Israella's Personal Name List
Ziska
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German
Pronounced: TSIS-ka
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Wrenna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (Rare)
Pronounced: REN-ə
Personal remark: "Wren"
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
Elaborated form of
Wren. It coincides with Old English
wrenna meaning "(male) wren".
Wisteria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: wis-TEHR-ee-ə, wis-TEER-ee-ə
Rating: 68% based on 4 votes
From the name of the flowering plant, which was named for the American anatomist Caspar Wistar.
Willow
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: WIL-o
Rating: 100% based on 3 votes
From the name of the tree, which is ultimately derived from Old English welig.
Wanda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Polish, English, German, French
Pronounced: VAN-da(Polish, German) WAHN-də(English) WAHN-DA(French)
Rating: 70% based on 3 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).
Walda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Rare), Dutch
Pronounced: VAL-da
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Short form of names with the name element
walt "to rule".
Vivia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare), Late Roman
Rating: 78% based on 4 votes
Vieve
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch, English
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Vienne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Various (Rare)
Pronounced: VYEHN(French)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From the French name for
Vienna, the capital city of Austria.
Victory
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (African), English (Puritan)
Pronounced: VIK-tər-ee(English)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Simply from the English word, which is ultimately from Latin
victoria (itself from the past participle stem of
vincere "to conquer", making it a (distant) relative of
Vincent). For Puritans, the name was given in reference to 1 Corinthians 15:55, "O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?"
A male bearer was Victory Birdseye (1782-1853), a U.S. Representative from New York.
Venice
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Jamaican Patois
Pronounced: VEHN-is(English)
Perhaps originally a Christianized variant of
Venus, now either an English vernacular form of
Venetia, or else directly from the English name of the city in Italy. The name was revived in the 19th century significantly when the name
Florence was beginning to become fashionable.
Valda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Latvian
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Thea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, English
Pronounced: TEH-a(German) THEE-ə(English)
Rating: 88% based on 4 votes
Tessa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Dutch
Pronounced: TEHS-ə(English) TEH-sa(Dutch)
Rating: 78% based on 5 votes
Tesharna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Yiddish
Other Scripts: טשארנא(Yiddish)
Rating: 68% based on 4 votes
Temperance
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: TEHM-prəns, TEHM-pər-əns
Rating: 78% based on 4 votes
From the English word meaning
"moderation" or
"restraint". This was one of the virtue names adopted by the
Puritans in the 17th century. It experienced a modest revival in the United States during the run of the television series
Bones (2005-2017), in which the main character bears this name.
Sybille
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, French
Pronounced: zee-BI-lə(German) SEE-BEEL(French)
Rating: 90% based on 4 votes
German and French form of
Sibyl.
Stellamaris
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (African)
Rating: 86% based on 5 votes
From the Latin title of the Virgin Mary, Stella Maris, meaning "star of the sea".
Sinclair
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: sin-KLEHR
Rating: 90% based on 3 votes
From a Scottish surname that was derived from a Norman French town called "
Saint Clair". A notable bearer was the American author Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951).
Silence
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (African), English (Puritan), Romani (Archaic)
Pronounced: SIE-ləns(English)
Rating: 77% based on 3 votes
Simply from the English word
silence, from Middle English from Old French, from Latin
silentium, from
silere "be silent". A popular virtue name amongst the Puritans in the 17th century, it was usually given to girls (very occasionally to boys), ultimately taken from the admonition of Saint Paul: "Let the women learn in silence, with all subjection." Translated into Latin it became
Tace, which "in its turn developed into
Tacey". It was used by Pamela Belle for a Puritan character in her novels
Wintercombe,
Herald of Joy and
Treason's Gift.
Shlomtzion
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: שְׁלוֹמְצִיּוֹן(Hebrew)
Pronounced: shlom-tzee-yon
Personal remark: nn Shalom/Shlomit
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Means "peace of
Zion" in Hebrew. Queen
Salome Alexandra of Judaea (141-67 BCE) is known as Shlomtzion in Hebrew. It is borne by journalist Shlomzion Kenan, daughter of the late Israeli writer Amos Kenan.
Shifa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic, Dhivehi
Other Scripts: شفاء(Arabic) ޝިފާ(Dhivehi)
Pronounced: shee-FA(Arabic)
Personal remark: Shiffa*
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Means "healing, cure, remedy" in Arabic. Al-Shifa' bint Abdullah (real name
Layla) was a companion of the Prophet
Muhammad, so named because she practiced folk medicine.
Sheba
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (South, Archaic)
Rating: 87% based on 3 votes
Shalom
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: שָׁלוֹם(Hebrew)
Pronounced: sha-LOM
Personal remark: I like it for both Genders for (f): Shalom Majesty
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
Means "peace" in Hebrew.
Seraphina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), German (Rare), Late Roman
Pronounced: sehr-ə-FEEN-ə(English) zeh-ra-FEE-na(German)
Rating: 100% based on 5 votes
Feminine form of the Late Latin name
Seraphinus, derived from the biblical word
seraphim, which was Hebrew in origin and meant
"fiery ones". The seraphim were an order of angels, described by Isaiah in the Bible as having six wings each.
This was the name of a 13th-century Italian saint who made clothes for the poor. As an English name, it has never been common.
Selma 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic
Pronounced: SEHL-mə(English) ZEHL-ma(German) SEHL-ma(Dutch)
Rating: 95% based on 4 votes
Meaning unknown, possibly a short form of
Anselma. It could also have been inspired by James Macpherson's 18th-century poems, in which it is the name of Ossian's castle.
Selin
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Turkish
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
From Turkish sel meaning "flood, torrent" (a word of Arabic origin).
Scotlynn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern, Rare)
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Sapphira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: Σαπφείρη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: sə-FIE-rə(English)
Rating: 83% based on 4 votes
From the Greek name
Σαπφείρη (Sappheire), which was from Greek
σάπφειρος (sappheiros) meaning
"sapphire" or
"lapis lazuli" (ultimately derived from the Hebrew word
סַפִּיר (sappir)). Sapphira is a character in Acts in the
New Testament who is killed by God for lying.
Salomea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Polish (Rare)
Pronounced: sa-law-MEH-a
Rating: 85% based on 4 votes
Salome
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), German (Rare), Georgian, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek [1]
Other Scripts: სალომე(Georgian) Σαλώμη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: sə-LO-mee(English)
Rating: 100% based on 4 votes
From an Aramaic name that was related to the Hebrew word
שָׁלוֹם (shalom) meaning
"peace". According to the historian Josephus this was the name of the daughter of
Herodias (the consort of Herod Antipas, the tetrarch of Galilee). In the
New Testament, though a specific name is not given, it was a daughter of Herodias who danced for Herod and was rewarded with the head of
John the Baptist, and thus Salome and the dancer have traditionally been equated.
