Felie's Personal Name List
Oceania
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (Modern, Rare)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Oceano
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Archaic), Portuguese (Archaic)
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 43% based on 4 votes
Italian and Portuguese form of
Okeanos via its latinized form
Oceanus. Also compare the Italian and Portuguese noun
oceano meaning "ocean".
Odessa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Various
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
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.
Odetta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
Odilia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Germanic (Latinized) [1][2]
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Derived from the Old German element
uodil meaning
"heritage" or
ot meaning
"wealth, fortune".
Saint Odilia (or Odila) was an 8th-century nun who is considered the patron saint of Alsace. She was apparently born blind but gained sight when she was baptized.
Odino
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Odisseo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Ofelia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Italian
Pronounced: o-FEH-lya
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
Spanish and Italian form of
Ophelia.
Olga
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Czech, Slovene, Serbian, Bulgarian, Greek
Other Scripts: Ольга(Russian, Ukrainian) Олга(Serbian, Bulgarian) Όλγα(Greek)
Pronounced: OL-gə(Russian) AWL-ga(Polish, German) AWL-ka(Icelandic) OL-gaw(Hungarian) OL-gha(Spanish) OL-ga(Czech)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 16% based on 7 votes
Russian form of the Old Norse name
Helga. The 10th-century
Saint Olga was the wife of
Igor I, the ruler of Kievan Rus (a state based around the city of Kyiv). Like her husband she was probably a Varangian, who were Norse people who settled in Eastern Europe beginning in the 9th century. Following Igor's death she ruled as regent for her son
Svyatoslav for 18 years. After she was baptized in Constantinople she attempted to convert her subjects to Christianity, though this goal was only achieved by her grandson
Vladimir.
Olimpia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Polish (Rare), Hungarian (Rare)
Pronounced: o-LEEM-pya(Spanish) aw-LEEM-pya(Polish) O-leem-pee-aw(Hungarian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 57% based on 22 votes
Olimpiodoro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Olimpo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: oh-LEEM-poh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of
Olympos.
Oliva
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman, Spanish, Italian
Pronounced: o-LEE-ba(Spanish) o-LEE-va(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 35% based on 10 votes
Late Latin name meaning
"olive". This was the name of a 2nd-century
saint from Brescia.
Olivia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Spanish, French, German, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch
Pronounced: o-LIV-ee-ə(English) ə-LIV-ee-ə(English) o-LEE-vya(Italian, German) o-LEE-bya(Spanish) AW-LEE-VYA(French) O-lee-vee-ah(Finnish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 58% based on 4 votes
This name was used in this spelling by William Shakespeare for a character in his comedy
Twelfth Night (1602). This was a rare name in Shakespeare's time
[1] that may have been based on
Oliva or
Oliver, or directly from the Latin word
oliva meaning
"olive". In the play Olivia is a noblewoman who is wooed by Duke
Orsino but instead falls in love with his messenger Cesario, who is actually
Viola in disguise.
Olivia has been used in the English-speaking world since the 18th century, though it did not become overly popular until the last half of the 20th century. Its rise in popularity in the 1970s may have been inspired by a character on the television series The Waltons (1972-1982) [2] or the singer Olivia Newton-John (1948-2022). In 1989 it was borne by a young character on The Cosby Show, which likely accelerated its growth. It reached the top rank in England and Wales by 2008 and in the United States by 2019.
A famous bearer was the British-American actress Olivia de Havilland (1916-2020).
Oliviero
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: o-lee-VYEH-ro
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Olmo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Italian
Pronounced: OL-mo
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
Means "elm tree" in Spanish and Italian.
Ombretta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Literature
Pronounced: om-BRETT-tah
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Coined as a diminutive of Italian ombra "shade; shadow", this name first came into usage after Antonio Fogazzaro used it for a character in his novel Piccolo mondo antico (The Little World of the Past in English) (1895).
Omero
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: o-MEH-ro
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 17% based on 6 votes
Ondina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese, Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Portuguese and Italian form of
Undine.
Opale
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Modern, Rare), Italian (Modern, Rare)
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
French and Italian form of
Opal.
Orabela
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Esperanto
Pronounced: o-ra-BEH-la
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Means
"golden-beautiful" in Esperanto, ultimately from Latin
aurea "gold" and
bella "beautiful".
Orchidea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: awr-kee-DEH-ah
Rating: 41% based on 17 votes
Directly taken from Italian orchidea "orchid".
Oreste
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: o-REHS-teh
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 43% based on 4 votes
Orfeo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish (Rare)
Pronounced: or-FEH-o
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Italian and Spanish form of
Orpheus.
Oriana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: o-RYA-na
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 43% based on 3 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.
Oriente
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: orr-EE-ente
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 7% based on 3 votes
Orione
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Brazilian
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
Orlando
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Carolingian Cycle
Pronounced: or-LAN-do(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 19 votes
Italian form of
Roland, as used in the epic poems
Orlando Innamorato (1483) by Matteo Maria Boiardo and the continuation
Orlando Furioso (1532) by Ludovico Ariosto. In the poems, Orlando is a knight in
Charlemagne's army who battles against the invading Saracens. A character in Shakespeare's play
As You Like It (1599) also bears this name, as does a city in Florida.
Ornella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: or-NEHL-la
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 24% based on 8 votes
Created by the Italian author Gabriele d'Annunzio for his novel La Figlia di Jorio (1904). It is derived from Tuscan Italian ornello meaning "flowering ash tree".
Oroveso
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Theatre
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Possibly based on an Ancient Celtic name. Oroveso was used by Vincenzo Bellini and Felice Romani for the character in 'Norma' (1831), based on the play 'Norma, ou L'infanticide' by Alexandre Soumet. Oroveso is Norma's father and chief of the druids.
Orsa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Orsetta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Orsina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Orso
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Italian form of
Ursus (see
Urs).
Orsola
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: OR-so-la
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 37% based on 16 votes
Orsolina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: or-so-LEE-na
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Diminutive of
Orsola. See also its latinized form
Ursulina and the Italian surname
Orsolini. Bearers include the blessed Orsolina of Parma (1375-1410), an Italian virgin and visionary, also known as
Ursulina; the 16th-century Italian noblewoman Orsolina della Penna, a mistress of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor; Orsolina "la Rossa", a peasant woman convicted of witchcraft at Modena in 1539; Italian poet and writer Orsolina Pace Mazzarese (b. 1907); and Italian papyrologist Orsolina Montevecchi (1911-2009).
Ortensia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Gascon, Aragonese, Piedmontese
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Italian, Piedmontese, Gascon and Aragonese form of
Hortensia. Ortensia is also the Italian name of the plant Hydrangea.
Oscar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Irish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Italian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, French, Irish Mythology
Pronounced: AHS-kər(English) AWS-kar(Italian, Swedish) AWS-KAR(French)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Possibly means
"deer friend", derived from Old Irish
oss "deer" and
carae "friend". Alternatively, it may derive from the Old English name
Osgar or its Old Norse
cognate Ásgeirr, which may have been brought to Ireland by Viking invaders and settlers. In Irish legend Oscar was the son of the poet
Oisín and the grandson of the hero
Fionn mac Cumhaill.
This name was popularized in continental Europe by the works of the 18th-century Scottish poet James Macpherson [1]. Napoleon was an admirer of Macpherson, and he suggested Oscar as the second middle name of his godson, who eventually became king of Sweden as Oscar I. Other notable bearers include the Irish writer and humorist Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) and the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012).
Osiride
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: Divinità
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Otello
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: o-TEHL-lo
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Italian form of
Othello. This was the name of an 1887 opera by Giuseppe Verdi, based on Shakespeare's play.
Ottavia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ot-TA-vya
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Ottaviano
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Italian form of
Octavianus (see
Octavian).
