Gio123's Personal Name List
Aaron
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French, German, Finnish, Jewish, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Other Scripts: אַהֲרֹן(Hebrew) Ἀαρών(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: EHR-ən(English) AR-ən(English) A-RAWN(French) A-rawn(German) AH-ron(Finnish)
Personal remark: Sound: 8/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 6/10 Overall: 22/30
Rating: 38% based on 8 votes
From the Hebrew name
אַהֲרֹן ('Aharon), which is most likely of unknown Egyptian origin. Other theories claim a Hebrew derivation, and suggest meanings such as
"high mountain" or
"exalted". In the
Old Testament this name is borne by the older brother of
Moses. He acted as a spokesman for his brother when they appealed to the pharaoh to release the Israelites from slavery. Aaron's rod produced miracles and plagues to intimidate the pharaoh. After the departure from Egypt and arrival at Mount Sinai, God installed Aaron as the first high priest of the Israelites and promised that his descendants would form the priesthood.
As an English name, Aaron has been in use since the Protestant Reformation. This name was borne by the American politician Aaron Burr (1756-1836), notable for killing Alexander Hamilton in a duel.
Aatto
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: AHT-to
Personal remark: Sound: 4/10 Spelling: 9/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 23/30
Rating: 33% based on 7 votes
Finnish form of
Adolf. It also means
"eve, evening before" in Finnish, as the day before an important holiday.
Abbán
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Irish [1]
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 9.5/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 29.5/30
Rating: 23% based on 6 votes
Means
"little abbot", derived from Irish
abb "abbot" combined with a
diminutive suffix. This was the name of a 6th-century Irish
saint, the son of King Cormac of Leinster.
Abel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Georgian, Armenian, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Other Scripts: აბელ(Georgian) Աբել(Armenian) הֶבֶל(Ancient Hebrew) Ἄβελ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: AY-bəl(English) A-BEHL(French) a-BEHL(Spanish, European Portuguese) a-BEW(Brazilian Portuguese) A-bəl(Dutch)
Personal remark: Sound: 5/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 6/10 Overall: 21/30
Rating: 38% based on 6 votes
From the Hebrew name
הֶבֶל (Hevel) meaning
"breath". In the
Old Testament he is the second son of
Adam and
Eve, murdered out of envy by his brother
Cain. In England, this name came into use during the Middle Ages, and it was common during the
Puritan era.
Abigail
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Biblical, Biblical German, Biblical Italian, Biblical Portuguese, Biblical Latin
Other Scripts: אֲבִיגַיִל(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: AB-i-gayl(English)
Personal remark: Sound: 9.5/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 4/10 Overall: 23.5/30
Rating: 47% based on 7 votes
From the Hebrew name
אֲבִיגָיִל ('Avigayil) meaning
"my father is joy", derived from the roots
אָב ('av) meaning "father" and
גִּיל (gil) meaning "joy". In the
Old Testament this is the name of Nabal's wife. After Nabal's death she became the third wife of King
David.
As an English name, Abigail first became common after the Protestant Reformation, and it was popular among the Puritans. The biblical Abigail refers to herself as a servant, and beginning in the 17th century the name became a slang term for a servant, especially after the release of the play The Scornful Lady (1616), which featured a character named Abigail. The name went out of fashion at that point, but it was revived in the 20th century.
Absalom
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Latin
Other Scripts: אַבְשָׁלוֹם(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: AB-sə-ləm(English)
Personal remark: Sound: 9.5/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 29.5/30
Rating: 30% based on 5 votes
From the Hebrew name
אַבְשָׁלוֹם ('Avshalom) meaning
"my father is peace", derived from
אָב ('av) meaning "father" and
שָׁלוֹם (shalom) meaning "peace". In the
Old Testament he is a son of King
David. He avenged his sister
Tamar by arranging the murder of her rapist, their half-brother
Amnon. He later led a revolt against his father. While fleeing on the back of a mule he got his head caught in a tree and was killed by
Joab.
Adam
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French, German, Polish, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Czech, Slovak, Russian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian, Romanian, Catalan, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Georgian, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek, Biblical Hebrew
Other Scripts: Адам(Russian, Ukrainian, Serbian, Macedonian) Αδάμ, Άνταμ(Greek) אָדָם(Hebrew) آدم(Arabic) ადამ(Georgian) Ἀδάμ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: AD-əm(English) A-DAHN(French) A-dam(German, Polish, Czech, Arabic) A-dahm(Dutch) AH-dam(Swedish) u-DAM(Russian, Ukrainian) ə-DHAM(Catalan)
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 3/10 Overall: 23/30
Rating: 45% based on 6 votes
This is the Hebrew word for
"man". It could be ultimately derived from Hebrew
אדם ('adam) meaning
"to be red", referring to the ruddy colour of human skin, or from Akkadian
adamu meaning
"to make".
According to Genesis in the Old Testament Adam was created from the earth by God (there is a word play on Hebrew אֲדָמָה ('adamah) meaning "earth"). He and Eve were supposedly the first humans, living happily in the Garden of Eden until they ate the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. As a result they were expelled from Eden to the lands to the east, where they gave birth to the second generation, including Cain, Abel and Seth.
As an English Christian name, Adam has been common since the Middle Ages, and it received a boost after the Protestant Reformation. A famous bearer was Scottish economist Adam Smith (1723-1790).
Adhara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Astronomy
Pronounced: ə-DEHR-ə(English)
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 6/10 Overall: 26/30
Rating: 56% based on 5 votes
Derived from Arabic
عذارى ('adhara) meaning
"maidens". This is the name of the second brightest star (after
Sirius) in the constellation Canis Major.
Adrasteia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἀδράστεια(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: A-DRAS-TEH-A(Classical Greek)
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 5/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 25/30
Rating: 62% based on 5 votes
Feminine form of
Adrastos. In Greek
mythology this name was borne by a nymph who fostered the infant
Zeus. This was also another name of the goddess
Nemesis.
Adrianus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch
Pronounced: a-dree-A-nuys, A-dree-a-nuys
Personal remark: Sound: 4/10 Spelling: 8/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 22/30
Rating: 32% based on 5 votes
Official Dutch form of
Adrian, used on birth certificates but not commonly in daily life.
Aeron
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Personal remark: Sound: 8/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 6/10 Overall: 24/30
Rating: 55% based on 4 votes
From the name of the Welsh river Aeron, itself probably derived from the hypothetical Celtic goddess
Agrona. Alternatively, the name could be taken from Welsh
aeron meaning
"berries".
Ainsley
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Scottish, English (Modern)
Pronounced: AYNZ-lee(English)
Personal remark: Sound: 7/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 27/30
Rating: 42% based on 5 votes
From an English surname that was from a place name: either Annesley in Nottinghamshire or Ansley in Warwickshire. The place names themselves derive from Old English
anne "alone, solitary" or
ansetl "hermitage" and
leah "woodland, clearing".
In America, this name received a boost of popularity in 2000 when a character bearing it began appearing on the television series The West Wing.
Aisling
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: ASH-lyən
Personal remark: Sound: 4/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 24/30
Rating: 54% based on 5 votes
Means "dream" or "vision" in Irish. This name was created in the 20th century.
Alaric
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Gothic (Anglicized)
Other Scripts: 𐌰𐌻𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌺𐍃(Gothic)
Pronounced: AL-ə-rik(English)
Personal remark: Sound: 6/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 26/30
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
From the Gothic name *
Alareiks meaning
"ruler of all", derived from the element
alls "all" combined with
reiks "ruler, king". This was the name of a king of the Visigoths who sacked Rome in the 5th century.
Alasdair
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish Gaelic [1]
Personal remark: Sound: 8/10 Spelling: 8/10 Uniqueness: 6/10 Overall: 22/30
Rating: 64% based on 5 votes
Alec
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AL-ik
Personal remark: Sound: 5/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 7/10 Overall: 22/30
Rating: 45% based on 4 votes
Aleksandrina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian, Bulgarian
Other Scripts: Александрина(Russian, Bulgarian)
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 30/30 **
Rating: 58% based on 6 votes
Alessandro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: a-lehs-SAN-dro
Personal remark: Sound: 7/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 27/30
Rating: 44% based on 5 votes
Italian form of
Alexander. A famous bearer was Alessandro Volta (1745-1827), the Italian physicist who invented the battery.
Alethea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: al-ə-THEE-ə, ə-LEE-thee-ə
Personal remark: Sound: 7/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 27/30
Rating: 67% based on 6 votes
Derived from Greek
ἀλήθεια (aletheia) meaning
"truth". This name was coined in the 16th century.
Alexandra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, German, Dutch, French, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Greek, Portuguese, Romanian, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Catalan, Russian, Ukrainian, Ancient Greek, Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Αλεξάνδρα(Greek) Александра(Russian, Ukrainian) Ἀλεξάνδρα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: al-ig-ZAN-drə(English) a-leh-KSAN-dra(German, Romanian) a-lehk-SAHN-dra(Dutch) A-LUG-ZAHN-DRA(French) a-leh-KSAN-dhra(Greek) u-li-SHUN-dru(European Portuguese) a-leh-SHUN-dru(Brazilian Portuguese) A-lehk-san-dra(Czech, Slovak) AW-lehk-sawn-draw(Hungarian) A-LEH-KSAN-DRA(Classical Greek)
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 7/10 Overall: 27/30
Rating: 63% based on 6 votes
Feminine form of
Alexander. In Greek
mythology this was a Mycenaean epithet of the goddess
Hera, and an alternate name of
Cassandra. It was borne by several early Christian
saints, and also by the wife of Nicholas II, the last tsar of Russia. She was from Germany and had the birth name
Alix, but was renamed
Александра (Aleksandra) upon joining the Russian Church.
Alexis
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: French, English, Greek, Spanish, Ancient Greek
Other Scripts: Αλέξης(Greek) Ἄλεξις(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: A-LEHK-SEE(French) ə-LEHK-sis(English)
Personal remark: Sound: 5/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 7/10 Overall: 22/30
Rating: 38% based on 6 votes
From the Greek name
Ἄλεξις (Alexis) meaning
"helper" or
"defender", derived from Greek
ἀλέξω (alexo) meaning "to defend, to help". This was the name of a 3rd-century BC Greek comic poet, and also of several
saints. It is used somewhat interchangeably with the related name
Ἀλέξιος or
Alexius, borne by five Byzantine emperors.
In the English-speaking world this name is more commonly given to girls. This is due to the American actress Alexis Smith (1921-1993), who began appearing in movies in the early 1940s. It got a boost in popularity in the 1980s from a character on the soap opera Dynasty.
Alice
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, French, Portuguese, Italian, German, Czech, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Dutch
Pronounced: AL-is(English) A-LEES(French) u-LEE-si(European Portuguese) a-LEE-see(Brazilian Portuguese) a-LEE-cheh(Italian) a-LEES(German) A-li-tseh(Czech)
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 8/10 Overall: 28/30
Rating: 78% based on 5 votes
From the Old French name
Aalis, a short form of
Adelais, itself a short form of the Germanic name
Adalheidis (see
Adelaide). This name became popular in France and England in the 12th century. It was among the most common names in England until the 16th century, when it began to decline. It was revived in the 19th century.
This name was borne by the heroine of Lewis Carroll's novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass (1871).
Alicia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, English, Swedish, French
Pronounced: a-LEE-thya(European Spanish) a-LEE-sya(Latin American Spanish) ə-LEE-shə(English) ə-LEE-see-ə(English)
Personal remark: Sound: 7/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 8/10 Overall: 25/30
Rating: 46% based on 5 votes
Alison 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, French
Pronounced: AL-i-sən(English) A-LEE-SAWN(French)
Personal remark: Sound: 7/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 7/10 Overall: 24/30
Rating: 32% based on 5 votes
Norman French
diminutive of
Aalis (see
Alice)
[1]. It was common in England, Scotland and France in the Middle Ages, and was later revived in England in the 20th century via Scotland. Unlike most other English names ending in
son, it is not derived from a surname.
Alistair
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish
Pronounced: AL-i-stər(English)
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 9/10 Overall: 29/30
Rating: 75% based on 4 votes
Allie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AL-ee
Personal remark: (Nickname) Sound: 9/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 6/10 Overall: 25/30
Rating: 30% based on 4 votes
Diminutive of
Alison 1,
Alexandra and other names beginning with the same sound. After a 34-year absence from the American top 1000 chart this name began growing in popularity after the premiere of the sitcom
Kate and Allie in 1984.
Allon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: אַלּוֹן(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: AL-awn(English)
Personal remark: Sound: 4/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 24/30
Rating: 28% based on 4 votes
Means
"oak" in Hebrew. This name is mentioned briefly in the
Old Testament.