As a Christian given name, Salome has been in occasional use since the Protestant Reformation. This was due to a second person of this name in the New Testament: one of the women who witnessed the crucifixion and later discovered that Jesus' tomb was empty. It is used in Georgia due to the 4th-century Salome of Ujarma, who is considered a saint in the Georgian Church.
Sailor
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: SAY-lər
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Sailor or directly from the English vocabulary word
sailor, denoting one who works on a ship.
Safiyyah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: صفيّة(Arabic)
Pronounced: sa-FEE-ya
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
Sabella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: sə-BEHL-ə
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Sabbath
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Puritan, Rare), Literature
Pronounced: sah-BATH(English (Puritan)) SAH-bith(English (Puritan))
Rating: 73% based on 3 votes
From the word "sabbath," referring to the day of rest (Saturday).
Ruhamah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: רֻחָמָה(Ancient Hebrew)
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
Means "loved, pitied" in Hebrew. In the Old Testament, the prophet
Hosea originally names his daughter
Lo-Ruhamah meaning "not loved" or "has not obtained compassion", as a sign of God's displeasure with the Jews for following other gods; later, in Hosea 2:23, she is redeemed and renamed
Ruhamah.
Roza 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian, Bulgarian, Macedonian
Other Scripts: Роза(Russian, Bulgarian, Macedonian)
Pronounced: RO-zə(Russian)
Personal remark: Germania Roza
Rating: 73% based on 4 votes
Means
"rose" in Russian, Bulgarian and Macedonian. It is a
cognate of
Rosa 1.
Rowen
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: RO-ən
Rating: 83% based on 3 votes
Rowe
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: RO
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Rowan
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Irish, English (Modern)
Pronounced: RO-ən(English)
Rating: 87% based on 3 votes
Anglicized form of the Irish name
Ruadhán. As an English name, it can also be derived from the surname Rowan, itself derived from the Irish given name. It could also be given in reference to the rowan tree, a word of Old Norse origin (coincidentally sharing the same Indo-European root meaning "red" with the Irish name).
Rosamund
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: RO-zə-mənd, RAHZ-ə-mənd
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Derived from the Old German elements
hros "horse" and
munt "protection". This name was borne by the wife of the Lombard king Alboin in the 6th century. The
Normans introduced it to England. It was subsequently interpreted as coming from Latin
rosa munda "pure rose" or
rosa mundi "rose of the world". This was the name of the mistress of Henry II, the king of England in the 12th century. According to legends she was murdered by his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine.
Romy
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Dutch, French, English
Pronounced: RO-mee(German, Dutch, English)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Romilly
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (British, Rare)
Rating: 73% based on 3 votes
From an English surname that was derived from the name of various Norman towns, themselves from the given name
Romilius.
Rodelinde
Gender: Feminine
Usage: History (Germanized)
Rating: 73% based on 3 votes
German form of
Rodelind. Rodelinde (6th-century), was a Lombard queen by marriage to king
Audoin, and mother of king
Alboin.
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: 83% based on 3 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).
Rim
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: ريم(Arabic)
Pronounced: REEM
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Means "white antelope" in Arabic.
Renate
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Dutch, Norwegian
Pronounced: reh-NA-tə(German) rə-NA-tə(Dutch)
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
German, Dutch and Norwegian feminine form of
Renatus.
Reingard
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Rare)
This name is composed of the elements
regin and
gard, and it is a phonetically simplified Form of the name
Ragingard
Prudence
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English, French
Pronounced: PROO-dəns(English) PRUY-DAHNS(French)
Rating: 93% based on 4 votes
Medieval English form of
Prudentia, the feminine form of
Prudentius. In France it is both the feminine form and a rare masculine form. In England it was used during the Middle Ages and was revived in the 17th century by the
Puritans, in part from the English word
prudence, ultimately of the same source.
Pleasant
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Puritan, Rare), Romani (Archaic)
Derived from the English word, which is derived from Anglo-Norman plaisant "delightful" and ultimately from Latin placens "pleasing; agreeable".
As a given name, Pleasant has been in occasional use in the English-speaking world from the 16th century onwards. It was generally used as a masculine name among the English Romani community.
Pleasance
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Archaic)
Pronounced: PLEHZ-əns
Rating: 70% based on 3 votes
From the medieval name Plaisance, which meant "pleasant" in Old French.
Philadelphia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: fil-ə-DEHL-fee-ə
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
From the name of a city in Asia Minor mentioned in Revelation in the
New Testament. The name of the city meant "brotherly love" from Greek
φιλέω (phileo) meaning "to love" and
ἀδελφός (adelphos) meaning "brother". It is also the name of a city in the United States.
Patience
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: PAY-shəns
Rating: 90% based on 3 votes
From the English word
patience, ultimately from Latin
patientia, a derivative of
pati "to suffer". This was one of the virtue names coined by the
Puritans in the 17th century. It is now most commonly used in African countries where English is widely understood, such as Nigeria and Ghana.
Paloma
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: pa-LO-ma
Rating: 82% based on 5 votes
Means "dove, pigeon" in Spanish.
Palestina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Obscure
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Pacifica
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Italian, English (African), Various (Rare)
Pronounced: pa-CHEE-fee-ka(Medieval Italian) pu-SI-fi-ku(African English)
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Feminine form of
Pacificus. Originally it was used in Renaissance Italy, but nowadays it's more popular in Kenya.
Olympia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek, Slovak
Other Scripts: Ολυμπία(Greek)
Rating: 95% based on 4 votes
Olympe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: AW-LEHNP
Rating: 85% based on 2 votes
Olive
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, French
Pronounced: AHL-iv(English) AW-LEEV(French)
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
From the English and French word for the type of tree, ultimately derived from Latin oliva.
Ofri
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: עֹףְרִי, עוֹףְרִי(Hebrew)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Means "my fawn" in Hebrew.
Odeya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אוֹדֶיָּה(Hebrew)
Rating: 100% based on 3 votes
Derived from a Hebrew phrase meaning "I will thank God", which is said to consist of Hebrew
ode "I will thank, praise" (compare the Hebrew name
Odelia 2) combined with Hebrew
ya,
yah "Yahweh". It is borne by Israeli-American actress Odeya Rush (1997-).
Odette
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: AW-DEHT
Rating: 85% based on 2 votes
French
diminutive of
Oda or
Odilia. This is the name of a princess who has been transformed into a swan in the ballet
Swan Lake (1877) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Odessa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Various
Rating: 83% based on 4 votes
From the name of a Ukrainian city that sits on the north coast of the Black Sea, which was named after the ancient Greek city of
Ὀδησσός (Odessos), of uncertain meaning. This name can also be used as a feminine form of
Odysseus.
