SaveroftheFranks's Personal Name List
Abaddon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: אֲבַדּוֹן(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: ə-BAD-ən(English)
Means
"ruin, destruction" in Hebrew. In Revelation in the
New Testament this is another name of the angel of the abyss.
Abbès
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic (Maghrebi)
Other Scripts: عباس(Arabic)
Pronounced: A-BEHS(French)
Variant of
Abbes influenced by French orthography.
Abdelaziz
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic (Maghrebi)
Other Scripts: عبد العزيز(Arabic)
Abdelbaki
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic (Maghrebi)
Other Scripts: عبد الباقي(Arabic)
Alternate transcription of Arabic عبد الباقي (see
Abd al-Baqi) chiefly used in North Africa.
Abdelhak
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic (Maghrebi)
Other Scripts: عبد الحقّ(Arabic)
Abdelhamid
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic (Maghrebi)
Other Scripts: عبد الحميد(Arabic)
Abdelkader
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic (Maghrebi)
Other Scripts: عبد القادر(Arabic)
Pronounced: ‘ab-dool-KA-deer(Arabic) AB-DEHL-KA-DEHR(French)
Abiel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: אֲבִיאֵל(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: AY-bee-əl(English)
Means
"God is my father" in Hebrew, from
אָב (ʾav) meaning "father" and
אֵל (ʾel) meaning "God". This was the name of the grandfather of
Saul according to the
Old Testament.
Achilleas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Αχιλλέας(Greek)
Pronounced: a-khee-LEH-as
Adelchi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Rare), Lombardic (Italianized), Theatre
Pronounced: a-DEHL-kee(Italian)
Italian form of
Adelgis. Adelchi was an associate king of the Lombards from August 759, reigning with his father, Desiderius, until their deposition in June 774. He is also remembered today as the hero of the play
Adelchi (1822) by Alessandro Manzoni.
Adeodatus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Late Roman
Latin name meaning
"given by God". This was the name of a son of
Saint Augustine and two popes (who are also known by the related name
Deusdedit).
Aderyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh (Rare)
Means "bird" in Welsh. This is a modern Welsh name.
Adler
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: AD-lər
From a German surname meaning "eagle".
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.
Agrafena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Аграфена(Russian)
Pronounced: u-gru-FYEH-nə
Agrippa
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman, Biblical
Pronounced: ə-GRIP-ə(English)
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.
Ahmed
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Turkish, Bosnian, Dhivehi, Bengali, Arabic, Urdu, Pashto
Other Scripts: އަޙްމަދު(Dhivehi) আহমেদ(Bengali) أحمد(Arabic) احمد(Urdu, Pashto)
Pronounced: ah-MEHD(Turkish) AH-mad(Arabic) UH-məd(Urdu)
Variant of
Ahmad. This was the name of three Ottoman sultans.
Ajay
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil
Other Scripts: अजय(Hindi, Marathi) અજય(Gujarati) অজয়(Bengali) అజయ్(Telugu) ಅಜಯ್(Kannada) അജയ്(Malayalam) அஜய்(Tamil)
Means
"unconquered", from Sanskrit
अ (a) meaning "not" and
जय (jaya) meaning "victory, conquest".
Alahis
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Lombardic
The name of a 7th-century Lombard king.
Aldona
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Lithuanian, Polish
Pronounced: ul-do-NU(Lithuanian) al-DAW-na(Polish)
Meaning unknown. This was the name of a 14th-century Polish queen, the daughter of a Grand Duke of Lithuania.
Aldus
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Medieval English
Alexina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: al-ik-SEE-nə
Algernon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AL-jər-nən
Originally a Norman French nickname, derived from aux gernons "having a moustache", which was applied to William de Percy, a companion of William the Conqueror. It was first used a given name in the 15th century (for a descendant of William de Percy). This name was borne by a character (a mouse) in the short story Flowers for Algernon (1958) and novel of the same title (1966) by the American author Daniel Keyes.
Aliénor
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: A-LYEH-NAWR
Alienòr
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Occitan
Almut
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German
Aloara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Lombardic
Etymology unknown. This was the name of a 10th-century princess regnant of Capua.
Alparslan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Turkish, Azerbaijani
From Turkish alp meaning "brave" and arslan meaning "lion", referring to the 11th-century Seljuk sultan Alp Arslan, who expanded the Seljuk Empire into Anatolia.
Alpaslan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Turkish
Altansarnai
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Mongolian
Other Scripts: Алтансарнай(Mongolian Cyrillic)
Alte 2
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Frisian
Originally a short form of names beginning with the Old German element
alt meaning
"old".
Alter
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Yiddish
Other Scripts: אַלטער(Yiddish) אלתר(Hebrew)
From Yiddish
אַלט (alt) meaning
"old". This name was traditionally given to a sickly newborn by Jewish parents in order to confuse the Angel of Death, in the hopes that he would go looking for somebody younger or somebody else.
Amel 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic (Maghrebi)
Other Scripts: آمال(Arabic)
Pronounced: a-MAL(Arabic) A-MEHL(French)
Alternate transcription of Arabic
آمال (see
Aamaal) chiefly used in North Africa.
Amias
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
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.
Amine 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic (Maghrebi)
Other Scripts: أمين(Arabic)
Pronounced: a-MEEN(Arabic) A-MEEN(French)
Alternate transcription of Arabic
أمين (see
Amin) chiefly used in North Africa.
Amis
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval English, Medieval French
Medieval name, a masculine form of
Amice. It appears in the medieval French poem
Amis and Amiles, about two friends who make sacrifices for one another.
Anatole
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: A-NA-TAWL
Anatoli
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian, Ukrainian, Georgian
Other Scripts: Анатолий(Russian) Анатолій(Ukrainian) ანატოლი(Georgian)
Pronounced: u-nu-TO-lyee(Russian) u-nu-TAW-lyee(Ukrainian) A-NA-TAW-LEE(Georgian)
Ansoald
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic [1]
Aretha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ə-REE-thə
Possibly derived from Greek
ἀρετή (arete) meaning
"virtue". This name was popularized in the 1960s by American singer Aretha Franklin (1942-2018).
Aries
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Astronomy
Pronounced: A-ree-ehs(Latin) EHR-eez(English)
Means
"ram" in Latin. This is the name of a constellation and the first sign of the zodiac. Some Roman legends state that the ram in the constellation was the one who supplied the Golden Fleece sought by
Jason.
Aristocles
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἀριστοκλῆς(Ancient Greek)
Latinized form of the Greek name
Ἀριστοκλῆς (Aristokles) meaning
"the best glory", derived from
ἄριστος (aristos) meaning "best" and
κλέος (kleos) meaning "glory". This was the real name of the philosopher
Plato.
Ariston
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Ἀρίστων(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: A-REES-TAWN
Arline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ahr-LEEN
Meaning unknown, possibly invented by Michael William Balfe for the main character in his opera The Bohemian Girl (1843).
Arsaces
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Persian (Latinized), Parthian (Latinized)
Other Scripts: 𐎠𐎼𐏁𐎣(Old Persian) 𐭀𐭓𐭔𐭊(Parthian)
Latinized form of
Ἀρσάκης (Arsakes), the Greek form of Old Persian
𐎠𐎼𐏁𐎣 (Aršaka) or Parthian
𐭀𐭓𐭔𐭊 (Arshak), perhaps a
diminutive of Old Persian
𐎠𐎼𐏁𐎠𐎴 (aršan) meaning
"hero". This name was borne by two rulers of Parthia, including the first king (3rd century BC).
Arsames
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Persian (Hellenized), History
Other Scripts: Ἀρσάμης(Ancient Greek)
Hellenized form of
Aršāma. This was the name of the paternal grandfather of Darius the Great, who possibly may briefly have been King of Persia.
Arslan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Turkish, Turkmen
Turkish variant and Turkmen form of
Aslan.
Arslanbaatar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Mongolian
Other Scripts: Арсланбаатар(Mongolian Cyrillic)
From Mongolian арслан
(arslan) meaning "lion" and баатар
(baatar) meaning "hero".
Arslanbek
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Kyrgyz, Kazakh, Turkmen (Rare), Uzbek (Rare)
Other Scripts: Арсланбек(Kyrgyz, Kazakh, Turkmen Cyrillic, Uzbek Cyrillic)
Derived from the Turkic noun
arslan meaning "lion" (see
Aslan) combined with the Turkish military title
beg meaning "chieftain, master".
Notable bearers of this name include the Turkmen boxer Arslanbek Açilow (b. 1993) and Arslanbek Sultanbekov (b. 1965), a Nogai folk musician and poet.
Arushi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hinduism, Hindi
Other Scripts: अरुषी, आरुषी, आरुषि(Sanskrit, Hindi)
From Sanskrit
अरुष (aruṣa) meaning
"reddish, dawn", a word used in the
Rigveda to describe the red horses of
Agni. According to some traditions this was the name of the wife of the legendary sage Chyavana.
Asiya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic, Urdu
Other Scripts: آسيا, آسية(Arabic) آسیہ(Urdu)
Pronounced: A-see-ya(Arabic)
Possibly from Arabic
أسي (ʾasiya) meaning
"to be distressed, to be grieved" [1]. According to Islamic tradition this was the name of the wife of the pharaoh at the time of
Moses. She took care of the infant Moses and later accepted monotheism.
Aşkin
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Turkish
Means "controlling, prevailing" or "dominant" in Turkish.
Aslan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Turkish, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Chechen, Ossetian, Circassian, Literature
Other Scripts: Аслан(Kazakh, Chechen, Ossetian) Аслъан(Western Circassian) Аслъэн(Eastern Circassian)
Pronounced: as-LAN(Turkish)
From Turkic arslan meaning "lion". This was a byname or title borne by several medieval Turkic rulers, including the Seljuk sultan Alp Arslan (a byname meaning "brave lion") who drove the Byzantines from Anatolia in the 11th century. The author C. S. Lewis later used the name Aslan for the main protagonist (a lion) in his Chronicles of Narnia series of books, first appearing in 1950.
Aslaug
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norwegian
Derived from the Old Norse elements
áss meaning "god" and
laug possibly meaning "vowed, promised, bound in oath".
Assia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic (Maghrebi)
Other Scripts: آسيا, آسية(Arabic)
Pronounced: A-see-ya(Arabic) A-SYA(French)
Alternate transcription of Arabic
آسيا or
آسية (see
Asiya) chiefly used in North Africa.
Asteria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἀστερία(Ancient Greek)
Asterios
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1], Greek Mythology, Greek
Other Scripts: Ἀστέριος(Ancient Greek) Αστέριος(Greek)
Asterius
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized), Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἀστέριος(Ancient Greek)
Latinized form of Greek
Ἀστέριος (Asterios) meaning
"starry", a derivative of
ἀστήρ (aster) meaning "star". This is the name of several figures from Greek
mythology. It was also borne by a few early
saints.
