Lady_Skywalker's Personal Name List
Adalie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Alsatian
Rating: 56% based on 16 votes
Adamia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 31% based on 13 votes
Adamine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), French (Rare), Scottish (Rare), German (Rare)
Rating: 29% based on 11 votes
Adelaina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American, Rare)
Pronounced: adi-laYn-a(American English)
Rating: 44% based on 14 votes
Adelinda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Rare), English, Portuguese, South American, Hungarian (Rare), Italian, Polish
Rating: 55% based on 11 votes
Aibhlinn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: av-leen, iev-leen
Personal remark: Ave leen
Rating: 34% based on 18 votes
Aida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AY-dah
Rating: 52% based on 10 votes
Áila
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Sami
Rating: 35% based on 15 votes
Inari Sami variant form of
Áile and
Aili possibly related to
Láilá.
Aislin
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish (Rare)
Pronounced: ASH-lyən
Personal remark: Ash-Leen
Rating: 43% based on 19 votes
Aislinn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: ASH-lyən
Personal remark: Ash-Leen
Rating: 41% based on 18 votes
Alarik
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Frisian, Norwegian, Swedish, Finland Swedish
Pronounced: AH:-lah:-rhik(Dutch) AH-lah-rik(Finland Swedish)
Rating: 51% based on 16 votes
Variant form of
Alaric.
Name day in the Finland Swedish calendar: May 24th
Alastrina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: a-la-STREE-nə
Rating: 33% based on 19 votes
Aldrich
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German
Rating: 26% based on 7 votes
Aleena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Rating: 29% based on 8 votes
Alene
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Rating: 29% based on 16 votes
Alesander
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Basque
Rating: 28% based on 4 votes
Aleseta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval German
Rating: 38% based on 13 votes
Probably a form of
Elisabeth, recorded in Switzerland in the early 1300s.
Alexanderina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (British, Rare), Scottish (Rare, Archaic)
Rating: 25% based on 4 votes
Alia 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Germanic [1]
Personal remark: Al-ya
Rating: 31% based on 10 votes
Älian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German
Rating: 28% based on 13 votes
Alisander
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature
Rating: 29% based on 7 votes
Medieval variant of
Alexander occurring in Shakespeare and Malory. The herb Smyrnium olusatrum is also known commonly as "alisanders".
Alja
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch (Rare)
Personal remark: Al-ya
Rating: 40% based on 8 votes
Alodia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Gothic (Latinized)
Rating: 32% based on 13 votes
Possibly from a Visigothic name, maybe from Gothic elements such as
alls "all" or
aljis "other" combined with
auds "riches, wealth".
Saint Alodia was a 9th-century Spanish martyr with her sister Nunilo.
Alrik
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish
Pronounced: AHL-rik
Rating: 43% based on 9 votes
Modern Swedish form of Old Norse
Alríkr.
Amalafrida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Germanic, History
Rating: 33% based on 13 votes
Variant of
Amalfrida. Amalafrida was a daughter of Theodemir, king of the Ostrogoths in the 5th century AD.
Amalaswintha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Germanic, Dutch, History
Rating: 31% based on 13 votes
Derived from the Germanic elements amal "work" and Gothic svinths (swind in Old High German) "strength." This name was borne by a daughter of Theodoric the Great, who became queen of the Ostrogoths after his death in 526 AD.
Amalia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Italian, Romanian, Greek, Finnish, Swedish, Dutch, German, Germanic (Latinized) [1]
Other Scripts: Αμαλία(Greek)
Pronounced: a-MA-lya(Spanish, Italian, German) a-MA-lee-a(Dutch)
Rating: 52% based on 14 votes
Short form of Germanic names beginning with the element
amal. This element means
"unceasing, vigorous, brave", or it can refer to the Gothic dynasty of the Amali (derived from the same root).
This was another name for the 7th-century saint Amalberga of Maubeuge.
Amaltheia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἀμάλθεια(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 23% based on 6 votes
Amelia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Medieval French
Pronounced: ə-MEE-lee-ə(English) ə-MEEL-yə(English) a-MEH-lya(Spanish, Italian, Polish)
Rating: 69% based on 14 votes
Variant of
Amalia, though it is sometimes confused with
Emilia, which has a different origin. The name became popular in England after the German House of Hanover came to the British throne in the 18th century — it was borne by daughters of both George II and George III. The author Henry Fielding used it for the title character in his novel
Amelia (1751). Another famous bearer was Amelia Earhart (1897-1937), the first woman to make a solo flight over the Atlantic Ocean.
This name experienced a rise in popularity at the end of the 20th century. It was the most popular name for girls in England and Wales from 2011 to 2015.
Amelina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Germanic (Latinized) [1]
Personal remark: Awm-eh-leen-uh
Rating: 33% based on 11 votes
Ameline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, French (Belgian), Flemish
Personal remark: Awm-eh-leen
Rating: 38% based on 12 votes
Amery
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: AM-ə-ree
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
Amilla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Danish (Rare), Swedish (Rare), Hungarian (Rare)
Rating: 28% based on 11 votes
Amity
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: A-mi-tee
Rating: 59% based on 8 votes
From the English word meaning "friendship", ultimately deriving from Latin amicitia.
Amora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Rating: 39% based on 14 votes
Apparently a modern coinage based on Latin
amor meaning
"love".
Amory
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature, English (Rare)
Pronounced: AM-ə-ree
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Amory.
Amrei
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Upper German, German (Austrian), German (Swiss), Luxembourgish
Pronounced: AHM-rie(Upper German, Austrian German, Swiss German)
Rating: 29% based on 7 votes
Upper German and Luxembourgish contracted form of
Annemarie.
Andrá
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Icelandic (Modern)
Rating: 26% based on 5 votes
Directly taken from Icelandic andrá "breath of air; moment".
Angeletta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Italian, Italian (Rare), English (Rare)
Rating: 22% based on 5 votes
Angelien
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch
Pronounced: ahn-zhə-LEEN
Rating: 13% based on 6 votes
Angelina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, English, Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Macedonian, German, Dutch, Swedish, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Armenian
Other Scripts: Ангелина(Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Macedonian) Αγγελίνα(Greek) Անգելինա(Armenian)
Pronounced: ang-jeh-LEE-na(Italian) an-jə-LEE-nə(English) un-gyi-LYEE-nə(Russian) ang-kheh-LEE-na(Spanish)
Rating: 56% based on 5 votes
Latinate
diminutive of
Angela. A famous bearer is American actress Angelina Jolie (1975-).
Angelisa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: an-jə-LEE-sə(English) an-je-LEE-za(Italian)
Rating: 30% based on 6 votes
Angelita
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: ang-kheh-LEE-ta
Rating: 15% based on 6 votes
Angus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish, Irish, English
Pronounced: ANG-gəs(English)
Rating: 49% based on 15 votes
Aoibhgréine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish Mythology
Pronounced: eev-GREN-ya
Personal remark: eev-GREN-ya
Rating: 37% based on 12 votes
Derived from Irish aoibh "smile, pleasant expression" and grian "sun". This name belonged to the daughter of Deirdre and Naoise in Longas Mac nUislenn (The Exile of the Sons of Uisnech), a story of the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology. She was thought to marry Rinn, king of the Otherworld.
Archer
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AHR-chər(American English) AH-chə(British English)
Rating: 30% based on 7 votes
From an English surname meaning "bowman, archer", of Old French origin. Although already slowly growing in popularity, this name accelerated its rise after the premiere of the American television series Archer in 2009.
Aren
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Rating: 30% based on 8 votes
Ari 2
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Norse [1], Icelandic, Finnish
Pronounced: AH-ree(Finnish)
Rating: 49% based on 10 votes
Old Norse byname meaning "eagle".
Aricu
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Sicilian
Rating: 22% based on 5 votes
Arinbjörn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Icelandic (Modern)
Rating: 40% based on 5 votes
Arion
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek, Greek, Greek Mythology, Popular Culture
Other Scripts: Ἀρίων(Greek)
Pronounced: AR-ee-ən(Popular Culture)
Rating: 33% based on 4 votes
In Greek mythology, Arion is the name of a divine immortal talking horse, who is the son of the gods Poseidon and Demeter. In real life, this name was borne by a Greek singer and poet of Methymna on Lesbos, skilled at the cithara and inventor of the dithyramb. He is said to have lived at Periander's court in Corinth in the late 7th century B.C. A legend repeated by Herodotus tells how, having been thrown overboard by pirates, Arion was saved from the sea by a dolphin that had been charmed by his music. And, finally, Arion is also the name of several characters in popular culture, such the mystical hero of a DC comic book.
Askja
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Icelandic (Modern)
Rating: 28% based on 4 votes
Directly taken from Icelandic askja "little box; caldera (of a vulcano)". The name is also related to the Old Norse name element askr "ash tree".
Athan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Αθάν(Greek)
Rating: 47% based on 10 votes
Athenry
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: athen-rie
Personal remark: GP boys name.
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Athenry (Baile Áth an Rí) meaning "Town of the Ford of the King" is a town in County Galway, Ireland, which lies 25 kilometres east of Galway city.
Auderic
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic
Rating: 37% based on 7 votes
Derived from the Germanic element
auda "wealth, property" (also see
Audovacar) combined with
rîcja "powerful, strong, mighty." The second element is also closely related to Celtic
rîg or
rix and Gothic
reiks, which all mean "king, ruler."
Audun
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norwegian
Rating: 32% based on 6 votes
Auley
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Manx, Scots
Pronounced: AH-leh(Scots) AW-leh(Scots)
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
Manx and Scots form of
Olaf, from Old Norse
Áleifr via Old Irish
Amlaíb. This name used to be Anglicized as the etymologically unrelated
Humphrey.
Auren
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Autumn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AW-təm
Rating: 55% based on 11 votes
From the name of the season, ultimately from Latin autumnus. This name has been in general use since the 1960s.
Avalon
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: AV-ə-lahn(American English) AV-ə-lawn(British English)
Rating: 68% based on 5 votes
From the name of the island paradise to which King
Arthur was brought after his death. The name of this island is perhaps related to Welsh
afal meaning "apple", a fruit that was often linked with paradise.
