Furcifer's Personal Name List
Zinnia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: ZIN-ee-ə
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
From the name of the flower, which was itself named for the German botanist Johann Zinn.
Wren
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: REHN
Rating: 43% based on 4 votes
From the English word for the small songbird. It is ultimately derived from Old English wrenna.
Wisteria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: wis-TEHR-ee-ə, wis-TEER-ee-ə
Rating: 30% based on 4 votes
From the name of the flowering plant, which was named for the American anatomist Caspar Wistar.
Winter
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: WIN-tər(American English) WIN-tə(British English)
Rating: 48% based on 4 votes
From the English word for the season, derived from Old English winter.
Willow
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: WIL-o
Rating: 63% based on 4 votes
From the name of the tree, which is ultimately derived from Old English welig.
Wendy
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: WEHN-dee
Rating: 60% based on 7 votes
In the case of the character from J. M. Barrie's play
Peter Pan (1904), it was created from the nickname
fwendy "friend", given to the author by a young friend. However, the name was used prior to the play (rarely), in which case it could be related to the Welsh name
Gwendolen and other names beginning with the element
gwen meaning "white, blessed". The name only became common after Barrie's play ran.
Violet
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: VIE-lit, VIE-ə-lit
Rating: 67% based on 7 votes
From the English word violet for the purple flower, ultimately derived from Latin viola. It was common in Scotland from the 16th century, and it came into general use as an English given name during the 19th century.
Viola
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak
Pronounced: vie-O-lə(English) vi-O-lə(English) VIE-ə-lə(English) VYAW-la(Italian) vi-OO-la(Swedish) VEE-o-la(German) vee-O-la(German) VEE-o-law(Hungarian) VI-o-la(Czech) VEE-aw-la(Slovak)
Rating: 48% based on 4 votes
Means
"violet" in Latin. This is the name of the heroine of William Shakespeare's comedy
Twelfth Night (1602). In the play she is the survivor of a shipwreck who disguises herself as a man named Cesario. Working as a messenger for Duke
Orsino, she attempts to convince
Olivia to marry him. Instead Viola falls in love with the duke.
Verbena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Various (Rare)
Pronounced: vər-BEEN-ə(American English) və-BEEN-ə(British English)
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
From the name of the verbena plant, which is derived from Latin verbena meaning "leaves, twigs".
Venus
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Pronounced: WEH-noos(Latin) VEE-nəs(English)
Rating: 40% based on 4 votes
Means
"love, sexual desire" in Latin. This was the name of the Roman goddess of love and sex. Her character was assimilated with that of the Greek goddess
Aphrodite. As the mother of
Aeneas she was considered an ancestor of the Roman people. The second planet from the sun is named after her.
Vega 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Astronomy
Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
The name of a star in the constellation Lyra. Its name is from Arabic
الواقع (al-Wāqiʿ) meaning "the swooping (eagle)".
Vale
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: VAYL
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
From the English word meaning "wide river valley".
Turquoise
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
From the opaque blue-green mineral whose name is derived from French
pierre turquois "Turkish stone".
In the English-speaking world, it was occasionally used from the late 19th century onwards.
Topaz
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: TO-paz
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
From the English word for the yellow precious stone, the traditional birthstone of November, ultimately derived from Greek
τόπαζος (topazos).
Titania
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: tie-TAY-nee-ə(American English) ti-TAH-nee-ə(British English)
Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
Perhaps based on Latin
Titanius meaning
"of the Titans". This name was (first?) used by William Shakespeare in his comedy
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595) where it belongs to the queen of the fairies, the wife of
Oberon. This is also a moon of Uranus, named after the Shakespearean character.
Terra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: TEHR-ə
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Variant of
Tara 1, perhaps influenced by the Latin word
terra meaning
"land, earth".
Sunshine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SUN-shien
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
From the English word, ultimately from Old English sunne "sun" and scinan "shine".
Sunday
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SUN-day
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
From the name of the day of the week, which ultimately derives from Old English sunnandæg, which was composed of the elements sunne "sun" and dæg "day". This name is most common in Nigeria and other parts of Africa.
Summer
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SUM-ər(American English) SUM-ə(British English)
Rating: 62% based on 5 votes
From the name of the season, ultimately from Old English sumor. It has been in use as a given name since the 1970s.
Stella 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Dutch, German
Pronounced: STEHL-ə(English) STEHL-la(Italian) STEH-la(Dutch)
Rating: 60% based on 6 votes
Means "star" in Latin. This name was created by the 16th-century poet Philip Sidney for the subject of his collection of sonnets Astrophel and Stella. It was a nickname of a lover of Jonathan Swift, real name Esther Johnson (1681-1728), though it was not commonly used as a given name until the 19th century. It appears in Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), belonging to the sister of Blanche DuBois and the wife of Stanley Kowalski.
Starla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: STAHR-lə(American English) STAH-lə(British English)
Rating: 20% based on 4 votes
Star
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: STAHR(American English) STAH(British English)
Rating: 37% based on 3 votes
From the English word for the celestial body, ultimately from Old English steorra.
Sparrow
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: SPAR-o, SPEHR-o
Rating: 43% based on 4 votes
From the name of the bird, ultimately from Old English spearwa.
Sorrel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: SAWR-əl
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
From the name of the sour tasting plant, derived from Old French sur "sour", a word of Frankish origin.
