hesione's Personal Name List

Derived from the Slavic elements zvonŭ "sound, chime" and mirŭ "peace, world". Dmitar Zvonimir was an 11th-century Croatian king.

Derived from Croatian zvijezda meaning "star".

Means "morning star" in Bulgarian.

Diminutive of Zora.

Serbian, Croatian and Macedonian diminutive of Zora.

Variant of Zora.

Means "light, brilliance" in Hebrew.

Derived from South Slavic zlato meaning "gold", a derivative of Old Slavic zolto.

Feminine form of Živko.

From the Hebrew name ץְפַןְיָה (Tsefanya) meaning "Yahweh has hidden", derived from צָפַן (tsafan) meaning "to hide" and יָהּ (yah) referring to the Hebrew God. This is the name of one of the twelve minor prophets of the Old Testament, the author of the Book of Zephaniah.

Feminine form of Željko.

Derived from Serbo-Croatian želeti "to wish, to desire" combined with the Slavic element mirŭ "peace, world".

From the Hebrew name צִדְקִיָּהוּ (Tsiḏqiyyahu) meaning "Yahweh is righteousness", from צֶדֶק (tseḏeq) meaning "justice, righteousness" and יָהּ (yah) referring to the Hebrew God. In the Old Testament this is the name of the last king of Judah.

Derived from South Slavic žar meaning "ember, zeal, fervour".

Slovene and Croatian form of Gianna.

Bulgarian and Macedonian feminine form of Zechariah.

Hebrew form of Jesse.

Means "lightning" in Turkish.

Means both "ash tree" and "clear, serene" in Bulgarian.

Diminutive of Yann or Yanna 2.

Russian and Bulgarian form of Jacob (or James), and an alternate transcription of Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (see Yaakov).

Hebrew form of Jachin.

Means "honeycomb" and "honeysuckle" in Hebrew.

Short form of Alexandra.

Means "wind, air" in Quechua.

Feminine form of Vivianus (see Vivian). Saint Viviana (also known as Bibiana) was a Roman saint and martyr of the 4th century.

Diminutive of Viktor.

Italian form of Victoria.

Italian form of Victor.

Feminine form of Vitale.

Means "sour cherry" in Croatian and Serbian.

Croatian and Slovene form of Vincent.

Czech form of Victoria.

German, Scandinavian and Greek variant of Victoria. It is also an alternate transcription of Russian/Bulgarian Виктория or Ukrainian Вікторія (see Viktoriya) or Belarusian Вікторыя (see Viktoryia), as well as the usual Georgian transcription.

Lithuanian form of Victor.

Alternate transcription of Russian Викентий (see Vikentiy).

Spanish form of Victorinus.

French feminine form of Victorinus.

French form of Victoria.

Form of Basil 1 in several languages.

Probably of Persian origin, possibly a superlative form of 𐎺𐎢 (vahu) meaning "good". According to the Old Testament this was the name of the first wife of King Ahasuerus of Persia before he married Esther.

Russian, Greek, Bulgarian and Macedonian form of Barbara.

Croatian, Serbian and Slovene (masculine and feminine) form of Vanya. It is also used in Scandinavia, where it is primarily feminine.

Derived from Bulgarian вълк (valk) meaning "wolf".

Croatian short form of Valentin.

Roman cognomen (see Valentine 1). This name was borne by a 4th-century Roman emperor.

Irish form of Vincent.

Derived from Lithuanian ugnis meaning "fire".

Scottish Gaelic form of Valentine 1.

Means "gazelle, roebuck" in Hebrew, an animal particularly associated with the tribe of Naphtali (see Genesis 49:21).

Means "sunbird" in Hebrew (referring to birds in the family Nectariniidae).

Means "watching" in Hebrew.

Alternate transcription of Hebrew צִבְיָה (see Tzivya).

Hebrew form of Zipporah.

Biblical Hebrew form of Zillah.

Hebrew form of Zephyr.

Means "little wind" in Finnish, derived from tuuli "wind". This was the name of a Finnish forest goddess, the daughter of Tapio.

Means "wind" in Finnish and Estonian.

Derived from Bulgarian цвет (tsvet) meaning "flower, blossom".

Derived from Greek τρυφή (tryphe) meaning "softness, delicacy". Saint Tryphon, a gooseherder from Syria, was martyred in the 3rd century.

Hebrew form of Tobiah, also used as a feminine form.