Avel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Breton
Rating: 30% based on 3 votes
Breton form of
Abel. In recent times, folk etymology likes to connect this name to Breton
avel "wind".
Avonlea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 55% based on 4 votes
Created by L. M. Montgomery as the setting for her novel
Anne of Green Gables (1908). She may have based the name on the Arthurian island of
Avalon, though it also resembles the river name
Avon and
leah "woodland, clearing".
Benen
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History
Rating: 36% based on 9 votes
Benen was the name of the first Irish Bishop of Ireland, who was a follower of St. Patrick.
His name is said to be derived from Latin Benignus.
Berlin
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Various
Pronounced: bər-LIN(American English) bə-LIN(British English) behr-LEEN(German)
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
From the name of the city in Germany, which is of uncertain meaning.
Bolin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Popular Culture
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
An earthbending character from the TV series "The Legend of Korra" bears this name.
Brádach
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval Irish [1]
Pronounced: BRA-dəkh(Irish)
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Irish byname, possibly derived from bradach meaning "thieving, roguish, spirited".
Branddís
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Icelandic
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Combination of the Old Norse name elements brandr "(burning) log, pole; fire, torch; sword, swordblade" and dís "goddess; woman, lady; sister" or dis "wise woman, seeress; woman, virgin".
Brandur
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Icelandic, Faroese
Rating: 28% based on 4 votes
Icelandic and Faroese form of
Brandr.
Breaca
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Cornish (Latinized)
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Latinized form of
Breage, from Cornish
bregh "brave". The 5th-century Cornish saint Breage is also known as Breaca or Bray. Breage is also probably the source of the medieval Cornish name
Braya.
K.M. Sheard writes, "The similarity to Bridget and Brigantia may not be coincidental; bregh comes ultimately from Celtic *briga- "might, power", the same potential derivation as Bridget. It is therefore not beyond the realms of possibility that St. Bray represents a survival of the worship of the goddess in Cornwall."
Breacán
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish
Personal remark: Bray-cawn
Rating: 40% based on 7 votes
Derived from Gaelic breac "speckled, spotted" combined with a diminutive suffix. This was the name of a 6th-century Irish saint who was famous as a healer.
Breagan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern, Rare)
Personal remark: Bray-Guhn
Rating: 47% based on 7 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Breagan.
Breccán
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval Irish
Rating: 34% based on 7 votes
Derived from Irish
brecc "freckled, speckled" combined with a diminutive suffix, making it a cognate of
Brychan. This was a common name in early Ireland, borne by at least 13 saints.
Brenier
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Norman
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Brenley
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (American, Modern, Rare)
Pronounced: BREN-lee(American English)
Personal remark: Like it as a boys name.
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Brenn
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Rating: 53% based on 10 votes
A diminutive of names with the element or sound of -
bren-, such as
Brenna or
Brendan.
Brennius
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Anglo-Saxon Mythology, Folklore
Rating: 13% based on 4 votes
Brennus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Gaulish (Latinized)
Pronounced: BREHN-əs(English)
Rating: 30% based on 7 votes
Latinized form of a Celtic name (or title) that possibly meant either "king, prince" or "raven". Brennus was a Gallic leader of the 4th century BC who attacked and sacked Rome.
Brenton
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BREHN-tən
Rating: 31% based on 7 votes
From a surname that was derived from an English place name meaning "Bryni's town". Bryni was an Old English name meaning "fire".
Breogán
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Celtic Mythology, Galician
Pronounced: breh-o-GHAN(Galician)
Personal remark: bre-o-GAWN
Rating: 31% based on 7 votes
Related to the Celtic root
brixs "high, hill". This is the name of the mythological ancestor of the Irish in the Lebor Gabála Érenn, a medieval Christian history of Ireland. According to the myth, he was a king in modern day Galicia who built a tower so tall that their sons made out the island of Ireland and decided to sail there. Since the 19th century he has seen a revival as a national myth of Galicia.
Breslin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern, Rare)
Personal remark: Like it as a boys name only.
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Breslin.
Breslyn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern, Rare)
Personal remark: Like it as a boys name only.
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Bríet
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Icelandic
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
Icelandic variant of
Britt. This name was borne by Icelandic feminist Bríet Bjarnhéðinsdóttir (1856-1940), founder of the first women's magazine in Iceland
Kvennablaðið.
Brietta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American, Rare, ?)
Rating: 37% based on 3 votes
Britt
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Pronounced: BRIT(Swedish)
Personal remark: Like it for boys only.
Rating: 38% based on 4 votes
Britten
Gender: Masculine
Usage: American
Personal remark: Like it as a boys name only.
Rating: 10% based on 2 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Britten.
Brolin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 10% based on 2 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Brolin.
Brynmor
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Rating: 30% based on 3 votes
From the Welsh place name Brynmawr meaning "great hill".
Cabe
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval English
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Caderina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Sardinian
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Caia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Danish (Rare), Norwegian (Rare), Dutch (Rare)
Pronounced: KIE-yah(Danish, Norwegian)
Rating: 54% based on 8 votes
Callan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Manx
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Callen
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
Camber
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History, Anglo-Saxon Mythology
Rating: 33% based on 4 votes
Camber, or
Kamber, was the legendary first king of Cambria, according to
Geoffrey of Monmouth in the first part of his influential 12th-century pseudohistory Historia Regum Britanniae. According to Geoffrey,
Cambria, the classical name for Wales, was named for him.
Campbell
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KAM-bəl
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
From a Scottish surname meaning "crooked mouth" from Gaelic cam "crooked" and beul "mouth".
Caralie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: kahr-ə-LEE, ker-ə-LEE
Rating: 38% based on 5 votes
Caralynn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: Care-ah-lin
Rating: 32% based on 6 votes
Carr
Gender: Masculine
Usage: American (Rare)
Pronounced: KAHR
Rating: 32% based on 5 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Carr.
Carrick
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: KA-rik
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Carrick.
Carsten
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Low German, Danish
Pronounced: KAR-stən(Low German) KAS-dən(Danish)
Rating: 28% based on 4 votes
Cartney
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (American)
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Casey
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KAY-see
Personal remark: Boys name only!
Rating: 40% based on 4 votes
From an Irish surname, an Anglicized form of
Ó Cathasaigh, a patronymic derived from the given name
Cathassach. This name can be given in honour of Casey Jones (1863-1900), a train engineer who sacrificed his life to save his passengers. In his case,
Casey was a nickname acquired because he was raised in the town of Cayce, Kentucky.
Casper
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Pronounced: KAHS-pər(Dutch) KAHS-pehr(Swedish) KAS-bu(Danish)
Rating: 58% based on 4 votes
Dutch and Scandinavian form of
Jasper. This is the name of a friendly ghost in an American series of cartoons and comic books (beginning 1945).
Cathia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
French adaption of Russian
Katya.
Catia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Celyn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Means
"holly" in Welsh. It appears briefly in the Welsh tale
Culhwch and Olwen [1], belonging to a son of Caw, but was not typically used as a given name until the 20th century.
Chilion
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: כִּלְיוֹן(Ancient Hebrew)
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
Derived from Hebrew
כִּלְיוֹן "failing, pining". In the
Book of Ruth, Chilion is mentioned as the youngest son of
Elimelech of the tribe of Judah and his wife
Naomi 1. He married the Moabite convert
Orpah.
Chrisander
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norwegian (Modern)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Ciara 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: KEEY-rə
Personal remark: Keer-uh, Kee-ar-uh or Kee-air-uh
Rating: 30% based on 3 votes
Feminine form of
Ciar. This is another name for
Saint Ciar.
Clarence
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KLAR-əns, KLEHR-əns
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
From the Latin title Clarensis, which belonged to members of the British royal family. The title ultimately derives from the name of the town of Clare in Suffolk. As a given name it has been in use since the 19th century.
Claudel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French (Rare)
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Claudetta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Claudiana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman, Portuguese (Brazilian)
Rating: 30% based on 4 votes
Late Roman feminine form of
Claudianus. Claudiana was one of the Vestal Virgins.
Clover
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: KLO-vər(American English) KLO-və(British English)
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
From the English word for the wild flower, ultimately deriving from Old English clafre.
Conlan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Connelly
Usage: Irish
Personal remark: M
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Connery
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish (Anglicized), English (Modern)
Pronounced: KAHN-ər-ee(English) KAHN-ree(English)
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
Transferred use of the surname
Connery.
Connery shares the same etymological roots as Conroy.
Conrad
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, German, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: KAHN-rad(American English) KAWN-rad(British English) KAWN-rat(German)
Rating: 77% based on 11 votes
Means
"brave counsel", derived from the Old German elements
kuoni "brave" and
rat "counsel, advice". This was the name of a 10th-century
saint and bishop of Konstanz, in southern Germany. It was also borne by several medieval German kings and dukes, notably Conrad II, the first of the Holy Roman Emperors from the Salic dynasty. In England it was occasionally used during the Middle Ages, but has only been common since the 19th century when it was reintroduced from Germany.
Coralyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KOR-ə-lin
Rating: 50% based on 5 votes
Cortlyn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern, Rare)
Personal remark: Like it as a boys name only.
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Creedence
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (American)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Variant of
Credence. This spelling likely influenced by the American rock band, Creedence Clearwater Revival.
Crevan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: KREE-vən
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Anglicized form of the Irish name
Criomhthann, from Old Irish
crimthan meaning "fox". A variant,
Crimhthain, was the original name of Saint
Columba.
Cuyler
Gender: Masculine
Usage: American (Rare)
Pronounced: KY-lur
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Transferred use of the surname
Cuyler.
Dallán
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: dah-LAHN
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Means "little blind one", from Irish dall "blind" combined with a diminutive suffix. The nickname was borne by an Irish poet saint of the 6th century.
Dax
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DAKS
Rating: 73% based on 3 votes
From an English surname, which was derived either from the town of Dax in France or from the Old English given name
Dæcca (of unknown meaning). The name was brought to public attention by the main character in the 1966 novel
The Adventurers and its 1970 movie adaptation. It became popular in the 2010s due to its similarity to other names like
Max and
Jax.
