Anna the singer's Personal Name List

From the name of a type of tree, ultimately derived from Greek ἀκή (ake) meaning "thorn, point".

Hungarian feminine form of Adrian.

Feminine form of Aelianus.

From a diminutive of the given name Arnout.

Slovak and Albanian form of Agnes.

Russian form of Agrippina.

Spanish form of Ayda.

From Japanese 愛 (ai) meaning "love, affection" and 美 (mi) meaning "beautiful". Other combinations of kanji characters are possible.

Ewe form of Akua.

This name was originally Albrecht. It was changed by German imigrants to America in the 1600s.

Feminine form of Alexander. Alexander the Great founded several cities by this name (or renamed them) as he extended his empire eastward. The most notable of these is Alexandria in Egypt, founded by Alexander in 331 BC.

Variant of Alexane.

From the Old French name Aalis, a short form of Adelais, itself a short form of the Germanic name Adalheidis (see Adelaide). This name became popular in France and England in the 12th century. It was among the most common names in England until the 16th century, when it began to decline. It was revived in the 19th century.

This name was borne by the heroine of Lewis Carroll's novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass (1871).

Medieval short form of Adeline. As an English name, in modern times it has sometimes been regarded as a variant of Eileen. This was the name of a popular 1965 song by the French singer Christophe.

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.

German feminine form of Aloysius.

Feminine form of Alf 1.

Means "the end" in Basque. This is the name of a character in the historical novel Amaya, or the Basques in the 8th century (1879) by Francisco Navarro-Villoslada (Amaya in the Spanish original; Amaia in the Basque translation).

Possibly means "the surrounding sea" or "the surrounding third", from Greek ἀμφίς (amphis) meaning "surrounding, around, between" and the same root found in the name of Triton. In Greek mythology she was a goddess of the sea and salt water, the wife of Poseidon and the mother of Triton.

Feminine form of Amrit.

English form of the Old French name Amée meaning "beloved" (modern French aimée), a vernacular form of the Latin Amata. As an English name, it was in use in the Middle Ages (though not common) and was revived in the 19th century.

Feminine form of Andrea 1.

From the name of the anemone flower, which is derived from Greek ἄνεμος (anemos) meaning "wind".

French form of Angelica.

Variant of Angela.

German diminutive of Anna or short form of Anneliese.

Combination of Anne 1 and Liese.

Diminutive of Antonia.

Feminine form of Antonius (see Anthony).

Feminine form of Antoninus.

Means "most holy", composed of the Greek prefix ἀρι (ari) meaning "most" combined with Cretan Greek ἀδνός (adnos) meaning "holy". In Greek mythology, Ariadne was the daughter of King Minos. She fell in love with Theseus and helped him to escape the Labyrinth and the Minotaur, but was later abandoned by him. Eventually she married the god Dionysus.

Variant of Aria 1.

Means "smile" in Quechua.

Meaning unknown. Athena was the Greek goddess of wisdom and warfare and the patron goddess of the city of Athens in Greece. It is likely that her name is derived from that of the city, not vice versa. The earliest mention of her seems to be a 15th-century BC Mycenaean Greek inscription from Knossos on Crete.

The daughter of Zeus, she was said to have sprung from his head fully grown after he impregnated and swallowed her mother Metis. Athena is associated with the olive tree and the owl.

Feminine form of Otieno.

Modern Persian form of Atossa.

Variant of Audrey, used since the 19th century. It jumped in popularity in the United States after the debut of the television series The Big Valley (1965-1969), which featured the character Audra Barkley.

Feminine form of Augustus. It was introduced to Britain when King George III, a member of the German House of Hanover, gave this name to his second daughter in 1768.

Means "dawn" in Latin. Aurora was the Roman goddess of the morning. It has occasionally been used as a given name since the Renaissance.

Diminutive of Avila.

Modern Hebrew form of Abigail.

Means "fawn" in Cherokee, derived from ᎠᏫ (awi) meaning "deer".

From the name of the town of Ayala (called Aiara in Basque) in Álava, Spain. It might be derived from Basque aiher "slope" or alha "pasture".

Elaborated form of Turkish or Azerbaijani ay meaning "moon".

From Japanese 歩 (ayumi) meaning "walk, step". It can also be from 亜 (a) meaning "second, Asia" combined with 由 (yu) meaning "reason, cause" and 美 (mi) meaning "beautiful". Otherwise it can be written with different combinations of kanji, or with the hiragana writing system.

