek
Other Scripts: Ξένη(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 16% based on 8 votes
Variant of Xenia. This was occasionally adopted as a monastic name during the Byzantine era.
Xena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Popular Culture
Pronounced: ZEE-nə(English)
Rating: 54% based on 8 votes
Probably a variant of Xenia. This was the name of the main character in the 1990s television series Xena: Warrior Princess.
Xavier
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French, Portuguese, Catalan, Spanish
Pronounced: ZAY-vyər(English) ig-ZAY-vyər(English) GZA-VYEH(French) shu-vee-EHR(European Portuguese) sha-vee-EKH(Brazilian Portuguese) shə-bee-EH(Catalan) kha-BYEHR(Spanish) sa-BYEHR(Spanish)
Rating: 31% based on 7 votes
Derived from the Basque place name Etxeberria meaning "the new house". This was the surname of the Jesuit priest Saint Francis Xavier (1506-1552) who was born in a village by this name. He was a missionary to India, Japan, China, and other areas in East Asia, and he is the patron saint of the Orient and missionaries. His surname has since been adopted as a given name in his honour, chiefly among Catholics.
Xavia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 50% based on 7 votes
Modern feminine form of Xavier.
Xavi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Catalan
Pronounced: SHA-bee
Rating: 26% based on 8 votes
Catalan diminutive of Xavier.
Winnie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: WIN-ee
Rating: 28% based on 8 votes
Diminutive of Winifred. Winnie-the-Pooh, a stuffed bear in children's books by A. A. Milne, was named after a real bear named Winnipeg who lived at the London Zoo.
Winifred
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Welsh
Pronounced: WIN-ə-frid(English)
Rating: 35% based on 8 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.
Willow
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: WIL-o
Rating: 55% based on 10 votes
From the name of the tree, which is ultimately derived from Old English welig.
Willa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: WIL-ə
Rating: 37% based on 7 votes
Feminine form of William.
Wilda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: WIL-də
Rating: 33% based on 7 votes
Meaning uncertain, perhaps from a German surname, or perhaps from the English word wild. It has been in use since the 19th century.
Whitney
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: WIT-nee
Rating: 31% based on 8 votes
From an English surname that was originally derived from a place name meaning "white island" in Old English. Its popular use as a feminine name was initiated by actress Whitney Blake (1925-2002) in the 1960s, and further boosted in the 1980s by singer Whitney Houston (1963-2012).
Wendy
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: WEHN-dee
Rating: 36% based on 8 votes
In the case of the character from J. M. Barrie's play Peter Pan (1904), it was created from the nickname fwendy "friend", given to the author by a young friend. However, the name was used prior to the play (rarely), in which case it could be related to the Welsh name Gwendolen and other names beginning with the element gwen meaning "white, blessed". The name only became common after Barrie's play ran.
Wenda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: WEHN-də
Rating: 14% based on 8 votes
Variant of Wendy.
Wanda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Polish, English, German, French
Pronounced: VAN-da(Polish, German) WAHN-də(English) WAHN-DA(French)
Rating: 16% based on 8 votes
Possibly from a Germanic name meaning "a Wend", referring to the Slavic people who inhabited eastern Germany. In Polish legends this was the name of the daughter of King Krak, the legendary founder of Krakow. It was introduced to the English-speaking world by the author Ouida, who used it for the heroine in her novel Wanda (1883).
Viviana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Late Roman
Pronounced: vee-VYA-na(Italian) bee-BYA-na(Spanish)
Rating: 56% based on 9 votes
Feminine form of Vivianus (see Vivian). Saint Viviana (also known as Bibiana) was a Roman saint and martyr of the 4th century.
Vivi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian
Rating: 39% based on 8 votes
Scandinavian diminutive of names beginning with Vi, as well as Olivia and Sofia.
Viveka
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish
Rating: 43% based on 7 votes
Swedish form of Vibeke.
Vita 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman, Italian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Danish, Slovene
Pronounced: VEE-ta(Italian)
Rating: 56% based on 8 votes
Feminine form of Vitus.
Violetta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Russian, Hungarian
Other Scripts: Виолетта(Russian)
Pronounced: vyo-LEHT-ta(Italian) vyi-u-LYEHT-tə(Russian) VEE-o-leht-taw(Hungarian)
Rating: 60% based on 7 votes
Italian, Russian and Hungarian form of Violet.
Violet
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: VIE-lit, VIE-ə-lit
Rating: 80% based on 12 votes
From the English word violet for the purple flower, ultimately derived from Latin viola. It was common in Scotland from the 16th century, and it came into general use as an English given name during the 19th century.
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: 54% based on 8 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.
Vina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Indonesian
Pronounced: VEE-na
Rating: 44% based on 7 votes
From Sanskrit वीणा (vīṇā) meaning "lute".
Victorine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: VEEK-TAW-REEN
Rating: 41% based on 7 votes
French feminine form of Victorinus.
Victorina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman
Rating: 41% based on 7 votes
Feminine form of Victorinus.
Vicki
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: VIK-ee
Rating: 14% based on 8 votes
Diminutive of Victoria.
Vic
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: VIK
Rating: 28% based on 8 votes
Short form of Victor or Victoria.
Verity
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: VEHR-i-tee
Rating: 34% based on 7 votes
From the English word meaning "verity, truth", from Latin verus "true, real". This was one of the virtue names adopted by the Puritans in the 17th century.
Vera 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian, English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, Slovene, Serbian, Croatian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Belarusian, Georgian
Other Scripts: Вера(Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Belarusian) ვერა(Georgian)
Pronounced: VYEH-rə(Russian) VEE-rə(English) VEHR-ə(English) VEH-ra(German, Dutch) VEH-rah(Swedish) BEH-ra(Spanish) VEH-raw(Hungarian)
Rating: 60% based on 8 votes
Means "faith" in Russian, though it is sometimes associated with the Latin word verus "true". It has been in general use in the English-speaking world since the late 19th century.
Valentino
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: va-lehn-TEE-no
Rating: 41% based on 7 votes
Italian form of Valentinus (see Valentine 1).
Valentina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Russian, Lithuanian, German, Croatian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Slovene, Albanian, Romanian, Spanish, Greek, Ancient Roman
Other Scripts: Валентина(Russian, Bulgarian, Macedonian) Βαλεντίνα(Greek)
Pronounced: va-lehn-TEE-na(Italian) və-lyin-TYEE-nə(Russian) vu-lyehn-tyi-NU(Lithuanian) ba-lehn-TEE-na(Spanish)
Rating: 72% based on 9 votes
Feminine form of Valentinus (see Valentine 1). A famous bearer is the Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova (1937-), who in 1963 became the first woman to visit space.
Usagi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Popular Culture
Pronounced: OO-SA-GYEE(Japanese)
Rating: 44% based on 7 votes
Means "rabbit" in Japanese. This name was used on the Japanese television show Sailor Moon, which first aired in the 1990s.
Ulla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Danish, Finnish, German
Pronounced: OOL-lah(Finnish) UW-la(German)
Rating: 36% based on 7 votes
Scandinavian diminutive of Ulrika or Hulda 1, or a German diminutive of Ursula.
Tully
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History
Pronounced: TUL-ee(English)
Rating: 21% based on 7 votes
Form of Tullius (see Tullio) used to refer to the Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero.
Trini
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: TREE-nee
Rating: 23% based on 8 votes
Short form of Trinidad.
Torin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Rating: 37% based on 7 votes
Meaning unknown. It has been suggested that it is of Irish origin, though no suitable derivation can be found.
Toby
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: TO-bee
Rating: 38% based on 8 votes
Medieval form of Tobias. It was sometimes used as a feminine name in the 1930s and 40s due to the influence of American actress Toby Wing (1915-2001).
Tobias
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, German, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, English, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Other Scripts: Τωβίας(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: to-BEE-as(German) tuw-BEE-as(Swedish) tə-BIE-əs(English)
Rating: 64% based on 7 votes
Greek form of Tobiah. This is the name of the hero of the apocryphal Book of Tobit, which appears in many English versions of the Old Testament. It relates how Tobit's son Tobias, with the help of the angel Raphael, is able to drive away a demon who has plagued Sarah, who subsequently becomes his wife. This story was popular in the Middle Ages, and the name came into occasional use in parts of Europe at that time. In England it became common after the Protestant Reformation.
Timothea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1], Greek
Other Scripts: Τιμοθέα(Greek)
Rating: 29% based on 8 votes
Feminine form of Timothy.
Tibby
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: TIB-ee
Rating: 9% based on 8 votes
Diminutive of Tabitha or Theobald.
Tianna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: tee-AHN-ə, tee-AN-ə
Rating: 60% based on 7 votes
Variant of Tiana.
Tia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: TEE-ə
Rating: 36% based on 7 votes
Short form of names ending with tia. It has been suggested that its use since the 1950s is the result of the brand name for the coffee liqueur Tia Maria [1]. In the brand name, Tia is not a given name; rather, it means "aunt" in Spanish or Portuguese.
Thora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norwegian, Danish
Rating: 57% based on 7 votes
Modern form of Þóra.
Thomasina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: tahm-ə-SEE-nə
Rating: 40% based on 9 votes
Medieval feminine form of Thomas.
Theresa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, German
Pronounced: tə-REE-sə(English) tə-REE-zə(English) teh-REH-za(German)
Rating: 39% based on 8 votes
From the Spanish and Portuguese name Teresa. It was first recorded as Therasia, being borne by the Spanish wife of Saint Paulinus of Nola in the 4th century. The meaning is uncertain, but it could be derived from Greek θέρος (theros) meaning "summer", from Greek θερίζω (therizo) meaning "to harvest", or from the name of the Greek island of Therasia (the western island of Santorini).

The name was mainly confined to Spain and Portugal during the Middle Ages. After the 16th century it was spread to other parts of the Christian world, due to the fame of the Spanish nun and reformer Saint Teresa of Ávila. Another famous bearer was the Austrian Habsburg queen Maria Theresa (1717-1780), who inherited the domains of her father, the Holy Roman emperor Charles VI, beginning the War of the Austrian Succession.

Thera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch
Pronounced: TEH-ra
Rating: 56% based on 9 votes
Diminutive of Theresia.
Thea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, English
Pronounced: TEH-a(German) THEE-ə(English)
Rating: 62% based on 11 votes
Short form of Dorothea, Theodora, Theresa and other names with a similar sound.
Tawny
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: TAW-nee
Rating: 24% based on 8 votes
From the English word, ultimately deriving from Old French tané, which means "light brown".
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: 71% based on 7 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.
Tate
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: TAYT
Rating: 46% based on 9 votes
From an English surname that was derived from the Old English given name Tata.
Tamiko
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 多美子, etc.(Japanese Kanji) たみこ(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: TA-MEE-KO
Rating: 49% based on 8 votes
From Japanese (ta) meaning "many", (mi) meaning "beautiful" and (ko) meaning "child". Other kanji combinations are also possible.
Tabitha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Biblical, Biblical Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Ταβιθά(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: TAB-i-thə(English)
Rating: 56% based on 10 votes
Means "gazelle" in Aramaic. Tabitha in the New Testament was a woman restored to life by Saint Peter. Her name is translated into Greek as Dorcas (see Acts 9:36). As an English name, Tabitha became common after the Protestant Reformation. It was popularized in the 1960s by the television show Bewitched, in which Tabitha (sometimes spelled Tabatha) is the daughter of the main character.
Tabea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German
Pronounced: ta-BEH-a
Rating: 37% based on 7 votes
German short form of Tabitha. This form was used in earlier editions of the Luther Bible.
Tabby
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: TAB-ee
Rating: 13% based on 8 votes
Diminutive of Tabitha.
Suri
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Yiddish
Other Scripts: שרה(Yiddish)
Rating: 24% based on 7 votes
Yiddish form of Sarah.
Suraya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic, Malay
Other Scripts: ثريّا, ثريّة(Arabic)
Pronounced: thoo-RIE-ya(Arabic)
Rating: 48% based on 8 votes
Alternate transcription of Arabic ثريّا or ثريّة (see Thurayya), as well as the usual Malay form.
Steven
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Dutch
Pronounced: STEE-vən(English) STEH-vən(Dutch)
Rating: 57% based on 9 votes
Medieval English variant of Stephen, and a Dutch variant of Stefan. The filmmaker Steven Spielberg (1946-), director of E.T. and Indiana Jones, is a famous bearer of this name.
Starla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: STAHR-lə
Rating: 51% based on 9 votes
Elaborated form of Star.
Star
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: STAHR
Rating: 47% based on 9 votes
From the English word for the celestial body, ultimately from Old English steorra.
Sonny
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SUN-ee
Rating: 42% based on 9 votes
From a nickname that is commonly used to denote a young boy, derived from the English word son.
Slava
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Croatian, Slovene
Other Scripts: Слава(Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian)
Pronounced: SLA-və(Russian) SLA-va(Croatian)
Rating: 46% based on 7 votes
Short form of names containing the Slavic element slava meaning "glory". It is typically masculine in Russia and Belarus, unisex in Ukraine, and feminine the South Slavic countries.
Skyler
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: SKIE-lər
Rating: 41% based on 11 votes
Variant of Schuyler, based on the pronunciation of the surname but respelled as if it was a blend of the English word sky with names such as Tyler. It was rare before 1980, and first gained popularity as a name for boys. It is now more common for girls, though it is more evenly unisex than the mostly feminine variant Skylar.
Simonetta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: see-mo-NEHT-ta
Rating: 40% based on 7 votes
Diminutive of Simona.
Simone 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, English, German, Dutch, Danish, Portuguese
Pronounced: SEE-MAWN(French) sə-MON(English) zee-MO-nə(German) see-MO-nə(Dutch)
Rating: 56% based on 11 votes
French feminine form of Simon 1. A famous bearer was Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986), a French feminist and philosopher.
Simona
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Czech, Slovak, Romanian, Lithuanian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Macedonian
Other Scripts: Симона(Bulgarian, Macedonian)
Pronounced: see-MO-na(Italian) SI-mo-na(Czech) SEE-maw-na(Slovak)
Rating: 39% based on 7 votes
Feminine form of Simon 1.
Simon 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, Dutch, Hungarian, Slovene, Romanian, Macedonian, Georgian, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Симон(Macedonian) სიმონ(Georgian) Σίμων(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: SIE-mən(English) SEE-MAWN(French) SEE-mawn(Danish, Dutch, Macedonian) ZEE-mawn(German) SHEE-mon(Hungarian)
Rating: 35% based on 8 votes
From Σίμων (Simon), the New Testament Greek form of the Hebrew name שִׁםְעוֹן (Shimʿon) meaning "hearing, listening", derived from שָׁמַע (shamaʿ) meaning "to hear, to listen". This name is spelled Simeon, based on Greek Συμεών, in many translations of the Old Testament, where it is borne by the second son of Jacob. The New Testament spelling may show influence from the otherwise unrelated Greek name Simon 2.

