Mae17's Personal Name List

Zeus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ζεύς(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: ZDEWS(Classical Greek) ZOOS(English)
Rating: 20% based on 4 votes
The name of a Greek god, related to the old Indo-European god *Dyēws, from the root *dyew- meaning "sky" or "shine". In Greek mythology he was the highest of the gods. After he and his siblings defeated the Titans, Zeus ruled over the earth and humankind from atop Mount Olympus. He had control over the weather and his weapon was a thunderbolt.

This theonym has cognates in other Indo-European languages including Latin Jupiter, Sanskrit Dyaus, and Old Norse Tyr.

Zenon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1], Polish
Other Scripts: Ζήνων(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: ZDEH-NAWN(Classical Greek) ZEH-nawn(Polish)
Rating: 28% based on 4 votes
Ancient Greek form of Zeno, as well as the modern Polish form.
Zarina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Uzbek, Kazakh, Tajik, Urdu, Malay
Other Scripts: Зарина(Uzbek, Kazakh, Tajik) زرینہ(Urdu)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From Persian زرین (zarīn) meaning "golden". According to the 5th-century BC Greek historian Ctesias, this was the name of a Scythian queen.
Xochitl
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Nahuatl
Pronounced: SHO-cheech
Rating: 37% based on 22 votes
Means "flower" in Nahuatl [1].
Xiomara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: syo-MA-ra
Rating: 52% based on 5 votes
Possibly a Spanish form of Guiomar.
Xenon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Ξένων(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: KSEH-NON
Rating: 15% based on 4 votes
Derived from Greek ξένος (xenos) meaning "foreigner, guest".
Xanthia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 44% based on 5 votes
Modern elaborated form of Xanthe.
Wolfram
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German
Pronounced: VAWL-fram
Rating: 52% based on 16 votes
Derived from the Old German element wolf meaning "wolf" combined with hram meaning "raven". Saint Wolfram (or Wulfram) was a 7th-century archbishop of Sens. This name was also borne by the 13th-century German poet Wolfram von Eschenbach, the author of Parzival.
Winston
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: WIN-stən
Rating: 57% based on 22 votes
From an English surname that was derived from the Old English given name Wynnstan. A famous bearer was Winston Churchill (1874-1965), the British prime minister during World War II. This name was also borne by the fictional Winston Smith, the protagonist in George Orwell's 1949 novel 1984.
Wilson
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Spanish (Latin American), Portuguese
Pronounced: WIL-sən(English) WEEL-son(Spanish)
Rating: 47% based on 16 votes
From an English surname meaning "son of William". The surname was borne by Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), the American president during World War I.
Wilbur
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: WIL-bər(American English) WIL-bə(British English)
Rating: 39% based on 21 votes
From an English surname that was originally derived from the nickname Wildbor meaning "wild boar" in Middle English. This name was borne by Wilbur Wright (1867-1912), one half of the Wright brothers, who together invented the first successful airplane. Wright was named after the Methodist minister Wilbur Fisk (1792-1839). A famous fictional bearer is the main character (a pig) in the children's novel Charlotte's Web (1952) by E. B. White.
Wilbert
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch
Pronounced: VIL-bərt
Rating: 39% based on 19 votes
Means "bright will", derived from the Old German elements willo "will, desire" and beraht "bright".
Watson
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: WAHT-sən(American English) WAWT-sən(British English)
Rating: 50% based on 21 votes
From an English surname meaning "son of Wat". A famous fictional bearer of the surname was Dr. Watson, the assistant to Sherlock Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle's mystery stories beginning in 1887.
Walter
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Polish, Italian, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: WAWL-tər(American English) WAWL-tə(British English) VAL-tu(German) VAL-tehr(Swedish, Italian)
Rating: 58% based on 23 votes
From the Germanic name Waltheri meaning "power of the army", from the elements walt "power, authority" and heri "army". In medieval German tales (notably Waltharius by Ekkehard of Saint Gall) Walter of Aquitaine is a heroic king of the Visigoths. The name was also borne by an 11th-century French saint, Walter of Pontoise. The Normans brought it to England, where it replaced the Old English cognate Wealdhere.

A famous bearer of the name was the English courtier, poet and explorer Walter Raleigh (1552-1618). It was also borne by Walter Scott (1771-1832), a Scottish novelist who wrote Ivanhoe and other notable works.

