CrownOfFools1's Personal Name List
Aeternitas
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Aeternitas was a Roman goddess and the personification of eternity.
Ahmicqui
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Nahuatl
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Means "immortal, something that does not die" in Nahuatl, derived from the negative prefix a- and micqui "corpse, dead body".
Ahuitzotl
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Aztec, Mexican (Rare)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Means "otter" in Nahuatl, derived from
atl "water" and
huitzotl "porcupine".
Borne by a ruler of the Aztecs from 1468 to 1502.
Aisling
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: ASH-lyən
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Means "dream" or "vision" in Irish. This name was created in the 20th century.
Akeko
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 晏気子, 朱子, 曙子, 明子, etc.(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: AH-KE-KO
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From Japanese 晏 (a) meaning "late in the day", 気 (ke) meaning "spirit; mood" combined with 子 (ko) meaning "child". Other kanji combinations are possible.
Akhenaton
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Egyptian
Pronounced: ahk-ə-NAHT-ən(English)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From Egyptian
ꜣḫ-n-jtn meaning
"effective for Aton". Akhenaton was a 14th-century BC Egyptian pharaoh of the New Kingdom, who is best known for promoting the monotheistic worship of the sun god
Aton. He changed his name from
Amenhotep in order to honour the god. After his death, polytheism resumed.
Akimitsu
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 昭光, etc.(Japanese Kanji) あきみつ(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: A-KYEE-MEE-TSOO
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
From Japanese
昭 (aki) meaning "bright" and
光 (mitsu) meaning "light". Other combinations of kanji can also form this name.
Akito
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 章斗, 章人(Japanese Kanji) あきと(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: A-KYEE-TO
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
From Japanese
章 (aki) meaning "chapter" combined with
斗 (to), which refers to a Chinese constellation, or
人 (to) meaning "person". Other kanji combinations can also form this name.
Akmoor
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Kyrgyz
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Means "white seal" in Kyrgyz.
Akyıldız
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Turkish
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Derived from the Turkish word ak meaning "white" and yıldız meaning "star".
Althea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἀλθαία(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From the Greek name
Ἀλθαία (Althaia), perhaps related to Greek
ἄλθος (althos) meaning
"healing". In Greek
myth she was the mother of Meleager. Soon after her son was born she was told that he would die as soon as a piece of wood that was burning on her fire was fully consumed. She immediately extinguished the piece of wood and sealed it in a chest, but in a fit of rage many years later she took it out and set it alight, thereby killing her son.
Amoroso
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish (Rare)
Pronounced: Ah-mor-o-so
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Means "loving (of god)" in Spanish.
Anactoria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature, Greek Mythology (Latinized, ?), Ancient Greek (Latinized, ?)
Other Scripts: Ἀνακτορία(Ancient Greek)
Latinized form of the Greek Ἀνακτορία
(Anaktoria), derived from ἀνακτόρῐος
(anaktorios) "royal", literally "belonging to a king, a lord" from ἀνάκτωρ
(anaktor) "lord", from αναξ
(anax) "lord". This name was mentioned in a poem by the 7th-century BC lyric poet Sappho as a female lover of hers.
Anang
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Ojibwe
Means "star" in Ojibwe.
Anax
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἀναξ, Ἄναξ(Ancient Greek)
Derived from the Greek noun ἄναξ
(anax) meaning "master, lord, chief". In ancient Greece, it was a title denoting a tribal king or military leader.
In Greek mythology, Anax was a giant. He was the son of Uranus and Gaia, and father of Asterius. He was king of the town and territory Anactoria ("place of Anax"), which was later seized by a Cretan who killed Asterius and renamed the city Miletus after himself.
Anax was also an epithet of the Greek gods in general, characterizing them as rulers of the world.
Anaxibios
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek
Other Scripts: Ἀναξίβιος(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: a-nak-see-bee-os(Attic Greek) a-nak-SEE-bee-os(Koine Greek) a-nak-SEE-vee-os(Byzantine Greek)
Means "master of life", derived from Greek αναξ
(anax) meaning "master, lord, chief" and βιος
(bios) meaning "life".
Ankur
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hindi, Marathi
Other Scripts: अङ्कुर, अंकुर(Hindi) अंकुर(Marathi)
From Sanskrit
अङ्कुर (aṅkura) meaning
"sapling, sprout, shoot".
Anwaar
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Arabic, Urdu
Other Scripts: أنوار(Arabic) انوار(Urdu)
Pronounced: AN-war(Arabic)
Means "lights" in Arabic, the plural of نُور (nūr) meaning "light". It is used as a masculine name in Pakistan while it is typically feminine in Arabic-speaking countries.
Anwen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Means
"very beautiful" in Welsh, from the intensive prefix
an- combined with
gwen "white, blessed".
Anzelina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Sardinian
Aozora
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Japanese (Modern)
Other Scripts: 青空, 蒼空, 碧空, 葵空, 蒼天, 碧天, etc.(Japanese Kanji) あおぞら(Japanese Hiragana) アオゾラ(Japanese Katakana)
Pronounced: A-O-ZO-RA
From 青空
(aozora) meaning "blue sky."
It can also be written as 蒼空 or 碧空. The first kanji can be changed to 葵, normally read as
aoi, which refers to a mallow plant. The second kanji can be substituted with one that has the same or similar meaning(s) to 空, like 天.
Nowadays, excluding 葵空, the kanji combinations used for this name are most commonly read as Sora.
Apollu
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Sicilian
Araceli
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: a-ra-THEH-lee(European Spanish) a-ra-SEH-lee(Latin American Spanish)
Means
"altar of the sky" from Latin
ara "altar" and
coeli "sky". This is an epithet of the Virgin
Mary in her role as the patron
saint of Lucena, Spain.
Araresa
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Guarani
Means "eye of the universe" in Guarani.
Arevik
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Armenian
Other Scripts: Արեւիկ(Armenian)
Means "like the sun" in Armenian.
Argiope
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Αργιόπη(Ancient Greek)
Means "silver face" in Greek. It is the name of several characters in Greek Mythology.
Arnbrand
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval Scandinavian, Medieval English, Norwegian (Archaic)
Anglo-Scandinavian name derived from the Old Norse elements
ǫrn "eagle" and
brandr "fire, sword-blade".
Aroa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 彩路歩, 亜路愛, 亜露愛, 歩揺, etc.(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: AH-ṘO-AH
From Japanese 彩 (a) meaning "colour", 路 (ro) meaning "a road, a street" combined with 歩 (a) meaning "walk". Other kanji combinations are possible.
Ashling
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: ASH-ling(English)
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Asiri
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Quechua
Means "smile" in Quechua.
Astreo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Astris
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Αστρις(Ancient Greek)
Derived from
αστερ (aster) meaning "star, starry". It is the name of a star-nymph daughter of the sun-god
Helios.
Aurnir
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norse Mythology
Derived from aurr ("gravel, sand, clay"). This is the name of a Jotunn in Norse mythology.
Averill
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
From an English surname that was originally derived from the feminine given name
Eoforhild.
Awhi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Maori
Pronounced: AF-FEE
Means "hug" in Maori. Short for
Āwhina.
Ayahi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 彩日, 彩陽, 彪日, 彩雅, 紋日, 文日, etc.(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: AH-YAH-HEE
From Japanese 彩 (aya) meaning "colour" combined with 日 (hi) meaning "sun, day". Other kanji combinations are also possible. A famous bearer is Ayahi Takagaki, Japanese voice actress and singer.
Ayaho
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 彩星, 彩帆, 安矢穂, 安弥保, 絢甫, 絢帆, 阿弥穂, 亜矢保, 亜弥甫, 彩甫, 章穂, 文帆, 綺帆, etc.(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: AH-YAH-HO
From Japanese 彩 (aya) meaning "color" combined with 星 (ho) meaning "star". Other kanji combinations are possible.
Ayaki
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 彩希, etc.(Japanese Kanji)
From Japanese 彩 (aya) meaning "color" combined with 希 (ki) meaning "hope". Other kanji combinations are possible.
Ayane
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 彩音, 綾音, 絢音, etc.(Japanese Kanji) あやね(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: A-YA-NEH
From Japanese
彩 (aya) meaning "colour",
綾 (aya) meaning "design" or
絢 (aya) meaning "brilliant fabric design, kimono design" combined with
音 (ne) meaning "sound". Other kanji combinations are possible.
Bahija
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: بهيجة(Arabic)
Pronounced: ba-HEE-ja
Means
"happy, joyous, delightful" in Arabic, from the verb
بهج (bahija) meaning "to be happy, to rejoice in".
Bakhta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: African, Arabic, Berber
Pronounced: BAKH-ttah
Means "starry" in Berber.
Barel
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: בראל(Hebrew)
Pronounced: bahr-EL
Means "son of God", from a combination of
bar and
El.
Barri
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Means "summit" in Welsh.
Beta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Slovak, Portuguese (Rare), Portuguese (Brazilian, Rare), Romansh
Bibbi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Danish (Rare), Norwegian (Rare)
Pronounced: BIB-i(Swedish)
Mainly a diminutive of
Birgitta and its variant forms (see also
Bibi).
Biddy
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish, English
Pronounced: BID-ee(English)
Bitte
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian
Pronounced: BIT-eh(Swedish)
Pet form of
Birgitta and its various forms.
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.
Botilda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish (Rare)
Pronounced: boo-TIL-dah
Bradán
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval Irish
Pronounced: BRA-dan(Irish)
Means
"salmon" in Irish. It could also be formed from Irish
brad "thief" and a
diminutive suffix.
Brea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BREE-uh, BRAY-uh, BRAY, BREE
Possibly a variant of
Bree,
Breagh or
Bria. Actress Brea Grant played Daphne Millbrook on Heroes.
Brede
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norwegian
Pronounced: BREH-də
From the medieval Danish word
bredje, meaning "battle axe". This name is rarely used outside Norway.
Brede is also a surname.
Bricida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Sicilian
Brida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval German, Romansh (Archaic)
Medieval German and archaic Romansh short form of
Brigitta, via the variant
Brigida.
Bridges
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Transferred use of the surname
Bridges.
Bridget
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish, English
Pronounced: BRIJ-it(English)
Anglicized form of the Irish name
Brighid, Old Irish
Brigit, from old Celtic *
Brigantī meaning
"the exalted one". In Irish
mythology this was the name of the goddess of fire, poetry and wisdom, the daughter of the god
Dagda. In the 5th century it was borne by
Saint Brigid, the founder of a monastery at Kildare and a patron saint of Ireland. Because of the saint, the name was considered sacred in Ireland, and it did not come into general use there until the 17th century. In the form
Birgitta this name has been common in Scandinavia, made popular by the 14th-century Saint Birgitta of Sweden, patron saint of Europe.
Bridgit
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: BRIJ-it
Variant of
Bridget. A known bearer is the American actress and singer Bridgit Mendler (1992-).
Bridgitte
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Brisa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: BREE-sah
Previously a short form of
Briseida, though it is now regarded as an independent name directly from the Spanish word
brisa "breeze". In Mexico this name was popularized by a character named Brisa (played by actress Margarita Magaña) on the telenovela "Por tu amor" (1999).