Sora
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 空, 昊, etc.(Japanese Kanji) そら(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: SO-RA
Rating: 30% based on 4 votes
From Japanese
空 (sora) or
昊 (sora) both meaning "sky". Other kanji with the same pronunciations can also form this name.
Sol 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: SOL(Spanish) SAWL(European Portuguese) SOW(Brazilian Portuguese)
Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
Means "sun" in Spanish or Portuguese.
Sky
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: SKIE
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
Simply from the English word sky, which was ultimately derived from Old Norse ský "cloud".
Silvia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, German, Dutch, English, Late Roman, Roman Mythology
Pronounced: SEEL-vya(Italian) SEEL-bya(Spanish) SEEL-vyu(European Portuguese) SEEW-vyu(Brazilian Portuguese) ZIL-vya(German) SIL-vee-a(Dutch) SIL-vee-ə(English)
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Feminine form of
Silvius.
Rhea Silvia was the mother of
Romulus and
Remus, the founders of Rome. This was also the name of a 6th-century
saint, the mother of the pope Gregory the Great. It has been a common name in Italy since the Middle Ages. It was introduced to England by Shakespeare, who used it for a character in his play
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1594). It is now more commonly spelled
Sylvia in the English-speaking world.
Sequoia
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: sə-KWOI-ə
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
From the name of huge trees that grow in California. The tree got its name from the 19th-century Cherokee scholar
Sequoyah (also known as George Guess), the inventor of the Cherokee writing system.
Savannah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: sə-VAN-ə
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
From the English word for the large grassy plain, ultimately deriving from the Taino (Native American) word zabana. It came into use as a given name in America in the 19th century. It was revived in the 1980s by the movie Savannah Smiles (1982).
Sapphire
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: SAF-ie-ər(American English) SAF-ie-ə(British English)
Rating: 40% based on 4 votes
From the name of the gemstone, typically blue, which is the traditional birthstone of September. It is derived from Greek
σάπφειρος (sappheiros), ultimately from the Hebrew word
סַפִּיר (sappir).
Sapphira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: Σαπφείρη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: sə-FIE-rə(English)
Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
From the Greek name
Σαπφείρη (Sappheire), which was from Greek
σάπφειρος (sappheiros) meaning
"sapphire" or
"lapis lazuli" (ultimately derived from the Hebrew word
סַפִּיר (sappir)). Sapphira is a character in Acts in the
New Testament who is killed by God for lying.
Sakura
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 桜, 咲良, etc.(Japanese Kanji) さくら(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: SA-KOO-RA
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
From Japanese
桜 (sakura) meaning "cherry blossom", though it is often written using the hiragana writing system. It can also come from
咲 (saku) meaning "blossom" and
良 (ra) meaning "good, virtuous, respectable" as well as other kanji combinations.
Sahara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: sə-HAHR-ə, sə-HAR-ə
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
From the name of the world's largest hot desert, which is derived from Arabic صَحَارَى
(ṣaḥārā) meaning "deserts" (see
Sahara).
Sage
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: SAYJ
Rating: 63% based on 4 votes
From the English word sage, which denotes either a type of spice or else a wise person.
Saffron
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: SAF-rən
Rating: 33% based on 3 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".
Sable
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: SAY-bəl
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
From the English word meaning "black", derived from the name of the black-furred mammal native to northern Asia, ultimately of Slavic origin.
Rue
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ROO
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
From the name of the bitter medicinal herb, ultimately deriving from Greek
ῥυτή (rhyte). This is also sometimes used as a short form of
Ruth 1.
Ruby
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ROO-bee
Rating: 55% based on 4 votes
Simply from the name of the precious stone (which ultimately derives from Latin
ruber "red"), which is the traditional birthstone of July. It came into use as a given name in the 16th century
[1].
Rubena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Esperanto
Pronounced: roo-BEH-na
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
From Esperanto rubeno meaning "ruby", ultimately from Latin ruber "red".
Rosemary
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ROZ-mə-ree, ROZ-mehr-ee
Rating: 66% based on 5 votes
Combination of
Rose and
Mary. This name can also be given in reference to the herb, which gets its name from Latin
ros marinus meaning "dew of the sea". It came into use as a given name in the 19th century.
Rose
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, French
Pronounced: ROZ
Rating: 76% based on 5 votes
Originally a Norman French form of the Germanic name
Hrodohaidis meaning
"famous type", composed of the elements
hruod "fame" and
heit "kind, sort, type". The
Normans introduced it to England in the forms
Roese and
Rohese. From an early date it was associated with the word for the fragrant flower
rose (derived from Latin
rosa). When the name was revived in the 19th century, it was probably with the flower in mind.
Rosamund
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: RO-zə-mənd(English) RAHZ-ə-mənd(American English) RAWZ-ə-mənd(British English)
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Derived from the Old German elements
hros "horse" and
munt "protection". This name was borne by the wife of the Lombard king Alboin in the 6th century. The
Normans introduced it to England. It was subsequently interpreted as coming from Latin
rosa munda "pure rose" or
rosa mundi "rose of the world". This was the name of the mistress of Henry II, the king of England in the 12th century. According to legends she was murdered by his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine.
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: 57% based on 3 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.
River
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: RIV-ər(American English) RIV-ə(British English)
Rating: 67% based on 6 votes
From the English word that denotes a flowing body of water. The word is ultimately derived (via Old French) from Latin ripa "riverbank".
