Felie's Personal Name List
Fabiola
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: fa-BYO-la(Italian, Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Fabrizio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: fa-BREET-tsyo
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 37% based on 19 votes
Italian form of
Fabricius (see
Fabrice).
Faina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Фаина(Russian)
Pronounced: fu-EE-nə
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Meaning unknown, possibly derived from
Phaenna.
Falco
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Late Roman, Italian, German
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Means "hawk" in Italian. It derives from Late Latin falco, ultimately from Latin falx meaning "scythe" referring to the raptor's claws.
Fania
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Italian, Italian, Yiddish
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Italian short form of names that end in
-fania, such as
Stefania and
Epifania and Yiddish variant of
Fanya.
Fantino
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval Italian, Sicilian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 10% based on 3 votes
Diminutive of
Fante, as
-ino is an Italian masculine diminutive suffix.
In addition to that, this name was also often used as a short form of Belfantino, Bonfantino and other pet forms that end in -fantino.
It is also possible that in some cases, the name was used as a contracted (short) form of Ferrantino.
Last but not least, this name was borne by two medieval saints from the Italian region of Calabria.
Fara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic, Galician (Rare)
Other Scripts: فرح(Arabic)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
Variant transcription of
Farah.
Fatima
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic, Urdu, Bosnian
Other Scripts: فاطمة(Arabic) فاطمہ(Urdu)
Pronounced: FA-tee-mah(Arabic)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Alternate transcription of Arabic
فاطمة (see
Fatimah), as well as the usual Urdu and Bosnian form.
Favonio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: fah-VOH-nyoh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 15% based on 4 votes
Febe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch, Italian, Spanish (Rare), Portuguese (Rare)
Pronounced: FEH-beh(Italian, Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 34% based on 7 votes
Dutch, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of
Phoebe.
Febo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: FEH-boh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 15% based on 4 votes
Fedora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian (Rare), Italian
Other Scripts: Федора(Russian)
Pronounced: fyi-DO-rə(Russian) feh-DAW-ra(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Russian form of
Theodora. This was the name of an 1898 opera by the Italian composer Umberto Giordano (who based it on an 1882 French play).
Fedoro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: feh-DOH-roh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Fedra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek, Azerbaijani, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian (Rare), Galician, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Sicilian, Slovene, Spanish, Ukrainian, Theatre
Other Scripts: Φαίδρα(Greek) Федра(Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 40% based on 4 votes
Modern Greek form of
Phaidra (see
Phaedra) as well as the standard form in various other languages.
In theatre, this is the name of two operas: Fedra (1820) by Simon Mayr and Fedra (1915) by Ildebrando Pizzetti.
Fedro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Galician
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Felice
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: feh-LEE-cheh
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
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)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 33% 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.
Felino
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Archaic), Spanish (Latin American, Rare), Spanish (Mexican, Rare)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Italian and Spanish form of
Felinus.
Fenella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Scottish
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Form of
Fionnuala used by Walter Scott for a character in his novel
Peveril of the Peak (1823).
Fenice
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Modern, Rare)
Pronounced: fe-NEE-che
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Ferdinando
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: fehr-dee-NAN-do
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Fernando
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: fehr-NAN-do(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 51% based on 12 votes
Ferruccio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: fehr-ROOT-cho
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Derived from the Late Latin name
Ferrutius, a derivative of
ferrum meaning
"iron, sword".
Saint Ferrutius was a 3rd-century martyr with his brother Ferreolus.
Fiamma
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: FYAM-ma
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 28% based on 8 votes
Means "flame" in Italian.
Fiammetta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: fyam-MEHT-ta
Personal remark: 💜2️⃣
Rating: 53% based on 14 votes
Fida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Sardinian (Rare)
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Both a borrowing of the Italian name and a short form of
Vitalia.
Fiera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Esperanto
Pronounced: fee-EH-ra
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 38% based on 4 votes
Means "proud" in Esperanto.
Filadelfo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Filiberto
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: fee-lee-BEHR-to
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Filippo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: fee-LEEP-po
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Fillide
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare), Medieval Italian, Greek Mythology (Italianized)
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Italian form of
Phyllis. This was borne by one of the painter Caravaggio's muses: Italian courtesan Fillide Melandroni (1581-1618). It was also borne by Italian painter Fillide Giorgi Levasti (1883-1966).
Filomela
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Serbian, Macedonian, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Finnish, Indonesian, Turkish, Portuguese, Breton, Italian, Catalan, Basque, Galician, Spanish
Other Scripts: Филомела(Russian)
Rating: 33% based on 4 votes
Serbian, Macedonian, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Finnish, Indonesian, Turkish, Portuguese, Breton, Italian, Catalan, Basque, Galician, and Spanish form of
Philomel.
Fina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: FEE-na
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Short form of
Serafina.
Saint Fina, also known as Saint Serafina, was a 13th-century girl from the town of San Gimignano in Italy.
Fineas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Romanian, Italian
Rating: 40% based on 4 votes
Romanian and Italian form of
Phineas.
Fino
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Fiona
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Scottish, English
Pronounced: fee-O-nə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Feminine form of
Fionn. This name was (first?) used by the Scottish poet James Macpherson in his poem
Fingal (1761), in which it is spelled as
Fióna.
Fiordaliso
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: fyor-da-LEE-zo
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Italian form of
Fleurdelys. Fiordaliso is also used as translation of Fleur-de-Lys (de Gondelaurier), character of
Notre Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo
Fiore
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: FYO-reh
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 48% based on 5 votes
Means
"flower" in Italian. It can also be considered an Italian form of the Latin names
Flora and
Florus.
Fiorella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: fyo-REHL-la
Rating: 60% based on 4 votes
From Italian
fiore "flower" combined with a
diminutive suffix.
Fiorello
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Italian (Swiss)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Fiorenzo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: fyo-REHN-tso
Personal remark: 💜2️⃣
Rating: 30% based on 4 votes
Italian form of
Florentius (see
Florence).
Fiorino
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 25% based on 4 votes
Firenze
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Various (Rare)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
From the name of an Italian city, commonly called Florence in English.
Firmino
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Portuguese, Italian (Rare)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Portuguese and Italian form of
Firmin.
Flaminia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman, Italian
Pronounced: fla-MEE-nya(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 55% based on 4 votes
Flavia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: FLA-vya(Italian) FLA-bya(Spanish) FLA-wee-a(Latin)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 55% based on 4 votes
Flavio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: FLA-vyo(Italian) FLA-byo(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 31% based on 19 votes
Italian and Spanish form of
Flavius.
Flora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Dutch, French, Greek, Albanian, Roman Mythology
Other Scripts: Φλώρα(Greek)
Pronounced: FLAWR-ə(English) FLO-ra(Spanish, German, Latin) FLAW-ru(Portuguese)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 62% based on 9 votes
Derived from Latin
flos meaning
"flower" (genitive case
floris). Flora was the Roman goddess of flowers and spring, the wife of Zephyr the west wind. It has been used as a given name since the Renaissance, starting in France. In Scotland it was sometimes used as an Anglicized form of
Fionnghuala.
Floriana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Romanian, Ancient Roman
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 38% based on 4 votes
Feminine form of
Florianus (see
Florian).
Floriano
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 32% based on 6 votes
Florida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman, Albanian, Italian (Rare), English (American), Spanish (Latin American), Louisiana Creole
Pronounced: FLAH-rid-ə(American English) FLOOR-i-da(American English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 10% based on 3 votes
Feminine form of
Floridus. This is also the name of a state in the United States of America, which was originally named
La Florida by the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León (1474-1521). He so named it because he discovered it during the Easter season, which is called
Pascua Florida in Spanish. The literal meaning of the term is "flowery Easter", as it consists of the Spanish noun
pascua meaning "Easter, Passover" (also compare
Pascual) and the Spanish adjective
florida meaning "flourishing, blooming, florid".
Most American bearers of the name Florida will have been named in honor of the state, which is much like other given names that come from state names, such as Dakota and Indiana. This is less likely to be the case for bearers from other countries, especially those that are not part of the Anglosphere.
Floridiana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
Florinda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: flo-REEN-da(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Elaborated form of Spanish or Portuguese flor meaning "flower".
Florio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Rare), Spanish (Latin American, Rare), Romansh (Archaic)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Italian and Spanish form of
Florius. A known bearer of this name was the Uruguayan architect and art critic Florio Parpagnoli (1909-1978).
Folco
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: FOL-ko
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 15% based on 4 votes
Fortuna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Pronounced: for-TOO-na(Latin)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
Means
"luck" in Latin. In Roman
mythology this was the name of the personification of luck.
Fosca
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, History (Ecclesiastical)
Pronounced: FO-ska(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Feminine form of
Fosco. Raised in a pagan family, at age 15 Saint Fosca converted to Christianity and was baptized along with her nursemaid, Saint
Maura 1. During the persecutions of
Decius she was ordered by her family to renounce the faith; she refused. Arrested and tortured and ordered to sacrifice to idols, she refused and subsequently became a martyr.
Foscarina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Italian (Tuscan)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Fosco
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: FO-sko
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
Italian form of
Fuscus.
A known bearer of this name was Fosco Maraini (1912-2004), an Italian photographer, anthropologist and writer.
Fotini
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Φωτεινή(Greek)
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Franco
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: FRANG-ko
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Italian form of
Frank, also used as a short form of the related name
Francesco.
Frida 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Germanic [1]
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 65% based on 13 votes
Originally a short form of names containing the Old German element
fridu meaning
"peace" (Proto-Germanic *
friþuz). A famous bearer was the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907-1954).
Fuchsia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (British, Rare), Literature
Pronounced: FYOO-shə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
From
Fuchsia, a genus of flowering plants, itself named after the German botanist Leonhart
Fuchs (1501-1566), whose surname means "fox" in German.
It was most famously used by British author Mervyn Peake for the character Fuchsia Groan in his Gormenghast books (1946-1959).
Fulvia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: FOOL-vya(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Feminine form of
Fulvius (see
Fulvio).
