crawreb's Personal Name List

Means "wide, open" in Finnish.

Probably from アベ (abe) meaning "fire" and ナンカ (nanka), combined from ナン (nan) meaning "face" and カ (ka) meaning "top."

Abgar was the name of several kings of Edessa (today: Şanlıurfa, Turkey).

A modern namesake is Abgar Barsom, an Aramean Swedish football-player.

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.

Means "my father strays" in Hebrew, from אָב (ʾav) meaning "father" and שָׁגָה (shaḡa) meaning "to stray, to err". In the Old Testament Abishag is a young woman who tends King David in his old age.

Variant diminutive form of Abram 2.

A North Caucasian term used for a lonely warrior living a partisan lifestyle outside power and law and fighting for a just cause. Means "bandit" in Russian.

Variant of Achachak.

Possibly means "defender, protector, brave", from Abkhaz аӷәӷәа (aghwghwa) meaning "strong".

Derived from Albanian agon "to become morning, dawn".

Roman cognomen of unknown meaning, possibly from a combination of Greek ἄγριος (agrios) meaning "wild" and ἵππος (hippos) meaning "horse" or alternatively of Etruscan origin. It was also used as a praenomen, or given name, by the Furia and Menenia families. In the New Testament this name was borne by Herod Agrippa (a grandson of Herod the Great), the king of Israel who put the apostle James to death. It was also borne by the 1st-century BC Roman general Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa.

Probably of Illyrian origin, maybe related to Albanian ag meaning "dawn". Alternatively it might be connected to Greek ἀγρός (agros) meaning "field". This was the name of a 3rd-century BC Illyrian king, the husband of Teuta.

Perhaps derived from the old Celtic root *agro- meaning "battle, slaughter". This is possibly the name of a Brythonic goddess for whom the River Ayr in Scotland and River Aeron in Wales were named.

From Egyptian ꜥẖm meaning "falcon, cultivation image of a perching falcon" or "body of a god".

Meaning mammal, variant of Algax̂.

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.

Short form of Alexandra.

Means "Mars (planet)" or "Tuesday" in Mongolian, ultimately from Sanskrit अङ्गार (angara) meaning "charcoal" or "Mars".

Scottish Gaelic diminutive of Anna.

Derived from the Old High German elements ansi "god, deity" and got "god, deity", or possibly a Norman form of Old Norse Ásgautr (compare Old Swedish Asgot) in which the second element is the tribal name gautr.

Uzbek, Tajik, Kyrgyz and Tatar form of Anwar.

Means "worship" in Sanskrit.

MEANING - Unimpassioned, calm, a name of lord Shiva

Meaning unknown; possibly related to Persian ارمنی (Armani) "Armenian" or from Old Iranian *Rāma(n)-nī- "bringing peace" combined with the Armenian suffix -ակ (-ak). Aramanyak Haykazuni was a king of Armenia from 2026-1980 BCE. He was supposedly the son of Hayk, the legendary founder of Armenia.

Means "ten" in Mongolian.

Old Irish form of Ardghal.

Means "high valour", derived from the Old Irish elements ard "high" and gal "valour".

Means "golden day" in Albanian, from ar "gold" and ditë "day".

Old Persian form of Arsaces.

Derived from Albanian artë meaning "golden".

Old Armenian form of Artaxerxes.

Derived from Albanian artor, an archaic term for a farmworker who works in the fields.

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

Abkhaz form of Astemir.

Turkish variant of Attila.

Means "giant, huge, enormous" or "champion, winner, titleholder" in Mongolian.

From айдамир (aydamir) meaning "moon iron" and хан (khan) meaning "king, ruler"

Means "forsaken" in Hebrew. In the Old Testament this is the name of Caleb's wife.

Georgian form of Bahadur.

Unknown origin. Perhaps related to Bucge

Means "ruby" in Mongolian.

Old Persian name derived from 𐏎 (baga) meaning "god" and 𐎭𐎠𐎫 (data) meaning "given". This was the name of a 3rd-century BC Persian satrap under the Seleucid Empire.

Means "brave warrior" in Khazar.

Diminutive of Bago, a Germanic name derived from Old High German baga "dispute".

Albanian short form of Bajram as well as a diminutive of Branislav (Slovak) and Bratislav (Montenegrin and Serbian).

Known bearers of this name include the Albanian guerilla fighter Bajo Topulli (1868-1930) and Bajo Pivljanin (c. 1630-1685), a military commander who was born as Dragojlo Nikolić in what is now Montenegro.

From Old Norse Baldr meaning "hero, lord, prince", derived from baldr meaning "brave, bold". In Norse mythology Balder was the handsome son of Odin and Frigg. Because of the disturbing dreams he had when he was young, his mother extracted an oath from every thing in the world that it would not harm him. However the devious god Loki learned that she had overlooked mistletoe. Being jealous, he tricked the blind god Hoder into throwing a branch of mistletoe at Balder, which killed him.

Means "maturity" or, figuratively, "perfection" in Uzbek.