Raven
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: RAY-vən
Rating: 54% based on 5 votes
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
Rating: 50% based on 4 votes
Simply from the English word rain, derived from Old English regn.
Quetzal
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Nahuatl, American (Hispanic, Rare), Spanish (Mexican)
Pronounced: ket-zal(Nahuatl)
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
From Nahuatl
quetzalli, meaning "plumage of the quetzal bird, beautiful feather", figuratively meaning "something precious, something beautiful". Can also be a short form of
Quetzalcoatl.
Quarry
Usage: English
Rating: 10% based on 4 votes
From Middle English quarey "quarry", a topographic name for someone who lived near a stone quarry, or a metonymic occupational name for someone who worked in one.
Also Irish and Manx reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Guaire (see Mcquarrie).
Also English (of Norman origin) nickname for a thickset or portly man, from Anglo-Norman French quaré "square". Compare Carre
Puma
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (Rare)
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
Spanish from Quechua word puma, the name for a large American feline.
Primrose
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: PRIM-roz
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
From the English word for the flower, ultimately deriving from Latin prima rosa "first rose".
Prairie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (Rare)
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
From the English word for a flat treeless grassland, taken from French prairie "meadow". This was used by Thomas Pynchon for a character in his novel 'Vineland' (1990).
Posy
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: PO-zee
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Diminutive of
Josephine. It can also be inspired by the English word
posy for a bunch of flowers.
Poppy
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: PAHP-ee(American English) PAWP-ee(British English)
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
From the word for the red flower, derived from Old English popæg.
Petunia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: pə-TOON-yə
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
From the name of the flower, derived ultimately from a Tupi (South American) word.
Petal
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: PEHT-əl
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
From the English word for the flower part, derived from Greek
πέταλον (petalon) meaning "leaf".
Peridot
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: PER-i-do, PER-i-daht
Rating: 20% based on 5 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.
Peony
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: PEE-ə-nee
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
From the English word for the type of flower. It was originally believed to have healing qualities, so it was named after the Greek medical god Pæon.
Pearl
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: PURL(American English) PUL(British English)
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
From the English word pearl for the concretions formed in the shells of some mollusks, ultimately from Late Latin perla. Like other gemstone names, it has been used as a given name in the English-speaking world since the 19th century. The pearl is the traditional birthstone for June, and it supposedly imparts health and wealth.
Peach
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern), Popular Culture
Pronounced: peech
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Derived from the name of the fruit, which itself derived its name from Late Latin persica, which came from older Latin malum persicum meaning "Persian fruit." In popular culture, this is the name of the Nintendo video game character Princess Peach, whom Mario often rescues from the evil Bowser.
Orchid
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: AW-kid(British English) AWR-kid(American English)
Rating: 10% based on 1 vote
From the eponymous flowering plant. The plant's name derives from Latin orchis, borrowed from Ancient Greek ὄρχις (orkhis), meaning "testicle" (the name was given to the plant because of the testicle-shaped subterranean parts of some European orchids).
Opal
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: O-pəl
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
From the English word
opal for the iridescent gemstone, the birthstone of October. The word ultimately derives from Sanskrit
उपल (upala) meaning "jewel".
Onyx
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AHN-iks(American English) AWN-iks(British English)
Rating: 45% based on 4 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".
Olive
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, French
Pronounced: AHL-iv(American English) AWL-iv(British English) AW-LEEV(French)
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
From the English and French word for the type of tree, ultimately derived from Latin oliva.
Ocean
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: O-shən
Rating: 37% based on 3 votes
Simply from the English word
ocean for a large body of water. It is ultimately derived from Greek
Ὠκεανός (Okeanos), the name of the body of water thought to surround the Earth.
Nova
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Swedish (Modern), Dutch (Modern)
Pronounced: NO-və(English) NO-va(Swedish, Dutch)
Rating: 67% based on 6 votes
Derived from Latin novus meaning "new". It was first used as a name in the 19th century.
Nebula
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Astronomy, Popular Culture
Pronounced: NEHB-yuw-lə
Rating: 10% based on 3 votes
Means "mist, fog, vapor" in Latin, ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root
*nebh- "cloud". In astronomy, a nebula is an interstellar cloud of gas and dust where stars are formed.
Nebula is the name of a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Roger Stern and John Buscema, the character first appeared in 'The Avengers' 257 (July 1985). Originally depicted as a supervillain, Nebula was later depicted as an antihero and member of the Guardians of the Galaxy.
Myrtle
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MUR-təl(American English) MU-təl(British English)
Rating: 25% based on 4 votes
Simply from the English word
myrtle for the evergreen shrub, ultimately from Greek
μύρτος (myrtos). It was first used as a given name in the 19th century, at the same time many other plant and flower names were coined.
Monday
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (African)
Pronounced: MUN-day
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
From the English word for the day of the week, which was derived from Old English mona "moon" and dæg "day". This can be given to children born on Monday, especially in Nigeria.
Misty
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MIS-tee
Rating: 48% based on 5 votes
From the English word misty, ultimately derived from Old English. The jazz song Misty (1954) by Erroll Garner may have helped popularize the name.
Meadow
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: MEHD-o
Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
From the English word meadow, ultimately from Old English mædwe. Previously very rare, it rose in popularity after it was used as the name of Tony Soprano's daughter on the television series The Sopranos (1999-2007).
