DragonelmArthurian Cycle, Literature Dragonel the Cruel is a malevolent knight who abducted the lady Rohais from the knight Arguisiaus of Carhaix, wounding Arguisiaus in the process. Dragonel intended to force Rohais into marriage, but Perceval encountered him, defeated him, and sent him to Arthur’s court.
DrajatmJavanese Means "degree, rank, power" in Javanese, ultimately from Arabic درجة (daraja).
DrakulmPopular Culture (Modern) Variant of Dracula. From the epithet of Vlad II Dracul, father of Vlad the Impaler, which meant either "dragon" (alluding to his membership in the noble Order of the Dragon) or "the devil" from Romanian drac "devil".
DrakulamLiterature Form of Dracula used in Azerbaijan, Basque Country, Bosnia, Croatia, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Serbia, Slovenia and Turkey.
DranafilefAlbanian (Rare, Archaic) Albanian cognate of Triantafyllia. Bearer Dranafile "Drane" Bernai was the mother of the 20th-century Albanian-born nun and missionary Mother Teresa.
DranguemAlbanian Mythology Drangue is a semi-human winged divine figure in Albanian mythology and folklore, associated with weather and storms.
DranlyugmSanskrit Hindu male first name. (𝘥𝘩𝘳𝘢𝘯) means "retention" and "sustainer" (𝘺𝘶𝘨) means "era". can be described as 'incarnation' {अवतार} "sustainer of the era". {विष्णु} reminding
DrascomPolabian Drasco (fl. 795 – 810) was the Prince (knyaz) of the Obotrite confederation from 795 until his death in 810.
DrąsiusmLithuanian Derived from either the Lithuanian noun drąsa meaning "courage, bravery" or the Lithuanian adjective drąsus meaning "brave, courageous, bold".
DrastamatmArmenian Means "straight-forward, no way out" in Armenian.
DrąsutėfLithuanian Diminutive of the rare name Drąsė, since this name contains the feminine diminutive suffix -utė. In other words, you could say that this name is the feminine equivalent of Drąsutis.
DrąsutismLithuanian Diminutive of Drąsius, since this name contains the masculine diminutive suffix -utis.
DraugluinmLiterature A fictional character created by J.R.R. Tolkien, Draugluin was the first werewolf to be bred by Morgoth during the First Age of Middle-earth.... [more]
DraumeyfIcelandic (Modern, Rare) Combination of Old Norse draumr "dream" and ey "island; flat land along a coast" (which is also often related to the Old Norse name element auja "(gift of) luck; fortune").
DraupnirmOld Norse, Norse Mythology, Icelandic Means "goldsmith". Draupnir is the name of both a dwarf and Odin's golden arm ring, which he laid on Baldr's funeral pyre to show that Hel was the legitimate ruler of the Underworld... [more]
DredmEnglish (American), Afro-American (Slavery-era) Short form of (feminine) Etheldred. Dred Scott (c. 1799-1858) was an African American slave who unsuccessfully sued for his and his family's freedom before the Supreme Court of the United States in the landmark case Dred Scott v. Sandford... [more]
DrengmDanish (Archaic), Literature Derived from the Old Norse name Drængr meaning "young man, lad" or "bold man". It coincides with the modern Danish word dreng meaning "boy"... [more]
Dresdenf & mEnglish, Popular Culture From the name of the city in Germany, which is derived from Old Sorbian Drežďany, meaning "people of the riverside forest".
DreyzefYiddish Yiddish feminine name, probably derived from the German name Theresia. Alternatively it may be a Yiddish form of Slavic Derozha, Drozha.
DrianmArthurian Cycle Knight of the Round Table. Son of Pellinore (apparently his third in wedlock), brother of Perceval, Lamorat, Aglovale, Alain, and Tor le Fise Aries.... [more]
DrilegofMedieval Breton Of uncertain origin and meaning. Current theories include a derivation from drich "aspect; face; appearance" and "possibly a variant of -lou, -leu "light"".
DrilonmAlbanian Derived from Drilon (Δρίλων), the Ancient Greek name of the river Drin.