From Arabic بركة (baraka) meaning "blessing".

Means "blessings" in Arabic, a plural form of بركة (baraka).

Means "exalted" in Persian.

Feminine form of Bardh. In Albanian mythology, Bardha are pale, nebulous figures who dwell under the earth. According to old folklore, to propitiate them one strews cakes or sugar on the ground.

Derived from Albanian bardhok "fair-haired; white; white ram".

Diminutive of Finbar or Bairrfhionn.

Variant of Barthold or a combination of bjartr "light, shining" and ulfr "wolf" (see also Bertulf).

Bible Hebrew

Derived from Arabic بطل (batal) meaning "hero".

Hebrew variant of Bithiah.

Derived from Albanian begator "wealthy, prosperous; fertile, fruitful, abundant".

Means "the white god" from Old Slavic bělŭ "white" and bogŭ "god". This was the name of a poorly attested (possibly spurious) Slavic god of good fortune.

Norwegian form of Benedict.

Berig is a legendary king of the Goths appearing in the Getica by Jordanes. According to Jordanes, Berig led his people on three ships from Scandza (Scandinavia) to Gothiscandza (the Vistula Basin). They settled and then attacked the Rugians who lived on the shore and drove them away from their homes, subsequently winning a battle against the Vandals.

Means "faithful" in Albanian.

Derived from Albanian betim "oath, pledge".

Derived from Albanian binak "twin".

Basque form of Victor.

Derived from Albanian bli(n) "sturgeon" or bli(r) "linden tree, lime tree; linden flower".

Meaning unknown, though it might come from Old English blac "pale, shining, white" or blæc "black". The surname Bloxham derived from this name.

Means "white flowers" from Welsh blodau "flowers" combined with gwen "white, blessed". This is the name of an 1878 Welsh opera by Joseph Parry.

Derived from Old English boda meaning "messenger, herald, prophet".

Old German form of Bode.

Modern Scandinavian form of Bǫðvarr.

Feminine form of Bogdan.

Slovene form of Bohumír.

Czech and Slovak form of Bogumił.

Derived from Old Slavic bojĭ meaning "battle". This was the name of a 9th-century Bulgarian saint and martyr, also called Enravota, a son of the Bulgarian khan Omurtag.

Feminine form of Bojan.

Alternate transcription of Bulgarian Божидар (see Bozhidar).

Provençal for "Good day", a translated variant of the Hebrew name "Yom-tob" or Yom-tov of the same meaning. See also the French "bonjour" and Italian "buongiorno".
BONGORON or BONJORN, DAVID BEN YOM-ṬOB: Astronomer; lived at Perpignan in the middle of the fourteenth century.

From a Bulgar Turkic name, also recorded as Bogoris, perhaps meaning "short" or "wolf" or "snow leopard". It was borne by the 9th-century Boris I of Bulgaria, who converted his realm to Christianity and is thus regarded as a saint in the Orthodox Church. To the north in Kievan Rus it was the name of another saint, a son of Vladimir the Great who was murdered with his brother Gleb in the 11th century. His mother may have been Bulgarian.

Other notable bearers of the name include the Russian emperor Boris Godunov (1552-1605), later the subject of a play of that name by Aleksandr Pushkin, as well as the Russian author Boris Pasternak (1890-1960), the Bulgarian king Boris III (1894-1943), and the Russian president Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007).

Means "currant" in Altai.

From Old English bot "remedy, help; improvement" and ric "king, ruler", an older form of Boteric. Alternatively, the first element could be derived from bod "message, command" (see Talbot).

Alternate transcription of Arabic بطرس (see Butrus).

Means "forest" in Armenian.

Feminine form of Boyko.

Bulgarian form of Božidar, as well as an alternate transcription for Macedonian.

Means "grey wolf" in Turkish.

Derived from Old Norse bragr meaning "first, foremost" or "poetry". In Norse mythology Bragi is the god of poetry and the husband of Iðunn.

Breca (sometimes spelled Breoca) was a Bronding who, according to the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf, was Beowulf’s childhood friend.

Means "armour" in Old Norse.

From Arabic براق (Burāq), the name of the legendary creature that, according to Islamic tradition, transported the Prophet Muhammad. Its name is derived from Arabic برق (barq) meaning "lightning" [1].

Means "earthquake" in Mayan. Cabrakan was the god of mountains and earthquakes.

From Old Welsh Catell, derived from cat "battle" and a diminutive suffix. This was the name of two early kings of Powys in Wales.

Combination of two elements cha “bear” and borz “wolf”.

From a Slavic word meaning "black".

Circassian form of Genghis used in the past. Not seen for a long time.

Means "wolf" in Kalmyk.

Means "loyal, faithful" in Thai.

Meaning uncertain. Name borne by a Nabatean queen who ruled alongside her husband Aretas IV.

From Romanian codru meaning "forest", a word of uncertain origin.

Uncertain etymology. May have been one of the first king of Mercia, though his existence is disputed.

