LydiaZhang's Personal Name List
Zyprian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval German, German (Rare)
Pronounced: TSUY-pree-an(German)
Medieval German form of
Cyprianus (see
Cyprian), which is still in use today, albeit barely so. The name is more common as a patronymic surname.
A known bearer of this name was Zyprian von Serntein (born around 1457, died in 1524), a chancellor for the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I.
Zuriel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: צוּרִיאֵל(Ancient Hebrew)
Means
"my rock is God" in Hebrew, derived from
צוּר (tsur) meaning "rock" and
אֵל (ʾel) meaning "God". In the
Old Testament this name is borne by a chief of the Merarite Levites at the time of the Exodus.
Zosma
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Astronomy
Pronounced: ZAHZ-MU
The alternate name of Delta Leonis, one of the stars in the constellation Leo. Zosma means "girdle" in Ancient Greek, referring to the star's location in its constellation, on the hip of the lion.
Zophiel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew (Hellenized), Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend, Literature
Apparently either means "watchman of God" or "rock of God" in Hebrew. It could also be a variant of
Jophiel, since the angel Jophiel is also regularly called Zophiel in various sources. This was also the name of an angel in Milton's epic "Paradise Lost."
Zerachiel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend
Possibly means "command of God" in Hebrew. The Book of Enoch names him as one of the seven archangels. His name is sometimes rendered as Sarakiel.
Zephaniel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend
From Hebrew
צָפַן (tsafan) meaning "to hide" and
אֵל (ʾel) meaning "God". This is the name of an angel in medieval Jewish mysticism.
Zelos
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ζηλος(Ancient Greek)
Means "zeal, ardor, jealousy" in Greek. He was the personification of zeal or strife in Greek mythology.
Yuvalor
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Hebrew (Modern, Rare)
Other Scripts: יובלאור, יובל-אור(Hebrew)
Pronounced: yoo-və-LAWR
Means "stream of light", a combination of the names
Yuval and
Or.
Yurena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Canarian)
Pronounced: gyoo-REH-na
Canarian Spanish name of recent origin, derived from the Guanche word
yruene meaning
"demon, evil spirit". This word was first recorded incorrectly as
yurena by the French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Bory de
Saint-Vincent in 1803.
Ysoria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English (Rare), Obscure
Obscure medieval English name of uncertain etymology, though it may be related to the Latin name
Isaura, which originated as an ethnic byname and derives from the place name
Isauria.
Ysavel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Galician (?), Louisiana Creole (Archaic)
Medival Galician form and Louisiana Spanish variant of
Isabel.
Yolande
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: YAW-LAHND
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
French form of
Yolanda. A notable bearer of the 15th century was Yolande of Aragon, who acted as regent for the French king Charles VII, her son-in-law. She was a supporter of Joan of Arc.
Yarovit
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic Mythology, Slavic Mythology
The name of a Polabian god of war, often identified with the Roman god
Mars.
Scholars connect the root jar- with the Proto-Slavic adjective *jarъ(jь) "vigorous, strong" or alternatively with *jarъ "vernal", and thus be connected to the Slavic deity of vegetation Jarylo.
In the second part there is supposed to be a suffix -vit meaning "lord, ruler, hero". The suffix has been linked to the word *vitati "to invite, to wish health".
The deity is also known as Jarovit and Gerovit.
Wilbeth
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Germanic Mythology
"Sister goddess" of
Embeth and
Borbeth and one of "The Three Bethen" or "Three Virgins", a group of allegedly pre-Christian goddesses who later became "unofficial" saints.
Their cult is somewhat of a mystery: having been known since the Middle Ages, it is only regionally distributed, mainly in Bavaria, Baden, South Tyrol, Alsace (above all Strasbourg) and the Rhineland. If there had ever been antique records of this Triple Goddess cult, those have been lost. The oldest authentic records of Wilbeth date back to the 14th century, when she was quickly linked to Embeth whose veneration had been attested since the 12th century.
Either way, their cult became fairly popular when the "girls" got appointed companions of Saint Ursula in the 15th century.
The origins and meanings of their names have been lost to time. Since the Romantic period, there have been speculations that their names might be corruptions of some not yet identified Ancient Germanic names - a theory which in recent times is being taken more and more seriously. Research on it is being done.
Whiltierna
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Old Irish (Anglicized)
Pronounced: wil-teerna
Vitalia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Vissarion
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian (Archaic), Greek
Other Scripts: Виссарион(Russian) Βησσαρίων(Greek)
Russian form and Modern Greek transcription of
Bessarion.
Viridis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Archaic), Medieval Italian
Pronounced: VI-ri-diss
Derived from the Latin color word
viridis "green".
As a given name, Viridis was intended to refer to the colour of growing foliage and thus acquired the transferred meaning of "young; youthful; fresh; lively; blooming".
A known bearer is Viridis della Scala (died 1394), daughter of Mastino II della Scala, lord of Verona, and wife of Niccolò II d'Este, lord of Ferrara, Modena and Parma.
Her niece Viridis Visconti later went on to marry Duke Leopold III of Austria.
Viatrix
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman
Viator
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Late Roman
Late Latin name (see
Beatrix). This was the name of a 4th-century Italian
saint.
Verticordia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Means "turner of hearts" from Latin
vertere "to turn, turn about" and
cor "heart" (genitive
cordis). This was an epithet of the Roman goddess
Venus.
Veritas
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Pronounced: WEH-ree-tas(Latin) VEHR-i-tahs(English)
Means "truth" in Latin, a derivative of verus "true". The Roman goddess Veritas was the personification of truth.
Veridia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman, English (Rare, Archaic)
Pronounced: və-RID-ee-ə(Late Latin, English)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
This name either came into being as a variant form of
Viridia, or as a shortened form of
Veridiana (see
Viridiana). Both names ultimately come from the same root (Latin
viridis "green"), so etymology-wise it does not really matter which of the two possibilities is the correct one.
Verena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Late Roman
Pronounced: veh-REH-na(German)
Possibly related to Latin
verus "true". This might also be a Coptic form of the Ptolemaic name
Berenice.
Saint Verena was a 3rd-century Egyptian-born nurse who went with the Theban Legion to Switzerland. After the legion was massacred she settled near Zurich.
Venatrix
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Pronounced: weh-NA-treeks(Classical Latin)
Means "huntress" in Latin. This was an epithet of the goddess
Diana.
Velimir
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Croatian, Serbian
Other Scripts: Велимир(Serbian)
Derived from the Slavic elements
velĭ "great" and
mirŭ "peace, world".
Valerian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian, Georgian, Romanian, History
Other Scripts: Валериан(Russian) ვალერიან(Georgian)
Pronounced: və-LIR-ee-ən(English)
From the Roman
cognomen Valerianus, which was itself derived from the Roman name
Valerius. This was the name of a 3rd-century Roman emperor (Publius Licinius Valerianus) who was captured by the Persians. Several
saints have also borne this name, including a 2nd-century martyr of Lyons.
Uriel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Hebrew
Other Scripts: אוּרִיאֵל(Hebrew)
Pronounced: YUWR-ee-əl(English)
From the Hebrew name
אוּרִיאֵל (ʾUriʾel) meaning
"God is my light", from
אוּר (ʾur) meaning "light, flame" and
אֵל (ʾel) meaning "God". Uriel is an archangel in Hebrew tradition. He is mentioned only in the Apocrypha, for example in the Book of Enoch where he warns
Noah of the coming flood.
Ulrich
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: UWL-rikh(German)
From the Old German name
Odalric, derived from the element
uodil "heritage" combined with
rih "ruler, king". This was the name of two German
saints. Another famous bearer was Ulrich Zwingli (1484-1531), also known as Huldrych, the leader of the
Protestant Reformation in Switzerland.
Uinda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Gaulish
Directly taken from Gaulish uindos "white".
Thomasin
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare, Archaic), Cornish (Archaic)
English vernacular form of
Thomasina. This was one of the most popular English girls' names in the 16th century. It was used by Thomas Hardy for a character in his novel
The Return of the Native (1878).
Therasia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman
Theodelinda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Germanic [1]
Sveinar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norwegian, Icelandic (Rare)
Pronounced: SVAI-nahr(Norwegian)
Derived from the Old Norse elements
sveinn "boy" and
herr "army", perhaps inspired by
Einar.
Sunniva
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norwegian
Scandinavian form of the Old English name
Sunngifu, which meant
"sun gift" from the Old English elements
sunne "sun" and
giefu "gift". This was the name of a legendary English
saint who was shipwrecked in Norway and killed by the inhabitants.
Sulien
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Breton, Welsh, Celtic Mythology
Pronounced: SIL-yen(Welsh) sel-EE-en(Welsh)
Derived from the Celtic name Sulgen meaning "born from the sun". This was the name of a Celtic sun god. It was borne by several early saints.
Stylian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Sperantia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman
Sophronia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature, Late Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Σωφρονία(Ancient Greek)
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.
Somerled
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Norse (Anglicized)
Anglicized form of the Old Norse name Sumarliði meaning "summer traveller". This was the name of a 12th-century Norse-Gaelic king of Mann and the Scottish Isles.
Sirona
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Celtic Mythology, Germanic Mythology
Pronounced: si-RO-na(Celtic Mythology)
The name of a Celtic goddess mainly worshipped in middle Europe and the region of the Danube. She was associated with healing, wolves, and children.
The name comes from a combination of Gaulish roots - ser- or ster- meaning "star" (cognate with the first element in Welsh Seren) plus the -ona termination common to the names of female deities (as in Epona, Angerona.)
The Gaulish goddess of astronomy, and goddess of the Mosel Valley.
Similde
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Rare, Archaic), Germanic Mythology
In the "King
Laurin Legend" Similde is the princess whom the dwarf king falls in love with and eventually abducts to his magical rose garden.
Her name is a contracted form of Sigmilde, which is derived from Middle High German sige "victory" and milte "grace; clemency; kindness; endearment; tenderness; love".
Silvanus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Roman Mythology, Ancient Roman, Biblical, Biblical Latin
Pronounced: SEEL-wa-noos(Latin) sil-VAYN-əs(English)
Roman
cognomen meaning
"of the woods", derived from Latin
silva meaning "wood, forest". Silvanus was the Roman god of forests. This name appears in the
New Testament belonging to one of
Saint Paul's companions, also called Silas.
Sigerad
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic
Derived from Old High German
sigu "victory" (a younger form of Gothic
sigis, see
Sigisbert) combined with Old High German
rât "counsel."
Siegfried
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Germanic Mythology
Pronounced: ZEEK-freet(German)
Derived from the Old German elements
sigu "victory" and
fridu "peace". Siegfried was a hero from German legend, the chief character in the
Nibelungenlied. He secretly helped the Burgundian king
Gunther overcome the challenges set out by the Icelandic queen
Brunhild so that Gunther might win her hand. In exchange, Gunther consented to the marriage of Siegfried and his sister
Kriemhild. Years later, after a dispute between Brunhild and Kriemhild, Siegfried was murdered by
Hagen with Gunther's consent. He was stabbed in his one vulnerable spot on the small of his back, which had been covered by a leaf while he bathed in dragon's blood. He is a parallel to the Norse hero
Sigurd. The story was later adapted by Richard Wagner to form part of his opera
The Ring of the Nibelung (1876).
Siegeminne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Germanic Mythology
Pronounced: ZEE-gə-min-ə
The name is formed from the German name elements
Sieg "victory" and
Minne "courtly love".
It is the name of the mermaid Rauch Else in the Wolfdietrich epic after being transformed to a beautiful women.
Sidony
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Archaic)
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.
Sidonia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman, Georgian
Other Scripts: სიდონია(Georgian)
Feminine form of
Sidonius. This is the name of a legendary
saint from Georgia. She and her father Abiathar were supposedly converted by Saint
Nino from Judaism to Christianity.
Serafiel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: שׂרפיאל(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: ser-rah-fahy-el(Biblical English)
Seraphiel meaning "Prince of the High Angelic Order" is the name of an angel in the apocryphal Book of Enoch. Protector of Metatron, Seraphiel holds the highest rank of the Seraphim with the following directly below him, Jehoel.Seraphiel is described as an enormous, brilliant angel as tall as the seven heavens with a face like the face of angels and a body like the body of eagles. He is beautiful, like lightning and the light of the morning star. As chief of the seraphim, he is committed to their care and teaches them songs to sing for the glorification of God. In magical lore, Seraphiel is one of the rulers of Tuesday and also the planet Mercury. He is invoked from the North.
Senovara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Old Celtic (Latinized)
Romanized Celtic name, in which the first element is ultimately from the Indo-European root *sen meaning "old" (the second element, uaro, is uncertain, possibly meaning "war"). It was found scratched onto a metal "curse tablet" (c.2nd-century) at the temple of Sulis Minerva at Bath (Somerset, South West England). The masculine form Senovarus is also attested.
Selah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: סֶלַה(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: SEE-lə(English)
From a Hebrew musical term that occurs many times in the
Old Testament Psalms. It was probably meant to indicate a musical pause.