Deacon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: DEE-kən
Rating: 42% based on 5 votes
Either from the occupational surname
Deacon or directly from the vocabulary word
deacon, which refers to a cleric in the Christian church (ultimately from Greek
διάκονος (diakonos) meaning "servant").
Devery
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Transferred use of the surname
Devery. A bearer of this name was Devery Freeman (1913-2005), an American screenwriter who also authored the novel "Father Sky: A Novel", upon which the 1981 film "Taps" was based.
Donal
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: DO-nəl(English)
Rating: 46% based on 5 votes
Anglicized form of
Domhnall (see
Donald).
Donan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Breton
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
Composed of the old Celtic element
dumno "world" (compare
Donald) combined with a diminutive suffix. This was borne by a disciple of Saint Briec.
Donnan
Usage: English
Personal remark: M
Rating: 38% based on 4 votes
Donnell
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DON-al
Rating: 50% based on 4 votes
Donnelly
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (American), English (Canadian)
Rating: 50% based on 5 votes
Transferred use from the surname
Donnelly.
Drakon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Δράκων(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 42% based on 5 votes
Eachainn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish (Rare)
Pronounced: EKH-en
Personal remark: EKH-en
Rating: 43% based on 4 votes
Éibhleann
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish
Personal remark: Ave lynn, AYV-len
Rating: 43% based on 4 votes
Allegedly derived from Old Irish
óiph "semblance; appearance; beauty". It is also treated as an Irish form of
Helen, although it is sometimes anglicized as
Evelyn.
Eirdís
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Icelandic (Rare)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Combination of the Old Norse name elements eir "protection; peace; calm; help; mercy; benignity" and dís "goddess; woman, lady; sister" or dis "wise woman, seeress; woman, virgin".
Eirný
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Old Norse, Icelandic
Pronounced: ER-nee
Rating: 50% based on 4 votes
Combination of the Old Norse name elements eir "protection; peace; calm; help; mercy; benignity" and ný "new moon, waxing moon" or nýr "new; young; fresh".
Eldlilja
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Icelandic (Modern, Rare)
Rating: 54% based on 5 votes
Combination of the Old Norse name elements eldr "fire" and lilja "lily". This is also the Nordic name of a Chinese lily (flower, Lat. Lilium davidii).
Eleri
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: eh-LEH-ri
Rating: 58% based on 5 votes
From the name of a Welsh river, also called the Leri, of unknown meaning. This was also the name of a 7th-century Welsh
saint (masculine).
Elína
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Old Norse
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Old Norse form of the Christian name
Helen. Elína occurs in 'Landnámabók' (in ch. 63) belonging to a daughter of king Burisláv.
Elisif
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norwegian (Rare), Danish (Rare), Swedish (Rare), Finland Swedish (Rare)
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
Élîzabé
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Jèrriais
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Ellena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish (Archaic)
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
Eller
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ELL-ir
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Ellisif
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Icelandic, Medieval Scandinavian
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
Icelandic form of
Elizabeth. It originated as a "Nordicized" form of
Yelizaveta, the original Russian name of the 11th-century Rus' princess (daughter of the Kievan ruler Yaroslav) who married King Haraldr III of Norway.
Elnora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Rating: 57% based on 6 votes
Eloisa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: eh-lo-EE-za
Rating: 51% based on 7 votes
Elora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Popular Culture, English (Modern)
Rating: 70% based on 7 votes
Probably an invented name. This is the name of an infant girl in the fantasy movie Willow (1988). Since the release of the movie the name has been steadily used, finally breaking into the top 1000 in the United States in 2015.
Elsinore
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American, Rare)
Pronounced: EHL-sin-awr(American English) ehl-si-NAWR(American English)
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
From the name of
Hamlet's castle, which is an anglicized form of
Helsingør, a Danish place name meaning "neck, narrow strait" (see
Elsinore). Use of this place name as a feminine personal name is likely due to its similarity to
Eleanor and
Elsa.
Elyabel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arthurian Cycle
Rating: 28% based on 4 votes
A medieval form of
Elizabeth used in the 13th-century Prose
Tristan and its adaptations, where it belongs to the mother of
Tristan.
Elyzabel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arthurian Cycle
Rating: 28% based on 5 votes
Possibly a form of
Elizabeth. In Arthurian legend this name was borne by a cousin of
Guinevere who was imprisoned by
Claudas for suspected espionage. His refusal to her release led to war with
Arthur.
Elzebe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch (Archaic), Afrikaans (Rare), Old Swedish
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Emrik
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Enoch
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Other Scripts: חֲנוֹך(Ancient Hebrew) Ἐνώχ, Ἑνώχ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: EE-nək(English)
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
From the Hebrew name
חֲנוֹך (Ḥanoḵ) meaning
"dedicated". In Genesis in the
Old Testament this is the name of the son of
Cain. It is also the name of a son of
Jared and the father of
Methuselah, who was the supposed author of the apocryphal Books of Enoch.
Enya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: EHN-yə(English)
Rating: 64% based on 8 votes
Eri
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Pronounced: Eh-ree(Biblical English)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
The male name Eri comes from the Hebrew meaning "my guardian" or "my awake one".
In the Old Testament, Eri was one of
Gad's sons.
Esamae
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (British)
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Esben
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Danish, Norwegian
Rating: 32% based on 5 votes
Esja
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Icelandic
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
From the name of a mountain range in Iceland, itself derived from Old Norse esja, which denoted a kind of clay. This name occurs in the Kjalnesinga saga belonging to a rich widow among Irish settlers, but her name was probably derived from that of the mountain.
Esjar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Icelandic
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Esmeree
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arthurian Cycle
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Perhaps derived from Old French esmer meaning "to like, love, respect". This was the name of an enchanted queen of Wales in Le Bel Inconnu (ca. 1185-90), an Old French Arthurian poem by Renaut de Bâgé. In the poem, Blonde Esmeree is transformed from a serpent back into a maiden by the hero Guinglain, also known as the Fair Unknown.
Espen
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norwegian
Pronounced: EHS-pən
Rating: 38% based on 6 votes
Ethel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ETH-əl
Rating: 54% based on 5 votes
Short form of names beginning with the Old English element
æðele meaning
"noble". It was coined in the 19th century, when many Old English names were revived. It was popularized by the novels
The Newcomes (1855) by William Makepeace Thackeray and
The Daisy Chain (1856) by C. M. Yonge. A famous bearer was American actress and singer Ethel Merman (1908-1984).
Ethelind
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Germanic, History
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Variant of
Adelind. Ethelind was the name of one of Charlemagne's concubines.
Ethelinda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Archaic)
Rating: 67% based on 6 votes
English form of the Germanic name
Adallinda. The name was very rare in medieval times, but it was revived in the early 19th century.
Ethelmae
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (Rare)
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Ethelmay
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: eth-uhl-MAY
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
Ethne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish Mythology
Rating: 78% based on 4 votes
Etta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHT-ə
Rating: 57% based on 6 votes
Short form of
Henrietta and other names that end with
etta. A famous bearer was the American singer Etta James (1938-2012), who took her
stage name from her real given name Jamesetta.
Evander 2
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish
Pronounced: i-VAN-dər(American English) i-VAN-də(British English)
Rating: 76% based on 10 votes
Eve
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Estonian, Biblical
Other Scripts: חַוָּה(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: EEV(English)
Rating: 60% based on 14 votes
From the Hebrew name
חַוָּה (Ḥawwa), which was derived from the Hebrew word
חָוָה (ḥawa) meaning
"to breathe" or the related word
חָיָה (ḥaya) meaning
"to live". According to the
Old Testament Book of Genesis, Eve and
Adam were the first humans. God created her from one of Adam's ribs to be his companion. At the urging of a serpent she ate the forbidden fruit and shared some with Adam, causing their expulsion from the Garden of
Eden.
Despite this potentially negative association, the name was occasionally used by Christians during the Middle Ages. In the English-speaking world both Eve and the Latin form Eva were revived in the 19th century, with the latter being more common.
Evenor
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized), Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Latinized form of
Euenor. This name was borne by a Greek painter from the 5th century BC.
In Greek mythology, this is the name of several characters, one of which is the ancestor of the kings that ruled the legendary island of Atlantis.
Eveny
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Irish (Anglicized)
Pronounced: EV-eh-nee
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
Everina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Meaning uncertain, perhaps a feminine form of
Everard. This was borne by Clara Everina Wollstonecraft (1765-1841), a younger sister of English philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft.
Ewan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish
Pronounced: YOO-ən(English)
Rating: 34% based on 5 votes
Eyja
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Old Norse, Icelandic
Rating: 38% based on 6 votes
Old Norse name of obscure origin, possibly from Proto-Norse *
auja "good fortune, gift, (luck) giver" or *
aiwa "always".
This also coincides with the Icelandic word
eyja meaning "island", from Old Icelandic
ey (which 'is also used as a poetic circumlocution for "woman", and in poetical diction
ey is personified as a goddess, the sea being her girdle, the glaciers her headgear').
However, according to the Cleasby-Vigfússon dictionary, while -
ey (as in
Bjargey,
Laufey,
Þórey) could be connected to the Old Icelandic word
ey "island", this name element comes from a different source when it appears in the first position (as
Ey- or, before a vowel,
Eyj-).
Ezilda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norman, French (Cajun), Louisiana Creole
Rating: 20% based on 4 votes
Norman feminine name of unknown etymology, possibly linked to the given name
Isolde.
Farley
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: FAHR-lee(American English) FAH-lee(British English)
Rating: 37% based on 6 votes
From a surname that was originally from a place name meaning "fern clearing" in Old English. A notable bearer of this name was Canadian author Farley Mowat (1921-2014).
Fenimore
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Transferred use of the surname
Fenimore, an English surname which was originally a nickname derived from Old French
fin "fine, splendid" and
amour "love".
Fenley
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: FEN-lee
Rating: 35% based on 4 votes
Transferred used of the surname
Fenley.
Fenn
Usage: English
Personal remark: M
Rating: 37% based on 3 votes
Fenwick
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: FEN-nik
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Transferred use of the surname
Fenwick.