Variant of Becker, from southern German beck.

Means "reflection of the moon on a lake" in Turkish [1].

Feminine form of Bernhard.

Polish form of Bernadette.

Feminine form of Bernard.

Variant of Bernice.

Form of Bertha in several languages.

Javanese form of Batari.

Latin form of Blandine.

Derived from Albanian blertë meaning "green".

From a nickname for a person with blond hair. This is the name of the title character in a comic strip by Chic Young.

Medieval variant of Boudicca, possibly arising from a scribal error.

Means "happy", from Lao ບຸນ (boun) meaning "happiness, prosperity, goodness" combined with ມີ (mi) meaning "to have".

Derived from the name of the city of Bradford in West Yorkshire, which meant "broad ford" in Old English. This is also the name of other smaller towns in England.

Variant of Braelyn.

Short form of Gabriella.

Variant of Britannia.

Variant of Briley.

From the English word for the yellow flower (genus Ranunculus). Author William Goldman used it for Princess Buttercup in his book The Princess Bride (1973) and the subsequent film adaptation (1987).

Original Latin form of Cecilia.

Italian form of Charlotte.

Diminutive of Cassandra and other names beginning with Cass.

Scandinavian contracted form of Katherine.

Variant of Kaylee.

Feminine form of Caelinus. This name can also function as a short form of Marcelina.

Turkish form of Jamila.

Feminine form of Chandan, as well as the Sinhala masculine form.

Means "moon" in Sanskrit, derived from चन्द (cand) meaning "to shine". This is a transcription of both the masculine form चण्ड (the god of the moon personified) as well as the feminine form चण्डा (spelled with a long final vowel).

Means "born at night" in Swahili.

Means "God is the way" in Igbo.

Means "God is good" in Igbo.

Means "God knows" in Igbo, derived from Chi 2, referring to God, and má meaning "know".

Diminutive of Clara.

Diminutive of Clara.

Means "cleric" or "scribe", from Old English clerec meaning "priest", ultimately from Latin clericus. A famous bearer was William Clark (1770-1838), an explorer of the west of North America.

Derived from the English word cloud. In Popular Culture, this is the name of the main protagonist (Cloud Strife) in "Final Fantasy VII", who also makes an appearance in "Dissidia: Final Fantasy".

Diminutive of Constance and other names beginning with Con. It is occasionally a masculine name, a diminutive of Cornelius or Conrad.

Variant of Courtney.

Variant of Courtney. A famous bearer is actress Courteney Cox (1964-).

From an aristocratic English surname that was derived either from the French place name Courtenay (originally a derivative of the personal name Curtenus, itself derived from Latin curtus "short") or else from a Norman nickname meaning "short nose".

Originally more common as a name for boys in America, it became more popular for girls in the 1960s. It began rapidly increasing after 1973, possibly due to a character (played by Natalie Wood) in the television movie The Affair. It reached an apex in the United States ranked 17th in 1990, though it has quickly fallen away since then.

Variant of Craine.

Feminine diminutive of Daniel.

French form of Daphne.

Means "son of David". This was the surname of the revolutionary jazz trumpet player Miles Davis (1926-1991).

Means "son of Daw".

Variant of Deirdre.

Variant of Denise.

Means "sea, ocean" in Turkish, ultimately from Persian.

Feminine form of Desiderio. This was the Latin name of a 19th-century queen of Sweden, the wife of Karl XIV. She was born in France with the name Désirée.

Indonesian form of Devi.

Variant of Diane.

Means "preparation for a religious ceremony" in Sanskrit.

Means "beloved" in Italian, from Latin dilectus.

Short form of names ending in dina, such as Bernardina or Ondina. As an English name, this can also be a variant of Deanna.

From the Slavic element dobrŭ (Serbo-Croatian dobar) meaning "good".

Italian feminine form of Dominicus (see Dominic).

Portuguese and Galician form of Dolores.

Means "prayer" in Arabic.

Variant of Echeverría.

Latinized form of Étaín. This was the name of an early Irish saint.

Biblical Hebrew form of Edna.

Meaning uncertain, possibly a variant of Aila or a rare Norwegian diminutive of Elin. It was used by the Finnish author Väinö Kataja for a character in his novel Tuskaa (1907), and it became fairly popular in Finland in the first half of the 20th century.

