skylerrae's Personal Name List

Frida 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Germanic [1]
Rating: 62% based on 5 votes
Originally a short form of names containing the Old German element fridu meaning "peace" (Proto-Germanic *friþuz). A famous bearer was the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907-1954).
Freya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norse Mythology, English (Modern), German
Pronounced: FRAY-ə(English) FRAY-a(German)
Rating: 75% based on 6 votes
From Old Norse Freyja meaning "lady". This is the name of a goddess associated with love, beauty, war and death in Norse mythology. She claims half of the heroes who are slain in battle and brings them to her realm of Fólkvangr. Along with her brother Freyr and father Njord, she is one of the Vanir (as opposed to the Æsir). Some scholars connect her with the goddess Frigg.

This is not the usual spelling in any of the Scandinavian languages (in Sweden and Denmark it is Freja and in Norway it is Frøja) but it is the common spelling of the goddess's name in English. In the 2000s it became popular in Britain.

Florencia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: flo-REHN-thya(European Spanish) flo-REHN-sya(Latin American Spanish)
Personal remark: nn Renna
Rating: 65% based on 8 votes
Spanish feminine form of Florentius (see Florence).
Fiona
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Scottish, English
Pronounced: fee-O-nə(English)
Rating: 80% based on 5 votes
Feminine form of Fionn. This name was (first?) used by the Scottish poet James Macpherson in his poem Fingal (1761), in which it is spelled as Fióna.
Finlay
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Scottish, English
Pronounced: FIN-lee(English)
Personal remark: Finn
Rating: 58% based on 5 votes
Anglicized form of Fionnlagh. This spelling is more common in Scotland, though in England and Wales the variant Finley has been more popular since 2007.
Fern
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: FURN(American English) FUN(British English)
Rating: 63% based on 7 votes
From the English word for the plant, ultimately from Old English fearn. It has been used as a given name since the late 19th century.
Felicity
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: fə-LIS-i-tee
Personal remark: nn Lissie, Flicka
Rating: 72% based on 11 votes
From the English word felicity meaning "happiness", which ultimately derives from Latin felicitas "good luck". This was one of the virtue names adopted by the Puritans around the 17th century. It can sometimes be used as an English form of the Latin name Felicitas. This name jumped in popularity in the United States after the premiere of the television series Felicity in 1998. It is more common in the United Kingdom.
Faye
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: FAY
Rating: 79% based on 7 votes
Variant of Fay.
Fae
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: FAY
Rating: 68% based on 9 votes
Variant of Fay.
Eydís
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Old Norse [1], Icelandic
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Derived from the Old Norse elements ey "good fortune" or "island" and dís "goddess".
Evren
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Turkish
Pronounced: ehv-REHN
Rating: 68% based on 5 votes
Means "cosmos, the universe" in Turkish. In Turkic mythology the Evren is a gigantic snake-like dragon.
Eviana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Personal remark: nn Evi
Rating: 73% based on 9 votes
Evelyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, German
Pronounced: EHV-ə-lin(English) EEV-lin(British English) EEV-ə-lin(British English) EH-və-leen(German)
Personal remark: nn Evi
Rating: 80% based on 11 votes
From an English surname that was derived from the given name Aveline. In the 17th century when it was first used as a given name it was more common for boys, but it is now regarded as almost entirely feminine, probably in part because of its similarity to Eve and Evelina.

This name was popular throughout the English-speaking world in the early 20th century. It staged a comeback in the early 21st century, returning to the American top ten in 2017.

Evelin
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Estonian, Hungarian
Pronounced: EH-və-leen(German) EH-veh-leen(Hungarian)
Rating: 68% based on 5 votes
German, Estonian and Hungarian form of Evelina.
Evanna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh, Irish, Scottish, English, Italian (Rare), Swedish (Modern, Rare)
Rating: 68% based on 5 votes
Either the feminine form of Evan and a combination of Eva and Anna.

A famous bearer is Irish actress Evanna Lynch (1991-) known for her role as Luna Lovegood in the movie adaptation of 'Harry Potter' saga.

Evangeline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: i-VAN-jə-leen, i-VAN-jə-lien
Personal remark: nn Ev
Rating: 80% based on 6 votes
Means "good news" from Greek εὖ (eu) meaning "good" and ἄγγελμα (angelma) meaning "news, message". It was (first?) used by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his 1847 epic poem Evangeline [1][2]. It also appears in Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) as the full name of the character Eva.
Evadne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Εὐάδνη(Ancient Greek)
Personal remark: nn Ev
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
From Greek Εὐάδνη (Euadne), from εὖ (eu) meaning "good" possibly combined with Cretan Greek ἀδνός (adnos) meaning "holy". This name was borne by several characters in Greek legend, including the wife of Capaneus. After Capaneus was killed by a lightning bolt sent from Zeus she committed suicide by throwing herself onto his burning body.
Eugenia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Polish, English, Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Εὐγένεια(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: ew-JEH-nya(Italian) ew-KHEH-nya(Spanish) eh-oo-JEH-nee-a(Romanian) ew-GEH-nya(Polish) yoo-JEE-nee-ə(English) yoo-JEEN-yə(English)
Rating: 62% based on 5 votes
Feminine form of Eugenius (see Eugene). It was borne by a semi-legendary 3rd-century saint who escaped persecution by disguising herself as a man. The name was occasionally found in England during the Middle Ages, but it was not regularly used until the 19th century.
Etta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHT-ə
Rating: 74% based on 5 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.
Esther
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, French, Spanish, Dutch, German, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Jewish, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Other Scripts: אֶסְתֵר(Hebrew) Ἐσθήρ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: EHS-tər(American English, Dutch) EHS-tə(British English) EHS-TEHR(French) ehs-TEHR(Spanish) EHS-tu(German)
Rating: 81% based on 7 votes
From the Hebrew name אֶסְתֵר (ʾEsṯer), which possibly means "star" in Persian. Alternatively it could be a derivative of the name of the Near Eastern goddess Ishtar. The Book of Esther in the Old Testament tells the story of Queen Esther, the Jewish wife of the king of Persia. The king's advisor Haman persuaded the king to exterminate all the Jews in the realm. Warned of this plot by her cousin Mordecai, Esther revealed her Jewish ancestry and convinced the king to execute Haman instead. Her original Hebrew name was Hadassah.

This name has been used in the English-speaking world since the Protestant Reformation. In America it received a boost in popularity after the birth of Esther Cleveland (1893-1980), the daughter of President Grover Cleveland [1].