Bröseke
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Medieval German
Medieval German diminutive of both
Ambros and
Ambrosia. The diminutive suffix
-ke suggests that it was probably of Low German origin.
Bryony
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: BRIE-ə-nee
From the name of a type of Eurasian vine, formerly used as medicine. It ultimately derives from Greek
βρύω (bryo) meaning "to swell".
Buraunī
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese (Modern, Rare)
Other Scripts: ブラウニー(Japanese Katakana)
Pronounced: buwrowni
From ブラウニー (Buraunī) meaning "Brownie".
Calebot
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval English
Câlin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Pet
Pronounced: KA-lehn
From French "câlin" meaning "hug".
Calinette
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Afro-American (Slavery-era)
Possibly derived from French câline, the feminine form of the adjective câlin "cuddly" (ultimately via Old French from Vulgar Latin *calina, which itself is from Latin calidus "warm").
Callisto 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Καλλιστώ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: kə-LIS-to(English)
Latinized form of
Kallisto. A moon of Jupiter bears this name.
Cameo
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KAM-ee-0
It is of Italian and Middle French origin, and the meaning is "skin". From Italian cammeo which refers to a gem portrait carved in relief.
Carys
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: KA-ris
Derived from Welsh caru meaning "love". This is a relatively modern Welsh name, in common use only since the middle of the 20th century.
Catin
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Archaic), Afro-American (Slavery-era)
Pronounced: KA-TEHN(French) ka-tehn(Afro-American (Slavery-era))
Originally a (now archaic) French diminutive of
Catherine. While in Louisiana French
catin also means "doll; mannequin, dummy", in European French
catin means "harlot, slattern" (which is no doubt the reason this form of the name fell out of usage in France).
Célène
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Modern, Rare), French (Belgian, Modern, Rare)
Celi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese (Brazilian)
Chandler
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: CHAND-lər(American English) CHAND-lə(British English)
From an occupational surname that meant "candle seller" or "candle maker" in Middle English, ultimately from Latin candela via Old French. It surged in popularity after the 1994 debut of the American sitcom Friends, featuring a character by this name.
Ch’askañawi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Quechua
Means "star eyes" in Quechua.
Châu
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Vietnamese
Pronounced: CHUW, KYUW
From Sino-Vietnamese
珠 (châu) meaning
"pearl, gem".
Chihana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 茅華, 智華, 茅花, 千華, etc.(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: CHEE-HAH-NAH
From Japanese 茅 (chi) meaning "miscanthus reed" combined with 華 (hana) meaning "flower". Other combinations of kanji characters can form this name.
Chips
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Transferred use of the surname
Chips.
Famous bearers of this name are British merchant banker and member and Chairman of Arsenal football club Chips Keswick and Australian actor Chips Rafferty.
Chiyami
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 千夜美, 千夜実, etc.(Japanese Kanji) ちやみ(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: CHEE-YAH-MEE
From Japanese 千 (chi) meaning "thousand", 夜 (ya) meaning "night" combined with 美 (mi) meaning "beautiful". Other kanji combinations are possible.
Choumi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 蝶海, etc.(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: CHO:-MEE
From Japanese 蝶 (chou) meaning "butterfly" combined with 海 (mi) meaning "sea, ocean". Other kanji combinations are possible.
Chryse
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Χρύση, Χρυσῆ(Ancient Greek)
Means "golden."
Cin
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Chin
Means "to grow" in Hakha Chin.
Clavius
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Various (Latinized, Rare)
From Latin
clavis "key". The use as a given name is transferred from the humanist surname
Clavius (originally
Clau or
Schlüssel) borne by Christopher Clavius, a 16th-century Jesuit, astronomer, and mathematician.
Cloru
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Sicilian
Clue
Variant of
Clough, traditionally found in Devonshire.
Colebee
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Indigenous Australian
Pronounced: KOHL-bee
Rating: 10% based on 1 vote
This was the name of two famous Australian Aborigines, recorded in the early history of Sydney. The meaning of the name is yet unknown. Also, this particular spelling may be an anglicized form of the original Aboriginal name, since it is close in appearance to English (sur)names like Coleby and Colby.
Confortata
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Italian
Means "comforted" in Latin. This was an augurative name given to a child born after the death of another one.
Corazon
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Philippines)
Variant of
Corazón used in the Philippines. A famous bearer is Corazon Aquino, the first female president of the Philippines, from 1986-1992 and widow to assassinated senator Benigno Aquino, Jr.
Corinthian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare), Popular Culture
Pronounced: kor-inth-ee-an(Popular Culture)
Corinthian is the most ornate of the classical orders (columns) of Greek and Roman architecture, characterized by fluted columns and elaborate capitals with intricate carvings. It has taken on the meaning of "ornate, luxurious" because of the typical traits of the namesake order. Etymologically the name is derived from the Greek city of Corinth, itself derived from the Greek
korinthos (Κόρινθος), from the Pre-Greek (Pelasgian)
kar "point, peak" with the suffix -
thos (θος), of unknown meaning.
On the BBC television comedy 'Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps' protagonist Janet Keogh had a son she named Corinthian.
Còsimu
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Sicilian
Courtland
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: KORT-land
Transferred use of the surname
Courtland.
Possibly derived from Cortland, an archaic form of the Dutch surname Kortland, which in turn is possibly derived from a Dutch town of the same name (which might have served as the inspiration for the city Cortland in the American state of New York). The surname means "short land", derived from Dutch kort "short" and land "land". Since Dutch naming law has always strictly prohibited the use of surnames as first names, neither Cortland, Kortland or even Courtland have ever been used as a first name in The Netherlands. Therefore, Courtland's usage should be listed as (American-)English, since the United States of America does allow the use of surnames as first names.
Coyolxauhqui
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Aztec and Toltec Mythology
Means
"painted with bells" in Nahuatl, derived from
coyolli "bell"
[1] and
xuah "face painting"
[2]. This was the name of an Aztec moon goddess, the daughter of
Coatlicue. She was killed by her brother
Huitzilopochtli after she led an attack on their mother.
Cozbi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: כָּזְבִּי(Ancient Hebrew)
Means
"my lie, my deception" in Hebrew, a derivative of
כָּזַב (kazav) meaning "to lie, to deceive". In the
Old Testament this name is borne by a Midianite woman who became a lover of the Israelite
Zimri, both of whom were killed by
Phinehas in order to stop a plague sent by God.
Cwenþryð
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Anglo-Saxon
From the Old English elements
cwen "woman, wife" and
þryþ "strength".
Cynefrið
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Anglo-Saxon [1][2]
Means
"royal peace" from Old English
cyne "royal" and
friþ "peace".
Dægberht
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Anglo-Saxon
Old English cognate of
Dagobert, derived from the elements
dæg "day" and
beorht "bright".
Dáire
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish, Irish Mythology
Pronounced: DA-ryə(Irish)
Means
"fruitful, fertile" in Irish. This name is borne by many figures in Irish legend, including the Ulster chief Dáire mac Fiachna who reneged on his promise to loan the Brown Bull of Cooley to
Medb, starting the war between Connacht and Ulster as told in the Irish epic
The Cattle Raid of Cooley.
D'Arcy
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DAHR-see(American English) DAH-see(British English)
Dayley
English surname of Norman origin derived from the Norman preposition de for someone from any of numerous places in Northern France called Ouilly.
Delta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DEHL-tə
From the name of the fourth letter in the Greek alphabet,
Δ. It is also the name for an island formed at the mouth of a river.
Deorwine
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Anglo-Saxon [1][2]
Derived from the Old English elements
deore "dear" and
wine "friend".
Dhillon
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (American, Modern, Rare)
Variant of
Dillon. Dhillon was given to 9 boys in 2014 according to the SSA.
Diba
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Persian
Other Scripts: دیبا(Persian)
Pronounced: dee-BAW
Means "brocade" in Persian.
Didymos
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek
Other Scripts: Δίδυμος(Ancient Greek)
Derived from Greek δίδυμος (didymos) meaning "twin, double."
Dietfried
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German (Rare)
Pronounced: DEET-freet
Means
"peace of the people" from the Old German elements
theod meaning "people" (Old High German
diota, Old Frankish
þeoda) and
fridu meaning "peace".
Dikeledi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Tswana
Means "tears" in Tswana.
Dikeletso
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Tswana
Means "wishes" in Setswana.
Dilhavas
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Uzbek
Derived from the Uzbek dil meaning "heart" and havas meaning "desire".
Diogini
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Sicilian
Dipone
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Tswana
Means "lights" in Setswana.
Divakar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Tamil
Pronounced: divakar
Means "sun god" in Tamil.
Doppo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 独歩, 独甫, etc.(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: DO-PO
From Japanese 独 (dop) meaning "Germany" combined with 歩 (po) meaning "steps". Other kanji combinations are possible.
A famous bearer is Doppo Kunikada (born: Tetsuo Kunikida), was a Japanese author of novels and romantic poetry during the Meiji period, noted as one of the inventors of Japanese naturalism.
Doremi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 一二三, 瞳麗美, 瞳憐美, 瞳澪美, etc.(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: DO-ṘE-MEE
From Japanese 一 (do) meaning "one" or 瞳 (do) meaning "pupil of the eye", 二 (re) meaning "two", 麗 (re) meaning "beautiful, lovely", 憐 (re) meaning "pity, sympathize" or 澪 (re) meaning "waterway, channel" combined with 三 (mi) meaning "three" or 美 (mi) meaning "beautiful". Other kanji combinations are also possible.
Ealdwine
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Anglo-Saxon [1][2]
Ecgfrith
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Anglo-Saxon
Derived from the Old English elements
ecg "edge of a sword" and
friþ "peace". This name was borne by a 7th-century king of the Northumbrians and an 8th-century king of Mercia.
Echo
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἠχώ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: EH-ko(English)
From the Greek word
ἠχώ (echo) meaning
"echo, reflected sound", related to
ἠχή (eche) meaning "sound". In Greek
mythology Echo was a nymph given a speech impediment by
Hera, so that she could only repeat what others said. She fell in love with
Narcissus, but her love was not returned, and she pined away until nothing remained of her except her voice.
Eden
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 楽, etc.(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: E-DEN
From Japanese 楽 (eden) meaning "music". Other kanji or kanji combinations can also form this name.
Edgar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French, Portuguese, German
Pronounced: EHD-gər(American English) EHD-gə(British English) EHD-GAR(French)
Derived from the Old English elements
ead "wealth, fortune" and
gar "spear". This was the name of a 10th-century English king, Edgar the Peaceful. The name did not survive long after the
Norman Conquest, but it was revived in the 18th century, in part due to a character by this name in Walter Scott's novel
The Bride of Lammermoor (1819), which tells of the tragic love between Edgar Ravenswood and Lucy Ashton
[1]. Famous bearers include author and poet Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), French impressionist painter Edgar Degas (1834-1917), and author Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950).
Edwick
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: ED-wik
Elbee
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (American, Rare)
Phonetic spelling of the initials LB.