In the New Testament Simon is the name of several characters, including the man who carried the cross for Jesus. Most importantly however it was borne by the leading apostle Simon, also known as Peter (a name given to him by Jesus).

Because of the apostle, this name has been common in the Christian world. In England it was popular during the Middle Ages, though it became more rare after the Protestant Reformation.

Silas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Greek, Danish, German, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Σίλας(Greek)
Pronounced: SIE-ləs(English)
Rating: 50% based on 8 votes
The name of a companion of Saint Paul in the New Testament. It is probably a short form of Silvanus, a name that Paul calls him by in the epistles. It is possible that Silvanus and Silas were Latin and Greek forms of the Hebrew name Saul (via Aramaic).

As an English name it was not used until after the Protestant Reformation. It was utilized by George Eliot for the title character in her novel Silas Marner (1861).

Shevon
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: shə-VAHN
Rating: 20% based on 7 votes
Variant of Shavonne.
Sheldon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SHEHL-dən
Rating: 30% based on 9 votes
From an English surname that was originally derived from a place name meaning "valley with steep sides" in Old English. Sheldon is the name of several locations in England.
Shawna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SHAW-nə
Rating: 43% based on 7 votes
Feminine form of Shawn.
Sharron
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SHAR-ən, SHEHR-ən
Rating: 26% based on 8 votes
Variant of Sharon.
Serena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Late Roman
Pronounced: sə-REEN-ə(English) seh-REH-na(Italian)
Rating: 80% based on 10 votes
From a Late Latin name that was derived from Latin serenus meaning "clear, tranquil, serene". This name was borne by an obscure early saint. Edmund Spenser also used it in his poem The Faerie Queene (1590). A famous bearer from the modern era is tennis player Serena Williams (1981-).
Serafina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese (Rare)
Pronounced: seh-ra-FEE-na(Italian, Spanish)
Rating: 73% based on 10 votes
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of Seraphina.
September
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: sehp-TEHM-bər
Rating: 42% based on 10 votes
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.
Saturnina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman, Spanish
Pronounced: sa-toor-NEE-na(Spanish)
Rating: 39% based on 7 votes
Feminine form of Saturninus. This was the name of a legendary saint who was supposedly martyred in northern France.
Sapphire
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: SAF-ie-ər
Rating: 63% based on 10 votes
From the name of the gemstone, typically blue, which is the traditional birthstone of September. It is derived from Greek σάπφειρος (sappheiros), ultimately from the Hebrew word סַפִּיר (sappir).
Sango
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Popular Culture
Rating: 14% based on 8 votes
Means "coral" in Japanese. This name is used in the Japanese comic book and television show InuYasha.
Sakura
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 桜, 咲良, etc.(Japanese Kanji) さくら(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: SA-KOO-RA
Rating: 50% based on 7 votes
From Japanese (sakura) meaning "cherry blossom", though it is often written using the hiragana writing system. It can also come from (saku) meaning "blossom" and (ra) meaning "good, virtuous, respectable" as well as other kanji combinations.
Royce
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ROIS
Rating: 31% based on 9 votes
From an English surname that was derived from the medieval given name Royse, a variant of Rose.
Rosie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: RO-zee
Rating: 59% based on 9 votes
Diminutive of Rose.
Rosemarie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, German, Dutch
Pronounced: ROZ-mə-ree(English) ROZ-mehr-ee(English) RO-zə-ma-ree(German)
Rating: 71% based on 9 votes
Variant of Rosemary.
Roselle
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Various
Rating: 59% based on 10 votes
Diminutive of Rose. This is the name of a type of flowering shrub (species Hibiscus sabdariffa) native to Africa but now grown in many places, used to make hibiscus tea.
Rosella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Rating: 61% based on 8 votes
Italian diminutive of Rosa 1.
Rose
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, French
Pronounced: ROZ
Rating: 82% based on 13 votes
Originally a Norman French form of the Germanic name Hrodohaidis meaning "famous type", composed of the elements hruod "fame" and heit "kind, sort, type". The Normans introduced it to England in the forms Roese and Rohese. From an early date it was associated with the word for the fragrant flower rose (derived from Latin rosa). When the name was revived in the 19th century, it was probably with the flower in mind.
Rosario
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Italian
Pronounced: ro-SA-ryo(Spanish) ro-ZA-ryo(Italian)
Rating: 36% based on 7 votes
Means "rosary", and is taken from the Spanish title of the Virgin Mary Nuestra Señora del Rosario meaning "Our Lady of the Rosary". This name is feminine in Spanish and masculine in Italian.
Rosaria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ro-ZA-rya
Rating: 66% based on 8 votes
Italian feminine form of Rosario.
Rosangela
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ro-ZAN-jeh-la
Rating: 56% based on 7 votes
Combination of Rosa 1 and Angela.
Rosalina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese, Spanish
Pronounced: raw-zu-LEE-nu(European Portuguese) ho-za-LEE-nu(Brazilian Portuguese) ro-sa-LEE-na(Spanish)
Rating: 81% based on 10 votes
Latinate form of Rosaline.
Rosalie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, German, Dutch, English
Pronounced: RAW-ZA-LEE(French) ro-za-LEE(German, Dutch) RO-sa-lee(Dutch) ro-sa-LEE(Dutch) RO-za-lee(Dutch) RO-zə-lee(English)
Rating: 85% based on 13 votes
French, German and Dutch form of Rosalia. In the English-speaking this name received a boost after the release of the movie Rosalie (1938), which was based on an earlier musical.
Rosalia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Late Roman
Pronounced: ro-za-LEE-a(Italian)
Rating: 85% based on 11 votes
Late Latin name derived from rosa "rose". This was the name of a 12th-century Sicilian saint.
Rosabel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: RO-zə-behl
Rating: 72% based on 10 votes
Combination of Rosa 1 and the common name suffix bel, inspired by Latin bella "beautiful". This name was created in the 18th century.
Rosa 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Catalan, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Dutch, German, English
Pronounced: RO-sa(Spanish, Dutch) RAW-za(Italian) RAW-zu(European Portuguese) HAW-zu(Brazilian Portuguese) RAW-zə(Catalan) RO-za(German) RO-zə(English)
Rating: 82% based on 10 votes
Generally this can be considered to be from Latin rosa meaning "rose", though originally it may have come from the unrelated Germanic name Roza 2. This was the name of a 13th-century saint from Viterbo in Italy. In the English-speaking world it was first used in the 19th century. Famous bearers include the Polish-German revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) and the American civil rights activist Rosa Parks (1913-2005).
Ronnie
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: RAHN-ee
Rating: 36% based on 7 votes
Diminutive of Ronald or Veronica.
Ronalda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Scottish
Pronounced: rah-NAWL-da
Rating: 40% based on 7 votes
Feminine form of Ronald.
Rona 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: RO-nə
Rating: 16% based on 8 votes
Variant of Rhona.
Rita
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Estonian, Hungarian, Spanish, Portuguese, Latvian, Lithuanian
Pronounced: REE-ta(Italian, German, Spanish) REET-ə(English) REE-taw(Hungarian) ryi-TU(Lithuanian)
Rating: 31% based on 8 votes
Short form of Margherita and other names ending in rita. Saint Rita (born Margherita Lotti) was a 15th-century nun from Cascia, Italy. Another famous bearer was the American actress Rita Hayworth (1918-1987).
Rina 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Dutch
Pronounced: REE-na
Rating: 23% based on 7 votes
Short form of Caterina or Catharina as well as other names ending in rina.
Rin
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: , etc.(Japanese Kanji) りん(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: REEN
Rating: 25% based on 8 votes
From Japanese (rin) meaning "dignified, severe, cold" or other kanji that are pronounced the same way.
Rhonda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: RAHN-də
Rating: 14% based on 8 votes
Probably a blend of the sounds of Rhoda and Linda, but maybe also influenced by the name of the Rhondda Valley in South Wales and/or the noted British feminist Margaret Mackworth, Viscountess Rhondda (1883-1956) [1]. This name has only been used since the beginning of the 20th century, at first rarely. It started becoming popular in the mid-1940s at the same time as the American actress Rhonda Fleming (1923-2020), born Marilyn Louis. It peaked in the United States in 1965 and thereafter declined.
Rena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Rating: 35% based on 8 votes
Latinate feminine form of René.
Reid
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: REED
Rating: 42% based on 9 votes
From a surname, a Scots variant of Reed.
Reese
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Welsh, English
Rating: 55% based on 8 votes
Anglicized form of Rhys. It is also used as a feminine name, popularized by the American actress Reese Witherspoon (1976-).
Raz
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: רָז(Hebrew)
Rating: 23% based on 8 votes
Means "secret" in Hebrew.
Rayna 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Bulgarian
Other Scripts: Райна(Bulgarian)
Rating: 66% based on 8 votes
Either a Bulgarian form of Regina or a feminine form of Rayno.
Ray
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: RAY
Rating: 60% based on 8 votes
Short form of Raymond, often used as an independent name. It coincides with an English word meaning "beam of light". Science-fiction author Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) and musician Ray Charles (1930-2004) are two notable bearers of the name.
Ravenna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: rə-VEHN-ə
Rating: 52% based on 9 votes
Either an elaboration of Raven, or else from the name of the city of Ravenna in Italy.
Raven
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: RAY-vən
Rating: 33% based on 8 votes
From the name of the bird, ultimately from Old English hræfn. The raven is revered by several Native American groups of the west coast. It is also associated with the Norse god Odin.
Raquel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese, English
Pronounced: ra-KEHL(Spanish) ru-KEHL(European Portuguese) ha-KEW(Brazilian Portuguese) rə-KEHL(English)
Rating: 57% based on 9 votes
Spanish and Portuguese form of Rachel.
Ramona
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Romanian, English
Pronounced: ra-MO-na(Spanish) rə-MON-ə(English)
Rating: 54% based on 10 votes
Feminine form of Ramón. It was popularized in the English-speaking world by Helen Hunt Jackson's novel Ramona (1884), as well as several subsequent movies based on the book.
Raina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Bulgarian
Other Scripts: Райна(Bulgarian)
Rating: 69% based on 9 votes
Alternate transcription of Bulgarian Райна (see Rayna 1).
Rae
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: RAY
Rating: 38% based on 8 votes
Short form of Rachel. It can also be used as a feminine form of Ray.
Quintina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Rating: 37% based on 7 votes
Feminine form of Quintinus.
Quintella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 44% based on 8 votes
Feminine diminutive of Quintus.
Quinn
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KWIN
Rating: 37% based on 7 votes
From an Irish surname, an Anglicized form of Irish Gaelic Ó Cuinn, itself derived from the given name Conn. In the United States it was more common as a name for boys until 2010, the year after the female character Quinn Fabray began appearing on the television series Glee.
Pippa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: PIP-ə
Rating: 60% based on 9 votes
Diminutive of Philippa.
Piper
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: PIE-pər
Rating: 49% based on 11 votes
From an English surname that was originally given to a person who played on a pipe (a flute). It was popularized as a given name by a character from the television series Charmed, which debuted in 1998 [1].
Pim
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch
Pronounced: PIM
Rating: 25% based on 8 votes
Diminutive of Willem.
Pia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, German, Slovene, Late Roman
Pronounced: PEE-a(Italian, Danish, Swedish, German)
Rating: 53% based on 8 votes
Feminine form of Pius.
Phoebe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Greek Mythology (Latinized), Biblical, Biblical Latin
Other Scripts: Φοίβη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: FEE-bee(English)
Rating: 56% based on 10 votes
Latinized form of the Greek name Φοίβη (Phoibe), which meant "bright, pure" from Greek φοῖβος (phoibos). In Greek mythology Phoibe was a Titan associated with the moon. This was also an epithet of her granddaughter, the moon goddess Artemis. The name appears in Paul's epistle to the Romans in the New Testament, where it belongs to a female minister in the church at Cenchreae.

In England, it began to be used as a given name after the Protestant Reformation. It was moderately common in the 19th century. It began to rise in popularity again in the late 1980s, probably helped along by characters on the American television shows Friends (1994-2004) and Charmed (1998-2006). It is currently much more common in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand than the United States.

A moon of Saturn bears this name, in honour of the Titan.

Penelope
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, English
Other Scripts: Πηνελόπη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: PEH-NEH-LO-PEH(Classical Greek) pə-NEHL-ə-pee(English)
Rating: 67% based on 11 votes
Probably derived from Greek πηνέλοψ (penelops), a type of duck. Alternatively it could be from πήνη (pene) meaning "threads, weft" and ὄψ (ops) meaning "face, eye". In Homer's epic the Odyssey this is the name of the wife of Odysseus, forced to fend off suitors while her husband is away fighting at Troy.

It has occasionally been used as an English given name since the 16th century. It was moderately popular in the 1940s, but had a more notable upswing in the early 2000s. This may have been inspired by the Spanish actress Penélope Cruz (1974-), who gained prominence in English-language movies at that time. It was already rapidly rising when celebrities Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick gave it to their baby daughter in 2012.

