SaveroftheFranks's Personal Name List

Means "Venus (planet)" in Swahili and Dhivehi. Both are borrowed from Arabic الزهرة (al-Zuhara), derived from the root زهر (zahara) meaning "to shine".

Form of Zubaida chiefly used in North Africa (using French-influenced orthography).

Greek form of Zerubbabel.

Alternate transcription of Urdu زہرہ (see Zuhra 1) or Arabic زهرة (see Zuhra 2).

Dutch form and English variant of Zoe.

Short form of Franziska.

Alternate transcription of Arabic زين الدين (see Zayn ad-Din) chiefly used in North Africa. A famous bearer is the French soccer player Zinedine Zidane (1972-), who was born to Algerian parents.

French form of Zenaida.

Derived from South Slavic zdrav meaning "healthy", ultimately from Old Slavic sŭdorvŭ.

Russian form of Zacharias.

Means "helper, supporter" in Arabic, related to ظهر (ẓahara) meaning "to be visible, to be clear". This can also be an alternate transcription of Arabic زاهر (see Zaahir 1) or ظاهر (see Zaahir 2).

North African and Persian form of Yunus.

Russian form of Helen.

From a surname that was originally taken from town names meaning either "Wine's village" or "Wigmund's village" in Old English.

Medieval diminutive of William.

From an English surname that was originally derived from a diminutive of the given name William.

Derived from the Old German elements werd "worthy" and heri "army". Goethe used this name in his novel The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774).

From a surname that was derived from the name of a town in England, itself from Old English wer "weir, dam" and wic "settlement".

From a surname that was a variant of Warwick.

From an English surname that was derived either from Norman French warrene meaning "animal enclosure", or else from the town of La Varenne in Normandy. This name was borne by the American president Warren G. Harding (1865-1923).

From an English surname, either Wade 1 or Wade 2.

Variant of Wanda, reflecting the Polish pronunciation.

Russian form of Blaise.

French form of Witiges.

Italian and Portuguese form of Witiges.

From the Old Norse name Víkingr meaning "viking, raider", ultimately from vík "cove, inlet".

Possibly a Latinized form of a Germanic or Celtic name, possibly Germanic Widogast. This was the name of a 6th-century saint who helped to convert the Frankish king Clovis to Christianity. He is called Gaston in French and Vaast in Flemish.

Variant of Vedastus.

Old French form of the Norman name Walchelin, derived from Old Frankish walh or Old High German walah meaning "foreigner, Celt, Roman" (Proto-Germanic *walhaz).

Russian form of Barnabas.

Transferred use of the surname Vagner.

Known bearers of this name include the Brazilian professional mixed-martial artist Vagner Rocha (b. 1982) and the Brazilian professional soccer player Vagner da Silva (b. 1986).

Flemish, Norman and Picard form of Vedastus.

From a surname that was derived from a place name meaning "upper town" in Old English. A famous bearer of this name was the American novelist Upton Sinclair (1878-1968).

Russian form of Iulianus (see Julian).

From Greek τύχη (tyche) meaning "chance, luck, fortune", a derivative of τυγχάνω (tynchano) meaning "hit the mark, succeed". This was the name of a minor deity associated with Priapus in Greek mythology. It was also borne by a 5th-century saint from Cyprus.

Latinized form of Tyge. This name was used by the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546-1601), who was born as Tyge.

Anglicized form of Toirdhealbhach.

Means "ten thousand, multitude, myriad" or "people, nation" in Mongolian and Yakut, the attributive form of Mongolian түм (tüm). Among the Mongol and Turkic peoples, a tümen (tumen in English) was historically also a social and military unit of 10,000 households and soldiers.

A notable bearer of this name was the Mongolian khagan (emperor) Tümen Zasagt Khan (1539-1592).

The name of a Germanic Earth god mentioned once in the work of Tacitus. One manuscript of Tacitus provides the alternate name form Tuisco.

Variant of Tristan.

Medieval English form of Tristan.

Means "all saints" in French. This is the name of a Christian festival celebrated on November 1 (All Saints' Day).

Finnish form of Torsten.

From the Old Norse name Þórsteinn, which meant "Thor's stone" from the name of the Norse god Þórr (see Thor) combined with steinn "stone".

Norwegian form of Torsten.

Diminutive of Antony.

Diminutive of Bartholomew.

Variant of Taliaferro.

Transferred use of the surname Tolbert.

Variant of Till.

From Tielo, a medieval Low German diminutive of Dietrich and other names beginning with Old High German diota or Old Frankish þeoda meaning "people". Till Eulenspiegel is a trickster in German folklore.

Russian form of Tychon.

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

Variant of Torsten.

Norwegian variant form of Torsten.

From the Gothic name *Þiudareiks meaning "ruler of the people", derived from the elements þiuda "people" and reiks "ruler, king". It was notably borne by Theodoric the Great, a 6th-century king of the Ostrogoths who eventually became the ruler of Italy. By Theodoric's time the Ostrogoths were partially Romanized and his name was regularly recorded as Theodoricus. This was also the name of two earlier (5th century) Visigothic kings.

Variant of Theodelinda. (See also Teodolinda, Dietlinde.) This was borne by Finnish writer Theodolinda Hahnsson (1838-1919), known for being the first woman writing in Finnish. American mystery writer Rex Stout used it in his novel The Hand in the Glove (1937), where it belongs to private detective Theodolinda "Dol" Bonner.

Latinized form of Tielo (see Till). A famous bearer was jazz musician Thelonious Monk (1917-1982).

Derived from Greek θάλλω (thallo) meaning "to blossom". Thales of Miletus was a 6th-century BC Greek philosopher and mathematician.

Either a Finnish form of Terentius or a short form of Antero.

Georgian form of Terentius (see Terence). It is also an alternate transcription of Russian Терентий (see Terentiy).

From the Roman family name Terentius, which is of unknown meaning. Famous bearers include Publius Terentius Afer, a Roman playwright, and Marcus Terentius Varro, a Roman scholar. It was also borne by several early saints. The name was used in Ireland as an Anglicized form of Toirdhealbhach, but it was not found as an English name until the late 19th century. It attained only a moderate level of popularity in the 20th century, though it has been common as an African-American name especially since the 1970s.

Modern Turkish and Bosnian form of the Mongol name Tümen via its Chinese form Touman.

Notable bearers of this name include the Turkish rock singer Teoman (b. 1967), the Bosnian-Slovenian former basketball player Teoman Alibegović (b. 1967) and Teoman Kumbaracıbaşı (b. 1971), an Argentinian actor of Turkish descent.

Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of Theodahad.

Gascon form of Theodoric.

Means "young beaver" in Cherokee, derived from ᏙᏯ (doya) meaning "beaver".

Diminutive of Tasso. The Blessed Tassilo III (c. 741 – c. 796) was duke of Bavaria from 748 to 788, the last of the house of the Agilolfings. Modern-day bearers include Tassilo Thierbach (1956-), a German former pair skater, and Prince Tassilo Preslavski of Bulgaria (2002-).

Means "furrowed" in Hebrew. In the Old Testament this name is borne by both a giant and also the father of King David's wife Maacah.

Anglicized form of Suibhne. In fiction, this name is borne by the murderous barber Sweeney Todd, first appearing in the British serial The String of Pearls: A Romance (1846-1847).

Alternate transcription of Arabic سعاد (see Suad).

Transferred use of the surname Slater.

Derived from the surname Slate.

From the Old Norse name Sigsteinn, which was derived from the elements sigr "victory" and steinn "stone".

From Old Norse Sif, which meant "bride, kinswoman". In Norse mythology she was the wife of Thor. After the trickster Loki cut off her golden hair, an angry Thor forced him to create a replacement.

Means "furrow" in Sanskrit. Sita is the name of the Hindu goddess of the harvest in the Rigveda. This is also the name of the wife of Rama (and an avatar of Lakshmi) in the Hindu epic the Ramayana. In this story Sita is abducted by the demon king Ravana, with her husband and his allies attempting to rescue her.

Phonetic variant of St John.

Italian and Spanish form of Silverius.

Old English name composed of the elements sige "victory" and stan 1 "stone" (making it a cognate of Sigsteinn).

Hypocoristic form of names containing the Germanic name element sigu "victory".

Historically, this name could be latinised to Sixtus.

Spanish form of Serapion.

Means "Yahweh is ruler" in Hebrew, from שָׂרָה (sara) meaning "to have power" and יָהּ (yah) referring to the Hebrew God. This is the name of several minor characters in the Old Testament, including the father of Ezra.

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

Alternate transcription of Arabic صلاح الدين (see Salah ad-Din) chiefly used in North Africa.

Alternate transcription of Arabic سيف الدين (see Sayf ad-Din) chiefly used in Northern Africa.

Alternate transcription of Sa'id chiefly used in Northern Africa.

Transferred use of the surname Sagan, usually used in reference to astronomer Carl Sagan.

Maghrebi variant of Safwan (chiefly Moroccan).

Arabic alternate transcription of Sadiq chiefly used in Northern Africa and Egypt as well as the Bengali form of the name.

Alternate transcription of Arabic سعد (see Sa'd), as well as the usual Malay form.

From a surname that was originally taken from an Old English place name meaning "town of Royse". The given name Royse was a medieval variant of Rose.

Meaning uncertain. According to the 12th-century chronicler Geoffrey of Monmouth, this was the name of a daughter of the Saxon chief Hengist. It is possible (but unsupported) that Geoffrey based it on the Old English elements hroð "fame" and wynn "joy", or alternatively on the Old Welsh elements ron "spear" and gwen "white". It was popularized by Walter Scott, who used it for a character in his novel Ivanhoe (1819).

Variant of Rothar. This name was borne by a 7th-century Lombard king of the house of Arodus.

French form of Romanus (see Roman).

Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian and English form of Rodelind. Rodelinda (6th century) was a Lombard queen by marriage to king Audoin, and the mother of king Alboin. This name was also borne by Rodelinda (7th century), the wife of King Perctarit of Lombardy and title character of Händel's opera Rodelinda (1725).

Alternate transcription of Arabic ريحانة (see Rayhana). This name is borne by the Barbadian singer Robyn Rihanna Fenty (1988-), known simply as Rihanna. In the United States it jumped in popularity between the years 2005 and 2008, when Rihanna was releasing her first albums. It quickly declined over the next few years.

Scandinavian form of Ricmod, via the Old Danish form Rigmár.

Possibly derived from the name of either of the two Hebridean islands called Rona, which means "rough island" in Old Norse.

Turkish and Uyghur form of Rayhana.

Alternate transcription of Redouane chiefly used in Northern Africa.

Means "basil" in Arabic. This was the name of a wife of the Prophet Muhammad.

Diminutive of Raisa 2.

From an English surname that was derived (via the place name Cuinchy) from the personal name Quintus. A famous bearer was John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), sixth president of the United States, who was born in the town of Quincy, Massachusetts. Both the town and the president were named after his maternal great-grandfather John Quincy (1689-1767). Another notable bearer is the American musician Quincy Jones (1933-).

Means "one who divides goods among people" in Arabic, derived from قسم (qasama) meaning "to divide, to distribute". This was the name of a son of the Prophet Muhammad who died while young.

Meaning unknown. This was the name of a relatively obscure Phoenician deity, possibly of Cypriot origin.

A Germanic dithematic name formed from the name elements brand "sword" and gard "enclosure, protected place".

From Latin Polonia meaning "Poland". In Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet (1600) this is the name of the counsellor to Claudius and the father of Laertes and Ophelia. He is accidentally murdered by Hamlet.

Finnish form of Bartholomew.

Variant of Bertarid. Perctarit was the name of a 7th-century king of the Lombards.

Slovak form of Paul.

Russian, Czech, Bulgarian, Slovene, Macedonian and Belarusian form of Paul.

Venetian form of Paternianus.

From the Gujarati word પટેલ (paṭēl) meaning "chief, village headsman". This is the most common surname among Indian-Americans.

Lombard form of Praxedes.

A longer form of Pandulf. Pandenulf was the name of a 9th-century count of Capua (Italy).

Norwegian form of Eysteinn.

Derived from the Old English elements os "god" and weald "powerful, mighty". Saint Oswald was a king of Northumbria who introduced Christianity to northeastern England in the 7th century before being killed in battle. There was also an Old Norse cognate Ásvaldr in use in England, being borne by the 10th-century Saint Oswald of Worcester, who was of Danish ancestry. Though the name had died out by the end of the Middle Ages, it was revived in the 19th century.

Perhaps related to Greek ὄρφνη (orphne) meaning "the darkness of night". In Greek mythology Orpheus was a poet and musician who went to the underworld to retrieve his dead wife Eurydice. He succeeded in charming Hades with his lyre, and he was allowed to lead his wife out of the underworld on the condition that he not look back at her until they reached the surface. Unfortunately, just before they arrived his love for her overcame his will and he glanced back at her, causing her to be drawn back to Hades.