Seirian
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: SAY-rree-an
Possibly derived from Welsh serennu meaning "sparkling (like stars)".
Saroilde
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval French, Frankish (?)
Sariel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew, Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend
Apparently means "command of God" in Hebrew, making this name a variant or a shortened form of
Zerachiel. This is the name of an angel mainly known in judaism, who was - among others - an angel of healing and a benevolent angel of death (it is said that he was sent to retrieve the soul of
Moses).
Saorlaith
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish
Means
"free ruler", derived from
sóer "free" and
flaith "ruler, sovereign, princess".
Samael
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend
Other Scripts: סַמָּאֵל(Ancient Hebrew)
Means "venom of God" in Hebrew. This is the name of an archangel in Jewish tradition, described as a destructive angel of death.
Salvia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval French, English (Rare), Spanish (Rare), Galician (Rare), Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: SAL-vi-ə(English) SAL-bya(Spanish, Galician) SAL-vya(Italian)
From the genus name of sage, an herb formerly used as medicine, which comes from Latin
salvus "healthy, safe" (related to
salvere "to save, to be saved"), referring to the plant's supposed healing properties. The Latin
salvia was corrupted to
sauja and
sauge (the Old French form), which eventually became the modern English
sage (see
Sage).
In the English-speaking world, this name has been occasionally used since the 19th century. As an Italian name, it can be regarded as a feminine form of
Salvo.
Salvator
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Late Roman
Salvacion
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Philippines)
Pronounced: sul-vu-SHON(Tagalog)
Filipino form of Spanish
salvación meaning
"salvation". It refers to a title of the Virgin
Mary,
Nuestra Señora de Salvación, meaning "Our Lady of Salvation". This is the name of a statue of Mary in Joroan, the Philippines, that is associated with several miracles.
Salonia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Salonia Matidia was the daughter and only child of Ulpia Marciana and wealthy praetor Gaius Salonius Matidius Patruinus. Her maternal uncle was the Roman emperor Trajan. Trajan had no children and treated her like his daughter. Her father died in 78 and Matidia went with her mother to live with Trajan and his wife, Pompeia Plotina.
Salome
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), German (Rare), Georgian, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek [1]
Other Scripts: სალომე(Georgian) Σαλώμη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: sə-LO-mee(English)
From an Aramaic name that was related to the Hebrew word
שָׁלוֹם (shalom) meaning
"peace". According to the historian Josephus this was the name of the daughter of
Herodias (the consort of Herod Antipas, the tetrarch of Galilee). In the
New Testament, though a specific name is not given, it was a daughter of Herodias who danced for Herod and was rewarded with the head of
John the Baptist, and thus Salome and the dancer have traditionally been equated.
As a Christian given name, Salome has been in occasional use since the Protestant Reformation. This was due to a second person of this name in the New Testament: one of the women who witnessed the crucifixion and later discovered that Jesus' tomb was empty. It is used in Georgia due to the 4th-century Salome of Ujarma, who is considered a saint in the Georgian Church.
Salathiel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Σαλαθιήλ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: sə-LAH-thee-əl(English)
Greek form of
Shealtiel. This form is also used in some English translations of the Bible (including the King James Version).
Sagitta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman, Astronomy, Swedish (Rare)
Pronounced: SA-ji-tə(Astronomy) sə-JIT-ə(Astronomy) sa-GI-ta(Swedish)
Means "arrow" in Latin.
This was the name of a constellation: it was included among the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy, and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations
Sagitta Alter is a Swedish, former tour guide who was the partner of famous Italian actor Gigi Proietti since 1962 until his death in 2020.
Roysia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English
Roswitha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German
Pronounced: raws-VEE-ta
Rating: 64% based on 7 votes
Derived from the Old German elements
hruod "fame" and
swind "strong". This was the name of a 10th-century nun from Saxony who wrote several notable poems and dramas.
Rosmunda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Germanic [1]
Roseline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: ROZ-LEEN
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
French form of
Rosalind.
Saint Roseline of Villeneuve was a 13th-century nun from Provence.
Rosaria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ro-ZA-rya
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Roland
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French, German, Swedish, Dutch, Hungarian, Polish, Slovak, Albanian, Georgian, Carolingian Cycle
Other Scripts: როლანდ(Georgian)
Pronounced: RO-lənd(English) RAW-LAHN(French) RO-lant(German) RO-lahnt(Dutch) RO-lawnd(Hungarian) RAW-lant(Polish)
From the Old German elements
hruod meaning "fame" and
lant meaning "land", though some theories hold that the second element was originally
nand meaning "brave"
[1].
Roland was an 8th-century military commander, serving under Charlemagne, who was killed by the Basques at the Battle of Roncevaux. His name was recorded in Latin as Hruodlandus. His tale was greatly embellished in the 11th-century French epic La Chanson de Roland, in which he is a nephew of Charlemagne killed after being ambushed by the Saracens. The Normans introduced the name to England.
Ricmod
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Germanic [1]
Derived from the Old German element
rih "ruler, king" combined with
muot "mind, spirit".
Richemay
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English
Medieval English form of Old English
Rícmæg.
Rhiain
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: Rhee-Ain
From the welsh word meaning maiden (see
Rhian)
Reyna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English, Judeo-Anglo-Norman, Judeo-Spanish
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Medieval English variant of
Regina (influenced by Old French
reine, meaning "queen"), Judeo-Anglo-Norman variant of
Reine and Judeo-Spanish variant of
Reina 2. As a Jewish name, Reyna was used as a translation of
Malka.
Remiel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Raziel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend
Other Scripts: רָזִיאֵל(Ancient Hebrew)
Means "my secret is God" in Hebrew. This is the name of an archangel in Jewish tradition.
Rayner
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Archaic)
Pronounced: RAY-nər(American English) RAY-nə(British English)
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
From the Germanic name
Raginheri, composed of the elements
regin "advice, counsel, decision" and
heri "army".
Saint Rainerius was a 12th-century hermit from Pisa. The
Normans brought this name to England where it came into general use, though it was rare by the end of the Middle Ages.
Raymond
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French
Pronounced: RAY-mənd(English) REH-MAWN(French)
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
From the Germanic name
Raginmund, composed of the elements
regin "advice, counsel, decision" and
munt "protection". The
Normans introduced this name to England in the form
Reimund. It was borne by several medieval (mostly Spanish)
saints, including Saint Raymond Nonnatus, the patron of midwives and expectant mothers, and Saint Raymond of Peñafort, the patron of canonists.
Ravenna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: rə-VEHN-ə
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Either an elaboration of
Raven, or else from the name of the city of Ravenna in Italy.
Ravenilda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English (Latinized)
Latinized form of
Rauenilde or
Ravenild, the medieval English forms of
Hrafnhildr.
Rainier
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French (Rare)
Pronounced: REH-NYEH
Pleione
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Πλειόνη, Πληιόνη(Ancient Greek)
Possibly from Greek
πλείων (pleion) meaning
"more, greater". According to Greek
mythology Pleione was an Oceanid nymph who was the husband of
Atlas. Together with her seven daughters and Atlas she forms the group of stars called the Pleiades, part of the constellation Taurus.
Philonella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Greek, Late Roman
Pronounced: fil-a-NELL-a(Late Greek)
Variant form of
Philonilla, which is the name of a saint from the first century AD. The name Philonella is also used in reference to the saint (usually in sources that ultimately take their information from Latin texts rather than Greek texts), which has led people in at least the English-speaking world to use the two names interchangeably.
Philon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Φίλων(Ancient Greek)
Ancient Greek form of
Philo.
Philemon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek [1], Ancient Greek [2]
Other Scripts: Φιλήμων(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: fi-LEE-mən(English) fie-LEE-mən(English)
Means
"affectionate" in Greek, a derivative of
φίλημα (philema) meaning "kiss". Philemon was the recipient of one of
Paul's epistles in the
New Testament.
Phaenna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Φαέννα(Ancient Greek)
Derived from Greek
φαεινός (phaeinos) meaning
"shining". According to some Greek myths this was the name of one of the three Graces or
Χάριτες (Charites).
Petronilla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Late Roman
From a Latin name, a
diminutive of
Petronia, the feminine form of
Petronius. This was the name of an obscure 1st-century Roman
saint, later believed to be a daughter of Saint
Peter.
Peregrine
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: PEHR-ə-grin
From the Late Latin name
Peregrinus, which meant
"traveller". This was the name of several early
saints.
Percival
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arthurian Cycle, English
Pronounced: PUR-si-vəl(American English) PU-si-vəl(British English)
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Created by the 12th-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes for his poem
Perceval, the Story of the Grail. Chrétien may have derived the name from Old French
perce val "pierce the valley", or he may have based it loosely on the Welsh name
Peredur [1]. In the poem Perceval is a boy from Wales who hopes to become a knight under King
Arthur. Setting out to prove himself, he eventually comes to the castle of the Fisher King and is given a glimpse of the Grail.
Ourania
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Οὐρανία(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: O-RA-NEE-A(Classical Greek)
Derived from Greek
οὐράνιος (ouranios) meaning
"heavenly". In Greek
mythology she was the goddess of astronomy and astrology, one of the nine Muses.
Oswald
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, German
Pronounced: AHZ-wawld(American English) AWZ-wawld(British English) AWS-valt(German)
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
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.
Ostara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Germanic Mythology (Hypothetical)
Hypothetical Old High German form of the name of a Germanic goddess of fertility and spring (probably originally of sunrise, whose feast was celebrated at the spring equinox), reconstructed by linguist Jacob Grimm. It derives from Proto-Germanic *Austron, ultimately from *austra- "east, toward the sunrise" (and related to the word east).
Osanne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Rare)
Orion
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ὠρίων(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: AW-REE-AWN(Classical Greek) o-RIE-ən(English)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Meaning uncertain, but possibly related to Greek
ὅριον (horion) meaning
"boundary, limit". Alternatively it may be derived from Akkadian
Uru-anna meaning
"light of the heavens". This is the name of a constellation, which gets its name from a legendary Greek hunter who was killed by a scorpion sent by the earth goddess
Gaia.
Orienta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Latin, Medieval French
Derived from Latin oriens meaning "rising; east; daybreak, dawn, sunrise".
Orielda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Anglo-Norman, Medieval English
Derived from the Germanic
Aurildis, from the Germanic elements
aus meaning "fire" and
hild meaning "battle", it is a variant of the later form Orieldis.
Oriel and Orielda are Norman forms of Aurildis and Orieldis.
Oriana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: o-RYA-na
Possibly derived from Latin
aurum "gold" or from its derivatives, Spanish
oro or French
or. In medieval legend Oriana was the daughter of a king of England who married the knight
Amadis.
Ophelion
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek, English (American, Rare, Archaic)
Other Scripts: Ὠφελίων, Ὀφελίων(Ancient Greek)
Derived from the Greek noun ὠφέλεια
(opheleia) meaning "help, aid" as well as "profit, benefit", which is ultimately derived from the Greek verb ὠφελέω
(opheleo) meaning "to help, to aid". Also compare the related Greek noun ὄφελος
(ophelos) meaning "help, advantage" (see
Ophelia).
This name was borne by a Greek comic poet from the 4th century BC.
Ombeline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: AWN-BU-LEEN
Feminine form of
Humbelin, a medieval
diminutive of
Humbert. The Blessed Humbeline (known as Hombeline or Ombeline in French) was a 12th-century nun, the sister of
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux.
Odilia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Germanic (Latinized) [1][2]
Derived from the Old German element
uodil meaning
"heritage" or
ot meaning
"wealth, fortune".
Saint Odilia (or Odila) was an 8th-century nun who is considered the patron saint of Alsace. She was apparently born blind but gained sight when she was baptized.
Odelina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Germanic, Medieval French (Latinized), Medieval English
Norea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend
From Aramaic
nura "fire". In some Gnostic writings she is the youngest daughter of
Adam and
Eve and wife of
Noah. She was refused to enter the Ark and burnt it three times.
Nivaria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Canarian, Rare)
From the Roman name for the island of Tenerife (present-day Canary Islands, Spain), which was derived from Latin nivarius meaning "of snow, pertaining to snow" - itself from nix "snow" (genitive nivis, plural nives) - after the snow-covered peak of Mount Teide.
Nicanor
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized), Biblical, Biblical Latin, Spanish
Other Scripts: Νικάνωρ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: nee-ka-NOR(Spanish)
From the Greek name
Νικάνωρ (Nikanor), which was derived from
νίκη (nike) meaning "victory" and
ἀνήρ (aner) meaning "man". This name was borne by several notable officers from ancient Macedon. It is also mentioned in the
New Testament as belonging to one of the original seven deacons of the church, considered a
saint.
Nestoria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval French
Feminine form of
Nestorius found in a medieval Latin record.