Astraea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἀστραία(Ancient Greek)
Latinized form of the Greek
Ἀστραία (Astraia), derived from Greek
ἀστήρ (aster) meaning
"star". Astraea was a Greek goddess of justice and innocence. After wickedness took root in the world she left the earth and became the constellation Virgo.
Astride
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: AS-TREED
Atkin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval English
Atticus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature, Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἀττικός(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: AT-i-kəs(English)
Latinized form of Greek
Ἀττικός (Attikos) meaning
"from Attica", referring to the region surrounding Athens in Greece. This name was borne by a few notable Greeks from the Roman period (or Romans of Greek background). The author Harper Lee used the name in her novel
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) for an Alabama lawyer who defends a black man accused of raping a white woman.
Auguste 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: O-GUYST
French form of
Augustus. A notable bearer was the philosopher Auguste Comte (1798-1857).
Auriwandalo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Lombardic, History
Lombardic cognate of
Earendel. The name is attested as the name of a historical Lombardic prince.
Austin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AWS-tin
Medieval contracted form of
Augustine 1. Modern use of the name is probably also partly inspired by the common surname
Austin, which is of the same origin. This is also the name of a city in Texas.
Authari
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Lombardic
Possibly formed from elements which correspond to the Old High German words
ot "wealth, riches" and
heri "host, army". This was the name of a 6th-century Lombard king.
Avelin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval English
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].
Aviel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אֲבִיאֵל(Hebrew)
Modern Hebrew form of
Abiel.
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.
Barnaby
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (British)
Pronounced: BAH-nə-bee(British English) BAHR-nə-bee(American English)
English form of
Barnabas, originally a medieval vernacular form.
Bartal
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hungarian (Rare)
Pronounced: BAWR-tawl
Bartel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch
Pronounced: BAHR-təl
Bartol
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Croatian
Bartolo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Bartolomeo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: bar-to-lo-MEH-o
Bartomeu
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Catalan
Pronounced: bər-too-MEW
Catalan form of
Bartholomew, most common on the Balearic Islands.
Bastet
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Egyptian Mythology
Pronounced: BAS-teht(English)
From Egyptian
bꜣstt, which was possibly derived from
bꜣs meaning
"ointment jar" and a feminine
t suffix. In Egyptian
mythology Bastet was a goddess of cats, fertility and the sun who was considered a protector of Lower Egypt. In early times she was typically depicted with the head of a lioness. By the New Kingdom period she was more associated with domestic cats, while the similar cat goddess
Sekhmet took on the fierce lioness aspect.
Bate
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval English
Bedivere
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh Mythology, Arthurian Cycle
From the Welsh name
Bedwyr, possibly from
bedwen "birch" and
gwr "man". In Arthurian legends Bedivere was one of the original companions of King
Arthur. He first appears in early Welsh tales, and his story was later expanded by Geoffrey of Monmouth in the 12th century. He is the one who throws the sword Excalibur into the lake at the request of the dying Arthur.
Bekhan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Chechen
Other Scripts: Бекхан(Chechen)
Bekkhan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Chechen, Ingush
Other Scripts: Бекхан(Chechen, Ingush)
Pronounced: byik-KHAN(Russian)
From the Turkish military title
beg meaning "chieftain, master" combined with the Turkic title
khan meaning "ruler, leader".
Belarmino
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Galician, Portuguese
Spanish, Galician and Portuguese form of
Bellarmino, the original Italian surname of Saint Roberto Bellarmine (1542-1621), a cardinal who is regarded as a Doctor of the Church. His surname meant "well-armed" from Italian.
Benedet
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Aragonese, Lombard
Ber
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Yiddish
Other Scripts: בער(Yiddish) בֶר(Hebrew)
Pronounced: BEHR
Means
"bear" in Yiddish, a vernacular form of
Dov.
Bercario
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Berchaire
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French, Medieval French, History (Ecclesiastical)
Berk
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Turkish
Means "solid, firm, strong" in Turkish.
Berko
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Jewish, Yiddish
Pronounced: BEAR-ko(Jewish)
Bertalan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hungarian
Pronounced: BEHR-taw-lawn
Bertarid
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic
Bertók
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hungarian (Rare)
Pronounced: BEHR-tok
Bertrid
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic
Derived from Old High German beraht "bright" combined with Anglo-Saxon ridan "to ride."
Bianka
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Hungarian, Polish
Pronounced: bee-ANG-ka(German) BEE-awng-kaw(Hungarian) BYANG-ka(Polish)
German, Hungarian and Polish form of
Bianca.
Björne
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish
Pronounced: BYUUR-neh
Blanche
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, English
Pronounced: BLAHNSH(French) BLANCH(English)
From a medieval French nickname meaning
"white, fair-coloured". This word and its cognates in other languages are ultimately derived from the Germanic word *
blankaz. An early bearer was the 12th-century Blanca of Navarre, the wife of Sancho III of Castile. Her granddaughter of the same name married Louis VIII of France, with the result that the name became more common in France.
Blanka
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Czech, Slovak, Polish, Hungarian, Croatian, Slovene
Pronounced: BLANG-ka(Czech, Slovak, Croatian) BLAN-ka(Polish) BLAWNG-kaw(Hungarian)
Form of
Blanche in several languages.
Bohort
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arthurian Cycle
Bonaventura
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Catalan
Pronounced: baw-na-vehn-TOO-ra(Italian)
Means
"good fortune" in Italian, from Latin
bonus "good" and
venturas "the things that will come, the future".
Saint Bonaventura was a 13th-century Franciscan monk who is considered a Doctor of the Church.
Bonaventure
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French, History (Ecclesiastical)
Pronounced: BAW-NA-VAHN-TUYR(French) bahn-ə-VEHN-chər(English)
French and English form of
Bonaventura. As a French name it is most common in Francophone Africa, while as an English name it is mostly used in reference to the
saint.
Bonnet
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval French
Braden
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BRAY-dən
From an Irish surname, an Anglicized form of
Ó Bradáin, which was in turn derived from the byname
Bradán. Like other similar-sounding names such as
Hayden and
Aidan, it and its variant
Brayden became popular in America at the end of the 20th century.
Bradford
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BRAD-fərd
From an English surname that originally came from a place name that meant "broad ford" in Old English.
Bradley
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BRAD-lee
From an English surname that originally came from a place name meaning "broad clearing" in Old English. A famous bearer of the surname was the World War II American general Omar Bradley (1893-1981).
Brady
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BRAY-dee
From an Irish surname, an Anglicized form of
Ó Brádaigh, itself derived from the byname
Brádach. A famous bearer of the surname is the American football quarterback Tom Brady (1977-). It was also borne by a fictional family on the television series
The Brady Bunch (1969-1974).
Branca
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese, Galician
Pronounced: BRUN-ku(Portuguese) BRAN-ku(Galician)
Portuguese and Galician form of
Blanche.
Brody
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BRO-dee
From a Scottish surname that was originally derived from a place in Moray, Scotland. It probably means "ditch, mire" in Gaelic.
Brooke
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BRUWK
Variant of
Brook. The name came into use in the 1950s, probably influenced by American socialite Brooke Astor (1902-2007). It was further popularized by actress Brooke Shields (1965-).
Bryant
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BRIE-ənt
From an English surname that was derived from the given name
Brian.
Cahal
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish
Callum
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish
Pronounced: KAL-əm
Calum
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish Gaelic
Pronounced: KAL-əm
Calvino
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: kal-VEE-no
Caprice
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: kə-PREES
From the English word meaning "impulse", ultimately (via French) from Italian capriccio.
Carter
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KAHR-tər
From an English surname that meant "one who uses a cart". A famous bearer of the surname is former American president Jimmy Carter (1924-).
Chedorlaomer
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: כְּדָרְלָעֹ֫מֶר(Ancient Hebrew)
Means "a handful of sheaves." He is a king of Elam in the book of Genesis.
Chester
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: CHEHS-tər
From an English surname that originally belonged to a person who came from Chester, an old Roman settlement in Britain. The name of the settlement came from Latin castrum "camp, fortress".
Chetan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Kannada
Other Scripts: चेतन(Hindi, Marathi) ચેતન(Gujarati) ಚೇತನ್(Kannada)
From Sanskrit
चेतन (cetana) meaning
"visible, conscious, soul".
Chloë
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch, English
Pronounced: KLO-ee(English)
Dutch form and English variant of
Chloe.
Chrétien
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French (Archaic)
Pronounced: KREH-TYEHN
Medieval French form of
Christian. A famous bearer of this name was the 12th-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes, known for his Arthurian romances.
Chrysa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Χρύσα(Greek)
Ciar
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Irish, Irish Mythology, Old Irish [1]
Pronounced: KEER(Irish)
Derived from Irish
ciar meaning
"black". In Irish legend Ciar was a son of
Fergus mac Róich and
Medb, and the ancestor of the tribe of the Ciarraige (after whom County Kerry is named). As a feminine name, it was borne by an Irish nun (also called
Ciara) who established a monastery in Tipperary in the 7th century.
Clair
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French, English
Pronounced: KLEHR
French form of
Clarus (see
Clara).
Claire
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, English
Pronounced: KLEHR
French form of
Clara. This was a common name in France throughout the 20th century, though it has since been eclipsed there by
Clara. It was also very popular in the United Kingdom, especially in the 1970s.
Clare
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KLEHR, KLAR
Medieval English form of
Clara. The preferred spelling in the English-speaking world is now the French form
Claire, though
Clare has been fairly popular in the United Kingdom and Australia.
This is also the name of an Irish county, which was itself probably derived from Irish clár meaning "plank, level surface".
Cleph
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Lombardic
6th-century Lombard king, the father of
Authari.
Clodagh
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: KLAW-də
From the Clodiagh, a small river in County Waterford, Ireland. It was first used as a given name by Clodagh Beresford (1879-1957), daughter of the Marquess of Waterford.
Coleman
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish, English
Pronounced: KOL-mən(English)
Colmán
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish, Old Irish [1]
Colmane
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Manx
Cormac
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish Mythology, Irish
From Old Irish
Cormacc or
Corbmac, of uncertain meaning, possibly from
corb "chariot, wagon" or
corbbad "defilement, corruption" combined with
macc "son". This is the name of several characters from Irish legend, including the semi-legendary high king Cormac mac Airt who supposedly ruled in the 3rd century, during the adventures of the hero
Fionn mac Cumhaill. This name was also borne by a few early
saints.
Demelza
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (British, Rare)
Pronounced: də-MEHL-zə
From a Cornish place name meaning "fort of Maeldaf". It has been used as a given name since the middle of the 20th century. It was popularized in the 1970s by a character from the British television series Poldark, which was set in Cornwall.