Fulvio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: FOOL-vyo
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 27% based on 6 votes
Italian form of the Roman family name Fulvius, which was derived from Latin fulvus "yellow, tawny".
Furiosa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Popular Culture
Personal remark: Mad Max
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Means "full of rage, furious" in Latin. This is the name of a warrior who turns against the evil Immortan Joe in the movie Mad Max: Fury Road (2015).
Futura
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: foo-TOO-ra
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 10% based on 3 votes
Derived from the Italian word futuro meaning "future".
Gabriella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Hungarian, English, Swedish
Pronounced: ga-bree-EHL-la(Italian) GAWB-ree-ehl-law(Hungarian) ga-bree-EHL-ə(English) gah-bree-EHL-lah(Swedish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 5 votes
Gabriello
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Archaic), Ligurian
Pronounced: ga-bree-EHL-lo(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Archaic Italian and Ligurian form of
Gabriel. Gabriello Chiabrera (1552 – 1638) was an Italian poet, sometimes called the Italian Pindar.
Gad
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Greek, Biblical Hebrew
Other Scripts: גָּד(Ancient Hebrew) Γάδ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: GAD(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Means
"fortune, luck" in Hebrew. In the
Old Testament, Gad is the first son of
Jacob by
Leah's slave-girl
Zilpah, and the ancestor of one of the twelve tribes of the Israelites. His name is explained in
Genesis 30:11. Another Gad in the Old Testament is a prophet of King
David.
Gaddo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: GAHD-doh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
Diminutive of
Gerardo as well as possible Italian form of
Gad.
Gaela
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Breton
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
Gaia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, Italian
Other Scripts: Γαῖα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: GIE-A(Classical Greek) GIE-ə(English) GAY-ə(English) GA-ya(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
From the Greek word
γαῖα (gaia), a parallel form of
γῆ (ge) meaning
"earth". In Greek
mythology Gaia was the mother goddess who presided over the earth. She was the mate of
Uranus and the mother of the Titans and the Cyclopes.
Gaio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Gala
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Popular Culture
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
Diminutive of
Galatea. The name was popularized in Italy by Gala (born Elena Ivanovna Diakonova; 1894–1982), the wife of poet Paul Éluard and later of artist Salvador Dalí.
Galatea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Γαλάτεια(Ancient Greek)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 23 votes
Latinized form of Greek
Γαλάτεια (Galateia), probably derived from
γάλα (gala) meaning
"milk". This was the name of several characters in Greek
mythology including a sea nymph who was the daughter of
Doris and
Nereus and the lover of Acis. According to some sources, this was also the name of the ivory statue carved by
Pygmalion that came to life.
Galeno
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Italian
Pronounced: gah-LEH-no
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Spanish and Italian form of
Galen.
Galilea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare), Spanish (Rare), English (Modern)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
Galileo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: ga-lee-LEH-o
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
Medieval Italian name derived from Latin
galilaeus meaning
"Galilean, from Galilee". Galilee is a region in northern Israel, mentioned in the
New Testament as the site of several of
Jesus's miracles. It is derived from the Hebrew root
גָּלִיל (galil) meaning "district, roll".
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was an important Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer. Both his name and surname were from an earlier 15th-century ancestor (a doctor).
Gallo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: GAL-lo
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
Galvano
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: gal-VA-no
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Gandolfo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
Gardenia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: gahr-DEEN-ee-ə
Rating: 55% based on 4 votes
From the name of the tropical flower, which was named for the Scottish naturalist Alexander Garden (1730-1791).
Gaudente
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Medieval Italian, Italian
Pronounced: gow-DEHN-teh
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Means "joyful, happy" in Italian, from Latin gaudere meaning "to rejoyce".
Gaudenzio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
Gea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: JE-ah
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Gelsomina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: jehl-so-MEE-na
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 45% based on 13 votes
Gelsomino
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
Gemini
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Roman Mythology, Astronomy
Pronounced: GEH-mee-nee(Latin) JEHM-i-nie(English)
Rating: 8% based on 5 votes
Means
"twins" in Latin. This is the name of the third sign of the zodiac. The two brightest stars in the constellation,
Castor and
Pollux, are named for the mythological twin sons of
Leda.
Gemma
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Catalan, English (British), Dutch
Pronounced: JEHM-ma(Italian) ZHEHM-mə(Catalan) JEHM-ə(British English) GHEH-ma(Dutch)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 65% based on 4 votes
Medieval Italian nickname meaning "gem, precious stone". It was borne by the wife of the 13th-century Italian poet Dante Alighieri.
Generosa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman, Spanish (Rare)
Pronounced: kheh-neh-RO-sa(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Feminine form of
Generosus. This name was borne by Generosa of Scillium, a martyr and
saint from the 2nd century.
Generoso
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish (Rare)
Pronounced: jeh-neh-RO-zo(Italian) kheh-neh-RO-so(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Genoveffa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: jeh-no-VEHF-fa
Personal remark: 💜2️⃣
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Gentilla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Archaic), Dutch (Rare), Flemish (Rare), English (Archaic)
Pronounced: khen-TEEL-lah(Dutch) khen-TIL-lah(Dutch)
Rating: 10% based on 3 votes
Italian variant of
Gentila as well as the Dutch, English and Flemish feminine form of
Gentilis, most likely via its French feminine forms
Gentile and/or
Gentille. Also compare
Gentil.
Georgiana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Romanian
Pronounced: jawr-JAY-nə(English) jawr-jee-AN-ə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
Feminine form of
George. This form of the name has been in use in the English-speaking world since the 18th century.
Gerda 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian
Pronounced: YA-da(Swedish)
Rating: 10% based on 3 votes
Geremia
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: jeh-reh-MEE-a
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
Germana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: jehr-MA-na(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 38% based on 4 votes
Germano
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Portuguese
Pronounced: jehr-MA-no(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Italian and Portuguese form of
Germanus.
Gerolamo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: Honouring
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
Italian form of
Hieronymos (see
Jerome).
Geronimo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History
Pronounced: jə-RAHN-ə-mo(English)
Rating: 37% based on 15 votes
From
Gerónimo, a Spanish form of
Hieronymos (see
Jerome). This is the better-known name of the Apache leader
Goyathlay (1829-1909). It was given to him by the Mexicans, his enemies.
Gertrude
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, French, German
Pronounced: GUR-trood(English) ZHEHR-TRUYD(French) gehr-TROO-də(German)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 10% based on 4 votes
Means
"spear of strength", derived from the Old German elements
ger "spear" and
drud "strength".
Saint Gertrude the Great was a 13th-century nun and mystic writer from Thuringia. It was probably introduced to England by settlers from the Low Countries in the 15th century. Shakespeare used the name in his play
Hamlet (1600) for the mother of
Hamlet. Another famous bearer was the American writer Gertrude Stein (1874-1946).
Gessica
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Ghita
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic (Maghrebi)
Pronounced: GHEE-ta(Maghrebi Arabic)
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Of unknown meaning.
Giacinta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ja-CHEEN-ta
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Giacinto
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ja-CHEEN-to
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 22% based on 6 votes
Giacomo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: JA-ko-mo
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
Italian form of
Iacomus (see
James). Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) was an Italian composer of operas.
Giada
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: JA-da
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 43% based on 12 votes
Giaele
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: jah-EH-leh
Rating: 7% based on 3 votes
Giàime
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Sardinian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Giamila
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Judeo-Italian, Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: jah-MEE-lah(Judeo-Italian)
Rating: 10% based on 3 votes
Giano
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Roman Mythology (Italianized)
Pronounced: JA-no(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 7 votes
Italian form of
Ianus (see
Janus).
Giasone
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Gigi 2
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: JEE-jee
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Giglio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: JEEL-lyo
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 13% based on 10 votes
Italian cognate of
Gilles. The name coincides with Italian
giglio "lily".
Gigliola
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare), Medieval Italian
Pronounced: jeel-LYAW-la(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 38% based on 15 votes
Of debated origin and meaning. Even though folk etymology likes to derive this name from Italian
giglio "lily" (Latin
lilium), a plant considered to symbolize the qualities of candor and purity, it is more likely derived from
Giglio or
Gilio. It was borne by 14th-century Italian noblewomen Gigliola Gonzaga, also known as Egidiola, and Gigliola da Carrara (1379-1416), a marchioness of Ferrara.
Gilberto
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: jeel-BEHR-to(Italian) kheel-BEHR-to(Spanish) zheew-BEHR-too(Brazilian Portuguese)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of
Gilbert.
Gilda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Portuguese
Pronounced: JEEL-da(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 28% based on 6 votes
Originally an Italian short form of
Ermenegilda and other names containing the Old German element
gelt meaning
"payment, tribute, compensation". This is the name of a character in Verdi's opera
Rigoletto (1851). It is also the name of a 1946 American movie, starring Rita Hayworth in the title role.
Gildo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: JEEL-do
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Ginepra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 35% based on 4 votes
Ginepro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
Ginetta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare), English (Rare)
Pronounced: jee-NET-tah(Italian)
Rating: 10% based on 3 votes
Ginevra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: jee-NEH-vra
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Italian form of
Guinevere. This is also the Italian name for the city of Geneva, Switzerland. It is also sometimes associated with the Italian word
ginepro meaning "juniper".
Gioachino
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: jo-a-KEE-no
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Italian form of
Joachim. A famous bearer was the Italian composer Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868).
Gioconda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: jo-KON-da
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
From the Late Latin name Iucunda, which meant "pleasant, delightful, happy". Leonardo da Vinci's painting the Mona Lisa is also known as La Gioconda because its subject is Lisa del Giocondo.
Gioia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: JAW-ya
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 42% based on 19 votes
Means "joy" in Italian.
Giona
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: JO-na
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Giordana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: jor-DA-na
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Giordano
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: jor-DA-no
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 42% based on 18 votes
Italian form of
Jordan. A notable bearer was the cosmologist Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), who was burned at the stake by the Inquisition.