Nestor
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology, Russian, Portuguese, French
Other Scripts: Νέστωρ(Ancient Greek) Нестор(Russian)
Pronounced: NEHS-TAWR(Classical Greek, French) NEHS-tər(American English) NEHS-tə(British English) NYEHS-tər(Russian)
Means
"returner, homecomer" in Greek, from
νέομαι (neomai) meaning "to return". In
Homer's
Iliad this was the name of the king of Pylos, famous for his great wisdom and longevity, who acted as a counselor to the Greek allies.
Nereida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: neh-RAY-dha
Derived from Greek
Νηρηΐδες (Nereides) meaning
"nymphs, sea sprites", ultimately derived from the name of the Greek sea god
Nereus, who supposedly fathered them.
Myrianthe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek (Rare), Greek (Cypriot, Rare)
Other Scripts: Μυριάνθη(Greek)
The first element of this name is derived from Greek μυριάς (myrias) meaning "ten thousand", which is ultimately derived from Greek μυρίος (myrios) meaning "countless, numberless, infinite". Also compare the English word myriad. The second element is derived from Greek ανθος (anthos) meaning "flower, blossom". As such, the meaning of this name is basically "ten thousand flowers" or "countless of flowers".
Muriella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Flemish (Rare), Italian (Rare), French (Rare), French (Belgian, Rare, Archaic), English (American, Rare)
Morwenna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Cornish, Welsh
From Old Cornish
moroin meaning
"maiden, girl" (related to the Welsh word
morwyn [1]). This was the name of a 6th-century Cornish
saint, said to be one of the daughters of
Brychan Brycheiniog.
Morta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology
In Roman mythology, Morta was the goddess of death. She is responsible for the pain and/or death that occur in a half-wake, half-sleep time frame. Her father is the god of darkness and her mother is the goddess of night. She visits and warns in advance of the pain and/or death about to be endured.
Moros
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Μόρος(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: MAW-raws
Means "doom, fate" in Greek. This was the name of the personification of impending doom in Greek Mythology, one of the offspring of
Nyx.
Morcant
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Welsh [1]
Montserrat
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Catalan
Pronounced: moon-sə-RAT
From the name of a mountain near Barcelona, the site of a monastery founded in the 10th century. The mountain gets its name from Latin mons serratus meaning "jagged mountain".
Moina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Scottish Gaelic
Celtic/Gaelic form of
Mona meaning 'soft', 'mild', or 'tender'.
Miriel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Judeo-Anglo-Norman
Mirefleur
Gender: Feminine
Usage: History
Variant of
Méroflède, the usual French form of
Merofleda.
Mirabelle
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Rare), English (Rare)
Rating: 100% based on 2 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.
Milisandia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Welsh
Merovech
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Frankish, History
From a Frankish name meaning "famed fight", derived from the elements
mari "famous, illustrious, known" and
wig "war, battle". This was the name of a semi-legendary Salian Frankish king of the 5th century AD who founded the Merovingian dynasty.
Merofleda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Germanic, History
Derived from Old High German mâri "famous" combined with flâdi "beauty, respectability." Merofleda was one of the wives of Charibert I, a 6th-century Merovingian king of Paris.
Merion
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: meh-ree-un
Welsh - feminine form of Meirion, the Welsh name of the county of Merioneth. Other feminine forms are Meiriona and Meirionwen.
Merilda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English
Meriasek
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Cornish
Conrish form of
Meriadeg. Saint Meriasek was a 4th-century Breton saint. The legends of his life are known through
Beunans Meriasek, a Cornish language play known from a single surviving manuscript copy dated 1504, and a few other sources. He is the patron saint of Camborne.
Menodora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Μηνοδώρα(Ancient Greek)
Melyonen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Cornish (Modern)
Means "violet" in Cornish. This is a modern Cornish name.
Melite
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Μελίτη(Ancient Greek)
Derived from Greek
μέλι (meli) meaning
"honey" (genitive
μέλιτος). This is the name of several figures from Greek
mythology, including a nymph who was the mother of Hyllus by
Herakles.
Melisende
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval French
Mélisande
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Rare)
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
French form of
Millicent used by Maurice Maeterlinck in his play
Pelléas et Mélisande (1893). The play was later adapted by Claude Debussy into an opera (1902).
Melinoe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Μηλινόη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: mi-LIN-o-ee(English)
Possibly from Greek
μήλινος (melinos) meaning "quince-coloured, yellow", a derivative of
μῆλον (melon) meaning "fruit, apple". According to Greek
mythology she was a chthonic nymph or goddess, often described as a daughter of
Persephone and
Zeus.
Melia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Μελία(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: MEH-LEE-A(Classical Greek)
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Means
"ash tree" in Greek, a derivative of
μέλι (meli) meaning "honey". This was the name of a nymph in Greek
myth, the daughter of the Greek god Okeanos.
Meleri
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh, History (Ecclesiastical)
Pronounced: meh-LEH-ri(Welsh)
Combination of the intensifying prefix
my- and
Eleri. Saint Meleri was a daughter of Brychan Brycheiniog who married Ceredig ap Cunedda and became the grandmother of Saint
David.
Melchior
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend, French (Rare), Dutch (Rare)
Pronounced: MEHL-kee-awr(American English) MEHL-kee-aw(British English) MEHL-KYAWR(French) MEHL-khee-awr(Dutch)
Possibly from the Hebrew roots
מֶלֶךְ (meleḵ) meaning "king" and
אוֹר (ʾor) meaning "light". This was a name 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. According to medieval tradition he was a king of Persia.
Melanthe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek (Rare, Archaic)
Other Scripts: Μελανθη(Greek)
Pronounced: mə-LAN-thee
Meital
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: מֵיטַל(Hebrew)
Means "dew drop" in Hebrew.
Meirion
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
From the name of the Welsh county of Meirionnydd, formerly a part of the kingdom of Gwynedd. It is probably derived from the Roman name
Marianus.
Maywen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English
Pronounced: MAY-win(Middle English)
Old English name of uncertain meaning. Possibly derived from the name Mægwynn, which is comprised of two elements:
mæg and
wynn. The first element
mæg may be from the Old English
mægden meaning "maiden" or "kinsman" (compare
Isemay,
Rícmæg and
Sedemai) or from the Germanic element
magan meaning "mighty, strong". The second element derives from the Old English element
wynn meaning "joy".
Maynild
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English
Mayim
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew (Rare), Jewish (Rare)
Other Scripts: מים(Hebrew)
From the Hebrew word מַיִם
(máyim) meaning "water". In the case of Jewish-American actress Mayim Bialik (1975-), the name originated from a mispronunciation of the name
Miriam (the name of her great-grandmother).
Marilda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Italian form of Maruhild and Merehilt, derived from the Germanic name elements mari "famous" and hilt "battle".
Mariano
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: ma-RYA-no(Italian, Spanish) mu-RYU-noo(European Portuguese) ma-RYU-noo(Brazilian Portuguese)
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of
Marianus. It is sometimes regarded as a masculine form of
Maria.
Margarite
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: mahr-gə-REET
Anglicized form of
Marguerite. This is the name of a calcium-rich mineral as well as a late Old English word meaning "pearl" (which was from Late Latin
margarita).
Maralda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Italian
Medieval Italian cognate of
Maralde.
Manosinda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Germanic, Gothic (Latinized), Galician
Malcolm
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish, English
Pronounced: MAL-kəm(English)
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic
Máel Coluim, which means
"disciple of Saint Columba". This was the name of four kings of Scotland starting in the 10th century, including Malcolm III, who became king after killing
Macbeth, the usurper who had defeated his father
Duncan. The character Malcolm in Shakespeare's tragedy
Macbeth (1606) is loosely based on him. Another famous bearer was Malcolm X (1925-1965), an American civil rights leader.
Mairenn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Old Irish [1]
Magnar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norwegian
From the Old Norse elements
magn "power, strength" and
herr "army, warrior". This name was coined in the 19th century
[1].
Maelwys
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh Mythology, Arthurian Cycle
Madalinde
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Old High German, Old Saxon, Medieval, Medieval French
Old High German, Old Saxon mahal "council, meeting" + Proto-Germanic linþaz "gentle, sweet, mild".
Mabel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MAY-bəl
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Medieval feminine form of
Amabilis. This spelling and
Amabel were common during the Middle Ages, though they became rare after the 15th century. It was revived in the 19th century after the publication of C. M. Yonge's 1854 novel
The Heir of Redclyffe [1], which featured a character named Mabel (as well as one named Amabel).
Lysia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman, Greek Mythology, English (Rare), Brazilian (Rare), Dutch (Rare), French (Quebec, Rare)
Lysander
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Λύσανδρος(Ancient Greek)
Latinized form of the Greek name
Λύσανδρος (Lysandros), derived from Greek
λύσις (lysis) meaning "a release, loosening" and
ἀνήρ (aner) meaning "man" (genitive
ἀνδρός). This was the name of a notable 5th-century BC Spartan general and naval commander.
Lyonors
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arthurian Cycle
Probably from Middle English
lyon meaning
"lion". It appears in Thomas Malory's 15th-century compilation of Arthurian legends
Le Morte d'Arthur, belonging to a woman who had a child with Arthur
[1]. Alfred Tennyson used the name in his poem
Gareth and Lynette (1872) for the sister of
Lynette (this character is called
Lyonesse in Malory's version of the story).
Lynet
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arthurian Cycle
Form of
Lunete used in Thomas Malory's 15th-century tale
Le Morte d'Arthur, where it is borne by a woman who enlists the help of Sir
Gareth to rescue her sister
Lyonesse. She eventually marries his brother
Gaheris.
Lydian
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare), Dutch (Rare), Norwegian (Rare)
Pronounced: LI-dee-ən(English) LI-di-ən(English)
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Variant of
Lydia, occasionally used in Norway as a masculine form. In some cases it may be directly from the word which means "of ancient Lydia" (and also refers to "a mode of ancient Greek music, reputed to be light and effeminate").
Lusitania
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare, Archaic), South American (Rare)
The etymology of this name is widely debated. However, the name may be of Celtic origin:
Lus and
Tanus, "tribe of Lusus", connecting the name with the personal Celtic name
Luso and with the god
Lugh.
Luscinia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Roman Mythology
Pronounced: loos-KEE-nee-a, loosh-SHEE-nee-a
Rating: 45% based on 4 votes
Derived from Latin luscinia "nightingale". This was an epithet of the Roman goddess Minerva. As an English name, it has been used sparingly since the 19th century.
Luminessa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Obscure
Pronounced: loo-mə-NEHS-ə
From the English word
luminescence, a derivative of Latin
lumen "light" (from
lux).
Lumina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Archaic)
Pronounced: LOO-mi-nə, loo-MEE-nə
Derived from Latin lumina "lights", ultimately from Latin lumen "light". In the English-speaking world, this name was first recorded in the 1800s.
Lumiana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Obscure
Meaning unknown, perhaps an altered form of
Luciana influenced by Latin
lumen "light, source of light, daylight; distinguished person, glory". By some accounts, the American singer Lumidee Cedeño (1984-) was born Lumiana DeRosa.
Lucienne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: LUY-SYEHN
Lucasta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
This name was first used by the poet Richard Lovelace for a collection of poems called Lucasta (1649). The poems were dedicated to Lucasta, a nickname for the woman he loved Lucy Sacheverel, whom he called lux casta "pure light".
Loysse
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval French
Medieval French variant of
Louise.
Lothar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: LO-tar(German)
From the Germanic name
Hlothar meaning
"famous army", derived from the elements
hlut "famous, loud" and
heri "army". This was the name of medieval Frankish rulers of the Holy Roman Empire, Italy and France. It was also borne by four earlier Merovingian kings of the Franks, though their names are usually spelled as
Chlothar.
Liorada
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Occitan
Licoricia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Jewish, Judeo-Anglo-Norman
This name was recorded in the Jewish community in medieval England. It was famously borne by Licoricia of Winchester who was one of the most prominent female bankers and one of the most notable English Jewish women of her time.
Licoricia is derived from the English word
licorice (via Old French
licoresse) and ultimately from Greek
glukurrhiza (
γλυκύρριζα):
glukus (
γλυκύς) "sweet" and
rhiza (
ῥίζα) "root".
Both the (folk) etymological meaning of "sweet" and the associative meaning of the licorice itself fit well into the Jewish naming conventions of the time: names whose meanings denote desirable traits were common (especially for girls, compare
Doltza,
Beila, etc.) as were names denoting valuable things (compare
Diamante, etc.).
Leontios
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Λεόντιος(Ancient Greek)
Derived from Greek
λέοντος (leontos), the genitive case of
λέων (leon) meaning
"lion". This was the name of various early
saints and martyrs. It was also borne by a 7th-century Byzantine emperor.
Leonia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman
Leonard
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Dutch, German, Polish, Romanian, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: LEHN-ərd(American English) LEHN-əd(British English) LEH-o-nahrt(Dutch) LEH-o-nart(German) leh-AW-nart(Polish)
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Means
"brave lion", derived from the Old German elements
lewo "lion" (of Latin origin) and
hart "hard, firm, brave, hardy". This was the name of a 6th-century Frankish
saint from Noblac who is the patron of prisoners and horses. The
Normans brought this name to England, where it was used steadily through the Middle Ages, becoming even more common in the 20th century.