Payton
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: PAY-tən
Rating: 27% based on 10 votes
Variant of Peyton.
Ottilia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish
Pronounced: oot-TEE-lee-ah
Rating: 56% based on 7 votes
Swedish form of Odilia.
Orianne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: AW-RYAN
Rating: 64% based on 7 votes
French form of Oriana.
Oriana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: o-RYA-na
Rating: 70% based on 8 votes
Possibly derived from Latin aurum "gold" or from its derivatives, Spanish oro or French or. In medieval legend Oriana was the daughter of a king of England who married the knight Amadis.
Oria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Rating: 56% based on 7 votes
Italian form of Aurea.
Ollie
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AHL-ee
Rating: 29% based on 8 votes
Diminutive of Oliver, Olivia or Olive.
Olivette
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: ahl-i-VEHT(English)
Rating: 44% based on 8 votes
Feminine form of Oliver. This was the name of the title character in the French opera Les noces d'Olivette (1879) by Edmond Audran.
Olivera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian
Other Scripts: Оливера(Serbian, Macedonian)
Rating: 54% based on 8 votes
Feminine form of Oliver.
Oliver
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Estonian, Catalan, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, Czech, Slovak, Carolingian Cycle
Other Scripts: Оливер(Serbian, Macedonian)
Pronounced: AHL-i-vər(English) O-lee-vu(German) O-lee-vehr(Finnish) oo-lee-BEH(Catalan) O-li-vehr(Czech) AW-lee-vehr(Slovak)
Rating: 56% based on 8 votes
From Old French Olivier, which was possibly derived from Latin oliva "olive tree" [1]. Alternatively there could be an underlying Germanic name, such as Old Norse Áleifr (see Olaf) or Frankish Alawar (see Álvaro), with the spelling altered by association with the Latin word. In the Middle Ages the name became well-known in Western Europe because of the French epic La Chanson de Roland, in which Olivier is a friend and advisor to the hero Roland.

In England Oliver was a common medieval name, however it became rare after the 17th century because of the military commander Oliver Cromwell, who ruled the country following the civil war. The name was revived in the 19th century, perhaps due in part to the title character in Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist (1838), about a poor orphan living on the streets of London. It became very popular at the beginning of the 21st century, reaching the top rank for boys in England and Wales in 2009 and entering the top ten in the United States in 2017.

Olive
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, French
Pronounced: AHL-iv(English) AW-LEEV(French)
Rating: 38% based on 10 votes
From the English and French word for the type of tree, ultimately derived from Latin oliva.
Nova
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Swedish (Modern), Dutch (Modern)
Pronounced: NO-və(English) NO-va(Swedish, Dutch)
Rating: 64% based on 11 votes
Derived from Latin novus meaning "new". It was first used as a name in the 19th century.
Norma
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Literature
Pronounced: NAWR-mə(English)
Rating: 32% based on 9 votes
Created by Felice Romani for the main character in the opera Norma (1831). He may have based it on Latin norma "rule". This name is also frequently used as a feminine form of Norman.
Norina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Rating: 50% based on 8 votes
Italian diminutive of Nora 1.
Norene
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: naw-REEN
Rating: 33% based on 8 votes
Variant of Noreen.
Nora 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Irish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Latvian, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: NAWR-ə(English) NO-ra(German, Dutch, Spanish)
Rating: 55% based on 10 votes
Short form of Honora or Eleanor. Henrik Ibsen used it for a character in his play A Doll's House (1879).
Nolan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French (Modern)
Pronounced: NO-lən(English)
Rating: 50% based on 9 votes
From an Irish surname, the Anglicized form of Ó Nualláin, itself derived from the given name Nuallán. The baseball player Nolan Ryan (1947-) is a famous bearer. This name has climbed steadily in popularity since the 1970s.
Nola
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: NO-lə
Rating: 43% based on 8 votes
Meaning uncertain, possibly a feminine form of Noll inspired by Lola. It has been most common in Australia and New Zealand, especially in the first half of the 20th century.
Noëlla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Rating: 57% based on 9 votes
Feminine variant form of Noël.
Noel
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: NOL, NO-əl
Rating: 21% based on 7 votes
English form of Noël or Noëlle (rarely). It was fairly popular in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand in the middle of the 20th century. It is occasionally written with a diaeresis, like in French. A famous bearer is British musician Noel Gallagher (1967-).
Noam
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew, French
Other Scripts: נוֹעַם(Hebrew)
Pronounced: NO-am(Hebrew) NOM(English) NAW-AM(French)
Rating: 24% based on 7 votes
Means "pleasantness" in Hebrew. A famous bearer is Noam Chomsky (1928-), an American linguist and philosopher.
Nikolina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian
Other Scripts: Николина(Bulgarian, Serbian, Macedonian)
Rating: 61% based on 7 votes
Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian and Macedonian feminine form of Nicholas.
Nika 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Slovene, Croatian
Rating: 47% based on 7 votes
Feminine form of Nikola 1.
Nicoline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch, Danish
Pronounced: nee-ko-LEEN(Dutch) nee-ko-LEE-nə(Dutch)
Rating: 43% based on 7 votes
Diminutive of Nicole.
Nicolette
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: NEE-KAW-LEHT
Rating: 60% based on 7 votes
Diminutive of Nicole.
Nicoletta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: nee-ko-LEHT-ta
Rating: 60% based on 7 votes
Feminine diminutive of Nicola 1.
Nicola 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, English
Pronounced: NI-ko-la(German) NIK-ə-lə(English)
Rating: 63% based on 7 votes
Feminine form of Nicholas. In the English-speaking world this name is more common outside of America, where Nicole is more usual.
Nico
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Dutch, German, Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: NEE-ko(Italian, Dutch, Spanish)
Rating: 42% based on 9 votes
Short form of Nicholas (or sometimes Nicodemus).
Nessa 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: NEHS-ə
Rating: 59% based on 8 votes
Short form of Vanessa and other names ending in nessa.
Nellie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Swedish
Pronounced: NEHL-ee(English) NEH-li(Swedish)
Rating: 40% based on 8 votes
Diminutive of Nell and other names containing nel.
Nelle
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: NEHL
Rating: 41% based on 8 votes
Variant of Nell.
Nella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: NEHL-la
Rating: 51% based on 8 votes
Short form of Antonella.
Nell
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: NEHL
Rating: 31% based on 8 votes
Medieval diminutive of names beginning with El, such as Eleanor, Ellen 1 or Helen. It may have arisen from the medieval affectionate phrase mine El, which was later reinterpreted as my Nel.
Neela
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Tamil, Hindi
Other Scripts: நீலா(Tamil) नीला(Hindi)
Rating: 51% based on 7 votes
Alternate transcription of Tamil நீலா or Hindi नीला (see Nila).
Nea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Finnish
Pronounced: NEH-ah(Finnish)
Rating: 46% based on 7 votes
Short form of Linnéa.
Natalie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian
Pronounced: NAT-ə-lee(English) NA-ta-lee(German, Dutch)
Rating: 69% based on 12 votes
From the Late Latin name Natalia, which meant "Christmas Day" from Latin natale domini. This was the name of the wife of the 4th-century martyr Saint Adrian of Nicomedia. She is venerated as a saint in the Orthodox Church, and the name has traditionally been more common among Eastern Christians than those in the West. It was popularized in America by actress Natalie Wood (1938-1981), who was born to Russian immigrants.
Natalia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Polish, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Greek, Georgian, Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Late Roman
Other Scripts: Ναταλία(Greek) ნატალია(Georgian) Наталия(Russian, Bulgarian) Наталія(Ukrainian)
Pronounced: na-TA-lya(Polish, Italian, Spanish) na-ta-LEE-a(Italian) na-TA-lee-a(Romanian) nə-TAHL-ee-ə(English)
Rating: 82% based on 12 votes
Latinate form of Natalia (see Natalie).
Nabil
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: نبيل(Arabic)
Pronounced: na-BEEL
Rating: 23% based on 9 votes
Means "noble" in Arabic.
Mona 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish, English
Pronounced: MO-nə(English)
Rating: 33% based on 8 votes
Anglicized form of Muadhnait. It is also associated with Greek monos "one" and Leonardo da Vinci's painting the Mona Lisa (in which case it is a contraction of Italian ma donna meaning "my lady").
Mizuki
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 瑞希, etc.(Japanese Kanji) みずき(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: MEE-ZOO-KYEE
Rating: 51% based on 8 votes
From Japanese (mizu) meaning "felicitous omen, auspicious" and (ki) meaning "hope", besides other kanji combinations.
Mira 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Macedonian, Polish
Other Scripts: Мира(Serbian, Macedonian)
Pronounced: MEE-ra(Polish)
Rating: 40% based on 9 votes
Short form of Miroslava and other names beginning with Mir (often the Slavic element mirŭ meaning "peace, world").
Millie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MIL-ee
Rating: 51% based on 9 votes
Diminutive of Mildred, Millicent and other names containing the same sound.
Mila
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Serbian, Croatian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Slovene, Ukrainian, Russian
Other Scripts: Мила(Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian) Міла(Ukrainian)
Pronounced: MYEE-lə(Russian)
Rating: 40% based on 10 votes
From the Slavic element milŭ meaning "gracious, dear", originally a short form of names containing that element.
Mikael
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Breton
Pronounced: MEE-ka-ehl(Swedish, Norwegian) MEE-kal(Danish) MEE-kah-ehl(Finnish)
Rating: 38% based on 8 votes
Scandinavian, Finnish and Breton form of Michael.
Mika 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: MEE-kah
Rating: 24% based on 8 votes
Finnish short form of Mikael.
Michelle
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, English, Dutch
Pronounced: MEE-SHEHL(French) mi-SHEHL(English) mee-SHEHL(Dutch) mee-SHEH-lə(Dutch)
Rating: 50% based on 9 votes
French feminine form of Michel. It has been common in the English-speaking world since the middle of the 20th century. A famous bearer is the former American first lady Michelle Obama (1964-).
Michelina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: mee-keh-LEE-na
Rating: 29% based on 8 votes
Feminine diminutive of Michele 1.
Mercy
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MUR-see
Rating: 39% based on 11 votes
From the English word mercy, ultimately from Latin merces "wages, reward", a derivative of merx "goods, wares". This was one of the virtue names adopted by the Puritans in the 17th century.
McKenzie
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: mə-KEHN-zee
Rating: 38% based on 10 votes
Variant of Mackenzie.
Marion 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, English
Pronounced: MA-RYAWN(French) MEHR-ee-ən(English) MAR-ee-ən(English)
Rating: 62% based on 9 votes
Medieval French diminutive of Marie.
Marine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, Armenian, Georgian
Other Scripts: Մարինէ(Armenian) მარინე(Georgian)
Pronounced: MA-REEN(French)
Rating: 50% based on 10 votes
French, Armenian and Georgian form of Marina.
Marietta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Greek, Hungarian, German, Polish
Other Scripts: Μαριέττα(Greek)
Pronounced: MAW-ree-eht-taw(Hungarian)
Rating: 68% based on 9 votes
Diminutive of Maria.
Marie
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: French, Czech, German, English, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Albanian
Pronounced: MA-REE(French) MA-ri-yeh(Czech) ma-REE(German, Dutch) mə-REE(English)
Rating: 73% based on 11 votes
French and Czech form of Maria. It has been very common in France since the 13th century. At the opening of the 20th century it was given to approximately 20 percent of French girls. This percentage has declined steadily over the course of the century, and it dropped from the top rank in 1958.

A notable bearer of this name was Marie Antoinette, a queen of France who was executed by guillotine during the French Revolution. Another was Marie Curie (1867-1934), a physicist and chemist who studied radioactivity with her husband Pierre.

In France it is occasionally used as a masculine name in pairings such as Jean-Marie.

Mariana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese, Spanish, Romanian, Czech, Bulgarian, Ancient Roman
Other Scripts: Мариана, Марияна(Bulgarian)
Pronounced: mu-RYU-nu(European Portuguese) ma-RYU-nu(Brazilian Portuguese) ma-RYA-na(Spanish)
Rating: 81% based on 12 votes
Roman feminine form of Marianus. After the classical era it was sometimes interpreted as a combination of Maria and Ana. In Portuguese it is further used as a form of Mariamne.
Maria
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Italian, Portuguese, Catalan, Occitan, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Faroese, Dutch, Frisian, Greek, Polish, Romanian, English, Finnish, Estonian, Corsican, Sardinian, Basque, Armenian, Russian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Biblical Greek [1], Biblical Latin, Old Church Slavic
Other Scripts: Μαρία(Greek) Մարիա(Armenian) Мария(Russian, Bulgarian) Марія(Ukrainian) Маріа(Church Slavic)
Pronounced: ma-REE-a(Italian, German, Swedish, Dutch, Greek, Romanian, Basque) mu-REE-u(European Portuguese) ma-REE-u(Brazilian Portuguese) mə-REE-ə(Catalan, English) mah-REE-ah(Norwegian, Danish) MAR-ya(Polish) MAH-ree-ah(Finnish) mu-RYEE-yə(Russian) mu-RYEE-yu(Ukrainian)
Rating: 82% based on 10 votes
Latin form of Greek Μαρία, 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.

This was the name of two ruling queens of Portugal. It was also borne by the Habsburg queen Maria Theresa (1717-1780), whose inheritance of the domains of her father, the Holy Roman emperor Charles VI, began the War of the Austrian Succession.