From the Old Norse name Dagmær, derived from the elements dagr "day" and mær "maid". This was the name adopted by the popular Bohemian wife of the Danish king Valdemar II when they married in 1205. Her birth name was Markéta.

Combination of the Old Norse name elements dagr "day" and ulfr "wolf".

Slovene, Serbian and Macedonian feminine form of Damian.

Means "rope around the belly", derived from Sanskrit दाम (dāma) meaning "rope" and उदर (udara) meaning "belly". This is another name of the Hindu god Krishna, given to him because his foster mother Yashoda tied him to a large urn.

Anglicized form of Dáire or Darach.

Akkadian form of Darius.

Feminine form of Darshan.

Abkhaz form of David.

Albanian, Indonesian, Malay, Kabardian and Balkar form of Dawud (see David).

Apparently derived from the Old English adjective deorc meaning "dark".

Anglicized form of Deirbhile or Dearbháil.

Derived from the Latin word diabolus, meaning "devil". In Albanian mythology, Djall, also known as Dreq, is the personification of evil. It is also the name of a demon of fire.

Derived from the Slavic element dorgŭ (South Slavic drag) meaning "precious" combined with a diminutive suffix.

From the Slavic elements dorgŭ (South Slavic drag) meaning "precious" and ľuby meaning "love". This is also the Serbian and Croatian word for the flowering plant nasturtium (species Tropaeolum majus).

Derived from the Slavic element dorgŭ (South Slavic drag) meaning "precious" combined with mirŭ meaning "peace, world".

Drangue is a semi-human winged divine figure in Albanian mythology and folklore, associated with weather and storms.

Hypothetic old Celtic form of the name of a river in the south of France commonly known as the Durance, which is of unknown meaning. An Indo-European root meaning "to flow" has been suggested. According to Robert Graves in 'The White Goddess' (1948), it is derived from the Indo-European root *deru meaning "oak" (as are the words druid and dryad) and probably also belonged to a Gallic tree goddess, which he identifies as "Queen of the Druids" and "Mother of the Tree Calendar". Graves' vision of the possible but unattested goddess has entered the popular imagination, and today many Neo-Pagans accept his Druantia as real.

Feminine form of Dubravko.

Old English form of Donald, derived from Old Irish Domnall. This was the name of Scottish kings and an early saint.

Means "pearl" in Uzbek (a word of Arabic origin).

Means "unattainable, unassailable" in Sanskrit. Durga is a Hindu warrior goddess, usually depicted with multiple arms and riding on the back of a lion or tiger. The Puranas relate that she came into being to combat the buffalo demon Mahishasura. She is sometimes considered a fierce aspect of Parvati the wife of Shiva. In Shaktism she is viewed as a principal aspect of the supreme goddess Mahadevi.

Derived from Albanian durim "endurance, perseverance; patience".

Alternate transcription of Hebrew דְּבוֹרָה (see Devora).

Masculine form of Edurne.

Means "virtuous, generous" in Arabic.

Alternate transcription of Arabic فرج (see Faraj). This corresponds more closely with the Egyptian Arabic pronunciation of the name.

Directly taken from Hungarian farkas "wolf".

Derived from Albanian fidan "seedling, sapling, shoot; tall and straight".

Masculine form of Fitore.

Probably a variant of Fran.

Derived from Albanian gac "gray heron".

Means "steel hero" in Mongolian, from ган (gan) meaning "steel" and баатар (baatar) meaning "hero".

Old Armenian name of unknown meaning.

Old English cognate of Germanic Germund and Old Norse Geirmundr, derived from the elements gar "spear" and mund "protection".

From Persian گوهر (gōhar) meaning "jewel, gemstone".

Derived from Albanian gazmor " enjoyable, delightful, pleasant; jolly, cheerful".

Means "lance, spear" in Armenian.

Also Gerara, (LXX). Name of the land in which Abimelech dwelt. Genesis 20:2.

German form of Gertrude.

Albanian male name. It is composed of the first two letters of Albanian clan groups. GE stands for Gheg living in the north of Albanian lands (Northern Albania) and speaking the Gheg Dialect, TO for Tosk living in the south and speaking the Tosk Dialect, and AR for Arbëresh, Albanians living in Italy, Greece etc. and speaking varieties of Albanian like Arbëresh and Arvanitika.

Means "redemption" in Hebrew.

Corsican form of John.

Means "flower bud" in Persian.

Maltese form of Gregory.

Contracted form of Guðfrøðr.

Variant of Glauku.

Derived from Basque gogor "hard".

traditional Luo name. origin: ancient Luo warrior

Derived from South Slavic gora meaning "mountain". It was popularized by the Croatian poet Ivan Goran Kovačić (1913-1943), who got his middle name because of the mountain town where he was born.

Feminine form of Goran.

Flemish form of Gaugerich.

Faroese name with the combination of gorr "wet, soft" and mund "protection".

Alternate transcription of Japanese Kanji 五郎 (see Gorō).

Faroese form of Gertrude.

Gower means "pure" from Welsh origin.