Ally 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AL-ee
Personal remark: Sound: 7/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 27/30
Rating: 30% based on 4 votes
Diminutive of
Alison 1,
Alexandra and other names beginning with the same sound. This name jumped in popularity in 1997 after the premiere of the American television series
Ally McBeal.
Alma 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Albanian, Slovene, Croatian
Pronounced: AL-mə(English) AL-ma(Spanish)
Personal remark: Sound: 8.5/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 8.5/10 Overall: 27/30
Rating: 42% based on 5 votes
This name became popular after the Battle of Alma (1854), which took place near the River Alma in Crimea and ended in a victory for Britain and France. However, the name was in rare use before the battle; it was probably inspired by Latin
almus "nourishing". It also coincides with the Spanish word meaning
"the soul".
Aloisia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Rare)
Pronounced: a-LOI-zya
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 30/30 **
Rating: 58% based on 5 votes
Alpin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish (Rare)
Personal remark: Sound: 8.5/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 9/10 Overall: 27.5/30
Rating: 38% based on 4 votes
Anglicized form of the Scottish Gaelic name Ailpean, possibly derived from a Pictish word meaning "white". This was the name of two kings of Dál Riata and two kings of the Picts in the 8th and 9th centuries.
Alvar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish, Estonian
Personal remark: Sound: 7/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 27/30
Rating: 37% based on 6 votes
From the Old Norse name
Alfarr, formed of the elements
alfr "elf" and
herr "army, warrior".
Alycia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ə-LEE-shə, ə-LEE-see-ə
Personal remark: Sound: 7/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 7/10 Overall: 24/30
Rating: 15% based on 4 votes
Amalia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Italian, Romanian, Greek, Finnish, Swedish, Dutch, German, Germanic (Latinized) [1]
Other Scripts: Αμαλία(Greek)
Pronounced: a-MA-lya(Spanish, German) a-MA-lee-a(Dutch)
Personal remark: Sound: 7/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 22/30
Rating: 58% based on 4 votes
Short form of Germanic names beginning with the element
amal. This element means
"unceasing, vigorous, brave", or it can refer to the Gothic dynasty of the Amali (derived from the same root).
This was another name for the 7th-century saint Amalberga of Maubeuge.
Amandine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: A-MAHN-DEEN
Personal remark: Sound: 1/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 21/30
Rating: 50% based on 5 votes
Amara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Igbo
Personal remark: Sound: 7/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 22/30
Rating: 46% based on 5 votes
Means "grace" in Igbo.
Amariah
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: אֲמַרְיָהוּ(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: am-ə-RIE-ə(English)
Personal remark: Sound: 2/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 22/30
Rating: 40% based on 4 votes
Amaryllis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: am-ə-RIL-is(English)
Personal remark: Sound: 9.5/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 29.5/30
Rating: 40% based on 5 votes
Derived from Greek
ἀμαρύσσω (amarysso) meaning
"to sparkle". This is the name of a character appearing in
Virgil's pastoral poems
Eclogues [1]. The amaryllis flower is named for her.
Amber
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Dutch
Pronounced: AM-bər(English) AHM-bər(Dutch)
Personal remark: Sound: 9.5/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 8/10 Overall: 27/30
Rating: 35% based on 6 votes
From the English word
amber that denotes either the gemstone, which is formed from fossil resin, or the orange-yellow colour. The word ultimately derives from Arabic
عنبر ('anbar). It began to be used as a given name in the late 19th century, but it only became popular after the release of Kathleen Winsor's novel
Forever Amber (1944).
Amos
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Hebrew, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek, Biblical Hebrew
Other Scripts: עָמוֹס(Hebrew) Ἀμώς(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: AY-məs(English)
Personal remark: Sound: 4/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 24/30
Rating: 28% based on 5 votes
From Hebrew
עָמַס ('amas) meaning
"load, burden". Amos is one of the twelve minor prophets of the
Old Testament, the author of the Book of Amos, which speaks against greed, corruption and oppression of the poor. Written about the 8th century BC, it is among the oldest of the prophetic books. As an English name,
Amos has been used since the
Protestant Reformation, and was popular among the
Puritans.
Anastasia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, English, Spanish, Italian, Georgian, Ancient Greek
Other Scripts: Αναστασία(Greek) Анастасия(Russian) Анастасія(Ukrainian, Belarusian) ანასტასია(Georgian) Ἀναστασία(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: a-na-sta-SEE-a(Greek) u-nu-stu-SYEE-yə(Russian) u-nu-stu-SYEE-yu(Ukrainian) a-na-sta-SYEE-ya(Belarusian) an-ə-STAY-zhə(English) a-na-STA-sya(Spanish) a-na-STA-zya(Italian) A-NA-STA-SEE-A(Classical Greek)
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 9/10 Overall: 29/30
Rating: 67% based on 7 votes
Feminine form of
Anastasius. This was the name of a 4th-century Dalmatian
saint who was martyred during the persecutions of the Roman emperor Diocletian. Due to her, the name has been common in Eastern Orthodox Christianity (in various spellings). As an English name it has been in use since the Middle Ages. A famous bearer was the youngest daughter of the last Russian tsar Nicholas II, who was rumoured to have escaped the execution of her family in 1918.
Anatolia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman
Personal remark: Sound: 2/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 22/30
Rating: 60% based on 5 votes
Feminine form of
Anatolius. This was the name of a 3rd-century Italian
saint and martyr. This is also a place name (from the same Greek origin) referring to the large peninsula that makes up the majority of Turkey.
Andon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Bulgarian, Macedonian
Other Scripts: Андон(Bulgarian, Macedonian)
Personal remark: Sound: 9.5/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 29.5/30
Rating: 40% based on 5 votes
Andreas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Greek, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Welsh, Ancient Greek, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Other Scripts: Ανδρέας(Greek) Ἀνδρέας(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: an-DREH-as(German, Swedish) ahn-DREH-ahs(Dutch) AN-DREH-AS(Classical Greek)
Personal remark: Sound: 9/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 29/30
Rating: 64% based on 5 votes
Ancient Greek and Latin form of
Andrew. It is also the form used in Modern Greek, German and Welsh.
Anika 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Dutch, Danish, Polish, Slovene
Pronounced: A-nee-ka(German, Dutch)
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 6/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 26/30
Rating: 74% based on 5 votes
Anneliese
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Dutch
Pronounced: A-nə-lee-zə(German) ah-nə-LEE-sə(Dutch)
Personal remark: Sound: 9/10 Spelling: 3/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 22/30
Rating: 67% based on 6 votes
Annelise
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Danish
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 30/30 **
Rating: 68% based on 6 votes
Annika
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Dutch, Finnish, Estonian, German, English (Modern)
Pronounced: AN-ni-ka(Swedish) AH-nee-ka(Dutch) AHN-nee-kah(Finnish) A-nee-ka(German) AN-i-kə(English) AHN-i-kə(English)
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 9.5/10 Overall: 29.5/30
Rating: 64% based on 7 votes
Anthony
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AN-thə-nee(American English) AN-tə-nee(British English)
Personal remark: Sound: 9.5/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 7/10 Overall: 26.5/30
Rating: 66% based on 7 votes
English form of the Roman family name
Antonius, which is of unknown Etruscan origin. The most notable member of the Roman family was the general Marcus Antonius (called Mark Antony in English), who for a period in the 1st century BC ruled the Roman Empire jointly with Augustus. When their relationship turned sour, he and his mistress Cleopatra were attacked and forced to commit suicide, as related in Shakespeare's tragedy
Antony and Cleopatra (1606).
The name became regularly used in the Christian world due to the fame of Saint Anthony the Great, a 4th-century Egyptian hermit who founded Christian monasticism. Its popularity was reinforced in the Middle Ages by the 13th-century Saint Anthony of Padua, the patron saint of Portugal. It has been commonly (but incorrectly) associated with Greek ἄνθος (anthos) meaning "flower", which resulted in the addition of the h to this spelling in the 17th century.
April
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AY-prəl
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 8/10 Overall: 28/30
Rating: 40% based on 5 votes
From the name of the month, probably originally derived from Latin aperire "to open", referring to the opening of flowers. It has only been commonly used as a given name since the 1940s.
Archibald
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish, English
Pronounced: AHR-chi-bawld
Personal remark: Sound: 8/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 28/30
Rating: 43% based on 4 votes
Derived from the Germanic name
Ercanbald, composed of the elements
erkan meaning "pure, holy, genuine" and
bald meaning "bold, brave". The first element was altered due to the influence of Greek names beginning with the element
ἀρχός (archos) meaning "master". The
Normans brought this name to England. It first became common in Scotland in the Middle Ages (sometimes used to Anglicize the Gaelic name
Gilleasbuig, for unknown reasons).
Arthur
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Welsh Mythology, Arthurian Romance
Pronounced: AHR-thər(English) AR-TUYR(French) AR-tuwr(German) AHR-tuyr(Dutch)
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 30/30 **
Rating: 50% based on 5 votes
The meaning of this name is unknown. It could be derived from the Celtic elements *
artos "bear" (Old Welsh
arth) combined with *
wiros "man" (Old Welsh
gur) or *
rīxs "king" (Old Welsh
ri). Alternatively it could be related to an obscure Roman family name
Artorius.
Arthur is the name of the central character in Arthurian legend, a 6th-century king of the Britons who resisted Saxon invaders. He may or may not have been based on a real person. He first appears in Welsh poems and chronicles (perhaps briefly in the 7th-century poem Y Gododdin and more definitively and extensively in the 9th-century History of the Britons [1]). However, his character was not developed until the chronicles of the 12th-century Geoffrey of Monmouth [2]. His tales were later taken up and expanded by French and English writers.
The name came into general use in England in the Middle Ages due to the prevalence of Arthurian romances, and it enjoyed a surge of popularity in the 19th century. Famous bearers include German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), mystery author and Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), and science-fiction author Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008).
Åsa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish
Pronounced: O-sa
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Rating: 57% based on 6 votes
Short form of Old Norse feminine names beginning with the element
áss "god".
Aspen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: AS-pən
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Rating: 48% based on 4 votes
From the English word for a variety of deciduous trees in the genus Populus, derived from Old English æspe. It is also the name of a ski resort in Colorado.
Astrid
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, French, English
Pronounced: AS-strid(Swedish) AHS-tri(Norwegian) AS-trit(German) AS-TREED(French) AS-trid(English)
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Rating: 38% based on 6 votes
Modern Scandinavian form of
Ástríðr. This name was borne by the Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002), the author of
Pippi Longstocking. It was also borne by a Swedish princess (1905-1935) who became the queen of Belgium as the wife of Leopold III.
Athena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, English
Other Scripts: Ἀθηνᾶ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: A-TEH-NA(Classical Greek) ə-THEE-nə(English)
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Rating: 85% based on 6 votes
Meaning unknown. Athena was the Greek goddess of wisdom and warfare and the patron goddess of the city of Athens in Greece. It is likely that her name is derived from that of the city, not vice versa. The earliest mention of her seems to be a 15th-century BC Mycenaean Greek inscription from Knossos on Crete.
The daughter of Zeus, she was said to have sprung from his head fully grown after he impregnated and swallowed her mother Metis. Athena is associated with the olive tree and the owl.
Atticus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature, Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἀττικός(Ancient Greek)
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Rating: 87% based on 7 votes
Latinized form of Greek
Ἀττικός (Attikos) meaning
"from Attica", referring to the region surrounding Athens in Greece. This name was borne by a few notable Greeks from the Roman period (or Romans of Greek background). The author Harper Lee used the name in her novel
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) for an Alabama lawyer who defends a black man accused of raping a white woman.
Aurelia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman, Romanian, Italian, Spanish, Polish
Pronounced: ow-REH-lee-a(Latin) ow-REH-lya(Italian, Spanish, Polish)
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Rating: 58% based on 6 votes
Bailey
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BAY-lee
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Rating: 36% based on 5 votes
From an English surname derived from Middle English
baili meaning
"bailiff", originally denoting one who was a bailiff.
Already an uncommon masculine name, it slowly grew in popularity for American girls beginning in 1978 after the start of the sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati, which featured a character with this name. Though it remained more common as a feminine name, it got a boost for boys in 1994 from another television character on the drama Party of Five. In the United Kingdom and Australia it has always been more popular for boys.
Bartholomew
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Biblical
Pronounced: bahr-THAHL-ə-myoo(English)
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Rating: 50% based on 5 votes
English form of
Βαρθολομαῖος (Bartholomaios), which was the Greek form of an Aramaic name meaning
"son of Talmai". In the
New Testament Bartholomew is the byname of an apostle, possibly the same person as the apostle
Nathanael. According to tradition he was a missionary to India before returning westward to Armenia, where he was martyred by flaying. Due to the popularity of this
saint the name became common in England during the Middle Ages.