Walt
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: WAWLT
Rating: 35% based on 21 votes
Short form of Walter. A famous bearer was the American animator and filmmaker Walt Disney (1901-1966).
Vladimíra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Czech, Slovak
Pronounced: VLA-gyi-mee-ra(Czech) VLA-gyee-mee-ra(Slovak)
Rating: 35% based on 4 votes
Czech and Slovak form of Vladimira.
Vittoria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: veet-TAW-rya
Rating: 47% based on 6 votes
Italian form of Victoria.
Visitación
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: bee-see-ta-THYON(European Spanish) bee-see-ta-SYON(Latin American Spanish)
Rating: 7% based on 3 votes
Means "visitation" in Spanish. This name is given in reference to the visit of the Virgin Mary to her cousin Elizabeth.
Viriato
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Portuguese
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
From the Latin name Viriathus or Viriatus, which was derived from viriae "bracelets" (of Celtic origin). Viriathus was a leader of the Lusitani (a tribe of Portugal) who rebelled against Roman rule in the 2nd century BC.
Victorine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: VEEK-TAW-REEN
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
French feminine form of Victorinus.
Viatrix
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman
Rating: 36% based on 15 votes
Earlier form of Beatrix.
Vespera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Esperanto
Pronounced: vehs-PEH-ra
Rating: 59% based on 15 votes
Means "of the evening", derived from Esperanto vespero "evening", ultimately from Latin vesper.
Vern
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: VURN(American English) VUN(British English)
Rating: 27% based on 21 votes
Short form of Vernon.
Veríssimo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Portuguese
Rating: 10% based on 3 votes
From the Latin name Verissimus meaning "very true". Saint Verissimus was a Portuguese martyr executed during the persecutions of the Roman emperor Diocletian in the early 4th century.
Venetia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Greek
Other Scripts: Βενετία(Greek)
Rating: 43% based on 4 votes
From the Latin name of the Italian region of Veneto and the city of Venice (see the place name Venetia). This name was borne by the celebrated English beauty Venetia Stanley (1600-1633), though in her case the name may have been a Latinized form of the Welsh name Gwynedd [1]. Benjamin Disraeli used it for the heroine of his novel Venetia (1837).
Venceslas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French (Rare)
Pronounced: VEHN-SEHS-LAS
Rating: 35% based on 4 votes
French form of Václav, via the Latinized form Venceslaus.
Valquíria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
Portuguese form of Valkyrie.
Valkyrie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Various (Rare)
Pronounced: VAL-ki-ree(English)
Rating: 37% based on 21 votes
Means "chooser of the slain", derived from Old Norse valr "the slain" and kyrja "chooser". In Norse myth the Valkyries were maidens who led heroes killed in battle to Valhalla.
Ulysses
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Roman Mythology, English
Pronounced: yoo-LI-seez(Latin) yoo-LIS-eez(American English, British English) YOOL-i-seez(British English)
Rating: 55% based on 4 votes
Latin form of Odysseus. It was borne by Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885), the commander of the Union forces during the American Civil War, who went on to become an American president. Irish author James Joyce used it as the title of his book Ulysses (1922), which loosely parallels Homer's epic the Odyssey.
Tryphosa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Greek [1], Ancient Greek [2]
Other Scripts: Τρυφῶσα(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Derived from Greek τρυφή (tryphe) meaning "softness, delicacy". In the New Testament this name is mentioned briefly as belonging to a companion of Tryphena.
Thisbe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, Roman Mythology
Other Scripts: Θίσβη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: TEEZ-BEH(Classical Greek) THIZ-bee(English) TEES-beh(Latin)
Rating: 58% based on 4 votes
From the name of an ancient Greek town in Boeotia, itself supposedly named after a nymph. In a Greek legend (the oldest surviving version appearing in Latin in Ovid's Metamorphoses) this is the name of a young woman from Babylon. Believing her to be dead, her lover Pyramus kills himself, after which she does the same to herself. The splashes of blood from their suicides is the reason mulberry fruit are red.
Theophila
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Θεοφίλα(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Feminine form of Theophilus.
Theophania
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Θεοφάνια(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 58% based on 4 votes
Feminine form of Theophanes.
Theodosia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1], Greek
Other Scripts: Θεοδοσία(Greek)
Pronounced: TEH-O-DO-SEE-A(Classical Greek) thee-ə-DO-see-ə(English) thee-ə-DO-shə(English)
Rating: 73% based on 3 votes
Feminine form of Theodosius.
Stelara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Esperanto
Pronounced: steh-LA-ra
Rating: 45% based on 24 votes
From Esperanto stelaro meaning "constellation", ultimately from Latin stella "star".
Sphynx
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: s-phin-x
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Sollemnia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman
Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
Latin form of Solange.
Sol 2
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Jewish
Rating: 77% based on 3 votes
Short form of Solomon.
Socrates
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Σωκράτης(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: SAHK-rə-teez(American English) SAWK-rə-teez(British English)
Rating: 42% based on 21 votes
From the Greek name Σωκράτης (Sokrates), which was derived from σῶς (sos) meaning "whole, unwounded, safe" and κράτος (kratos) meaning "power". This was the name of an important Greek philosopher. He left no writings of his own; virtually everything that we know of his beliefs comes from his pupil Plato. He was sentenced to death for impiety.
Sirena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: sə-REEN-ə
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Derived from Spanish sirena "mermaid". The Spanish dramatist Jacinto Benavente used this name in his play 'Los intereses creados' (1907), where it belongs to a poor widow and matchmaker called Doña Sirena.
Sid
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SID
Rating: 44% based on 5 votes
Short form of Sidney.
Shqipe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Albanian
Rating: 10% based on 3 votes
From Albanian shqip meaning "Albanian". Additionally, the word shqipe means "eagle" in modern Albanian, a variant of older shkabë. These interrelated words are often the subject of competing claims that the one is derived from the other. The ultimate origin of shqip "Albanian" is uncertain, but it may be from shqipoj meaning "to say clearly".
Shohreh
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Persian
Other Scripts: شهره(Persian)
Pronounced: shoh-REH
Rating: 25% based on 4 votes
Means "famous" in Persian.
Severino
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: seh-veh-REE-no(Italian) seh-beh-REE-no(Spanish)
Rating: 25% based on 4 votes
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of Severinus.
Severina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Portuguese, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: seh-veh-REE-na(Italian)
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Feminine form of Severinus.
Scholastique
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Rare)
Pronounced: SKAW-LAS-TEEK
Rating: 25% based on 4 votes
French form of Scholastica. It is more common in French-speaking Africa than France.
Scholastica
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman
Rating: 28% based on 4 votes
From a Late Latin name that was derived from scholasticus meaning "rhetorician, orator". Saint Scholastica was a 6th-century Benedictine abbess, the sister of Saint Benedict of Nursia.
Scevola
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: SHEH-vo-la
Rating: 18% based on 4 votes
Italian form of the Roman cognomen Scaevola, which was derived from Latin scaevus "left-handed". The first bearer of this name was Gaius Mucius Scaevola, who acquired it, according to legend, after he thrust his right hand into a blazing fire in order to intimidate the Etruscan king Porsenna, who was blockading the city of Rome.
Saturnino
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Italian (Rare), Portuguese (Rare)
Pronounced: sa-toor-NEE-no(Spanish, Italian)
Rating: 10% based on 3 votes
Spanish, Italian and Portuguese form of Saturninus.
Saturnina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman, Spanish
Pronounced: sa-toor-NEE-na(Spanish)
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
Feminine form of Saturninus. This was the name of a legendary saint who was supposedly martyred in northern France.
Saturn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Roman Mythology (Anglicized)
Pronounced: SAT-ərn(American English) SAT-ən(British English)
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
From the Latin Saturnus, which is of unknown meaning. In Roman mythology he was the father of Jupiter, Juno and others, and was also the god of agriculture. This is also the name of the ringed sixth planet in the solar system.
Santiago
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: san-TYA-gho(Spanish) sun-tee-A-goo(European Portuguese) sun-chee-A-goo(Brazilian Portuguese) sahn-tee-AH-go(English) san-tee-AH-go(English)
Rating: 56% based on 5 votes
Means "Saint James", derived from Spanish santo "saint" combined with Yago, an old Spanish form of James, the patron saint of Spain. It is the name of the main character in the novella The Old Man and the Sea (1951) by Ernest Hemingway. This also is the name of the capital city of Chile, as well as several other cities in the Spanish-speaking world.
Salvatrix
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman
Rating: 29% based on 14 votes
Feminine form of Salvator.
Salvator
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Late Roman
Rating: 33% based on 4 votes
Latin form of Salvador.
Salvadora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: sal-ba-DHO-ra
Rating: 32% based on 22 votes
Feminine form of Salvador.
Rupert
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, English
Pronounced: ROO-pehrt(German) ROO-pərt(American English) ROO-pət(British English)
Rating: 57% based on 22 votes
German variant form of Robert, from the Old German variant Hrodperht. It was borne by the 7th century Saint Rupert of Salzburg and the 8th-century Saint Rupert of Bingen. The military commander Prince Rupert of the Rhine, a nephew of Charles I, introduced this name to England in the 17th century. A notable bearer is the Australian-American businessman Rupert Murdoch (1931-).
Rufus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Roman, English, Biblical
Pronounced: ROO-foos(Latin) ROO-fəs(English)
Rating: 49% based on 22 votes
Roman cognomen meaning "red-haired" in Latin. Several early saints had this name, including one mentioned in one of Paul's epistles in the New Testament. As a nickname it was used by William II Rufus, a king of England, because of his red hair. It came into general use in the English-speaking world after the Protestant Reformation.
Rufinus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Roman cognomen that was derived from the cognomen Rufus. It was borne by several early saints.
Rudyard
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: RUD-yərd(American English) RUD-yəd(British English)
Rating: 42% based on 22 votes
From a place name meaning "red yard" in Old English. This name was borne by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), the author of The Jungle Book and other works, who was named after Rudyard Lake in Staffordshire.
Rudolph
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ROO-dahlf(American English) ROO-dawlf(British English)
Rating: 44% based on 15 votes
English form of Rudolf, imported from Germany in the 19th century. Robert L. May used it in 1939 for his Christmas character Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
Reverie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: REHV-ə-ree
Rating: 49% based on 16 votes
From the English word meaning "daydream, fanciful musing", derived from Old French resverie, itself from resver meaning "to dream, to rave".
Quirina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman
Rating: 54% based on 5 votes
Feminine form of Quirinus.
Quimby
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: American (Rare)
Rating: 33% based on 20 votes
Transferred use oft he surname Quimby.
Qismat
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: قسمة(Arabic)
Rating: 30% based on 4 votes
Means "fate" in Arabic, related to the root قسم (qasama) meaning "to divide, to distribute".
Pythagoras
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Πυθαγόρας(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: PUY-TA-GO-RAS(Classical Greek) pi-THAG-ər-əs(English)
Rating: 3% based on 3 votes
Derived from Pythios, a name of Apollo, combined with Greek ἀγορά (agora) meaning "assembly, marketplace". This was the name of a 6th-century BC Greek philosopher and mathematician from Samos. He was the founder of a school of philosophy whose members believed that numbers described the universe.
Proserpina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Pronounced: pro-SEHR-pee-na(Latin) pro-SUR-pin-ə(American English) pro-SU-pin-ə(British English)
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
Means "to emerge" in Latin. She was the Roman equivalent of the Greek goddess Persephone.
Primula
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: PRIM-yuw-lə(English) PREE-moo-la(Italian)
Rating: 42% based on 22 votes
From the name of a genus of several species of flowers, including the primrose. It is derived from the Latin word primulus meaning "very first".
Primrose
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: PRIM-roz
Rating: 67% based on 21 votes
From the English word for the flower, ultimately deriving from Latin prima rosa "first rose".
Plutarch
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History
Other Scripts: Πλούταρχος(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: PLOO-tahrk(American English) PLOO-tahk(British English)
Rating: 3% based on 3 votes
From the Greek name Πλούταρχος (Ploutarchos), which was derived from πλοῦτος (ploutos) meaning "riches, wealth" and ἀρχός (archos) meaning "master". Plutarch was a 1st-century Greek historian.
Pleasance
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Archaic)
Pronounced: PLEHZ-əns
Rating: 8% based on 4 votes
From the medieval name Plaisance, which meant "pleasant" in Old French.
Pixie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (British)
Pronounced: PIK-see(English)
Rating: 27% based on 13 votes
From the English word pixie referring to a playful sprite or elf-/fairy-like creature, originating from Devon and Cornwall in southwest England.
Petunia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: pə-TOON-yə
Rating: 39% based on 21 votes
From the name of the flower, derived ultimately from a Tupi (South American) word.
Petula
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: pə-TYOO-lə
Rating: 35% based on 22 votes
Meaning unknown, created in the 20th century. The name is borne by the British singer Petula Clark (1932-), whose name was invented by her father.
Perpetua
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Late Roman
Pronounced: pehr-PEH-twa(Spanish)
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Derived from Latin perpetuus meaning "continuous". This was the name of a 3rd-century saint martyred with another woman named Felicity.
Perikles
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Περικλῆς(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 7% based on 3 votes
Ancient Greek form of Pericles.
Pedro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: PEH-dhro(Spanish) PEH-droo(Portuguese)
Rating: 30% based on 4 votes
Spanish and Portuguese form of Peter. This was the name of the only two emperors of Brazil, reigning between 1822 and 1889.
Pedrinho
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Portuguese
Rating: 7% based on 3 votes
Portuguese diminutive of Pedro.
Pastora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: pas-TO-ra
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Feminine form of Pastor.
Pasqualina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Rating: 20% based on 5 votes
Italian feminine form of Pascal.
Paloma
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: pa-LO-ma
Rating: 44% based on 5 votes
Means "dove, pigeon" in Spanish.
Palmira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: pal-MEE-ra(Italian, Spanish) pal-MEE-ru(European Portuguese) pow-MEE-ru(Brazilian Portuguese)
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Feminine form of Palmiro.
Pacífica
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Rare)
Pronounced: pa-THEE-fee-ka(European Spanish) pa-SEE-fee-ka(Latin American Spanish)
Rating: 10% based on 3 votes
Spanish feminine form of the Late Latin name Pacificus meaning "peacemaker".
Otis
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: O-tis
Rating: 48% based on 24 votes
From an English surname that was derived from the medieval given name Ode, a cognate of Otto. In America it has been used in honour of the revolutionary James Otis (1725-1783).
Orville
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AWR-vil(American English) AW-vil(British English)
Rating: 43% based on 20 votes
This name was invented by the 18th-century writer Fanny Burney, who perhaps intended it to mean "golden city" in French. Orville Wright (1871-1948), together with his brother Wilbur, invented the first successful airplane.
Onyx
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AHN-iks(American English) AWN-iks(British English)
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
From the English word for the gemstone (a variety of chalcedony), which can be black, red or other colours. It is derived from Greek ὄνυξ (onyx) meaning "claw, nail".
Olympos
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Ὄλυμπος(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 10% based on 3 votes
From a Greek personal name that was derived from the place name Olympos, the name of the mountain home of the Greek gods.
Nyx
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Νύξ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: NUYKS(Classical Greek) NIKS(English)
Rating: 49% based on 25 votes
Means "night" in Greek. This was the name of the Greek goddess of the night, the daughter of Khaos and the wife of Erebos.
Nymphodora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Νυμφοδώρα(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Feminine form of Nymphodoros. This was the name of a 4th-century saint who was martyred with her sisters Menodora and Metrodora.
Norman
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: NAWR-mən(American English) NAW-mən(British English)
Rating: 37% based on 3 votes
From an old Germanic byname meaning "northman", referring to a Scandinavians. The Normans were Vikings who settled on the coast of France, in the region that became known as Normandy. In England the name Norman or Normant was used before the Norman Conquest, first as a nickname for Scandinavian settlers and later as a given name. After the Conquest it became more common, but died out around the 14th century. It was revived in the 19th century, perhaps in part due to a character by this name in C. M. Yonge's 1856 novel The Daisy Chain [2]. Famous bearers include the American painter Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) and the American author Norman Mailer (1923-2007).
Norm
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: NAWRM(American English) NAWM(British English)
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Short form of Norman.
Nigel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: NIE-jəl
Rating: 42% based on 22 votes
From Nigellus, a medieval Latinized form of Neil. It was commonly associated with Latin niger "black". It was revived in the 19th century, perhaps in part due to Walter Scott's novel The Fortunes of Nigel (1822).
Nieves
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: NYEH-behs
Rating: 58% based on 4 votes
Means "snows" in Spanish, derived from the title of the Virgin Mary Nuestra Señora de las Nieves meaning "Our Lady of the Snows".
Nicodemus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Latin, Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Νικόδημος(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: nik-ə-DEE-məs(English) nee-ko-DEH-moos(Latin)
Rating: 56% based on 5 votes
From the Greek name Νικόδημος (Nikodemos) meaning "victory of the people", derived from Greek νίκη (nike) meaning "victory" and δῆμος (demos) meaning "the people". This is the name of a character in the New Testament who helps Joseph of Arimathea entomb Jesus.
Newt
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: NOOT
Rating: 41% based on 21 votes
Short form of Newton.
Neville
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (British)
Pronounced: NEHV-əl(English)
Rating: 30% based on 4 votes
From an English surname that was originally derived from a place name meaning "new town" in Norman French. As a given name it is chiefly British and Australian.
Neptune
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Roman Mythology (Anglicized)
Pronounced: NEHP-toon(English) NEHP-tyoon(English)
Rating: 3% based on 3 votes
From the Latin Neptunus, which is of unknown meaning, possibly related to the Indo-European root *nebh- "wet, damp, clouds". Neptune was the god of the sea in Roman mythology, approximately equivalent to the Greek god Poseidon. This is also the name of the eighth planet in the solar system.
Neophytos
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Νεόφυτος(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 10% based on 3 votes
Greek name meaning "new plant, new child", from a word that was derived from νέος (neos) meaning "new" and φυτόν (phyton) meaning "plant".
Nemo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: NEE-mo(English)
Rating: 32% based on 23 votes
Means "nobody" in Latin. This was the name used by author Jules Verne for the captain of the Nautilus in his novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870). It was later used for the title character (a fish) in the 2003 animated movie Finding Nemo.
Nelson
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Spanish
Pronounced: NEHL-sən(English) NEHL-son(Spanish)
Rating: 23% based on 4 votes
From an English surname meaning "son of Neil". It was originally given in honour of the British admiral Horatio Nelson (1758-1805). His most famous battle was the Battle of Trafalgar, in which he destroyed a combined French and Spanish fleet, but was himself killed. Another notable bearer was the South African statesman Nelson Mandela (1918-2013). Mandela's birth name was Rolihlahla; as a child he was given the English name Nelson by a teacher.
Ned
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: NEHD
Rating: 48% based on 22 votes
Diminutive of Edward or Edmund. It has been used since the 14th century, and may have had root in the medieval affectionate phrase mine Ed, which was later reinterpreted as my Ned.
Moxie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (Modern)
Pronounced: MAWK-see
Rating: 32% based on 25 votes
Meaning "nerve, courage, pep, daring, spirit". A relatively modern American slang term that came around c. 1925-30 after 'Moxie', a brand of soft drink. The term fell into common usage following an aggressive marketing campaign associating the brand name Moxie with the traits that now define the term. It began gaining popularity as a given name after magician Penn Jillette used it for his daughter in 2005.
Moses
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Jewish, Biblical, Biblical Latin
Other Scripts: מֹשֶׁה(Hebrew)
Pronounced: MOZ-is(English)
Rating: 52% based on 23 votes
From the Hebrew name מֹשֶׁה (Moshe), which is most likely derived from Egyptian mes meaning "son". The meaning suggested in the Old Testament of "drew out" from Hebrew מָשָׁה (masha) is probably an invented etymology (see Exodus 2:10).