Odelina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Germanic, Medieval French (Latinized), Medieval English
Rating: 90% based on 4 votes
Octavia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Spanish, Romanian, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: ahk-TAY-vee-ə(English) ok-TA-bya(Spanish) ok-TA-wee-a(Latin)
Rating: 100% based on 3 votes
Feminine form of
Octavius. Octavia was the wife of Mark Antony and the sister of the Roman emperor Augustus. In 19th-century England it was sometimes given to the eighth-born child.
Nymphodora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Νυμφοδώρα(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 70% based on 4 votes
Nouria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic (Maghrebi)
Other Scripts: نورية(Maghrebi Arabic)
Rating: 80% based on 4 votes
Derived from Arabic نُور (nūr) meaning "light, glow, illumination" (chiefly Algerian).
Nissa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Indonesian
Rating: 87% based on 3 votes
Nieves
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: NYEH-behs
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Means
"snows" in Spanish, derived from the title of the Virgin
Mary Nuestra Señora de las Nieves meaning "Our Lady of the Snows".
Nesta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: NEHS-ta
Rating: 75% based on 4 votes
Neonilla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Greek [1], Russian (Rare)
Other Scripts: Νεόνιλλα(Ancient Greek) Неонилла(Russian)
Rating: 78% based on 4 votes
From a Greek name derived from
νέος (neos) meaning
"new". This was the name of an Orthodox Christian
saint, a 3rd-century Syrian woman martyred during the persecutions of the Roman emperor Decius.
Narcisse
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: NAR-SEES
Rating: 73% based on 3 votes
French masculine and feminine form of
Narcissus. This is also the French word for the narcissus flower.
Naomi 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Hebrew, Biblical
Other Scripts: נָעֳמִי(Hebrew)
Pronounced: nay-O-mee(English) nie-O-mee(English)
Rating: 95% based on 4 votes
From the Hebrew name
נָעֳמִי (Naʿomi) meaning
"my pleasantness", a derivative of
נָעַם (naʿam) meaning "to be pleasant". In the
Old Testament this is the name of the mother-in-law of
Ruth. After the death of her husband and sons, she returned to Bethlehem with Ruth. There she declared that her name should be
Mara because of her misfortune (see
Ruth 1:20).
Though long common as a Jewish name, Naomi was not typically used as an English Christian name until after the Protestant Reformation. A notable bearer is the British model Naomi Campbell (1970-).
Naemi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Finland Swedish, German, Norwegian (Rare), Danish (Rare)
Pronounced: nah-EH-mee(Swedish, Finland Swedish, German)
Rating: 83% based on 4 votes
A German and Nordic variant of
Naomi 1. This name was used in the German translation of The Bible.
Modesty
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: MAHD-ə-stee
Rating: 68% based on 4 votes
From the English word modesty, ultimately from Latin modestus "moderate", a derivative of modus "measure".
Modeste
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: MAW-DEST
Rating: 70% based on 3 votes
French masculine and feminine form of
Modestus.
Mildred
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MIL-drid
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
From the Old English name
Mildþryð meaning
"gentle strength", derived from the elements
milde "gentle" and
þryþ "strength".
Saint Mildred was a 7th-century abbess, the daughter of the Kentish princess Saint Ermenburga. After the
Norman Conquest this name became rare, but it was revived in the 19th century.
Mia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, German, Italian, Slovene, Croatian, English
Pronounced: MEE-ah(Swedish, Norwegian, Danish) MEE-a(Dutch, German, Italian) MEE-ə(English)
Personal remark: As a pet form of Miriam
Rating: 85% based on 4 votes
Diminutive of
Maria. It coincides with the Italian word
mia meaning
"mine".
This name was common in Sweden and Denmark in the 1970s [1]. It rose in popularity in the English-speaking world in the 1990s, entering the top ten for girls in the United States in 2009. It was also popular in many other countries at that time. Famous bearers include American actress Mia Farrow (1945-) and American soccer player Mia Hamm (1972-), birth names Maria and Mariel respectively.
Melissa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Dutch, Ancient Greek [1], Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Μέλισσα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: mə-LIS-ə(English) MEH-LEES-SA(Classical Greek)
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Means
"bee" in Greek. In Greek
mythology this was the name of a daughter of Procles, as well as an epithet of various Greek nymphs and priestesses. According to the early Christian writer Lactantius
[2] this was the name of the sister of the nymph
Amalthea, with whom she cared for the young
Zeus. Later it appears in Ludovico Ariosto's 1532 poem
Orlando Furioso [3] belonging to the fairy who helps
Ruggiero escape from the witch
Alcina. As an English given name,
Melissa has been used since the 18th century.
Maris 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: MEHR-is, MAR-is
Rating: 100% based on 3 votes
Means
"of the sea", taken from the Latin title of the Virgin
Mary,
Stella Maris, meaning "star of the sea".
Mamie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MAY-mee
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Majesty
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (American, Modern)
Pronounced: MAJ-ə-stee(American English) MAJ-i-stee(American English)
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
From the English word, ultimately deriving from Latin maiestas meaning "greatness".
Mae
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MAY
Rating: 83% based on 4 votes
Variant of
May. A famous bearer was the American actress Mae West (1893-1980), whose birth name was Mary.
Lydwine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Belgian, Rare), French, Flemish (Rare), Dutch (Rare), History (Ecclesiastical)
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Lydia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, German, Dutch, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Λυδία(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: LID-ee-ə(English) LUY-dya(German) LEE-dee-ya(Dutch)
Rating: 80% based on 3 votes
Means
"from Lydia" in Greek. Lydia was a region on the west coast of Asia Minor, said to be named for the legendary king
Lydos. In the
New Testament this is the name of a woman converted to Christianity by
Saint Paul. In the modern era the name has been in use since the
Protestant Reformation.
Lusvard
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Armenian
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
From the Armenian լուսին (lusin) meaning "moon" and վարդ (vard) meaning "rose".
Luitgard
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
From the Old German name
Leutgard, which was derived from the elements
liut "people" and
gart "enclosure, yard". It was borne by
Charlemagne's fifth and last wife. This was also the name of a 13th-century Flemish nun, the patron
saint of easy deliveries.
Lilach
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: לִילָךּ(Hebrew)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Means "lilac" in Hebrew.
Lieselotte
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German
Pronounced: LEE-zeh-law-tə
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Liebe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Yiddish
Pronounced: LEE-bə
Personal remark: Esther & Leibe sisters
Rating: 73% based on 3 votes
Variant of
Leeba (via its variant forms
Liba and
Libe).
(Liebe coincides with the modern German word for "love".)
Levana 1
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew [1]
Other Scripts: לְבָנָה(Hebrew)
Rating: 100% based on 3 votes
Hebrew form of
Lebanah. In modern Hebrew it is typically a feminine name.
Leonie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Dutch
Pronounced: LEH-o-nee(German) leh-o-NEE(Dutch)
Rating: 100% based on 3 votes
German and Dutch feminine form of
Leonius.