Possibly from Old Irish etne meaning "kernel, grain". In Irish mythology Eithne or Ethniu was a Fomorian and the mother of Lugh Lámfada. It was borne by several other legendary and historical figures, including a few early saints.

Georgian form of Katherine.

Form of Eleanor in several languages.

Variant of Elfreda.

Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of Éliane.

Estonian form of Elizabeth.

Scandinavian and Welsh form of Helen.

Short form of Wilhelmine or names ending in elma, such as Anselma. It has also been recorded as a combination of Elizabeth and Mary, as in the case of the 19th-century daughter of the Earl of Elgin, who was named using her mother's first and middle names [1].

Scandinavian short form of Helena.

Means "colours" in Turkish.

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).

Combination of Emmy and Lou.

Probably a variant of Ena or Énna.

There is a female character named Enna in the Elsie Dinsmore book series by Martha Finley.

Turkish and Bosnian form of Asma.

Form of Esther used in several languages.

Anglicized form of Eithne.

French form of Eulalia.

Spanish feminine form of Eulogius.

Means "mirth, merriment, cheerfulness" in Greek, a derivative of εὖ (eu) meaning "good" and φρήν (phren) meaning "mind, heart". She was one of the three Graces or Χάριτες (Charites) in Greek mythology.

Spanish feminine form of Eustachius (see Eustace).

French form of Eve.

German, Estonian and Hungarian form of Evelina.

Bulgarian form of Eugenia and an alternate transcription of Russian Евгения (see Yevgeniya).

Czech form of Eugenia.

Means "true mother", from the Igbo eziokwu meaning "truth", "honesty", "integrity", and nne meaning "mother".

Latin diminutive of Fabia. This was the name of a 4th-century saint from Rome.

Means "be meek" in Chewa.

Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Lithuanian form of Philomena.

Feminine form of Fionn. This name was (first?) used by the Scottish poet James Macpherson in his poem Fingal (1761), in which it is spelled as Fióna.

Means "white shoulder" from Old Irish finn "white, blessed" and gúala "shoulder". In Irish legend Fionnuala was one of the four children of Lir who were transformed into swans for a period of 900 years.

Feminine form of Florinus.

Variant of Lloyd.

Feminine form of Fortunato.

Simply from the word fortune, ultimately from Latin fortuna, a derivative of fors "luck".

Feminine form of Franciscus (see Francis).

German and Dutch feminine form of Frank.

Sardinian feminine form of Franciscus (see Francis).

Diminutive of Sophronia.

German feminine form of Gabriel.

From the Greek word γαῖα (gaia), a parallel form of γῆ (ge) meaning "earth". In Greek mythology Gaia was the mother goddess who presided over the earth. She was the mate of Uranus and the mother of the Titans and the Cyclopes.

Short form of Abigail.

From the name of the tropical flower, which was named for the Scottish naturalist Alexander Garden (1730-1791).

Patronymic from Garrett.

South Indian form of Gita 1.

Latinized (Old Spanish) form of a Gothic name (see Elvira).

Variant of Jeannette.

Polish form of Geneviève.

Feminine form of George.

Variant of Geraldine or Jerry using the popular name suffix lyn.

Italian variant of Jessica.

Variant of Ghislaine.

Feminine form of Giacomo.

Italian form of Iohannes (see John). This name has been very common in Italy since the late Middle Ages, as with other equivalents of John in Europe. The Renaissance writer Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), the painter Giovanni Bellini (1430-1516) and the painter and sculptor Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) were famous bearers of the name.

Variant of Gytha.

Feminine form of Giuliano.

Feminine form of Gordan.

Feminine form of Graciano.

Short form of Margrethe.

Derived from the Welsh given name Gruffudd.

From a Spanish title of the Virgin Mary, Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, meaning "Our Lady of Guadalupe". Guadalupe is a Spanish place name, the site of a famous convent, derived from Arabic وادي (wādī) meaning "valley, river" possibly combined with Latin lupus meaning "wolf". In the 16th century Our Lady of Guadalupe supposedly appeared in a vision to a native Mexican man, and she is now regarded as a patron saint of the Americas.

Swedish variant of Gunhild.

From Welsh gwen, the feminine form of gwyn meaning "white, blessed". It can also be a short form of Gwendolen, Gwenllian and other names beginning with Gwen.