Fenya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: West Frisian (Modern), North Frisian (Modern), German (Modern)
Rating: 53% based on 4 votes
Fiera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Esperanto
Pronounced: fee-EH-ra
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Means "proud" in Esperanto.
Finnbjörn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Icelandic
Rating: 38% based on 4 votes
Fionnán
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: FYI-nan
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Fiora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare), Corsican, Albanian (Rare)
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Derived from Italian and Corsican fiore "flower".
Fitz
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: FITS
Rating: 74% based on 5 votes
Short form of various given names that are derived from surnames beginning with Norman French
fitz meaning
"son of" (for example
Fitzroy).
Flóki
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Icelandic, Faroese, Old Norse
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
Derived from Old Norse flóki "tuft of hair" or "outspoken man".
Francis
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French
Pronounced: FRAN-sis(English) FRAHN-SEES(French)
Rating: 60% based on 9 votes
English form of the Late Latin name
Franciscus meaning
"Frenchman", ultimately from the Germanic tribe of the Franks, who were named for a type of spear that they used (Proto-Germanic *
frankô). This name was borne by the 13th-century
Saint Francis of Assisi, who was originally named Giovanni but was given the nickname Francesco by his father, an admirer of the French. Francis went on to renounce his father's wealth and devote his life to the poor, founding the Franciscan order of friars. Later in his life he apparently received the stigmata.
Due to the renown of the saint, this name became widespread in Western Europe during the Middle Ages. However, it was not regularly used in Britain until the 16th century. Famous bearers include Saint Francis Xavier (1506-1552), a missionary to East Asia, the philosopher and scientist Francis Bacon (1561-1626), the explorer and admiral Francis Drake (1540-1595), and Pope Francis (1936-).
In the English-speaking world this name is occasionally used for girls, as a variant of the homophone Frances.
Freydís
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Old Norse, Icelandic
Rating: 42% based on 5 votes
The first element of this name is derived from Old Norse
freyja, which means "lady" but can also refer to the goddess
Freya. The second element is derived from Old Norse
dís "goddess, priestess."
Fritha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Manx (Rare)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Anglicized form of
Fríða.
Gannon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: American
Rating: 23% based on 4 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Gannon.
Ganon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Popular Culture
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Ganon is a fictional character and a commonly reoccurring antagonist of Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda series.
Generosa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman, Spanish (Rare)
Pronounced: kheh-neh-RO-sa(Spanish)
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Feminine form of
Generosus. This name was borne by Generosa of Scillium, a martyr and
saint from the 2nd century.
Godric
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Anglo-Saxon [1][2]
Pronounced: GOD-reek
Rating: 48% based on 5 votes
Means
"god's ruler", derived from Old English
god combined with
ric "ruler, king". This name died out a few centuries after the
Norman Conquest.
Granger
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: GRAIN-jər
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Transferred use of the surname
Granger.
Grantley
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Transferred use of the surname
Grantley.
Gulliver
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: GUL-i-vər
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Transferred use of the surname
Gulliver. First used in
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, published 1726, as the surname of the protagonist Lemuel Gulliver.
Gwenina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Breton (Rare), Welsh (Rare)
Rating: 23% based on 4 votes
Haerviu
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval Breton
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Hagen
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Germanic Mythology
Pronounced: HA-gən(German)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Derived from the Old German element
hag meaning
"enclosure" (Proto-Germanic *
hagô). In the medieval German saga the
Nibelungenlied he is the cunning half-brother of
Gunther. He killed the hero
Siegfried by luring him onto a hunting expedition and then stabbing him with a javelin in his one vulnerable spot.
Halen
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: HAY-LEN, HAY-len
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Transferred use of the surname
Halen.
Heilyn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh Mythology
Rating: 28% based on 4 votes
Means
"winebearer, dispenser" in Welsh. According to the Second Branch of the
Mabinogi [1] he was one of only seven warriors to return from
Brân's invasion of Ireland.
Hela
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Popular Culture
Rating: 36% based on 5 votes
An alternate form of
Hel. This is the form used by Marvel for their version of the Norse goddess.
Heli 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish, Estonian
Pronounced: HEH-lee(Finnish)
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Diminutive of
Helena. In Estonian this coincides with the word
heli meaning "sound".
Helinä
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: HE-li-na
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Derives from Finnish word
helinä, which means "jingle" in Finnish. It may possibly have been used also as a variant of
Helena.
Helinä is also Tinker Bell's Finnish name.
Hennessey
Usage: Irish
Personal remark: M
Rating: 83% based on 3 votes
Hesper
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Dutch (Rare)
Pronounced: HES-pər(English)
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
Hiccup
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Popular Culture
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
The name of the protagonist of the "How to train your dragon" franchise.
Hlíf
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Old Norse [1], Icelandic
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Old Norse and Icelandic form of
Liv 1.
Holland
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Romani (Archaic)
Pronounced: HAH-lənd(English)
Personal remark: Boys name only!
Rating: 53% based on 4 votes
From the name of geographic places called
Holland 1, or transferred usage of the surname
Holland 1.
Hollin
Usage: English
Personal remark: M
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
Hollister
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (American, Rare)
Pronounced: HAHL-is-tər(American English)
Rating: 40% based on 4 votes
Hollyn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern, Rare)
Personal remark: Like it as a boys name.
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Elaboration of
Holly using the popular name suffix
lyn.
Hólmgeirr
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Norse [1]
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Icelyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American, Modern, Rare)
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Apparently a combination of
Ice and the popular name suffix
lyn, perhaps influenced by
Iceland.
In some cases it might be a (nonphonetic) English rendering of the Irish name
Aislinn (cf.
Acelynn) or the Norwegian
Iselin.
Idemay
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Medieval English form of Old English *
Idmæg.
Ilina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Bulgarian, Macedonian
Other Scripts: Илина(Bulgarian, Macedonian)
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Ilsabe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Archaic)
Rating: 28% based on 5 votes
Ilsabeth
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Rare), Danish (Rare)
Rating: 52% based on 6 votes
Obsolescent variant of
Elisabeth and
Ilsabe, traditionally predominantly found in the north of Germany as well as in Denmark.
Inari
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish, Sami
Pronounced: I-nah-ri(Finnish)
Rating: 53% based on 4 votes
Meaning unknown.
The name of a lake, municipality, and village in Finland (Aanaar in the Inari Sami language). Their names are derived from the name of the Inari Sami people who live in the area around Lake Inari.
Ionela
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Romanian
Pronounced: yo-NEH-la
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Romanian feminine form of
John.
Isabé
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norman
Rating: 37% based on 6 votes
Isabia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Archaic), French (Acadian, Archaic), French (Belgian, Archaic), Spanish (Caribbean, Archaic)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Isander
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Pronounced: ie-SAN-dər, IE-san-dər
Rating: 73% based on 3 votes
Latinized form of
Isandros. This was the name of a man killed by the god
Ares in Homer's "Iliad".
Isannah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American, Rare), Literature
Pronounced: ie-ZAN-ə(American English, Literature) i-ZAN-ə(American English, Literature) i-SAN-ə(American English, Literature)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Of uncertain origin and meaning, although theories include a combination of
Isabella and
Susannah. This name was first recorded in the Boston area in the early 1700s and famously borne by one of Paul Revere's daughters who died in infancy. It was later used by Esther Forbes in her 1943 historical fiction novel
Johnny Tremain.
Ísarr
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Norse, Icelandic (Rare)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Combination of Old Norse íss "ice" and herr "army".
Ísdís
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Icelandic (Rare)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Combination of the Old Norse name elements íss "ice" (compare Icelandic ís) and dís "goddess; woman, lady; sister" or dis "wise woman, seeress; woman, virgin".
Íseldur
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Icelandic (Modern, Rare)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Derived from Old Norse
íss meaning "ice" and
eldr meaning "fire".
Iselle
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch (Rare), Afrikaans (Rare), Flemish (Rare), English (Rare), American (Hispanic, Rare)
Rating: 55% based on 4 votes
Isemay
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Perhaps from a hypothetic Germanic name like *
Ismegi or *
Ismagi, *
Ismagin, which would mean "iron strength" from
isan, itself from
îsarn "iron" (see
Isanbrand; however, the first element could also be
îs "ice") combined with
magan "strength, might". Isemay was first recorded in England around the 13th century.
Íslaug
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Icelandic (Rare)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Derived from Old Norse
íss meaning "ice on sea" or "ice on water" and
laug possibly meaning "vowed, promised, bound in oath".
Ísleifr
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Norse
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Derived from Old Norse íss "ice" and leifr "heir, descendant".
Ísleikr
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Norse
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Derived from Old Norse íss "ice" and leikr "game, play".
Ismay
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (British), Dutch, Anglo-Norman, Medieval Irish
Rating: 42% based on 5 votes
Variant of
Isemay, an Anglo-Norman name of uncertain origin and meaning. It was also recorded in medieval Ireland on women born into Anglo-Norman families.
Ísólfr
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Norse
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Old Norse combination of íss 'ice' and ulfr 'wolf'.
Isolina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Catalan, Galician
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Diminutive of Italian
Isola and Catalan and Galician
Isolda.
Ísrún
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Icelandic
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Combination of the Old Norse name elements íss "ice" (compare Icelandic ís) and rún "secret; secret lore".
Íssól
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Icelandic (Modern, Rare)
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Combination of the Old Norse name elements íss "ice" (compare Icelandic ís) and sól "sun".
Ísveig
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Icelandic (Rare)
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Combination of the Old Norse name elements íss "ice" (compare Icelandic ís) and veig "power; strength".
Jabin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: יָבִין(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: JAY-bin(English)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Means
"perceptive" in Hebrew. This name was borne by two kings of Hazor according to the
Old Testament.
Jackin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval English
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Jamin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: יָמִין(Ancient Hebrew)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Janessa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: jə-NEHS-ə
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Janson
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JAN-son
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Jay 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JAY
Rating: 37% based on 3 votes
Short form of names beginning with the sound
J, such as
James or
Jason. It was originally used in America in honour of founding father John Jay (1749-1825), whose surname was derived from the jaybird.