Ottavio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ot-TA-vyo
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 39% based on 18 votes
Ottilia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish
Pronounced: oot-TEE-lee-ah
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Otto
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: AW-to(German) AHT-o(English) OT-to(Finnish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 30% based on 4 votes
Later German form of
Audo, originally a short form of various names beginning with Old Frankish
aud or Old High German
ot meaning
"wealth, fortune". This was the name of a 9th-century king of the West Franks (name usually spelled as
Odo). This was also the name of four kings of Germany, starting in the 10th century with Otto I, the first Holy Roman Emperor, known as Otto the Great.
Saint Otto of Bamberg was a 12th-century missionary to Pomerania. The name was also borne by a 19th-century king of Greece, originally from Bavaria. Another notable bearer was the German chancellor Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898).
Ovidio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: o-VEE-dyo(Italian) o-BEE-dhyo(Spanish)
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 13% based on 4 votes
Italian and Spanish form of
Ovidius (see
Ovid).
Pace
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Medieval Italian, Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: PA-cheh
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Derived from Italian
pace "peace", ultimately from Latin
Pax.
Pacifico
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
Means "peaceful" in Spanish.
Paco
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: PA-ko
Rating: 7% based on 3 votes
Palma
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Croatian (Rare), Italian, Medieval Italian, Catalan, Norwegian (Rare)
Pronounced: PAHL-ma(Spanish) PAHL-mah(Croatian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Spanish, Catalan, Italian and Croatian word for "palm". This name typically referred to Palm Sunday, the Sunday before Easter, and was historically given to girls born on this day.
Palmira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: pal-MEE-ra(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Palmiro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Means "pilgrim" in Italian. In medieval times it denoted one who had been a pilgrim to Palestine. It is ultimately from the word palma meaning "palm tree", because of the custom of pilgrims to bring palm fronds home with them. The name is sometimes given to a child born on Palm Sunday.
Pamela
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: PAM-ə-lə
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
This name was invented in the late 16th century by the poet Philip Sidney for use in his romance
Arcadia (1593). He possibly intended it to mean
"all sweetness" from Greek
πᾶν (pan) meaning "all" and
μέλι (meli) meaning "honey". It was later employed by author Samuel Richardson for the heroine in his novel
Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded (1740), after which time it became used as a given name. It did not become popular until the 20th century.
Pan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Πάν(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: PAN(Classical Greek, English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Possibly from the Indo-European root *
peh- meaning
"shepherd, protect". In Greek
mythology Pan was a half-man, half-goat god associated with shepherds, flocks and pastures.
Pandora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Πανδώρα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: PAN-DAW-RA(Classical Greek) pan-DAWR-ə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 39% based on 9 votes
Means
"all gifts", derived from a combination of Greek
πᾶν (pan) meaning "all" and
δῶρον (doron) meaning "gift". In Greek
mythology Pandora was the first mortal woman.
Zeus gave her a jar containing all of the troubles and ills that mankind now knows, and told her not to open it. Unfortunately her curiosity got the best of her and she opened it, unleashing the evil spirits into the world.
Paride
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Rating: 17% based on 13 votes
Parigi
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: pa-REE-jee
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Parsifal
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arthurian Cycle
Pronounced: PAR-zee-fal(German)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 6 votes
Form of
Parzival used by Richard Wagner for his opera
Parsifal (1882).
Pasquale
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: pa-SKWA-leh
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 10% based on 4 votes
Patrizio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: pa-TREET-tsyo
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 34% based on 14 votes
Italian form of
Patricius (see
Patrick).
Patroclo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 10% based on 3 votes
Pegaso
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Rating: 10% based on 3 votes
Italian and Spanish form of
Pegasus.
Pelagia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1], Greek, Polish (Rare)
Other Scripts: Πελαγία(Greek)
Pronounced: peh-LA-gya(Polish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
Feminine form of
Pelagius. This was the name of a few early
saints, including a young 4th-century martyr who threw herself from a rooftop in Antioch rather than lose her virginity.
Pelagio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Italian and Spanish form of
Pelagios via
Pelagius.
Pellegrino
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Rating: 7% based on 3 votes
Penelope
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, English
Other Scripts: Πηνελόπη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: PEH-NEH-LO-PEH(Classical Greek) pə-NEHL-ə-pee(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 77% based on 17 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.
Pepito
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: peh-PEE-to
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Pericle
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Perla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: PEHR-la
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 42% based on 21 votes
Pernilla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish
Pronounced: peh-NIL-la
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Persefone
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 72% based on 13 votes
Perseo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
Italian and Spanish form of
Perseus.
Petra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Dutch, Spanish, Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Croatian, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Swedish, Finnish, English
Other Scripts: Петра(Bulgarian) Πέτρα(Greek)
Pronounced: PEH-tra(German, Dutch, Czech, Slovak) PEH-traw(Hungarian) PEHT-rah(Finnish) PEHT-rə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 33% based on 9 votes
Feminine form of
Peter. This was also the name of an ancient city in the region that is now Jordan.
Petro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ukrainian, Esperanto
Other Scripts: Петро(Ukrainian)
Pronounced: PEH-tro(Esperanto)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
Ukrainian and Esperanto form of
Peter.
Petronella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch, Swedish, Hungarian
Pronounced: peh-tro-NEH-la(Dutch) PEH-tro-nehl-law(Hungarian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Petronilla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Late Roman
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 37% based on 7 votes
From a Latin name, a
diminutive of
Petronia, the feminine form of
Petronius. This was the name of an obscure 1st-century Roman
saint, later believed to be a daughter of Saint
Peter.
Petronio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Galician, Venetian
Rating: 20% based on 10 votes
Italian, Venetian and Galician form of
Petronius.
Pico
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish
Rating: 10% based on 3 votes
Pierina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: pyeh-REE-na
Personal remark: 💜2️⃣
Pina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: PEE-na
Personal remark: 💜2️⃣
Rating: 42% based on 12 votes
Short form of names ending in pina.
Pino
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: PEE-no
Personal remark: 💜2️⃣
Short form of names ending in pino.
Pipra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Esperanto
Pronounced: PEE-pra
Personal remark: 💜
From Esperanto pipro meaning "pepper".
Pirro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Albanian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 3 votes
Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Albanian form of
Pyrrhos.
Placido
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: PLA-chee-do
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Italian form of the Late Latin name
Placidus meaning
"quiet, calm".
Saint Placidus was a 6th-century Italian saint, a disciple of Saint Benedict.
Platone
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Plautilla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman, Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Late Latin and Italian feminine diminutive of
Plautus.
Plinio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: PLEE-nyo(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 12% based on 6 votes
Italian and Spanish form of
Plinius (see
Pliny).
Plutone
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 3 votes
Polidora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: po-lee-DOH-ra
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Polidoro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 13% based on 4 votes
Spanish, Italian and Portuguese form of
Polydorus.
Polissena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Polluce
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: pohl-LOO-cheh
Rating: 0% based on 3 votes
Pompeo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: pom-PEH-o
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Italian form of
Pompeius (see
Pompey).
Porfirio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: por-FEE-ryo(Spanish)
Personal remark: Old-fave
Rating: 17% based on 11 votes
Derived from the Greek name
Πορφύριος (Porphyrios), which was derived from the word
πορφύρα (porphyra) meaning
"purple dye". This was the name of several early
saints.
Porpentina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
The name of a main character in J. K. Rowling's series 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.'
Derived from porpentine, an archaic form of the word porcupine used by Shakespeare in his play 'Hamlet.'