Esra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Turkish
Rating: 62% based on 5 votes
Turkish form of Isra.
Esperanza
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: ehs-peh-RAN-tha(European Spanish) ehs-peh-RAN-sa(Latin American Spanish)
Personal remark: nn Essie, Ren
Rating: 63% based on 4 votes
Spanish form of the Late Latin name Sperantia, which was derived from sperare "to hope".
Esmeralda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese, English, Albanian, Literature
Pronounced: ehz-meh-RAL-da(Spanish) izh-mi-RAL-du(European Portuguese) ehz-meh-ROW-du(Brazilian Portuguese) ehz-mə-RAHL-də(English)
Personal remark: nn Essie, Ems, Mara
Rating: 60% based on 9 votes
Means "emerald" in Spanish and Portuguese. Victor Hugo used this name in his novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831), in which Esmeralda is the Romani girl who is loved by Quasimodo. It has occasionally been used in the English-speaking world since that time.
Eris
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἔρις(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: EHR-is(English)
Rating: 58% based on 4 votes
Means "strife, discord" in Greek. In Greek mythology Eris was the goddess of discord. She was the sister and companion of Ares.
Erin
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Irish
Pronounced: EHR-in(English)
Rating: 78% based on 6 votes
Anglicized form of Éireann. It was initially used by people of Irish heritage in America, Canada and Australia. It was rare until the mid-1950s.
Éowyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: AY-ə-win(English)
Rating: 58% based on 8 votes
Means "horse joy" in Old English. This name was invented by J. R. R. Tolkien who used Old English to represent the Rohirric language. In his novel The Lord of the Rings (1954) Eowyn is the niece of King Theoden of Rohan. She slays the Lord of the Nazgul in the Battle of the Pelennor Fields.
Enid
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh, English, Arthurian Cycle
Pronounced: EH-nid(Welsh) EE-nid(English)
Rating: 80% based on 5 votes
Probably derived from Welsh enaid meaning "soul, spirit, life". In Arthurian tales she first appears in the 12th-century French poem Erec and Enide by Chrétien de Troyes, where she is the wife of Erec. In later adaptations she is typically the wife of Geraint. The name became more commonly used after the publication of Alfred Tennyson's Arthurian poem Enid in 1859, and it was fairly popular in Britain in the first half of the 20th century.
Emory
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHM-ə-ree
Rating: 60% based on 4 votes
Variant of Emery.
Emiya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Amharic
Rating: 68% based on 6 votes
Means "bliss" in Amharic.
Emilia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Finnish, Polish, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, English, Greek, Bulgarian
Other Scripts: Αιμιλία(Greek) Емилия(Bulgarian)
Pronounced: eh-MEE-lya(Italian, Spanish, Polish) EH-mee-lee-ah(Finnish) eh-MEE-lee-ah(Swedish) i-MEE-lee-ə(English) eh-mee-LEE-a(Greek)
Rating: 70% based on 4 votes
Feminine form of Aemilius (see Emily). In Shakespeare's tragedy Othello (1603) this is the name of the wife of Iago.
Emiko
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 恵美子, etc.(Japanese Kanji) えみこ(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: EH-MEE-KO
Rating: 73% based on 6 votes
From Japanese (e) meaning "favour, benefit" and (mi) meaning "beautiful" and (ko) meaning "child". Other combinations of kanji characters can also form this name.
Emerson
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHM-ər-sən(American English) EHM-ə-sən(British English)
Personal remark: nn Em
Rating: 65% based on 4 votes
From an English surname meaning "son of Emery". The surname was borne by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), an American writer and philosopher who wrote about transcendentalism.
Ember
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: EHM-bər(American English) EHM-bə(British English)
Rating: 68% based on 5 votes
From the English word ember, ultimately from Old English æmerge.
Elysia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Various
Pronounced: i-LIZ-ee-ə(English) i-LIS-ee-ə(English) i-LEE-zhə(English)
Rating: 64% based on 5 votes
From Elysium, the name of the realm of the dead in Greek and Roman mythology.
Elyse
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Rating: 70% based on 4 votes
Diminutive of Elizabeth. It was popularized in the early 1980s by a character from the television comedy Family Ties.
Eluned
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: ehl-IN-ehd, ehl-EEN-ehd
Rating: 60% based on 5 votes
Derived from Welsh eilun meaning "image, likeness, idol". This was the name of a legendary 5th-century Welsh saint, also known as Eiliwedd, one of the supposed daughters of Brychan Brycheiniog.
Elspeth
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Scottish
Pronounced: EHLS-peth
Rating: 53% based on 6 votes
Scottish form of Elizabeth.
Elowen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Cornish
Personal remark: nn Ellie
Rating: 63% based on 7 votes
Means "elm tree" in Cornish. This is a recently coined Cornish name.
Eliza
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Romanian, Hungarian, Georgian
Other Scripts: ელიზა(Georgian)
Pronounced: i-LIE-zə(English) eh-LEE-za(Polish) EH-lee-zaw(Hungarian)
Rating: 76% based on 5 votes
Short form of Elizabeth. It was borne by the character Eliza Doolittle in George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion (1913) and the subsequent musical adaptation My Fair Lady (1956).
Elise
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Dutch, English
Pronounced: eh-LEE-zə(German) eh-LEE-seh(Norwegian, Danish, Swedish) i-LEES(English) EE-lees(English)
Rating: 85% based on 6 votes
Short form of Elizabeth.
Elisa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Finnish, English
Pronounced: eh-LEE-za(Italian, German) eh-LEE-sa(Spanish) EH-lee-sah(Finnish) ə-LEE-sə(English)
Rating: 62% based on 5 votes
Short form of Elisabeth.
Eliora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אֱלִיאוֹרָה(Hebrew)
Rating: 71% based on 7 votes
Feminine form of Elior.
Elinor
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHL-ə-nawr(American English) EHL-ə-naw(British English)
Rating: 64% based on 7 votes
Variant of Eleanor.
Elina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish, Estonian, Swedish
Pronounced: EH-lee-nah(Finnish) eh-LEE-nah(Swedish)
Rating: 75% based on 6 votes
Finnish, Estonian and Swedish form of Helen.
Elin
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Welsh
Pronounced: EH-lin(Swedish, Norwegian, Welsh)
Rating: 58% based on 6 votes
Scandinavian and Welsh form of Helen.
Elianna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Ελιάννα(Greek)
Personal remark: nn Ellie, Lana
Rating: 77% based on 6 votes
Perhaps a combination of Elisavet or Eleni with Anna.
Eliana 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, English (Modern)
Pronounced: eh-LYA-na(Italian, Spanish) ehl-lee-AN-ə(English) ehl-lee-AHN-ə(English)
Personal remark: nn Ellie, Lia
Rating: 83% based on 9 votes
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of Éliane.
Eleonora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, German, Swedish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Dutch, Polish, Bulgarian, Russian, Ukrainian, Greek
Other Scripts: Елеонора(Bulgarian, Ukrainian) Элеонора(Russian) Ελεονώρα(Greek)
Pronounced: eh-leh-o-NAW-ra(Italian) eh-leh-o-NO-ra(German, Dutch) eh-leh-aw-NAW-ra(Polish) eh-lyi-u-NO-rə(Russian)
Personal remark: nn Ellie, Leo, Nora
Rating: 80% based on 6 votes
Form of Eleanor in several languages.
Elenora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ehl-ə-NAWR-ə
Personal remark: nn Ellie, Nora
Rating: 84% based on 7 votes
Variant of Eleanor.
Eleni
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Ελένη(Greek)
Pronounced: eh-LEH-nee
Rating: 70% based on 4 votes
Modern Greek form of Helen.
Elena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Slovak, Czech, Lithuanian, Estonian, Finnish, Russian, Greek, German, English
Other Scripts: Елена(Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian) Έλενα(Greek)
Pronounced: EH-leh-na(Italian, Slovak, Czech, German) eh-LEH-na(Spanish, Romanian, German) eh-LEH-nu(Bulgarian) eh-lyeh-NU(Lithuanian) EH-leh-nah(Finnish) yi-LYEH-nə(Russian) i-LYEH-nə(Russian) EHL-ə-nə(English) ə-LAY-nə(English)
Rating: 88% based on 5 votes
Form of Helen used in various languages, as well as an alternate transcription of Russian Елена (see Yelena).
Electra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἠλέκτρα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: i-LEHK-trə(English)
Rating: 63% based on 7 votes
Latinized form of Greek Ἠλέκτρα (Elektra), derived from ἤλεκτρον (elektron) meaning "amber". In Greek myth she was the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra and the sister of Orestes. She helped her brother kill their mother and her lover Aegisthus in vengeance for Agamemnon's murder. Also in Greek mythology, this name was borne by one of the Pleiades, who were the daughters of Atlas and Pleione.
Eleanora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ehl-ə-NAWR-ə
Personal remark: nn Nora, Ellie
Rating: 84% based on 7 votes
Latinate form of Eleanor.
Eleanor
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHL-ə-nawr(American English) EHL-ə-naw(British English)
Personal remark: nn Nour, Ellie
Rating: 94% based on 7 votes
From the Old French form of the Occitan name Alienòr. Among the name's earliest bearers was the influential Eleanor of Aquitaine (12th century), who was the queen of Louis VII, the king of France, and later Henry II, the king of England. She was named Aenor after her mother, and was called by the Occitan phrase alia Aenor "the other Aenor" in order to distinguish her from her mother. However, there appear to be examples of bearers prior to Eleanor of Aquitaine. It is not clear whether they were in fact Aenors who were retroactively recorded as having the name Eleanor, or whether there is an alternative explanation for the name's origin.