Giosetta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: jo-ZEHT-ta
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Giosuè
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: jo-ZWEH
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 28% based on 9 votes
Giotto
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: JAWT-to
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Possibly from
Ambrogiotto, a
diminutive of
Ambrogio, or
Angiolotto, a diminutive of
Angiolo. This name was borne by Giotto di Bondone (1267-1337), an Italian painter and architect.
Giove
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Roman Mythology (Italianized)
Pronounced: JAW-veh(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 15% based on 4 votes
Italian form of
Iovis (see
Jove). This is the Italian name for the Roman god
Jupiter.
Gisella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: jee-ZEHL-la
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 55% based on 4 votes
Giuda
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Sicilian, Sardinian
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Italian, Sicilian and Sardinian form of
Judah.
Giuditta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: joo-DEET-ta
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 39% based on 12 votes
Giuliano
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: joo-LYA-no
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Italian form of
Iulianus (see
Julian).
Giulietta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: joo-LYEHT-ta
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Giunia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Theatre
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Italian form of
Junia. It was used for the female lead character in Mozart's opera
Lucio Silla (1772).
Giunone
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology (Italianized)
Pronounced: joo-NO-neh(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Italian form of
Iuno (see
Juno).
Giuseppina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: joo-zehp-PEE-na
Personal remark: Honouring
Rating: 52% based on 13 votes
Giustiniano
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Gladiola
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Albanian (Rare), Romanian (Rare), Spanish (Latin American, Rare), Spanish (Mexican, Rare), Filipino (Rare)
Pronounced: glad-ee-O-lə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
From the name of the flowering plant gladiolus, literally meaning "small sword" from Latin gladius "sword" (a reference to its sword-shaped leaves). Gladiola Josephine "Glady Joe" is a character in the novel 'How to Make an American Quilt' (1991) and subsequent film adaptation (1995).
Glenda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: GLEHN-də
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Probably a feminine form of
Glenn using the suffix
da (from names such as
Linda and
Wanda). This name was not regularly used until the 20th century.
Glenna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: GLEHN-ə
Rating: 7% based on 3 votes
Glinda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: GLIN-də(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 7% based on 3 votes
Created by author L. Frank Baum for his character Glinda the Good Witch, a kind sorceress in his Oz series of books beginning in 1900. It is not known what inspired the name.
Gloria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Spanish, Italian, German
Pronounced: GLAWR-ee-ə(English) GLO-rya(Spanish) GLAW-rya(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 32% based on 6 votes
Means
"glory", from the Portuguese and Spanish titles of the Virgin
Mary Maria da Glória and
María de Gloria. Maria da Glória (1819-1853) was the daughter of the Brazilian emperor Pedro I, eventually becoming queen of Portugal as Maria II.
The name was introduced to the English-speaking world by E. D. E. N. Southworth's novel Gloria (1891) and George Bernard Shaw's play You Never Can Tell (1898), which both feature characters with a Portuguese background [1]. It was popularized in the early 20th century by American actress Gloria Swanson (1899-1983). Another famous bearer is feminist Gloria Steinem (1934-).
Gloriana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: glawr-ee-AN-ə
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 38% based on 4 votes
Elaborated form of Latin gloria meaning "glory". In Edmund Spenser's poem The Faerie Queene (1590) this was the name of the title character, a representation of Queen Elizabeth I.
Goffredo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Golda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Yiddish
Other Scripts: גאָלדאַ, גאָלדע(Yiddish) גּוֹלְדָּה(Hebrew)
Rating: 10% based on 3 votes
From Yiddish
גאָלד (gold) meaning
"gold". This is the name of Tevye's wife in the musical
Fiddler on the Roof (1964). It was also borne by the Israeli prime minister Golda Meir (1898-1978).
Golia
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: go-LEE-ah
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 8% based on 4 votes
Gottardo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: got-TAHR-do
Personal remark: Old
Rating: 10% based on 7 votes
Grania
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Grazia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: GRAT-tsya
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Gregorio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: greh-GAW-ryo(Italian) greh-GHO-ryo(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Italian and Spanish form of
Gregorius (see
Gregory).
Greta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Italian, Swedish, Lithuanian, Polish, English
Pronounced: GREH-ta(German, Italian, Swedish, Polish) GREHT-ə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Short form of
Margareta. A famous bearer of this name was the Swedish actress Greta Garbo (1905-1990).
Grimaldo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish (Rare), Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: gree-MAL-do
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Griselda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Spanish, Literature
Pronounced: gri-ZEHL-də(English) gree-SEHL-da(Spanish)
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
Possibly derived from the Old German elements
gris "grey" and
hilt "battle". It is not attested as a Germanic name. This was the name of a patient wife in medieval folklore, adapted into tales by Boccaccio (in
The Decameron) and Chaucer (in
The Canterbury Tales).
Guadalupe
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: ghwa-dha-LOO-peh
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
From a Spanish title of the Virgin
Mary,
Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, meaning "Our Lady of Guadalupe". Guadalupe is a Spanish place name, the site of a famous convent, derived from Arabic
وادي (wadi) meaning "valley, river" possibly combined with Latin
lupus meaning "wolf". In the 16th century Our Lady of Guadalupe supposedly appeared in a vision to a native Mexican man, and she is now regarded as a patron
saint of the Americas.
Gualtiero
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: gwal-TYEH-ro
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 16% based on 9 votes
Guenda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: GWEN-dah
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
Guendolina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Sicilian
Pronounced: gwen-do-LEE-na
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Guglielmo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: gool-LYEHL-mo
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 33% based on 4 votes
Guia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: GOO-yah
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Of uncertain origin and meaning. Current theories include a feminine form of
Guido, a variant of
Gaia and an adoption of the Spanish name
Guía.
Guido
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, German
Pronounced: GWEE-do(Italian) GEE-do(German)
Personal remark: 💜2️⃣
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Latinized form of
Wido. Notable bearers include the music theorist Guido d'Arezzo (c. 991-1033), poet Guido Cavalcanti (c. 1250-1300), and Baroque painter Guido Reni (1575-1642).
Gustavo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: goo-STA-vo(Italian) goos-TA-bo(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of
Gustav.
Iacopo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: YA-ko-po
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 53% based on 4 votes
Italian form of
Iacobus (see
James).
Iaele
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: yah-EH-leh
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
Iago
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh, Galician, Portuguese
Pronounced: YA-gaw(Welsh) ee-AH-go(English) YA-ghuw(Galician)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 63% based on 4 votes
Welsh and Galician form of
Iacobus (see
James). This was the name of two early Welsh kings of Gwynedd. It is also the name of the villain in Shakespeare's tragedy
Othello (1603).
Ianuario
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: yah-noo-AH-ryoh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Iara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: YA-ra
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 33% based on 4 votes
Iasmina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Romanian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Ibis
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Spanish (Rare)
Pronounced: EE-bees
Personal remark: ❤️
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
From Latin
ibis, referring to a type of long-legged bird with long downcurved bill, ultimately coming from Egyptian
hbj. It was the symbol of
Thoth, thus having a great importance in Egyptian mythology.
Icaro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Rating: 50% based on 4 votes
Italian form of
Ikaros (see
Icarus).
Ida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Italian, French, Polish, Finnish, Hungarian, Slovak, Slovene, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: IE-də(English) EE-da(German, Dutch, Italian, Polish) EE-dah(Swedish, Norwegian, Danish) EE-daw(Hungarian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 43% based on 4 votes
Derived from the Germanic element
id possibly meaning
"work, labour" (Proto-Germanic *
idiz). The
Normans brought this name to England, though it eventually died out there in the Middle Ages. It was strongly revived in the 19th century, in part due to the heroine in Alfred Tennyson's poem
The Princess (1847), which was later adapted into the play
Princess Ida (1884) by Gilbert and Sullivan.
Though the etymology is unrelated, this is the name of a mountain on the island of Crete where, according to Greek myth, the god Zeus was born.
Ifigenia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek (Rare), Polish, Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: ee-fee-jeh-NEE-ah(Italian) ee-fee-KHEH-nya(Spanish)
Rating: 8% based on 4 votes
Modern Greek, Italian, and Polish form of
Iphigenia. This is also a Spanish variant of
Efigenia, used to refer to the tragic heroine of Greek myth.
Ignazio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: een-NYAT-tsyo
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Ilana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אִילָנָה(Hebrew)
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Ilario
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Ilda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Ilde
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norwegian (Archaic), Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Norwegian dialectal variant of
Hilde, recorded in the Sunnmøre area, as well as an Italian variant of
Ilda.
Ildegarda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: eel-de-GAHR-da
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 13% based on 6 votes
Ilizia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Ilma 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Bosnian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Meaning unknown, possibly from Arabic
عِلْم ('ilm) meaning
"knowledge".
Indaco
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Modern, Rare)
Pronounced: EEN-da-ko
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
India
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Spanish (Modern)
Pronounced: IN-dee-ə(English) EEN-dya(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 10% based on 1 vote
From the name of the country, which is itself derived from the name of the Indus River. The river's name is ultimately from Sanskrit
सिन्धु (Sindhu) meaning "body of trembling water, river". India Wilkes is a character in the novel
Gone with the Wind (1936) by Margaret Mitchell.
Ines
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Slovene, Croatian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 59% based on 18 votes
Italian, Slovene and Croatian form of
Inés.
Inga
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Estonian, Finnish, Latvian, Lithuanian, German, Polish, Russian, Old Norse [1][2], Germanic [3]
Other Scripts: Инга(Russian)
Pronounced: ING-ah(Swedish) ING-ga(German) EENG-ga(Polish) EEN-gə(Russian)
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
Strictly feminine form of
Inge.
Iorio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval Italian, Italian (Tuscan)
Pronounced: YAW-ryo(Medieval Italian, Tuscan Italian)
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Medieval Italian form of
Giorgio originally used in Southern Italy. After Gabriele D'Annunzio used this name in his tragedy
La figlia di Iorio (1904) the name has been used mostly in Toscana (Tuscany) and Emilia-Romagna (both in central Italy).
