hello_1234's Personal Name List
Aafje
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch
Pronounced: A-fyə
Personal remark: 🧝♂️
Short form of names beginning with the Old German element
alb "elf".
Abiodun
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Yoruba
Pronounced: A-BEE-AW-DOON
Personal remark: 🎉
Means "born on a festival" in Yoruba.
Addolorata
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ad-do-lo-RA-ta
Personal remark: 👩👦
Means
"grieving" in Italian, from the title of the Virgin
Mary,
Maria Addolorata. It is most common in southern Italy. It is the equivalent of Spanish
Dolores.
Adranodoros
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek
Other Scripts: Ἀδρανόδωρος(Ancient Greek)
Personal remark: 🎁
Means "gift of Adranos" in Greek, derived from the name of the Sicel fire god
Adranos combined with the Greek noun δῶρον
(doron) meaning "gift".
This was the name of a Greek tyrant of Syracuse in Sicily, who lived in the 3rd century BC.
Ælfgifu
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Anglo-Saxon [1][2]
Personal remark: 🎁
Derived from the Old English elements
ælf "elf" and
giefu "gift". This was the name of the first wife of the English king
Æðelræd II.
Ælfgyth
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Anglo-Saxon
Personal remark: 🧝♂️
Derived from the Old English elements
ælf "elf" and
guð "battle".
Ælfthryth
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Anglo-Saxon [1][2]
Personal remark: 🧝♂️
África
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: A-free-ka
Personal remark: 👩👦
Spanish form of
Africa 1. It is usually taken from the title of the Virgin
Mary,
Nuestra Señora de África, the patron
saint of the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in North Africa.
Agathangelos
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Ἀγαθάγγελος(Ancient Greek)
Personal remark: 👼
Means
"bearer of good news", derived from Greek
ἀγαθός (agathos) meaning "good" and
ἄγγελος (angelos) meaning "messenger, angel".
Saint Agathangelus of Rome was a 4th-century deacon who was martyred during the persecutions of the emperor Diocletian.
Ailill
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Irish [1], Irish Mythology
Pronounced: A-lyil(Irish)
Personal remark: 🧝♂️
Means
"elf" in Irish. This name was borne by several early Irish kings. It also occurs frequently in Irish legend, borne for example by the husband of Queen
Medb. It was also the name of two
saints, both bishops of Armagh in the 6th century.
Aingeal
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish
Personal remark: 👼
Aingeru
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Basque
Pronounced: ien-GEH-roo
Personal remark: 👼
Basque form of
Angelus (see
Angel).
Akhtar
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Persian, Urdu, Pashto, Bengali
Other Scripts: اختر(Persian, Urdu, Pashto) আখতার(Bengali)
Pronounced: akh-TAR(Persian) AK-tar(Bengali)
Personal remark: 🌟
Means "star" in Persian.
Akimitsu
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 昭光, etc.(Japanese Kanji) あきみつ(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: A-KYEE-MEE-TSOO
Personal remark: 🌟
From Japanese
昭 (aki) meaning "bright" and
光 (mitsu) meaning "light". Other combinations of kanji can also form this name.
Akmaral
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Kazakh
Other Scripts: Ақмарал(Kazakh)
Pronounced: ahk-mah-RAHL
Personal remark: 🦌
Derived from Kazakh
ақ (aq) meaning "white" and
марал (maral) meaning "deer".
Alba 3
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Germanic [1]
Personal remark: 🧝♂️
Originally a short form of Germanic names beginning with the element
alb meaning
"elf" (Proto-Germanic *
albaz).
Albelinda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval
Personal remark: 🧝♂️
Meaning unknown. Perhaps a transcription variation of Alpelindis, itself a variation of the Germanic female name Alflind, from alf meaning "elf, spirit" and lind meaning "soft, tender".
Alberich
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic [1], Germanic Mythology
Personal remark: 🧝♂️
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Derived from the Old German elements
alb "elf" and
rih "ruler, king". It was borne by two Lombard dukes of Spoleto in the 10th century. It was also the name of a 12th-century French
saint who helped found the Cistercian Order.
Alberich is a sorcerer dwarf who guards the treasure of the Nibelungen in the medieval German epic the Nibelungenlied. The dwarf also appears in Ortnit as a helper to the hero.
Alberico
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: al-beh-REE-ko
Personal remark: 🧝♂️
Albwin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish (Rare)
Pronounced: ALB-veen
Personal remark: 🧝♂️
Derived from Old High German alb (which comes from Old Norse âlfr) "elf" combined with Old High German wini "friend".
Alf 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Norse Mythology
Personal remark: 🧝♂️
Derived from Old Norse
alfr meaning
"elf". In Norse legend this was the name of king, the suitor of a reluctant maiden named
Alfhild. She avoided marrying him by disguising herself as a warrior, but when they fought she was so impressed by his strength that she changed her mind.
Alfa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian
Pronounced: AL-fa(Swedish)
Personal remark: 🧝♂️
Alfbern
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic [1]
Personal remark: 🧝♂️
Derived from the Old German elements
alb "elf" and
bern "bear".
Alfher
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic [1]
Personal remark: 🧝♂️
Old German name composed of the elements
alb "elf" and
heri "army" (making it a
cognate of
Alvar).
Alfhild
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norwegian, Swedish
Personal remark: 🧝♂️
From the Old Norse name
Alfhildr, which was composed of the elements
alfr "elf" and
hildr "battle". In Scandinavian legend Alfhild was a maiden who disguised herself as a warrior in order to avoid marriage to King
Alf. Her life was perhaps based on that of a 9th-century Viking pirate.
Alfnoth
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval English
Personal remark: 🧝♂️
Alfný
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Old Norse
Personal remark: 🧝♂️
Derived from the Germanic name elements alf "elf" and ny "new".
Alfvin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Norse [1]
Personal remark: 🧝♂️
Algar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: AL-gahr
Means
"elf spear" from Old English
ælf "elf" and
gar "spear". This Old English name was rarely used after the
Norman Conquest, being absorbed by similar-sounding names and Norman and Scandinavian cognates. It was briefly revived in the 19th century.
Alheri
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hausa
Means
"the charitable, the good" in Hausa, from Arabic
خير (khayr).
Allow
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Manx (Archaic)
Personal remark: 🧝♂️
Manx name of uncertain origin, used until the 17th century. Kneen (1937) suggests Old Norse alfr "elf"; Gill (1963) points to the Manx surname Callow, which derives from MacCalo, an Anglicized form of either of the Gaelic surnames Mac Calbach "son of Calbhach" (the Gaelic name Calbhach meaning "bold") or Mac Caolaidhe "son of Caoladhe" (the Gaelic name Caoladhe being a derivative of caol "slender, comely").
Almudena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: al-moo-DHEH-na
Personal remark: 👩👦
Derived from Arabic
المدينة (al-mudayna) meaning
"the citadel", a
diminutive form of the word
مدينة (madīna) meaning "city". According to legend, it was in a building by this name that a concealed statue of the Virgin
Mary was discovered during the Reconquista in Madrid. The Virgin of Almudena, that is Mary, is the patron
saint of Madrid.
Alnothus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Anglo-Saxon (Latinized)
Personal remark: 🧝♂️
Altagracia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Caribbean)
Pronounced: al-ta-GRA-sya(Latin American Spanish) al-ta-GRA-thya(European Spanish)
Personal remark: 👩👦
Means
"high grace", taken from the Spanish title of the Virgin
Mary Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia, meaning "Our Lady of High Grace". She is considered the patron
saint of the Dominican Republic, and it is there that this name is most often used.
Alva 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian
Pronounced: AL-va(Swedish)
Personal remark: 🧝♂️
Alvar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish, Estonian
Personal remark: 🧝♂️
From the Old Norse name
Alfarr, formed of the elements
alfr "elf" and
herr "army, warrior".
Alvilda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Danish (Rare)
Personal remark: 🧝♂️
Alvin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Swedish
Pronounced: AL-vin(English)
Personal remark: 🧝♂️
From a medieval form of any of the Old English names
Ælfwine,
Æðelwine or
Ealdwine. It was revived in the 19th century, in part from a surname that was derived from the Old English names. As a Scandinavian name it is derived from
Alfvin, an Old Norse
cognate of
Ælfwine.
Alvina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: al-VEEN-ə
Personal remark: 🧝♂️
Amaterasu
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese Mythology
Other Scripts: 天照(Japanese Kanji) あまてらす(Japanese Hiragana) アマテラス(Japanese Katakana)
Pronounced: A-MA-TEH-RA-SOO(Japanese)
Personal remark: 🌟
Means
"shining over heaven", from Japanese
天 (ama) meaning "heaven, sky" and
照 (terasu) meaning "shine". This was the name of the Japanese sun goddess, the ruler of the heavens. She was born when
Izanagi washed his left eye after returning from the underworld. At one time the Japanese royal family claimed descent from her.
Amparo
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: am-PA-ro
Personal remark: 👩👦
Means
"protection, shelter, refuge" in Spanish. It is taken from the title of the Virgin
Mary,
Nuestra Señora del Amparo, meaning "Our Lady of Refuge".
Anang
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Ojibwe
Personal remark: 🌟
Means "star" in Ojibwe.