May
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MAY
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
Derived from the name of the month of May, which derives from
Maia, the name of a Roman goddess. May is also another name of the hawthorn flower. It is also used as a
diminutive of
Mary,
Margaret or
Mabel.
Marsha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MAHR-shə(American English) MAH-shə(British English)
Rating: 38% based on 4 votes
Marina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, English, Greek, Finnish, Estonian, Russian, Romanian, Czech, Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Macedonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Georgian, Ancient Roman
Other Scripts: Μαρίνα(Greek) Марина(Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Macedonian) მარინა(Georgian)
Pronounced: ma-REE-na(Italian, Spanish, German, Dutch, Macedonian) mə-REE-nə(Catalan) mə-REEN-ə(English) mu-RYEE-nə(Russian) MA-ri-na(Czech)
Rating: 50% based on 4 votes
Feminine form of
Marinus. This name was borne by a few early
saints. This is also the name by which Saint
Margaret of Antioch is known in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Marigold
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: MAR-i-gold, MEHR-i-gold
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
From the name of the flower, which comes from a combination of
Mary and the English word
gold.
Mantis
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Popular Culture
Pronounced: man-TIS
Rating: 33% based on 4 votes
From Greek mántis, meaning "soothsayer" or "prophet". This is also the name of and order of large insects that catch their prey using their powerful forelegs. Two fictional bearers of this name is Mantis, a supervillain in Jack Kirby's "Fourth World", and Mantis, a superheroine and member of The Avengers.
Magnolia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: mag-NO-lee-ə
Rating: 64% based on 5 votes
From the English word magnolia for the flower, which was named for the French botanist Pierre Magnol.
Luna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, English
Pronounced: LOO-na(Latin, Spanish, Italian) LOO-nə(English)
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Means "the moon" in Latin (as well as Italian, Spanish and other Romance languages). Luna was the Roman goddess of the moon, frequently depicted driving a white chariot through the sky.
Lotus
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: LO-təs
Rating: 58% based on 4 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.
Linnaea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: li-NAY-ə, li-NEE-ə
Rating: 10% based on 2 votes
From the word for the type of flower, also called the twinflower (see
Linnéa).
Lily
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LIL-ee
Rating: 80% based on 6 votes
From the name of the flower, a symbol of purity. The word is ultimately derived from Latin lilium. This is the name of the main character, Lily Bart, in the novel The House of Mirth (1905) by Edith Wharton. A famous bearer is the American actress Lily Tomlin (1939-).
Lilac
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: LIE-lək
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
From the English word for the shrub with purple or white flowers (genus Syringa). It is derived via Arabic from Persian.
Lavender
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: LAV-ən-dər(American English) LAV-ən-də(British English)
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
From the English word for the aromatic flower or the pale purple colour.
Laurel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LAWR-əl
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
From the name of the laurel tree, ultimately from Latin laurus.
Larkspur
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: American (Modern, Rare)
Pronounced: LAHRK-spər
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
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)
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
From the English word for the type of songbird.
Lapis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: ˈlapis
Rating: 10% based on 2 votes
a bright blue metamorphic rock consisting largely of lazurite, used for decoration and in jewelry.
Lantana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 10% based on 2 votes
From the name of the plant.
Kitty
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KIT-ee
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Kestrel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: KEHS-trəl
Rating: 15% based on 2 votes
From the name of the bird of prey, ultimately derived from Old French crecelle "rattle", which refers to the sound of its cry.
Jupiter
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Roman Mythology (Anglicized)
Pronounced: JOO-pi-tər(American English) JOO-pi-tə(British English)
Rating: 55% based on 2 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.
Jonquil
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: JAHNG-kwəl(American English) JAWNG-kwəl(British English)
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
From the English word for the type of flower, derived ultimately from Latin iuncus "reed".
Jewel
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JOO-əl, JOOL
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
In part from the English word
jewel, a precious stone, derived from Old French
jouel, which was possibly related to
jeu "game". It is also in part from the surname
Jewel or
Jewell (a derivative of the Breton name
Judicaël), which was sometimes used in honour of the 16th-century bishop of Salisbury John Jewel. It has been in use as a given name since the 19th century.
Jet
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch
Pronounced: YEHT
Rating: 15% based on 2 votes
Jasmine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, French
Pronounced: JAZ-min(English) ZHAS-MEEN(French)
Rating: 60% based on 4 votes
From the English word for the climbing plant with fragrant flowers that is used for making perfumes. It is derived via Arabic from Persian
یاسمین (yāsamīn), which is also a Persian name. In the United States this name steadily grew in popularity from the 1970s, especially among African Americans
[1]. It reached a peak in the early 1990s shortly after the release of the animated Disney movie
Aladdin (1992), which featured a princess by this name.
Jade
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English, French
Pronounced: JAYD(English) ZHAD(French)
Rating: 54% based on 5 votes
From the name of the precious stone that is often used in carvings. It is derived from Spanish (piedra de la) ijada meaning "(stone of the) flank", relating to the belief that jade could cure renal colic. As a given name, it came into general use during the 1970s. It was initially unisex, though it is now mostly feminine.
Jacinth
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: JAY-sinth, JAS-inth
Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
From the English word for the orange precious stone, originating from the same source as
Hyacinth.
Ivy
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: IE-vee
Rating: 52% based on 5 votes
From the English word for the climbing plant that has small yellow flowers. It is ultimately derived from Old English ifig.