Medieval form of Grímr meaning "mask, helmet", which remained popular in Anglo-Scandinavian areas well into the 12th century. This was used as another name for the Norse god Odin. Alternatively, as an Old Danish and Old Swedish name derived from Old Norse grimmr "cruel, grim", often used as a part of a name such as Tyrgrim or Grimulf.

Scots form of Griselda.

From the Old Norse name Guðrún meaning "god's secret lore", derived from the elements guð "god" and rún "secret lore, rune". In Norse legend Gudrun was the wife of Sigurd. After his death she married Atli, but when he murdered her brothers, she killed her sons by him, fed him their hearts, and then slew him. Her story appears in Norse literature such as the Eddas and the Völsungasaga. She is called Kriemhild in German versions of the tale. This is also an unrelated character in the medieval German epic Kudrun.

Combination of Old Norse name elements guð "god" and varr "vigilant, cautious", first used in 1887. It can also be a variant of Gudvard (see Guðvarðr).

Uzbek form of Golnar.

Gothic form of Gomes.

Possibly means "beautiful" in Abkhaz. Alternately, it may be a form of the Ossetian name Agunda. This is the name of a legendary Abkhaz woman who could take the form of a white horse.

Old German form of Gunther.

Old English cognate of Guðleikr. This was the name of a popular Christian saint, Guthlac of Crowland (674-715), a Mercian hermit and wonderworker.

From Old Norse Hákon. This is the name of Hacon Sweynson, the only son of Sweyn Godwinson, brother of Harold II of England.

Possibly means "flight" in Hebrew, though it could also be of unknown Egyptian origin. According to the Old Testament she was the second wife of Abraham and the mother of Ishmael, the founder of the Arab people. After Abraham's first wife Sarah finally gave birth to a child, she had Hagar and Ishmael expelled into the desert. However, God heard their crying and saved them.

Western Armenian transcription of Hayk.

Albanian form of Haidar.

From the Old Norse name Hallþórr, which meant "Thor's rock" from hallr "rock" combined with the name of the Norse god Þórr (see Thor).

Variant of Halvard.

From the Old Norse name Hallvarðr, which meant "rock guardian" from hallr "rock" combined with vǫrðr "guard, guardian".

Means "one who has food" in Ainu.

Possibly derived from haþu "battle, combat" and gaut "Geat". This was the name of an early Saxon leader considered the founding father of Saxony.

Greek form of Egyptian ḥwt-ḥrw (reconstructed as Hut-Heru) meaning "the house of Horus", derived from Egyptian ḥwt "house" combined with the god Horus. In Egyptian mythology she was the goddess of love, often depicted with the head of a cow.

Turkish form of Eve (via Arabic Ḥawāʾ).

Old Persian form of Achaemenes.

Anglo-Saxon cognate of Hengist.

Derived from the Old English elements here "army" and mōd "mind, spirit" (from mōdaz). Cognate to Herimot.

A borrowed name of uncertain origin.

Anglo-Saxon form of Huoching.

Hoc, father of Hnæf is a figure in the Beowulf epos.

Old English form of Old Norse Hólmgeirr, possibly using the Old English elements holm "ocean, waters" and gar "spear".

Scandinavian variant of Håvard or Howard.

Means "fire" in Armenian.

Derived from the Old German elements hugu "mind, thought, spirit" and hart "hard, firm, brave, hardy".

Means "weasel, mole" in Hebrew. This name appears in the Old Testament belonging to a prophetess.

Derived from Old English hund "dog, hound" and Old Norse gríma "mask".

Derived from the Old English elements hun "bear cub" and lāf "legacy" (from laibō).

Lithuanian form of Irmingard.

Likely an Old Swedish form of Ingegerd.

Early Anglicization of Angharad.

Means "diamond" in Malay and Indonesian.

Possibly a Finnish diminutive of Irina.

Variant of Irmtraud.

Meaning unknown, originating from the main character of the eponymous fairy tale Jagor (part of the anthology Croatian Tales of Long Ago, by Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić).

Means "world conqueror, world seizer" in Persian, from جهان (jahān) meaning "world" and گیر (gīr) meaning "catch, seize, conquer". This was the name of a 17th-century Mughal emperor.

Probably the Albanian form of Yannakis (see Giannakis). Also compare the similar names Kristaq and Petraq.

A notable bearer of this name was the Albanian sculptor Janaq Paço (1914-1991), who was born in Greece.

Probably the Albanian form of Yorgakis (see Giorgakis). Also compare the similar names Kristaq and Petraq.

From the Old Norse name Jórunnr, derived from the elements jǫfurr "boar" and unna "to love".

Probably a medieval Low German form of Judith. It might also derive from an Old German name such as Judda.

Means "happiness" in Kyrgyz.

Rare variant transcription of Kağan.

Meaning "Lie Down like a Sea Cucumber" in Ainu.

Means "of the Kosala people" in Sanskrit. Kosala was an ancient Indian kingdom that was at its most powerful in the 6th century BC. Kausalya is the mother of the hero Rama in the Hindu epic the Ramayana.