Porzia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: POHR-tsyah
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
Poseidone
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 10% based on 4 votes
Preziosa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: preh-TSYOH-zah
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Primavera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare), Medieval Italian, Spanish (Mexican, Rare), Spanish (Caribbean, Rare)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 42% based on 19 votes
Derived from Vulgar Latin prīmavēra "spring". The descendant word primavera is used in Asturian, Catalan, Galician, Italian, Portuguese (and Old Portuguese), Sicilian, and Spanish.
Primo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: PREE-mo
Personal remark: Honouring
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Italian form of the Late Latin name
Primus, which meant
"first". This was the name of three early
saints, each of whom was martyred.
Primula
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: PRIM-yuw-lə(English) PREE-moo-la(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
From the name of a genus of several species of flowers, including the primrose. It is derived from the Latin word primulus meaning "very first".
Prisca
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical, Ancient Roman, Biblical Latin
Pronounced: PRIS-kə(English)
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
Feminine form of
Priscus, a Roman family name meaning
"ancient" in Latin. This name appears in the epistles in the
New Testament, referring to
Priscilla the wife of Aquila.
Priscilla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, French, Ancient Roman, Biblical Latin, Biblical
Pronounced: pri-SIL-ə(English) preesh-SHEEL-la(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 49% based on 18 votes
Prisco
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Galician
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 10% based on 3 votes
Italian and Galician form of
Priscus.
Prometeo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Proserpina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Pronounced: pro-SEHR-pee-na(Latin) pro-SUR-pin-ə(English)
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 40% based on 4 votes
Means
"to emerge" in Latin. She was the Roman equivalent of the Greek goddess
Persephone.
Prospero
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: PRAW-speh-ro
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
Italian form of
Prosper. This is the name of the main character, a shipwrecked magician, in
The Tempest (1611) by William Shakespeare.
Quieto
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: qwee-EH-to(Italian)
Personal remark: ❤️
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of
Quietus.
Quinto
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Quirico
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Galician, Italian
Rachele
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ra-KEH-leh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 40% based on 13 votes
Raffaello
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: raf-fa-EHL-lo
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Raissa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian
Other Scripts: Раиса(Russian) Раїса(Ukrainian) Раіса(Belarusian)
Pronounced: ru-EES-ə(Russian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
Ramiro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: ra-MEE-ro(Spanish) ra-MEE-roo(European Portuguese) ha-MEE-roo(Brazilian Portuguese)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Spanish and Portuguese form of
Ramirus, earlier
Ranimirus, a Latinized form of a Visigothic name derived from the Gothic element
rana "wedge" or perhaps
ragin "law, decree, assessment, responsibility" combined with
mers "famous".
Saint Ramirus was a 6th-century prior of the Saint Claudius Monastery in León. He and several others were executed by the Arian Visigoths, who opposed orthodox Christianity. This name was subsequently borne by kings of León, Asturias and Aragon.
Ramona
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Romanian, English
Pronounced: ra-MO-na(Spanish) rə-MON-ə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
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.
Ranieri
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Sicilian, Medieval Corsican
Pronounced: ra-NYE-ree(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Variant of
Raniero. This name is is borne by Ranieri III di Monaco. It is also the Italian name of Rainier III, Prince of Monaco.
Raul
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, Estonian
Pronounced: ru-OOL(European Portuguese) ha-OO(Brazilian Portuguese) ra-OOL(Italian) RA-ool(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 13% based on 4 votes
Portuguese, Italian, Romanian and Estonian form of
Radulf (see
Ralph).
Rava
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Esperanto
Pronounced: RA-va
Personal remark: 💜
Means "lovely, delightful" in Esperanto.
Rea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Croatian, English, German (Rare), Catalan (Rare), Galician, Italian, Spanish (Rare), Filipino, Hungarian, Estonian, Romansh
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Form of
Rhea in several languages.
Reina 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Yiddish
Other Scripts: ריינאַ(Yiddish)
Personal remark: 💜
Derived from Yiddish
ריין (rein) meaning
"clean, pure".
Remigio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: reh-MEE-jo(Italian) reh-MEE-khyo(Spanish)
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Italian and Spanish form of
Remigius (see
Rémy).
Remo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: REH-mo
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Reza
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Persian
Other Scripts: رضا(Persian)
Pronounced: reh-ZAW
Personal remark: 💜
Rima
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic, Medieval Arabic (Moorish), Indonesian, Literature
Other Scripts: ريما(Arabic)
Pronounced: REE-ma(Arabic, Indonesian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Rinaldo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Carolingian Cycle
Personal remark: 💜2️⃣
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
Italian form of
Reynold. This is the Italian name of the hero
Renaud, appearing as the cousin of
Orlando in the
Orlando poems (1483 and 1532) by Boiardo and Ariosto. A different version of this character features in the poem
Jerusalem Delivered (1580) by Torquato Tasso.
Rio 1
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Various
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Means "river" in Spanish or Portuguese. A city in Brazil bears this name. Its full name is Rio de Janeiro, which means "river of January", so named because the first explorers came to the harbour in January and mistakenly thought it was a river mouth.
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)
Personal remark: 💜2️⃣
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).
Rivo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Estonian
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Rocca
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Sicilian
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Rocco
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: RAWK-ko(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Germanic name possibly derived from
hruoh meaning
"crow, rook". This was the name of a 14th-century French
saint who nursed victims of the plague but eventually contracted the disease himself. He is the patron saint of the sick.
Roderigo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Theatre
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Variant of
Rodrigo used in Shakespeare's tragedy
Othello (1603).
Rodolfo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: ro-DAWL-fo(Italian) ro-DHOL-fo(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of
Rudolf. This is the name of the hero in Puccini's opera
La Bohème (1896).
Rolando
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
Pronounced: ro-LAN-do(Spanish, Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Spanish, Italian and Portuguese form of
Roland.
Romeo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Romanian
Pronounced: ro-MEH-o(Italian) RO-mee-o(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 61% based on 22 votes
Italian form of the Late Latin
Romaeus or Late Greek
Ρωμαῖος (Romaios), which meant
"from Rome" or
"Roman". Romeo is best known as the lover of
Juliet in William Shakespeare's tragedy
Romeo and Juliet (1596). Shakespeare based his play on earlier Italian stories by Luigi Da Porto (1524) and Matteo Bandello (1554), which both featured characters named Giulietta and Romeo.
Romolo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: RAW-mo-lo
Personal remark: ❤️
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
Ronaldo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Portuguese
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Portuguese form of
Ronald. A notable bearer is the retired Brazilian soccer player Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima (1976-), who is commonly known only by his first name.
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)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 57% based on 3 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).
Roscio
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: ro-sho(Italian)
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Rosetta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ro-ZEHT-ta
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 46% based on 14 votes
Rossella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ros-SEHL-la
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Rosso
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Italian form of
Russus. A known bearer of this name was Rosso Fiorentino, an Italian painter from late medieval times.
Ruben
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, French, Italian, Armenian, Biblical Latin
Other Scripts: Ռուբեն(Armenian)
Pronounced: RUY-bən(Dutch) ROO-behn(Swedish, Italian) RUY-BEHN(French) roo-BEHN(Armenian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Form of
Reuben in several languages. This was the name of an 11th-century Armenian ruler of Cilicia.
Rubina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese, Italian (Rare)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Derived from Portuguese rubi or Italian rubino meaning "ruby", ultimately from Latin ruber "red".
Rubino
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: roo-BEE-no
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Masculine form of
Rubina and actual term for the gemstone.
Rufo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Galician
Personal remark: ❤️
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Italian, Spanish, Galician and Portuguese form of
Rufus.