Angelakis
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Αγγελάκης(Greek)
Pronounced: ang-gyeh-LA-kyees
Personal remark: 👼
Modern Greek diminutive of
Angelos, as it contains the modern Greek diminutive suffix -άκης
(-akis). This name is typically only used informally, meaning: it does not appear on birth certificates.
Angelana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Obscure
Personal remark: 👼
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Angelanie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Filipino (Modern, Rare)
Personal remark: 👼
Angelella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Archaic)
Pronounced: an-je-LEL-la
Personal remark: 👼
Combination of
Angela with the Italian dimitive suffix
-ella.
Angelella Guardagnoli was the birth name of (Blessed) Columba of Rieti (1467-1501), an Italian religious sister of the Third Order of St. Dominic who was noted as a mystic.
Angelie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish (Rare), Danish (Rare), Norwegian (Rare), Dutch (Rare)
Pronounced: ang-shə-LEE(Swedish) an-shə-LEE(Swedish)
Personal remark: 👼
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
Angelisa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: an-jə-LEE-sə(English) an-je-LEE-za(Italian)
Personal remark: 👼
Angelise
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ann-gel-lease
Personal remark: 👼
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
Angelito
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish (Rare), Filipino
Personal remark: 👼
Diminutive of
Ángel used particularly in the Philippines.
Angelmira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American)
Pronounced: ang-khehl-MEE-ra(Spanish)
Personal remark: 👼
Angelmiro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American)
Pronounced: ang-khehl-MEE-ro(Spanish)
Personal remark: 👼
Combination of
Ángel and
-miro, taken from names ending with this pattern, e.g.
Clodomiro. It is mainly used in Colombia.
Angelos
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Άγγελος(Greek)
Personal remark: 👼
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
Greek form of
Angelus (see
Angel).
Angelu
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Sicilian
Personal remark: 👼
Angelyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Personal remark: 👼
Angie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AN-jee
Personal remark: 👼
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Diminutive of
Angela. The 1973 Rolling Stones song
Angie caused this name to jump in popularity.
Angiela
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Polish (Rare, Archaic)
Personal remark: 👼
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Archaic form of
Aniela and
Angela, which appears to have been most common in eastern parts of Poland or among Poles in Ukraine. Currently borne by 15 women. It is also a Polish variant transcription of Russian Ангела (see
Angela).
Angiola
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: AN-jo-la
Personal remark: 👼
Angiolo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: AN-jo-lo
Personal remark: 👼
Angustias
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: an-GOOS-tyas
Personal remark: 👩👦
Means
"anguishes", taken from a Spanish title of the Virgin
Mary,
Nuestra Señora de las Angustias, meaning "Our Lady of Anguishes". She is the patron
saint of Granada, Spain.
Angyalka
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hungarian
Pronounced: AWN-gyawl-kaw
Annunziata
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: an-noon-TSYA-ta
Personal remark: 👩👦
Means
"announced" in Italian, referring to the event in the
New Testament in which the angel Gabriel tells the Virgin
Mary of the imminent birth of
Jesus.
Annunziato
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: an-noon-TSYA-to
Personal remark: 👩👦
Anunciación
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: a-noon-thya-THYON(European Spanish) a-noon-sya-SYON(Latin American Spanish)
Personal remark: 👩👦
Means
"annunciation" in Spanish, referring to the event in the
New Testament in which the angel Gabriel announces to the Virgin
Mary that she will give birth to
Jesus.
Anxhela
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Albanian
Personal remark: 👼
Anzhela
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Armenian
Other Scripts: Анжела(Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian) Анжэла(Belarusian) Անժելա(Armenian)
Pronounced: un-ZHEH-lə(Russian) an-ZHEH-la(Belarusian) ahn-ZHEH-lah(Armenian)
Personal remark: 👼
Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Bulgarian and Armenian form of
Angela.
Aparecida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese
Personal remark: 👩👦
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
Means
"appeared" in Portuguese, taken from the Brazilian title of the Virgin
Mary Nossa Senhora da Conceição Aparecida, meaning "Our Lady of the Conception Who Appeared". It refers to a statue of the Virgin Mary that was said to have been pulled from a river by fishermen in the 18th century. Our Lady of Aparecida is regarded as the patron
saint of Brazil.
Araceli
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: a-ra-THEH-lee(European Spanish) a-ra-SEH-lee(Latin American Spanish)
Personal remark: 👩👦
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.
Arantzazu
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque
Pronounced: a-RAN-tsa-soo
Personal remark: 👩👦
From the name of a place near the Spanish town of Oñati where there is a sanctuary dedicated to the Virgin
Mary. Its name is derived from Basque
arantza "thornbush".
Assunta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: as-SOON-ta
Personal remark: 👩👦
Means
"taken up, received, assumed" in Italian, referring to the assumption of the Virgin
Mary into heaven.
Asteria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἀστερία(Ancient Greek)
Personal remark: 🌟
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Asterion
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἀστερίων(Ancient Greek)
Personal remark: 🌟
Means
"of the stars", derived from Greek
ἀστήρ (aster) "star". This is the name of several figures in Greek
mythology, including a river god.
Asterius
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized), Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἀστέριος(Ancient Greek)
Personal remark: 🌟
Latinized form of Greek
Ἀστέριος (Asterios) meaning
"starry", a derivative of
ἀστήρ (aster) meaning "star". This is the name of several figures from Greek
mythology. It was also borne by a few early
saints.
Asterix
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Popular Culture
Pronounced: AST-ə-riks(English)
Personal remark: 🌟
The name of a Gaulish hero (
Astérix in the original French) in a comic book series of the same name, debuting 1959. His name is a pun based on French
astérisque meaning
"asterisk, little star" but appearing to end with the Gaulish element
rix meaning "king" (seen for example in the historical figure
Vercingetorix). All male Gauls in the series have humorous names ending with
-ix.
Asterodia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἀστεροδία(Ancient Greek)
Personal remark: 🌟
Possibly derived from the Greek noun ἀστήρ
(aster) meaning "star" (genitive ἀστέρος; compare
Asteria and
Asterope) and an uncertain second element. In Greek mythology this name belonged to multiple characters, including a nymph who inhabited a Caucasian mountain stream that bore gold.
Astghik
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Armenian Mythology, Armenian
Other Scripts: Աստղիկ(Armenian)
Pronounced: ahst-REEK(Eastern Armenian) ahst-REEG(Western Armenian)
Personal remark: 🌟
Derived from Armenian
աստղ (astgh) meaning
"star". This was the name of the Armenian goddess of love and water, the consort of
Vahagn.
Astra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: AS-trə
Personal remark: 🌟
Means
"star", ultimately from Greek
ἀστήρ (aster). This name has only been (rarely) used since the 20th century.
Astraea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἀστραία(Ancient Greek)
Personal remark: 🌟
Latinized form of the Greek
Ἀστραία (Astraia), derived from Greek
ἀστήρ (aster) meaning
"star". Astraea was a Greek goddess of justice and innocence. After wickedness took root in the world she left the earth and became the constellation Virgo.
Astrella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Obscure
Personal remark: 🌟
From Greek ἀστήρ
(aster) meaning "star". This name was used by Scottish singer Donovan for his daughter born 1971.
Astriel
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Obscure
Personal remark: 🌟
Possibly derived from Greek ἀστήρ (aster) meaning "star".
Astrik
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Armenian
Personal remark: 🌟
Means "little star" in Armenian, from Greek aster meaning "star" and the diminutive ik.
Astrophel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature
Personal remark: 🌟
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Probably intended to mean "star lover", from Greek
ἀστήρ (aster) meaning "star" and
φίλος (philos) meaning "lover, friend". This name was first used by the 16th-century poet Philip Sidney in his collection of sonnets
Astrophel and Stella.
Astruc
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Judeo-Spanish, Judeo-Provençal, Medieval Jewish, Judeo-Catalan
Pronounced: ah-strook(Judeo-Spanish, Judeo-Provençal)
Personal remark: 🌟
Derived from Provençal
astruc "lucky", ultimately from Greek
aster "star" and thus having the extended meaning of "born under a good star".
It was generally given as an amuletic name and sometimes used as a translation of Hebrew
Mazel Tov and/or
Gad.
Astrugue
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Occitan
Personal remark: 🌟
Means "born under a good star" in Occitan.
Asunción
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: a-soon-THYON(European Spanish) a-soon-SYON(Latin American Spanish)
Personal remark: 👩👦
Means
"assumption" in Spanish. This name is given in reference to the assumption of the Virgin
Mary into heaven.
Ataullah
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: عطا الله(Arabic)
Personal remark: 🎁
Athenodora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek
Other Scripts: Ἀθηνοδώρα(Ancient Greek)
Personal remark: 🎁
Feminine form of
Athenodoros. This was used by American author Stephenie Meyer for a character in her novel
Breaking Dawn (2008) of the
Twilight series.
Athénodore
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History (Gallicized)
Personal remark: 🎁
Athenodoros
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Ἀθηνόδωρος(Ancient Greek)
Personal remark: 🎁
Means
"gift of Athena" from the name of the god
Athena combined with Greek
δῶρον (doron) meaning "gift".
Auberon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Carolingian Cycle
Pronounced: AW-bər-ahn(English) O-bər-ahn(English)
Personal remark: 🧝♂️
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
From a
diminutive form of
Auberi, an Old French form of
Alberich. It is the name of the fairy king in the 13th-century epic
Huon de Bordeaux.