Form of Orpah used in the Greek and Latin Old Testament.

Modern Greek form of Orpheus.

Means "pine tree" in Hebrew.

Transferred use of the surname Olson.

Irish from of Austin

Medieval English form of Odo.

Contracted form of Ninutsa, which is a diminutive of Nino 2.

Notable Georgian bearers of this name include the actress Nutsa Chkheidze (1881-1963) and the film director Nutsa Gogoberidze (1903-1966).

Alternate transcription of Arabic نور الدين (see Nur ad-Din) chiefly used in North Africa.

Diminutive of Nino 2. A known bearer of this name is the Georgian actress Nino "Ninutsa" Maqashvili (b. 1988).

Probably from the name of the ancient city of Nineveh in Assyria. According to Greek historians this was the name of the husband of Semiramis and the founder of Nineveh. In actuality he does not correspond to any known Assyrian king, and is likely a composite character named after the city.

Meaning unknown, possibly from a Greek feminine form of Ninos. Saint Nino (sometimes called Nina) was a Greek-speaking woman from Asia Minor who introduced Christianity to Georgia in the 4th century.

Russian form of Nino 2.

Derived from Greek νίκη (nike) meaning "victory".

Derived from Greek νίκη (nike) meaning "victory". This was the name of an Athenian general who fought in the Peloponnesian war.

From an English surname that was originally derived from a place name meaning "new town" in Norman French. As a given name it is chiefly British and Australian.

Latinized form of Nepomuk.

French form of Napoleona. A known bearer of this name was Charlotte Bonaparte (1802-1839), a niece of the French emperor Napoléon Bonaparte (1769-1821). She carried the name as a middle name.

Form of Naima used in North Africa and other French-influenced regions of the continent.

Means "hope" in Russian and Bulgarian.

French form of Nadezhda.

Turkish and Bosnian form of Murad.

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

Means "bright, shining" in Arabic, related to the root نوّر (nawwara) meaning "to illuminate, to light".

Alternate transcription of Arabic مراد (see Murad) chiefly used in North Africa.

Alternate transcription of Arabic منى (see Muna) chiefly used in North Africa.

From Welsh Medraut, possibly from Latin moderatus meaning "controlled, moderated". In Arthurian legend Mordred was the illegitimate son (in some versions nephew) of King Arthur. Mordred first appears briefly (as Medraut) in the 10th-century Annales Cambriae [1], but he was not portrayed as a traitor until the chronicles of the 12th-century Geoffrey of Monmouth. While Arthur is away he seduces his wife Guinevere and declares himself king. This prompts the battle of Camlann, which leads to the deaths of both Mordred and Arthur.

French form of Monica.

Form of Monica used in various languages.

Scandinavian short form of Monica.

Danish form of Magnus.

From an English surname, itself derived from the given name Michael or in some cases from Middle English michel meaning "big, large".

From the Slavic element milŭ meaning "gracious, dear", originally a short form of names that began with that element. It was originally used in Czech, Slovak, and the South Slavic languages, though it has recently become popular elsewhere in Europe.

A city in Italy bears this name, though in this case it originates from Latin Mediolanum, perhaps ultimately of Celtic origin meaning "middle of the plain". In some cases the city name may be an influence on the use of the given name.

French form of Michael. Michel de Nostredame (1503-1566), also known as Nostradamus, was a French astrologer who made predictions about future world events. Another famous bearer is the retired French soccer player Michel Platini (1955-). This is also the German diminutive form of Michael.

Variant of Meurig.

Persian, Azerbaijani and North African form of Mahdi.

French form of Maximinus.

Short form of Maximilian or Maxim. In English it can also be short for Maxwell, and it coincides with the informal word max, short for maximum.

Famous bearers include the German intellectual Max Weber (1864-1920) and the German physicist Max Planck (1858-1947). This name is also borne by the title character in the Mad Max series of movies, starting 1979.

Variant of Mauno.

Finnish form of Magnus.

Variant of Maud.

Medieval English and French form of Matilda. Though it became rare after the 14th century, it was revived and once more grew popular in the 19th century, perhaps due to Alfred Tennyson's 1855 poem Maud [1].

Bulgarian form of Matthew.

Armenian form of Matthew.

Catalan form of Matthew.

Romanian form of Matthew.

Either derived from Arabic مرو (marw) meaning "flint, pebble" or from the name of a type of fragrant plant (see Marwa). This was the name of two Umayyad caliphs.

Hungarian form of Martinus (see Martin).

Alternate transcription of Arabic مروان‎ (see Marwan) chiefly used in North Africa.

Possibly derived from the Old Irish name Máel Máedóc. This name has been traditionally used in the Yorkshire area of Britain.

Form of Mark in several languages.

Irish form of Magnus.

Means "thinking, wise" in Sanskrit. In Hindu belief this is a title of Swayambhuva, the progenitor of the human race, as well as several of his descendants.

Swedish variant of Magnus.

Dutch diminutive of Herman.

Variant of Managold.

Means "strength, power" in Zulu and Ndebele.

Means "rebirth, revival, prosperity" or "surface, outer layer" in Mongolian.

From an Irish surname, an Anglicized form of Ó Maoil Eoin meaning "descendant of a disciple of Saint John".

Means "angel" in Arabic.

Means "angel" in Swahili, derived from Arabic ملك (malak).

Anglicized form of Máel Sechnaill or Máel Máedóc, influenced by the spelling of Malachi. Saint Malachy (in Irish, Máel Máedóc) was a 12th-century archbishop of Armagh renowned for his miracles.

Alternate transcription of Russian Макарий (see Makariy).

Russian form of Makarios (see Macario).

Hawaiian form of Matthew.

Derived from Finnish mairea meaning "gushing, sugary".

French form of Mazhe, the Breton form of Matthew.

Means "guided one" in Arabic, a derivative of هدى (hadā) meaning "to lead the right way, to guide".

Modern form of Magni as well as a variant of Magnus.

Occitan form of Magdalene.

Anglicized form of the Irish name Medb meaning "intoxicating". In Irish legend this was the name of a warrior queen of Connacht. She and her husband Ailill fought against the Ulster king Conchobar and the hero Cúchulainn, as told in the Irish epic The Cattle Raid of Cooley.

Means "disciple of Saint Máedóc" in Irish. Saint Máel Máedóc (also known as Malachy) was a 12th-century archbishop of Armagh.

Meaning unknown. Saint Máedóc (also known as Áedán) of Ferns was a 7th-century Irish bishop.