Ruggero
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: rood-JEH-ro
Personal remark: 💜2️⃣
Rating: 24% based on 17 votes
Ruslana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ukrainian
Other Scripts: Руслана(Ukrainian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Sabatino
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: sah-bah-TEE-no
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Sabato
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Jewish, Italian, Judeo-Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Sabrina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: sə-BREEN-ə(English) sa-BREE-na(Italian, Spanish) za-BREE-na(German) SA-BREE-NA(French) su-BREE-nu(European Portuguese) sa-BREE-nu(Brazilian Portuguese)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Latinized form of
Habren, the original Welsh name of the River Severn. According to Geoffrey of Monmouth, Sabrina was the name of a princess who was drowned in the Severn. Supposedly the river was named for her, but it is more likely that her name was actually derived from that of the river, which is of unknown meaning. She appears as a water nymph in John Milton's masque
Comus (1634).
The name was brought to public attention by Samuel A. Taylor's play Sabrina Fair (1953) and the movie adaptation Sabrina that followed it the next year. This is also the name of a comic book character, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, first introduced 1962 and with television adaptations in 1970-1974 and 1996-2003, both causing minor jumps in popularity. Another jump occurred in 1976, when it was used for a main character on the television series Charlie's Angels.
Sadia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Urdu, Bengali
Other Scripts: سعدیہ(Urdu) সাদিয়া(Bengali)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
Urdu and Bengali form of
Sa'dia.
Safira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese
Pronounced: su-FEE-ru(European Portuguese) sa-FEE-ru(Brazilian Portuguese)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Portuguese form of
Sapphira. It coincides with the Portuguese word for
"sapphire".
Saga
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norse Mythology, Swedish, Icelandic
Pronounced: SAH-gah(Swedish) SA-gha(Icelandic)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
From Old Norse
Sága, possibly meaning
"seeing one", derived from
sjá "to see". This is the name of a Norse goddess, possibly connected to
Frigg. As a Swedish and Icelandic name, it is also derived from the unrelated word
saga "story, fairy tale, saga".
Saladino
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Galician (Rare), Italian
Pronounced: sah-lah-DEE-no(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Galician and Italian form of
Saladin.
Sallustio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Salomè
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: sa-lo-MEH
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 45% based on 4 votes
Salvia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval French, English (Rare), Italian (Rare), Spanish (Rare), Galician (Rare)
Pronounced: SAL-vee-ə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
From the genus name of sage, an herb formerly used as medicine, which comes from Latin
salvus "healthy, safe" (related to
salvere "to save, to be saved"), referring to the plant's supposed healing properties. The Latin
salvia was corrupted to
sauja and
sauge (the Old French form), which eventually became the modern English
sage (see
Sage).
In the English-speaking world, this name has been occasionally used since the 19th century.
Samanta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Latvian, Polish
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Variant of
Samantha used in several languages.
Samia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: سامية(Arabic)
Pronounced: SA-mee-yah
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Sansone
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: san-SO-neh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 3% based on 3 votes
Santiago
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: san-TYA-gho(Spanish) sun-tee-A-goo(European Portuguese) sun-chee-A-goo(Brazilian Portuguese) sahn-tee-AH-go(English) san-tee-AH-go(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Means
"Saint James", derived from Spanish
santo "saint" combined with
Yago, an old Spanish form of
James, the patron saint of Spain. It is the name of the main character in the novella
The Old Man and the Sea (1951) by Ernest Hemingway. This also is the name of the capital city of Chile, as well as several other cities in the Spanish-speaking world.
Santippe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: sahn-TEEP-peh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Sascia
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Saturnino
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Italian (Rare), Portuguese (Rare)
Pronounced: sa-toor-NEE-no(Spanish, Italian)
Personal remark: ❤️
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
Spanish, Italian and Portuguese form of
Saturninus.
Saturno
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Galician, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
Galician, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of
Saturn.
Saul
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Jewish, Biblical Latin
Other Scripts: שָׁאוּל(Hebrew)
Pronounced: SAWL(English)
Rating: 36% based on 5 votes
From the Hebrew name
שָׁאוּל (Sha'ul) meaning
"asked for, prayed for". This was the name of the first king of Israel, as told in the
Old Testament. Before the end of his reign he lost favour with God, and after a defeat by the Philistines he was succeeded by
David as king. In the
New Testament, Saul was the original Hebrew name of the apostle
Paul.
Saulo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian (Rare)
Rating: 10% based on 3 votes
Spanish, Portuguese and Italian form of
Saul. Known bearers of this name include the Spanish poet Saulo Torón Navarro (1885-1974), the Brazilian pop singer Saulo Roston (b. 1989) and the Brazilian kickboxer Saulo Cavalari (b. 1989).
Saverio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Savio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: SA-vyo
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Means "wise" in Italian.
Scamandro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
Scevola
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: SHEH-vo-la
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Italian form of the Roman
cognomen Scaevola, which was derived from Latin
scaevus "left-handed". The first bearer of this name was Gaius Mucius Scaevola, who acquired it, according to legend, after he thrust his right hand into a blazing fire in order to intimidate the Etruscan king Porsenna, who was blockading the city of Rome.
Scorpio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Astronomy
Pronounced: SKAWR-pi-o(English)
Rating: 33% based on 6 votes
Means
"scorpion" in Latin, from Greek
σκορπίος (skorpios). This is the name of the eighth sign of the zodiac, associated with the constellation
Scorpius.
Sebastiano
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: seh-ba-STYA-no
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Sefora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare), Maltese (Rare), Polish
Pronounced: SE-fo-rah(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 15% based on 4 votes
Selene
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Σελήνη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: SEH-LEH-NEH(Classical Greek) si-LEE-nee(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 61% based on 24 votes
Means
"moon" in Greek. This was the name of a Greek goddess of the moon, a Titan. She was sometimes identified with the goddess
Artemis.
Seleuco
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of
Seleucus.
Selina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, German
Pronounced: sə-LEEN-ə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Variant of
Celina or
Selena. As an English name, it first came into use in the 17th century.
Selvaggia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: sehl-VAD-ja
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Means "wild" in Italian.
Seneca
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Pronounced: SEH-neh-ka(Latin) SEHN-ə-kə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
From a Roman
cognomen derived from Latin
senectus meaning
"old". This was the name of both a Roman orator (born in Spain) and also of his son, a philosopher and statesman.
This name also coincides with that of the Seneca, a Native American tribe that lived near the Great Lakes, whose name meant "place of stones".
Senofonte
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Sera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: SEHR-ə
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 43% based on 12 votes
Serafina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese (Rare)
Pronounced: seh-ra-FEE-na(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 73% based on 24 votes
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of
Seraphina.
Serafino
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 30% based on 3 votes
Serena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Late Roman
Pronounced: sə-REEN-ə(English) seh-REH-na(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 58% based on 25 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-).
Serenella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: se-re-NEL-lah
Personal remark: 💜2️⃣
Rating: 0% based on 3 votes
Diminutive of
Serena. It also coincides with the Italian word for "lilac".
Sereno
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: seh-REH-no(Spanish, Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 3% based on 3 votes
Spanish, Portuguese and Italian forms of
Serenus, and masculine form of
Serena.
Serse
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: SER-se
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Servilio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Personal remark: Honouring
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Severa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman, Late Greek, Italian, Russian (Rare), Spanish, Portuguese, Sardinian, Galician
Other Scripts: Σεβήρα(Ancient Greek) Севера(Russian)
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Feminine form of
Severus. This name was borne by Aquilia Severa, the second and fourth wife of the Roman emperor
Elagabalus (3rd century AD).
Severo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: seh-VEH-ro(Italian) seh-BEH-ro(Spanish)
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of
Severus.
Sharon
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English, Hebrew
Other Scripts: שׁרון(Hebrew)
Pronounced: SHAR-ən(English) SHEHR-ən(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
From an
Old Testament place name, in Hebrew
שָׁרוֹן (Sharon) meaning
"plain", referring to a fertile plain on the central west coast of Israel. This is also the name of a flowering plant in the Bible, the rose of Sharon, a term now used to refer to several different species of flowers.
