zeesqueere's Personal Name List
Ziya
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic, Turkish
Other Scripts: ضياء(Arabic)
Pronounced: dee-YA(Arabic)
Personal remark: splendorous glowing light
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Means "splendour, light, glow" in Arabic. This was the name of a 14th-century Islamic Indian historian.
Yvon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: EE-VAWN
Personal remark: yew
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Yarrow
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare), Afro-American (Slavery-era)
Pronounced: YAR-o(English)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Transferred use of the surname
Yarrow, and/or from the word for the flowering plant (Achillea millefolium).
Wren
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: REHN
Personal remark: name of bird
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
From the English word for the small songbird. It is ultimately derived from Old English wrenna.
Winter
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: WIN-tər(American English) WIN-tə(British English)
Personal remark: name of season
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
From the English word for the season, derived from Old English winter.
Winsom
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Personal remark: charming
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Wiley
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: WIE-lee
Personal remark: temple clearing, tricky
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From a surname that was derived from various English place names: towns named
Willey or the River
Wylye.
Wilder
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From an English surname meaning "wild, untamed, uncontrolled", from Old English wilde.
Wendelin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: VEHN-deh-leen(German)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Old
diminutive of Germanic names beginning with the element
wentil (see
Wendel).
Saint Wendelin was a 6th-century hermit of Trier in Germany.
Vyvyan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (British)
Personal remark: alive, fair lady
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Variant of
Vivian. This was the name of one of Oscar Wilde's sons.
Viorel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Romanian
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Derived from viorea, the Romanian word for the alpine squill flower (species Scilla bifolia) or the sweet violet flower (species Viola odorata). It is derived from Latin viola "violet".
Vesper
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology, Dutch (Modern)
Pronounced: WEHS-pehr(Latin) VEHS-pər(American English, Dutch) VEHS-pə(British English)
Personal remark: evening star
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Latin
cognate of
Hesperos. This name was used by the British author Ian Fleming for a female character, a love interest of James Bond, in his novel
Casino Royale (1953). She also appears in the film adaptations of 1967 and 2006.
Verity
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: VEHR-i-tee
Personal remark: truth
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
From the English word meaning
"verity, truth", from Latin
verus "true, real". This was one of the virtue names adopted by the
Puritans in the 17th century.
Vega 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Astronomy
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
The name of a star in the constellation Lyra. Its name is from Arabic
الواقع (al-Wāqiʿ) meaning "the swooping (eagle)".
Vårin
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norwegian (Rare)
Personal remark: spring (season), the careful one, a pair, aware, torture, consecration of your name, pure, far off
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Elaboration of
Vör, perhaps influenced by
Karin. It is also associated with the Norwegian word
vår meaning "spring (the season)".
Vanamo
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish (Modern)
Pronounced: VAH-nah-mo
Personal remark: twinflower
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Means "twinflower" in Finnish.
Valerian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian, Georgian, Romanian, History
Other Scripts: Валериан(Russian) ვალერიან(Georgian)
Pronounced: və-LIR-ee-ən(English)
Personal remark: name of flower, to be strong
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From the Roman
cognomen Valerianus, which was itself derived from the Roman name
Valerius. This was the name of a 3rd-century Roman emperor (Publius Licinius Valerianus) who was captured by the Persians. Several
saints have also borne this name, including a 2nd-century martyr of Lyons.
Tycho
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History, Dutch
Pronounced: TUY-go(Danish) TIE-ko(English) TEE-kho(Dutch)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Latinized form of
Tyge. This name was used by the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546-1601), who was born as
Tyge.
Tündér
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hungarian (Rare)
Pronounced: TUYN-dehr
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Means "fairy" in Hungarian.
Tracy
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: TRAY-see
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From an English surname that was taken from a Norman French place name meaning
"domain belonging to Thracius". Charles Dickens used it for a male character in his novel
The Pickwick Papers (1837). It was later popularized as a feminine name by the main character Tracy Lord in the movie
The Philadelphia Story (1940). This name is also sometimes used as a
diminutive of
Theresa.
Topaz
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: TO-paz
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
From the English word for the yellow precious stone, the traditional birthstone of November, ultimately derived from Greek
τόπαζος (topazos).
Tondra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Esperanto
Pronounced: TON-dra
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Means "thunderous", from Esperanto tondro meaning "thunder".
Tierney
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Thistle
Usage: English
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Derived from Middle English thistel "thistle", this was either a nickname or a topographic name for someone who lived near a place overgrown with thistles.
Thales
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1], Portuguese (Brazilian)
Other Scripts: Θαλῆς(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: TA-LEHS(Classical Greek) THAY-leez(English) TA-leezh(Portuguese)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Derived from Greek
θάλλω (thallo) meaning
"to blossom". Thales of Miletus was a 6th-century BC Greek philosopher and mathematician.
Tesni
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Personal remark: warmth from the sun
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Means "warmth" in Welsh.
Tempest
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: TEHM-pist
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
From the English word meaning "storm". It appears in the title of William Shakespeare's play The Tempest (1611).
Taylor
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: TAY-lər(American English) TAY-lə(British English)
Personal remark: tailor
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
From an English surname that originally denoted someone who was a tailor, from Norman French
tailleur, ultimately from Latin
taliare "to cut".
Its modern use as a feminine name may have been influenced by the British-American author Taylor Caldwell (1900-1985). Since 1990 it has been more popular for girls in the United States. Other England-speaking regions have followed suit, with the exception of England and Wales where it is still slightly more popular for boys. Its popularity peaked in America the mid-1990s for both genders, ranked sixth for girls and 51st for boys. A famous bearer is the American musician Taylor Swift (1989-).
Tawny
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: TAW-nee
Personal remark: light brown
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From the English word, ultimately deriving from Old French tané, which means "light brown".
Tathan
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Personal remark: name of Welsh saint
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
The meaning is unfortunately unknown to me. This was the name of a Welsh saint from the 5th century AD; sources conflict over whether the saint was a male or a female. In the case of the latter, the saint was thought to be a daughter of a King of Gwent.
Tarragon
Usage: French (Rare)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Tanith
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Semitic Mythology
Other Scripts: 𐤕𐤍𐤕(Phoenician)
Personal remark: serpent lady
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Meaning unknown. This was the name of the Phoenician goddess of love, fertility, the moon and the stars. She was particularly associated with the city of Carthage, being the consort of
Ba'al Hammon.
Talfryn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Personal remark: high hill
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From a Welsh place name meaning
"front hill", derived from Welsh
tal "front, extremity" and
bryn "hill".
Tabassum
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Arabic, Urdu, Bengali
Other Scripts: تبسّم(Arabic, Urdu) তাবাসসুম(Bengali)
Pronounced: ta-BAS-soom(Arabic) TA-bas-soom(Bengali)
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Means
"smiling" in Arabic, from the root
بسم (basama) meaning "to smile".
Symre
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norwegian (Modern, Rare)
Personal remark: anemone
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Directly taken from Norwegian symre "anemone".