Leocadia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Late Roman
Pronounced: leh-o-KA-dhya(Spanish)
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.
Leirion
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Obscure
Possibly derived from Ancient Greek λείριον
(leirion) meaning "lily" (which is the source of Latin
lilium). A known bearer of this name is American politician Leirion Gaylor Baird.
Lazarus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Latin, English (African)
Other Scripts: Λάζαρος(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: LAZ-ə-rəs(English)
Latinized form of
Λάζαρος (Lazaros), a Greek form of
Eleazar used in the
New Testament. Lazarus was a man from Bethany, the brother of
Mary and
Martha, who was restored to life by
Jesus.
At present this name is most commonly used in English-speaking Africa.
Lavinia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology, Romanian, Italian
Pronounced: la-WEE-nee-a(Latin) lə-VIN-ee-ə(English) la-VEE-nya(Italian)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Meaning unknown, probably of Etruscan origin. In Roman legend Lavinia was the daughter of King Latinus, the wife of
Aeneas, and the ancestor of the Roman people. According to the legend Aeneas named the town of Lavinium in honour of his wife.
Lamech
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek [1]
Other Scripts: לֶמֶךְ, לָמֶךְ(Ancient Hebrew) Λάμεχ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: LAY-mik(English)
Possibly means
"to make low" in Hebrew. This is the name of two characters in Genesis in the
Old Testament, the first being a descendant of
Cain, and the second being a descendant of
Seth and the father of
Noah.
Laetissima
Gender: Feminine
Usage: History (Ecclesiastical)
Derived from Latin
laetissimus meaning "happiest; happy as can be". Also compare the related names
Laetitia and
Laetus. This was borne by an obscure saint who was martyred at Nicomedia in Bithynia, Asia Minor.
Kleon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Κλέων(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: KLEH-AWN
Kasimir
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German (Rare)
Pronounced: KA-zee-meew
Kalomoira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Καλομοίρα(Greek)
Means "beautiful fate", derived from the Greek elements καλος (kalos) "beautiful, fair" and μοιρα (moira) "share, fate". A known bearer is the Greek-American pop singer Kalomira Sarantis (1985-).
Kalmana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical
Kallinikos
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Καλλίνικος(Ancient Greek)
Means
"beautiful victory" from Greek
κάλλος (kallos) meaning "beauty" and
νίκη (nike) meaning "victory".
Kalamos
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Κάλαμος(Ancient Greek)
Means "reed" in Ancient Greek.
Julietta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Polish (Rare), Hungarian
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Polish and Hungarian form and English elaboration of
Juliet.
Jovian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Roman (Anglicized)
From Latin
Iovianus, a Roman
cognomen that was a derivative of
Iovis (see
Jove). This was the name of a 4th-century Roman emperor.
Jophiel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend
Other Scripts: יוֹפִיאֵל(Ancient Hebrew)
Derived from Hebrew yofiel, which apparently means "beauty of God" in Hebrew. According to Christian lore, Jophiel was the angel who drove Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden.
Joceran
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval French
From the Germanic element
gaut "Geat, Goth" (and possibly influenced by Latin
gaudium "joy, delight") combined with
hram "raven".
Joachim
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, French, Polish, Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend
Pronounced: YO-a-khim(German) yo-A-khim(German) ZHAW-A-KEEM(French) yaw-A-kheem(Polish) JO-ə-kim(English)
Contracted form of
Jehoiachin or
Jehoiakim. According to the apocryphal Gospel of James,
Saint Joachim was the husband of Saint
Anne and the father of the Virgin
Mary. Due to his popularity in the Middle Ages, the name came into general use in Christian Europe (though it was never common in England).
Jenephie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English (Rare), Obscure
Ivo 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Dutch, Czech, Italian, Portuguese, Estonian, Latvian, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: EE-vo(German, Dutch, Italian) EE-fo(German) I-vo(Czech) EE-voo(Portuguese)
Germanic name, originally a short form of names beginning with the element
iwa meaning
"yew". Alternative theories suggest that it may in fact be derived from a
cognate Celtic element
[2]. This was the name of
saints (who are also commonly known as Saint
Yves or
Ives), hailing from Cornwall, France, and Brittany.
Ivetta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English, Anglo-Norman, Judeo-Anglo-Norman, Italian
Iunia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman, Biblical Latin
Pronounced: YOO-nee-a(Latin)
Iulia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Romanian, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: YOO-lee-a
Latin and Romanian form of
Julia.
Ithuriel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend
Apparently means "discovery of God" in Hebrew, according to some sources. However, it could possibly instead mean "the light of God is with me", derived from Hebrew
'itay "with me",
uri "light, fire" and
el "God". See also
Ithai (and perhaps
Ithiel, too) and
Uriel. Ithuriel was the name of an angel in Judeo-Christian legend.
Ismena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English
Of obscure origin and meaning.
Islana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Brazilian (Rare), Medieval German (Rare)
As a medieval German name, some academics consider this name to be derived from a Latin dative form of
Isla.
Iseult
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arthurian Cycle
Pronounced: i-SOOLT(English) i-ZOOLT(English) EE-ZUU(French)
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).
Isemay
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English
Perhaps from a hypothetic Germanic name like *
Ismegi or *
Ismagi, *
Ismagin, which would mean "iron strength" from
isan, itself from
îsarn "iron" (see
Isanbrand; however, the first element could also be
îs "ice") combined with
magan "strength, might". Isemay was first recorded in England around the 13th century.
Iselota
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English
Iscah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: יִסְכָּה(Ancient Hebrew)
From the Hebrew name
יִסְכָּה (Yiska) meaning
"to behold". In the
Old Testament this is the name of
Abraham's niece, mentioned only briefly. This is the basis of the English name
Jessica.
Iovita
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Latin masculine and feminine form of
Jovita.
Iolanthe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Various (Rare)
Pronounced: ie-o-LAN-thee(English)
Probably a variant of
Yolanda influenced by the Greek words
ἰόλη (iole) meaning "violet" and
ἄνθος (anthos) meaning "flower". This name was (first?) used by Gilbert and Sullivan in their comic opera
Iolanthe (1882).
Invidia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Pronounced: een-WEE-dee-a(Latin)
Means
"envy" in Latin. This was the Roman goddess of vengeance, equivalent to the Greek goddess
Nemesis.
Inge
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, German, Dutch, Estonian
Pronounced: ING-eh(Danish, Norwegian, Swedish) ING-ə(German, Dutch)
Short form of Scandinavian and German names beginning with the element
ing, which refers to the Germanic god
Ing. In Sweden and Norway this is primarily a masculine name, elsewhere it is usually feminine.
Immilla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval German (?), Medieval Italian (?)
Possibly a medieval diminutive of various names beginning with Old High German, Old Saxon
irmin "strong, whole, universal".
Illuminata
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman
Means
"illuminated, brightened, filled with light" in Latin. This name was borne by a 4th-century
saint from Todi, Italy.
Idris 2
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Means
"ardent lord" from Old Welsh
iudd "lord" combined with
ris "ardent, enthusiastic". This name was borne by Idris the Giant, a 7th-century king of Meirionnydd.
Idonea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Archaic)
Medieval English name, probably a Latinized form of
Iðunn. The spelling may have been influenced by Latin
idonea "suitable". It was common in England from the 12th century
[1].
Idemay
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English
Medieval English form of Old English *
Idmæg.
Idalia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Germanic (Latinized) [1], Greek Mythology, Polish (Rare)
Other Scripts: Ἰδαλία(Ancient Greek)
Probably from a Germanic name derived from the element
idal, an extended form of
id possibly meaning
"work, labour" [1]. Unrelated, this was also an epithet of the Greek goddess
Aphrodite, given because the city of Idalion on Cyprus was a center of her cult.
This name was borne by the heroine of the Polish writer Juliusz Słowacki's play Fantazy (1841, published 1866).
Ianthe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἰάνθη(Ancient Greek)
Means
"violet flower", derived from Greek
ἴον (ion) meaning "violet" and
ἄνθος (anthos) meaning "flower". This was the name of an ocean nymph in Greek
mythology.
Hildegard
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: HIL-də-gart(German)
Derived from the Old German elements
hilt "battle" and
gart "enclosure, yard". This was the name of the second wife of
Charlemagne (8th century). Also,
Saint Hildegard was a 12th-century mystic from Bingen in Germany who was famous for her writings and poetry and also for her prophetic visions.
Hierax
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek, Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἱέραξ(Ancient Greek)
Derived from the Greek noun ἱέραξ (hierax) meaning "hawk, falcon". This was the name of a Spartan admiral from the 4th century BC.
Hesperia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, Spanish
Other Scripts: Ἑσπερια(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: hes-PEER-ee-ə(Greek Mythology)
Derived from Greek
hesperos "evening" (see
Hesperos). In Greek myth this was the name of one of the three Hesperides, goddesses of the evening and sunsets. Hesperia was also a Greek name of Italy, meaning "the land where the sun sets" (as in the case of asteroid 69 Hesperia).
Hesione
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἡσιόνη(Ancient Greek)
Said to mean "knowing" from Greek ἡσο (heso). In Greek mythology this was an epithet of Pronoia, the Titan goddess of foresight and wife of the Titan Prometheus; it was also borne by a legendary Trojan princess, a daughter of King Laomedon and sister to Priam. George Bernard Shaw used the name for a character (Hesione Hushabye) in his 1916 play 'Heartbreak House'.
Herleva
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Germanic (Latinized)
Possibly from the Old German elements
heri "army" and
leiba "remainder, remnant, legacy" (or the Old Norse cognates
herr and
leif, see
Herleif). This was the name of the mother of William the Conqueror, who, according to tradition, was a commoner.
Hemera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἡμέρα(Ancient Greek)
Means
"day" in Greek. This was the name of the Greek goddess who personified the daytime. According to Hesiod she was the daughter of
Nyx, the personification of the night.
Helvetia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Obscure
Pronounced: hehl-VEE-shə(English)
Likely taken from the name of the national personification of Switzerland. It comes from Helvetii, the name of a Celtic tribe. A bearer of this name was Helvetia "Vet" Boswell, a member of The Boswell Sisters, a close harmony singing trio.
Heloise
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish (Rare), Danish (Rare), Norwegian (Rare), Finnish (Rare), German (Rare)
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Scandinavian and German adoption of
Héloïse.
Harimella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Germanic Mythology
Harimella is a Germanic goddess known from an inscription in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. The first element of her name is derived from Germanic *xarjaz (harjaz) "army", the second element -mella is of debated origin and meaning. Theories include a derivation from Old Norse mjöll (and ultimately Proto-Germanic *mella) "snow, new snow", Old Irish mall "slow" and Germanic *maþlan "gathering; gathering place".
Gwydion
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh, Welsh Mythology
Probably means
"born of trees" from Old Welsh
guid "trees" and the suffix
gen "born of". In the Fourth Branch of the
Mabinogi [1], Gwydion is the nephew of King
Math of Gwynedd, and like him a powerful magician. In an elaborate plot to give his brother a chance to rape his uncle's footbearer, he arranged a war between Gwynedd and the neighbouring kingdom of Dyfed. Gwydion himself killed King
Pryderi of Dyfed at the end of the war. In punishment for the rape, Math transformed Gwydion and his brother into different animals over the course of three years. Gwydion was the uncle of
Lleu Llaw Gyffes, whom he fostered. Math and Gwydion fashioned Lleu a wife,
Blodeuwedd, out of flowers and they later aided him after her betrayal. Gwydion also appears in older Welsh poetry such as the
Book of Taliesin.
Gwenore
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arthurian Cycle
Form of
Guinevere used in Thomas Chestre's romance
Sir Launfal and in
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Gwennan
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh, Breton
Younger form of
Gwennant, itself derived from the Welsh elements
gwen "white, fair, blessed" and
nant "stream". This name was borne by a daughter of
Brychan Brycheiniog.
Gwenfrewi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh (Rare)
Derived from Welsh
gwen meaning "white, blessed" combined with another element of uncertain meaning. It could possibly be Welsh
ffreu meaning "stream, flow"
[1] or the obscure word
ffrewi meaning "pacify, quell, reconcile"
[2]. This may be the original form of
Winifred. In any case, it is the Welsh name for the
saint.
Gwenaëlle
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, Breton
Pronounced: GWEH-NA-EHL(French)
Gothia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Baltic Mythology
Lithuanian goddess of cattle, recorded by 17th-century historian and ethnographer Matthäus Prätorius in his work
Deliciae Prussica (published in 1703).
According to Prätorius, the name Gothia is derived from Lithuanian guota "flock; drove; herd (of small animals)".