DrinmAlbanian Derived from the name of the Drin, a river in Southern and Southeastern Europe with two distributaries one discharging into the Adriatic Sea and the other one into the Buna River. The river and its tributaries form the Gulf of Drin, an ocean basin that encompasses the northern Albanian Adriatic Sea Coast... [more]
DrinafSerbian (Rare) The name of the river that flows between Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, whose name is derived from the Latin name of the river (Latin: Drinus) which in turn is derived from Greek (Ancient Greek: Dreinos), used as a feminine name.
DrisanafEnglish (Rare), Indian (Rare, Expatriate, ?) Meaning uncertain, though popularly claimed to mean "daughter of the sun" in Sanskrit. Supposedly it occurs in Hindu mythology as a name (perhaps a title or epithet) of the Dānava demon Virochana (a son of Prahlāda and father of Bali)... [more]
DrǫfnfNorse Mythology Means "wave, billow" in Old Norse. In Norse mythology, Drǫfn was the daughter of Ægir and Rán. She was sometimes referred to as Bára, also meaning "wave, billow".
DrogomiłmPolish The first element of this name is derived from Polish drogi "precious, dear", which was ultimately derived from Slavic dorgu "precious, dear". The second element is derived from mil "gracious, dear".
DrogomysłmPolish The first element of this name is derived from Polish drogi "precious, dear", which was ultimately derived from Slavic dorgu "precious, dear". The second element is derived from Polish myśl "thought" (which is ultimately derived from Proto-Slavic mysliti "to think").
DrogoradzmMedieval Polish Derived from the Slavic name elements drogo "dear; precious" and radz "to advise" and, in an older meaning, "to take care of someone or something".
DromiomTheatre This name belongs to two characters in William Shakespeare's play 'The Comedy of Errors' (1592): twin brothers Dromio of Ephesus and Dromio of Syracuse. It is possibly derived from Greek δρόμος (dromos) "a course, running, race", or a related word.
DronacharyamHinduism (drona) means "vessel" or "bucket" or "quiver". (acharya) means "teacher" in Sanskrit. Dronacharya means “A teacher who is filled with full of knowledge or whatever a good stuff.” he is a major character of the Hindu epic Mahabharata
DronmafTibetan Means "light, lamp", also an honorific title.
DroplaugfOld Norse, Icelandic Old Norse name, in which the second element is laug possibly meaning "vowed, promised, bound in oath". The first element may be derived from Old Norse dropi meaning "drop".
DrósbóimOld Norse Meaning uncertain. It could be a combination of Old Norse drós "woman" and búi "farmer, land-owner". The first element could also be derived from Old Norwegian dros "heavy, plump person"... [more]
DroserafGreek Mythology Derived from Greek δρόσος (drosos) meaning "dew, dewdrops". This was the name of a naiad in Greek myth.
DrosisfHistory (Ecclesiastical) Variant of Drusa via the form Drosa. According to Orthodox Christian ecclesiastical traditions St. Drosis was the daughter of the Emperor Trajan (98-117 AD)... [more]
DrosmafLatvian Derived from Latvian drosme "courage, bravery".
DrosselmPopular Culture German for "thrush" as in the bird. The name of a character in the anime adaption of Black Butler, Drossel Keinz.
DrostanmPictish Diminutive of Drust. This name was borne by a 7th-century Irish saint who was active among the Picts in Scotland.
DróttfIcelandic (Rare), Old Norse Possibly from Old Norse drótt which meant "household, a people" and "the host of the king's men, body-guard of a king".
DrovermEnglish (Rare) Transferred use of the surname Drover. It was used in the 2008 movie 'Australia' by Baz Luhrmann. The character Drover was played by Hugh Jackman.
DruannfAmerican (Rare) Perhaps intended to be a feminine form of Andrew, produced by rearranging the syllables (i.e., An and drew; see Drew), with the spelling apparently influenced by that of Luann.