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

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

Probably a variant of Gwynedd. It has been common in Wales since the 19th century, perhaps after the Welsh novelist Gwyneth Vaughan (1852-1910), whose real name was Ann Harriet Hughes. A modern famous bearer is the American actress Gwyneth Paltrow (1972-).

Diminutive of Harriet.

From Chinese 韩 (hán) referring to the ancient state of Han, which existed from the 5th to 3rd centuries BC in what is now Shanxi and Henan provinces.

Means "grape vine" in Amharic.

From the English word hazel for the tree or the light brown colour, derived ultimately from Old English hæsel. It was coined as a given name in the 19th century and quickly became popular, reaching the 18th place for girls in the United States by 1897. It fell out of fashion in the second half of the 20th century, but has since recovered.

Diminutive of Hedwig.

Dutch, Slovene, Hungarian and Croatian form of Hermine.

Latin form of Esther. Like Esther, it has been used in England since the Protestant Reformation. Nathaniel Hawthorne used it for the heroine of his novel The Scarlet Letter (1850), Hester Prynne, a Puritan woman forced to wear a red letter A on her chest after giving birth to a child out of wedlock.

Feminine form of Hilarius.

Derived from Sanskrit हीर (hīra) meaning "diamond". It is typically feminine in Pakistan and unisex in India and Nepal.

Means "spur of a hill", from Old English hoh.

Variant of Aisha. It was popularized by the song Iesha (1991) by Another Bad Creation [1].

Short form of names ending with iina.

Italian and Spanish form of Irmhild. The Blessed Imelda Lambertini was a young 14th-century nun from Bologna.

Short form of Immacolata or Immaculada.

Means "maiden, virgin" in Finnish.

Variant of India.

Russian and Ukrainian form of Yolanda.

Means "violet" in Greek. In Greek mythology she was a woman beloved by Herakles.

From the name of the island off Scotland where Saint Columba founded a monastery. The name of the island is Old Norse in origin, and apparently derives simply from ey meaning "island".

Form of Irene in several languages.

Short form of Isabella.

French form of Isabel.

Variant of Isabel.

Means "deer" in Choctaw.

Diminutive of Isidore, Isabella and other names beginning with Is.

Feminine form of Ivan.

Spanish form of Yvelise, especially used in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.

Catalan form of Yvette.

Form of Yvonne in several languages.

Feminine form of Jacob.

Norwegian and Dutch feminine form of Jacob.

Dutch feminine form of Iacomus (see James).

Feminine diminutive of Jacques.

Feminine diminutive of Jacques.

Turkish form of Zhaleh.

Feminine form of James.

Latinate form of Jeannine.

Diminutive of Jayne.

Variant of Jeannette.

Diminutive of Jeanne.

From Sino-Korean 智 (ji) meaning "wisdom, intellect" combined with 厚 (hu) meaning "thick". Other combinations of hanja characters can form this name as well.

French feminine form of Joscelin (see Jocelyn).

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

Dutch, Slovene and Croatian form of Yolanda, as well as an Italian variant of Iolanda.

Basque feminine form of Jon 1.

Derived from the given name Jon, a medieval variant of John.

Diminutive of Joan 1.

Spanish, Portuguese and Swedish feminine form of Joseph.

Spanish form of Iohanna (see Joanna), making it the feminine form of Juan 1. This name was borne by Juana the Mad, a 16th-century queen of Castile.

Variant of Julia.

Means "pearl" in Arabic.

Swedish and Norwegian cognate of June.

Telugu and Malayalam form of Jyoti.

Variant of Casey.

Variant of Caden.

Combination of the name prefix ka and Lisha.

Polish, Russian and Croatian form of Calista.

Means "answer" in Sotho and Tswana.

Feminine form of Carolus.

Feminine variant of Casey.

Form of Katherine in several languages.

Alternate transcription of Persian کتایون (see Katayoun).

Diminutive of Kate.

From Japanese 和 (kazu) meaning "harmony, peace" or 一 (kazu) meaning "one" combined with 枝 (e) meaning "branch" or 恵 (e) meaning "favour, benefit". Other combinations of kanji characters can potentially form this name.

Means "horn of antimony" in Hebrew. Antimony is a substance that was formerly used as an eye cosmetic (eye shadow). A hollowed animal horn could have been used to store this material. Keren-Happuch is the name of the third daughter of Job in the Old Testament.

