Derived from the Basque place name Etxeberria meaning "the new house". This was the surname of the Jesuit priest Saint Francis Xavier (1506-1552) who was born in a village by this name. He was a missionary to India, Japan, China, and other areas in East Asia, and he is the patron saint of the Orient and missionaries. His surname has since been adopted as a given name in his honour, chiefly among Catholics.
From an English surname meaning "noble, notable". The name can also be given in direct reference to the English word noble.
Mercy
Gender:Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced:MUR-see
Rating:42% based on 13 votes
From the English word mercy, ultimately from Latin merces "wages, reward", a derivative of merx "goods, wares". This was one of the virtue names adopted by the Puritans in the 17th century.
Mercia
Gender:Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating:38% based on 13 votes
Latinate form of Mercy. This was also the name of an old Anglo-Saxon kingdom, though it has a different origin.
Lys
Gender:Feminine
Usage: Frisian
Rating:30% based on 14 votes
Frisian diminutive of Elisabeth. It also coincides with the French word for "lily".
Jocosa
Gender:Feminine
Usage: Medieval English
Rating:25% based on 12 votes
Medieval variant of Joyce, influenced by the Latin word iocosus or jocosus "merry, playful".
Job
Gender:Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical French, Dutch
Other Scripts:אִיּוֹב(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced:JOB(English)ZHAWB(French)YAWP(Dutch)
Rating:22% based on 14 votes
From the Hebrew name אִיּוֹב ('Iyyov), which means "persecuted, hated". In the Book of Job in the Old Testament he is a righteous man who is tested by God, enduring many tragedies and hardships while struggling to remain faithful.
Jerusha
Gender:Feminine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts:יְרוּשָׁה(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced:jə-ROO-shə(English)
Rating:29% based on 14 votes
From Hebrew יָרַשׁ (yarash) meaning "possession". In the Old Testament she is the wife of King Uzziah of Judah and the mother of Jotham.
Other Scripts:गीता(Hindi, Marathi, Nepali)গীতা(Bengali)
Personal remark:Pro. "GEE-ta"
Rating:31% based on 14 votes
Means "song" in Sanskrit. The word appears in the name of the Bhagavad Gita, a sacred text of Hinduism (meaning "divine song").
Gideon
Gender:Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Hebrew, English, Dutch
Other Scripts:גִּדְעוֹן(Hebrew)
Pronounced:GID-ee-ən(English)GHEE-deh-awn(Dutch)
Rating:44% based on 13 votes
Means "feller, hewer" in Hebrew. Gideon is a hero and judge of the Old Testament. He led the vastly outnumbered Israelites against the Midianites, defeated them, and killed their two kings. In the English-speaking world, Gideon has been used as a given name since the Protestant Reformation, and it was popular among the Puritans.
Gethsemane
Gender:Feminine
Usage: Various (Rare)
Pronounced:geth-SEHM-ə-nee(English)
Rating:24% based on 14 votes
From a biblical place name, the garden where Jesus was arrested, located on the Mount of Olives near Jerusalem. It is derived from Γεθσημανί (Gethsemani), the Greek form of an Aramaic name meaning "oil vat". It is very rarely used as a given name.
Gavril
Gender:Masculine
Usage: Bulgarian, Macedonian, Romanian
Other Scripts:Гаврил(Bulgarian, Macedonian)
Pronounced:ga-VREEL(Romanian)
Rating:29% based on 13 votes
Bulgarian, Macedonian and Romanian form of Gabriel.