Leni
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German
Pronounced: LEH-nee
Rating: 78% based on 4 votes
Leida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Estonian
Rating: 100% based on 3 votes
Meaning unknown. It was popularized by a character in Estonian writer Andres Saal's historical stories Vambola (1889) and Aita (1891). Saal associated it with Estonian leidma "to find".
Leda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, Italian
Other Scripts: Λήδα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: LEH-DA(Classical Greek) LEE-də(English) LAY-də(English) LEH-da(Italian)
Rating: 100% based on 3 votes
Laurice
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American), Italian (Rare), Swedish (Rare), Flemish (Rare), French (Rare), French (Quebec, Rare)
Laureline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, French (Belgian), Flemish (Rare), Popular Culture
Rating: 97% based on 3 votes
Medieval diminutive of
Laura. This name was used for a character in the French series of science fiction comics
Valérian et Laureline (1967-2010) as well as the 2017 movie adaptation
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.
Laurel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LAWR-əl
From the name of the laurel tree, ultimately from Latin laurus.
Laudine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arthurian Cycle
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Possibly a derivative of
Lot 2 (or derived from the same place name). It was used by the 12th-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes for a character in his romance
Yvain, the Knight of the Lion. Also called the Lady of the Fountain, Laudine married
Yvain after he killed her husband.
Jumanah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: جمانة(Arabic)
Pronounced: joo-MA-na
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Judette
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Dutch (Rare)
Judetta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Judeo-Anglo-Norman
Judea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Judeo-Catalan, Judeo-Anglo-Norman, Judeo-French
Other Scripts: יהודה(Hebrew)
Pronounced: joo-DEE-ə(English) joo-DAY-ə(English)
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Derived from
Yehudah. This is a biblical place name, as well as the modern-day name for the mountanous area in the southern part of the land of Israel.
Itta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Jewish, Yiddish
Pronounced: ee-tah
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
Ashkenazic pet form of
Yehudit. Also variant spelling of
Ita.
Iskra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Bulgarian, Macedonian, Croatian
Other Scripts: Искра(Bulgarian, Macedonian)
Pronounced: EES-kru(Bulgarian) EES-kra(Macedonian, Croatian)
Rating: 73% based on 4 votes
Means "spark" in South Slavic.
Irma
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, English, Dutch, Finnish, Swedish, Danish, Spanish, Italian, Georgian, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Slovene, Germanic [1]
Other Scripts: ირმა(Georgian)
Pronounced: IR-ma(German, Dutch) UR-mə(English) EER-mah(Finnish) EER-ma(Spanish) EER-maw(Hungarian)
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
German short form of names beginning with the Old German element
irmin meaning
"whole, great" (Proto-Germanic *
ermunaz). It is thus related to
Emma. It began to be regularly used in the English-speaking world in the 19th century.
Iris
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, French, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Slovene, Croatian, Greek
Other Scripts: Ἶρις(Ancient Greek) Ίρις(Greek)
Pronounced: IE-ris(English) EE-ris(German, Dutch) EE-rees(Finnish, Spanish, Catalan, Italian) EE-REES(French)
Rating: 98% based on 4 votes
Means "rainbow" in Greek. Iris was the name of the Greek goddess of the rainbow, also serving as a messenger to the gods. This name can also be given in reference to the word (which derives from the same Greek source) for the iris flower or the coloured part of the eye.
Irénée
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: EE-REH-NEH
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
French form of
Irenaeus, also occasionally a feminine form.
Irene
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, German, Dutch, Ancient Greek (Latinized), Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Εἰρήνη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: ie-REEN(English) ie-REE-nee(English) ee-REH-neh(Italian, Spanish) EE-reh-neh(Finnish) ee-REH-nə(German, Dutch)
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
From Greek
Εἰρήνη (Eirene), derived from a word meaning
"peace". This was the name of the Greek goddess who personified peace, one of the
Ὥραι (Horai). It was also borne by several early Christian
saints. The name was common in the Byzantine Empire, notably being borne by an 8th-century empress, who was the first woman to lead the empire. She originally served as regent for her son, but later had him killed and ruled alone.
This name has traditionally been more popular among Eastern Christians. In the English-speaking world it was not regularly used until the 19th century.
Invidia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Pronounced: een-WEE-dee-a(Latin)
Rating: 65% based on 4 votes
Means
"envy" in Latin. This was the Roman goddess of vengeance, equivalent to the Greek goddess
Nemesis.
Ilsegard
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Rare, Archaic)
Pronounced: IL-zə-gard
Personal remark: "Ilse"
Rating: 63% based on 3 votes
Ilde
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norwegian (Archaic), Italian
Norwegian dialectal variant of
Hilde, recorded in the Sunnmøre area, as well as an Italian variant of
Ilda.
Ilana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אִילָנָה(Hebrew)
Hildred
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: HIL-drid
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Possibly from the Old English masculine name
Hildræd, which was composed of the elements
hild "battle" and
ræd "counsel, advice". This name was revived in the late 19th century, probably because of its similarity to the popular names
Hilda and
Mildred.
Hildegarde
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Rare)
Pronounced: EEL-DU-GARD
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
Hephzibah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: חֶףְצִי־בָּה(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: HEHF-zi-bə(English) HEHP-zi-bə(English)
Personal remark: Eidel Hephzibah
Rating: 80% based on 3 votes
Henna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Judeo-Anglo-Norman
Personal remark: I like it as a variant of Hanna or another spelling Henne (yiddish) הענע
Rating: 73% based on 3 votes
Henna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English
Personal remark: Female form of Heinrich
Rating: 80% based on 4 votes
Feminization of
Henn, a medieval diminutive of
Henry.
Hemma
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Rare, Archaic)
Pronounced: HEM-a
Rating: 78% based on 4 votes
Variant of
Emma or
Helma.
Hemma von Gurk was a saint who lived from 990 to 1045 in Austria.
Helouise
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (Rare), Louisiana Creole, Dutch (Rare), Dutch (Surinamese, Rare), Afrikaans (Rare)
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Heloise
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish (Rare), Danish (Rare), Norwegian (Rare), Finnish (Rare), German (Rare)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Scandinavian and German adoption of
Héloïse.
Heinriette
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (East Prussian)
Personal remark: It's a female form of Heinrich and I can see it 100/100
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Heilwig
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Rare), Germanic [1]
Pronounced: HIEL-bik(German)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Derived from the Old German elements
heil "healthy, whole" and
wig "war".