Ipazia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
Iperione
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Ippocrate
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Italian form of Hippocrates.
Ippolita
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Ippolito
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 13% based on 4 votes
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)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 80% based on 18 votes
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.
Ireneo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: ee-reh-NEH-o(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 30% based on 3 votes
Iride
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 30% based on 12 votes
Irina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Romanian, Georgian, Finnish, Estonian
Other Scripts: Ирина(Russian, Bulgarian, Macedonian) ირინა(Georgian)
Pronounced: i-RYEE-nə(Russian) EE-ree-nah(Finnish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Form of
Irene in several languages.
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)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 75% based on 22 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.
Irlanda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Spanish (Latin American), Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: eer-LAN-da(Spanish, Italian) eer-LUN-du(European Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese)
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Spanish, Portuguese and Italian form of
Ireland.
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) UR-mə(English) EER-mah(Finnish) EER-ma(Spanish) EER-maw(Hungarian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 44% based on 10 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.
Isa 3
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic [1]
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
Short form of Germanic names beginning with the element
is meaning
"ice" (Proto-Germanic *
īsą).
Isabella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, German, English, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Dutch, Romanian
Pronounced: ee-za-BEHL-la(Italian) ee-za-BEH-la(German, Dutch) iz-ə-BEHL-ə(English) is-a-BEHL-la(Swedish) EE-sah-behl-lah(Finnish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 67% based on 20 votes
Latinate form of
Isabel. This name was borne by many medieval royals, including queens consort of England, France, Portugal, the Holy Roman Empire and Hungary, as well as the powerful ruling queen Isabella of Castile (properly called
Isabel).
In the United States this form was much less common than Isabel until the early 1990s, when it began rapidly rising in popularity. It reached a peak in 2009 and 2010, when it was the most popular name for girls in America, an astounding rise over only 20 years.
A famous bearer is the Italian actress Isabella Rossellini (1952-).
Isacco
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ee-ZAK-ko
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 15% based on 4 votes
Isadora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Portuguese
Pronounced: iz-ə-DAWR-ə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 66% based on 18 votes
Variant of
Isidora. A famous bearer was the American dancer Isadora Duncan (1877-1927).
Iside
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Egyptian Mythology (Italianized)
Pronounced: EE-zee-deh(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
Isidora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Serbian, Portuguese (Rare), Italian (Rare), English (Rare), Ancient Greek
Other Scripts: Исидора(Serbian, Russian) Ἰσιδώρα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: ee-see-DHO-ra(Spanish) ee-zee-DAW-ra(Italian) iz-ə-DAWR-ə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Feminine form of
Isidore. This was the name of a 4th-century Egyptian
saint and hermitess.
Isidoro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
Pronounced: ee-see-DHO-ro(Spanish) ee-zee-DAW-ro(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Spanish, Italian and Portuguese form of
Isidore.
Ismaele
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 72% based on 5 votes
Isola
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Italian (Rare)
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 35% based on 4 votes
Popularly claimed to be derived from the Italian word
isola "island", this name might actually rather be a variant of
Isolda.
Isola Wilde was the younger sister of author and playwright Oscar Wilde. Isola died aged eight of meningitis, and her brother dedicated the poem Requiescat to her memory.
Isolde
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Arthurian Cycle
Pronounced: ee-ZAWL-də(German) i-SOL-də(English) i-ZOL-də(English) i-SOLD(English) i-ZOLD(English) EE-ZAWLD(French)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
German form of
Iseult, appearing in the 13th-century German poem
Tristan by Gottfried von Strassburg. In 1865 the German composer Richard Wagner debuted his popular opera
Tristan und Isolde and also used the name for his first daughter.
Isotta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ee-ZAWT-ta
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 46% based on 16 votes
Israele
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Jewish (Italianized)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
Italo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Iunia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman, Biblical Latin
Pronounced: YOO-nee-a(Latin)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 47% based on 9 votes
Ivo 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Dutch, Czech, Italian, Portuguese, Estonian, Latvian, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: EE-vo(German, Dutch, Italian) EE-fo(German) I-vo(Czech) EE-voo(Portuguese)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
Germanic name, originally a short form of names beginning with the element
iwa meaning
"yew". Alternative theories suggest that it may in fact be derived from a
cognate Celtic element
[2]. This was the name of
saints (who are also commonly known as Saint
Yves or
Ives), hailing from Cornwall, France, and Brittany.
Lachesi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Greek Mythology (Italianized)
Pronounced: lah-KEH-zee
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Laerte
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian)
Personal remark: Old
Rating: 23% based on 9 votes
Italian and Portuguese form of
Laertes.
Laia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Catalan
Pronounced: LA-yə
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 3% based on 3 votes
Laila 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic, Urdu, English
Other Scripts: ليلى(Arabic) لیلیٰ(Urdu)
Pronounced: LIE-la(Arabic) LAY-lə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 3% based on 3 votes
Lana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Russian, Croatian, Slovene, Georgian
Other Scripts: Лана(Russian) ლანა(Georgian)
Pronounced: LAHN-ə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Short form of
Alana (English) or
Svetlana (Russian). In the English-speaking world it was popularized by actress Lana Turner (1921-1995), who was born Julia Jean Turner.
Lancillotto
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval Italian
Pronounced: lahn-cheell-LOTT-to
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Lapo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Lara 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 76% based on 10 votes
Larissa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, German, Portuguese (Brazilian), Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Λάρισα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: lə-RIS-ə(English) la-RI-sa(German)
Rating: 54% based on 9 votes
Variant of
Larisa. It has been commonly used as an English given name only since the 20th century, as a borrowing from Russian. In 1991 this name was given to one of the moons of Neptune, in honour of the mythological character.
Latifa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: لطيفة(Arabic)
Pronounced: la-TEE-fah
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Laura
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan, French, Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian, Polish, Slovene, Croatian, Czech, Slovak, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, Dutch, Lithuanian, Latvian, Late Roman
Pronounced: LAWR-ə(English) LOW-ra(Spanish, Italian, Romanian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, German, Dutch) LOW-ru(Portuguese) LOW-rə(Catalan) LAW-RA(French) LOW-rah(Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish) LAW-oo-raw(Hungarian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 9 votes
Feminine form of the Late Latin name
Laurus, which meant
"laurel". This meaning was favourable, since in ancient Rome the leaves of laurel trees were used to create victors' garlands. The name was borne by the 9th-century Spanish martyr
Saint Laura, who was a nun thrown into a vat of molten lead by the Moors. It was also the name of the subject of poems by the 14th-century Italian poet Petrarch.
As an English name, Laura has been used since the 13th century. Famous bearers include Laura Secord (1775-1868), a Canadian heroine during the War of 1812, and Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957), an American author who wrote the Little House on the Prairie series of novels.
Lauro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: LOW-ro
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 15% based on 8 votes
Italian form of
Laurus (see
Laura).
Lavanda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Croatian, Russian, Italian
Other Scripts: Лаванда(Russian)
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
Means "lavender" in Croatian, Italian and Russian.
Lavinia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology, Romanian, Italian
Pronounced: la-WEE-nee-a(Latin) lə-VIN-ee-ə(English) la-VEE-nya(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 64% based on 17 votes
Meaning unknown, probably of Etruscan origin. In Roman legend Lavinia was the daughter of King Latinus, the wife of
Aeneas, and the ancestor of the Roman people. According to the legend Aeneas named the town of Lavinium in honour of his wife.
Lea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Estonian, Slovene, Croatian, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Italian, Hebrew
Other Scripts: לֵאָה(Hebrew)
Pronounced: LEH-a(German) LEH-ah(Finnish) LEH-aw(Hungarian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 54% based on 21 votes
Form of
Leah used in several languages.
Leandro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian
Pronounced: leh-AN-dro(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 52% based on 22 votes
Spanish, Portuguese and Italian form of
Leander.
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)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
Lelio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
Italian form of
Laelius (see
Laelia).
Leo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Estonian, English, Croatian, Armenian, Late Roman
Other Scripts: Լեո(Armenian)
Pronounced: LEH-o(German, Danish, Finnish) LEH-yo(Dutch) LEE-o(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 53% based on 10 votes
Derived from Latin
leo meaning
"lion", a
cognate of
Leon. It was popular among early Christians and was the name of 13 popes, including
Saint Leo the Great who asserted the dominance of the Roman bishops (the popes) over all others in the 5th century. It was also borne by six Byzantine emperors and five Armenian kings. Another famous bearer was the Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), name spelled
Лев in Russian, whose works include
War and Peace and
Anna Karenina. Leo is also a constellation and the fifth sign of the zodiac.
Leona
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Czech
Pronounced: lee-O-nə(English) LEH-o-na(Czech)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 35% based on 4 votes
Leone 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: leh-O-neh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 29% based on 17 votes
Leonida
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 42% based on 5 votes
Leonilde
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese, Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 30% based on 3 votes
Leonora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
Lera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian, Ukrainian
Other Scripts: Лера(Russian, Ukrainian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Letizia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: leh-TEET-tsya
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 49% based on 18 votes
Italian form of
Letitia. It was borne by Napoleon Bonaparte's mother.
Levante
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: leh-VAHN-teh
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Means "levant (wind); East" in Italian.
Levi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew, English, Dutch, German, Biblical, Biblical Latin
Other Scripts: לֵוִי(Hebrew)
Pronounced: LEE-vie(English) LEH-vee(Dutch)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 4 votes
Possibly means
"joined, attached" in Hebrew. As told in the
Old Testament, Levi was the third son of
Jacob and
Leah, and the ancestor of one of the twelve tribes of the Israelites, known as the Levites. This was the tribe that formed the priestly class of the Israelites. The brothers
Moses and
Aaron were members. This name also occurs in the
New Testament, where it is another name for the apostle
Matthew.
As an English Christian name, Levi came into use after the Protestant Reformation.