English form of Madeleine. This is the name of the heroine in a series of children's books by the Austrian-American author Ludwig Bemelmans, first published 1939.

Norwegian and Swedish variant of Madeleine.

French form of Magdalene.

From a surname, originally a shortened form of various Irish and Scottish surnames beginning with Mac or Mc (from Irish mac meaning "son"). It is also used as a generic slang term for a man.

Anglicized form of the Scottish Gaelic given name Mac Beatha meaning "son of life", implying holiness. This was the name of an 11th-century Scottish king who came to power after defeating and killing King Duncan in battle. Years later he was himself slain in battle with Duncan's son Malcolm. Shakespeare based his play Macbeth (1606) loosely on this king's life, drawing from the tales related in Holinshed's Chronicles (1587).

Variant of Macaulay.

From a Scottish surname, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Amhalghaidh, itself derived from Amhalghadh, a given name of unknown meaning. A famous bearer of the surname was Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1861), a British Whig politician and noted historian. The given name is borne by the American former child actor Macaulay Culkin (1980-), who was named after the British politician.

Variant of Louella.

Feminine form of Ludwin.

This name is usually a form of Leutwin, but there are instances where the first element of the name can also be derived from Old High German hlûd "famous" (see Chlodomer).

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

From the Old German name Leutgar, which was derived from the elements liut "people" and ger "spear". Saint Ludger was an 8th-century Frisian Benedictine bishop who founded a monastery at Munster.

French form of Lucianus.

Simply from the English word love, derived from Old English lufu.

Probably a Welsh form of an unattested old Celtic name *Lugubelinos, a combination of the names of the gods Lugus and Belenus, or a compound of Lugus and a Celtic root meaning "strong". Alternatively it may be derived from Welsh llyw "leader". This was the name of several Welsh rulers, notably the 13th-century Llywelyn the Great who fought against the English.

Variant of Llywelyn influenced by the Welsh word llew "lion".

Variant of Liutbrand. This was the name of an 8th-century king of the Lombards. Liutprand is often regarded as the most successful Lombard monarch, notable for the Donation of Sutri in 728, which was the first accolade of sovereign territory to the Papacy.

Means "my light" in Hebrew, from לִי (li) "for me" and אוֹר (ʾor) "light".

From an English and Scottish surname that was originally derived from the name of the eastern English region of Lindsey, which means "Lincoln island" in Old English. As a given name it was typically masculine until the 1960s (in Britain) and 70s (in America) when it became popular for girls, probably due to its similarity to Linda and because of American actress Lindsay Wagner (1949-) [1].

Dutch and German variant of Ludwina, a feminine variant of Leutwin. It was borne by Lidwina (or Lydwina) of Schiedam, a Dutch mystic and Roman Catholic saint of the 15th century.

From the name of the book of the Old Testament, which means "of the Levites, of the tribe of Levi". Some parents in the United States view it as a full form or more formal version of the name Levi.

Possibly means "joined, attached" in Hebrew. As told in the Old Testament, Levi was the third son of Jacob and Leah, and the ancestor of one of the twelve tribes of the Israelites, known as the Levites. This was the tribe that formed the priestly class of the Israelites. The brothers Moses and Aaron were members. This name also occurs in the New Testament, where it is borne by a son of Alphaeus. He might be the same person as the apostle Matthew.

As an English Christian name, Levi came into use after the Protestant Reformation.

Means "lion" in Russian, functioning as a vernacular form of Leo. This was the real Russian name of both author Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) and revolutionary Leon Trotsky (1879-1940).

Means "heart" in Hebrew.

First known Lombard king.

Belarusian form of Leonidas.

Variant of Lanzo; originally a medieval short form of Germanic names containing Old High German lant, Old Saxon land meaning "land", or the same element used as an independent name. This was the name of a 10th-century pope.

Lando Calrissian is a fictional character in the Star Wars universe.

Form of Landulf, using an extended form of the first element (cf. Pandenulf). Landenulf I was a 9th-century gastald (Lombard ruler) of Capua in Italy.

Alternate transcription of Arabic ليلى (see Layla) chiefly used in North Africa (using French-influenced orthography).

Transferred use of the surname Lafayette. In the US, it was first used in the late 1700s as a masculine given name in honor of the Marquis de Lafayette, a hero of the American War of Independence (who also left his name in a city of west-central Indiana on the Wabash River northwest of Indianapolis).

Means "gatherer of the people" in Greek. This is the name of the father of Odysseus in Greek mythology. It was later utilized by Shakespeare for a character in his tragedy Hamlet (1600), in which he is the son of Polonius. His ultimate duel with Hamlet leads to both of their deaths.

Old Norse name and byname, from Old Norse krákr meaning "a kind of crow or raven".

Coined by Polish writer Juliusz Słowacki for the title character of his drama Kordian (1833). Słowacki likely based the name on Latin cor "heart" (genitive cordis).

German form of Constantius.

German and Slovak form of Colmán. Saint Koloman (also called Coloman or Colman) was an Irish monk who was martyred in Stockerau in Austria.

Variant of Koloman.

From a Scots surname that was derived from various places named Knock, from Gaelic cnoc "round hill". It jumped in popularity after the actors Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt had a baby by this name in 2008.

Anglicized form of Ciara 1.

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).

From a title meaning "king, ruler". Its origin is probably Mongolian, though the word has been transmitted into many other languages.

Form of Habib used in Dagestan and Indonesia. A notable bearer is Dagestani UFC fighter Khabib Nurmagomedov (1988-), who is an ethnic Avar.

Western Armenian transcription of Gevorg.

From the name of the Irish county, called Ciarraí in Irish Gaelic, which means "Ciar's people".

From a Scots surname that was derived from a word meaning "thicket, marsh", ultimately from Old Norse kjarr.

From an English surname that comes from the name of the city of Kendale in northwestern England meaning "valley on the river Kent". Originally mostly masculine, the name received a boost in popularity for girls in 1993 when the devious character Kendall Hart began appearing on the American soap opera All My Children.

From a surname that was a variant of Kendall.

Variant of Kieran.

From a surname that was a variant of Kerr.

From the Welsh name Cai or Cei, possibly a form of the Roman name Gaius. Sir Kay was one of the Knights of the Round Table in Arthurian legend. He first appears in Welsh tales as a brave companion of Arthur. In later medieval tales, notably those by the 12th-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes, he is portrayed as an unrefined boor.

Means "the heavens" from Hawaiian ka "the" and lani "heaven, sky, royal, majesty".