The popularity of the name Eleanor in England during the Middle Ages was due to the fame of Eleanor of Aquitaine, as well as two queens of the following century: Eleanor of Provence, the wife of Henry III, and Eleanor of Castile, the wife of Edward I. More recently, it was borne by first lady Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), the wife of American president Franklin Roosevelt.

Elana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Jewish
Rating: 70% based on 7 votes
Feminine form of Elan.
Elaine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Arthurian Cycle
Pronounced: i-LAYN(English) ee-LAYN(English)
Rating: 72% based on 6 votes
From an Old French form of Helen. It appears in Arthurian legend; in Thomas Malory's 15th-century compilation Le Morte d'Arthur Elaine was the daughter of Pelles, the lover of Lancelot, and the mother of Galahad. It was not commonly used as an English given name until after the publication of Alfred Tennyson's Arthurian epic Idylls of the King (1859).
Elaina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: i-LAYN-ə
Rating: 72% based on 6 votes
Variant of Elaine.
Ekaterina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian
Other Scripts: Екатерина(Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian)
Pronounced: yi-kə-tyi-RYEE-nə(Russian) i-kə-tyi-RYEE-nə(Russian)
Personal remark: nn Kat, Eri
Rating: 76% based on 7 votes
Bulgarian and Macedonian form of Katherine, and an alternate transcription of Russian Екатерина (see Yekaterina).
Eirwen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Rating: 64% based on 9 votes
Means "white snow" from the Welsh elements eira "snow" and gwen "white, blessed". This name was created in the early 20th century.
Eirene
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Εἰρήνη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: EH-REH-NEH(Classical Greek) ie-REE-nee(English)
Rating: 68% based on 6 votes
Ancient Greek form of Irene.
Eira 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: AY-ra
Rating: 67% based on 7 votes
Means "snow" in Welsh. This is a recently created name.
Eilwen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Rating: 63% based on 8 votes
Perhaps means "white brow", derived from Welsh ael "brow" and gwen "white, blessed". This is a recently created Welsh name.
Eilís
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: EH-lyeesh
Rating: 52% based on 6 votes
Irish Gaelic form of Elizabeth (or sometimes of Alice).
Eileen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish, English
Pronounced: ie-LEEN(English) IE-leen(English)
Rating: 62% based on 5 votes
Anglicized form of Eibhlín. It is also sometimes considered an Irish form of Helen. It first became popular in the English-speaking world outside of Ireland near the end of the 19th century.
Eden
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Hebrew, English (Modern), French (Modern)
Other Scripts: עֵדֶן(Hebrew)
Pronounced: EE-dən(English)
Rating: 82% based on 10 votes
From the biblical place name, itself possibly from Hebrew עֵדֶן (ʿeḏen) meaning "pleasure, delight" [1], or perhaps derived from Sumerian 𒂔 (edin) meaning "plain". According to the Old Testament the Garden of Eden was the place where the first people, Adam and Eve, lived before they were expelled.
Edda 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Icelandic, Old Norse [1]
Rating: 52% based on 5 votes
Possibly from Old Norse meaning "great-grandmother". This was the name of two 13th-century Icelandic literary works: the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda. This is also the name of a character in the Poetic Edda, though it is unclear if her name is connected to the name of the collection.
Echo
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἠχώ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: EH-ko(English)
Rating: 70% based on 6 votes
From the Greek word ἠχώ (echo) meaning "echo, reflected sound", related to ἠχή (eche) meaning "sound". In Greek mythology Echo was a nymph given a speech impediment by Hera, so that she could only repeat what others said. She fell in love with Narcissus, but her love was not returned, and she pined away until nothing remained of her except her voice.
Dulce
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: DOOL-theh(European Spanish) DOOL-seh(Latin American Spanish)
Rating: 45% based on 4 votes
Means "sweet" or "candy" in Spanish.
Devin
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DEHV-in
Personal remark: nn Dev
Rating: 60% based on 5 votes
From a surname, either the Irish surname Devin 1 or the English surname Devin 2.
Demetria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1], English
Other Scripts: Δημητρία(Ancient Greek)
Personal remark: nn Demi
Rating: 70% based on 7 votes
Feminine form of Demetrius.
Delores
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: də-LAWR-is
Rating: 65% based on 6 votes
Variant of Dolores.
Delkii
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Mongolian (Rare)
Other Scripts: Дэлхий(Mongolian Cyrillic) ᠳᠡᠯᠡᠭᠡᠢ(Traditional Mongolian)
Pronounced: TESH-ee
Rating: 62% based on 6 votes
Means "Earth (the planet); world".
Delicia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: də-LISH-ə
Personal remark: nn Cia
Rating: 45% based on 4 votes
Either from Latin deliciae "delight, pleasure" or a variant of the English word delicious. It has been used since the 17th century (rarely).
Darya 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian
Other Scripts: Дарья(Russian) Дар'я(Belarusian, Ukrainian)
Pronounced: DA-ryə(Russian)
Rating: 60% based on 5 votes
Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian form of Daria.
Daleyza
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (Hispanic, Modern)
Personal remark: nn Day, Leya
Rating: 53% based on 4 votes
Meaning uncertain, perhaps an elaboration of Dalia 1. This name was used by Mexican-American musician Larry Hernandez for his daughter born 2010.
Daisy
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DAY-zee
Rating: 82% based on 11 votes
Simply from the English word for the white flower, ultimately derived from Old English dægeseage meaning "day eye". It was first used as a given name in the 19th century, at the same time many other plant and flower names were coined.

This name was fairly popular at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th. The American author F. Scott Fitzgerald used it for the character of Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby (1925). The Walt Disney cartoon character Daisy Duck was created in 1940 as the girlfriend of Donald Duck. It was at a low in popularity in the United States in the 1970s when it got a small boost from a character on the television series The Dukes of Hazzard in 1979.

Daisha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American, Modern, Rare)
Pronounced: DAY-zhə(American English) DAY-shə(American English) Day-sha(American English)
Personal remark: nn Day
Rating: 65% based on 8 votes
Of uncertain origin and meaning.

Either a phonetic spelling of Dacia or a variant of Deja, the spelling possibly influenced by Daisy or Aisha.

Dacia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman, Italian, Sicilian
Pronounced: DAT-sha(Italian, Sicilian)
Rating: 52% based on 5 votes
Feminine form of Dacius and Dacio.
Cyrena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: North Frisian (Archaic)
Personal remark: nn Cy, Ren
Rating: 65% based on 6 votes
Archaic North Frisian form of Severine, recorded on the isle of Sylt in the 1600s.
Cynthia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, French, Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Κυνθία(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: SIN-thee-ə(English) SEEN-TYA(French)
Personal remark: nn Cindy
Rating: 70% based on 4 votes
Latinized form of Greek Κυνθία (Kynthia), which means "woman from Cynthus". This was an epithet of the Greek moon goddess Artemis, given because Cynthus was the mountain on Delos on which she and her twin brother Apollo were born. It was not used as a given name until the Renaissance, and it did not become common in the English-speaking world until the 19th century. It reached a peak of popularity in the United States in 1957 and has declined steadily since then.
Cressida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: KREHS-i-də(English)
Personal remark: nn Essie
Rating: 66% based on 8 votes
Form of Criseida used by Shakespeare in his play Troilus and Cressida (1602).
Courtney
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KAWRT-nee(American English) KAWT-nee(British English)
Personal remark: nn Courts
Rating: 51% based on 9 votes
From an aristocratic English surname that was derived either from the French place name Courtenay (originally a derivative of the personal name Curtenus, itself derived from Latin curtus "short") or else from a Norman nickname meaning "short nose".

Originally more common as a name for boys in America, it became more popular for girls in the 1960s. It began rapidly increasing after 1973, possibly due to a character (played by Natalie Wood) in the television movie The Affair. It reached an apex in the United States ranked 17th in 1990, though it has quickly fallen away since then.