Short form of Victoria.

Means "palm tree" in Hebrew.

From the Hebrew name תִּרְצָה (Tirtsa) meaning "favourable". Tirzah is the name of one of the daughters of Zelophehad in the Old Testament. It also occurs in the Old Testament as a place name, the early residence of the kings of the northern kingdom.

Means "hope" in Hebrew.

Derived from the Slavic elements tixŭ "quiet" and mirŭ "peace, world".

Means "light" in Tamazight [1].

Form of Theresa in various languages.

Means "praise" in Hebrew, from the root הָלַל (halal) meaning "to praise, to shine".

From the English word, ultimately deriving from Old French tané, which means "light brown".

Diminutive of Atanas.

Means "vigour, energy, drive" in Estonian and Finnish.

Western Armenian transcription of Daniel.

Finnish form of Daniel.

Means "honest, innocent" in Hebrew.

Derived from Croatian and Serbian tajiti "to keep secret".

Derived from Russian свет (svet) meaning "light, world". It was popularized by the poem Svetlana (1813) by the poet Vasily Zhukovsky. It is sometimes used as a translation of Photine.

From Croatian sunčan meaning "sunny", a derivative of sunce meaning "sun".

Serbian form of Stephen.

Means "cross" in Greek, referring to the cross of the crucifixion.

Means "autumn" in Hebrew.

Derived from Slovene sreča meaning "luck".

Late Greek name derived from Greek σπυρίδιον (spyridion) meaning "basket" or Latin spiritus meaning "spirit". Saint Spyridon was a 4th-century sheep farmer who became the bishop of Tremithus and suffered during the persecutions of Diocletian.

From Croatian spomenak meaning "forget-me-not (flower)".

Derived from the Serbo-Croatian word snežan meaning "snowy".

From the Serbo-Croatian word smilje, a type of plant, known as everlasting or immortelle in English (genus Helichrysum).

From South Slavic sloboda meaning "freedom".

Short form of Silviya or Silvija.

Urdu and Pashto form of Alexander.

Variant of Sigal.

Means "violet flower" in Hebrew.

Welsh form of Charles.

Russian diminutive of Aleksandra or Aleksandr.

Means "song" in Hebrew.

Means "heard by Yahweh" in Hebrew, from שָׁמַע (shamaʿ) meaning "to hear" and יָהּ (yah) referring to the Hebrew God. This name is borne by many characters in the Old Testament including a prophet in the reign of Rehoboam.

Variant of Charla.

Means "love, infatuation" in Turkish and Azerbaijani, ultimately from Arabic سوداء (sawdāʾ) meaning "black bile, melancholy, sadness" [1].

Means "shadow, shade" in Serbian and Croatian. It can also be a diminutive of Ksenija.

Yiddish form of Alexander.

Irish form of Charles.

Irish form of Charlotte.

Swedish diminutive of Astrid, Alexandra or Sara [1].

Bulgarian diminutive of Alexander, as well as an alternate transcription of Macedonian Сашо (see Sašo).

Bulgarian diminutive of Aleksandra, as well as an alternate transcription of Macedonian Сашка (see Saška).

Means "sapphire" in Hebrew.

Diminutive of Sándor.

Finnish short form of Alexander.

Derived from South Slavic sanjati meaning "to dream".

Diminutive of Aleksandar or Aleksander.

Romanian, Croatian and Latvian short form of Alexandra.

Russian and Bulgarian form of Samuel.

Means "venom of God" in Hebrew. This is the name of an archangel in Jewish tradition, described as a destructive angel of death.

From the English word meaning "black", derived from the name of the black-furred mammal native to northern Asia, ultimately of Slavic origin.

Means "hollyhock" in Bulgarian (referring to flowering plants from the genera Alcea and Althaea). This is also an alternate transcription of Macedonian Ружа (see Ruža).

Maori form of Louisa.

Derived from Portuguese rubi or Italian rubino meaning "ruby", ultimately from Latin ruber "red".

Croatian diminutive of Rozalija.

Old German short form of feminine names beginning with Old Frankish hroþi or Old High German hruod meaning "fame" (Proto-Germanic *hrōþiz).

From the name of a desert plant (species Retama raetam), possibly related to Hebrew רָתַם (ratam) meaning "to harness, to bind".

Diminutive of Rosa 2.

Means "dew" in the South Slavic languages.