From a Turkish title meaning "king, ruler", ultimately of Mongolian origin. The title is usually translated into English as Khan.

Alternate transcription of Arabic قادر (see Qadir).

Variant of Kağan.

From the medieval masculine name Josse, which was derived from the earlier Iudocus, which was a Latinized form of the Breton name Judoc meaning "lord". The name belonged to a 7th-century Breton saint, and Breton settlers introduced it to England after the Norman Conquest. It became rare after the 14th century, but was later revived as a feminine name, perhaps because of similarity to the Middle English word joise "to rejoice". This given name also became a surname, as in the case of the Irish novelist James Joyce (1882-1941).

From the Old Norse name Jósteinn, derived from the elements jór "horse" and steinn "stone".

German form of Iudocus (see Joyce).

French form of Iudocus (see Joyce).

The name of a 6th-century Roman author of Gothic background, who wrote a history of the Goths. His name is probably derived from that of the Jordan River. However, some theories [1][2] suggest that it could contain a trace of the Germanic root *erþō meaning "earth" (Gothic airþa, Old Norse jǫrð).

Modern form of the Old Norse name Jóarr.

Scandinavian, Macedonian and Serbian form of Joachim.

Danish form of Jasper.

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.

Cornish form of Jacob.

Means "stream" in Arabic. Jafar ibn Abi Talib was a cousin of the Prophet Muhammad who was killed fighting against Byzantium in the 7th century. Another notable bearer was Jafar al-Sadiq, the sixth Shia imam.

Spanish form of Ethan, reflecting the English pronunciation.

Yiddish variant of Israel.

Meaning unknown. This was the name of an early Scythian saint and martyr, a male, supposedly a disciple of Saint Andrew.

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.

Reduced variant form of Ermenberga. This name was borne by a sister of Liutprand, King of the Lombards (8th century).

Means "faith" in Swahili, ultimately from Arabic إيمان (ʾīmān).

Alternate transcription of Arabic إيمان (see Iman) chiefly used in North Africa.

Arabic form of Elijah.

From the Mongolian title il-Khan meaning "subordinate Khan", which was first adopted by Genghis Khan's grandson Hulagu, who ruled a kingdom called the Ilkhanate that stretched from modern Iran to eastern Turkey.

Italian form of Hyginus.

Means "Lord of the Strait" in Ossetian, probably referring to the present-day Strait of Kerch. Huyændon Ældar is the Ossetian lord of fish and a great magician and spirit.

From an English surname that was derived from the name of a town in Cheshire. The final element is Old English leah "woodland, clearing", while the first element might be hux "insult, scorn". A famous bearer of the surname was the British author Aldous Huxley (1894-1963).

Feminine form of Hrafn.

Means "raven" in Old Norse.

From an Old German byname derived from hraban meaning "raven".

From Japanese 日向 (hinata) meaning "sunny place", 陽向 (hinata) meaning "toward the sun", or a non-standard reading of 向日葵 (himawari) meaning "sunflower". Other kanji compounds are also possible. Because of the irregular readings, this name is often written using the hiragana writing system.

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

Diminutive of Isaac.

Hebrew form of Abel.

Anglo-Saxon cognate of Hengist.

From the Old German name Hadewig, derived from the Old German elements hadu "battle, combat" and wig "war". This was the name of a 13th-century German saint, the wife of the Polish duke Henry the Bearded. It was subsequently borne by a 14th-century Polish queen (usually known by her Polish name Jadwiga) who is now also regarded as a saint.

Alternate transcription of Arabic هادي (see Hadi) chiefly used in Tunisia (using French-influenced orthography).

Derived from Welsh hedd "peace" and gwyn "white, blessed". This name has been given in honour of the poet Ellis Humphrey Evans (1887-1917), who used Hedd Wyn as his bardic name [1].

Diminutive of Hedvig. This is the name of the heroine of the play Hedda Gabler (1890) by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen.

From a German surname meaning "heathen". It is used in honour of the Austrian composer Joseph Haydn (1732-1809).

From an English surname that was derived from place names meaning either "hay valley" or "hay hill", derived from Old English heg "hay" and denu "valley" or dun "hill". Its popularity at the end of the 20th century was due to the sound it shared with other trendy names of the time, such as Braden and Aidan.

Derived from Arabic حَمِدَ (ḥamida) meaning "to praise, to commend". It is etymologically related to Muhammad, Ahmad, and Hamid 1.

Means "praiseworthy" in Arabic, from the root حمد (ḥamida) meaning "to praise". In Islamic tradition الحميد (al-Ḥamīd) is one of the 99 names of Allah.

Means "leader, guide" in Arabic, from the root هدى (hadā) meaning "to lead the right way, to guide".

Means "beloved, darling" in Arabic.

Diminutive of György.

Variant of Giles.

Variant of Gwendolen.

Possibly means "white ring", derived from Welsh gwen meaning "white, blessed" and dolen meaning "ring, loop". This name appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth's 12th-century chronicles, written in the Latin form Guendoloena, where it belongs to an ancient queen of the Britons who defeats her ex-husband in battle [1]. Geoffrey later used it in Vita Merlini for the wife of the prophet Merlin [2]. An alternate theory claims that the name arose from a misreading of the masculine name Guendoleu by Geoffrey [3].

This name was not regularly given to people until the 19th century [4][3]. It was used by George Eliot for a character in her novel Daniel Deronda (1876).

Old French form of Wido. The Normans introduced it to England, where it was common until the time of Guy Fawkes (1570-1606), a revolutionary who attempted to blow up the British parliament. The name was revived in the 19th century, due in part to characters in the novels Guy Mannering (1815) by Walter Scott and The Heir of Redclyffe (1854) by C. M. Yonge.

Derived from the Old Norse elements gunnr "battle, fight" and laug "to celebrate marriage, to swear a holy oath".

Latinized form of Gruffudd. This name can also be inspired by the English word griffin, a creature with the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle, ultimately from Greek γρύψ (gryps).

German, Scottish, Slovak and Slovene form of Gregorius (see Gregory). A famous bearer was Gregor Mendel (1822-1884), a Czech monk and scientist who did experiments in genetics.

Godehoc was a Lombardic king of the Lething Dynasty, during the 480s. He led the Lombards into modern-day Austria.

From an English and French surname that was derived from the Old German given name Godehard.

Latinized form of Gislin (see Ghislain).