Aubrey
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AWB-ree
Personal remark: 🧝♂️
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
From
Auberi, an Old French form of
Alberich brought to England by the
Normans. It was common in the Middle Ages, and was revived in the 19th century. Since the mid-1970s it has more frequently been given to girls, due to Bread's 1972 song
Aubrey along with its similarity to the established feminine name
Audrey.
Aveley
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AV-ə-lee
Personal remark: 🧝♂️
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Aveley, named for the village of Aveley in Essex. The name is Old English, and means "
Ælfgyth’s meadow". The Anglo-Saxon female name Ælfgyth means "elf battle".
Avelyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern, Rare), Medieval English
Variant of
Aveline first used in medieval England and eventually revived in the 20th century.
Ayal
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אַיָּל(Hebrew)
Personal remark: 🦌
Means "stag, male deer" in Hebrew.
Ayala
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אַיָּלָה(Hebrew)
Pronounced: ie-ah-LAH
Personal remark: 🦌
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Means "doe, female deer" in Hebrew.
Azahar
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Rare)
Pronounced: a-tha-AR(European Spanish) a-sa-AR(Latin American Spanish)
Personal remark: 👩👦
Means
"orange blossom" in Spanish, ultimately from Arabic
زهْرة (zahra) meaning "flower". It is taken from the title of the Virgin
Mary,
Nuestra Señora del Azahar, meaning "Our Lady of the Orange Blossom", because of the citrus trees that surround a church devoted to her near Murcia.
Azira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Malay
Personal remark: 🌟
Meaning uncertain, possibly of Arabic origin.
Balthasara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Archaic)
Personal remark: 📖
Bardhyl
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Albanian
Personal remark: 🌟
From Bardylis, the name of an ancient Illyrian king (reigned from 385 to 358 BC), which is popularly held to mean "white star" from Albanian bardhë "white" and yll "star".
Batul
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: بتول(Arabic)
Pronounced: ba-TOOL
Personal remark: 👩👦
Means
"virgin" in Arabic. This is an Arabic epithet of the Virgin
Mary.
Begoña
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Basque
Pronounced: beh-GHO-nya(Spanish)
Personal remark: 👩👦
From a title of the Virgin
Mary,
Nuestra Señora de Begoña, meaning "Our Lady of Begoña", the patron
saint of Biscay, Spain. Begoña is a district and basilica in the city of Bilbao.
Beth
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BETH
Personal remark: 📖
Bintang
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Indonesian
Pronounced: BIN-tang
Personal remark: 🌟
Means "star" in Indonesian.
Bituin
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Tagalog
Pronounced: bee-TOO-een
Personal remark: 🌟
Means "star" in Tagalog.
Bor
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Slovene
Means
"pine tree" in Slovene. It is also a short form of names containing
bor, such as
Borislav or
Boris.
Brundabjalfi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Norse
Personal remark: 🦌
Combination of an Old Norse word
brundi (related to Norwegian
brund "reindeer bull") and
Bialfi.
Byeol
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Korean (Modern)
Other Scripts: 별(Korean Hangul)
Pronounced: PYUL
Personal remark: 🌟
From native Korean 별 (byeol) meaning "star."
Cande
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: KAN-deh
Candela
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: kan-DEH-la
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Candelaria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: kan-deh-LA-rya
Means
"Candlemas" in Spanish, ultimately derived from Spanish
candela "candle". This name is given in honour of the church festival of Candlemas, which commemorates the presentation of Christ in the temple and the purification of the Virgin
Mary.
Candelario
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: kan-deh-LA-ryo
Candelas
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: kan-DEH-las
Caridad
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: ka-ree-DHADH
Personal remark: 😊👩👦
Means
"charity" in Spanish. It is taken from the title of the Virgin
Mary,
Nuestra Señora de la Caridad, meaning "Our Lady of Charity". This is the name of the patron
saint of Cuba, with a shrine located in the town of El Cobre.
Carmel
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English, Jewish
Other Scripts: כַּרְמֶל(Hebrew)
Pronounced: KAHR-məl(English) KAR-məl(English)
Personal remark: 👩👦
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
From the title of the Virgin
Mary Our Lady of Mount Carmel.
כַּרְמֶל (Karmel) (meaning "garden" in Hebrew) is a mountain in Israel mentioned in the
Old Testament. It was the site of several early Christian monasteries. As an English given name, it has mainly been used by Catholics. As a Jewish name it is unisex.
Carmela
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Galician
Pronounced: kar-MEH-la(Italian, Spanish) kahr-MEH-lu(Galician)
Personal remark: 👩👦
Italian, Spanish and Galician form of
Carmel.
Carmelita
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: kar-meh-LEE-ta
Personal remark: 👩👦
Carmelo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Italian
Pronounced: kar-MEH-lo
Personal remark: 👩👦
Spanish and Italian masculine form of
Carmel.
Carmen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, English, Italian, Portuguese, French, Romanian, German
Pronounced: KAR-mehn(Spanish, Italian) KAHR-mən(English)
Personal remark: 👩👦
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Medieval Spanish form of
Carmel, appearing in the devotional title of the Virgin
Mary Nuestra Señora del Carmen meaning "Our Lady of Mount Carmel". The spelling has been altered through association with the Latin word
carmen meaning
"song". This was the name of the main character in George Bizet's opera
Carmen (1875).
Celynwen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh (Rare)
Combination of Welsh celyn "holly" and gwen "white, fair, blessed".
Cesmína
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Czech (Modern, Rare)
Means "holly" in Czech.
Chipo
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Shona
Personal remark: 🎁
Means
"gift" in Shona
[1].
Chita
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: CHEE-ta
Personal remark: 👩👦
Chrissie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KRIS-ee
Personal remark: ✝️
Christoffel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch (Rare)
Pronounced: kris-TAW-fəl
Personal remark: ✝️
Christy
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English, Irish
Pronounced: KRIS-tee(English)
Personal remark: ✝️
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Diminutive of
Christine,
Christina,
Christopher and other names beginning with
Christ. In Ireland this name is typically masculine, though elsewhere in the English-speaking world it is more often feminine (especially the United States and Canada).
Chus
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: CHOOS
Personal remark: ✝️
Chuy
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: CHOOY
Personal remark: ✝️
Citlalli
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Nahuatl
Pronounced: see-CHAL-lee
Personal remark: 🌟
Means
"star" in Nahuatl
[1].
Concepción
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: kon-thehp-THYON(European Spanish) kon-sehp-SYON(Latin American Spanish)
Personal remark: 👩👦
Means
"conception" in Spanish. This name is given in reference to the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin
Mary. A city in Chile bears this name.
Concepta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish
Personal remark: 👩👦
Latinate form of
Concetta, used especially in Ireland.
Concetta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: kon-CHEHT-ta
Personal remark: 👩👦
Means
"conceived" in Italian, referring to the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin
Mary.
Concettina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: kon-cheht-TEE-na
Personal remark: 👩👦
Concetto
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: kon-CHEHT-to
Personal remark: 👩👦
Concha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: KON-cha
Personal remark: 👩👦
Conchita
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: kon-CHEE-ta
Personal remark: 👩👦
Consolación
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: kon-so-la-THYON(European Spanish) kon-so-la-SYON(Latin American Spanish)
Personal remark: 👩👦
Means
"consolation" in Spanish. It is taken from a title of the Virgin
Mary,
Nuestra Señora de Consolación, meaning "Our Lady of Consolation".
Consolata
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: kon-so-LA-ta
Personal remark: 👩👦
Means
"consoled" in Italian. It is taken from the title of the Virgin
Mary,
Maria Consolata.
Consuelo
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: kon-SWEH-lo
Personal remark: 👩👦
Means
"consolation" in Spanish. It is taken from the title of the Virgin
Mary,
Nuestra Señora del Consuelo, meaning "Our Lady of Consolation".
Corneille
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French (Archaic)
Pronounced: KAWR-NAY
Personal remark: 🦌
Cornelia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Romanian, Italian, Dutch, English, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: kawr-NEH-lya(German) kor-NEH-lya(Italian) kawr-NEH-lee-a(Dutch) kawr-NEE-lee-ə(English) kor-NEH-lee-a(Latin)
Personal remark: 🦌
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Feminine form of
Cornelius. In the 2nd century BC it was borne by Cornelia Scipionis Africana (the daughter of the military hero Scipio Africanus), the mother of the two reformers known as the Gracchi. After her death she was regarded as an example of the ideal Roman woman. The name was revived in the 18th century.
Cornélie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Rare)
Pronounced: KAWR-NEH-LEE
Personal remark: 🦌
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Cornelio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Italian
Pronounced: kor-NEH-lyo
Personal remark: 🦌
Cornelius
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Roman, English, Dutch, German, Biblical
Pronounced: kor-NEH-lee-oos(Latin) kawr-NEE-lee-əs(English) kawr-NEH-lee-yuys(Dutch) kawr-NEH-lee-uws(German)
Personal remark: 🦌📺
Roman family name that possibly derives from the Latin element
cornu meaning
"horn". In Acts in the
New Testament Cornelius is a centurion who is directed by an angel to seek
Peter. After speaking with Peter he converts to Christianity, and he is traditionally deemed the first gentile convert. The name was also borne by a few early
saints, including a 3rd-century pope. In England it came into use in the 16th century, partly due to Dutch influence.