Breton form of Robert.

Hebrew form of Rebecca.

Derived from Old Irish rígain meaning "queen". According to some sources, this was the name of a wife of the semi-legendary Irish king Niall of the Nine Hostages.

Short form of names ending in rino.

Means "friendship" in Hebrew, making it a variant of the biblical name Ruth.

Croatian form of Ratomir.

Means "planner, architect" in Arabic.

Means "good sense, good guidance" in Arabic, from the root رشد (rashada) meaning "to be on the right path".

Feminine form of Ranko.

Derived from South Slavic raj meaning "paradise".

Derived from Slavic radovati meaning "to make happy, to gladden".

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

Means "flame, fire" in South Slavic.

Derived from Greek φῶς (phos) meaning "light" (genitive φωτός (photos)).

From the name of a beautiful immortal bird that appears in Egyptian and Greek mythology. After living for several centuries in the Arabian Desert, it would be consumed by fire and rise from its own ashes, with this cycle repeating every 500 years. The name of the bird was derived from Greek φοῖνιξ (phoinix) meaning "dark red".

From Greek Φιλουμένη (Philoumene) meaning "to be loved", an inflection of φιλέω (phileo) meaning "to love". This was the name of an obscure early saint and martyr. The name came to public attention in 1802 after a tomb seemingly marked with the name Filumena was found in Rome, supposedly belonging to another martyr named Philomena. This may have in fact been a representation of the Greek word φιλουμένη, not a name.

From Greek Φιλομήλη (Philomele), derived from φίλος (philos) meaning "lover, friend" and μῆλον (melon) meaning "fruit". The second element has also been interpreted as Greek μέλος (melos) meaning "song". In Greek myth Philomela was the sister-in-law of Tereus, who raped her and cut out her tongue. Prokne avenged her sister by killing her son by Tereus, after which Tereus attempted to kill Philomela. However, the gods intervened and transformed her into a nightingale.

Means "breach, burst forth" in Hebrew. In the Old Testament this is the name of the twin brother of Zerah.

Italian feminine form of Pascal.

Derived from Greek παρασκευή (paraskeue) meaning "preparation" or "Friday" (being the day of preparation). This was the name of a 2nd-century saint who was martyred in Rome.

Feminine form of Palmiro.

Finnish and Estonian form of Paul.

Polish form of Odilia.

Means "born at night" in Luo.

Created by the Italian author Gabriele d'Annunzio for his novel La Figlia di Jorio (1904). It is derived from Tuscan Italian ornello meaning "flowering ash tree".

Means "light" in Hebrew.

Derived from Bulgarian огнен (ognen) meaning "fiery".

Means "horizon" in Hebrew.

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.

Derived from Breton oan "lamb" (ultimately from Latin agnus) and used as a Breton form of Agnes.

From Kazakh нұр (nur) meaning "light" (of Arabic origin) and жан (zhan) meaning "soul" (of Persian origin).

Means "light" in Swahili, ultimately from Arabic نور (nūr).

Means "buttercup (flower)" in Hebrew (genus Ranunculus).

From Kazakh нұр (nur) meaning "light" and асыл (asyl) meaning "precious, noble" (both words ultimately of Arabic origin).

Italian form of Nieves.

Means either "speech, expression" or "fang, tusk" in Hebrew.

Means "flower bud" in Hebrew.

Variant of Nisa.

French diminutive of Anne 1.

Means "fire" in Quechua and Aymara.

From Sanskrit नील (nīla) meaning "dark blue".

Russian, Bulgarian and Macedonian form of Nikephoros.

Means "plant, shrub" in Hebrew.

Croatian form of Nancy.

Created by French author Marie d'Agoult for her semi-autobiographical novel Nélida (1846), written under the name Daniel Stern. It was probably an anagram of her pen name Daniel.

Possibly an elaboration of Nell using the popular phonetic suffix da.

Derived from Croatian nedjelja and Serbian недеља (nedelja) meaning "Sunday".

Means "fearless" in Serbian and Croatian, from the Old Slavic root nebojĭ.

Means "found", derived from Bulgarian найда (nayda) meaning "to find".

Bulgarian and Macedonian form of Nathanael.

Irish form of Nancy.

Means "stream" in Hebrew.

Belarusian cognate of Nadezhda, being the Belarusian word meaning "hope".

French form of Nadezhda.