Liana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, English, Georgian
Other Scripts: ლიანა(Georgian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 25% based on 4 votes
Short form of
Juliana,
Liliana and other names that end in
liana. This is also the word for a type of vine that grows in jungles.
Libera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: LEE-beh-rah
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
Libero
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: LEE-beh-roh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 10% based on 3 votes
Means "free" in Italian, from Latin liber.
Libra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Astronomy
Pronounced: LEE-brə
Rating: 42% based on 6 votes
The name of a zodiacal constellation supposedly shaped like a set of scales. It literally means "pound, balance" in Latin, from Mediterranean base *lithra- "a scale".
Lice
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: LEE-cheh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Licia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: LEE-cha
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Licio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: LEE-choh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 33% based on 4 votes
Lidia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Polish, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Georgian, Old Church Slavic
Other Scripts: ლიდია(Georgian) Лѷдіа(Church Slavic)
Pronounced: LEE-dya(Polish, Italian) LEE-dhya(Spanish)
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
Polish, Italian, Spanish and Georgian form of
Lydia.
Lila 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hindi
Other Scripts: लीला(Hindi) లీలా(Telugu) ಲೀಲಾ(Kannada) லீலா(Tamil) ലീലാ(Malayalam)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Means "play, amusement" in Sanskrit.
Lilia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Italian, Russian, Ukrainian
Other Scripts: Лилия(Russian) Лілія(Ukrainian)
Pronounced: LEE-lya(Spanish) LYEE-lyi-yə(Russian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 57% based on 21 votes
Spanish and Italian form of
Lily, as well as an alternate transcription of Russian
Лилия or Ukrainian
Лілія (see
Liliya).
Liliana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Polish, Czech, English
Pronounced: lee-LYA-na(Italian, Spanish, Polish) lil-ee-AN-ə(English) lil-ee-AHN-ə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
Lilium
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern, Rare)
Pronounced: Lil-ee-uhm
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Lillà
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: leel-LA
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 38% based on 15 votes
Means "lilac (the plant)" in Italian.
Lilli
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Danish, Finnish
Pronounced: LI-lee(German) LEEL-lee(Finnish)
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
German, Danish and Finnish variant of
Lili.
Lina 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: لينا(Arabic)
Pronounced: LEE-na
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Means either "palm tree" or "tender" in Arabic.
Linceo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Italian and Spanish form of
Lynceus.
Linda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, German, Dutch, Italian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, French, Latvian, Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, Germanic
Pronounced: LIN-də(English) LIN-da(German, Dutch, Czech) LEEN-da(Italian) LEEN-DA(French) LEEN-dah(Finnish) LEEN-daw(Hungarian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 30% based on 4 votes
Originally a medieval short form of Germanic names containing the element
lind meaning
"soft, flexible, tender" (Proto-Germanic *
linþaz). It also coincides with the Spanish and Portuguese word
linda meaning
"beautiful". In the English-speaking world this name experienced a spike in popularity beginning in the 1930s, peaking in the late 1940s, and declining shortly after that. It was the most popular name for girls in the United States from 1947 to 1952.
Lindoro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Theatre, Spanish (Mexican)
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
Variant of
Lindor. Lindoro is a character in the opera
L'italiana in Algeri (
The Italian Girl in Algiers in English; 1813) by Gioachino Rossini and Angelo Anelli.
Lino 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Galician
Pronounced: LEE-no(Italian, Spanish) LEE-naw(Galician)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Galician form of
Linus.
Lionello
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 30% based on 3 votes
Lira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Croatian (Rare)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
From the name of the musical instrument lira (from Latin lira, from Ancient Greek λύρα (lúra)), called "lyre" in English.
Lírio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Portuguese (Brazilian)
Pronounced: LEE-ree-oo(Brazilian Portuguese)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Derived from Portuguese lírio "lily".
Lisabetta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Italian, Italian, Sicilian, Corsican, Sardinian, Romansh, Literature
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
Medieval truncated form of
Elisabetta. Lisabetta da Messina is a character in
Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio (14th century).
Lisandro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American), Portuguese
Pronounced: lee-SAN-dro(Latin American Spanish)
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Spanish and Portuguese form of
Lysander.
Lisippo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
Italian form of
Lysippos via its latinized form
Lysippus.
Lisistrata
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Italianized)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Liuba
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Slavic Mythology
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Derived from the Slavic element lyuby "love", this was the name of the Sorbian and Wendish goddess of spring, love and fertility.
Livia 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Romanian, German, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: LEE-vya(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 43% based on 14 votes
Feminine form of
Livius. This was the name of the wife of the Roman emperor Augustus, Livia Drusilla.
Livio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: LEE-vyo
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 28% based on 11 votes
Livna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: לִבְנָה(Hebrew)
Rating: 7% based on 3 votes
Means "white" in Hebrew.
Lodovico
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
Lois 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Other Scripts: Λωΐς(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: LO-is(English)
Rating: 30% based on 3 votes
Possibly derived from Greek
λωίων (loion) meaning
"more desirable" or
"better". Lois is mentioned in the
New Testament as the mother of
Eunice and the grandmother of
Timothy. As an English name, it came into use after the
Protestant Reformation. In fiction, this is the name of the girlfriend of the comic book hero Superman.
Lola
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, English, French
Pronounced: LO-la(Spanish) LO-lə(English) LAW-LA(French)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 4 votes
Spanish
diminutive of
Dolores. A famous bearer was Lola Montez (1821-1861; birth name Eliza Gilbert), an Irish-born dancer, actress and courtesan.
Lorella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: lo-RELL-lah
Personal remark: Old-fave
Rating: 58% based on 13 votes
Lorena 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian
Pronounced: lo-REH-na(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 45% based on 4 votes
Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Romanian form of
Lorraine.
Loreto
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Italian
Pronounced: lo-REH-to
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 10% based on 4 votes
From the name of a town in Italy, originally called
Lauretum in Latin, meaning "laurel grove". Supposedly in the 13th century the house of the Virgin
Mary was miraculously carried by angels from Nazareth to the town. In Spain it is a feminine name, from the Marian title
Nuestra Señora de Loreto, while in Italy it is mostly masculine.
Loris
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 22% based on 15 votes
Lourdes
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: LOOR-dhehs(Spanish) LOR-dhehs(Spanish) LOORD(French) LOORDZ(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 10% based on 1 vote
From the name of a French town. It became a popular center of pilgrimage after a young girl from the town had visions of the Virgin
Mary in a nearby grotto.
Lubna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: لبنى(Arabic)
Pronounced: LOOB-na
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Means "storax tree" in Arabic. According to a 7th-century legend Lubna and Qays were a couple forced to divorce by Qays's father.
Luce
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, French
Pronounced: LOO-cheh(Italian) LUYS(French)
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
Italian and French variant of
Lucia. This also means "light" in Italian.
Lucilla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Ancient Roman
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 56% based on 19 votes
Lucina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Pronounced: loo-KEE-na(Latin) loo-SIE-nə(English) loo-SEE-nə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 45% based on 10 votes
Derived from Latin lucus meaning "grove", but later associated with lux meaning "light". This was the name of a Roman goddess of childbirth.
Lucinda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Portuguese, Literature
Pronounced: loo-SIN-də(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
An elaboration of
Lucia created by Cervantes for his novel
Don Quixote (1605). It was subsequently used by Molière in his play
The Doctor in Spite of Himself (1666).
Lucio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: LOO-cho(Italian) LOO-thyo(European Spanish) LOO-syo(Latin American Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 52% based on 6 votes
Italian and Spanish form of
Lucius.
Lucrezia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: loo-KREHT-tsya
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Ludmilla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian, Bulgarian
Other Scripts: Людмила(Russian, Bulgarian)
Pronounced: lyuwd-MYEE-lə(Russian)
Rating: 30% based on 3 votes
Ludo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Flemish
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Ludovico
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: loo-do-VEE-ko
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 39% based on 16 votes
Luminosa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare), Spanish (Mexican, Rare), Portuguese (Brazilian, Rare)
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
Derived from the Latin adjective luminosus meaning "full of light, luminous". This was the name of a 5th-century saint from Pavia in Lombardy, Italy. This was also borne by a 6th-century Byzantine woman, the wife of the tribune Zemarchus. A modern bearer is Italian hurdler Luminosa Bogliolo (1995-).
Luna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, English
Pronounced: LOO-na(Latin, Spanish, Italian) LOO-nə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 54% based on 16 votes
Means "the moon" in Latin (as well as Italian, Spanish and other Romance languages). Luna was the Roman goddess of the moon, frequently depicted driving a white chariot through the sky.
Lunaria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Brazilian (Rare), Filipino (Rare), Spanish (Latin American, Rare), Spanish (Mexican, Rare)
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
Means "moon-like" in Latin. Lunaria is a genus of flowering plants.
Lupa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman, Medieval Romanian, Esperanto
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Feminine form of
Lupus (Late Roman) and
Lup (Medieval Romanian).
In Esperanto, the name means "lupine, wolfish" and is therefore etymologically related to the aforementioned two names.
Luperco
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form of
Lupercus.
Lupo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Esperanto
Pronounced: LOO-po
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 16% based on 7 votes
Italian and Esperanto form of
Lupus and Spanish variant of
Lope.
Lusitania
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare, Archaic), South American (Rare)
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
The etymology of this name is widely debated. However, the name may be of Celtic origin:
Lus and
Tanus, "tribe of Lusus", connecting the name with the personal Celtic name
Luso and with the god
Lugh.
Lutezia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Archaic)
Pronounced: loo-TEH-tsya
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Macarena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: ma-ka-REH-na
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
From the name of a barrio (district) in Seville, which got its name from a temple that may have been named for a person named
Macarius (see
Macario). The Virgin of Macarena, that is
Mary, is widely venerated in Seville.
Maela
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Breton
Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
Mafalda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese, Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: mu-FAL-du(Portuguese) ma-FAL-da(Italian)
Rating: 10% based on 3 votes
Originally a medieval Portuguese form of
Matilda. This name was borne by the wife of Afonso, the first king of Portugal. In modern times it was the name of the titular character in a popular Argentine comic strip (published from 1964 to 1973) by Quino.