Covadonga
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: ko-ba-DHONG-ga
Personal remark: 👩👦
From the name of a village in Asturias, Spain. Called
Cuadonga in Asturian, it probably means "cave of the spring", though it has long been associated with Vulgar Latin
Cova Dominica "Cave of Our Lady". This is the site of an important shrine to the Virgin
Mary, and its use as a given name stems from the Marian title
Nuestra Señora de Covadonga "Our Lady of Covadonga".
Cristiana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Portuguese, Romanian
Pronounced: kree-STYA-na(Italian) kreesh-TYU-nu(European Portuguese) krees-CHYU-nu(Brazilian Portuguese)
Italian, Portuguese and Romanian form of
Christina.
Crosby
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: KRAWZ-bee
From a surname that was derived from the name of an English town, itself meaning "cross town" in Old Norse.
Csillag
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hungarian
Pronounced: CHEE-lawg
Personal remark: 🌟
Means "star" in Hungarian.
Cuetlaxxochitl
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Nahuatl
Means "poinsettia" in Nahuatl, a plant used in traditional medical infusions.
Danica
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Slovak, Macedonian, English
Other Scripts: Даница(Serbian, Macedonian)
Pronounced: DA-nee-tsa(Serbian, Croatian) DA-nyee-tsa(Slovak) DAN-i-kə(English)
Personal remark: 🌟
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
From a Slavic word meaning "morning star, Venus". This name occurs in Slavic folklore as a personification of the morning star. It has sometimes been used in the English-speaking world since the 1970s.
Dao
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Thai, Lao
Other Scripts: ดาว(Thai) ດາວ(Lao)
Pronounced: DOW
Personal remark: 🌟
Means "star" in Thai and Lao. It is only a feminine name in Thailand while it is unisex in Laos.
Dara 2
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Khmer
Other Scripts: ដារា, តារា(Khmer)
Pronounced: dah-RAH
Personal remark: 🌟
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Means
"star" in Khmer, ultimately from Sanskrit
तारा (tārā).
Darika
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Thai
Other Scripts: ดาริกา(Thai)
Pronounced: da-ree-KA
Personal remark: 🌟
Derived from Thai ดารา (dara) meaning "star".
Darin
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Thai
Other Scripts: ดาริน(Thai)
Pronounced: da-REEN
Personal remark: 🌟
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Derived from Thai ดารา (dara) meaning "star".
Desamparados
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: deh-sam-pa-RA-dhos
Personal remark: 👩👦
Means
"helpless, defenceless, forsaken" in Spanish. It is taken from an epithet of the Virgin
Mary,
Nuestra Señora de los Desamparados, meaning "Our Lady of the Helpless". She is the patron
saint of Valencia, Spain.
Diodata
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare, Archaic)
Personal remark: 🎁
Diodotus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Διόδοτος(Ancient Greek)
Personal remark: 🎁
Latinized form of
Διόδοτος (Diodotos), a Greek name meaning
"given by Zeus" from
Διός (Dios) meaning "of
Zeus" and
δοτός (dotos) meaning "given".
Dionysodora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek
Personal remark: 🎁
Dionysodoros
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Διονυσόδωρος(Ancient Greek)
Personal remark: 🎁
Means
"gift of Dionysos" from the name of the god
Dionysos combined with Greek
δῶρον (doron) meaning "gift".
Dolores
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, English
Pronounced: do-LO-rehs(Spanish) də-LAWR-is(English)
Personal remark: 👩👦
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Means
"sorrows", taken from the Spanish title of the Virgin
Mary Nuestra Señora de los Dolores, meaning "Our Lady of Sorrows". It has been used in the English-speaking world since the 19th century, becoming especially popular in America during the 1920s and 30s.
Dolors
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Catalan
Pronounced: doo-LOS
Personal remark: 👩👦
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Dren
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Albanian
Personal remark: 🦌
From Albanian dre meaning "deer".
Dzvezda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Macedonian
Other Scripts: Ѕвезда(Macedonian)
Pronounced: DZVEHZ-da
Personal remark: 🌟
Means "star" in Macedonian.
Dzvezdan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Macedonian
Other Scripts: Ѕвездан(Macedonian)
Personal remark: 🌟
Eadgifu
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Anglo-Saxon [1][2]
Personal remark: 🎁
Derived from the Old English elements
ead "wealth, fortune" and
giefu "gift".
Egle
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Latvian (Rare), Estonian
Latvian and Estonian cognate of
Eglė as well as a direct derivation from Latvian
egle "spruce tree; fir tree; pine tree".
Eglė
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Lithuanian
Personal remark: 🎄
Means "spruce tree" in Lithuanian. In a Lithuanian folktale Eglė is a young woman who marries a grass snake. At the end of the tale she turns herself into a spruce.
Eilonwy
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Personal remark: 🦌
From Welsh eilon meaning "deer, stag" or "song, melody". This name was used by Lloyd Alexander in his book series The Chronicles of Prydain (1964-1968) as well as the Disney film adaptation The Black Cauldron (1985).
Ekʼ
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Classic Mayan
Personal remark: 🌟
Means "star", deriving from the Classic Maya element ek’ ("star").
Elba
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: EHL-ba
Personal remark: 🧝♂️
Possibly a Spanish variant form of
Alba 3.
Eldacar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature
Personal remark: 🧝♂️
Means "elf helmet" in Quenya. This is the name of the twenty-first king of Gondor in Tolkien's legendarium. Eldacar is the son of
Valacar and
Vidumavi. He is deposed by his wicked cousin
Castamir, and later raises an army to defeat Castamir and reclaim his throne.
Elegast
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Carolingian Cycle, Literature, Dutch (Rare)
Pronounced: EH-lə-ghahst(Dutch)
Personal remark: 🧝♂️
Means "noble guest", derived from the Middle Dutch adjective
edel meaning "noble" combined with the Middle Dutch noun
gast meaning "guest".
In medieval Dutch literature, this is the name of the eponymous character of Karel ende Elegast ("Charles and Elegast"), a 13th-century epic poem about Charlemagne and his friend, the noble knight Elegast.
Elfa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Icelandic
Personal remark: 🧝♂️
Elfreda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Personal remark: 🧝♂️
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Middle English form of the Old English name
Ælfþryð meaning
"elf strength", derived from the element
ælf "elf" combined with
þryþ "strength".
Ælfþryð was common amongst Anglo-Saxon nobility, being borne for example by the mother of King
Æðelræd the Unready. This name was rare after the
Norman Conquest, but it was revived in the 19th century.
Elric
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval English
Pronounced: EHL-rik(English)
Personal remark: 🧝♂️
Elrond
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature
Personal remark: 🌟
Means "star dome" in the fictional language Sindarin. In The Lord of the Rings (1954) by J. R. R. Tolkien, Elrond was the elven ruler of Rivendell.
Elva 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Danish, Icelandic
Personal remark: 🧝♂️
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Elvar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Icelandic
Personal remark: 🧝♂️
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Elvin 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHL-vin
Personal remark: 🧝♂️
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Elvina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ehl-VEEN-ə
Personal remark: 🧝♂️
Elwood
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHL-wuwd
Personal remark: 🎄
From an English surname that was derived from a place name meaning "elder tree forest" in Old English.
Encarnación
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: eng-kar-na-THYON(European Spanish) eng-kar-na-SYON(Latin American Spanish)
Personal remark: 👩👦
Means
"incarnation" in Spanish. This is given in reference to the Incarnation of
Jesus in the womb of the Virgin
Mary.
Encina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (European)
Pronounced: ehn-THEE-na(European Spanish)
Personal remark: 👩👦
Means "holm oak, evergreen oak" in Spanish, taken from the Spanish title of the Virgin Mary, La Virgen de la Encina, meaning "The Virgin of the Holm Oak," venerated at the basilica in Ponferrada in the province of León.
Erlantz
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Basque
Pronounced: ehr-LANTS
Personal remark: 🌟
Means "glow, shine" in Basque.
Eseoghene
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Urhobo
Personal remark: 🎁
Means "God's gift" in Urhobo.
Esperanza
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: ehs-peh-RAN-tha(European Spanish) ehs-peh-RAN-sa(Latin American Spanish)
Personal remark: 👩👦
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Spanish form of the Late Latin name Sperantia, which was derived from sperare "to hope".
Estíbaliz
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: ehs-TEE-ba-leeth(European Spanish) ehs-TEE-ba-lees(Latin American Spanish)
Personal remark: 👩👦
From a Spanish title of the Virgin
Mary,
Nuestra Señora de Estíbaliz, meaning "Our Lady of Estíbaliz". Estíbaliz is a sanctuary in Álava, Spain. It may be derived from Latin
aestivalis "pertaining to the summer", a derivative of
aestas "summer". Folk etymology connects it to Basque
ezti "honey" and
balitz "as if it were".
Étoile
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Modern, Rare)
Pronounced: EH-TWAL
Personal remark: 🌟
Derived from French étoile "star" (ultimately via Old French estoile, esteile, from Latin stēlla).
Evangeliya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Bulgarian (Rare)
Other Scripts: Евангелия(Bulgarian)
Personal remark: 👼
Evangelos
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Ευάγγελος(Greek)
Personal remark: 👼
Means
"bringing good news" from the Greek word
εὐάγγελος (euangelos), a derivative of
εὖ (eu) meaning "good" and
ἄγγελος (angelos) meaning "messenger".