Means "hope" in South Slavic.

Means "wish, desire" in Arabic. This name was borne by five Ottoman sultans.

Means "myrrh" in Hebrew.

Possibly a Slovene diminutive of Marija. Alternatively, it could be related to Slovene moj meaning "my, mine".

Derived from the Slavic element myslĭ "thought" or mojĭ "my" combined with slava "glory". This was the name of a 9th-century duke of Croatia, also called Mojslav. His name was recorded in Latin as Muisclavo.

Spanish, Italian and Croatian cognate of Myrtle.

From Serbo-Croatian miran meaning "peaceful, calm".

Italian form of Mireille.

Short form of Miroslava and other names beginning with Mir (often the Slavic element mirŭ meaning "peace, world").

From the Slavic element milŭ meaning "gracious, dear", originally a short form of names containing that element.

Belarusian form of Niketas.

Means "tranquility" in Hebrew.

From the Hebrew name םְנַחֵם (Menaḥem) meaning "comforter", a derivative of נָחַם (naḥam) meaning "to comfort". This was the name of a king of Israel, appearing in the Old Testament. His reign was noted for its brutality.

Means "sea wind" in Turkish.

Means "illusion, magic" in Sanskrit. In Buddhist tradition this is the name of the mother of Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha). This is also another name of the Hindu goddess Durga.

Derived from Hebrew מַיִם (mayim) meaning "water".

Finnish form of Magdalene.

Croatian and Slovene form of Marianus.

From the name of a type of flowering plant common in Israel, called the scarlet pimpernel in English.

Feminine form of Marcellus.

Means "a light" in Hebrew.

Means "raspberry" in several Slavic languages.

From the Hebrew name מַלְאָכִי (Malʾaḵi) meaning "my messenger" or "my angel", derived from a possessive form of מַלְאָךְ (malʾaḵ) meaning "messenger, angel". This is one of the twelve minor prophets of the Old Testament, the author of the Book of Malachi, which some claim foretells the coming of Christ. In England the name came into use after the Protestant Reformation.

Derived from Georgian მაყვალი (maqvali) meaning "blackberry".

Short form of Magdalena.

From the Hebrew name מָחֲלַת (Maḥalaṯ) meaning "lyre". In the Old Testament she is the daughter of Ishmael and the wife of Esau.

Old Church Slavic form of Magdalene, as well as a Bulgarian variant form.

From a title meaning "of Magdala". Mary Magdalene, a character in the New Testament, was named thus because she was from Magdala — a village on the Sea of Galilee whose name meant "tower" in Hebrew. She was cleaned of evil spirits by Jesus and then remained with him during his ministry, witnessing the crucifixion and the resurrection. She was a popular saint in the Middle Ages, and the name became common then. In England it is traditionally rendered Madeline, while Magdalene or Magdalen is the learned form.

Occitan form of Magdalene.

Originally a medieval Portuguese form of Matilda. This name was borne by the wife of Afonso, the first king of Portugal. In modern times it was the name of the titular character in a popular Argentine comic strip (published from 1964 to 1973) by Quino.

Variant of Madeline.

Italian form of Magdalene.

Irish form of Magdalene.

Means "spring of water" in Hebrew.

Means "light" in Spanish. It is taken from the title of the Virgin Mary, Nuestra Señora de la Luz, meaning "Our Lady of Light".

Derived from Latin lux meaning "light".

Means "poetry" in Estonian.

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).

Possibly from a feminine form of Leutwin. It was popularized in the 1970s by a character from the French miniseries Les Gens de Mogador.

Possibly a variant of Loreto.

Derived from the rare Serbo-Croatian word lijer meaning "lily" (the usual word is ljiljan).

Variant of Livna.

Roman family name that may be related to either Latin liveo "to envy" or lividus "blue, envious". Titus Livius, also known as Livy, was a Roman historian who wrote a history of the city of Rome.

French and Czech feminine form of Livius.

Short form of Elisabeth or Elizabeth.

Short form of Caroline and other names ending in line.

Derived from Akkadian lilitu meaning "of the night". This was the name of a demon in ancient Assyrian myths. In Jewish tradition she was Adam's first wife, sent out of Eden and replaced by Eve because she would not submit to him. The offspring of Adam (or Samael) and Lilith were the evil spirits of the world.

Finnish and Estonian diminutive of Elisabet or Eliisabet.