Storm
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Modern), Dutch (Modern), Danish (Modern), Norwegian (Modern)
Pronounced: STAWRM(American English, Dutch) STAWM(British English)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
From the vocabulary word, ultimately from Old English or Old Dutch storm, or in the case of the Scandinavian name, from Old Norse stormr. It is unisex as an English name, but typically masculine elsewhere.
Sterling
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: STUR-ling(American English) STU-ling(British English)
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
From a Scots surname that was derived from city of Stirling, which is itself of unknown meaning. The name can also be given in reference to the English word sterling meaning "excellent". In this case, the word derives from sterling silver, which was so named because of the emblem that some Norman coins bore, from Old English meaning "little star".
Starling
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: STAHR-ling
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From the
English word for the type of bird. It is commonly associated with the name
Star.
It is the original name of children's illustrator Tasha Tudor.
Sparrow
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: SPAR-o, SPEHR-o
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From the name of the bird, ultimately from Old English spearwa.
Sorrel
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: SAWR-əl
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From the name of the sour tasting plant, derived from Old French sur "sour", a word of Frankish origin.
Sorley
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish
Pronounced: SAWR-lee(American English) SAW-lee(British English)
Personal remark: summer traveler
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Sky
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: SKIE
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Simply from the English word sky, which was ultimately derived from Old Norse ský "cloud".
Sinclair
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: sin-KLEHR(American English) sin-KLEH(British English)
Personal remark: bright saint
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From a Scottish surname that was derived from a Norman French town called "
Saint Clair". A notable bearer was the American author Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951).
Silver
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: SIL-vər(American English) SIL-və(British English)
Personal remark: precious metal, color
Rating: 93% based on 3 votes
From the English word for the precious metal or the colour, ultimately derived from Old English seolfor.
Shannon
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SHAN-ən
Personal remark: name of river in Ireland, ancient, name of goddess
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
From the name of the River Shannon, the longest river in Ireland, called
an tSionainn in Irish. It is associated with the legendary figure
Sionann and is sometimes said to be named for her. However it is more likely she was named after the river, which may be related to Old Irish
sen "old, ancient"
[1]. As a given name, it first became common in America after the 1940s.
Shane
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Irish, English
Pronounced: SHAYN(English)
Personal remark: god is gracious
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Anglicized form of
Seán. It came into general use in America after the release of the western movie
Shane (1953).
Shadow
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Pet
Pronounced: SHAD-o
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Transferred use of the surname
Shadow or simply from the English word
shadow.
Shade
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Personal remark: boundary, wraith, shadowy, damage, robber-knight
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
From the English word
shade or transferred use of the surname
Shade, which may be a topographic name for someone who lived near a boundary (from the Old English
scead "boundary") or a nickname for a thin man, (from the Middle English
schade, "shadow", "wraith") or an Americanized spelling of the German and Dutch surname
Schade.
Seren
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: SEH-rehn
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Means "star" in Welsh. This is a recently created Welsh name.
Salome
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), German (Rare), Georgian, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek [1]
Other Scripts: სალომე(Georgian) Σαλώμη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: sə-LO-mee(English)
Personal remark: peace
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
From an Aramaic name that was related to the Hebrew word
שָׁלוֹם (shalom) meaning
"peace". According to the historian Josephus this was the name of the daughter of
Herodias (the consort of Herod Antipas, the tetrarch of Galilee). In the
New Testament, though a specific name is not given, it was a daughter of Herodias who danced for Herod and was rewarded with the head of
John the Baptist, and thus Salome and the dancer have traditionally been equated.
As a Christian given name, Salome has been in occasional use since the Protestant Reformation. This was due to a second person of this name in the New Testament: one of the women who witnessed the crucifixion and later discovered that Jesus' tomb was empty. It is used in Georgia due to the 4th-century Salome of Ujarma, who is considered a saint in the Georgian Church.
Sage
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: SAYJ
Rating: 100% based on 3 votes
From the English word sage, which denotes either a type of spice or else a wise person.
Saga
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norse Mythology, Swedish, Icelandic
Pronounced: SAH-gah(Swedish) SA-gha(Icelandic)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
From Old Norse
Sága, possibly meaning
"seeing one", derived from
sjá "to see". This is the name of a Norse goddess, possibly connected to
Frigg. As a Swedish and Icelandic name, it is also derived from the unrelated word
saga "story, fairy tale, saga".
Saffron
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: SAF-rən
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
From the English word that refers either to a spice, the crocus flower from which it is harvested, or the yellow-orange colour of the spice. It is derived via Old French from Arabic
زعفران (zaʿfarān), itself probably from Persian meaning "gold leaves".
Ruane
Usage: Irish
Personal remark: descendant of little red
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Rowan
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Irish, English (Modern)
Pronounced: RO-ən(English)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Anglicized form of the Irish name
Ruadhán. As an English name, it can also be derived from the surname Rowan, itself derived from the Irish given name. It could also be given in reference to the rowan tree, a word of Old Norse origin (coincidentally sharing the same Indo-European root meaning "red" with the Irish name).
Rory
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Irish, Scottish, English
Pronounced: RAWR-ee(English)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Anglicized form of
Ruaidhrí. Typically a masculine name, it gained some popularity for girls in the United States after it was used on the television series
Gilmore Girls (2000-2007), in this case as a nickname for
Lorelai. Despite this, the name has grown more common for boys in America, especially after 2011, perhaps due to Northern Irish golfer Rory McIlroy (1989-).
Robin
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English, French, Dutch, Swedish, Czech
Pronounced: RAHB-in(American English) RAWB-in(British English) RAW-BEHN(French) RAW-bin(Dutch) RO-bin(Czech)
Rating: 70% based on 4 votes
Medieval English
diminutive of
Robert, now usually regarded as an independent name. Robin Hood was a legendary hero and archer of medieval England who stole from the rich to give to the poor. In modern times it has also been used as a feminine name, and it may sometimes be given in reference to the red-breasted bird.
Roan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
River
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: RIV-ər(American English) RIV-ə(British English)
Personal remark: name of body of water
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
From the English word that denotes a flowing body of water. The word is ultimately derived (via Old French) from Latin ripa "riverbank".
Riagán
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish (Rare)
Pronounced: REEY-gan
Personal remark: impulsive
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From Old Irish
Riacán, probably derived from
rí "king" combined with a
diminutive suffix.
Reyhan
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Turkish, Uyghur
Other Scripts: رەيھان(Uyghur Arabic)
Personal remark: basil
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Turkish and Uyghur form of
Rayhana.
Raven
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: RAY-vən
Personal remark: raven
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From the name of the bird, ultimately from Old English
hræfn. The raven is revered by several Native American groups of the west coast. It is also associated with the Norse god
Odin.
Rain 1
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: RAYN
Personal remark: precipitation, counsel, sovereign, kingdom of the famous army
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Simply from the English word rain, derived from Old English regn.
Raban
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic [1]
Personal remark: raven
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Prudence
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English, French
Pronounced: PROO-dəns(English) PRUY-DAHNS(French)
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Medieval English form of
Prudentia, the feminine form of
Prudentius. In France it is both the feminine form and a rare masculine form. In England it was used during the Middle Ages and was revived in the 17th century by the
Puritans, in part from the English word
prudence, ultimately of the same source.