Eliu
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Sicilian
Elliw
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: ESH-ee-oo
Probably derived from lliw, meaning "colour" in Welsh.
Elpidice
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ελπιδίκη(Ancient Greek)
From Greek ἐλπίς
(elpis) "hope" and δίκη
(dike) "justice".
Elpis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1], Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἐλπίς(Ancient Greek)
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Means
"hope" in Greek. In Greek
mythology Elpis was the personification of hope. She was the last spirit to remain in the jar after
Pandora unleashed the evils that were in it.
Elviu
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Sicilian
Enfys
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: EHN-vis
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Means "rainbow" in Welsh. This name was first used in the 19th century.
Enki
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Sumerian Mythology
Other Scripts: 𒀭𒂗𒆠(Sumerian Cuneiform)
Pronounced: ENG-kee(English)
From Sumerian
𒂗 (en) meaning "lord" and
𒆠 (ki) meaning "earth, ground" (though maybe originally from
𒆳 (kur) meaning "underworld, mountain"). Enki, called
Ea by the Akkadians, Assyrians and Babylonians, was the Sumerian god of water and wisdom and the keeper of the Me, the divine laws.
Epikrates
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek
Other Scripts: Ἐπικράτης(Ancient Greek)
Derived from Greek ἐπί (epi) meaning "upon, on" combined with Greek κρατος (kratos) meaning "power."
Erriel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: ER-RI-EL
Éše'hȯhmé'éhne
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Cheyenne
Means "Rising Sun" in Cheyenne.
Eteonicus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Latinized form of
Eteonikos. This was the name of a Spartan commander from the early 4th century BC.
Eunoe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ευνοη(Ancient Greek)
From Greek εὔνους
(eunous) meaning "well-minded, friendly", which is composed of ευ
(eu) "good, well" and νοῦς
(nous) "mind" (see also
Eunous,
Eunoia). In Greek mythology this was the name of one of the rivers in Hades. It occurs in Dante's epic poem the 'Divine Comedy' (1321); after purging their sins, the penitent souls of Purgatory drink from the river Lethe to forget their misdeeds, after which they drink from the river Eunoe so that they remember their good deeds in life, and are thus able to enter Paradise.
Eunoë was also the name of a nymph in Greek mythology, the daughter of Persephone, wife of the Phrygian king Dymas, and mother of Hecuba.
Faraj
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: فرج(Arabic)
Pronounced: FA-raj
Means "comfort, relief" in Arabic.
Felitze
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Sardinian
Félix
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French, Spanish, Portuguese, Hungarian
Pronounced: FEH-LEEKS(French) FEH-leeks(Spanish, Portuguese, Hungarian)
French, Spanish, Portuguese and Hungarian form of
Felix.
Fergal
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish, Old Irish [1]
Means
"man of valour", derived from the Old Irish elements
fer "man" and
gal "valour". This was the name of an 8th-century king of Ireland. As well as the Old Irish form of the name, this is the usual Anglicization of the Modern Irish form
Fearghal.
Fevronija
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Serbian
Other Scripts: Февронија(Serbian)
Ffraid
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Fidencia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American)
Pronounced: fi-den-see-a(Latin American Spanish)
Filaret
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Bulgarian, Russian, Ukrainian, Moldovan, Romanian, Polish (Rare)
Other Scripts: Филарет(Bulgarian, Russian) Філарет(Ukrainian)
Pronounced: fee-LA-reht(Polish)
Filicianu
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Sicilian
Fizzy
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Foraoise
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish
From Irish foraoise meaning "forest", ultimately from Medieval Latin forestis meaning "open wood".
Fumiichi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 文一, 史一, etc.(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: FOO-MEE-CHEE
From Japanese 文 (fumi) meaning "writing", 史 (fumi) meaning "history" combined with 一 (ichi) meaning "one". Other kanji combinations can be used.
Future
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Western African, Southern African
Pronounced: FYOO-chər(English)
This name is from the English word derived from Old French
futur meaning "future, to come," which is then derived from Latin
futurus meaning "going to be, yet to be, the future (as a noun)." The Latin word is an irregular suppletive future participle of
esse meaning "to be," which comes from the Proto-Indo-European root
*bheue- meaning "to be, exist, grow, come into being."
This name is also used in most countries of Western and Southern Africa where English is one of the official languages.
Ganymede
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Anglicized)
Other Scripts: Γανυμήδης(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: GAN-i-meed(English)
From Greek
Γανυμήδης (Ganymedes), which was possibly derived from
γάνυμαι (ganymai) meaning "to be glad" and
μήδεα (medea) meaning "plans, counsel, cunning". In Greek
mythology this was the name of a beautiful boy who was abducted by
Zeus to become the cupbearer to the gods, the successor of
Hebe. A moon of Jupiter is named after him.
Garanwyn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arthurian Cycle
Possibly derived from Welsh
garan meaning "heron, crane" and
gwyn meaning "white".
Gerhild
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: GEW-hilt(German)
Derived from the Old German elements
ger "spear" and
hilt "battle".
Gesabel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American, Rare)
Girmanu
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Sicilian
Glow
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: GLO
From English glow, Old English glōwan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch gloeien and German glühen.
Goislav
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian
Meaning "hail to glory". Combined with goiek, goier "hail" and slav "glory".
Goldwine
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Anglo-Saxon
Pronounced: GOLD-wee-neh(Old English)
Derived from the Old English elements
gold "gold" and
wine "friend".
Greenleaf
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: grEEn-leef
Grispinu
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Sicilian
Gwanwyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: GWAN-win
Derived from Welsh gwanwyn "springtime".
Gwylan
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh (Rare)
Directly taken from Welsh gwylan "seagull". This name has been used from the early 20th century onwards.
Habiba
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic, Bengali
Other Scripts: حبيبة(Arabic) হাবিবা(Bengali)
Pronounced: ha-BEE-ba(Arabic)
Hafgan
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: HAV-gan
Probably means "summer song", from the Welsh elements
haf "summer" combine with
cân "song". Could also mean "summer white".
Most famously the name of one of the kings of Annwn, an otherworld from Welsh mythology.
Hari
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Filipino, Tagalog, Cebuano
Pronounced: har-EE(Filipino)
From Tagalog and Cebuano hari meaning "king".
Harmonique
Gender: Feminine
Usage: African American (Modern, Rare)
Variant of
Harmony, perhaps inspired by the French word
harmonique.
Harumi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 晴美, 春美, etc.(Japanese Kanji) はるみ(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: HA-ROO-MEE
From Japanese
晴 (haru) meaning "clear weather" and
美 (mi) meaning "beautiful", as well as other kanji combinations that are read the same way.
Haruyuki
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 春雪, 晴行, 晴雪, 春行, etc.(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: HA-ṘOO-YOO-KEE
From 春 (haru) meaning "spring" and 雪 (yuki) meaning "snow." Other kanji combinations can be used.
Havo
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Uzbek
Means "sky, weather" in Uzbek.
Hayako
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 玻矢子, etc.(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: HAH-YAH-KO
From Japanese 玻 (ha) meaning "glass", 矢 (ya) meaning "arrow" combined with 子 (ko) meaning "child". Other combinations of kanji characters are also possible.
Heichal
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Hebrew (Modern, Rare)
Other Scripts: היכל(Hebrew)
Pronounced: hay-KHAHL
Means "hall", "shrine" or "temple" in Hebrew, it's quite rare name in Israel.
Helia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, Galician (Rare)
Other Scripts: Ηλία(Ancient Greek)
Feminine form of
Helios. This name was borne by one of the Heliades, daughters of the sun god Helios by Clymene the Oceanid and sisters of the ill-fated Phaethon. (However, only Hyginus gives Helia as one of the Heliades; other sources give different names to the sisters, all omitting Helia as one of them.)
Heliantha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch (Rare)
Means "sunflower" in Greek, from ‘Ηλιος (helios) "sun" and ανθος (anthos), "flower".
Helios
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἥλιος(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: HEH-LEE-OS(Classical Greek) HEE-lee-ahs(American English) HEE-lee-aws(British English) HEE-lee-əs(English)
Means
"sun" in Greek. This was the name of the young Greek sun god, a Titan, who rode across the sky each day in a chariot pulled by four horses. His sister was the moon goddess
Selene.
Hena'é'héhe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Cheyenne
Means "Goose Woman" in Cheyenne.
Hesychia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek, Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἡσυχία(Ancient Greek)
Derived from the Greek noun ἡσυχία (hesychia) meaning "rest, quiet". In Greek mythology, this is the name of a daemon or spirit of quiet, rest, silence and stillness.
Heulwen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: HAYL-wehn
Means
"sunshine" in Welsh (a compound of
haul "sun" and
gwen "white, blessed").
Hibito
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 響人, etc.(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: HEE-BEE-TO
From Japanese 響 (hibi) meaning "sound" combined with 人 (to) meaning "person". Other kanji combinations are possible.
Ħilda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Maltese
Himawari
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Japanese (Modern)
Other Scripts: 向日葵, 向日花, 日向咲, 向夏花, 陽葵, 陽周, 葵, etc.(Japanese Kanji) ひまわり(Japanese Hiragana) ヒマワリ(Japanese Katakana)
Pronounced: KHEE-MA-WA-RYEE
From 向日葵 (himawari) which refers to the sunflower, originally deriving from 日 (hi) meaning "sun" combined with 回り (mawari) meaning "rotation, circulation," from the misconception that the sunflowers follow the direction of the sun, the behaviour only occuring in immature flower buds and not in fully grown sunflowers (which faces east).
Other ways to write this name include 向日花, 日向咲, 向夏花, 陽葵, 陽周 and 葵 with 花 meaning "flower," 咲 meaning "blossom," 夏 meaning "summer" and 周, related to 回.
Hinode
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Japanese (Rare)
Other Scripts: 日之出, 日乃出, 旦, 旺, etc.(Japanese Kanji) 日の出(Kanji/Hiragana) 日ノ出(Kanji/Katakana) ひので(Japanese Hiragana) ヒノデ(Japanese Katakana)
Pronounced: KHEE-NO-DEH
From 日の出
(hinode) meaning "sunrise," also written with kanji relating to the image of a sunrise, such as 旦 meaning "daybreak, dawn" or 旺 meaning "vigorous, prosperous."
This name is very rarely used.
Hokoleskwa
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Shawnee
Means "corn stalk" in Shawnee.
Hopeful
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Puritan), Literature
Meaning, "feeling or inspiring optimism about a future event." Referring to the hope in Christ for eternal life.
Horizon
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Late Middle English via Old French from late Latin horizon, from Greek horizōn (kuklos) ‘limiting (circle)’.
Hotaru
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 蛍(Japanese Kanji) ほたる(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: HO-TA-ROO
From Japanese
蛍 (hotaru) meaning "firefly".
Hurpari
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Uzbek
Derived from hur meaning "houri (virgin of paradise)" or "alluring girl" and pari meaning "fairy".
Huỳnh
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Vietnamese
Pronounced: HWING, HWIN, WIN
From Sino-Vietnamese 黃 (huỳnh) meaning "yellow".