Means "butterfly" in Turkish.

Western Armenian transcription of Gevorg.

MEANING : chief of birds, Vulture, Garuda
Usage : Sanskrit, Indian, Tamil, Telugu, Nepali, Sinhalese, Hindi, Sikh, Punjabi, Kannada, Marathi , Gujarati, Assamese, Malayalam, Bengali, Fijian, Hinduism

Means "dear, darling, sweetheart" or "light bay (horse)" in Mongolian.

Meaning "Person who play with the Bulrush" in Ainu.

Albanian borrowing of Claude.

Variant of Klodian.

Hungarian form of Clotilde.

Means clever in German. This name is born by Puyo Puyo character Klug.

Derived from the name of Mount Korab, the highest mountain in Albania.

Means "crow" in Mari.

Old Danish form of Krákr.

Of debated origin and meaning; theories include a derivation from Turkic qobrat "to gather" and a derivation from Turkic qurt "wolf". Kubrat was the ruler of the Onogur–Bulgars, credited with establishing the confederation of Old Great Bulgaria in ca. 632.

Derived from Finnish kulta "gold". In the Finnish epic the Kalevala this is the name of tragic character, a young man who seeks revenge on his uncle Untamo for destroying his tribe and selling him into slavery.

Means "rook" in Chuvash.

Old Persian form of Cyrus.

Meaning "People who make Bows" in Ainu.

Anglicized form of Lachlann, the Scottish Gaelic form of Lochlainn. In the English-speaking world, this name was especially popular in Australia towards the end of the 20th century.

Possibly a short form of Aletha.

Means "white" in Hebrew.

Norwegian form of Hloðvér.

Modern Scandinavian form of Loki.

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

Derived from Albanian luftar "warrior".

Languedocian and Gascon form of Lucan.

Probably an Irish form of Lugus. In Irish mythology Lugh Lámfada was a divine hero who led the Tuatha Dé Danann against his grandfather Balor and the Fomorians. Lugh killed Balor by shooting a stone into his giant eye.

Possibly from one of the Indo-European roots *lewk- "light, brightness", *lewg- "dark" or *lewgh- "oath". This was the name of a Celtic (Gaulish) god of commerce and craftsmanship, who was equated by the Romans with Mercury. He probably forms the basis for the characters and names of Lugh (Irish) and Lleu (Welsh).

From Sanskrit मधुकर (madhukara) meaning "bee, honey-maker".

According to Simon of Kéza's 'Gesta Hunnorum et Hungarorum', written in the 1280s, Magor is the brother of Hunor and the son of Enéh and Ménrót. He is thus one of the legendary forefathers of the Huns and the Hungarians, or Magyars.
The name itself is allegedly derived from Old Hungarian mag "seed; kernel".

Derived from Algonquin mahigan "wolf".

Means "sad" in Turkish.

Alternate transcription of Russian Макарий (see Makariy).

Means "queen" in Hebrew.

From Lithuanian mantus meaning "intelligent, clever" or manta meaning "property, wealth". Herkus Mantas was a 13th-century Prussian hero who fought against the Teutonic Knights.

"Marak," meaning "Flare" in Indonesian.

Means "beautiful, gorgeous" in Tagalog.

Feminine form of Marvin.

Means "fighting; battle" in Algonquin.

Norman French form of Madalgar.

Welsh form of Mordred.

Derived from Arabic al-maraqq, meaning "the loins (of the bear)". This is the traditional name of the star Beta Ursae Majoris, in the constellation Ursa Major.

Means "the leader" in Ancient Egyptian.

Danish form of Magnus.

Means "boy" in Algonquin.

Altai form of Mikhail.

Derived from Albanian murlan, a term denoting a "strong and bitterly cold wind from the north".

Armenian form of the Hittite name Mursili. An ancient name used in the 3rd to 13th centuries, and revived in the 19th century.

Cornish form of Michael.

From Egyptian nḫt meaning "victorious, strong" or "champion". Nakht was an ancient Egyptian official who held the position of a scribe and astronomer of Amun, probably during the reign of Thutmose IV of the Eighteenth Dynasty.

Diminutive form of Narcyz.

Means "sunrise" in Mongolian, from нар (nar) meaning "sun" and гарах (garakh) meaning "to appear, occur".

Means "great queen" in Sumerian. Another name of Ninhursag.

In Babylonian legend she was given the name Ninmah by her son Ninurta in order to commemorate his creation of the mountains. Ninmah/Ninmenna may have originally been independent goddesses who were later identified as and merged with Ninhursag.

Of uncertain etymology, likely deriving in part from the Sumerian element nin ("queen, mistress, lady"). Name borne by a tutelary goddess of Umma, who was considered to be the consort of the god Shara.

Short form of Norayr.

Means "new fruit" in Armenian.

Georgian sources state that this name is of Iranian origin and comes from the same root as Nodar, which is a Georgian name that is also of Iranian origin.

But according to a Russian source, this name is a compound name that means "golden light", derived from Arabic نور (nur) meaning "light" combined with Persian زر (zar) meaning "gold".

