crawreb's Personal Name List

Means "commander, general" in Armenian.

Variant of Csongor.

Means "rod, staff" or "punishment" in Basque.

Means "spiritually" in Ancient Hebrew.

Means "the boat". This is the traditional name of the star Gamma Eridani in the constellation Eridanus.

Means "the old man's daughter" from Persian zarman "old man" and duxt "daughter". This was the name of a 4th-century Armenian noblewoman who became a queen consort of Arsacid Armenia.

Derived from Albanian zambak "lily".

Bulgarian feminine form of Jordan.

Alternate transcription of Yotrak.

Means "monument, remembrance" in Uzbek.

Altai form of Ignatius.

Russian form of George.

Bulgarian, Russian and Ukrainian form of Jana 1.

Chuvash form of Jafar.

Perhaps a feminine form of Yachin.

Circassian version of Omar 1.

Old English cognate to Germanic Wulfger and Old Norse Úlfgeirr. Derived the elements wulf "wolf" and gar "spear" meaning "wolf spear".

Derived from the Old English elements wudu "wood" and lac "play, sport; gift, offering" (from laikaz).

From Old English wig "battle, war" and laf "remains, remainder" (see laibō).

In the epic poem Beowulf, Wiglaf son of Weohstan (weoh, with guttural H, is a variant pronunciation of wig) is a loyal thane and distant relative who succeeds Beowulf as king of the Geats.

Wiglaf was also the name of a king of Mercia in the early 9th Century. His son was Wigmund, and his grandson Wigstan.

A modern bearer of the name is the German satirist Wiglaf Droste.

From Turkic "Öz" (source, pure)

A form of Walaram. This was the name of two rulers of the medieval county of Ligny-en-Barrois, in present-day Lorraine, France.

Possibly derived from Old English wacor "watchful, vigilant, alert" (from wakraz). This was the name of a martyred Catholic saint.

Byname meaning, "watchful."

Bulgarian cognate of Vera 1.

Derived from Albanian vullnet "will, will power; desire".

Means "strength" in Khmer.

From Old Norse Víðarr, which was possibly derived from víðr "wide" and herr "army, warrior". In Norse mythology Víðarr was the son of Odin and Grid. At the time of the end of the world, Ragnarök, it is said he will avenge his father's death by slaying the wolf Fenrir.

Variant of Vid.

Diminutive of Vesna.

Russian diminutive of Vasiliy (masculine) or a Macedonian and Bulgarian diminutive of Vasilija (feminine).

Means "treacherous person" in Armenian.

Alternate transcription of Armenian Վարդան (see Vardan).

Means "rose, flower" in Armenian, ultimately from Persian.

Means "twenty-ninth day of the month" in Armenian.

Of uncertain origin and meaning. Theories include a derivation from Valona, the former name of the city of Vlorë (compare Vlora), a derivation from Albanian valë "wave" and a derivation from Albanian valon "to seethe; to simmer; to boil".

Masculine form of Valbona.

Short form of Vahagn.

Extended form of Vagharsh.

Unattested Old Persian form of Atossa.

Means "birch tree" in Basque.

Derived from Albanian urim "well wishing, good-luck wish, well wishes, congratulations".

Albanian form of Uranus.

Variant form of Ulfgæirr and a combination of ulfr "wolf" and herr "army".

Variant of Ujarak.

Means "stone" in Greenlandic [1].

Form of Hugo.

Derived from the Germanic name elements oddr "spear" and varr "attentive".

Means "like a wolf" in Ossetian, derived from Scythian varka "wolf". His name comes from the fact that wolves were seen as a totemic symbol to the Ossetian people. This is the name of the ancestor of the Narts in the Ossetian Nart epic. He is the father of twins Akhsar and Akhsartag. Uarkhag can be compared to the Roman gods Romulus and Remus and Greek Castor and Pollux.

Derived from Old Irish úall "vanity, pride" and garg "fierce, rough".

Polish form of Titus.

Combination of the names Tyr and Grim.

Armenian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz and Uzbek form of the Mongol name Tümen, probably via its Old Turkic form Tümän. Also compare the Kazakh, Kyrgyz and Uzbek word tuman meaning "fog", which is ultimately derived from Proto-Turkic *tuman meaning "mist, fog".

Notable bearers of this name include a 16th-century sultan of Egypt and the Armenian revolutionary Tuman Tumanian (1879-1906).

Means "raven" in Greenlandic and Inuktitut.

From Old Armenian ցոլ (cʿol) "shine" + -ակ (-ak), a diminutive suffix.

Variant of Trajan 2.

Taken from Tostig Godwinson (1029-1066)

Variant of Torhild.

Armenian form of Togarmah.

Variant of Torgeir.

Swedish and Norwegian form of Þórbjǫrg.

Modern Scandinavian form of Þórr (see Thor). It was not used as a personal name until the 18th century. It is sometimes used as a short form of names of Old Norse origin that begin with the element Tor, which is also a derivative of Þórr.

Means "earth (soil), dry soil, land, country" in Turkish.

Father Tomor is the personification of Mount Tomorr, also known as Mount Tomor in Albanian, a mountain range which includes the highest peak in central Albania. Mount Tomorr is considered the home of the gods in central Albanian popular belief. The name itself is derived from Illyrian Tómaros, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tómhxes-, "dark".

From the Old Norse name Þórleikr, which meant "Thor's play" from the name of the Norse god Þórr (see Thor) combined with leikr "play, game (involving weapons)".

From Hebrew תִּירָס (Tiras), meaning unknown. Tiras is a grandson of Noah in the Old Testament. This is also a modern Hebrew word meaning "corn".