Beatrice
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, English, Swedish, Romanian
Pronounced: beh-a-TREE-cheh(Italian) BEE-ə-tris(English) BEET-ris(English) BEH-ah-trees(Swedish) beh-ah-TREES(Swedish)
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Rating: 50% based on 4 votes
Italian form of
Beatrix. Beatrice Portinari (1266-1290) was the woman who was loved by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri. She serves as Dante's guide through paradise in his epic poem the
Divine Comedy (1321). This is also the name of a character in Shakespeare's comedy
Much Ado About Nothing (1599), in which Beatrice and
Benedick are fooled into confessing their love for one another.
Beatrix
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Hungarian, Dutch, English, Late Roman
Pronounced: beh-A-triks(German) BEH-a-triks(German) BEH-aw-treeks(Hungarian) BEH-ya-triks(Dutch) BEE-ə-triks(English) BEE-triks(English)
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Rating: 45% based on 6 votes
Probably from
Viatrix, a feminine form of the Late Latin name
Viator meaning
"voyager, traveller". It was a common name amongst early Christians, and the spelling was altered by association with Latin
beatus "blessed, happy". Viatrix or Beatrix was a 4th-century
saint who was strangled to death during the persecutions of Diocletian.
In England the name became rare after the Middle Ages, but it was revived in the 19th century, more commonly in the spelling Beatrice. Famous bearers include the British author and illustrator Beatrix Potter (1866-1943), the creator of Peter Rabbit, and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands (1938-).
Benedict
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BEHN-ə-dikt
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Rating: 48% based on 4 votes
From the Late Latin name
Benedictus, which meant
"blessed".
Saint Benedict was an Italian monk who founded the Benedictines in the 6th century. After his time the name was common among Christians, being used by 16 popes. In England it did not come into use until the 12th century, at which point it became very popular. This name was also borne by the American general Benedict Arnold (1741-1801), who defected to Britain during the American Revolution.
Benjamin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French, German, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Slovene, Croatian, Biblical
Other Scripts: בִּנְיָמִין(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: BEHN-jə-min(English) BEHN-ZHA-MEHN(French) BEHN-ya-meen(German) BEHN-ya-min(Dutch)
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Rating: 33% based on 4 votes
From the Hebrew name
בִּנְיָמִין (Binyamin) meaning
"son of the south" or
"son of the right hand", from the roots
בֵּן (ben) meaning "son" and
יָמִין (yamin) meaning "right hand, south". Benjamin in the
Old Testament was the twelfth and youngest son of
Jacob and the founder of one of the southern tribes of the Hebrews. He was originally named
בֶּן־אוֹנִי (Ben-'oni) meaning "son of my sorrow" by his mother
Rachel, who died shortly after childbirth, but it was later changed by his father (see
Genesis 35:18).
As an English name, Benjamin came into general use after the Protestant Reformation. A famous bearer was Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), an American statesman, inventor, scientist and philosopher.
Bethan
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: BETH-an
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Rating: 30% based on 3 votes
Björn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish, Icelandic, German
Pronounced: BYUUN(Swedish) PYUURTN(Icelandic) BYUURN(German)
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Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
From an Old Norse byname derived from
bjǫrn meaning
"bear".
Blaine
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BLAYN
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Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
From a Scottish surname that was derived from the Old Irish given name
Bláán.
Blair
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Scottish, English
Pronounced: BLEHR(English)
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Rating: 43% based on 4 votes
From a Scottish surname that was derived from Gaelic
blàr meaning
"plain, field, battlefield". In Scotland this name is typically masculine.
In the United States it became more common for girls in the early 1980s, shortly after the debut of the television sitcom The Facts of Life (1979-1988), which featured a character named Blair Warner. The name left the American top 1000 rankings two decades later, but was resurrected by another television character, this time Blair Waldorf from the series Gossip Girl (2007-2012).
Blake
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BLAYK
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Rating: 60% based on 4 votes
From an English surname that was derived from Old English blæc "black" or blac "pale". A famous bearer of the surname was the poet and artist William Blake (1757-1827). It was originally a mainly masculine name but in 2007 actress Blake Lively (1987-) began starring in the television series Gossip Girl, after which time it increased in popularity for girls.
Brenden
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BREHN-dən
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Rating: 33% based on 4 votes
Briar
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: BRIE-ər
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Rating: 43% based on 4 votes
From the English word for the thorny plant.
Bridget
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish, English
Pronounced: BRIJ-it(English)
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Rating: 40% based on 5 votes
Anglicized form of the Irish name
Brighid, Old Irish
Brigit, from old Celtic *
Brigantī meaning
"the exalted one". In Irish
mythology this was the name of the goddess of fire, poetry and wisdom, the daughter of the god
Dagda. In the 5th century it was borne by
Saint Brigid, the founder of a monastery at Kildare and a patron saint of Ireland. Because of the saint, the name was considered sacred in Ireland, and it did not come into general use there until the 17th century. In the form
Birgitta this name has been common in Scandinavia, made popular by the 14th-century Saint Birgitta of Sweden, patron saint of Europe.
Brielle
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: bree-EHL
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Rating: 60% based on 4 votes
Short form of
Gabrielle. This is also the name of towns in the Netherlands and New Jersey, though their names derive from a different source.
Brunella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
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Rating: 48% based on 4 votes
Bryant
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BRIE-ənt
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Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
From an English surname that was derived from the given name
Brian.
Cadence
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: KAY-dəns
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Rating: 30% based on 4 votes
From an English word meaning "rhythm, flow". It has been in use only since the 20th century.
Caecilia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Pronounced: kie-KEE-lee-a
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Rating: 55% based on 4 votes
Calista
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Portuguese (Rare), Spanish (Rare)
Pronounced: kə-LIS-tə(English) ka-LEES-ta(Spanish)
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Rating: 70% based on 5 votes
Feminine form of
Callistus. As an English name it might also be a variant of
Kallisto.
Callista
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: kə-LIS-tə
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Rating: 63% based on 6 votes
Callum
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish
Pronounced: KAL-əm
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Rating: 50% based on 5 votes
Cameron
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KAM-rən
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Rating: 38% based on 5 votes
From a Scottish surname meaning
"crooked nose" from Gaelic
cam "crooked" and
sròn "nose". As a given name it is mainly used for boys. It got a little bump in popularity for girls in the second half of the 1990s, likely because of the fame of actress Cameron Diaz (1972-). In the United States, the forms
Camryn and
Kamryn are now more popular than
Cameron for girls.
Casper
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Pronounced: KAHS-pər(Dutch) KAHS-pehr(Swedish) KAS-bu(Danish)
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Rating: 45% based on 4 votes
Dutch and Scandinavian form of
Jasper. This is the name of a friendly ghost in an American series of cartoons and comic books (beginning 1945).
Cass
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KAS
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Rating: 43% based on 4 votes
Cecily
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SEHS-ə-lee
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Rating: 76% based on 5 votes
English form of
Cecilia. This was the usual English form during the Middle Ages.
Celandine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: SEHL-ən-deen, SEHL-ən-dien
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Rating: 58% based on 4 votes
From the name of the flower, which is derived from Greek
χελιδών (chelidon) meaning "swallow (bird)".
Celeste
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, English
Pronounced: cheh-LEH-steh(Italian) theh-LEHS-teh(European Spanish) seh-LEHS-teh(Latin American Spanish) sə-LEST(English)
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Rating: 62% based on 6 votes
Italian feminine and masculine form of
Caelestis. It is also the Portuguese, Spanish and English feminine form.
Celestina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Italian
Pronounced: theh-lehs-TEE-na(European Spanish) seh-lehs-TEE-na(Latin American Spanish) cheh-leh-STEE-na(Italian)
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Rating: 52% based on 5 votes
Celia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Spanish
Pronounced: SEEL-yə(English) SEE-lee-ə(English) THEHL-ya(European Spanish) SEHL-ya(Latin American Spanish)
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Rating: 75% based on 6 votes
Feminine form of the Roman family name
Caelius. Shakespeare used it in his play
As You Like It (1599), which introduced the name to the English-speaking public at large. It is sometimes used as a short form of
Cecilia.
Charles
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French
Pronounced: CHAHRLZ(English) SHARL(French)
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Rating: 65% based on 6 votes
French and English form of
Carolus, the Latin form of the Germanic name
Karl, which was derived from a word meaning
"man" (Proto-Germanic *
karlaz). However, an alternative theory states that it is derived from the common Germanic name element *
harjaz meaning "army".
The popularity of the name in continental Europe was due to the fame of Charles the Great (742-814), commonly known as Charlemagne, a king of the Franks who came to rule over most of Europe. His grandfather Charles Martel had also been a noted leader of the Franks. It was subsequently the name of several Holy Roman emperors, as well as rulers of France, Spain, Portugal, Sweden and Hungary (in various spellings). After Charlemagne, his name was adopted as a word meaning "king" in many Eastern European languages, for example Czech král, Hungarian király, Russian король (korol), and Turkish kral.
The name did not become common in Britain until the 17th century when it was borne by the Stuart king Charles I. It had been introduced into the Stuart royal family by Mary Queen of Scots, who had been raised in France. Two other kings of the United Kingdom have borne this name, including the current monarch.
Other famous bearers include naturalist Charles Darwin (1809-1882) who revolutionized biology with his theory of evolution, novelist Charles Dickens (1812-1870) who wrote such works as Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities, French statesman Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), and American cartoonist Charles Schulz (1922-2000), the creator of the Peanuts comic strip.
Charlie
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: CHAHR-lee
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Rating: 53% based on 6 votes
Diminutive or feminine form of
Charles. A famous bearer was the British comic actor Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977). It is also borne by Charlie Brown, the main character in the comic strip
Peanuts by Charles Schulz.
Charlotte
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch
Pronounced: SHAR-LAWT(French) SHAHR-lət(English) shar-LAW-tə(German) sha-LOT(Swedish) shahr-LAW-tə(Dutch)
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Rating: 56% based on 5 votes
French feminine
diminutive of
Charles. It was introduced to Britain in the 17th century. It was the name of a German-born 18th-century queen consort of Great Britain and Ireland. Another notable bearer was Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855), the eldest of the three Brontë sisters and the author of
Jane Eyre and
Villette. A famous fictional bearer is the spider in the children's novel
Charlotte's Web (1952) by E. B. White.
This name was fairly common in France, England and the United States in the early 20th century. It became quite popular in France and England at the end of the 20th century, just when it was at a low point in the United States. It quickly climbed the American charts and entered the top ten in 2014.
Chastity
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: CHAS-ti-tee
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Rating: 78% based on 4 votes
From the English word chastity, which is ultimately from Latin castus "pure". It was borne by the child of Sonny Bono and Cher, which probably led to the name's increase in popularity during the 1970s.
Cherry
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: CHEHR-ee
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Rating: 44% based on 5 votes
Simply means "cherry" from the name of the fruit. It can also be a
diminutive of
Charity. It has been in use since the late 19th century.
Christoph
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German
Pronounced: KRIS-tawf
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Rating: 58% based on 4 votes
Christopher
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KRIS-tə-fər
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Rating: 53% based on 4 votes
From the Late Greek name
Χριστόφορος (Christophoros) meaning
"bearing Christ", derived from
Χριστός (Christos) combined with
φέρω (phero) meaning "to bear, to carry". Early Christians used it as a metaphorical name, expressing that they carried Christ in their hearts. In the Middle Ages, literal interpretations of the name's etymology led to legends about a
Saint Christopher who carried the young
Jesus across a river. He has come to be regarded as the patron saint of travellers.
As an English given name, Christopher has been in general use since the 15th century. It became very popular in the second half of the 20th century, reaching the top of the charts for England and Wales in the 1980s, and nearing it in the United States.
In Denmark this name was borne by three kings (their names are usually spelled Christoffer), including the 15th-century Christopher of Bavaria who also ruled Norway and Sweden. Other famous bearers include Italian explorer Christopher Columbus (1451-1506), English playwright Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), English architect Christopher Wren (1632-1723) and the fictional character Christopher Robin from A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh books.
Ciara 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: KEE-rə
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Rating: 48% based on 4 votes
Feminine form of
Ciar. This is another name for
Saint Ciar.
Ciarán
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish, Old Irish [1]
Pronounced: KYEE-ran(Irish)
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Rating: 28% based on 5 votes
Diminutive of
Ciar. This was the name of two 6th-century Irish
saints: Ciarán the Elder, the founder of the monastery at Saighir, and Ciarán the Younger, the founder of the monastery at Clonmacnoise.
Claudette
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: KLO-DEHT
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Rating: 40% based on 4 votes
Claudia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: KLAW-dee-ə(English) KLOW-dya(German, Italian, Romanian) KLOW-dee-a(Dutch, Latin) KLOW-dhya(Spanish)
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Rating: 63% based on 4 votes
Feminine form of
Claudius. It is mentioned briefly in the
New Testament. As a Christian name it was very rare until the 16th century.