The biblical Moses was drawn out of the Nile by the pharaoh's daughter and adopted into the royal family, at a time when the Israelites were slaves in Egypt. With his brother Aaron he demanded the pharaoh release the Israelites, which was only done after God sent ten plagues upon Egypt. Moses led the people across the Red Sea and to Mount Sinai, where he received the Ten Commandments from God. After 40 years of wandering in the desert the people reached Canaan, the Promised Land, but Moses died just before entering it.

In England, this name has been commonly used by Christians since the Protestant Reformation, though it had long been popular among Jews.

Morton
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MAWR-tən(American English) MAW-tən(British English)
Rating: 10% based on 3 votes
From an English surname that was originally derived from a place name meaning "moor town" in Old English.
Mortimer
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MAWR-ti-mər(American English) MAW-ti-mə(British English)
Rating: 51% based on 21 votes
From an English surname that was derived from the name of a town in Normandy, itself meaning "dead water, still water" in Old French.
Monet
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Various
Rating: 45% based on 25 votes
From a French surname that was derived from either Hamon or Edmond. This was the surname of the French impressionist painter Claude Monet (1840-1926).
Miroslava
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Czech, Slovak, Russian, Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Slovene
Other Scripts: Мирослава(Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian)
Pronounced: MI-ro-sla-va(Czech) MEE-raw-sla-va(Slovak) myi-ru-SLA-və(Russian)
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
Feminine form of Miroslav.
Mirèio
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Occitan
Rating: 30% based on 4 votes
Occitan (Mistralian) form of Mireille.
Millard
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MIL-ərd(American English) MIL-əd(British English)
Rating: 38% based on 21 votes
From an occupational English surname meaning "guardian of the mill" in Old English.
Milburn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MIL-bərn(American English) MIL-bən(British English)
Rating: 31% based on 22 votes
From an English surname that was from a place name meaning "mill stream" in Old English.
Metrodora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Μητροδώρα(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Derived from Greek μήτηρ (meter) meaning "mother" (genitive μητρός) and δῶρον (doron) meaning "gift". This was the name of a 4th-century saint and martyr who was killed with her sisters Menodora and Nymphodora.
Methodius
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Late Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Μεθόδιος(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: meh-THO-dee-əs(English)
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
Latinized form of the Greek name Μεθόδιος (Methodios), derived from Greek μέθοδος (methodos) meaning "pursuit" or "method", ultimately from μετά (meta) meaning "with" and ὁδός (hodos) meaning "road, way, journey". Saint Methodius was a Greek missionary to the Slavs who developed the Cyrillic alphabet (with his brother Cyril) in order to translate the Bible into Slavic.
Merlin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arthurian Cycle, English
Pronounced: MUR-lin(American English) MU-lin(British English)
Rating: 49% based on 23 votes
Form of the Welsh name Myrddin used by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his 12th-century chronicle. Writing in Latin, he likely chose the form Merlinus over Merdinus in order to prevent associations with French merde "excrement".