This name has several meanings: the first is a type of songbird, the second meaning is an island in the Suez Canal in the northern Red Sea.
The third meaning refers to The Straits of Tiran - Egyptians in the Gulf of Eilat that link it to the Red Sea (written: טיראן), and the fourth meaning can come from the word טִירָה tira / tirah, meaning "castle" (written: טירן).

Means "support" and, figuratively, "supporter" in Uzbek.

Derived from Latin Thrax meaning "Thracian", which in turn was ultimately derived from Greek Thrakē, which came from the verb thrāssō "to trouble, to stir". This was the name of Maximinus Thrax (i.e. Maximinus the Thracian), the 27th Emperor of the Roman Empire.

Albanian form of Tevfik.

Abkhaz form of Timur.

From the Old Armenian word թաթուլ (tʿatʿul) meaning "paw". It has been in use since the 5th century.

Derived from the Old English elements tāt "glad, cheerful" and beorht "bright". This was the name of an 8th century Anglo-Saxon saint, abbot and contemporary of Bede, who was appointed the second Abbot of Ripon by his relative Wilfrid.

Variant of Tanith.

Means "date palm" in Hebrew. According to the Old Testament Tamar was the daughter-in-law of Judah and later his wife. This was also the name of a daughter of King David. She was raped by her half-brother Amnon, leading to his murder by her brother Absalom. The name was borne by a 12th-century ruling queen of Georgia who presided over the kingdom at the peak of its power.

Means "crowned" in Armenian.

Means "king" in Armenian.

Primarily historical Armenian masculine name derived from the ancient Iranian name element *tačata- meaning "swift, strong", or from *Tačat-aspa, meaning "possessing swift horses".

Tabarak is an Arabic name for boys and girls that means “he/she is blessed”, “he/she is raised in status”.

Probably means "fire", from Old Slavic sŭvarŭ meaning "heat". This was the name of a Slavic god associated with blacksmithing.

Means "following good advice", from the Sanskrit prefix सु (su) meaning "good" combined with मन्त्र (mantra) meaning "instrument of thought, prayer, advice".

Derived from suhr meaning "red".

Possibly from Old Slavic sterti "to extend, to spread" and bogŭ "god". Alternatively it could come from strybati "to flow, to move quickly". Stribog was a Slavic god who was possibly associated with the wind.

Feminine form of Stoyan.

Derived from the Old English elements stiþ "hard, stiff" and wulf "wolf".

Originally a diminutive of Stanislav and other names derived from the Slavic element stati meaning "stand, become".

Meaning "lively."

Albanian form of Spiridon.

Form of Spartacus in several languages.

Armenian form of Esfandiar via its Middle Persian form Spandadat. A known bearer of this name was the Armenian doctor and scientist Spandarat Kamsarakan (1876-1942), who played a crucial role in establishing the Armenian Red Cross National Society.

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).

From Thai สม (som) meaning "worthy" and รักษ์ (rak) meaning "protect, guard, defend".

Form of Socrates in various languages. In Georgia, this name is a variant of Sokrate, which is the standard Georgian form of the aforementioned name.

Armenian form of Solomon. A notable bearer was Armenian revolutionary and genocide survivor Soghomon Tehlirian (1896-1960).

Latinized form of Smaragdos. This name was borne by at least two saints. One was a companion of saint Cyriacus (died c. 303 AD), who was buried together with him near the Via Ostiensis. The other was one of the forty martyrs of Sebaste (which is nowadays Sivas in Turkey), who died in 320 AD.

Russian form of Smaragdos. In the Netherlands, the name is a very rare feminine name. It is derived from the Dutch noun smaragd meaning "emerald", which as you can see has the same etymology as Smaragdos.

Short form of Skerdilajd.

The name of the legendary ancestor of the Armenian princely house of Syuni. The Armenian historian Movses Khorenatsi states that Sisak was the brother of Harmar who was known as Arma, son of Gegham and a descendant of the legendary patriarch of the Armenians, Hayk.

Derived from Abkhaz а́-шәарах (á-shwarakh) meaning “deer, stag, animal”.

Alternate transcription of Hebrew שְׁרַגָא (see Sheraga).

Means "wolf" in Buryat.

Probably derived from the name of the North Albanian city Shkodër (also named Shkodra).

It is the given name of the Albanian-German football player Shkodran Mustafi.

Means "singing" in Hebrew.

From the Armenian word շաքար (šakʿar) meaning "sugar". In use since the 13th century.

He was a Kushite pharaoh of the 25th Dynasty of Egypt (c.721 BCE - c.707 BCE). The Kingdom of Kush was an ancient African kingdom in what is now the Republic of Sudan.

Means "black-eyed" or "one with black (coloured) eyes" in Armenian.

Short form of Sebastian.

Means "black rider" in Ossetian. This is the name of the Ossetian God of darkness and thieves, comparable to the Biblical figure Satan.

Means "Son of Sobek" in Egyptian.

Means "princess" and is related to the name Sarah. (The description of the entry Sarah should include this information about "Sarratu" I think as it is stronger evidence that Sarah means princess for those say it doesn't mean princess and means more of a position of power in general)

Means "moonrise" in Mongolian, from саран (saran) meaning "moon" and гарах (garakh) meaning "to appear, occur".

Borrowed from an Old Iranian language. The name of an Armenian king in the 1st century AD.

Sanasar Սանասար is an ancient Armenian name, which means "sacred mountain" սանա սար in armenian. It is also main character in armenian epic poem Sanuntsi Davit. In Russian it was Tra slated later as "sviatagor" which bears the same meaning "sacred mountain".

Form of Yeruslan used by Aleksandr Pushkin in his poem Ruslan and Ludmila (1820), which was loosely based on Russian and Tatar folktales of Yeruslan Lazarevich.

Variant of Rifat.

Armenian diminutive of Rudolf.