Meaning unknown. Nusku was the god of light and fire in ancient Mesopotamian religion.

From the Old Norse name Oddvarr, derived from the elements oddr "point of a sword" and varr "aware, cautious".

Variant of Oltion.

Means "spear-point", derived from Old English ord "point (especially of a weapon)" and gar "spear". It is a cognate of Old Norse Oddgeirr.

Derived from Old English ord "point (of a weapon)" and Old Norse gríma "mask".

Anglicized form of Órlaith.

Means "arrow" in Old Norse. Orvar Odd is a legendary Norse hero who is the subject of a 13th-century Icelandic saga.

From Egyptian wsr-kn, of uncertain etymology. It could be of Libyan origin, or it could derive from Egyptian wsr "mighty, powerful" or the name of the god Osiris. This was the name of several pharaohs with Libyan ancestry of the Twenty-Second Dynasty.

From the Germanic name Audamar, which was derived from Old Frankish aud or Old High German ot meaning "wealth, fortune" combined with mari meaning "famous". This was the name of an 8th-century Swiss saint, an abbot of Saint Gall.

Means "treasure" in Hebrew.

From Serbian озарити (ozariti) or озарен (ozaren) meaning "to make radiant" and "radiant" respectively.

Means "queen" in Dagbani.

From Egyptian pꜣ-ꜥẖm meaning "he of the (holy) falcon," derived from pꜣ "the; he of" combined with ꜥẖm "falcon" or "cultic image of a falcon or god". The falcon was the symbol of the Egyptian god Horus, so one could say that this name essentially means "he who belongs to Horus."

A Karelian form of Pelagia.

Modern form of Pankaja.

From the Armenian word փայլակ (pʿaylak) meaning "the light emitted by a lightning strike; brilliance, radiance".

Meaning unknown.

Bulgarian feminine diminutive of Petar.

Medieval Hungarian form of Pongrác.

Means "silver" in Khmer.

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

Means "phoenix" in Armenian.

Meaning and origin unknown. He is a 4th saint venerated in Chaldean Catholic Church, Assyrian Church of the East, Syro-Malabar Church. Mar Qardagh (Mar means "lord" and it's like "holy"a honorific title) was a Sassanid prince who was martyred for converting to Christianity. There are Syriac manuscripts that tells his life: The History of the Heroic Deeds of Mar Qardagh the Victorious Martyr.

to rule, have dominion, dominate, tread down
(Qal) to have dominion, rule, subjugate
(Hiphil) to cause to dominate
to scrape out
(Qal) to scrape, scrape out

Means dignity and glory. Also, the seventh Arabic month was named by this name to glorify that month; as fighting was forbidden during it.

Variant of Riget, traditionally found in the Surselva region.

Derived from the Old German elements regin "counsel, advice, decision" and mari "famous".

Derived from the Old German elements regin "advice, counsel, decision" and wolf "wolf".

Derived from Gothic ragin (regin in Old High German) "advice" combined with Old High German wachar "vigilant." It might also be a form of Raginher. Ragnachar was a 5th-century king of Cambrai.

Medieval Irish form of Ragnvaldr.

Modern Scandinavian form of Ragnarr.

From the Old Norse elements regin "advice, counsel" and herr "army, warrior". It is a cognate of Rayner. This name was borne by the legendary Viking hero Ragnar Lodbrok.

Possibly a combination of the Old Norse name elements regin "advice, counsel" and norðr "north", though it could also be a variant of Ragnar.

Means "love" in Thai.

Feminine form of Rama.

One of the earliest known baths originates from the Indus Valley Civilisation, which existed around 3300-1300 BCE in what is now modern day Pakistan. The earliest findings of baths date from the mid-2nd millennium BC in the palace complex at Knossos, Crete, and the luxurious alabaster bathtubs excavated in Akrotiri, Santorini3. The earliest known baths on record appeared somewhere around mid-2000 BCE in Knossos, Crete, Greece

Derived from Macedonian развигор (razvigor) "breeze".

Means "skilled at child rearing" in Ainu.

Persian form of Ruqayya.

Means "rose" in Breton.

Old Irish form of Ruarc.

Derived from the Persian noun رود (rud) meaning "river, torrent" combined with the Persian noun آب (ab) meaning "water".

Rudabeh (also known as Rudaba) is the name of a Persian mythological figure, who was featured in the 10th-century Persian epic poem Shahnameh written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi. She was the mother of the hero Rostam and the wife of Zal.

In real life, a known bearer of this name is the Iranian-American journalist and news anchor Rudabeh Shahbazi (b. 1980).

Variant of Rifat.

Form of Yeruslan used by Aleksandr Pushkin in his poem Ruslan and Ludmila (1820), which was loosely based on Russian and Tatar folktales of Yeruslan Lazarevich.

The meaning and origin of the first element in this Germanic name is rather uncertain, and so there are various possibilities to the name's meaning. The most likely possibility is that the first element is derived from Old High German salo "black." Other possibilities are sal "house, living room" and Gothic sêls "kind, friendly." The second element is derived from Old High German gund "war."