Jayna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: JAY-nə
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Jesenia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American)
Pronounced: gyeh-SEH-nya
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Jessenia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American)
Pronounced: gyeh-SEH-nya
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Jezaniah
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Pronounced: Jez-ə-nie-ə(Biblical English)
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Probably a shortened form of Jaazaniah, meaning “Jehovah Has Given Ear”. Jezaniah was a chief of the Judean military force among those submitting to
Gedaliah’s brief administration in 607 B.C.E. (Jer 40:8, 9; 42:1) Jezaniah is also called
Azariah (Jer 43:2) and
Jaazaniah.—2Ki 25:23
Jordana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese, Macedonian, Serbian, English (Rare)
Other Scripts: Јордана(Macedonian, Serbian)
Pronounced: khor-DHA-na(Spanish) jawr-DAN-ə(American English) jaw-DAN-ə(British English)
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Jordanna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: Jor-dan-ah
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Jore
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norman
Rating: 32% based on 5 votes
Cotentinais Norman form of
George.
Joris
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch, Frisian
Pronounced: YO-ris(Dutch)
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
Dutch and Frisian form of
George.
Joshamee
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Popular Culture
Pronounced: JAHSH-AH-MEE
Rating: 26% based on 5 votes
It is the first name of the character of Joshamee Gibbs in the Pirates of the Caribbean films. Made up by the creators of those films, his name is probably a play on the phrase "You're joshing me!".
Juliet
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: joo-lee-EHT, JOOL-yət
Rating: 75% based on 6 votes
Anglicized form of
Giulietta or
Juliette. This spelling was used for the ill-fated lover of
Romeo in the play
Romeo and Juliet (1596) by William Shakespeare. Shakespeare based his story on earlier Italian tales such as
Giulietta e Romeo (1524) by Luigi Da Porto.
Kalin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Bulgarian
Other Scripts: Калин(Bulgarian)
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Kamber
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History, Anglo-Saxon Mythology
Rating: 30% based on 4 votes
Kasius
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Popular Culture
Pronounced: KU-SIE-əs
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Variant of
Cassius used in 'Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'.
Katell
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Breton
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
Kathia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American), French (Rare), German (Rare)
Rating: 10% based on 3 votes
Katsiaryna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Belarusian
Other Scripts: Кацярына(Belarusian)
Pronounced: ka-tsya-RI-na
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Kaven
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Romani (Rare)
Pronounced: Kay-ven
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Courage strong brave kind feline
Keagan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Personal remark: Like it for boys only.
Rating: 23% based on 4 votes
Keaton
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: KEE-tən
Rating: 77% based on 3 votes
From an English surname that was derived from a few different place names (see the surname
Keaton).
Keelan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: KEE-lən(English)
Personal remark: Like it for boys only.
Rating: 30% based on 4 votes
Kegan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Rating: 37% based on 3 votes
Kenzie
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KEHN-zee
Personal remark: Like it as a boys name
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
Kepler
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Transferred use of the surname
Kepler.
Rose in prominence as a first name following the rise of German mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer Johannes Kepler.
Kerrigan
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: KER-ə-gən
Rating: 46% based on 5 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Kerrigan.
Keterlyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval German
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
Kiernan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern), Irish
Pronounced: KEER-nən
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Kiernan.
Kinley
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: KIN-lee
Personal remark: Like it as a boys name
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
From a Scottish surname, an Anglicized form of
Mac Fhionnlaigh, itself derived from the given name
Fionnlagh.
Kip
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KIP
Rating: 68% based on 5 votes
From a nickname, probably from the English word kipper meaning "male salmon".
Kipling
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: KIP-ling
Rating: 58% based on 4 votes
From an English surname that was from a place name meaning "Cyppel's people". The surname was borne by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), a British novelist born in India who wrote The Jungle Book and other works.
Kiplyn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (American, Rare)
Pronounced: KIP-lin(American English)
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
Meaning uncertain. This name may possibly be a combination of the names
Kip and
Lyn or transferred usage of the surname
Kiplin.
Kiya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Egyptian, Ancient Near Eastern
Rating: 30% based on 4 votes
Meaning uncertain. Could be a contraction or diminutive of the Mitanni name
Tadukhipa, or possibly a variant of the Ancient Egyptian word for "monkey". Mitanni was an Hurrian-speaking state in northern Syria and south-east Anatolia from c.1500 BCE – c.1300 BCE. Kiya was a wife of
Akhenaten. Her titles of "The Favorite" and "The Greatly Beloved," but never of "Heiress" or "Great Royal Wife" suggest she was not of royal Egyptian blood.
Korbyn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (American, Modern)
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
Kresten
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Danish
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Kynan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh, Welsh Mythology
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Possibly a form of
Kynon, the legendary son of
Clydno in the Mabinogion. Means "Chief."
Lachlan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish, English
Pronounced: LAKH-lən(Scottish) LAWK-lən(British English) LAK-lən(American English)
Rating: 58% based on 6 votes
Anglicized form of
Lachlann, the Scottish Gaelic form of
Lochlainn. In the English-speaking world, this name was especially popular in Australia towards the end of the 20th century.
Lagertha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Popular Culture, Norwegian (Rare)
Rating: 24% based on 5 votes
Latinization of Old Norse
Hlaðgerðr. According to legend, Lagertha was a Viking shield-maiden from what is now Norway and the first wife of the legendary viking Ragnar Lodbrok (Ragnarr Loðbrók).
Laken
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (American, Modern, Rare)
Pronounced: LAY-kən(American English)
Rating: 37% based on 3 votes
Elaboration of
Lake. It became popular after a character named Laken Lockridge was introduced in the American soap opera
Santa Barbara in 1984.
Landeric
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Landric
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic [1]
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
Germanic name derived from the elements
lant "land" and
rih "ruler, king".
Lariah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: African American
Pronounced: LU-RIE-ə
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
Lauchlan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Laughlin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
Léan
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Leanora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
Lejá
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Sami
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Northern Sami variant of
Lea.
Lelia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: LEH-lya
Personal remark: lay-lee-uh
Rating: 45% based on 6 votes
Lelija
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (East Prussian)
Rating: 48% based on 4 votes
In the case of the East Prussian German name, Lelija is not a derivative of Ancient Roman Laelia.
The name is derived from either Old Prussian lelija, lėlijates "lily" or else from Prussian-Lithuanian lelius "buttercup".
Leonora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Lianora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Sardinian, Galician (Rare)
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Sardinian and Galician form of
Leonora.
Lillita
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Possibly an elaboration of
Lillie. This was the real name of Lita Grey.
Linc
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
Lincoln
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LING-kən
Rating: 85% based on 6 votes
From an English surname that was originally from the name of an English city, called Lindum Colonia by the Romans, derived from Brythonic lindo "lake, pool" and Latin colonia "colony". This name is usually given in honour of Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), president of the United States during the American Civil War.
Link
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
Short form of
Lincoln. This is the name of the hero in the
Legend of Zelda video game series (first appearing in 1986), derived from the English word
link meaning
"link, connection". He is called
リンク (Rinku) in Japanese.
Linkin
Usage: English
Personal remark: M
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Linna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish (Modern, Rare)
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Líobhan
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish Mythology
Pronounced: LYEE-vawn
Personal remark: LYEE-vawn
Rating: 28% based on 6 votes
Form of the Gaelic name
Lí Ban, meaning "beauty of women". It belonged to two characters in Irish myth, one a mermaid captured in Lough Neagh in 558, according to the 'Annals of the Four Masters' (see also
Muirgen).
Liyana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Malay
Other Scripts: ليانا(Malay Jawi)
Rating: 73% based on 3 votes
Derived from Arabic لَيِّن (layyin) meaning "soft, tender, delicate".
Lochlan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: lock-lan
Rating: 38% based on 4 votes
Lochlann
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish
Rating: 32% based on 6 votes
Locklyn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern, Rare)
Personal remark: Boys name only!
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Feminine and variant male spelling of
Lachlan.
Locksley
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LAHKS-lee
Rating: 28% based on 4 votes
Logan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LO-gən
Personal remark: Like it for boys only.
Rating: 51% based on 8 votes
From a Scottish surname that was originally derived from a place in Ayrshire meaning
"little hollow" (from Gaelic
lag "hollow, pit" combined with a
diminutive suffix). This name started slowly rising on the American popularity charts in the mid-1970s, perhaps partly inspired by the movie
Logan's Run (1976). The comic book character Wolverine, alias Logan, was also introduced around the same time.
The name has been very common throughout the English-speaking world since end of the 20th century. In the United States it reached a high point in 2017, when it ranked as the fifth most popular name for boys.
Lonore
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque
Rating: 30% based on 4 votes
Coined by Sabino Arana Goiri and Koldo Elizalde as a Basque equivalent of
Leonora and
Léonore.
Louisia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Rare), English (American, Rare)
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Latinate elaboration of
Louise.
Loxley
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (American, Modern, Rare)
Pronounced: LAHKS-lee(American English)
Rating: 22% based on 5 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Loxley.
Luca 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Romanian
Pronounced: LOO-ka
Personal remark: Boys name only!
Rating: 70% based on 4 votes
Italian and Romanian form of
Lucas (see
Luke). This name was borne by Luca della Robbia, a Renaissance sculptor from Florence.
Lucianus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Roman family name that was derived from the Roman
praenomen Lucius. Lucianus (or
Λουκιανός in his native Greek) of Samosata was a 2nd-century satirist and author. This name was also borne by a 3rd-century
saint and martyr from Beauvais and a 4th-century saint and martyr from Antioch.
Lucilia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Lucillia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman, Various (Rare)
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Lucyna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: loo-TSI-na
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Ludmila
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Czech, Latvian, Russian
Other Scripts: Людмила(Russian)
Pronounced: LOOD-mi-la(Czech) lyuwd-MYEE-lə(Russian)
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Means
"favour of the people" from the Slavic elements
ľudŭ "people" and
milŭ "gracious, dear".
Saint Ludmila was a 10th-century duchess of Bohemia, the grandmother of Saint Václav. She was murdered on the orders of her daughter-in-law Drahomíra.