It has been in use as a feminine given name in the English-speaking world since the 1920s, possibly inspired by the heroine in the serial novel The Skyrocket (1925) by Adela Rogers St. Johns [1]. As a Hebrew name it is unisex.
Sibilla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
Sidonio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Siena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: see-EHN-ə
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Variant of
Sienna, with the spelling perhaps influenced by that of the Italian city.
Sigfrido
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Rare), Spanish (Rare)
Pronounced: seeg-FREE-do(Italian) seegh-FREE-dho(Spanish)
Personal remark: ❤️
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Silia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Tuscan)
Pronounced: SEE-lya(Tuscan Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Silla
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: SEEL-lah
Silva
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Bulgarian, Slovene
Other Scripts: Силва(Bulgarian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Silvana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: seel-VA-na
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Silvano
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: seel-VA-no
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Silveria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Galician
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Italian and Galician feminine form of
Silverio.
Silverio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: seel-BEH-ryo(Spanish)
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Silvestra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Slovene, Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: seel-VEH-stra(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Silvestre
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: seel-BEHS-treh(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Silvestro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: seel-VEH-stro
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Simeone
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Corsican
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Italian and Corsican form of
Simeon.
Simonetta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: see-mo-NEHT-ta
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Sira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Catalan (Modern, Rare), German (Swiss, Rare), Russian (Archaic), Italian (Swiss), Italian (Rare), Galician
Feminine form of Italian and Galician
Siro, Catalan
Sir and Russian
Sir.
Sirio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: SEE-ryo
Sissi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Modern), Italian (Modern), Popular Culture, Finnish
Pronounced: SIS-ee(German, Italian) SIS-si(Popular Culture)
Personal remark: 💜
Diminutive of
Cecilia,
Elisabet and names beginning
Si-. Specifically, it is a nickname of Empress Elisabeth of Austria popularised through the film "Sissi" (1955).
Sissi is also Finnish for "guerrilla" and a type of training in the Finnish Defence Forces and the Finnish Border Guard.
Smeralda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare), Medieval Italian, Albanian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Derived from Albanian
smerald and Italian
smeraldo "emerald", making it a cognate of
Esmeralda. This name was borne by the mother of Botticelli.
Smeraldo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval Italian, Italian
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
Directly taken from Italian smeraldo "emerald".
Soave
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Italian
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Of debated origin and meaning. Theories include a derivation from Italian soave "sweet, delicate; gentle; soft" and a derivation from Suebi, the tribal name of a group of Germanic people first mentioned by Julius Caesar.
Socrate
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French, Italian
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
Solara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American, Modern, Rare)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Sole
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: SO-leh
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Means "sun" in Italian.
Sonia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Polish
Pronounced: SON-yə(English) SAWN-yə(English) SAW-nya(Italian) SO-nya(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Spartaco
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: SPAHR-tah-koh
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
Spiridione
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: spee-ree-DYO-neh
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Spiros
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Σπύρος(Greek)
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Sprita
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Esperanto
Pronounced: SPREE-ta
Personal remark: 💜
Means "witty, lively" in Esperanto, ultimately from Latin spiritus "breath, energy".
Stasia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Polish
Personal remark: 💜
Stasio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish
Personal remark: 💜
Stelara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Esperanto
Pronounced: steh-LA-ra
Personal remark: 💜
From Esperanto stelaro meaning "constellation", ultimately from Latin stella "star".
Stella 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Dutch, German
Pronounced: STEHL-ə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 74% based on 19 votes
Means "star" in Latin. This name was created by the 16th-century poet Philip Sidney for the subject of his collection of sonnets Astrophel and Stella. It was a nickname of a lover of Jonathan Swift, real name Esther Johnson (1681-1728), though it was not commonly used as a given name until the 19th century. It appears in Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), belonging to the sister of Blanche DuBois and the wife of Stanley Kowalski.
Sterpeta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: stehr-PEH-tah
Personal remark: 💜
From an Italian title of the Virgin Mary, Madonna dello Sterpeto, meaning "Our Lady of Sterpeto". Sterpeto means "scrub, scrubland" in Italian, derived from sterpo "dry twig, bramble".
Stiliano
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Romanian
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Susanna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Catalan, Swedish, Finnish, Russian, Ukrainian, Dutch, English, Armenian, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Old Church Slavic
Other Scripts: Сусанна(Russian, Ukrainian) Սուսաննա(Armenian) שׁוֹשַׁנָּה(Ancient Hebrew) Сꙋсанна(Church Slavic)
Pronounced: soo-ZAN-na(Italian) soo-ZAN-nə(Catalan) suy-SAN-na(Swedish) SOO-sahn-nah(Finnish) suw-SAN-nə(Russian) suw-SAN-nu(Ukrainian) suy-SAH-na(Dutch) soo-ZAN-ə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 70% based on 19 votes
From
Σουσάννα (Sousanna), the Greek form of the Hebrew name
שׁוֹשַׁנָּה (Shoshannah). This was derived from the Hebrew word
שׁוֹשָׁן (shoshan) meaning
"lily" (in modern Hebrew this also means
"rose"), perhaps ultimately from Egyptian
sšn "lotus". In the
Old Testament Apocrypha this is the name of a woman falsely accused of adultery. The prophet
Daniel clears her name by tricking her accusers, who end up being condemned themselves. It also occurs in the
New Testament belonging to a woman who ministers to
Jesus.
As an English name, it was occasionally used during the Middle Ages in honour of the Old Testament heroine. It did not become common until after the Protestant Reformation, at which time it was often spelled Susan.
Tabita
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical Latin
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 19% based on 7 votes
Tacito
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: TA-chee-to
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 10% based on 3 votes
Taissa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian (Rare), English (American, Rare)
Other Scripts: Таисса(Russian)
Pronounced: TAY-sə(American English) tə-IS-ə(American English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
Extremely rare Russian variant of
Taisa as well as an anglicized form (or variant transcription) of the name.
A well-known bearer of this name is the Ukrainian-American actress Taissa Farmiga (b. 1994).
Talia 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: טַלְיָה, טַלְיָא(Hebrew)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 4 votes
Means
"dew from God" in Hebrew, from
טַל (tal) meaning "dew" and
יָה (yah) referring to the Hebrew God.
Talita
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese (Brazilian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 56% based on 20 votes
Portuguese form of
Talitha, popular in Brazil.
Tallula
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Tamara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian, Hungarian, English, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Lithuanian, Georgian
Other Scripts: Тамара(Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Serbian, Macedonian) თამარა(Georgian)
Pronounced: tu-MA-rə(Russian) TA-ma-ra(Czech, Slovak) ta-MA-ra(Polish, Spanish, Italian) TAW-maw-raw(Hungarian) tə-MAR-ə(English) tə-MAHR-ə(English) TAM-ə-rə(English) tu-mu-RU(Lithuanian) TA-MAR(Georgian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 61% based on 18 votes
Russian form of
Tamar. Russian performers such as Tamara Karsavina (1885-1978), Tamara Drasin (1905-1943), Tamara Geva (1907-1997) and Tamara Toumanova (1919-1996) introduced it to the English-speaking world. It rapidly grew in popularity in the United States starting in 1957. Another famous bearer was the Polish cubist painter Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980).
Tancredi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
Italian form of
Tancred appearing in the epic poem
Jerusalem Delivered (1580) by Torquato Tasso. The tale was adapted by Gioachino Rossini for his opera
Tancredi (1813).
Tara 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: TAHR-ə, TEHR-ə, TAR-ə
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Anglicized form of the Irish place name Teamhair, which possibly means "elevated place". This was the name of the sacred hill near Dublin where the Irish high kings resided. It was popularized as a given name by the novel Gone with the Wind (1936) and the subsequent movie adaptation (1939), in which it is the name of the O'Hara plantation.