Variant of Kevin.

Variant or feminine form of Kevin.

Variant of Keisha.

Variant of Keziah.

From the Hebrew name קְצִיעָה (Qetsiʿa) meaning "cassia, cinnamon", from the name of the spice tree. In the Old Testament she is a daughter of Job.

Variant of Cian.

Hawaiian form of Diana. It was brought to wider attention in the late 1980s, likely by the Hawaiian fitness instructor Kiana Tom (1965-), who had a television show on ESPN beginning in 1988 [1].

Variant of Kimberly.

Diminutive of Kunigunde.

Derived from Sanskrit किरण (kiraṇa), which can mean "dust" or "thread" or "sunbeam".

Diminutive of Keziah.

Means "bright" in Hawaiian.

Variant of Courtney. Like Courtney this name declined in popularity in the 1990s, but it was briefly revived after 2007 by the television personality Kourtney Kardashian (1979-) when she began appearing on the reality show Keeping Up with the Kardashians.

Variant of Christine.

Slovak form of Christina.

Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian form of Xenia.

Variant of Kim 1.

Variant of Lucretia, influenced by Lakeisha.

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

Possibly derived from the name of the ancient city of Larisa in Thessaly, which meant "citadel". In Greek legends, the nymph Larisa was either a daughter or mother of Pelasgus, the ancestor of the mythical Pelasgians. This name was later borne by a 4th-century Greek martyr who is venerated as a saint in the Eastern Church. The name (of the city, nymph and saint) is commonly Latinized as Larissa, with a double s. As a Ukrainian name, it is more commonly transcribed Larysa.

Variant of Larisa. It has been commonly used as an English given name only since the 20th century, as a borrowing from Russian. In 1991 this name was given to one of the moons of Neptune, in honour of the mythological character.

From a diminutive of Laurence (see Larkin).

Ukrainian, Belarusian and Polish form of Larisa.

Feminine form of Laurentius (see Laurence 1).

French feminine form of Laurentinus.

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.

Alternate transcription of Telugu లక్ష్మి or Marathi/Hindi लक्ष्मी (see Lakshmi), as well as the most common Nepali transcription.

Finnish and Estonian short form of Helena or Matleena.

Diminutive of names containing the sound les, such as Leslie.

Means "stone flower" in Mapuche, from likan "a type of black stone" and rayen "flower". According to a Mapuche legend this was the name of a maiden who sacrificed herself in order to stop the wrath of the evil spirit of a volcano.

Means "little mother", from Swedish and Norwegian lille, an inflected form of liten meaning "little", combined with mor meaning "mother". This name was first recorded in Norway and Sweden at the beginning of the 20th century.

Means "the day is born" in Albanian, from lind "to give birth" and ditë "day".

Variant of Lindsay.

Old German form of Linda.

German and Scandinavian short form of Elisabeth. A notable fictional bearer is Lisbeth Salander from Swedish author Stieg Larsson's novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2005) as well as its sequels and movie adaptations.

Diminutive of Elisabet.

Feminine form of Livius. This was the name of the wife of the Roman emperor Augustus, Livia Drusilla.

Short form of Olivia.

Feminine form of Longinus.

From German Loreley, the name of a rock headland on the Rhine River. It is of uncertain meaning, though the second element is probably old German ley meaning "rock" (of Celtic origin). German romantic poets and songwriters, beginning with Clemens Brentano in 1801, tell that a maiden named the Lorelei lives on the rock and lures boaters to their death with her song.

In the English-speaking world this name has been occasionally given since the early 20th century. It started rising in America after the variant Lorelai was used for the main character (and her daughter, nicknamed Rory) on the television series Gilmore Girls (2000-2007).

Variant of Laurel.

Form of Lucius, meaning "light". A notable bearer of this surname is French singer-songwriter Renan Luce (1980-).

Diminutive of Lucie.

Feminine form of Lucius. Saint Lucia was a 4th-century martyr from Syracuse. She was said to have had her eyes gouged out, and thus she is the patron saint of the blind. She was widely revered in the Middle Ages, and her name has been used throughout Christian Europe (in various spellings). It has been used in the England since the 12th century, usually in the spellings Lucy or Luce.

Means "flower" in Albanian.