Claus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Danish
Pronounced: KLOWS
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Rating: 46% based on 5 votes
Clemency
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: KLEH-mən-see, KLEH-mənt-see
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Rating: 43% based on 4 votes
Medieval variant of
Clemence. It can also simply mean "clemency, mercy" from the English word, ultimately from Latin
clemens "merciful".
Cole
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KOL
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Rating: 66% based on 5 votes
From an English surname, itself originally derived from either a medieval short form of
Nicholas or the byname
Cola. A famous bearer was the songwriter Cole Porter (1891-1964), while a bearer of the surname was the musician Nat King Cole (1919-1965).
This name got more popular in the early 1980s, then got a boost in 1990 when it was used by the main character in the movie Days of Thunder.
Constance
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, French
Pronounced: KAHN-stəns(English) KAWNS-TAHNS(French)
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Rating: 68% based on 5 votes
Medieval form of
Constantia. The
Normans introduced this name to England (it was the name of a daughter of William the Conqueror).
Cordelia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature, English
Pronounced: kawr-DEE-lee-ə(English) kawr-DEEL-yə(English)
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Rating: 70% based on 4 votes
From
Cordeilla, a name appearing in the 12th-century chronicles
[1] of Geoffrey of Monmouth, borne by the youngest of the three daughters of King
Leir and the only one to remain loyal to her father. Geoffrey possibly based her name on that of
Creiddylad, a character from Welsh legend.
The spelling was later altered to Cordelia when Geoffrey's story was adapted by others, including Edmund Spenser in his poem The Faerie Queene (1590) and Shakespeare in his tragedy King Lear (1606).
Corey
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KAWR-ee
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Rating: 8% based on 5 votes
From an English surname that was derived from the Old Norse given name
Kóri, of unknown meaning. This name became popular in the 1960s due to the character Corey Baker on the television series
Julia [1].
Cormac
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish Mythology, Irish
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Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
From Old Irish
Cormacc or
Corbmac, of uncertain meaning, possibly from
corb "chariot, wagon" or
corbbad "defilement, corruption" combined with
macc "son". This is the name of several characters from Irish legend, including the semi-legendary high king Cormac mac Airt who supposedly ruled in the 3rd century, during the adventures of the hero
Fionn mac Cumhaill. This name was also borne by a few early
saints.
Cyan
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: SIE-an
Personal remark: Sound: 9/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 29/30
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
From the English word meaning
"greenish blue, cyan", ultimately derived from Greek
κύανος (kyanos).
Cyprian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish, History (Ecclesiastical)
Pronounced: TSI-pryan(Polish) SIP-ree-ən(English)
Personal remark: Sound: 8/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 28/30
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
From the Roman family name
Cyprianus, which meant
"from Cyprus".
Saint Cyprian was a 3rd-century bishop of Carthage and a martyr under the emperor Valerian.
Damien
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: DA-MYEHN
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 9/10 Overall: 29/30
Rating: 63% based on 4 votes
Danica
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Slovak, Macedonian, English
Other Scripts: Даница(Serbian, Macedonian)
Pronounced: DA-nee-tsa(Serbian, Croatian) DA-nyee-tsa(Slovak) DAN-i-kə(English)
Personal remark: Sound: 5/10 Spelling: 8/10 Uniqueness: 9/10 Overall: 22/30
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
From a Slavic word meaning "morning star, Venus". This name occurs in Slavic folklore as a personification of the morning star. It has sometimes been used in the English-speaking world since the 1970s.
Demetria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek, English
Other Scripts: Δημητρία(Ancient Greek)
Personal remark: Sound: 2/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 8/10 Overall: 20/30
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Devon
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DEHV-ən
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 9/10 Overall: 29/30
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Variant of
Devin. It may also be partly inspired by the name of the county of Devon in England, which got its name from the Dumnonii, a Celtic tribe.
Dmitri
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Дмитрий(Russian)
Pronounced: DMEE-tree
Personal remark: Sound: 3/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 9/10 Overall: 22/30
Rating: 53% based on 4 votes
Dominic
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DAHM-i-nik
Personal remark: Sound: 9/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 7/10 Overall: 26/30
Rating: 50% based on 4 votes
From the Late Latin name
Dominicus meaning
"of the Lord". This name was traditionally given to a child born on Sunday. Several
saints have borne this name, including the 13th-century founder of the Dominican order of friars. It was in this saint's honour that the name was first used in England, starting around the 13th century. It is primarily used by Catholics.
Donato
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: do-NA-to(Italian, Spanish)
Personal remark: Sound: 4/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 24/30
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
From the Late Latin name
Donatus meaning
"given". Several early
saints had this name. The name was also borne by two Renaissance masters: the sculptor Donato di Niccolo di Bette Bardi (also known as Donatello), and the architect Donato Bramante.
Dorothy
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DAWR-ə-thee, DAWR-thee
Personal remark: Sound: 9.5/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 5/10 Overall: 24.5/30
Rating: 63% based on 3 votes
Usual English form of
Dorothea. It has been in use since the 16th century. The author L. Frank Baum used it for the central character, Dorothy Gale, in his fantasy novel
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) and several of its sequels.
Drustan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Pictish
Personal remark: Sound: 19/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 30/30 **
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Diminutive of
Drust. This name was borne by a 7th-century Irish
saint who was active among the Picts in Scotland.
Drusus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Personal remark: Sound: 9.5/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 29.5/30
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Roman family name, also sometimes used as a
praenomen, or given name, by the Claudia family. Apparently the name was first assumed by a Roman warrior who killed a Gallic chieftain named Drausus in single combat.
Drausus possibly derives from a Celtic element meaning
"strong".
Eden
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Hebrew, English (Modern), French (Modern)
Other Scripts: עֵדֶן(Hebrew)
Pronounced: EE-dən(English)
Personal remark: Sound: 5/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 7/10 Overall: 22/30
Rating: 75% based on 4 votes
From the biblical place name, itself possibly from Hebrew
עֵדֶן ('eden) meaning "pleasure, delight", or perhaps derived from Sumerian
𒂔 (edin) meaning "plain". According to the
Old Testament the Garden of Eden was the place where the first people,
Adam and
Eve, lived before they were expelled.
Edmund
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, German, Polish
Pronounced: EHD-mənd(English) EHT-muwnt(German) EHD-moont(Polish)
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 8/10 Overall: 28/30
Rating: 53% based on 4 votes
Means
"rich protection", from the Old English elements
ead "wealth, fortune" and
mund "protection". This was the name of two Anglo-Saxon kings of England. It was also borne by two
saints, including a 9th-century king of East Anglia who, according to tradition, was shot to death with arrows after refusing to divide his Christian kingdom with an invading pagan Danish leader. This Old English name remained in use after the
Norman Conquest (even being used by King Henry III for one of his sons), though it became less common after the 15th century.
Famous bearers of the name include the English poet Edmund Spenser (1552-1599), the German-Czech philosopher Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) and New Zealand mountaineer Edmund Hillary (1919-2008), the first person to climb Mount Everest.
Eduardo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: eh-DHWAR-dho(Spanish)
Personal remark: Sound: 8/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 5/10 Overall: 23/30
Rating: 43% based on 4 votes
Spanish and Portuguese form of
Edward.
Edward
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Polish
Pronounced: EHD-wərd(English) EHD-vart(Polish)
Personal remark: Sound: 6/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 5/10 Overall: 21/30
Rating: 66% based on 5 votes
Means
"rich guard", derived from the Old English elements
ead "wealth, fortune" and
weard "guard". This was the name of several Anglo-Saxon kings, the last being
Saint Edward the Confessor shortly before the
Norman Conquest in the 11th century. He was known as a just ruler, and because of his popularity his name remained in use after the conquest when most other Old English names were replaced by Norman ones. The 13th-century Plantagenet king Henry III named his son and successor after the saint, and seven subsequent kings of England were also named Edward.
This is one of the few Old English names to be used throughout Europe (in various spellings). A famous bearer was the British composer Edward Elgar (1857-1934). It was also used by author Charlotte Brontë for the character Edward Rochester, the main love interest of the title character in her novel Jane Eyre (1847).
Edwin
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English, Dutch
Pronounced: EHD-win(English) EHT-vin(Dutch)
Personal remark: Sound: 6/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 6/10 Overall: 22/30
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Means
"rich friend", from the Old English elements
ead "wealth, fortune" and
wine "friend". This was the name of a 7th-century Northumbrian king, regarded as a
saint. After the
Norman Conquest the name was not popular, but it was eventually revived in the 19th century. A notable bearer was the astronaut Edwin Aldrin (1930-), also known as
Buzz, the second man to walk on the moon.
Elise
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Dutch, English
Pronounced: eh-LEE-zə(German) eh-LEE-seh(Norwegian, Danish, Swedish) i-LEES(English) EE-lees(English)
Personal remark: Sound: 6/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 5/10 Overall: 21/30
Rating: 48% based on 4 votes
Eliza
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Romanian, Hungarian, Georgian
Other Scripts: ელიზა(Georgian)
Pronounced: i-LIE-zə(English) eh-LEE-za(Polish) EH-lee-zaw(Hungarian)
Personal remark: (Nickname) Sound: 5/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 6/10 Overall: 21/30
Rating: 50% based on 4 votes
Short form of
Elizabeth. It was borne by the character Eliza Doolittle in George Bernard Shaw's play
Pygmalion (1913) and the subsequent musical adaptation
My Fair Lady (1956).
Eloise
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHL-o-eez, ehl-o-EEZ
Personal remark: Sound: 9/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 9/10 Overall: 28/30
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
From the Old French name
Héloïse, which was probably from the Germanic name
Helewidis, composed of the elements
heil meaning "healthy, whole" and
wit meaning "wide". It is sometimes associated with the Greek word
ἥλιος (helios) meaning "sun" or the name
Louise, though there is no etymological connection. This name was borne by the 12th-century French scholar and philosopher Héloïse. Secretly marrying the theologian Peter Abelard at a young age, she became a nun (and eventually an abbess) after Abelard was violently castrated by order of her uncle Fulbert.
There was a medieval English form of this name, Helewis, though it died out after the 13th century. In the 19th century it was revived in the English-speaking world in the form Eloise.
Elsa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Finnish, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, English
Pronounced: EHL-za(German) EHL-sah(Finnish) EHL-sa(Italian, Spanish) EHL-sə(English)
Personal remark: Sound: 9/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 29/30
Rating: 48% based on 4 votes
Short form of
Elisabeth, typically used independently. Elsa von Brabant is the lover of
Lohengrin in medieval German tales, and her story was expanded by Richard Wagner for his opera
Lohengrin (1850). The name had a little spike in popularity after the 2013 release of the animated Disney movie
Frozen, which featured a magical princess by this name.
Emily
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHM-ə-lee
Personal remark: Sound: 9/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 5/10 Overall: 24/30
Rating: 38% based on 4 votes
English feminine form of
Aemilius (see
Emil). In the English-speaking world it was not common until after the German House of Hanover came to the British throne in the 18th century; the princess Amelia Sophia (1711-1786) was commonly known as
Emily in English, even though
Amelia is an unrelated name.
This name was moderately popular through most of the 20th century, and became very popular around the turn of the 21st century. It was the highest ranked name for girls in the United States from 1996 to 2007, attaining similar levels in other English-speaking countries around the same time.
Famous bearers include the British author Emily Brontë (1818-1848), known for the novel Wuthering Heights, and the American poet Emily Dickinson (1830-1886).
Erasmus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Late Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἔρασμος(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: i-RAZ-məs(English)
Personal remark: Sound: 7/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 27/30
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
Derived from Greek
ἐράσμιος (erasmios) meaning
"beloved, desired".
Saint Erasmus, also known as Saint
Elmo, was a 4th-century martyr who is the patron saint of sailors. Erasmus was also the name of a Dutch scholar of the Renaissance period.
Erin
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Irish
Pronounced: EHR-in(English)
Personal remark: Sound: 5/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 7/10 Overall: 22/30
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
Anglicized form of
Éireann. It was initially used by people of Irish heritage in America, Canada and Australia. It was rare until the mid-1950s.
Estella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ehs-TEHL-ə
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 9.5/10 Overall: 29.5/30
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Latinate form of
Estelle. This is the name of the heroine, Estella Havisham, in Charles Dickens' novel
Great Expectations (1860).
Estrella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: ehs-TREH-ya
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 9/10 Overall: 29/30
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Spanish form of
Stella 1, coinciding with the Spanish word meaning "star".
Eudora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Εὐδώρα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: yoo-DAWR-ə(English)
Personal remark: Sound: 9/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 9/10 Overall: 28/30
Rating: 70% based on 4 votes
Means
"good gift" in Greek, from the elements
εὖ (eu) meaning "good" and
δῶρον (doron) meaning "gift". This was the name of a nymph, one of the Hyades, in Greek
mythology.
