Impala1729's Personal Name List
Zoie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: ZO-ee
Rating: 30% based on 11 votes
Zoi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Ζωή(Greek)
Rating: 31% based on 10 votes
Modern Greek transcription of
Zoe.
Zoey
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: ZO-ee
Rating: 44% based on 13 votes
Zoée
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Rare), French (Belgian, Rare)
Rating: 32% based on 11 votes
Zoë
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch, English
Pronounced: ZO-veh(Dutch) ZO-ee(English)
Rating: 44% based on 12 votes
Dutch form and English variant of
Zoe.
Zephyrine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: ZEF-ə-rin, ZEF-reen
Rating: 46% based on 9 votes
Zephyra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Rating: 36% based on 9 votes
Zephyr
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Anglicized)
Other Scripts: Ζέφυρος(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: ZEHF-ər(American English) ZEHF-ə(British English)
Rating: 18% based on 9 votes
From the Greek
Ζέφυρος (Zephyros) meaning
"west wind". Zephyros was the Greek god of the west wind.
Zazie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: ZAH-ZEE
Rating: 18% based on 9 votes
French diminutive of
Isabelle. The French author Raymond Queneau used this for the title character of his novel 'Zazie dans le métro' (1959; English: 'Zazie in the Metro'), which was adapted by Louis Malle into a film (1960).
Xanadu
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Various (Modern)
Pronounced: ZAN-ə-doo(English)
Rating: 10% based on 10 votes
From the name of the summer capital of the 13th-century Mongol ruler Kublai Khan, located in Inner Mongolia, China. It is an anglicized form of Chinese 上都 (Shangdu), derived from 上 (shàng) meaning "above, upper" and 都 (dū) meaning "city".
Wylla
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (American, Rare), Portuguese (Brazilian, Rare)
Pronounced: WIL-ə(American English)
Rating: 33% based on 10 votes
In the United States, this name is a variant spelling of the feminine name
Willa.
In Brazil, this name is a unisex name that is most likely a short form of given names starting with Wil-, Wyl- and perhaps even Guil- (such as Guilherme).
Winnie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: WIN-ee
Rating: 51% based on 9 votes
Diminutive of
Winifred. Winnie-the-Pooh, a stuffed bear in children's books by A. A. Milne, was named after a real bear named
Winnipeg who lived at the London Zoo.
Winifred
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Welsh
Pronounced: WIN-ə-frid(English)
Rating: 47% based on 10 votes
From Latin
Winifreda, possibly from a Welsh name
Gwenfrewi (maybe influenced by the Old English masculine name
Winfred).
Saint Winifred was a 7th-century Welsh martyr, probably legendary. According to the story, she was decapitated by a prince after she spurned his advances. Where her head fell there arose a healing spring, which has been a pilgrimage site since medieval times. Her story was recorded in the 12th century by Robert of Shrewsbury, and she has been historically more widely venerated in England than in Wales. The name has been used in England since at least the 16th century.
Willow
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: WIL-o
Rating: 66% based on 17 votes
From the name of the tree, which is ultimately derived from Old English welig.
Willodean
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (South, Archaic)
Pronounced: WIL-lo-deen, wil-lo-DEEN
Rating: 33% based on 11 votes
Willa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: WIL-ə
Rating: 44% based on 12 votes
Wendy
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: WEHN-dee
Rating: 54% based on 13 votes
In the case of the character from J. M. Barrie's play
Peter Pan (1904), it was created from the nickname
fwendy "friend", given to the author by a young friend. However, the name was used prior to the play (rarely), in which case it could be related to the Welsh name
Gwendolen and other names beginning with the element
gwen meaning "white, blessed". The name only became common after Barrie's play ran.
Viveca
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish
Rating: 27% based on 10 votes
Violet
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: VIE-lit, VIE-ə-lit
Rating: 70% based on 17 votes
From the English word violet for the purple flower, ultimately derived from Latin viola. It was common in Scotland from the 16th century, and it came into general use as an English given name during the 19th century.
Viola
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak
Pronounced: vie-O-lə(English) vi-O-lə(English) VIE-ə-lə(English) VYAW-la(Italian) vi-OO-la(Swedish) VEE-o-la(German) vee-O-la(German) VEE-o-law(Hungarian) VI-o-la(Czech) VEE-aw-la(Slovak)
Rating: 59% based on 14 votes
Means
"violet" in Latin. This is the name of the heroine of William Shakespeare's comedy
Twelfth Night (1602). In the play she is the survivor of a shipwreck who disguises herself as a man named Cesario. Working as a messenger for Duke
Orsino, she attempts to convince
Olivia to marry him. Instead Viola falls in love with the duke.
Vienna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: vee-EHN-ə
Rating: 36% based on 13 votes
From the name of the capital city of Austria,
Vienna.
Victoriana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman, Spanish
Pronounced: beek-to-RYA-na(Spanish)
Rating: 37% based on 11 votes
Vianney
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: French, Spanish (Latin American), American (Hispanic), Portuguese (Brazilian, Rare), Filipino (Rare)
Pronounced: VYA-NEH(French) bya-NAY(Spanish)
Rating: 18% based on 11 votes
From the surname of Jean-Marie Vianney (1786-1859), a French saint. His surname was allegedly derived from the given name
Vivien 1 (see
Vianney). While it is considered (mostly) masculine in France, Belgium and Francophone Africa, usage in Latin America (excluding Brazil) and Hispanic communities in the United States is primarily feminine.
Use of the name in Mexico (where its variant Vianey is the more popular spelling) might be influenced by the home decor retail company Vianney.
Vianne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 27% based on 9 votes
Meaning unknown, perhaps a combination of
Vi and
Anne 1 or a short form of
Vivianne.
Vessa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: VES-sah, VYE-sah
Rating: 31% based on 9 votes
Veruca
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature, Popular Culture
Pronounced: və-ROO-kə
Rating: 34% based on 10 votes
Created by Roald Dahl for a character in his book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, published in 1964. He based the name on the Italian and Latin word verruca, meaning "wart", used in English to refer to the plantar wart.
Vega 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Astronomy
Rating: 32% based on 10 votes
The name of a star in the constellation Lyra. Its name is from Arabic
الواقع (al-Wāqiʿ) meaning "the swooping (eagle)".
Vaya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Βάγια(Greek)
Rating: 34% based on 8 votes
Variant form of Greek Βάια (also spelled Βάϊα, Βαΐα; see
Vaia).
Vanna 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: VAN-na
Rating: 31% based on 8 votes
Vana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Macedonian
Other Scripts: Вана(Macedonian)
Rating: 31% based on 8 votes
Valkyrie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Various (Rare)
Pronounced: VAL-ki-ree(English)
Rating: 38% based on 8 votes
Means
"chooser of the slain", derived from Old Norse
valr "the slain" and
kyrja "chooser". In Norse
myth the Valkyries were maidens who led heroes killed in battle to Valhalla.
Vale
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: VAYL
Rating: 28% based on 8 votes
From the English word meaning "wide river valley".
Vaia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Βαΐα(Greek)
Rating: 34% based on 8 votes
From the Egyptian word referring to the palm branch.
It is celebrated on Palm Sunday (Κυριακή των Βαΐων), which is the Sunday before Easter.
Vada
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Popular Culture
Pronounced: VAY-də(English) VAH-də(English) VA-də(English)
Rating: 42% based on 10 votes
Meaning unknown. Possibly a variant of
Veda or
Valda or short form of
Nevada.
It was used for the heroine of the American film
My Girl (1991).
Twyla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: TWIE-lə
Rating: 61% based on 11 votes
Twila
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: TWIE-lə
Rating: 54% based on 11 votes
Meaning unknown. Perhaps based on the English word
twilight, or maybe from a Cajun pronunciation of French
étoile "star"
[1]. It came into use as an American given name in the late 19th century.
Troian
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Portuguese (Brazilian, Modern, Rare), English (American, Modern)
Rating: 14% based on 8 votes
Possibly a transferred use of the surname.
Tristan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French, Arthurian Cycle
Pronounced: TRIS-tən(English) TREES-TAHN(French)
Rating: 48% based on 8 votes
Probably from the Celtic name
Drustan, a
diminutive of
Drust, which occurs as
Drystan in a few Welsh sources. As
Tristan, it first appears in 12th-century French tales, probably altered by association with Old French
triste "sad". According to the tales Tristan was sent to Ireland by his uncle King Mark of Cornwall in order to fetch
Iseult, who was to be the king's bride. On the way back, Tristan and Iseult accidentally drink a potion that makes them fall in love. Later versions of the tale make Tristan one of King
Arthur's knights. His tragic story was very popular in the Middle Ages, and the name has occasionally been used since then.
Topanga
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Popular Culture, Indigenous American
Pronounced: TOPAYNGAH(Indigenous American)
Rating: 28% based on 8 votes
Place name of an area in western Los Angeles County, California. The area was originally named by the Tongva people and may mean "a place above."
In the American television show 'Boy Meets World' (1993-2000), one of the protagonists is named Topanga.
Thylane
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Modern, Rare)
Rating: 39% based on 7 votes
Allegedly derived from Vietnamese
Thùy,
Thủy or
Thy and
Lan 1. This name was apparently first used in 2001 by French child model Thylane Léna-Rose Blondeau.
Thessaly
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Rating: 29% based on 7 votes
Thessaly is a traditional geographic and modern administrative region of Greece, comprising most of the ancient region of the same name. This name is borne by Thessaly Lerner, American stage, film and voice actress.
Theodosia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1], Greek
Other Scripts: Θεοδοσία(Greek)
Pronounced: TEH-O-DO-SEE-A(Classical Greek) thee-ə-DO-see-ə(English) thee-ə-DO-shə(English)
Rating: 47% based on 7 votes
Thena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 31% based on 8 votes
Theia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Θεία(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 38% based on 10 votes
Possibly derived from Greek
θεά (thea) meaning
"goddess". In Greek
myth this was the name of a Titan goddess of light, glittering and glory. She was the wife of
Hyperion and the mother of the sun god
Helios, the moon goddess
Selene, and the dawn goddess
Eos.
Thea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, English
Pronounced: TEH-a(German) THEE-ə(English)
Rating: 64% based on 10 votes
Tess
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Dutch
Pronounced: TEHS
Rating: 47% based on 10 votes
Short form of
Theresa. This is the name of the main character in Thomas Hardy's novel
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891).
Temperance
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: TEHM-prəns, TEHM-pər-əns
Rating: 47% based on 9 votes
From the English word meaning
"moderation" or
"restraint". This was one of the virtue names adopted by the
Puritans in the 17th century. It experienced a modest revival in the United States during the run of the television series
Bones (2005-2017), in which the main character bears this name.
Teddie
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: TEHD-ee
Rating: 41% based on 7 votes
Tawny
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: TAW-nee
Rating: 32% based on 9 votes
From the English word, ultimately deriving from Old French tané, which means "light brown".
Tawnee
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: TAW-nee
Rating: 12% based on 10 votes
Tatum
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: TAY-təm
Rating: 26% based on 9 votes
From an English surname that was originally derived from a place name meaning "Tata's homestead" in Old English. It was brought to public attention by the child actress Tatum O'Neal (1963-) in the 1970s, though it did not catch on. It attained a modest level of popularity after 1996, when it was borne by a character in the movie Scream.
Tate
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: TAYT
Rating: 23% based on 9 votes
From an English surname that was derived from the Old English given name
Tata.
Tamara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian, Hungarian, English, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Lithuanian, Georgian
Other Scripts: Тамара(Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Serbian, Macedonian) თამარა(Georgian)
Pronounced: tu-MA-rə(Russian) TA-ma-ra(Czech, Slovak) ta-MA-ra(Polish, Dutch, Spanish, Italian) TAW-maw-raw(Hungarian) tə-MAR-ə(English) tə-MAHR-ə(English) TAM-ə-rə(English) tu-mu-RU(Lithuanian)
Rating: 57% based on 12 votes
Russian form of
Tamar. Russian performers such as Tamara Karsavina (1885-1978), Tamara Drasin (1905-1943), Tamara Geva (1907-1997) and Tamara Toumanova (1919-1996) introduced it to the English-speaking world. It rapidly grew in popularity in the United States starting in 1957. Another famous bearer was the Polish cubist painter Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980).
Talya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: טַלְיָה, טַלְיָא(Hebrew)
Rating: 36% based on 10 votes
Tala
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Persian
Other Scripts: طلا(Persian)
Rating: 31% based on 8 votes
Means "gold" in Persian.
Tahnee
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: TAW-nee
Rating: 7% based on 10 votes
Sylvie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, Czech
Pronounced: SEEL-VEE(French) SIL-vi-yeh(Czech)
Rating: 50% based on 11 votes
French and Czech form of
Silvia.
Sylvia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish
Pronounced: SIL-vee-ə(English) SIL-vee-a(Dutch) SUYL-vee-ah(Finnish)
Rating: 56% based on 11 votes
Variant of
Silvia. This has been the most common English spelling since the 19th century.
Sylver
Usage: African
Rating: 26% based on 9 votes
Sylva
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Czech
Pronounced: SIL-va
Rating: 36% based on 9 votes
Suvi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: SOO-vee
Rating: 34% based on 7 votes
Means "summer" in Finnish.
Suri
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Yiddish
Other Scripts: שרה(Yiddish)
Rating: 42% based on 9 votes
Sunny
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SUN-ee
Rating: 41% based on 7 votes
From the English word meaning "sunny, cheerful".