From a Scottish surname that was derived from the Old Norse given name Liulfr (which was derived in part from úlfr "wolf").

French and Czech form of Lydia.

Variant of Lindsay.

From an English surname that was derived from Welsh llyn meaning "lake". Before the start of the 20th century it was primarily used for boys, but it has since come to be more common for girls. In some cases it may be thought of as a short form of Linda or names that end in lyn or line.

Feminine form of Lysandros (see Lysander).

Variant of Lisette.

Diminutive of Margaret.

Scottish diminutive of Mairead. It was long used in the United Kingdom and Australia, becoming popular at the end of the 20th century. In the United States it was brought to public attention by the British actress Maisie Williams (1997-), who played Arya Stark on the television series Game of Thrones beginning 2011. Her birth name is Margaret.

Feminine form of Manuel.

Variant of Marceline.

Portuguese, Galician, Catalan and Occitan form of Margaret. Also in these languages, this is the common word for the daisy flower (species Bellis perennis, Leucanthemum vulgare and others).

Diminutive of Margaret (English) or Margareeta (Estonian).

Diminutive of Maria. In the case of the American actress Mariel Hemingway (1961-), the name was inspired by the Cuban town of Mariel.

Croatian, Serbian, Slovene and Macedonian form of Mariana.

Diminutive of Marina.

Possibly a feminine variant of Marquis influenced by Keisha; also compare Marquita.

Variant of Maria.

French and Norwegian form of Martha.

Ukrainian, Belarusian and Polish form of Marina.

Means "great mother", from Celtic *mātīr meaning "mother" and the divine or augmentative suffix -on. This was the name of a Gaulish and Brythonic mother goddess, the namesake of the River Marne [1].

Means "God is good" in Ewe.

French feminine form of Maximilian.

Possibly a variant of Mamie.

Kazakh and Bosnian form of Madina.

Medieval diminutive of Margaret. It is now also used as a short form of the related name Megan.

Variant of Melanie.

Derived from Greek μέλπω (melpo) meaning "to sing, to celebrate with song". This was the name of one of the nine Muses in Greek mythology, the muse of tragedy.

Means "grace of Allah", from Arabic منّة (minna) meaning "favour, grace" combined with الله (Allah).

Medieval Danish variant of Margrethe.

From the name of the Sicilian city of Messina, founded by Greek colonists. The city was named after the Greek city Μεσσήνη (Messene).

Feminine form of Michael.

Italian feminine form of Michael.

Feminine diminutive of Michele 1.

Variant of Madge.

From Sino-Korean 美 (mi) meaning "beautiful" combined with 京 (gyeong) meaning "capital city" or 景 (gyeong) meaning "scenery, view". Other hanja combinations are possible.

From Japanese 美 (mi) meaning "beautiful" combined with 香 (ka) meaning "fragrance" or 加 (ka) meaning "increase". Other kanji combinations are also possible.

Feminine form of Milan. It began to be used in Italy in honour of Milena Vukotić (1847-1923), mother of Helen of Montenegro, the wife of the Italian king Victor Emmanuel III. In Italy it can also be considered a combination of Maria and Elena.

Originally a diminutive of names containing the Slavic element milŭ meaning "gracious, dear".

From Sanskrit मीन (mīna) meaning "fish" and अक्षि (akṣi) meaning "eye". This is the name of a Hindu goddess associated with the Tamil city of Madurai. She is considered an incarnation of Parvati.

Alternate transcription of Persian مینو (see Minoo).

Latinate form of Mirabelle.

Variant of Myrthe.

Derived from Spanish moral meaning "mulberry tree", of Latin origin.

Feminine form of Moreno.

Feminine form of Morgan 1.

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.

From Old Irish muir "sea" and finn "white, blessed". This is another name of Muirne, the mother of the legendary hero Fionn mac Cumhaill.

Variant of Myisha.

Means "announcement, call" in Arabic, derived from نادى (nādā) meaning "to call, to announce, to invite".

Turkish feminine form of Naim.

French and Portuguese form of Natasha.

Latinate form of Natalia (see Natalie).

Polish form of Natasha.

French form of Natalie, as well as a Dutch, German and Scandinavian variant.

Greek form of Nausicaa.

Possibly from Zapotec nadxiie lii meaning "I love you" or nayele' meaning "open".