Marcy
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MAHR-see
Rating: 23% based on 8 votes
Diminutive of Marcia.
Marcella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, German, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: mar-CHEHL-la(Italian) mar-KEHL-la(Latin)
Rating: 61% based on 9 votes
Feminine form of Marcellus.
Marceline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: MAR-SU-LEEN
Rating: 60% based on 11 votes
French feminine form of Marcellinus.
Marcelina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Polish, Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: mar-tseh-LEE-na(Polish) mar-theh-LEE-na(European Spanish) mar-seh-LEE-na(Latin American Spanish)
Rating: 46% based on 8 votes
Polish, Spanish and Portuguese feminine form of Marcellinus.
Marcela
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Romanian, Czech, Slovak
Pronounced: mar-THEH-la(European Spanish) mar-SEH-la(Latin American Spanish) mur-SEH-lu(European Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese) mar-TSEH-la(Polish) mar-CHEH-la(Romanian) MAR-tseh-la(Czech, Slovak)
Rating: 53% based on 9 votes
Feminine form of Marcellus.
Marcel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French, Catalan, Romanian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Dutch, German
Pronounced: MAR-SEHL(French) mər-SEHL(Catalan) mar-CHEHL(Romanian) MAR-tsehl(Polish, Czech, Slovak) mahr-SEHL(Dutch) mar-SEHL(German)
Rating: 30% based on 9 votes
Form of Marcellus used in several languages. Notable bearers include the French author Marcel Proust (1871-1922) and the French artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968).
Manny
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MAN-ee
Rating: 21% based on 8 votes
Short form of Emmanuel.
Malika
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: ملكة(Arabic)
Pronounced: MA-lee-ka
Rating: 59% based on 10 votes
Means "queen" in Arabic, the feminine form of Malik 1.
Macy
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MAY-see
Rating: 22% based on 9 votes
From an English surname that was from various towns called Massy in France. The towns themselves were originally derived from a Gallo-Roman personal name that was Latinized as Maccius. The name was brought to public attention in 1989 when the character Macy Alexander was introduced to the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful [1]. It is also notable as the name of a chain of American department stores founded by Rowland Hussey Macy in 1858.
Lynnette
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: li-NEHT
Rating: 56% based on 10 votes
Variant of Lynette.
Lynn
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LIN
Rating: 40% based on 10 votes
From an English surname that was derived from Welsh llyn meaning "lake". Before the start of the 20th century it was primarily used for boys, but it has since come to be more common for girls. In some cases it may be thought of as a short form of Linda or names that end in lyn or line.
Luna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, English
Pronounced: LOO-na(Latin, Spanish, Italian) LOO-nə(English)
Rating: 75% based on 11 votes
Means "the moon" in Latin (as well as Italian, Spanish and other Romance languages). Luna was the Roman goddess of the moon, frequently depicted driving a white chariot through the sky.
Luka
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Macedonian, Russian, Georgian, Old Church Slavic
Other Scripts: Лука(Serbian, Macedonian, Russian) ლუკა(Georgian) Лꙋка(Church Slavic)
Pronounced: LOO-ka(Croatian) LOO-KAH(Georgian)
Rating: 61% based on 9 votes
Form of Lucas (see Luke) in several languages.
Lucine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Armenian
Other Scripts: Լուսինե(Armenian)
Pronounced: loo-see-NEH
Rating: 51% based on 9 votes
Alternate transcription of Armenian Լուսինե (see Lusine).
Lucina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Pronounced: loo-KEE-na(Latin) loo-SIE-nə(English) loo-SEE-nə(English)
Rating: 57% based on 9 votes
Derived from Latin lucus meaning "grove", but later associated with lux meaning "light". This was the name of a Roman goddess of childbirth.
Lucilla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Ancient Roman
Rating: 53% based on 9 votes
Latin diminutive of Lucia. This was the name of a 3rd-century saint martyred in Rome.
Lucienne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: LUY-SYEHN
Rating: 57% based on 9 votes
Feminine form of Lucien.
Lucie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, Czech
Pronounced: LUY-SEE(French) loo-TSI-yeh(Czech)
Rating: 63% based on 9 votes
French and Czech form of Lucia.
Luciana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: loo-CHA-na(Italian) loo-THYA-na(European Spanish) loo-SYA-na(Latin American Spanish) loo-SYU-nu(European Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese)
Rating: 77% based on 11 votes
Feminine form of Lucianus.
Lucia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, German, Dutch, English, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Romanian, Slovak, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: loo-CHEE-a(Italian) LOO-tsya(German) loo-TSEE-a(German) LUY-see-ya(Dutch) LOO-shə(English) loo-SEE-ə(English) luy-SEE-a(Swedish) LOO-chya(Romanian) LOO-kee-a(Latin)
Rating: 63% based on 10 votes
Feminine form of Lucius. Saint Lucia was a 4th-century martyr from Syracuse. She was said to have had her eyes gouged out, and thus she is the patron saint of the blind. She was widely revered in the Middle Ages, and her name has been used throughout Christian Europe (in various spellings). It has been used in the England since the 12th century, usually in the spellings Lucy or Luce.
Lucette
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Rating: 48% based on 10 votes
Diminutive of Lucie.
Lucetta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: loo-CHEHT-ta
Rating: 48% based on 10 votes
Diminutive of Luce. Shakespeare used this name for a character in his play The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1594).
Luce
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, French
Pronounced: LOO-cheh(Italian) LUYS(French)
Rating: 35% based on 11 votes
Italian and French variant of Lucia. This also means "light" in Italian.
Lucas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Dutch, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Biblical Latin
Pronounced: LOO-kəs(English) LUY-kahs(Dutch) LUY-KA(French) LOO-kush(European Portuguese) LOO-kus(Brazilian Portuguese) LOO-kas(Spanish, Swedish, Latin)
Rating: 61% based on 10 votes
Latin form of Greek Λουκᾶς (see Luke), as well as the form used in several other languages.

This name became very popular in the second half of the 20th century. It reached the top ten names for boys in France (by 1997), Belgium (1998), Denmark (2003), Canada (2008), the Netherlands (2009), New Zealand (2009), Australia (2010), Scotland (2013), Spain (2015) and the United States (2018).

Louisette
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: LWEE-ZEHT
Rating: 42% based on 10 votes
Diminutive of Louise.
Louise
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, English, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, German
Pronounced: LWEEZ(French) loo-EEZ(English) loo-EE-sə(Danish) loo-EE-zə(German)
Rating: 54% based on 10 votes
French feminine form of Louis.
Louisa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, German, Dutch
Pronounced: loo-EEZ-ə(English) loo-EE-za(German)
Rating: 63% based on 12 votes
Latinate feminine form of Louis. A famous bearer was the American novelist Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888), the author of Little Women.
Louella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: loo-EHL-ə
Rating: 39% based on 9 votes
Combination of Lou and the popular name suffix ella.
Lorinda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: lə-RIN-də
Rating: 37% based on 9 votes
Elaboration of Lori with the popular name suffix inda.
Lorette
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: LAW-REHT
Rating: 46% based on 9 votes
Variant of Laurette. This is also the usual French form of Loreto.
Lorena 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: law-REHN-ə
Rating: 43% based on 9 votes
Latinized form of Lauren. This name was first brought to public attention in America by the song Lorena (1856), written by Joseph Webster, who was said to have created the name as an anagram of Lenore (from the character in Poe's poem The Raven) [1].
Lorainne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: lə-RAYN
Rating: 23% based on 10 votes
Variant of Lorraine.
Lora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LAWR-ə
Rating: 34% based on 10 votes
Variant of Laura.
Lizbeth
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Rating: 53% based on 9 votes
Short form of Elizabeth.
Lizaveta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Лизавета(Russian)
Rating: 58% based on 9 votes
Short form of Yelizaveta.
Liza
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Russian, Greek, Georgian
Other Scripts: Лиза(Russian) Λίζα(Greek) ლიზა(Georgian)
Pronounced: LIE-zə(English) LEE-zə(English) LEE-ZA(Georgian)
Rating: 41% based on 9 votes
Short form of Elizabeth (English), Yelizaveta (Russian), Elisavet (Greek) or Elisabed (Georgian).
Liz
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LIZ
Rating: 40% based on 9 votes
Short form of Elizabeth. This is the familiar name of actress Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011).
Livie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Rare), Czech (Rare)
Pronounced: LEE-VEE(French) LI-vi-yeh(Czech)
Rating: 42% based on 9 votes
French and Czech feminine form of Livius.
Liviana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: lee-VYA-na(Italian)
Rating: 71% based on 9 votes
Feminine form of the Roman family name Livianus, which was itself derived from the family name Livius.
Livia 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LIV-ee-ə
Rating: 48% based on 9 votes
Short form of Olivia.
Liv 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LIV
Rating: 45% based on 10 votes
Short form of Olivia.
Lisbet
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian
Rating: 56% based on 9 votes
Scandinavian short form of Elisabet.
Line
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Danish, Norwegian, French
Pronounced: LEEN(French)
Rating: 24% based on 9 votes
Short form of Caroline and other names ending in line.
Lina 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Lithuanian, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Slovene
Pronounced: LEE-nə(English) LEE-na(Italian, Spanish)
Rating: 63% based on 9 votes
Short form of names ending in lina.
Lilly
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish
Pronounced: LIL-ee(English)
Rating: 71% based on 12 votes
English variant of Lily. It is also used in Scandinavia, as a form of Lily or a diminutive of Elisabeth.
Lillian
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LIL-ee-ən
Rating: 61% based on 12 votes
Probably originally a diminutive of Elizabeth. It may also be considered an elaborated form of Lily, from the Latin word for "lily" lilium. This name has been used in England since the 16th century.
Lillia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LIL-ee-ə
Rating: 66% based on 11 votes
Short form of Lillian or an elaborated form of Lily.
Lilith
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Semitic Mythology, Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend
Other Scripts: לילית(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: LIL-ith(English)
Rating: 72% based on 11 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.
Lilibet
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Rating: 57% based on 9 votes
Diminutive of Elizabeth.
Liliana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Polish, Czech, English
Pronounced: lee-LYA-na(Italian, Spanish, Polish) lil-ee-AN-ə(English) lil-ee-AHN-ə(English)
Rating: 70% based on 11 votes
Latinate form of Lillian.
Lexi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LEHK-see
Rating: 41% based on 11 votes
Diminutive of Alexandra or Alexis.
Lettie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LEHT-ee
Rating: 36% based on 10 votes
Diminutive of Lettice.
Leslie
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LEHZ-lee, LEHS-lee
Rating: 39% based on 12 votes
From a Scottish surname that was derived from a place in Aberdeenshire, probably from Gaelic leas celyn meaning "garden of holly". It has been used as a given name since the 19th century. In America it was more common as a feminine name after the 1940s.
Leonora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Rating: 67% based on 13 votes
Italian short form of Eleanor.
Leni
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German
Pronounced: LEH-nee
Rating: 45% based on 10 votes
German diminutive of Helene or Magdalena.
Lene
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Danish, Norwegian, German
Pronounced: LEH-neh(Danish, Norwegian) LEH-nə(German)
Rating: 41% based on 11 votes
Danish, Norwegian and German short form of Helene or Magdalene.
Leif
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Pronounced: LAYF
Rating: 50% based on 13 votes
From the Old Norse name Leifr meaning "descendant, heir". Leif Eriksson was a Norse explorer who reached North America in the early 11th century. He was the son of Erik the Red.
Lavinia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology, Romanian, Italian
Pronounced: la-WEE-nee-a(Latin) lə-VIN-ee-ə(English) la-VEE-nya(Italian)
Rating: 79% based on 12 votes
Meaning unknown, probably of Etruscan origin. In Roman legend Lavinia was the daughter of King Latinus, the wife of Aeneas, and the ancestor of the Roman people. According to the legend Aeneas named the town of Lavinium in honour of his wife.
Lavender
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: LAV-ən-dər
Rating: 60% based on 11 votes
From the English word for the aromatic flower or the pale purple colour.
Lavena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 54% based on 10 votes
Variant of Lavinia.
Kyle
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KIEL
Rating: 38% based on 12 votes
From a Scottish surname that was derived from various place names, themselves from Gaelic caol meaning "narrows, channel, strait". As a given name it was rare in the first half of the 20th century. It rose steadily in popularity throughout the English-speaking world, entering the top 50 in most places by the 1990s. It has since declined in all regions.
Kokoro
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: , etc.(Japanese Kanji) こころ(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: KO-KO-RO
Rating: 37% based on 11 votes
From Japanese (kokoro) meaning "heart, mind, soul" or other kanji and kanji combinations having the same pronunciation. It is often written using the hiragana writing system.
Kitty
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KIT-ee
Rating: 41% based on 12 votes
Diminutive of Katherine.
Kira 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KEER-ə
Rating: 55% based on 11 votes
Variant of Ciara 1.
Kimiko
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 貴美子, 君子, etc.(Japanese Kanji) きみこ(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: KYEE-MEE-KO
Rating: 55% based on 10 votes
From Japanese (ki) meaning "valuable" with (mi) meaning "beautiful" or (kimi) meaning "lord, noble" combined with (ko) meaning "child". Other kanji combinations are possible.
Kimi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: KEE-mee
Rating: 19% based on 10 votes
Diminutive of Kim 2.
Kenzie
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KEHN-zee
Rating: 34% based on 12 votes
Short form of Mackenzie.
Kennedy
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English, Irish
Pronounced: KEHN-ə-dee(English)
Rating: 52% based on 12 votes
From an Irish surname, an Anglicized form of Irish Gaelic Ó Cinnéidigh, itself derived from the given name Cennétig. The name has sometimes been given in honour of assassinated American president John F. Kennedy (1917-1963). It was popularized as a name for girls by Lisa Kennedy Montgomery (1972-), known simply as Kennedy, the host of the television program Alternative Nation on MTV from 1992 to 1997.
Kendall
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KEHN-dəl
Rating: 51% based on 12 votes
From an English surname that comes from the name of the city of Kendale in northwestern England meaning "valley on the river Kent". Originally mostly masculine, the name received a boost in popularity for girls in 1993 when the devious character Kendall Hart began appearing on the American soap opera All My Children.
Katia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, French, Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian
Other Scripts: Катя(Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian)
Pronounced: KA-tya(Italian) KA-TYA(French) KA-tyə(Russian)
Rating: 67% based on 11 votes
Italian and French form of Katya, as well as an alternate transcription of the Slavic name.
Kateri
Gender: Feminine
Usage: History
Rating: 51% based on 11 votes
From the Mohawk pronunciation of Katherine. This was the name adopted by the 17th-century Mohawk saint Tekakwitha upon her baptism.
Kata
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hungarian, Finnish, Croatian
Pronounced: KAW-taw(Hungarian) KAH-tah(Finnish)
Rating: 47% based on 10 votes
Hungarian short form of Katalin, Finnish short form of Katariina and Croatian short form of Katarina.
Kat
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KAT
Rating: 49% based on 11 votes
Diminutive of Katherine.
Karen 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, English, German
Pronounced: KAH-rehn(Danish) KAR-ən(English) KEHR-ən(English) KA-rən(German)
Rating: 33% based on 10 votes
Danish short form of Katherine. It became common in the English-speaking world after the 1930s.
Kara 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KAHR-ə, KEHR-ə, KAR-ə
Rating: 57% based on 11 votes
Variant of Cara.
Justice
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JUS-tis
Rating: 41% based on 13 votes
From an occupational surname meaning "judge, officer of justice" in Old French. This name can also be given in direct reference to the English word justice.
Julitta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: History (Ecclesiastical)
Rating: 51% based on 11 votes
Diminutive of Julia. This was the name of a 4th-century saint who was martyred in Tarsus with her young son Quiricus.
Juliana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch, German, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Slovak, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: yuy-lee-A-na(Dutch) yoo-lee-A-na(German) joo-lee-AN-ə(English) joo-lee-AHN-ə(English) khoo-LYA-na(Spanish) YOO-lee-a-na(Slovak)
Rating: 71% based on 15 votes
Feminine form of Iulianus (see Julian). This was the name of a 4th-century saint and martyr from Nicomedia, and also of the Blessed Juliana of Norwich, also called Julian, a 14th-century mystic and author. The name was also borne by a 20th-century queen of the Netherlands. In England, this form has been in use since the 18th century, alongside the older form Gillian.
Julia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Spanish, Polish, Finnish, Estonian, Russian, Ukrainian, Ancient Roman, Biblical
Other Scripts: Юлия(Russian) Юлія(Ukrainian)
Pronounced: JOO-lee-ə(English) YOO-lya(German, Danish, Polish) YOO-lee-ah(Swedish, Finnish) YUY-lee-a(Dutch) KHOO-lya(Spanish) YOO-lyi-yə(Russian) YOO-lee-a(Latin)
Rating: 65% based on 13 votes
Feminine form of the Roman family name Julius. Among the notable women from this family were Julia Augusta (also known as Livia Drusilla), the wife of Emperor Augustus, and Julia the Elder, the daughter of Augustus and the wife of Tiberius. A person by this name has a brief mention in the New Testament. It was also borne by a few early saints and martyrs, including the patron saint of Corsica. Additionally, Shakespeare used it in his comedy The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1594).