Iballa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Guanche, Spanish (Canarian)
Possibly from Guanche *ibbaya "lover". This was perhaps an epithet or nickname of the aboriginal Guanche lover of the conquistador Hernán Peraza, a woman from the island of La Gomera who was possibly a priestess. In 1488 Peraza was killed by indigenous Gomero rebels while visiting Iballa (or Yballa) at her residence in the cave of Guahedun.
Ichigo
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Japanese (Modern), Popular Culture
Other Scripts: 一吾, 一悟, 一護, 一期, 一五, 苺(Japanese Kanji) いちご(Japanese Hiragana) イチゴ(Japanese Katakana)
Pronounced: EE-CHEE-GO(Japanese)
As a masculine name, this name combines 一 (ichi, itsu, hito-, hito.tsu) meaning "one" with 吾 (go, a-, waga-, ware) meaning "I, my, one's own," 悟 (go, sato.ru) meaning "perceive, realise, understand," 護 (go, mamo.ru) meaning "safeguard, protect," 期 (ki, go) meaning "date, period, term, time" or 五 (go, itsu, itsu.tsu) meaning "five."
As a rare feminine name, it's used as 苺 (bai, mai, ichigo) meaning "strawberry."
Regarding the word for "strawberry," it may come from either iwochiko (いをちこ), stemming from 魚 (iwo, Heian-period alternation of modern uo) meaning "fish," 血 (chi) meaning "blood" and 子 (ko) meaning "child," from the way the wild strawberry looks like a child with the blood of the fish, or ichibiko (いちびこ), likely stemming from a combination of prefix い (i), 血 (chi), used to denote the similarity between the colours of the wild strawberry and blood, and 彦 (hiko) meaning "boy," in this case, an honorary title for male chiefs and aristocrats in the old days, similar to the addition of 'Prince.'
Fictional bearers (all of them in manga & anime) of this name include Ichigo Kurosaki (黒崎 一護 - male) from Bleach, Ichigo Momomiya (桃宮 いちご - female) from Tokyo Mew Mew, Ichigo Morino (森野 苺 - female) from Please Teacher! and Ichigo Hoshimiya (星宮 いちご - female) from Aikatsu!
Iivo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: EE-vo
Ila
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Inuit
Yupik word for "companion" or "associate."
Inola
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Cherokee
Derived from Cherokee
ᎢᏃᎵ (inoli) meaning
"black fox".
Ire
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek (Rare), Ancient Greek, Greek Mythology, English
Other Scripts: Ίρη(Greek)
Pronounced: IE-ree(English)
Variant or diminutive of
Iris.
Isaccu
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Sicilian
Isandro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American, Rare), Portuguese (Rare), Portuguese (Brazilian), Antillean Creole
Spanish and Portuguese form of
Isander.
Ishqiya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Uzbek
Derived from ishqiy meaning "romantic".
Itona
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 愛夏, etc.(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: EE-TO-NAH
From Japanese 愛 (ito) meaning "love, affection" combined with 夏 (na) meaning "summer". Other kanji combinations are possible.
Itotia
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Nahuatl
Means "dance" in Nahuatl.
Iwa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hawaiian
Pronounced: I-va
Janja
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Croatian, Serbian, Slovene
Other Scripts: Јања(Serbian)
Croatian, Serbian and Slovene form of
Agnes. It also may be inspired by Serbo-Croatian
janje meaning
"lamb".
Jasmine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, French
Pronounced: JAZ-min(English) ZHAS-MEEN(French)
From the English word for the climbing plant with fragrant flowers that is used for making perfumes. It is derived via Arabic from Persian
یاسمین (yāsamīn), which is also a Persian name. In the United States this name steadily grew in popularity from the 1970s, especially among African Americans
[1]. It reached a peak in the early 1990s shortly after the release of the animated Disney movie
Aladdin (1992), which featured a princess by this name.
Javan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: יָוָן(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: JAY-vən(English)
Means
"Greece" in Hebrew, probably related to Greek
Ἴωνες (Iones), the name for the tribe of the Ionians. In the
Old Testament this is the name of a grandson of
Noah and the ancestor of the Greek peoples.
Jericho
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Other Scripts: יְרִיחוֹ(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: JEHR-i-ko
From the name of a city in Israel that is mentioned several times in the
Old Testament. The meaning of the city's name is uncertain, but it may be related to the Hebrew word
יָרֵחַ (yareaḥ) meaning "moon"
[1], or otherwise to the Hebrew word
רֵיחַ (reyaḥ) meaning "fragrance"
[2].
Jermajesty
Gender: Masculine
Usage: African American (Rare)
Pronounced: JER-maj-est-ee
A combination of the name
Jermaine and the English word majesty. Possibly inspired by the style of address "your majesty."
Jinan
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: جنان(Arabic)
Pronounced: jee-NAN
Means
"garden" or
"paradise" in Arabic, ultimately from the root
جنّ (janna) meaning "to cover, to hide".
Juke
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Kadzuki
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 一月, 一紀, 加月, 架月, 夏月, 花月, 花都規, 賀月, 香月, 和紀, 風月, 颯月, etc.(Japanese Kanji) かづき(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: KAH-DZUU-KEE
From Japanese 一 (kadzu) meaning "one" combined with 月 (ki) meaning "moon". Other kanji combinations are possible.
Kagiso
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Tswana
Means "peace" in Tswana.
Kahula
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Hawaiian
Hawaiian name with the combination of ka meaning "the" + hula meaning "dance".
Kaiki
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 会喜, 海希, 海記, 海輝, 海暉, etc.(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: KAH-EE-KEE
From Japanese 会 (kai) meaning "party" or 海 (kai) meaning "sea, ocean" combined with 喜 (ki) meaning "rejoice", 希 (ki) meaning "hope", 記 (ki) meaning "chronicle", 輝 (ki) meaning "brightness" or 暉 (ki) meaning "sunshine, light, bright, radiant". Other kanji combinations are possible.
Kaitz
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew (Modern, Rare)
Other Scripts: קיץ(Hebrew)
Means "summer" in Hebrew.
Kameo
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: kam-EE-o
Karawa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Polynesian
Means "sky" in Gilbertese.
Kariko
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 雁子, etc.(Japanese Kanji) カリ子(Kanji/Katakana)
Pronounced: KAH-ṘEE-KO
From Japanese 雁 (kari) meaning "wild goose" combined with 子 (ko) meaning "child". Other kanji combinations are possible.
Karsten
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Low German, Danish, Norwegian
Pronounced: KAR-stən(Low German) KAS-dən(Danish)
Katriel
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew, English (Modern, Rare)
Other Scripts: כתריאל(Hebrew)
Pronounced: kah-dhree-EL(Hebrew)
Means "the crowned Lord" (or possibly "crown of God") in Hebrew. From the Hebrew keter (כֶּתֶר) "crown" and el (אֵל) "god".
Kayleigh
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: KAY-lee
Variant of
Kaylee. This particular spelling was popularized by a 1985 song by the British band Marillion.
Keitumetse
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Tswana
Means "I am happy" in Tswana, from itumetse meaning "happy".
Keletso
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Tswana
Means "wish" in Setswana.
Keshaun
Gender: Masculine
Usage: African American (Modern)
Pronounced: kə-SHAWN(English)
Combination of the popular name prefix
ke and
Shaun.
Keshet
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: קֶשֶׁת(Hebrew)
Means "rainbow" in Hebrew.
Keter
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew (Modern, Rare)
Other Scripts: כֶּתֶר(Hebrew)
Pronounced: KE-ter
Means "crown" in Hebrew.
Kgomotso
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Tswana
Means "comfort" in Tswana.
Khairullah
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic, Pashto, Dari Persian
Other Scripts: خير الله(Arabic) خیرالله(Pashto, Persian)
Pronounced: khie-rool-LAH(Arabic) khie-ruw-LAH(Pashto)
Alternate transcription of Arabic خير الله (see
Khayrullah), as well as the Pashto and Dari Persian form.
Khazran
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: خَضْرَان(Arabic)
Means "green-colored" or "soft grass".
Khepri
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Egyptian Mythology
From Egyptian
ḫprj meaning "the one being created", derived from
ḫpr "to come into being, begin to exist; to appear, arise occur" or "to develop, transform". Khepri was the Egyptian god of the morning sun, a scarab-faced aspect of
Ra associated with rebirth, transformation, and creation.
Kichi
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 吉, 喜知, etc.(Japanese Kanji) きち(Japanese Hiragana) キチ(Japanese Katakana)
Pronounced: KEE-CHEE
From Japanese 吉 (kichi) meaning "good luck". Other kanji combinations are possible.
Kichō
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 帰蝶(Japanese Kanji)
Derived from 帰 (ki) meaning "to return, come back" and 蝶 (chō) meaning "butterfly".
Kiiro
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 黄色(Japanese Kanji)
From Japanese 黄色 (kiiro) meaning "yellow".
Kim 3
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Vietnamese
Pronounced: KEEM
From Sino-Vietnamese
金 (kim) meaning
"gold, metal".
Kimidori
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 黄緑(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: KEE-MEE-DO-ṘEE
From Japanese 黄緑 (kimidori) meaning "yellow-green".
Kirameki
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 星, etc.(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: KEE-ṘAH-ME-KEE
From Japanese 星 (kirameki) meaning "star" or other kanji pronounced in the same way.
Kite
From the name of the bird of prey, derived from Middle English Kete and Old English Cyta.
Kiyomizu
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 清水, 清瑞, etc.(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: KEE-YO-MEE-ZUU
From Japanese 清 (kiyo) meaning "pure" combined with 水 (mizu) meaning "water" or 瑞 (mizu) meaning "auspicious". Other kanji combinations are possible.
Kiyomu
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 浄, 澄, 雪, 今日夢(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: KEE-YO-MOO
From Japanese 浄 (kiyomu) meaning "cleanse, clean, pure, purify", 澄 (kiyomu) meaning "clear, pure" or 雪 (kiyomu) meaning "snow" (for males) and from Japanese 今 (ki) meaning "now", 日 (yo) meaning "day, sun, Japan" combined with 夢 (mu) meaning "dream" (for females). Other kanji combinations are also possible.
Kiyora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: きよら(Japanese Hiragana) 希世楽, 汐羅, 清, 清來, 生世良, 聖愛, 聖良, 貞女, etc.(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: KEE-YO-ṘAH
From Japanese 希 (ki) meaning "hope", 世 (yo) meaning "world" combined with 楽 (ra) meaning "music". Other kanji combinations are possible.
Kȯhóméhá'e
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Cheyenne
Means "Coyote Woman" in Cheyenne.
Kotohito
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 載仁, etc.(Japanese Kanji)
From Japanese 載 (koto) meaning "force" combined with 仁 (hito) meaning "two". Other combinations of kanji characters can also form this name.
Kritias
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek
Other Scripts: Κριτίας(Ancient Greek)
From the Ancient Greek κριτής (kritḗs) meaning “judge” with -ίας (-ías), a masculine suffix. Kritias was an Ancient Athenian politician. This name was used by Plato (IV century BC) in one of his late dialogues.