From the Late Latin name Aegidius, which is derived from Greek αἰγίδιον (aigidion) meaning "young goat". Saint Giles was an 8th-century miracle worker who came to southern France from Greece. He is regarded as the patron saint of the crippled. In Old French the name Aegidius became Gidie and then Gilles, at which point it was imported to England. Another famous bearer was the 13th-century philosopher and theologian Giles of Rome (Egidio in Italian).

From an Old Testament place name meaning "heap of witness" in Hebrew. This is a mountainous region east of the Jordan River. Besides being a place name, it is also borne by people in the Bible.

From the English and French surname Giffard. Walter Giffard was one of the Norman companions of William the Conqueror.

Variant of Ghislaine.

Variant of Ghislain.

Italian form of Ghislain, used sporadically in central and northern Italy.

French form of Walter.

Italian form of Gaston.

Possibly from a Germanic name derived from the element gast meaning "guest, stranger". This is the usual French name for Saint Vedastus, called Vaast in Flemish. The name was also borne by several counts of Foix-Béarn, beginning in the 13th century.

Possibly derives from the Old High German *gand-bera or gand-bara meaning "wand-bearer" (a term for seeresses or women that made prophecies). Another possible origin is from the Old High German gambar meaning "strenuous".

Italian form of Galehaut, as it appeared in the fifth canto of Dante Alighieri's Inferno (written between 1308 and 1320) and Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron (written between 1348 and 1353). Also compare the somewhat similar-looking name Galeazzo.

A known Italian bearer of this name was the medieval military leader Galeotto I Malatesta (1299-1385).

Meaning unknown. However, like many given names from Arthurian legend, this name is probably of Celtic origin (either Breton or Welsh, to be precise). It was subsequently gallicized and due to this, it is sometimes thought to be connected to Middle French hault (which is haut in modern French) meaning "high, elevated".

In Arthurian legend, Galehaut was a knight (sometimes referred to as the High Prince) who was the son of a giantess. He was a good friend of Lancelot and loved him so dearly that he made many sacrifices for him, which ultimately led to his death.

Needless to say, Galehaut is not to be confused with Sir Galahad, even though their names are quite similar in appearance.

Italian form of Galahad.

Variant form of Galeazzo. Known Italian bearers of this name include the military leader Galasso da Montefeltro (died in 1300), the painter Galasso Galassi (c. 1420-1473) and the architect Galasso Alghisi (1523-1573).

From earlier Galaad, likely derived from the Old French form of the biblical place name Gilead. In Arthurian legend Sir Galahad was the son of Lancelot and Elaine. He was the most pure of the Knights of the Round Table, and he was the only one to succeed in finding the Holy Grail. He first appears in the 13th-century French Lancelot-Grail Cycle.

French form of Caietanus (see Gaetano).

From Yiddish פֿרום (frum) meaning "pious". This is the name of a character (appearing as a ghost) in the musical Fiddler on the Roof (1964).

Italian form of Fromund.

French form of Fromund.

Variant of Frumwald.

Derived from the French adjective fromental meaning "of wheat", which ultimately comes from the Latin adjective frumentalis meaning "of corn, of grain".

A notable bearer of this name was the French composer Fromental Halévy (1799-1862).

Italian form of Frumar.

The name is formed from the German word froh "glad; happy, merry" and the name element MUT "courage; valour; boldness". The name element MUT can be used both for masculine names (like Hartmut) and feminine names (like Almut).

Refers to a member of the ethnic group, the Frisians, a Germanic tribe of northwestern Europe. Friesland in the Netherlands is named for them.

From a Scottish surname, originally Norman French de Fresel, possibly from a lost place name in France.

Parthian form of Farhad.

English form of Vaast, referring to Saint Vedastus.

Means "flower" in French. Saint Fleur of Issendolus (Flor in Gascon) was a 14th-century nun from Maurs, France. This was also the name of a character in John Galsworthy's novels The Forsyte Saga (1922).

A knight of Arthur’s court who fought against the rebellious kings and the Saxons.

Variant of Finlay. This is by far the preferred spelling in the United States, where it has lately been more common as a feminine name.

Turkish form of Farhad.

Anglicized form of Fearchar.

From Parthian 𐭐𐭓𐭇𐭕 (Frahat) meaning "gained, earned" [1]. This was the name of several rulers of the Parthian Empire. Their names are often spelled Phraates after the Hellenized form Φραάτης.

Means "joy, happiness" in Arabic, from the root فرح (fariḥa) meaning "to be happy".

Derived from the Old Norse elements ey meaning "island" or "good fortune" and steinn meaning "stone".

Variant of Øyvind.

French form of Evelina.

From an English surname that was derived from the given name Aveline. In the 17th century when it was first used as a given name it was more common for boys, but it is now regarded as almost entirely feminine, probably in part because of its similarity to Eve and Evelina.

This name was popular throughout the English-speaking world in the early 20th century. It staged a comeback in the early 21st century, returning to the American top ten in 2017.

Variant of Evelina.

French form of Stephen.

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.

From a Scottish surname that was originally derived from village by this name in Perthshire. It was popularized as a given name by the Australian actor Errol Flynn (1909-1959).

Persian form of Irfan.

Means "saint, holy person" in Turkish.

Latinized form of the Greek Ἔρεβος (Erebos), which means "nether darkness". Erebus was the personification of the primordial darkness in Greek mythology.

Means "nightmare" in Greek; said to literally mean "he who jumps upon" due to its association with the verb ἐφάλλομαι (ephallomai) "to jump at, to throw oneself onto somebody" (itself from ἐπι- (epi-) "on, upon" and ἅλλομαι (hallomai) "to leap, to jump"), but possibly related to ἠπίαλος (epialos) meaning "ague, fever". In Greek mythology this is the name of a giant who is one of the Aloidae, a son of Aloeus and brother of Otus. Ephialtes also appears in Dante's Inferno (14th century), where he is chained in a great pit that separates the eighth and ninth circles of Hell.

Old French form of Enid.

Dutch and German form of Angilhard.

Old German name composed of either the element angil, from the name of the Germanic tribe of the Angles, or engil meaning "angel" combined with beraht meaning "bright". Saint Engelbert was a 13th-century archbishop of Cologne murdered by assassins.

From Elysium, the name of the realm of the dead in Greek and Roman mythology.

From an Old French form of Helen. It appears in Arthurian legend; in Thomas Malory's 15th-century compilation Le Morte d'Arthur Elaine was the daughter of Pelles, the lover of Lancelot, and the mother of Galahad. It was not commonly used as an English given name until after the publication of Alfred Tennyson's Arthurian epic Idylls of the King (1859).

Variant of Øyvind.