It has been common as a given name in the English-speaking world only since the 18th century. A famous modern bearer is American actress Julia Roberts (1967-).

Josie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JO-zee
Rating: 37% based on 10 votes
Diminutive of Josephine.
Josette
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: ZHAW-ZEHT
Rating: 50% based on 11 votes
Diminutive of Joséphine.
Josephina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: jo-sə-FEEN-ə
Rating: 58% based on 11 votes
Latinate variant of Joséphine.
Jorie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JAWR-ee
Rating: 25% based on 11 votes
Short form of Marjorie.
Jolie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JO-lee(English) ZHAW-LEE(French)
Rating: 24% based on 10 votes
Means "pretty" in French. This name was popularized by American actress Angelina Jolie (1975-), whose surname was originally her middle name. It is not used as a given name in France.
Joel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Finnish, Estonian, Biblical
Other Scripts: יוֹאֵל(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: JO-əl(English) JOL(English) kho-EHL(Spanish) ZHWEHL(European Portuguese) zho-EW(Brazilian Portuguese) YO-ehl(Swedish, Finnish)
Rating: 37% based on 11 votes
From the Hebrew name יוֹאֵל (Yoʾel) meaning "Yahweh is God", from the elements יוֹ (yo) and אֵל (ʾel), both referring to the Hebrew God. Joel is one of the twelve minor prophets of the Old Testament, the author of the Book of Joel, which describes a plague of locusts. In England, it was first used as a Christian name after the Protestant Reformation.
Jillian
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JIL-ee-ən
Rating: 44% based on 12 votes
Variant of Gillian.
Jezebel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: אִיזֶבֶל(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: JEHZ-ə-behl(English)
Rating: 45% based on 11 votes
From Hebrew אִיזֶבֶל (ʾIzevel), probably from a Phoenician name, possibly containing the Semitic root zbl meaning "to exalt, to dwell". According to one theory it might be an altered form of the Phoenician name 𐤁𐤏𐤋𐤀𐤆𐤁𐤋 (Baʿlʾizbel) meaning "Ba'al exalts" with the first element removed or replaced [1].

According to the Old Testament Jezebel was the Phoenician wife of Ahab, a king of Israel. She is portrayed as an evil figure because she encouraged the worship of the god Ba'al. After she was thrown from a window to her death her body was eaten by dogs, fulfilling Elijah's prophecy.

Jessie 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Scottish [1], English
Pronounced: JEHS-ee(English)
Rating: 46% based on 11 votes
Originally a Scots diminutive of Jean 2. In modern times it is also used as a diminutive of Jessica.
Jessa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JEHS-ə
Rating: 57% based on 12 votes
Diminutive of Jessica.
Jem
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JEHM
Rating: 39% based on 11 votes
Diminutive of Jeremy (and formerly of James).
Jamie
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Scottish [1], English
Pronounced: JAY-mee
Rating: 59% based on 14 votes
Originally a Lowland Scots diminutive of James. Since the late 19th century it has also been used as a feminine form.
Jamesina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Scottish
Rating: 45% based on 11 votes
Feminine form of James.
James
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Biblical
Pronounced: JAYMZ(English)
Rating: 81% based on 15 votes
English form of the Late Latin name Iacomus, a variant of the Biblical Latin form Iacobus, from the Hebrew name Yaʿaqov (see Jacob). This was the name of two apostles in the New Testament. The first was Saint James the Greater, the apostle John's brother, who was beheaded under Herod Agrippa in the Book of Acts. The second was James the Lesser, son of Alphaeus. Another James (known as James the Just) is also mentioned in the Bible as being the brother of Jesus.

This name has been used in England since the 13th century, though it became more common in Scotland where it was borne by several kings. In the 17th century the Scottish king James VI inherited the English throne, becoming the first ruler of all Britain, and the name grew much more popular. In American name statistics (recorded since 1880) this name has never been out of the top 20, making it arguably the era's most consistently popular name. It was the top ranked name for boys in the United States from 1940 to 1952.

Famous bearers include the English explorer James Cook (1728-1779), the Scottish inventor James Watt (1736-1819), and the Irish novelist and poet James Joyce (1882-1941). This name has also been borne by six American presidents. A notable fictional bearer is the British spy James Bond, created by author Ian Fleming in 1953.

Jade
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English, French
Pronounced: JAYD(English) ZHAD(French)
Rating: 71% based on 13 votes
From the name of the precious stone that is often used in carvings. It is derived from Spanish (piedra de la) ijada meaning "(stone of the) flank", relating to the belief that jade could cure renal colic. As a given name, it came into general use during the 1970s. It was initially unisex, though it is now mostly feminine.
Jada 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JAY-də, JAD-ə
Rating: 43% based on 10 votes
Elaborated form of Jade. This name came into general use in the 1960s, and was popularized in the 1990s by actress Jada Pinkett Smith (1971-).
Jacqueline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, English
Pronounced: ZHAK-LEEN(French) JAK-ə-lin(English) JAK-wə-lin(English) JAK-ə-leen(English)
Rating: 46% based on 13 votes
French feminine form of Jacques, also commonly used in the English-speaking world.
Jackie
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JAK-ee
Rating: 38% based on 11 votes
Diminutive of Jack or Jacqueline. A notable bearer was baseball player Jackie Robinson (1919-1972), the first African American to play in Major League Baseball.
Izzy
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: IZ-ee
Rating: 44% based on 10 votes
Diminutive of Isidore, Isabel, Israel and other names beginning with a similar sound.
Izumi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: , etc.(Japanese Kanji) いずみ(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: EE-ZOO-MEE
Rating: 53% based on 10 votes
From Japanese (izumi) meaning "fountain, spring". This name can also be constructed from other combinations of kanji.
Ita
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish
Rating: 42% based on 10 votes
Anglicized form of Íde.
Isa 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: EE-za(German) EE-sa(Dutch, Spanish)
Rating: 36% based on 10 votes
Short form of Isabella.
Irena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Polish, Czech, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Albanian, Bulgarian, Slovak, Lithuanian
Other Scripts: Ирена(Serbian, Bulgarian)
Pronounced: ee-REH-na(Polish) I-reh-na(Czech) EE-reh-na(Slovak) i-ryeh-NU(Lithuanian)
Rating: 66% based on 13 votes
Form of Irene in several languages.
Hugo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese, English, Dutch, German, French, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: OO-gho(Spanish) OO-goo(Portuguese) HYOO-go(English) HUY-gho(Dutch) HOO-go(German) UY-GO(French)
Rating: 50% based on 12 votes
Old German form of Hugh. As a surname it has belonged to the French author Victor Hugo (1802-1885), the writer of The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and Les Misérables.
Hermione
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἑρμιόνη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: HEHR-MEE-O-NEH(Classical Greek) hər-MIE-ə-nee(English)
Rating: 53% based on 13 votes
Derived from the name of the Greek messenger god Hermes. In Greek myth Hermione was the daughter of Menelaus and Helen. This is also the name of the wife of Leontes in Shakespeare's play The Winter's Tale (1610). It is now closely associated with the character Hermione Granger from the Harry Potter series of books, first released in 1997.
Hermia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: HUR-mee-ə(English)
Rating: 52% based on 10 votes
Feminine form of Hermes. Shakespeare used this name in his comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595).
Hera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἥρα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: HEH-RA(Classical Greek) HEHR-ə(English) HEE-rə(English)
Rating: 57% based on 13 votes
Uncertain meaning, possibly from Greek ἥρως (heros) meaning "hero, warrior"; ὥρα (hora) meaning "period of time"; or αἱρέω (haireo) meaning "to be chosen". In Greek mythology Hera was the queen of the gods, the sister and wife of Zeus. She presided over marriage and childbirth.
Henry
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: HEHN-ree
Rating: 72% based on 11 votes
From the Germanic name Heimirich meaning "home ruler", composed of the elements heim "home" and rih "ruler". It was later commonly spelled Heinrich, with the spelling altered due to the influence of other Germanic names like Haganrich, in which the first element is hag "enclosure".

Heinrich was popular among continental royalty, being the name of seven German kings, starting with the 10th-century Henry I the Fowler (the first of the Saxon kings), and four French kings. In France it was usually rendered Henri from the Latin form Henricus.

The Normans introduced the French form to England, and it was subsequently used by eight kings, ending with the infamous Henry VIII in the 16th century. During the later Middle Ages it was fairly popular, and was generally rendered as Harry or Herry in English pronunciation. Notable bearers include arctic naval explorer Henry Hudson (1570-1611), American-British novelist Henry James (1843-1916), American automobile manufacturer Henry Ford (1863-1947), and American actor Henry Fonda (1905-1982).

Henrika
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Lithuanian, Swedish (Rare)
Pronounced: hehn-REE-kah(Swedish)
Rating: 37% based on 10 votes
Lithuanian and Swedish feminine form of Henrik.
Henrietta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Hungarian, Finnish, Swedish
Pronounced: hehn-ree-EHT-ə(English) HEHN-ree-eht-taw(Hungarian) HEHN-ree-eht-tah(Finnish)
Rating: 45% based on 10 votes
Latinate form of Henriette. It was introduced to England by Henriette Marie, the wife of the 17th-century English king Charles I. The name Henriette was also Anglicized as Harriet, a form that was initially more popular.
Henri
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French, Finnish
Pronounced: AHN-REE(French) HEHN-ree(Finnish)
Rating: 40% based on 11 votes
French form of Heinrich (see Henry). A notable bearer was the French artist Henri Matisse (1869-1954).
Héloïse
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: EH-LO-EEZ
Rating: 53% based on 11 votes
French form of Eloise.
Hayley
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: HAY-lee
Rating: 42% based on 11 votes
From an English surname that was originally derived from the name of an English town (meaning "hay clearing" from Old English heg "hay" and leah "clearing"). It was brought to public attention as a given name, especially in the United Kingdom, by the British child actress Hayley Mills (1946-) [1].

This is the most common spelling of this name in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand; in the United States the spellings Haley and Hailey are more popular.