Déodat
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French (Rare)
Pronounced: DEH-O-DA
Deodato
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Portuguese
Deodatus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Late Roman
Deusdedit
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Late Roman
Latin name meaning
"God has given". This was the name of two popes (who are also known by the related name
Adeodatus). This is a Latin translation of
Theodore.
Devin
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DEHV-in
From a surname, either the Irish surname
Devin 1 or the English surname
Devin 2.
Devon
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DEHV-ən
Variant of
Devin. It may also be partly inspired by the name of the county of Devon in England, which got its name from the Dumnonii, a Celtic tribe.
Dietrich
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German
Pronounced: DEET-rikh
German form of
Theodoric. The character Dietrich von Bern, loosely based on Theodoric the Great, appears in medieval German literature such as the
Hildebrandslied, the
Nibelungenlied and the
Eckenlied.
Dieudonné
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: DYUU-DAW-NEH
Means
"given by God" in French, used as a French form of
Deusdedit. It is currently much more common in French-speaking Africa than it is in France.
Dimas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: DEE-mas(Spanish)
Spanish and Portuguese form of
Dismas.
Diodato
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Diosdado
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: dyoz-DHA-dho
Ditmar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Danish (Rare), Swedish (Rare), Norwegian (Archaic), Silesian
Scandinavian variant and Silesian form of
Dietmar.
Donat
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish, French (Rare)
Pronounced: DAW-nat(Polish) DAW-NA(French)
Polish and French form of
Donatus (see
Donato).
Driscoll
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: DRIS-kəl
From an Irish surname that was an Anglicized form of Ó hEidirsceóil meaning "descendant of the messenger".
Drystan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Earendel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Anglo-Saxon Mythology
Old English cognate of the Germanic name
Auriwandalo, from Proto-Germanic *
Auziwandilaz, composed of *
auzi "dawn" and *
wandilaz "wandering, fluctuating, variable". Ēarendel occurs in the Old English poem
Christ I as a personification of the morning star; the following couplet (from lines 104-5, translated from the Old English) influenced J. R. R. Tolkien's portrayal of Middle-earth and his character
Earendil: "Hail Earendel brightest of angels, / over Middle Earth sent to men."
Edel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish
In Ireland this name is given in honour of the Irish missionary Edel Quinn (1907-1944). She was named after the edelweiss flower (species Leontopodium alpinum), which is derived from German edel "noble" and weiß "white".
Ediva
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English
Medieval form of the Old English name
Eadgifu.
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.
Eidel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Yiddish (Rare)
Other Scripts: איידל(Yiddish)
Means "delicate" in Yiddish.
Eitan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אֵיתָן(Hebrew)
Modern Hebrew form of
Ethan.
Eivind
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norwegian
Elaine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Arthurian Cycle
Pronounced: i-LAYN(English) ee-LAYN(English)
From an Old French form of
Helen. It appears in Arthurian legend; in Thomas Malory's 15th-century compilation
Le Morte d'Arthur Elaine was the daughter of
Pelles, the lover of
Lancelot, and the mother of
Galahad. It was not commonly used as an English given name until after the publication of Alfred Tennyson's Arthurian epic
Idylls of the King (1859).
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.
Engelbert
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: ENG-əl-behrt(German)
Old German name composed of either the element
angil, from the name of the Germanic tribe of the Angles, or
engil meaning "angel" combined with
beraht meaning "bright".
Saint Engelbert was a 13th-century archbishop of Cologne murdered by assassins.
Engelhard
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic, Dutch, German
Enide
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arthurian Cycle
Ephialtes
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἐφιάλτης(Ancient Greek)
Means "nightmare" in Greek; said to literally mean "he who jumps upon" due to its association with the verb ἐφάλλομαι
(ephallomai) "to jump at, to throw oneself onto somebody" (itself from ἐπι-
(epi-) "on, upon" and ἅλλομαι
(hallomai) "to leap, to jump"), but possibly related to ἠπίαλος
(epialos) meaning "ague, fever". In Greek mythology this is the name of a giant who is one of the Aloidae, a son of
Aloeus and brother of
Otus. Ephialtes also appears in
Dante's
Inferno (14th century), where he is chained in a great pit that separates the eighth and ninth circles of Hell.
Erebus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἔρεβος(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: EHR-ə-bəs(English)
Latinized form of the Greek
Ἔρεβος (Erebos), which means
"nether darkness". Erebus was the personification of the primordial darkness in Greek
mythology.
Eren
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Turkish
Pronounced: eh-REHN
Means
"saint, holy person" in Turkish.
Erfan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Persian
Other Scripts: عرفان(Persian)
Pronounced: ehr-FAWN
Errol
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHR-əl
From a Scottish surname that was originally derived from village by this name in Perthshire. It was popularized as a given name by the Australian actor Errol Flynn (1909-1959).
Esmé
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHZ-may, EHZ-mee
Means "esteemed" or "loved" in Old French. It was first recorded in Scotland, being borne by the first Duke of Lennox in the 16th century. It is now more common as a feminine name.
Étienne
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: EH-TYEHN(European French) EH-TSYEHN(Quebec French)
Eveline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, French, Dutch
Pronounced: EHV-ə-leen(English) EHV-ə-lien(English) EHV-LEEN(French) eh-və-LEE-nə(Dutch) eh-və-LEEN(Dutch)
Evelyn
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English, German
Pronounced: EHV-ə-lin(English) EEV-lin(British English) EEV-ə-lin(British English) EH-və-leen(German)
From an English surname that was derived from the given name
Aveline. In the 17th century when it was first used as a given name it was more common for boys, but it is now regarded as almost entirely feminine, probably in part because of its similarity to
Eve and
Evelina.
This name was popular throughout the English-speaking world in the early 20th century. It staged a comeback in the early 21st century, returning to the American top ten in 2017.
Évelyne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: EHV-LEEN
Even
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norwegian
Eysteinn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Norse [1][2], Icelandic
Derived from the Old Norse elements
ey meaning "island" or "good fortune" and
steinn meaning "stone".
Farah
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Malay
Other Scripts: فرح(Arabic, Persian, Urdu)
Pronounced: FA-rah(Arabic)
Means
"joy, happiness" in Arabic, from the root
فرح (fariḥa) meaning "to be happy".
Farhad
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Persian
Other Scripts: فرهاد(Persian)
Pronounced: far-HAWD
From Parthian
𐭐𐭓𐭇𐭕 (Frahat) meaning
"gained, earned" [1]. This was the name of several rulers of the Parthian Empire. Their names are often spelled
Phraates after the Hellenized form
Φραάτης.
Farquhar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish
Ferhat
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Turkish
Finley
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: FIN-lee
Variant of
Finlay. This is by far the preferred spelling in the United States, where it has lately been more common as a feminine name.
Flandrin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arthurian Cycle
A knight of Arthur’s court who fought against the rebellious kings and the Saxons.
Fleur
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, Dutch, English (British)
Pronounced: FLUUR(French, Dutch) FLU(British English) FLUR(American English)
Means
"flower" in French.
Saint Fleur of Issendolus (
Flor in Gascon) was a 14th-century nun from Maurs, France. This was also the name of a character in John Galsworthy's novels
The Forsyte Saga (1922).
Foster 2
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: FAWS-tər
English form of
Vaast, referring to
Saint Vedastus.
Frahat
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Parthian
Other Scripts: 𐭐𐭓𐭇𐭕(Parthian)
Fraser
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish, English (Rare)
Pronounced: FRAY-zər(English)
From a Scottish surname, originally Norman French de Fresel, possibly from a lost place name in France.
Friso
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Frisian
Refers to a member of the ethnic group, the Frisians, a Germanic tribe of northwestern Europe. Friesland in the Netherlands is named for them.
Frohmut
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: German (Rare)
Pronounced: FROH-moot
The name is formed from the German word
froh "glad; happy, merry" and the name element
MUT "courage; valour; boldness". The name element
MUT can be used both for masculine names (like
Hartmut) and feminine names (like
Almut).
Fromaro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Fromental
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French (Archaic)
Pronounced: FRAW-MAHN-TAL
Derived from the French adjective
fromental meaning "of wheat", which ultimately comes from the Latin adjective
frumentalis meaning "of corn, of grain".
A notable bearer of this name was the French composer Fromental Halévy (1799-1862).
Fromolt
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German (Archaic)
Fromond
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French (Archaic), History (Ecclesiastical)
Fromundo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Fruma
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Yiddish
Other Scripts: פֿרומאַ, פֿרומע(Yiddish)
From Yiddish
פֿרום (frum) meaning
"pious". This is the name of a character (appearing as a ghost) in the musical
Fiddler on the Roof (1964).
Gaëtan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: GA-EH-TAHN
French form of
Caietanus (see
Gaetano).
Galahad
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arthurian Cycle
Pronounced: GAL-ə-had(English)
From earlier
Galaad, likely derived from the Old French form of the biblical place name
Gilead. In Arthurian legend Sir Galahad was the son of
Lancelot and
Elaine. He was the most pure of the Knights of the Round Table, and he was the only one to succeed in finding the Holy Grail. He first appears in the 13th-century French
Lancelot-Grail Cycle.
Galasso
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval Italian
Variant form of
Galeazzo. Known Italian bearers of this name include the military leader Galasso da Montefeltro (died in 1300), the painter Galasso Galassi (c. 1420-1473) and the architect Galasso Alghisi (1523-1573).
Galeazzo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: ga-leh-AT-tso
Galehaut
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arthurian Cycle
Meaning unknown. However, like many given names from Arthurian legend, this name is probably of Celtic origin (either Breton or Welsh, to be precise). It was subsequently gallicized and due to this, it is sometimes thought to be connected to Middle French
hault (which is
haut in modern French) meaning "high, elevated".
In Arthurian legend, Galehaut was a knight (sometimes referred to as the High Prince) who was the son of a giantess. He was a good friend of Lancelot and loved him so dearly that he made many sacrifices for him, which ultimately led to his death.
Needless to say, Galehaut is not to be confused with Sir Galahad, even though their names are quite similar in appearance.
Galeotto
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval Italian
Italian form of
Galehaut, as it appeared in the fifth canto of Dante Alighieri's
Inferno (written between 1308 and 1320) and Giovanni Boccaccio's
The Decameron (written between 1348 and 1353). Also compare the somewhat similar-looking name
Galeazzo.
A known Italian bearer of this name was the medieval military leader Galeotto I Malatesta (1299-1385).
Gambara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Lombardic
Possibly derives from the Old High German *gand-bera or gand-bara meaning "wand-bearer" (a term for seeresses or women that made prophecies). Another possible origin is from the Old High German gambar meaning "strenuous".
Gaston
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: GAS-TAWN
Possibly from a Germanic name derived from the element
gast meaning
"guest, stranger". This is the usual French name for
Saint Vedastus, called
Vaast in Flemish. The name was also borne by several counts of Foix-Béarn, beginning in the 13th century.
Gastone
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ga-STO-neh
Gauthier
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: GO-TYEH
Ghisleno
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: geez-LE-no
Italian form of
Ghislain, used sporadically in central and northern Italy.