As a Russian name, this is an alternate transcription of Людмила (usually rendered Lyudmila).
Luka
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Macedonian, Russian, Georgian, Old Church Slavic
Other Scripts: Лука(Serbian, Macedonian, Russian) ლუკა(Georgian) Лꙋка(Church Slavic)
Pronounced: LOO-ka(Croatian) LOO-KAH(Georgian)
Personal remark: Boys name only!
Rating: 60% based on 4 votes
Form of
Lucas (see
Luke) in several languages.
Lukin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian (Archaic)
Other Scripts: Лукин(Russian)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Luna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, English
Pronounced: LOO-na(Latin, Spanish, Italian) LOO-nə(English)
Rating: 75% based on 10 votes
Means "the moon" in Latin (as well as Italian, Spanish and other Romance languages). Luna was the Roman goddess of the moon, frequently depicted driving a white chariot through the sky.
Lúta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Old Norse
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Perhaps related to Old Icelandic lúta "to lout, bow down; to kneel in Christian worship; to pay homage to".
Lylie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Medieval English
Pronounced: LIE-Lee(English, Middle English)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Lylie was first recorded as a diminutive of
Elizabeth in 13th century England.
It was later, in England in the 19th and early 20th centuries, revived as a diminutive of Eliza.
Lyra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Astronomy
Pronounced: LIE-rə(English)
Rating: 84% based on 5 votes
The name of the constellation in the northern sky containing the star Vega. It is said to be shaped after the lyre of Orpheus. This is the name of the main character in the His Dark Materials series of books by Philip Pullman (beginning 1995).
Lysandra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Λυσάνδρα(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Feminine form of
Lysandros (see
Lysander).
Macklin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MAK-lihn
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Transferred use of the surname
Macklin.
Maeveline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Obscure
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Maeyken
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Flemish
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Magdalina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Old Church Slavic, Bulgarian
Other Scripts: Магдалина(Church Slavic, Bulgarian)
Rating: 73% based on 4 votes
Old Church Slavic form of
Magdalene, as well as a Bulgarian variant form.
Magni
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Norse [1], Norse Mythology
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Derived from the Old Norse element
magn meaning
"power, strength". In Norse
mythology this name is borne by a son of
Thor and the giant Járnsaxa.
Maialen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque
Pronounced: MIE-a-lehn, mie-A-lehn
Rating: 72% based on 6 votes
Maiara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Tupi
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
From Tupi maya arya meaning "great-grandmother".
Maida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Literature
Pronounced: MAY-də(English)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
This name became popular after the Battle of Maida (1806), which took place near the Italian town of Maida and ended in a victory for Britain. In 18th- and 19th-century America it was used as a diminutive of both
Madeline and
Magdalena. It is also associated with the English word
maid meaning "maiden, virgin, girl".
This was the name of Sir Walter Scott's favorite dog, a male deerhound named after the Battle of Maida. It was also borne by the heroine of Inez Haynes Irwin's 19th-century Maida Westabrook series of children's books (now obscure).
Maiken
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Danish, Norwegian
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
Mainchín
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish
Rating: 30% based on 3 votes
Means
"little monk", derived from Old Irish
manach "monk" combined with a
diminutive suffix. This name was borne by two early
saints.
Majlis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Finnish, Danish (Rare)
Pronounced: MIE-lis(Swedish)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Combination of Maj, which is either a diminutive of
Maja or taken directly from
maj the Swedish name for the month of May, and
Lis.
Mannix
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
Marai
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Upper German, German (Austrian), German (Swiss), Afrikaans
Rating: 45% based on 6 votes
German variant of
Marei and Afrikaans variant of
Maria.
Marei
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Upper German
Pronounced: MAH-rie, mah-RIE
Rating: 37% based on 6 votes
Southern German variant of
Marie. Sometimes, rarely though, also used as a diminutive form of
Maria.
Margalita
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: מַרְגָלִיתָה(Hebrew)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Marieke
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch
Pronounced: ma-REE-kə
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Matleena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: MAHT-leh-nah
Rating: 25% based on 4 votes
Mattéa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, Corsican
Rating: 36% based on 5 votes
French borrowing and Corsican Gallicized form of
Mattea.
Maverick
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MAV-ə-rik
Rating: 45% based on 4 votes
Derived from the English word maverick meaning "independent". The word itself is derived from the surname of a 19th-century Texas rancher who did not brand his calves.
Maybeth
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Archaic)
Pronounced: MAY-bəth
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
Mayda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: MAY-də
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Mayella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (Rare), Literature
Pronounced: may-EL-ə(American)
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Possibly a variant of
Majella or a combination of
May and
Ella 1.
Harper Lee used this name in her novel To Kill a Mockingbird (1960).
Mayla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish (Modern, Rare), Norwegian (Modern, Rare)
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Maylis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: MAY-LEES, MA-EE-LEES
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
From the name of a town in southern France, said to derive from Occitan
mair "mother" and French
lys "lily". It is also sometimes considered a combination of
Marie and
lys.
Mela
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Variant of
Mila or diminutive of names ending or beginning in
mela (Example
Pamela or
Melanie).
Mêlie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norman, French
Rating: 28% based on 6 votes
Mella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish (Anglicized, Rare), English (Rare), History
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Anglicized form of the traditional Irish name
Mealla which itself is derived from Old Irish
mell "mild; pleasant".
Mealla was a sister of Saint Kevin.
Mera
Usage: Spanish
Personal remark: F
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Merrick
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: MEHR-ik
Rating: 62% based on 5 votes
From a Welsh surname that was originally derived from the given name
Meurig.
Miko
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Chickasaw
Pronounced: Me-ko
Rating: 43% based on 8 votes
Means "chief" in Chickasaw.
Milada
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Czech, Slovak
Pronounced: MI-la-da(Czech) MEE-la-da(Slovak)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Originally a
diminutive of names containing the Slavic element
milŭ meaning
"gracious, dear". It can also be derived from Czech and Slovak
mladá meaning
"young", ultimately from Old Slavic *
moldŭ.
Milita
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Lithuanian
Pronounced: mee-LEE-tah
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Possibly a Lithuanian form of the Slavic
Militsa
Miri
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Various, Romani, Literature, Popular Culture
Pronounced: Mee-ree(Various) MEE-REE(Romani) MIE-REE(Romani) MEER-ree(Romani, Literature)
Rating: 36% based on 5 votes
Shortened version or nickname of
Mirabelle,
Mirabella, or
Miriam in various languages.
It was used by Shannon Hale in her fantasy novel The Princess Academy, in which the main character was named this. She was named for the small, sturdy pink 'miri flowers' that bloomed on mountains, therefore in that context the name meant "flower".
Mordecai
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Hebrew
Other Scripts: מָרְדֳּכַי, מָרְדְּכַי(Hebrew)
Pronounced: MAWR-də-kie(American English) MAW-də-kie(British English)
Rating: 53% based on 4 votes
Means
"servant of Marduk" in Persian. In the
Old Testament Mordecai is the cousin and foster father of
Esther. He thwarted a plot to kill the Persian king, though he made an enemy of the king's chief advisor
Haman.
Moya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish (Anglicized)
Pronounced: MOI-uh
Rating: 21% based on 8 votes
Anglicized form of
Máire, itself an Irish form of
Mary. It is a phonetic variation in which the 'r' is silent.
Famous bearers of the name include Irish songstress Moya Brennan, born Máire Ní Bhraonáin, of the band Clannad, and Moya Doherty, the Irish co-creator and producer of the theatrical dance production Riverdance.
Naenia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Rating: 37% based on 3 votes
Means "incantation, dirge" in Latin. This was the name of the Roman goddess of funerals.
Naia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque
Pronounced: NIE-a
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
Means "wave, sea foam" in Basque.
Naiara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque
Pronounced: nie-A-ra
Rating: 30% based on 3 votes
From the Basque name of the Spanish city of Nájera, which is Arabic in origin. In the 12th century there was a reported apparition of the Virgin
Mary in a nearby cave.
Naina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Indian, Hindi
Other Scripts: नैना(Hindi)
Pronounced: NAY-na
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Derived from Hindi naina "eyes".
Naira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Romansh, German (Swiss)
Pronounced: NIE-rah(Romansh, Swiss German)
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
Derived from the Surselvan Romansh word nair (ner in other Romansh variants) "black; dark".
Nari
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norse Mythology
Rating: 37% based on 7 votes
Nari is one of the sons of
Loki and
Sigyn. At the end of the epic poem "Lokasenna" Nari is said to be the brother of
Narvi (also written as Narfi), while Sturlusson's Prose Edda uses Narvi as another name for Nari and names
Váli as his brother.
Narvi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norse Mythology
Rating: 25% based on 6 votes
Narvi is one of the sons of
Loki and
Sigyn. At the end of the epic poem "Lokasenna" Narvi is said to be the brother of Nari, while in Snorri Sturlusson's Prose Edda Narvi is another name for
Nari.
Natara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: African American (Modern, Rare), Portuguese (Brazilian, Rare)
Rating: 40% based on 6 votes
Nättli
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Sami (Skolt)
Rating: 25% based on 6 votes
Nayna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Indian (Rare), Hindi (?)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Nelius
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (American), Afrikaans, Norwegian (Rare)
Pronounced: NEEL-yəs(American English) NEEL-ee-əs(American English)
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
Afrikaans and Norwegian short form of
Cornelius.
Nena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Variant of
Nina 1, also coinciding with the Spanish word
nena meaning
"baby girl".
Nickson
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Nickson.
Nienna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: nee-EN-nah
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Means "she who weeps" from Quenya nie "tear". According to 'The Silmarillion', Nienna is a Vala (angelic being) who constantly mourns all terrible things, though from her is learned not despair but mercy, compassion and hope. It has also been suggested that her name consists of two elements, nie combined with anna "gift", in which case it may refer to the charismatic "gift of tears" in Catholic theology.
Nix
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic Mythology
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
This is the name of masculine shapeshifting water spirits in Germanic mythology, who apparently derive their name from Proto-Germanic
nikwus or
nikwis(i) "wash". See also
Nixe for the female counterpart(s).