Short form of Carolien and other names ending in lien.

Means "to me" in Hebrew.

French masculine and feminine form of Leonidas.

Romanian diminutive of Elena.

Originally a diminutive of Magdaléna or Helena. It is now used as an independent name.

German diminutive of Helene or Magdalena.

Italian form of Laelia.

Short form of Eleanora.

Irish form of Helen.

French form of Lazarus.

Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian and Macedonian form of Lazarus. This name was borne by a 14th-century Serbian ruler who was killed at the Battle of Kosovo.

Derived from the poetic Arabic word لمى (lamā) meaning "dark red lips".

Means "goose" in Estonian.

Original Latin form of Letitia, as well as a French variant. This name began rising in popularity in France around the same time that Serge Gainsbourg released his 1963 song Elaeudanla Téïtéïa (this title is a phonetic rendering of the letters in the name Lætitia). It peaked in 1982 as the fourth most common name for girls.

From the Slavic elements krěsiti "to spark, to flare up, to bring to life, to resurrect" and mirŭ "peace, world". This was the name of four kings of Croatia in the 10th and 11th centuries. Their names were recorded in Latin as Cresimirus.

Lithuanian form of Katherine.

From Croatian koralj meaning "coral", ultimately from Latin corallium.

Means "heart, soul, desire" in Azerbaijani.

Means "dawn" in Estonian.

Means "lion cub" in Hebrew.

Variant of Kiana 1.

Means "the fire" from Hawaiian ke, a definite article, and ahi "fire".

Variant of Kay 1.

Belarusian form of Katherine.

Lithuanian short form of Kotryna.

Diminutive of Kateřina or Katarína.

German short form of Katharina.

Ukrainian form of Katherine.

Diminutive of Yekaterina.

Breton form of Katherine.

Hungarian short form of Katalin, Finnish short form of Katariina and Croatian short form of Katarina.

Variant of Carrie.

Lithuanian form of Carolus.

Feminine form of Carolus.

Dutch, Czech and Slovene form of Charles.

Swedish diminutive of Karl. It is used in Finland and Estonia as a full name.

Means "rock, boulder" in Estonian.

Means "the black one", derived from Sanskrit काल (kāla) meaning "black". The Hindu goddess Kali is the fierce destructive form of the wife of Shiva. According to stories in the Puranas, she springs from the forehead of Durga in order to defeat various demons. She is typically depicted with black skin and four arms, holding a severed head and brandishing a sword. As a personal name, it is generally masculine in India.

Diminutive of Karolína.

Scandinavian diminutive of Katarina.

Variant of Kaylee.

French form of the Old Breton name Iudicael, derived from the elements iudd "lord" and hael "generous". This was the name of a 7th-century Breton king, also regarded as a saint.

Croatian form of Joséphine.

French, Danish and Norwegian form of Iohanna (see Joanna).

From the Hebrew name יוֹאָשׁ (Yoʾash), possibly meaning "fire of Yahweh". In the Old Testament this name is borne by several characters including the father of Gideon, a king of Judah, and a son of King Ahab of Israel.

Croatian form of Hieronymos (see Jerome).

Means "taught by Yahweh" in Hebrew, from יָרָה (yara) meaning "to teach" and יָהּ (yah) referring to the Hebrew God. In the Old Testament, Jeriah is a descendant of Hebron.

Diminutive of Jelena. It also means "fir tree" in Slovene.

Form of Yelena in several languages. In Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia it is also associated with the South Slavic words jelen meaning "deer, stag" and jela meaning "fir tree".

Means "maple tree" in South Slavic.

Derived from South Slavic jasno meaning "clearly, obviously".

Bosnian masculine form of Jasmine.

From the Hebrew name יָעֵל (Yaʿel) 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.

Croatian, Serbian and Slovene form of Adrian.

Germanic name, originally a short form of names beginning with the element iwa meaning "yew". Alternative theories suggest that it may in fact be derived from a cognate Celtic element [2]. This was the name of saints (who are also commonly known as Saint Yves or Ives), hailing from Cornwall, France, and Brittany.

Perhaps derived from an old Bulgar name meaning "wolf". This was the name of a 13th-century emperor of Bulgaria. It is possible that this spelling was the result of a 15th-century misreading of his real name Vulo from historical documents.

Short form of Ivana.