Ghyslain
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French (Rare)
Pronounced: ZHEES-LEHN, GEE-LEHN
Ghyslaine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: ZHEES-LEHN, GEE-LEHN
Giffard
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: GIF-ərd
From the English and French surname
Giffard. Walter Giffard was one of the Norman companions of William the Conqueror.
Gilead
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: גִּלְעָד(Ancient Hebrew)
From an
Old Testament place name meaning
"heap of witness" in Hebrew. This is a mountainous region east of the Jordan River. Besides being a place name, it is also borne by people in the Bible.
Giles
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JIELZ
From the Late Latin name
Aegidius, which is derived from Greek
αἰγίδιον (aigidion) meaning
"young goat".
Saint Giles was an 8th-century miracle worker who came to southern France from Greece. He is regarded as the patron saint of the crippled. In Old French the name
Aegidius became
Gidie and then
Gilles, at which point it was imported to England. Another famous bearer was the 13th-century philosopher and theologian Giles of Rome (
Egidio in Italian).
Gislenus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic (Latinized)
Latinized form of
Gislin (see
Ghislain).
Goddard
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: GAHD-ərd
From an English and French surname that was derived from the Old German given name
Godehard.
Godehoc
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Lombardic
Godehoc was a Lombardic king of the Lething Dynasty, during the 480s. He led the Lombards into modern-day Austria.
Gregor
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Scottish, Slovak, Slovene
Pronounced: GREH-go(German) GREH-gawr(Slovak)
German, Scottish, Slovak and Slovene form of
Gregorius (see
Gregory). A famous bearer was Gregor Mendel (1822-1884), a Czech monk and scientist who did experiments in genetics.
Griffin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: GRIF-in
Latinized form of
Gruffudd. This name can also be inspired by the English word
griffin, a creature with the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle, ultimately from Greek
γρύψ (gryps).
Gunnlaug
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Old Norse, Norwegian, Icelandic
Derived from the Old Norse elements gunnr "battle, fight" and laug "to celebrate marriage, to swear a holy oath".
Guy 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French
Pronounced: GIE(English) GEE(French)
Old French form of
Wido. The
Normans introduced it to England, where it was common until the time of Guy Fawkes (1570-1606), a revolutionary who attempted to blow up the British parliament. The name was revived in the 19th century, due in part to characters in the novels
Guy Mannering (1815) by Walter Scott and
The Heir of Redclyffe (1854) by C. M. Yonge.
Gwendolen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: GWEHN-də-lin(English)
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).
Gwendoline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh, English (British), French
Pronounced: GWEHN-də-lin(British English) GWEHN-DAW-LEEN(French)
Gyles
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: JIELZ
Gyuri
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hungarian
Pronounced: GYOO-ree
Habib
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic, Persian, Urdu
Other Scripts: حبيب(Arabic) حبیب(Persian, Urdu)
Pronounced: ha-BEEB(Arabic)
Means "beloved, darling" in Arabic.
Hadi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Indonesian
Other Scripts: هادي(Arabic) هادی(Persian)
Pronounced: HA-dee(Arabic, Indonesian)
Means
"leader, guide" in Arabic, from the root
هدى (hadā) meaning "to lead the right way, to guide".
Hamid 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic, Persian, Pashto, Urdu, Uzbek, Malay, Bosnian
Other Scripts: حميد(Arabic, Pashto) حمید(Persian, Urdu) Ҳамид(Uzbek)
Pronounced: ha-MEED(Arabic, Persian)
Means
"praiseworthy" in Arabic, from the root
حمد (ḥamida) meaning "to praise". In Islamic tradition
الحميد (al-Ḥamīd) is one of the 99 names of Allah.
Hamoud
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: حمود(Arabic)
Derived from Arabic حَمِدَ
(ḥamida) meaning "to praise, to commend". It is etymologically related to
Muhammad,
Ahmad, and
Hamid 1.
Hayden
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: HAY-dən
From an English surname that was derived from place names meaning either
"hay valley" or
"hay hill", derived from Old English
heg "hay" and
denu "valley" or
dun "hill". Its popularity at the end of the 20th century was due to the sound it shared with other trendy names of the time, such as
Braden and
Aidan.
Haydn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (British)
Pronounced: HIE-dən
From a German surname meaning "heathen". It is used in honour of the Austrian composer Joseph Haydn (1732-1809).
Hedda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norwegian, Swedish
Pronounced: HEHD-dah
Diminutive of
Hedvig. This is the name of the heroine of the play
Hedda Gabler (1890) by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen.
Heddwyn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Derived from Welsh
hedd "peace" and
gwyn "white, blessed". This name has been given in honour of the poet Ellis Humphrey Evans (1887-1917), who used Hedd Wyn as his bardic name
[1].
Hédi 2
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic (Maghrebi)
Other Scripts: هادي(Arabic)
Alternate transcription of Arabic
هادي (see
Hadi) chiefly used in Tunisia (using French-influenced orthography).
Hedwig
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Dutch
Pronounced: HEHT-vikh(German)
From the Old German name
Hadewig, derived from the Old German elements
hadu "battle, combat" and
wig "war". This was the name of a 13th-century German
saint, the wife of the Polish duke Henry the Bearded. It was subsequently borne by a 14th-century Polish queen (usually known by her Polish name
Jadwiga) who is now also regarded as a saint.
Hengest
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Anglo-Saxon
Hevel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew [1]
Other Scripts: הֶבֶל(Hebrew)
Pronounced: HEH-vehl(Hebrew)
Higgin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval English
Hila
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: הִילָה(Hebrew)
Means
"halo, aura" in Hebrew, from the root
הָלַל (halal) meaning "to praise, to shine".
Hinata
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 日向, 陽向, 向日葵, etc.(Japanese Kanji) ひなた(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: KHEE-NA-TA
From Japanese
日向 (hinata) meaning "sunny place",
陽向 (hinata) meaning "toward the sun", or a non-standard reading of
向日葵 (himawari) meaning "sunflower". Other kanji compounds are also possible. Because of the irregular readings, this name is often written using the hiragana writing system.
Hraban
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic [1]
From an Old German byname derived from
hraban meaning
"raven".
Hrafn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Icelandic, Old Norse [1]
Pronounced: RAPN(Icelandic)
Means "raven" in Old Norse.
Hrefna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Icelandic, Old Norse [1]
Pronounced: REHP-na(Icelandic)
Huxley
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: HUKS-lee
From an English surname that was derived from the name of a town in Cheshire. The final element is Old English
leah "woodland, clearing", while the first element might be
hux "insult, scorn". A famous bearer of the surname was the British author Aldous Huxley (1894-1963).
Huyændon Ældar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ossetian Mythology
Other Scripts: Хуыӕндон Ӕлдар(Ossetian)
Means "Lord of the Strait" in Ossetian, probably referring to the present-day Strait of Kerch. Huyændon Ældar is the Ossetian lord of fish and a great magician and spirit.
Igino
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
İlhan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Turkish
From the Mongolian title
il-Khan meaning
"subordinate Khan", which was first adopted by Genghis Khan's grandson Hulagu, who ruled a kingdom called the Ilkhanate that stretched from modern Iran to eastern Turkey.
Ilyas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: إلياس(Arabic)
Pronounced: eel-YAS
Imane
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic (Maghrebi)
Other Scripts: إيمان(Arabic)
Pronounced: ee-MAN(Arabic) EE-MAN(French)
Alternate transcription of Arabic
إيمان (see
Iman) chiefly used in North Africa.
Imani
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Swahili, African American
Means
"faith" in Swahili, ultimately from Arabic
إيمان (ʾīmān).
Imberg
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Lombardic, Medieval English
Reduced variant form of
Ermenberga. This name was borne by a sister of Liutprand, King of the Lombards (8th century).
Imogen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (British)
Pronounced: IM-ə-jehn
The name of the daughter of King
Cymbeline in the play
Cymbeline (1609) by William Shakespeare. He based her on a legendary character named
Innogen, but it was printed incorrectly and never emended.
Innogen is probably derived from Gaelic
inghean meaning
"maiden". As a given name it is chiefly British and Australian.
Inna
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Russian, Ukrainian, History (Ecclesiastical)
Other Scripts: Инна(Russian) Інна(Ukrainian)
Pronounced: EEN-nə(Russian)
Meaning unknown. This was the name of an early Scythian
saint and martyr, a male, supposedly a disciple of Saint
Andrew.
Iser
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Yiddish (Rare)
Other Scripts: איסר(Yiddish)
Izan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish (Modern)
Pronounced: EE-than(European Spanish)
Spanish form of
Ethan, reflecting the English pronunciation.
Jafar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic, Persian
Other Scripts: جعفر(Arabic, Persian)
Pronounced: JA‘-far(Arabic) ja-FAR(Persian)
Means
"stream" in Arabic. Jafar ibn Abi Talib was a cousin of the Prophet
Muhammad who was killed fighting against Byzantium in the 7th century. Another notable bearer was Jafar al-Sadiq, the sixth Shia imam.
Jago
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Cornish
Jasper
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Dutch, Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend
Pronounced: JAS-pər(English) YAHS-pər(Dutch)
From Latin
Gaspar, perhaps from the Biblical Hebrew word
גִּזְבָּר (gizbar) meaning
"treasurer" [1], derived from Old Persian
ganzabarah. This name was traditionally assigned to one of the wise men (also known as the Magi, or three kings) who were said to have visited the newborn
Jesus. It has occasionally been used in the English-speaking world since the Middle Ages. The name can also be given in reference to the English word for the gemstone.
Jesper
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian
Pronounced: YEHS-bu(Danish) YEHS-pehr(Swedish)
Joakim
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Serbian, Macedonian
Other Scripts: Јоаким(Serbian, Macedonian)
Pronounced: YOO-a-kim(Swedish, Norwegian, Danish) YO-ah-keem(Finnish) YAW-a-keem(Macedonian)
Scandinavian, Macedonian and Serbian form of
Joachim.
Joar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norwegian, Swedish
Pronounced: YOO-ar(Swedish)
Modern form of the Old Norse name
Jóarr.
Jordanes
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Late Roman
The name of a 6th-century Roman author of Gothic background, who wrote a history of the Goths. His name is probably derived from that of the
Jordan River. However, some theories
[1][2] suggest that it could contain a trace of the Germanic root *
erþō meaning
"earth" (Gothic
airþa, Old Norse
jǫrð).
Josse
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French (Rare), Medieval French
French form of
Iudocus (see
Joyce).
Jost
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German
Pronounced: YOST
German form of
Iudocus (see
Joyce).
Jostein
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norwegian
From the Old Norse name
Jósteinn, derived from the elements
jór "horse" and
steinn "stone".