Geoffrey based parts of Merlin's character on Myrddin Wyllt, a legendary madman and prophet who lived in the Caledonian Forest. Other parts of his life were based on that of the historical 5th-century Romano-British military leader Ambrosius Aurelianus (also known as Emrys Wledig). In Geoffrey's version of the tales and later embellishments Merlin is a magician and counselor for King Arthur.

Melville
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MEHL-vil
Rating: 36% based on 21 votes
From a Scots surname that was originally from a Norman French place name Malleville meaning "bad town". A famous bearer of the surname was the American author Herman Melville (1819-1891), who wrote several novels including Moby-Dick.
Melpomene
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Μελπομένη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: MEHL-PO-MEH-NEH(Classical Greek) mehl-PAHM-ə-nee(American English) mehl-PAWM-ə-nee(British English)
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Derived from Greek μέλπω (melpo) meaning "to sing, to celebrate with song". This was the name of one of the nine Muses in Greek mythology, the muse of tragedy.
Melman
Usage: English
Rating: 7% based on 3 votes
Mélisande
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Rare)
Rating: 50% based on 5 votes
French form of Millicent used by Maurice Maeterlinck in his play Pelléas et Mélisande (1893). The play was later adapted by Claude Debussy into an opera (1902).
Mehetabel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: מְהֵיטַבְאֵל(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: mə-HEHT-ə-behl(English)
Rating: 25% based on 4 votes
From the Hebrew name מְהֵיטַבְאֵל (Meheṭavʾel) meaning "God makes happy", derived from the roots יָטַב (yaṭav) meaning "to be happy" and אֵל (ʾel) meaning "God". This name is mentioned briefly in the Old Testament.
Maruxa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Galician
Pronounced: ma-ROO-shu
Rating: 45% based on 4 votes
Galician diminutive of Maria.
Mars
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Pronounced: MARS(Latin) MAHRZ(American English) MAHZ(British English)
Rating: 3% based on 3 votes
Possibly related to Latin mas meaning "male" (genitive maris). In Roman mythology Mars was the god of war, often equated with the Greek god Ares. This is also the name of the fourth planet in the solar system.
Marjolein
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch
Pronounced: MAHR-yo-layn
Rating: 45% based on 4 votes
Dutch cognate of Marjolaine.
Marigold
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: MAR-i-gold, MEHR-i-gold
Rating: 62% based on 24 votes
From the name of the flower, which comes from a combination of Mary and the English word gold.
Margalit
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: מַרְגָלִית(Hebrew)
Rating: 35% based on 4 votes
Means "pearl" in Hebrew, ultimately from Greek μαργαρίτης (margarites).
Lysistrata
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Λυσιστράτη(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 33% based on 4 votes
Latinized form of Lysistrate.
Lynx
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Astronomy
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Lynx is a constellation in the northern sky, introduced in the 17th century by Johannes Hevelius. It is named after the lynx, a genus of cats.
Lux
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Various
Pronounced: LUKS(English)
Rating: 37% based on 3 votes
Derived from Latin lux meaning "light".
Lucifer
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend
Pronounced: LOO-si-fər(American English) LOO-si-fə(British English)
Rating: 37% based on 25 votes
Means "bringing light", derived from Latin lux "light" and ferre "to bring". In Latin this name originally referred to the morning star, Venus, but later became associated with the chief angel who rebelled against God's rule in heaven (see Isaiah 14:12). In later literature, such as the Divine Comedy (1321) by Dante and Paradise Lost (1667) by John Milton, Lucifer became associated with Satan himself.
Lotus
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: LO-təs
Rating: 40% based on 24 votes
From the name of the lotus flower (species Nelumbo nucifera) or the mythological lotus tree. They are ultimately derived from Greek λωτός (lotos). In Greek and Roman mythology the lotus tree was said to produce a fruit causing sleepiness and forgetfulness.
Liselotte
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Danish, Swedish, Dutch, German
Pronounced: LEE-zeh-law-tə(German)
Rating: 62% based on 5 votes
Combination of Lise and Charlotte.
Linus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized), Ancient Greek (Latinized), Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German
Other Scripts: Λίνος(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: LIE-nəs(English) LEE-nuys(Swedish) LEE-nuws(German)
Rating: 58% based on 24 votes
From the Greek name Λίνος (Linos) meaning "flax". In Greek legend he was the son of the god Apollo, who accidentally killed him in a contest. Another son of Apollo by this name was the music teacher of Herakles. The name was also borne by the second pope, serving after Saint Peter in the 1st century. In modern times this was the name of a character in Charles Schulz's comic strip Peanuts.
Lilavati
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Sanskrit
Other Scripts: लीलावती(Sanskrit)
Rating: 53% based on 23 votes
Means "amusing, charming, graceful" in Sanskrit. The 12th-century mathematician Bhaskara gave this name to one of his books on mathematics, possibly after his daughter. This was also the name of a 13th-century queen of Sri Lanka.
Leonidas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek, Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Λεωνίδας(Greek)
Rating: 37% based on 3 votes
Derived from Greek λέων (leon) meaning "lion" combined with the patronymic suffix ἴδης (ides). Leonidas was a Spartan king of the 5th century BC who sacrificed his life and his army defending the pass of Thermopylae from the Persians. This was also the name of a 3rd-century saint and martyr, the father of Origen, from Alexandria.
Leia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical Greek, Portuguese, Popular Culture
Other Scripts: Λεία(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: LAY-ə(English)
Rating: 60% based on 29 votes
Form of Leah used in the Greek Old Testament, as well as a Portuguese form. This is the name of a princess in the Star Wars movies by George Lucas, who probably based it on Leah.
Lazarus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Latin, English (African)
Other Scripts: Λάζαρος(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: LAZ-ə-rəs(English)
Rating: 53% based on 23 votes
Latinized form of Λάζαρος (Lazaros), a Greek form of Eleazar used in the New Testament. Lazarus was a man from Bethany, the brother of Mary and Martha, who was restored to life by Jesus.

At present this name is most commonly used in English-speaking Africa.