Clover
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: KLO-vər(American English) KLO-və(British English)
Personal remark: nn Clove
Rating: 69% based on 9 votes
From the English word for the wild flower, ultimately deriving from Old English clafre.
Cleo
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KLEE-o
Rating: 87% based on 7 votes
Short form of Cleopatra, Cleon or Cleopas.
Claudia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: KLAW-dee-ə(English) KLOW-dya(German, Italian, Romanian) KLOW-dee-a(Dutch, Latin) KLOW-dhya(Spanish)
Rating: 71% based on 7 votes
Feminine form of Claudius. It is mentioned briefly in the New Testament. As a Christian name it was very rare until the 16th century.
Clarisa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: kla-REE-sa
Personal remark: nn Clara, Clary, Risa
Rating: 75% based on 8 votes
Spanish form of Clarissa.
Clara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, Catalan, Romanian, English, Swedish, Danish, Late Roman
Pronounced: KLA-ra(German, Spanish, Italian) KLA-ru(Portuguese) KLA-RA(French) KLEHR-ə(American English) KLAR-ə(American English) KLAH-rə(British English)
Rating: 76% based on 5 votes
Feminine form of the Late Latin name Clarus, which meant "clear, bright, famous". The name Clarus was borne by a few early saints. The feminine form was popularized by the 13th-century Saint Clare of Assisi (called Chiara in Italian), a friend and follower of Saint Francis, who left her wealthy family to found the order of nuns known as the Poor Clares.

As an English name it has been in use since the Middle Ages, originally in the form Clare, though the Latinate spelling Clara overtook it in the 19th century and became very popular. It declined through most of the 20th century (being eclipsed by the French form Claire in English-speaking countries), though it has since recovered somewhat.

Cierra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: see-EHR-ə
Rating: 55% based on 4 votes
Variant of Sierra.
Ciera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: see-EHR-ə
Rating: 53% based on 4 votes
Variant of Sierra.
Cheyenne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: shie-AN
Rating: 65% based on 6 votes
Derived from the Lakota word šahiyena meaning "red speakers". This is the name of a Native American people of the Great Plains. The name was supposedly given to the Cheyenne by the Lakota because their language was unrelated to their own. As a given name, it has been in use since the 1950s.
Celeste
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, English
Pronounced: cheh-LEH-steh(Italian) theh-LEHS-teh(European Spanish) seh-LEHS-teh(Latin American Spanish) sə-LEST(English)
Personal remark: nn Essie
Rating: 86% based on 5 votes
Italian feminine and masculine form of Caelestis. It is also the Portuguese, Spanish and English feminine form.
Cayetana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: ka-yeh-TA-na
Personal remark: nn Etta, Caya
Rating: 68% based on 6 votes
Spanish feminine form of Caietanus (see Gaetano).
Catriona
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish, Scottish
Pronounced: kə-TREE-nə(English)
Rating: 67% based on 6 votes
Anglicized form of Caitríona (Irish) or Caitrìona (Scottish Gaelic).
Catalina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Corsican
Pronounced: ka-ta-LEE-na(Spanish)
Personal remark: nn Lina
Rating: 73% based on 7 votes
Spanish and Corsican form of Katherine.
Cataleya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Various (Rare)
Personal remark: nn Teya, Leya
Rating: 65% based on 4 votes
Variant of cattleya, a genus of orchids native to Central and South America, which were named for the British horticulturist William Cattley. This name was popularized by the main character from the movie Colombiana (2011).
Cassiopeia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Κασσιόπεια, Κασσιέπεια(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: kas-ee-ə-PEE-ə(English)
Personal remark: nn Cassie
Rating: 73% based on 8 votes
Latinized form of Greek Κασσιόπεια (Kassiopeia) or Κασσιέπεια (Kassiepeia), possibly meaning "cassia juice". In Greek myth Cassiopeia was the wife of Cepheus and the mother of Andromeda. She was changed into a constellation and placed in the northern sky after she died.
Cassidy
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: KAS-i-dee
Personal remark: nn Cassie
Rating: 67% based on 7 votes
From an Irish surname (Anglicized from Irish Gaelic Ó Caiside), which is derived from the byname Caiside. Very rare as a given name before the 1970s, it established itself in the 80s and then surged in popularity during the 90s.
Cassiana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman, Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian), Provençal
Personal remark: nn Cassie
Rating: 61% based on 7 votes
Feminine form of Cassian.
Cassandra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, French, Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Κασσάνδρα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: kə-SAN-drə(English) kə-SAHN-drə(English)
Personal remark: nn Cassie
Rating: 72% based on 6 votes
From the Greek name Κασσάνδρα (Kassandra), possibly derived from κέκασμαι (kekasmai) meaning "to excel, to shine" and ἀνήρ (aner) meaning "man" (genitive ἀνδρός). In Greek myth Cassandra was a Trojan princess, the daughter of Priam and Hecuba. She was given the gift of prophecy by Apollo, but when she spurned his advances he cursed her so nobody would believe her prophecies.

In the Middle Ages this name was common in England due to the popularity of medieval tales about the Trojan War. It subsequently became rare, but was revived in the 20th century.

Cameron
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KAM-rən
Rating: 69% based on 7 votes
From a Scottish surname meaning "crooked nose" from Gaelic cam "crooked" and sròn "nose". As a given name it is mainly used for boys. It got a little bump in popularity for girls in the second half of the 1990s, likely because of the fame of actress Cameron Diaz (1972-). In the United States, the forms Camryn and Kamryn are now more popular than Cameron for girls.
Calypso
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Καλυψώ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: kə-LIP-so(English)
Rating: 46% based on 5 votes
From Greek Καλυψώ (Kalypso), which probably meant "she that conceals", derived from καλύπτω (kalypto) meaning "to cover, to conceal". In Greek myth this was the name of the nymph who fell in love with Odysseus after he was shipwrecked on her island of Ogygia. When he refused to stay with her she detained him for seven years until Zeus ordered her to release him.
Calliope
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Καλλιόπη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: kə-LIE-ə-pee(English)
Personal remark: nn Callie
Rating: 50% based on 5 votes
Latinized form of Kalliope.
Caelina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Personal remark: nn Cael
Rating: 64% based on 8 votes
Feminine form of Caelinus.
Caelia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Pronounced: KIE-lee-a
Rating: 58% based on 8 votes
Feminine form of Caelius.
Brynhild
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norwegian, Norse Mythology
Personal remark: nn Bryn
Rating: 53% based on 6 votes
Norwegian form of Brynhildr.
Bronwen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: BRAWN-wehn
Rating: 60% based on 8 votes
Seemingly derived from Welsh bron "breast" and gwen "white, blessed", though it has sometimes occurred as a variant spelling of the legendary name Branwen [1]. It has been used as a given name in Wales since the 19th century. It is borne by a character in Richard Llewellyn's 1939 novel How Green Was My Valley, as well as the 1941 movie adaptation.
Bronte
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: BRAHN-tee(American English) BRAWN-tee(British English)
Rating: 54% based on 7 votes
From a surname, an Anglicized form of Irish Ó Proinntigh, itself derived from the given name Proinnteach, probably from Irish bronntach meaning "generous". The Brontë sisters — Charlotte, Emily, and Anne — were 19th-century English novelists. Their father changed the spelling of the family surname from Brunty to Brontë, possibly to make it coincide with Greek βροντή meaning "thunder".
Briseida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Personal remark: nn Brisa, Seia
Rating: 46% based on 5 votes
Form of Briseis used in medieval tales about the Trojan War.
Brisa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: BREE-sah
Rating: 70% based on 9 votes
Previously a short form of Briseida, though it is now regarded as an independent name directly from the Spanish word brisa "breeze". In Mexico this name was popularized by a character named Brisa (played by actress Margarita Magaña) on the telenovela "Por tu amor" (1999).
Brigid
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish, Irish Mythology
Rating: 61% based on 7 votes
Irish variant of Brighid (see Bridget).
Brienne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (Modern, Rare), Popular Culture, Literature
Rating: 64% based on 7 votes
Variant of Brianne. This is the name of a character in George R. R. Martin's 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series, as well as the TV show based on the books 'Game of Thrones'. Martin did not originate this form, though, for it was in use in the United States well before the first book in the series was published in 1996.
Bridget
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish, English
Pronounced: BRIJ-it(English)
Rating: 63% based on 6 votes
Anglicized form of the Irish name Brighid, Old Irish Brigit, from old Celtic *Brigantī meaning "the exalted one". In Irish mythology this was the name of the goddess of fire, poetry and wisdom, the daughter of the god Dagda. In the 5th century it was borne by Saint Brigid, the founder of a monastery at Kildare and a patron saint of Ireland. Because of the saint, the name was considered sacred in Ireland, and it did not come into general use there until the 17th century. In the form Birgitta this name has been common in Scandinavia, made popular by the 14th-century Saint Birgitta of Sweden, patron saint of Europe.
Brenna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BREHN-ə
Rating: 54% based on 7 votes
Possibly a variant of Brenda or a feminine form of Brennan.
Branwen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh, Welsh Mythology
Pronounced: BRAN-wehn(Welsh)
Rating: 51% based on 9 votes
Means "white raven" from Old Welsh bran "raven" and gwen "white, blessed". According to the Second Branch of the Mabinogi [1] she was the daughter of Llŷr. After she was mistreated by her husband Matholwch, the king of Ireland, she managed to get a message to her brother Brân, the king of Britain. Brân launched a costly invasion to rescue her, but she died of grief shortly after her return.
Blair
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Scottish, English
Pronounced: BLEHR(American English) BLEH(British English)
Rating: 50% based on 7 votes
From a Scottish surname that was derived from Gaelic blàr meaning "plain, field, battlefield". In Scotland this name is typically masculine.