Evergreen
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (American), Romani (Archaic)
Personal remark: 🎄
From the name of the group of plants that do not shed leaves annually. As a Romani name, this was generally masculine.
Fetia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Polynesian, Tahitian
Personal remark: 🌟
Means "star" in Tahitian.
Fetu
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Samoan
Personal remark: 🌟
Means "star" in Samoan.
Fiadh
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish (Modern)
Pronounced: FYEE
Personal remark: 🦌
Means "wild, wild animal, deer" (modern Irish fia) or "respect" in Irish.
Fifi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: FEE-FEE
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Fura
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Icelandic
From Icelandic fura meaning "pine tree", or directly from Old Norse fura "fir tree; pine tree".
Gandalf
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norse Mythology, Literature
Pronounced: GAN-dahlf(English)
Personal remark: 🧝♂️
Means "wand elf" in Old Norse, from the elements gandr "wand, staff, magic, monster" and alfr "elf". This name belongs to a dwarf (Gandálfr) in the Völuspá, a 13th-century Scandinavian manuscript that forms part of the Poetic Edda. The author J. R. R. Tolkien borrowed the name for a wizard in his novels The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954).
Gaspara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Galician (Rare)
Personal remark: 📖
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Italian feminine form of
Gaspare and Galician feminine form of
Gaspar.
Gaspare
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: GA-spa-reh
Personal remark: 📖
Gaspari
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: GA-spa-ree
Gift
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (African)
Pronounced: GIFT
Personal remark: 🎁
From the English word gift, of Old Norse origin. This name is most common in parts of English-influenced Africa.
Gotzon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Basque
Pronounced: GO-tson
Personal remark: 👼
Means "angel" in Basque.
Guadalupe
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: ghwa-dha-LOO-peh
Personal remark: 👩👦
From a Spanish title of the Virgin
Mary,
Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, meaning "Our Lady of Guadalupe". Guadalupe is a Spanish place name, the site of a famous convent, derived from Arabic
وادي (wādī) meaning "valley, river" possibly combined with Latin
lupus meaning "wolf". In the 16th century Our Lady of Guadalupe supposedly appeared in a vision to a native Mexican man, and she is now regarded as a patron
saint of the Americas.
Hartley
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: HAHRT-lee
Personal remark: 🦌
From an English surname that was derived from a place name, itself from Old English
heorot "hart, male deer" and
leah "woodland, clearing".
Hershel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: American, Yiddish
Other Scripts: הירשל(Yiddish) הירשׁל(Hebrew)
Personal remark: 🦌
Yiddish
diminutive of
Hirsh. As a non-Jewish American name (somewhat common around the end of the 19th century), it was likely inspired by the German surname
Herschel, borne for instance by the British-German astronomer William Herschel (1738-1822).
Hikaru
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 光, 輝, etc.(Japanese Kanji) ひかる(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: KHEE-KA-ROO
Personal remark: 🌟
From Japanese
光 (hikaru) meaning "light" or
輝 (hikaru) meaning "brightness". Other kanji can also form this name.
Hila
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: הִילָה(Hebrew)
Means
"halo, aura" in Hebrew, from the root
הָלַל (halal) meaning "to praise, to shine".
Hirsh
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Yiddish
Other Scripts: הירש(Yiddish) הירשׁ(Hebrew)
Personal remark: 🦌
Means
"deer" in Yiddish, from Old High German
hiruz. This was a vernacular form of the Hebrew name
Tzvi. The deer is particularly associated with the tribe of
Naphtali (see
Genesis 49:21).
Hjörtur
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Icelandic
Pronounced: KHUUR-tuyr
Personal remark: 🦌
Means "deer" in Icelandic.
Hokule'a
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Hawaiian, Astronomy
Personal remark: 🌟
Hōkūleʻa is Hawaiian for “Star of Gladness” or “Clear Star”. The western name of this star is Arcturus. Hōkūleʻa is the brightest in the northern hemisphere and it is Hawaii’s zenith star. It is also the name of a double hulled voyaging canoe (or wa’a kaulua).
Hoshiko
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 星子, etc.(Japanese Kanji) ほしこ(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: HO-SHEE-KO, HO-SHKO
Personal remark: 🌟
From Japanese
星 (hoshi) meaning "star" and
子 (ko) meaning "child". Other kanji combinations are possible.
Hreindís
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Icelandic (Rare)
Personal remark: 🦌
Derived from Old Norse
hreinn meaning "reindeer" (also compare
Hreinn) combined with
dís meaning "goddess".
Hreinn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Icelandic, Old Norse
Personal remark: 🦌
From Old Norse hreinn "reindeer".
Iesous
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical Greek [1][1]
Other Scripts: Ἰησοῦς(Ancient Greek)
Personal remark: ✝️
Ilan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אִילָן(Hebrew)
Personal remark: 🎄
Means "tree" in Hebrew.
Ilana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אִילָנָה(Hebrew)
Personal remark: 🎄
Ilanit
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אִילָנִית(Hebrew)
Personal remark: 🎄
Imbasa
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Zulu
Personal remark: 🌟
Means "star" in Zulu.
Inmaculada
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: eem-ma-koo-LA-dha
Personal remark: 👩👦
Means
"immaculate" in Spanish. This name is given to commemorate the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin
Mary.
Irawo
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Yoruba
Personal remark: 🌟
Means "star" in Yoruba.
Isi
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Choctaw
Personal remark: 🦌
Means "deer" in Choctaw.
Itri
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Berber
Other Scripts: ⵉⵜⵔⵉ(Tifinagh)
Personal remark: 🌟
Means "star" in Tamazight.
Itsuki
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 樹, etc.(Japanese Kanji) いつき(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: EE-TSOO-KYEE, EETS-KYEE
Personal remark: 🎄
From Japanese
樹 (itsuki) meaning "tree", using the kanji's
nanori reading. Other kanji or kanji combinations can also form this name.
Izar
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Basque
Pronounced: ee-SAR
Personal remark: 🌟
Means "star" in Basque.
Izarbe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Aragonese, Basque
Personal remark: 🌟
From Basque izar "star" and -be "beneath, under", taken from the Marian title Nuestra Señora de Izarbe, meaning "Our Lady of Izarbe". Izarbe is a chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary located in the province of Huesca, Spain.
Izei
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Basque
Means "fir tree" in Basque.
Josepha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch, German (Archaic), English (Rare)
Pronounced: yo-SEH-fa(Dutch) YO-sə-fa(Dutch) yo-ZEH-fa(German)
Josu
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Basque
Pronounced: YO-soo
Personal remark: ✝️
Josune
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque
Pronounced: yo-SOO-neh
Personal remark: ✝️
Juncal
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: khoong-KAL
Means "reed bed" in Spanish, a combination of junco meaning "reed, rush" and the suffix -al, indicating a place where something is grown, or where there is plenty of it. It is taken from the titles of the Virgin Mary, La Virgen del Juncal and Nuestra Señora del Juncal, meaning "The Virgin of the Reed Bed" and "Our Lady of the Reed Bed" respectively.
She is venerated at the church of Santa María del Juncal in Irun in the Basque province of Gipuzkoa and also at the hermitage of La Virgen del Juncal in Valdeande in the central-northern province of Burgos.
Jyldyz
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Kyrgyz
Other Scripts: Жылдыз(Kyrgyz)
Personal remark: 🌟
Means "star" in Kyrgyz.
Kahōkū
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Hawaiian (Rare)
Pronounced: ka-ho-KOO
Personal remark: 🌟
Means "the star," from definite article ka and hōkū meaning "star."
Kahôkûokalani
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hawaiian
Personal remark: 🌟
Means "heavenly star" in Hawaiian.
Karsten
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Low German, Danish, Norwegian
Pronounced: KAR-stən(Low German) KAS-dən(Danish)
Personal remark: ✝️
Kartika
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Indonesian
Pronounced: kar-TEE-ka
Personal remark: 🌟
Means "star" in Indonesian, ultimately from Sanskrit कृत्तिका
(krittika). This is also the Indonesian name for the constellation of the Pleiades.
Keijo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish
Personal remark: 🧝♂️
Derived from Finnish keiju meaning "elf, fairy".
Kelyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Cornish (Modern, Rare)
Derived from Cornish kelyn "holly".
Khayri
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: خيريّ(Arabic)
Pronounced: KHIE-reey
Means
"charitable, benificent" in Arabic, a derivative of
خير (khayr) meaning "goodness, charity".
Khayriyya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: خيريّة(Arabic)
Pronounced: khie-REE-ya
Kiefer
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: KEE-fər
Personal remark: 🎄
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
From a German surname meaning either "pine tree" or "barrel maker".
Kintana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Malagasy
Pronounced: KIN-ta-na
Personal remark: 🌟
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Means "star" in Malagasy.
Kistiñe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque
Pronounced: kees-TEE-nyeh
Kokebi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Amharic
Pronounced: CO-KEY-BEE
Personal remark: 🌟
Means "star" in Amharic.
Kristel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Estonian, Dutch
Pronounced: KRIS-təl(Dutch)
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Kyal
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Burmese
Other Scripts: ကြယ်(Burmese)
Pronounced: CHEH
Personal remark: 🌟
Means "star" in Burmese.
Launo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish (Rare)
Personal remark: 🎅🏽
Leslie
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LEHZ-lee, LEHS-lee
From a Scottish surname that was derived from a place in Aberdeenshire, probably from Gaelic leas celyn meaning "garden of holly". It has been used as a given name since the 19th century. In America it was more common as a feminine name after the 1940s.