From the Hebrew name יִסְכָּה (Yiska) meaning "to behold". In the Old Testament this is the name of Abraham's niece, mentioned only briefly. This is the basis of the English name Jessica.

Means "air" in Finnish.

Romanian diminutive of Elena.

Possibly a Romanian variant of Elena. In Romanian folklore this is the name of a princess kidnapped by monsters and rescued by a heroic knight.

Bulgarian, Macedonian and Serbian form of Christina.

Variant of Honoria. It was brought to England and Ireland by the Normans.

Means "halo, aura" in Hebrew, from the root הָלַל (halal) meaning "to praise, to shine".

Yiddish variant of Hannah.

Yiddish variant of Hannah.

Yiddish diminutive of Hannah.

Diminutive of Helena. In Estonian this coincides with the word heli meaning "sound".

Latinate form of Helen. This is the name of the heroine of William Shakespeare's play All's Well That Ends Well (1603).

Finnish diminutive of Johanna or Hannah.

Variant of Hanna 1.

Polish diminutive of Hanna 1.

Form of Hannah in several languages.

Possibly means "flight" in Hebrew, though it could also be of unknown Egyptian origin. According to the Old Testament she was 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.

Derived from a Semitic root meaning "thunder". Hadad was a Western Semitic (Levantine) god of thunder and storms, often called Ba'al. He was imported to Mesopotamia by the Amorites, where he was known as Adad to the Assyrians and Babylonians.

Derived from Breton gwenn meaning "white, blessed" combined with a diminutive suffix. Saint Gwenneg was an 8th-century monk of Brittany.

Means "blessed and generous" from Breton gwenn meaning "white, blessed" and hael meaning "generous". Saint Gwenhael was a 6th-century abbot of Brittany.

Means "thunder" in Indonesian.

Derived from the Turkic elements gün "sun" and el "country, society".

Derived from the Turkic elements gün "sun" and ay "moon".

Means "grace" in Italian, making it a cognate of Grace.

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.

Means "pomegranate flower", derived from Persian گل (gol) meaning "flower" and نار (nār) meaning "pomegranate".

Derived from Basque goiz "morning" and argi "light".

Italian form of Josette.

From the Late Latin name Iucunda, which meant "pleasant, delightful, happy". Leonardo da Vinci's painting the Mona Lisa is also known as La Gioconda because its subject is Lisa del Giocondo.

Italian form of Jade.

Means "light" in Mongolian.

Latinized form of the Greek name Γεννάδιος (Gennadios), which was derived from Greek γεννάδας (gennadas) meaning "noble, generous". Saint Gennadius was an early martyr from North Africa.

Variant of Gal 1.

Feminine form of Gaetano.

Breton feminine form of Franciscus (see Francis).

Alternate transcription of Persian فیروزه (see Firouzeh).

Means "unique, precious" in Arabic, derived from فرد (farada) meaning "to be unique, to be alone" [1]. This was the name of a 13th-century Persian poet.

From an English and Scottish surname that was either based on a Norman form of Edward, or else derived from a place name of unknown meaning.

Bulgarian and Georgian form of Eugene, as well as an alternate transcription of Russian Евгений (see Yevgeniy).

Bulgarian form of Eudocia, and an alternate transcription of Russian Евдокия (see Yevdokiya).

Feminine form of Ermenegildo.

Means "cedar" in Hebrew.

Derived from Albanian erë meaning "wind".

Means "fruitful place" in Hebrew. In the Old Testament this name is borne by one of the wives of Caleb. Also in the Bible, it is the name of the place where Rachel was buried.

From the Hebrew name אֶףְרָיִם (ʾEfrayim) meaning "fruitful". In the Old Testament Ephraim is a son of Joseph and Asenath and the founder of one of the twelve tribes of Israel. This name was also borne by two early saints: Ephraim or Ephrem the Syrian, a 4th-century theologian, and Ephraim of Antioch, a 6th-century patriarch of Antioch.

Short form of Irena.

Means "light of the people" in Azerbaijani, ultimately derived from Turkic el meaning "country, society" and Arabic نور (nūr) meaning "light".

Scandinavian form of Eleanor.

Means "my God is my light" in Hebrew.

Finnish, Estonian and Swedish form of Helen.

Georgian, Sardinian and Basque form of Helen.