In the United States it became more common for girls in the early 1980s, shortly after the debut of the television sitcom The Facts of Life (1979-1988), which featured a character named Blair Warner. The name left the American top 1000 rankings two decades later, but was resurrected by another television character, this time Blair Waldorf from the series Gossip Girl (2007-2012).

Bianca
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Romanian
Pronounced: BYANG-ka(Italian, Romanian) bee-AHNG-kə(English) bee-ANG-kə(English)
Rating: 71% based on 7 votes
Italian cognate of Blanche. Shakespeare had characters named Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew (1593) and Othello (1603). The German singer Freddy Breck's 1973 song Bianca boosted the name's popularity elsewhere in Europe.
Bellona
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Pronounced: behl-LO-na(Latin) bə-LON-ə(English)
Personal remark: nn Bell, Ellie
Rating: 59% based on 9 votes
Derived from Latin bellare meaning "to fight". This was the name of the Roman goddess of war, a companion of Mars.
Bellamira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American, Rare), Theatre
Personal remark: nn Ellie, Mira
Rating: 57% based on 9 votes
Probably derived from the Latin elements bella "beautiful" and mira "wondrous" (cf. Mirabella). This name belongs to a courtesan in the play The Jew of Malta (written c. 1589 or 1590) by English dramatist Christopher Marlowe.
Belén
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: beh-LEHN
Rating: 62% based on 9 votes
Spanish form of Bethlehem, the name of the town in Judah where King David and Jesus were born. The town's name is from Hebrew בֵּית־לֶחֶם (Beṯ-leḥem) meaning "house of bread".
Beatriz
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: beh-a-TREETH(European Spanish) beh-a-TREES(Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese) byu-TREESH(European Portuguese)
Personal remark: nn Bea
Rating: 70% based on 9 votes
Spanish and Portuguese form of Beatrix.
Azucena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: a-thoo-THEH-na(European Spanish) a-soo-SEH-na(Latin American Spanish)
Personal remark: nn Zena
Rating: 46% based on 5 votes
Means "madonna lily" in Spanish.
Azélie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Rare)
Pronounced: A-ZEH-LEE
Rating: 74% based on 7 votes
Perhaps a form of Azalaïs. It was borne by Saint Marie-Azélie Guérin (1831-1877), also called Zélie, the mother of Thérèse of Lisieux.
Azaliya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Kazakh (Rare), Tajik (Rare), Uzbek (Rare)
Other Scripts: Азалия(Kazakh, Tajik, Uzbek Cyrillic)
Personal remark: nn Zaya, Lia
Rating: 63% based on 7 votes
Derived from Persian ازلی (azalee) or (azali) meaning "eternal, everlasting", which is ultimately derived from Persian ازل (azal) meaning "to eternally be" or "eternity without beginning". Also compare Persian ازلیت (azaliyyat) meaning "eternity" as well as "pre-existence".
Aylin
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Turkish, Azerbaijani, Kazakh
Other Scripts: Айлин(Kazakh)
Rating: 58% based on 5 votes
Elaborated form of Turkish or Azerbaijani ay meaning "moon".
Ayla 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אֵלָה(Hebrew)
Rating: 57% based on 6 votes
Alternate transcription of Hebrew אֵלָה (see Ela 3).
Ayala
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אַיָּלָה(Hebrew)
Pronounced: ie-ah-LAH
Rating: 63% based on 6 votes
Means "doe, female deer" in Hebrew.
Avery
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AY-və-ree, AYV-ree
Rating: 66% based on 8 votes
From an English surname that was itself derived from the Norman French form of the given names Alberich or Alfred.

As a given name, it was used on the American sitcom Murphy Brown (1988-1998) for both the mother and son of the main character. By 1998 it was more popular as a name for girls in the United States, perhaps further inspired by a character from the movie Jerry Maguire (1996).

Avellana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: ah-vel-AH-na
Personal remark: nn Vella
Rating: 69% based on 9 votes
Derived from Latin avellana "hazel", literally "from Avella". Alternatively, it could be a transferred use of the Spanish surname Avellana.
Avalon
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: AV-ə-lahn(American English) AV-ə-lawn(British English)
Rating: 44% 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.
Aurora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, English, Romanian, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Roman Mythology
Pronounced: ow-RAW-ra(Italian) ow-RO-ra(Spanish, Latin) ə-RAWR-ə(English) OW-ro-rah(Finnish)
Personal remark: nn Rory
Rating: 82% based on 6 votes
Means "dawn" in Latin. Aurora was the Roman goddess of the morning. It has occasionally been used as a given name since the Renaissance.
Aurelia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman, Romanian, Italian, Spanish, Polish
Pronounced: ow-REH-lee-a(Latin) ow-REH-lya(Italian, Spanish, Polish)
Personal remark: nn Auri
Rating: 75% based on 11 votes
Feminine form of Aurelius.
Augusta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Portuguese, English, German, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: ow-GOOS-ta(Italian) ə-GUS-tə(English) ow-GUWS-ta(German)
Rating: 58% based on 8 votes
Feminine form of Augustus. It was introduced to Britain when King George III, a member of the German House of Hanover, gave this name to his second daughter in 1768.
Audrey
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, French
Pronounced: AWD-ree(English) O-DREH(French)
Rating: 69% based on 8 votes
Medieval diminutive of Æðelþryð. This was the name of a 7th-century saint, a princess of East Anglia who founded a monastery at Ely. It was also used by William Shakespeare for a character in his comedy As You Like It (1599). At the end of the Middle Ages the name became rare due to association with the word tawdry (which was derived from St. Audrey, the name of a fair where cheap lace was sold), but it was revived in the 19th century. A famous bearer was British actress Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993).
Audra 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Lithuanian
Pronounced: OW-dru
Rating: 77% based on 7 votes
Means "storm" in Lithuanian.
Athena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, English
Other Scripts: Ἀθηνᾶ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: A-TEH-NA(Classical Greek) ə-THEE-nə(English)
Rating: 84% based on 5 votes
Meaning unknown. Athena was the Greek goddess of wisdom and warfare and the patron goddess of the city of Athens in Greece. It is likely that her name is derived from that of the city, not vice versa. The earliest mention of her seems to be a 15th-century BC Mycenaean Greek inscription from Knossos on Crete.