Old Irish form of Ruarc.

Means "rose" in Breton.

Modern Hebrew form of Rebecca.

Means "goodness" in Afizere.

Meaning unknown. A noted bearer is Rimush, an Akkadian king (c.2280 BCE), the second king of the Akkadian empire, son of King Sargon of Akkad and Queen Tashlultum, brother of Manishtushu, and uncle of Naram-Sin.

Means "skilled at child rearing" in Ainu.

Derived from Macedonian развигор (razvigor) "breeze".

Means "silver" in Abaza.

Feminine form of Rama.

Possibly a Georgian form of Ramadan. It appears in the 12th-century Georgian epic The Knight in the Panther's Skin.

Latvian form of Ralph.

Means "love" in Thai.

Possibly a combination of the Old Norse name elements regin "advice, counsel" and norðr "north", though it could also be a variant of Ragnar.

From the Old Norse elements regin "advice, counsel" and herr "army, warrior". It is a cognate of Rayner. This name was borne by the legendary Viking hero Ragnar Lodbrok.

Modern Scandinavian form of Ragnarr.

Medieval Irish form of Ragnvaldr.

Derived from Gothic ragin (regin in Old High German) "advice" combined with Old High German wachar "vigilant." It might also be a form of Raginher. Ragnachar was a 5th-century king of Cambrai.

Derived from the Old German elements regin "advice, counsel, decision" and wolf "wolf".

Derived from the Old German elements regin "counsel, advice, decision" and mari "famous".

Ragibagh (Arigabag) (1320-1328) is regarded as the 11th Great Khan of the Mongol Empire.

Means "swift" in Sanskrit. This is the name of a heroic king in Hindu epics, the great-grandfather of Rama.

Variant of Riget, traditionally found in the Surselva region.

Variant of Reagan or Regan.

Means dignity and glory. Also, the seventh Arabic month was named by this name to glorify that month; as fighting was forbidden during it.

to rule, have dominion, dominate, tread down
(Qal) to have dominion, rule, subjugate
(Hiphil) to cause to dominate
to scrape out
(Qal) to scrape, scrape out

One of the most popular Circassian names. It is the name of Circassian commander/general Tughuzhuqo Kizbech, who served in the Circassian army during the Russo-Circassian War. The origin is Turkic, and is short for "Qizil Bek" which translates to "Red Lord" or "Golden Lord".

Meaning and origin unknown. He is a 4th saint venerated in Chaldean Catholic Church, Assyrian Church of the East, Syro-Malabar Church. Mar Qardagh (Mar means "lord" and it's like "holy"a honorific title) was a Sassanid prince who was martyred for converting to Christianity. There are Syriac manuscripts that tells his life: The History of the Heroic Deeds of Mar Qardagh the Victorious Martyr.

Means "phoenix" in Armenian.

Derived from the Slavic element dorgŭ meaning "precious" combined with a superlative prefix.

Means "silver" in Khmer.

Medieval Hungarian form of Pongrác.

Bulgarian feminine diminutive of Petar.

Meaning unknown.

From the Armenian word փայլակ (pʿaylak) meaning "the light emitted by a lightning strike; brilliance, radiance".

Meaning "little commander" or "little pasha".

Modern form of Pankaja.

Ancient Egyptian name meaning "he of the (holy) falcon," consisting of the Egyptian masculine prefix (or article/pronoun) pa combined with Egyptian akhom "falcon, eagle". The falcon was the symbol of the Egyptian god Horus, so one could say that this name essentially means "he who belongs to Horus."

Means "queen" in Dagbani.

From the Germanic name Audamar, which was derived from Old Frankish aud or Old High German ot meaning "wealth, fortune" combined with mari meaning "famous". This was the name of an 8th-century Swiss saint, an abbot of Saint Gall.

A name of Libyan origin derived from wsr-kn meaning unknown but used by various pharaohs of the twenty-second dynasty.

Means "arrow" in Old Norse. Orvar Odd is a legendary Norse hero who is the subject of a 13th-century Icelandic saga.

Derived from Old English ord "point (of a weapon)" and Old Norse gríma "mask".

Means "spear-point", derived from Old English ord "point (especially of a weapon)" and gar "spear". It is a cognate of Old Norse Oddgeirr.

Variant of Oltion.

Croatian and Serbian form of Ognyan.

Variant of Odoacer.

From the Old Norse name Oddvarr, derived from the elements oddr "point of a sword" and varr "aware, cautious".

Meaning unknown. Nusku was the god of light and fire in ancient Mesopotamian religion.

Georgian sources state that this name is of Iranian origin and comes from the same root as Nodar, which is a Georgian name that is also of Iranian origin.

But according to a Russian source, this name is a compound name that means "golden light", derived from Arabic نور (nur) meaning "light" combined with Persian زر (zar) meaning "gold".

Means "new fruit" in Armenian.

Short form of Norayr.

Of uncertain etymology, likely deriving in part from the Sumerian element nin ("queen, mistress, lady"). Name borne by a tutelary goddess of Umma, who was considered to be the consort of the god Shara.

Means "great queen" in Sumerian. Another name of Ninhursag.

In Babylonian legend she was given the name Ninmah by her son Ninurta in order to commemorate his creation of the mountains. Ninmah/Ninmenna may have originally been independent goddesses who were later identified as and merged with Ninhursag.

Means "bright" in Adyghe (West Circassian).

Means "sunrise" in Mongolian, from нар (nar) meaning "sun" and гарах (garakh) meaning "to appear, occur".

Diminutive form of Narcyz.

Means "spokesman" in Apache.

Nakht was an ancient Egyptian official who held the position of a scribe and astronomer of Amun, probably during the reign of Thutmose IV of the Eighteenth Dynasty.