Goldiva
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Anglo-Saxon (Latinized), Medieval English
Latinized form of *
Goldgifu, an unrecorded Old English name meaning "gold gift" from the elements
gold and
giefu "gift".
Godelieve
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Flemish
Pronounced: gho-də-LEE-və(Dutch)
Gillian
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JIL-ee-ən, GIL-ee-ən
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
Medieval English feminine form of
Julian. This spelling has been in use since the 13th century, though it was not declared a distinct name from
Julian until the 17th century
[1].
Genevieve
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JEHN-ə-veev
Generys
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Welsh
Old Welsh name of uncertain meaning, perhaps from Middle Welsh gen "family" or geneth "girl" and ner "chief, hero". It was borne by one of the lovers of the 12th-century Welsh poet Hywel ab Owain.
Gelmir
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic
From the Ancient Germanic elements
gailaz meaning "elated; petulant" combined with
mari meaning "famous".
This name possibly inspired de Belloy for his play Zelmire (1762) and later Rossini for his opera 'Zelmira' (1822).
Gello
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Γελλώ(Ancient Greek)
Meaning uncertain, possibly derived from
gallû, an ancient Mesopotamian demon believed to bring sickness and death; this word is also preserved in English
ghoul and in
Algol (from Arabic
al-ghul "the demon"). In Greek mythology, Gello was an evil spirit who caused infertility, miscarriage and infant mortality.
Garsea
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval Spanish
Pronounced: gar-SEH-a(Spanish)
Meaning unknown, possibly related to the Basque word hartz meaning "bear". This was the name of several medieval kings of Navarre and Leon.
Gamaliel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Greek [1]
Other Scripts: גַּמְלִיאֵל(Ancient Hebrew) Γαμαλιήλ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: gə-MAY-lee-əl(English)
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Means
"my reward is God" in Hebrew, from the roots
גָּמַל (gamal) meaning "to reward" and
אֵל (ʾel) meaning "God". This name appears in the
Old Testament belonging to a son of Pedahzur. It was also borne by a 1st-century Jewish priest and scholar, mentioned in Acts in the
New Testament as a teacher of
Saint Paul.
Francesia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval French, Medieval German, Medieval Occitan
Fraisende
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval French
Derived from Old High German frāgēn "to ask" and Old Saxon swīth, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *swinþaz "strong".
Florienne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Rare), French (African, Rare), French (Quebec, Rare), French (Belgian, Rare)
Pronounced: FLAW-RYEN(French)
Floria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman, Dutch (Rare), German (Rare), Italian, Spanish, English (Rare), Medieval English, Theatre, Judeo-Anglo-Norman, Judeo-French
Feminine form of
Florius.
Known bearers of this name include the Italian-born Canadian filmmaker Floria Sigismondi (b. 1965), the Venezuelan singer and actress Floria Márquez (b. 1950) and the Argentine actress Floria Bloise (1929-2012).
Floria Tosca is also the name of the main character in Puccini's opera 'Tosca' (1900).
Floretia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval French
Derived from Latin floretia "floweriness".
Flordelis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Philippines), Spanish (Latin American, Rare)
Pronounced: flor-de-LEES(Filipino Spanish, Latin American Spanish)
Derived from Spanish flor de lis, meaning "fleur de lis".
Flaminia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman, Italian
Pronounced: fla-MEE-nya(Italian)
Fiorella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: fyo-REHL-la
Rating: 28% based on 4 votes
From Italian
fiore "flower" combined with a
diminutive suffix.
Fiordelise
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Italian
Fionn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish, Irish Mythology
Pronounced: FYIN(Irish) FYUWN(Irish) FYOON(Irish) FIN(English)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
From the Old Irish name
Finn, derived from
finn meaning
"white, blessed". It occurs frequently in Irish history and legends, the most noteworthy bearer being Fionn mac Cumhaill, the central character of one of the four main cycles of Irish
mythology, the Fenian Cycle. Fionn was born as
Deimne, and acquired his nickname because of his fair hair. He grew all-wise by eating an enchanted salmon, and later became the leader of the Fianna after defeating the fire-breathing demon Áillen. He was the father of
Oisín and grandfather of
Oscar.
Fimmilena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Germanic Mythology
Fimmilena was a goddes known from inscriptions in Northern England. Her functions are unclear; there have, however, been efforts to link her name to the Fimelthing, a kind of court held in early medieval times.
Filomena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Lithuanian
Pronounced: fee-lo-MEH-na(Italian, Spanish)
Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Lithuanian form of
Philomena.
Felicitas
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman, Roman Mythology, German, Spanish
Pronounced: feh-LEE-kee-tas(Latin) feh-LEE-tsee-tas(German) feh-lee-THEE-tas(European Spanish) feh-lee-SEE-tas(Latin American Spanish)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Latin name meaning
"good luck, fortune". In Roman
mythology the goddess Felicitas was the personification of good luck. It was borne by a 3rd-century
saint, a slave martyred with her master Perpetua in Carthage.
Faustina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: fow-STEE-na(Italian) fows-TEE-na(Spanish)
Feminine form of
Faustinus (see
Faustino).
Fasolt
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic Mythology, Theatre
In Richard Wagner's opera cycle "The Ring", Fasolt is the brother of
Fáfnir (here called Fafner) and is killed by him in an argument.
Faramund
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic [1]
Derived from the Old German elements
fara "journey" and
munt "protection". This was the name of a semi-legendary 5th-century king of the Franks.
Falcona
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Spanish
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
Derived from Old High German falco "falcon".
Fáfnir
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Norse, Icelandic, Norse Mythology
Means "the embracer" in Old Norse. It is a name of a dragon in Nordic poetry.
Everard
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
From
Everardus, the Latinized form of
Eberhard. The
Normans introduced it to England, where it joined the Old English
cognate Eoforheard. It has only been rarely used since the Middle Ages. Modern use of the name may be inspired by the surname
Everard, itself derived from the medieval name.
Eveny
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Irish (Anglicized)
Pronounced: EV-eh-nee
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Evenor
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized), Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Latinized form of
Euenor. This name was borne by a Greek painter from the 5th century BC.
In Greek mythology, this is the name of several characters, one of which is the ancestor of the kings that ruled the legendary island of Atlantis.
Evangelica
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare), English (American, Rare)
Feminine form of
Evangelico. In the English-speaking world, this name can be a combination of
Eve with
Angelica as well as be a feminization of the English word
evangelic, which as you can see has the same etymology as the aforementioned
Evangelico. Also compare
Evangela.
Euthymia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Εὐθυμία(Ancient Greek)
Euodia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1], Biblical Greek [2], Biblical
Other Scripts: Εὐοδία(Ancient Greek)
Derived from Greek
εὐοδία (euodia) meaning
"a good journey", a derivative of
εὖ (eu) meaning "good" and
ὁδός (hodos) meaning "road, way, journey". This name is mentioned briefly in
Paul's epistle to the Philippians in the
New Testament (though some translations assume it belongs to a man named
Euodias).
Eulaire
Gender: Feminine
Usage: History (Ecclesiastical), French (Archaic)
Eukleia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek, Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Εὔκλεια(Ancient Greek)
Derived from the Greek noun εὔκλεια
(eukleia) meaning "good repute, glory", which consists of Greek εὖ
(eu) meaning "good, well" combined with the Greek noun κλέος
(kleos) meaning "glory". Also compare the masculine name
Eukles, which is closely related.
In Greek mythology, Eukleia was the personification of good repute and glory, frequently depicted as an attendant of Aphrodite, in whose entourage she represented the good repute of a chaste bride. Eukleia was also an epithet of the goddess Artemis, under which she was worshipped in Boeotia.
Eudocia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Εὐδοκία(Ancient Greek)
Latinized form of the Greek name
Εὐδοκία (Eudokia), derived from the word
εὐδοκέω (eudokeo) meaning
"to be well pleased, to be satisfied", itself derived from
εὖ (eu) meaning "good" and
δοκέω (dokeo) meaning "to think, to imagine, to suppose". This name was common among Byzantine royalty.
Saint Eudocia was the wife of the 5th-century emperor Theodosius II.
Euanthe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1], Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Εὐάνθη(Ancient Greek)
Derived from Greek
εὐανθής (euanthes) meaning
"blooming, flowery", a derivative of
εὖ (eu) meaning "good" and
ἄνθος (anthos) meaning "flower". According to some sources, this was the name of the mother of the three Graces or
Χάριτες (Charites) in Greek
mythology.
Estienne
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval French
Estelita
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Philippines), Portuguese (Brazilian)
Pronounced: ehs-teh-LEE-ta(Filipino Spanish)
Diminutive of
Estela. A bearer of this name is Estelita Bantilan, a Filipino textile weaver.
Esmeree
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arthurian Cycle
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.
Erinome
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Astronomy
Form of
Erinoma used for one of Jupiter's moons. In Greek mythology, Erinoma (or Erinona, Erittoma) was a Cypriot woman, daughter of Celes, with whom the god Jupiter fell in love. The story is only known in Latin, and the original Greek name of the character might have been
Eurynome.
Erelieva
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Gothic, History
Derived from Old High German
era "honour, respect" and Old High German
liob "dear, beloved". Erelieva was the wife of Theodemir, king of the Ostrogoths (in the 5th century AD), and mother of Theodoric the Great.
Enyo
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἐνυώ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: i-NIE-o(English)
Meaning unknown. She was a bloodthirsty Greek war goddess and a companion of
Ares.
Enora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Breton, French
Pronounced: EH-NAW-RA(French)
Breton form of
Honoria, or directly from Breton
enor "honour" (a word of Latin origin). This was the name of a 6th-century
saint, the wife of Saint Efflamm.
Enid
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh, English, Arthurian Cycle
Pronounced: EH-nid(Welsh) EE-nid(English)
Rating: 50% based on 2 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.
Enedina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: History (Ecclesiastical), Spanish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Sardinian (Rare), Medieval Basque
Pronounced: eh-neh-DEE-na(Spanish) eh-neh-JEE-nu(Brazilian Portuguese)
Possibly from Greek ἐνηδύνω
(enedýno) meaning "to cheer, to gratify". This was the name of an early Christian saint from Sardinia, known as
Henedina in Latin; she was martyred with Saints
Justa and
Justina in the year 130 AD. This name has also been documented in Medieval Basque in Navarre, and according to local folklore this name belonged to the most beautiful woman in the shire of Sakana.
Emmerich
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: EH-mə-rikh(German)
Germanic name, in which the second element is
rih "ruler, king". The first element may be
irmin "whole, great" (making it a relative of
Ermenrich),
amal "unceasing, vigorous, brave" (making it a relative of
Amalric) or
heim "home" (making it a relative of
Henry). It is likely that several forms merged into a single name.
Emerentia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman, Dutch, German (Rare), Swedish (Rare), Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend
Feminine form of
Emerentius. This name belonged to an early Christian martyr, and is also assigned to the mother of Saint Anna and grandmother of the Virgin Mary in some late 15th-century European traditions.
Emeney
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Archaic), Medieval English
Medieval and early English variant of the medieval feminine given name Ismenia, of obscure origins (though some Celtic roots have been suggested, including the Common Celtic *moyni- "treasure" - which became muin in Old Welsh, and mwyn "worth, value" in Middle Welsh).
Elysia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Various
Pronounced: i-LIZ-ee-ə(English) i-LIS-ee-ə(English) i-LEE-zhə(English)
From
Elysium, the name of the realm of the dead in Greek and Roman
mythology.
Elysande
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Germanic
Pronounced: əl-ee-sahnd
A medieval Germanic name, meaning "temple path," that likely originates from Visigothic elements:
alah, signifying temple or hall, and
sind, denoting path, travel, journey, or way. It is among several variants of the name
Alasind, with alternative spellings such as Elisende, Elisenda, Elysant, Elisent, and Helisent.
Elvira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Swedish, Hungarian, Russian
Other Scripts: Эльвира(Russian)
Pronounced: ehl-BEE-ra(Spanish) ehl-VEE-ra(Italian, Dutch)
Spanish form of a Visigothic name, recorded from the 10th century in forms such as
Geloyra or
Giluira. It is of uncertain meaning, possibly composed of the Gothic element
gails "happy" or
gails "spear" combined with
wers "friendly, agreeable, true". The name was borne by members of the royal families of León and Castille. This is also the name of a character in Mozart's opera
Don Giovanni (1787).
Eluned
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: ehl-IN-ehd, ehl-EEN-ehd
Derived from Welsh
eilun meaning
"image, likeness, idol". This was the name of a legendary 5th-century Welsh
saint, also known as Eiliwedd, one of the supposed daughters of
Brychan Brycheiniog.
Elspeth
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Scottish
Pronounced: EHLS-peth
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Elisiard
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval French
Derived from Old French
elis(i), itself a truncation of
Elisabeth, and Old High German
hart "strong, hard".
Elisaria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval French
Derived from Old French
Elis, itself a truncation of
Élisabeth and Old High German
heri "host, army".
