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Dlshad m & f Kurdishit's a Kurdish name, mainly use as given name for male, the name includes two fraces, the first is /DL/ or /dil/ which means 'heart', and the second part is an adjective 'shad' meaning 'happy', both together means 'happy heart'.... [
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Dmut-hiia f MandaeanMeans "image of life", from the Mandaic
ࡃࡌࡅࡕࡀ (dmuta) meaning "image, mirror image", in Mandaeism this also refers to a concept of a heavenly counterpart of an earthly entity, and
ࡄࡉࡉࡀ (hayyi, hiia) meaning "life".
Độ m & f VietnameseFrom Sino-Vietnamese 度
(độ) meaning "size, extent, limit".
Đoàn m & f VietnameseFrom Sino-Vietnamese 摶
(đoàn) meaning "knead, model, spiral, circle".
Đoan f & m VietnameseFrom Sino-Vietnamese 端
(đoan) meaning "end, tip, beginning, start".
Doãn m & f VietnameseFrom Sino-Vietnamese 允
(doãn) meaning "allow, consent" or 尹
(doãn) meaning "govern, oversee".
Dobe f YiddishDerived from Slovak-Yiddish
dobre "good".
Dobie m & f EnglishFrom the English word
dobie. The name of a character called Dobie Gillis from the TV series "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis". Also known bearers of this name were the American singer-songwriter Dobie Gray (1940-2011), and American baseball player Dobie Moore (1895-1947).
Dobrodeia f Medieval Ukrainian, HistoryDobrodeia of Kiev (died 16 November 1131), was a Rus' princess, spouse of the Byzantine co-emperor Alexios Komnenos, and author on medicine.
Dobrowieść f PolishPolish name from Slavic
dobrŭ "good" combined with
věstĭ "message, news" or
vesti "to lead, conduct". In Old Polish, both deuterothemes became
wieść, making it difficult to discern which element was intended.
Dodam m & f KoreanPossibly meaning "firm and ripe" or "growing well".
Dodo f & m GeorgianThis is a unisex name, which is much more often used on women than on men. The etymology is different for each gender.... [
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Dodone f Greek MythologyIn Greek mythology, Dodone was said to be one of the Oceanid nymphs (the daughters of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys), after whom the ancient city of Dodona was named. The 6th century AD grammarian Stephanus of Byzantium (s.v. Δωδὠνη), writes that according to Thrasyboulos (FHG II 464, a), as reported by Epaphroditus (fr... [
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Doeon f KoreanFrom Sino-Korean 都 "elegant, refined" and 彦(eon) meaning "Noble, Great, Talented"
Do-hui f KoreanFrom Sino-Korean 都 "elegant, refined" and 熙 "bright, splendid, glorious".
Doja f KoreanFrom Sino-Korean 桃 (do) meaning "peach" combined with 子 (ja) meaning "child". This name can be formed using other hanja combinations as well.
Dokkaeo f ThaiFrom Thai ดอก
(dok) meaning "flower" and แก้ว
(kaeo) meaning "crystal, glass, diamond". This is also the Thai name for the orange jasmine (a type of flower).
Dola f & m IndianDerived from Sanskrit
dola "swinging, oscillating".
Dolaana f TuvanDerived from Mongolian дулаан
(dulaan) meaning "warm, kind".
Dolcissima f Italian (Rare)Italian form of Latin name Dulcissima, meaning "sweetest", "very sweet" (superlative adjective from
dulcis - "sweet"). Saint Dolcissima is a virgin and martyr, a patron saint of Sutri.
Doleswif f Anglo-SaxonPossibly meant "the wife of Dol(a)", from the genitive of
Dol(a) (an Old English masculine name or byname, itself perhaps derived from Old English
dol "foolish, erring") combined with Old English
wif "woman, wife".
Doli f NavajoDerived from the Navajo word
dóliiłchíí meaning "bluebird".