Welsh and modern Armenian form of Helen, as well as a Czech variant form. This was the name of a 4th-century Welsh saint, traditionally said to be the wife of the Roman emperor Magnus Maximus. According to the Welsh legend The Dream of Macsen Wledig (Macsen Wledig being the Welsh form of Magnus Maximus), she convinced her husband to build the roads in Wales.

Variant of Eleanor.

Latinate form of Eleanor.

Feminine form of Eder 2.

Scottish Gaelic form of Edward.

Means "dusk" in Estonian.

Finnish form of Edward.

Form of Edward in several languages. Notable bearers include the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) and the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch (1863-1944).

Form of Edward in various languages.

Basque form of Edward.

Form of Edith in several languages.

Feminine variant of Eder 2.

Means "flock" in Hebrew. This is the name of a minor character in the Old Testament.

Means "handsome, beautiful" in Basque.

Derived from Old Irish dub "dark, black" and either slán "challenge, defiance" or Sláine, the Irish name of the River Slaney [1].

Means "freedom" or "sparrow" in Hebrew.

Derived from the Slavic element dorgŭ (South Slavic drag) meaning "precious", originally a diminutive of names beginning with that element.

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

Anglicized form of the Scottish Gaelic name Dubhghall meaning "dark stranger", from Old Irish dub "dark" and gall "stranger". This name was borne by a few medieval Scottish chiefs.

Composed of the Old Irish element donn "brown" combined with dub "dark" and a diminutive suffix.

French form of Donatianus.

Polish and French form of Donatus (see Donato).

Derived from Greek δυσμή (dysme) meaning "sunset". This is the name traditionally assigned to the repentant thief who was crucified beside Jesus.

Means "judged" in Hebrew, derived from דִּין (din) meaning "to judge". According to the Old Testament, Dinah was a daughter of Jacob and Leah who was abducted by Shechem. It has been used as an English given name since after the Protestant Reformation.

Bulgarian form of Dejan.

Breton form of Daniel.

Alternate transcription of Bulgarian Деница (see Denitsa).

Means "Yahweh has drawn up" in Hebrew, from דָּלָה (dala) meaning "to draw up, to hang" and יָהּ (yah) referring to the Hebrew God. This is the name of several Old Testament characters.

Welsh form of Daniel.

Meaning uncertain, possibly from an old Slavic exclamation expressing joy or sorrow. This was the name of a supposed Slavic war god. His name was the basis for the word davorije, a type of patriotic war song popular in the 19th century [1].

Means "sea, ocean" in Persian.

Derived from the Slavic word darŭ meaning "gift". It is sometimes used as a diminutive of names beginning with Dar.

Feminine form of Darius. Saint Daria was a 3rd-century woman who was martyred with her husband Chrysanthus under the Roman emperor Numerian. It has never been a particularly common English given name. As a Russian name, it is more commonly transcribed Darya.

Means "mother-of-pearl, nacre" in Hebrew.

Turkish form of Daniel.

Meaning uncertain, possibly a feminine form of Daniel. It is found in Lithuania from at least 14th century, being borne by a sister of Vytautas the Great.

Form of Daniel used in the Latin Bible.

Italian diminutive of Daniela.

Basque form of Daniel.

From Hebrew דָּלִיָּה (daliyya) meaning "hanging branch".

From Lithuanian dalis meaning "portion, share". This was the name of the Lithuanian goddess of weaving, fate and childbirth, often associated with Laima.

Means "hanging branch" in Hebrew.

Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of Daphne.

Means "laurel" in Hebrew, of Greek origin.

Derived from Slovene cvet meaning "blossom, flower".

French form of the Breton name Kaourintin, possibly from korventenn meaning "hurricane, storm". Alternatively, it could be connected to the Brythonic root *karid meaning "love" (modern Breton karout). This was the name of a 5th-century bishop of Quimper in Brittany.

Probably from Old Irish cell meaning "church" combined with a diminutive suffix. This was the name of a 7th-century Irish saint who evangelized in Franconia. He was martyred in Würzburg.

Derived from a Persian word meaning "leader, dignitary".

Means "born at night" in Swahili.

Means "to shine from happiness" from Greek χαρά (chara) meaning "happiness" combined with λάμπω (lampo) meaning "to shine".

Biblical Hebrew form of Hannah.

German short form of Katharina.

Portuguese, Occitan and Galician form of Katherine.

German feminine form of Carolus.

Feminine form of Carolus.

Feminine diminutive of Carl.

Variant of Karina.

Variant of Karin.