Placide
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: PLA-SEED
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
French masculine and feminine form of
Placidus (see
Placido).
Pippin 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic [1]
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Old German form of
Pepin. The 1972 musical
Pippin is loosely based on the life of
Charlemagne's eldest son Pepin the Hunchback.
Piper
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: PIE-pər(American English) PIE-pə(British English)
Personal remark: pipe-player
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
From an English surname that was originally given to a person who played on a pipe (a flute). It was popularized as a given name by a character from the television series
Charmed, which debuted in 1998
[1].
Peronel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Archaic)
Personal remark: yokel bumpkin
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
Peridot
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: PER-i-do, PER-i-daht
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
Taken from the name of the gemstone, whose name is of uncertain origin and meaning. A current theory, however, derives it from Anglo-Norman
pedoretés, ultimately from Greek
paiderôs (via Latin
paederos):
pais "child" and
erôs "love".
As a given name, it has found occasional usage in the English-speaking world from the late 19th century onwards.
Peregrine
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: PEHR-ə-grin
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
From the Late Latin name
Peregrinus, which meant
"traveller". This was the name of several early
saints.
Pépin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: PEH-PEHN
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Penrose
Gender: Masculine
Usage: American (Rare)
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Penrose.
Parker
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: PAHR-kər(American English) PAH-kə(British English)
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
From an English occupational surname that meant "keeper of the park".
Paloma
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: pa-LO-ma
Personal remark: rock dove
Rating: 77% based on 3 votes
Means "dove, pigeon" in Spanish.
Olwyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Oanez
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Breton
Pronounced: WAHN-ehs
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Derived from Breton
oan "lamb" (ultimately from Latin
agnus) and used as a Breton form of
Agnes.
Nolwenn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Breton
Personal remark: holy one from Noyal (a city in Brittany, France)
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
From the Breton phrase
Noyal Gwenn meaning
"holy one from Noyal". This was the epithet of a 6th-century
saint and martyr from Brittany.
Ninian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish
Personal remark: unknown meaning
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
From the name of a 5th-century British
saint, known as the Apostle to the Picts, who was apparently responsible for many miracles and cures. He first appears briefly in the 8th-century Latin writings of the historian Bede, though his name is only written in the ablative case
Nynia [1]. This may represent a Brythonic name *
Ninniau [2][3].
Nimat
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: نعمات(Arabic)
Pronounced: nee‘-MAT
Personal remark: blessings
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Means
"blessings" in Arabic, a plural form of
Nima 1.
Niamh
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish, Irish Mythology
Pronounced: NYEEYW(Irish) NYEEYV(Irish) NYEEV(Irish)
Personal remark: brightly shining
Rating: 70% based on 3 votes
Means
"bright" in Irish. She was the daughter of the sea god
Manannán mac Lir in Irish legends. She fell in love with the poet
Oisín, the son of
Fionn mac Cumhaill. It has been used as a given name for people only since the early 20th century.
Naoise
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish, Irish Mythology
Pronounced: NEE-shə(Irish)
Personal remark: name of mythological figure
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Meaning unknown, presumably of Irish origin. In Irish legend he was the young man who fled to Scotland with
Deirdre, who was due to marry
Conchobar the king of Ulster. Conchobar eventually succeeded in capturing Deirdre and killing Naoise, which caused Deirdre to die of grief.
Myrto
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek, Ancient Greek [1], Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Μυρτώ(Greek)
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
From Greek
μύρτος (myrtos) meaning
"myrtle". This was the name of a few characters from Greek
mythology, including one of the Maenads.
Muriel
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English, French, Irish, Scottish, Medieval Breton (Anglicized)
Pronounced: MYUWR-ee-əl(English) MUY-RYEHL(French)
Rating: 73% based on 3 votes
Anglicized form of Irish
Muirgel and Scottish
Muireall. A form of this name was also used in Brittany, and it was first introduced to medieval England by Breton settlers in the wake of the
Norman Conquest. In the modern era it was popularized by a character from Dinah Craik's novel
John Halifax, Gentleman (1856).
Morgan 1
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Welsh, English, French
Pronounced: MAWR-gən(American English) MAW-gən(British English) MAWR-GAN(French)
Personal remark: circle sea, born of the sea
Rating: 83% based on 3 votes
From the Old Welsh masculine name
Morcant, which was possibly derived from Welsh
mor "sea" and
cant "circle". Since the 1980s in America
Morgan has been more common for girls than boys, perhaps due to stories of
Morgan le Fay or the fame of actress Morgan Fairchild (1950-).
Merritt
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MEHR-it
Personal remark: boundary gate, deserving, beloved, pearl
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
From an English surname, originally from a place name, which meant "boundary gate" in Old English.
Meridian
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: mə-RID-ee-ən
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
From the English word, which is directly from Latin meridianus meaning "of midday, of noon, southerly, to the south". It was used by Alice Walker for the heroine of her novel 'Meridian' (1976).
Memphis
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: MEHM-fis
Personal remark: enduring beauty, name of mythological figures
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
From the name of an important city of ancient Egypt, or the city in Tennessee that was named after it. It is derived from a Greek form of Egyptian mn-nfr meaning "enduring beauty".
Medi
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Personal remark: September, noon
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
Means "September" in Welsh.
Meallán
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish (Rare)
Pronounced: MYA-lan
Personal remark: lightning
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
From Old Irish
Mellán, derived from
mell meaning either "pleasant, delightful" or "lump, ball" combined with a
diminutive suffix. This was the name of a few early
saints.
Marlon
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Dutch (Rare)
Pronounced: mahr-LAWN
Personal remark: (Mary+Apollo)
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
Meaning uncertain. Most likely a combination of two names, for example
Maria and
Lonneke.
Marin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Romanian, Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian, French
Other Scripts: Марин(Serbian, Bulgarian)
Pronounced: ma-REEN(Romanian) MA-REHN(French)
Personal remark: of the sea, name of god, male, planet Mars, sea of bitterness
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Romanian, Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian and French form of
Marinus.
Loren
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LAWR-ən
Personal remark: from the laurel
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Either a short form of
Laurence 1 (masculine) or a variant of
Lauren (feminine).
Lesley
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LEHZ-lee, LEHS-lee
Personal remark: holly garden
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Leolin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Personal remark: brilliantly shining leader of lions
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
Anglicized form of
Llywelyn influenced by Latin
leo "lion".
Laverne
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: lə-VURN(American English) lə-VUN(British English)
Personal remark: alder, the springtime
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
From a French surname that was derived from a place name, ultimately from the Gaulish word
vern "alder". It is sometimes associated with the Roman goddess
Laverna or the Latin word
vernus "of spring".
Larkspur
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: American (Modern, Rare)
Pronounced: LAHRK-spər
Personal remark: name of flower
Rating: 80% based on 3 votes
From the English word for the flowering plant with many purplish-blue flowers, which is so called (1578) from its resemblance to the lark's large hind claws. Other names for it are lark's heel (Shakespeare), lark's claw and knight's spur. See
Lark.