Modern Hebrew form of Ethan.

Means "delicate" in Yiddish.

From the Old Norse name Egill, a diminutive of names that began with the element agi "awe, fear". This was the name of a semi-legendary 10th-century Viking, described in the Icelandic Egill's Saga.

Medieval form of the Old English name Eadgifu.

In Ireland this name is given in honour of the Irish missionary Edel Quinn (1907-1944). She was named after the edelweiss flower (species Leontopodium alpinum), which is derived from German edel "noble" and weiß "white".

Old English cognate of the Germanic name Auriwandalo, from Proto-Germanic *Auziwandilaz, composed of *auzi "dawn" and *wandilaz "wandering, fluctuating, variable". Ēarendel occurs in the Old English poem Christ I as a personification of the morning star; the following couplet (from lines 104-5, translated from the Old English) influenced J. R. R. Tolkien's portrayal of Middle-earth and his character Earendil: "Hail Earendel brightest of angels, / over Middle Earth sent to men."

Welsh form of Tristan.

From an Irish surname that was an Anglicized form of Ó hEidirsceóil meaning "descendant of the messenger".

Polish and French form of Donatus (see Donato).

Scandinavian variant and Silesian form of Dietmar.

Spanish form of Deusdedit.

Italian form of Deodatus.

Spanish and Portuguese form of Dismas.

Means "given by God" in French, used as a French form of Deusdedit. It is currently much more common in French-speaking Africa than it is in France.

German form of Theodoric. The character Dietrich von Bern, loosely based on Theodoric the Great, appears in medieval German literature such as the Hildebrandslied, the Nibelungenlied and the Eckenlied.

Variant of Devin. It may also be partly inspired by the name of the county of Devon in England, which got its name from the Dumnonii, a Celtic tribe.

From a surname, either the Irish surname Devin 1 or the English surname Devin 2.

Latin name meaning "God has given". This was the name of two popes (who are also known by the related name Adeodatus). This is a Latin translation of Theodore.

Variant of Adeodatus or Deusdedit. This name was borne by several saints.

Portuguese form of Deodatus.

French form of Deodatus.

From a Cornish place name meaning "fort of Maeldaf". It has been used as a given name since the middle of the 20th century. It was popularized in the 1970s by a character from the British television series Poldark, which was set in Cornwall.

From Old Irish Cormacc or Corbmac, of uncertain meaning, possibly from corb "chariot, wagon" or corbbad "defilement, corruption" combined with macc "son". This is the name of several characters from Irish legend, including the semi-legendary high king Cormac mac Airt who supposedly ruled in the 3rd century, during the adventures of the hero Fionn mac Cumhaill. This name was also borne by a few early saints.

Manx form of Columban.

Diminutive of Colm (see Colum). This was the name of a large number of Irish saints.

Anglicized form of Colmán.

From the Clodiagh, a small river in County Waterford, Ireland. It was first used as a given name by Clodagh Beresford (1879-1957), daughter of the Marquess of Waterford.

6th-century Lombard king, the father of Authari.

Medieval English form of Clara. The preferred spelling in the English-speaking world is now the French form Claire, though Clare has been fairly popular in the United Kingdom and Australia.

This is also the name of an Irish county, which was itself probably derived from Irish clár meaning "plank, level surface".

French form of Clara. This was a common name in France throughout the 20th century, though it has since been eclipsed there by Clara. It was also very popular in the United Kingdom, especially in the 1970s.

French form of Clarus (see Clara).

Derived from Irish ciar meaning "black". In Irish legend Ciar was a son of Fergus mac Róich and Medb, and the ancestor of the tribe of the Ciarraige (after whom County Kerry is named). As a feminine name, it was borne by an Irish nun (also called Ciara) who established a monastery in Tipperary in the 7th century.

Feminine form of Chrysanthos.

Medieval French form of Christian. A famous bearer of this name was the 12th-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes, known for his Arthurian romances.

Dutch form and English variant of Chloe.

From Sanskrit चेतन (cetana) meaning "visible, conscious, soul".

From an English surname that originally belonged to a person who came from Chester, an old Roman settlement in Britain. The name of the settlement came from Latin castrum "camp, fortress".

Means "a handful of sheaves." He is a king of Elam in the book of Genesis.

From an English surname that meant "one who uses a cart". A famous bearer of the surname is former American president Jimmy Carter (1924-).

From the English word meaning "impulse", ultimately (via French) from Italian capriccio.

Italian form of Calvin.

Scottish Gaelic form of Columba.

Variant of Calum.

Anglicized form of Cathal.

From an English surname that was derived from the given name Brian.

Variant of Brook. The name came into use in the 1950s, probably influenced by American socialite Brooke Astor (1902-2007). It was further popularized by actress Brooke Shields (1965-).

From a Scottish surname that was originally derived from a place in Moray, Scotland. It probably means "ditch, mire" in Gaelic.

Portuguese and Galician form of Blanche.

From an Irish surname, an Anglicized form of Ó Brádaigh, itself derived from the byname Brádach. A famous bearer of the surname is the American football quarterback Tom Brady (1977-). It was also borne by a fictional family on the television series The Brady Bunch (1969-1974).

From an English surname that originally came from a place name meaning "broad clearing" in Old English. A famous bearer of the surname was the World War II American general Omar Bradley (1893-1981).

From an English surname that originally came from a place name that meant "broad ford" in Old English.

From an Irish surname, an Anglicized form of Ó Bradáin, which was in turn derived from the byname Bradán. Like other similar-sounding names such as Hayden and Aidan, it and its variant Brayden became popular in America at the end of the 20th century.

French form of Bonitus.

French and English form of Bonaventura. As a French name it is most common in Francophone Africa, while as an English name it is mostly used in reference to the saint.

Means "good fortune" in Italian, from Latin bonus "good" and venturas "the things that will come, the future". Saint Bonaventura was a 13th-century Franciscan monk who is considered a Doctor of the Church.

French form of Bors.

Form of Blanche in several languages.

From a medieval French nickname meaning "white, fair-coloured". This word and its cognates in other languages are ultimately derived from the Germanic word *blankaz. An early bearer was the 12th-century Blanca of Navarre, the wife of Sancho III of Castile. Her granddaughter of the same name married Louis VIII of France, with the result that the name became more common in France.

Diminutive of Björn.

German, Hungarian and Polish form of Bianca.

Derived from Old High German beraht "bright" combined with Anglo-Saxon ridan "to ride."

Hungarian diminutive of Bertalan and other names beginning with Bert.