Elisanna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval French
Of uncertain origin and meaning. A current theory considers the name a Romance construction made by truncating
Elizabeth arbitrarily to Elis-, and then augmenting with an arbitrary ending.
Elisabel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Spanish (Rare), Portuguese (Rare), French (Rare), Medieval Occitan
Elinant
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval French, Arthurian Cycle, Medieval Welsh
nant coming from the Old French meaning "pledge, security" or perhaps Welsh for "stream". The first part of the name is unknown, possibly from the same root at
Helen meaning "torch". Elinant of Escavalon is a mythical figure thought to be an uncle of
Percival in the Arthurian Legends.
Elfreda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Middle English form of the Old English name
Ælfþryð meaning
"elf strength", derived from the element
ælf "elf" combined with
þryþ "strength".
Ælfþryð was common amongst Anglo-Saxon nobility, being borne for example by the mother of King
Æðelræd the Unready. This name was rare after the
Norman Conquest, but it was revived in the 19th century.
Eleazar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek [1]
Other Scripts: אֶלְעָזָר(Ancient Hebrew) Ἐλεάζαρ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: ehl-ee-AY-zər(American English) ehl-ee-AY-zə(British English)
From the Hebrew name
אֶלְעָזָר (ʾElʿazar) meaning
"God has helped", derived from
אֵל (ʾel) meaning "God" and
עָזַר (ʿazar) meaning "to help". In the
Old Testament this is the name of one of the sons of
Aaron. The name also appears in the
New Testament belonging to one of the ancestors of
Jesus in the genealogy in the Gospel of Matthew.
Elchanan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew [1]
Other Scripts: אֶלְחָנָן(Hebrew)
Elantia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Gaulish
Derived from Gaulish elantia "doe, hind".
Eirian
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Means
"bright, beautiful" in Welsh
[1].
Eirene
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Εἰρήνη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: EH-REH-NEH(Classical Greek) ie-REE-nee(English)
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Ancient Greek form of
Irene.
Einar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norwegian, Icelandic, Swedish, Danish, Estonian
Pronounced: IE-nahr(Norwegian) AY-nar(Icelandic, Swedish)
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
From the Old Norse name
Einarr, derived from the elements
einn "one, alone" and
herr "army, warrior". This name shares the same roots as
einherjar, the word for the slain warriors in Valhalla.
Eilika
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Rare, Archaic), Medieval German
Pronounced: IE-lee-ka
This name is derived from the Germanic name stem
agil "edge (of a sword)".
Egon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German
Pronounced: EH-gawn
From the Old German name
Egino, derived from the element
agin meaning
"edge, blade" (from Proto-Germanic *
agjō).
Saint Egino was a 12th-century abbot from Augsburg.
Egilmar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic [1]
Derived from the Old German elements
agil "edge, blade" and
mari "famous". Egilmar (or Elimar) was the name of two counts of Oldenburg in the 12th century.
Egil
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norwegian
Pronounced: EH-geel
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.
Edurne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque
Pronounced: eh-DHOOR-neh
Means
"snow" in Basque, from
edur, a variant of
elur "snow". It is an equivalent of
Nieves, proposed by the writer Sabino Arana in his 1910 list of Basque
saints names.
Edric
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: EHD-rik
From the Old English elements
ead "wealth, fortune" and
ric "ruler, king". After the
Norman Conquest this Old English name was not commonly used. It has occasionally been revived in modern times.
Ednoth
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval English
Variant of
Eadnoð, which is derived from the Old English elements
ead "wealth, fortune" and
noð "boldness, daring".
Edith
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch
Pronounced: EE-dith(English) EH-dit(German, Swedish, Dutch)
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.
Dulcibella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Archaic)
From Latin
dulcis "sweet" and
bella "beautiful". The usual medieval spelling of this name was
Dowsabel, and the Latinized form
Dulcibella was revived in the 18th century.
Divitia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Italian
Derived from Latin divitia meaning "riches", "wealth".
Dionysia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek, Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Διονυσία(Greek)
Deino
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Δεινώ(Ancient Greek)
Possibly derived from Greek δεινός (deinos) meaning "fearful, terrible, dread, dire" or δίνη (dine) meaning "whirlpool, eddy". This was the name of several characters in Greek myth.
Cyril
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French, Czech, Slovak
Pronounced: SIR-əl(English) SEE-REEL(French) TSI-ril(Czech)
From the Greek name
Κύριλλος (Kyrillos), which was derived from Greek
κύριος (kyrios) meaning
"lord", a word used frequently in the Greek Bible to refer to God or Jesus.
This name was borne by a number of important saints, including Cyril of Jerusalem, a 4th-century bishop and Doctor of the Church, and Cyril of Alexandria, a 5th-century theologian. Another Saint Cyril was a 9th-century Greek missionary to the Slavs, who is credited with creating the Glagolitic alphabet with his brother Methodius in order to translate the Bible into Slavic. The Cyrillic alphabet, named after him, is descended from Glagolitic.
This name has been especially well-used in Eastern Europe and other places where Orthodox Christianity is prevalent. It came into general use in England in the 19th century.
Cyrene
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Κυρήνη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: sie-REE-nee(English)
Latinized form of Greek
Κυρήνη (Kyrene), the name of a Hellenic city in ancient Libya, itself probably named for a nearby spring
Κύρη (Kyre). It has been associated with
κῦρος (kyros) meaning "power, authority". In Greek
mythology this is the name of a Thessalian princess loved by
Apollo. He took her to Libya, where he founded the city in her honour and installed her as queen.
Cyprian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish, History (Ecclesiastical)
Pronounced: TSI-pryan(Polish) SIP-ree-ən(English)
From the Roman family name
Cyprianus, which meant
"from Cyprus".
Saint Cyprian was a 3rd-century bishop of Carthage who was martyred under the Roman emperor Valerian.
Cynbel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval Welsh
Medieval Welsh name of uncertain meaning
[1].
Crescentia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Rare), Late Roman
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Feminine form of
Crescentius.
Saint Crescentia was a 4th-century companion of Saint
Vitus. This is also the name of the eponymous heroine of a 12th-century German romance.
Cosmina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Romanian
Pronounced: kos-MEE-na
Corvus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Derived from Latin corvus "raven." Marcus Valerius Corvus was a Roman hero of the 4th century BC.
Corolenia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Romani (Archaic)
Cornelia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Romanian, Italian, Dutch, English, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: kawr-NEH-lya(German) kor-NEH-lya(Italian) kawr-NEH-lee-a(Dutch) kawr-NEEL-ee-ə(American English) kaw-NEE-lee-ə(British English) kor-NEH-lee-a(Latin)
Feminine form of
Cornelius. In the 2nd century BC it was borne by Cornelia Scipionis Africana (the daughter of the military hero Scipio Africanus), the mother of the two reformers known as the Gracchi. After her death she was regarded as an example of the ideal Roman woman. The name was revived in the 18th century.
Corisande
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature, Theatre, French (Rare), Dutch (Rare)
Meaning uncertain, from the name of a character in medieval legend, possibly first recorded by Spanish writer Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo. Perhaps it was derived from an older form of Spanish
corazón "heart" (e.g., Old Spanish
coraçon; ultimately from Latin
cor "heart", with the hypothetic Vulgar Latin root
*coratione,
*coraceone) or the Greek name
Chrysanthe. As a nickname it was used by a mistress of King Henry IV of France: Diane d'Andoins (1554-1620),
la Belle Corisande. Some usage may be generated by Jean-Baptiste Lully's opera
Amadis (1684; based on Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo), in which it belongs to the lover of the prince Florestan. The name was also used by Benjamin Disraeli for a character in his play
Lothair (1870).
Coriolana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Tuscan, Rare)
Constance
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, French
Pronounced: KAHN-stəns(American English) KAWN-stəns(British English) KAWNS-TAHNS(French)
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Medieval form of
Constantia. The
Normans introduced this name to England (it was the name of a daughter of William the Conqueror).
Clovis
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History, French
Pronounced: KLO-vis(English) KLAW-VEES(French)
Contemporary spelling, via the Latinized form
Clodovicus, of the Germanic name
Hludwig (see
Ludwig). Clovis was a Frankish king who united the Franks under his rule in the 5th century. The name was subsequently borne by two further Merovingian kings.
Clotilde
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
Pronounced: KLAW-TEELD(French) kloo-TEEL-di(European Portuguese) klo-CHEEW-jee(Brazilian Portuguese) klo-TEEL-deh(Spanish)
French form of
Chrodechildis, the Latin form of a Frankish name composed of the elements
hruod "fame, glory" and
hilt "battle".
Saint Clotilde (whose name was originally recorded in forms such as
Chrodechildis or
Chrotchildis in Latin sources
[1]) was the wife of the Frankish king Clovis, whom she converted to Christianity. It was also borne by others in the Merovingian royal family. In the Middle Ages this name was confused with
Chlodechilda, in which the first element is
hlut "famous, loud".
Clementina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: kleh-mehn-TEE-na(Italian, Spanish) kli-mehn-TEE-nu(European Portuguese) kleh-mehn-CHEE-nu(Brazilian Portuguese)
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Clarissant
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arthurian Cycle
In Arthurian legends Clarissant was a daughter of King
Lot and
Morgause who married Sir
Guiromelant. She was the mother of
Guigenor. According to a single Arthurian romance she was the sister of
Gawain, who lived in a magic castle. In the same text,
Sir Percevelle,
Percival overcomes her lover Guiromelant. Nowhere else is Gawain said to have a sister.
Claricia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Italian, Medieval English, Medieval German
Claribel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KLEHR-ə-behl, KLAR-ə-behl
Combination of
Clara and the common name suffix
bel, from Latin
bella "beautiful". This name was used by Edmund Spenser in his poem
The Faerie Queene (1590; in the form
Claribell) and by Shakespeare in his play
The Tempest (1611). Alfred Tennyson also wrote a poem entitled
Claribel (1830).
Citrine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern, Rare), French
Pronounced: sit-REEN(English) SIT-reen(English) SIT-REEN(French)
From the English word for a pale yellow variety of quartz that resembles topaz. From Old French
citrin, ultimately from Latin
citrus, "citron tree". It may also be related to the Yiddish
tsitrin, for "lemon tree."
It is one of the birthstones for November.
Chrysanthe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Χρυσάνθη(Ancient Greek)
Christella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Dutch (Rare), Flemish, French (Modern), French (Belgian, Rare)
Celosia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American, Rare, Archaic)
Taken from the name of the flower, whose name is derived from Greek κηλος (kelos) "burned".
Celica
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: SEHL-i kə, seh-LEE-kə
Derived from Latin caelicus, meaning "heavenly, celestial". It jumped in popularity after the Japanese car company Toyota used it for one of their vehicles in 1970.
Celandine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: SEHL-ən-deen, SEHL-ən-dien
From the name of the flower, which is derived from Greek
χελιδών (chelidon) meaning "swallow (bird)".
Cecilia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Dutch, Romanian, Finnish
Pronounced: seh-SEE-lee-ə(English) seh-SEEL-yə(English) cheh-CHEE-lya(Italian) theh-THEE-lya(European Spanish) seh-SEE-lya(Latin American Spanish) seh-SEEL-yah(Danish, Norwegian) sə-SEE-lee-a(Dutch)
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Latinate feminine form of the Roman family name
Caecilius, which was derived from Latin
caecus meaning
"blind".
Saint Cecilia was a semi-legendary 2nd or 3rd-century martyr who was sentenced to die because she refused to worship the Roman gods. After attempts to suffocate her failed, she was beheaded. She was later regarded as the patron saint of music and musicians.
Due to the popularity of the saint, the name became common in the Christian world during the Middle Ages. The Normans brought it to England, where it was commonly spelled Cecily — the Latinate form Cecilia came into use in the 18th century.
Catriona
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish, Scottish
Pronounced: kə-TREE-nə(English)
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Cathal
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish, Old Irish [1]
Pronounced: KA-həl(Irish)
Derived from Old Irish
cath "battle" and
fal "rule". This was the name of a 7th-century Irish
saint. It was also borne by several Irish kings. It has sometimes been Anglicized as
Charles.
Cateline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval French
Cassian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Roman (Anglicized)
Pronounced: KASH-ən(English) KAS-ee-ən(English)
From the Roman family name
Cassianus, which was derived from
Cassius. This was the name of several
saints, including a 3rd-century martyr from Tangier who is the patron saint of stenographers and a 5th-century mystic who founded a monastery in Marseille.
Casilda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: ka-SEEL-da
Meaning uncertain. This is the name of the 11th-century patron
saint of Toledo, Spain. It might have an Arabic origin (Saint Casilda was a Moorish princess), perhaps from
قصيدة (qaṣīda) meaning
"poem" [1]. Alternatively it could be derived from a Visigothic name in which the second element is
hilds meaning "battle".
Caroletta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English
Carminia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman, Italian (Rare), Spanish (Rare), Spanish (Latin American)
Calomaria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Italian
From Greek
κάλος meaning "beautiful" combined with
Maria.