Joyce
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JOIS
From the medieval masculine name
Josse, which was derived from the earlier
Iudocus, which was a Latinized form of the Breton name
Judoc meaning
"lord". The name belonged to a 7th-century Breton
saint, and Breton settlers introduced it to England after the
Norman Conquest. It became rare after the 14th century, but was later revived as a feminine name, perhaps because of similarity to the Middle English word
joise "to rejoice". This given name also became a surname, as in the case of the Irish novelist James Joyce (1882-1941).
Kaan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Turkish
Pronounced: KAN
Kader 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: قادر(Arabic)
Pronounced: KA-deer
Alternate transcription of Arabic
قادر (see
Qadir).
Kağan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Turkish
Pronounced: ka-AN
From a Turkish title meaning "king, ruler", ultimately of Mongolian origin. The title is usually translated into English as Khan.
Kalani
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hawaiian
Pronounced: ka-LA-nee
Means "the heavens" from Hawaiian ka "the" and lani "heaven, sky, royal, majesty".
Kay 2
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh Mythology, Arthurian Cycle
From the Welsh name
Cai or
Cei, possibly a form of the Roman name
Gaius. Sir Kay was one of the Knights of the Round Table in Arthurian legend. He first appears in Welsh tales as a brave companion of Arthur. In later medieval tales, notably those by the 12th-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes, he is portrayed as an unrefined boor.
Keir
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish
From a surname that was a variant of
Kerr.
Keiran
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: KEER-ən, KEER-awn
Kendal
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: KEHN-dəl
From a surname that was a variant of
Kendall.
Kendall
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KEHN-dəl
From an English surname that comes from the name of the city of Kendale in northwestern England meaning "valley on the river Kent". Originally mostly masculine, the name received a boost in popularity for girls in 1993 when the devious character Kendall Hart began appearing on the American soap opera All My Children.
Kerr
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish
From a Scots surname that was derived from a word meaning "thicket, marsh", ultimately from Old Norse kjarr.
Kerry
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KEHR-ee
From the name of the Irish county, called
Ciarraí in Irish Gaelic, which means "
Ciar's people".
Kevork
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Armenian
Other Scripts: Գեւորգ(Armenian)
Pronounced: keh-VAWRK(Western Armenian)
Western Armenian transcription of
Gevorg.
Khabib
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Avar (Russified), Lezgin (Russified), Dargin (Russified), Indonesian
Other Scripts: Хабиб(Russian)
Pronounced: khu-BYEEP(Russian)
Form of
Habib used in Dagestan and Indonesia. A notable bearer is Dagestani UFC fighter Khabib Nurmagomedov (1988-), who is an ethnic Avar.
Khan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Urdu, Pashto
Other Scripts: خان(Urdu, Pashto)
Pronounced: KHAN(Urdu)
From a title meaning "king, ruler". Its origin is probably Mongolian, though the word has been transmitted into many other languages.
Kiara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: kee-AHR-ə
Variant of
Ciara 1 or
Chiara. This name was brought to public attention in 1988 after the singing duo Kiara released their song
This Time. It was further popularized by a character in the animated movie
The Lion King II (1998).
Kiera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish, English
Pronounced: KEER-ə(English)
Knox
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: NAHKS
From a Scots surname that was derived from various places named Knock, from Gaelic cnoc "round hill". It jumped in popularity after the actors Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt had a baby by this name in 2008.
Kolman
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German (Rare)
Pronounced: KAWL-man
Koloman
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German (Rare), Slovak
Pronounced: KO-lo-man(German)
German and Slovak form of
Colmán.
Saint Koloman (also called Coloman or Colman) was an Irish monk who was martyred in Stockerau in Austria.
Konstanz
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German (Archaic)
Kordian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish
Coined by Polish writer Juliusz Słowacki for the title character of his drama Kordian (1833). Słowacki likely based the name on Latin cor "heart" (genitive cordis).
Krákr
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Norse
Old Norse name and byname, from Old Norse krákr meaning "a kind of crow or raven".
Laertes
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Λαέρτης(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: LA-EHR-TEHS(Classical Greek) lay-UR-teez(English)
Means
"gatherer of the people" in Greek. This is the name of the father of
Odysseus in Greek
mythology. It was later utilized by Shakespeare for a character in his tragedy
Hamlet (1600), in which he is the son of
Polonius. His ultimate duel with
Hamlet leads to both of their deaths.
Lafayette
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (American, Rare)
Pronounced: lə-fəy-ET(American English)
Transferred use of the surname
Lafayette. In the US, it was first used in the late 1700s as a masculine given name in honor of the Marquis de Lafayette, a hero of the American War of Independence (who also left his name in a city of west-central Indiana on the Wabash River northwest of Indianapolis).
Laïla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic (Maghrebi)
Other Scripts: ليلى(Arabic)
Pronounced: LIE-la(Arabic) LIE-LA(French)
Alternate transcription of Arabic
ليلى (see
Layla) chiefly used in North Africa (using French-influenced orthography).
Landenulf
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Lombardic
Form of
Landulf, using an extended form of the first element (cf.
Pandenulf). Landenulf I was a 9th-century gastald (Lombard ruler) of Capua in Italy.
Lando
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Lombardic, Medieval Italian, German (Rare), Popular Culture
Pronounced: LAHN-do(German)
Variant of
Lanzo; originally a medieval short form of Germanic names containing Old High German
lant, Old Saxon
land meaning "land", or the same element used as an independent name. This was the name of a 10th-century pope.
Lando Calrissian is a fictional character in the Star Wars universe.
Leanid
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Belarusian
Other Scripts: Леанід(Belarusian)
Pronounced: lyeh-a-NYEET
Lethuc
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Lombardic
First known Lombard king.
Lev 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Лев(Russian)
Pronounced: LYEHF
Means
"lion" in Russian, functioning as a vernacular form of
Leo. This was the real Russian name of both author Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) and revolutionary Leon Trotsky (1879-1940).
Lev 2
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: לֵב(Hebrew)
Means "heart" in Hebrew.
Levi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew, English, Dutch, German, Biblical, Biblical Latin
Other Scripts: לֵוִי(Hebrew)
Pronounced: LEE-vie(English) LEH-vee(Dutch)
Possibly means
"joined, attached" in Hebrew. As told in the
Old Testament, Levi was the third son of
Jacob and
Leah, and the ancestor of one of the twelve tribes of the Israelites, known as the Levites. This was the tribe that formed the priestly class of the Israelites. The brothers
Moses and
Aaron were members. This name also occurs in the
New Testament, where it is borne by a son of
Alphaeus. He might be the same person as the apostle
Matthew.
As an English Christian name, Levi came into use after the Protestant Reformation.
Leviticus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (American, Rare), English (African, Rare), African American
Pronounced: lə-VI-ti-kəs(American English)
From the name of the book of the Old Testament, which means "of the Levites, of the tribe of
Levi". Some parents in the United States view it as a full form or more formal version of the name
Levi.
Lidwina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch, German
Dutch and German variant of
Ludwina, a feminine variant of
Leutwin. It was borne by Lidwina (or
Lydwina) of Schiedam, a Dutch mystic and Roman Catholic saint of the 15th century.
Lindsay
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LIN-zee
From an English and Scottish surname that was originally derived from the name of the eastern English region of Lindsey, which means "
Lincoln island" in Old English. As a given name it was typically masculine until the 1960s (in Britain) and 70s (in America) when it became popular for girls, probably due to its similarity to
Linda and because of American actress Lindsay Wagner (1949-)
[1].
Lior
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: לִיאוֹר(Hebrew)
Means
"my light" in Hebrew, from
לִי (li) "for me" and
אוֹר (ʾor) "light".
Liutprand
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Lombardic
Variant of
Liutbrand. This was the name of an 8th-century king of the Lombards. Liutprand is often regarded as the most successful Lombard monarch, notable for the Donation of Sutri in 728, which was the first accolade of sovereign territory to the Papacy.
Llewelyn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Variant of
Llywelyn influenced by the Welsh word
llew "lion".
Llywelyn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: shəw-EH-lin(Welsh) loo-EHL-in(English)
Probably a Welsh form of an unattested old Celtic name *
Lugubelinos, a combination of the names of the gods
Lugus and
Belenus, or a compound of
Lugus and a Celtic root meaning "strong". Alternatively it may be derived from Welsh
llyw "leader". This was the name of several Welsh rulers, notably the 13th-century Llywelyn the Great who fought against the English.
Love 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LUV
Simply from the English word love, derived from Old English lufu.
Lucien
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: LUY-SYEHN
Ludger
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German
Pronounced: LOOT-gu
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.
Ludivine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: LUY-DEE-VEEN
Possibly from a feminine form of
Leutwin. It was popularized in the 1970s by a character from the French miniseries
Les Gens de Mogador.
Ludwin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch, German
Pronounced: LUYT-win(Dutch) LUYT-vin(Dutch)
This name is usually a form of
Leutwin, but there are instances where the first element of the name can also be derived from Old High German
hlûd "famous" (see
Chlodomer).
Ludwina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch, German (Rare, Archaic), Polish, Flemish, Dutch (Antillean), Dutch (Surinamese)
Pronounced: luyt-WEE-nah:(Dutch) luyt-VEE-nah:(Dutch) luwd-VEE-na(German)
Luella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: loo-EHL-ə
Macaulay
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (British)
Pronounced: mə-KAW-lee
From a Scottish surname, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Amhalghaidh, itself derived from Amhalghadh, a given name of unknown meaning. A famous bearer of the surname was Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1861), a British Whig politician and noted historian. The given name is borne by the American former child actor Macaulay Culkin (1980-), who was named after the British politician.
Macauley
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (British)
Pronounced: mə-KAW-lee
Macbeth
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History
Pronounced: mək-BETH(English)
Anglicized form of the Scottish Gaelic given name
Mac Beatha meaning
"son of life", implying holiness. This was the name of an 11th-century Scottish king who came to power after defeating and killing King
Duncan in battle. Years later he was himself slain in battle with Duncan's son
Malcolm. Shakespeare based his play
Macbeth (1606) loosely on this king's life, drawing from the tales related in
Holinshed's Chronicles (1587).
Mack 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MAK
From a surname, originally a shortened form of various Irish and Scottish surnames beginning with Mac or Mc (from Irish mac meaning "son"). It is also used as a generic slang term for a man.
Madeleine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, English, Swedish
Pronounced: MAD-LEHN(French) MAD-ə-lin(English) MAD-ə-lien(English) MAD-lin(English) mahd-eh-LEHN(Swedish)
Madelen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norwegian, Swedish
Pronounced: mahd-eh-LEHN(Swedish)
Madeline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MAD-ə-lin, MAD-lin, MAD-ə-lien
English form of
Madeleine. This is the name of the heroine in a series of children's books by the Austrian-American author Ludwig Bemelmans, first published 1939.
Máedóc
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Irish [1]
Meaning unknown.
Saint Máedóc (also known as Áedán) of Ferns was a 7th-century Irish bishop.