Cornish form of Michael.

Armenian form of the Hittite name Mursili. An ancient name used in the 3rd to 13th centuries, and revived in the 19th century.

Derived from Albanian murlan, a term denoting a "strong and bitterly cold wind from the north".

It's been postulated that it derives from the Latin mulus meaning "mule", a word which is known to have entered the Old English vocabulary; presumably, it was a nickname that became habitual.

Mūl was an Anglo-Saxon ruler of the Kingdom of Kent in England.

Altai form of Mikhail.

Means "boy" in Algonquin.

Means "emerald" in Thai.

Danish form of Magnus.

Derived from the element mio, a Serbo-Croatian form of the Slavic element milŭ meaning "dear", combined with dorgŭ meaning "precious".

Means "the leader" in Ancient Egyptian.

Composed of mers "fame" + -ila (a personal name-forming suffix). The origin of the Galician toponym Merlán.

Derived from Arabic al-maraqq, meaning "the loins (of the bear)". This is the traditional name of the star Beta Ursae Majoris, in the constellation Ursa Major.

Welsh form of Mordred.

Norman French form of Madalgar.

Means "fighting; battle" in Algonquin.

Feminine form of Marvin.

Diminutive of Márta.

Croatian and Slovene form of Marianus.

Probably from Sumerian amar-Utuk meaning "calf of Utu", derived from amar "calf" combined with the name of the sun god Utu. This was the name of the chief Babylonian god, presiding over heaven, light, sky, battle, and fertility. After killing the dragon Tiamat, who was an old enemy of the gods, he created the world and sky from the pieces of her body.

"Marak," meaning "Flare" in Indonesian.

From Lithuanian mantus meaning "intelligent, clever" or manta meaning "property, wealth". Herkus Mantas was a 13th-century Prussian hero who fought against the Teutonic Knights.

Means "queen" in Hebrew.

Possibly means "greatness" in Ethiopic. This was the name of an Ethiopian queen of the 10th-century BC. She is probably the same person as the Queen of Sheba, who visited Solomon in the Old Testament.

Alternate transcription of Russian Макарий (see Makariy).

Means "sad" in Turkish.

Derived from Algonquin mahigan "wolf".

According to Simon of Kéza's 'Gesta Hunnorum et Hungarorum', written in the 1280s, Magor is the brother of Hunor and the son of Enéh and Ménrót. He is thus one of the legendary forefathers of the Huns and the Hungarians, or Magyars.
The name itself is allegedly derived from Old Hungarian mag "seed; kernel".

Means "bee, honey-maker" in Sanskrit.

Possibly from one of the Indo-European roots *lewk- "light, brightness", *lewg- "dark" or *lewgh- "oath". This was the name of a Celtic (Gaulish) god of commerce and craftsmanship, who was equated by the Romans with Mercury. He probably forms the basis for the characters and names of Lugh (Irish) and Lleu (Welsh).

Probably an Irish form of Lugus. In Irish mythology Lugh Lámfada was a divine hero who led the Tuatha Dé Danann against his grandfather Balor and the Fomorians. Lugh killed Balor by shooting a stone into his giant eye.

Languedocian and Gascon form of Lucan.

Derived from Albanian luftar "warrior".

Polish form of Ludmila.

From the Old German name Leutgar, which was derived from the elements liut "people" and ger "spear". Saint Ludger was an 8th-century Frisian Benedictine bishop who founded a monastery at Munster.

Modern Scandinavian form of Loki.

Norwegian form of Hloðvér.

Old German form of Ludger.

Anglicized form of Lachlann, the Scottish Gaelic form of Lochlainn. In the English-speaking world, this name was especially popular in Australia towards the end of the 20th century.

Meaning "People who make Bows" in Ainu.

Old Persian form of Cyrus.

Means "rook" in Chuvash.

Derived from Finnish kulta "gold". In the Finnish epic the Kalevala this is the name of tragic character, a young man who seeks revenge on his uncle Untamo for destroying his tribe and selling him into slavery.

Of debated origin and meaning; theories include a derivation from Turkic qobrat "to gather" and a derivation from Turkic qurt "wolf". Kubrat was the ruler of the Onogur–Bulgars, credited with establishing the confederation of Old Great Bulgaria in ca. 632.

Derived from Albanian krenar "proud".

Old Danish form of Krákr.

Means "hare" in Altai.

Means "crow" in Mari.

Derived from the name of Mount Korab, the highest mountain in Albania.

Means clever in German. This name is born by Puyo Puyo character Klug.

Hungarian form of Clotilde.

Variant of Klodian.

Albanian borrowing of Claude.

Meaning "Person who play with the Bulrush" in Ainu.

Means "dear, darling" in Mongolian.

MEANING : chief of birds, Vulture, Garuda
Usage : Sanskrit, Indian, Tamil, Telugu, Nepali, Sinhalese, Hindi, Sikh, Punjabi, Kannada, Marathi , Gujarati, Assamese, Malayalam, Bengali, Fijian, Hinduism

Western Armenian transcription of Gevorg.

Means "butterfly" in Turkish.

Means "of the Kosala people" in Sanskrit. Kosala was an ancient Indian kingdom that was at its most powerful in the 6th century BC. In Hindu legend Kausalya is the name of the mother of the hero Rama.

Meaning "Lie Down like a Sea Cucumber" in Ainu.

Rare variant transcription of Kağan.

Means "happiness" in Kyrgyz.

From the Old Norse name Jórunnr, derived from the elements jǫfurr "boar" and unna "to love".

Probably the Albanian form of Yorgakis (see Giorgakis). Also compare the similar names Kristaq and Petraq.

Probably the Albanian form of Yannakis (see Giannakis). Also compare the similar names Kristaq and Petraq.