Dolkar f Tibetan, Bhutanese, BuddhismFrom Tibetan སྒྲོལ་དཀར
(sgrol-dkar) derived from སྒྲོལ
(sgrol) meaning "to liberate, to save" (referring to the bodhisattva
Tara 2) and དཀར
(dkar) meaning "white"... [
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Dolma f Tibetan, Bhutanese, BuddhismFrom Tibetan སྒྲོལ་མ
(sgrol-ma) meaning "saviouress" (referring to enlightenment), derived from སྒྲོལ
(sgrol) meaning "to liberate, to save" and the feminine particle མ
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Dolon m & f BengaliThe name Dolon is used in various places on this planet, I have seen the greek meaning of this name. But in the whole world, this meaning is not valid for this name. Especially in India and in Indian-Subcontinent the name Dolon has a tradition and tribute... [
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Dolorosa f SpanishMeans "sorrowful" in Latin, taken from the Latin title of the Virgin Mary
Mater Dolorosa "Mother of Sorrows". As such, it is cognate to Spanish
Dolores and Italian
Addolorata.
Dolwethil f LiteratureMeans "dark shadow-woman" from Sindarin
doll "dark, dusky, misty, obscure" combined with
gwâth "shade, shadow, dim light" and the feminine suffix
il. In the works of J. R. R. Tolkien this was another name of
Thuringwethil, a vampire of Angband.
Dolya f Bulgarian, Slavic MythologyGoddess of fate in East Slavic Mythology, personification of the fate bestowed upon a man at birth. She is described as a plainly dressed woman able to turn herself into various shapes. When she is positive she is named Dolya, when negative she turns into Nedolya.
Doman f KurdishPossibly from the Kurdish
dom meaning "persistence, perseverance".
Dómhildr f Old NorseDerived from Old Norse
dómr "judgement", "legal sentence", "fate", "doom" and
hildr "battle", "fight".
Domicelė f LithuanianDerived from medieval Latin
domicella, which is the feminine form of
domicellus, which literally means "little master" and was a term used to denote a young nobleman and/or junker. The term is a contraction of
dominicellus, which is a diminutive of the Latin noun
dominus meaning "master (of the house), lord".... [
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Domiduca f Roman MythologyFeminine form of
Domiducus. In Roman mythology, the goddess Domiduca protected children on the way back to their parents' home. She and her male counterpart Domiducus were also deities of marriage who accompanied the bridal procession as the newlywed couple arrived to their new home together on the wedding night... [
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Domino f Popular Culture, English (Rare)Short form of
Dominique. It was used by author Ian Fleming in his James Bond novel 'Thunderball' (1961), where the nickname belongs to Bond's Italian love interest
Dominetta "Domino" Vitali (renamed Dominique "Domino" and simply Domino in the 1965 and 1983 film adaptations, respectively)... [
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Donají f ZapotecMeans "great soul" in Zapotec. According to legend, Donají was the last princess of the Zapotec and was prophesied at birth that she would sacrifice her life for her people.
Donara f Soviet, Russian (Rare), ArmenianContraction of Russian дочь народа
(doč naroda) meaning "daughter of the people". This name was created by Communist parents who were eager to reject traditional names.
Dondi m & f Popular Culture, EnglishFrom a comic strip first published in 1955. In this comicstrip, Dondi was an Italian orphan asking for his parents saying "dondi" all the time. In the comic strip this comes from people calling him
dandy boy.
Do'ndiqcha f UzbekMeans "pretty" in Uzbek, also the name of a kind of silk or cotton fabric.
Döndü f TurkishDirectly taken from Turkish
döndü meaning "returned".
Dong m & f KoreanFrom the Korean Hangul 동 (
dong) that can translate the Hanja 冬 meaning "winter" or 東 meaning "east" or 銅 meaning "copper" or 洞 meaning "neighborhood".
Dongluan f ChineseFrom the Chinese
冬 (dōng) meaning "winter" and
銮 (luán) meaning "bells".
Dongmei f & m ChineseFrom Chinese 冬
(dōng) meaning "winter" or 东
(dōng) meaning "east" combined with 梅
(méi) meaning "plum, apricot", 妹
(mèi) meaning "younger sister, girl" or 美
(měi) meaning "beautiful"... [
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Dongrao f & m ChineseFrom the Chinese
冬 (dōng) meaning "winter" and
娆 (ráo) meaning "graceful, charming, fascinating".
Dongxiang m & f ChineseFrom Chinese 东
(dōng) meaning "east" combined with 香
(xiāng) meaning "fragrant". Other character combinations can form this name as well.
Dongyang f ChineseFrom the Chinese
冬 (dōng) meaning "winter" and
鸯 (yāng) meaning "female mandarin duck".