Noble
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: NO-bəl
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
From an English surname meaning "noble, high-born". The name can also be given in direct reference to the English word noble.
Nola
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: NO-lə
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Meaning uncertain, possibly a feminine form of
Noll inspired by
Lola. It has been most common in Australia and New Zealand, especially in the first half of the 20th century.
Nox
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Pronounced: NOKS(Latin)
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Means
"night" in Latin. Nox is the Roman goddess of the night, the equivalent of the Greek goddess
Nyx.
Oaklyn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: OK-lin
Personal remark: Like it as a boys name only.
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Variant of
Oakley using the popular name suffix
lyn.
Oletha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Onslow
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare), Romani (Archaic)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Transferred use of the surname
Onslow.
Oranna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Rare), Italian
Pronounced: o-RAN-na(German)
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Name of a 6th century Irish saint buried at Berus (Saarland, Germany). The name can be interpreted as a feminine form of
Oran.
Othniel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: עָתְנִיאֵל(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: AWTH-nee-əl(English)
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
Meaning uncertain, possibly
"lion of God" or
"strength of God" in Hebrew. In the
Old Testament he is a nephew or brother of
Caleb who becomes the first of the ruling judges of the Israelites.
Pate
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval English
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Patia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American, Archaic)
Personal remark: Pay-sha. Nickname for Patience.
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Phaenna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Φαέννα(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Derived from Greek
φαεινός (phaeinos) meaning
"shining". According to some Greek myths this was the name of one of the three Graces or
Χάριτες (Charites).
Quinley
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (American, Modern, Rare)
Personal remark: Boys name only.
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Quinley or a combination of
Quin and
lee.
Radley
Usage: English
Pronounced: RAD-lee
Personal remark: M
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
From rēadlēah meaning "red clearing". Radley is a village and civil parish in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England.
Rafferty
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: RAF-ər-tee(American English) RAF-ə-tee(British English)
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
From an Irish surname, itself derived from the given name Rabhartach meaning "flood tide".
Raina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Bulgarian
Other Scripts: Райна(Bulgarian)
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
Raven
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: RAY-vən
Rating: 54% based on 7 votes
From the name of the bird, ultimately from Old English
hræfn. The raven is revered by several Native American groups of the west coast. It is also associated with the Norse god
Odin.
Ravenia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Likely an elaboration of
Raven, though it is also a flowering plant and a very small village in Greece.
Ravenna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: rə-VEHN-ə
Rating: 57% based on 7 votes
Either an elaboration of
Raven, or else from the name of the city of Ravenna in Italy.
Réaltán
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish (Modern, Rare)
Pronounced: RAYL-tawn
Personal remark: like it better as a boys name, as án is a masculine suffix.
Rating: 35% based on 6 votes
Extremely rare (and supposedly newly coined) name meaning "little star" in Irish, from the Irish word réalta, meaning "star", with a diminutive suffix (-án).
Rebecca
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Swedish, German, Dutch, Biblical, Biblical Latin
Other Scripts: רִבְקָה(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: rə-BEHK-ə(English) reh-BEHK-ka(Italian) rə-BEH-ka(Dutch)
Rating: 65% based on 10 votes
From the Hebrew name
רִבְקָה (Rivqa), probably from a Semitic root meaning
"join, tie, snare". This is the name of the wife of
Isaac and the mother of
Esau and
Jacob in the
Old Testament. It came into use as an English Christian name after the
Protestant Reformation, and it was popular with the
Puritans in the 17th century. It has been consistently used since then, becoming especially common in the second half of the 20th century.
This name is borne by a Jewish woman in Walter Scott's novel Ivanhoe (1819), as well as the title character (who is deceased and unseen) in Daphne du Maurier's novel Rebecca (1938).
Reina 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: RAY-na
Rating: 54% based on 5 votes
Means "queen" in Spanish.
Reinette
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Rare)
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
Remaliah
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: רְמַלְיָ֖הוּ, רְמַלְיָהוּ(Ancient Hebrew)
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Means "
Yahweh has adorned, bedecked" in Hebrew. This is the name of a minor character in the Old Testament, the father of Pekah, king of Israel.
Renley
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (American, Modern)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Transferred use of the surname
Renley.
Renner
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Transferred use the surname
Renner.
Resa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, German, Spanish, Literature
Pronounced: RE-zah(German) RAY-sə(German) REE-sə(German) RES-ah(German) RAY-zah(German)
Rating: 30% based on 3 votes
Short form of
Theresa or
Teresa.
One of the main characters in Cornelia Funke's 'Inkheart' Trilogy, Meggie's mother, bears this name.
Reyna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: RAY-na
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Rhys
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh, English
Pronounced: REES
Rating: 71% based on 7 votes
From Old Welsh
Ris, probably meaning
"ardour, enthusiasm". Several Welsh rulers have borne this name, including the 12th-century Rhys ap Gruffydd who fought against the invading
Normans.
Ridley
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: RID-lee
Rating: 13% based on 4 votes
From an English surname that was originally derived from various place names meaning either "reed clearing" or "stripped clearing" in Old English.
Ripley
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: RIP-lee
Rating: 13% based on 4 votes
From a surname that was derived from the name of various English towns, from Old English
rippel "grove, thicket" and
leah "clearing". A famous fictional bearer is the character Ellen Ripley (usually only called by her surname) from the
Alien series of movies, beginning 1979.
Risto
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish, Estonian, Macedonian, Serbian
Other Scripts: Ристо(Macedonian, Serbian)
Pronounced: REES-to(Finnish)
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Finnish, Estonian, Macedonian and Serbian short form of
Christopher.
Rivalen
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arthurian Cycle
Rating: 30% based on 6 votes
Medieval form of
Rhiwallon used in the early German versions of the Tristan legend, where it belongs to Tristan's father, the king of Parmenie.
Roper
Gender: Masculine
Usage: American (Modern, Rare), English (Rare)
Pronounced: RO-pər
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Transferred use of the surname
Roper.
Rosabel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: RO-zə-behl
Rating: 80% based on 4 votes
Combination of
Rosa 1 and the common name suffix
bel, inspired by Latin
bella "beautiful". This name was created in the 18th century.
Rosabeth
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Filipino (Rare)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Rosaelia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Mexican, Rare), American (Hispanic, Rare)
Pronounced: Row-SAY-lee-ah(Mexican Spanish)
Rating: 30% based on 3 votes
Rosalette
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 34% based on 5 votes
Rosanthe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: ro-ZAN-thee
Rating: 68% based on 6 votes
Presumably an altered form of
Rhodanthe, using the Latin element
rosa (compare
Rose) as opposed to the Greek
rhodon (compare
Rhoda). The name was (first?) used by Welsh writer Ann Julia Hatton for a character in her popular Gothic novel 'Deeds of Olden Times' (1826). It was also used by Eliza Rennie in her poetic sketch 'The Myrtle Branch' (1828).
Roselene
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Rare), Haitian Creole
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Rosemay
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Various (Rare), Mauritian Creole
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Rosenda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: ro-SEHN-da
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Rosenwyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Cornish (Modern, Rare)
Pronounced: roz-EN-win
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
Combination of
Rosen and Cornish
gwynn "fair, white, blessed". This is a modern Cornish name.
Rosia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman, English (Rare)
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Rozelle
Gender: Feminine
Usage: South African, Afrikaans
Rating: 30% based on 5 votes
Rozenn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Breton
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Means "rose" in Breton.
Runar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norwegian
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Derived from the Old Norse elements
rún "secret lore, rune" and
herr "army, warrior". This name did not exist in Old Norse, but was created in the modern era.
Sawyer
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: SOI-ər(American English) SOI-ə(British English)
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
From an English surname meaning
"sawer of wood". Mark Twain used it for the hero in his novel
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876).
Very rare as an American given name before 1980, it increased in popularity in the 1980s and 90s. It got a boost in 2004 after the debut of the television series Lost, which featured a character by this name.
Schuyler
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SKIE-lər(American English) SKIE-lə(British English)
Rating: 40% based on 5 votes
From a Dutch surname meaning
"scholar". Dutch settlers brought the surname to America, where it was subsequently adopted as a given name in honour of the American general and senator Philip Schuyler (1733-1804)
[1].
Scotland
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
From the name of the country Scotland, meaning "land of the Scots", from Latin Scoti meaning "Gaelic speaker".
Scotlyn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Personal remark: Like it as a boys name only.
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Feminine variant of
Scotland, using the popular name suffix -
Lyn.
Seeley
Usage: English
Personal remark: M
Rating: 48% based on 4 votes
Seffora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical Latin
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Senovara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Old Celtic (Latinized)
Rating: 28% based on 6 votes
Romanized Celtic name, in which the first element is ultimately from the Indo-European root *sen meaning "old" (the second element, uaro, is uncertain, possibly meaning "war"). It was found scratched onto a metal "curse tablet" (c.2nd-century) at the temple of Sulis Minerva at Bath (Somerset, South West England). The masculine form Senovarus is also attested.
Sepphora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical Greek
Other Scripts: Σεπφώρα(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Serah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew, Biblical
Other Scripts: שָֽׂרַח(Hebrew)
Pronounced: SER-ə(English) SER-ah(English) se-RAH(English)
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
From the Hebrew name שָֽׂרַח (Serach) meaning "abundance". In the Old Testament this is the name of Asher's daughter, Jacob's granddaughter.
Shep
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Rating: 38% based on 4 votes
Sherlock
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: SHUR-lahk(American English) SHU-lawk(British English)
Rating: 37% based on 3 votes
Used by Scottish author Arthur Conan Doyle for his character Sherlock Holmes, who was a detective in Doyle's mystery stories beginning in 1887. The character's name was from an English surname meaning "shear lock", originally referring to a person with closely cut hair.
Shylock
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: SHIE-lahk(American English) SHIE-lawk(British English)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Used by Shakespeare, possibly from the Hebrew name
Shelach, for the primary antagonist in his play
The Merchant of Venice (1596). Shylock is a Jewish moneylender who demands a pound of Antonio's flesh when he cannot repay his loan. Subsequent to the play, the name has been used as an ethnic slur for a Jewish person and a slang term for a loan shark.