Evan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh, English
Pronounced: EHV-ən(English)
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 9/10 Overall: 29/30
Rating: 64% based on 5 votes
Anglicized form of
Ifan, a Welsh form of
John.
Evangeline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: i-VAN-jə-leen, i-VAN-jə-lien
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 30/30 **
Rating: 68% based on 8 votes
Means
"good news" from Greek
εὖ (eu) meaning "good" and
ἄγγελμα (angelma) meaning "news, message". It was (first?) used by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his 1847 epic poem
Evangeline [1][2]. It also appears in Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) as the full name of the character Eva.
Eve
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Estonian, Biblical
Other Scripts: חַוָּה(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: EEV(English)
Personal remark: (Nickname) Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 5/10 Overall: 25/30
Rating: 48% based on 6 votes
From the Hebrew name
חַוָּה (Chawwah), which was derived from the Hebrew word
חָוָה (chawah) meaning
"to breathe" or the related word
חָיָה (chayah) meaning
"to live". According to the
Old Testament Book of Genesis, Eve and
Adam were the first humans. God created her from one of Adam's ribs to be his companion. At the urging of a serpent she ate the forbidden fruit and shared some with Adam, causing their expulsion from the Garden of
Eden.
Despite this potentially negative association, the name was occasionally used by Christians during the Middle Ages. In the English-speaking world both Eve and the Latin form Eva were revived in the 19th century, with the latter being more common.
Evelyn
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English, German
Pronounced: EHV-ə-lin(English) EEV-lin(British English) EEV-ə-lin(British English) EH-və-leen(German)
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 30/30 **
Rating: 72% based on 5 votes
From an English surname that was derived from the given name
Aveline. In the 17th century when it was first used as a given name it was more common for boys, but it is now regarded as almost entirely feminine, probably in part because of its similarity to
Eve and
Evelina.
This name was popular throughout the English-speaking world in the early 20th century. It staged a comeback in the early 21st century, returning to the American top ten in 2017.
Fallon
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 30/30 **
Rating: 27% based on 6 votes
From an Irish surname that was an Anglicized form of the Irish Gaelic Ó Fallamháin, itself derived from the given name Fallamhán meaning "leader". It was popularized in the 1980s by a character on the soap opera Dynasty.
Faye
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: FAY
Personal remark: (Middle Name) Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 8/10 Overall: 28/30
Rating: 8% based on 5 votes
Felix
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, English, Romanian, Ancient Roman, Biblical, Biblical Latin
Pronounced: FEH-liks(German, Dutch, Swedish) FEE-liks(English) FEH-leeks(Latin)
Personal remark: Sound: 9/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 29/30
Rating: 50% based on 6 votes
From a Roman
cognomen meaning
"lucky, successful" in Latin. It was acquired as an
agnomen, or nickname, by the 1st-century BC Roman general Sulla. It also appears in the
New Testament belonging to the governor of Judea who imprisoned
Saint Paul.
Due to its favourable meaning, this name was popular among early Christians, being borne by many early saints and four popes. It has been used in England since the Middle Ages, though it has been more popular in continental Europe. A notable bearer was the German composer Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847).
Fiona
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Scottish, English
Pronounced: fee-O-nə(English)
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 5/10 Overall: 25/30
Rating: 73% based on 4 votes
Feminine form of
Fionn. This name was (first?) used by the Scottish poet James Macpherson in his poem
Fingal (1761), in which it is spelled as
Fióna.
Flavian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History (Ecclesiastical)
Personal remark: Sound: 1/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 21/30
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
From the Roman family name
Flavianus, which was derived from
Flavius. This was the name of several early
saints including a 5th-century patriarch of Constantinople who was beaten to death.
Florence
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English, French
Pronounced: FLAWR-əns(English) FLAW-RAHNS(French)
Personal remark: Sound: 7/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 6/10 Overall: 23/30
Rating: 63% based on 4 votes
From the Latin name
Florentius or the feminine form
Florentia, which were derived from
florens "prosperous, flourishing".
Florentius was borne by many early Christian
saints, and it was occasionally used in their honour through the Middle Ages. In modern times it is mostly feminine.
This name can also be given in reference to the city in Italy, as in the case of Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), who was born there to British parents. She was a nurse in military hospitals during the Crimean War and is usually considered the founder of modern nursing.
Frances
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: FRAN-sis
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 8/10 Overall: 28/30
Rating: 43% based on 4 votes
Feminine form of
Francis. The distinction between
Francis as a masculine name and
Frances as a feminine name did not arise until the 17th century
[1]. A notable bearer was
Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini (1850-1917), a social worker and the first American to be canonized.
Francis
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English, French
Pronounced: FRAN-sis(English) FRAHN-SEES(French)
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 9/10 Uniqueness: 9/10 Overall: 28/30
Rating: 38% based on 4 votes
English form of the Late Latin name
Franciscus meaning
"Frenchman", ultimately from the Germanic tribe of the Franks, who were named for a type of spear that they used (Proto-Germanic *
frankô). This name was borne by the 13th-century
Saint Francis of Assisi, who was originally named Giovanni but was given the nickname Francesco by his father, an admirer of the French. Francis went on to renounce his father's wealth and devote his life to the poor, founding the Franciscan order of friars. Later in his life he apparently received the stigmata.
Due to the renown of the saint, this name became widespread in Western Europe during the Middle Ages. However, it was not regularly used in Britain until the 16th century. Famous bearers include Saint Francis Xavier (1506-1552), a missionary to East Asia, the philosopher and scientist Francis Bacon (1561-1626), the explorer and admiral Francis Drake (1540-1595), and Pope Francis (1936-).
In the English-speaking world this name is occasionally used for girls, as a variant of the homophone Frances.
Gabrielle
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, English
Pronounced: GA-BREE-YEHL(French) gab-ree-EHL(English)
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 5/10 Overall: 25/30
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
French feminine form of
Gabriel. This was the real name of French fashion designer Coco Chanel (1883-1971).
Galene
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Γαλήνη(Ancient Greek)
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 30/30 **
Rating: 48% based on 4 votes
Ancient Greek feminine form of
Galen.
Gawain
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arthurian Romance
Pronounced: gə-WAYN(English) GAH-win(English)
Personal remark: Sound: 1/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 21/30
Rating: 6% based on 5 votes
Meaning uncertain, from the Latin form
Gualguainus used in the 12th-century chronicles of Geoffrey of Monmouth (appearing also as
Walganus,
Gwalguanus and other spellings in different copies of the text), where he is one of the knights who serve his uncle King
Arthur. He can be identified with the earlier Welsh hero Gwalchmai, and it is possible that the name derives from
Gwalchmai or a misreading of it.
Gawain was a popular hero in medieval tales such as those by Chrétien de Troyes, where his name appears in the French form Gauvain or Gauvains. He is the main character of the 14th-century anonymous poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, in which he accepts a potentially fatal challenge from the mysterious Green Knight.
Genevieve
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JEHN-ə-veev
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 8/10 Overall: 28/30
Rating: 46% based on 5 votes
Geoffrey
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French
Pronounced: JEHF-ree(English) ZHAW-FREH(French)
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 3/10 Overall: 23/30
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
From a Norman French form of a Frankish name. The second element is Old German
fridu "peace", while the first element could be *
gautaz "Geat" (a North Germanic tribe),
gawi "territory" or
walah "foreigner". It is possible that two or more names merged into a single form. In the later Middle Ages
Geoffrey was further confused with the distinct name
Godfrey.
The Normans introduced this name to England where it became common among the nobility. Famous medieval literary bearers include the 12th-century chronicler Geoffrey of Monmouth and the 14th-century poet Geoffrey Chaucer, writer of The Canterbury Tales. By the end of the Middle Ages it had become uncommon, but it was revived in the 20th century, often in the spelling Jeffrey.
Giovanna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: jo-VAN-na
Personal remark: This is the name of my sister that died in a car crash last year. I will not be rating out of respect. Rest In Peace.
Rating: 40% based on 4 votes
Italian form of
Iohanna (see
Joanna), making it the feminine form of
Giovanni.
Giovanni
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: jo-VAN-nee
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 2/10 Overall: 22/30
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
Italian form of
Iohannes (see
John). This name has been very common in Italy since the late Middle Ages, as with other equivalents of
John in Europe. The Renaissance writer Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), the painter Giovanni Bellini (1430-1516) and the painter and sculptor Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) were famous bearers of the name.
Gladys
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh, English, French, Spanish
Pronounced: GLAD-is(English) GLA-DEES(French)
Personal remark: Sound: 5/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 5/10 Overall: 20/30
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
From the Old Welsh name
Gwladus, probably derived from
gwlad meaning
"country". Alternatively, it may have been adopted as a Welsh form of
Claudia.
Saint Gwladus or Gwladys was the mother of Saint
Cadoc. She was one of the daughters of
Brychan Brycheiniog. This name became popular outside of Wales after it was used in Ouida's novel
Puck (1870).
Gráinne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish, Irish Mythology, Old Irish [1]
Pronounced: GRA-nyə(Irish)
Personal remark: Sound: 3/10 Spelling: 8/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 21/30
Rating: 7% based on 3 votes
Possibly derived from Old Irish
grán meaning
"grain" or
gráin meaning
"hatred, fear". In the Irish legend
The Pursuit of Diarmaid and Gráinne she escaped from her arranged marriage to
Fionn mac Cumhaill by fleeing with her lover
Diarmaid. Another famous bearer was the powerful 16th-century Irish landowner and seafarer Gráinne Ní Mháille (known in English as Grace O'Malley), who was sometimes portrayed as a pirate queen in later tales.
Guntram
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German
Pronounced: GUWN-tram
Personal remark: Sound: 3/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 23/30
Rating: 15% based on 2 votes
Means
"war raven" from the Old German elements
gunda "war" and
hram "raven". This was the name of a 6th-century Frankish king, sometimes called Gontrand, who is considered a
saint.
Gwendolyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: GWEHN-də-lin
Personal remark: Sound: 1/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 21/30
Rating: 37% based on 3 votes
Variant of
Gwendolen. This is the usual spelling in the United States.
Hadassah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical, Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew
Other Scripts: הֲדַסָּה(Hebrew)
Personal remark: Sound: 8/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 28/30
Rating: 70% based on 3 votes
Harriet
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: HAR-ee-it, HEHR-ee-it
Personal remark: Sound: 5/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 5/10 Overall: 20/30
Rating: 63% based on 3 votes
English form of
Henriette, and thus a feminine form of
Harry. It was first used in the 17th century, becoming very common in the English-speaking world by the 18th century. Famous bearers include the Americans Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), the author of
Uncle Tom's Cabin, and the abolitionist Harriet Tubman (1820-1913).
Hayden
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: HAY-dən
Personal remark: Sound: 5/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 6/10 Overall: 21/30
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
From an English surname that was derived from place names meaning either
"hay valley" or
"hay hill", derived from Old English
heg "hay" and
denu "valley" or
dun "hill". Its popularity at the end of the 20th century was due to the sound it shared with other trendy names of the time, such as
Braden and
Aidan.
Holden
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: HOL-dən
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Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
From a surname that was originally derived from a place name meaning "deep valley" in Old English. This is the name of the main character in J. D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye (1951), Holden Caulfield.
Honor
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: AHN-ər
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Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Variant of
Honour, using the American spelling.
Ianto
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: YAN-taw
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Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Imogen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (British)
Pronounced: IM-ə-jehn
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Rating: 42% based on 5 votes
The name of the daughter of King
Cymbeline in the play
Cymbeline (1609) by William Shakespeare. He based her on a legendary character named
Innogen, but it was printed incorrectly and never emended.
Innogen is probably derived from Gaelic
inghean meaning
"maiden". As a given name it is chiefly British and Australian.
Indigo
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: IN-di-go
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Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
From the English word
indigo for the purplish-blue dye or the colour. It is ultimately derived from Greek
Ἰνδικόν (Indikon) meaning "Indic, from India".
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)
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Rating: 77% based on 3 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.
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)
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Rating: 77% based on 3 votes
Form of
Irene in several languages.
Isaac
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, French, Jewish, Biblical, Biblical Latin
Other Scripts: יִצְחָק(Hebrew)
Pronounced: IE-zək(English) ee-sa-AK(Spanish) EE-ZAK(French) EE-ZA-AK(French)
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Rating: 54% based on 5 votes
From the Hebrew name
יִצְחָק (Yitzchaq) meaning
"he will laugh, he will rejoice", derived from
צָחַק (tzachaq) meaning "to laugh". The
Old Testament explains this meaning, by recounting that
Abraham laughed when God told him that his aged wife
Sarah would become pregnant with Isaac (see
Genesis 17:17), and later Sarah laughed when overhearing the same prophecy (see
Genesis 18:12). When Isaac was a boy, God tested Abraham's faith by ordering him to sacrifice his son, though an angel prevented the act at the last moment. Isaac went on to become the father of
Esau and
Jacob with his wife
Rebecca.