Krystallo
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek (Cypriot)
Other Scripts: Κρυστάλλω(Greek)
Means "crystal", derived from Greek κρύσταλλος (krystallos).
Kumushtoj
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Uzbek
Derived from Uzbek kumush meaning "silver" and toj meaning "crown".
Kuobakhaya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Yakut
Other Scripts: Куобахайа(Yakut)
Means "hare" in Yakut.
Kuromu
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: クロム(Japanese Katakana) 黒夢, etc.(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: KUU-ṘO-MUU
From Japanese 黒 (
kuro) meaning "black" combined with 夢 (
mu) meaning "dream". Other kanji combinations are possible.
Kuromu, as a word in Japanese (クロム) means "chrome".
Kyousei
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 叫星, 恭生, 教生, 共誠, 京静, 享生, 亨生, etc.(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: KYO:-SE:
From Japanese 叫 (kyou) meaning "to shout, to scream" combined with 星 (sei) meaning "star". Other kanji combinations are possible.
A famous bearer is Kyousei Tsukui, a Japanese voice actor currently working for 81 Produce.
Kyta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Selkup
Other Scripts: Кыта(Selkup)
From кыт (kyt) meaning "moss".
Lagle
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Estonian
Means "goose" in Estonian.
Lake
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: LAYK
From the English word lake, for the inland body of water. It is ultimately derived from Latin lacus.
Lament
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Puritan)
Meaning, "a passionate expression of grief or sorrow." Referring to being sorry for sin. Name given to 'bastard' children.
Lamis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: لميس(Arabic)
Pronounced: la-MEES
Means "soft" in Arabic.
Latroy
Gender: Masculine
Usage: African American (Rare)
Pronounced: lə-TROI
Elaboration of
Troy using the popular prefix
La-.
Leaf
Derived from Old English lēof "dear, beloved".
Lebuinus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic (Latinized)
Lechery
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Puritan)
Meaning, "excessive or offensive sexual desire; lustfulness." A puritanical name used as a warning.
Leimomi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hawaiian
Pronounced: lay-MO-mee
Means "pearl lei" or "pearl child" from Hawaiian lei "flowers, lei, child" and momi "pearl".
Leo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Estonian, English, Croatian, Armenian, Late Roman
Other Scripts: Լեո(Armenian)
Pronounced: LEH-o(German, Dutch, Danish, Finnish) LEE-o(English)
Derived from Latin
leo meaning
"lion", a
cognate of
Leon. It was popular among early Christians and was the name of 13 popes, including
Saint Leo the Great who asserted the dominance of the Roman bishops (the popes) over all others in the 5th century. It was also borne by six Byzantine emperors and five Armenian kings. Another famous bearer was the Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), name spelled
Лев in Russian, whose works include
War and Peace and
Anna Karenina. Leo is also a constellation and the fifth sign of the zodiac.
In some cases this name can be a short form of longer names that start with Leo, such as Leonard.
Leofdæg
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Anglo-Saxon [1][2]
Derived from the Old English element
leof "dear, beloved" combined with
dæg "day".
Lesedi
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Tswana
Means "light" in Tswana.
Leutwin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic [1]
Old German name derived from the elements
liut "people" and
wini "friend".
Saint Leutwin (or Leudwinus) was an 8th-century bishop of Trier.
Leve
Gender: Masculine
Usage: East Frisian
Lewapi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Tswana
Means "sky" in Setswana.
Leyati
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Miwok
Means "shell" in Miwok.
Liat
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: לִיאַת(Hebrew)
Means "you are mine" in Hebrew.
Libberiu
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Sicilian
Livramento
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Brazilian (Modern, Rare), Portuguese (Brazilian)
From the city Santana do Livramento, which is located in Brazil.
Lluvia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Modern)
Pronounced: GYOO-bya
Means "rain" in Spanish.
Lorato
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Tswana
Means "love" in Tswana.
Loxley
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American, Modern, Rare)
Pronounced: LAHKS-lee(American English)
Transferred use of the surname
Loxley.
Lucida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Italian, Italian (Rare)
Lûtivik
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greenlandic
Lyrick
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (American, Modern, Rare)
Mackinac
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Indigenous American
Pronounced: Mack-i-naw
Mean "big Turtle" in ojibwe
Malachite
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: MA-lə-kiet
From the name of the mineral. The stone's name derives from Greek
μαλαχίτης (λίθος) (malachíti̱s (líthos)) meaning "mallow stone," which is, ultimately, from Ancient Greek
μαλαχή (malakhḗ) meaning "mallow." The mineral was given this name due to its resemblance to the leaves of the Mallow plant.
In the show Steven Universe, Malachite is the fusion of Jasper and Lapis Lazuli.
Marmar
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Uzbek
Means "marble" in Uzbek.
Marshall
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MAHR-shəl(American English) MAH-shəl(British English)
From an English surname that originally denoted a person who was a marshal. The word marshal originally derives from Latin mariscalcus, itself from Germanic roots akin to Old High German marah "horse" and scalc "servant". A famous bearer is the American rapper Marshall Mathers (1972-), who performs under the name Eminem.
Marziali
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Sicilian
Maya 3
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: מַיָּה(Hebrew)
Derived from Hebrew
מַיִם (mayim) meaning
"water".
Mayhew
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Transferred use of the surname
Mayhew.
Mayim
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew (Rare), Jewish (Rare)
Other Scripts: מים(Hebrew)
From the Hebrew word מַיִם
(máyim) meaning "water". In the case of Jewish-American actress Mayim Bialik (1975-), the name originated from a mispronunciation of the name
Miriam (the name of her great-grandmother).
Mefus
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh (Rare)
Pronounced: MEH-vis
Directly from the Welsh vocabulary word mefus meaning "strawberries".
Melissos
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek
Other Scripts: Μέλισσος(Ancient Greek)
Derived from Greek μέλισσα
(melissa) meaning "honey-bee" (see
Melissa).
Menuha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: מְנוּחָה(Hebrew)
Means "tranquility" in Hebrew.
Meretseger
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Egyptian Mythology, Ancient Egyptian
From Egyptian
mrt-sgr meaning "she who loves silence", derived from
mrt "the beloved" (see
mrj "to love") and
sgr "silence, quiet". This was the name of a Theban cobra-goddess, guardian of the necropolis at Thebes and the Valley of Kings. She was said to watch over the workers there, punishing thieves and tomb desecrators with blindness and snake or scorpion bites, but healing those who repented.
Meretseger was also the name of the wife of the Pharaoh Senusret III, and the first to bear the title Great Royal Wife, which went on to be the standard title for the chief wives of pharaohs. She was also the first queen consort to have her name written in a cartouche. She may have been a later invention of the New Kingdom.
Meshi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: מֶשִׁי(Hebrew)
Pronounced: MEH-shee
Means "silk" in Hebrew.
Mica
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical Italian, Biblical Romanian
Italian and Romanian form of
Micah.
Michiko
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 美智子, etc.(Japanese Kanji) みちこ(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: MEE-CHEE-KO
From Japanese
美 (mi) meaning "beautiful",
智 (chi) meaning "wisdom, intellect" and
子 (ko) meaning "child". This name can also be comprised of other combinations of kanji.
Midori
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 緑, etc.(Japanese Kanji) みどり(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: MEE-DO-REE
From Japanese
緑 (midori) meaning "green", as well as other kanji or kanji combinations that have the same pronunciation.
Midorika
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 緑夏, etc.(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: MEE-DO-ṘEE-KAH
From Japanese 緑 (midori) meaning "green" combined with 夏 (ka) meaning "summer". Other kanji combinations are possible.
Midorino
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 緑野, etc.(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: MEE-DO-ṘEE-NO
From Japanese 緑 (midori) meaning "green" combined with 野 (no) meaning "area, field". Other kanji combinations are possible.
Mijamin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Mijamin meaning, "from the right hand," is the name of three persons mentioned in the Bible.
Mimi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MEE-mee
Minnie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MIN-ee
Diminutive of
Wilhelmina. This name was used by Walt Disney for the cartoon character Minnie Mouse, introduced 1928.
Mishou
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 海翔, 実章, 実生, 微笑, 美象, 未生, etc.(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: MEE-SHO:
From Japanese 海 (mi) meaning "sea, ocean" combined with 翔 (shou) meaning "fly". Other combinations of kanji characters can also form this name.
Moe 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 萌, etc.(Japanese Kanji) もえ(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: MO-EH
From Japanese
萌 (moe) meaning "bud, sprout". Other kanji with the same reading can also form this name.
Moor
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch (Archaic)
Najm
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: نجم(Arabic)
Pronounced: NAJM
Means "star" in Arabic.
Nanami
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 七海, 菜々美(Japanese Kanji) ななみ(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: NA-NA-MEE
From Japanese
七 (nana) meaning "seven" and
海 (mi) meaning "sea". It can also come from
菜 (na) meaning "vegetables, greens" duplicated and
美 (mi) meaning "beautiful". Other kanji combinations are also possible.
Nantu
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Shuar
Means "moon" in Shuar.
Naos
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Astronomy, Ancient Greek
Other Scripts: Ναός(Ancient Greek)
From Ancient Greek
ναύς meaning "ship". It is a traditional name of the star Zeta Puppis. The star originally belonged to the former constellation
Argo Navis, depicting the mythical ship of the Argonauts, but the ship has now been divided into three distinct constellations, with Puppis representing the stern of the ship.
Narcisu
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Sicilian
Nastagio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval Italian
Natsu
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 夏(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: NA-TSOO
Means "summer" in Japanese.
Nausimachus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Neboje
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Serbian
Other Scripts: Небоје(Serbian)
Pronounced: NE-baw-ye
From Serbian не (ne) meaning "not" and бој (boj), from бојати се (bojati se), meaning "to fear". Therefore the name means "fearless".
Negovanka
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Serbian (Rare)
Nehorai
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew, Ancient Hebrew
Other Scripts: נהוראי(Hebrew)
From the Aramaic root nehora, meaning "light". Rabbi Nehorai was the name of one of the Tannaim.
Neiro
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese (Modern)
Other Scripts: 音色, 寧色(Japanese Kanji) ねいろ(Japanese Hiragana) ネイロ(Japanese Katakana)
Pronounced: NEH-EE-RO
This name is used as 音色 meaning "tone colour, timbre," a combination of 音 (in, on, -non, oto, ne) meaning "noise, sound" and 色 (shiki, shoku, iro) meaning "colour."
It can also be written as 寧色 with 寧 (nei, mushi.ro) meaning "mild, gentle."
Nektaria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Νεκταρία(Greek)
Nektarios
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek, Late Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Νεκτάριος(Greek)
Derived from Greek
νέκταρ (nektar) meaning
"nectar, drink of the gods".
Netjeraperef
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Egyptian
Means "he who works for a god" in Egyptian.