Harvey
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: HAHR-vee
Rating: 36% based on 11 votes
From the Breton given name Haerviu, which meant "battle worthy", from haer "battle" and viu "worthy". This was the name of a 6th-century Breton hermit who is the patron saint of the blind. Settlers from Brittany introduced it to England after the Norman Conquest. During the later Middle Ages it became rare, but it was revived in the 19th century.
Harry
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: HAR-ee, HEHR-ee
Rating: 55% based on 11 votes
Medieval English form of Henry. In modern times it is used as a diminutive of both Henry and names beginning with Har. Famous bearers include the American president Harry S. Truman (1884-1972), who was named after his uncle Harrison, and the British royal Prince Harry (1984-), who is actually named Henry. It is also the name of the boy wizard in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series of books, first released in 1997.
Harriett
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: HAR-ee-it, HEHR-ee-it
Rating: 60% based on 10 votes
Variant of Harriet.
Harper
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: HAHR-pər
Rating: 40% based on 12 votes
From an English surname that originally belonged to a person who played or made harps (Old English hearpe). A notable bearer was the American author Harper Lee (1926-2016), who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird. It rapidly gained popularity in the 2000s and 2010s, entering the American top ten for girls in 2015.
Harley
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: HAHR-lee
Rating: 35% based on 11 votes
From an English surname that was derived from a place name, itself from Old English hara "hare" or hær "rock, heap of stones" and leah "woodland, clearing". An American name for boys since the 19th century, it began to be used for girls after a character with the name began appearing on the soap opera Guiding Light in 1987.
Hana 3
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 花, 華, etc.(Japanese Kanji) はな(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: HA-NA
Rating: 39% based on 11 votes
From Japanese (hana) or (hana) both meaning "flower". Other kanji or kanji combinations can form this name as well.
Gwenevere
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: GWIN-ə-vir
Rating: 56% based on 11 votes
Variant of Guinevere.
Gwenda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh, English
Pronounced: GWEHN-də(English)
Rating: 47% based on 10 votes
Derived from the Welsh elements gwen meaning "white, blessed" and da meaning "good". This name was created in the 19th century.
Gracie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: GRAY-see
Rating: 61% based on 11 votes
Diminutive of Grace.
Ginny
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JIN-ee
Rating: 32% based on 10 votes
Diminutive of Virginia.
Gia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: JEE-a
Rating: 63% based on 12 votes
Diminutive of Gianna.
Geraldine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JEHR-əl-deen
Rating: 25% based on 11 votes
Feminine form of Gerald. This name was created by the poet Henry Howard for use in a 1537 sonnet praising Lady Elizabeth FitzGerald, whom he terms The Geraldine.
Georgina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Spanish, Hungarian
Pronounced: jawr-JEE-nə(English) kheh-or-KHEE-na(Spanish) GEH-or-gee-naw(Hungarian)
Rating: 58% based on 12 votes
Feminine form of George.
Georgette
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: ZHAWR-ZHEHT
Rating: 52% based on 12 votes
French feminine form of George.
Gale 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: GAYL
Rating: 27% based on 10 votes
Variant of Gail. It also coincides with the English word gale meaning "storm".
Gail
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: GAYL
Rating: 29% based on 10 votes
Short form of Abigail.
Frida 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Germanic [1]
Rating: 35% based on 11 votes
Originally a short form of names containing the Old German element fridu meaning "peace" (Proto-Germanic *friþuz). A famous bearer was the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907-1954).
Franny
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: FRAN-ee
Rating: 42% based on 11 votes
Diminutive of Francis or Frances.
Frankie
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: FRANGK-ee
Rating: 57% based on 12 votes
Diminutive of Frank or Frances.
Franka 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Croatian
Rating: 31% based on 11 votes
Croatian form of Franca.
Francine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, English
Pronounced: FRAHN-SEEN(French) fran-SEEN(English)
Rating: 57% based on 11 votes
Diminutive of Françoise.
Frances
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: FRAN-sis
Rating: 39% based on 10 votes
Feminine form of Francis. The distinction between Francis as a masculine name and Frances as a feminine name did not arise until the 17th century [1]. A notable bearer was Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini (1850-1917), a social worker and the first American to be canonized.
France 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: FRAHNS
Rating: 28% based on 10 votes
From the name of the country, sometimes considered a feminine form of Frank or short form of Françoise, both of which are ultimately related to the name of the country.
Fran
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Spanish, English, Croatian, Slovene
Pronounced: FRAN(Spanish, English)
Rating: 27% based on 11 votes
Short form of Francis, Frances or related names.
Florentine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: FLAW-RAHN-TEEN
Rating: 46% based on 11 votes
French form of Florentina.
Florentina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Romanian, Late Roman
Pronounced: flo-rehn-TEE-na(Spanish)
Rating: 43% based on 11 votes
Feminine form of Florentinus.
Floella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: flo-EHL-ə
Rating: 41% based on 11 votes
Elaborated form of Flo.
Flo
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: FLO
Rating: 22% based on 10 votes
Short form of Florence or Flora.
Fleurette
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Rare), Dutch (Rare), English (Rare)
Pronounced: FLUU-REHT(French) flə-REHT(English)
Rating: 48% based on 12 votes
Diminutive of Fleur.
Fleur
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, Dutch, English (British)
Pronounced: FLUUR(French, Dutch) FLU(British English) FLUR(American English)
Rating: 45% based on 12 votes
Means "flower" in French. Saint Fleur of Issendolus (Flor in Gascon) was a 14th-century nun from Maurs, France. This was also the name of a character in John Galsworthy's novels The Forsyte Saga (1922).
Fionola
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish (Rare)
Rating: 41% based on 11 votes
Anglicized form of Fionnuala.
Fionnuala
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish, Irish Mythology
Rating: 39% based on 12 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.
Fiona
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Scottish, English
Pronounced: fee-O-nə(English)
Rating: 69% based on 13 votes
Feminine form of Fionn. This name was (first?) used by the Scottish poet James Macpherson in his poem Fingal (1761), in which it is spelled as Fióna.
Finola
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish
Rating: 39% based on 11 votes
Anglicized form of Fionnuala.
Finn 2
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Dutch, German
Pronounced: FIN(Danish)
Rating: 45% based on 11 votes
From the Old Norse name Finnr, which meant "Sámi, person from Finland".
Finka
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Croatian
Rating: 30% based on 11 votes
Diminutive of Jozefina.
Fina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: FEE-na
Rating: 35% based on 11 votes
Short form of Serafina. Saint Fina, also known as Saint Serafina, was a 13th-century girl from the town of San Gimignano in Italy.
Fatima
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic, Urdu, Bosnian
Other Scripts: فاطمة(Arabic) فاطمہ(Urdu)
Pronounced: FA-tee-ma(Arabic)
Rating: 53% based on 12 votes
Derived from Arabic فطم (faṭama) meaning "to abstain, to wean" [1]. Fatima was a daughter of the Prophet Muhammad and the wife of Ali, the fourth caliph. She is regarded as the exemplary Muslim woman, especially among Shias.
Eula
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: YOO-lə
Rating: 41% based on 11 votes
Short form of Eulalia.
Ettie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHT-ee
Rating: 30% based on 11 votes
Diminutive of Henrietta and other names ending with etta or ette.
Etta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHT-ə
Rating: 54% based on 13 votes
Short form of Henrietta and other names that end with etta. A famous bearer was the American singer Etta James (1938-2012), who took her stage name from her real given name Jamesetta.
Esther
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, French, Spanish, Dutch, German, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Jewish, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Other Scripts: אֶסְתֵר(Hebrew) Ἐσθήρ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: EHS-tər(English, Dutch) EHS-TEHR(French) ehs-TEHR(Spanish) EHS-tu(German)
Rating: 75% based on 14 votes
From the Hebrew name אֶסְתֵר (ʾEsṯer), which possibly means "star" in Persian. Alternatively it could be a derivative of the name of the Near Eastern goddess Ishtar. The Book of Esther in the Old Testament tells the story of Queen Esther, the Jewish wife of the king of Persia. The king's advisor Haman persuaded the king to exterminate all the Jews in the realm. Warned of this plot by her cousin Mordecai, Esther revealed her Jewish ancestry and convinced the king to execute Haman instead. Her original Hebrew name was Hadassah.

This name has been used in the English-speaking world since the Protestant Reformation. In America it received a boost in popularity after the birth of Esther Cleveland (1893-1980), the daughter of President Grover Cleveland [1].

Estella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ehs-TEHL-ə
Rating: 67% based on 14 votes
Latinate form of Estelle. This is the name of the heroine, Estella Havisham, in Charles Dickens' novel Great Expectations (1860).
Estefanía
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: ehs-teh-fa-NEE-a
Rating: 55% based on 11 votes
Spanish feminine form of Stephen.
Essie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHS-ee
Rating: 42% based on 11 votes
Diminutive of Estelle or Esther.
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: 67% based on 12 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.
Erin
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Irish
Pronounced: EHR-in(English)
Rating: 47% based on 12 votes
Anglicized form of Éireann. It was initially used by people of Irish heritage in America, Canada and Australia. It was rare until the mid-1950s.
Emmie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHM-ee
Rating: 43% based on 12 votes
Diminutive of Emma or Emily.
Emmanuelle
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: EH-MA-NWEHL
Rating: 40% based on 12 votes
French feminine form of Emmanuel.
Emmaline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHM-ə-leen, EHM-ə-lien
Rating: 64% based on 13 votes
Variant of Emmeline.
Emily
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHM-ə-lee
Rating: 63% based on 15 votes
English feminine form of Aemilius (see Emil). In the English-speaking world it was not common until after the German House of Hanover came to the British throne in the 18th century; the princess Amelia Sophia (1711-1786) was commonly known as Emily in English, even though Amelia is an unrelated name.

This name was moderately popular through most of the 20th century, and became very popular around the turn of the 21st century. It was the highest ranked name for girls in the United States from 1996 to 2007, attaining similar levels in other English-speaking countries around the same time.

Famous bearers include the British author Emily Brontë (1818-1848), known for the novel Wuthering Heights, and the American poet Emily Dickinson (1830-1886).

Emiliana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: eh-mee-LYA-na(Italian, Spanish)
Rating: 70% based on 12 votes
Feminine form of Emiliano.
Emerald
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: EHM-ə-rəld
Rating: 55% based on 12 votes
From the word for the green precious stone, which is the traditional birthstone of May. The emerald supposedly imparts love to the bearer. The word is ultimately from Greek σμάραγδος (smaragdos).
Emer
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish Mythology
Pronounced: EE-mər(English)
Rating: 20% based on 10 votes
Meaning unknown. In Irish legend she was the wife of Cúchulainn. She was said to possess the six gifts of womanhood: beauty, voice, speech, needlework, wisdom and chastity.
Emelie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish
Pronounced: EHM-eh-lee
Rating: 27% based on 10 votes
Swedish feminine form of Aemilius (see Emily).
Emelia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ə-MEE-lee-ə, ə-MEEL-yə
Rating: 61% based on 12 votes
Variant of Amelia.
Emanuela
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Portuguese, Romanian
Pronounced: eh-ma-noo-EH-la(Italian)
Rating: 46% based on 11 votes
Italian, Portuguese and Romanian feminine form of Emmanuel.
Em
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHM
Rating: 35% based on 11 votes
Short form of Emily or Emma.
Elouise
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHL-o-eez, ehl-o-EEZ
Rating: 55% based on 11 votes
Variant of Eloise.
Eloise
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHL-o-eez, ehl-o-EEZ
Rating: 66% based on 13 votes
From the Old French name Héloïse, which was probably from the Germanic name Helewidis, composed of the elements heil meaning "healthy, whole" and wit meaning "wide". It is sometimes associated with the Greek word ἥλιος (helios) meaning "sun" or the name Louise, though there is no etymological connection. This name was borne by the 12th-century French scholar and philosopher Héloïse. Secretly marrying the theologian Peter Abelard at a young age, she became a nun (and eventually an abbess) after Abelard was violently castrated by order of her uncle Fulbert.

There was a medieval English form of this name, Helewis, though it died out after the 13th century. In the 19th century it was revived in the English-speaking world in the form Eloise.

Eloisa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: eh-lo-EE-za
Rating: 65% based on 11 votes
Italian form of Eloise.
Elmira 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: ehl-MIE-rə(English) ehl-MEER-ə(English)
Rating: 52% based on 12 votes
Possibly a shortened form of Edelmira. It appears in the play Tartuffe (1664) by the French playwright Molière (often spelled in the French style Elmire).
Elliot
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHL-ee-ət
Rating: 66% based on 12 votes
From a surname that was a variant of Elliott.
Ellie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHL-ee
Rating: 48% based on 13 votes
Diminutive of Eleanor, Ellen 1 and other names beginning with El. This name became popular in the United Kingdom in the 1990s, being ranked second for girls in 2003.
Elle
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: EHL
Rating: 56% based on 12 votes
Diminutive of Eleanor and other names beginning with El. This name can also be given in reference to the French pronoun elle meaning "she".

Already growing in popularity due to Australian model Elle Macpherson (1964-), this name received a boost in the United States after the release of the 2001 movie Legally Blonde featuring the main character Elle Woods. In the United Kingdom the name was already fairly common at the time the movie came out, and it actually started declining there shortly afterwards. A famous bearer is American actress Elle Fanning (1998-).