As an English Christian name, Isaac was occasionally used during the Middle Ages, though it was more common among Jews. It became more widespread after the Protestant Reformation. Famous bearers include the physicist and mathematician Isaac Newton (1643-1727) and the science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov (1920-1992).
Ishtar
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Semitic Mythology
Other Scripts: 𒀭𒈹, 𒌋𒁯(Akkadian Cuneiform)
Pronounced: ISH-tahr(English)
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Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
From the Semitic root
'ṯtr, which possibly relates to the Evening Star. Ishtar was an Akkadian, Assyrian and Babylonian goddess who presided over love, war and fertility. She was
cognate with the Canaanite and Phoenician
Ashtoreth, and she was also identified with the Sumerian goddess
Inanna. Her name in Akkadian cuneiform
𒀭𒈹 was the same as the Sumerian cuneiform for Inanna.
Isidore
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French, Georgian (Rare), Jewish
Other Scripts: ისიდორე(Georgian)
Pronounced: IZ-ə-dawr(English) EE-ZEE-DAWR(French)
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Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
From the Greek name
Ἰσίδωρος (Isidoros) meaning
"gift of Isis", derived from the name of the Egyptian goddess
Isis combined with Greek
δῶρον (doron) meaning "gift".
Saint Isidore of Seville was a 6th-century archbishop, historian and theologian.
Though it has never been popular in the English-speaking world among Christians, it has historically been a common name for Jews, who have used it as an Americanized form of names such as Isaac, Israel and Isaiah.
Isis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Egyptian Mythology (Hellenized)
Other Scripts: Ἶσις(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: IE-sis(English)
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Rating: 50% based on 4 votes
Greek form of Egyptian
ꜣst (reconstructed as
Iset,
Aset or
Ueset), possibly from
st meaning
"throne". In Egyptian
mythology Isis was the goddess of the sky and nature, the wife of
Osiris and the mother of
Horus. She was originally depicted wearing a throne-shaped headdress, but in later times she was conflated with the goddess
Hathor and depicted having the horns of a cow on her head. She was also worshipped by people outside of Egypt, such as the Greeks and Romans.
Ismene
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἰσμήνη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: EEZ-MEH-NEH(Classical Greek) is-MEE-nee(English)
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Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Possibly from Greek
ἰσμή (isme) meaning
"knowledge". This was the name of the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta in Greek legend.
Jael
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Portuguese
Other Scripts: יָעֵל(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: JAY-əl(English) JAYL(English)
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Rating: 7% based on 3 votes
From the Hebrew name
יָעֵל (Ya'el) meaning
"ibex, mountain goat". This name appears in the
Old Testament belonging to the wife of
Heber the Kenite. After Sisera, the captain of the Canaanite army, was defeated in battle by
Deborah and
Barak he took refuge in Heber's tent. When he fell asleep Jael killed him by hammering a tent peg into his head.
Jeannette
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, English, Dutch
Pronounced: ZHA-NEHT(French) jə-NEHT(English)
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Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Jørgen
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Danish, Norwegian
Pronounced: YUUW-ən(Danish) YUUR-gən(Norwegian)
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Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Danish and Norwegian form of
Jürgen.
Josephine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, German, Dutch
Pronounced: JO-sə-feen(English) yo-zeh-FEE-nə(German)
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Rating: 75% based on 4 votes
Juan 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Manx
Pronounced: KHWAN(Spanish) JOO-ahn(Manx)
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Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
Spanish and Manx form of
Iohannes (see
John). Like other forms of
John in Europe, this name has been extremely popular in Spain since the late Middle Ages.
The name is borne by Don Juan, a character from Spanish legend who, after killing his lover's father, is dragged to hell by the father's ghost. The story was adapted into plays by Tirso de Molina (1630) and Molière (1665), an opera by Mozart (1787), and an epic poem by Byron (1824), among other works.
Keegan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KEE-gən
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Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
From an Irish surname, the Anglicized form of Irish Gaelic
Mac Aodhagáin, which was derived from the given name
Aodhagán, a double
diminutive of
Aodh.
Kiera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish, English
Pronounced: KEER-ə(English)
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Rating: 20% based on 4 votes
Kira 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian
Other Scripts: Кира(Russian) Кіра(Ukrainian, Belarusian)
Pronounced: KYEE-rə(Russian)
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Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
Russian feminine form of
Cyrus.
Kiran
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil, Gujarati, Nepali, Urdu
Other Scripts: किरण(Hindi, Marathi, Nepali) ಕಿರಣ್(Kannada) కిరణ్(Telugu) കിരൺ(Malayalam) கிரண்(Tamil) કિરણ(Gujarati) کرن(Urdu)
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Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Derived from Sanskrit
किरण (kirana), which can mean
"dust" or
"thread" or
"sunbeam".
Lavina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
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Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
Lavinia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology, Romanian, Italian
Pronounced: la-WEE-nee-a(Latin) lə-VIN-ee-ə(English) la-VEE-nya(Italian)
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Rating: 73% based on 3 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.
Lee
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LEE
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Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
From a surname that was derived from Old English
leah meaning
"clearing". The surname belonged to Robert E. Lee (1807-1870), commander of the Confederate forces during the American Civil War. In his honour, it has been used as a given name in the American South. It is common as a middle name.
Leilani
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hawaiian
Pronounced: lay-LA-nee
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Rating: 70% based on 4 votes
Means "heavenly flowers" or "royal child" from Hawaiian lei "flowers, lei, child" and lani "heaven, sky, royal, majesty".
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)
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Rating: 63% based on 6 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.
Luna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, English
Pronounced: LOO-na(Latin, Spanish, Italian) LOO-nə(English)
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Rating: 53% based on 3 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.
Lydia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, German, Dutch, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Other Scripts: Λυδία(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: LID-ee-ə(English) LUY-dya(German)
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Rating: 77% based on 3 votes
Means
"from Lydia" in Greek. Lydia was a region on the west coast of Asia Minor, said to be named for the legendary king
Lydos. In the
New Testament this is the name of a woman converted to Christianity by
Saint Paul. In the modern era the name has been in use since the
Protestant Reformation.
Lyra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Astronomy
Pronounced: LIE-rə(English)
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Rating: 85% based on 4 votes
The name of the constellation in the northern sky containing the star Vega. It is said to be shaped after the lyre of Orpheus. This is the name of the main character in the His Dark Materials series of books by Philip Pullman (beginning 1995).
Lysander
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Λύσανδρος(Ancient Greek)
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Rating: 15% based on 2 votes
Latinized form of the Greek name
Λύσανδρος (Lysandros), derived from Greek
λύσις (lysis) meaning "a release, loosening" and
ἀνήρ (aner) meaning "man" (genitive
ἀνδρός). This was the name of a notable 5th-century BC Spartan general and naval commander.
Madeline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MAD-ə-lin, MAD-lin, MAD-ə-lien
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Rating: 60% based on 4 votes
English form of
Madeleine. This is the name of the heroine in a series of children's books by the Austrian-American author Ludwig Bemelmans, first published 1939.
Maeleachlainn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Irish
Personal remark: Sound: 1/10 Spelling: 1/10 Uniqueness: 8/10 Overall: 23/30
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
Maeve
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish, English, Irish Mythology
Pronounced: MAYV(English)
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Rating: 48% based on 4 votes
Anglicized form of the Irish name
Medb meaning
"intoxicating". In Irish legend this was the name of a warrior queen of Connacht. She and her husband
Ailill fought against the Ulster king
Conchobar and the hero
Cúchulainn, as told in the Irish epic
The Cattle Raid of Cooley.
Magali
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, Occitan
Pronounced: MA-GA-LEE(French)
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Rating: 15% based on 2 votes
Maiara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Tupi
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Rating: 15% based on 2 votes
From Tupi maya arya meaning "great-grandmother".
Malachy
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish
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Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Anglicized form of
Máel Sechnaill or
Máel Máedóc, influenced by the spelling of
Malachi.
Saint Malachy (in Irish, Máel Máedóc) was a 12th-century archbishop of Armagh renowned for his miracles.
Malcolm
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish, English
Pronounced: MAL-kəm(English)
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Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic
Máel Coluim, which means
"disciple of Saint Columba". This was the name of four kings of Scotland starting in the 10th century, including Malcolm III, who became king after killing
Macbeth, the usurper who had defeated his father
Duncan. The character Malcolm in Shakespeare's tragedy
Macbeth (1606) is loosely based on him. Another famous bearer was Malcolm X (1925-1965), an American civil rights leader.
Marceline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: MAR-SU-LEEN
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Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
Margaret
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MAHR-grit, MAHR-gə-rit
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Rating: 88% based on 4 votes
Derived from Latin
Margarita, which was from Greek
μαργαρίτης (margarites) meaning
"pearl", a word that was probably ultimately a borrowing from an Indo-Iranian language.
Saint Margaret, the patron of expectant mothers, was martyred at Antioch in the 4th century. Later legends told of her escape from a dragon, with which she was often depicted in medieval art. The saint was popular during the Middle Ages, and her name has been widely used in the Christian world.
As an English name it has been very popular since the Middle Ages. It was the top name for girls in England and Wales in the 1920s, 30s and 40s, but it declined in the latter half of the 20th century.
Other saints by this name include a queen of Scotland and a princess of Hungary. It was also borne by Queen Margaret I of Denmark, who united Denmark, Sweden, and Norway in the 14th century. Famous literary bearers include American writer Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949), the author of Gone with the Wind, and Canadian writer Margaret Atwood (1939-). Others include American anthropologist Margaret Mead (1901-1978) and British prime minister Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013).
Mariella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ma-RYEHL-la
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Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Marigold
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: MAR-i-gold, MEHR-i-gold
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Rating: 87% based on 3 votes
From the name of the flower, which comes from a combination of
Mary and the English word
gold.
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: Sound: 8/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 8/10 Overall: 27/30
Rating: 55% based on 2 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.
Marleen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch, English
Pronounced: mahr-LEHN(Dutch) MAHR-leen(English) mahr-LEEN(English)
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Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Dutch form and English variant of
Marlene.
Marley
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: MAHR-lee
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Rating: 7% based on 3 votes
From an English surname that was taken from a place name meaning either "pleasant wood", "boundary wood" or "marten wood" in Old English. A famous bearer of the surname was the Jamaican musician Bob Marley (1945-1981).
May
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MAY
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Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Derived from the name of the month of May, which derives from
Maia, the name of a Roman goddess. May is also another name of the hawthorn flower. It is also used as a
diminutive of
Mary,
Margaret or
Mabel.
Meredith
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Welsh, English
Pronounced: MEHR-ə-dith(English)
Personal remark: Sound: 5/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 6/10 Overall: 21/30
Rating: 63% based on 3 votes
From the Welsh name
Maredudd or
Meredydd, from Old Welsh forms such as
Margetud, possibly from
mawredd "greatness, magnificence" combined with
iudd "lord". The Welsh forms of this name were well used through the Middle Ages. Since the mid-1920s it has been used more often for girls than for boys in English-speaking countries, though it is still a masculine name in Wales. A famous bearer of this name as surname was the English novelist and poet George Meredith (1828-1909).
Miles
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MIELZ
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Rating: 15% based on 2 votes
From the Germanic name
Milo, introduced by the
Normans to England in the form
Miles. The meaning is not known for certain. It is possibly connected to the Slavic name element
milŭ meaning
"gracious, dear". From an early date it was associated with Latin
miles meaning
"soldier".
A notable bearer was the American musician Miles Davis (1926-1991). In Scotland this name was historically used to Anglicize Maoilios.
Minerva
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology, English, Spanish
Pronounced: mee-NEHR-wa(Latin) mi-NUR-və(English) mee-NEHR-ba(Spanish)
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Rating: 60% based on 3 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.
Miracle
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: MIR-ə-kəl
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Rating: 15% based on 2 votes
From the English word miracle for an extraordinary event, ultimately deriving from Latin miraculum "wonder, marvel".
Mireille
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, Dutch
Pronounced: MEE-RAY(French)
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Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
From the Occitan name Mirèio, which was first used by the poet Frédéric Mistral for the main character in his poem Mirèio (1859). He probably derived it from the Occitan word mirar meaning "to admire". It is spelled Mirèlha in classical Occitan orthography. A notable bearer is the French singer Mireille Mathieu (1946-).
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)
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Rating: 60% based on 2 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.
Morgan 1
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Welsh, English, French
Pronounced: MAWR-gən(English) MAWR-GAN(French)
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Rating: 53% based on 4 votes
From the Old Welsh masculine name
Morcant, which was possibly derived from Welsh
mor "sea" and
cant "circle". Since the 1980s in America
Morgan has been more common for girls than boys, perhaps due to stories of
Morgan le Fay or the fame of actress Morgan Fairchild (1950-).