Lark
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: LAHRK(American English) LAHK(British English)
Personal remark: name of bird
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
From the English word for the type of songbird.
Langley 1
Usage: English
Pronounced: LANG-lee
Personal remark: long woodland clearing, the Englishman
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
From any of the various places with this name, all derived from Old English
lang "long" and
leah "woodland, clearing".
Kieran
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish, English
Pronounced: KIR-ən(English) KIR-awn(English)
Personal remark: little black
Rating: 37% based on 3 votes
Kestrel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: KEHS-trəl
Personal remark: name of bird ("rattle")
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
From the name of the bird of prey, ultimately derived from Old French crecelle "rattle", which refers to the sound of its cry.
Keelan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: KEE-lən(English)
Personal remark: fair and slender
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Kara
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Sanskrit, Hindi, Hinduism, Indian, Nepali, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi, Bengali, Gujarati
Other Scripts: कारा(Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi, Nepali)
Pronounced: kArA(Sanskrit) kaaraa(Hindi)
Personal remark: dark black, snow, curvaceous, beloved, a part of lute below the neck, name of mythological figure, prison
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
MEANING - condconfinement, Prison, binding , a part of lute below the neck ( for deadening the sound ), a female messenger, female worker in gold ● Origin - Sanskrit, Indian
Kalyke
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Καλύκη(Ancient Greek)
Personal remark: name of one of Jupiter's moons
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Derived from Greek κάλυξ (kalyx) meaning "seed pod, husk, outer covering" (of a fruit, flower bud, etc). This is the name of multiple characters in Greek mythology. It is also one of Jupiter's moons.
Justice
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JUS-tis
Personal remark: justice
Rating: 90% based on 3 votes
From an occupational surname meaning "judge, officer of justice" in Old French. This name can also be given in direct reference to the English word justice.
Jurian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval Low German
Personal remark: worker of the earth
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Medieval Low German form of
George.
Joyce
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JOIS
Personal remark: lord, to rejoice
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
From the medieval masculine name
Josse, which was derived from the earlier
Iudocus, which was a Latinized form of the Breton name
Judoc meaning
"lord". The name belonged to a 7th-century Breton
saint, and Breton settlers introduced it to England after the
Norman Conquest. It became rare after the 14th century, but was later revived as a feminine name, perhaps because of similarity to the Middle English word
joise "to rejoice". This given name also became a surname, as in the case of the Irish novelist James Joyce (1882-1941).
Jordan
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English, French, Macedonian, Serbian
Other Scripts: Јордан(Macedonian, Serbian) יַרְדֵן(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: JAWR-dən(American English) JAW-dən(British English) ZHAWR-DAHN(French)
Personal remark: name of river
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
From the name of the river that flows between the countries of Jordan and Israel. The river's name in Hebrew is
יַרְדֵן (Yarḏen), and it is derived from
יָרַד (yaraḏ) meaning
"descend, flow down". In the
New Testament John the Baptist baptizes
Jesus Christ in its waters, and it was adopted as a personal name in Europe after crusaders brought water back from the river to baptize their children. There may have been some influence from the Latin name
Jordanes, notably borne by a 6th-century Gothic historian.
This name died out after the Middle Ages, but was revived in the 19th century. In America and other countries it became fairly popular in the second half of the 20th century. A famous bearer of the surname is former basketball star Michael Jordan (1963-).
Jawdat
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: جودت(Arabic)
Pronounced: JOW-dat
Personal remark: excellence
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
Means
"goodness, excellence" in Arabic, derived from
جاد (jāda) meaning "to be excellent, to be generous".
Jasper
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Dutch, Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend
Pronounced: JAS-pər(American English) JAS-pə(British English) YAHS-pər(Dutch)
Personal remark: treasurer, name of gemstone
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
From Latin
Gaspar, perhaps from the Biblical Hebrew word
גִּזְבָּר (gizbar) meaning
"treasurer" [1], derived from Old Persian
ganzabarah. This name was traditionally assigned to one of the wise men (also known as the Magi, or three kings) who were said to have visited the newborn
Jesus. It has occasionally been used in the English-speaking world since the Middle Ages. The name can also be given in reference to the English word for the gemstone.
Jacinthe
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: French (Rare)
Pronounced: ZHA-SEHNT
Personal remark: name of flower
Rating: 73% based on 3 votes
Isonoe
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Personal remark: name of one of Jupiter's moons
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
One of jupiter's moons
Isadore
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: IZ-ə-dawr(American English) IZ-ə-daw(British English)
Personal remark: gift of Isis
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
Iphis
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἶφις(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: IE-fis
Personal remark: stoutly strong, name of mythological figures
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
Possibly from Greek ιφιος (
iphios) meaning "strong, stout". This was the name of seven characters in Greek myth, both male and female, including the slave woman given to
Patroclus by his cousin Achilles in Homer's 'Iliad'.
Indigo
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: IN-di-go
Personal remark: bluish-purple, from India
Rating: 80% based on 3 votes
From the English word
indigo for the purplish-blue dye or the colour. It is ultimately derived from Greek
Ἰνδικόν (Indikon) meaning "Indic, from India".
Ilham
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Arabic, Indonesian, Uyghur
Other Scripts: إلهام(Arabic) ئىلھام(Uyghur Arabic)
Pronounced: eel-HAM(Arabic) IL-ham(Indonesian) eel-HAHM(Uyghur)
Personal remark: inspiration
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Means "inspiration" in Arabic.
Ignis
Usage: Portuguese (Brazilian)
Personal remark: unknown meaning
Rating: 10% based on 2 votes
Igne
Usage: Filipino
Personal remark: unknown meaning
Rating: 15% based on 2 votes
Ianthe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἰάνθη(Ancient Greek)
Personal remark: violet-colored flower, name of nymph
Rating: 93% based on 3 votes
Means
"violet flower", derived from Greek
ἴον (ion) meaning "violet" and
ἄνθος (anthos) meaning "flower". This was the name of an ocean nymph in Greek
mythology.
Hyacinth 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Anglicized)
Other Scripts: Ὑάκινθος(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: HIE-ə-sinth(English)
Personal remark: name of flower
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Honoré
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: AW-NAW-REH
Personal remark: highly-esteemed distinguished honor
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
French form of
Honoratus or
Honorius. A notable bearer was the French author Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850).
Helike
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, Ancient Greek, Astronomy
Other Scripts: Ἑλίκη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: HEH-LEE-KEH(Classical Greek)
Personal remark: name of one of Jupiter's moons
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
Means "something that winds; crack willow (species Salix fragilis)" in Greek. Compare the masculine form
Helix.
In antiquity, Helike was a common name for the northern constellation Ursa Major (because it revolves around the pole). According to Greek myth she was a nymph whom Zeus changed into the constellation because she had nursed him as an infant on Crete. In 2005 this name was given to a moon of Jupiter.
Haydn
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (British)
Pronounced: HIE-dən
Personal remark: heathen
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
From a German surname meaning "heathen". It is used in honour of the Austrian composer Joseph Haydn (1732-1809).