Tarquinio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Galician, Spanish
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
Italian, Galician and Spanish form of
Tarquin.
Tarsilla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: tar-SEEL-lah
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
From the Ancient Roman cognomem Tharsilla meaning "one from Tarsus". Tarsus was an historical city in south-central Turkey, 20 km inland from the Mediterranean.
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)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 43% based on 4 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.
Tea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Croatian, Slovene, Finnish, Georgian
Other Scripts: თეა(Georgian)
Pronounced: TEH-ah(Finnish)
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
Telemaco
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Teo
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Italian, Croatian, Slovene, Georgian
Other Scripts: თეო(Georgian)
Pronounced: TEH-o(Spanish, Italian, Croatian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
Short form of
Teodoro and other names that begin with
Teo. In Georgian this is a feminine name, a short form of
Teona.
Teodora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Polish, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian, Swedish
Other Scripts: Теодора(Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian)
Pronounced: teh-o-DAW-ra(Italian) teh-o-DHO-ra(Spanish) teh-o-DO-ra(Romanian) teh-aw-DAW-ra(Polish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Feminine form of
Theodoros (see
Theodore).
Teodoro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: teh-o-DAW-ro(Italian) teh-o-DHO-ro(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 43% based on 4 votes
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of
Theodoros (see
Theodore).
Tero
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: TEH-ro
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Teseo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Galician, Italian, Spanish
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Galician, Italian and Spanish form of
Theseus.
Tessa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Dutch
Pronounced: TEHS-ə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 63% based on 24 votes
Teti
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: TEH-tee
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
Tetis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Catalan, Galician, Spanish
Personal remark: 💜
Catalan, Galician and Spanish form of
Tethys.
Tiago
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Portuguese
Pronounced: tee-A-goo(European Portuguese) chee-A-goo(Brazilian Portuguese)
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 7% based on 3 votes
Tiana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: tee-AHN-ə, tee-AN-ə
Rating: 50% based on 4 votes
Short form of
Tatiana or
Christiana. It was rare in the United States until it jumped in popularity in 1975, perhaps due to the Vietnamese-American actress Tiana Alexandra (1956-), who had some exposure at that time. It was used as the name of the princess in the Disney movie
The Princess and the Frog (2009).
Tiberio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Galician, Italian, Spanish
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
Galician, Italian and Spanish form of
Tiberius.
Timo 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish, Estonian, German, Dutch
Pronounced: TEE-mo(Finnish, German, Dutch)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Finnish, Estonian, German and Dutch short form of
Timotheus (see
Timothy).
Timoteo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian
Pronounced: tee-mo-TEH-o(Spanish) tee-MAW-teh-o(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 55% based on 6 votes
Spanish, Portuguese and Italian form of
Timothy.
Tindaro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: TEEN-dah-roh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 3 votes
Titania
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: tie-TAY-nee-ə(American English) ti-TAH-nee-ə(British English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 43% based on 9 votes
Perhaps based on Latin
Titanius meaning
"of the Titans". This name was (first?) used by William Shakespeare in his comedy
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595) where it belongs to the queen of the fairies, the wife of
Oberon. This is also a moon of Uranus, named after the Shakespearean character.
Titina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Slovene
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Tito
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: TEE-to(Italian, Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of
Titus.
Titti
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Finnish
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Tiziana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: teet-TSYA-na
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
Tiziano
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: teet-TSYA-no
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 10% based on 3 votes
Italian form of the Roman
cognomen Titianus, which was derived from the Roman
praenomen Titus. A famous bearer was the Venetian Renaissance painter Tiziano Vecellio (1488-1576), known in English as Titian.
Tolomeo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Galician
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 25% based on 11 votes
Italian and Galician form of
Ptolemaios via
Ptolemaeus.
Tondra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Esperanto
Pronounced: TON-dra
Personal remark: 💜
Means "thunderous", from Esperanto tondro meaning "thunder".
Topazia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: to-PA-tsya, to-PA-tsee-a
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 52% based on 13 votes
Elaborated from the Italian word
topazio meaning "topaz".
A notable bearer was Italian painter Topazia Alliata (1913-2015).
Torquato
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Portuguese
Pronounced: tor-QWA-to(Italian)
Rating: 22% based on 13 votes
Italian and Portuguese form of
Torquatus. This name was borne by Italian author Torquato Tasso.
Tosca
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Theatre, Italian, German, French, Dutch
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 56% based on 15 votes
This name was popularized by Puccini's opera
Tosca (1900) and its main character Floria Tosca.
It is said to be derived from the Late Roman byname
Tusca, the feminine form of
Tuscus, meaning "from Tuscia" or "Etruscan". Nowadays, however, it is often interpreted to mean "from Tuscany", although historical Tuscia comprised a much larger area, including a great part of Umbria and the northern parts of Lazio.
There is also an obscure Saint Tosca who is claimed to have been a virign hermit from Verona. Her feast day is May 5.
Tranquillo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Triana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Modern)
Pronounced: TRYA-na
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
From the name of a neighbourhood in the city of Seville, of uncertain meaning.
Tristano
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: trees-TAH-no
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 44% based on 5 votes
Tullio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: TOOL-lyo
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Italian form of the Roman family name
Tullius, derived from the
praenomen Tullus, which is of unknown meaning. A famous bearer was Marcus Tullius Cicero, a Roman orator and author.
Tulliola
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 43% based on 9 votes
Diminutive of
Tullia. Cicero used this nickname for his beloved daughter
Tullia.
Turchese
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: toor-KEH-zeh
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Means "turquoise" in Italian.
Uberto
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: oo-BEHR-to
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Ulisse
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: oo-LEES-seh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Ulla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Danish, Finnish, German
Pronounced: OOL-lah(Finnish) UW-la(German)
Ultimo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: OOL-tee-mo
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Means "last" in Italian.
Umi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 海(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: OO-MEE
Personal remark: 💜
Means "sea, ocean" in Japanese.
Urania
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Οὐρανία(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: yoo-RAY-nee-ə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 6 votes
Urano
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Hispanicized), Greek Mythology (Italianized)
Pronounced: oo-RAH-no
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Italian and Spanish form of
Uranus.
Urbano
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: oor-BA-no(Italian, Spanish)
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of
Urbanus (see
Urban).
Uriele
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Brazilian (Rare), Italian (Rare)
Personal remark: ❤️
Rating: 30% based on 4 votes
Italain form of
Uriel as well as a Brazilian feminine form.
Ursino
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Galician, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Galician, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of
Ursinus.
Urso
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval German, Medieval French, Medieval Italian, Medieval Portuguese, Medieval Spanish, Medieval English (Rare), Swiss (Archaic)
Pronounced: OOR-so(Medieval German, Old French, Medieval Italian, Medieval Portuguese, Medieval Spanish, Middle English, Swiss)
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
Form of
Urs in several languages. It was borne by a martyr in the 3rd century and two French and Italian saints in the 6th century.
Ursula
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Swedish, Danish, German, Dutch, Finnish, Late Roman
Pronounced: UR-sə-lə(English) UR-syoo-lə(English) UWR-zoo-la(German) OOR-soo-lah(Finnish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 25% based on 6 votes
Means
"little bear", derived from a
diminutive form of the Latin word
ursa "she-bear".
Saint Ursula was a legendary virgin princess of the 4th century who was martyred by the Huns while returning from a pilgrimage. In England the saint was popular during the Middle Ages, and the name came into general use at that time.
Valdo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Portuguese, Galician
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 3 votes
Italian, Galician and Portuguese short form of masculine names that start with
Vald- (such as
Valdemaro and
Valdemiro) or end in
-valdo (such as
Osvaldo). So, in other words, this name is the Italian and Portuguese form of
Waldo 2.