DruantiafPopular Culture, Celtic Mythology Hypothetic old Celtic form of the name of a river in the south of France commonly known as the Durance, which is of unknown meaning. An Indo-European root meaning "to flow" has been suggested. According to Robert Graves in 'The White Goddess' (1948), it is derived from the Indo-European root *deru meaning "oak" (as are the words druid and dryad) and probably also belonged to a Gallic tree goddess, which he identifies as "Queen of the Druids" and "Mother of the Tree Calendar"... [more]
DruasmArthurian Cycle, Literature Lord of the Hill of Wretches. He slew every knight who adventured his way, but was eventually killed by Agravain. Druas’s brother, Sorneham of Newcastle, learned of the incident and, in revenge, he defeated and imprisoned Agravain.
DrudomMedieval Italian Derived from Proto-Germanic þrūþ "strength" as well as a diminutive of various names beginning with this element.
DrudwenfWelsh (Modern) Means "starling" in Welsh, presumably derived from the element drud "precious, dear, expensive" combined with gwen "fair, white, blessed". It was coined in the "latter 20th century".
DruellafEnglish, Literature Feminine version of the masculine abbreviated form of Andrew, Drew. It is also the name of Druella Black (née Rosier) –wife of Cygnus Black, mother of Bellatrix, Andromeda and Narcissa Black - out of the Harry Potter series of books by J.K. Rowling.
DruianmOld Celtic, Old Norse Old Norse form of an unknown Gaelic name, of uncertain origin and meaning.
DruidmOld Celtic A priest, magician, or soothsayer in the ancient Celtic religion.
DruidainmArthurian Cycle A loathsome hunchbacked dwarf, to whom Gawaine gave the false lady Ydain after she tried to leave Gawaine for another knight. Druidain’s eventual possession of Ydain had been foretold by an oracle in the dwarf’s youth.
DruonmPicard Derived from Gaulish druto "strong, vigorous".
DruonmArthurian Cycle Druon is a knight who fights with Blandamour, Paridell, and Claribell in Book 4, Canto 9 of "The Faerie Queene".
DrurymEnglish Transferred use of the surname Drury. Drury Lane is a famous street in London, home to the Theatre Royal, and well known as the nursery rhyme locale of The Muffin Man.
DrustanusmOld Celtic (Latinized) Latinized form of Drustan. It appears in a 6th-century tombstone inscription (“Drustanus lies here, the son of Cunomorus”) and many scholars have thought to identify Drustanus with the Tristan of Celtic legend... [more]
DrusticcfPictish 6th century Pictish princess. Feminine variant of the name Drust. Older form or variant of the name Trista
DrutalosmGaulish Derived from Gaulish *deruos / derua "oak tree" and talu- "forehead; front; surface".
DruvismLatvian Derived from Latvian druva "cornfield".
DruwardmAnglo-Norman Possibly from Old French Droart, Drouart which is probably from the hypothetical Germanic name *Droghard, itself composed of the element drog of uncertain meaning (see Drogo) combined with hard "hard, firm, brave, strong".
DryhthelmmAnglo-Saxon Derived from the Old English elements dryht "troop, army" and helm "helmet, protection". This was the name of a monk associated with the monastery of Melrose known from the Historia Ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum of Bede.
DryhtnoðmAnglo-Saxon Derived from the Old English elements dryht "troop, army" and noð "boldness, daring".
DryhtwealdmAnglo-Saxon Derived from the Old English elements dryht "troop, army" and weald "powerful, mighty" or "authority, leader".
DryopefGreek Mythology Derived from Greek δρῦς (drys) meaning "tree, oak" combined with Greek οψ (ops) "voice" or Greek ωψ (ops) "face, eye". This name was borne by at least five characters in Greek mythology, the best known being the daughter of king Dryops of Oeta, who was turned into a black poplar tree by the god Apollo.
DryopsmGreek Mythology This name is either derived from Greek δρύοψ (dryops) meaning "woodpecker", or it is a masculine form of Dryope. This name was borne by two characters in Greek mythology: one was king Dryops of Oeta, the other was a son of king Priam of Troy.
DržimirmCroatian The first element of this name is derived from Serbo-Croatian držati "to hold", which is ultimately derived from Proto-Slavic dьržati "to hold". The second element is derived from Slavic mir "peace".
DržislavmCroatian The first element of this name is derived from Serbo-Croatian držati "to hold", which is ultimately derived from Proto-Slavic dьržati "to hold". The second element is derived from Slavic slav "glory".