Máel Máedóc
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Irish
Means
"disciple of Saint Máedóc" in Irish. Saint Máel Máedóc (also known as Malachy) was a 12th-century archbishop of Armagh.
Maeve
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish, English, Irish Mythology
Pronounced: MAYV(English)
Anglicized form of the Irish name
Medb meaning
"intoxicating". In Irish legend this was the name of a warrior queen of Connacht. She and her husband
Ailill fought against the Ulster king
Conchobar and the hero
Cúchulainn, as told in the Irish epic
The Cattle Raid of Cooley.
Magali
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, Occitan
Pronounced: MA-GA-LEE(French)
Magne
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norwegian
Mahdi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic, Persian
Other Scripts: مهدي(Arabic) مهدی(Persian)
Pronounced: MAH-dee(Arabic) mah-DEE(Persian)
Means
"guided one" in Arabic, a derivative of
هدى (hadā) meaning "to lead the right way, to guide".
Mahé
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Breton, French
French form of
Mazhe, the Breton form of
Matthew.
Maire
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish, Estonian
Pronounced: MIE-reh(Finnish)
Derived from Finnish mairea meaning "gushing, sugary".
Makaio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hawaiian
Makar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Макар(Russian)
Pronounced: mu-KAR
Russian form of
Makarios (see
Macario).
Makari
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian (Archaic)
Other Scripts: Макарий(Russian)
Malachy
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish
Anglicized form of
Máel Sechnaill or
Máel Máedóc, influenced by the spelling of
Malachi.
Saint Malachy (in Irish, Máel Máedóc) was a 12th-century archbishop of Armagh renowned for his miracles.
Malaika
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swahili
Means
"angel" in Swahili, derived from Arabic
ملك (malak).
Malak
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: ملك(Arabic)
Pronounced: MA-lak
Means "angel" in Arabic.
Malone
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: mə-LON
From an Irish surname, an Anglicized form of
Ó Maoil Eoin meaning
"descendant of a disciple of Saint John".
Mandal
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Mongolian
Other Scripts: Мандал(Mongolian Cyrillic)
Means "rebirth, revival, prosperity" or "surface, outer layer" in Mongolian.
Mandla
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Zulu, Ndebele
Means "strength, power" in Zulu and Ndebele.
Manegold
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic [1]
Mannes
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch
Pronounced: MAH-nəs
Måns
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish
Pronounced: MAWNS
Manu 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hinduism, Hindi, Kannada
Other Scripts: मनु(Sanskrit, Hindi) ಮನು(Kannada)
Means "thinking, wise" in Sanskrit. In Hindu belief this is a title of Swayambhuva, the progenitor of the human race, as well as several of his descendants.
Manus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish
Marko
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ukrainian, Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Finnish, Estonian, Basque
Other Scripts: Марко(Ukrainian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian)
Pronounced: MAHR-ko(Finnish)
Form of
Mark in several languages.
Marmaduke
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (British, Rare)
Pronounced: MAH-mə-dook
Possibly derived from the Old Irish name
Máel Máedóc. This name has been traditionally used in the Yorkshire area of Britain.
Marouane
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic (Maghrebi)
Other Scripts: مروان(Arabic)
Pronounced: MA-RWAN(French)
Alternate transcription of Arabic مروان (see
Marwan) chiefly used in North Africa.
Márton
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hungarian
Pronounced: MAR-ton
Hungarian form of
Martinus (see
Martin).
Marwan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic, Indonesian
Other Scripts: مروان(Arabic)
Pronounced: mar-WAN(Arabic) MAR-wan(Indonesian)
Either derived from Arabic مرو
(marw) meaning "flint, pebble" or from the name of a type of fragrant plant (see
Marwa). This was the name of two Umayyad caliphs.
Matei
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Romanian
Pronounced: ma-TAY
Mateu
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Catalan
Pronounced: mə-TEW
Matevos
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Armenian (Rare)
Other Scripts: Մաթեւոս(Armenian)
Pronounced: mah-teh-VAWS
Matey
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Bulgarian
Other Scripts: Матей(Bulgarian)
Maud
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, French, Dutch, Swedish
Pronounced: MAWD(English) MOD(French) MOWT(Dutch)
Medieval English and French form of
Matilda. Though it became rare after the 14th century, it was revived and once more grew popular in the 19th century, perhaps due to Alfred Tennyson's 1855 poem
Maud [1].
Maude
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, French
Pronounced: MAWD(English) MOD(French)
Mauno
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: MOW-no
Maunu
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: MOW-noo
Max
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, English, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Dutch, Czech, Russian, French, Catalan
Other Scripts: Макс(Russian)
Pronounced: MAKS(German, English, Czech, Russian, French, Catalan) MAHKS(Dutch)
Short form of
Maximilian or
Maxim. In English it can also be short for
Maxwell, and it coincides with the informal word
max, short for
maximum.
Famous bearers include the German intellectual Max Weber (1864-1920) and the German physicist Max Planck (1858-1947). This name is also borne by the title character in the Mad Max series of movies, starting 1979.
Maximin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: MAK-SEE-MEHN
Mehdi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Persian, Azerbaijani, Arabic (Maghrebi)
Other Scripts: مهدی(Persian) مهدي(Arabic)
Pronounced: mehh-DEE(Persian) MAH-dee(Arabic) MEH-DEE(French)
Persian, Azerbaijani and North African form of
Mahdi.
Meuric
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Michel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French, German, Dutch
Pronounced: MEE-SHEHL(French) MI-khəl(German) MEE-shehl(Dutch)
French form of
Michael. Michel de Nostredame (1503-1566), also known as Nostradamus, was a French astrologer who made predictions about future world events. Another famous bearer is the retired French soccer player Michel Platini (1955-). This is also the German
diminutive form of
Michael.
Milan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Czech, Slovak, Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Macedonian, Dutch (Modern), German (Modern), French (Modern)
Other Scripts: Милан(Serbian, Macedonian)
Pronounced: MI-lan(Czech) MEE-lan(Slovak, Serbian, Croatian) MEE-lahn(Dutch)
From the Slavic element
milŭ meaning
"gracious, dear", originally a short form of names that began with that element. It was originally used in Czech, Slovak, and the South Slavic languages, though it has recently become popular elsewhere in Europe.
A city in Italy bears this name, though in this case it originates from Latin Mediolanum, perhaps ultimately of Celtic origin meaning "middle of the plain". In some cases the city name may be an influence on the use of the given name.
Mitchell
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MICH-əl
From an English surname, itself derived from the given name
Michael or in some cases from Middle English
michel meaning "big, large".
Mogens
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Danish
Mona 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Scandinavian short form of
Monica.
Monika
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Estonian, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Slovene, Croatian, Bulgarian, Lithuanian, Latvian
Other Scripts: Моника(Bulgarian)
Pronounced: MO-nee-ka(German) MO-ni-ka(Czech) MAW-nee-ka(Slovak) maw-NYEE-ka(Polish)
Form of
Monica used in various languages.
Monique
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, English, Dutch
Pronounced: MAW-NEEK(French) mə-NEEK(English) mo-NEEK(English, Dutch)
Mordred
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh Mythology, Arthurian Cycle
From Welsh
Medraut, possibly from Latin
moderatus meaning
"controlled, moderated". In Arthurian legend Mordred was the illegitimate son (in some versions nephew) of King
Arthur. Mordred first appears briefly (as
Medraut) in the 10th-century
Annales Cambriae [1], but he was not portrayed as a traitor until the chronicles of the 12th-century Geoffrey of Monmouth. While Arthur is away he seduces his wife
Guinevere and declares himself king. This prompts the battle of Camlann, which leads to the deaths of both Mordred and Arthur.
Mouna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic (Maghrebi)
Other Scripts: منى(Arabic)
Pronounced: MOO-na(Arabic) MOO-NA(French)
Alternate transcription of Arabic
منى (see
Muna) chiefly used in North Africa.
Mourad
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic (Maghrebi)
Other Scripts: مراد(Arabic)
Pronounced: moo-RAD(Arabic) MOO-RAD(French)
Alternate transcription of Arabic
مراد (see
Murad) chiefly used in North Africa.
Munir
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic, Urdu
Other Scripts: منير(Arabic) منیر(Urdu)
Pronounced: moo-NEER(Arabic)
Means
"bright, shining" in Arabic, related to the root
نوّر (nawwara) meaning "to illuminate, to light".
Murad
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic, Urdu, Bengali, Azerbaijani, Avar
Other Scripts: مراد(Arabic, Urdu) মুরাদ(Bengali) Мурад(Avar)
Pronounced: moo-RAD(Arabic)
Means "wish, desire" in Arabic. This name was borne by five Ottoman sultans.
Murat
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Turkish, Bosnian
Pronounced: moo-RAT(Turkish)
Turkish and Bosnian form of
Murad.
Nadège
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: NA-DEZH
Nadezhda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian, Bulgarian
Other Scripts: Надежда(Russian, Bulgarian)
Pronounced: nu-DYEZH-də(Russian)
Means "hope" in Russian and Bulgarian.
Naïma
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic (Maghrebi)
Other Scripts: نعيمة(Arabic)
Pronounced: na-‘EE-ma(Arabic) NA-EE-MA(French)
Form of
Naima used in North Africa and other French-influenced regions of the continent.
Napoléone
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Archaic)
French form of
Napoleona. A known bearer of this name was Charlotte Bonaparte (1802-1839), a niece of the French emperor Napoléon Bonaparte (1769-1821). She carried the name as a middle name.
Nepomucenus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Slavic (Latinized)
Neville
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (British)
Pronounced: NEHV-əl(English)
From an English surname that was originally derived from a place name meaning "new town" in Norman French. As a given name it is chiefly British and Australian.
Nikias
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Νικίας(Ancient Greek)
Derived from Greek
νίκη (nike) meaning
"victory". This was the name of an Athenian general who fought in the Peloponnesian war.
Nikon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1], Russian
Other Scripts: Νίκων(Ancient Greek) Никон(Russian)
Pronounced: NEE-KAWN(Classical Greek)
Derived from Greek
νίκη (nike) meaning
"victory".
Nina 3
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Нина(Russian)
Pronounced: NYEE-nə
Nino 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Georgian
Other Scripts: ნინო(Georgian)
Meaning unknown, possibly from a Greek feminine form of
Ninos.
Saint Nino (sometimes called Nina) was a Greek-speaking woman from Asia Minor who introduced Christianity to Georgia in the 4th century.
Ninos
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Assyrian (Hellenized)
Other Scripts: Νίνος(Ancient Greek)
Probably from the name of the ancient city of
Nineveh in Assyria. According to Greek historians this was the name of the husband of
Semiramis and the founder of Nineveh. In actuality he does not correspond to any known Assyrian king, and is likely a composite character named after the city.