Morgana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: mawr-GAN-ə
Personal remark: Sound: 5/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 5/10 Overall: 20/30
Rating: 88% based on 4 votes
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: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 5/10 Overall: 25/30
Rating: 70% based on 3 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].
Natasha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian, Belarusian, English
Other Scripts: Наташа(Russian, Belarusian)
Pronounced: nu-TA-shə(Russian) nə-TAHSH-ə(English)
Personal remark: Sound: 5/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 5/10 Overall: 20/30
Rating: 70% based on 4 votes
Russian
diminutive of
Natalya. This is the name of a character in Leo Tolstoy's novel
War and Peace (1865). It has been used in the English-speaking world only since the 20th century.
Nephthys
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Egyptian Mythology (Hellenized)
Other Scripts: Νέφθυς(Ancient Greek)
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 29.5/30
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Greek form of Egyptian
nbt-ḥwt (reconstructed as
Nebet-Hut) meaning
"lady of the house", derived from
nbt "lady" and
ḥwt "house". This was the name of an Egyptian goddess associated with the air, death and mourning. She was wife of the desert god
Seth.
Nicholas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: NIK-ə-ləs, NIK-ləs
Personal remark: Sound: 5/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 5/10 Overall: 20/30
Rating: 58% based on 4 votes
From the Greek name
Νικόλαος (Nikolaos) meaning
"victory of the people", derived from Greek
νίκη (nike) meaning "victory" and
λαός (laos) meaning "people".
Saint Nicholas was a 4th-century bishop from Anatolia who, according to legend, saved the daughters of a poor man from lives of prostitution. He is the patron saint of children, sailors and merchants, as well as Greece and Russia. He formed the basis for the figure known as Santa Claus (created in the 19th century from Dutch
Sinterklaas), the bringer of Christmas presents.
Due to the renown of the saint, this name has been widely used in the Christian world. It has been common in England since the 12th century, though it became a bit less popular after the Protestant Reformation. The name has been borne by five popes and two tsars of Russia.
Noelle
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: no-EHL
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 5/10 Overall: 25/30
Rating: 30% based on 4 votes
Norah 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Irish
Pronounced: NAWR-ə(English)
Personal remark: Sound: 7/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 8/10 Overall: 26/30
Rating: 55% based on 4 votes
Odalis
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American)
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 8/10 Overall: 28/30
Rating: 56% based on 5 votes
Possibly an elaboration of
Odilia used in Latin America. In most countries it is a feminine name, but in the Dominican Republic it is commonly masculine.
Odilia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Germanic (Latinized) [1][2]
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 5/10 Overall: 25/30
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Derived from the Old German element
uodil meaning
"heritage" or
ot meaning
"wealth, fortune".
Saint Odilia (or Odila) was an 8th-century nun who is considered the patron saint of Alsace. She was apparently born blind but gained sight when she was baptized.
Penelope
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, English
Other Scripts: Πηνελόπη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: PEH-NEH-LO-PEH(Classical Greek) pə-NEHL-ə-pee(English)
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 1/10 Overall: 21/30
Rating: 48% based on 4 votes
Probably derived from Greek
πηνέλοψ (penelops), a type of duck. Alternatively it could be from
πήνη (pene) meaning "threads, weft" and
ὄψ (ops) meaning "face, eye". In
Homer's epic the
Odyssey this is the name of the wife of
Odysseus, forced to fend off suitors while her husband is away fighting at Troy.
It has occasionally been used as an English given name since the 16th century. It was moderately popular in the 1940s, but had a more notable upswing in the early 2000s. This may have been inspired by the Spanish actress Penélope Cruz (1974-), who gained prominence in English-language movies at that time. It was already rapidly rising when celebrities Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick gave it to their baby daughter in 2012.
Pierce
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: PEERS
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 8/10 Overall: 28/30
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
From an English surname that was derived from the given name
Piers. In America this name slowly started to grow in popularity in 1982 when actor Pierce Brosnan (1953-) began starring on the television series
Remington Steele.
Piper
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: PIE-pər
Personal remark: Sound: 6/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 8/10 Overall: 24/30
Rating: 53% based on 4 votes
From an English surname that was originally given to a person who played on a pipe (a flute). It was popularized as a given name by a character from the television series
Charmed, which debuted in 1998
[1].
Polly
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: PAHL-ee
Personal remark: Sound: 5/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 6/10 Overall: 21/30
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
Medieval variant of
Molly. The reason for the change in the initial consonant is unknown.
Rafael
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese, German, Hungarian, Romanian, Slovene, Hebrew
Other Scripts: רָפָאֵל(Hebrew) Рафаел(Macedonian)
Pronounced: ra-fa-EHL(Spanish, European Portuguese) ha-fa-EW(Brazilian Portuguese) RA-fa-ehl(German) RAW-faw-ehl(Hungarian)
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 5/10 Overall: 25/30
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
Form of
Raphael in various languages. A famous bearer is the Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal (1986-).
Rainer
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: RIE-nu(German)
Personal remark: Sound: 1/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 21/30
Rating: 37% based on 3 votes
Ray
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: RAY
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Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Short form of
Raymond, often used as an independent name. It coincides with an English word meaning "beam of light". Science-fiction author Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) and musician Ray Charles (1930-2004) are two notable bearers of the name.
Raymond
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French
Pronounced: RAY-mənd(English) REH-MAWN(French)
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 6/10 Overall: 26/30
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
From the Germanic name
Raginmund, composed of the elements
regin "advice, counsel, decision" and
munt "protection". The
Normans introduced this name to England in the form
Reimund. It was borne by several medieval (mostly Spanish)
saints, including Saint Raymond Nonnatus, the patron of midwives and expectant mothers, and Saint Raymond of Peñafort, the patron of canonists.
Renata
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, German, Polish, Czech, Lithuanian, Croatian, Slovene, Romanian, Late Roman
Pronounced: reh-NA-ta(Italian, Spanish, German, Polish) REH-na-ta(Czech)
Personal remark: Sound: 1/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 21/30
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Renee
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: rə-NAY
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 5/10 Uniqueness: 6/10 Overall: 21/30
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Rhiannon
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh, English, Welsh Mythology
Pronounced: ri-AN-awn(Welsh) ree-AN-ən(English)
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 30/30 **
Rating: 38% based on 4 votes
Probably derived from an unattested Celtic name *
Rīgantonā meaning
"great queen" (Celtic *
rīganī "queen" and the divine or augmentative suffix
-on). It is speculated that Rigantona was an old Celtic goddess, perhaps associated with fertility and horses like the Gaulish
Epona. As
Rhiannon, she appears in Welsh legend in the
Mabinogi [1] as a beautiful magical woman who rides a white horse. She was betrothed against her will to
Gwawl, but cunningly broke off that engagement and married
Pwyll instead. Their son was
Pryderi.
As an English name, it became popular due to the Fleetwood Mac song Rhiannon (1976), especially in the United Kingdom and Australia.
Richard
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French, German, Czech, Slovak, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: RICH-ərd(English) REE-SHAR(French) RI-khart(German, Czech) REE-khart(Slovak)
Personal remark: Sound: 6/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 6/10 Overall: 22/30
Rating: 7% based on 3 votes
Means
"brave ruler", derived from the Old German elements
rih "ruler, king" and
hart "hard, firm, brave, hardy". This was the name of three early dukes of Normandy. The
Normans introduced it to England when they invaded in the 11th century, and it has been very common there since that time. It was borne by three kings of England including the 12th-century Richard I the Lionheart, one of the leaders of the Third Crusade.
During the late Middle Ages this name was typically among the five most common for English males (with John, William, Robert and Thomas). It remained fairly popular through to the modern era, peaking in the United States in the 1940s and in the United Kingom a bit later, and steadily declining since that time.
Famous bearers include two German opera composers, Richard Wagner (1813-1883) and Richard Strauss (1864-1949), as well as British explorer Richard Burton (1821-1890), American president Richard Nixon (1913-1994), American physicist Richard Feynman (1918-1988), British actor Richard Burton (1925-1984) and American musician Little Richard (1932-2020).
Robin
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English, French, Dutch, Swedish, Czech
Pronounced: RAHB-in(American English) RAWB-in(British English) RAW-BEHN(French) RAW-bin(Dutch) RO-bin(Czech)
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 1/10 Overall: 21/30
Rating: 56% based on 5 votes
Medieval English
diminutive of
Robert, now usually regarded as an independent name. Robin Hood was a legendary hero and archer of medieval England who stole from the rich to give to the poor. In modern times it has also been used as a feminine name, and it may sometimes be given in reference to the red-breasted bird.
Rónán
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish, Old Irish [1]
Pronounced: RO-nan(Irish)
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 9/10 Overall: 29/30
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Means
"little seal", derived from Old Irish
rón "seal" combined with a
diminutive suffix. This was the name of several early Irish
saints, including a pilgrim to Brittany who founded the hermitage at Locronan in the 6th century.
Rosalie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, German, Dutch, English
Pronounced: RAW-ZA-LEE(French) ro-za-LEE(German) RO-zə-lee(English)
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 1/10 Overall: 21/30
Rating: 78% based on 4 votes
French, German and Dutch form of
Rosalia. In the English-speaking this name received a boost after the release of the movie
Rosalie (1938), which was based on an earlier musical.
Roscoe
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: RAHS-ko
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 6/10 Overall: 26/30
Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
From an English surname, originally derived from a place name, itself derived from Old Norse rá "roebuck" and skógr "wood, forest".
Rose
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, French
Pronounced: ROZ
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 6/10 Overall: 26/30
Rating: 88% based on 5 votes
Originally a Norman French form of the Germanic name
Hrodohaidis meaning
"famous type", composed of the elements
hruod "fame" and
heit "kind, sort, type". The
Normans introduced it to England in the forms
Roese and
Rohese. From an early date it was associated with the word for the fragrant flower
rose (derived from Latin
rosa). When the name was revived in the 19th century, it was probably with the flower in mind.
Roswitha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German
Pronounced: raws-VEE-ta
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 30/30 **
Rating: 77% based on 3 votes
Derived from the Old German elements
hruod "fame" and
swind "strong". This was the name of a 10th-century nun from Saxony who wrote several notable poems and dramas.
Rowan
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Irish, English (Modern)
Pronounced: RO-ən(English)
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 30/30 **
Rating: 68% based on 5 votes
Anglicized form of the Irish name
Ruadhán. As an English name, it can also be derived from the surname Rowan, itself derived from the Irish given name. It could also be given in reference to the rowan tree, a word of Old Norse origin (coincidentally sharing the same Indo-European root meaning "red" with the Irish name).
Ruby
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ROO-bee
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 6/10 Overall: 26/30
Rating: 74% based on 5 votes
Simply from the name of the precious stone (which ultimately derives from Latin
ruber "red"), which is the traditional birthstone of July. It came into use as a given name in the 16th century
[1].
Russell
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: RUS-əl
Personal remark: Sound: 5/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 6/10 Overall: 21/30
Rating: 33% based on 4 votes
From an English surname, of Norman origin, meaning
"little red one" (a
diminutive of Old French
rous "red"). A notable bearer of the surname was the agnostic British philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), who wrote on many subjects including logic, epistemology and mathematics. He was also a political activist for causes such as pacifism and women's rights.
This name was common throughout the English-speaking world for most of the 20th century, though in the 1960s it began a slow decline in most places.
Sander
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch, Estonian, Danish, Norwegian
Pronounced: SAHN-dər(Dutch)
Personal remark: Sound: 5/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 6/10 Overall: 21/30
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
Dutch, Estonian, Danish and Norwegian short form of
Alexander.
Saveria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: Sound: 1/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 21/30
Rating: 73% based on 3 votes
Italian feminine form of
Xavier.
Shaye
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: SHAY
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 6/10 Overall: 26/30
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Sidney
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SID-nee
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 6/10 Overall: 26/30
Rating: 58% based on 4 votes
From the English surname
Sidney. It was first used as a given name in honour of executed politician Algernon Sidney (1622-1683). Another notable bearer of the surname was the poet and statesman Philip Sidney (1554-1586).
As a given name, it has traditionally been more masculine than feminine. In America however, after the variant Sydney became popular for girls, Sidney was used more for girls than boys between 1993 and 2019.
Sierra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: see-EHR-ə
Personal remark: Sound: 5/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 6/10 Overall: 21/30
Rating: 60% based on 5 votes
Means "mountain range" in Spanish, referring specifically to a mountain range with jagged peaks.