Means "brilliance, radiance, splendour" in Arabic, derived from the root سنا (sanā) meaning "to gleam, to shine".

Sanasar Սանասար is an ancient Armenian name, which means "sacred mountain" սանա սար in armenian. It is also main character in armenian epic poem Sanuntsi Davit. In Russian it was Tra slated later as "sviatagor" which bears the same meaning "sacred mountain".

Swedish form of Sangríðr.

Means "moonrise" in Mongolian, from саран (saran) meaning "moon" and гарах (garakh) meaning "to appear, occur".

Means "Son of Sobek" in Egyptian.

Means "black rider" in Ossetian. This is the name of the Ossetian God of darkness and thieves, comparable to the Biblical figure Satan.

Short form of Sebastian.

Swedish dialectal variant of Sigrid.

Means "black-eyed" or "one with black (coloured) eyes" in Armenian.

From Egyptian šꜢbꜢkꜢ, of Kushite origin. This was the name of a Kushite pharaoh of the 25th Dynasty of Egypt (c.721 BCE - c.707 BCE). The Kingdom of Kush was an ancient African kingdom in what is now the Republic of Sudan.

Means "splendour, stream of light" in Armenian.

Means "wolf" in Buryat.

Alternate transcription of Hebrew שְׁרַגָא (see Sheraga).

Derived from Abkhaz а́-шәарах (á-shwarakh) meaning “deer, stag, animal”.

Means "fair, sincere, upstanding" in Mongolian.

Attested as an epithet for several Hurrian goddesses, as well as the Mesopotamian goddess Ishtar. It is possibly derived from the Hurrian word šiduri, meaning "young woman". Another proposed origin is from the Akkadian šī-dūrī ("she is my protection"). A character bearing this name also appears in the Epic of Gilgamesh, however it is accepted that she is unrelated to Ishtar.

Semi-Latinized form of Sigrid.

The name of the legendary ancestor of the Armenian princely house of Syuni. The Armenian historian Movses Khorenatsi states that Sisak was the brother of Harmar who was known as Arma, son of Gegham and a descendant of the legendary patriarch of the Armenians, Hayk.

Short form of Skerdilajd.

Russian form of Smaragdos. In the Netherlands, the name is a very rare feminine name. It is derived from the Dutch noun smaragd meaning "emerald", which as you can see has the same etymology as Smaragdos.

Latinized form of Smaragdos. This name was borne by at least two saints. One was a companion of saint Cyriacus (died c. 303 AD), who was buried together with him near the Via Ostiensis. The other was one of the forty martyrs of Sebaste (which is nowadays Sivas in Turkey), who died in 320 AD.

Form of Socrates in various languages. In Georgia, this name is a variant of Sokrate, which is the standard Georgian form of the aforementioned name.

From Thai สม (som) meaning "worthy" and รักษ์ (rak) meaning "protect, guard, defend".

Armenian form of Esfandiar via its Middle Persian form Spandadat. A known bearer of this name was the Armenian doctor and scientist Spandarat Kamsarakan (1876-1942), who played a crucial role in establishing the Armenian Red Cross National Society.

Albanian form of Spiridon.

Meaning "lively."

Originally a diminutive of Stanislav and other names derived from the Slavic element stati meaning "stand, become".

Derived from the Old English elements stiþ "hard, stiff" and wulf "wolf".

Feminine form of Stoyan.

Possibly from Old Slavic sterti "to extend, to spread" and bogŭ "god". Alternatively it could come from strybati "to flow, to move quickly". Stribog was a Slavic god who was possibly associated with the wind.

Probably means "fire", from Old Slavic sŭvarŭ meaning "heat". This was the name of a Slavic god associated with blacksmithing.

Tabarak is an Arabic name for boys and girls that means “he/she is blessed”, “he/she is raised in status”.

Primarily historical Armenian masculine name derived from the ancient Iranian name element *tačata- meaning "swift, strong", or from *Tačat-aspa, meaning "possessing swift horses".

Means "king" in Armenian.

Means "crowned" in Armenian.

Finnish form of Daria.

From the Old Armenian word թաթուլ (tʿatʿul) meaning "paw". It has been in use since the 5th century.

Derived from the Bible books of 1 dan 2 Tawarikh, the Indonesian translation of 1 and 2 Chronicles.

Abkhaz form of Timur.

Derived from Latin Thrax meaning "Thracian", which in turn was ultimately derived from Greek Thrakē, which came from the verb thrāssō "to trouble, to stir". This was the name of Maximinus Thrax (i.e. Maximinus the Thracian), the 27th Emperor of the Roman Empire.

Father Tomor is the personification of Mount Tomorr, also known as Mount Tomor in Albanian, a mountain range which includes the highest peak in central Albania. Mount Tomorr is considered the home of the gods in central Albanian popular belief. The name itself is derived from Illyrian Tómaros, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tómhxes-, "dark".