Ninutsa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Georgian
Other Scripts: ნინუცა(Georgian)
Diminutive of
Nino 2. A known bearer of this name is the Georgian actress Nino "Ninutsa" Maqashvili (b. 1988).
Noureddine
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic (Maghrebi)
Other Scripts: نور الدين(Arabic)
Pronounced: noo-rood-DEEN(Arabic)
Nutsa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Georgian
Other Scripts: ნუცა(Georgian)
Contracted form of
Ninutsa, which is a diminutive of
Nino 2.
Notable Georgian bearers of this name include the actress Nutsa Chkheidze (1881-1963) and the film director Nutsa Gogoberidze (1903-1966).
Ode
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval English
Medieval English form of
Odo.
Oistín
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish
Olson
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Transferred use of the surname
Olson.
Oren
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אֹרֶן(Hebrew)
Means "pine tree" in Hebrew.
Orfeas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Ορφέας(Greek)
Orpha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical Greek, Biblical Latin, English
Other Scripts: Ὀρφά(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: AWR-fə(English)
Orpheus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ὀρφεύς(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: OR-PEWS(Classical Greek) AWR-fee-əs(English)
Perhaps related to Greek
ὄρφνη (orphne) meaning
"the darkness of night". In Greek
mythology Orpheus was a poet and musician who went to the underworld to retrieve his dead wife Eurydice. He succeeded in charming Hades with his lyre, and he was allowed to lead his wife out of the underworld on the condition that he not look back at her until they reached the surface. Unfortunately, just before they arrived his love for her overcame his will and he glanced back at her, causing her to be drawn back to Hades.
Oswald
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, German
Pronounced: AHZ-wawld(English) AWS-valt(German)
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.
Øystein
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norwegian
Pandenulf
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Lombardic
A longer form of
Pandulf. Pandenulf was the name of a 9th-century count of Capua (Italy).
Parsedia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Lombard
Pronounced: par-SE-dya
Patel
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Indian
Other Scripts: પટેલ(Gujarati) पटेल(Hindi)
From the Gujarati word પટેલ (paṭēl) meaning "chief, village headsman". This is the most common surname among Indian-Americans.
Paternian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Venetian, History (Ecclesiastical)
Pavel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian, Czech, Bulgarian, Slovene, Macedonian, Belarusian
Other Scripts: Павел(Russian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Belarusian)
Pronounced: PA-vyil(Russian) PA-vehl(Czech)
Russian, Czech, Bulgarian, Slovene, Macedonian and Belarusian form of
Paul.
Pavol
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Slovak
Perctarit
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Lombardic, History
Variant of
Bertarid. Perctarit was the name of a 7th-century king of the Lombards.
Perttu
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: PEHRT-too
Polonius
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature
From Latin
Polonia meaning
"Poland". In Shakespeare's tragedy
Hamlet (1600) this is the name of the counsellor to
Claudius and the father of
Laertes and
Ophelia. He is accidentally murdered by
Hamlet.
Prangarda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Italian, Lombardic
A Germanic dithematic name formed from the name elements
brand "sword" and
gard "enclosure, protected place".
Pumay
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Semitic Mythology
Other Scripts: 𐤐𐤌𐤉(Phoenician)
Meaning unknown. This was the name of a relatively obscure Phoenician deity, possibly of Cypriot origin.
Qasim
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic, Urdu
Other Scripts: قاسم(Arabic, Urdu)
Pronounced: KA-seem(Arabic)
Means
"one who divides goods among people" in Arabic, derived from
قسم (qasama) meaning "to divide, to distribute". This was the name of a son of the Prophet
Muhammad who died while young.
Quincy
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KWIN-see
From an English surname that was derived (via the place name
Cuinchy) from the personal name
Quintus. A famous bearer was John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), sixth president of the United States, who was born in the town of Quincy, Massachusetts. Both the town and the president were named after his maternal great-grandfather John Quincy (1689-1767). Another notable bearer is the American musician Quincy Jones (1933-).
Raisel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Yiddish (Rare)
Other Scripts: רייזל(Yiddish)
Rayhana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: ريحانة(Arabic)
Pronounced: rie-HA-na
Means
"basil" in Arabic. This was the name of a wife of the Prophet
Muhammad.
Rédouane
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic (Maghrebi)
Other Scripts: رضوان(Arabic)
Pronounced: reed-WAN(Arabic) REHD-WAN(French)
Alternate transcription of
Redouane chiefly used in Northern Africa.
Reyhan
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Turkish, Uyghur
Other Scripts: رەيھان(Uyghur Arabic)
Turkish and Uyghur form of
Rayhana.
Rhona
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Scottish
Possibly derived from the name of either of the two Hebridean islands called Rona, which means "rough island" in Old Norse.
Rigmor
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish
Scandinavian form of
Ricmod, via the Old Danish form
Rigmár.
Rihanna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: ريحانة(Arabic)
Pronounced: rie-HA-na(Arabic) ree-AN-ə(English)
Alternate transcription of Arabic
ريحانة (see
Rayhana). This name is borne by the Barbadian singer Robyn Rihanna Fenty (1988-), known simply as Rihanna. In the United States it jumped in popularity between the years 2005 and 2008, when Rihanna was releasing her first albums. It quickly declined over the next few years.
Rodelinda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Lombardic, Theatre, Spanish (Mexican)
Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian and English form of
Rodelind. Rodelinda (6th century) was a Lombard queen by marriage to king
Audoin, and the mother of king
Alboin. This name was also borne by Rodelinda (7th century), the wife of King Perctarit of Lombardy and title character of Händel's opera
Rodelinda (1725).
Romain
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: RAW-MEHN
French form of
Romanus (see
Roman).
Rothari
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Lombardic
Variant of
Rothar. This name was borne by a 7th-century Lombard king of the house of Arodus.
Rowena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ro-EEN-ə
Meaning uncertain. According to the 12th-century chronicler Geoffrey of Monmouth, this was the name of a daughter of the Saxon chief Hengist. It is possible (but unsupported) that Geoffrey based it on the Old English elements
hroð "fame" and
wynn "joy", or alternatively on the Old Welsh elements
ron "spear" and
gwen "white". It was popularized by Walter Scott, who used it for a character in his novel
Ivanhoe (1819).
Royston
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (British)
Pronounced: ROIS-tən
From a surname that was originally taken from an Old English place name meaning
"town of Royse". The given name
Royse was a medieval variant of
Rose.
Saad
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic, Malay
Other Scripts: سعد(Arabic)
Pronounced: SA‘D(Arabic)
Alternate transcription of Arabic
سعد (see
Sa'd), as well as the usual Malay form.
Sadek
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic (Maghrebi), Arabic (Egyptian), Bengali
Other Scripts: صادق(Arabic) সাদেক(Bengali)
Pronounced: SA-DEHK(French)
Arabic alternate transcription of
Sadiq chiefly used in Northern Africa and Egypt as well as the Bengali form of the name.
Safouane
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic (Maghrebi)
Other Scripts: صفوان(Maghrebi Arabic)
Maghrebi variant of
Safwan (chiefly Moroccan).
Sagan
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: sa-GAN, say-GUN, say-GAN
Transferred use of the surname
Sagan, usually used in reference to astronomer Carl Sagan.
Saïd
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic (Maghrebi)
Other Scripts: سعيد(Arabic)
Pronounced: sa-‘EED(Arabic) SA-EED(French) SIED(French)
Alternate transcription of
Sa'id chiefly used in Northern Africa.
Saifeddine
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic (Maghrebi)
Other Scripts: سيف الدين(Arabic)
Alternate transcription of Arabic سيف الدين (see
Sayf ad-Din) chiefly used in Northern Africa.
Salaheddine
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic (Maghrebi)
Other Scripts: صلاح الدين(Arabic)
Pronounced: sa-la-had-DEEN(Arabic)
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.
Seraiah
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: שְׂרָיָה(Ancient Hebrew)
Means
"Yahweh is ruler" in Hebrew, from
שָׂרָה (sara) meaning "to have power" and
יָהּ (yah) referring to the Hebrew God. This is the name of several minor characters in the
Old Testament, including the father of
Ezra.
Serapión
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish
Sicco
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch
Pronounced: SI-KO
Hypocoristic form of names containing the Germanic name element
sigu "victory".
Historically, this name could be latinised to Sixtus.
Sigestan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Anglo-Saxon
Old English name composed of the elements
sige "victory" and
stan 1 "stone" (making it a cognate of
Sigsteinn).
Silverio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: seel-VEH-ryo(Italian) seel-BEH-ryo(Spanish)
Sinjin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (British, Rare)
Pronounced: SIN-jin
Sita
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hinduism, Hindi, Nepali
Other Scripts: सीता(Sanskrit, Hindi, Nepali)
Pronounced: SEE-tah(Sanskrit)
Means
"furrow" in Sanskrit. Sita is the name of the Hindu goddess of the harvest in the
Rigveda. This is also the name of the wife of
Rama (and an avatar of
Lakshmi) in the Hindu epic the
Ramayana. In this story Sita is abducted by the demon king
Ravana, with her husband and his allies attempting to rescue her.
Siv
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian, Norse Mythology
Pronounced: SEEV(Swedish)
From Old Norse
Sif, which meant
"bride, kinswoman". In Norse
mythology she was the wife of
Thor. After the trickster
Loki cut off her golden hair, an angry Thor forced him to create a replacement.
Sixten
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish
From the Old Norse name
Sigsteinn, which was derived from the elements
sigr "victory" and
steinn "stone".
Slate
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (American, Modern)
Pronounced: SLAYT(American English)
Derived from the surname
Slate.
Slater
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SLAY-ter
Transferred use of the surname
Slater.
Souad
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: سعاد(Arabic)
Pronounced: soo-‘AD
Alternate transcription of Arabic
سعاد (see
Suad).
Sweeney
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish Mythology
Anglicized form of
Suibhne. In fiction, this name is borne by the murderous barber Sweeney Todd, first appearing in the British serial
The String of Pearls: A Romance (1846-1847).
Talmai
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Hebrew [1]
Other Scripts: תַּלְמַי(Ancient Hebrew)
Means
"furrowed" in Hebrew. In the
Old Testament this name is borne by both a giant and also the father of King
David's wife
Maacah.
Tassilo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German (Rare), Medieval German, Medieval Italian, Medieval French, Lombardic
Diminutive of
Tasso. The Blessed Tassilo III (c. 741 – c. 796) was duke of Bavaria from 748 to 788, the last of the house of the Agilolfings. Modern-day bearers include Tassilo Thierbach (1956-), a German former pair skater, and Prince Tassilo Preslavski of Bulgaria (2002-).
Tayanita
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Cherokee
Means
"young beaver" in Cherokee, derived from
ᏙᏯ (doya) meaning "beaver".
Tederic
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Gascon
Teodato
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of
Theodahad.