Alternate transcription of Marathi/Hindi नीलिमा or Telugu నీలిమ (see Nilima).

From a Scottish surname, an Anglicized and reduced form of Gaelic Mac an Fhilidh (or McNeilly) meaning "son of the poet".

Created by Shakespeare for a character in his play The Merchant of Venice (1596). He possibly took it from Greek Νηρηΐς (Nereis) meaning "nymph, sea sprite", ultimately derived from the name of the Greek sea god Nereus, who supposedly fathered them.

Means "joy, happiness" in Turkish.

Southern Indian variant of Nikita 2.

Variant of Nikia, which is itself a variant of Nakia.

Catalan, Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian form of Neilos (and the Nile River). This name was borne by a 15th-century Russian saint, Nil Sorsky. As a Turkish name it is feminine, and comes directly from the Turkish name for the river.

From Turkish and Azerbaijani Nil, the name of the Nile River, combined with ay meaning "moon".

Southern Indian form of Nitya.

Means "flower bud" in Hebrew.

From Latin niveus meaning "snow-white" (itself from nivis, "of snow"). It was used by Peruvian author Isabel Allende for a character in her novel 'La casa de los espíritus' (1982).

Short form of Nkechinyere.

Modern Hebrew form of Noah 2, the daughter of Zelophehad in the Bible. It is also the form used in several other languages, as well as the spelling used in some English versions of the Old Testament.

Means "pleasantness" in Hebrew. A famous bearer is Noam Chomsky (1928-), an American linguist and philosopher.

Form of Naomi 1 in several languages.

Georgian form of Nonna.

Used by British author Edward Bulwer-Lytton for a blind flower-seller in his novel The Last Days of Pompeii (1834). He perhaps based it on Latin nidus "nest".

From the name of an ancient town of Asia Minor where Saint Gregory was bishop in the 4th century. Nyssa is also the genus name of a type of tree, also called the Tupelo.

Strictly feminine variant of Oakley.

From an English surname that was from various place names meaning "oak clearing" in Old English. A famous bearer of the surname was the American sharpshooter Annie Oakley (1860-1926).

Variant of Oaklyn.

Lithuanian form of Odette.

French diminutive of Oda or Odilia. This is the name of a princess who has been transformed into a swan in the ballet Swan Lake (1877) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Variant of Odilia.

Short form of Onyekachi.

Means "who is greater than God?" in Igbo.

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

German form of Odilia.

Diminutive of Ottilie. A famous bearer was the British socialite Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873-1938).

Variant of Ozzie.

From an English surname meaning "servant, page" in Middle English. It is ultimately derived (via Old French and Italian) from Greek παιδίον (paidion) meaning "little boy".

As a given name for girls, it received some public attention from a character in the 1958 novel Parrish and the 1961 movie adaptation [1]. It experienced a larger surge in popularity in the 1980s, probably due to the character Paige Matheson from the American soap opera Knots Landing.

Bulgarian and Macedonian form of Paraskeve.

Variant of Patty.

Feminine form of Paulus (see Paul). This was the name of a 4th-century Roman saint who was a companion of Saint Jerome.

Bulgarian feminine diminutive of Petar.

Alternate transcription of Russian/Bulgarian Петя (see Petya).

Feminine form of Peter. This was also the name of an ancient city in the region that is now Jordan.

Diminutive of Petra.

Diminutive of Petra.

Meaning unknown, created in the 20th century. The name is borne by the British singer Petula Clark (1932-), whose name was invented by her father.

Russian masculine diminutive of Pyotr or Bulgarian feminine diminutive of Petar.

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).

From an English word meaning "nightingale" (ultimately from Philomela). It has been used frequently in poetry to denote the bird.

Original Greek form of Philomena.

Hungarian form of Prisca, influenced by the Hungarian word piros meaning "red".

Feminine form of Pravin.

Feminine form of Prem.

From the English word prince, a royal title, which comes ultimately from Latin princeps. This name was borne by the American musician Prince Rogers Nelson (1958-2016), who is known simply as Prince.

Feminine equivalent of Prince.

Diminutive of Proscovia, mainly used in Uganda.

Hebrew form of Keziah.

From Sino-Vietnamese 娟 (quyên) meaning "beautiful, graceful".

Biblical Latin form of Rachel, as well as a German form.

Means "rest, repose, pleasure" in Sanskrit. This is the name of the Hindu goddess of love and pleasure, the wife of Kama.