Hannelore
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German
Pronounced: HA-nə-lo-rə
Rating: 100% based on 3 votes
Hadassah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical, Hebrew
Other Scripts: הֲדַסָּה(Hebrew)
Pronounced: hə-DAS-ə(English)
Rating: 83% based on 4 votes
Gwendoline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh, English (British), French
Pronounced: GWEHN-də-lin(British English) GWEHN-DAW-LEEN(French)
Rating: 98% based on 4 votes
Gladys
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh, English, French, Spanish
Pronounced: GLAD-is(English) GLA-DEES(French) GLA-dhees(Spanish)
Rating: 63% based on 3 votes
From the Old Welsh name
Gwladus, probably derived from
gwlad meaning
"country". Alternatively, it may have been adopted as a Welsh form of
Claudia.
Saint Gwladus or Gwladys was the mother of Saint
Cadoc. She was one of the daughters of
Brychan Brycheiniog. This name became popular outside of Wales after it was used in Ouida's novel
Puck (1870).
Gertha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: GER-tha
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Gerta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German
Pronounced: GEHR-ta
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Germania
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Bessarabian), English (Rare)
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
Gerda 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Dutch
Pronounced: GEHR-da(German) GHEHR-da(Dutch)
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
Genesis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: JEHN-ə-sis
Rating: 80% based on 4 votes
Means
"birth, origin" in Greek. This is the name of the first book of the
Old Testament in the Bible. It tells of the creation of the world, the expulsion of
Adam and
Eve,
Noah and the great flood, and the three patriarchs.
Fritha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Manx (Rare)
Rating: 100% based on 3 votes
Anglicized form of
Fríða.
Frederique
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch
Frauke
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German
Pronounced: FROW-kə
Means
"little lady", derived from German
frau combined with a
diminutive suffix.
Franziska
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German
Pronounced: fran-TSIS-ka
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
German feminine form of
Franciscus (see
Francis).
Francesca
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Catalan
Pronounced: fran-CHEHS-ka(Italian) frən-SEHS-kə(Catalan)
Rating: 100% based on 3 votes
Italian and Catalan feminine form of
Franciscus (see
Francis).
Frances
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: FRAN-sis
Rating: 80% based on 3 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.
Fleurette
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Rare), Dutch (Rare), English (Rare)
Pronounced: FLUU-REHT(French) flə-REHT(English)
Rating: 80% based on 3 votes
Fiamma
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: FYAM-ma
Rating: 72% based on 5 votes
Means "flame" in Italian.
Felicia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Dutch, Swedish, Late Roman
Pronounced: fə-LEE-shə(English) feh-LEE-cha(Italian) feh-LEE-thya(European Spanish) feh-LEE-sya(Latin American Spanish) feh-LEE-chee-a(Romanian) feh-LEE-see-a(Dutch) feh-LEE-see-ah(Swedish)
Rating: 93% based on 4 votes
Feminine form of the Latin name
Felicius, a derivative of
Felix. As an English name, it has occasionally been used since the Middle Ages.
Faith
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: FAYTH
Rating: 93% based on 3 votes
Simply from the English word
faith, ultimately from Latin
fidere "to trust". This was one of the virtue names adopted by the
Puritans in the 17th century.
Everilde
Gender: Feminine
Usage: History (Ecclesiastical)
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
Eternity
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern, Rare)
Rating: 80% based on 3 votes
From the English word eternity meaning "existence without end; infinite time", ultimately from Latin aeternitas. Use of the name has been influenced by the brand of perfume called Eternity, which was introduced by Calvin Klein in 1988.
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: 100% based on 4 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].
Esperance
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Archaic)
Pronounced: ES-pər-ənts
From an English word (now obsolete) for "hope." The battle cry of Harry Hotspur was "
Esperance en Dieu," or "hope in God," which was the motto for House Percy. The French form,
Espérance, is typically found in religious texts (the word
espoir is far more common).
Esmeree
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arthurian Cycle
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Perhaps derived from Old French esmer meaning "to like, love, respect". This was the name of an enchanted queen of Wales in Le Bel Inconnu (ca. 1185-90), an Old French Arthurian poem by Renaut de Bâgé. In the poem, Blonde Esmeree is transformed from a serpent back into a maiden by the hero Guinglain, also known as the Fair Unknown.
Esmé
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHZ-may, EHZ-mee
Means "esteemed" or "loved" in Old French. It was first recorded in Scotland, being borne by the first Duke of Lennox in the 16th century. It is now more common as a feminine name.
Ermentrude
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Germanic
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Erel
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אראל(Hebrew)
Possibly derived from Hebrew אֶרְאֵל
(erel), a word found in the Old Testament (in Isaiah 33:7) which means "hero, valiant one" or possibly "angel" (related to
'Er'ellı̄m, a post-biblical name of the angels, and perhaps originally a contracted form of
Ariel: אריאל).
This name is borne by Israeli venture capitalist Erel Margalit (1961-). A female bearer is Israeli swimmer Erel Halevi (1991-).
Emery
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHM-ə-ree
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Norman French form of
Emmerich. The
Normans introduced it to England, and though it was never popular, it survived until the end of the Middle Ages. As a modern given name, now typically feminine, it is likely inspired by the surname
Emery, which was itself derived from the medieval given name. It can also be given in reference to the hard black substance called emery.
Elsa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Finnish, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, English
Pronounced: EHL-za(German) EHL-sah(Finnish) EHL-sa(Italian, Spanish) EHL-sə(English)
Rating: 93% based on 4 votes
Short form of
Elisabeth, typically used independently. In medieval German tales Elsa von Brabant was the lover of the hero
Lohengrin. Her story was expanded by Richard Wagner for his opera
Lohengrin (1850). The name had a little spike in popularity after the 2013 release of the animated Disney movie
Frozen, which featured a magical princess by this name.
Elodie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Rating: 84% based on 5 votes
Elmira 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: ehl-MIE-rə(English) ehl-MEER-ə(English)
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
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).
Elfriede
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German
Pronounced: ehl-FREE-də
Eleni
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Ελένη(Greek)
Pronounced: eh-LEH-nee
Personal remark: Eleni Rosa
Rating: 78% based on 4 votes
Modern Greek form of
Helen.
Eisa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norse Mythology
Rating: 78% based on 4 votes
Means "glowing embers" in Old Norse. In Norse mythology this was the name of the daughter of
Logi and
Glut.
Eidel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Yiddish (Rare)
Other Scripts: איידל(Yiddish)
Means "delicate" in Yiddish.
Edna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Hebrew, Biblical
Other Scripts: עֶדְנָה(Hebrew)
Pronounced: EHD-nə(English)
Rating: 78% based on 4 votes
Means
"pleasure" in Hebrew, a derivative of
עָדַן (ʿaḏan) meaning "to delight". This name appears in the
Old Testament Apocrypha, for instance in the Book of Tobit belonging to the wife of
Raguel. It was borne by the American poet Edna Dean Proctor (1829-1923). It did not become popular until the second half of the 19th century, after it was used for the heroine in the successful 1866 novel
St. Elmo by Augusta Jane Evans
[1]. It peaked around the turn of the century and has declined steadily since then, falling off the American top 1000 list in 1992.