Ella 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Hungarian
Pronounced: EHL-ə(English) EHL-lah(Finnish) EHL-law(Hungarian)
Rating: 77% based on 14 votes
Diminutive of Eleanor, Ellen 1 and other names beginning with El. It can also be a short form of names ending in ella.
Elizaveta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Елизавета(Russian)
Pronounced: yi-lyi-zu-VYEH-tə, i-lyi-zu-VYEH-tə
Rating: 59% based on 12 votes
Alternate transcription of Russian Елизавета (see Yelizaveta).
Elita
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Latvian
Rating: 48% based on 12 votes
Meaning unknown.
Elise
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Dutch, English
Pronounced: eh-LEE-zə(German) eh-LEE-seh(Norwegian, Danish, Swedish) i-LEES(English) EE-lees(English)
Rating: 65% based on 15 votes
Short form of Elizabeth.
Eliana 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, English (Modern)
Pronounced: eh-LYA-na(Italian, Spanish) ehl-lee-AN-ə(English) ehl-lee-AHN-ə(English)
Rating: 66% based on 14 votes
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of Éliane.
Eleanora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ehl-ə-NAWR-ə
Rating: 71% based on 15 votes
Latinate form of Eleanor.
Edytha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 45% based on 12 votes
Elaborated form of Edith.
Edith
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch
Pronounced: EE-dith(English) EH-dit(German, Swedish)
Rating: 58% based on 14 votes
From the Old English name Eadgyð, derived from the elements ead "wealth, fortune" and guð "battle". It was popular among Anglo-Saxon royalty, being borne for example by Saint Eadgyeth;, the daughter of King Edgar the Peaceful. It was also borne by the Anglo-Saxon wife of the Holy Roman Emperor Otto I. The name remained common after the Norman Conquest. It became rare after the 15th century, but was revived in the 19th century.
Edita
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Lithuanian
Other Scripts: Едита(Serbian)
Pronounced: EH-di-ta(Czech) EH-dee-ta(Slovak)
Rating: 38% based on 12 votes
Form of Edith in several languages.
Edie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EE-dee
Rating: 33% based on 12 votes
Diminutive of Edith.
Draco
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Δράκων(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: DRAY-ko(English)
Rating: 48% based on 12 votes
From the Greek name Δράκων (Drakon), which meant "dragon, serpent". This was the name of a 7th-century BC Athenian legislator. This is also the name of a constellation in the northern sky.
Dorthe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Danish
Pronounced: DOR-teh
Rating: 22% based on 11 votes
Danish form of Dorothy.
Dorothea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Dutch, English, Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Δωροθέα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: do-ro-TEH-a(German) dawr-ə-THEE-ə(English)
Rating: 66% based on 13 votes
Feminine form of the Greek name Δωρόθεος (Dorotheos), which meant "gift of god" from Greek δῶρον (doron) meaning "gift" and θεός (theos) meaning "god". The name Theodore is composed of the same elements in reverse order. Dorothea was the name of two early saints, notably the 4th-century martyr Dorothea of Caesarea. It was also borne by the 14th-century Saint Dorothea of Montau, who was the patron saint of Prussia.
Dina 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, English
Pronounced: DEE-na(Italian, Spanish) DEE-nah(Dutch) DEE-nə(English)
Rating: 34% based on 11 votes
Short form of names ending in dina, such as Bernardina or Ondina. As an English name, this can also be a variant of Deanna.
Demi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek, English (Modern)
Other Scripts: Δήμη, Ντίμι, Ντίμη(Greek)
Pronounced: də-MEE(English) DEHM-ee(English)
Rating: 35% based on 11 votes
Alternate transcription of Greek Δήμη or Ντίμι or Ντίμη (see Dimi), as well as a short form of Demetria. A famous bearer is American actress Demi Moore (1962-), and it is because of her that the name rose in popularity in the United States in the late 1980s. Though some sources claim Moore's birth name is Demetria, the actress herself has said she was born as Demi and named after a makeup product. The name received a further boost after 2008 with the release of the debut album by the singer Demi Lovato (1992-), who pronounces the name differently than the older actress. Lovato's birth name is Demetria.
Demetria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1], English
Other Scripts: Δημητρία(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 69% based on 14 votes
Feminine form of Demetrius.
Delphia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DEHL-fee-ə
Rating: 51% based on 12 votes
Possibly from the name of the Greek city of Delphi, the site of an oracle of Apollo, which is possibly related to Greek δελφύς (delphys) meaning "womb". It was used in the play The Prophetess (1647), in which it belongs to the title prophetess.
Della
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DEHL-ə
Rating: 59% based on 14 votes
Diminutive of Adela or Adelaide. A famous bearer was American actress and singer Della Reese (1931-2017).
Dell
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DEHL
Rating: 34% based on 11 votes
From an English surname that originally denoted a person who lived in a dell or valley.
Delilah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical, English
Other Scripts: דְּלִילָה(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: di-LIE-lə(English)
Rating: 69% based on 13 votes
Means "delicate, weak, languishing" in Hebrew. In the Old Testament she is the lover of Samson, whom she betrays to the Philistines by cutting his hair, which is the source of his power. Despite her character flaws, the name began to be used by the Puritans in the 17th century. It has been used occasionally in the English-speaking world since that time.
Delia 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Δηλία(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: DEE-lee-ə(English) DEH-lya(Italian, Spanish) DEH-lee-a(Romanian)
Rating: 64% based on 14 votes
Means "of Delos" in Greek. This was an epithet of the Greek goddess Artemis, given because she and her twin brother Apollo were born on the island of Delos. The name appeared in several poems of the 16th and 17th centuries, and it has occasionally been used as a given name since that time.
Daphne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, English, Dutch
Other Scripts: Δάφνη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: DA-PNEH(Classical Greek) DAF-nee(English) DAHF-nə(Dutch)
Rating: 49% based on 11 votes
Means "laurel" in Greek. In Greek mythology she was a nymph turned into a laurel tree by her father in order that she might escape the pursuit of Apollo. It has been used as a given name in the English-speaking world since the end of the 19th century.
Danika
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Rating: 64% based on 12 votes
Variant of Danica.
Daniella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Hungarian
Pronounced: dan-YEHL-ə(English) DAW-nee-ehl-law(Hungarian)
Rating: 55% based on 11 votes
Feminine form of Daniel.
Danica
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Slovak, Macedonian, English
Other Scripts: Даница(Serbian, Macedonian)
Pronounced: DA-nee-tsa(Serbian, Croatian) DA-nyee-tsa(Slovak) DAN-i-kə(English)
Rating: 52% based on 13 votes
From a Slavic word meaning "morning star, Venus". This name occurs in Slavic folklore as a personification of the morning star. It has sometimes been used in the English-speaking world since the 1970s.
Dani 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DAN-ee
Rating: 39% based on 11 votes
Diminutive of Danielle.
Damian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Polish, Romanian, Dutch (Modern)
Pronounced: DAY-mee-ən(English) DA-myan(Polish)
Rating: 56% based on 12 votes
From the Greek name Δαμιανός (Damianos), which was derived from Greek δαμάζω (damazo) meaning "to tame". Saint Damian was martyred with his twin brother Cosmas in Syria early in the 4th century. They are the patron saints of physicians. Due to his renown, the name came into general use in Christian Europe. Another saint by this name was Peter Damian, an 11th-century cardinal and theologian from Italy.
Dahlia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: DAL-yə, DAHL-yə, DAYL-yə
Rating: 62% based on 13 votes
From the name of the flower, which was named for the Swedish botanist Anders Dahl.
Dafna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: דַּףְנָה(Hebrew)
Rating: 33% based on 12 votes
Means "laurel" in Hebrew, of Greek origin.
Dafina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Albanian, Bulgarian, Macedonian
Other Scripts: Дафина(Bulgarian, Macedonian)
Rating: 36% based on 12 votes
Means "laurel" in Albanian, Bulgarian and Macedonian, of Greek origin.
Cosmina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Romanian
Pronounced: kos-MEE-na
Rating: 49% based on 14 votes
Feminine form of Cosmin.
Corona
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman, Italian (Rare), Spanish (Rare)
Pronounced: ko-RO-na(Italian, Spanish)
Rating: 47% based on 13 votes
Means "crown" in Latin, as well as Italian and Spanish. This was the name of a 2nd-century saint who was martyred with her companion Victor.
Cornelia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Romanian, Italian, Dutch, English, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: kawr-NEH-lya(German) kor-NEH-lya(Italian) kawr-NEH-lee-a(Dutch) kawr-NEE-lee-ə(English) kor-NEH-lee-a(Latin)
Rating: 73% based on 12 votes
Feminine form of Cornelius. In the 2nd century BC it was borne by Cornelia Scipionis Africana (the daughter of the military hero Scipio Africanus), the mother of the two reformers known as the Gracchi. After her death she was regarded as an example of the ideal Roman woman. The name was revived in the 18th century.
Cori
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KAWR-ee
Rating: 33% based on 12 votes
Feminine form of Corey.
Coralie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: KAW-RA-LEE
Rating: 67% based on 14 votes
Either a French form of Koralia, or a derivative of Latin corallium "coral" (see Coral).
Cora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, German, Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Κόρη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: KAWR-ə(English) KO-ra(German)
Rating: 69% based on 14 votes
Latinized form of Kore. It was not used as a given name in the English-speaking world until after it was employed by James Fenimore Cooper for a character in his novel The Last of the Mohicans (1826). In some cases it may be a short form of Cordula, Corinna and other names beginning with a similar sound.
Constantina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman, Romanian
Rating: 65% based on 13 votes
Feminine form of Constantinus (see Constantine).
Colette
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: KAW-LEHT
Rating: 61% based on 12 votes
Short form of Nicolette. Saint Colette was a 15th-century French nun who gave her money to the poor. This was also the pen name of the French author Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954).
Clarissa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian
Pronounced: klə-RIS-ə(English)
Rating: 66% based on 13 votes
Latinate form of Clarice. This is the name of the title character in a 1748 novel by Samuel Richardson. In the novel Clarissa Harlowe is a virtuous woman who is tragically exploited by her family and her lover. Another literary character by this name is Clarissa Dalloway from the novel Mrs. Dalloway (1925) by Virginia Woolf.
Clarette
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 50% based on 12 votes
Diminutive of Clara.
Claretta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: kla-REHT-ta
Rating: 54% based on 12 votes
Diminutive of Clara.
Clare
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KLEHR, KLAR
Rating: 69% based on 14 votes
Medieval English form of Clara. The preferred spelling in the English-speaking world is now the French form Claire, though Clare has been fairly popular in the United Kingdom and Australia.

This is also the name of an Irish county, which was itself probably derived from Irish clár meaning "plank, level surface".

Chrysanta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: kri-SAN-tə
Rating: 44% based on 14 votes
Shortened form of the word chrysanthemum, the name of a flowering plant, which means "golden flower" in Greek.
Christina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Greek
Other Scripts: Χριστίνα(Greek)
Pronounced: kris-TEE-nə(English) kris-TEE-na(German, Swedish, Dutch)
Rating: 66% based on 15 votes
From Christiana, the Latin feminine form of Christian. This was the name of an early, possibly legendary, saint who was tormented by her pagan father. It was also borne by a 17th-century Swedish queen and patron the arts who gave up her crown in order to become a Roman Catholic.

In the English-speaking world the form Christine was more popular for most of the 20th century, though Christina eventually overtook it. Famous bearers include actress Christina Ricci (1980-) and singer Christina Aguilera (1980-).

Christian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Pronounced: KRIS-chən(English) KRISH-chən(English) KREES-TYAHN(French) KRIS-tee-an(German) KRIS-ti-an(Swedish) KRIS-ti-ahn(Norwegian) KREHS-dyan(Danish)
Rating: 66% based on 14 votes
From the medieval Latin name Christianus meaning "a Christian" (see Christos 1 for further etymology). In England it has been in use since the Middle Ages, during which time it was used by both males and females, but it did not become common until the 17th century. In Denmark the name has been borne by ten kings since the 15th century.

This was a top-ten name in France for most of the 1940s and 50s, while in Germany it was the most popular name for several years in the 1970s and 80s. In the United States it peaked in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Famous bearers include Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875), the Danish author of such fairy tales as The Ugly Duckling and The Emperor's New Clothes, and the French fashion designer Christian Dior (1905-1957).

Christelle
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: KREES-TEHL
Rating: 46% based on 14 votes
French diminutive of Christine.
Christa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Danish, English
Pronounced: KRIS-ta(German) KRIS-tə(English)
Rating: 52% based on 13 votes
Short form of Christina.
Charon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Χάρων(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: KEHR-ən(English)
Rating: 31% based on 12 votes
Possibly means "fierce brightness" in Greek. In Greek mythology Charon was the operator of the ferry that brought the newly dead over the River Acheron into Hades.
Charlie
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: CHAHR-lee
Rating: 50% based on 13 votes
Diminutive or feminine form of Charles. A famous bearer was the British comic actor Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977). It is also borne by Charlie Brown, the main character in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles Schulz.
Charlene
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: shahr-LEEN, chahr-LEEN
Rating: 29% based on 14 votes
Feminine diminutive of Charles.
Cecilia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Dutch, Romanian, Finnish
Pronounced: seh-SEE-lee-ə(English) seh-SEEL-yə(English) cheh-CHEE-lya(Italian) theh-THEE-lya(European Spanish) seh-SEE-lya(Latin American Spanish) seh-SEEL-yah(Danish, Norwegian)
Rating: 73% based on 16 votes
Latinate feminine form of the Roman family name Caecilius, which was derived from Latin caecus meaning "blind". Saint Cecilia was a semi-legendary 2nd or 3rd-century martyr who was sentenced to die because she refused to worship the Roman gods. After attempts to suffocate her failed, she was beheaded. She was later regarded as the patron saint of music and musicians.

Due to the popularity of the saint, the name became common in the Christian world during the Middle Ages. The Normans brought it to England, where it was commonly spelled Cecily — the Latinate form Cecilia came into use in the 18th century.

Catrine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Rating: 52% based on 13 votes
Scandinavian contracted form of Katherine.
Catina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Romanian (Rare)
Rating: 53% based on 14 votes
Contracted form of Cătălina.
Cátia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese
Rating: 64% based on 14 votes
Diminutive of Catarina.
Cathleen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish, English
Pronounced: kath-LEEN(English)
Rating: 58% based on 13 votes
Variant of Kathleen.
Catherina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: kath-ə-REE-nə, ka-THREE-nə
Rating: 62% based on 13 votes
Variant of Katherine.
Catharina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch, Swedish
Pronounced: ka-ta-REE-na(Dutch)
Rating: 61% based on 14 votes
Dutch and Swedish form of Katherine.
Catalina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Corsican
Pronounced: ka-ta-LEE-na(Spanish)
Rating: 65% based on 15 votes
Spanish and Corsican form of Katherine.
Cassidy
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: KAS-i-dee
Rating: 64% based on 17 votes
From an Irish surname (Anglicized from Irish Gaelic Ó Caiside), which is derived from the byname Caiside. Very rare as a given name before the 1970s, it established itself in the 80s and then surged in popularity during the 90s.
Cassia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Pronounced: KAS-see-a(Latin) KA-shə(English) KAS-ee-ə(English)
Rating: 65% based on 15 votes
Feminine form of Cassius.
Carola
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, German, Dutch, Swedish
Pronounced: KA-ro-la(Italian) ka-RO-la(German, Dutch, Swedish)
Rating: 45% based on 14 votes
Feminine form of Carolus.
Carmina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: kar-MEE-na(Spanish)
Rating: 53% based on 14 votes
Variant of Carmen.
Carmelo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Italian
Pronounced: kar-MEH-lo
Rating: 34% based on 13 votes
Spanish and Italian masculine form of Carmel.
Carmela
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Galician
Pronounced: kar-MEH-la(Italian, Spanish) kahr-MEH-lu(Galician)
Rating: 56% based on 14 votes
Italian, Spanish and Galician form of Carmel.
Carmel
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English, Jewish
Other Scripts: כַּרְמֶל(Hebrew)
Pronounced: KAHR-məl(English) KAR-məl(English)
Rating: 38% based on 13 votes
From the title of the Virgin Mary Our Lady of Mount Carmel. כַּרְמֶל (Karmel) (meaning "garden" in Hebrew) is a mountain in Israel mentioned in the Old Testament. It was the site of several early Christian monasteries. As an English given name, it has mainly been used by Catholics. As a Jewish name it is unisex.
Candelaria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: kan-deh-LA-rya
Rating: 43% based on 15 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.
Candela
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: kan-DEH-la
Rating: 45% based on 14 votes
Short form of Candelaria.
Calla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KAL-ə
Rating: 51% based on 15 votes
From the name of two types of plants, the true calla (species Calla palustris) and the calla lily (species Calla aethiopica), both having white flowers and growing in marshy areas. Use of the name may also be inspired by Greek κάλλος (kallos) meaning "beauty".
Brett
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BREHT
Rating: 35% based on 14 votes
From a Middle English surname meaning "a Breton", referring to an inhabitant of Brittany. A famous bearer is the American football quarterback Brett Favre (1969-).
Brenton
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BREHN-tən
Rating: 38% based on 15 votes
From a surname that was derived from an English place name meaning "Bryni's town". Bryni was an Old English name meaning "fire".
Brent
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BRENT
Rating: 54% based on 15 votes
From an English surname, originally taken from various place names, perhaps derived from a Celtic word meaning "hill".
Bia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese
Rating: 32% based on 14 votes
Diminutive of Beatriz.
Bethel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Other Scripts: בֵּית־אֵל(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: BETH-əl
Rating: 25% based on 14 votes
From an Old Testament place name meaning "house of God" in Hebrew. This was a town north of Jerusalem, where Jacob saw his vision of the stairway. It is occasionally used as a given name.
Benita
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: beh-NEE-ta
Rating: 39% based on 14 votes
Feminine form of Benito.
Beatrix
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Hungarian, Dutch, English, Late Roman
Pronounced: beh-A-triks(German) BEH-a-triks(German) BEH-aw-treeks(Hungarian) BEH-ya-triks(Dutch) BEE-ə-triks(English) BEE-triks(English)
Rating: 71% based on 17 votes
Probably from Viatrix, a feminine form of the Late Latin name Viator meaning "voyager, traveller". It was a common name amongst early Christians, and the spelling was altered by association with Latin beatus "blessed, happy". Viatrix or Beatrix was a 4th-century saint who was strangled to death during the persecutions of Diocletian.