Ivory
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: African American
Pronounced: IE-və-ree(English) IEV-ree(English)
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
From the English word for the hard, creamy-white substance that comes from elephant tusks and was formerly used to produce piano keys.
Iris
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, French, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Slovene, Croatian, Greek
Other Scripts: Ἶρις(Ancient Greek) Ίρις(Greek)
Pronounced: IE-ris(English) EE-ris(German, Dutch) EE-rees(Finnish, Spanish, Catalan, Italian) EE-REES(French)
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Means "rainbow" in Greek. Iris was the name of the Greek goddess of the rainbow, also serving as a messenger to the gods. This name can also be given in reference to the word (which derives from the same Greek source) for the iris flower or the coloured part of the eye.
Ianthe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἰάνθη(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
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 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: HIE-ə-sinth
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
From the name of the flower (or the precious stone that also bears this name), ultimately from Greek
hyakinthos (see
Hyacinthus).
Honeysuckle
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: HUN-ee-sə-kəl
Rating: 30% based on 3 votes
Named after the plant and flower, the honeysuckle, as borne by British actress Honeysuckle Weeks.
Holly
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: HAHL-ee(American English) HAWL-ee(British English)
Rating: 54% based on 5 votes
From the English word for the holly tree, ultimately derived from Old English holen. Holly Golightly is the main character in the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) by Truman Capote.
Heather
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: HEDH-ər(American English) HEDH-ə(British English)
Rating: 60% based on 4 votes
From the English word heather for the variety of small shrubs with pink or white flowers, which commonly grow in rocky areas. It is derived from Middle English hather. It was first used as a given name in the late 19th century, though it did not become popular until the last half of the 20th century.
Hazel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: HAY-zəl
Rating: 68% based on 5 votes
From the English word hazel for the tree or the light brown colour, derived ultimately from Old English hæsel. It was coined as a given name in the 19th century and quickly became popular, reaching the 18th place for girls in the United States by 1897. It fell out of fashion in the second half of the 20th century, but has since recovered.
Goldie 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: GOL-dee
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
From a nickname for a person with blond hair, from the English word gold.
Golda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Yiddish
Other Scripts: גאָלדאַ, גאָלדע(Yiddish) גּוֹלְדָּה(Hebrew)
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
From Yiddish
גאָלד (gold) meaning
"gold". This is the name of Tevye's wife in the musical
Fiddler on the Roof (1964). It was also borne by the Israeli prime minister Golda Meir (1898-1978).
Gemma
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Catalan, English (British), Dutch
Pronounced: JEHM-ma(Italian) ZHEHM-mə(Catalan) JEHM-ə(British English) GHEH-ma(Dutch)
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
Medieval Italian nickname meaning "gem, precious stone". It was borne by the wife of the 13th-century Italian poet Dante Alighieri.
Gazelle
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Popular Culture, Persian (Germanized, Modern)
Pronounced: gah-ZEHL(Popular Culture) ga-TSEL-ə(Persian)
Rating: 10% based on 2 votes
From the name of the animal gazelle which is from Arabic غزال (ghazāl). Two characters that bear this name are Gazelle, an assassin from the film "Kingsman: The Secret Service" (2014) and Gazelle, an animal popstar from Disney's "Zootopia" (2016).
Garnet 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: GAHR-nət(American English) GAH-nət(British English)
Rating: 30% based on 2 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".
Gardenia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: gahr-DEEN-ee-ə(American English) gah-DEE-nee-ə(British English)
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
From the name of the tropical flower, which was named for the Scottish naturalist Alexander Garden (1730-1791).
Gale 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: GAYL
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Variant of
Gail. It also coincides with the English word
gale meaning
"storm".
Gaia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, Italian
Other Scripts: Γαῖα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: GIE-A(Classical Greek) GIE-ə(English) GAY-ə(English) GA-ya(Italian)
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
From the Greek word
γαῖα (gaia), a parallel form of
γῆ (ge) meaning
"earth". In Greek
mythology Gaia was the mother goddess who presided over the earth. She was the mate of
Uranus and the mother of the Titans and the Cyclopes.
Flower
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: FLOW-ər(American English) FLOW-ə(British English)
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
Simply from the English word flower for the blossoming plant. It is derived (via Old French) from Latin flos.
Florence
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English, French
Pronounced: FLAWR-əns(English) FLAW-RAHNS(French)
Rating: 50% based on 2 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.
Flora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Dutch, French, Greek, Albanian, Roman Mythology
Other Scripts: Φλώρα(Greek)
Pronounced: FLAWR-ə(English) FLAW-ra(Italian) FLO-ra(Spanish, German, Dutch, Latin) FLAW-ru(Portuguese) FLAW-RA(French)
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Derived from Latin
flos meaning
"flower" (genitive case
floris). Flora was the Roman goddess of flowers and spring, the wife of Zephyr the west wind. It has been used as a given name since the Renaissance, starting in France. In Scotland it was sometimes used as an Anglicized form of
Fionnghuala.
Fleur
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, Dutch, English (British)
Pronounced: FLUUR(French, Dutch) FLU(British English) FLUR(American English)
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
Means
"flower" in French.
Saint Fleur of Issendolus (
Flor in Gascon) was a 14th-century nun from Maurs, France. This was also the name of a character in John Galsworthy's novels
The Forsyte Saga (1922).
Finch
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Literature
Pronounced: FINCH(English)
Rating: 53% based on 4 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Finch.