Sunnie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Rating: 26% based on 8 votes
Sunday
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SUN-day
Rating: 49% based on 10 votes
From the name of the day of the week, which ultimately derives from Old English sunnandæg, which was composed of the elements sunne "sun" and dæg "day". This name is most common in Nigeria and other parts of Africa.
Summer
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SUM-ər(American English) SUM-ə(British English)
Rating: 66% based on 12 votes
From the name of the season, ultimately from Old English sumor. It has been in use as a given name since the 1970s.
Stormy
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: STAWR-mee(American English) STAW-mee(British English)
Rating: 31% based on 10 votes
From the English word meaning "stormy, wild, turbulent", ultimately from Old English stormig.
Storm
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Modern), Dutch (Modern), Danish (Modern), Norwegian (Modern)
Pronounced: STAWRM(American English, Dutch) STAWM(British English)
Rating: 31% based on 9 votes
From the vocabulary word, ultimately from Old English or Old Dutch storm, or in the case of the Scandinavian name, from Old Norse stormr. It is unisex as an English name, but typically masculine elsewhere.
Starley
Usage: English
Rating: 9% based on 10 votes
Star
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: STAHR(American English) STAH(British English)
Rating: 34% based on 10 votes
From the English word for the celestial body, ultimately from Old English steorra.
Spencer
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SPEHN-sər(American English) SPEHN-sə(British English)
Rating: 48% based on 11 votes
From an English surname that meant "dispenser of provisions", derived from Middle English spense "larder, pantry". A famous bearer was American actor Spencer Tracy (1900-1967). It was also the surname of Princess Diana (1961-1997).
Sosie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Rating: 34% based on 8 votes
Meaning uncertain. Actors Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick used it for their daughter Sosie Bacon (1992-). It was perhaps inspired by French
sosie "lookalike", derived from Latin
Sosia, the name of a character in Plautus' play 'Amphitryon', itself from Greek Σωσίας (
Sosias) meaning "savior" from σως (
sos) "safe, whole, unwounded" (compare
Sostrate,
Sose). Alternatively it may be a variant of
Susie.
Soraya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Persian, Spanish, French, Portuguese (Brazilian)
Other Scripts: ثریا(Persian)
Pronounced: so-ra-YAW(Persian) so-RA-ya(Spanish)
Rating: 37% based on 10 votes
Persian form of
Thurayya. It became popular in some parts of Europe because of the fame of Princess Soraya (1932-2001), wife of the last Shah of Iran, who became a European socialite.
Soraia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese
Rating: 35% based on 8 votes
Sophronia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature, Late Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Σωφρονία(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 51% based on 10 votes
Feminine form of
Sophronius. Torquato Tasso used it in his epic poem
Jerusalem Delivered (1580), in which it is borne by the lover of
Olindo.
Snow
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: SNO
Rating: 31% based on 8 votes
From the English word, derived from Old English snāw.
Skylie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: SKIE-lee
Rating: 12% based on 9 votes
Skyley
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (Modern, Rare)
Rating: 8% based on 9 votes
Skylee
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: SKIE-lee
Rating: 7% based on 9 votes
Combination of
Sky and
Lee. This name was used by the band Blink-182 for their unreleased song
Skylee's With Me.
Skylah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Australian, Modern, Rare), English (New Zealand, Modern, Rare), English (American, Modern, Rare)
Rating: 24% based on 9 votes
Skadi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norse Mythology
Rating: 34% based on 9 votes
Siya
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (American, Modern, Rare), South African
Rating: 31% based on 10 votes
As an English feminine name, it is likely a modern respelling of
Sia.
In South Africa, however, this name seems to be exclusively masculine.
Síofra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: SHEE-frə
Rating: 36% based on 10 votes
Means "elf, sprite" in Irish. This name was created in the 20th century.
Silver
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: SIL-vər(American English) SIL-və(British English)
Rating: 35% based on 11 votes
From the English word for the precious metal or the colour, ultimately derived from Old English seolfor.
Silva
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Bulgarian, Slovene
Other Scripts: Силва(Bulgarian)
Rating: 37% based on 9 votes
Sidony
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Archaic)
Rating: 25% based on 8 votes
Feminine form of
Sidonius. This name was in use in the Middle Ages, when it became associated with the word
sindon (of Greek origin) meaning "linen", a reference to the Shroud of Turin.
Sidonie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: SEE-DAW-NEE
Rating: 31% based on 7 votes
Siddalee
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature, American (South, Rare, Archaic)
Pronounced: SID-ə-lee(Literature) sid-ə-LEE(Literature)
Rating: 21% based on 8 votes
Either a combination of
Sidda and
Lee or a variant of
Sidalie. This name was used by American author Rebecca Wells for a character in her novel
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (1996).
Sidda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German
Rating: 26% based on 9 votes
Obsolete German short form of
Sidonia.
Shreya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati
Other Scripts: श्रेया(Hindi, Marathi) শ্রেয়া(Bengali) શ્રેયા(Gujarati)
Rating: 36% based on 9 votes
Shianne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: shie-AN
Rating: 17% based on 7 votes
Sévérine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Rare)
Rating: 39% based on 9 votes
Séverine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: SEH-VREEN
Rating: 39% based on 9 votes
Severina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Portuguese, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: seh-veh-REE-na(Italian)
Rating: 45% based on 11 votes
Seven
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: SEHV-ən
Rating: 21% based on 10 votes
From the English word for the number, derived from Old English
seofon (from an Indo-European root shared by Latin
septem and Greek
ἑπτά (hepta)).
Sevara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Uzbek
Other Scripts: Севара(Uzbek)
Rating: 43% based on 10 votes
Means "love" in Uzbek.
Serena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Late Roman
Pronounced: sə-REEN-ə(English) seh-REH-na(Italian)
Rating: 65% based on 13 votes
From a Late Latin name that was derived from Latin
serenus meaning
"clear, tranquil, serene". This name was borne by an obscure early
saint. Edmund Spenser also used it in his poem
The Faerie Queene (1590). A famous bearer from the modern era is tennis player Serena Williams (1981-).
Seren
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: SEH-rehn
Rating: 60% based on 11 votes
Means "star" in Welsh. This is a recently created Welsh name.
Seraphina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), German (Rare), Late Roman
Pronounced: sehr-ə-FEEN-ə(English) zeh-ra-FEE-na(German)
Rating: 70% based on 14 votes
Feminine form of the Late Latin name
Seraphinus, derived from the biblical word
seraphim, which was Hebrew in origin and meant
"fiery ones". The seraphim were an order of angels, described by Isaiah in the Bible as having six wings each.
This was the name of a 13th-century Italian saint who made clothes for the poor. As an English name, it has never been common.
Sera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: SEHR-ə
Rating: 37% based on 9 votes
Schuyler
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SKIE-lər(American English) SKIE-lə(British English)
Rating: 46% based on 10 votes
From a Dutch surname meaning
"scholar". Dutch settlers brought the surname to America, where it was subsequently adopted as a given name in honour of the American general and senator Philip Schuyler (1733-1804)
[1].
Saylor
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: SAY-lər(American English) SAY-lə(British English)
Rating: 21% based on 8 votes
From an English surname that was derived from Old French sailleor meaning "acrobat, dancer". As a modern English given name it could also come from the homophone vocabulary word sailor.
Savi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SAW-vee
Rating: 29% based on 9 votes
Saskia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch, German
Pronounced: SAHS-kee-a(Dutch) ZAS-kya(German)
Rating: 36% based on 10 votes
From the Old German element
sahso meaning
"a Saxon". The Saxons were a Germanic tribe, their name ultimately deriving from the Germanic word *
sahsą meaning "knife". Saskia van Uylenburgh (1612-1642) was the wife of the Dutch painter Rembrandt.
Sarah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, French, German, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, Hebrew, Arabic, Biblical
Other Scripts: שָׂרָה(Hebrew) سارة(Arabic)
Pronounced: SEHR-ə(English) SAR-ə(English) SA-RA(French) ZA-ra(German) SA-ra(Danish, Dutch, Arabic)
Rating: 72% based on 11 votes
From the Hebrew name
שָׂרָה (Sara) meaning
"lady, princess, noblewoman". In the
Old Testament this is the name of
Abraham's wife, considered the matriarch of the Jewish people. She was barren until she unexpectedly became pregnant with
Isaac at the age of 90. Her name was originally
Sarai, but God changed it at the same time Abraham's name was changed (see
Genesis 17:15).
In England, Sarah came into use after the Protestant Reformation. It was consistently popular in the 20th century throughout the English-speaking world, reaching the top of the charts for England and Wales in the 1970s and 80s.
Notable bearers include Sarah Churchill (1660-1744), an influential British duchess and a close friend of Queen Anne, and the French actress Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923).
Sansa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
Invented by the author George R. R. Martin for the character of Sansa Stark in his series A Song of Ice and Fire, published beginning 1996, and the television adaptation Game of Thrones (2011-2019).
Sammy
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SAM-ee
Rating: 34% based on 9 votes
Sammie
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SAM-ee
Rating: 37% based on 12 votes
Samara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern), Portuguese (Brazilian)
Rating: 48% based on 11 votes
Possibly derived from the name of the city of Samarra (in Iraq) or Samara (in Russia). The former appears in the title of the novel
Appointment in Samarra (1934) by John O'Hara, which refers to an ancient Babylonian legend about a man trying to evade death. Alternatively, this name could be derived from the word for the winged seeds that grow on trees such as maples and elms.
The name received a boost in popularity after it was borne by the antagonist in the horror movie The Ring (2002).
Salene
Usage: English
Rating: 30% based on 10 votes
Sailor
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: SAY-lər(American English) SAY-lə(British English)
Rating: 25% based on 10 votes
Variant of
Saylor. This is the less common spelling.
Saga
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norse Mythology, Swedish, Icelandic
Pronounced: SAH-gah(Swedish) SA-gha(Icelandic)
Rating: 41% based on 10 votes
From Old Norse
Sága, possibly meaning
"seeing one", derived from
sjá "to see". This is the name of a Norse goddess, possibly connected to
Frigg. As a Swedish and Icelandic name, it is also derived from the unrelated word
saga "story, fairy tale, saga".
Rylan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: RIE-lən
Rating: 41% based on 9 votes
Possibly a variant of
Ryland, though it could also be an invented name inspired by other names like
Ryan and
Riley.
Ryla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern, Rare)
Rating: 32% based on 11 votes
Ryder
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: RIE-dər(American English) RIE-də(British English)
Rating: 25% based on 10 votes
From an English occupational surname derived from Old English
ridere meaning
"mounted warrior" or
"messenger". It has grown in popularity in the 2000s because it starts with the same sound found in other popular names like
Ryan and
Riley.
Rumi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 留美, 瑠美, 流美, etc.(Japanese Kanji) るみ(Japanese Hiragana) ルミ(Japanese Katakana)
Pronounced: ROO-MYEE
Rating: 39% based on 10 votes
From Japanese 留
(ru) meaning "detain, fasten", 瑠
(ru) meaning "lapis lazuli", or 流
(ru) meaning "current, flow" combined with 美
(mi) meaning "beautiful". Other kanji combinations are possible.
Ruby
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ROO-bee
Rating: 64% based on 13 votes
Simply from the name of the precious stone (which ultimately derives from Latin
ruber "red"), which is the traditional birthstone of July. It came into use as a given name in the 16th century
[1].
Rowan
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Irish, English (Modern)
Pronounced: RO-ən(English)
Rating: 37% based on 9 votes
Anglicized form of the Irish name
Ruadhán. As an English name, it can also be derived from the surname Rowan, itself derived from the Irish given name. It could also be given in reference to the rowan tree, a word of Old Norse origin (coincidentally sharing the same Indo-European root meaning "red" with the Irish name).
Roslyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: RAHZ-lin(American English) RAWZ-lin(British English)
Rating: 52% based on 10 votes
Roslin
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ROZ-lin
Rating: 39% based on 9 votes
Derived from the place name Roslin belonging to a village in Scotland.
Rosine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: RO-ZEEN
Rating: 47% based on 14 votes
Rosina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ro-ZEE-na
Rating: 46% based on 14 votes
Italian
diminutive of
Rosa 1. This is the name of a character in Rossini's opera
The Barber of Seville (1816).
Rosie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: RO-zee
Rating: 55% based on 14 votes
Rosheen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish
Rating: 32% based on 9 votes
Rosey
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: RO-zee
Rating: 43% based on 10 votes
Diminutive of
Rosa 1,
Rose and of compound names that start with
Ros-, such as
Rosaline.
For men, this name is typically a diminutive of Roosevelt.
Rosewyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Filipino (Rare)
Rating: 37% based on 9 votes
Probably an Anglicized form of
Rhoswen.
Roselyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: RO-zə-lin(English) ROZ-lin(English) RAHZ-ə-lin(American English) RAWZ-ə-lin(British English)
Rating: 53% based on 14 votes
Roseline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: ROZ-LEEN
Rating: 58% based on 14 votes
French form of
Rosalind.
Saint Roseline of Villeneuve was a 13th-century nun from Provence.
Rosée
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Quebec, Rare)
Rating: 27% based on 10 votes
From French rosée meaning "dew".