Lillemor
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian (Rare)
Pronounced: LIL-le-moor(Swedish) LIL-leh-moor(Norwegian)
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Means "little mother", from Swedish and Norwegian lille, an inflected form of liten meaning "little", combined with mor meaning "mother". This name was first recorded in Norway and Sweden at the beginning of the 20th century.
Lolia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ijaw
Pronounced: LO LIA
Personal remark: 🌟
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
Means "star" in Ijaw.
Loreto
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Italian
Pronounced: lo-REH-to
Personal remark: 👩👦
From the name of a town in Italy, originally called
Lauretum in Latin, meaning "laurel grove". Supposedly in the 13th century the house of the Virgin
Mary was miraculously carried by angels from Nazareth to the town. In Spain it is a feminine name, from the Marian title
Nuestra Señora de Loreto, while in Italy it is mostly masculine.
Luján
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American)
Pronounced: loo-KHAN
Personal remark: 👩👦
From a Spanish title of the Virgin
Mary,
Nuestra Señora de Luján, meaning "Our Lady of Luján". This is the name of a city in Argentina near Buenos Aires. Our Lady of Luján is a 17th-century statue of Mary. Supposedly the horses transporting the statue further into Argentina refused to pull the cart past Luján, so a shrine was built at the spot. She is regarded as a patron
saint of Argentina.
Madonna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: mə-DAHN-ə
Personal remark: 👩👦
From a title of the Virgin
Mary meaning "my lady" in Italian. A famous bearer of the name is American singer Madonna Ciccone (1958-), known simply as Madonna.
Maia 3
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Estonian, Basque
Pronounced: MIE-a(Basque)
Personal remark: 👩👦
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Estonian and Basque form of
Maria.
Maïssa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic (Maghrebi)
Other Scripts: ميساء(Maghrebi Arabic)
Pronounced: ma-ee-sa(Maghrebi Arabic)
Personal remark: 🌟
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Derived from Arabic mâysan meaning "sparkling star".
Maïssane
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic (Maghrebi)
Personal remark: 🌟
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Derived from Arabic mâysan meaning "sparkling star".
Malachi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew, English, Biblical, Biblical Latin
Other Scripts: מַלְאָכִי(Hebrew)
Pronounced: MAL-ə-kie(English)
Personal remark: 👼
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
From the Hebrew name
מַלְאָכִי (Malʾaḵi) meaning
"my messenger" or
"my angel", derived from a possessive form of
מַלְאָךְ (malʾaḵ) meaning "messenger, angel". This is one of the twelve minor prophets of the
Old Testament, the author of the Book of Malachi, which some claim foretells the coming of Christ. In England the name came into use after the
Protestant Reformation.
Manoel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Galician, Portuguese (Brazilian)
Galician form and Portuguese variant of
Manuel.
Manoela
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese (Brazilian)
Manola
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: ma-NO-la
Mar
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Catalan
Pronounced: MAR
Personal remark: 👩👦
Means
"sea" in Spanish and Catalan. It is from a devotional title of the Virgin
Mary,
Nuestra Señora del Mar "Our Lady of the Sea", the patron
saint of the Spanish province of Almería.
Maral
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Mongolian, Azerbaijani, Armenian, Turkmen
Other Scripts: Марал(Mongolian Cyrillic) Մարալ(Armenian)
Personal remark: 🦌
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
Means "deer" in Mongolian, Azerbaijani, Armenian and Turkmen, referring to the Caspian Red Deer.
María Ángeles
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: ma-ree-a-ANG-kheh-lehs
Personal remark: 👩👦
María Auxiliadora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: ma-ree-a-owk-see-lya-DHO-ra
Personal remark: 👩👦
Means
"Mary the helper" in Spanish, a devotional title of the Virgin
Mary.
María de Jesús
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: ma-ree-a-dheh-kheh-SOOS
Personal remark: 👩👦
Means
"Mary (the mother) of Jesus" in Spanish, a compound of
María and
Jesús.
María de la Cruz
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: ma-ree-a-dheh-la-KROOTH(European Spanish) ma-ree-a-dheh-la-KROOS(Latin American Spanish)
Personal remark: 👩👦
Means
"Mary of the cross" in Spanish, a devotional title of the Virgin
Mary.
María de las Mercedes
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: ma-ree-a-dheh-las-mehr-THEH-dhehs(European Spanish) ma-ree-a-dheh-las-mehr-SEH-dhehs(Latin American Spanish)
Personal remark: 👩👦
Means
"Mary of mercies" in Spanish, a devotional title of the Virgin
Mary.
Maria del Mar
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Catalan
Personal remark: 👩👦
Means
"Mary of the sea" in Catalan, a devotional title of the Virgin
Mary.
María de los Dolores
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: ma-ree-a-dheh-los-dho-LO-rehs
Personal remark: 👩👦
Means
"Mary of sorrows" in Spanish, a devotional title of the Virgin
Mary.
Mariah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: mə-RIE-ə
Personal remark: 👩👦🔔
Variant of
Maria. It is usually pronounced in a way that reflects an older English pronunciation of
Maria. The name was popularized in the early 1990s by the American singer Mariah Carey (1970-).
Maricica
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Romanian
Marie-Ange
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: MA-REE-AHNZH
Personal remark: 👩👦
Maristela
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese, Spanish (Rare)
Pronounced: mu-reesh-TEH-lu(European Portuguese) ma-rees-TEH-lu(Brazilian Portuguese) ma-rees-TEH-la(Spanish)
Personal remark: 👩👦
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
From the title of the Virgin
Mary,
Stella Maris, meaning
"star of the sea" in Latin. It can also be a combination of
Maria and
Estela.
Marjo 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish, Dutch
Pronounced: MAHR-yo
Personal remark: 👩👦
Finnish and Dutch form of
Maria.
Martirio
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Rare)
Pronounced: mar-TEE-ryo
Personal remark: 👩👦
Means
"martyrdom" in Spanish. It is taken from the title of the Virgin
Mary,
Nuestra Señora del Martirio, the patron
saint of the Spanish town of Ugíjar.
Marusya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian, Ukrainian
Other Scripts: Маруся(Russian, Ukrainian)
Pronounced: mu-ROO-syə(Russian)
Masaki
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 正樹, 政樹, 真樹, etc.(Japanese Kanji) まさき(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: MA-SA-KYEE
Personal remark: 🎄
From Japanese
正 (masa) meaning "right, proper" and
樹 (ki) meaning "tree", as well as other combinations of kanji having the same reading.
Masha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Маша(Russian)
Pronounced: MA-shə
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Mbyja
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Guarani
Personal remark: 🌟
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Means "star" in Guarani.
Melchiora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Archaic)
Personal remark: 📖
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Melchora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Filipino, Galician
Pronounced: mel-CHO-rah(Spanish, Filipino)
Melek 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Turkish
Pronounced: meh-LEHK
Personal remark: 👼
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Means "angel" in Turkish, ultimately of Arabic origin.
Melker
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish
Personal remark: 📖
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Mercedes
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: mehr-THEH-dhehs(European Spanish) mehr-SEH-dhehs(Latin American Spanish) mər-SAY-deez(English)
Personal remark: 👩👦
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Means
"mercies" (that is, the plural of mercy), from the Spanish title of the Virgin
Mary,
Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes, meaning "Our Lady of Mercies". It is ultimately from the Latin word
merces meaning "wages, reward", which in Vulgar Latin acquired the meaning "favour, pity"
[1].
Mikalai
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Belarusian
Other Scripts: Мікалай(Belarusian)
Personal remark: 🎅🏽
Milagros
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: mee-LA-ghros
Personal remark: 👩👦
Means
"miracles" in Spanish. It is taken from the title of the Virgin
Mary,
Nuestra Señora de los Milagros, which means "Our Lady of Miracles".
Mirdza
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Latvian
Personal remark: 🌟
Derived from Latvian mirdzēt meaning "to shine, to glitter". This is the name of a tragic character in the play Vaidelote (1894) by the Latvian poet and playwright Aspazija.
Miri
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: מירי(Hebrew)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Misericordia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: mee-seh-ree-KOR-dhya
Personal remark: 👩👦
Means
"compassion, mercy" in Spanish, ultimately from Latin
miser "poor, wretched" and
cor "heart". It is taken from the title of the Virgin
Mary,
La Virgen de la Misericordia, meaning "The Virgin of Compassion".
Morgelyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Cornish (Rare)
Derived from Cornish morgelyn "sea holly".
Mwanaidi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swahili
Personal remark: 🎉
Means "child born during the festival" in Swahili.
Mykola
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ukrainian
Other Scripts: Микола(Ukrainian)
Personal remark: 🎅🏽
Najima
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: نجمة(Arabic)
Pronounced: NAH-JEE-MAH
Personal remark: 🌟
From Arabic نجمة (najima) meaning "star".
Najm
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: نجم(Arabic)
Pronounced: NAJM
Personal remark: 🌟
Means "star" in Arabic.
Naleli
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Sotho
Pronounced: Na lay de
Personal remark: 🌟
Means "star" in Sotho.
Narat
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Tatar
Other Scripts: Нарат(Tatar)
Personal remark: 🎄
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Means "evergreen tree" in Tatar.