Fern
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: FURN(American English) FUN(British English)
Rating: 15% based on 2 votes
From the English word for the plant, ultimately from Old English fearn. It has been used as a given name since the late 19th century.
Felina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman
Rating: 40% based on 4 votes
Fawn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: FAWN
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
From the English word fawn for a young deer.
Fauna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Pronounced: FOW-na(Latin) FAW-nə(English)
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Feminine form of
Faunus. Fauna was a Roman goddess of fertility, women and healing, a daughter and companion of Faunus.
Evening
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare), Romani (Archaic)
Rating: 10% based on 2 votes
From the English word, evening, the last part of the day.
Esmeralda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese, English, Albanian, Literature
Pronounced: ehz-meh-RAL-da(Spanish) izh-mi-RAL-du(European Portuguese) ehz-meh-ROW-du(Brazilian Portuguese) ehz-mə-RAHL-də(English)
Rating: 55% based on 4 votes
Means "emerald" in Spanish and Portuguese. Victor Hugo used this name in his novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831), in which Esmeralda is the Romani girl who is loved by Quasimodo. It has occasionally been used in the English-speaking world since that time.
Era
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Albanian
Rating: 15% based on 2 votes
Derived from Albanian erë meaning "wind".
Emerald
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: EHM-ə-rəld
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
From the word for the green precious stone, which is the traditional birthstone of May. The emerald supposedly imparts love to the bearer. The word is ultimately from Greek
σμάραγδος (smaragdos).
Ember
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: EHM-bər(American English) EHM-bə(British English)
Rating: 48% based on 4 votes
From the English word ember, ultimately from Old English æmerge.
Electra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἠλέκτρα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: i-LEHK-trə(English)
Rating: 53% based on 4 votes
Latinized form of Greek
Ἠλέκτρα (Elektra), derived from
ἤλεκτρον (elektron) meaning
"amber". In Greek
myth she was the daughter of
Agamemnon and
Clytemnestra and the sister of
Orestes. She helped her brother kill their mother and her lover Aegisthus in vengeance for Agamemnon's murder. Also in Greek mythology, this name was borne by one of the Pleiades, who were the daughters of
Atlas and
Pleione.
Eira 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: AY-ra
Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
Means "snow" in Welsh. This is a recently created name.
Eclipse
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: i-KLIPS, ee-KLIPS
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
From the English word eclipse (derived from Latin eclipsis, ultimately from the Greek verb ἐκλείπω (ekleipô) meaning "to fail", i.e. fail to appear); a solar eclipse is when the sun and moon are aligned exactly so that the moon casts a great shadow over the Earth; a lunar eclipse is when the moon is right in front of the sun, showing only a bright slither of light. It is rarely used as a given name, but is indeed used, as familysearch.org can verify. Kit Berry used it for a (male) character in her Stonewylde series of fantasy novels.
Ebony
Gender: Feminine
Usage: African American
Pronounced: EHB-ən-ee(English)
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
From the English word ebony for the black wood that comes from the ebony tree. It is ultimately from the Egyptian word hbnj. In America this name is most often used in the black community.
Dove
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DUV
Rating: 70% based on 4 votes
From the English word for the variety of bird, seen as a symbol of peace.
Diamond
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), African American (Modern)
Pronounced: DIE-mənd(English)
Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
From the English word diamond for the clear colourless precious stone, the traditional birthstone of April. It is derived from Late Latin diamas, from Latin adamas, which is of Greek origin meaning "unconquerable, unbreakable".
Diamanto
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Διαμάντω(Greek)
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Derived from Greek
διαμάντι (diamanti) meaning
"diamond".
Delta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DEHL-tə
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
From the name of the fourth letter in the Greek alphabet,
Δ. It is also the name for an island formed at the mouth of a river.
Dawn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DAWN
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
From the English word dawn, ultimately derived from Old English dagung.
Darya 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Persian
Other Scripts: دریا(Persian)
Pronounced: dar-YAW
Rating: 15% based on 2 votes
Means "sea, ocean" in Persian.
Daphne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, English, Dutch
Other Scripts: Δάφνη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: DA-PNEH(Classical Greek) DAF-nee(English) DAHF-nə(Dutch)
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
Means
"laurel" in Greek. In Greek
mythology she was a nymph turned into a laurel tree by her father in order that she might escape the pursuit of
Apollo. It has been used as a given name in the English-speaking world since the end of the 19th century.
Daisy
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DAY-zee
Rating: 68% based on 5 votes
Simply from the English word for the white flower, ultimately derived from Old English
dægeseage meaning "day eye". It was first used as a given name in the 19th century, at the same time many other plant and flower names were coined.
This name was fairly popular at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th. The American author F. Scott Fitzgerald used it for the character of Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby (1925). The Walt Disney cartoon character Daisy Duck was created in 1940 as the girlfriend of Donald Duck. It was at a low in popularity in the United States in the 1970s when it got a small boost from a character on the television series The Dukes of Hazzard in 1979.
Dahlia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: DAL-yə, DAHL-yə, DAYL-yə
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
From the name of the flower, which was named for the Swedish botanist Anders Dahl.
Cypress
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: American (Rare)
Pronounced: SIE-pris
Rating: 10% based on 2 votes
From the English word cypress, a group of coniferous trees. Ultimately from Greek kuparissos.