The daughter of Zeus, she was said to have sprung from his head fully grown after he impregnated and swallowed her mother Metis. Athena is associated with the olive tree and the owl.

Atarah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: עֲטָרָה(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: AT-ə-rə(English)
Rating: 67% based on 7 votes
Means "crown" in Hebrew. In the Old Testament Atarah is a minor character, the wife of Jerahmeel.
Astrid
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, French, English
Pronounced: AS-strid(Swedish) AHS-tri(Norwegian) AS-trit(German) AS-TREED(French) AS-trid(English)
Personal remark: nn Attie
Rating: 76% based on 12 votes
Modern Scandinavian form of Ástríðr. This name was borne by the Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002), the author of Pippi Longstocking. It was also borne by a Swedish princess (1905-1935) who became the queen of Belgium as the wife of Leopold III.
Aslana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Turkish (Rare), Malaysian (Rare)
Rating: 64% based on 7 votes
Ashton
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: ASH-tən
Personal remark: nn Ash
Rating: 68% based on 6 votes
From an English surname, itself derived from a place name meaning "ash tree town" in Old English. This was a rare masculine name until the 1980s, when it gradually began becoming more common for both genders. Inspired by the female character Ashton Main from the 1985 miniseries North and South, parents in America gave it more frequently to girls than boys from 1986 to 1997 [1]. Since then it has been overwhelmingly masculine once again, perhaps due in part to the fame of the actor Ashton Kutcher (1978-).
Asena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Turkish
Rating: 58% based on 5 votes
Possibly of Scythian origin meaning "blue". In Turkic mythology Asena was a grey wolf who gave birth to the ancestor of the Ashina tribe of Turks.
Asana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: African, Dagbani
Rating: 65% based on 8 votes
The name Asana is a derivative of Hassan.
In Northern Ghana, it is the name given to the second born of a pair of twin girls. The first born twin is named Fuseina According to superstition, the second twin is considered to be the older twin because it is said that during the trauma of birth, the older twin send the younger twin ahead to make sure the world is safe.
Male versions of the names are Alhassan and Fuseini.
Arwen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Personal remark: nn
Rating: 73% based on 11 votes
Means "noble maiden" in the fictional language Sindarin. In The Lord of the Rings (1954) by J. R. R. Tolkien, Arwen was the daughter of Elrond and the lover of Aragorn.
Arinya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Thai
Other Scripts: อริญญา(Thai)
Pronounced: a-reen-YA
Rating: 56% based on 8 votes
Derived from Thai ปริญญา (parinya) meaning "knowledge, awareness, understanding".
Ariadne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἀριάδνη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: A-REE-AD-NEH(Classical Greek) ar-ee-AD-nee(English)
Personal remark: nn Aria, Annie
Rating: 69% based on 12 votes
Means "most holy", composed of the Greek prefix ἀρι (ari) meaning "most" combined with Cretan Greek ἀδνός (adnos) meaning "holy". In Greek mythology, Ariadne was the daughter of King Minos. She fell in love with Theseus and helped him to escape the Labyrinth and the Minotaur, but was later abandoned by him. Eventually she married the god Dionysus.
Arcelia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American)
Pronounced: ar-SEH-lya(Latin American Spanish) ar-THEH-lya(European Spanish)
Personal remark: nn Arly, Ellie, RC
Rating: 62% based on 11 votes
Variant of Araceli.
Arcadia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American)
Pronounced: ar-KA-dhya
Personal remark: nn Cady
Rating: 66% based on 8 votes
Feminine form of Arcadius. This is the name of a region on the Greek Peloponnese, long idealized for its natural beauty.
Araminta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Personal remark: nn Ari
Rating: 62% based on 9 votes
Meaning unknown. This name was (first?) used by William Congreve in his comedy The Old Bachelor (1693) and later by John Vanbrugh in his comedy The Confederacy (1705). This was the original given name of abolitionist Harriet Tubman (1820-1913), who was born Araminta Ross.
Aracely
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American)
Pronounced: a-ra-SEH-lee(Latin American Spanish) a-ra-THEH-lee(European Spanish)
Personal remark: nn Arly, RC
Rating: 56% based on 7 votes
Variant of Araceli.
Araceli
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: a-ra-THEH-lee(European Spanish) a-ra-SEH-lee(Latin American Spanish)
Personal remark: nn Arly, RC
Rating: 53% based on 7 votes
Means "altar of the sky" from Latin ara "altar" and coeli "sky". This is an epithet of the Virgin Mary in her role as the patron saint of Lucena, Spain.
Aquinnah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Wampanoag
Rating: 65% based on 10 votes
From Wampanoag Âhqunah meaning "the end of the island". This is also the name of a town on the island of Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. American actor Michael J. Fox gave this name to his daughter Aquinnah Kathleen born in 1995.
Aquilia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Rating: 64% based on 11 votes
Feminine form of Aquillius. This name was borne by Aquilia Severa, the second and fourth wife of Emperor Elagabalus.
Aquila
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Biblical, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: AK-wil-ə(English) ə-KWIL-ə(English)
Rating: 66% based on 9 votes
From a Roman cognomen meaning "eagle" in Latin. In Acts in the New Testament Paul lives with Aquila and his wife Priscilla (or Prisca) for a time.
Anya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian, English
Other Scripts: Аня(Russian)
Pronounced: A-nyə(Russian) AN-yə(English)
Rating: 88% based on 8 votes
Russian diminutive of Anna.
Anwen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Rating: 70% based on 10 votes
Means "very beautiful" in Welsh, from the intensive prefix an- combined with gwen "white, blessed".
Antonia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Romanian, Greek, Croatian, Bulgarian, Ancient Roman
Other Scripts: Αντωνία(Greek) Антония(Bulgarian)
Pronounced: an-TO-nya(Italian, Spanish, German) an-TO-nee-ə(English) ahn-TO-nee-a(Dutch) an-TO-nee-a(Latin)
Personal remark: nn Annie, Tia, Toni
Rating: 58% based on 11 votes
Feminine form of Antonius (see Anthony).
Annora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Personal remark: nn Annie, Nora
Rating: 71% based on 9 votes
Medieval English variant of Honora.
Anneli
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish, Estonian, Swedish, German
Pronounced: AHN-neh-lee(Finnish) A-nə-lee(German)
Rating: 52% based on 6 votes
Finnish, Estonian and Swedish form of Annelie, as well as a German variant.
Annalise
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Danish, English (Modern)
Personal remark: nn Annie
Rating: 70% based on 6 votes
Combination of Anna and Lise.
Annalee
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: AN-ə-lee
Personal remark: nn Annie, Lee
Rating: 60% based on 7 votes
Combination of Anna and Lee.
Andromeda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἀνδρομέδα, Ἀνδρομέδη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: AN-DRO-MEH-DA(Classical Greek) an-DRAH-mi-də(American English) an-DRAW-mi-də(British English)
Personal remark: nn Andie, Roe
Rating: 58% based on 6 votes
Derived from Greek ἀνήρ (aner) meaning "man" (genitive ἀνδρός) combined with one of the related words μέδομαι (medomai) meaning "to be mindful of, to provide for, to think on" or μέδω (medo) meaning "to protect, to rule over". In Greek mythology Andromeda was an Ethiopian princess rescued from sacrifice by the hero Perseus. A constellation in the northern sky is named for her. This is also the name of a nearby galaxy, given because it resides (from our point of view) within the constellation.
Anderequina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Gascon (Archaic), Medieval Occitan
Personal remark: nn Andie, Reina, Quia, Q
Rating: 49% based on 8 votes
Derived from Basque andere "lady" in combination with a diminutive suffix.
Anayeli
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Zapotec (Hispanicized)
Personal remark: nn Anni, Ellie
Rating: 50% based on 6 votes
Variant of Nayeli.
Anastasia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, English, Spanish, Italian, Georgian, Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Αναστασία(Greek) Анастасия(Russian) Анастасія(Ukrainian, Belarusian) ანასტასია(Georgian) Ἀναστασία(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: a-na-sta-SEE-a(Greek) u-nu-stu-SYEE-yə(Russian) u-nu-stu-SYEE-yu(Ukrainian) a-na-sta-SYEE-ya(Belarusian) an-ə-STAY-zhə(English) a-na-STA-sya(Spanish) a-na-STA-zya(Italian) A-NA-STA-SEE-A(Classical Greek)
Personal remark: nn Annie, Tasi
Rating: 80% based on 7 votes
Feminine form of Anastasius. This was the name of a 4th-century Dalmatian saint who was martyred during the persecutions of the Roman emperor Diocletian. Due to her, the name has been common in Eastern Orthodox Christianity (in various spellings). As an English name it has been in use since the Middle Ages. A famous bearer was the youngest daughter of the last Russian tsar Nicholas II, who was rumoured to have escaped the execution of her family in 1918.
Anara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Kazakh, Kyrgyz
Other Scripts: Анара(Kazakh, Kyrgyz)
Pronounced: ah-nah-RAH(Kazakh)
Rating: 70% based on 6 votes
From Kazakh and Kyrgyz анар (anar) meaning "pomegranate", a word ultimately derived from Persian.
Anaís
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Catalan, Spanish
Pronounced: ə-nə-EES(Catalan) a-na-EES(Spanish)
Rating: 72% based on 6 votes
Catalan and Spanish form of Anaïs.
Amira 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic, Bosnian, Malay
Other Scripts: أميرة(Arabic)
Pronounced: a-MEE-ra(Arabic)
Rating: 64% based on 7 votes
Feminine form of Amir 1.
Aminah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic, Malay, Indonesian
Other Scripts: آمنة, أمينة(Arabic)
Pronounced: A-mee-na(Arabic) a-MEE-na(Arabic)
Rating: 67% based on 7 votes
Alternate transcription of Arabic Amina 1 or Amina 2, as well as the usual form in Malay and Indonesian.
Amethyst
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: AM-ə-thist
Rating: 55% based on 10 votes
From the name of the purple semi-precious stone, which is derived from the Greek negative prefix (a) and μέθυστος (methystos) meaning "intoxicated, drunk", as it was believed to be a remedy against drunkenness. It is the traditional birthstone of February.
Amery
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: AM-ə-ree
Rating: 61% based on 7 votes
Variant of Emery.
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: 83% based on 8 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.