Rose
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, French
Pronounced: ROZ
Rating: 83% based on 17 votes
Originally a Norman French form of the Germanic name
Hrodohaidis meaning
"famous type", composed of the elements
hruod "fame" and
heit "kind, sort, type". The
Normans introduced it to England in the forms
Roese and
Rohese. From an early date it was associated with the word for the fragrant flower
rose (derived from Latin
rosa). When the name was revived in the 19th century, it was probably with the flower in mind.
Rosaline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: RO-zə-leen(English) RAHZ-ə-lin(American English) RAHZ-ə-lien(American English) RAWZ-ə-lin(British English) RAWZ-ə-lien(British English)
Rating: 61% based on 16 votes
Medieval variant of
Rosalind. This is the name of characters in Shakespeare's
Love's Labour's Lost (1594) and
Romeo and Juliet (1596).
Rosalie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, German, Dutch, English
Pronounced: RAW-ZA-LEE(French) ro-za-LEE(German, Dutch) RO-sa-lee(Dutch) ro-sa-LEE(Dutch) RO-za-lee(Dutch) RO-zə-lee(English)
Rating: 76% based on 17 votes
French, German and Dutch form of
Rosalia. In the English-speaking this name received a boost after the release of the movie
Rosalie (1938), which was based on an earlier musical.
Romilda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Germanic (Latinized) [1]
Rating: 44% based on 10 votes
Means
"famous battle" from the Germanic elements
hruom "fame, glory" and
hilt "battle".
Róisín
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: ro-SHEEN
Rating: 38% based on 9 votes
Diminutive of
Róis or the Irish word
rós meaning
"rose" (of Latin origin). It appears in the 17th-century song
Róisín Dubh.
Rohesia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English (Latinized)
Rating: 43% based on 11 votes
Latinized form of the medieval name
Rohese (see
Rose).
Rohese
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English
Rating: 39% based on 9 votes
Rogue
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Rating: 10% based on 11 votes
From Breton rog (“haughty”) or Middle French rogue (“arrogant, haughty”), from Old Northern French rogre, Old Norse hrokr (“excess, exuberance”).
Rivka
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: רִבְקָה(Hebrew)
Rating: 57% based on 12 votes
River
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: RIV-ər(American English) RIV-ə(British English)
Rating: 64% based on 13 votes
From the English word that denotes a flowing body of water. The word is ultimately derived (via Old French) from Latin ripa "riverbank".
Rivanna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (South, Archaic)
Rating: 21% based on 10 votes
Riva
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: רִיבָה(Hebrew)
Rating: 36% based on 10 votes
Riley
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: RIE-lee
Rating: 36% based on 11 votes
From a surname that comes from two distinct sources. As an Irish surname it is a variant of
Reilly. As an English surname it is derived from a place name meaning
"rye clearing" in Old English.
Before 1980, this was an uncommon masculine name in America. During the 1980s and 90s this name steadily increased in popularity for both boys and girls, and from 2003 onwards it has been more common for girls in the United States. Elsewhere in the English-speaking world, such as the United Kingdom and Australia, it has remained largely masculine.
Rhosyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh (Rare)
Rating: 42% based on 9 votes
Means "rose" in Welsh. This is a modern Welsh name.
Rhiannon
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh, English, Welsh Mythology
Pronounced: ri-AN-awn(Welsh) ree-AN-ən(English)
Rating: 55% based on 14 votes
Probably derived from an unattested Celtic name *
Rīgantonā meaning
"great queen" (Celtic *
rīganī "queen" and the divine or augmentative suffix
-on). It is speculated that Rigantona was an old Celtic goddess, perhaps associated with fertility and horses like the Gaulish
Epona. As
Rhiannon, she appears in Welsh legend in the
Mabinogi [1] as a beautiful magical woman who rides a white horse. She was betrothed against her will to
Gwawl, but cunningly broke off that engagement and married
Pwyll instead. Their son was
Pryderi.
As an English name, it became popular due to the Fleetwood Mac song Rhiannon (1976), especially in the United Kingdom and Australia.
Rey
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English, Popular Culture
Rating: 32% based on 11 votes
Variant of
Ray. More commonly used for boys, it began being used for girls following the release of 'Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens'.
Remington
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: REHM-ing-tən
Rating: 29% based on 10 votes
From an English surname that was derived from the name of the town of Rimington in Lancashire, itself meaning "settlement on the Riming stream". It may be given in honour of the American manufacturer Eliphalet Remington (1793-1861) or his sons, founders of the firearms company that bears their name.
Remee
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Rating: 27% based on 10 votes
Reiko
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 玲子, 礼子, 麗子, etc.(Japanese Kanji) れいこ(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: REH-KO
Rating: 34% based on 10 votes
From Japanese
玲 (rei) meaning "the tinkling of jade" or
礼 (rei) meaning "ceremony" combined with
子 (ko) meaning "child". Other combinations of kanji can also form this name.
Reed
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: REED
Rating: 39% based on 10 votes
From an English surname that was derived from Old English read meaning "red", originally a nickname given to a person with red hair or a ruddy complexion. Unconnected, this is also the English word for tall grass-like plants that grow in marshes.
Rebekah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical, English
Other Scripts: רִבְקָה(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: rə-BEHK-ə(English)
Rating: 51% based on 12 votes
Form of
Rebecca used in some versions of the Bible.
Rebecca
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Swedish, German, Dutch, Biblical, Biblical Latin
Other Scripts: רִבְקָה(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: rə-BEHK-ə(English) reh-BEHK-ka(Italian) rə-BEH-ka(Dutch)
Rating: 54% based on 13 votes
From the Hebrew name
רִבְקָה (Rivqa), probably from a Semitic root meaning
"join, tie, snare". This is the name of the wife of
Isaac and the mother of
Esau and
Jacob in the
Old Testament. It came into use as an English Christian name after the
Protestant Reformation, and it was popular with the
Puritans in the 17th century. It has been consistently used since then, becoming especially common in the second half of the 20th century.
This name is borne by a Jewish woman in Walter Scott's novel Ivanhoe (1819), as well as the title character (who is deceased and unseen) in Daphne du Maurier's novel Rebecca (1938).
Rachel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Hebrew, French, Dutch, German, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Hebrew [1]
Other Scripts: רָחֵל(Hebrew)
Pronounced: RAY-chəl(English) RA-SHEHL(French) RAH-khəl(Dutch) RA-khəl(German)
Rating: 64% based on 11 votes
From the Hebrew name
רָחֵל (Raḥel) meaning
"ewe". In the
Old Testament this is the name of the favourite wife of
Jacob. Her father
Laban tricked Jacob into marrying her older sister
Leah first, though in exchange for seven years of work Laban allowed Jacob to marry Rachel too. Initially barren and facing her husband's anger, she offered her handmaid
Bilhah to Jacob to bear him children. Eventually she was herself able to conceive, becoming the mother of
Joseph and
Benjamin.
The name was common among Jews in the Middle Ages, but it was not generally used as a Christian name in the English-speaking world until after the Protestant Reformation. It was moderately popular in the first half of the 20th century, but starting in the 1960s it steadily rose, reaching highs in the 1980s and 90s. The character Rachel Green on the American sitcom Friends (1994-2004) may have only helped delay its downswing.
Notable bearers include American conservationist Rachel Carson (1907-1964), British actress Rachel Weisz (1970-), and Canadian actress Rachel McAdams (1978-).
Prue
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: PROO
Rating: 34% based on 8 votes
Prudence
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English, French
Pronounced: PROO-dəns(English) PRUY-DAHNS(French)
Rating: 53% based on 11 votes
Medieval English form of
Prudentia, the feminine form of
Prudentius. In France it is both the feminine form and a rare masculine form. In England it was used during the Middle Ages and was revived in the 17th century by the
Puritans, in part from the English word
prudence, ultimately of the same source.
Primrose
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: PRIM-roz
Rating: 65% based on 12 votes
From the English word for the flower, ultimately deriving from Latin prima rosa "first rose".
Poppy
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: PAHP-ee(American English) PAWP-ee(British English)
Rating: 34% based on 11 votes
From the word for the red flower, derived from Old English popæg.
Pippa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: PIP-ə
Rating: 45% based on 12 votes
Piper
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: PIE-pər(American English) PIE-pə(British English)
Rating: 51% based on 10 votes
From an English surname that was originally given to a person who played on a pipe (a flute). It was popularized as a given name by a character from the television series
Charmed, which debuted in 1998
[1].
Philippa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (British), German
Pronounced: FI-li-pə(British English)
Rating: 73% based on 12 votes
Latinate feminine form of
Philip. As an English name, it is chiefly British.
Phaedra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Φαίδρα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: FEED-rə(English) FEHD-rə(English)
Rating: 36% based on 10 votes
From the Greek
Φαίδρα (Phaidra), derived from
φαιδρός (phaidros) meaning
"bright". Phaedra was the daughter of Minos and the wife of
Theseus in Greek
mythology.
Aphrodite caused her to fall in love with her stepson
Hippolytos, and after she was rejected by him she killed herself.
Persephone
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Περσεφόνη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: PEHR-SEH-PO-NEH(Classical Greek) pər-SEHF-ə-nee(American English) pə-SEHF-ə-nee(British English)
Rating: 62% based on 11 votes
Meaning unknown, probably of Pre-Greek origin, but perhaps related to Greek
πέρθω (pertho) meaning "to destroy" and
φόνος (phonos) meaning "murder". In Greek
myth she was the daughter of
Demeter and
Zeus. She was abducted to the underworld by
Hades, but was eventually allowed to return to the surface for part of the year. The result of her comings and goings is the changing of the seasons. With her mother she was worshipped in the Eleusinian Mysteries, which were secret rites practiced at the city of Eleusis near Athens.
Perry
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: PEHR-ee
Rating: 33% based on 8 votes
From a surname that is either English or Welsh in origin. It can be derived from Middle English
perrie meaning "pear tree", or else from Welsh
ap Herry, meaning "son of
Herry". A famous bearer of the surname was Matthew Perry (1794-1858), the American naval officer who opened Japan to the West.
Peri
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Turkish
Rating: 25% based on 8 votes
Penelope
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, English
Other Scripts: Πηνελόπη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: PEH-NEH-LO-PEH(Classical Greek) pə-NEHL-ə-pee(English)
Rating: 53% based on 12 votes
Probably derived from Greek
πηνέλοψ (penelops), a type of duck. Alternatively it could be from
πήνη (pene) meaning "threads, weft" and
ὄψ (ops) meaning "face, eye". In
Homer's epic the
Odyssey this is the name of the wife of
Odysseus, forced to fend off suitors while her husband is away fighting at Troy.
It has occasionally been used as an English given name since the 16th century. It was moderately popular in the 1940s, but had a more notable upswing in the early 2000s. This may have been inspired by the Spanish actress Penélope Cruz (1974-), who gained prominence in English-language movies at that time. It was already rapidly rising when celebrities Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick gave it to their baby daughter in 2012.
Paige
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: PAYJ
Rating: 42% based on 11 votes
From an English surname meaning
"servant, page" in Middle English. It is ultimately derived (via Old French and Italian) from Greek
παιδίον (paidion) meaning "little boy".
As a given name for girls, it received some public attention from a character in the 1958 novel Parrish and the 1961 movie adaptation [1]. It experienced a larger surge in popularity in the 1980s, probably due to the character Paige Matheson from the American soap opera Knots Landing.
Octavia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Spanish, Romanian, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: ahk-TAY-vee-ə(American English) awk-TAY-vee-ə(British English) ok-TA-bya(Spanish) ok-TA-wee-a(Latin)
Rating: 58% based on 12 votes
Feminine form of
Octavius. Octavia was the wife of Mark Antony and the sister of the Roman emperor Augustus. In 19th-century England it was sometimes given to the eighth-born child.
Oceia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American, Rare), English
Pronounced: O-SHAY-U(American English)
Rating: 29% based on 7 votes
Possibly an elaboration from the word ocean.
Oaklyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: OK-lin
Rating: 13% based on 10 votes
Variant of
Oakley using the popular name suffix
lyn.
Oakley
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: OK-lee
Rating: 15% based on 11 votes
From an English surname that was from various place names meaning "oak clearing" in Old English. A famous bearer of the surname was the American sharpshooter Annie Oakley (1860-1926).
Nymeria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: nie-MEE-ree-ə
Rating: 33% based on 9 votes
Maybe a one-off variant of
Numeria.
Nymeria is a feminine name that is used several times in the book series, 'A song of Ice and Fire' by George R R Martin. Queen Nymeria of the Rhoynar was a great warrior. Later Arya Stark names her direwolf Nymeria after Queen Nymeria. Nymeria Sand is a 'sand snake' one of the bastard daughters of Oberyn Martell, she is extremely skilled with blades.
Nym
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 30% based on 10 votes
Novie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American
Pronounced: NO-vee
Rating: 18% based on 10 votes
Novalee
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Rating: 33% based on 12 votes
Elaboration of
Nova using the popular name suffix
lee. It was used for the central character in the novel
Where the Heart Is (1995), as well as the 2000 film adaptation.
Nova
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Swedish (Modern), Dutch (Modern)
Pronounced: NO-və(English) NO-va(Swedish, Dutch)
Rating: 45% based on 15 votes
Derived from Latin novus meaning "new". It was first used as a name in the 19th century.