Nieve
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Rare)
Pronounced: NYEH-beh
Niji
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Japanese (Rare)
Other Scripts: 虹(Japanese Kanji) にじ(Japanese Hiragana) ニジ(Japanese Katakana)
Pronounced: NEE-ZHEE
From 虹 (niji) meaning "rainbow". Other spellings can be used.
Ninlil
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Sumerian Mythology, Semitic Mythology
Other Scripts: 𒀭𒎏𒆤(Sumerian Cuneiform)
Derived from Sumerian
𒎏 (nin) meaning "lady" and possibly
𒆤 (lil) meaning "wind". This was the name of a Sumerian, Akkadian and Babylonian goddess, the consort of
Enlil.
Nitzan
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: נִצָן(Hebrew)
Means "flower bud" in Hebrew.
Njegovanka
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Serbian (Rare)
Nowell
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
From the surname
Nowell (a variant of
Noel).
Nozomi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 希実, 希美, 望(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: NO-ZO-MEE
From Japanese
希 (nozo) "hope" and
実 (mi) "fruit" or
美 (mi) "beautiful". Another kanji for Nozomi is
望 (nozomi) "wish, desire, hope" (which can be read as
Nozomu). Another kanji combination is
希 (nozo) "hope" and
海 (mi) "sea".
Nozomu
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 望, etc.(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: NO-ZO-MOO
From 望 (
nozomu) meaning "hope, wish, desire". 望 can also be read as
Nozomi. Other spellings of the name are possible.
Nuit
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (British), Egyptian Mythology
Pronounced: NOO-it; NOOT(British English)
Nuit is the Ancient Egyptian goddess of the heavens, with her name meaning "sky." Originally she was only the goddess of the night sky, but gradually she came to represent the sky in general. Nuit also protects people in the afterlife. Her many titles include "Coverer of the Sky," "Mistress of All," "She Who Protects," and "She Who Holds a Thousand Souls." Nuit is the daughter of
Shu, the god of air, and
Tefnut, the goddess of moisture. Her brother, who also became her husband, was named
Geb. Geb and Nuit are a bit of an anomaly of mythology. Usually it's the male deity representing the sky while the female represents the earth. This is one of the few times in which it is the other way around. Most of the time, Nuit is depicted as a star-covered nude woman arching over Geb, the earth. It is believed that her hands and feet touch the four cardinal directions. She is also sometimes shown as a giant cow. She had at least four children:
Isis,
Osiris,
Set, and
Nephtys. In some variations of the mythology she is also the mother of
Horus, but in most cases Horus is her grandson. The inside of tombs were often painted a deep blue with lots of stars to represent her, and her image was painted inside the sarcophagus. The story as to how she gave birth to her children is an interesting one.
Ra, the sun god, was paranoid over others stealing his throne. So when it became known that Nuit was pregnant, he became furious and decreed that Nuit was not allowed to give birth on any day of the year. At this time there were only 360 days in a year. Nuit hatched a plan with
Thoth, the god of wisdom. Thoth played gambling games with
Khonshu, the god of the moon, and every time Khonshu lost he gave Thoth some moonlight. Eventually Thoth had enough moonlight to make five extra days. Since these were technically not a part of the year, Nuit could have her children. When Ra found out, he separated Nuit from Geb for all eternity, but she never regretted her actions. The reason Aleister Crowley gave this name to his child is because Nuit is an important goddess to the religion he founded, Thelema. Basically she represents the All, or the universe. It's interesting to note that Nuit is also French for "night."
Nya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (Modern, Rare)
Nyx
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Νύξ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: NUYKS(Classical Greek) NIKS(English)
Means "night" in Greek. This was the name of the Greek goddess of the night, the daughter of Khaos and the wife of Erebos.
Obi
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Igbo
Means "heart" in Igbo.
Ocean
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: O-shən
Simply from the English word
ocean for a large body of water. It is ultimately derived from Greek
Ὠκεανός (Okeanos), the name of the body of water thought to surround the Earth.
Ocke
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: East Frisian, North Frisian
Pronounced: AWK-ə
Ohr
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אור(Hebrew)
Okeanis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek (Rare)
Other Scripts: Ωκεανίς(Greek)
Okko
Gender: Masculine
Usage: East Frisian
Pronounced: AWK-o
Shortened form of dithematic names starting with the name element
od "heritage, wealth".
Ókȯhkevó'omaestse
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Cheyenne
Means "White Crow" in Cheyenne.
Ori
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אוֹרִי(Hebrew)
Means "my light" in Hebrew.
Orlev
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew (Rare)
Other Scripts: אורלב(Hebrew)
Combination of the name
Or means "light" and the name
Lev 2 means "heart".
O'rozqilich
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Uzbek
Derived from the Uzbek o'roz meaning "hope" and qilich meaning "sword".
Oswig
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Anglo-Saxon
Derived from the Old English elements
os "god" and
wig "war, battle".
Ozeana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Modern, Rare)
Pronounced: o-tsay-AH-na
Pamfilos
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek (Rare)
Other Scripts: Πάμφιλος(Greek)
Pancrazziu
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Sicilian
Parthena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Ancient Greek, Greek
Other Scripts: Παρθένα(Greek)
Pronounced: pahr-THEE-nə(English) par-THEH-na(Greek)
Derived from Greek παρθένος
(parthenos) meaning "maiden, virgin".
Pasiphilos
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek
Other Scripts: Πασίφιλος(Ancient Greek)
Means "friend of all", derived from Greek πᾶς (pas) meaning "all, for all, of all" combined with Greek φιλος (philos) meaning "friend, lover".
Pax
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Pronounced: PAKS(Latin, English)
Means
"peace" in Latin. In Roman
mythology this was the name of the goddess of peace.
Peleus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Πηλεύς(Ancient Greek)
Probably derived from Greek
πηλός (pelos) meaning
"clay". In Greek
mythology Peleus was a king of Phthia. With his wife the sea nymph
Thetis he was the father of the hero
Achilles.
Peninnah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: פְּנִנָּה(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: pi-NIN-ə(English) pi-NEE-nə(English)
Means
"pearl, coral, precious stone" in Hebrew. In the
Old Testament this is the name of one of the wives of
Elkanah, the other being
Hannah.
Petrichor
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Obscure
From the English word
petrichor that denotes the earthy scent produced when rain falls on dry soil, which was coined by Australian mineralogist and biochemist Richard Grenfell Thomas in 1964 from Greek πέτρα
(petra) meaning "rock" or πέτρος
(petros) "stone" and ἰχώρ
(ichor) "the juice, not blood, that flows in the veins of gods in Greek mythology".
It was used as a given name for a girl in the Canadian province Alberta in 2016.
Phanurat
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Thai
Other Scripts: ภาณุรัตน์, ภานุรัตน์(Thai)
Pronounced: pa-noo-RAT
From Thai ภาณุ or ภานุ (phanu) meaning "sun, light" and รัตน์ (rat) meaning "gem, jewel".
Phi
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Vietnamese
Pronounced: FEE
From Sino-Vietnamese 飛 (phi) meaning "to fly".
Philinna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek, Theatre
Other Scripts: Φίλιννα(Ancient Greek)
Means "darling" in Greek, a term of affection derived from Greek φίλος
(philos) meaning "friend, lover". A famous bearer was Philinna of Larissa in Thessaly (4th century BC), the third wife of Philip II of Macedon and mother of Philip III Arrhidaeus. In theatre, the name occurs in Aristophanes' play
The Clouds (423 BC).
Photios
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Φώτιος(Ancient Greek)
Derived from Greek
φῶς (phos) meaning
"light" (genitive
φωτός (photos)).
Phyllis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, English
Other Scripts: Φυλλίς(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: FIL-is(English)
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Means
"foliage" in Greek. In Greek
mythology this was the name of a woman who killed herself out of love for Demophon and was subsequently transformed into an almond tree. It began to be used as a given name in England in the 16th century, though it was often confused with
Felicia.
Pi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Obscure
Pronounced: PIE
From the mathematical constant. Pi O, (1951-) is a Greek-Australian, working class, anarchist poet.
Piʻilani
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hawaiian
Pronounced: pee-ee-LA-nee
Means "rising sky" or "to ascend to heaven," from
piʻi meaning "climb, ascend, advance, mount, rise" and
lani meaning "sky, heaven, heavenly, spiritual, royal, exalted, noble, aristocratic."
One (male) bearer of this name is Piʻilani (ca. 1577-?) who ruled as the 15th Mōʻī of Maui.
Pilutaq
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Greenlandic
Greenlandic younger form of
Pilutaĸ.
Pipi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Chinese
Pixie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (British)
Pronounced: PIK-see(English)
From the English word pixie referring to a playful sprite or elf-/fairy-like creature, originating from Devon and Cornwall in southwest England.
Polyxeni
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Πολυξένη(Greek)
Prasenjit
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Bengali
Other Scripts: প্রসেনজিৎ(Bengali)
Means "conqueror of an expert army" in Sanskrit.
Prokhor
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Прохор(Russian)
Pronounced: PRO-khər
Ptah
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Egyptian Mythology
Pronounced: pə-TAH(English)
From Egyptian ptḥ meaning "opener, creator". Ptah was an Egyptian god associated with creation and the arts.
Pyrrhus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized), Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Πύρρος(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: PIR-əs(English)
From the Greek name
Πύρρος (Pyrrhos) meaning
"flame-coloured, red", related to
πῦρ (pyr) meaning "fire". This was another name of
Neoptolemus the son of
Achilles. This was also the name of a 3rd-century BC king of Epirus who was famed for his victorious yet costly battles against Rome.
Pyxis
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Astronomy
Pyxis is a small and faint constellation in the southern sky. Abbreviated from Pyxis Nautica, its name is Latin for a mariner's compass (contrasting with Circinus, which represents a draftsman's compasses). Pyxis was introduced by Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille in the 18th century, and is counted among the 88 modern constellations.
Qarasuu
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Karachay-Balkar
Other Scripts: Къарасуу(Karachay-Balkar)
Means "black water" in Karachay-Balkar.
Quang
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Vietnamese
Pronounced: KWANG, WANG
From Sino-Vietnamese
光 (quang) meaning
"bright, clear".
Qura
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Quechua
Means "grass" in Quechua.
Rajani
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Hinduism, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, Hindi, Nepali
Other Scripts: रजनी(Sanskrit, Marathi, Hindi, Nepali) రజని(Telugu) ರಜನಿ(Kannada)
Means
"dark, night" in Sanskrit. This is another name of the Hindu goddess
Durga.
Rajiya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: رجية(Arabic)
Pronounced: RA-jee-ya
Means
"hope" in Arabic, derived from
رجا (rajā) meaning "to hope, to anticipate".
Rajnish
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hindi
Other Scripts: रजनीश(Hindi)
Means
"lord of the night" from Sanskrit
रजनी (rajanī) meaning "night" and
ईश (īśa) meaning "lord, ruler". This is another name for the moon in Hindu texts.
Raz
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: רָז(Hebrew)
Means "secret" in Hebrew.
Reemt
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Frisian, Low German, Dutch (Rare)
Pronounced: RAYMT
Dutch, Low German, and Frisian form of
Raymond.