Diminutive of Rayna 1 or Raisa 1.

Swedish variant of Rebecca.

Form of Rebecca used in various languages.

Means "rule" in Latin. This was the name of a 3rd-century Swiss martyr, the patron saint of Zurich.

Variant of Rhianna.

Variant of Rhiannon.

Germanic name, possibly a feminine form of Ricohard, though it is likely the second element is gart "enclosure" (being more common as a second element in feminine names). This was the name of the 9th-century wife of the Frankish emperor Charles the Fat. She is regarded as a saint.

Means "birch branch" in Finnish.

Spanish, Catalan and Occitan cognate of Roach.

From the Germanic name Hrodger meaning "famous spear", derived from the elements hruod "fame" and ger "spear". The Normans brought this name to England, where it replaced the Old English cognate Hroðgar (the name of the Danish king in the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf). It was a common name in England during the Middle Ages. By the 18th century it was rare, but it was revived in following years. The name was borne by the Norman lords Roger I, who conquered Sicily in the 11th century, and his son Roger II, who ruled Sicily as a king.

This name was very popular in France in the first half of the 20th century. In the English-speaking world it was popular especially from the 1930s to the 50s. Famous bearers include British actor Roger Moore (1927-2017) and Swiss tennis player Roger Federer (1981-).

Derived from the given name Roger.

Japanese name meaning "White crest of the wave".

Variant of Rosabel.

Variant of Rosaline. James Clarence Mangan used it as a translation for Róisín in his poem Dark Rosaleen (1846).

Late Latin name derived from rosa "rose". This was the name of a 12th-century Sicilian saint.

Medieval variant of Rosalind.

Latinate form of Rosalind.

Variant of Rosalyn.

Polish and Romanian form of Rosalia.

From Esperanto rubeno meaning "ruby", ultimately from Latin ruber "red".

Feminine form of Rumen.

From the Hebrew name רוּת (Ruṯ), probably derived from the word רְעוּת (reʿuṯ) meaning "female friend". This is the name of the central character in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament. She was a Moabite woman who accompanied her mother-in-law Naomi back to Bethlehem after Ruth's husband died. There she met and married Boaz. She was an ancestor of King David.

As a Christian name, Ruth has been in use since the Protestant Reformation. In England it was associated with the archaic word ruth meaning "pity, compassion" (now only commonly seen in the word ruthless). The name became very popular in America following the birth of "Baby" Ruth Cleveland (1891-1904), the daughter of President Grover Cleveland.

Variant of Riley.

Derived from Latin sal meaning "salt". This was the name of the Roman goddess of salt water.

From the name of a biblical town, שָׁלֵם (Shalem) in Hebrew, meaning "complete, safe, peaceful". According to the Old Testament this was the town where Melchizedek was king. It is usually identified with Jerusalem. Many places are named after the biblical town, most in America, notably a city in Massachusetts where the infamous Salem witch trials occurred in 1692.

Apparently derived from Latin sana meaning "healthy".

Dutch and Danish short form of Susanna.

Alternate transcription of Arabic سنيّة (see Saniyya).

Alternate transcription of Kannada ಶಶಿ (see Shashi).

Originally given to a person from Scotland or a person who spoke Scottish Gaelic.

Italian, Spanish and Portuguese feminine form of Sebastianus (see Sebastian).

Norman form of Sibyl.

Turkish form of Safaa'.

Means "moon" in Greek. This was the name of a Greek goddess of the moon, a Titan. She was sometimes identified with the goddess Artemis.

French feminine form of Sergius.

Combination of the phonetic elements sha and neen.

Traditional name for the moon, it literally means "having a hare" in Sanskrit. This is a transcription of both the masculine form शशि and the feminine form शशी (spelled with a long final vowel).

Means "southern people" in the Algonquin language. The Shawnee were an Algonquin tribe who originally lived in the Ohio valley.

Alternate transcription of Arabic شيماء (see Shaima).

Alternate transcription of Shila.

From an English surname that was originally derived from a place name meaning "clearing on a bank" in Old English. Two famous bearers of the surname were Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), a romantic poet whose works include Adonais and Ozymandias, and Mary Shelley (1797-1851), his wife, the author of the horror story Frankenstein. As a feminine given name, it came into general use after the 1940s.

Variant of Shirley.