Sigrid
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, German, Estonian, Finnish (Archaic)
Pronounced: SEE-grid(Swedish) SEEG-reed(Finnish)
Personal remark: Sound: 5/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 6/10 Overall: 21/30
Rating: 63% based on 4 votes
From the Old Norse name
Sigríðr, which was derived from the elements
sigr "victory" and
fríðr "beautiful, beloved".
Silas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Greek, Danish, German, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Other Scripts: Σίλας(Greek)
Pronounced: SIE-ləs(English)
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 30/30 **
Rating: 68% based on 5 votes
The name of a companion of
Saint Paul in the
New Testament. It is probably a short form of
Silvanus, a name that Paul calls him by in the epistles. It is possible that
Silvanus and
Silas were Latin and Greek forms of the Hebrew name
Saul (via Aramaic).
As an English name it was not used until after the Protestant Reformation. It was utilized by George Eliot for the title character in her novel Silas Marner (1861).
Simon 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, Dutch, Hungarian, Slovene, Romanian, Macedonian, Georgian, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Other Scripts: Симон(Macedonian) სიმონ(Georgian) Σίμων(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: SIE-mən(English) SEE-MAWN(French) SEE-mawn(Danish, Dutch, Macedonian) ZEE-mawn(German) SHEE-mon(Hungarian)
Personal remark: Sound: 6/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 6/10 Overall: 22/30
Rating: 50% based on 4 votes
From
Σίμων (Simon), the
New Testament Greek form of the Hebrew name
שִׁמְעוֹן (Shim'on) meaning
"hearing, listening", derived from
שָׁמַע (shama') meaning "to hear, to listen". This name is spelled
Simeon, based on Greek
Συμεών, in many translations of the
Old Testament, where it is borne by the second son of
Jacob. The New Testament spelling may show influence from the otherwise unrelated Greek name
Simon 2.
In the New Testament Simon is the name of several characters, including the man who carried the cross for Jesus. Most importantly however it was borne by the leading apostle Simon, also known as Peter (a name given to him by Jesus).
Because of the apostle, this name has been common in the Christian world. In England it was popular during the Middle Ages, though it became more rare after the Protestant Reformation.
Sisel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Yiddish (Rare)
Other Scripts: סיסל(Yiddish)
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 6/10 Overall: 26/30
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
Sophie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, English, German, Dutch
Pronounced: SAW-FEE(French) SO-fee(English) zo-FEE(German) so-FEE(Dutch)
Personal remark: Sound: 8/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 5/10 Overall: 21/30
Rating: 65% based on 4 votes
Sorcha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish, Scottish Gaelic [1]
Pronounced: SAWR-ə-khə(Irish) SUR-kə(English) SAWR-aw-khə(Scottish Gaelic)
Personal remark: Sound: 1/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 21/30
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
Means
"radiant, bright" in Irish. It has been in use since late medieval times
[2]. It is sometimes Anglicized as
Sarah (in Ireland) and
Clara (in Scotland).
Sören
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish, German
Pronounced: SUU-rehn(Swedish) ZUU-rən(German)
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 30/30 **
Rating: 40% based on 4 votes
Swedish and German form of
Søren.
Sterling
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: STUR-ling
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 6/10 Overall: 26/30
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
From a Scots surname that was derived from city of Stirling, which is itself of unknown meaning. The name can also be given in reference to the English word sterling meaning "excellent". In this case, the word derives from sterling silver, which was so named because of the emblem that some Norman coins bore, from Old English meaning "little star".
Sulo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: SOO-lo
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Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Means "charm, grace" in Finnish.
Sultana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic, Urdu, Bengali
Other Scripts: سلطانة(Arabic) سلطانہ(Urdu) সুলতানা(Bengali)
Pronounced: sool-TA-nah(Arabic)
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 30/30
Rating: 70% based on 4 votes
Sylvia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish
Pronounced: SIL-vee-ə(English) SUYL-vee-ah(Finnish)
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 30/30
Rating: 86% based on 5 votes
Variant of
Silvia. This has been the most common English spelling since the 19th century.
Tamsin
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (British)
Pronounced: TAM-zin
Personal remark: Sound: 1/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 21/30
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Contracted form of
Thomasina. It was traditionally used in Cornwall.
Thanatos
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Θάνατος(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: TA-NA-TOS(Classical Greek) THAN-ə-tahs(English)
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 5/10 Overall: 25/30
Rating: 88% based on 4 votes
Means
"death" in Greek. This was the name of the Greek god of death who resided with
Hades in the underworld.
Thea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, English
Pronounced: TEH-a(German) THEE-ə(English)
Personal remark: Sound: 1/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Overall: 21/30
Rating: 65% based on 4 votes
Theodore
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: THEE-ə-dawr
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 6/10 Overall: 26/30
Rating: 50% based on 4 votes
From the Greek name
Θεόδωρος (Theodoros), which meant
"gift of god" from Greek
θεός (theos) meaning "god" and
δῶρον (doron) meaning "gift". The name
Dorothea is derived from the same roots in reverse order. This was the name of several
saints, including Theodore of Amasea, a 4th-century Greek soldier; Theodore of Tarsus, a 7th-century archbishop of Canterbury; and Theodore the Studite, a 9th-century Byzantine monk. It was also borne by two popes.
This was a common name in classical Greece, and, due to both the saints who carried it and the favourable meaning, it came into general use in the Christian world, being especially popular among Eastern Christians. It was however rare in Britain before the 19th century. Famous bearers include three tsars of Russia (in the Russian form Fyodor) and American president Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919).
Thomas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Greek, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Other Scripts: Θωμάς(Greek) Θωμᾶς(Ancient Greek) തോമസ്(Malayalam)
Pronounced: TAHM-əs(American English) TAWM-əs(British English) TAW-MA(French) TO-mas(German) TO-mahs(Dutch) tho-MAS(Greek)
Personal remark: Sound: 6/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 6/10 Overall: 20/30
Rating: 52% based on 5 votes
Greek form of the Aramaic name
תָּאוֹמָא (Ta'oma') meaning
"twin". In the
New Testament this is the name of an apostle. When he heard that
Jesus had risen from the dead he initially doubted the story, until Jesus appeared before him and he examined his wounds himself. According to tradition he was martyred in India. Due to his renown, the name came into general use in the Christian world.
In England the name was used by the Normans and became very popular due to Saint Thomas Becket, a 12th-century archbishop of Canterbury and martyr. It was reliably among the top five most common English names for boys from the 13th to the 19th century, and it has remained consistently popular to this day.
Another notable saint by this name was the 13th-century Italian philosopher and theologian Thomas Aquinas, who is regarded as a Doctor of the Church. Other famous bearers include philosopher Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), American president Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), novelist Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), and inventor Thomas Edison (1847-1931).
Timothy
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Biblical
Pronounced: TIM-ə-thee(English)
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 1/10 Overall: 21/30
Rating: 60% based on 4 votes
English form of the Greek name
Τιμόθεος (Timotheos) meaning
"honouring God", derived from
τιμάω (timao) meaning "to honour" and
θεός (theos) meaning "god".
Saint Timothy was a companion of
Paul on his missionary journeys and was the recipient of two of Paul's epistles that appear in the
New Testament. He was of both Jewish and Greek ancestry. According to tradition, he was martyred at Ephesus after protesting the worship of
Artemis. As an English name,
Timothy was not used until after the
Protestant Reformation.
Veronica
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Romanian, Late Roman
Pronounced: və-RAHN-i-kə(American English) və-RAWN-i-kə(British English)
Personal remark: Sound: 10/10 Spelling: 10/10 Uniqueness: 6/10 Overall: 26/30
Rating: 60% based on 4 votes
Latin alteration of
Berenice, the spelling influenced by the ecclesiastical Latin phrase
vera icon meaning
"true image". This was the name of a legendary
saint who wiped
Jesus' face with a towel and then found his image imprinted upon it. Due to popular stories about her, the name was occasionally used in the Christian world in the Middle Ages. It was borne by the Italian saint and mystic Veronica Giuliani (1660-1727). As an English name, it was not common until the 19th century, when it was imported from France and Scotland.
Victor
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French, Portuguese, Romanian, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Late Roman
Pronounced: VIK-tər(English) VEEK-TAWR(French) VEEK-tor(Romanian)
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Roman name meaning
"victor, conqueror" in Latin. It was common among early Christians, and was borne by several early
saints and three popes. It was rare as an English name during the Middle Ages, but it was revived in the 19th century. A famous bearer was the French writer Victor Hugo (1802-1885), who authored
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and
Les Misérables.
Victoria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Spanish, Romanian, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, French, Late Roman, Roman Mythology
Pronounced: vik-TAWR-ee-ə(English) beek-TO-rya(Spanish) vik-TO-rya(German) VEEK-TAW-RYA(French) week-TO-ree-a(Latin)
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Means
"victory" in Latin, being borne by the Roman goddess of victory. It is also a feminine form of
Victorius. This name was borne by a 4th-century
saint and martyr from North Africa.
Though in use elsewhere in Europe, the name was very rare in the English-speaking world until the 19th century, when Queen Victoria began her long rule of Britain. She was named after her mother, who was of German royalty. Many geographic areas are named after the queen, including an Australian state and a Canadian city.
Viola
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak
Pronounced: vie-O-lə(English) vi-O-lə(English) VIE-ə-lə(English) VYAW-la(Italian) vi-OO-la(Swedish) VEE-o-la(German) vee-O-la(German) VEE-o-law(Hungarian) VI-o-la(Czech) VEE-aw-la(Slovak)
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Means
"violet" in Latin. This is the name of the heroine of William Shakespeare's comedy
Twelfth Night (1602). In the play she is the survivor of a shipwreck who disguises herself as a man named Cesario. Working as a messenger for Duke
Orsino, she attempts to convince
Olivia to marry him. Instead Viola falls in love with the duke.
Walter
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Polish, Italian, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: WAWL-tər(English) VAL-tu(German) VAL-tehr(Swedish, Italian)
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From the Germanic name
Waltheri meaning
"power of the army", from the elements
walt "power, authority" and
heri "army". In medieval German tales (notably
Waltharius by Ekkehard of
Saint Gall) Walter of Aquitaine is a heroic king of the Visigoths. The name was also borne by an 11th-century French saint, Walter of Pontoise. The
Normans brought it to England, where it replaced the Old English
cognate Wealdhere.
A famous bearer of the name was the English courtier, poet and explorer Walter Raleigh (1552-1618). It was also borne by Walter Scott (1771-1832), a Scottish novelist who wrote Ivanhoe and other notable works.
Wendy
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: WEHN-dee
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In the case of the character from J. M. Barrie's play
Peter Pan (1904), it was created from the nickname
fwendy "friend", given to the author by a young friend. However, the name was used prior to the play (rarely), in which case it could be related to the Welsh name
Gwendolen and other names beginning with the element
gwen meaning "white, blessed". The name only became common after Barrie's play ran.
William
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: WIL-yəm
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From the Germanic name
Willehelm meaning
"will helmet", composed of the elements
willo "will, desire" and
helm "helmet, protection". An early
saint by this name was the 8th-century William of Gellone, a cousin of
Charlemagne who became a monk. The name was common among the
Normans, and it became extremely popular in England after William the Conqueror was recognized as the first Norman king of England in the 11th century. From then until the modern era it has been among the most common of English names (with
John,
Thomas and
Robert).
This name was later borne by three other English kings, as well as rulers of Scotland, Sicily (of Norman origin), the Netherlands and Prussia. Other famous bearers include William Wallace, a 13th-century Scottish hero, and William Tell, a legendary 14th-century Swiss hero (called Wilhelm in German, Guillaume in French and Guglielmo in Italian). In the literary world it was borne by dramatist William Shakespeare (1564-1616), poet William Blake (1757-1827), poet William Wordsworth (1770-1850), dramatist William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), author William Faulkner (1897-1962), and author William S. Burroughs (1914-1997).
In the American rankings (since 1880) this name has never been out of the top 20, making it one of the most consistently popular names (although it has never reached the top rank). In modern times its short form, Liam, has periodically been more popular than William itself, in the United Kingdom in the 1990s and the United States in the 2010s.
Yolanda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, English
Pronounced: yo-LAN-da(Spanish) yo-LAHN-də(English)
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From the medieval French name
Yolande, which was probably a form of the name
Violante, which was itself a derivative of Latin
viola "violet". Alternatively it could be of Germanic origin.
This name was borne by a 12th-century empress of the Latin Empire in Constantinople, who was originally from Flanders. It was also used by her descendants in the royal families of Hungary (spelled Jolánta) and Spain (sometimes spelled Violante). The Blessed Yolanda of Poland was a daughter of Béla IV of Hungary who married a Polish duke. It was also borne by Yolanda of Vianden, a 13th-century countess from Luxembourg who joined a convent against her parents' wishes, later becoming the subject of medieval legend. Another notable bearer was a 15th-century duchess of Lorraine, the subject of the opera Iolanta (1892) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
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