Magda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Hungarian, Croatian, Slovene, Romanian, Portuguese, Greek
Other Scripts: Μάγδα(Greek)
Pronounced: MAK-da(German) MAHKH-da(Dutch) MAG-da(Czech, Slovak, Polish) MAWG-daw(Hungarian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 4 votes
Maggia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
Feminine form of
Maggio and thus ultimately derived from Italian
maggio "May". This name was occasionally given to children born in the month of May (compare English
May).
Maggiorina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Magnifica
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Italian
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Derived from Latin magnifica "magnificent, splendid, excellent".
Magno
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Rare), Portuguese (Rare)
Pronounced: MAH-ɲo(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Magnolia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: mag-NO-lee-ə
Rating: 44% based on 11 votes
From the English word magnolia for the flower, which was named for the French botanist Pierre Magnol.
Maia 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, Roman Mythology, Portuguese, Georgian
Other Scripts: Μαῖα(Ancient Greek) მაია(Georgian)
Pronounced: MIE-A(Classical Greek) MAY-ə(English) MIE-ə(English) MIE-ya(Latin) MAH-EE-AH(Georgian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 65% based on 8 votes
From Greek
μαῖα (maia) meaning
"good mother, dame, foster mother", perhaps in origin a nursery form of
μήτηρ (meter). In Greek and Roman
mythology she was the eldest of the Pleiades, a group of stars in the constellation Taurus, who were the daughters of
Atlas and
Pleione. Her son by
Zeus was
Hermes.
Maia 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Pronounced: MIE-ya(Latin) MAY-ə(English) MIE-ə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 74% based on 8 votes
Probably from Latin
maior meaning
"greater". This was the name of a Roman goddess of spring, a companion (sometimes wife) of
Vulcan. She was later conflated with the Greek goddess
Maia. The month of May is named for her.
Maira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Μαῖρα(Ancient Greek)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
From Greek
μαρμαίρω (marmairo) meaning
"sparkle, gleam, flash". This name was borne by several characters in Greek
mythology, including one of the Nereids.
Maite 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque
Pronounced: MIE-teh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Means "beloved" in Basque.
Malachia
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Malina 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Bulgarian, Serbian, Polish
Other Scripts: Малина(Bulgarian, Serbian)
Pronounced: ma-LEE-na(Polish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Means "raspberry" in several Slavic languages.
Malva
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Finnish (Rare), German, Danish, Spanish (Latin American)
Pronounced: MAHL-vah(Finnish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 37% based on 16 votes
Short form of
Malvina. It may be partly inspired by Latin, Swedish and Finnish
malva "mallow, hollyhock (flower)".
Malvina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature, English, Italian, French
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Created by the Scottish poet James MacPherson in the 18th century for a character in his Ossian poems. He probably intended it to mean "smooth brow", from Scottish Gaelic mala "brow" and mìn "smooth, fine" (lenited to mhìn and pronounced with a v sound).
Manfredi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
Manfredo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
Manno
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic [1]
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Originally a short form of Germanic names beginning with the element
man meaning
"person, man" (Proto-Germanic *
mannô).
Maometto
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Mara 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Hebrew, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Other Scripts: מָרָא(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: MAHR-ə(English) MAR-ə(English) MEHR-ə(English)
Personal remark: 💜2️⃣
Rating: 65% based on 19 votes
Means
"bitter" in Hebrew. In the
Old Testament this is a name that
Naomi calls herself after the death of her husband and sons (see
Ruth 1:20).
Marcantonio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
Combination of
Marco and
Antonio, referring to the 1st-century BC Roman triumvir Marcus Antonius (Mark Antony).
Marcello
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: mar-CHEHL-lo
Personal remark: La bohème
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Mare
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Estonian
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Originally an Estonian short form of
Maria and
Margareeta, used a given name in its own right.
Margarita
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Russian, Bulgarian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Greek, Albanian, Late Roman
Other Scripts: Маргарита(Russian, Bulgarian) Μαργαρίτα(Greek)
Pronounced: mar-gha-REE-ta(Spanish) mər-gu-RYEE-tə(Russian) mahr-gə-REE-tə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 10% based on 1 vote
Latinate form of
Margaret. This is also the Spanish word for the daisy flower (species Bellis perennis, Leucanthemum vulgare and others).
Margherita
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: mar-geh-REE-ta
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Italian form of
Margaret. This is also the Italian word for the daisy flower (species Bellis perennis, Leucanthemum vulgare and others).
Mariano
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: ma-RYA-no(Italian, Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of
Marianus. It is also used as a masculine form of
Maria.
Mariarca
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: mah-ree-AHR-kah
Personal remark: Old
Rating: 38% based on 14 votes
Marietta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Greek, Hungarian, German, Polish
Other Scripts: Μαριέττα(Greek)
Pronounced: MAW-ree-eht-taw(Hungarian)
Personal remark: Old
Rating: 47% based on 14 votes
Marilla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Archaic)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
Possibly a
diminutive of
Mary or a variant of
Amaryllis. More common in the 19th century, this name was borne by the American suffragist Marilla Ricker (1840-1920). It is also the name of the adoptive mother of Anne in L. M. Montgomery's novel
Anne of Green Gables (1908).
Marina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, English, Greek, Finnish, Estonian, Russian, Romanian, Czech, Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Macedonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Georgian, Ancient Roman
Other Scripts: Μαρίνα(Greek) Марина(Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Macedonian) მარინა(Georgian)
Pronounced: ma-REE-na(Italian, Spanish, German, Macedonian) mə-REE-nə(Catalan) mə-REEN-ə(English) mu-RYEE-nə(Russian) MA-ri-na(Czech)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 54% based on 9 votes
Feminine form of
Marinus. This name was borne by a few early
saints. This is also the name by which Saint
Margaret of Antioch is known in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Marinella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Marino
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: ma-REE-no
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 10 votes
Italian and Spanish form of
Marinus.
Mario
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, German, Croatian
Pronounced: MA-ryo(Italian, Spanish, German)
Personal remark: 💜2️⃣
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
Italian and Spanish form of
Marius. Famous bearers include American racecar driver Mario Andretti (1940-) and Canadian hockey player Mario Lemieux (1965-). It is also borne by a Nintendo video game character, a moustached Italian plumber, who debuted as the playable hero of
Donkey Kong in 1981. Spelled
マリオ (Mario) in Japanese Katakana, he was reportedly named after Mario Segale (1934-2018), an American businessman who rented a warehouse to Nintendo.
Maris 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: MEHR-is, MAR-is
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Means
"of the sea", taken from the Latin title of the Virgin
Mary,
Stella Maris, meaning "star of the sea".
Maristella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Rating: 55% based on 20 votes
Marlena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Polish, English
Pronounced: mar-LEH-na(Polish) mahr-LEEN-ə(English)
Rating: 18% based on 4 votes
Marsida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Albanian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Marsilia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Marsilio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Portuguese
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Marta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Catalan, Polish, Czech, Slovak, German, Dutch, Romanian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Russian, Swedish, Icelandic, Latvian, Estonian, Georgian
Other Scripts: Марта(Bulgarian, Serbian, Macedonian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Russian) მართა(Georgian)
Pronounced: MAR-ta(Spanish, Italian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, German) MAR-tu(European Portuguese) MAKH-tu(Brazilian Portuguese) MAR-tə(Catalan) MAHR-TAH(Georgian)
Personal remark: 💜2️⃣
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Form of
Martha used in various languages.
Marte 2
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Roman Mythology (Italianized, Hispanicized, Portuguese-style)
Pronounced: MAR-teh(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of
Mars.
Martino
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: mar-TEE-no
Personal remark: 💜2️⃣
Rating: 13% based on 4 votes
Italian form of
Martinus (see
Martin).
Marzia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: MAR-tsya
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 26% based on 7 votes
Marzio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: MAR-tsyo
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Maso
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Massimiliano
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: mas-see-mee-LYA-no
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Massimo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: MAS-see-mo
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 42% based on 21 votes
Matilde
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian
Pronounced: ma-TEEL-deh(Spanish, Italian) mu-TEEL-di(European Portuguese) ma-CHEEW-jee(Brazilian Portuguese)
Personal remark: 💜2️⃣
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Spanish, Portuguese and Italian form of
Matilda.
Matrona 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian (Rare), Late Roman
Other Scripts: Матрона(Russian)
Pronounced: mu-TRO-nə(Russian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Means
"lady" in Late Latin, a derivative of Latin
mater "mother". This was the name of three early
saints.
Medardo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Galician
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Italian, Galician and Spanish form of
Medardus.
Medea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized), Georgian
Other Scripts: Μήδεια(Ancient Greek) მედეა(Georgian)
Pronounced: mə-DEE-ə(English) MEH-DEH-AH(Georgian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 61% based on 13 votes
From Greek
Μήδεια (Medeia), derived from
μήδεα (medea) meaning
"plans, counsel, cunning". In Greek
mythology Medea was a sorceress from Colchis (modern Georgia) who helped
Jason gain the Golden Fleece. They were married, but eventually Jason left her for another woman. For revenge Medea slew Jason's new lover and also had her own children by Jason killed.
Melaneo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Melania
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Polish, Romanian, Late Roman
Pronounced: meh-LA-nya(Spanish, Polish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 47% based on 18 votes
Italian, Spanish, Polish and Romanian form of
Melanie.
Melchiade
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History (Ecclesiastical)
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Melia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Μελία(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: MEH-LEE-A(Classical Greek)
Rating: 51% based on 9 votes
Means
"ash tree" in Greek, a derivative of
μέλι (meli) meaning "honey". This was the name of a nymph in Greek
myth, the daughter of the Greek god Okeanos.
Melisenda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: me-lee-ZEN-dah
Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
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)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 26% based on 7 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.