Hayden
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: HAY-dən
Personal remark: hay hill
Rating: 83% based on 3 votes
From an English surname that was derived from place names meaning either
"hay valley" or
"hay hill", derived from Old English
heg "hay" and
denu "valley" or
dun "hill". Its popularity at the end of the 20th century was due to the sound it shared with other trendy names of the time, such as
Braden and
Aidan.
Hawthorn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Romani (Archaic)
Personal remark: name of tree
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Hawthorn.
Harper
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: HAHR-pər(American English) HAH-pə(British English)
Personal remark: person who plays or makes harps
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
From an English surname that originally belonged to a person who played or made harps (Old English hearpe). A notable bearer was the American author Harper Lee (1926-2016), who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird. It rapidly gained popularity in the 2000s and 2010s, entering the American top ten for girls in 2015.
Harlan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: HAHR-lən(American English) HAH-lən(British English)
Personal remark: hare land
Rating: 10% based on 2 votes
From a surname that was from a place name meaning "hare land" in Old English. In America it has sometimes been given in honour of Supreme Court justice John Marshall Harlan (1833-1911).
Hani
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: هانئ(Arabic)
Pronounced: HA-nee
Personal remark: happy
Rating: 15% based on 2 votes
Means
"happy, delighted" in Arabic, from the root
هنأ (hanaʾa) meaning "to gladden, to enjoy".
Halley
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English, Portuguese (Brazilian)
Pronounced: HAL-ee(English) HA-lay(Brazilian Portuguese)
Personal remark: name of comet
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Halley. It peaked in popularity in 1986, when Halley's Comet was last spotted from Earth. It rose again in the US in the mid 1990's when similar-sounding names (like
Haley and
Hallie) were increasing in popularity.
Halcyon
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Various (Rare)
Pronounced: HAL-see-ən(English)
Personal remark: kingfisher, the Pleiades, name of mythical character
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
From the name of a genus of kingfisher birds, derived from Greek
ἀλκυών (from the same source as
Alcyone).
Haidee
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: HAY-dee(English)
Personal remark: modest, name of literary figure
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Perhaps intended to derive from Greek
αἰδοῖος (aidoios) meaning
"modest, reverent". This name was created by Lord Byron for a character (written as
Haidée) in his 1819 poem
Don Juan [1].
Hadley
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: HAD-lee
Personal remark: heather field
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
From an English surname that was derived from a place name meaning "heather field" in Old English.
Gwynedd
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Personal remark: name of region in Wales
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
From the name of the kingdom of Gwynedd, which was located in northern Wales from the 5th century. It is now the name of a Welsh county. The name may be related to Old Irish
Féni meaning "Irish people", itself possibly related to the Celtic root *
wēnā meaning "band of warriors"
[1].
Gwyn
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Welsh, Welsh Mythology
Pronounced: GWIN(Welsh)
Personal remark: blessed, white
Rating: 70% based on 3 votes
Means
"white, blessed" in Welsh. In Welsh legend Gwyn was a king of the Otherworld and the leader of the Wild Hunt. He appears in the Welsh tale
Culhwch and Olwen, where he is one of the many who help
Culhwch hunt the monstrous boar Trwyth. The story also tells of his rivalry with
Gwythyr for the beautiful
Creiddylad.
Gwyar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh Mythology
Pronounced: GUWY-ar
Personal remark: bloodshed, flowing gore
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Means "gore, blood" in Welsh. In Welsh legend Gwyar was the father of Arthur's warriors
Gwalchmei and
Gwalhafed. He appears in
Culhwch and Olwen (late 11th century),
Breudwyt Rhonabwy (
The Dream of Rhonabwy; 13th century) and
Geraint and Enid (13th century).
Gwenneg
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Breton
Personal remark: little blessed, little white
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Derived from Breton
gwenn meaning
"white, blessed" combined with a
diminutive suffix.
Saint Gwenneg was an 8th-century monk of Brittany.
Gemini
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Roman Mythology, Astronomy
Pronounced: GEH-mee-nee(Latin) JEHM-i-nie(English)
Personal remark: twins
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Means
"twins" in Latin. This is the name of the third sign of the zodiac. The two brightest stars in the constellation,
Castor and
Pollux, are named for the mythological twin sons of
Leda.
Garnet 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: GAHR-nət(American English) GAH-nət(British English)
Personal remark: dark red, name of gemstone
Rating: 73% based on 3 votes
From the English word garnet for the precious stone, the birthstone of January. The word is derived from Middle English gernet meaning "dark red".
Garland
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: GAHR-lənd(American English) GAH-lənd(British English)
Personal remark: triangle land, string of flowers
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
From a surname meaning "triangle land" from Old English gara and land. The surname originally belonged to a person who owned a triangle-shaped piece of land.
Florence
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English, French
Pronounced: FLAWR-əns(English) FLAW-RAHNS(French)
Personal remark: flourishing prosperity
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
From the Latin name
Florentius or the feminine form
Florentia, which were derived from
florens "prosperous, flourishing".
Florentius was borne by many early Christian
saints, and it was occasionally used in their honour through the Middle Ages. In modern times it is mostly feminine.
This name can also be given in reference to the city in Italy, as in the case of Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), who was born there to British parents. She was a nurse in military hospitals during the Crimean War and is usually considered the founder of modern nursing.
Flannery
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: FLAN-ə-ree
Personal remark: descendant of red valor
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
From an Irish surname, an Anglicized form of Ó Flannghaile, derived from the given name Flannghal meaning "red valour". A famous bearer was American author Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964).
Firdaws
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Arabic (Maghrebi)
Other Scripts: فردوس(Arabic)
Personal remark: paradise
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Fiore
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: FYO-reh
Personal remark: flower
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Means
"flower" in Italian. It can also be considered an Italian form of the Latin names
Flora and
Florus.
Fiacre
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French (Rare)
Personal remark: raven
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
Fiachna
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish Mythology, Old Irish [1]
Personal remark: raven, name of mythological figure
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
Derived from Irish fiach meaning "raven". This is the name of several characters from Irish legend. It was also borne by Fiachna mac Báetáin, a 7th-century king of Dál Araide.
Feliu
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Catalan (Rare)
Pronounced: fə-LEEW
Personal remark: happy, lucky, successful
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
Felice
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), German (Rare), Dutch (Rare), Swedish (Rare), Medieval English, Medieval Italian
Pronounced: fə-LEES(English, German, Middle English) fay-LEE-tsə(German)
Personal remark: happy, lucky, successful
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Variant of
Felicia. A notable bearer is Felice Bauer (1887-1960), fiancée of author Franz Kafka. His letters to her were published in the book
Letters to Felice.
Féichín
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Irish
Personal remark: little raven
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
Evren
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Turkish
Pronounced: ehv-REHN
Personal remark: the cosmos, name of mythical creature
Rating: 77% based on 3 votes
Means
"cosmos, the universe" in Turkish. In Turkic
mythology the Evren is a gigantic snake-like dragon.