Longer form of Bertrid.

Hungarian form of Bartholomew.

Means "solid, firm, strong" in Turkish.

French form of Berchar via Latinized form Bercharius

Italian form of Berchar via Latinized form Bercharius.

Means "bear" in Yiddish, a vernacular form of Dov.

Aragonese and Lombard form of Benedict.

Spanish, Galician and Portuguese form of Bellarmino, the original Italian surname of Saint Roberto Bellarmine (1542-1621), a cardinal who is regarded as a Doctor of the Church. His surname meant "well-armed" from Italian.

From the Turkish military title beg meaning "chieftain, master" combined with the Turkic title khan meaning "ruler, leader".

Variant transcription of Bekkhan.

From the Welsh name Bedwyr, possibly from bedwen "birch" and gwr "man". In Arthurian legends Bedivere was one of the original companions of King Arthur. He first appears in early Welsh tales, and his story was later expanded by Geoffrey of Monmouth in the 12th century. He is the one who throws the sword Excalibur into the lake at the request of the dying Arthur.

Medieval diminutive of Bartholomew.

From Egyptian bꜣstt, which was possibly derived from bꜣs meaning "ointment jar" and a feminine t suffix. In Egyptian mythology Bastet was a goddess of cats, fertility and the sun who was considered a protector of Lower Egypt. In early times she was typically depicted with the head of a lioness. By the New Kingdom period she was more associated with domestic cats, while the similar cat goddess Sekhmet took on the fierce lioness aspect.

Catalan form of Bartholomew, most common on the Balearic Islands.

Italian form of Bartholomew.

Italian short form of Bartholomew.

Croatian form of Bartholomew.

Dutch diminutive of Bartholomeus.

Hungarian short form of Bertalan.

English form of Barnabas, originally a medieval vernacular form.

Variant of Azarel. This is the name of an angel in Jewish and Islamic tradition who separates the soul from the body upon death. He is sometimes referred to as the Angel of Death.

Modern Hebrew form of Abiel.

From the Norman French form of the Germanic name Avelina, a diminutive of Avila. The Normans introduced this name to Britain. After the Middle Ages it became rare as an English name, though it persisted in America until the 19th century [1].

Diminutive of the Ancient Germanic names Avo and Avi (compare also Ava 1, Aveline and Evelyn).

Possibly formed from elements which correspond to the Old High German words ot "wealth, riches" and heri "host, army". This was the name of a 6th-century Lombard king.

Medieval contracted form of Augustine 1. Modern use of the name is probably also partly inspired by the common surname Austin, which is of the same origin. This is also the name of a city in Texas.

Lombardic cognate of Earendel. The name is attested as the name of a historical Lombardic prince.

French form of Augustus. A notable bearer was the philosopher Auguste Comte (1798-1857).

Latinized form of Greek Ἀττικός (Attikos) meaning "from Attica", referring to the region surrounding Athens in Greece. This name was borne by a few notable Greeks from the Roman period (or Romans of Greek background). The author Harper Lee used the name in her novel To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) for an Alabama lawyer who defends a black man accused of raping a white woman.

Diminutive of Adam.

French variant of Astrid.

Latinized form of the Greek Ἀστραία (Astraia), derived from Greek ἀστήρ (aster) meaning "star". Astraea was a Greek goddess of justice and innocence. After wickedness took root in the world she left the earth and became the constellation Virgo.

Latinized form of Greek Ἀστέριος (Asterios) meaning "starry", a derivative of ἀστήρ (aster) meaning "star". This is the name of several figures from Greek mythology. It was also borne by a few early saints.

Greek form of Asterius.

Feminine form of Asterios (see Asterius). In Greek mythology Asteria was a daughter of the Titans Phoebe and Coeus.

Alternate transcription of Arabic آسيا or آسية (see Asiya) chiefly used in North Africa.

Derived from the Old Norse elements áss meaning "god" and laug possibly meaning "vowed, promised, bound in oath".

From Turkic arslan meaning "lion". This was a byname or title borne by several medieval Turkic rulers, including the Seljuk sultan Alp Arslan (a byname meaning "brave lion") who drove the Byzantines from Anatolia in the 11th century. The author C. S. Lewis later used the name Aslan for the main protagonist (a lion) in his Chronicles of Narnia series of books, first appearing in 1950.

Means "controlling, prevailing" or "dominant" in Turkish.

Possibly from Arabic أسي (ʾasiya) meaning "to be distressed, to be grieved" [1]. According to Islamic tradition this was the name of the wife of the pharaoh at the time of Moses. She took care of the infant Moses and later accepted monotheism.

From Sanskrit अरुष (aruṣa) meaning "reddish, dawn", a word used in the Rigveda to describe the red horses of Agni. According to some traditions this was the name of the wife of the legendary sage Chyavana.

Derived from the Turkic noun arslan meaning "lion" (see Aslan) combined with the Turkish military title beg meaning "chieftain, master".

Notable bearers of this name include the Turkmen boxer Arslanbek Açilow (b. 1993) and Arslanbek Sultanbekov (b. 1965), a Nogai folk musician and poet.

From Mongolian арслан (arslan) meaning "lion" and баатар (baatar) meaning "hero".

Turkish variant and Turkmen form of Aslan.

Hellenized form of Aršāma. This was the name of the paternal grandfather of Darius the Great, who possibly may briefly have been King of Persia.

Latinized form of Ἀρσάκης (Arsakes), the Greek form of Old Persian 𐎠𐎼𐏁𐎣 (Aršaka) or Parthian 𐭀𐭓𐭔𐭊 (Arshak), perhaps a diminutive of Old Persian 𐎠𐎼𐏁𐎠𐎴 (aršan) meaning "hero". This name was borne by two rulers of Parthia, including the first king (3rd century BC).

Meaning unknown, possibly invented by Michael William Balfe for the main character in his opera The Bohemian Girl (1843).

Derived from Greek ἄριστος (aristos) meaning "the best".

Latinized form of the Greek name Ἀριστοκλῆς (Aristokles) meaning "the best glory", derived from ἄριστος (aristos) meaning "best" and κλέος (kleos) meaning "glory". This was the real name of the philosopher Plato.

Means "ram" in Latin. This is the name of a constellation and the first sign of the zodiac. Some Roman legends state that the ram in the constellation was the one who supplied the Golden Fleece sought by Jason.

Possibly derived from Greek ἀρετή (arete) meaning "virtue". This name was popularized in the 1960s by American singer Aretha Franklin (1942-2018).

Old German form of Ansaldo.