This is a list of submitted names in which the usage is English or American.
Submitted names are contributed by users of this website. The accuracy of these name definitions cannot be guaranteed.
Budd m English (American)Short form of
Buddy. In American culture Bud, Budd, and Buddy were often as a nickname for a son named for his father to avoid name confusion. It later became used as an independent name.
Bug m & f EnglishA popular unisex nickname between 1920-1935, based on the slang term "bugsy" meaning "crazy."
Bunty f Scots, EnglishOriginally an English and Scottish term of endearment derived from Scots
buntin "plump, short and stout" referring to a plump child (possibly with the intended meaning of "good healthy baby" or "dear little one")... [
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Burma f English (American)This name was sporadically used in the American South in the early 20th-century. Perhaps it is just a transferred use of the place name.
Bushrod m English (American)Given name from surname of Medieval English origin—locational from a so called 'lost' village, likely to have been situated in Dorset, England. Surname Bushrod derives from the Old English 'bysc', a bushy thicket, with 'rod', a clearing in a forest.
Butch m English (American)From the English word
butch meaning "manly", "masculine", itself from the word
butcher. It was originally a nickname for men considered manly.
Butterfly f English (Modern)Used to invoke the brilliantly-colored winged insect, which is widely seen as a symbol of metamorphosis, renewal, and rebirth, as well as one of youth and beauty. This is the birth name of a noted Australian folk singer, Butterfly Boucher, among others.
Button m EnglishThe name of Button Gwinnett, one of the signatories (first signature on the left) on the United States Declaration of Independence.
Butts m American (Rare)Transferred use of the surname
Butts or a nickname with meaning particular to the bearer. Notable namesake, professional baseball player,
Albert "Butts"
Wagner was the older brother of baseball great
Honus Wagner.
Buzzy m AmericanA name that can be formed as an onomatopoeia, a word based on sound, or a nickname for someone with a short haircut. ... [
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Byra f English (Rare)Feminine form of
Byron. This was borne by Byra Louise 'Puck' Whittlesey (1922-1988), the wife of Jack Hemingway, daughter-in-law of Ernest Hemingway and mother of actresses Mariel Hemingway and Margaux Hemingway.
Cabell m American (Rare)Transferred use of the surname
Cabell. A notable bearer is jazz musician and bandleader Cabell "Cab" Calloway III (1907-1994).
Cabot m English (Rare)The name 'Cabot' comes from the fifteenth century Italian explorer Giovanni Caboto who was commissioned by the Kingdom of England to discover North America. When Caboto arrived in England is name was changed to John Cabot to sound more English... [
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Caddie f English (Archaic)Diminutive of
Caroline. This name is borne by the titular character of Carol Ryrie Brink's children's historical fiction novel
Caddie Woodlawn.
Caddy f & m English (Rare), LiteratureVariant of
Caddie. Fictional bearers include Caddy Jellyby, a character in Charles Dickens' novel
Bleak House (1853), and
Candace "Caddy" Compson, a character in William Faulkner's novel
The Sound and the Fury (1929).
Cadenza f & m American (Rare)An "ornamental passage near the close of a song or solo," 1780, from Italian
cadenza "conclusion of a movement in music." See also
Cadence.
Cady f & m English (Modern, Rare)While nowadays generally considered a phonetic spelling of
Katie or a diminutive of
Cadence,
Cady was originally derived from a surname which was either a variant of
Cade or an Anglicized form of Ó Ceadaigh ("descendant of
Céadach"), with Ceadach being a byname derived from Irish
ceadach "talkative".... [
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Caeda f EnglishDerived from the English word ‘cadence’ meaning melody, music. Caeda is a symbol of the sky, and also an expert Pegasus Knight.
Caelian m English, DutchEnglish form of
Caelianus. The name has also been used in The Netherlands just a handful of times; the variant form
Celian has been used a little bit more often there.
Cagney m & f EnglishGardener and kind friend in "The Penderwicks" by Jeanne Birdsall (National Book Award winner).... [
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Caiseal m & f Irish (Modern), English (Modern)From Irish
caiseal meaning "great stone fort" or "castle". A notable bearer of the name is the Australian Sci-Fi and fantasy novelist, artist and musician
Caiseal Mór. This is a modern Irish word name and not commonly used in Ireland or Northern Ireland.
Caislín f Irish (Modern), English (Modern)Supposed to mean "little castle" from Irish
caiseal meaning "castle" combined with the Irish diminutive of
ín. It also coincides with the rare Irish word
caislín meaning "chat" (a type of bird)... [
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Cake m & f EnglishFrom the English word, a sweet dessert food, ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European
*gog "ball-shaped object".
Cala f EnglishVariation of Calla using the Italian word,
cala, meaning "cove." Also a nickname for the Greek
Kalas.
Calam m Irish, EnglishMeaning uncertain. Among anglophone bearers from outside Ireland, there might possibly be cases where the name is derived from the surname
Calam, which is ultimately of Scottish origin.... [
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Calbraith m English (Rare)A notable bearer Matthew C. Perry (American naval officer who opened Japan to the West) who has this as a middle name.
Caledonia f English (Rare)From the Latin name of Scotland, itself derived from
Caledones, the Latin name of a tribe that inhabited the region during the Roman era, which is of unknown origin, though it may possibly come from Proto-Celtic
*kaletos meaning "hard" and
*ɸēdo- meaning "foot", alluding to standfastness or endurance.
Calendula f English (Rare)The scientific name for a genus of flowers, comprised of several kinds of marigolds. From the Latin diminutive of calendae, meaning "little calendar", "little clock" or possibly "little weather-glass".
Caley f & m EnglishFrom the English surname,
Caley, meaning "jackdaw clearing" or from an Irish surname which is an altered form of
Macauley... [
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Calico m & f English (Rare)From the English word
calico referring to something having a pattern of red and contrasting areas, specially the tri-coloured cat, resembling the color of calico cloth, a kind of rough cloth often printed with a bright pattern... [
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California f EnglishFrom the name of the American state, whose name probably derives from the fictional Island of California ruled by Queen
Calafia in the 16th century novel Las sergas de Esplandián by García Ordóñez de Montalvo.
Caligo m English, Popular CulturePossibly related to the name for the genus of the "owl butterfly" or the Latin word meaning "darkness, mist." Name of a faerie in the game 'Lovestruck.'