Evening
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare), Romani (Archaic)
Personal remark: evening
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
From the English word, evening, the last part of the day.
Estienne
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval French
Personal remark: crown ("that which surrounds")
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Esme
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHZ-may, EHZ-mee
Personal remark: loved, esteemed
Rating: 80% based on 3 votes
Eryl
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: EH-ril
Personal remark: "watcher" or "lookout" (originally "hunt")
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From Welsh eryl meaning "watcher" or "lookout" (originally "hunt"), derived from ar, an intensifying prefix, and hyl "a hunt". In regular use since the 1920s, though infrequently. Trefor R. Davies reports in his 'Book of Welsh Names' (1952) that Eryl was first used by John and Dilys Glynne Jones for their daughter, born in 1893. They lived in a house called Eryl-y-môr ("lookout over the sea"). It was subsequently used for boys as well as girls.
Enlli
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Personal remark: name of island in Wales ("in the currents")
Rating: 15% based on 2 votes
Welsh feminine name taken from Ynys Enlli (Bardsey Island in English) which is a small island off the Llŷn Peninsula in North West Wales. Enlli itself means "in the currents". This name has been use since the 1920s.
Emlyn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: EHM-lin
Personal remark: around the valley; rival
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
From the name of an ancient region of southwestern Wales, its name meaning
"around the valley" from Welsh
am "around" and
glyn "valley". It has also been suggested that this name is a Welsh form of Latin
Aemilianus (see
Emiliano), though this appears to be unfounded.
Elwyn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHL-win
Personal remark: elf friend, old friend, noble friend
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Eluned
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: ehl-IN-ehd, ehl-EEN-ehd
Personal remark: image
Rating: 55% based on 2 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.
Elouan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Breton, French
Pronounced: eh-LOO-an(Breton) EH-LOO-AHN(French)
Personal remark: light
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Possibly from a Breton word meaning
"light". This name was borne by an obscure 6th-century
saint who is now venerated mainly in Brittany and Cornwall.
Elm
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Catalan, English
Personal remark: name of tree; helmet; famous noble; beloved
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Catalan form of
Elmo, as well as a short form of
Elmer. The name may also be taken directly from the English word
elm, a type of tree.
Eisel
Usage: German
Personal remark: moon flood
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Eirian
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Personal remark: beautifully bright
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Means
"bright, beautiful" in Welsh
[1].
Eimear
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish
Personal remark: swift
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Eadwine
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Anglo-Saxon [1][2]
Personal remark: wealthy friend
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Old English form of
Edwin.
Doran
Usage: Irish
Personal remark: exiled wanderer
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
From Irish Ó Deoradháin meaning "descendant of Deoradhán", where Deoradhán is a given name meaning "exile, wanderer".
Diya 2
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: ضياء(Arabic)
Pronounced: dee-YA
Personal remark: glowing splendor
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Alternate transcription of Arabic
ضياء (see
Ziya).
Devin
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DEHV-in
Personal remark: little black, divine; little fawn; little ox; giant
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
From a surname, either the Irish surname
Devin 1 or the English surname
Devin 2.
Daffodil
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: DAF-ə-dil
Personal remark: name of plant ("the asphodel")
Rating: 77% based on 3 votes
From the name of the flower, ultimately derived from Dutch de affodil meaning "the asphodel".
Cypress
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: American (Rare)
Pronounced: SIE-pris
Personal remark: name of tree
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
From the English word cypress, a group of coniferous trees. Ultimately from Greek kuparissos.
Cyan
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: SIE-an
Personal remark: name of color
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
From the English word meaning
"greenish blue, cyan", ultimately derived from Greek
κύανος (kyanos).
Coriander
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: KAWR-ee-an-dər(American English) kawr-ee-AN-dər(American English) kawr-ee-AN-də(British English)
Personal remark: name of spice
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
From the name of the spice, also called cilantro, which may ultimately be of Phoenician origin (via Latin and Greek).
Corentin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Breton, French
Pronounced: ko-REHN-teen(Breton) KAW-RAHN-TEHN(French)
Personal remark: hurricane
Rating: 10% based on 2 votes
French form of the Breton name Kaourintin, possibly from korventenn meaning "hurricane, storm". Alternatively, it could be connected to the Brythonic root *karid meaning "love" (modern Breton karout). This was the name of a 5th-century bishop of Quimper in Brittany.
Copper
Usage: English
Personal remark: name of metal; name of color
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
Clover
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: KLO-vər(American English) KLO-və(British English)
Personal remark: name of flower
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
From the English word for the wild flower, ultimately deriving from Old English clafre.
Clove
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Literature, English (Modern)
Pronounced: KLOV(Literature)
Personal remark: name of garlic bulb; name of spice
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
From the English word meaning either a slice of garlic or the dried flower bud of a tropical tree, used as a spice. This name was recently used in Suzanne Collins' popular book, The Hunger Games.
Cleo
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KLEE-o
Personal remark: glory
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Clematis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: KLEHM-ə-tis, klə-MAT-is
Personal remark: name of plant (Greek "twiggy branch")
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
From the English word for a type of flowering vine, ultimately derived from Greek
κλήμα (klema) meaning "twig, branch".
Clarimond
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (Rare, Archaic)
Personal remark: bright protector
Rating: 77% based on 3 votes
Ciardha
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval Irish
Personal remark: black
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Irish byname derived from ciar meaning "black".
Chrysanthemum
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: kris-AN-the-mum
Personal remark: name of flower ("golden flower")
Rating: 77% based on 3 votes
Taken directly from the name of the flower, which is derived from Greek khrusos "gold" and anthemon "flower".
This name has been in occasional use from the 19th century onwards, making it one of the many Victorian flower names.
Chrysanthe
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Χρυσάνθη(Ancient Greek)
Personal remark: golden flower
Rating: 80% based on 3 votes
Celyn
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Personal remark: holly
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Means
"holly" in Welsh. It appears briefly in the Welsh tale
Culhwch and Olwen [1], belonging to a son of Caw, but was not typically used as a given name until the 20th century.
Celest
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch (Surinamese), Dutch (Rare), Afrikaans
Personal remark: heavenly sky
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Cedar
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: SEE-dər(American English) SEE-də(British English)
Personal remark: name of tree
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
From the English word for the coniferous tree, derived (via Old French and Latin) from Greek
κέδρος (kedros). Besides the true cedars from the genus Cedrus, it is also used to refer to some tree species in the cypress family.
Carys
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: KA-ris
Personal remark: love
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Derived from Welsh caru meaning "love". This is a relatively modern Welsh name, in common use only since the middle of the 20th century.
Caron
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Personal remark: love
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
From the name of places near the town of Tregaron in Ceredigion, Wales.
Caritas
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman
Personal remark: esteemed love
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Variant of
Carita, a direct transcription from the Latin.
Caolán
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: KEE-lan
Personal remark: fair and slender
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
From Irish
caol meaning
"slender" combined with the
diminutive suffix
-án.
Caoilinn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish (Rare)
Personal remark: fair and slender
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Cameron
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KAM-rən
Personal remark: crooked nose
Rating: 73% based on 3 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.