Noelle
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: no-EHL
Rating: 54% based on 13 votes
Noel
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: NOL, NO-əl
Rating: 42% based on 10 votes
English form of
Noël or
Noëlle (rarely). It was fairly popular in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand in the middle of the 20th century. It is occasionally written with a diaeresis, like in French. A famous bearer is British musician Noel Gallagher (1967-).
Noa 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, Biblical
Other Scripts: נוֹעָה(Hebrew)
Pronounced: NO-a(Spanish)
Rating: 40% based on 10 votes
Modern Hebrew form of
Noah 2, the daughter of
Zelophehad in the Bible. It is also the form used in several other languages, as well as the spelling used in some English versions of the
Old Testament.
Niamh
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish, Irish Mythology
Pronounced: NYEEYW(Irish) NYEEYV(Irish) NYEEV(Irish)
Rating: 57% based on 10 votes
Means
"bright" in Irish. She was the daughter of the sea god
Manannán mac Lir in Irish legends. She fell in love with the poet
Oisín, the son of
Fionn mac Cumhaill. It has been used as a given name for people only since the early 20th century.
Nesta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: NEHS-ta
Rating: 32% based on 9 votes
Nessarose
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: NEHS-ə ROZ
Rating: 29% based on 9 votes
Combination of
Nessa 1 and
Rose. This is the name of the Wicked Witch of the East in Gregory Maguire's "Wicked" and its musical adaptation. In the novel, she's born without arms and she is deeply religious, then goes mad with power.
Nessa 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: NEHS-ə
Rating: 44% based on 11 votes
Short form of
Vanessa and other names ending in
nessa.
Nessa 3
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish, Irish Mythology
Pronounced: NEHS-ə(English)
Rating: 40% based on 11 votes
Anglicized form of
Neasa.
Navi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Popular Culture
Rating: 39% based on 9 votes
From the companion fairy character from the video game The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
Nava
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: נָאוָה(Hebrew)
Rating: 38% based on 10 votes
Means "beautiful" in Hebrew.
Nadica
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Croatian, Serbian
Other Scripts: Надица(Serbian)
Rating: 28% based on 8 votes
Nadia 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, Italian, Spanish, Polish, English, Russian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian
Other Scripts: Надя(Russian, Bulgarian) Надія(Ukrainian)
Pronounced: NA-DYA(French) NA-dya(Italian, Polish) NA-dhya(Spanish) NAD-ee-ə(English) NAHD-ee-ə(English) NA-dyə(Russian)
Rating: 61% based on 12 votes
Variant of
Nadya 1 used in Western Europe, as well as an alternate transcription of the Slavic name. It began to be used in France in the 19th century
[1]. The name received a boost in popularity from the Romanian gymnast Nadia Comăneci (1961-)
[2].
Nadezhda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian, Bulgarian
Other Scripts: Надежда(Russian, Bulgarian)
Pronounced: nu-DYEZH-də(Russian)
Rating: 21% based on 8 votes
Means "hope" in Russian and Bulgarian.
Morley
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: MAWR-lee(American English) MAW-lee(British English)
Rating: 20% based on 8 votes
From a surname that was originally from an Old English place name meaning "marsh clearing".
Mithian
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Popular Culture
Rating: 24% based on 8 votes
Of unknown origin and meaning, this name is likely taken from the town of Mithian (Mydhyan) in Cornwall. This was the name of a princess in the BBC series Merlin.
Missandei
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature, Popular Culture
Pronounced: mis-AN-dey(Literature)
Rating: 20% based on 8 votes
Missandei is the name of a freed slave character from the Song of Ice and Fire books by GRR Martin and the TV show Game of Thrones based upon the former.
Being a recent invention for a fictious world resembling Medieval Europe, no actual or alleged etymology is known.
Mishelle
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern, Rare)
Rating: 19% based on 8 votes
Mirabelle
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Rare), English (Rare)
Rating: 43% based on 12 votes
Derived from Latin mirabilis meaning "wonderful". This name was coined during the Middle Ages, though it eventually died out. It was briefly revived in the 19th century.
Mira 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Macedonian, Polish
Other Scripts: Мира(Serbian, Macedonian)
Pronounced: MEE-ra(Polish)
Rating: 45% based on 11 votes
Short form of
Miroslava and other names beginning with
Mir (often the Slavic element
mirŭ meaning
"peace, world").
Minxie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish (Modern, Rare)
Pronounced: MINKS-ee
Rating: 24% based on 9 votes
Minnow
Usage: English
Rating: 22% based on 11 votes
Possibly derived from the English word "minnow", a small fish.
Minka
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German
Pronounced: min-ka, meen-ka, ming-ka
Rating: 23% based on 9 votes
Melora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Arthurian Cycle
Pronounced: mə-LAWR-a(English)
Rating: 41% based on 10 votes
Probably a variant of
Meliora. This name was (first?) used in the Arthurian romance
The Adventures of Melora and Orlando (1696).
Megara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, Popular Culture
Other Scripts: Μεγάρα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: meg-AH-rah(Greek Mythology) MEG-AH-RA(Greek Mythology)
Rating: 51% based on 9 votes
Either a variant of
Megaera or derived from either the Ancient Greek city Megara in West Attica, Greece, or the Ancient Greek colony in Sicily Megara Hyblaea, both derived from
megaron, from
megas 'large, great, marvelous', referring to a large hall.
In Greek mythology, Megara was the oldest daughter of Creon, king of Thebes. In reward for Heracles' defending Thebes from the Minyans at Orchomenus in single-handed battle, Creon offered his daughter Megara to Heracles. She bore him a son and a daughter, whom Heracles killed when Hera struck him with temporary madness. In some sources Heracles slew Megara too, in others, she was given to Iolaus when Heracles left Thebes forever.
In the Disney animated film Hercules, Megara, also called Meg, is a young woman who was a pawn for the Lord of the Underworld, Hades. Sometime during the events of Hercules, Meg went to Hades and sold her soul to revive a lover of hers who had died. Hades agreed on the condition that she serve him forever, which she accepted. However, shortly after her lover was revived, he fell in love with someone else and ungratefully left Meg locked in servitude to Hades. This background story of the character alludes to the myth of Alcestis, who dies by proxy for her husband Admetus.
Maxine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: mak-SEEN
Rating: 50% based on 13 votes
Feminine form of
Max. It has been commonly used only since the beginning of the 20th century.
Maryrose
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Rating: 35% based on 11 votes
Mary
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Biblical
Pronounced: MEHR-ee(English)
Rating: 78% based on 14 votes
Usual English form of
Maria, the Latin form of the
New Testament Greek names
Μαριάμ (Mariam) and
Μαρία (Maria) — the spellings are interchangeable — which were from Hebrew
מִרְיָם (Miryam), a name borne by the sister of
Moses in the
Old Testament. The meaning is not known for certain, but there are several theories including
"sea of bitterness",
"rebelliousness", and
"wished for child". However it was most likely originally an Egyptian name, perhaps derived in part from
mry "beloved" or
mr "love".
This is the name of several New Testament characters, most importantly Mary the mother of Jesus. According to the gospels, Jesus was conceived in her by the Holy Spirit while she remained a virgin. This name was also borne by Mary Magdalene, a woman cured of demons by Jesus. She became one of his followers and later witnessed his crucifixion and resurrection.
Due to the Virgin Mary this name has been very popular in the Christian world, though at certain times in some cultures it has been considered too holy for everyday use. In England it has been used since the 12th century, and it has been among the most common feminine names since the 16th century. In the United States in 1880 it was given more than twice as often as the next most popular name for girls (Anna). It remained in the top rank in America until 1946 when it was bumped to second (by Linda). Although it regained the top spot for a few more years in the 1950s it was already falling in usage, and has since dropped out of the top 100 names.
This name has been borne by two queens of England, as well as a queen of Scotland, Mary Queen of Scots. Another notable bearer was Mary Shelley (1797-1851), the author of Frankenstein. A famous fictional character by this name is Mary Poppins from the children's books by P. L. Travers, first published in 1934.
The Latinized form of this name, Maria, is also used in English as well as in several other languages.
Marnie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MAHR-nee
Rating: 51% based on 10 votes
Possibly a
diminutive of
Marina. This name was brought to public attention by Alfred Hitchcock's movie
Marnie (1964), itself based on a 1961 novel by Winston Graham.
Maris 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: MEHR-is, MAR-is
Rating: 48% based on 11 votes
Means
"of the sea", taken from the Latin title of the Virgin
Mary,
Stella Maris, meaning "star of the sea".
Marielene
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Rare)
Rating: 24% based on 9 votes
Marie
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: French, Czech, German, English, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Albanian
Pronounced: MA-REE(French) MA-ri-yeh(Czech) ma-REE(German, Dutch) mə-REE(English)
Rating: 65% based on 13 votes
French and Czech form of
Maria. It has been very common in France since the 13th century. At the opening of the 20th century it was given to approximately 20 percent of French girls. This percentage has declined steadily over the course of the century, and it dropped from the top rank in 1958.
A notable bearer of this name was Marie Antoinette, a queen of France who was executed by guillotine during the French Revolution. Another was Marie Curie (1867-1934), a physicist and chemist who studied radioactivity with her husband Pierre.
In France it is occasionally used as a masculine name in pairings such as Jean-Marie.
Lyra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Astronomy
Pronounced: LIE-rə(English)
Rating: 65% based on 13 votes
The name of the constellation in the northern sky containing the star Vega. It is said to be shaped after the lyre of Orpheus. This is the name of the main character in the His Dark Materials series of books by Philip Pullman (beginning 1995).
Lydia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, German, Dutch, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Λυδία(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: LID-ee-ə(English) LUY-dya(German) LEE-dee-a(Dutch)
Rating: 69% based on 17 votes
Means
"from Lydia" in Greek. Lydia was a region on the west coast of Asia Minor, said to be named for the legendary king
Lydos. In the
New Testament this is the name of a woman converted to Christianity by
Saint Paul. In the modern era the name has been in use since the
Protestant Reformation.
Lyanna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Rating: 21% based on 9 votes
Created by author George R. R. Martin for a character in his series A Song of Ice and Fire, published beginning 1996, and the television adaptation Game of Thrones (2011-2019). In the story Lyanna was the sister of Ned Stark. Her abduction and subsequent death was the cause of the civil war that toppled the Targaryens.
Luxaya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Obscure (Rare)
Rating: 27% based on 10 votes
Lux
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Various
Pronounced: LUKS(English)
Rating: 31% based on 10 votes
Derived from Latin lux meaning "light".
Lumen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Popular Culture
Rating: 32% based on 9 votes
This is the name of a fictional character from the television series "Dexter".
Lulie
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: American, English
Pronounced: LOO-lee(American)
Rating: 35% based on 8 votes
Diminutive for names starting with Lu-.
Luli
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Chinese
Pronounced: LOO-LEE
Rating: 34% based on 8 votes
Means "dewy jasmine," from (露) lu "dew, essence," and (莉) li "white jasmine."
Lue
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: LOO
Rating: 35% based on 8 votes
Lucky
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English, Hindi
Other Scripts: लकी(Hindi)
Pronounced: LUK-ee(English)
Rating: 23% based on 9 votes
From a nickname given to a lucky person. It is also sometimes used as a
diminutive of
Luke. A famous bearer was the Italian-American gangster "Lucky" Luciano (1897-1962).
Lucaia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Galician (Rare, Archaic)
Rating: 33% based on 10 votes
Lozen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Apache
Rating: 13% based on 10 votes
Legendary warrior of the Apache.
Loxley
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American, Modern, Rare)
Pronounced: LAHKS-lee(American English)
Rating: 13% based on 9 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Loxley.
Lorren
Usage: English
Rating: 17% based on 10 votes
Loke
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hawaiian
Pronounced: LOH-ke
Rating: 13% based on 10 votes
Locaia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Galician (Rare, Archaic)
Rating: 33% based on 10 votes
Liv 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LIV
Rating: 61% based on 10 votes
Lissy
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German
Rating: 34% based on 9 votes
Lilyanna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Rating: 34% based on 10 votes
Lilya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian, Ukrainian
Other Scripts: Лилия(Russian) Лілія(Ukrainian)
Pronounced: LYEE-lyi-yə(Russian)
Rating: 41% based on 11 votes
Lily
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LIL-ee
Rating: 69% based on 18 votes
From the name of the flower, a symbol of purity. The word is ultimately derived from Latin lilium. This is the name of the main character, Lily Bart, in the novel The House of Mirth (1905) by Edith Wharton. A famous bearer is the American actress Lily Tomlin (1939-).
Liliya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian
Other Scripts: Лилия(Russian, Bulgarian) Лілія(Ukrainian)
Pronounced: LYEE-lyi-yə(Russian)
Rating: 38% based on 13 votes
Lilia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Italian, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian
Other Scripts: Лилия(Russian) Лілія(Ukrainian)
Pronounced: LEE-lya(Spanish) LYEE-lyi-yə(Russian)
Rating: 69% based on 15 votes
Latinate form of
Lily, as well as an alternate transcription of Russian
Лилия or Ukrainian
Лілія (see
Liliya).
Lilac
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: LIE-lək
Rating: 42% based on 13 votes
From the English word for the shrub with purple or white flowers (genus Syringa). It is derived via Arabic from Persian.