In England the name became rare after the Middle Ages, but it was revived in the 19th century, more commonly in the spelling Beatrice. Famous bearers include the British author and illustrator Beatrix Potter (1866-1943), the creator of Peter Rabbit, and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands (1938-).

Beata
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Polish, German, Swedish, Danish, Late Roman
Pronounced: beh-A-ta(Polish, German)
Rating: 39% based on 16 votes
Derived from Latin beatus meaning "blessed". This was the name of a few minor saints.
Bea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Hungarian, Dutch
Pronounced: BEE(English)
Rating: 42% based on 15 votes
Short form of Beatrix or Beáta.
Avril
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Rare), English (Rare)
Pronounced: A-VREEL(French) AV-ril(English)
Rating: 40% based on 15 votes
French form of April. A famous bearer is the Canadian musician Avril Lavigne (1984-).
Aurore
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: AW-RAWR
Rating: 54% based on 17 votes
French form of Aurora.
Aureliana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare), Ancient Roman
Rating: 55% based on 15 votes
Feminine form of Aurelianus.
Aurelia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman, Romanian, Italian, Spanish, Polish
Pronounced: ow-REH-lee-a(Latin) ow-REH-lya(Italian, Spanish, Polish)
Rating: 69% based on 16 votes
Feminine form of Aurelius.
Aura
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Spanish, Finnish
Pronounced: AWR-ə(English) OW-ra(Italian, Spanish) OW-rah(Finnish)
Rating: 54% based on 14 votes
From the word aura (derived from Latin, ultimately from Greek αὔρα meaning "breeze") for a distinctive atmosphere or illumination.
Augustina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Rating: 57% based on 15 votes
Feminine form of Augustinus (see Augustine 1).
Athena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, English
Other Scripts: Ἀθηνᾶ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: A-TEH-NA(Classical Greek) ə-THEE-nə(English)
Rating: 65% based on 14 votes
Meaning unknown. Athena was the Greek goddess of wisdom and warfare and the patron goddess of the city of Athens in Greece. It is likely that her name is derived from that of the city, not vice versa. The earliest mention of her seems to be a 15th-century BC Mycenaean Greek inscription from Knossos on Crete.

The daughter of Zeus, she was said to have sprung from his head fully grown after he impregnated and swallowed her mother Metis. Athena is associated with the olive tree and the owl.

Ariella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: ar-ee-EHL-ə, ehr-ee-EHL-ə
Rating: 58% based on 14 votes
Strictly feminine form of Ariel.
Ariel
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew, English, French, Spanish, Polish, Biblical, Biblical Greek
Other Scripts: אֲרִיאֵל(Hebrew) Ἀριήλ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: a-ree-EHL(Hebrew) EHR-ee-əl(English) AR-ee-əl(English) A-RYEHL(French) a-RYEHL(Spanish) A-ryehl(Polish)
Rating: 66% based on 15 votes
Means "lion of God" in Hebrew, from אֲרִי (ʾari) meaning "lion" and אֵל (ʾel) meaning "God". In the Old Testament it is used as another name for the city of Jerusalem. Shakespeare utilized it for a spirit in his play The Tempest (1611) and Alexander Pope utilized it for a sylph in his poem The Rape of the Lock (1712), and one of the moons of Uranus bears this name in his honour. As an English name, it became more common for females in the 1980s, especially after it was used for the title character in the Disney film The Little Mermaid (1989).
Arie 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch
Pronounced: A-ree
Rating: 43% based on 14 votes
Diminutive of Adriaan.
Arianne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Rare)
Pronounced: A-RYAN
Rating: 55% based on 15 votes
Variant of Ariane.
Arianna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, English (Modern)
Pronounced: a-RYAN-na(Italian) ar-ee-AN-ə(English) ar-ee-AHN-ə(English)
Rating: 69% based on 16 votes
Italian form of Ariadne.
Aria 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: AHR-ee-ə
Rating: 71% based on 15 votes
Means "song, melody" in Italian (literally means "air"). An aria is an elaborate vocal solo, the type usually performed in operas. As an English name, it has only been in use since the 20th century, its rise in popularity accelerating after the 2010 premier of the television drama Pretty Little Liars, featuring a character by this name. It is not traditionally used in Italy.
Anya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian, English
Other Scripts: Аня(Russian)
Pronounced: A-nyə(Russian) AN-yə(English)
Rating: 64% based on 18 votes
Russian diminutive of Anna.
Antonia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Romanian, Greek, Croatian, Bulgarian, Ancient Roman
Other Scripts: Αντωνία(Greek) Антония(Bulgarian)
Pronounced: an-TO-nya(Italian, Spanish, German) an-TO-nee-ə(English) ahn-TO-nee-a(Dutch) an-TO-nee-a(Latin)
Rating: 61% based on 14 votes
Feminine form of Antonius (see Anthony).
Antonella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: an-to-NEHL-la
Rating: 51% based on 14 votes
Diminutive of Antonia.
Antoinette
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: AHN-TWA-NEHT
Rating: 59% based on 14 votes
Feminine diminutive of Antoine. This name was borne by Marie Antoinette, the queen of France during the French Revolution. She was executed by guillotine.
Annora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 68% based on 17 votes
Medieval English variant of Honora.
Anniken
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norwegian
Rating: 46% based on 14 votes
Norwegian diminutive of Anna.
Annika
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Dutch, Finnish, Estonian, German, English (Modern)
Pronounced: AN-ni-ka(Swedish) AH-nee-ka(Dutch) AHN-nee-kah(Finnish) A-nee-ka(German) AN-i-kə(English) AHN-i-kə(English)
Rating: 72% based on 17 votes
Swedish diminutive of Anna.
Annetta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: an-NEHT-ta
Rating: 51% based on 16 votes
Latinate diminutive of Anna.
Annemarie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch, German, Danish
Pronounced: ah-nə-ma-REE(Dutch) A-nə-ma-ree(German)
Rating: 70% based on 15 votes
Combination of Anna and Marie.
Annelie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Swedish
Pronounced: A-nə-lee(German)
Rating: 61% based on 15 votes
German diminutive of Anna or short form of Anneliese.
Annabelle
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, French
Pronounced: AN-ə-behl(English)
Rating: 71% based on 17 votes
Variant of Annabel. It can also be interpreted as a combination of Anna and French belle "beautiful".
Angelita
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: ang-kheh-LEE-ta
Rating: 46% based on 15 votes
Spanish diminutive of Angela.
Angelina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, English, Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Armenian
Other Scripts: Ангелина(Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian) Αγγελίνα(Greek) Անգելինա(Armenian)
Pronounced: ang-jeh-LEE-na(Italian) an-jə-LEE-nə(English) un-gyi-LYEE-nə(Russian) ang-kheh-LEE-na(Spanish)
Rating: 61% based on 17 votes
Latinate diminutive of Angela. A famous bearer is American actress Angelina Jolie (1975-).
Angelica
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Romanian, Carolingian Cycle
Pronounced: an-JEHL-i-kə(English) an-JEH-lee-ka(Italian)
Rating: 64% based on 18 votes
Derived from Latin angelicus meaning "angelic", ultimately related to Greek ἄγγελος (angelos) meaning "messenger". The poets Boiardo and Ariosto used this name in their Orlando poems (1483 and 1532), where she is the love interest of both Orlando and Rinaldo. It has been used as a given name since the 18th century.
Anatoliy
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian, Ukrainian
Other Scripts: Анатолий(Russian) Анатолій(Ukrainian)
Pronounced: u-nu-TO-lyee(Russian) u-nu-TAW-lyee(Ukrainian)
Rating: 39% based on 14 votes
Russian and Ukrainian form of Anatolius.
Anatoli
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian, Ukrainian, Georgian
Other Scripts: Анатолий(Russian) Анатолій(Ukrainian) ანატოლი(Georgian)
Pronounced: u-nu-TO-lyee(Russian) u-nu-TAW-lyee(Ukrainian) A-NA-TAW-LEE(Georgian)
Rating: 44% based on 14 votes
Alternate transcription of Russian Анатолий or Ukrainian Анатолій (see Anatoliy), as well as the Georgian form.
Anakin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Popular Culture
Pronounced: AN-ə-kin(English)
Rating: 49% based on 17 votes
Meaning unknown. This is the name of a character (also known as Darth Vader) in the Star Wars movie saga, created by George Lucas. Lucas may have based it on the surname of his friend and fellow director Ken Annakin.
Amira 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אַמִירָה(Hebrew)
Pronounced: ah-MEER-ah
Rating: 59% based on 15 votes
Feminine form of Amir 2.
Aminah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic, Malay, Indonesian
Other Scripts: آمنة, أمينة(Arabic)
Pronounced: A-mee-na(Arabic) a-MEE-na(Arabic)
Rating: 58% based on 15 votes
Alternate transcription of Arabic Amina 1 or Amina 2, as well as the usual form in Malay and Indonesian.
Amika
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Esperanto
Pronounced: a-MEE-ka
Rating: 52% based on 15 votes
Means "friendly" in Esperanto, ultimately from Latin amicus "friend".
Ami 3
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 亜美, etc.(Japanese Kanji) あみ(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: A-MEE
Rating: 37% based on 15 votes
From Japanese (a) meaning "second, Asia" and (mi) meaning "beautiful". Other kanji combinations are possible.
America
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ə-MEHR-i-kə
Rating: 40% based on 17 votes
In the English-speaking world, this name is usually given in reference to the United States of America (see Amerigo). It came into use as an American name in the 19th century.
Amelie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German
Pronounced: a-meh-LEE
Rating: 68% based on 18 votes
German variant of Amelia.
Ally 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AL-ee
Rating: 44% based on 16 votes
Diminutive of Alison 1, Alexandra and other names beginning with the same sound. This name jumped in popularity in 1997 after the premiere of the American television series Ally McBeal.
Aliz
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hungarian
Pronounced: AW-leez
Rating: 32% based on 14 votes
Hungarian form of Alice.
Aliyah 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: עֲלִיָּה(Hebrew)
Rating: 56% based on 15 votes
Alternate transcription of Hebrew עֲלִיָּה (see Aliya 2).
Ali 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Urdu, Pashto, Indonesian, Malay, Avar, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Tajik, Dhivehi, Albanian, Bosnian
Other Scripts: عليّ(Arabic) علی(Persian, Urdu) علي(Pashto) ГӀали(Avar) Әли(Kazakh) Али(Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Russian) Алӣ(Tajik) ޢަލީ(Dhivehi)
Pronounced: ‘A-leey(Arabic) a-LEE(Persian, Turkish, Tajik Persian) A-lee(Indonesian, Malay) u-LYEE(Russian)
Rating: 29% based on 14 votes
Means "lofty, sublime" in Arabic, from the root علا (ʿalā) meaning "to be high". Ali ibn Abi Talib was a cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad and the fourth caliph to rule the Muslim world. His followers were the original Shia Muslims, who regard him as the first rightful caliph.

This name is borne by the hero in Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, the tale of a man who finds the treasure trove of a band of thieves. Another famous bearer was the boxer Muhammad Ali (1942-2016), who changed his name from Cassius Clay upon his conversion to Islam.

Alexina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: al-ik-SEE-nə
Rating: 45% based on 17 votes
Feminine form of Alex, or a diminutive of Alexis.
Alexandrine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: A-LEHK-SAHN-DREEN
Rating: 54% based on 16 votes
French diminutive of Alexandra. This was the name of a Danish queen, the wife of King Christian X.
Alexandrina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese, Romanian, English (Rare)
Pronounced: al-ig-zan-DREE-nə(English)
Rating: 65% based on 17 votes
Elaborated form of Alexandra. This was the first name of Queen Victoria; her middle name was Victoria.
Alexandria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: al-ig-ZAN-dree-ə
Rating: 77% based on 18 votes
Feminine form of Alexander. Alexander the Great founded several cities by this name (or renamed them) as he extended his empire eastward. The most notable of these is Alexandria in Egypt, founded by Alexander in 331 BC.
Alejandra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: a-leh-KHAN-dra
Rating: 50% based on 15 votes
Spanish form of Alexandra.
Alastríona
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: ə-ləs-TRYEE-nə, A-ləs-tryee-nə
Rating: 50% based on 17 votes
Feminine form of Alastar.
Alastair
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish
Pronounced: AL-i-stər(English)
Rating: 68% based on 16 votes
Anglicized form of Alasdair.
Ai 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 愛, 藍, etc.(Japanese Kanji) あい(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: A-EE
Rating: 32% based on 15 votes
From Japanese (ai) meaning "love, affection", (ai) meaning "indigo", or other kanji with the same pronunciation.
Adrienne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, English
Pronounced: A-DREE-YEHN(French)
Rating: 56% based on 17 votes
French feminine form of Adrian.
Adrianna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Polish
Pronounced: ay-dree-AN-ə(English) ay-dree-AHN-ə(English) a-DRYAN-na(Polish)
Rating: 71% based on 18 votes
Feminine form of Adrian.
Adria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AY-dree-ə
Rating: 61% based on 17 votes
Short form of Adriana.
Adelle
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ə-DEHL
Rating: 56% based on 16 votes
Variant of Adele.
Adella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ə-DEHL-ə
Rating: 58% based on 17 votes
Variant of Adela.
Adeline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, English
Pronounced: A-DU-LEEN(French) AD-ə-lien(English)
Rating: 71% based on 19 votes
French and English form of Adelina.
Adelina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Romanian, Bulgarian, Germanic (Latinized) [1]
Other Scripts: Аделина(Bulgarian)
Pronounced: a-deh-LEE-na(Italian) a-dheh-LEE-na(Spanish)
Rating: 72% based on 20 votes
From a Germanic name that was derived from the element adal meaning "noble" (Proto-Germanic *aþalaz).
Addison
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AD-i-sən
Rating: 49% based on 16 votes
From an English surname meaning "son of Adam". Its recent popularity as a feminine name stems from its similarity in sound to Madison.
Addie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AD-ee
Rating: 51% based on 17 votes
Diminutive of Adelaide, Adeline, Addison and other names containing the same sound.
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