Calix
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (American, Modern, Rare)
Pronounced: KAL-iks(American English)
Modern name taken from the Latin word calix meaning "wine cup, chalice".
Bradamante
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Carolingian Cycle
Used by Matteo Maria Boiardo for a female knight in his epic poem
Orlando Innamorato (1483). He possibly intended it to derive from Italian
brado "wild, untamed, natural" and
amante "loving" or perhaps Latin
amantis "lover, sweetheart, mistress", referring to her love for the Saracen
Ruggiero. Bradamante also appears in Ludovico Ariosto's poem
Orlando Furioso (1532) and Handel's opera
Alcina (1735).
Bethia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical Latin, Scottish, English
Form of
Bithiah used in some versions of the Old Testament, including the Douay-Rheims Bible. This name was popular in Scotland from the 17th century as an Anglicised form of Gaelic
Beathag. It has occasionally been used as a Latinized form of
Beth (a short form of
Elizabeth).
Bertisma
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Germanic, Medieval French
Derived from the Old Frankish or Old Saxon element
berht, Old High German
beraht meaning "bright" (compare
Bertha) combined with -
isma, a variant of the Latin superlative suffix -
issima.
Berenice
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Βερενίκη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: bər-NEES(American English) bə-NEES(British English) behr-ə-NIE-see(English) behr-ə-NEE-see(English) beh-reh-NEE-cheh(Italian)
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Latinized form of
Βερενίκη (Berenike), the Macedonian form of the Greek name
Φερενίκη (Pherenike), which meant
"bringing victory" from
φέρω (phero) meaning "to bring" and
νίκη (nike) meaning "victory". This name was common among the Ptolemy ruling family of Egypt, a dynasty that was originally from Macedon. It occurs briefly in Acts in the
New Testament (in most English Bibles it is spelled
Bernice) belonging to a sister of King Herod Agrippa II. As an English name,
Berenice came into use after the
Protestant Reformation.
Berengar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic [1]
Old German name derived from the elements
bern "bear" and
ger "spear". This was the name of two medieval kings of Italy and a Holy Roman emperor.
Bellona
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Pronounced: behl-LO-na(Latin) bə-LON-ə(English)
Derived from Latin
bellare meaning
"to fight". This was the name of the Roman goddess of war, a companion of
Mars.
Bartholomew
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Biblical
Pronounced: bahr-THAHL-ə-myoo(American English) bah-THAWL-ə-myoo(British English)
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
English form of
Βαρθολομαῖος (Bartholomaios), which was the Greek form of an Aramaic name meaning
"son of Talmai". In the
New Testament Bartholomew is the byname of an apostle, possibly the same person as the apostle
Nathanael. According to tradition he was a missionary to India before returning westward to Armenia, where he was martyred by flaying. Due to the popularity of this
saint the name became common in England during the Middle Ages.
Azura
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: ə-ZHUWR-ə, AZH-rə
Azrael
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend
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.
Azenor
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Breton, Breton Legend, Theatre
Pronounced: ah-ZAY-nor(Breton)
Breton name of uncertain origin and meaning.
It is sometimes linked to Breton
enor "honor", a theory which goes back to the fact that Saint Azénore is occasionally rendered as
Honora in Latin texts. Another theory, however, links this name to
Eleanor (via
Aenor, which is occasionally considered a contracted form of
Azenor. Compare also
Aanor), while yet another theory was put forth that Azenor might in fact represent an unknown Celtic name, possibly one containing the theonym
Esus.
In Breton legend it is borne by the mother of Saint Budoc, a 6th-century princess of Brest (however, the name Eleanor was not coined until the 12th century). It was used for a character in Paul Le Flem's opera Le Rossignol de Saint-Malo (1938) and also occurred briefly in the French TV series Kaamelott (as Azénor).
Aveline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: AV-ə-lien, AV-ə-leen
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].
Aurisma
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval French, Medieval Latin (?)
Derived from Proto-Indo-European
aues meaning "brilliant, shining" (related to Proto-Italic *
auzōs, from the Proto-Indo-European root *
h₂éwsōs meaning "dawn" - the source also of
Aurora and
Auster) combined with -
isma, a variant of the Latin superlative suffix -
issima.
Auriola
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Basque
Feminine form of
Auriol, first recorded in Leire in 1111.
Auriella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American)
Auriel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: AWR-ee-əl
Possibly an English form of the Roman name
Aureola, coined in the 19th century - revived also as
Aureole,
Auriol and
Oriel - and used regularly since. However,
Orieldis or
Aurildis was a medieval name of Old German origin meaning "fire-strife", which survives in the surname Oriel. Auriel and Oriel were revived at roughly the same time, the beginning of the 20th century, and were clearly heard by parents as the same name; the
Au spelling was the first to appear in official records, but one cannot be sure which name was a variant of the other. The name may also be related to
Uriel.
Aurian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French (Modern, Rare)
Aurea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman
Late Latin name that was derived from
aureus "golden". This was the name of a 3rd-century
saint from Ostia (near Rome), as well as an 11th-century Spanish saint.
Audovera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Germanic [1]
Derived from Old Frankish
aud "wealth, fortune" combined with
war "true" or
war "aware, cautious". This was the name of the first wife of
Chilperic I of Neustria.
Athela
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English
Pronounced: ATH-ə-la(Middle English)
Medieval English form of
Adela.
Athalia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Romani (Archaic)
Astriel
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Obscure
Possibly derived from Greek ἀστήρ (aster) meaning "star".
Astraia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἀστραία(Ancient Greek)
Asterion
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἀστερίων(Ancient Greek)
Means
"of the stars", derived from Greek
ἀστήρ (aster) "star". This is the name of several figures in Greek
mythology, including a river god.
Astaroth
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature
From
Ashtaroth, the plural form of
Ashtoreth used in the Bible to refer to Phoenician idols. This spelling was used in late medieval demonology texts to refer to a type of (masculine) demon.
Artemon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Ἀρτέμων(Ancient Greek)
Derived from the name of the Greek goddess
Artemis.
Aron
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish, Croatian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic
Pronounced: A-rawn(Polish, Icelandic) A-ron(Croatian) AH-rawn(Swedish)
Polish, Croatian and Scandinavian form of
Aaron.
Arnold
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, German, Dutch, Polish, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: AHR-nəld(American English) AH-nəld(British English) AR-nawlt(German, Polish) AHR-nawlt(Dutch)
From a Germanic name meaning
"eagle power", derived from the elements
arn "eagle" and
walt "power, authority". The
Normans brought it to England, where it replaced the Old English
cognate Earnweald. It died out as an English name after the Middle Ages, but it was revived in the 19th century.
Saints bearing the name include an 8th-century musician in the court of Charlemagne and an 11th-century French bishop who is the patron saint of brewers. It was also borne by Arnold of Brescia, a 12th-century Augustinian monk who rebelled against the Church and was eventually hanged. Famous modern bearers include American golfer Arnold Palmer (1929-2016) and Austrian-American actor and politician Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-).
Arna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval German, Medieval Scandinavian, Old Swedish, German (Rare), Dutch (Rare), Norwegian (Rare), Swedish (Rare), Danish (Rare), Icelandic, Faroese (Rare)
Originally a medieval feminine form of Germanic masculine names beginning with the Old High German element
arn, Old Norse
ǫrn meaning "eagle" (Proto-Germanic *
arnuz). This name was in use during the Middle Ages, died out, and was eventually revived in the 19th century.
Aristea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek, Spanish (Mexican), English (American, Modern, Rare, ?)
Other Scripts: Αριστέα(Greek)
Pronounced: a-rees-TEH-a(Spanish)
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: 60% based on 1 vote
Means "ear of grain" in Latin. This is the name of a star, also known as Spica, in the constellation Virgo.
Arioch
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Biblical, Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend, Hebrew
Pronounced: A´rEok(Biblical English, Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend, Hebrew)
Meaning: "a fierce lion" or "lion-like" and "venerable".
This was the name of two biblical men, Arioch was a king of Ellasar who was allied with Chedorlaomer (Gen. 14:1,9) and Captain of Nebuchadnezzar's guard (Dan. 2:14-15, 24-25).
Originally appears in the Book of Genesis chap. 14 as the "King of Ellasar", part of the confederation of kings who did battle with the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah and with Abraham in the vale of Siddim.
Arioald
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Lombardic (Latinized)
From
Arioaldus, a Latin form of
Hariwald. This was the name of a 7th-century king of the Lombards.
Arimathea
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: Ἁριμαθαία(Ancient Greek)
From Greek
Ἁριμαθαία (Harimathaia), of unknown meaning. In the
New Testament this is the home town of Joseph of Arimathea. The town has not been positively identified, though
רָמָתַיִם (Ramaṯayim) or
רָמָה (Rama) near Jerusalem has been proposed.
Arianell
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Derived from Welsh
arian "silver" and Middle Welsh
gell "yellow" (which apparently also carried the connotations of "shining", ultimately going back to Proto-Celtic
*gelwo- "yellow; white", compare Old Irish
gel(o) white; fair; shining").
According to legend, Arianell was a member of the Welsh royal family who became possessed by an evil spirit and was exorcised by Saint
Dyfrig. Soon after, Arianell became a nun and spiritual student of Dyfrig.
Argileonis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek
Other Scripts: Ἀργιλεωνίς(Ancient Greek)
Derived from the Greek adjective ἀργός
(argos) meaning "bright, shining, glistening" as well as "white" (see
Argus) combined with the Greek noun λέων
(leon) meaning "lion".
Areli
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Hebrew [1]
Other Scripts: אַרְאֵלִי(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: ə-REE-lie(English)
Possibly means
"lion of God, hero" in Hebrew. This is the name of a son of
Gad in the
Old Testament.
Arcadia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American)
Pronounced: ar-KA-dhya
Feminine form of
Arcadius. This is the name of a region on the Greek Peloponnese, long idealized for its natural beauty.
Aquilina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman, Spanish
Pronounced: a-kee-LEE-na(Spanish)
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Feminine form of
Aquilinus. This was the name of a 3rd-century
saint from Byblos.
Aquila
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Biblical, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: AK-wil-ə(English) ə-KWIL-ə(English)
Apollyon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend, Literature
Pronounced: ah-POLL-ee-on; uh-POLL-yon(Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend)
The Greek name for
Abaddon,
Hebrew for “The destroyer” or “Place of destruction”.
In the Hebrew scriptures, Abaddon is a place – the realm of the unhappy dead or a place of lost souls. In Christian apocalyptic theology, Abaddon was seen as the angel of death, or even the Antichrist or Satan.
Apate
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἀπάτη(Ancient Greek)
Directly taken from Greek ἀπάτη
(apatê) meaning "deceit, fraud, trick". Apate was the personification of deceit in Greek mythology. She was the daughter of
Nyx, the personification of night.
Aoide
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἀοιδή(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: ay-EE-dee(English)
Means
"song" in Greek. In Greek
mythology she was one of the original three muses, the muse of song.
Anysia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: History (Ecclesiastical)
Other Scripts: Άνυσία(Greek)
Pronounced: a-nuy-SEE-a(Koine Greek) ə-NEE-shee-ə(English)
From Ancient Greek ἄνυσις (anusis) "fulfillment, accomplishment", ultimately from άνύω (anúō) ("to accomplish, to cause"). Saint Anysia of Salonika was a Christian virgin and martyr of the 4th century.
Antheia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἄνθεια(Ancient Greek)
Anselm
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, English (Rare), Germanic [1]
Pronounced: AN-zelm(German) AN-selm(English)
Derived from the Old German elements
ansi "god" and
helm "helmet, protection". This name was brought to England in the late 11th century by
Saint Anselm, who was born in northern Italy. He was archbishop of Canterbury and a Doctor of the Church.
Anrrique
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval Portuguese, Medieval Galician
Medieval Portuguese and Medieval Galician form of
Henrique.
Aniel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend
Other Scripts: חַנִּיאֵל(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: AH-ni-el
known as Hananel, Anael, Hanael or Aniel, is an angel in Jewish lore and angelology, and is often included in lists as being one of the seven archangels. Haniel is generally associated with the planet Venus, and is the archangel of the sephirah Netzach. The name Haniel derives from the Hebrew Ḥēn (חֵן), meaning "grace, favour, charm" (qualities associated with Venus) + the suffix -ʾĒl, "God".
Angharad
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh, Old Welsh (Modernized) [1], Welsh Mythology
From an Old Welsh name recorded in various forms such as
Acgarat and
Ancarat. It means
"much loved", from the intensive prefix
an- combined with a mutated form of
caru "to love". In the medieval Welsh romance
Peredur son of Efrawg, Angharad Golden-Hand is the lover of the knight
Peredur.
Aneirin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Welsh, Welsh
Pronounced: a-NAY-rin(Welsh)
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Old Welsh name, possibly from the Latin name
Honorius [1]. This was the name of a 6th-century Brythonic poet, also known as Neirin or Aneurin
[2], who is said to be the author of the poem
Y Gododdin.