Crystal
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KRIS-təl
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
From the English word
crystal for the clear, colourless glass, sometimes cut into the shape of a gemstone. The English word derives ultimately from Greek
κρύσταλλος (krystallos) meaning "ice". It has been in use as a given name since the 19th century.
Cricket
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (South)
Rating: 15% based on 2 votes
Coralie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: KAW-RA-LEE
Rating: 63% based on 6 votes
Either a French form of
Koralia, or a derivative of Latin
corallium "coral" (see
Coral).
Coral
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Spanish
Pronounced: KAWR-əl(English) ko-RAL(Spanish)
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
From the English and Spanish word
coral for the underwater skeletal deposits that can form reefs. It is ultimately derived (via Old French and Latin) from Greek
κοράλλιον (korallion).
Clover
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: KLO-vər(American English) KLO-və(British English)
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
From the English word for the wild flower, ultimately deriving from Old English clafre.
Clementine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KLEHM-ən-teen, KLEHM-ən-tien
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
Chrysanta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: kri-SAN-tə
Rating: 10% based on 2 votes
Shortened form of the word chrysanthemum, the name of a flowering plant, which means "golden flower" in Greek.
Celeste
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, English
Pronounced: cheh-LEH-steh(Italian) theh-LEHS-teh(European Spanish) seh-LEHS-teh(Latin American Spanish) sə-LEST(English)
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
Italian feminine and masculine form of
Caelestis. It is also the Portuguese, Spanish and English feminine form.
Cat
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KAT
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Cascade
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: kas-KAYD
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
Derived from the English word for a waterfall, ultimately from Latin cadere "to fall".
Carnation
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Romani (Archaic)
Pronounced: kah-NAY-shən(British English) kahr-NAY-shən(American English)
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
Derived from the flower of the same name; its etymology is uncertain. It has been suggested that it may ultimately come from English coronation (which in turn ultimately comes from Anglo-French coroner "to crown"). An other suggested possibility is Latin carn(e) or caro "flesh", because the original colour of the flower was said to be as red as flesh. Alternatively, it may be derived from Middle French carnation "person's color or complexion".
Camellia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: kə-MEE-lee-ə, kə-MEHL-ee-ə
Rating: 37% based on 3 votes
From the name of the flowering shrub, which was named for the botanist and missionary Georg Josef Kamel.
Calanthe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: kə-LAN-thee
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
From the name of a type of orchid, ultimately meaning "beautiful flower", derived from Greek
καλός (kalos) meaning "beautiful" and
ἄνθος (anthos) meaning "flower".
Buttercup
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: BUT-ər-kup(American English) BUT-ə-kup(British English)
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
From the English word for the yellow flower (genus Ranunculus). Author William Goldman used it for Princess Buttercup in his book The Princess Bride (1973) and the subsequent film adaptation (1987).
Bryony
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: BRIE-ə-nee
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
From the name of a type of Eurasian vine, formerly used as medicine. It ultimately derives from Greek
βρύω (bryo) meaning "to swell".
Brooke
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BRUWK
Rating: 48% based on 4 votes
Variant of
Brook. The name came into use in the 1950s, probably influenced by American socialite Brooke Astor (1902-2007). It was further popularized by actress Brooke Shields (1965-).
Briar
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: BRIE-ər(American English) BRIE-ə(British English)
Rating: 58% based on 4 votes
From the English word for the thorny plant.
Blossom
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BLAHS-əm(American English) BLAWS-əm(British English)
Rating: 64% based on 5 votes
From the English word blossom, ultimately from Old English blóstm. It came into use as a rare given name in the 19th century.
Birdie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BUR-dee(American English) BU-dee(British English)
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
Diminutive of
Bertha,
Bernice and other names with a similar sound, or sometimes simply from the English word
bird.
Beryl
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BEHR-əl
Rating: 33% based on 3 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.
Begonia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Spanish (Rare), Romani (Archaic)
Rating: 3% based on 3 votes
From the name of a flowering plant, which was named for the French botanist Michel
Bégon. In some cases it may be a variant of the Spanish
Begoña.
Bee
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BEE
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Short form of
Beatrix and other names beginning with
B.
Bay
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Medieval English, English
Pronounced: BAY(Middle English)
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
From the Middle English personal name
Baye, from Old English
Beaga (masculine) or
Beage (feminine).
A diminutive of Baylee, or any name containing the element or sound -bay-.
May also be given in reference to the English word "bay," from the Middle English baye, from the Old English beġ 'berry', as in beġbēam 'berry-tree'.
Azure
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: AZH-ər(American English) AZH-ə(British English)
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
From the English word that means "sky blue". It is ultimately (via Old French, Latin and Arabic) from Persian
لاجورد (lājvard) meaning "azure, lapis lazuli".
Azalea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: ə-ZAY-lee-ə
Rating: 62% based on 5 votes
From the name of the flower (shrubs of the genus Rhododendron), ultimately derived from Greek
ἀζαλέος (azaleos) meaning "dry".
Avis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AY-vis
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Probably a Latinized form of the Germanic name
Aveza, which was derived from the element
awi, of unknown meaning. The
Normans introduced this name to England and it became moderately common during the Middle Ages, at which time it was associated with Latin
avis "bird".
Ava 3
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: A-va(German)
Rating: 38% based on 5 votes
Originally a short form of Germanic names beginning with the element
awi, of unknown meaning. This was the name of a 9th-century Frankish
saint. It was also borne by a 12th-century poet from Melk, Austria.