A notable bearer of this name was the Albanian sculptor Janaq Paço (1914-1991), who was born in Greece.

Means "world conqueror, world seizer" in Persian, from جهان (jahan) meaning "world" and گیر (gir) meaning "catch, seize, conquer". This was the name of a 17th-century Mughal emperor.

Meaning unknown, originating from the main character of the eponymous fairy tale Jagor (part of the anthology Croatian Tales of Long Ago, by Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić).

Means "master of the world" from Sanskrit जगत् (jagat) meaning "world" and नाथ (natha) meaning "master". This is a title of the Hindu gods Vishnu and Krishna.

Modern form of Jagannatha.

Means "great hunter" in Ainu.

Variant of Irmtraud.

Means "diamond" in Malay and Indonesian.

Finnish form of Ingrid or Inger.

From the Old Norse name Yngvarr, which was derived from the name of the Germanic god Yngvi combined with herr meaning "army, warrior".

Early Anglicization of Angharad.

Old Swedish and modern form of Ingirún.

Variant of the names Ingrid and Ingri.

Likely an Old Swedish form of Ingegerd.

Name of Inal the great, famous 15th century Circassian king who unified all Circassians in a single state

Lithuanian form of Irmingard.

From Old Welsh Higuel meaning "eminent, prominent" (literally "well-seen"). This was the name of a few Welsh kings, including the 10th-century Hywel the Good who was known for establishing laws.

Derived from the Old English elements hun "bear cub" and lāf "legacy" (from laibō).

Derived from Old English hund "dog, hound" and Old Norse gríma "mask".

Possibly a short form of names with the element hun "bear cub, offspring". Cognate of Húni, Húnn, Huno, and Hunno. Used by a saint of Thorney. The surname Honeycut and place name Hunnacott both derive from the name.

Means "weasel, mole" in Hebrew. This name appears in the Old Testament belonging to a prophetess.

Derived from the Old German elements hugu "mind, thought, spirit" and hart "hard, firm, brave, hardy".

Means "fire" in Armenian.

Scandinavian variant of Håvard or Howard.

Old English form of Old Norse Hólmgeirr, possibly using the Old English elements holm "ocean, waters" and gar "spear".

Anglo-Saxon form of Huoching.

Hoc, father of Hnæf is a figure in the Beowulf epos.

not sure about the history but the name means 'diamond keeper' and for the girls its hiral, which also means the same

A borrowed name of uncertain origin.

Old Danish form of Hærlaugr.

Derived from the Old English elements here "army" and mōd "mind, spirit" (from mōdaz). Cognate to Herimot.

Anglo-Saxon cognate of Hengist.

Probably from the Armenian word հայ (hay) meaning "Armenian", although some hold that the ethnic name is in fact derived from the given name. This was the name of the legendary forefather of the Armenian people, supposedly a great-great-grandson of Noah, according to the 5th-century Armenian historian Movses Khorenatsi.

Circassian form of Haidar

Old Persian form of Achaemenes.

Greek form of Egyptian ḥwt-ḥrw (reconstructed as Hut-Heru) meaning "the house of Horus", derived from Egyptian ḥwt "house" combined with the god Horus. In Egyptian mythology she was the goddess of love, often depicted with the head of a cow.

Possibly derived from haþu "battle, combat" and gaut "Geat". This was the name of an early Saxon leader considered the founding father of Saxony.

Means "one who has food" in Ainu.

From Japanese 半 (han) meaning "half" and 蔵 (zō) meaning "to hide". This name was borne by the noted samurai Hattori Hanzou (1542-1596). The name can also be formed from other kanji combinations.

From the Old Norse name Hallvarðr, which meant "rock guardian" from hallr "rock" combined with vǫrðr "guard, guardian".

Variant of Halvard.

From the Old Norse name Hallþórr, which meant "Thor's rock" from hallr "rock" combined with the name of the Norse god Þórr (see Thor).

Albanian form of Haidar.

Alternate transcription of Armenian Հայկ (see Hayk).

Possibly means "flight" in Hebrew, though it could also be of unknown Egyptian origin. In the Old Testament she is the second wife of Abraham and the mother of Ishmael, the founder of the Arab people. After Abraham's first wife Sarah finally gave birth to a child, she had Hagar and Ishmael expelled into the desert. However, God heard their crying and saved them.

From Old Norse Hákon. This is the name of Hacon Sweynson, the only son of Sweyn Godwinson, brother of Harold II of England.

Old English cognate of Guðleikr. This was the name of a popular Christian saint, Guthlac of Crowland (674-715), a Mercian hermit and wonderworker.

Old Norse form of Gunnar.

Old German form of Gunther.

Possibly means "beautiful" in Abkhaz. Alternately, it may be a form of the Ossetian name Agunda. This is the name of a legendary Abkhaz woman who could take the form of a white horse.

Gothic form of Gomes.

Uzbek form of Golnar.

Combination of Old Norse name elements guð "god" and varr "vigilant, cautious", first used in 1887. It can also be a variant of Gudvard (see Guðvarðr).

From the Old Norse name Guðrún meaning "god's secret lore", derived from the elements guð "god" and rún "secret lore, rune". In Norse legend Gudrun was the wife of Sigurd. After his death she married Atli, but when he murdered her brothers, she killed her sons by him, fed him their hearts, and then slew him. Her story appears in Norse literature such as the Eddas and the Völsungasaga. She is called Kriemhild in German versions of the tale. This is also an unrelated character in the medieval German epic Kudrun.

Scots form of Griselda.

Medieval form of Grímr meaning "mask, helmet", which remained popular in Anglo-Scandinavian areas well into the 12th century. This was used as another name for the Norse god Odin. Alternatively, as an Old Danish and Old Swedish name derived from Old Norse grimmr "cruel, grim", often used as a part of a name such as Tyrgrim or Grimulf.