Known bearers of this name include the retired Brazilian soccer player Valdo Cândido de Oliveira Filho (b. 1964) and the Italian politican and author Valdo Spini (b. 1946).
Valente
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish (Mexican), Portuguese (Rare)
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of
Valens.
Valentino
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: va-lehn-TEE-no
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 51% based on 22 votes
Valeriana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Ancient Roman
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
Feminine form of
Valerianus (see
Valerian).
Valeriano
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Personal remark: 💜
Italian and Spanish form of
Valerianus (see
Valerian).
Valerio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: va-LEH-ryo(Italian) ba-LEH-ryo(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Valora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Esperanto
Pronounced: va-LO-ra
Personal remark: 💜
Means "valuable" in Esperanto.
Vanessa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, German, Dutch
Pronounced: və-NEHS-ə(English) VA-NEH-SA(French) va-NEHS-sa(Italian) vu-NEH-su(European Portuguese) va-NEH-su(Brazilian Portuguese) ba-NEH-sa(Spanish) va-NEH-sa(German)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 52% based on 18 votes
Invented by author Jonathan Swift for his 1726 poem
Cadenus and Vanessa [1]. He arrived at it by rearranging the initial syllables of the first name and surname of
Esther Vanhomrigh, his close friend. Vanessa was later used as the name of a genus of butterfly. It was a rare given name until the mid-20th century, at which point it became fairly popular.
Vania
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Bulgarian
Other Scripts: Ваня(Bulgarian)
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
Vanni
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: VAN-nee
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Vasco
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Portuguese, Spanish, Italian
Pronounced: VASH-koo(European Portuguese) VAS-koo(Brazilian Portuguese) BAS-ko(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
From the medieval Spanish name Velasco, which possibly meant "crow" in Basque. A famous bearer was the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama (c. 1460-1524), the first person to sail from Europe around Africa to India.
Vassilissa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Estonian, Italian
Estonian and Italian transcription of Russian
Василиса (see
Vasilisa).
Vega 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Astronomy
Personal remark: 💜
The name of a star in the constellation Lyra. Its name is from Arabic
الواقع (al-Waqi') meaning "the swooping (eagle)".
Venere
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology (Italianized)
Pronounced: VEH-neh-reh(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Venezia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: ve-NE-tsyah
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
Variant of
Venetia. It also coincides with the Italian name of the city Venice.
Veniero
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: veh-NYEH-roh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 3 votes
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)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 81% based on 16 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.
Verdiana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Venetian, Medieval Italian, History (Ecclesiastical)
Rating: 50% based on 13 votes
Contracted form of
Veridiana. This was the name of an Italian saint from the 13th century AD.
Verena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Late Roman
Pronounced: veh-REH-na(German)
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
Possibly related to Latin
verus "true". This might also be a Coptic form of the Ptolemaic name
Berenice.
Saint Verena was a 3rd-century Egyptian-born nurse who went with the Theban Legion to Switzerland. After the legion was massacred she settled near Zurich.
Verna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: VUR-nə
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 3 votes
Feminine form of
Vernon, sometimes associated with the Latin word
vernus "spring". It has been in use since the 19th century.
Veronica
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Romanian, Late Roman
Pronounced: və-RAHN-i-kə(American English) və-RAWN-i-kə(British English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 63% based on 15 votes
Latin alteration of
Berenice, the spelling influenced by the ecclesiastical Latin phrase
vera icon meaning
"true image". This was the name of a legendary
saint who wiped
Jesus' face with a towel and then found his image imprinted upon it. Due to popular stories about her, the name was occasionally used in the Christian world in the Middle Ages. It was borne by the Italian saint and mystic Veronica Giuliani (1660-1727). As an English name, it was not common until the 19th century, when it was imported from France and Scotland.
Vespasiano
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Vespera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Esperanto
Pronounced: vehs-PEH-ra
Personal remark: 💜
Means "of the evening", derived from Esperanto vespero "evening", ultimately from Latin vesper.
Vesperina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare, Archaic)
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Vespertino
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Asturian (Rare, Archaic)
Pronounced: ves-per-TEE-no
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Taken from the Spanish word vespertino, itself taken from Latin vespertinus "evening".
Vesta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Pronounced: WEHS-ta(Latin) VEHS-tə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
Probably a Roman
cognate of
Hestia. Vesta was the Roman goddess of the hearth. A continuous fire, tended by the Vestal Virgins, was burned in the Temple of Vesta in Rome.
Vico
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: VEE-ko
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Victoria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Spanish, Romanian, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, French, Late Roman, Roman Mythology
Pronounced: vik-TAWR-ee-ə(English) beek-TO-rya(Spanish) vik-TO-rya(German) VEEK-TAW-RYA(French) week-TO-ree-a(Latin)
Rating: 61% based on 15 votes
Means
"victory" in Latin, being borne by the Roman goddess of victory. It is also a feminine form of
Victorius. This name was borne by a 4th-century
saint and martyr from North Africa.
Though in use elsewhere in Europe, the name was very rare in the English-speaking world until the 19th century, when Queen Victoria began her long rule of Britain. She was named after her mother, who was of German royalty. Many geographic areas are named after the queen, including an Australian state and a Canadian city.
Vienna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: vee-EHN-ə
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
From the name of the capital city of Austria,
Vienna.
Vilma
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese, Finnish, German, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, Croatian
Pronounced: BEEL-ma(Spanish) VEEL-mah(Finnish) VIL-ma(German, Czech) VEEL-maw(Hungarian) VEEL-ma(Slovak)
Personal remark: 💜
Form of
Wilma in several languages.
Vinicio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: vee-NEE-cho(Italian) bee-NEE-thyo(European Spanish) bee-NEE-syo(Latin American Spanish)
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Italian and Spanish form of the Roman family name Vinicius, which was possibly derived from Latin vinum "wine".
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)
Personal remark: 💜
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.
Violante
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman, Italian
Pronounced: vee-o-LAN-teh(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 29% based on 15 votes
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)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 44% based on 7 votes
Italian, Russian and Hungarian form of
Violet.
Virgilio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: veer-JEE-lyo(Italian) beer-KHEE-lyo(Spanish)
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
Italian and Spanish form of
Virgil.
Virgo
Usage: English
Pronounced: VUR-go
Rating: 12% based on 5 votes
Possibly from Latin virgo "virgin, maiden". It may have been a nickname for an actor who played the Virgin Mary in mystery plays, or for a shy man or a lecher.
Viridiana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman, Spanish, Galician (Archaic), Corsican (Archaic), Italian (Archaic)
Personal remark: 💜
Vita 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman, Italian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Danish, Slovene
Pronounced: VEE-ta(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Vitale
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Italian form of the Late Latin name
Vitalis, which was derived from Latin
vitalis meaning
"of life, vital". Vitalis was the name of several early
saints and martyrs.
Vittoria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: veet-TAW-rya
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Vittorio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: veet-TAW-ryo
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 42% based on 18 votes
Viviana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Late Roman
Pronounced: vee-VYA-na(Italian) bee-BYA-na(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 54% based on 18 votes
Feminine form of
Vivianus (see
Vivian).
Saint Viviana (also known as Bibiana) was a Roman saint and martyr of the 4th century.
Vlada
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Russian, Ukrainian, Serbian, Croatian
Other Scripts: Влада(Russian, Ukrainian, Serbian)
Pronounced: vla-DAH(Russian)
Personal remark: 💜
Vlado
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Slovak
Other Scripts: Владо(Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian)
Personal remark: 💜
Short form of
Vladimir and other names beginning with the Slavic element
volděti (South Slavic
vladati) meaning
"to rule, to control".