Amaya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque, Spanish, English (Modern)
Pronounced: a-MA-ya(Spanish) ə-MIE-ə(English)
Personal remark: nn Mai
Rating: 71% based on 13 votes
Variant of Amaia.

In America, this name was popularized in 1999 by a contestant on the reality television series The Real World [1].

Amarantha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Various (Rare)
Personal remark: nn Mara
Rating: 70% based on 9 votes
From the name of the amaranth flower, which is derived from Greek ἀμάραντος (amarantos) meaning "unfading". Ἀμάραντος (Amarantos) was also an Ancient Greek given name.
Amara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Igbo
Personal remark: nn Ara, Mara
Rating: 66% based on 11 votes
Means "grace" in Igbo.
Alondra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American)
Pronounced: a-LON-dra
Rating: 57% based on 7 votes
Derived from Spanish alondra meaning "lark".
Alodia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Gothic (Latinized)
Rating: 57% based on 7 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.
Almudena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: al-moo-DHEH-na
Personal remark: nn Alena, Luna
Rating: 63% based on 8 votes
Derived from Arabic المدينة (al-mudayna) meaning "the citadel", a diminutive form of the word مدينة (madīna) meaning "city". According to legend, it was in a building by this name that a concealed statue of the Virgin Mary was discovered during the Reconquista in Madrid. The Virgin of Almudena, that is Mary, is the patron saint of Madrid.
Allira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Indigenous Australian
Pronounced: Ah-leer-uh
Personal remark: nn Allie, Lira
Rating: 67% based on 10 votes
Variant of Alira.
Allegra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, English (Rare)
Pronounced: al-LEH-gra(Italian) ə-LEHG-rə(English)
Rating: 81% based on 8 votes
Means "cheerful, lively" in Italian. It was borne by a short-lived illegitimate daughter of Lord Byron (1817-1822).
Alkinoa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek
Other Scripts: Αλκινοα(Ancient Greek)
Personal remark: nn Noa, Koa
Rating: 60% based on 7 votes
Variant of Alkinoe.
Alkina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Indigenous Australian, Yawaru
Rating: 66% based on 7 votes
Means "moon" in the Yawaru language.
Alizée
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Modern)
Pronounced: A-LEE-ZEH
Personal remark: nn Z
Rating: 78% based on 9 votes
From French alizé meaning "trade wind".
Aliz
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hungarian
Pronounced: AW-leez
Rating: 52% based on 6 votes
Hungarian form of Alice.
Alira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Indigenous Australian, Wurundjeri, Arrernte
Pronounced: A-LEE-rah(Indigenous Australian)
Rating: 70% based on 8 votes
Means "clear quartz crystal" from the word allirea in Wurundjeri, spoken near Melbourne, Australia.

Means "niece" in Arrernte, spoken in Alice Springs, central Australia. It can also mean "daughter" in other Aboriginal languages.

Alina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Romanian, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Slovene, German, Italian, Spanish
Other Scripts: Алина(Russian) Аліна(Ukrainian, Belarusian)
Pronounced: a-LEE-na(Romanian, Polish, German, Italian, Spanish) u-LYEE-nə(Russian) u-LYEE-nu(Ukrainian) a-LYEE-na(Belarusian)
Rating: 71% based on 7 votes
Short form of Adelina, Albina and names that end in alina.
Alicia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, English, Swedish, French
Pronounced: a-LEE-thya(European Spanish) a-LEE-sya(Latin American Spanish) ə-LEE-shə(English) ə-LEE-see-ə(English)
Personal remark: nn Cia
Rating: 73% based on 7 votes
Latinized form of Alice.
Alice
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, French, Portuguese, Italian, German, Czech, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Dutch
Pronounced: AL-is(English) A-LEES(French) u-LEE-si(European Portuguese) a-LEE-see(Brazilian Portuguese) a-LEE-cheh(Italian) a-LEES(German) A-li-tseh(Czech)
Rating: 83% based on 6 votes
From the Old French name Aalis, a short form of Adelais, itself a short form of the Germanic name Adalheidis (see Adelaide). This name became popular in France and England in the 12th century. It was among the most common names in England until the 16th century, when it began to decline. It was revived in the 19th century.

This name was borne by the heroine of Lewis Carroll's novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass (1871).