Nazmus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Bengali
Other Scripts: নাজমুস(Bengali)
Personal remark: 🌟
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
From the first part of the Arabic phrase النجم الثاقب (an-najmu at-thaqibu) meaning "the piercingly bright star".
Nicolao
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Personal remark: 🎅🏽
Nigul
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Estonian
Personal remark: 🎅🏽
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Nikica
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Croatian, Serbian
Other Scripts: Никица(Serbian)
Personal remark: 🎅🏽
Nikolina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian
Other Scripts: Николина(Bulgarian, Serbian, Macedonian)
Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian and Macedonian feminine form of
Nicholas.
Nilas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Sami
Personal remark: 🎅🏽
Nils
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Pronounced: NILS
Personal remark: 🎅🏽
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Noela
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Galician
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Galician feminine form of
Noël.
Noonsol
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Korean
Other Scripts: 눈솔(Korean Hangul)
Pronounced: NUWN-SOL
Means "snowy pine tree", deriving from the Korean elements 눈 (nun"snow") and 솔 (sol "pine tree").
Nthanda
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Tumbuka
Personal remark: 🌟
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Means "star" in Tumbuka.
Nunzio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: NOON-tsyo
Personal remark: 👩👦
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Masculine short form of
Annunziata. It also coincides with the related Italian word
nunzio "messenger" (ultimately from Latin
nuntius).
Nyota
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swahili, Lingala
Pronounced: nee-O-tə(English)
Personal remark: 🌟
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
Derived from Swahili and Lingala nyota meaning "star".
Odbayar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Mongolian
Other Scripts: Одбаяр(Mongolian Cyrillic) ᠣᠳᠤᠪᠠᠶᠠᠷ(Traditional Mongolian)
Pronounced: AWT-pier
Personal remark: 🌟
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Means "star of joy" in Mongolian, from од
(od) meaning "star" and баяр
(bayar) meaning "joy, celebration".
Odjargal
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Mongolian
Other Scripts: Оджаргал(Mongolian Cyrillic) ᠣᠳᠤᠵᠢᠷᠭᠠᠯ(Traditional Mongolian)
Pronounced: AWT-char-kazh
Personal remark: 🌟
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
From Mongolian од
(od) meaning "star" and жаргал
(jargal) meaning "happiness, blessing".
Odkhuu
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Mongolian
Other Scripts: Одхуу(Mongolian Cyrillic)
Personal remark: 🌟
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Possibly a variant form of
Odkhüü.
Oisín
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish, Irish Mythology
Pronounced: aw-SHEEN(Irish) o-SHEEN(English)
Personal remark: 🦌
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Means
"little deer", derived from Old Irish
oss "deer, stag" combined with a
diminutive suffix. In Irish legend Oisín was a warrior hero and a poet, the son of
Fionn mac Cumhaill and the narrator in many of his tales.
Olvido
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: ol-BEE-dho
Personal remark: 👩👦
Means
"oblivion, forgetting" in Spanish, taken from the title of the Virgin
Mary Nuestra Señora del Olvido, Triunfo y Misericordias meaning "Our Lady of Oblivion, Triumph and Mercies". It commemorates an 1831 vision of Mary by the Spanish nun Sor Patrocinio.
Oscar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Irish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Italian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, French, Irish Mythology
Pronounced: AHS-kər(English) AWS-kar(Italian, Swedish) AWS-kahr(Dutch) AWS-KAR(French)
Personal remark: 🦌
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
Possibly means
"deer friend", derived from Old Irish
oss "deer" and
carae "friend". Alternatively, it may derive from the Old English name
Osgar or its Old Norse
cognate Ásgeirr, which may have been brought to Ireland by Viking invaders and settlers. In Irish legend Oscar was the son of the poet
Oisín and the grandson of the hero
Fionn mac Cumhaill.
This name was popularized in continental Europe by the works of the 18th-century Scottish poet James Macpherson [1]. Napoleon was an admirer of Macpherson, and he suggested Oscar as the second middle name of his godson, who eventually became king of Sweden as Oscar I. Other notable bearers include the Irish writer and humorist Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) and the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012).
Panagiota
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Παναγιώτα(Greek)
Personal remark: 👩👦
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Panagiotis
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Παναγιώτης(Greek)
Personal remark: 👩👦
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
From the Greek title of the Virgin
Mary Παναγία (Panagia) meaning
"all holy", derived from
πᾶν (pan) meaning "all" combined with
ἅγιος (hagios) meaning "devoted to the gods, sacred".
Patrocinio
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: pa-tro-THEE-nyo(European Spanish) pa-tro-SEE-nyo(Latin American Spanish)
Personal remark: 👩👦
Means
"patronage, sponsorship" in Spanish, taken from the title of the Virgin
Mary,
La Virgen del Patrocinio, meaning "The Virgin of Patronage".
Paz 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: PATH(European Spanish) PAS(Latin American Spanish)
Personal remark: 👩👦😊
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Means
"peace" in Spanish. It is taken from the title of the Virgin
Mary,
Nuestra Señora de la Paz, meaning "Our Lady of Peace".
Peura
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Finnish
Personal remark: 🦌
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Means "reindeer" in Finnish.
Phaedra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Φαίδρα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: FEED-rə(English) FEHD-rə(English)
Personal remark: 🌟
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From the Greek
Φαίδρα (Phaidra), derived from
φαιδρός (phaidros) meaning
"bright". Phaedra was the daughter of Minos and the wife of
Theseus in Greek
mythology.
Aphrodite caused her to fall in love with her stepson
Hippolytos, and after she was rejected by him she killed herself.
Pinar
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (European, Rare)
Pronounced: pee-NAR(European Spanish)
From the Spanish word
pinar meaning "pine grove". This is a title of the Virgin
Mary,
Virgen del Pinar ("Our Lady of the Pine Grove"). She is the patron saint of the towns of Cantalejo and Torrecilla del Pinar, both in the Spanish province of Segovia.
Pinito
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Canarian)
Pronounced: pee-NEE-to(Spanish)
Diminutive of
Pino (itself from the title of the Virgin Mary,
Nuestra Señora del Pino meaning "Our Lady of the Pine", the patron saint of Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands). A known bearer was Pinito del Oro (1931-2017), born María Cristina del Pino Segura Gómez, a Spanish circus performer and novelist from the Canary Islands.
Pinja
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: PEEN-yah
Means "stone pine" in Finnish.
Pino
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Canarian)
Pronounced: PEE-no(Spanish)
Means "pine tree" in Spanish. It is taken from the title of the Virgin Mary Nuestra Señora del Pino, meaning "Our Lady of the Pine". This is an epithet of the Virgin Mary in her role as the patroness of the island of Gran Canaria, Spain.
Pitys
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Πίτυς(Ancient Greek)
Derived from Greek πίτυς (pitys) meaning "pine". In Greek mythology, this was the name of an Oread nymph who was changed into a pine tree by the gods.
Polydora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek, Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Πολυδώρα(Ancient Greek)
Feminine form of
Polydoros. This name is borne by several characters in Greek mythology.
Polydoros
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek, Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Πολύδωρος(Ancient Greek)
Means "many gifts", derived from Greek πολύς
(polys) meaning "many" as well as "much" combined with Greek δῶρον
(doron) meaning "gift, present".
This was the name of several characters in Greek mythology.
Purificación
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: poo-ree-fee-ka-THYON(European Spanish) poo-ree-fee-ka-SYON(Latin American Spanish)
Personal remark: 👩👦
Rating: 10% based on 1 vote
Means
"purification" in Spanish. This name is given in reference to the ritual purification of the Virgin
Mary after her childbirth.
Randa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: رندة(Arabic)
Pronounced: RAN-da
Personal remark: 🎄
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
Means "scented tree" in Arabic.
Réaltín
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish (Modern)
Pronounced: RAYL-teen, REHL-teen, REEL-teen
Personal remark: 🌟
Rating: 10% based on 1 vote
From Irish réalt, réalta meaning "star" paired with ín, a diminutive. This is a modern Irish name.
Rein
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Frisian, Dutch, Estonian
Pronounced: RAYN(Frisian, Dutch)
Personal remark: 🦌
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
Originally a short form of Germanic names beginning with the element
regin meaning
"advice, counsel, decision" (Proto-Germanic *
raginą).
Remedios
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: reh-MEH-dhyos
Personal remark: 👩👦
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Means
"remedies" in Spanish. It is taken from the title of the Virgin
Mary,
Nuestra Señora de los Remedios, meaning "Our Lady of the Remedies".
Reyes
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: REH-yehs
Personal remark: 👩👦
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Means
"kings" in Spanish. It is taken from the title of the Virgin
Mary,
La Virgen de los Reyes, meaning "The Virgin of the Kings". According to legend, the Virgin Mary appeared to King Ferdinand III of Castile and told him his armies would defeat those of the Moors in Seville.
Risto
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish, Estonian, Macedonian, Serbian
Other Scripts: Ристо(Macedonian, Serbian)
Pronounced: REES-to(Finnish)
Personal remark: ✝️
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Finnish, Estonian, Macedonian and Serbian short form of
Christopher.
Rocío
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: ro-THEE-o(European Spanish) ro-SEE-o(Latin American Spanish)
Personal remark: 👩👦
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Means
"dew" in Spanish. It is taken from the title of the Virgin
Mary María del Rocío meaning "Mary of the Dew".