The name of monster from Old English heroic epic poem "Beowulf".

Gower means "pure" from Welsh origin.

Alternate transcription of Japanese Kanji 五郎 (see Gorō).

Faroese name with the combination of gorr "wet, soft" and mund "protection".

Danish form of Guðþorm. Gorm the Old (also known as Guðrum and Guthrum) was the first christened king of Denmark. He took the name Æthelstan when he converted to Christianity in 878.

Flemish form of Gaugerich.

Feminine form of Goran.

Derived from South Slavic gora meaning "mountain". It was popularized by the Croatian poet Ivan Goran Kovačić (1913-1943), who got his middle name because of the mountain town where he was born.

traditional Luo name. origin: ancient Luo warrior

Derived from Basque gogor "hard".

Macedonian form of Gregory.

Variant of Glauku.

Contracted form of Guðfrøðr.

Maltese form of Gregory.

Means "flower bud" in Persian.

Corsican form of John.

Shortened form of Ghazaros.

Means "redemption" in Hebrew.

Albanian male name. It is composed of the first two letters of Albanian clan groups. GE stands for Gheg living in the north of Albanian lands (Northern Albania) and speaking the Gheg Dialect, TO for Tosk living in the south and speaking the Tosk Dialect, and AR for Arbëresh, Albanians living in Italy, Greece etc. and speaking varieties of Albanian like Arbëresh and Arvanitika.

German form of Gertrude.

Also Gerara, (LXX). Name of the land in which Abimelech dwelt. Genesis 20:2.

Means "lance, spear" in Armenian.

Derived from Albanian gazmor " enjoyable, delightful, pleasant; jolly, cheerful".

Bulgarian, Macedonian and Romanian form of Gabriel.

From Persian گوهر (gohar) meaning "jewel, gemstone".

Hypothetical older form of Garrick, derived from the Old English elements gar "spear" and ric "king, ruler". Cognate to Gaiseric.

Old English cognate of Germanic Germund and Old Norse Geirmundr, derived from the elements gar "spear" and mund "protection".

Short form of Garegin.

Old Armenian name of unknown meaning.

Means "steel hero" in Mongolian, from ган (gan) meaning "steel" and баатар (baatar) meaning "hero".

Derived from Albanian gac "gray heron".

From Japanese 風 (fū) meaning "wind" and 神 (jin) meaning "god, spirit". This is the name of the Japanese wind god, who carries the wind in a bag over his shoulders.

Probably a variant of Fran.

Masculine form of Fitore.

Derived from the Arabic word فردوس (firdaws) meaning "paradise", ultimately from an Iranian language, akin to Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬌𐬭𐬌⸱𐬛𐬀𐬉𐬰𐬀 (pairi daēza) meaning "garden, enclosure".

Derived from Albanian fidan "seedling, sapling, shoot; tall and straight".

Directly taken from Hungarian farkas "wolf".

Alternate transcription of Arabic فرج (see Faraj). This corresponds more closely with the Egyptian Arabic pronunciation of the name.

Means "virtuous, generous" in Arabic.

Masculine form of Edurne.

Alternate transcription of Hebrew דְּבוֹרָה (see Devorah).

Derived from Albanian durim "endurance, perseverance; patience".

Means "unattainable" in Sanskrit. Durga is a Hindu warrior goddess, the fierce, twelve-armed, three-eyed form of the wife of Shiva. She is considered an incarnation of Parvati.

Old English form of Donald, derived from Old Irish Domnall. This was the name of Scottish kings and an early saint.

Feminine form of Dubravko.

Hypothetic old Celtic form of the name of a river in the south of France commonly known as the Durance, which is of unknown meaning. An Indo-European root meaning "to flow" has been suggested. According to Robert Graves in 'The White Goddess' (1948), it is derived from the Indo-European root *deru meaning "oak" (as are the words druid and dryad) and probably also belonged to a Gallic tree goddess, which he identifies as "Queen of the Druids" and "Mother of the Tree Calendar". Graves' vision of the possible but unattested goddess has entered the popular imagination, and today many Neo-Pagans accept his Druantia as real.

Norman name, possibly derived from Gothic dragan meaning "to carry, to pull" or Old Saxon drog meaning "ghost, illusion". Alternatively, it could be related to the Slavic element dorgŭ meaning "precious, dear". The Normans introduced this name to England.

Masculine form of Drita.

Drangue is a semi-human winged divine figure in Albanian mythology and folklore, associated with weather and storms.

Greek form of Draco.

Derived from the Slavic element dorgŭ (South Slavic drag) meaning "precious" combined with mirŭ meaning "peace, world".

From the Slavic elements dorgŭ (South Slavic drag) meaning "precious" and ľuby meaning "love". This is also the Serbian and Croatian word for the flowering plant nasturtium (species Tropaeolum majus).

Derived from the Slavic element dorgŭ (South Slavic drag) meaning "precious" combined with a diminutive suffix.

Derived from the Slavic element dorgŭ (South Slavic drag) meaning "precious".

Old English byname (and, less frequently, given name) meaning "snake" or "dragon", derived from Latin draco "snake, monster" (see Draco), applied to someone with a fierce or fiery temperament.

Derived from the Latin word diabolus, meaning "devil". In Albanian mythology, Djall, also known as Dreq, is the personification of evil. It is also the name of a demon of fire.

Anglicized form of Deirbhile or Dearbháil.

Apparently derived from the Old English adjective deorc meaning "dark".

Albanian, Indonesian, Malay, Kabardian and Balkar form of Dawud (see David).

Abkhaz form of David.

