BellafSpanish Means "beautiful, fair; lovely" in Spanish, taken from the titles of the Virgin Mary, La Virgen de la Bella and Nuestra Señora de la Bella, meaning "The Virgin of the Beautiful" and "Our Lady of the Beautiful" respectively.... [more]
BellomMedieval Italian, Spanish Short form of Jacobello or other names ending in bello. It is also associated with the Italian word meaning "beautiful, handsome".
BelusmGreek Mythology King of Egypt and brother of Aegyptus and Danaus in Greek Mythology.
BelvafEnglish (American, Rare, Archaic) Apparently a feminine form of Belvedere. A notable bearer of this name was Belva Lockwood (1830-1917), one of the first female lawyers in the United States.
BeniefJapanese From Japanese 紅 (beni) meaning "crimson" combined with 衣 (e) meaning "clothes" or 絵 (e) meaning "picture, painting, drawing, sketch". Other kanji combinations are possible.
BeniofJapanese From Japanese 紅 (benio) meaning "crimson" or from Japanese 紅 (beni) meaning "crimson" combined with 央 (o) meaning "center, middle". Other combinations of kanji characters can also form this name.
BenjamDutch, Spanish Diminutive of Benjamin. A known bearer of this name is the Dutch actor Benja Bruijning (b. 1983).
BeornmAnglo-Saxon, Literature Derived from Old English beorn meaning "man, hero, warrior". In some cases it could be an Anglicized form of the Old Norse name Bjǫrn.... [more]
BeppemSwedish Swedish diminutive of masculine given names that start with Be-, such as Bertil.
BerdimTurkmen Means "given (by God)" in Turkmen. It is derived from the past tense of the Turkmen verb bermek meaning "to give", which itself is ultimately derived from Old Turkic ber meaning "to give".... [more]
BerenmLiterature Means "brave" in Sindarin. Beren (also known as Beren Erchamion, 'the One-handed', and Beren Camlost, 'the Empty-handed') is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium. He was the son of Barahir and Emeldir, the husband of Lúthien, the father of Dior Eluchíl, and ancestor of Elros and of him of Aragorn, and ancestor of Elrond and of him Arwen... [more]
BergrmOld Norse Originally both a byname and a given name. The given name is derived from the Old Norse name element berg "protection, help", while the byname is from berg "mountain".
BericmEnglish (British), Literature, Popular Culture Variant of Berrick. Beric Dondarrian is a character in 'A Song of Ice and Fire', as well as it's TV counterpart 'Game of Thrones', known for leading the Brotherhood without Banners and being repeatedly resurrected, though in his case, the name is a variant of Barak 1, as he is known as The Lightning Lord.
BerigmGothic 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)... [more]
BerikmKazakh Means "firm, hard, strong" in Kazakh.
BerilfEnglish (Rare) Variant of Beryl. Beril Jents (1918-2013) was an Australian fashion designer. She is recognized as "Australia’s first queen of haute couture".
Berkem & fTurkish, Medieval Mongolian From Turkish berk and Mongolian бэрх (berkh) both meaning "strong, firm" or "difficult, hard", derived from Old Turkic bérk. This was the name of a ruler of the Mongol Golden Horde from 1257-1266... [more]
BernomGermanic, German Diminutive for names containing the element bern "bear" making it a cognitive of Björn. Used by the first abbot of cluny venerated as a saint.
BeroefGreek Mythology This was the name of multiple characters in Greek mythology, including an old Epidaurian woman who nursed Semele.
BerojmKurdish Means "light" or "sunny" in Kurdish.
Beshif & mJapanese From Japanese 辺, 邊 (be) “area, place, vicinity” or 倍 (be) meaning “multiple times” or 部 (be) meaning “part, section” combined with 四 (shi) “four”, 清 (shi) “clean, pure, clear”, 詩 (shi) “poetry, poem, verse” 志 (shi) “will, purpose, ambition”, or 史 (shi) meaning “history”... [more]
BesikmGeorgian Short form of Besarion. It began to be used as an independent name in the 18th century, thanks to the Georgian poet Besarion Gabashvili (1750-1791), who was known as Besik or Besiki... [more]
BettafFrankish Diminutive of Bertha, or of Germanic names containing the Old Frankish or Old Saxon element berht, Old High German beraht meaning "bright" (Proto-Germanic *berhtaz)... [more]
BeunomWelsh Probably from Welsh bu "cow" and -no "knowing". The name of a 7th-century Welsh saint.
BevelmLiterature A word meaning “a slope from the horizontal or vertical in carpentry and stonework; a sloping surface or edge,” coming from the French for “to gape.” Flannery O'Connor used it for two characters in her 1955 short story "The River."
BeylafNorse Mythology From the reconstructed Proto-Norse name *Baunila, possibly meaning "little bean" or "little swelling". In Norse mythology, Beyla is a servant of the god Freyr with her husband Bryggvir.
BianafLiterature Means "fair skinned", "white", or "fair". It was invented for a character in the Keeper of the Lost Cities series, Biana Amberly Vacker, by Shannon Messenger.
Bibitm & fJavanese Means "offspring, child" or "seed, seedling" in Javanese.
BíborfHungarian (Rare) Old Hungarian name originally meaning "flax tissue", nowadays it is associated with Hungarian word "purple". Its more popular diminutive is Bíborka.
BiccamAnglo-Saxon Possibly derived from Old English becca "pickaxe, spade" or bica "beak, point; pointed ridge".
BijanmPersian, Literature Modern form of Bizhan. In literature, Bijan is the name of a character in the 11th-century epic poem 'Shahnameh' written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi.
BijarmKurdish Derived from Kurdish bijare meaning "elite, the best".
BijînfKurdish Means "desire, long for" in Kurdish.
Bijinm & fJapanese From Japanese 実 (bi) meaning "fruit, good result, truth" or 美 (bi) meaning "beautiful" combined with 人 (jin) meaning "person". Other kanji combinations are possible.... [more]
BijinfChinese From the Chinese 碧 (bì) meaning "jade, green, blue" and 锦 (jǐn) meaning "bright and beautiful, brocade, tapestry, embroidery".
BijiufChinese From the Chinese 馝 (bì) meaning "fragrance" and 久 (jiǔ) meaning "a long time ago".
BilinfChinese From the Chinese 必 (bì) meaning "surely, most certainly", 馝 (bì) meaning fragrance" or 碧 (bì) meaning "jade, blue, green" and 琳 (lín) meaning "beautiful jade, gem", 凛 (lǐn) meaning "cold, severe, strict" or 粼 (lín) meaning "clear".