Means "earth (soil), dry soil, land, country" in Turkish.

Modern Scandinavian form of Þórr (see Thor). It was not used as a personal name until the 18th century. It is sometimes used as a short form of names of Old Norse origin that begin with the element Tor, which is also a derivative of Þórr.

Swedish and Norwegian form of Þórbjǫrg.

Variant of Torgeir.

Armenian form of Togarmah.

Variant of Torhild.

Taken from Tostig Godwinson (1029-1066)

Variant of Trajan 2.

Means "raven" in Greenlandic and Inuktitut.

Armenian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz and Uzbek form of the Mongol name Tümen, probably via its Old Turkic form Tümän. Also compare the Kazakh, Kyrgyz and Uzbek word tuman meaning "fog", which is ultimately derived from Proto-Turkic *tuman meaning "mist, fog".

Notable bearers of this name include a 16th-century sultan of Egypt and the Armenian revolutionary Tuman Tumanian (1879-1906).

Means "black francolin" in Azerbaijani.

Derived from the Persian name Turandokht, meaning "daughter of Turan" (Turan being a region in Central Asia). This is the name of the title character in an opera by Giacomo Puccini. Turandot is a princess who gives would-be suitors three riddles to solve if they wish to marry her.

Means "honey" in Amazigh.

Polish form of Titus.

Derived from Old Irish úall "vanity, pride" and garg "fierce, rough".

Means "like a wolf" in Ossetian, derived from Scythian varka "wolf". His name comes from the fact that wolves were seen as a totemic symbol to the Ossetian people. This is the name of the ancestor of the Narts in the Ossetian Nart epic. He is the father of twins Akhsar and Akhsartag. Uarkhag can be compared to the Roman gods Romulus and Remus and Greek Castor and Pollux.

Means "summer" in Basque.

Derived from the Germanic name elements oddr "spear" and varr "attentive".

Form of Hugo.

Means "stone" in Greenlandic [1].

Variant of Ujarak.

Variant form of Ulfgæirr and a combination of ulfr "wolf" and herr "army".

Albanian form of Uranus.

Derived from Albanian urim "well wishing, good-luck wish, well wishes, congratulations".

Means "birch tree" in Basque.

Unattested Old Persian form of Atossa.

Extended form of Vagharsh.

Short form of Vahagn.

Masculine form of Valbona.

Means "twenty-ninth day of the month" in Armenian.

Means "rose, flower" in Armenian, ultimately from Persian.

Western Armenian transcription of Vardan.

Means "treacherous person" in Armenian.

Russian diminutive of Vasiliy (masculine) or a Macedonian and Bulgarian diminutive of Vasilija (feminine).

Diminutive of Vesna.

Variant of Vid.

From Old Norse Víðarr, which was possibly derived from víðr "wide" and herr "army, warrior". In Norse mythology Víðarr was the son of Odin and Grid. At the time of the end of the world, Ragnarök, it is said he will avenge his father's death by slaying the wolf Fenrir.

Means "strength" in Khmer.

Derived from Albanian vullnet "will, will power; desire".

Bulgarian cognate of Vera 1.

Byname meaning, "watchful."

Possibly derived from Old English wacor "watchful, vigilant, alert" (from wakraz). This was the name of a martyred Catholic saint.

A form of Walaram. This was the name of two rulers of the medieval county of Ligny-en-Barrois, in present-day Lorraine, France.

From Turkic öz (source, pure)

From Old English wig "battle, war" and laf "remains, remainder" (see laibō).

In the epic poem Beowulf, Wiglaf son of Weohstan (weoh, with guttural H, is a variant pronunciation of wig) is a loyal thane and distant relative who succeeds Beowulf as king of the Geats.

Wiglaf was also the name of a king of Mercia in the early 9th Century. His son was Wigmund, and his grandson Wigstan.

A modern bearer of the name is the German satirist Wiglaf Droste.

Derived from the Old English elements wudu "wood" and lac "play, sport; gift, offering" (from laikaz).

Old English cognate to Germanic Wulfger and Old Norse Úlfgeirr. Derived the elements wulf "wolf" and gar "spear" meaning "wolf spear".

Circassian version of Omar 1.

Perhaps a feminine form of Yochanan.

Chuvash form of Jafar.

Russian form of George.

Altai form of Ignatius.

Created by author George R.R. Martin for a character in his series A Song of Ice and Fire (1996) and its television adaptation Game of Thrones (2011-2019). It was borne by a character of the Free Folk.

Means "monument, remembrance" in Uzbek.

Alternate transcription of Yotrak.

Bulgarian feminine form of Jordan.

Derived from Albanian zambak "lily".

Means "the old man's daughter" from Persian zarman "old man" and duxt "daughter". This was the name of a 4th-century Armenian noblewoman who became a queen consort of Arsacid Armenia.

Means "the boat". This is the traditional name of the star Gamma Eridani in the constellation Eridanus.

Either from Persian زور (zur) meaning "force, strength, power" or a form of the Arabic name Zahra.