From Lithuanian daug "much" combined with mantus "intelligent" or manta "property, wealth". This name was borne by a 13th-century Lithuanian ruler of Pskov who is venerated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Akkadian form of Darius.

Old Persian form of Darius.

Anglicized form of Dáire or Darach.

Means "rope around the belly", derived from Sanskrit दाम (dama) meaning "rope" and उदर (udara) meaning "belly". This is another name of the Hindu god Krishna, given to him because his foster-mother tied him to a large urn.

Slovene, Serbian and Macedonian feminine form of Damian.

Combination of the Old Norse name elements dagr "day" and ulfr "wolf".

From the Old Norse name Dagný, which was derived from the elements dagr "day" and nýr "new".

From the Old Norse name Dagmær, derived from the elements dagr "day" and mær "maid". This was the name adopted by the popular Bohemian wife of the Danish king Valdemar II when they married in 1205. Her birth name was Markéta.

Uncertain etymology. May have been one of the first king of Mercia, though his existence is disputed.

Derived from the Old English elements col "coal" (see kol) and grīma "mask" (see grimo). Cognate to Icelandic Kolgrímur.

From Romanian codru meaning "forest", a word of uncertain origin.

Meaning uncertain. Name borne by a Nabatean queen who ruled alongside her husband Aretas IV.

Means "loyal, faithful" in Thai.

Means "wolf" in Kalmyk.

Circassian form of Genghis used in the past. Not seen for a long time.

From a Slavic word meaning "black".

Combination of two elements cha “bear” and borz “wolf”.

From Old Welsh Catell, derived from cat "battle" and a diminutive suffix. This was the name of two early kings of Powys in Wales.

Means "earthquake" in Mayan. Cabrakan was the god of mountains and earthquakes.

From Arabic براق (Buraq), the name of the legendary creature that, according to Islamic tradition, transported the Prophet Muhammad. Its name is derived from Arabic برق (barq) meaning "lightning".

Means "armour" in Old Norse.

Breca (sometimes spelled Breoca) was a Bronding who, according to the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf, was Beowulf’s childhood friend.

Derived from Old Norse bragr meaning "first, foremost" or "poetry". In Norse mythology Bragi is the god of poetry and the husband of Iðunn.

Means "grey wolf" in Turkish.

Bulgarian form of Božidar, as well as an alternate transcription for Macedonian.

Feminine form of Boyko.

Means "forest" in Armenian.

Alternate transcription of Arabic بطرس (see Butrus).

From Old English bot "remedy, help; improvement" and ric "king, ruler", an older form of Boteric. Alternatively, the first element could be derived from bod "message, command" (see Talbot).

Means "currant" in Altai.

From a Bulgar Turkic name, also recorded as Bogoris, perhaps meaning "short" or "wolf" or "snow leopard". It was borne by the 9th-century Boris I of Bulgaria, who converted his realm to Christianity and is thus regarded as a saint in the Orthodox Church. To the north in Kievan Rus it was the name of another saint, a son of Vladimir the Great who was murdered with his brother Gleb in the 11th century. His mother may have been Bulgarian.

Other notable bearers of the name include the Russian emperor Boris Godunov (1552-1605), later the subject of a play of that name by Aleksandr Pushkin, as well as the Russian author Boris Pasternak (1890-1960), the Bulgarian king Boris III (1894-1943), and the Russian president Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007).

Provençal for "Good day", a translated variant of the Hebrew name "Yom-tob" or Yom-tov of the same meaning. See also the French "bonjour" and Italian "buongiorno".
BONGORON or BONJORN, DAVID BEN YOM-ṬOB: Astronomer; lived at Perpignan in the middle of the fourteenth century.

Alternate transcription of Bulgarian Божидар (see Bozhidar).

Feminine form of Bojan.

Derived from Old Slavic bojĭ meaning "battle". This was the name of a 9th-century Bulgarian saint and martyr, also called Enravota, a son of the Bulgarian khan Omurtag.

Czech and Slovak form of Bogumił.

Czech, Slovak and Ukrainian form of Bogdan, as well as a Polish variant.

Slovene form of Bohumír.

Feminine form of Bogdan.

Modern Scandinavian form of Bǫðvarr.

Old German form of Bode.

Derived from Old English boda meaning "messenger, herald, prophet".

Means "white flowers" from Welsh blodau "flowers" combined with gwen "white, blessed". This is the name of an 1878 Welsh opera by Joseph Parry.

Meaning unknown, though it might come from Old English blac "pale, shining, white" or blæc "black". The surname Bloxham derived from this name.

Derived from Albanian bli(n) "sturgeon" or bli(r) "linden tree, lime tree; linden flower".

Basque form of Victor.

Derived from Albanian binak "twin".

Derived from Albanian betim "oath, pledge".

Means "faithful" in Albanian.

From the Turkish military title beg meaning "chieftain, master" combined with Turkic arslan meaning "lion".

Berig is a legendary king of the Goths appearing in the Getica by Jordanes. According to Jordanes, Berig led his people on three ships from Scandza (Scandinavia) to Gothiscandza (the Vistula Basin). They settled and then attacked the Rugians who lived on the shore and drove them away from their homes, subsequently winning a battle against the Vandals.

Norwegian form of Benedict.

Means "the white god" from Old Slavic bělŭ "white" and bogŭ "god". This was the name of a poorly attested (possibly spurious) Slavic god of good fortune.

Derived from Albanian begator "wealthy, prosperous; fertile, fruitful, abundant".

Derived from Arabic بطل (batal) meaning "hero".

Bible Hebrew

Variant of Barthold or a combination of bjartr "light, shining" and ulfr "wolf" (see also Bertulf).

Diminutive of Finbar or Bairrfhionn.

Derived from Albanian bardhok "fair-haired; white; white ram".