Lila 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LIE-lə
Rating: 71% based on 17 votes
Liberty
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LIB-ər-tee(American English) LIB-ə-tee(British English)
Rating: 34% based on 12 votes
Simply from the English word
liberty, derived from Latin
libertas, a derivative of
liber "free". Interestingly, since 1880 this name has charted on the American popularity lists in three different periods: in 1918 (at the end of World War I), in 1976 (the American bicentennial), and after 2001 (during the War on Terrorism)
[1].
Libby
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LIB-ee
Rating: 51% based on 11 votes
Lewis
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LOO-is
Rating: 46% based on 11 votes
Medieval English form of
Louis. A famous bearer was Lewis Carroll (1832-1898), the author of
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. This was also the surname of C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), the author of the
Chronicles of Narnia series.
Leonie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Dutch
Pronounced: LEH-o-nee(German) leh-o-NEE(Dutch)
Rating: 46% based on 10 votes
German and Dutch feminine form of
Leonius.
Leocadia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Late Roman
Pronounced: leh-o-KA-dhya(Spanish)
Rating: 51% based on 11 votes
Late Latin name that might be derived from the name of the Greek island of
Leucadia or from Greek
λευκός (leukos) meaning
"bright, clear, white" (which is also the root of the island's name).
Saint Leocadia was a 3rd-century martyr from Spain.
Layla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic, English
Other Scripts: ليلى(Arabic)
Pronounced: LIE-la(Arabic) LAY-lə(English)
Rating: 45% based on 12 votes
Means
"night" in Arabic. Layla was the love interest of the poet
Qays (called Majnun) in an old Arab tale, notably retold by the 12th-century Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi in his poem
Layla and Majnun. This story was a popular romance in medieval Arabia and Persia. The name became used in the English-speaking world after the 1970 release of the song
Layla by Derek and the Dominos, the title of which was inspired by the medieval story.
Lawson
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LAW-sən
Rating: 28% based on 9 votes
From an English surname meaning
"son of Laurence 1".
Laryn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 16% based on 10 votes
Lara 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian, English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Hungarian, Slovene, Croatian
Other Scripts: Лара(Russian)
Pronounced: LAHR-ə(English) LA-ra(German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch) LA-RA(French) LA-ru(Portuguese) LAW-raw(Hungarian)
Rating: 64% based on 13 votes
Russian short form of
Larisa. It was introduced to the English-speaking world by a character from Boris Pasternak's novel
Doctor Zhivago (1957) and the subsequent movie adaptation (1965). Between 1965 and 1969 it increased by almost 2,000 percent in the United States, however it is currently much more popular in the United Kingdom, Australia, Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Germany. Another famous fictional bearer is Lara Croft, first appearing in video games in 1996 and movies in 2001.
Landon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LAN-dən
Rating: 37% based on 10 votes
From a surname that was derived from an Old English place name meaning "long hill" (effectively meaning "ridge"). Use of the name may have been inspired in part by the actor Michael Landon (1936-1991).
Lamya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: لمياء(Arabic)
Pronounced: lam-YA
Rating: 29% based on 10 votes
Derived from the poetic Arabic word
لمى (lamā) meaning
"dark red lips".
Kyrie 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: African American (Modern)
Pronounced: KIE-ree
Rating: 29% based on 10 votes
Invented name, based on the sounds found in names such as
Tyree and
Kyle. It was popularized as a masculine name by American basketball player Kyrie Irving (1992-).
Kira 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KIR-ə
Rating: 62% based on 14 votes
Kiara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: kee-AHR-ə
Rating: 40% based on 13 votes
Variant of
Ciara 1 or
Chiara. This name was brought to public attention in 1988 after the singing duo Kiara released their song
This Time. It was further popularized by a character in the animated movie
The Lion King II (1998).
Keeley
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: KEE-lee
Rating: 23% based on 9 votes
Katya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian
Other Scripts: Катя(Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian)
Pronounced: KA-tyə(Russian)
Rating: 41% based on 13 votes
Katrina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Scottish, English
Pronounced: kə-TREE-nə(English)
Rating: 46% based on 12 votes
Katrin
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Swedish, Estonian
Pronounced: ka-TREEN(German) kah-TREEN(Swedish)
Rating: 43% based on 11 votes
German, Swedish and Estonian short form of
Katherine.
Katarina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Sorbian
Other Scripts: Катарина(Serbian)
Pronounced: ka-ta-REE-na(Swedish, German)
Rating: 40% based on 13 votes
Kalliope
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Καλλιόπη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: KAL-LEE-O-PEH(Classical Greek)
Rating: 28% based on 12 votes
Means
"beautiful voice" from Greek
κάλλος (kallos) meaning "beauty" and
ὄψ (ops) meaning "voice". In Greek
mythology she was a goddess of epic poetry and eloquence, one of the nine Muses.
Kai 3
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hawaiian
Pronounced: KIE
Rating: 33% based on 11 votes
Means "sea" in Hawaiian.
June
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JOON
Rating: 69% based on 13 votes
From the name of the month, which was originally derived from the name of the Roman goddess
Juno. It has been used as a given name since the 19th century.
Juliet
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: joo-lee-EHT, JOOL-yət
Rating: 81% based on 14 votes
Anglicized form of
Giulietta or
Juliette. This spelling was used for the ill-fated lover of
Romeo in the play
Romeo and Juliet (1596) by William Shakespeare. Shakespeare based his story on earlier Italian tales such as
Giulietta e Romeo (1524) by Luigi Da Porto.
Jovien
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History (Gallicized)
Rating: 28% based on 9 votes
Jovie
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: American (Modern), Popular Culture
Pronounced: JO-vee
Rating: 46% based on 10 votes
Inspired by the English word
jovial meaning "merry; cheerful and good-humored", which is itself derived from the name of the god
Jove. Zooey Deschanel played a character by this name in the popular 2003 Christmas movie
Elf.
In some cases, it could be a diminutive of Jovan or Jovana or a variant of Jovi.
Joviana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese (Brazilian, Rare)
Rating: 20% based on 5 votes
Jovian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Roman (Anglicized)
Rating: 27% based on 9 votes
From Latin
Iovianus, a Roman
cognomen that was a derivative of
Iovis (see
Jove). This was the name of a 4th-century Roman emperor.
Jolene
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: jo-LEEN
Rating: 49% based on 11 votes
Formed from
Jo and the common name suffix
lene. This name was created in the early 20th century. It received a boost in popularity after the release of Dolly Parton's 1973 song
Jolene.
Jillie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JIL-ee
Rating: 22% based on 11 votes
Jillian
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JIL-ee-ən
Rating: 50% based on 13 votes
Jill
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JIL
Rating: 29% based on 9 votes
Jeyne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Rating: 19% based on 8 votes
Probably intended as a variant of
Jane, this name is borne by Jeyne Westerling, a character in George R. R. Martin's
A Song of Ice and Fire.
Jericho
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Other Scripts: יְרִיחוֹ(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: JEHR-i-ko
Rating: 26% based on 8 votes
From the name of a city in Israel that is mentioned several times in the
Old Testament. The meaning of the city's name is uncertain, but it may be related to the Hebrew word
יָרֵחַ (yareaḥ) meaning "moon"
[1], or otherwise to the Hebrew word
רֵיחַ (reyaḥ) meaning "fragrance"
[2].
Jenna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Finnish, French
Pronounced: JEHN-ə(English) YEHN-nah(Finnish)
Rating: 39% based on 9 votes
Variant of
Jenny. Use of the name was popularized in the 1980s by the character Jenna Wade on the television series
Dallas [1].
Jemima
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical, English
Other Scripts: יְמִימָה(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: jə-MIE-mə(English)
Rating: 58% based on 12 votes
Traditionally said to mean
"dove", it may actually be related to Hebrew
יוֹמָם (yomam) meaning
"daytime" [1]. This was the oldest of the three daughters of
Job in the
Old Testament. As an English name,
Jemima first became common during the
Puritan era.
Jem
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Popular Culture, English (Rare)
Rating: 26% based on 8 votes
Variant of
Gem and a short form of
Jemima or possibly
Jerrica. This name was used for the name of the title character in the 80s American animated TV series:
JEM.
Jem is the leader of the Holograms where she provides the lead vocals. She is the alter-ego of Jerrica Benton, owner of Starlight Music and a foster home for girls known as "Starlight House" (later called "Starlight Mansion").
A real bearer of this name is a musical singer: Jem Cooke.
Jaymes
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: JAYMZ
Rating: 15% based on 11 votes
Jasper
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Dutch, Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend
Pronounced: JAS-pər(American English) JAS-pə(British English) YAHS-pər(Dutch)
Rating: 40% based on 12 votes
From Latin
Gaspar, perhaps from the Biblical Hebrew word
גִּזְבָּר (gizbar) meaning
"treasurer" [1], derived from Old Persian
ganzabarah. This name was traditionally assigned to one of the wise men (also known as the Magi, or three kings) who were said to have visited the newborn
Jesus. It has occasionally been used in the English-speaking world since the Middle Ages. The name can also be given in reference to the English word for the gemstone.
Ithaca
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 20% based on 9 votes
This name comes from the name of a Greek island, a legendary home of Odysseus, located in the Ionian Sea.
The etymology is uncertain, but the first element is, perhaps, derived from Phoenician I meaning "island."
Issy
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Rating: 20% based on 10 votes
Isolde
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Arthurian Cycle
Pronounced: ee-ZAWL-də(German) i-SOL-də(English) i-ZOL-də(English) i-SOLD(English) i-ZOLD(English) EE-ZAWLD(French)
Rating: 47% based on 12 votes
German form of
Iseult, appearing in the 13th-century German poem
Tristan by Gottfried von Strassburg. In 1865 the German composer Richard Wagner debuted his popular opera
Tristan und Isolde and also used the name for his first daughter.
Ismene
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἰσμήνη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: EEZ-MEH-NEH(Classical Greek) is-MEE-nee(English)
Rating: 22% based on 11 votes
Possibly from Greek
ἰσμή (isme) meaning
"knowledge". This was the name of the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta in Greek legend.
Iseult
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arthurian Cycle
Pronounced: i-SOOLT(English) i-ZOOLT(English) EE-ZUU(French)
Rating: 35% based on 11 votes
The origins of this name are uncertain, though some Celtic roots have been suggested. It is possible that the name is ultimately Germanic, from a hypothetical name like *
Ishild, composed of the elements
is "ice" and
hilt "battle".
According to tales first recorded in Old French in the 12th century, Yseut or Ysolt was an Irish princess betrothed to King Mark of Cornwall. After accidentally drinking a love potion, she became the lover of his nephew Tristan. Their tragic story, which was set in the Arthurian world, was popular during the Middle Ages and the name became relatively common in England at that time. It was rare by the 19th century, though some interest was generated by Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde (1865).
Isalie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Louisiana Creole (Archaic), American (South, Archaic), French (Acadian), French (Rare)
Rating: 22% based on 10 votes
Isabella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, German, English, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Dutch, Romanian
Pronounced: ee-za-BEHL-la(Italian) ee-za-BEH-la(German, Dutch) iz-ə-BEHL-ə(English) is-a-BEHL-la(Swedish) EE-sah-behl-lah(Finnish)
Rating: 46% based on 14 votes
Latinate form of
Isabel. This name was borne by many medieval royals, including queens consort of England, France, Portugal, the Holy Roman Empire and Hungary, as well as the powerful ruling queen Isabella of Castile (properly called
Isabel).
In the United States this form was much less common than Isabel until the early 1990s, when it began rapidly rising in popularity. It reached a peak in 2009 and 2010, when it was the most popular name for girls in America, an astounding rise over only 20 years.
A famous bearer is the Italian actress Isabella Rossellini (1952-).
Isabeau
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval French, French (Rare), Dutch (Modern)
Rating: 39% based on 12 votes
Medieval French variant of
Isabel. A famous bearer of this name was Isabeau of Bavaria (1385-1422), wife of the French king Charles VI.
Inga
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Estonian, Finnish, Latvian, Lithuanian, German, Polish, Russian, Old Norse [1][2], Germanic [3]
Other Scripts: Инга(Russian)
Pronounced: ING-ah(Swedish) ING-ga(German) EENG-ga(Polish) EEN-gə(Russian)
Rating: 48% based on 10 votes
Strictly feminine form of
Inge.
Indy 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Dutch (Modern)
Pronounced: IN-dee
Rating: 42% based on 12 votes
Indji
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Bulgarian (Rare)
Other Scripts: Инджи(Bulgarian)
Rating: 14% based on 11 votes
Variant transliteration of
Инджи (see
Indzhi).
Indie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: IN-dee
Rating: 38% based on 12 votes
Possibly a
diminutive of
India or
Indiana, but also likely inspired by the term
indie, short for
independent, which is typically used to refer to media produced outside of the mainstream.
India
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Spanish (Modern)
Pronounced: IN-dee-ə(English) EEN-dya(Spanish)
Rating: 46% based on 13 votes
From the name of the country, which is itself derived from the name of the Indus River. The river's name is ultimately from Sanskrit
सिन्धु (Sindhu) meaning "body of trembling water, river". India Wilkes is a character in the novel
Gone with the Wind (1936) by Margaret Mitchell.
Imogen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (British)
Pronounced: IM-ə-jehn
Rating: 59% based on 12 votes
The name of the daughter of King
Cymbeline in the play
Cymbeline (1609) by William Shakespeare. He based her on a legendary character named
Innogen, but it was printed incorrectly and never emended.
Innogen is probably derived from Gaelic
inghean meaning
"maiden". As a given name it is chiefly British and Australian.