Lavender
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: LAV-ən-dər(American English) LAV-ən-də(British English)
Rating: 69% based on 25 votes
From the English word for the aromatic flower or the pale purple colour.
Lakshmi
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Hinduism, Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam, Marathi, Hindi, Odia
Other Scripts: लक्ष्मी(Sanskrit, Marathi, Hindi, Nepali) లక్ష్మి(Telugu) ಲಕ್ಷ್ಮೀ(Kannada) லட்சுமி(Tamil) ലക്ഷ്മി(Malayalam) ଲକ୍ଷ୍ମୀ(Odia)
Pronounced: LUK-shmee(Sanskrit, English, Hindi) lək-SHMEE(Marathi)
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Means "sign, mark" in Sanskrit. This is the name of the Hindu goddess of prosperity, good luck, and beauty. She is the wife of Vishnu and her symbol is the lotus flower, with which she is often depicted.
Kip
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KIP
Rating: 25% based on 4 votes
From a nickname, probably from the English word kipper meaning "male salmon".
Kermit
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KUR-mit(American English) KU-mit(British English)
Rating: 24% based on 22 votes
From a rare (Americanized) Manx surname, a variant of the Irish surname Mac Diarmada, itself derived from the given name Diarmaid. This was the name of a son of Theodore Roosevelt born in 1889. He was named after a relative of his mother, Robert Kermit. The name is now associated with Kermit the Frog, a Muppet created by puppeteer Jim Henson in 1955.
Kazimiera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Polish, Lithuanian
Pronounced: ka-zhee-MYEH-ra(Polish)
Rating: 43% based on 4 votes
Feminine form of Kazimierz (Polish) or Kazimieras (Lithuanian).
Kahina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Berber
Other Scripts: ⴽⴰⵀⵉⵏⴰ(Tifinagh) كهينة(Arabic)
Rating: 39% based on 23 votes
Derived from Arabic الكاهنة (al-Kāhina) meaning "the diviner, the fortuneteller". This was a title applied to the 7th-century Berber queen Dihya, who resisted the Arab expansion into North Africa.
Jynx
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JINGKS
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Latinized form of Iynx, or directly from the English word meaning “wryneck” (a bird used in witchcraft and divination).
Jupiter
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Roman Mythology (Anglicized)
Pronounced: JOO-pi-tər(American English) JOO-pi-tə(British English)
Rating: 7% based on 3 votes
From Latin Iuppiter, which was ultimately derived from the vocative form of Indo-European *Dyēws-pətēr, composed of the elements Dyēws (see Zeus) and pətēr "father". Jupiter was the supreme god in Roman mythology. He presided over the heavens and light, and was responsible for the protection and laws of the Roman state. This is also the name of the fifth and largest planet in the solar system.
Jubilee
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern), Popular Culture
Pronounced: joo-bə-LEE(English) JOO-bə-lee(English)
Rating: 44% based on 23 votes
From the English word jubilee meaning "season of rejoicing", which is derived from Hebrew יוֹבֵל (yovel) "ram, ram's horn; a jubilee year: a year of rest, prescribed by the Jewish Bible to occur each fiftieth year, after seven cycles of seven years; a period of celebration or rejoicing" (via Late Latin iubilaeus and Greek ἰώβηλος (iobelos)). In Latin, the form of the word was altered by association with the unrelated Latin verb iubilare "to shout with joy".

It may also refer to African-American folk songs known as Jubilees.

In popular culture, Jubilee is the 'mutant' name (a contraction of Jubilation Lee) of one of the protagonists of Marvel's X-Men line of comics.

Jehoshaphat
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: יְהוֹשָׁפָט(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: jə-HAHSH-ə-fat(American English) jə-HAHS-ə-fat(American English) jə-HO-shə-fat(American English) jə-HAWSH-ə-fat(British English) jə-HAWS-ə-fat(British English)
Rating: 35% based on 22 votes
Means "Yahweh has judged" in Hebrew, from the roots יְהוֹ (yeho) referring to the Hebrew God and שָׁפַט (shafaṭ) meaning "to judge". According to the Old Testament he was the fourth king of Judah, noted for having a generally peaceful and prosperous reign.
Iynx
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ιυνξ(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
From Greek mythology. The name of a nymph who invented the magical love-charm known as the iynx--a spinning wheel with a wryneck bird attached, according to mythology she either used the charm to make Zeus fall in love with her or with another nymph, Io. Hera was furious and and transformed her into a wryneck bird. The name Iynx comes from the name of this charm, and is linked to the modern English word "jinx".
Immaculata
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish (Rare)
Rating: 36% based on 5 votes
Latin form of Inmaculada.
Immaculada
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Catalan
Pronounced: eem-ma-koo-LA-dhə
Rating: 38% based on 5 votes
Catalan cognate of Inmaculada.
Imhotep
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Egyptian
Pronounced: im-HO-tehp(English)
Rating: 13% based on 4 votes
From Egyptian jj-m-ḥtp meaning "he comes in peace" [1]. This was the name of a 27th-century BC architect, priest, physician and chief minister to the pharaoh Djoser. Imhotep apparently designed the step pyramid at Saqqara, near Memphis.
Imaculada
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese
Rating: 34% based on 5 votes
Portuguese cognate of Inmaculada.
Illuminata
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman
Rating: 41% based on 17 votes
Means "illuminated, brightened, filled with light" in Latin. This name was borne by a 4th-century saint from Todi, Italy.
Ichabod
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: אִי־כָבוֹד(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: IK-ə-bahd(American English) IK-ə-bawd(British English)
Rating: 38% based on 23 votes
Means "no glory" in Hebrew, from the roots אִי (ʾi) meaning "not" and כָּבַד (kavaḏ) meaning "to be glorious". In the Old Testament this is the grandson of Eli and the son of Phinehas. He was named this because his mother despaired that "the glory has departed from Israel" (1 Samuel 4:21).

This name was used by Washington Irving for Ichabod Crane, the main character in his short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820).

Icarus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἴκαρος(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: IK-ə-rəs(English)
Rating: 56% based on 25 votes
From the Greek Ἴκαρος (Ikaros), of unknown meaning. In Greek myth Icarus was the son of Daedalus, locked with his father inside the Labyrinth by Minos. They escaped from the maze using wings devised from wax, but Icarus flew too close to the sun and the wax melted, plunging him to his death.
Homer
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Ancient Greek (Anglicized)
Other Scripts: Ὅμηρος(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: HO-mər(American English) HO-mə(British English)
Rating: 33% based on 23 votes
From the Greek name Ὅμηρος (Homeros), derived from ὅμηρος (homeros) meaning "hostage, pledge". Homer was the Greek epic poet who wrote the Iliad, about the Trojan War, and the Odyssey, about Odysseus's journey home after the war. There is some debate about when he lived, or if he was even a real person, though most scholars place him in the 8th century BC. In the modern era, Homer has been used as a given name in the English-speaking world (chiefly in America) since the 18th century. This name is borne by the oafish cartoon father on the television series The Simpsons.
Hipólito
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: ee-PO-lee-to(Spanish) ee-PAW-lee-too(Portuguese)
Rating: 18% based on 4 votes
Spanish and Portuguese form of Hippolytos.
Hieronymus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized), German (Archaic), Dutch (Archaic)
Other Scripts: Ἱερώνυμος(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: hie-ə-RAHN-i-məs(American English) hie-ə-RAWN-i-məs(British English) hee-RO-nuy-muws(German) hyeh-RO-nuy-muws(German) hee-yeh-RO-nee-muys(Dutch)
Rating: 45% based on 4 votes
Latin form of Jerome, formerly common in Germany and the Netherlands. Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) was a Dutch painter known for his depictions of the torments of hell.
Hesperos
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Ἕσπερος(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: HEHS-PEH-ROS
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
Means "evening" in Greek. This was the name of the personification of the Evening Star (the planet Venus) in Greek mythology.
Hesperia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, Spanish
Other Scripts: Ἑσπερια(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: hes-PEER-ee-ə(Greek Mythology)
Rating: 54% based on 16 votes
Derived from Greek hesperos "evening" (see Hesperos). In Greek myth this was the name of one of the three Hesperides, goddesses of the evening and sunsets. Hesperia was also a Greek name of Italy, meaning "the land where the sun sets" (as in the case of asteroid 69 Hesperia).
Heron
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Ἥρων(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Derived from Greek ἥρως (heros) meaning "hero". This was the name of a 1st-century Greek inventor (also known as Hero) from Alexandria.
Hero 2
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἥρων(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 3% based on 3 votes
Latinized form of Heron.
Hermínia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese
Rating: 30% based on 4 votes
Portuguese feminine form of Herminius.
Hermes
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology, Ancient Greek [1], Spanish
Other Scripts: Ἑρμῆς(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: HEHR-MEHS(Classical Greek) HUR-meez(American English) HU-meez(British English) EHR-mehs(Spanish)
Rating: 37% based on 3 votes
Probably from Greek ἕρμα (herma) meaning "cairn, pile of stones, boundary marker". Hermes was a Greek god associated with speed and good luck, who served as a messenger to Zeus and the other gods. He was also the patron of travellers, writers, athletes, merchants, thieves and orators.

This was also used as a personal name, being borne for example by a 1st-century saint and martyr.