Snowden
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: SNO-dən
Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Snowden.
Sóley
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Icelandic
Pronounced: SO-lay
Personal remark: SO-lay
Rating: 33% based on 7 votes
Means
"buttercup (flower)" in Icelandic (genus Ranunculus), derived from
sól "sun" and
ey "island".
Solfrid
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norwegian
Pronounced: SUWL-free
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
From the Old Norse elements
sól "sun" and
fríðr "beautiful, beloved". This name was coined in the 19th century.
Sólja
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Faroese
Pronounced: SUUL-ya
Personal remark: Sohl-ya
Rating: 32% based on 6 votes
Means "buttercup (flower)" in Faroese (genus Ranunculus). The buttercup is the national flower of the Faroe Islands.
Sóllilja
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Icelandic (Modern)
Rating: 41% based on 7 votes
Means "sun lily", derived from Old Norse
sól "sun" and
lilja "lily". Also compare
Sól and
Lilja.
Solvay
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern, Rare), Swedish (Modern, Rare)
Pronounced: SOL-vay(English)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Anglicized form and modern Swedish form of
Solveig.
Steliana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Romanian
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Stellaluna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: stel-ə-LOO-nə
Rating: 53% based on 4 votes
From Latin
stella "star" and
luna "moon" (compare
Stella 1,
Luna), used for the title character - a fruit bat - in the popular children's picture book 'Stellaluna' (1993). American television actress Ellen Pompeo gave her daughter the variant
Stella Luna in 2009.
Summer
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SUM-ər(American English) SUM-ə(British English)
Rating: 73% based on 6 votes
From the name of the season, ultimately from Old English sumor. It has been in use as a given name since the 1970s.
Sunnifa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Scandinavian
Rating: 48% based on 4 votes
Sutter
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Sutter.
Swithin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History
Rating: 32% based on 5 votes
From the Old English name
Swiðhun or
Swiþhun, derived from
swiþ "strong" and perhaps
hun "bear cub".
Saint Swithin was a 9th-century bishop of Winchester.
Syler
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (American, Modern)
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Syler.
Sylver
Usage: African
Personal remark: M
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Sylvère
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French, French (Belgian, Rare)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Variant spelling of
Silvère. A known bearer of this name is the French literary critic and cultural theorist Sylvère Lotringer (b. 1938).
Talina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Swiss), Romansh
Rating: 30% based on 3 votes
Diminutive of
Nutala, the Romansh form of
Natalia.
Talulla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish (Rare)
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Anglicized form of the Old Irish name
Taileflaith,
Tuileflaith or
Tuilelaith, probably from
tuile "abundance" and
flaith "ruler, sovereign, princess". This was the name of an early
saint, an abbess of Kildare.
Tamlin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Diminutive of
Tam 1.
Tam Lin was the subject of an Anglo-Scottish border ballad (first recorded in 'The Complaynt of Scotland', 1549), a man abducted by the Queen of the Fairies and rescued at long last by his true love.
Teague
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: TAYG(English) TEEG(English)
Rating: 38% based on 4 votes
Anglicized form of
Tadhg. This name is also used as a slang term for an Irish Catholic.
Telena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Mordvin
Other Scripts: Телена(Mordvin)
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Derived from Erzya телень (telenʹ) meaning "of winter", itself a derivative of теле (tele) "winter".
Tenney
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval English
Rating: 38% based on 4 votes
Tennyson
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: TEHN-ə-sən
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
From an English surname that meant
"son of Tenney",
Tenney being a medieval form of
Denis. A notable bearer of the surname was the British poet Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892), commonly called Lord Tennyson after he became a baron in 1884.
Thade
Gender: Masculine
Usage: East Frisian
Pronounced: TAH-də
Rating: 33% based on 6 votes
East Frisian short form of names containing the name element
þeudō "people".
Thalen
Gender: Masculine
Usage: American (South)
Rating: 58% based on 6 votes
Thayer
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: THAY-ər
Rating: 42% based on 6 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Thayer.
Theoderich
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic [1]
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Thessaly
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Thessaly is a traditional geographic and modern administrative region of Greece, comprising most of the ancient region of the same name. This name is borne by Thessaly Lerner, American stage, film and voice actress.
Thomasine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), English (Puritan), Swedish (Rare), Danish (Archaic), French (Archaic)
Pronounced: TAHM-ə-sin(English) TAWM-ə-sin(English) TAW-MA-SEEN(French)
Rating: 46% based on 5 votes
Thoren
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German (Modern, Rare)
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Thornley
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Transferred use of the surname
Thornley.
A known bearer of this name was the Irish surgeon and anatomist Sir Thornley Stoker (1845-1912), who was the eldest brother of the famous Irish novelist Bram Stoker (1847-1912).
Þórveig
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Old Norse [1]
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Derived from the name of the Norse god
Þórr (see
Thor) combined with
veig "strength".
Thráin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norse Mythology (Anglicized), Literature
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
Anglicized form of
Þráinn.
Tolkien used this name for two characters. Thráin I, son of Náin I, was the king of Durin's Folk and founder of the Kingdom under the Mountain. Thráin II, son of Thrór, was the king of Durin's Folk and the father of Thorin Oakenshield. Tolkien took the name from the Dvergatal "Catalogue of Dwarves" in the Völuspá, a part of the Poetic Edda.
Tiernan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Tobijah
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Rating: 28% based on 6 votes
Meaning "Goodness of God" this name was born by two men in the Bible.
Tobina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norwegian (Archaic), Swedish (Rare)
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Tomasina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Medieval Italian, Galician, Spanish (Rare), Romansh
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Tryggvi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Icelandic, Old Norse [1]
Pronounced: TRIK-vi(Icelandic)
Rating: 37% based on 3 votes
Old Norse and Icelandic form of
Trygve.
Tzippora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical Hebrew [1], Hebrew
Other Scripts: צִפּוֹרָה(Hebrew)
Rating: 43% based on 4 votes
Ullamay
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Obscure
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Ùna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Scottish Gaelic
Pronounced: OO-nə
Rating: 54% based on 5 votes
Scottish Gaelic form of
Úna.
Váli
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norse Mythology
Rating: 40% based on 7 votes
Snorri Sturluson calls Váli a son of
Loki and brother of
Nari in chapter 50 of the Prose Edda. Other sources say he was a son of
Odin and the giantess Rindr.
Valþór
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Icelandic
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
From Old Norse
valr "those slain in battle" (also found in the place name
Valhalla and the word
valkyrja) combined with the name of the Norse god
Þórr (see
Thor).
Vanderley
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Portuguese (Brazilian), English (American, Rare)
Pronounced: vun-dehr-LAY(Brazilian Portuguese) VAN-dər-lee(American English)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
From a Brazilian surname, itself derived from the Dutch surname
Van Der Leij. One bearer of this name is Brazilian professional footballer or soccer player Vanderley Dias Marinho (1987-), also known as Derley.
This name and its variants Wanderley, Wanderlei and Vanderlei are not uncommon in Brazil. Other bearers of the name include former mixed martial artist Wanderlei Silva (1976-) and former soccer players Wanderley Paiva (1946-) and Vanderlei Luxemburgo (1952-).
Vinandr
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Norse
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Meaning uncertain. This name might possibly be an Old Norse cognate of
Winand.
Virgilia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman, Theatre, Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: veer-JEE-lya(Italian)
Rating: 43% based on 6 votes
Feminine form of
Vergilius (see
Virgil). This is the name of
Coriolanus' wife in Shakespeare's play of the same name.
Viviette
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Diminutive of
Vivienne. William John Locke used this name for the title character in his novel
Viviette (1910).
Wendell
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: WEHN-dəl
Rating: 37% based on 3 votes
From a German and Dutch surname that was derived from the given name
Wendel. In America this name has been given in honour of the poet Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809-1894) and his son the Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841-1935). The elder's middle name came from his mother's maiden name (which had been brought to America by a Dutch ancestor in the form
Wendel, with the extra
l added later).
Weslyn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern, Rare)
Personal remark: Like it as a boys name only.
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Winoc
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Breton
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Wrenley
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: REHN-lee
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Elaboration of
Wren using the popular name suffix
ley.
Wyeth
Gender: Masculine
Usage: American (Rare)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Transferred use of the surname
Wyeth.
Wyler
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (American, Rare)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Transferred use of the surname
Wyler.
Wyot
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval English
Rating: 35% based on 4 votes
Yanina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian, Ukrainian
Other Scripts: Янина(Russian) Яніна(Ukrainian)
Rating: 33% based on 4 votes
Yasmina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic, Spanish (Modern), French (Modern)
Other Scripts: ياسمينة(Arabic)
Pronounced: yas-MEE-na(Arabic) gyas-MEE-na(Spanish) YAS-MEE-NA(French)
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Ysabeau
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval French, Louisiana Creole
Rating: 35% based on 4 votes
Ysella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Cornish
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
Derived from Cornish ysel "modest". This is a recently coined Cornish name.
Ysemay
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Zacchaeus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: Ζακχαῖος(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: zə-KEE-əs(English)
Rating: 38% based on 4 votes
From
Ζακχαῖος (Zakchaios), the Greek form of
Zaccai. According to the
New Testament, Zacchaeus was a tax collector who climbed a tree in order to catch a glimpse of
Jesus, then gave half of his possessions to charity.
Zade
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Zaelia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 35% based on 4 votes
Zaryn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (American, Rare), Malaysian (Rare)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Zeia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Upper German (Rare, Archaic), Romansh (Archaic)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Upper German short form of
Luzei and Surselvan Romansh variant of
Zia.
Zerren
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Turkish
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Means "golden" in Turkish.
Zipporah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical, Hebrew
Other Scripts: צִפּוֹרָה(Hebrew)
Pronounced: zi-PAWR-ə(English) ZIP-ə-rə(English)
Rating: 45% based on 4 votes
Zira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Berber
Pronounced: Zee-rah
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Zoja
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Slovene, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian
Other Scripts: Зоја(Serbian, Macedonian)
Rating: 28% based on 4 votes
Form of
Zoe in several languages.
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