Andronika
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek, Greek (Rare), Greek (Cypriot, Rare), Bulgarian (Rare), Albanian (Rare), South African
Other Scripts: Ἀνδρονίκα(Ancient Greek) Ανδρόνικα(Greek) Андроника(Bulgarian)
Feminine form of Greek
Andronikos and Bulgarian
Andronik. This name was borne by Andronika 'Donika' Arianiti (1428-1506), also known as Donika Kastrioti, the wife of Albanian national hero Skanderbeg, leader of a revolt against the Ottoman Empire.
Andraste
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Celtic Mythology (Hellenized)
Other Scripts: Ἀνδράστη(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 50% based on 4 votes
Possibly means
"invincible" in Celtic. According to the Greco-Roman historian Cassius Dio
[1], this was the name of a Briton goddess of victory who was invoked by
Boudicca before her revolt.
Anah
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: עֲנָה(Ancient Hebrew)
Means
"answer" in Hebrew. In the
Old Testament this name belongs to one female character and two male characters.
Anaelle
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Anabiel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend (?)
In the Kabbalah, Anabeil can be called upon to cure stupidity.
Amyas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Meaning unknown, perhaps a derivative of
Amis. Alternatively, it may come from a surname that originally indicated that the bearer was from the city of Amiens in France. Edmund Spenser used this name for a minor character in his epic poem
The Faerie Queene (1590).
Amphelise
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Meaning unknown. It is attested from the 12th century in the Latin form Amphelisia and the vernacular form Anflis.
Amicitia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Pronounced: a-mee-KEE-tee-a(Classical Latin)
Means "friendship" in Latin. Amicitia was the Roman goddess of friendship and affection. Her Greek equivalent is
Philotes.
Amice
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English
Medieval name derived from Latin amicus meaning "friend". This was a popular name in the Middle Ages, though it has since become uncommon.
Ameria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English
Of uncertain origin and meaning. Current theories include a feminine form of Old French
Amauri (see
Amaury).
Ameretat
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Persian Mythology
Other Scripts: 𐬀𐬨𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬙𐬁𐬙(Avestan)
Means
"immortality" in Avestan. This was the name of a Zoroastrian goddess (one of the Amesha Spenta) associated with plants and long life. She was often mentioned with
Haurvatat.
Amelina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Germanic (Latinized) [1]
Amarysia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Αμαρυσια(Ancient Greek)
An epithet or title of the Greek goddess
Artemis meaning "of Amarynthus", Amarynthus being a town in Euboea (according to Stephanus of Byzantium, Euboea itself). The place name may be related to the Greek personal name
Amarantos (see
Amarantha). Under the surname Amarysia or
Amarynthia, Artemis was worshipped in Amarynthus and also in Attica.
Amaryllida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek (Rare)
Other Scripts: Αμαρυλλίδα(Greek)
Greek variant of
Amaryllis, from the genitive form Αμαρυλλίδος
(Amaryllidos). This is also the Greek name for the amaryllis flower.
Amaranta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Rare), Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: a-ma-RAN-ta
Amantia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman
Amalthea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἀμάλθεια(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: am-əl-THEE-ə(English)
From the Greek
Ἀμάλθεια (Amaltheia), derived from
μαλθάσσω (malthasso) meaning
"to soften, to soothe". In Greek
myth she was a nymph (in some sources a goat) who nursed the infant
Zeus.
Amabilis
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Late Roman
Late Latin name meaning
"lovable".
Saint Amabilis was a 5th-century priest in Riom, central France.
Alvice
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval French
Old French name derived from the continental Germanic name
Adelwidis, which was composed of Old High German
adal meaning "noble, well-bred" and
wit meaning "wide". Alternatively the second element could be derived from Old Saxon
widu,
wido or Old High German
witu meaning "wood".
It is often difficult to distinguish forms of this name from forms of Alice and Eloise.
Alteria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Italian
Altaluna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Italian
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Derived from Italian
alta, the feminine form of the adjective
alto, meaning "high; deep; big; towering; elevated" and, when used in a poetic context, "grand; sublime; noble" and
luna "moon".
A known bearer of this name was Altaluna della Scala, daughter of Mastino II della Scala, a 14th-cenutry lord of Verona, sister of Viridis and wife of Louis V, Duke of Bavaria.
Whether Altalune, the name Uma Thurman gave her daughter born in 2012, is a medieval variant of this name, is still debated.
Alsephina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Astronomy
Pronounced: al-sə-FEE-nə
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Derived from Arabic al-safīnah meaning "the ship". Alsephina, also known as Delta Velorum, is a triple star system that is a part of the constellation Vela.
Aloys
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval Occitan
Medieval Occitan form of
Louis.
Alodia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Gothic (Latinized)
Possibly from a Visigothic name, maybe from Gothic elements such as
alls "all" or
aljis "other" combined with
auds "riches, wealth".
Saint Alodia was a 9th-century Spanish martyr with her sister Nunilo.
Alis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Algol
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Astronomy (Rare, Archaic)
Pronounced: AL-gole
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Name of a star in the constellation Perseus. Derived from Arabic, meaning "Head of the Ghoul", direct translation in English is "Demon Star"
Alfred
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, Polish, Dutch, Albanian
Pronounced: AL-frəd(English) AL-FREHD(French) AL-freht(German, Polish) AHL-frət(Dutch)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Means
"elf counsel", derived from the Old English name
Ælfræd, composed of the elements
ælf "elf" and
ræd "counsel, advice". Alfred the Great was a 9th-century king of Wessex who fought unceasingly against the Danes living in northeastern England. He was also a scholar, and he translated many Latin books into Old English. His fame helped to ensure the usage of this name even after the
Norman Conquest, when most Old English names were replaced by Norman ones. It became rare by the end of the Middle Ages, but was revived in the 18th century.
Famous bearers include the British poet Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892), the Swedish inventor and Nobel Prize founder Alfred Nobel (1833-1896), and the British-American film director Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980).
Alexibia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek
Other Scripts: Ἀλεξιβία(Ancient Greek)
Aldric
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French (Rare), Germanic [1]
Pronounced: AL-DREEK(French)
From a Germanic name, derived from the elements
alt "old" and
rih "ruler, king".
Saint Aldric was a 9th-century bishop of Le Mans.
Alcyone
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἀλκυόνη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: al-SIE-ə-nee(English)
Latinized form of Greek
Ἀλκυόνη (Alkyone), derived from the word
ἀλκυών (alkyon) meaning
"kingfisher". In Greek
myth this name belonged to a daughter of Aeolus and the wife of Ceyx. After her husband was killed in a shipwreck she threw herself into the water, but the gods saved her and turned them both into kingfishers. This is also the name of the brightest of the Pleiades, a group of stars in the constellation Taurus, supposedly the daughters of
Atlas and
Pleione.
Alcinoe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἀλκινόη(Ancient Greek)
Alcina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Carolingian Cycle
Used by Ludovico Ariosto in his poem
Orlando Furioso (1532), where it belongs to a sorceress who abducts
Ruggiero. Ariosto may have borrowed the name from the mythological
Alcinoe or directly from the Greek word
ἀλκή (alke) meaning "strength, prowess". George Frideric Handel adapted the story into his opera
Alcina in 1735.
Albion
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AL-bee-ən
From the ancient name of Great Britain, which is said to have been inspired by the White Cliffs of Dover. The word is ultimately of Celtic origin (of which the meaning is not entirely certain), but it is etymologically related to Latin
albus "white". This name has sometimes been regarded as a variant of
Albin.
Albina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian, Ukrainian, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Slovene, Polish, German, Lithuanian, Belarusian, Ancient Roman
Other Scripts: Альбина(Russian) Альбіна(Ukrainian, Belarusian)
Pronounced: ul-BYEE-nə(Russian) al-BEE-na(Italian, Spanish, Polish) ul-byi-NU(Lithuanian)
Feminine form of
Albinus. This was the name of a few early
saints, including a 3rd-century martyr from Caesarea.
Alberic
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic [1]
Albelinda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval
Meaning unknown. Perhaps a transcription variation of Alpelindis, itself a variation of the Germanic female name Alflind, from alf meaning "elf, spirit" and lind meaning "soft, tender".
Alathfar
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Astronomy
Pronounced: ə-LATH-fahr
This is the traditional name of a star in the constellation Lyra - Mu Lyrae. Its traditional name Alathfar comes from the Arabic الأظفار al-ʼaẓfār, meaning "the talons (of the swooping eagle)".
Alastor
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἀλάστωρ(Ancient Greek)
Means
"avenger" in Greek. This was an epithet of
Zeus, as well as the name of several other characters from Greek
mythology.
Alaric
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Gothic (Anglicized)
Other Scripts: 𐌰𐌻𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌺𐍃(Gothic)
Pronounced: AL-ə-rik(English)
Rating: 60% based on 4 votes
From the Gothic name *
Alareiks meaning
"ruler of all", derived from the element
alls "all" combined with
reiks "ruler, king". This was the name of a king of the Visigoths who sacked Rome in the 5th century.
Alanette
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Breton
Late medieval Gallicized Breton feminine form of
Alan by way of combining it with the French feminine diminutive suffix
-ette.
Alamania
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Romani (Archaic)
Alaire
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval French
Pronounced: ah-LAIR(Old French)
Alainne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval French
Medieval French feminine form of
Alain.
Aither
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Αἰθήρ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: IE-TEHR(Classical Greek)
Ainora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval French
Ainard
Gender: Masculine
Usage: East Frisian (Archaic), Germanic (?)
Containing name elements
agi and
hard.
Aimeric
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic [1]
Probably a variant of
Heimirich. Aimeric (or Aimery) was the name of several viscounts of Narbonne between the 11th and 13th centuries. It was also borne by the first king of Cyprus (12th century), originally from Poitou, France.
Ailova
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English
Apparently from an unattested Old English name composed of the elements
æðele "noble" and
lufu "love".
Ailith
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English
Pronounced: AY-lith(Middle English)
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
Aileve
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English
Agwin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic
Germanic name, in which the second element is
win meaning "friend". The first element,
ag, is of uncertain origin, though the accepted explanation is that it comes from Proto-Germanic
*agjo "sharp, pointed". Because of that, it also means "edge", as in the sharp cutting side of a sword - which is why the meaning of the element has ultimately come to be "sword". See also Anglo-Saxon
ecg (in e.g.
Egbert) or Old High German
ekka (New High German
ecke "corner"; see
Ekkehard). Other possibilities for the meaning and origin of
ag include: Gothic
agan "to fear, to be afraid", Old Norse
agi "unrest, agitation", Gothic
ahjan "to believe" and Old Norse
aka "to do, to act".
Afsoun
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Persian
Other Scripts: افسون(Persian)
Pronounced: af-SOON
Means "charm, spell" in Persian.
Aeternitas
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Aeternitas was a Roman goddess and the personification of eternity.
Aenor
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Germanic (Latinized)
Probably a Latinized form of a Germanic name of unknown meaning. This was the name of the mother of
Eleanor of Aquitaine.
Aenon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
From a place name mentioned briefly in the New Testament, which may be the Greek form of Hebrew ay-yin "spring, natural fountain". The Gospel of John (3:23) identifies it as a place near Salem where John the Baptist performed baptisms.
It is occasionally, if rarely so, used as a given name.
Aelian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, History
English form of
Aelianus. A bearer of this name was Claudius Aelianus - often called Aelian in English - a Roman author and philosopher from the 3rd century AD.
Adrina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Old Persian
Pronounced: ad-ree-na
Means "fiery" in Persian, figuratively "beautiful".
Adriella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Portuguese (Brazilian, Rare)
Adriel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Hebrew [1]
Other Scripts: עַדְרִיאֵל(Ancient Hebrew)
Admiranda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English
Derived from Latin admirare "to admire".
Adelissa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Dutch, Spanish (Latin American, Rare)
Adelise
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Rare), French (Belgian, Rare), Portuguese (Brazilian), Norman
Adamantia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Αδαμαντία(Greek)
Adalsinde
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval French, History (Ecclesiastical)
Adalinde
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval French
Acilia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English, Italian (Rare, Archaic)
Achlys
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἀχλύς(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: AK-lis(English)
Means
"mist, darkness" in Greek. According to a poem by Hesiod, she was one of the figures portrayed on the shield of
Herakles. She is described as a wraithlike woman personifying death and sorrow.
Abigor
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend
In Christian demonology, this was an upper demon ("great duke") of hell. Allegedly Abigor (also known as
Eligor and
Eligos) was the demon of war, in command of 60 legions, portrayed riding a winged or skeletal steed. He made deals with princes, selling them the secrets of military victory in exchange for their souls.
Abellinut
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Berber
Means "determined, brave" in Amazigh.
Aariel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Gnosticism
Variant of
Ariel. This is the name of an angel found inscribed on an Ophitic amulet, alongside the name of the god
Ialdabaoth.
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