Herb
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: HURB(American English) HUB(British English)
Rating: 29% based on 21 votes
Short form of Herbert.
Herakles
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἡρακλῆς(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: HEH-RA-KLEHS(Classical Greek) HEHR-ə-kleez(English)
Rating: 7% based on 3 votes
Means "glory of Hera" from the name of the goddess Hera combined with Greek κλέος (kleos) meaning "glory". This was the name of a hero in Greek and Roman mythology, the son of Zeus and the mortal woman Alcmene. After being driven insane by Hera and killing his own children, Herakles completed twelve labours in order to atone for his crime and become immortal.
Hepzibah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: חֶפְצִי־בָּה(Ancient Hebrew)
Rating: 44% based on 23 votes
Variant of Hephzibah.
Guadalupe
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: ghwa-dha-LOO-peh
Rating: 58% based on 4 votes
From a Spanish title of the Virgin Mary, Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, meaning "Our Lady of Guadalupe". Guadalupe is a Spanish place name, the site of a famous convent, derived from Arabic وادي (wādī) meaning "valley, river" possibly combined with Latin lupus meaning "wolf". In the 16th century Our Lady of Guadalupe supposedly appeared in a vision to a native Mexican man, and she is now regarded as a patron saint of the Americas.
Grover
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: GRO-vər(American English) GRO-və(British English)
Rating: 38% based on 21 votes
From an English surname derived from Old English graf meaning "grove of trees". A famous bearer was the American president Grover Cleveland (1837-1908), who popularized the name in the United States at the end of the 19th century. The name is now associated with a muppet character from the children's television program Sesame Street.
Gilbert
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French, Dutch, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: GIL-bərt(American English) GIL-bət(British English) ZHEEL-BEHR(French) GHIL-bərt(Dutch)
Rating: 51% based on 25 votes
Means "bright pledge", derived from the Old German elements gisal "pledge, hostage" and beraht "bright". The Normans introduced this name to England, where it was common during the Middle Ages. It was borne by a 12th-century English saint, the founder of the religious order known as the Gilbertines.
Gethsemane
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Various (Rare)
Pronounced: geth-SEHM-ə-nee(English)
Rating: 29% based on 23 votes
From a biblical place name, the garden where Jesus was arrested, located on the Mount of Olives near Jerusalem. It is derived from Γεθσημανί (Gethsemani), the Greek form of an Aramaic name meaning "oil vat". It is very rarely used as a given name.
Gerónimo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: kheh-RO-nee-mo
Rating: 18% based on 4 votes
Variant of Jerónimo.
Fortunata
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese (Rare), Late Roman
Pronounced: for-too-NA-ta(Italian, Spanish)
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Feminine form of Fortunato.
Forsythia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: fawr-SITH-ee-ə, for-SIDH-ee-ə
Rating: 28% based on 4 votes
From the name of forsythia, any of a genus of shrubs that produce yellow flowers in spring. They were named in honour of the British botanist William Forsyth (1737-1804), whose surname was derived from Gaelic Fearsithe, a personal name meaning literally "man of peace" (cf. Fearsithe, Forsythe).
Fahima
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: فهمة(Arabic)
Pronounced: FA-hee-ma
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Feminine form of Fahim.
Even
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norwegian
Variant of Øyvind.
Evaristo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
Pronounced: eh-ba-REES-to(Spanish) eh-va-REE-sto(Italian) i-vu-REESH-too(European Portuguese) eh-va-REES-too(Brazilian Portuguese)
Rating: 23% based on 4 votes
Spanish, Italian and Portuguese form of Evaristus.
Eutropio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish (Rare)
Pronounced: ew-TRO-pyo
Rating: 7% based on 3 votes
Spanish form of Eutropius.
Eutropia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Εὐτροπία(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 7% based on 3 votes
Feminine form of Eutropios (see Eutropius).
Euthalia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Greek
Other Scripts: Εὐθαλία(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Means "flower, bloom" from the Greek word εὐθάλεια (euthaleia), itself derived from εὖ (eu) meaning "good" and θάλλω (thallo) meaning "to blossom". This name was borne by a 3rd-century saint and martyr from Sicily.
Europa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Εὐρώπη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: yuw-RO-pə(English)
Rating: 28% based on 4 votes
Latinized form of Greek Εὐρώπη (Europe), which meant "wide face" from εὐρύς (eurys) meaning "wide" and ὄψ (ops) meaning "face, eye". In Greek mythology Europa was a Phoenician princess who was abducted and taken to Crete by Zeus in the guise of a bull. She became the first queen of Crete, and later fathered Minos by Zeus. The continent of Europe said to be named for her, though it is more likely her name is from that of the continent. This is also the name of a moon of Jupiter.
Euphrasia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Εὐφρασία(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Means "good cheer" in Greek, a derivative of εὐφραίνω (euphraino) meaning "to delight, to cheer". This name was borne by a 5th-century saint from Constantinople.
Eudoxia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Εὐδοξία(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
From Greek εὐδοξία (eudoxia) meaning "good repute, good judgement", itself from εὖ (eu) meaning "good" and δόξα (doxa) meaning "notion, reputation, honour".
Étiennette
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Rating: 38% based on 5 votes
French feminine form of Stephen.
Ethelinda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Archaic)
Rating: 25% based on 4 votes
English form of the Germanic name Adallinda. The name was very rare in medieval times, but it was revived in the early 19th century.
Espiridión
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish (Rare)
Pronounced: ehs-pee-ree-DHYON
Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
Spanish form of Spyridon.
Esperanta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Esperanto
Pronounced: ehs-peh-RAN-ta
Rating: 40% based on 23 votes
Means "hoping" in Esperanto.
Epaphras
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Greek [1], Biblical Latin, Ancient Greek [2]
Other Scripts: Ἐπαφρᾶς(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: EHP-ə-frəs(English)
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
Shortened form of Epaphroditos. In the New Testament this is the name of one of Paul's co-workers.
Encarnación
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: eng-kar-na-THYON(European Spanish) eng-kar-na-SYON(Latin American Spanish)
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Means "incarnation" in Spanish. This is given in reference to the Incarnation of Jesus in the womb of the Virgin Mary.
Emperatriz
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: ehm-peh-ra-TREETH(European Spanish) ehm-peh-ra-TREES(Latin American Spanish)
Rating: 36% based on 25 votes
Means "empress" in Spanish.
Elroy
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHL-roi
Rating: 23% based on 4 votes
Altered form of Leroy, using the Spanish definite article el as opposed to the French le.
Elmo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, English, Finnish, Estonian
Pronounced: EHL-mo(Italian, English)
Rating: 33% based on 24 votes
Originally a short form of names ending with the Old German element helm meaning "helmet, protection", such as Guglielmo or Anselmo. It is also a derivative of Erasmus, via the old Italian short form Ermo. Saint Elmo, also known as Saint Erasmus, was a 4th-century martyr who is the patron of sailors. Saint Elmo's fire is said to be a sign of his protection.

In the English-speaking world this name is now associated with a red muppet character from the children's television program Sesame Street.