Immy
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (British)
Rating: 20% based on 10 votes
Imelda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: ee-MEHL-da
Rating: 35% based on 11 votes
Italian and Spanish form of
Irmhild. The Blessed Imelda Lambertini was a young 14th-century nun from Bologna.
Hunter
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: HUN-tər(American English) HUN-tə(British English)
Rating: 32% based on 10 votes
From an English occupational surname for a hunter, derived from Old English hunta. A famous bearer was the eccentric American journalist Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005).
Honey
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: HUN-ee
Rating: 30% based on 10 votes
Simply from the English word honey, ultimately from Old English hunig. This was originally a nickname for a sweet person.
Hazel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: HAY-zəl
Rating: 63% based on 14 votes
From the English word hazel for the tree or the light brown colour, derived ultimately from Old English hæsel. It was coined as a given name in the 19th century and quickly became popular, reaching the 18th place for girls in the United States by 1897. It fell out of fashion in the second half of the 20th century, but has since recovered.
Haze
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: HAYZ
Rating: 30% based on 10 votes
Variant of
Hayes, sometimes used as a short form of
Hazel.
Haven
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: HAY-vən
Rating: 58% based on 12 votes
From the English word for a safe place, derived ultimately from Old English hæfen.
Guthrie
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish, English
Rating: 22% based on 11 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Guthrie, borne by the jazz musician Guthrie Govan.
Guinevere
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arthurian Cycle
Pronounced: GWIN-ə-vir(American English) GWIN-ə-veey(British English)
Rating: 66% based on 14 votes
From the Norman French form of the Welsh name
Gwenhwyfar meaning
"white phantom", ultimately from the old Celtic roots *
windos meaning "white" (modern Welsh
gwen) and *
sēbros meaning "phantom, magical being"
[1]. In Arthurian legend she was the beautiful wife of King
Arthur. According to the 12th-century chronicler Geoffrey of Monmouth, she was seduced by
Mordred before the battle of Camlann, which led to the deaths of both Mordred and Arthur. According to the 12th-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes, she engaged in an adulterous affair with Sir
Lancelot.
The Cornish form of this name, Jennifer, has become popular in the English-speaking world.
Grey
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: GRAY
Rating: 23% based on 10 votes
Graham
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish, English
Pronounced: GRAY-əm(English) GRAM(English)
Rating: 37% based on 12 votes
From a Scottish surname, originally derived from the English place name
Grantham, which probably meant
"gravelly homestead" in Old English. The surname was first taken to Scotland in the 12th century by the Norman baron William de Graham
[1]. A famous bearer of the surname was Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), the Scottish-Canadian-American inventor who devised the telephone. A famous bearer of the given name was the British author Graham Greene (1904-1991).
During the 20th century, Graham was more common in the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada than it was in the United States. However, it has been rising on the American charts since around 2006.
Gibbs
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: gibs, GIBS
Rating: 18% based on 10 votes
Gibb
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: gib
Rating: 9% based on 11 votes
Geneva
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: jə-NEE-və
Rating: 25% based on 10 votes
Possibly a shortened form of
Genevieve. It could also be inspired by the name of the city in Switzerland. It has been used as a given name in the English-speaking world since the 19th century.
Freya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norse Mythology, English (Modern), German
Pronounced: FRAY-ə(English) FRAY-a(German)
Rating: 68% based on 16 votes
From Old Norse
Freyja meaning
"lady". This is the name of a goddess associated with love, beauty, war and death in Norse
mythology. She claims half of the heroes who are slain in battle and brings them to her realm of Fólkvangr. Along with her brother
Freyr and father
Njord, she is one of the Vanir (as opposed to the Æsir). Some scholars connect her with the goddess
Frigg.
This is not the usual spelling in any of the Scandinavian languages (in Sweden and Denmark it is Freja and in Norway it is Frøja) but it is the common spelling of the goddess's name in English. In the 2000s it became popular in Britain.
Fiona
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Scottish, English
Pronounced: fee-O-nə(English)
Rating: 63% based on 13 votes
Feminine form of
Fionn. This name was (first?) used by the Scottish poet James Macpherson in his poem
Fingal (1761), in which it is spelled as
Fióna.
Evvie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EE-vee, EHV-ee
Rating: 13% based on 12 votes
Evolet
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Popular Culture, English
Pronounced: EV-o-let(Popular Culture)
Rating: 35% based on 11 votes
It has been suggested that the name was created from an elaboration of
love as a palindrome, or from the backwards spelling of
t(h)e love with the
h omitted for the sake of aesthetics, or from
evolve as an incomplete anagram. It could also be used as a combination of the names
Eve and
Violet.
The name of a prehistoric woman in the 2008 film 10,000 B.C. directed by Roland Emmerich, meaning "the promise of life" in the fictitious language spoken by the character's adopted tribe, the Yaghal.
Évodie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical French, French (Rare), French (African), French (Belgian, Rare)
Rating: 22% based on 11 votes
French form of
Euodia via its latinized form
Evodia.
Evie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EE-vee, EHV-ee
Rating: 41% based on 13 votes
Everly
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: EHV-ər-lee(American English) EHV-ə-lee(British English)
Rating: 32% based on 13 votes
From an English surname that was from a place name, itself derived from Old English
eofor "boar" and
leah "woodland, clearing". Notable bearers of the surname were the musical duo the Everly Brothers, Don (1937-2021) and Phil (1939-2014).
This name began rising on the American popularity charts in 2008, slowly until 2012 and then rapidly after that. This might have been triggered by the folk band Everly (not associated with the Everly Brothers), which had music featured on the television series One Tree Hill in that period. It also might have simply been inspired by similar-sounding names like Everett, Evelyn and Beverly.
Everlee
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: EHV-ər-lee(American English) EHV-ə-lee(British English)
Rating: 15% based on 13 votes
Ethereal
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (Rare, Archaic)
Rating: 15% based on 13 votes
From the English word ethereal, meaning "celestial, heavenly".
Etherea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (Rare)
Rating: 17% based on 10 votes
Esmie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ez-mee
Rating: 29% based on 12 votes
Esmeree
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arthurian Cycle
Rating: 28% based on 11 votes
Perhaps derived from Old French esmer meaning "to like, love, respect". This was the name of an enchanted queen of Wales in Le Bel Inconnu (ca. 1185-90), an Old French Arthurian poem by Renaut de Bâgé. In the poem, Blonde Esmeree is transformed from a serpent back into a maiden by the hero Guinglain, also known as the Fair Unknown.
Esmeray
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Turkish
Rating: 39% based on 11 votes
Derived from Turkish esmer "dark" and ay "moon".
Esmee
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (British), Dutch
Pronounced: EHZ-may(British English) EHZ-mee(British English) ehs-MEH(Dutch)
Rating: 33% based on 12 votes
Esme
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHZ-may, EHZ-mee
Rating: 54% based on 13 votes
Esmé
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHZ-may, EHZ-mee
Rating: 48% based on 13 votes
Means "esteemed" or "loved" in Old French. It was first recorded in Scotland, being borne by the first Duke of Lennox in the 16th century. It is now more common as a feminine name.
Eris
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἔρις(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: EHR-is(English)
Rating: 33% based on 10 votes
Means
"strife, discord" in Greek. In Greek
mythology Eris was the goddess of discord. She was the sister and companion of
Ares.
Erika
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Estonian, German, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Croatian, English, Italian
Pronounced: eh-REE-kah(Swedish, Norwegian) EH-ree-kah(Finnish) EH-ree-ka(German, Slovak) EH-ree-kaw(Hungarian) EHR-i-kə(English)
Rating: 42% based on 15 votes
Feminine form of
Erik. It also coincides with the word for
"heather" in some languages.
Enid
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh, English, Arthurian Cycle
Pronounced: EH-nid(Welsh) EE-nid(English)
Rating: 35% based on 13 votes
Probably derived from Welsh
enaid meaning
"soul, spirit, life". In Arthurian tales she first appears in the 12th-century French poem
Erec and Enide by Chrétien de Troyes, where she is the wife of Erec. In later adaptations she is typically the wife of
Geraint. The name became more commonly used after the publication of Alfred Tennyson's Arthurian poem
Enid in 1859, and it was fairly popular in Britain in the first half of the 20th century.
Emmy
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, French, Swedish, Dutch, German
Pronounced: EHM-ee(English) EH-mee(Dutch)
Rating: 45% based on 13 votes
Emmeline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHM-ə-leen, EHM-ə-lien
Rating: 66% based on 16 votes
From Old French
Emeline, a
diminutive of Germanic names beginning with the element
amal meaning
"unceasing, vigorous, brave". The
Normans introduced this name to England.
Emmarie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern), Filipino
Pronounced: EHM-ə-ree(English)
Rating: 25% based on 10 votes
Strictly feminine variant of
Emery, the spelling probably influenced by
Emma and
Marie.
Emily
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHM-ə-lee
Rating: 64% based on 15 votes
English feminine form of
Aemilius (see
Emil). In the English-speaking world it was not common until after the German House of Hanover came to the British throne in the 18th century; the princess Amelia Sophia (1711-1786) was commonly known as
Emily in English, even though
Amelia is an unrelated name.
This name was moderately popular through most of the 20th century, and became very popular around the turn of the 21st century. It was the highest ranked name for girls in the United States from 1996 to 2007, attaining similar levels in other English-speaking countries around the same time.
Famous bearers include the British author Emily Brontë (1818-1848), known for the novel Wuthering Heights, and the American poet Emily Dickinson (1830-1886).
Emée
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Picard
Rating: 28% based on 11 votes
Elysia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Various
Pronounced: i-LIZ-ee-ə(English) i-LIS-ee-ə(English) i-LEE-zhə(English)
Rating: 36% based on 10 votes
From
Elysium, the name of the realm of the dead in Greek and Roman
mythology.
Elvy
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish
Rating: 19% based on 11 votes
Elvie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EL-vee
Rating: 36% based on 11 votes
Elowen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Cornish
Rating: 62% based on 14 votes
Means "elm tree" in Cornish. This is a recently coined Cornish name.
Elora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Popular Culture, English (Modern)
Rating: 48% based on 13 votes
Probably an invented name. This is the name of an infant girl in the fantasy movie Willow (1988). Since the release of the movie the name has been steadily used, finally breaking into the top 1000 in the United States in 2015.
Elodie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Rating: 68% based on 17 votes
Ellery
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHL-ə-ree
Rating: 27% based on 11 votes
From an English surname that was originally derived from the medieval masculine name
Hilary.
Elisia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Portuguese (Brazilian), German (Bessarabian)
Rating: 26% based on 8 votes
Eli 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Hebrew, Biblical, Biblical Greek [1], Biblical Hebrew [2]
Other Scripts: עֵלִי(Hebrew) Ἠλί, Ἡλί(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: EE-lie(English)
Rating: 38% based on 12 votes
Means
"ascension" in Hebrew, a derivative of
עָלָה (ʿala) meaning "to ascend". In the Books of Samuel in the
Old Testament he is a high priest of the Israelites. He took the young
Samuel into his service and gave him guidance when God spoke to him. Because of the misdeeds of his sons, Eli and his descendants were cursed to die before reaching old age.
Eli has been used as an English Christian given name since the Protestant Reformation. A notable bearer was the American inventor of the cotton gin Eli Whitney (1765-1825).
Elara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἐλάρα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: EHL-ə-rə(English)
Rating: 35% based on 12 votes
Possibly derived from Greek
ἄλαρα (alara) meaning
"hazelnut, spear-shaft". In Greek
mythology Elara was one of
Zeus's mortal lovers and by him the mother of the giant Tityos. A moon of Jupiter bears this name in her honour.
Ekaterina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian
Other Scripts: Екатерина(Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian)
Pronounced: yi-kə-tyi-RYEE-nə(Russian) i-kə-tyi-RYEE-nə(Russian)
Rating: 35% based on 12 votes
Eilonwy
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Rating: 28% based on 12 votes
From Welsh eilon meaning "deer, stag" or "song, melody". This name was used by Lloyd Alexander in his book series The Chronicles of Prydain (1964-1968) as well as the Disney film adaptation The Black Cauldron (1985).
Eevee
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American)
Pronounced: EE-vee(American English)
Rating: 14% based on 14 votes
Edith
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch
Pronounced: EE-dith(English) EH-dit(German, Swedish, Dutch)
Rating: 54% based on 15 votes
From the Old English name
Eadgyð, derived from the elements
ead "wealth, fortune" and
guð "battle". It was popular among Anglo-Saxon royalty, being borne for example by
Saint Eadgyeth;, the daughter of King Edgar the Peaceful. It was also borne by the Anglo-Saxon wife of the Holy Roman Emperor Otto I. The name remained common after the
Norman Conquest. It became rare after the 15th century, but was revived in the 19th century.
Edie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EE-dee
Rating: 46% based on 13 votes
Eden
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Hebrew, English (Modern), French (Modern)
Other Scripts: עֵדֶן(Hebrew)
Pronounced: EE-dən(English)
Rating: 62% based on 16 votes
From the biblical place name, itself possibly from Hebrew
עֵדֶן (ʿeḏen) meaning "pleasure, delight"
[1], or perhaps derived from Sumerian
𒂔 (edin) meaning "plain". According to the
Old Testament the Garden of Eden was the place where the first people,
Adam and
Eve, lived before they were expelled.