Teoman
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Turkish, Bosnian (Rare)
Pronounced: TE-oh-mahn(Turkish)
Modern Turkish and Bosnian form of the Mongol name
Tümen via its Chinese form
Touman.
Notable bearers of this name include the Turkish rock singer Teoman (b. 1967), the Bosnian-Slovenian former basketball player Teoman Alibegović (b. 1967) and Teoman Kumbaracıbaşı (b. 1971), an Argentinian actor of Turkish descent.
Terence
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: TEHR-əns
From the Roman family name
Terentius, which is of unknown meaning. Famous bearers include Publius Terentius Afer, a Roman playwright, and Marcus Terentius Varro, a Roman scholar. It was also borne by several early
saints. The name was used in Ireland as an Anglicized form of
Toirdhealbhach, but it was not found as an English name until the late 19th century. It attained only a moderate level of popularity in the 20th century, though it has been common as an African-American name especially since the 1970s.
Terenti
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Georgian, Russian
Other Scripts: ტერენტი(Georgian) Терентий(Russian)
Pronounced: tyi-RYEHN-tyee(Russian)
Georgian form of
Terentius (see
Terence). It is also an alternate transcription of Russian
Терентий (see
Terentiy).
Tero
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: TEH-ro
Thales
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1], Portuguese (Brazilian)
Other Scripts: Θαλῆς(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: TA-LEHS(Classical Greek) THAY-leez(English) TA-leezh(Portuguese)
Derived from Greek
θάλλω (thallo) meaning
"to blossom". Thales of Miletus was a 6th-century BC Greek philosopher and mathematician.
Thelonius
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Various (Rare)
Latinized form of
Tielo (see
Till). A famous bearer was jazz musician Thelonious Monk (1917-1982).
Theodolinda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: History, Lombardic (Latinized)
Variant of
Theodelinda. (See also
Teodolinda,
Dietlinde.) This was borne by Finnish writer Theodolinda Hahnsson (1838-1919), known for being the first woman writing in Finnish. American mystery writer Rex Stout used it in his novel
The Hand in the Glove (1937), where it belongs to private detective Theodolinda "Dol" Bonner.
Theodoric
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Gothic (Anglicized)
Other Scripts: 𐌸𐌹𐌿𐌳𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌺𐍃(Gothic)
Pronounced: thee-AHD-ə-rik(English)
From the Gothic name *
Þiudareiks meaning
"ruler of the people", derived from the elements
þiuda "people" and
reiks "ruler, king". It was notably borne by Theodoric the Great, a 6th-century king of the Ostrogoths who eventually became the ruler of Italy. By Theodoric's time the Ostrogoths were partially Romanized and his name was regularly recorded as
Theodoricus. This was also the name of two earlier (5th century) Visigothic kings.
Thorstein
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norwegian
Thorsten
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish, Danish, German
Pronounced: TAWRS-tən(German)
Tihomir
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian, Slovene
Other Scripts: Тихомир(Bulgarian, Serbian, Macedonian)
Pronounced: TEE-kho-meer(Croatian, Serbian) TEE-khaw-meer(Macedonian)
Derived from the Slavic elements
tixŭ "quiet" and
mirŭ "peace, world".
Tikhon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian (Rare)
Other Scripts: Тихон(Russian)
Pronounced: TYEE-khən
Till
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German
Pronounced: TIL
From
Tielo, a medieval Low German
diminutive of
Dietrich and other names beginning with Old High German
diota or Old Frankish
þeoda meaning "people". Till Eulenspiegel is a trickster in German folklore.
Tilo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German
Pronounced: TEE-lo
Tolbert
Gender: Masculine
Usage: American (Rare)
Pronounced: TAHL-bərt, TOL-bərt
Transferred use of the surname
Tolbert.
Tolliver
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: TAHL-i-vur, TAHL-ə-vur
Tolly
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Archaic)
Tonkin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval English
Torstein
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norwegian
Torsten
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish, Danish, German
Pronounced: TOSH-tehn(Swedish) TAWRS-tən(German)
From the Old Norse name
Þórsteinn, which meant
"Thor's stone" from the name of the Norse god
Þórr (see
Thor) combined with
steinn "stone".
Torsti
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: TORS-tee
Toussaint
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: TOO-SEHN
Means
"all saints" in French. This is the name of a Christian festival celebrated on November 1 (All Saints' Day).
Tristram
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (British)
Pronounced: TRIS-trəm
Trystan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Tuisto
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic Mythology
Pronounced: TUWS-to
The name of a Germanic Earth god mentioned once in the work of Tacitus. One manuscript of Tacitus provides the alternate name form
Tuisco.
Tümen
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Mongolian, Yakut
Other Scripts: Түмэн(Mongolian Cyrillic, Yakut) ᠲᠦᠮᠡᠨ(Traditional Mongolian)
Means "ten thousand, multitude, myriad" or "people, nation" in Mongolian and Yakut, the attributive form of Mongolian түм
(tüm). Among the Mongol and Turkic peoples, a
tümen (
tumen in English) was historically also a social and military unit of 10,000 households and soldiers.
A notable bearer of this name was the Mongolian khagan (emperor) Tümen Zasagt Khan (1539-1592).
Turlough
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish
Tycho
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History, Dutch
Pronounced: TUY-go(Danish) TIE-ko(English) TEE-kho(Dutch)
Latinized form of
Tyge. This name was used by the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546-1601), who was born as
Tyge.
Tychon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology, Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Τύχων(Ancient Greek)
From Greek
τύχη (tyche) meaning
"chance, luck, fortune", a derivative of
τυγχάνω (tynchano) meaning "hit the mark, succeed". This was the name of a minor deity associated with
Priapus in Greek
mythology. It was also borne by a 5th-century
saint from Cyprus.
Ulyan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Ульян(Russian)
Russian form of
Iulianus (see
Julian).
Upton
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: UP-tən
From a surname that was derived from a place name meaning "upper town" in Old English. A famous bearer of this name was the American novelist Upton Sinclair (1878-1968).
Vaast
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Flemish, Norman, Picard
Flemish, Norman and Picard form of
Vedastus.
Vagner
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Danish (Rare), Portuguese (Brazilian)
Transferred use of the surname
Vagner.
Known bearers of this name include the Brazilian professional mixed-martial artist Vagner Rocha (b. 1982) and the Brazilian professional soccer player Vagner da Silva (b. 1986).
Varnava
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian (Rare), Old Church Slavic
Other Scripts: Варнава(Russian, Church Slavic)
Pronounced: vur-NA-və(Russian)
Vauquelin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval French
Old French form of the Norman name
Walchelin, derived from Old Frankish
walh or Old High German
walah meaning
"foreigner, Celt, Roman" (Proto-Germanic *
walhaz).
Vedast
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History (Ecclesiastical)
Vedastus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History (Ecclesiastical)
Possibly a Latinized form of a Germanic or Celtic name, possibly Germanic
Widogast. This was the name of a 6th-century
saint who helped to convert the Frankish king
Clovis to Christianity. He is called
Gaston in French and
Vaast in Flemish.
Viking
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish
Pronounced: VEE-king
From the Old Norse name Víkingr meaning "viking, raider", ultimately from vík "cove, inlet".
Vitige
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Portuguese
Italian and Portuguese form of
Witiges.
Vitigès
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History (Gallicized)
Vlas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Влас(Russian)
Pronounced: VLAS
Vonda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Variant of
Wanda, reflecting the Polish pronunciation.
Wade
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: WAYD
Warren
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: WAWR-ən
From an English surname that was derived either from Norman French warrene meaning "animal enclosure", or else from the town of La Varenne in Normandy. This name was borne by the American president Warren G. Harding (1865-1923).
Warrick
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: WAWR-ik
From a surname that was a variant of
Warwick.
Warwick
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: WAWR-ik
From a surname that was derived from the name of a town in England, itself from Old English wer "weir, dam" and wic "settlement".
Werther
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German (Rare)
Derived from the Old German elements
werd "worthy" and
heri "army". Goethe used this name in his novel
The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774).
Wilkie
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: WIL-kee
From an English surname that was originally derived from a
diminutive of the given name
William.
Wilkin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval English
Winthrop
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: WIN-thrəp
From a surname that was originally taken from town names meaning either "
Wine's village" or "
Wigmund's village" in Old English.
Yelena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Елена(Russian)
Pronounced: yi-LYEH-nə, i-LYEH-nə
Younes
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic (Maghrebi), Persian
Other Scripts: يونس(Arabic) یونس(Persian)
Pronounced: YOO-noos(Arabic) yoo-NEHS(Persian)
North African and Persian form of
Yunus.
Zahir
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic, Persian, Punjabi, Urdu, Bengali
Other Scripts: ظهير(Arabic) ظهیر(Persian) ظہیر(Shahmukhi, Urdu) জহির(Bengali)
Pronounced: dha-HEER(Arabic)
Means
"helper, supporter" in Arabic, related to
ظهر (ẓahara) meaning "to be visible, to be clear". This can also be an alternate transcription of Arabic
زاهر (see
Zaahir 1) or
ظاهر (see
Zaahir 2).
Zakhar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Захар(Russian)
Pronounced: zu-KHAR
Zdravko
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Macedonian
Other Scripts: Здравко(Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian)
Pronounced: ZDRAF-kaw(Macedonian)
Derived from South Slavic
zdrav meaning
"healthy", ultimately from Old Slavic
sŭdorvŭ.
Zénaïde
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Rare)
Pronounced: ZEH-NA-EED
Zinedine
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic (Maghrebi)
Other Scripts: زين الدين(Arabic)
Pronounced: zie-nood-DEEN(Arabic)
Alternate transcription of Arabic
زين الدين (see
Zayn ad-Din) chiefly used in North Africa. A famous bearer is the French soccer player Zinedine Zidane (1972-), who was born to Algerian parents.
Ziska
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German
Pronounced: TSIS-ka
Zoë
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch, English
Pronounced: ZO-veh(Dutch) ZO-ee(English)
Dutch form and English variant of
Zoe.
Zohra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Urdu, Arabic (Maghrebi)
Other Scripts: زہرہ(Urdu) زهرة(Arabic)
Pronounced: ZOOH-ra(Arabic)
Zorobabel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical Greek, Biblical Portuguese, Biblical French, Biblical Spanish
Other Scripts: Ζοροβάβελ(Ancient Greek)
Zoubida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic (Maghrebi)
Other Scripts: زبيدة(Arabic)
Pronounced: zoo-BIE-da(Arabic) ZOO-BEE-DA(French)
Form of
Zubaida chiefly used in North Africa (using French-influenced orthography).
Zuhura
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swahili, Dhivehi
Other Scripts: ޒުހުރާ(Dhivehi)
Means
"Venus (planet)" in Swahili and Dhivehi. Both are borrowed from Arabic
الزهرة (al-Zuhara), derived from the root
زهر (zahara) meaning "to shine".
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