Volfango
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Vulcano
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Roman Mythology (Italianized)
Pronounced: vool-KAH-noh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 3 votes
Italian form of
Vulcanus as well as the Italian word for "volcano".
Xanto
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: XAN-toh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 3 votes
Xenia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek, Spanish, Ancient Greek
Other Scripts: Ξένια(Greek) Ξενία(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: SEH-nya(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Means
"hospitality" in Greek, a derivative of
ξένος (xenos) meaning "foreigner, guest". This was the name of a 5th-century
saint who is venerated in the Eastern Church.
Zaccaria
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Zaffira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Zaffiro
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: dzaf-FEE-ro, DZAF-fee-ro
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 0% based on 3 votes
Means "sapphire" in Italian.
Zaida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic (Rare), Spanish
Other Scripts: زيدة(Arabic)
Pronounced: ZIE-dah(Arabic)
Personal remark: 💜
Feminine form of
Zayd. This was the name of a Muslim princess who took refuge at the court of (and perhaps married) Alfonso VI of León and Castile in the 11th century.
Zaira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: DZIE-ra(Italian) THIE-ra(European Spanish) SIE-ra(Latin American Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Italian and Spanish form of
Zaïre. It was used by Vincenzo Bellini for the heroine of his opera
Zaira (1829), which was based on Voltaire's 1732 play
Zaïre.
Zaire
Gender: Masculine
Usage: African American (Modern)
Pronounced: zah-EER(English)
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
From the name of a country in Africa from 1971 to 1997, now called the Democratic Republic of Congo. It is said to be derived from Kikongo nzadi o nzere meaning "river swallowing rivers", referring to the Congo River.
Zairo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish (Philippines), Spanish (Latin American), Portuguese (Brazilian), Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Masculine form of
Zaira as well as inspired by
Zaire.
Zara 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature, English
Pronounced: ZAHR-ə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 7 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. 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.
Zarifa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: ظريفة(Arabic)
Personal remark: 💜
From Arabic
ظريف (zarif) meaning
"elegant, graceful, charming".
Zarina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: dza-REE-na
Personal remark: 💜
Zefira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Personal remark: 💜
Zefiro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: DZE-fee-ro
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 40% based on 12 votes
Zeina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: زينة(Arabic)
Personal remark: 💜
Variant transcription of
Zayna.
Zelda 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ZEHL-də
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 2 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).
Zemfira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Azerbaijani, Tatar, Bashkir, Literature
Other Scripts: Земфира(Tatar, Bashkir)
Personal remark: 💜
Meaning unknown, possibly of Romani origin. This name was (first?) used by Aleksandr Pushkin in his poem The Gypsies (1827).
Zena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Personal remark: 💜
Meaning unknown. It could be a variant of
Xenia or a
diminutive of names featuring this sound, such as
Alexina,
Rosina or
Zenobia. This name has occasionally been used since the 19th century.
Zenaida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Greek
Other Scripts: Ζηναΐδα(Ancient Greek)
Personal remark: 💜
Apparently a Greek derivative of
Ζηναΐς (Zenais), which was derived from the name of the Greek god
Zeus. This was the name of a 1st-century
saint who was a doctor with her sister Philonella.
Zenaide
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare), Portuguese (Brazilian)
Pronounced: dzeh-NIE-deh(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Zeno
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized), Italian
Other Scripts: Ζήνων(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: DZEH-no(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 17% based on 6 votes
From the Greek name
Ζήνων (Zenon), which was derived from the name of the Greek god
Zeus (the poetic form of his name being
Ζήν). Zeno was the name of two famous Greek philosophers: Zeno of Elea and Zeno of Citium, the founder of the Stoic school in Athens.
Zenobia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Ζηνοβία(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: ZDEH-NO-BEE-A(Classical Greek) zə-NO-bee-ə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Means
"life of Zeus", derived from Greek
Ζηνός (Zenos) meaning "of
Zeus" and
βίος (bios) meaning "life". This was the name of the queen of the Palmyrene Empire, which broke away from Rome in the 3rd-century and began expanding into Roman territory. She was eventually defeated by the emperor
Aurelian. Her Greek name was used as an approximation of her native Aramaic name.
Zenone
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Zeudi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Tigrinya
Personal remark: 💜
Means "crown" in Tigrinya. It is the name of the famous 1970 Eritrean-Italian actress Zeudi Araya (1951-).
Zeus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ζεύς(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: ZDEWS(Classical Greek) ZOOS(English)
Personal remark: 💜
The name of a Greek god, related to the old Indo-European god *
Dyēws, from the root *
dyew- meaning
"sky" or
"shine". In Greek
mythology he was the highest of the gods. After he and his siblings defeated the Titans, Zeus ruled over the earth and humankind from atop Mount Olympus. He had control over the weather and his weapon was a thunderbolt.
This theonym has cognates in other Indo-European languages including Latin Jupiter, Sanskrit Dyaus, and Old Norse Tyr.
Ziba 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Persian
Other Scripts: زیبا(Persian)
Pronounced: zee-BAW
Personal remark: 💜
Means "beautiful" in Persian.
Zina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Зина(Russian)
Personal remark: 💜
Zippora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch, German, Italian, Judeo-Anglo-Norman
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 30% based on 7 votes
Dutch, German, Judeo-Anglo-Norman and Italian form of
Zipporah.
Ziva
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: זִיוָה(Hebrew)
Personal remark: 💜
Zivia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Jewish, Hebrew, Medieval Jewish
Other Scripts: צביה(Hebrew)
Personal remark: 💜
Zoe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Spanish, German, Czech, Ancient Greek
Other Scripts: Ζωή(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: ZO-ee(English) DZAW-eh(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 48% based on 19 votes
Means
"life" in Greek. From early times it was adopted by Hellenized Jews as a translation of
Eve. It was borne by two early Christian
saints, one martyred under Emperor Hadrian, the other martyred under Diocletian. The name was common in the Byzantine Empire, being borne by a ruling empress of the 11th century.
As an English name, Zoe (sometimes with a diaeresis as Zoë) has only been in use since the 19th century. It has generally been more common among Eastern Christians (in various spellings).
Zora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Slovene, Czech, Slovak
Other Scripts: Зора(Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian)
Pronounced: ZO-ra(Czech) ZAW-ra(Slovak)
Personal remark: 💜
Means "dawn, aurora" in the South Slavic languages, as well as Czech and Slovak.
Zoraida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: tho-RIE-dha(European Spanish) so-RIE-dha(Latin American Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Perhaps means
"enchanting" or
"dawn" in Arabic. This was the name of a minor 12th-century Spanish
saint, a convert from Islam. The name was used by Cervantes for a character in his novel
Don Quixote (1606), in which Zoraida is a beautiful Moorish woman of Algiers who converts to Christianity and elopes with a Spanish officer.
Zorro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature, Popular Culture
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Means "fox" in Spanish. This is the name of a masked vigilante created by writer Johnston McCulley in 1919 for a series of books, later adapted into movies and television.
Zubaida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic, Urdu
Other Scripts: زبيدة(Arabic) زبیدہ(Urdu)
Pronounced: zoo-BIE-dah(Arabic)
Personal remark: 💜
Means "elite, prime, cream" in Arabic. This was the name of a 9th-century wife of Harun ar-Rashid, the Abbasid caliph featured in the stories of The 1001 Nights.
Zuleica
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Rare), Portuguese, Italian
Pronounced: thoo-LAY-kah(European Spanish) soo-LAY-kah(Latin American Spanish) zoo-LAY-kə(Portuguese)
Personal remark: 💜
Spanish, Portuguese and Italian form of
Zuleika.
Zuri
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swahili
Personal remark: 💜
Means "beautiful" in Swahili.
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