Edelweiss
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Various
Pronounced: AY-dəl-vies(English) EH-DEHL-VIES(French) EH-DEHL-VEHS(French) eh-dehl-VIES(Italian) EH-dehl-vies(Italian)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
From the name of the edelweiss flower (species Leontopodium alpinum). It is derived from the German elements edel "noble" and weiß "white." The name of the flower is spelled Edelweiß in German; Edelweiss is an Anglicized spelling.
Edelmira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: eh-dhehl-MEE-ra
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Eartha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: UR-thə
Rating: 73% based on 3 votes
Combination of the English word earth with the feminine name suffix a. It has been used in honour of African-American philanthropist Eartha M. M. White (1876-1974). Another famous bearer was American singer and actress Eartha Kitt (1927-2008).
Dulce
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: DOOL-theh(European Spanish) DOOL-seh(Latin American Spanish)
Rating: 78% based on 4 votes
Means "sweet" or "candy" in Spanish.
Douce
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Rare), French (Belgian, Rare), Judeo-French
Pronounced: DOOS(French, Belgian French) doos(Judeo-French)
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Derived from French
douce, the feminine form of the adjective
doux "sweet; soft; mild, gentle" (ultimately from Latin
dulcis "sweet" via Old French
dous "soft; tender"), this name is a cognate of
Dulcie.
Dorestine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Quebec, Archaic), French (Acadian, Archaic), Louisiana Creole
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Doralice
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Carolingian Cycle, Literature, Theatre, Italian (Rare), Portuguese (Brazilian)
Pronounced: doh-rah-LEE-cheh(Italian)
Rating: 82% based on 5 votes
Name used by the Italian poets Matteo Maria Boiardo and Ludovico Ariosto in their epic poems
Orlando innamorato (1483-1495) and
Orlando furioso (1516-1532), where it belongs to a Saracen princess.
Boiardo perhaps intended it to mean "gift of the dawn", derived from Greek δῶρον (doron) meaning "gift" combined with Greek λύκη (lyke) meaning "light" as well as "morning twilight, dawn". It is also possible that he created the name by combining the existing names Dora and Alice.
This name was subsequently used by the Italian writer Giovanni Francesco Straparola in his collection of fairy tales The Facetious Nights of Straparola (1550). It was also used for characters in multiple operas, including John Dryden's Marriage à la mode (1673) and Antonio Salieri's Il ricco d'un giorno (1784). More recently it was employed by the Brazilian musician Dorival Caymmi in his song Doralice, which was covered by João Gilberto in 1960.
Dolce
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Judeo-Italian
Rating: 63% based on 3 votes
Derived from Italian
dolce "sweet" (compare
Dulcie).
Doe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American, Archaic)
Docia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Archaic)
Rating: 75% based on 4 votes
Dinah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical, English
Other Scripts: דִּינָה(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: DIE-nə(English) DEE-nə(English)
Rating: 78% based on 5 votes
Dia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Means "heavenly, divine" in Greek. The name of multiple characters in Greek Mythology.
Deva
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Slavic, Medieval Russian, Serbian (Rare)
Other Scripts: де́ва, дѣва(Church Slavic, Russian, Serbian)
Rating: 77% based on 3 votes
Means "maiden, girl, lass", derived from the Proto-Slavic děva, itself from the Proto-Indo-European dʰeh₁ "to suck, suckle".
Destry
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Popular Culture, English
Pronounced: DES-tree(Popular Culture)
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
English form of
Destrier, a French surname derived from the Anglo-Norman word
destrer meaning "warhorse". This name was popularized by the western novel 'Destry Rides Again' (1930, by Max Brand) and two subsequent identically-named film adaptations (1932 and 1939).
Dessa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Obscure
Rating: 80% based on 4 votes
Deslava
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Czech (?), Medieval Jewish (?), Judeo-Slavic (?)
Recorded in the pre-15th century in Jewish Moravian and Bohemian communities.
It is a contracted form of the medieval Czech name
Zdeslava
Désirée
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, Dutch, German
Pronounced: DEH-ZEE-REH(French)
Rating: 100% based on 3 votes
French form of
Desiderata. In part it is directly from the French word meaning "desired, wished".
Desiree
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: dehz-i-RAY
Rating: 100% based on 4 votes
English form of
Désirée. It was popularized in the English-speaking world by the movie
Désirée (1954).
Desiderata
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman
Rating: 85% based on 4 votes
Desdemona
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: dehz-də-MO-nə(English)
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Derived from Greek
δυσδαίμων (dysdaimon) meaning
"ill-fated". This is the name of the wife of
Othello in Shakespeare's play
Othello (1603).
Demi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek, English (Modern)
Other Scripts: Δήμη, Ντίμι, Ντίμη(Greek)
Pronounced: də-MEE(English) DEHM-ee(English)
Rating: 85% based on 4 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.
Delta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DEHL-tə
Rating: 68% based on 4 votes
From the name of the fourth letter in the Greek alphabet,
Δ. It is also the name for an island formed at the mouth of a river.
Delice
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Delaida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Louisiana Creole (Archaic)
Deirdre
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Irish, Irish Mythology
Pronounced: DIR-drə(English) DIR-dree(English) DYEHR-dryə(Irish)
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
From the Old Irish name
Derdriu, meaning unknown, possibly derived from
der meaning
"daughter". This was the name of a tragic character in Irish legend who died of a broken heart after
Conchobar, the king of Ulster, forced her to be his bride and killed her lover
Naoise.
It has only been commonly used as a given name since the 20th century, influenced by two plays featuring the character: William Butler Yeats' Deirdre (1907) and J. M. Synge's Deirdre of the Sorrows (1910).
Decima
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Pronounced: DEH-kee-ma
Darcy
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DAHR-see
Rating: 87% based on 3 votes
From an English surname that was derived from Norman French d'Arcy, originally denoting one who came from the town of Arcy in La Manche, France. This is the surname of a character, Fitzwilliam Darcy, in Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice (1813).
Damaris
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Δάμαρις(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: DAM-ə-ris(English)
Rating: 88% based on 5 votes
Probably means
"calf, heifer, girl" from Greek
δάμαλις (damalis). In the
New Testament this is the name of a woman converted to Christianity by
Saint Paul.
Cwetla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Yiddish (Polonized)
Other Scripts: צוועטל(Yiddish)
Clemence
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KLEHM-əns
Feminine form of
Clementius (see
Clement). It has been in use since the Middle Ages, though it became rare after the 17th century.
Claudia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: KLAW-dee-ə(English) KLOW-dya(German, Italian, Romanian) KLOW-dee-a(Dutch, Latin) KLOW-dhya(Spanish)
Rating: 86% based on 5 votes
Feminine form of
Claudius. It is mentioned briefly in the
New Testament. As a Christian name it was very rare until the 16th century.