Variant of Carrie.

Variant of Callie.

Variant of Kajsa.

Means "thunderer" in Greek. In Greek mythology (according to Hesiod), this was the name of one of the three Cyclopes, who were the sons of Uranus and Gaia.

From a surname that was derived from an English place name meaning "Bryni's town". Bryni was an Old English name meaning "fire".

Derived from the Slavic element borna "protection" combined with mirŭ "peace, world".

Old Norse byname meaning "fire, torch, sword".

Means "thunderstorm" in Turkish.

Basque form of Victor.

Basque form of Vincent.

Means "heart" in Basque.

Means "way" in Basque.

Catalan form of Bernard.

Means "special" in Basque.

Basque form of Bernard.

Variant reading of Bastet.

Means "lord of the woods" from Basque baso "woods" and jaun "lord". This is the name of a character in Basque folklore, the Old Man of the Woods.

Basque form of Valentinus (see Valentine 1).

From Basque bakar meaning "alone". It was proposed by Sabino Arana in 1910 as an equivalent of the Spanish name Soledad.

Masculine form of Bakarne.

Means "fire" in Persian.

Means "free" in Persian. This word has derivatives in several other languages, such as Hindi and Turkish.

Means "stag, male deer" in Hebrew.

Created by the Georgian poet Shota Rustaveli for his 12th-century epic The Knight in the Panther's Skin. Rustaveli based it on Persian آفتاب (āftāb) meaning "sunshine" and دل (del) meaning "heart". In the poem Avtandil is a knight who is sent by Tinatin to search for the mysterious knight of the title.

Modern Hebrew form of Abishai.

Probably a Latinized form of the Germanic name Aveza, which was derived from the element awi, of unknown meaning. The Normans introduced this name to England and it became moderately common during the Middle Ages, at which time it was associated with Latin avis "bird".

Derived from the Old German element awi, of unknown meaning. Rarely, this name may be given in honour of the 16th-century mystic Saint Teresa of Ávila, Ávila being the name of the town in Spain where she was born.

Old German form of Otto.

Feminine form of Audo (see Otto).

Meaning unknown, probably of Turkic origin. This was the name of a 12th-century Bulgarian emperor (Ivan Asen I) and several of his successors.

Ukrainian form of Artemios. It is also an alternate transcription of Russian Артём (see Artyom).

Means "afternoon, dusk" in Basque.

Means "rock" in Basque.

Croatian form of Arianna.

Feminine form of Argi. This is a Basque equivalent of Luz.

Means "light" in Basque.

From the name of a place near the Spanish town of Oñati where there is a sanctuary dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Its name is derived from Basque arantza "thornbush".

Medieval Scottish name, probably a variant of Annabel. It has long been associated with Latin orabilis meaning "invokable, yielding to prayer", and the name was often recorded in forms resembling this.

Unrelated, this was an older name of the city of Irbid in Jordan, from Greek Ἄρβηλα (Arbela).

Bulgarian, Macedonian and Romanian form of Apostolos.

Russian feminine form of Apollinaris.

From Old Irish Áed, which meant "fire". This was a very popular name in early Ireland, being borne by numerous figures in Irish mythology and several high kings. It has been traditionally Anglicized as Hugh.

Croatian form of Antonius (see Anthony).

Croatian diminutive of Antonia.

Alternate transcription of Hindi अनुष्का or Sinhala අනුෂ්කා (see Anushka).

Dutch and French diminutive of Anna.

Variant of Anouska.

Means "announced" in Italian, referring to the event in the New Testament in which the angel Gabriel tells the Virgin Mary of the imminent birth of Jesus.

Finnish diminutive of Anna.

Norwegian diminutive of Anna.

Finnish diminutive of Anna.

French form of Breton Annaig, a diminutive of Anna.

French diminutive of Anne 1. It has also been widely used in the English-speaking world, and it became popular in America in the late 1950s due to the fame of actress Annette Funicello (1942-2013).

Dutch variant of Annette.

Combination of Anna and lien (from names such as Carolien).

Finnish, Estonian and Swedish form of Annelie, as well as a German variant.

Variant of Annika.

Scottish Gaelic diminutive of Anna.

Low German and Dutch diminutive of Anna and other names beginning with An.

Diminutive of Anna.

Variant of Aniyah.

Possibly from Sanskrit अनीत (anīta) meaning "not guided".