Rosaire
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: RO-ZEHR
Personal remark: 👩👦
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Means "rosary" in French.
Rosaria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ro-ZA-rya
Personal remark: 👩👦
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Rosario
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Italian
Pronounced: ro-SA-ryo(Spanish) ro-ZA-ryo(Italian)
Personal remark: 👩👦
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Means
"rosary", and is taken from the Spanish title of the Virgin
Mary Nuestra Señora del Rosario meaning "Our Lady of the Rosary". This name is feminine in Spanish and masculine in Italian.
Sagrario
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: sa-GHRA-ryo
Personal remark: 👩👦
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Means
"sanctuary, tabernacle" in Spanish, derived from Latin
sacrarium. It is taken from an epithet of the Virgin
Mary,
Nuestra Señora del Sagrario, and is associated with Toledo Cathedral.
Saltanat
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Kazakh
Other Scripts: Салтанат(Kazakh)
Personal remark: 🎉
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
Means "festival, celebration" in Kazakh.
Salvacion
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Philippines)
Pronounced: sul-vu-SHON(Tagalog)
Personal remark: 👩👦
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
Filipino form of Spanish
salvación meaning
"salvation". It refers to a title of the Virgin
Mary,
Nuestra Señora de Salvación, meaning "Our Lady of Salvation". This is the name of a statue of Mary in Joroan, the Philippines, that is associated with several miracles.
Salvador
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan
Pronounced: sal-ba-DHOR(Spanish) sal-vu-DOR(European Portuguese) sow-va-DOKH(Brazilian Portuguese) səl-bə-DHO(Catalan)
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan form of the Late Latin name
Salvator, which meant
"saviour", referring to
Jesus. A famous bearer of this name was the Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dalí (1904-1989).
Sancta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Medieval Italian, Medieval French
Personal remark: 👩👦
Derived from Latin sancta "consecrated, sacred; divine, holy; pious, just".
Sanober
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Urdu
Other Scripts: صنوبر(Urdu)
Means "pine" or "pine tree" in Urdu, ultimately from Arabic صَنَوْبَر (ṣanawbar).
Sarafina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swahili
Personal remark: 🌟
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Apparently means "bright star" in Swahili. The name might be best known from the South African musical "Sarafina!" Also, the name is often easily confused with the Hebrew name
Seraphina, but despite looking similar in appearance, both names clearly have completely different etymologies.
Sea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 星愛, 瀬彩, 瀬愛, 世, 晴愛, 姫和, etc.(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: SE-AH
Personal remark: 🌟
From Japanese 星 (se) meaning "star" combined with 愛 (a) meaning "love, affection". Other kanji combinations are possible.
Seda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Chechen
Other Scripts: Седа(Chechen)
Personal remark: 🌟
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Means "star" in Chechen.
Šéstótó'e
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Cheyenne
Personal remark: 🎄
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Means "pine, cedar, evergreen" in Cheyenne.
Setareh
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Persian
Other Scripts: ستاره(Persian)
Pronounced: seh-taw-REH
Personal remark: 🌟
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
Means "star" in Persian.
Sinagtala
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Filipino, Tagalog
Other Scripts: ᜐᜒᜈᜄ᜔ᜆᜎ(Baybayin)
Personal remark: 🌟
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Means "starlight" from Tagalog sinag meaning "beam, ray" and tala "star".
Síofra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: SHEE-frə
Personal remark: 🧝♂️
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Means "elf, sprite" in Irish. This name was created in the 20th century.
Sitora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Tajik, Uzbek
Other Scripts: Ситора(Tajik, Uzbek)
Personal remark: 🌟
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Tajik and Uzbek form of
Sitara.
Slilma
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Central American
Pronounced: ehs-LEEL-ma(Spanish)
Personal remark: 🌟
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
From Miskito slilma meaning "star." It is heavily concentrated in Nicaragua, mostly in the North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region, and has been in use since at least the early 1970s (as a first name; when considering middle name usage, it would have been in use since at least the mid-1940s).
Snowy
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Personal remark: ❄️
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
From the English word "snowy" meaning "covered with
Snow; resembling snow; or when snow is falling".
Socorro
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: so-KO-ro
Personal remark: 👩👦
Rating: 10% based on 1 vote
Means
"succour, help, relief" in Spanish. It is taken from the title of the Virgin
Mary María del Socorro meaning "Mary of Perpetual Succour".
Soledad
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: so-leh-DHADH
Personal remark: 👩👦
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Means
"solitude" in Spanish. It is taken from the title of the Virgin
Mary,
María de la Soledad, meaning "Mary of Solitude".
Sonsoles
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: son-SO-lehs
Personal remark: 👩👦
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
From a Spanish title of the Virgin
Mary,
Nuestra Señora de Sonsoles, meaning "Our Lady of Sonsoles". Sonsoles is a sanctuary in the Spanish province of Ávila, which contains a famous statue of Mary.
Sorne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque (Rare)
Personal remark: 👩👦
Means
"conception" in Basque. It was coined by Sabino Arana in 1910 as an equivalent of the Spanish name
Concepción.
Staria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (Rare)
Personal remark: 🌟
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Possibly an elaborated form of
Star.
Steren
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Cornish
Personal remark: 🌟
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Means "star" in Cornish.
Sterre
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch
Pronounced: STEH-rə
Personal remark: 🌟
Derived from Dutch ster meaning "star".
Tähti
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish (Rare), Estonian (Rare)
Pronounced: TAKH-tee(Finnish)
Personal remark: 🌟
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Means "star" in Finnish and Estonian.
Tala
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Philippine Mythology
Other Scripts: ᜆᜎ(Baybayin)
Pronounced: ta-LA(Tagalog)
Personal remark: 🌟
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Means "star" in Tagalog, ultimately from Sanskrit तारा
(tārā). In Tagalog mythology, Tala is the goddess of stars and a daughter of the supreme deity
Bathala.
Tara 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hinduism, Buddhism, Hindi, Nepali
Other Scripts: तारा(Sanskrit, Hindi, Nepali)
Personal remark: 🌟
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
Means
"star" in Sanskrit. Tara is the name of a Hindu astral goddess, the wife of Brhaspati. She was abducted by
Chandra, the god of the moon, leading to a great war that was only ended when
Brahma intervened and released her. This name also appears in the epic the
Ramayana belonging to the wife of Vali and, after his death, his younger brother Sugriva. In Buddhist belief this is the name of a bodhisattva associated with salvation and protection.
Teodoro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: teh-o-DAW-ro(Italian) teh-o-DHO-ro(Spanish) tyoo-DAW-roo(European Portuguese) teh-o-DAW-roo(Brazilian Portuguese)
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of
Theodoros (see
Theodore).
Ulloriaq
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Greenlandic
Personal remark: 🌟
Means
"star" in Greenlandic
[1].
Vega 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: BEH-gha
Personal remark: 👩👦
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Means
"meadow, plain" in Spanish. It is taken from a title of the Virgin
Mary,
La Virgen de la Vega, meaning "The Virgin of the Meadow". She is the patron
saint of several Spanish municipalities, such as Salamanca.
Vesa 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: VEH-sah
Personal remark: 🎄
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
Means "sprout, young tree" in Finnish.
Vilde 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norwegian
Personal remark: 🧝♂️
Whetū
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Maori
Personal remark: 🌟
Means "star" in Maori.
Xesús
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Galician
Personal remark: ✝️
Galician form of
Jesus, used as a personal name.
Xing
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Chinese
Other Scripts: 兴, 行, 星, 惺, 杏, etc.(Chinese)
Pronounced: SHEENG
Personal remark: 🌟
From Chinese 兴
(xīng) meaning "rise, flourish, prosper", 行
(xíng) meaning "carry out, execute, perform", 星
(xīng) meaning "star, planet", 惺
(xīng) meaning "clever, intelligent" or 杏
(xìng) meaning "apricot". Other character combinations can form this name as well.
Yasu 2
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Theology (Arabized)
Other Scripts: يسوع(Arabic)
Pronounced: ya-SOO‘(Arabic)
Personal remark: 🌟
Form of
Jesus used by Arabic-speaking Christians. Muslims use
عيسى (ʿĪsā), the form in the
Quran.
Yıldız
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Turkish
Pronounced: yul-DUZ
Personal remark: 🌟
Means "star" in Turkish.
Yllëza
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Albanian
Personal remark: 🌟
Derived from Albanian yll "star" and, figuratively, "fate, luck" combined with a diminutive suffix.
Yuka
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Inuit
Pronounced: Yoo - kah(Inuktitut)
Personal remark: 🌟
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
Means "bright star" in Inuit.
Yukon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Popular Culture (Rare)
Pronounced: YOO-kahn
Personal remark: 📺
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
From the Yukon River or Territory, Canada, meaning "Great River" in Gwich’in. Yukon Cornelius is a character in the 1964 Christmas movie, "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer."
Zornitsa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Bulgarian
Other Scripts: Зорница(Bulgarian)
Personal remark: 🌟
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Means "morning star" in Bulgarian.
Zoryana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ukrainian
Other Scripts: Зоряна(Ukrainian)
Personal remark: 🌟
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
Derived from Ukrainian
зоря (zorya) meaning
"dawn, star".
Zvezdana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Serbian, Slovene
Other Scripts: Звездана(Serbian)
Pronounced: ZVEHZ-da-na(Serbian)
Personal remark: 🌟
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
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