Classie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (South, Archaic)
Personal remark: nn for Clarissa
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Clarissa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian
Pronounced: klə-RIS-ə(English)
Rating: 75% based on 4 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.
Claretha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: African American (Rare)
Pronounced: klə-REE-thə
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Clara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, Catalan, Romanian, English, Swedish, Danish, Late Roman
Pronounced: KLA-ra(German, Spanish, Italian) KLA-ru(Portuguese) KLA-RA(French) KLEHR-ə(American English) KLAR-ə(American English) KLAH-rə(British English)
Rating: 100% based on 5 votes
Feminine form of the Late Latin name
Clarus, which meant
"clear, bright, famous". The name
Clarus was borne by a few early
saints. The feminine form was popularized by the 13th-century Saint Clare of Assisi (called
Chiara in Italian), a friend and follower of Saint Francis, who left her wealthy family to found the order of nuns known as the Poor Clares.
As an English name it has been in use since the Middle Ages, originally in the form Clare, though the Latinate spelling Clara overtook it in the 19th century and became very popular. It declined through most of the 20th century (being eclipsed by the French form Claire in English-speaking countries), though it has since recovered somewhat.
Clairdelune
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Filipino (Rare)
Pronounced: CLĒR-DĒH-LOON
Rating: 78% based on 4 votes
Means "moonlight" in french, this name is common but also rare in the island country of the Philippines.
Ciel
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Various (Rare)
Means "sky" in French. It is not used as a given name in France itself.
Chaya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: חַיָה(Hebrew)
Pronounced: KHA-ya
Rating: 93% based on 4 votes
Derived from Hebrew
חָיָה (ḥaya) meaning
"living", considered a feminine form of
Chaim.
Cecile
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Dutch, Afrikaans, Filipino, Medieval English
Pronounced: sə-SEEL(English)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
English, Dutch and Afrikaans form of
Cécile.
Cameron
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KAM-rən
Rating: 93% based on 3 votes
From a Scottish surname meaning
"crooked nose" from Gaelic
cam "crooked" and
sròn "nose". As a given name it is mainly used for boys. It got a little bump in popularity for girls in the second half of the 1990s, likely because of the fame of actress Cameron Diaz (1972-). In the United States, the forms
Camryn and
Kamryn are now more popular than
Cameron for girls.
Calanthe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: kə-LAN-thee
Rating: 100% based on 3 votes
From the name of a type of orchid, ultimately meaning "beautiful flower", derived from Greek
καλός (kalos) meaning "beautiful" and
ἄνθος (anthos) meaning "flower".
Bruria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew, Ancient Aramaic (?)
Other Scripts: בְּרוּרְיָה(Hebrew)
Pronounced: broo-ree-ah(Hebrew)
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Allegedly means "pure" in Aramaic. This was the name of a 2nd-century female scholar; she was the wife of Rabbi Meir, one of Rabbi Akiva's disciples. It was also borne by Israeli theoretical physicist Bruria Kaufman (1918-2010).
Brunhilde
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German
Pronounced: bruwn-HIL-də
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Bluma
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Yiddish
Other Scripts: בלומאַ(Yiddish)
Pronounced: BLOO-mah
Rating: 83% based on 4 votes
From Yiddish
בלום (blum) meaning
"flower".
Blossom
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BLAH-səm
Rating: 77% based on 3 votes
From the English word blossom, ultimately from Old English blóstm. It came into use as a rare given name in the 19th century.
Blooma
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Yiddish (Rare)
Pronounced: bloo-mah
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Bloom
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Rating: 63% based on 4 votes
From the English word bloom, ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- ("to thrive, flower, bloom").
Birutė
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Lithuanian
Pronounced: byi-RUW-tyeh
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
Possibly from Lithuanian
birti meaning
"to scatter, to pour out" combined with a
diminutive suffix. This name was borne by the mother of the 15th-century Grand Duke
Vytautas of Lithuania.
Berenice
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Βερενίκη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: bər-NEES(English) behr-ə-NIE-see(English) behr-ə-NEE-see(English) beh-reh-NEE-cheh(Italian)
Rating: 73% based on 3 votes
Latinized form of
Βερενίκη (Berenike), the Macedonian form of the Greek name
Φερενίκη (Pherenike), which meant
"bringing victory" from
φέρω (phero) meaning "to bring" and
νίκη (nike) meaning "victory". This name was common among the Ptolemy ruling family of Egypt, a dynasty that was originally from Macedon. It occurs briefly in Acts in the
New Testament (in most English Bibles it is spelled
Bernice) belonging to a sister of King Herod Agrippa II. As an English name,
Berenice came into use after the
Protestant Reformation.
Bellatrix
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Astronomy
Pronounced: bə-LAY-triks(English) BEHL-ə-triks(English)
Rating: 60% based on 4 votes
Means "female warrior" in Latin. This is the name of the star that marks the left shoulder of the constellation Orion.
Belladonna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Various
Pronounced: behl-ə-DAHN-ə(English)
Rating: 60% based on 4 votes
From the name of a toxic plant, also called deadly nightshade (species Atropa belladonna). The plant's name is of Italian origin, probably derived from Latin bladona "mullein plant" and altered through association with the Italian words bella "beautiful, fair" and donna "lady".
Beila
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Judeo-French, Yiddish
Pronounced: bie-lah, bay-lah
Personal remark: A variant of Beyla
Rating: 80% based on 4 votes
Yiddish and Judeo-French equivalent of
Bella.
Beatrice
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, English, Swedish, Romanian
Pronounced: beh-a-TREE-cheh(Italian) BEE-ə-tris(English) BEET-ris(English) BEH-ah-trees(Swedish) beh-ah-TREES(Swedish)
Rating: 100% based on 4 votes
Italian form of
Beatrix. Beatrice Portinari (1266-1290) was the woman who was loved by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri. She serves as Dante's guide through paradise in his epic poem the
Divine Comedy (1321). This is also the name of a character in Shakespeare's comedy
Much Ado About Nothing (1599), in which Beatrice and
Benedick are fooled into confessing their love for one another.
Bathsheba
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: בַּת־שֶׁבַע(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: bath-SHEE-bə(English)
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
Means
"daughter of the oath" in Hebrew, derived from
בַּת (baṯ) meaning "daughter" and
שָׁבַע (shavaʿ) meaning "oath". According to the
Old Testament, this was the name of a woman married to
Uriah the Hittite. She became pregnant by King
David, so he arranged to have her husband killed in battle and then married her. She was the mother of
Solomon.
Aysima
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Turkish
Rating: 93% based on 3 votes
Derived from Turkish
ay meaning "moon" and
sima meaning "face" (of Persian origin).
Aviva
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אֲבִיבָה(Hebrew)
Pronounced: ah-VEE-vah
Rating: 87% based on 3 votes
Feminine variant of
Aviv.