Menelao
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Menno
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch
Pronounced: MEH-no
Personal remark: Old-fave
Rating: 13% based on 4 votes
Menta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare), Medieval Italian, Hungarian (Rare)
Pronounced: MEN-ta(Italian)
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Italian and Hungarian form of
Minthe. The name coincides with both Italian and Hungarian
menta "mint".
Meo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
Mercede
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: mer-CHE-de
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Mercurio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: mehr-KOO-ryo
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 4 votes
Meridiana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), American (Hispanic, Rare), Literature
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
According to Walter Map's 12th-century work
De nugis curialium (
Courtiers' Trifles), Pope Sylvester II owed his powerful position in the Catholic Church to the influence of a succubus named Meridiana.
Perhaps relatedly,
Meridian was used as a name for the Devil in the early 15th century.
Merita 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Esperanto
Pronounced: meh-REE-ta
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 46% based on 7 votes
Means "meritorious, worthy" in Esperanto.
Merlino
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: merr-LEE-no
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
Merope
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Μερόπη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: MEH-RO-PEH(Classical Greek) MEHR-ə-pee(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 10% based on 3 votes
From Greek
μέρος (meros) meaning "share, part" and
ὄψ (ops) meaning "face, eye". This was the name of several characters in Greek
mythology, including the seventh of the Pleiades and the foster mother of
Oedipus.
Micaela
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: mee-ka-EH-la(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 21% based on 7 votes
Michelangelo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: mee-keh-LAN-jeh-lo(Italian) mie-kə-LAN-jə-lo(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 62% based on 13 votes
Combination of
Michael and
Angelo, referring to the archangel Michael. The Renaissance painter and sculptor Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564), from Florence, was the man who created such great works of art as the statue of
David and the mural on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. This name was also borne by the Baroque artist Michelangelo Merisi (1571-1610), better known as Caravaggio.
Michele 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: mee-KEH-leh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Micol
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: mee-KAWL
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 10% based on 6 votes
Italian variant form of
Michal 2 (the Italian biblical form being
Mikal). This is the name of the heroine in Giorgio Bassani's novel
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1962).
Miele
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: MYEH-leh
Rating: 23% based on 7 votes
Means "honey" in Italian.
Miglė
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Lithuanian
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Derived from Lithuanian migla meaning "mist".
Mila
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Rating: 3% based on 3 votes
Milena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Serbian, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Slovene, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Russian, Italian
Other Scripts: Милена(Serbian, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Russian)
Pronounced: MI-leh-na(Czech) MEE-leh-na(Slovak) mee-LEH-na(Polish, Italian) myi-LYEH-nə(Russian)
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 65% based on 4 votes
Feminine form of
Milan. It began to be used in Italy in honour of Milena Vukotić (1847-1923), mother of Helen of Montenegro, the wife of the Italian king Victor Emmanuel III. In Italy it can also be considered a combination of
Maria and
Elena.
Milo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: MIE-lo(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 52% based on 6 votes
Old German form of
Miles, as well as the Latinized form. This form was revived as an English name in the 19th century
[2].
Miluna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Modern), Venetian
Pronounced: mee-LOO-na
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
From the Italian words mia luna literally meaning "my moon". According to a Venetian legend the 1600s nobleman Vittore Calergi proposed to his love interest with these words (meant "my sweetness, my dear") and a beautiful diamond later renamed Miluna. In 1966 in Italy a newly-founded jewelry brand chose the name Miluna inspired by this legend.
Milvia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Italian (Swiss)
Pronounced: MIL-vi-ah(Italian)
Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
Milvio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
Mimì
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Italian, Theatre
Pronounced: mee-MEE
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Italian form of
Mimi as well as diminutive of other names with a
m sound of any gender. Mimì, a seamstress, is a main character in 'La bohème' (1896) by Giacomo Puccini, based on 'Scènes de la vie de bohème' (1851) by Henri Murger.
Mimosa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Finnish, French, Spanish, Danish, Filipino, Italian
Pronounced: MI-maw-sah(Finnish) Mim-osa(French) mee-MO-sah(Spanish)
Rating: 3% based on 3 votes
From Mimosa, a genus of plants that are sensitive to touch. The best known plant from that genus is the Mimosa pudica, better known in English as the touch-me-not. The plant genus derives its name from Spanish mimosa, which is the feminine form of the Spanish adjective mimoso meaning "cuddly".
Mina 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Dutch
Pronounced: MEE-nə(English) MEE-na(Dutch)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 54% based on 11 votes
Short form of
Wilhelmina and other names ending in
mina. This was the name of a character in the novel
Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker.
Minerva
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology, English, Spanish
Pronounced: mee-NEHR-wa(Latin) mi-NUR-və(English) mee-NEHR-ba(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 66% based on 19 votes
Possibly derived from Latin
mens meaning
"intellect", but more likely of Etruscan origin. Minerva was the Roman goddess of wisdom and war, approximately equivalent to the Greek goddess
Athena. It has been used as a given name in the English-speaking world since after the Renaissance.
Miniato
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: mee-NYA-to
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Mira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Albanian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 45% based on 10 votes
Derived from Albanian mirë "good".
Mira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Judeo-Spanish, Judeo-Catalan
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Judeo-Spanish short form of
Mirian and Judeo-Catalan short form of
Miriam. In some cases it might also be a direct adoption of Judeo-Spanish
mira "myrrh" (compare Spanish
mirra) or an adoption of the popular Catalan feminine Mira, meaning "notable".
Mira 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Macedonian, Polish
Other Scripts: Мира(Serbian, Macedonian)
Pronounced: MEE-ra(Polish)
Personal remark: 💜
Short form of
Miroslava and other names beginning with
Mir (often the Slavic element
mirŭ meaning
"peace, world").
Mirabella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 36% based on 5 votes
Miranda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Dutch
Pronounced: mi-RAN-də(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 61% based on 23 votes
Derived from Latin
mirandus meaning
"admirable, wonderful". The name was created by Shakespeare for the heroine in his play
The Tempest (1611), in which Miranda and her father
Prospero are stranded on an island. It did not become a common English given name until the 20th century. This is also the name of one of the moons of Uranus, named after the Shakespearean character.
Mircea
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Romanian
Pronounced: MEER-chya, MEER-cha
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Romanian form of
Mirče. This name was borne by a 14th-century ruler of Wallachia, called Mircea the Great.
Mirco
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: MEER-ko
Personal remark: Old-fave
Rating: 0% based on 5 votes
Italian variant of
Mirko.
Mirella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: mee-REHL-la
Personal remark: Honouring
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Miriam
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew, English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Italian, Portuguese, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Biblical, Biblical Hebrew
Other Scripts: מִרְיָם(Hebrew)
Pronounced: MIR-ee-əm(English) MI-ryam(German) MI-ri-yam(Czech) MEE-ree-am(Slovak)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
Hebrew form of
Mary. It is used in the
Old Testament, where it belongs to the elder sister of
Moses and
Aaron. She watched over the infant Moses as the pharaoh's daughter drew him from the Nile. The name has long been popular among Jews, and it has been used as an English Christian name (alongside
Mary) since the
Protestant Reformation.
Miriana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: mee-RYA-na
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
Mirna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Croatian, Serbian
Other Scripts: Мирна(Serbian)
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
From Serbo-Croatian miran meaning "peaceful, calm".
Miro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Croatian, Slovene
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Short form of
Miroslav and other names beginning with
Mir (often the Slavic element
mirŭ meaning
"peace, world").
Mirsada
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Bosnian
Personal remark: 💜
Mirta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Italian, Croatian
Pronounced: MEER-ta(Spanish)
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Mirtilla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Modern, Rare)
Pronounced: meer-TEEL-la
Personal remark: Harry Potter ITA (Moaning Myrtle)
Rating: 0% based on 3 votes
Variant of
Mirta also similar to the Italian word
mirtillo meaning "blueberry". It has been used in the Italian translation of 'Harry Potter' franchise for the character Mirtilla Malcontenta (Moaning Myrtle).
Moira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish, Scottish, English
Pronounced: MOI-rə(English)
Personal remark: Μοῖρα
Rating: 54% based on 14 votes
Anglicized form of
Máire. It also coincides with Greek
Μοῖρα (Moira) meaning "fate, destiny", the singular of
Μοῖραι, the Greek name for the Fates. They were the three female personifications of destiny in Greek
mythology.
Monia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic (Maghrebi), Arabic (Egyptian)
Other Scripts: مونيا(Maghrebi Arabic, Egyptian Arabic)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Montano
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Theatre, Italian (Archaic)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 7% based on 3 votes
Italian form of
Montanus. Montano has been used by William Shakespeare for a character in 'Othello' (1603).
Morena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: mo-REH-na(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 7% based on 3 votes
Moreno
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: mo-REH-no(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 7% based on 3 votes
Derived from Italian moro or Spanish moreno meaning "dark-skinned".
Morfeo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Rating: 10% based on 3 votes
Morgana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: mawr-GAN-ə
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 66% based on 21 votes
Morgante
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Carolingian Cycle, Literature, Medieval Italian
Personal remark: 🌐
Rating: 20% based on 4 votes
From the name of the eponymous character of the epic poem
Morgante (1478) written by the Italian poet Luigi Pulci (1432-1484). In the poem, Morgante is a giant who is converted to Christianity by the knight
Orlando and subsequently becomes his loyal follower.
Pulci was likely inspired by the Arthurian legends and as such may have created the name as a masculine form of Morgana, which is the Italian form of Morgan 2. Alternatively, he may have derived the name from the Old French adjective morgant (also found spelled as morjant) meaning "proud, haughty", which is a variant of the Old French adjective mordant, itself ultimately derived from the Old French verb mordre meaning "to bite". Also compare the noun morgue meaning "arrogance, haughty attitude".
A known real-life bearer of this name was Morgante Baglioni (died in July 1502), a member of the Baglioni family, which was a noble family that ruled the city of Perugia in the 15th and 16th century.