Alhena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Astronomy
Other Scripts: الهنعه(Arabic)
Rating: 64% based on 7 votes
Derived from Arabic الهنعه (al-Han'āh) "sign (on the neck of a camel)", this is the name of the third-brightest star in the constellation of Gemini.
Alexandria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: al-ig-ZAN-dree-ə(American English) al-ig-ZAHN-dree-ə(British English)
Personal remark: nn Alex, Lexa, Andie, Indra, Leia
Rating: 84% based on 13 votes
Feminine form of Alexander. Alexander the Great founded several cities by this name (or renamed them) as he extended his empire eastward. The most notable of these is Alexandria in Egypt, founded by Alexander in 331 BC.
Alessia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: a-LEHS-sya
Personal remark: nn Essie, Lia
Rating: 68% based on 12 votes
Italian feminine form of Alexius.
Alena 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Czech, Slovak, Slovene
Pronounced: A-leh-na(Czech, Slovak)
Rating: 63% based on 6 votes
Short form of Magdalena or Helena. This was the name of a saint, possibly legendary, who was martyred near Brussels in the 7th century.
Alejandra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: a-leh-KHAN-dra
Personal remark: nn Aleja, Anni
Rating: 75% based on 8 votes
Spanish form of Alexandra.
Aleida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch, Spanish (Latin American)
Pronounced: a-LAY-da(Dutch) a-LAY-dha(Spanish)
Personal remark: nn Leia
Rating: 68% based on 6 votes
Dutch and Spanish short form of Adelaide.
Aldina 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese
Rating: 60% based on 5 votes
Feminine form of Aldo.
Aldara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Galician
Rating: 53% based on 7 votes
Galician form of the Visigothic name *Hildiwara, which was composed of the Gothic elements hilds "battle" and wars "aware, cautious". This was the name of the 7th-century wife of the Visigothic king Gundemar. It was also borne by the mother of Saint Rosendo (10th century).
Alcyone
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἀλκυόνη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: al-SIE-ə-nee(English)
Personal remark: nn Allie, Lucy
Rating: 65% based on 10 votes
Latinized form of Greek Ἀλκυόνη (Alkyone), derived from the word ἀλκυών (alkyon) meaning "kingfisher". In Greek myth this name belonged to a daughter of Aeolus and the wife of Ceyx. After her husband was killed in a shipwreck she threw herself into the water, but the gods saved her and turned them both into kingfishers. This is also the name of the brightest of the Pleiades, a group of stars in the constellation Taurus, supposedly the daughters of Atlas and Pleione.
Alcina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Carolingian Cycle
Rating: 15% based on 2 votes
Used by Ludovico Ariosto in his poem Orlando Furioso (1532), where it belongs to a sorceress who abducts Ruggiero. Ariosto may have borrowed the name from the mythological Alcinoe or directly from the Greek word ἀλκή (alke) meaning "strength, prowess". George Frideric Handel adapted the story into his opera Alcina in 1735.
Alberta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
Pronounced: al-BUR-tə(American English) al-BU-tə(British English) al-BEHR-ta(Italian, Spanish) al-BEHR-tu(European Portuguese) ow-BEKH-tu(Brazilian Portuguese)
Personal remark: nn Albie
Rating: 70% based on 6 votes
Feminine form of Albert. This is the name of a Canadian province, which was named in honour of a daughter of Queen Victoria.
Akira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 昭, 明, 亮, 晶, etc.(Japanese Kanji) あきら(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: A-KYEE-RA
Rating: 77% based on 11 votes
From Japanese (akira) meaning "bright", (akira) meaning "bright" or (akira) meaning "clear". Other kanji with the same pronunciation can also form this name. A famous bearer was the Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998), given name written .
Akilah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic, African American
Other Scripts: عقيلة(Arabic)
Pronounced: ‘a-KEE-la(Arabic) ə-KEE-lə(English)
Personal remark: nn Kia
Rating: 71% based on 11 votes
Alternate transcription of Arabic عقيلة (see Aqila).
Aiyana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: African American
Pronounced: ai-AHN-ah
Rating: 70% based on 8 votes
Variant of Ayanna.
Aitana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: ie-TA-na
Rating: 58% based on 6 votes
From the name of a mountain range in Valencia, eastern Spain. The Spanish poet Rafael Alberti used it for his daughter in 1941.
Airelle
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Rare), English (Rare), Literature
Rating: 71% based on 9 votes
Derived from airelle, the French name for the plant genus Vaccinium. The French derived the name from Portuguese airella, which in turn was derived from Latin atra "dark, black, gloomy".
Aelita
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature, Russian, Latvian
Other Scripts: Аэлита(Russian)
Pronounced: ui-LYEE-tə(Russian)
Personal remark: nn Lita
Rating: 47% based on 7 votes
Created by Russian author Aleksey Tolstoy for his science fiction novel Aelita (1923), where it belongs to a Martian princess. In the book, the name is said to mean "starlight seen for the last time" in the Martian language.
Aelin
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Personal remark: nn Aeli
Rating: 69% based on 11 votes
Possibly inspired by Aylin. It is the name of a character in the 'Throne of Glass' series by Sarah J. Maas.
Aeliana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Personal remark: nn Aeli, Lana
Rating: 66% based on 14 votes
Feminine form of Aelianus.
Adriana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Polish, Slovak, Czech, Bulgarian, English, Dutch
Other Scripts: Адриана(Bulgarian)
Pronounced: a-dree-A-na(Italian, Dutch) a-DHRYA-na(Spanish) a-DRYA-na(Polish) ay-dree-AN-ə(English) ay-dree-AHN-ə(English)
Rating: 68% based on 8 votes
Feminine form of Adrian. A famous bearer is the Brazilian model Adriana Lima (1981-).
Adrasteia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἀδράστεια(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: A-DRAS-TEH-A(Classical Greek)
Personal remark: nn Reia, Teia
Rating: 58% based on 10 votes
Feminine form of Adrastos. In Greek mythology this name was borne by a nymph who fostered the infant Zeus. This was also another name of the goddess Nemesis.
Adina 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Other Scripts: Ἀδινά(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 58% based on 8 votes
From the Hebrew name עֲדִינָא (ʿAḏina), derived from עָדִין (ʿaḏin) meaning "delicate". This name is borne by a soldier in the Old Testament.

The feminine name Adina 3 is from the same root, but is spelled differently in Hebrew.

Aderyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh (Rare)
Personal remark: nn Ryn
Rating: 49% based on 8 votes
Means "bird" in Welsh. This is a modern Welsh name.
Adelita
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American)
Pronounced: a-dheh-LEE-ta
Personal remark: nn Lita
Rating: 61% based on 12 votes
Spanish diminutive of Adela. It is used especially in Mexico, where it is the name of a folk song about a female soldier.
Adeline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, English
Pronounced: A-DU-LEEN(French) AD-ə-lien(English)
Rating: 69% based on 9 votes
French and English form of Adelina.
Adelina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Romanian, Bulgarian, Germanic (Latinized) [1]
Other Scripts: Аделина(Bulgarian)
Pronounced: a-deh-LEE-na(Italian) a-dheh-LEE-na(Spanish)
Personal remark: nn Lina
Rating: 61% based on 8 votes
From a Germanic name that was derived from the element adal meaning "noble" (Proto-Germanic *aþalaz).
Adelaide
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Portuguese
Pronounced: A-də-layd(English) a-deh-LIE-deh(Italian) a-di-LIE-di(European Portuguese) a-di-LIED(European Portuguese) a-deh-LIE-jee(Brazilian Portuguese)
Rating: 70% based on 9 votes
Means "nobleness, nobility", from the French form of the Germanic name Adalheidis, which was composed of adal "noble" and the suffix heit "kind, sort, type". It was borne in the 10th century by Saint Adelaide, the wife of the Holy Roman emperor Otto the Great.

In Britain the parallel form Alice, derived via Old French, has historically been more common than Adelaide, though this form did gain some currency in the 19th century due to the popularity of the German-born wife of King William IV, for whom the city of Adelaide in Australia was named in 1836.

Adelaida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: a-dheh-LIE-dha
Personal remark: nn Laia
Rating: 61% based on 9 votes
Spanish form of Adelaide.
Adara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אַדָרָה(Hebrew)
Personal remark: nn Ara
Rating: 60% based on 15 votes
Means "noble" in Hebrew.
Acacia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: ə-KAY-shə
Personal remark: nn Casy, Cia
Rating: 69% based on 10 votes
From the name of a type of tree, ultimately derived from Greek ἀκή (ake) meaning "thorn, point".
Abril
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Catalan
Pronounced: a-BREEL(Spanish) ə-BREEL(Catalan)
Rating: 49% based on 8 votes
Spanish and Catalan form of April.
Abilene
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Various (Rare)
Other Scripts: Ἀβιληνή(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: AB-i-leen(English) ab-i-LEE-nee(English)
Personal remark: nn Billie, Lena
Rating: 57% based on 15 votes
From a place name mentioned briefly in the New Testament. It is probably from Hebrew אָבֵל (ʾavel) meaning "meadow, grassy area". It has occasionally been used as a given name in modern times.
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