Autumn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AW-təm
Rating: 60% based on 5 votes
From the name of the season, ultimately from Latin autumnus. This name has been in general use since the 1960s.
Aurora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, English, Romanian, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Roman Mythology
Pronounced: ow-RAW-ra(Italian) ow-RO-ra(Spanish, Latin) ə-RAWR-ə(English) OW-ro-rah(Finnish)
Rating: 74% based on 5 votes
Means "dawn" in Latin. Aurora was the Roman goddess of the morning. It has occasionally been used as a given name since the Renaissance.
Aurea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
Late Latin name that was derived from
aureus "golden". This was the name of a 3rd-century
saint from Ostia (near Rome), as well as an 11th-century Spanish saint.
Astraea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἀστραία(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Latinized form of the Greek
Ἀστραία (Astraia), derived from Greek
ἀστήρ (aster) meaning
"star". Astraea was a Greek goddess of justice and innocence. After wickedness took root in the world she left the earth and became the constellation Virgo.
Aspen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: AS-pən
Rating: 54% based on 5 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.
Ashley
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ASH-lee
Rating: 45% based on 6 votes
From an English surname that was originally derived from place names meaning
"ash tree clearing", from a combination of Old English
æsc and
leah. Until the 1960s it was more commonly given to boys in the United States, but it is now most often used on girls. It reached its height of popularity in America in 1987, but it did not become the highest ranked name until 1991, being overshadowed by the likewise-popular
Jessica until then. In the United Kingdom it is still more common as a masculine name.
Arachne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἀράχνη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: A-RA-KNEH(Classical Greek) ə-RAK-nee(English)
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
Means
"spider" in Greek. In Greek
myth Arachne was a mortal woman who defeated
Athena in a weaving contest. After this Arachne hanged herself, but Athena brought her back to life in the form of a spider.
Aquila
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Biblical, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: AK-wil-ə(English) ə-KWIL-ə(English)
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
Aqua
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: A-kwa
Rating: 35% based on 4 votes
Derived from Latin aqua meaning "water". It is also used in English in reference to a bluish-green colour.
April
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AY-prəl
Rating: 60% based on 5 votes
From the name of the month, probably originally derived from Latin aperire "to open", referring to the opening of flowers. It has only been commonly used as a given name since the 1940s.
Angelica
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Romanian, Carolingian Cycle
Pronounced: an-JEHL-i-kə(English) an-JEH-lee-ka(Italian)
Rating: 60% based on 6 votes
Derived from Latin
angelicus meaning
"angelic", ultimately related to Greek
ἄγγελος (angelos) meaning "messenger". The poets Boiardo and Ariosto used this name in their
Orlando poems (1483 and 1532), where she is the love interest of both
Orlando and
Rinaldo. It has been used as a given name since the 18th century.
Anemone
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: ə-NEHM-ə-nee
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
From the name of the anemone flower, which is derived from Greek
ἄνεμος (anemos) meaning "wind".
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: 66% 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.
Amethyst
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: AM-ə-thist
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
From the name of the purple semi-precious stone, which is derived from the Greek negative prefix
ἀ (a) and
μέθυστος (methystos) meaning "intoxicated, drunk", as it was believed to be a remedy against drunkenness. It is the traditional birthstone of February.
Ambrosia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Ἀμβροσία(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: AM-BRO-SEE-A
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Feminine form of
Ambrosios (see
Ambrose).
Amber
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Dutch
Pronounced: AM-bər(American English) AM-bə(British English) AHM-bər(Dutch)
Rating: 75% based on 8 votes
From the English word
amber that denotes either the gemstone, which is formed from fossil resin, or the orange-yellow colour. The word ultimately derives from Arabic
عنبر (ʿanbar) meaning "ambergris". It began to be used as a given name in the late 19th century, but it only became popular after the release of Kathleen Winsor's novel
Forever Amber (1944).
Amaryllis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: am-ə-RIL-is(English)
Rating: 17% 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.
Amarantha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Various (Rare)
Rating: 35% based on 4 votes
From the name of the amaranth flower, which is derived from Greek
ἀμάραντος (amarantos) meaning "unfading".
Ἀμάραντος (Amarantos) was also an Ancient Greek given name.
Alondra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American)
Pronounced: a-LON-dra
Rating: 28% based on 4 votes
Derived from Spanish alondra meaning "lark".
Aloe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern, Rare)
Rating: 28% based on 5 votes
Aloe is a genus containing over 500 species of flowering succulent plants. The most widely known species is Aloe vera, or "true aloe". It is called this because it is cultivated as the standard source for assorted pharmaceutical purposes.
Alcyone
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἀλκυόνη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: al-SIE-ə-nee(English)
Rating: 20% based on 5 votes
Latinized form of Greek
Ἀλκυόνη (Alkyone), derived from the word
ἀλκυών (alkyon) meaning
"kingfisher". In Greek
myth this name belonged to a daughter of Aeolus and the wife of Ceyx. After her husband was killed in a shipwreck she threw herself into the water, but the gods saved her and turned them both into kingfishers. This is also the name of the brightest of the Pleiades, a group of stars in the constellation Taurus, supposedly the daughters of
Atlas and
Pleione.
Acacia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: ə-KAY-shə
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
From the name of a type of tree, ultimately derived from Greek
ἀκή (ake) meaning "thorn, point".
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