Feminine form of Bardh. In Albanian mythology, Bardha are pale, nebulous figures who dwell under the earth. According to old folklore, to propitiate them one strews cakes or sugar on the ground.

Means "exalted" in Persian.

Means "blessings" in Arabic, a plural form of Barak 2.

Means "blessing" in Arabic.

Meaning uncertain. In Irish mythology Balor was a giant king of the Fomorians. He had an evil eye that could destroy opposing armies, though it took four men to pull open the eyelid. In battle with the Tuatha Dé Danann he slew their king Nuada, but was himself killed when the hero Lugh shot a stone into his eye.

Means "maturity" or, figuratively, "perfection" in Uzbek.

From Old Norse Baldr meaning "hero, lord, prince", derived from baldr meaning "brave, bold". In Norse mythology Balder was the handsome son of Odin and Frigg. Because of the disturbing dreams he had when he was young, his mother extracted an oath from every thing in the world that it would not harm him. However the devious god Loki learned that she had overlooked mistletoe. Being jealous, he tricked the blind god Hoder into throwing a branch of mistletoe at Balder, which killed him.

Albanian short form of Bajram as well as a diminutive of Branislav (Slovak) and Bratislav (Montenegrin and Serbian).

Known bearers of this name include the Albanian guerilla fighter Bajo Topulli (1868-1930) and Bajo Pivljanin (c. 1630-1685), a military commander who was born as Dragojlo Nikolić in what is now Montenegro.

Diminutive of Bago, a Germanic name derived from Old High German baga "dispute".

Means "brave warrior" in Khazar.

Old Persian name derived from 𐏎 (baga) meaning "god" and 𐎭𐎠𐎫 (data) meaning "given". This was the name of a 3rd-century BC Persian satrap under the Seleucid Empire.

Means "ruby" in Mongolian.

Unknown origin. Perhaps related to Bucge

Georgian form of Bahadur.

Means "forsaken" in Hebrew. In the Old Testament this is the name of Caleb's wife.

From айдамир (aydamir) meaning "moon iron" and хан (khan) meaning "king, ruler"

Means "giant, huge, enormous" or "champion, winner, titleholder" in Mongolian.

Turkish variant of Attila.

Abkhaz form of Astemir.

Derived from the Old Norse elements áss meaning "god" and laug possibly meaning "vowed, promised, bound in oath".

Form of Asenath used in the Greek Old Testament.

Derived from Albanian artor, an archaic term for a farmworker who works in the fields.

Old Armenian form of Artaxerxes.

Derived from Albanian artë meaning "golden".

Old Persian form of Arsaces.

Means "golden day" in Albanian, from ar "gold" and ditë "day".

Means "high valour", derived from the Old Irish elements ard "high" and gal "valour".

Old Irish form of Ardghal.

Means "ten" in Mongolian.

Meaning unknown; possibly related to Persian ارمنی (Armani) "Armenian" or from Old Iranian *Rāma(n)-nī- "bringing peace" combined with the Armenian suffix -ակ (-ak). Aramanyak Haykazuni was a king of Armenia from 2026-1980 BCE. He was supposedly the son of Hayk, the legendary founder of Armenia.

MEANING - Unimpassioned, calm, a name of lord Shiva

Means "worship" in Sanskrit.

Uzbek, Tajik, Kyrgyz and Tatar form of Anwar.

Derived from the Old High German elements ansi "god, deity" and got "god, deity", or possibly a Norman form of Old Norse Ásgautr (compare Old Swedish Asgot) in which the second element is the tribal name gautr.

Scottish Gaelic diminutive of Anna.

Means "Mars (planet)" or "Tuesday" in Mongolian, ultimately from Sanskrit अङ्गार (angara) meaning "charcoal" or "Mars".

Short form of Alexandra.

Possibly from a Visigothic name, maybe from Gothic elements such as alls "all" or aljis "other" combined with auds "riches, wealth". Saint Alodia was a 9th-century Spanish martyr with her sister Nunilo.

Meaning mammal, variant of Algax̂.

Means "eagle" in Ancient Egyptian.

Estonian form of Ivar.

Means "the whirling dancer", deriving from the Akkadian words gâšum ("to dance") and gūštum ("dance"). Attested as an epithet for Ishtar in the Hymn of Agushaya.

Perhaps derived from the old Celtic root *agro- meaning "battle, slaughter". This is possibly the name of a Brythonic goddess for whom the River Ayr in Scotland and River Aeron in Wales were named.

Probably of Illyrian origin, maybe related to Albanian ag meaning "dawn". Alternatively it might be connected to Greek ἀγρός (agros) meaning "field". This was the name of a 3rd-century BC Illyrian king, the husband of Teuta.

Derived from Albanian agon "to become morning, dawn".

Old Irish form of Aodhán.

Possibly means "defender, protector, brave", from Abkhaz аӷәӷәа (aghwghwa) meaning "strong".

Variant of Achachak.

A North Caucasian term used for a lonely warrior living a partisan lifestyle outside power and law and fighting for a just cause. Means "bandit" in Russian.

Variant diminutive form of Abram 2.

Means "my father strays" in Hebrew. In the Old Testament Abishag is a young woman who tends King David in his old age.

In Christian demonology, this was an upper demon ("great duke") of hell. Allegedly Abigor (also known as Eligor and Eligos) was the demon of war, in command of 60 legions, portrayed riding a winged or skeletal steed. He made deals with princes, selling them the secrets of military victory in exchange for their souls.

Abgar was the name of several kings of Edessa (today: Şanlıurfa, Turkey).

A modern namesake is Abgar Barsom, an Aramean Swedish football-player.

Probably from アベ (abe) meaning "fire" and ナンカ (nanka), combined from ナン (nan) meaning "face" and カ (ka) meaning "top."