Autumn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AW-təm
Rating: 100% based on 4 votes
From the name of the season, ultimately from Latin autumnus. This name has been in general use since the 1960s.
Athens
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (American)
Rating: 77% based on 3 votes
From Greek
Athenai (plural because the city had several distinct parts), traditionally derived from
Athena, but probably assimilated from a lost name in a pre-Hellenic language.
Athena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, English
Other Scripts: Ἀθηνᾶ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: A-TEH-NA(Classical Greek) ə-THEE-nə(English)
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.
Athaliah
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: עֲתַלְיָה(Ancient Hebrew)
Rating: 88% based on 4 votes
Possibly means
"Yahweh is exalted" in Hebrew, from
עֲתַל (ʿaṯal) possibly meaning "exalted" and
יָהּ (yah) referring to the Hebrew God. In the
Old Testament this is both a feminine and masculine name. It was borne by the daughter of
Ahab and
Jezebel, who later came to rule Judah as a queen.
Atarah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: עֲטָרָה(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: AT-ə-rə(English)
Rating: 73% based on 4 votes
Atara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew [1]
Other Scripts: עֲטָרָה(Hebrew)
Astride
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: AS-TREED
Rating: 93% based on 3 votes
Astoria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: as-TAWR-ee-ə
Rating: 80% based on 3 votes
Feminine form of
Astor. This is also the name of several American towns, after the businessman John Jacob Astor.
Astarte
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Semitic Mythology (Hellenized), Biblical Greek
Other Scripts: Ἀστάρτη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: as-TAHR-tee(English)
Annemieke
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch
Pronounced: ah-nə-MEE-kə
Andraste
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Celtic Mythology (Hellenized)
Other Scripts: Ἀνδράστη(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 85% based on 2 votes
Possibly means
"invincible" in Celtic. According to the Greco-Roman historian Cassius Dio
[1], this was the name of a Briton goddess of victory who was invoked by
Boudicca before her revolt.
Anastasie
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: French, Romanian (Rare)
Pronounced: A-NAS-TA-ZEE(French)
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
Anah
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: עֲנָה(Ancient Hebrew)
Personal remark: The name of my biblical oc Anah Ben-Amon
Rating: 45% based on 4 votes
Means
"answer" in Hebrew. In the
Old Testament this name belongs to one female character and two male characters.
Ampelia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Polish (Rare)
Pronounced: ahm-PEL-yah
Rating: 58% based on 5 votes
Amice
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Medieval name derived from Latin amicus meaning "friend". This was a popular name in the Middle Ages, though it has since become uncommon.
Amerie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English, English (Rare)
Rating: 66% based on 5 votes
Late medieval variant of
Ameria. It was revived in the 1800s.
Its modern-day usage might in part be inspired by the masculine name
Amery.
Amelia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Medieval French
Pronounced: ə-MEE-lee-ə(English) ə-MEEL-yə(English) a-MEH-lya(Spanish, Italian, Polish)
Rating: 70% based on 7 votes
Variant of
Amalia, though it is sometimes confused with
Emilia, which has a different origin. The name became popular in England after the German House of Hanover came to the British throne in the 18th century — it was borne by daughters of both George II and George III. The author Henry Fielding used it for the title character in his novel
Amelia (1751). Another famous bearer was Amelia Earhart (1897-1937), the first woman to make a solo flight over the Atlantic Ocean.
This name experienced a rise in popularity at the end of the 20th century. It was the most popular name for girls in England and Wales from 2011 to 2015.
Amaryllis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: am-ə-RIL-is(English)
Rating: 100% based on 3 votes
Derived from Greek
ἀμαρύσσω (amarysso) meaning
"to sparkle". This is the name of a character appearing in
Virgil's pastoral poems
Eclogues [1]. The amaryllis flower is named for her.
Amaris
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American), English (American)
Pronounced: a-MA-rees(Latin American Spanish) ə-MAHR-is(American English)
Rating: 60% based on 4 votes
Elaboration of
Amara using the popular suffix
-is. It coincides with the Latin word
amāris meaning "you are loved".
Amara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Igbo
Rating: 100% based on 4 votes
Means "grace" in Igbo.
Amance
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: French (Rare)
Rating: 50% based on 4 votes
French feminine and masculine form of
Amantius.
Amalya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Yiddish, Hebrew
Other Scripts: עָמָליָהּ(Hebrew)
Pronounced: AH-mahl-YA
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Means "labour of
Yahweh" in Hebrew. This name could also be used as a Yiddish feminine form of
Amal 2.
Altilde
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Frankish
Rating: 43% based on 4 votes
From
Altildis, a Latinized form of a Germanic name derived from the elements
alt meaning "old" and
hilt meaning "battle", making it a cognate of Old English
Ealdhild.
Althea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἀλθαία(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 70% based on 5 votes
From the Greek name
Ἀλθαία (Althaia), perhaps related to Greek
ἄλθος (althos) meaning
"healing". In Greek
myth she was the mother of Meleager. Soon after her son was born she was told that he would die as soon as a piece of wood that was burning on her fire was fully consumed. She immediately extinguished the piece of wood and sealed it in a chest, but in a fit of rage many years later she took it out and set it alight, thereby killing her son.
Alma 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: עַלְמָה(Hebrew)
Personal remark: as a Hebrew name עלמה "young lady"
Rating: 68% based on 6 votes
Means "young woman" in Hebrew.
Ahuva
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אֲהוּבָה(Hebrew)
Rating: 64% based on 5 votes
Means "beloved" in Hebrew.
Adorestine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Acadian), Louisiana Creole
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Adorée
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Various
Rating: 83% based on 3 votes
Means "adored" in French. It is not commonly used as a name in France itself. Bearer Adorée Villany (born 1891) was a French dancer and dance theorist.
Adora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Rare)
Pronounced: a-DHO-ra
Rating: 80% based on 3 votes
Adina 3
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: עֲדִינָה(Hebrew)
Adiel
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Biblical, Hebrew, Portuguese (Brazilian)
Other Scripts: עדיאל(Hebrew)
Pronounced: ah-dee-EL(Biblical English, Hebrew) a-jee-EW(Brazilian Portuguese)
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Means "ornament of God" or possibly "God passes by". This is the name of several characters in the Bible.
Adelphia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman, English
Rating: 65% based on 6 votes
Adelice
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval French, Louisiana Creole, French (Modern)
Rating: 98% based on 5 votes
Variant of
Adelicia. In France, this name was revived in the 1990s.
Adara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אַדָרָה(Hebrew)
Rating: 72% based on 6 votes
Means "noble" in Hebrew.
Adah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: עָדָה(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: AY-də(English)
Rating: 60% based on 5 votes
Ada 3
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew [1]
Other Scripts: עָדָה(Hebrew)
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
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