Mosè
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Biblical Italian
Pronounced: mo-ZEH(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
Munira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: منيرة(Arabic)
Pronounced: moo-NEE-rah
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Musa
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic, Turkish, Hausa
Other Scripts: موسى(Arabic)
Pronounced: MOO-sa(Arabic)
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Arabic, Turkish and Hausa form of
Moses.
Musetta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Theatre, Italian (Tuscan)
Pronounced: moo-ZET-tah(Italian)
Personal remark: La bohème
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
Latinate form of
Musette, which was possibly based on the dance style, popular in Paris in the 1880s, which took its name from a kind of small bagpipe. It was used by Puccini for the lover of Marcello in his opera
La Bohème (1896), which was based on
La Vie de Bohème (1851) by Henri Murger (who named the character
Musette).
As an Italian name, it is found almost exclusively in Tuscany.
Nadia 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, Italian, Spanish, English, Russian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian
Other Scripts: Надя(Russian, Bulgarian) Надія(Ukrainian)
Pronounced: NA-DYA(French) NAD-ee-ə(English) NAHD-ee-ə(English) NA-dyə(Russian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 6 votes
Variant of
Nadya 1 used in Western Europe, as well as an alternate transcription of the Slavic name. It began to be used in France in the 19th century
[1]. The name received a boost in popularity from the Romanian gymnast Nadia Comăneci (1961-)
[2].
Naira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Aymara
Personal remark: 💜
From Aymara nayra meaning "eye" or "early".
Naomi 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Hebrew, Biblical
Other Scripts: נָעֳמִי(Hebrew)
Pronounced: nay-O-mee(English) nie-O-mee(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 52% based on 5 votes
From the Hebrew name
נָעֳמִי (Na'omi) meaning
"pleasantness". 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-).
Napoleone
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: na-po-leh-O-neh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 10% based on 3 votes
Italian form of
Napoleon. Besides the French emperor, it was borne by the Italian cardinal Napoleone Orsini (1263-1342) and the writer and politician Napoleone Colajanni (1847-1921).
Narciso
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: nar-CHEE-zo(Italian) nar-THEE-so(European Spanish) nar-SEE-so(Latin American Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 5% based on 6 votes
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of
Narcissus. This is also the word for the narcissus flower in those languages.
Narcissa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman
Pronounced: nahr-SIS-ə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Nastagio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval Italian
Personal remark: Old-fave
Rating: 25% based on 11 votes
Natale
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: na-TA-leh
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 30% based on 3 votes
Natalia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Polish, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Greek, Georgian, Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Late Roman
Other Scripts: Ναταλία(Greek) ნატალია(Georgian) Наталия(Russian, Bulgarian) Наталія(Ukrainian)
Pronounced: na-TA-lya(Polish, Spanish) na-ta-LEE-a(Italian) na-TA-lee-a(Romanian) nə-TAHL-ee-ə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 76% based on 20 votes
Latinate form of
Natalia (see
Natalie).
Natan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew, Polish
Other Scripts: נָתָן(Hebrew)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 30% based on 5 votes
Hebrew and Polish form of
Nathan.
Natanaele
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical Italian
Pronounced: na-ta-na-EH-leh(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Nausicaa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ναυσικάα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: naw-SIK-ee-ə(English)
Rating: 46% based on 7 votes
Latinized form of Greek
Ναυσικάα (Nausikaa) meaning
"burner of ships". In
Homer's epic the
Odyssey this is the name of a daughter of Alcinous who helps
Odysseus on his journey home.
Nefertari
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Egyptian
Pronounced: nehf-ər-TAHR-ee(English)
Rating: 59% based on 11 votes
From Egyptian
nfrt-jrj meaning
"the most beautiful" [1]. This was the name of an Egyptian queen of the New Kingdom (13th century BC), the favourite wife of
Ramesses II.
Nefertiti
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Egyptian
Pronounced: nehf-ər-TEE-tee(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 59% based on 9 votes
From Egyptian
nfrt-jjtj meaning
"the beautiful one has come" [1]. Nefertiti was a powerful Egyptian queen of the New Kingdom (14th century BC), the principal wife of
Akhenaton, the pharaoh that briefly imposed a monotheistic religion centered around the sun god
Aton.
Nemo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: NEE-mo(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 32% based on 6 votes
Means "nobody" in Latin. This was the name used by author Jules Verne for the captain of the Nautilus in his novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870). It was later used for the title character (a fish) in the 2003 animated movie Finding Nemo.
Neo 2
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Various
Pronounced: NEE-o(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 27% based on 12 votes
From a prefix meaning
"new", ultimately from Greek
νέος (neos).
In the film series beginning with The Matrix (1999), this is the main character's screen alias and the name he later goes by in the real world. The character is also called The One, one being an anagram of Neo.
Neottolemo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
Nerea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque, Spanish
Pronounced: neh-REH-a
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Possibly from Basque
nere, a dialectal variant of
nire meaning
"mine". Alternatively, it could be a feminine form of
Nereus. This name arose in Basque-speaking regions of Spain in the first half of the 20th century, though it is now popular throughout the country.
Nereide
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: neh-REH-ee-deh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Nereo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish (Latin American)
Pronounced: neh-REH-o
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 13% based on 4 votes
Italian and Spanish form of
Nereus.
Neri
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval Italian (Tuscan)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Nerissa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: nə-RIS-ə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 35% based on 4 votes
Created by Shakespeare for a character in his play
The Merchant of Venice (1596). He possibly took it from Greek
Νηρηΐς (Nereis) meaning "nymph, sea sprite", ultimately derived from the name of the Greek sea god
Nereus, who supposedly fathered them.
Nermina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Bosnian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 10% based on 1 vote
Bosnian feminine form of
Nermin.
Nerone
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 3 votes
Nestore
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Rating: 43% based on 4 votes
Nettuno
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Roman Mythology (Italianized)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 2% based on 6 votes
Neve
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: NEH-veh
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 54% based on 18 votes
Directly taken from Italian neve "snow".
Nevena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Bulgarian, Macedonian, Croatian, Serbian
Other Scripts: Невена(Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Derived from South Slavic neven meaning "marigold".
Nevio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: NEH-vyo
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Italian form of the Roman family name Naevius, which was derived from Latin naevus "mole (on the body)". A famous bearer was the 3rd-century BC Roman poet Gnaeus Naevius.
Nica
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: Nee-cuh
Personal remark: 💜
Niccolò
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: neek-ko-LAW
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Italian form of
Nicholas. Famous bearers include Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527), a Florentine political philosopher, and Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840), a Genoese composer and violinist.
Nice
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Rare), Ancient Greek (Latinized), Italian
Pronounced: NEE-cheh(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Ancient Greek variant as well as Latinized and Italian form of
Nike. In Italy it's also used as diminutive of names with the element
nice (derived from
nike) such as
Berenice and
Eunice.
In Greek mythology, Nice (transcribed this and not with the usual Nike) was a Thespian princess as one of the 50 daughters of King Thespius and Megamede, daughter of Arneus (or by one of his many wives). She bore Nicodromus to the hero Heracles.
Niceta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Galician (Rare), Polish (Rare)
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
Nicla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Nico
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Dutch, German, Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: NEE-ko(Italian, Dutch, Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 10% based on 4 votes
Nicodemo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish (Rare), Portuguese (Rare)
Pronounced: nee-ko-DEH-mo(Italian) nee-ko-DHEH-mo(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 31% based on 13 votes
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of
Nicodemus.
Nicolai
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Danish, Norwegian
Personal remark: 💜
Danish and Norwegian variant form of
Nicholas.
Nicolao
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Nila
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Tamil, Hindi
Other Scripts: நீலா(Tamil) नीला(Hindi)
Personal remark: 💜
Means "dark blue" in Sanskrit.
Nilde
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: NEEL-de
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Nilo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: NEE-lo(Spanish)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of
Neilos (and also of the Nile River).
Nino 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: NEE-no
Personal remark: 💜2️⃣
Rating: 32% based on 15 votes
Nives
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Croatian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 34% based on 16 votes
Noa 2
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Croatian, Hawaiian, French
Personal remark: 💜⚧️
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Croatian and Hawaiian form of
Noah 1, as well as a French variant.
Noè
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Biblical Italian
Personal remark: 💜
Noele
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: no-EH-leh
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 30% based on 4 votes
Noella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hungarian
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Hungarian borrowing of
Noëlla.
Noemi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Czech, Polish, Romanian, German, Biblical Latin
Pronounced: no-EH-mee(Italian)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
Form of
Naomi 1 in several languages.
Nora 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Irish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Latvian, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: NAWR-ə(English) NO-ra(German)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 60% based on 22 votes
Short form of
Honora or
Eleanor. Henrik Ibsen used it for a character in his play
A Doll's House (1879).
Norma
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Literature
Pronounced: NAWR-mə(English)
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 41% based on 16 votes
Created by Felice Romani for the main character in the opera
Norma (1831). He may have based it on Latin
norma "rule". This name is also frequently used as a feminine form of
Norman.
Normanna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: nor-MAHN-nah
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Normanno
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: nor-MAHN-no
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Nova
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Swedish (Modern), Dutch (Modern)
Pronounced: NO-və(English) NO-va(Swedish)
Rating: 54% based on 14 votes
Derived from Latin novus meaning "new". It was first used as a name in the 19th century.
Novella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: no-VEHL-la
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 34% based on 15 votes
Derived from Latin
novellus meaning
"new, young, novel", a
diminutive of
novus "new". This name was borne by the 14th-century Italian scholar Novella d'Andrea, who taught law at the University of Bologna.
Novello
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: no-VEL-lo
Personal remark: 💜
Rating: 3% based on 3 votes
Novembrino
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Rating: 7% based on 3 votes
Derived from Italian novembre "November", this name was traditionally given to children born in November. Since there is no saint of this name, the name day was celebrated on All Saints' Day.
Nubia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American)
Pronounced: NOO-bya
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
From the name of the ancient region and kingdom in Africa, south of Egypt. It possibly derives from the Egyptian word nbw meaning "gold".
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