Elmer
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHL-mər(American English) EHL-mə(British English)
Rating: 36% based on 23 votes
From a surname that was derived from the Old English name Æðelmær. In the United States it is sometimes given in honour of brothers Jonathan (1745-1817) and Ebenezer Elmer (1752-1843), who were active in early American politics.
Elizaveta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Елизавета(Russian)
Pronounced: yi-lyi-zu-VYEH-tə, i-lyi-zu-VYEH-tə
Rating: 66% based on 5 votes
Alternate transcription of Russian Елизавета (see Yelizaveta).
Elixabete
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque
Pronounced: eh-LEE-sha-beh-teh
Rating: 28% based on 4 votes
Basque form of Elizabeth.
Elio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: EH-lyo
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
Italian form of Aelius or Helios.
Ebenezer
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature, English
Other Scripts: אֶבֶן הָעָזֶר(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: eh-bə-NEE-zər(American English) eh-bə-NEE-zə(British English)
Rating: 44% based on 22 votes
From the name of a monument erected by Samuel in the Old Testament, from Hebrew אֶבֶן הָעָזֶר (ʾEven Haʿazer) meaning "stone of help". Charles Dickens used it for the miserly character Ebenezer Scrooge in his novel A Christmas Carol (1843). Currently the name is most common in parts of English-influenced Africa, such as Ghana.
Douglas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish, English
Pronounced: DUG-ləs
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
From a Scottish surname that was from the name of a town in Lanarkshire, itself named after a tributary of the River Clyde called the Douglas Water. It means "dark river", derived from Gaelic dubh "dark" and glais "water, river" (an archaic word related to glas "grey, green"). This was a Scottish Lowland clan, the leaders of which were powerful earls in the medieval period. The Gaelic form is Dùghlas or Dùbhghlas. It has been used as a given name since the 16th century.
Dixie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DIK-see
Rating: 26% based on 24 votes
From the term that refers to the southern United States, used by Daniel D. Emmett in his song Dixie in 1859. The term may be derived from French dix "ten", which was printed on ten-dollar bills issued from a New Orleans bank. Alternatively it may come from the term Mason-Dixon Line, the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland.
Dieudonnée
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Rare)
Pronounced: DYUU-DAW-NEH
Rating: 24% based on 5 votes
Feminine form of Dieudonné.
Dezirinda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Esperanto
Pronounced: deh-zee-REEN-da
Rating: 3% based on 3 votes
Means "desirable" in Esperanto.
Democritus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Δημόκριτος(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 0% based on 3 votes
Latinized form of Δημόκριτος (Demokritos), a Greek name meaning "judge of the people" from the elements δῆμος (demos) meaning "the people" and κριτής (krites) meaning "judge, critic". This was the name of a Greek philosopher, the creator of the atomic theory.
Demetrius
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Δημήτριος(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 30% based on 3 votes
Latinized form of the Greek name Δημήτριος (Demetrios), which was derived from the name of the Greek goddess Demeter 1. Kings of Macedon and the Seleucid kingdom have had this name. This was also the name of several early saints including Demetrius of Thessalonica, a martyr of the 4th century who is regarded as a warrior.
Demelza
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (British, Rare)
Pronounced: də-MEHL-zə
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
From a Cornish place name meaning "fort of Maeldaf". It has been used as a given name since the middle of the 20th century. It was popularized in the 1970s by a character from the British television series Poldark, which was set in Cornwall.
Crocifissa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: kro-chee-FEES-sa
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Means "crucifix" in Italian, derived from Latin crucifixus "fixed to a cross", from crux "cross" and fixus "fixed, fastened".
Crescentia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Rare), Late Roman
Rating: 33% based on 4 votes
Feminine form of Crescentius. Saint Crescentia was a 4th-century companion of Saint Vitus. This is also the name of the eponymous heroine of a 12th-century German romance.
Corinthia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Κορινθία(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 50% based on 4 votes
Latinized form of Greek Κορινθία (Korinthia) meaning "woman from Corinth", an ancient Greek city-state. This is the real name of Corrie in William Faulkner's novel The Reivers (1962).
Constantia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman
Rating: 28% based on 4 votes
Feminine form of the Late Latin name Constantius, which was itself derived from Constans.
Consolata
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: kon-so-LA-ta
Rating: 35% based on 4 votes
Means "consoled" in Italian. It is taken from the title of the Virgin Mary, Maria Consolata.
Concordia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Pronounced: kon-KOR-dee-a(Latin) kən-KAWR-dee-ə(American English) kən-KAW-dee-ə(British English)
Rating: 33% based on 4 votes
Means "harmony" in Latin. This was the name of the Roman goddess of harmony and peace.
Concepta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish
Rating: 7% based on 3 votes
Latinate form of Concetta, used especially in Ireland.
Concepción
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: kon-thehp-THYON(European Spanish) kon-sehp-SYON(Latin American Spanish)
Rating: 28% based on 5 votes
Means "conception" in Spanish. This name is given in reference to the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary. A city in Chile bears this name.
Cleopatra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Κλεοπάτρα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: klee-o-PAT-rə(English)
Rating: 52% based on 25 votes
From the Greek name Κλεοπάτρα (Kleopatra) meaning "glory of the father", derived from κλέος (kleos) meaning "glory" combined with πατήρ (pater) meaning "father" (genitive πατρός). This was the name of queens of Egypt from the Ptolemaic royal family, including Cleopatra VII, the mistress of both Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. After being defeated by Augustus she committed suicide (according to popular belief, by allowing herself to be bitten by a venomous asp). Shakespeare's tragedy Antony and Cleopatra (1606) tells the story of her life.
Clem
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KLEHM
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Short form of Clement.
Cipriano
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: chee-PRYA-no(Italian) chee-pree-A-no(Italian) thee-PRYA-no(European Spanish) see-PRYA-no(Latin American Spanish)
Rating: 25% based on 4 votes
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of Cyprianus (see Cyprian).
Cezário
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Portuguese (Brazilian, Rare)
Rating: 20% based on 4 votes
Brazilian Portuguese variant of Cesário.
Cesarina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: cheh-za-REE-na
Rating: 20% based on 4 votes
Feminine diminutive of Cesare.
Celestino
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
Pronounced: theh-lehs-TEE-no(European Spanish) seh-lehs-TEE-no(Latin American Spanish) cheh-leh-STEE-no(Italian)
Rating: 28% based on 5 votes
Spanish, Italian and Portuguese form of Caelestinus.
Cassander
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Κάσσανδρος(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 77% based on 3 votes
Latinized form of Greek Κάσσανδρος (Kassandros), the masculine form of Cassandra. This was the name of a 3rd-century BC king of Macedon.
Caractacus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Celtic (Latinized), English (British, Rare, Archaic)
Rating: 37% based on 23 votes
Variant of Caratacus.
Britannia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 28% based on 4 votes
From the Latin name of the island of Britain, in occasional use as an English given name since the 18th century. This is also the name of the Roman female personification of Britain pictured on some British coins.
Blossom
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BLAHS-əm(American English) BLAWS-əm(British English)
Rating: 46% based on 25 votes
From the English word blossom, ultimately from Old English blóstm. It came into use as a rare given name in the 19th century.
Bloom
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
From the English word bloom, ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- ("to thrive, flower, bloom").
Bloom
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Transferred use of the surname Bloom.
Bienvenida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: byehm-beh-NEE-dha
Rating: 10% based on 3 votes
Derived from Spanish bienvenido meaning "welcome".
Bert
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, German, Dutch
Pronounced: BURT(American English) BUT(British English) BEHRT(German, Dutch)
Rating: 33% based on 24 votes
Short form of Albert and other names containing the element bert, often derived from the Old German element beraht meaning "bright".
Beauregard
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: BO-rə-gahrd(American English) BO-rə-gahd(British English)
Rating: 33% based on 4 votes
From a French surname meaning "beautiful outlook".
Beacon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Batsheva
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: בַּת־שֶׁבַע(Hebrew)
Rating: 35% based on 4 votes
Hebrew variant of Bathsheba.
Bathsheba
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: בַּת־שֶׁבַע(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: bath-SHEE-bə(English)
Rating: 42% based on 26 votes
Means "daughter of the oath" in Hebrew, derived from בַּת (baṯ) meaning "daughter" and שָׁבַע (shavaʿ) meaning "oath". According to the Old Testament, this was the name of a woman married to Uriah the Hittite. She became pregnant by King David, so he arranged to have her husband killed in battle and then married her. She was the mother of Solomon.
Basil 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BAZ-əl
Rating: 48% based on 26 votes
From the Greek name Βασίλειος (Basileios), which was derived from βασιλεύς (basileus) meaning "king". Saint Basil the Great was a 4th-century bishop of Caesarea and one of the fathers of the early Christian church. Due to him, the name (in various spellings) has come into general use in the Christian world, being especially popular among Eastern Christians. It was also borne by two Byzantine emperors.
Bartolomé
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: bar-to-lo-MEH
Rating: 28% based on 4 votes
Spanish form of Bartholomew.
Bartholomew
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Biblical
Pronounced: bahr-THAHL-ə-myoo(American English) bah-THAWL-ə-myoo(British English)
Rating: 50% based on 5 votes
English form of Βαρθολομαῖος (Bartholomaios), which was the Greek form of an Aramaic name meaning "son of Talmai". In the New Testament Bartholomew is the byname of an apostle, possibly the same person as the apostle Nathanael. According to tradition he was a missionary to India before returning westward to Armenia, where he was martyred by flaying. Due to the popularity of this saint the name became common in England during the Middle Ages.
Barnabas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German (Rare), English (Rare), Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Βαρναβᾶς(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: BAR-na-bas(German) BAHR-nə-bəs(American English) BAH-nə-bəs(British English)
Rating: 54% based on 27 votes
Greek form of an Aramaic name. In Acts in the New Testament the byname Barnabas was given to a man named Joseph, a Jew from Cyprus who was a companion of Paul on his missionary journeys. The original Aramaic form is unattested, but it may be from בּר נביא (bar navi) meaning "son of the prophet", though in Acts 4:36 it is claimed that the name means "son of encouragement".

As an English name, Barnabas came into occasional use after the 12th century. It is now rare, though the variant Barnaby is still moderately common in Britain.

Baltazar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend
Rating: 50% based on 27 votes
Variant of Balthazar.
Azura
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: ə-ZHUWR-ə, AZH-rə
Rating: 51% based on 26 votes
Elaboration of Azure.
Avonlea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 48% based on 26 votes
Created by L. M. Montgomery as the setting for her novel Anne of Green Gables (1908). She may have based the name on the Arthurian island of Avalon, though it also resembles the river name Avon and leah "woodland, clearing".
Avalon
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: AV-ə-lahn(American English) AV-ə-lawn(British English)
Rating: 49% based on 28 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.
Avalon
Usage: Arthurian Cycle
Pronounced: AV-ə-lahn(American English) AV-ə-lawn(British English)
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.
Athanasia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek, Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Αθανασία(Greek) Ἀθανασία(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 20% based on 4 votes
Feminine form of Athanasios (see Athanasius).
Asunción
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: a-soon-THYON(European Spanish) a-soon-SYON(Latin American Spanish)
Rating: 20% based on 4 votes
Means "assumption" in Spanish. This name is given in reference to the assumption of the Virgin Mary into heaven.
Assumpta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Latinate form of Assunta, used especially in Ireland [1].
Ascensión
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: as-thehn-SYON(European Spanish) a-sehn-SYON(Latin American Spanish)
Rating: 10% based on 4 votes
Means "ascension" in Spanish. This name is given in reference to the Ascension of Jesus into heaven.
Arthur
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Welsh Mythology, Arthurian Cycle
Pronounced: AHR-thər(American English) AH-thə(British English) AR-TUYR(French) AR-tuwr(German) AHR-tuyr(Dutch)
Rating: 57% based on 6 votes
The meaning of this name is unknown. It could be derived from the Celtic elements *artos "bear" (Old Welsh arth) combined with *wiros "man" (Old Welsh gur) or *rīxs "king" (Old Welsh ri). Alternatively it could be related to an obscure Roman family name Artorius.