Regta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Filipino
Pronounced: Reg-tah
Means "warm and sincere" in Ilocano.
Renpet
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Egyptian Mythology
Means "year" in Ancient Egyptian. This was the name of the goddess of fertility, youth and spring.
Rhodine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek
Other Scripts: Ῥοδίνη(Ancient Greek)
Means "made of roses, pink" in Greek, a word derived from ῥόδον
(rhodon) "rose" and an adjectival suffix.
Rigel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Astronomy
Pronounced: RIE-jəl(English)
Derived from Arabic
الرجل (al-Rijl) meaning
"foot". This is the name of the star that forms the left foot of the constellation Orion.
Roine
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Finnish (Rare)
Pronounced: ROY-neh(Swedish)
From the name of a lake in Häme, Finland. There are theories on the origin of this name, it could've come from Germanic hreini meaning "clean, clear" or from Pre-Germanic/Baltic *kroinis meaning "clean". This name was originally intended for females but nowadays is used more often among males.
Rónán
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish, Old Irish [1]
Pronounced: RO-nan(Irish)
Means
"little seal", derived from Old Irish
rón "seal" combined with a
diminutive suffix. This was the name of several early Irish
saints, including a pilgrim to Brittany who founded the hermitage at Locronan in the 6th century.
Sæfaru
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Anglo-Saxon (Hypothetical)
Derived from the Old English elements
sæ "sea, ocean" and
faru "journey", making it an Old English cognate of
Sǽfari.
Sæwine
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Anglo-Saxon [1][2]
Derived from the Old English elements
sæ "sea" and
wine "friend".
Safaa'
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: صفاء(Arabic)
Pronounced: sa-FA
Means
"serenity, clarity" in Arabic, a derivative of
صفا (ṣafā) meaning "to be clear, to be pure".
Sahaquiel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew, Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend
Apparently means "ingenuity of God" in Hebrew. This is the name of one of the seven archangels mentioned in the Third Book of Enoch.
Saiph
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Astronomy
Pronounced: SAYF
Variant of
Saif. This is the traditional name of Kappa Orionis, a blue star in the constellation Orion.
Sakari
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 盛, 昌, 壮, 隆, etc.(Japanese Kanji) さかり(Japanese Hiragana) サカリ(Japanese Katakana)
Pronounced: SA-KA-RYEE
From 盛り
(sakari), referring to a peak or height of something (e.g. the peak/height of summer) (compare
Sakaru), also written as 昌, 壮, 隆 and such.
Sakine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Turkish
Salil
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: سليل(Arabic)
Pronounced: sa-LEEL
Means "drawn, unsheathed" or "son, descendant" in Arabic.
Sallali
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Cherokee
Pronounced: sah-LAH-lee
Means "squirrel", from the Cherokee sa lo li 'squirrel'.
Salvo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: SAL-vo
Variant of
Salvio (see
Salvius) or directly from Italian
salvo meaning
"safe".
Sapphire
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: SAF-ie-ər(American English) SAF-ie-ə(British English)
From the name of the gemstone, typically blue, which is the traditional birthstone of September. It is derived from Greek
σάπφειρος (sappheiros), ultimately from the Hebrew word
סַפִּיר (sappir).
Sayfullah
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic, Urdu
Other Scripts: سيف الله(Arabic) سیف اللہ(Urdu)
Pronounced: sie-fool-LAH(Arabic)
Means
"sword of Allah" from Arabic
سيف (sayf) meaning "sword" combined with
الله (Allah).
Scot
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Scottish
Pronounced: SKAHT(American English) SKAWT(British English)
Sechelei
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Polynesian
Means "friend" in Palauan.
Seira
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 水楽, 沙羅, 世依羅, 世永良, 世楽, 瀬依良, 勢良, 性裸, etc.(Japanese Kanji) せいら(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: SE:-ṘAH
From Japanese 水 (sei) meaning "water" combined with 楽 (ra) meaning "music". Other kanji combinations are possible.
For females the usage of this name is, most likely, influenced by the name Sarah or Sara.
Selby
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: SEHL-bee
From an English surname that was from a place name meaning "willow farm" in Old Norse.
Sélène
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Modern)
Pronounced: SEH-LEHN
Sephiroth
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern, Rare), Popular Culture
Other Scripts: סְפִירוֹת(Hebrew)
Derived from English sephiroth, the plural form of sephirah, itself derived from Hebrew סְפִירָה (s'fira) meaning "counting, enumeration". In the Kabbalah, the sephiroth are each of the ten attributes that God created, through which he can project himself in the physical and metaphysical universes. This name is borne by the main antagonist of the video game Final Fantasy VII (1997).
Seraphim
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Greek, English (Puritan), English (Modern, Rare), History (Ecclesiastical)
Other Scripts: Σεραφείμ(Greek)
Pronounced: SEHR-ə-fim(English)
Directly from the biblical word
seraphim which meant "fiery ones", from Hebrew שרף
(saraf) meaning "to burn", referring to an order of angels described in the Book of Isaiah (see
Seraphina). A famous bearer of the name was Saint Seraphim of Sarov, a 19th-century Russian mystic, in whose case his name was an anglicization of his actual name
Serafim.
Seren
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: SEH-rehn
Means "star" in Welsh. This is a recently created Welsh name.
Sevara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Uzbek
Other Scripts: Севара(Uzbek)
Means "love" in Uzbek.
Shalagh
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: Shay-la
Shalhevet
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Hebrew (Rare)
Other Scripts: שַׁלְהֶבֶת(Hebrew)
Means "flame" in Hebrew. This word appears briefly in the Old Testament books of Job and Ezekiel.
Shalim
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Semitic Mythology
From the Semitic root šlm meaning "peace". This was the name of an Ugaritic god associated with the evening.
Sherbola
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Uzbek
Derived from the Uzbek sher meaning "lion" and bola meaning "child, baby".
Shiloh
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: שִׁלוֹ, שִׁילֹה(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: SHIE-lo(English)
From an
Old Testament place name possibly meaning
"tranquil" in Hebrew. It is also used prophetically in the Old Testament to refer to a person, often understood to be the Messiah (see
Genesis 49:10). This may in fact be a mistranslation.
This name was brought to public attention after actors Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt gave it to their daughter in 2006.
Shinju
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 真珠(Japanese Kanji) しんじゅ(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: SHEEN-JOO
From Japanese
真珠 (shinju) meaning
"pearl".
Shiroshi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 白, 四露史, 皓, etc.(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: SHEE-ṘO-SHEE
From Japanese 白 (shiroshi) meaning "white (colour)" or other kanji pronounced in the same way.
Shōka
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 硝花, 硝華, 硝夏, 硝霞, 硝香, 翔花(Japanese Kanji) しょうか(Japanese Hiragana) ショウカ(Japanese Katakana)
Pronounced: SHYO-KAH
From Japanese 硝 (shō) meaning "glass, pane", 翔 (shō) meaning "soar, glide", 奨 (shō) meaning "prize, reward", or 彰 (shou) meaning "clear" combined with 花 (ka, hana) meaning "flower, blossom", 華 (ka, hana) meaning "flower, petal", 夏 (ka, natsu) meaning "summer", 霞 (ka, kasumi) meaning "mist", or 香 (ka) meaning "fragrance, incense". Other kanji combinations are possible.
Shui
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Chinese
Other Scripts: 水, etc.(Chinese)
Pronounced: SHWAY
From Chinese
水 (shuǐ) meaning "water", as well as other characters pronounced in a similar way.
Shyqi
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Yi
Other Scripts: ꏂꏾ(Yi)
Means "gold leaf" in Yi.
Siegfried
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Germanic Mythology
Pronounced: ZEEK-freet(German)
Derived from the Old German elements
sigu "victory" and
fridu "peace". Siegfried was a hero from German legend, the chief character in the
Nibelungenlied. He secretly helped the Burgundian king
Gunther overcome the challenges set out by the Icelandic queen
Brunhild so that Gunther might win her hand. In exchange, Gunther consented to the marriage of Siegfried and his sister
Kriemhild. Years later, after a dispute between Brunhild and Kriemhild, Siegfried was murdered by
Hagen with Gunther's consent. He was stabbed in his one vulnerable spot on the small of his back, which had been covered by a leaf while he bathed in dragon's blood. He is a parallel to the Norse hero
Sigurd. The story was later adapted by Richard Wagner to form part of his opera
The Ring of the Nibelung (1876).
Siegward
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German (Rare)
German form of
Sigiward, the continental Germanic
cognate of
Sigurd.
Sievert
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Low German (Rare)
Signe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Estonian, Latvian
Pronounced: SEE-neh(Danish) SEENG-neh(Norwegian) SING-neh(Swedish)
Modern Scandinavian form of
Signý.
Silas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Greek, Danish, German, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Σίλας(Greek)
Pronounced: SIE-ləs(English)
The name of a companion of
Saint Paul in the
New Testament. It is probably a short form of
Silvanus, a name that Paul calls him by in the epistles. It is possible that
Silvanus and
Silas were Latin and Greek forms of the Hebrew name
Saul (via Aramaic).
As an English name it was not used until after the Protestant Reformation. It was utilized by George Eliot for the title character in her novel Silas Marner (1861).
Silvestros
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Σιλβέστρος(Greek)
Siqiniq
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Inuit
Other Scripts: ᓯᕿᓂᖅ(Inuktitut)
Means "sun" in Inuktitut.
Siriol
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh (Rare)
Pronounced: SIR-yawl
Derived from Welsh siriol "cheerful, joyful".
Six
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval German, English (Rare)
Variant of
Sixt which likely came about due to sloppy pronunciation.
Sixtus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Late Roman
Probably the Latin form of the Greek name
Ξύστος (Xystos) meaning
"scraped, polished". This name was borne by five popes. The first pope by this name was the sixth to serve after
Saint Peter, so there is a possibility that this name is in fact derived from Latin
sextus "sixth".
Skylar
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: SKIE-lər(American English) SKIE-lə(British English)
Variant of
Skyler. Originally more common for boys during the 1980s, it was popularized as a name for girls after it was used on the American soap opera
The Young and the Restless in 1989 and the movie
Good Will Hunting in 1997
[1]. Its sharp rise in the United States in 2011 might be attributed to the character Skyler White from the television series
Breaking Bad (2008-2013) or the singer Skylar Grey (1986-), who adopted this name in 2010 after previously going by Holly Brook.
Smæra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Faroese
Directly taken from Faroese smæra "clover".
Sorana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 空夏, 空奈, 宙菜, 天南, 天和, etc.(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: SO-ṘAH-NAH
From Japanese 空 (sora) meaning "sky", 宙 (sora) meaning "mid-air" or 天 (sora) meaning "heavens, sky" combined with 夏 (na) meaning "summer", 奈 (na) meaning "apple tree", 菜 (na) meaning "vegetables, greens", 南 (na) meaning "south" or 和 (na) meaning "peace, harmony". Other kanji combinations are also possible.
Spire
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
From Old French
spirer, and its source, Latin spīrō (“to breathe”). Possible relation to
Spiro.
Sproti
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Faroese
Based on Old Norse word sproti meaning 'sprout'.
