PridefEnglish (Puritan, Modern) From late Old English prȳde ‘excessive self-esteem’, variant of prȳtu, prȳte, from prūd. Referring to "pride cometh before the fall."
PrigentmBreton Prigent is a Breton name from Brittany, France. Its more ancient form being "Prit-gent" in the listed distinguished titles of the area of Quimperlé, came from the words "good/noble" (prit) and "race/lineage" (gent) and means literally "the good people" or "the noble ones" in the Breton language... [more]
PrigiomLiterature Etymology uncertain. It could be from the Italian prigione "imprisonment". This was the main character of a literary and comic fairy tale Prince Prigio, written by Andrew Lang.
Prihm & fJavanese Means "sorrow, pain, sadness" in Javanese.
PrilliefEnglish (Canadian) Used in Prince Edward Island, Canada. Either from a genus of flower or the municipality Prilly in Switzerland. Etymology for either unknown, though probably of Germanic origin.
PrimianomItalian, Spanish Italian and Spanish form of Primianus. A bearer of this name was the Argentinian jurist and politician Primiano Acuña Vieyra (1852-1934).
PrimianusmLate Roman Roman cognomen which was derived from Primus (see also Primanus). A bearer of this name was Marcus Ulpius Primianus, a Roman prefect from the 2nd century AD... [more]
PrimigeniafRoman Mythology, Ancient Roman Derived from Latin prīmigenia, the feminine form of the adjective prīmigenius "original, primitive; firstborn", ultimately derived from primus "first" and genus "birth, origin", this was an epithet of the Goddess Fortuna... [more]
PriniafJavanese A noun-name. The prinias are a genus of small birds belonging to the passerine bird family Cisticolidae. They are often also alternatively classed in the Old World warbler family, Sylviidae. The name of the genus is derived from the Javanese prinya, the local name for the bar-winged prinia... [more]
PriormDanish (Rare) Ecclesiastical title, derived from the Latin adjective for "earlier, first".
PrioremMedieval Italian From priore 'prior', a nickname or occupational name, which probably most often originated as an occupational name for a servant of a prior or some important lay dignitary.
PrithvirajmIndian, Marathi Means "king of the earth", derived from Sanskrit पृथ्वी (pṛthvī́) meaning "Earth" combined with राज (rāja) meaning "king, sovereign".
PrivatusmLate Roman Derived from Latin privatus "personal, individual, private, peculiar, separate". This was the name of a saint from Roman Gaul, who lived in the 3rd or 4th century AD.
PriyadimJavanese, Indonesian From Javanese priya meaning "man, boy" combined with adi meaning "first" in Indonesian or "beautiful, good, valuable" in Javanese.
PriyomJavanese From Javanese priya meaning "man, boy", ultimately from Sanskrit प्रिया (priyā).
PriyomIndian, Bengali Means "dear, favourite" in Bengali, ultimately from Sanskrit प्रिय (priyá).
PriyonomJavanese From Javanese priya meaning "man, boy" combined with either the masculine suffix -na or the word ana meaning "being, having, holding".
ProandrosmAncient Greek Derived from Greek πρό (pro) meaning "before, forth, forward" combined with Greek ανδρος (andros) meaning "of a man".
ProasmGreek Short form of Prometheus. Derived from Greek προμηθεια (prometheia) meaning "foresight, forethought". In Greek myth he was the Titan who gave the knowledge of fire to mankind... [more]
ProbusmAncient Roman Roman family name (cognomen), derived from Latin probus, which means "good, virtuous, able, decent". One Roman emperor bore this name. There also were several saints of this name, the most famous of whom was martyred in 304 AD together with Andronicus and Tarachus.
ProcessusmAncient Roman (?), Late Roman (?) Means "a going forward, advance, progress" in Latin. According to Christian legend Saint Processus was the name of a Roman soldier who guarded the apostles Peter and Paul when they were imprisoned at the Mamertine Prison in Rome, then converted to Christianity and was martyred.
ProclusmAncient Greek (Latinized), History (Ecclesiastical) Latinized form of Proklos. Proclus of Constantinople (c. 390 – 24 July 446) was the archbishop of Constantinople from 434 until his death. His contributions to the theology of the developing cult of the Virgin Mary place him among the early and foremost Marian theologians... [more]
ProcrisfGreek Mythology Latinized form of the Greek name Πρόκρις (Prokris), which is possibly derived from Ancient Greek προκρίνω (prokrino) meaning "to choose before others, prefer, select". Procris was a daughter of Erechtheus, king of Athens, and wife of prince Cephalus, who accidently killed her during the hunt.