Caelan
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KAY-lən
Personal remark: fair and slender; little and slender
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Anglicized form of
Caolán (masculine) or a variant of
Kaylyn (feminine).
Bryn
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Welsh, English (Modern)
Pronounced: BRIN(English)
Personal remark: hill
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Means
"hill, mound" in Welsh. In Wales it is almost always a masculine name, though elsewhere in the English-speaking world it can be unisex (see
Brynn).
Bryce
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BRIES
Personal remark: speckled
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Bronwen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: BRAWN-wehn
Personal remark: blessed white breast
Rating: 55% based on 2 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.
Briar
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: BRIE-ər(American English) BRIE-ə(British English)
Personal remark: name of thorny plant ("to swell")
Rating: 70% based on 3 votes
From the English word for the thorny plant.
Breno
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Portuguese
Pronounced: BREH-noo(European Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese)
Personal remark: raven king
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Bréanainn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Irish [1]
Personal remark: prince
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Branimir
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Slovene
Other Scripts: Бранимир(Serbian, Bulgarian)
Personal remark: peaceful protection of the world
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Derived from the Slavic element
borna "protection" combined with
mirŭ "peace, world".
Blake
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BLAYK
Personal remark: black; pale
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
From an English surname that was derived from Old English blæc "black" or blac "pale". A famous bearer of the surname was the poet and artist William Blake (1757-1827). It was originally a mainly masculine name but in 2007 actress Blake Lively (1987-) began starring in the television series Gossip Girl, after which time it increased in popularity for girls.
Bevin
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish (Rare)
Personal remark: fair lady
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Beryl
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BEHR-əl
Personal remark: name of semi-precious stone
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
From the English word for the clear or pale green precious stone, ultimately deriving from Sanskrit. As a given name, it first came into use in the 19th century.
Balsam
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic (Rare)
Personal remark: cure; name of tree
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
Báine
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Irish Mythology
Pronounced: bayn(Scottish Gaelic)
Personal remark: pale white; welcoming bone
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
An Irish name meaning "whiteness, pallor". In Irish Mythology, Báine was a princess, daughter of Tuathal Techtmar, ancestor of the kings of Ireland. "Cailín na Gruaige Báine" and "Bruach na Carraige Báine" are the names of two traditional Irish songs.
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Coming from a nick-name for a blonde person from the Gaelic word 'bàn' meaning white or fair. It may also be from Old and Middle English words meaning 'bone' and 'welcoming' respectively.
Babylas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Late Greek, French (Rare)
Other Scripts: Βαβύλας(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: BA-BEE-LA(French)
Personal remark: name derived from Babylon
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
Derived from the name of the ancient Mesopotamian city of Babylon.
Saint Babylas was a 3rd-century patriarch of Antioch who was martyred during the reign of the Roman emperor Decius.
Aynur
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Turkish, Azerbaijani, Uyghur
Other Scripts: ئاينۇر(Uyghur Arabic)
Personal remark: moonlight
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
Means
"moonlight" in Turkish, Azerbaijani and Uyghur, ultimately from Turkic
ay meaning "moon" and Arabic
نور (nūr) meaning "light".
Ayaan
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Yakut
Other Scripts: Айаан(Yakut)
Personal remark: bright; lucky; path; journey
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Derived from Yakut айан (ayan) meaning "journey".
Avery
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AY-və-ree, AYV-ree
Personal remark: elf power; elf counsel
Rating: 70% based on 2 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).
Auriga
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Astronomy
Personal remark: name of charioteer constellation
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Means "charioteer" in Latin. This is the name of a constellation in the northern sky, which is said to resemble a chariot and its driver.
Aurel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Romanian, German (Rare)
Pronounced: ow-REHL(German)
Personal remark: golden-gilded
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Aubrey
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AWB-ree
Personal remark: elf power
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
From
Auberi, an Old French form of
Alberich brought to England by the
Normans. It was common in the Middle Ages, and was revived in the 19th century. Since the mid-1970s it has more frequently been given to girls, due to Bread's 1972 song
Aubrey along with its similarity to the established feminine name
Audrey.
Asvida
Usage: Sri Lankan
Personal remark: unknown meaning
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
Astrill
Usage: English
Personal remark: unknown meaning
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
Astor
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: AS-tər(American English) AS-tə(British English)
Personal remark: hawk
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
From a German and French surname derived from Occitan astur meaning "hawk". The wealthy and influential Astor family, prominent in British and American society, originated in the Italian Alps.
Asphodel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: AS-fə-dehl
Personal remark: name of flower
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
From the name of the flower. J. R. R. Tolkien used this name on one of his characters in The Lord of the Rings.
Aspen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: AS-pən
Personal remark: name of tree
Rating: 88% based on 4 votes
From the English word for a variety of deciduous trees in the genus Populus, derived from Old English æspe. It is also the name of a ski resort in Colorado.
Ashwin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada
Other Scripts: अश्विन(Hindi, Marathi) அசுவின், அஸ்வின்(Tamil) అశ్విన్(Telugu) ಅಶ್ವಿನ್(Kannada)
Personal remark: [better spelling of Æscwine] ash tree friend; possessed of horses
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
From Sanskrit
अश्विन् (aśvin) meaning
"possessed of horses". The Ashvins are twin Hindu gods of the sunrise and sunset.
Arthfael
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval Welsh
Personal remark: bear prince
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Medieval Welsh form of
Armel.
Armel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Breton, French
Pronounced: AR-MEHL(French)
Personal remark: bear prince
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Breton and French form of the Old Welsh name
Arthmail, which was composed of the elements
arth "bear" and
mael "prince, chieftain". This was the name of a 6th-century Welsh
saint who founded abbeys in Brittany.
Ari 2
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Norse [1], Icelandic, Finnish
Pronounced: AH-ree(Finnish)
Personal remark: brave; eagle; lion
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Old Norse byname meaning "eagle".
Arden
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AHR-dən(American English) AH-dən(British English)
Personal remark: high, lofty
Rating: 73% based on 3 votes
From an English surname, originally taken from various place names, which were derived from a Celtic word meaning "high".
Arawn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh Mythology
Personal remark: name of Welsh god of the underworld
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Meaning unknown. This was the name of the god of the underworld, called Annwfn, in Welsh
mythology.
Aran 1
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Irish
Personal remark: wild goat; name of islands in Ireland
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
From the name of the Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland.
Aquiline
Usage: English (Rare)
Personal remark: eagle-like
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
Anthousa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Ἀνθοῦσα(Ancient Greek)
Personal remark: flower
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Anselmi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: AHN-sehl-mee
Personal remark: god's protection
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Angharad
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh, Old Welsh (Modernized) [1], Welsh Mythology
Personal remark: more love
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
From an Old Welsh name recorded in various forms such as
Acgarat and
Ancarat. It means
"much loved", from the intensive prefix
an- combined with a mutated form of
caru "to love". In the medieval Welsh romance
Peredur son of Efrawg, Angharad Golden-Hand is the lover of the knight
Peredur.
Amets
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Basque
Personal remark: dream
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Means "dream" in Basque.