Sunflower
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (Rare)
Pronounced: SUN-flow-er
From the English word, sunflower.
Sylph
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
From the English word, sylph, an imaginary spirit of the air, ultimately from the Latin sylvestris "of the woods" and nymph "nymph".
Sylvanus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Archaic)
Taai
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Polynesian
Means "sun" in Gilbertese.
Tanke
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Low German, Frisian
Low German and Frisian pet form of
Tanne.
Tanne
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: West Frisian (Rare), East Frisian (Rare)
Pronounced: TAHN-nə
Variant form of
Tane, which is a Frisian short form of names that contain the Germanic element
thanc "thought", such as
Thancmar.
Tarĸik
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Inuit
Means "moon" in Inuit.
Techomir
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Czech, Slovak
Derived from Slavic tech "solace, comfort, joy" combined with Slavic mir "peace".
Telly
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Various, Greek (Expatriate)
Pronounced: TEHL-ee
A diminutive of several names, such as
Aristotelis,
Donatella,
Estella,
Theodore and more. This name spiked in popularity after the 1973 premiere of the American television series
Kojak, a crime drama starring Greek-American actor and singer Aristotelis 'Telly' Savalas (1922-1994) in the title role.
Tesni
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Means "warmth" in Welsh.
Thandiwe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Xhosa, Zulu, Ndebele
Pronounced: tan-DEE-weh
Means "loving one" in Xhosa, Zulu and Ndebele, from thanda "to love".
Thanos
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Θάνος(Greek)
Thavone
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Lao
Other Scripts: ຖາວອນ(Lao)
Pronounced: ta-WAWN
Means "firm, strong, lasting, enduring" in Lao.
Theta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Other Scripts: θῆτα(Greek)
From Ancient Greek thē̂ta, thī́ta is the eighth letter of the Greek alphabet, derived from the Phoenician letter Teth.
Thongsing
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Lao
Other Scripts: ທອງສິງ(Lao)
Pronounced: tawng-SEENG
From Lao ທອງ (thong) meaning "gold" and ສິງ (sing) meaning "lion".
Thủy
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Vietnamese
Pronounced: TWEE, TEE
From Sino-Vietnamese 水 (thủy) meaning "water".
Tojiqo'zi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Uzbek
Derived from the Uzbek toj meaning "crown" and qo'zi meaning "lamb".
Toshtemir
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Uzbek
Derived from the Uzbek tosh meaning "rock, stone" and temir meaning "iron".
Trapezeus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Τραπεζεύς(Ancient Greek)
Derived from Greek τραπεζεύς
(trapezeus) meaning "of a table, at a table", which is ultimately derived from Greek τράπεζα
(trapeza) meaning "table". Also compare the modern English word
trapeze, which is etymologically related. In Greek mythology, Trapezeus was one of the sons of the Arcadian king
Lycaon.
Tristano
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: trees-TAH-no
Truc
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Vietnamese (Anglicized)
Pronounced: CHUWKP, TUWKP
Variant of
Trúc used outside of Vietnam.
Tushar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati
Other Scripts: तुषार(Hindi, Marathi) তুষার(Bengali) તુષાર(Gujarati)
Pronounced: TOO-shar(Bengali)
From Sanskrit
तुषार (tuṣāra) meaning
"cold, frost, snow".
Tzufit
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: צוּפִית(Hebrew)
Means "sunbird" in Hebrew (referring to birds in the family Nectariniidae).
Tzuri'el
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical Hebrew [1]
Other Scripts: צוּרִיאֵל(Ancient Hebrew)
Ubava
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Serbian
Other Scripts: Убава(Serbian)
Pronounced: UwB-ava
From the Serbian feminine form of убав (ubav) meaning "beautiful, gorgeous, delightful".
Ulke
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: West Frisian (Rare), North Frisian (Rare)
West Frisian variant form of
Oelke and North Frisian cognate of
Oelke, although it should be noted that it is strictly masculine in North Frisia.
Ûmâĸ
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greenlandic
Greenlandic name meaning "fresh, green (plant)", from Proto-Eskimo uŋ-uma meaning "alive, heart".
Úna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish, Medieval Irish [1]
Pronounced: OO-nə(Irish)
Probably derived from Old Irish úan meaning "lamb". This was a common name in medieval Ireland.
Undine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: UN-deen(English) un-DEEN(English)
Derived from Latin unda meaning "wave". The word undine was created by the 16th-century Swiss author Paracelsus, who used it for female water spirits.
Unn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norwegian
Ura
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 有楽, 憂羅, 温羅, 浦, 宇良, etc.(Japanese Kanji) ウラ(Japanese Katakana) うら(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: UU-ṘAH
From Japanese 有 (u) meaning "exist" combined with 楽 (ra) meaning "comfort, ease". Other kanji combinations are possible.
Urana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Tuvan
Means "world" in Tuvan.
Utopia
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: Yoo-TOH-Pee-Uh(English) Ooh- TOH-Pyah(Italian)
As a word, "Utopia" stands for an ideal state or place.
Italian artist Anna Utopia Giordano is a bearer, which suggest potential usage in Italy.
Utu
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Sumerian Mythology
Other Scripts: 𒀭𒌓(Sumerian Cuneiform)
Derived from Sumerian
𒌓 (ud) meaning
"sun". In Sumerian
mythology this was the name of the god of the sun. He was the son of the moon god
Nanna and
Ningal.
Valérien
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French (Rare), French (Belgian, Rare)
Valquíria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese
Varnavas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Βαρνάβας(Greek)
Pronounced: var-NA-vas
Vea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Filipino (Rare)
Pronounced: Vay-uh(English)
Veit
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German
Pronounced: FIET
Vé'kėséohnéšese
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Cheyenne
Means "Two Birds" in Cheyenne.
Vé'késȯxheóvaestse
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Cheyenne
Means "Yellow Bird" in Cheyenne.
Vianne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Meaning unknown, perhaps a combination of
Vi and
Anne 1 or a short form of
Vivianne.
Vila
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Serbian (Rare), Russian (Archaic)
Other Scripts: Вила(Serbian, Russian)
Pronounced: VEE-lah(Serbian)
Means "fairy" in Serbian.
Vinzenz
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German
Pronounced: VIN-tsents
Virva
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: VEER-vah
Possibly derived from Finnish virvatuli meaning "will o' the wisp". In folklore, will o' the wisp is a floating ball of light that appears over water.
Vox
Gender: Masculine
Usage: American (South, Rare, Archaic)
Transferred use of the surname
Vox.
Wawatam
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ojibwe
Possibly means "little goose" in Ojibwe. This was the name of an 18th-century chief of the Ottawa people.
Wehemmesu
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Egyptian
Means "rebirth" in Egyptian.
Weiss
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Popular Culture
Pronounced: WIES, WISE
Derived from German
weiß (which is also found spelled as
weiss) meaning "white".
In popular culture, Weiss is the name of one of the villains from the video game Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus as well as the name of Weiss Schnee, the main character of the popular web series RWBY.
Widad
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: وداد(Arabic)
Pronounced: wee-DAD
Means
"love" in Arabic, derived from the root
ودّ (wadda) meaning "to love".
Wilaiphon
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Thai
Other Scripts: วิไลพร(Thai)
Pronounced: wee-lie-PAWN
From Thai วิไล (wilai) meaning "beautiful, pretty" and พร (phon) meaning "blessing".
Wilke
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Low German
Low German diminutive of names containing the name element vil meaning "wish", "desire".
Willow
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: WIL-o
From the name of the tree, which is ultimately derived from Old English welig.
Windell
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (American)
Pronounced: win-DEL(American English) WIN-del(American English)
Transferred use of the surname Windell.
Windell Dwain Middlebrooks, Jr. (1979–2015) was an American actor and singer.
Wine
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Anglo-Saxon [1]
Derived from Old English
wine "friend".
Winfried
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German
Wintra
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Archaic), Anglo-Saxon, African American, English
Old English byname meaning "winter", originally given to a person with a frosty or gloomy temperament.
May also be used as an elaboration if
Winter.
Wolfram
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German
Pronounced: VAWL-fram
Derived from the Old German element
wolf meaning "wolf" combined with
hram meaning "raven".
Saint Wolfram (or Wulfram) was a 7th-century archbishop of Sens. This name was also borne by the 13th-century German poet Wolfram von Eschenbach, the author of
Parzival.
Wraith
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Modern, Rare), Popular Culture
Pronounced: RAYth(English)
Xanthias
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek, Theatre
Other Scripts: Ξανθίας(Ancient Greek)
Derived from Greek ξανθος
(xanthos) meaning "yellow" or "fair hair". This was used by the Greek playwright Aristophanes in works including 'The Frogs'; all of the characters named Xanthias are slaves.
Xanthos
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology, Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Ξάνθος(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: KSAN-TOS(Classical Greek)
From Greek
ξανθός (xanthos) meaning
"yellow". This is the name of several minor figures in Greek
mythology, including kings of Pelasgia and Thebes.
Xia
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Chinese
Other Scripts: 夏, 霞, etc.(Chinese)
Pronounced: SHYA
From Chinese
夏 (xià) meaning "summer, great, grand",
霞 (xiá) meaning "rosy clouds", or other characters that are pronounced similarly.
Xóchitl
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Nahuatl (Hispanicized)
Pronounced: SO-cheetl(Spanish) SHO-cheetl(Spanish)
Xuân
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Vietnamese
Pronounced: SWUN, SWUNG
From Sino-Vietnamese
春 (xuân) meaning
"spring (season)".
Yeşim
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Turkish
Pronounced: yeh-SHEEM
Means "jade" in Turkish.
Yitav
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew (Rare)
Other Scripts: יִיטַב(Hebrew)
Pronounced: yee-TAHV
Means "it will be good" in Hebrew.
Yitzhak
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: יִצְחָק(Hebrew)
Hebrew form of
Isaac. This was the name of two recent Israeli prime ministers.
Yuka
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Inuit
Pronounced: Yoo - kah(Inuktitut)
Means "bright star" in Inuit.
Yuuhi
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: ゆうひ(Japanese Hiragana) 夕日, 優陽, 優羽妃, 百愛灯, 結灯, 悠日, 由有陽, 夕姫, 侑陽, etc.(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: YUU:-HEE
From Japanese 夕日 (yuuhi) meaning "setting sun" or from 優 (yuu) meaning "gentleness, lithe, superior" combined with 陽 (hi) meaning "light, sun, male". Other kanji combinations are possible.
Yuvia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Mexican, Rare)
Pronounced: YOO-via(Mexican Spanish)
Yvo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch
Pronounced: EE-vo
Zbigniew
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: ZBEEG-nyehf
Derived from the Slavic elements
jĭzbyti "to dispel" and
gněvŭ "anger". This was the name of a 12th-century duke of Poland.
Zhansaya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Kazakh
Other Scripts: Жансая(Kazakh)
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From Kazakh
жан (zhan) meaning "soul" and
сая (saya) meaning "shadow, shade, protection, comfort" (both words of Persian origin).
Ziynet
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Turkish
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