ProculusmAncient Roman, Late Roman Three theories exist on the origin of the name: it could come from procul ("far"), with the addition of the suffix -us, thus "whose father is distant"; from procus ("wooer, suiter"; also means "prince" in Old Latin); or as a diminutive form of Proca, borne by a king of Alba Longa... [more]
ProdanafSerbian (Rare) Feminine form of Prodan. Like its masculine counterpart, it is derived from the verb prodati, "to sell", literally meaning "sold". It was once given to divert evil spirits by telling them the child has already been " sold away ".
Prodigiosf & mSpanish (Mexican, Rare) Means "prodigies" in Spanish, taken from the Mexican titles of the Virgin Mary, La Virgen de los Prodigios and Nuestra Señora de los Prodigios, meaning "The Virgin of the Prodigies" and "Our Lady of the Prodigies" respectively.... [more]
ProdikosmAncient Greek Derived from the Greek adjective πρόδικος (prodikos) meaning "judged first", which consists of Greek πρό (pro) meaning "before, forth, forward" and the Greek noun δίκη (dike) meaning "justice, judgement" as well as "custom, usage".
ProdromakismGreek Modern Greek diminutive of Prodromos, as it contains the modern Greek diminutive suffix -άκης (-akis). This name is typically only used informally, meaning: it does not appear on birth certificates.
ProdromosmGreek Means "precursor, forerunner" in Greek, literally "running before, going in advance" from πρό (pro) "before, in front of" and δρόμος (dromos) "a course, running". It is taken from the title of Saint John the Baptist, Ιωάννης ο Πρόδρομος (Ioannis o Prodromos); in Eastern Christianity, John is commonly referred to as the forerunner of Jesus, since John announces Jesus' coming.
ProgresomSpanish (Rare, Archaic) From Spanish progreso meaning "progress". In Spain, it was specially used during the Second Spanish Republic by republican parents who were eager to choose names related to republican values.
ProklesmAncient Greek, Greek Mythology Derived from Greek πρό (pro) meaning "before, forth, forward" combined with Greek κλέος (kleos) meaning "glory".
ProknefGreek Mythology Possibly derived from Greek περκνός (perknos) "dark-spotted", a word used to refer to eagles. In Greek mythology Prokne or Procne was the wife of the Thracian king Tereus. Tereus raped Procne's sister Philomela and cut out her tongue, so Procne fed Tereus the flesh of their son Itys... [more]
ProkomAlbanian Pet form of the name Prokop (Prokóp,-i).
ProkopiafLate Greek, History Feminine form of Prokopios. This name was most notably borne by the empress consort of the Byzantine emperor Michael I Rangabe (9th century AD).
ProlochosmGreek Mythology Derived from Greek πρό (pro) meaning "before, forth, forward" combined with the Greek noun λόχος (lochos) meaning "ambush", a word that later came to signify a tactical sub unit of the ancient Greek army... [more]
PromeusmGreek Mythology Derived from Greek πρόμος (promos) meaning "foremost, foremost man". Also compare Greek προμυέω (promueō) meaning "to initiate beforehand" and Prometheus, which are both etymologically related... [more]
PronaxmGreek Mythology Derived from Greek πρώ (pro) meaning "early (in the day)", a variant of πρωΐ (proi) meaning "early in the day, during morning", and ἄναξ (anax) meaning "master, lord, chief".... [more]
PropertiusmAncient Roman Roman family name which was probably derived from Latin propero "to make haste, to be quick". Sextus Aurelius Propertius, better known as Propertius, was a 1st-century BC Roman poet. He was a contemporary of Virgil and Ovid.
ProperziafItalian Italian feminine form of Propertius. Properzia de' Rossi was a female marble sculptor of the Italian Renaissance.
ProphetmAfrican American (Modern), English (African) From the English word prophet, ultimately from Greek προφήτης (prophetes) meaning "one who speaks for a god" (itself from πρό (pro) "before" and φημί (phemi) "to speak, to declare").
ProrsafRoman Mythology Contracted form of Proversa, which means "forwards looking, turned toward the front" from Latin pro- "forward direction" and the verb vertere "to turn". Postverta and Prorsa were surnames of Carmenta, a Roman goddess of prophecy and childbirth... [more]
ProselenosfLiterature From Greek proselênos meaning "older than the moon" or "before the moon", which was "an epithet used of the people of Arcadia, who prided themselves on their antiquity" (Sheard, 2011). This was the name of an elderly witch in Petronius' 1st-century novel 'The Satyricon'.
ProsimirmPolish The first element of this name is derived from Polish prosić "to ask (for/somebody), to request, to beg". Also compare Croatian prositi "to beg" and Czech prosit "to ask for, to beg"... [more]