Yakimaf & mEnglish A variant of Yakama, the name of the Yakama peoples from the Washington state area of the United States. Scholars disagree on the origins of the name Yakama. The Sahaptin words e-yak-ma means "a growing family", and iyakima, means "pregnant ones"... [more]
YarishnafAmerican (Hispanic), Spanish (Caribbean) Perhaps a variant of Yaritza. It is borne by Yarishna Ayala (1991-), a Puerto Rican bodybuilder and fitness model on Instagram. This name was given to 18 girls born in the United States in 2018, and to 28 girls born in the United States in 2019.
YelbertonmEnglish (Rare) Variant of Yelverton. Yelberton Abraham Tittle Jr. (1926-2017) was an American professional football player who was a quarterback.
YelmmEnglish A modification of the native word Shelm applied to the shimmering heat waves which arose from the earth when the summer sun shone hot.
YendifAfrican, Jamaican Patois This is the name of a town in northeastern Ghana. A famous bearer is Yendi Phillips, she is a Jamaican TV Host, model and beauty queen who the winner of the Miss Jamaica World 2007 beauty pageant, as well as the Miss Jamaica Universe 2010 pageant.
YodielmSpanish (Caribbean), Spanish (Latin American) Possibly of Hebrew origin - if it is, then the last element is derived from Hebrew el "God". Alternatively, this name may be made up from existing elements in the Spanish language, like Yotuel is... [more]
YoothafEnglish Possibly means "joy" in an Australian Aborigine language. A well known bearer of this name was the British actress Yootha Joyce (1927-1980), star of the British sitcom "George and Mildred".
YorielmSpanish (Caribbean, Rare), Spanish (Latin American) Possibly of Hebrew origin - if it is, then the last element is derived from Hebrew el "God". Alternatively, this name may be made up from existing elements in the Spanish language, like Yotuel is.... [more]
YotuelmSpanish (Caribbean), Spanish (Latin American) Mainly seen in Cuba, where there is a clear trend for parents to be creative with names. One might think one element of this name is derived from Hebrew el "God", but that is not so: rather, this name is made up of the Spanish pronouns yo "I", tú "you" and el "he"... [more]
YpresmEnglish (Rare) From the name of the town and municipality in Belgium's West Flanders province (see Ieper), the name first used and peaked during the Battles of Ypres in 1914 and 1915.
YulafEnglish (Rare) Variant of Eula or a feminine form of Yul and Yule (the latter of the two, as evidence shows, was used as a given name in the Middle Ages).... [more]
YulemEnglish Transferred use of the surname Yule, given for someone who was born on Christmas Day or had some other connection with this time of year, from Middle English yule ‘Christmastide’ (Old English geol, reinforced by the cognate Old Norse term jól).
YusielmSpanish (Caribbean), Spanish (Latin American) Possibly of Hebrew origin - if it is, then the last element is derived from Hebrew el "God". Alternatively, this name may be made up from existing elements in the Spanish language, like Yotuel is.... [more]
ZacynthafEnglish (Rare) Feminine form of Zacynthus. This name was very rarely used in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, mainly in Britain.
ZaddockmEnglish (Rare) (Anglicized) variant of Zadok. A bearer of the variant Zadock was Congressman Zadock Pratt (1790-1871), a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York.
ZaniahfAstronomy, English (Rare) Presumably derived from Arabic زاوية (zāwiyah) "corner" (though Alhazen claimed that this word meant "harlot"). This was the medieval name for Eta Virginis, a star in the constellation Virgo.
Zaram & fBiblical Greek, English (Rare) The Biblical Greek form of Hebrew Zerah, meaning "dawn, dawning, shining, rising of the sun," derived from the Hebrew verb זרח (zarah) "to arise, to shine, to break out"... [more]
Zealm & fEnglish Found in occasional use as a given name from 17th century onwards, Zeal is part virtue name and part a transfer of the English surname.... [more]
ZeenafEnglish Variant of Zena. It was used as a diminutive of Zenobia in Edith Wharton's novella Ethan Frome (1911), where Zenobia 'Zeena' Frome is the title character's sickly wife... [more]
ZelahfBiblical Hebrew, English (Rare) Means "rib, side" in Hebrew. Zelah was a place in the territory of the Tribe of Benjamin, ancient Judea, known as the burial place of King Saul, his father Kish and his son Jonathan.
ZelotesmEnglish (Puritan, ?), English (Rare) From Greek ζηλωτής (zelotes) meaning "zealot, zealous follower". This was a descriptive byname of one of Jesus' twelve apostles, Saint Simon Zelotes, given to distinguish him from the apostle Simon Peter... [more]
Zenm & fEnglish This name is derived from either the word that is the Japanese on'yomi/reading of the Chinese word chán (禅), which is derived from the Sanskrit word dhyāna, meaning 'absorption, meditative state' or, in the case of U.S. soccer/football defender Zen Luzniak, a shortened form of Zenon.... [more]
Zenithf & mEnglish (Rare) From Middle English senith, from cinit, from Old French cenit and/or Latin cenit, a transliteration of Arabic سمت (samt, "direction, path") which is in itself a weak abbreviation of سمت الرأس (samt ar-ra's, "direction of the head").... [more]
ZenorafEnglish (Rare), Literature The name of a woman in 'A genuine account of the life and transactions of H. ap D. Price ... Written by himself' (1752).
ZeppelinmEnglish (Modern) Transferred use of the name of the Zeppelin airships; from the surname of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838-1917), a German aeronautical pioneer, designer and manufacturer of airships... [more]
ZetafEnglish (Rare) English variant of Zita 1. It is also the name of the sixth letter in the Greek alphabet, Ζ. A famous bearer is Welsh actress Catherine Zeta-Jones (1969-); born Catherine Zeta Jones, she was named after her paternal grandmother, Zeta Jones, who was herself named for a ship that her father sailed on.