Arthur is the name of the central character in Arthurian legend, a 6th-century king of the Britons who resisted Saxon invaders. He may or may not have been based on a real person. He first appears in Welsh poems and chronicles (perhaps briefly in the 7th-century poem Y Gododdin and more definitively and extensively in the 9th-century History of the Britons [1]). However, his character was not developed until the chronicles of the 12th-century Geoffrey of Monmouth [2]. His tales were later taken up and expanded by French and English writers.

The name came into general use in England in the Middle Ages due to the prevalence of Arthurian romances, and it enjoyed a surge of popularity in the 19th century. Famous bearers include German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), mystery author and Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), and science-fiction author Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008).

Artemisia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Ἀρτεμισία(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 65% based on 4 votes
Feminine form of Artemisios. This was the name of the 4th-century BC builder of the Mausoleum, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. She built it in memory of her husband, the Carian prince Mausolus.
Aristotle
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Anglicized)
Other Scripts: Ἀριστοτέλης(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: AR-i-staht-əl(American English) AR-i-stawt-əl(British English)
Rating: 37% based on 3 votes
From the Greek name Ἀριστοτέλης (Aristoteles) meaning "the best purpose", derived from ἄριστος (aristos) meaning "best" and τέλος (telos) meaning "purpose, result, completion". This was the name of a Greek philosopher of the 4th century BC who made lasting contributions to Western thought, including the fields of logic, metaphysics, ethics and biology.
Aristokles
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Ἀριστοκλῆς(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 0% based on 3 votes
Greek form of Aristocles.
Aristocles
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἀριστοκλῆς(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 0% based on 3 votes
Latinized form of the Greek name Ἀριστοκλῆς (Aristokles) meaning "the best glory", derived from ἄριστος (aristos) meaning "best" and κλέος (kleos) meaning "glory". This was the real name of the philosopher Plato.
Aristarchus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἀρίσταρχος(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 40% based on 4 votes
From the Greek name Ἀρίσταρχος (Aristarchos), derived from ἄριστος (aristos) meaning "best" and ἀρχός (archos) meaning "master". This name was borne by Aristarchus of Samos, a 3rd-century BC Greek astronomer and mathematician.
Archimedes
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Ἀρχιμήδης(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: AR-KEE-MEH-DEHS(Classical Greek) ahr-ki-MEE-deez(American English) ah-ki-MEE-deez(British English)
Rating: 52% based on 25 votes
Derived from the Greek elements ἀρχός (archos) meaning "master" and μήδεα (medea) meaning "plans, counsel, cunning". This was the name of a 3rd-century BC Greek mathematician, astronomer and inventor.
Arantxa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque
Pronounced: a-RAN-cha
Rating: 46% based on 5 votes
Diminutive of Arantzazu.
Aquila
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: AK-wil-ə(English) ə-KWIL-ə(English)
Rating: 44% based on 24 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.
Aqila
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: عقيلة(Arabic)
Pronounced: ‘a-KEE-la
Rating: 10% based on 3 votes
Feminine form of Aqil.
Apollonia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1], Italian
Other Scripts: Ἀπολλωνία(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: A-POL-LAW-NEE-A(Classical Greek)
Rating: 60% based on 4 votes
Feminine form of Apollonios. This was the name of a 3rd-century saint and martyr from Alexandria.
Anxo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Galician
Pronounced: AN-shuw
Rating: 15% based on 4 votes
Galician form of Angelus (see Angel).
Anunciación
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: a-noon-thya-THYON(European Spanish) a-noon-sya-SYON(Latin American Spanish)
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
Means "annunciation" in Spanish, referring to the event in the New Testament in which the angel Gabriel announces to the Virgin Mary that she will give birth to Jesus.
Anthousa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Ἀνθοῦσα(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Ancient Greek form of Anfisa.
Annunziata
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: an-noon-TSYA-ta
Rating: 46% based on 5 votes
Means "announced" in Italian, referring to the event in the New Testament in which the angel Gabriel tells the Virgin Mary of the imminent birth of Jesus.
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)
Rating: 52% based on 5 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.
Androkles
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Ἀνδροκλῆς(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: AN-DRO-KLEHS
Rating: 7% based on 3 votes
Greek form of Androcles.
Ampelios
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Ἀμπέλιος(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 10% based on 3 votes
Greek form of Ampelio.
Amerigo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: a-meh-REE-go
Rating: 38% based on 5 votes
Medieval Italian form of Emmerich. Amerigo Vespucci (1451-1512) was the Italian explorer who gave the continent of America its name (from Americus, the Latin form of his name).
Amaryllis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: am-ə-RIL-is(English)
Rating: 59% based on 30 votes
Derived from Greek ἀμαρύσσω (amarysso) meaning "to sparkle". This is the name of a character appearing in Virgil's pastoral poems Eclogues [1]. The amaryllis flower is named for her.
Almudena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: al-moo-DHEH-na
Rating: 48% based on 4 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.
Alf 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Norse Mythology
Rating: 3% based on 3 votes
Derived from Old Norse alfr meaning "elf". In Norse legend this was the name of king, the suitor of a reluctant maiden named Alfhild. She avoided marrying him by disguising herself as a warrior, but when they fought she was so impressed by his strength that she changed her mind.
Alexandros
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek, Ancient Greek [1], Biblical Greek [2], Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Αλέξανδρος(Greek) Ἀλέξανδρος(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: a-LEH-ksan-dhraws(Greek) A-LEH-KSAN-DROS(Classical Greek)
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Greek form of Alexander.
Albert
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, German, French, Catalan, Polish, Czech, Russian, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Finnish, Romanian, Hungarian, Albanian, Germanic [1]
Other Scripts: Альберт(Russian)
Pronounced: AL-bərt(American English) AL-bət(British English) AL-behrt(German, Polish) AL-BEHR(French) əl-BEHRT(Catalan) ul-BYEHRT(Russian) AHL-bərt(Dutch) AL-bat(Swedish) AWL-behrt(Hungarian)
Rating: 43% based on 6 votes
From the Germanic name Adalbert meaning "noble and bright", composed of the elements adal "noble" and beraht "bright". This name was common among medieval German royalty. The Normans introduced it to England, where it replaced the Old English cognate Æþelbeorht. Though it became rare in England by the 17th century, it was repopularized in the 19th century by the German-born Prince Albert, the husband of Queen Victoria.

This name was borne by two 20th-century kings of Belgium. Other famous bearers include the German physicist Albert Einstein (1879-1955), creator of the theory of relativity, and Albert Camus (1913-1960), a French-Algerian writer and philosopher.

Agapetos
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Ἀγαπητός(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 7% based on 3 votes
Ancient Greek form of Agapito.
Agamemnon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology, Greek
Other Scripts: Ἀγαμέμνων(Ancient Greek) Αγαμέμνων(Greek)
Pronounced: A-GA-MEHM-NAWN(Classical Greek) ag-ə-MEHM-nahn(American English) ag-ə-MEHM-nawn(British English)
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Possibly means "very steadfast" in Greek. In Greek mythology he was the brother of Menelaus. He led the Greek expedition to Troy to recover his brother's wife Helen. After the Trojan War Agamemnon was killed by his wife Clytemnestra.
Adrasteia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἀδράστεια(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: A-DRAS-TEH-A(Classical Greek)
Rating: 33% based on 4 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.
Adorinda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Esperanto
Pronounced: a-do-REEN-da
Rating: 48% based on 4 votes
Means "adorable" in Esperanto.
Adoración
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: a-dho-ra-THYON(European Spanish) a-dho-ra-SYON(Latin American Spanish)
Rating: 30% based on 6 votes
Means "adoration" in Spanish. This name refers to the event that is known in Christian tradition as the Adoration of the Magi, which is when the three Magi presented gifts to the infant Jesus and worshipped him.
Abe 2
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Frisian, Dutch
Pronounced: A-bə(Dutch)
Rating: 32% based on 5 votes
Originally a Frisian short form of Adalbert (and other names starting with the Old German element adal "noble" and a second element beginning with b [1]).
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