Edeline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval French, Anglo-Norman, French, Haitian Creole
Rating: 34% based on 12 votes
Old French variant of
Adelina. It was borne by Edeline Thwenge, a 14th-century heiress of Ripley Castle in North Yorkshire, England. The Edeline Islands of Western Australia are named for Lady Edeline Sackville-West (1870-1918), the wife of Gerald Strickland, 1st Baron Strickland.
Edelina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Anglo-Norman (Latinized), Medieval French (Latinized), Spanish (Latin American), Spanish (Philippines)
Rating: 33% based on 12 votes
Echo
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἠχώ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: EH-ko(English)
Rating: 28% based on 12 votes
From the Greek word
ἠχώ (echo) meaning
"echo, reflected sound", related to
ἠχή (eche) meaning "sound". In Greek
mythology Echo was a nymph given a speech impediment by
Hera, so that she could only repeat what others said. She fell in love with
Narcissus, but her love was not returned, and she pined away until nothing remained of her except her voice.
Divya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam
Other Scripts: दिव्या(Hindi, Marathi) ದಿವ್ಯಾ(Kannada) திவ்யா(Tamil) దివ్యా(Telugu) ദിവ്യ(Malayalam)
Rating: 38% based on 12 votes
Means "divine, heavenly" in Sanskrit.
Dimity
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Australian, Rare)
Rating: 21% based on 10 votes
The name given to a type of lightweight sheer cotton fabric used for bed upholstery and curtains, used as a female given name mainly in the United Kingdom and Australia.
Dexanna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American, Rare)
Rating: 29% based on 9 votes
Denny
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DEHN-ee
Rating: 26% based on 8 votes
Delysia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 30% based on 9 votes
Delilah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical, English
Other Scripts: דְּלִילָה(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: di-LIE-lə(English)
Rating: 53% based on 12 votes
Means
"delicate, weak, languishing" in Hebrew. In the
Old Testament she is the lover of
Samson, whom she betrays to the Philistines by cutting his hair, which is the source of his power. Despite her character flaws, the name began to be used by the
Puritans in the 17th century. It has been used occasionally in the English-speaking world since that time.
Delia 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Rating: 38% based on 12 votes
Deladis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (Modern, Rare)
Rating: 26% based on 10 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Deladis.
Darling
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English, Spanish (Latin American), Filipino
Rating: 26% based on 10 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Darling, or else derived directly from the word.
Daria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Polish, Romanian, English, Croatian, Russian, Late Roman
Other Scripts: Дарья(Russian) Δαρεία(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: DA-rya(Italian, Polish, Romanian) DAHR-ee-ə(English) DAR-ee-ə(English)
Rating: 35% based on 10 votes
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.
Daphne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, English, Dutch
Other Scripts: Δάφνη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: DA-PNEH(Classical Greek) DAF-nee(English) DAHF-nə(Dutch)
Rating: 60% based on 13 votes
Means
"laurel" in Greek. In Greek
mythology she was a nymph turned into a laurel tree by her father in order that she might escape the pursuit of
Apollo. It has been used as a given name in the English-speaking world since the end of the 19th century.
Danika
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Rating: 41% based on 13 votes
Danica
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Slovak, Macedonian, English
Other Scripts: Даница(Serbian, Macedonian)
Pronounced: DA-nee-tsa(Serbian, Croatian) DA-nyee-tsa(Slovak) DAN-i-kə(English)
Rating: 42% based on 13 votes
From a Slavic word meaning "morning star, Venus". This name occurs in Slavic folklore as a personification of the morning star. It has sometimes been used in the English-speaking world since the 1970s.
Damaris
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Δάμαρις(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: DAM-ə-ris(English)
Rating: 52% based on 10 votes
Probably means
"calf, heifer, girl" from Greek
δάμαλις (damalis). In the
New Testament this is the name of a woman converted to Christianity by
Saint Paul.
Dalya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: דַּלְיָה(Hebrew)
Rating: 32% based on 9 votes
Covie
Usage: Scottish
Rating: 25% based on 10 votes
Cove
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: KOV
Rating: 32% based on 11 votes
From the English vocabulary word cove, which refers to a small coastal inlet.
Cordelia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature, English
Pronounced: kawr-DEEL-ee-ə(American English) kaw-DEE-lee-ə(British English)
Rating: 67% based on 15 votes
From
Cordeilla, a name appearing in the 12th-century chronicles
[1] of Geoffrey of Monmouth, borne by the youngest of the three daughters of King
Leir and the only one to remain loyal to her father. Geoffrey possibly based her name on that of
Creiddylad, a character from Welsh legend.
The spelling was later altered to Cordelia when Geoffrey's story was adapted by others, including Edmund Spenser in his poem The Faerie Queene (1590) and Shakespeare in his tragedy King Lear (1606).
Clementine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KLEHM-ən-teen, KLEHM-ən-tien
Rating: 70% based on 15 votes
Clear
Usage: English
Rating: 8% based on 12 votes
Claudia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: KLAW-dee-ə(English) KLOW-dya(German, Italian, Romanian) KLOW-dee-a(Dutch, Latin) KLOW-dhya(Spanish)
Rating: 60% based on 13 votes
Feminine form of
Claudius. It is mentioned briefly in the
New Testament. As a Christian name it was very rare until the 16th century.
Clary
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Archaic), Swedish (Rare)
Rating: 33% based on 10 votes
English diminutive form of
Clara and
Clarissa as well as an adoption of the name of the
clary sage (
salvia sclarea in Latin).
As a Swedish name, Clary is both an adoption of the English name as well as an adoption of the surname
Clary which was first introduced by 19th-century Swedish queen
Desideria who was born Désirée Clary.
Claris
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English (Rare)
Pronounced: CLAH-riss(Middle English)
Rating: 24% based on 9 votes
Clarie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, Gascon
Rating: 33% based on 9 votes
French and Gascon form of
Claria.
Claria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Medieval Occitan
Rating: 31% based on 9 votes
Clara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, Catalan, Romanian, English, Swedish, Danish, Late Roman
Pronounced: KLA-ra(German, Spanish, Italian) KLA-ru(Portuguese) KLA-RA(French) KLEHR-ə(American English) KLAR-ə(American English) KLAH-rə(British English)
Rating: 65% based on 15 votes
Feminine form of the Late Latin name
Clarus, which meant
"clear, bright, famous". The name
Clarus was borne by a few early
saints. The feminine form was popularized by the 13th-century Saint Clare of Assisi (called
Chiara in Italian), a friend and follower of Saint Francis, who left her wealthy family to found the order of nuns known as the Poor Clares.
As an English name it has been in use since the Middle Ages, originally in the form Clare, though the Latinate spelling Clara overtook it in the 19th century and became very popular. It declined through most of the 20th century (being eclipsed by the French form Claire in English-speaking countries), though it has since recovered somewhat.
Clancy
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: KLAN-see
Rating: 21% based on 12 votes
From an Irish surname (Anglicized from Mac Fhlannchaidh), derived from the given name Flannchadh meaning "red warrior".
Cherry
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: CHEHR-ee
Rating: 25% based on 11 votes
Simply means "cherry" from the name of the fruit, derived from Latin
cerasium, Greek
κεράσιον (kerasion). It can also be a
diminutive of
Charity. It has been in use since the late 19th century.
Caterina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Catalan
Pronounced: ka-teh-REE-na(Italian) kə-tə-REE-nə(Catalan)
Rating: 44% based on 16 votes
Catalina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Corsican
Pronounced: ka-ta-LEE-na(Spanish)
Rating: 47% based on 16 votes
Cataleya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Various (Rare)
Rating: 40% based on 14 votes
Variant of cattleya, a genus of orchids native to Central and South America, which were named for the British horticulturist William Cattley. This name was popularized by the main character from the movie Colombiana (2011).
Carter
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KAHR-tər(American English) KAH-tə(British English)
Rating: 19% based on 12 votes
From an English surname that meant "one who uses a cart". A famous bearer of the surname is former American president Jimmy Carter (1924-).
Calpurnia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Rating: 41% based on 13 votes
Feminine form of
Calpurnius. This was the name of Julius Caesar's last wife.
Calliope
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Καλλιόπη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: kə-LIE-ə-pee(English)
Rating: 45% based on 13 votes
Caledonia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: kal-i-DO-ni-ə
Rating: 33% based on 15 votes
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.
Buttercup
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: BUT-ər-kup(American English) BUT-ə-kup(British English)
Rating: 31% based on 14 votes
From the English word for the yellow flower (genus Ranunculus). Author William Goldman used it for Princess Buttercup in his book The Princess Bride (1973) and the subsequent film adaptation (1987).
Buffy
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BUF-ee
Rating: 19% based on 14 votes
Diminutive of
Elizabeth, from a child's pronunciation of the final syllable. It is now associated with the main character from the television series
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003).
Bryony
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: BRIE-ə-nee
Rating: 38% based on 13 votes
From the name of a type of Eurasian vine, formerly used as medicine. It ultimately derives from Greek
βρύω (bryo) meaning "to swell".
Bronwyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Rating: 38% based on 14 votes
Variant of
Bronwen used in the English-speaking world (especially Australia and New Zealand).
Britta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Rating: 39% based on 15 votes
Briony
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: BRIE-ə-nee
Rating: 37% based on 14 votes
Brierley
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Rating: 11% based on 14 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Brierley.
Brier
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BRIE-ər
Rating: 27% based on 11 votes
Briarly
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Rating: 22% based on 12 votes
Briar
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: BRIE-ər(American English) BRIE-ə(British English)
Rating: 47% based on 15 votes
From the English word for the thorny plant.
Brennan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BREHN-ən
Rating: 34% based on 11 votes
From an Irish surname (Anglicized from Irish Gaelic
Ó Braonáin) that was derived from the byname
Braonán, itself from Irish
braon meaning "rain, moisture, drop" combined with a
diminutive suffix. As a given name, it has been used since the 1960s as an alternative to
Brendan or
Brandon, though it has not been as popular as them.
Bo
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Rating: 21% based on 11 votes
Bly
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (American, Modern, Rare)
Rating: 31% based on 11 votes
Beulah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical, English
Other Scripts: בְּעוּלָה(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: BYOO-lə(English)
Rating: 36% based on 14 votes
Belle
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BEHL
Rating: 46% based on 13 votes
Short form of
Isabella or names ending in
belle. It is also associated with the French word
belle meaning "beautiful". A famous bearer was Belle Starr (1848-1889), an outlaw of the American west, whose real given name was Maybelle.
Bellatrix
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Astronomy
Pronounced: bə-LAY-triks(English) BEHL-ə-triks(English)
Rating: 35% based on 13 votes
Means "female warrior" in Latin. This is the name of the star that marks the left shoulder of the constellation Orion.
Bella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BEHL-ə
Rating: 42% based on 15 votes
Short form of
Isabella and other names ending in
bella. It is also associated with the Italian word
bella meaning
"beautiful". It was used by the American author Stephenie Meyer for the main character in her popular
Twilight series of novels, first released 2005, later adapted into a series of movies beginning 2008.
Baylor
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: BAY-lər(American English) BAY-lə(British English)
Rating: 15% based on 15 votes
From a surname, possibly an Americanized form of the German surname Beiler, derived from Middle High German beile meaning "measuring stick".
Bay
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Medieval English, English
Pronounced: BAY(Middle English)
Rating: 25% based on 13 votes
From the Middle English personal name
Baye, from Old English
Beaga (masculine) or
Beage (feminine).
A diminutive of Baylee, or any name containing the element or sound -bay-.
May also be given in reference to the English word "bay," from the Middle English baye, from the Old English beġ 'berry', as in beġbēam 'berry-tree'.
Azzy
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: Az-zee
Rating: 14% based on 14 votes
Diminutive of
Azalea or other names beginning in -az.
Azzie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AZ-zee
Rating: 18% based on 11 votes
Diminutive of Azalea and other names containing -az-.
Azra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic, Turkish, Bosnian, Persian, Urdu
Other Scripts: عذراء(Arabic) عذرا(Persian, Urdu)
Pronounced: ‘adh-RA(Arabic)
Rating: 35% based on 11 votes
Means "virgin, maiden" in Arabic.
Avory
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Modern, Rare)
Rating: 29% based on 11 votes
Aviva
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אֲבִיבָה(Hebrew)
Pronounced: ah-VEE-vah
Rating: 50% based on 13 votes
Feminine variant of
Aviv.
Avis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AY-vis
Rating: 34% based on 12 votes
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".
Avianna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Rating: 29% based on 13 votes
Avia
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אֲבִיָה(Hebrew)
Rating: 30% based on 13 votes
Avalon
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: AV-ə-lahn(American English) AV-ə-lawn(British English)
Rating: 51% based on 14 votes
From the name of the island paradise to which King
Arthur was brought after his death. The name of this island is perhaps related to Welsh
afal meaning "apple", a fruit that was often linked with paradise.
Autumn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AW-təm
Rating: 66% based on 18 votes
From the name of the season, ultimately from Latin autumnus. This name has been in general use since the 1960s.
August
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Polish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Catalan, English
Pronounced: OW-guwst(German) OW-goost(Polish, Norwegian) OW-guyst(Swedish) AW-gəst(English)
Rating: 48% based on 13 votes
German, Polish, Scandinavian and Catalan form of
Augustus. This was the name of three Polish kings.
As an English name it can also derive from the month of August, which was named for the Roman emperor Augustus.