Amery
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: AM-ə-ree
Personal remark: universal power; powerful work; home power; name of hard black substance
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Amaryllis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: am-ə-RIL-is(English)
Personal remark: name of flower ("sparkling")
Rating: 73% based on 3 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.
Amaranth
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Personal remark: name of flower ("unfading")
Rating: 73% based on 3 votes
From the name of the amaranth flower, which is derived from Greek αμαραντος (amarantos) meaning "unfading".
Amal 1
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: أمل(Arabic)
Pronounced: A-mal
Personal remark: hopeful aspirations; work
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Means
"hope, aspiration" in Arabic, from the root
أمل (ʾamala) meaning "to hope for".
Alwyn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Personal remark: name of river in Wales
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
From the name of the River Alwen in northern Wales (a tributary of the River Dee).
Alwen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: AL-wehn
Personal remark: name of river in Wales
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Adoption of the name of a Welsh river in Clwyd. The origin and meaning of this river's name are uncertain; current theories, however, include a derivation from Proto-Celtic *al(aun)o- "nourishing".
Alois
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Czech
Pronounced: A-lois(German, Czech) A-lo-is(German)
Personal remark: famous battle
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
Almond
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (American, Rare)
Personal remark: name of tree; noble protection
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
Alix
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: A-LEEKS
Personal remark: little noble
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Medieval French variant of
Alice, also sometimes used as a masculine name. This is the name of the hero (a young Gaulish man) of a French comic book series, which debuted in 1948.
Alexis
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: French, English, Greek, Spanish, Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Αλέξης(Greek) Ἄλεξις(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: A-LEHK-SEE(French) ə-LEHK-sis(English) a-LEHK-sees(Spanish)
Personal remark: helping defender
Rating: 80% based on 3 votes
From the Greek name
Ἄλεξις (Alexis) meaning
"helper" or
"defender", derived from Greek
ἀλέξω (alexo) meaning "to defend, to help". This was the name of a 3rd-century BC Greek comic poet, and also of several
saints. It is used somewhat interchangeably with the related name
Ἀλέξιος or
Alexius, borne by five Byzantine emperors.
In the English-speaking world this name is more commonly given to girls. This is due to the American actress Alexis Smith (1921-1993), who began appearing in movies in the early 1940s. It got a boost in popularity in the 1980s from a character on the soap opera Dynasty.
Alden
Usage: English
Pronounced: AWL-dən
Personal remark: old friend
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Derived from the Old English given name
Ealdwine.
Albe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (East Prussian), Estonian
Personal remark: white; elf; dawn
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
East Prussian German variant of
Alba, as well as a short form of
Albine.
Aisley
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: Isley
Personal remark: hazel forest; blacksmith; hearty iron
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
Airdrie
Usage: Scottish
Personal remark: high summer pasture
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Ainsley
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Scottish, English (Modern)
Pronounced: AYNZ-lee(English)
Personal remark: solitary woodland clearing
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
From an English surname that was from a place name: either Annesley in Nottinghamshire or Ansley in Warwickshire. The place names themselves derive from Old English
anne "alone, solitary" or
ansetl "hermitage" and
leah "woodland, clearing".
In America, this name received a boost of popularity in 2000 when a character bearing it began appearing on the television series The West Wing.
Ailín
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval Irish
Personal remark: handsome; little rock; name of Iranian tribe
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Ailbhe
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Irish, Irish Mythology
Pronounced: AL-vyə(Irish)
Personal remark: white
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
From Old Irish
Ailbe, possibly derived from the Celtic root *
albiyo- "world, light, white" or Old Irish
ail "rock". In Irish legend this was the name of a female warrior of the Fianna. It was also the name of a 6th-century male
saint, the founder of a monastery at Emly.
Aiden
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: AY-dən
Personal remark: little fire
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
Afton
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: AF-tən
Personal remark: name of river in Scotland
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Afton. It is also the name of a river in Scotland, and it coincides with the Swedish noun
afton meaning "evening".
This name enjoyed a brief revival in the early 1980s, thanks to the character of Afton Cooper from the popular American television series Dallas (1978-1991).
Afnan
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: أفنان(Arabic)
Pronounced: af-NAN
Personal remark: progress (Arabic "full-spreading branches of trees")
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Means
"tree branches" in Arabic, the plural form of
فنن (fanan) [1]. It is given in reference to verse
55:48 in the
Quran.
Æthelwine
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Anglo-Saxon [1][2]
Personal remark: noble friend
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Aeron
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Personal remark: berry; battle slaughter; Ireland; high mountain
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
From the name of the Welsh river Aeron, itself probably derived from the hypothetical Celtic goddess
Agrona. Alternatively, the name could be taken from Welsh
aeron meaning
"berries".
Aerin
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Personal remark: berry; battle slaughter; Ireland; high mountain
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Aequitas
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Personal remark: equity
Rating: 77% based on 3 votes
Means "equity, equality, fairness" in Latin. During the Roman Empire, Aequitas as a divine personification was part of the religious propaganda of the emperor, under the name Aequitas Augusti, which also appeared on coins. She is depicted on coins holding a cornucopiae and a balance scale (libra), which was more often a symbol of "honest measure" to the Romans than of justice.
Aelan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic, Muslim
Other Scripts: عِلان(Arabic)
Personal remark: unknown meaning
Rating: 70% based on 3 votes
Possibly a transcription of عِلان meaning "announcement, proclamation" in Arabic.
Adley
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (American, Modern)
Pronounced: AD-lee(American English)
Personal remark: heather field
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
Adelin
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Swedish (Rare), Norwegian (Rare), Finnish (Rare), Medieval French, Romanian, Lengadocian, Gascon, Niçard
Personal remark: little noble
Rating: 70% based on 3 votes
Scandinavian feminine variant of
Adelina, Romanian, Languedocian, Niçard and Gascon masculine form of
Adelina and medieval French masculine form of
Adeline.
Acamar
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Astronomy
Pronounced: A-kə-mahr
Personal remark: end of the river
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Derived from Arabic
Ākhir an-nahr, meaning "end of the river". This is the traditional name of the star Theta Eridani in the constellation
Eridanus.
Aberdeen
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ab-ə-deen
Personal remark: mouth of the Don River
Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
Means "mouth of the Don (river)" in Scottish Gaelic. This is the name of the name of a city in northern Scotland, as well as several other cities worldwide named after the Scottish city.
Aban
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Medieval Arabic (Moorish), Arabic
Personal remark: eloquent
Rating: 10% based on 3 votes
Means "clear, lucid, eloquent" in Arabic.
Aarin
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (American)
Pronounced: ER-in(American English) ER-ən(American English)
Personal remark: berry; battle slaughter; Ireland; high mountain
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Aanor
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Breton
Personal remark: name of Eleanor of Aquitaine's mother
Rating: 38% based on 4 votes
Variant of
Azenor. Folk etymology likes to associate this name with
Eléonore due to confusing the variant
Aenor with the possibly Germanic name
Aenor borne by the mother of Eleanor of Aquitaine (see
Eleanor for further information).
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