Athena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, English
Other Scripts: Ἀθηνᾶ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: A-TEH-NA(Classical Greek) ə-THEE-nə(English)
Rating: 60% based on 17 votes
Meaning unknown. Athena was the Greek goddess of wisdom and warfare and the patron goddess of the city of Athens in Greece. It is likely that her name is derived from that of the city, not vice versa. The earliest mention of her seems to be a 15th-century BC Mycenaean Greek inscription from Knossos on Crete.
The daughter of Zeus, she was said to have sprung from his head fully grown after he impregnated and swallowed her mother Metis. Athena is associated with the olive tree and the owl.
Astraia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἀστραία(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 40% based on 14 votes
Ashlynn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: ASH-lin
Rating: 25% based on 14 votes
Ashlyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: ASH-lin
Rating: 39% based on 14 votes
Combination of
Ashley and the popular name suffix
lyn.
Asha 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Malayalam
Other Scripts: आशा(Hindi, Marathi) ಆಶಾ(Kannada) ആശാ(Malayalam)
Rating: 41% based on 14 votes
Derived from Sanskrit
आशा (āśā) meaning
"wish, desire, hope".
Aristeia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek
Other Scripts: Αριστεια(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 25% based on 10 votes
Derived from Greek αριστος
(aristos) "best".
Aristea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek, Spanish (Mexican), English (American, Modern, Rare, ?)
Other Scripts: Αριστέα(Greek)
Pronounced: a-rees-TEH-a(Spanish)
Rating: 33% based on 9 votes
Feminine form of
Aristeo (Spanish). As a Greek name, it is a feminine form of names beginning with the element ἄριστος
(aristos) meaning "best".
Aristea is also a genus of purple/lilac flowers of African origin; the species
Aristea ecklonii is known under the common names blue flies, blue stars, blue-eyed iris, or blue corn-lily.
Arista
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Astronomy
Pronounced: ə-RIS-tə(English)
Rating: 25% based on 11 votes
Means "ear of grain" in Latin. This is the name of a star, also known as Spica, in the constellation Virgo.
Ariel
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew, English, French, Spanish, Polish, Biblical, Biblical Greek
Other Scripts: אֲרִיאֵל(Hebrew) Ἀριήλ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: a-ree-EHL(Hebrew) EHR-ee-əl(English) AR-ee-əl(English) A-RYEHL(French) a-RYEHL(Spanish) A-ryehl(Polish)
Rating: 42% based on 13 votes
Means
"lion of God" in Hebrew, from
אֲרִי (ʾari) meaning "lion" and
אֵל (ʾel) meaning "God". In the
Old Testament it is used as another name for the city of Jerusalem. Shakespeare utilized it for a spirit in his play
The Tempest (1611) and Alexander Pope utilized it for a sylph in his poem
The Rape of the Lock (1712), and one of the moons of Uranus bears this name in his honour. As an English name, it became more common for females in the 1980s, especially after it was used for the title character in the Disney film
The Little Mermaid (1989).
Arianny
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American, Modern)
Pronounced: ar-ee-AHN-ee(American English)
Rating: 25% based on 11 votes
Apparently a form of
Arianna. This name was popularized in the early 2010s by American ring girl Arianny Celeste (1985-), born Penelope López Márquez, in whose case it is reportedly derived from a nickname she had as a child.
Ariah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: AHR-ee-ə
Rating: 24% based on 12 votes
Ariadne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἀριάδνη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: A-REE-AD-NEH(Classical Greek) ar-ee-AD-nee(English)
Rating: 65% based on 15 votes
Means
"most holy", composed of the Greek prefix
ἀρι (ari) meaning "most" combined with Cretan Greek
ἀδνός (adnos) meaning "holy". In Greek
mythology, Ariadne was the daughter of King
Minos. She fell in love with
Theseus and helped him to escape the Labyrinth and the Minotaur, but was later abandoned by him. Eventually she married the god
Dionysus.
Aphrodisia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Ἀφροδισία(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 39% based on 15 votes
Anya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian, English
Other Scripts: Аня(Russian)
Pronounced: A-nyə(Russian) AN-yə(English)
Rating: 52% based on 14 votes
Anneliese
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Dutch
Pronounced: A-nə-lee-zə(German) ah-nə-LEE-sə(Dutch)
Rating: 54% based on 18 votes
Annalee
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: AN-ə-lee
Rating: 32% based on 14 votes
Annabelle
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, French
Pronounced: AN-ə-behl(English)
Rating: 59% based on 16 votes
Variant of
Annabel. It can also be interpreted as a combination of
Anna and French
belle "beautiful".
Anna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Greek, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Czech, Slovak, Bulgarian, Armenian, Icelandic, Faroese, Catalan, Occitan, Breton, Scottish Gaelic, Biblical, Biblical Greek [1], Biblical Latin, Old Church Slavic
Other Scripts: Άννα(Greek) Анна(Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Church Slavic) Աննա(Armenian) Ἄννα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: AN-ə(English) AN-na(Italian, Polish, Icelandic) A-na(German, Swedish, Danish, Greek, Czech) AH-na(Dutch) AHN-nah(Norwegian, Finnish, Armenian) AWN-naw(Hungarian) AN-nə(Russian, Catalan) ahn-NAH(Armenian)
Rating: 74% based on 18 votes
Form of
Hannah used in the Greek and Latin
Old Testament. Many later Old Testament translations, including the English, use the
Hannah spelling instead of
Anna. The name appears briefly in the
New Testament belonging to a prophetess who recognized
Jesus as the Messiah. It was a popular name in the Byzantine Empire from an early date, and in the Middle Ages it became common among Western Christians due to veneration of
Saint Anna (usually known as Saint Anne in English), the name traditionally assigned to the mother of the Virgin
Mary.
In England, this Latin form has been used alongside the vernacular forms Ann and Anne since the late Middle Ages. Anna is currently the most common of these spellings in all English-speaking countries (since the 1970s), however the biblical form Hannah is presently more popular than all three.
The name was borne by several Russian royals, including an 18th-century empress of Russia. It is also the name of the main character in Leo Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina (1877), about a married aristocrat who begins an ultimately tragic relationship with Count Vronsky.
Angeline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: AHN-ZHU-LEEN, AHN-ZHLEEN
Rating: 37% based on 15 votes
Angelina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, English, Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Macedonian, German, Dutch, Swedish, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Armenian
Other Scripts: Ангелина(Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Macedonian) Αγγελίνα(Greek) Անգելինա(Armenian)
Pronounced: ang-jeh-LEE-na(Italian) an-jə-LEE-nə(English) un-gyi-LYEE-nə(Russian) ang-kheh-LEE-na(Spanish)
Rating: 60% based on 18 votes
Latinate
diminutive of
Angela. A famous bearer is American actress Angelina Jolie (1975-).
Angelika
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Polish, Hungarian
Pronounced: ang-GEH-lee-ka(German) ang-geh-LEE-ka(Polish) AWNG-geh-lee-kaw(Hungarian)
Rating: 38% based on 18 votes
Angelica
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Romanian, Carolingian Cycle
Pronounced: an-JEHL-i-kə(English) an-JEH-lee-ka(Italian)
Rating: 58% based on 20 votes
Derived from Latin
angelicus meaning
"angelic", ultimately related to Greek
ἄγγελος (angelos) meaning "messenger". The poets Boiardo and Ariosto used this name in their
Orlando poems (1483 and 1532), where she is the love interest of both
Orlando and
Rinaldo. It has been used as a given name since the 18th century.
Anastasia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, English, Spanish, Italian, Georgian, Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Αναστασία(Greek) Анастасия(Russian) Анастасія(Ukrainian, Belarusian) ანასტასია(Georgian) Ἀναστασία(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: a-na-sta-SEE-a(Greek) u-nu-stu-SYEE-yə(Russian) u-nu-stu-SYEE-yu(Ukrainian) a-na-sta-SYEE-ya(Belarusian) an-ə-STAY-zhə(English) a-na-STA-sya(Spanish) a-na-STA-zya(Italian) A-NA-STA-SEE-A(Classical Greek)
Rating: 65% based on 20 votes
Feminine form of
Anastasius. This was the name of a 4th-century Dalmatian
saint who was martyred during the persecutions of the Roman emperor Diocletian. Due to her, the name has been common in Eastern Orthodox Christianity (in various spellings). As an English name it has been in use since the Middle Ages. A famous bearer was the youngest daughter of the last Russian tsar Nicholas II, who was rumoured to have escaped the execution of her family in 1918.
Amyra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Muslim, Indian (Muslim)
Rating: 31% based on 13 votes
Variant transcription of Arabic
Amira 1.
Amalia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Italian, Romanian, Greek, Finnish, Swedish, Dutch, German, Germanic (Latinized) [1]
Other Scripts: Αμαλία(Greek)
Pronounced: a-MA-lya(Spanish, Italian, German) a-MA-lee-a(Dutch)
Rating: 49% based on 16 votes
Short form of Germanic names beginning with the element
amal. This element means
"unceasing, vigorous, brave", or it can refer to the Gothic dynasty of the Amali (derived from the same root).
This was another name for the 7th-century saint Amalberga of Maubeuge.
Alyssa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ə-LIS-ə
Rating: 31% based on 11 votes
Variant of
Alicia. The spelling has probably been influenced by that of the alyssum flower, the name of which is derived from Greek
ἀ (a), a negative prefix, combined with
λύσσα (lyssa) meaning "madness, rabies", since it was believed to cure madness.
Alysia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ə-LIS-ee-ə
Rating: 34% based on 11 votes
Alyse
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: ə-LEES, AL-is
Rating: 34% based on 12 votes
Alys
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AL-is
Rating: 33% based on 13 votes
Alyria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American, Rare)
Rating: 32% based on 14 votes
Allyriane
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Rare), French (Belgian, Rare)
Rating: 30% based on 8 votes
Allura
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Popular Culture
Pronounced: ə-LUR-ə, ə-LAWR-ə
Rating: 26% based on 12 votes
Apparently based on the English word allure. This was the name of a princess in the 1980s anime television show 'Voltron'.
Allora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (Modern)
Pronounced: Uh- Laura, uh-lor-uh
Rating: 30% based on 14 votes
This is apparently either a variant of
Alora or
Allura or else an American combination of
Alice and
Lora.
It coincides with the Italian word
allora "then; thus; so". Note that this name is not used in Italy.
Allegra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, English (Rare)
Pronounced: al-LEH-gra(Italian) ə-LEHG-rə(English)
Rating: 47% based on 16 votes
Means "cheerful, lively" in Italian. It was borne by a short-lived illegitimate daughter of Lord Byron (1817-1822).
Alice
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, French, Portuguese, Italian, German, Czech, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Dutch
Pronounced: AL-is(English) A-LEES(French) u-LEE-si(European Portuguese) a-LEE-see(Brazilian Portuguese) a-LEE-cheh(Italian) a-LEES(German) A-li-tseh(Czech)
Rating: 75% based on 21 votes
From the Old French name
Aalis, a short form of
Adelais, itself a short form of the Germanic name
Adalheidis (see
Adelaide). This name became popular in France and England in the 12th century. It was among the most common names in England until the 16th century, when it began to decline. It was revived in the 19th century.
This name was borne by the heroine of Lewis Carroll's novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass (1871).
Alexandria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: al-ig-ZAN-dree-ə(American English) al-ig-ZAHN-dree-ə(British English)
Rating: 53% based on 18 votes
Feminine form of
Alexander. Alexander the Great founded several cities by this name (or renamed them) as he extended his empire eastward. The most notable of these is Alexandria in Egypt, founded by Alexander in 331 BC.
Alaysia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: African American (Modern)
Pronounced: ə-LAY-zhə
Rating: 33% based on 15 votes
Áine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish, Irish Mythology, Old Irish [1]
Pronounced: A-nyə(Irish)
Rating: 39% based on 15 votes
Means
"radiance, brilliance" in Irish. This was the name of a goddess of love and fertility in Irish legend, thought to dwell at the hill of Cnoc Áine in Limerick. It has sometimes been Anglicized as
Anne.
Adilyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern, Archaic)
Rating: 30% based on 14 votes
Adeline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, English
Pronounced: A-DU-LEEN(French) AD-ə-lien(English)
Rating: 58% based on 21 votes
French and English form of
Adelina.
Adelina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Romanian, Bulgarian, Germanic (Latinized) [1]
Other Scripts: Аделина(Bulgarian)
Pronounced: a-deh-LEE-na(Italian) a-dheh-LEE-na(Spanish)
Rating: 64% based on 22 votes
From a Germanic name that was derived from the element
adal meaning
"noble" (Proto-Germanic *
aþalaz).
Addie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AD-ee
Rating: 33% based on 9 votes
Aceline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval French, Medieval English
Rating: 23% based on 14 votes
Acelina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English
Rating: 26% based on 14 votes
Ace 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AYS
Rating: 29% based on 14 votes
From the English word meaning "highest rank". More commonly a nickname, it is occasionally used as a given name.
Abilene
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Various (Rare)
Other Scripts: Ἀβιληνή(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: AB-i-leen(English) ab-i-LEE-nee(English)
Rating: 42% based on 16 votes
From a place name mentioned briefly in the
New Testament. It is probably from Hebrew
אָבֵל (ʾavel) meaning "meadow, grassy area". It has occasionally been used as a given name in modern times.
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