lyricalgleam's Personal Name List

Abram 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Biblical
Other Scripts: אַבְרָם(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: AY-brəm(English)
Personal remark: Bram, Abe, Bramble
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Means "high father" in Hebrew, from the roots אָב (ʾav) meaning "father" and רוּם (rum) meaning "to exalt, to be high". In the Old Testament God changed Abram's name to Abraham (see Genesis 17:5).
Aella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἄελλα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: A-EHL-LA(Classical Greek)
Personal remark: Ellie
Rating: 45% based on 4 votes
Means "whirlwind" in Greek. In Greek myth this was the name of an Amazon warrior killed by Herakles during his quest for Hippolyta's girdle.
Aide
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque Mythology, Basque (Modern, Rare)
Pronounced: IE-deh(Basque)
Personal remark: Edie
Rating: 20% based on 4 votes
Derived from Basque aide "air", Aide is a supernatural entity that either helps or hinders the living. He could manifest herself in both good (gentle breeze) and evil (storm wind) forms.
Alaric
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Gothic (Anglicized)
Other Scripts: 𐌰𐌻𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌺𐍃(Gothic)
Pronounced: AL-ə-rik(English)
Personal remark: Ric
Rating: 74% based on 5 votes
From the Gothic name *Alareiks meaning "ruler of all", derived from the element alls "all" combined with reiks "ruler, king". This was the name of a king of the Visigoths who sacked Rome in the 5th century.
Alban
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, French, Albanian, English (Rare)
Pronounced: AL-ban(German) AL-BAHN(French) AL-bən(English) AWL-bən(English)
Personal remark: Albie, Bane
Rating: 50% based on 4 votes
From the Roman cognomen Albanus, which meant "from Alba". Alba (from Latin albus "white") was the name of various places within the Roman Empire, including the city Alba Longa. This name was borne by Saint Alban, the first British martyr (4th century). According to tradition, he sheltered a fugitive priest in his house. When his house was searched, he disguised himself as the priest, was arrested in his stead, and was beheaded. Another 4th-century martyr by this name was Saint Alban of Mainz.

As an English name, Alban was occasionally used in the Middle Ages and was revived in the 18th century, though it is now uncommon.

Alonso
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: a-LON-so
Personal remark: Lon
Rating: 60% based on 4 votes
Spanish variant of Alfonso.
Ambrose
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AM-broz
Personal remark: Brody, Brose
Rating: 73% based on 3 votes
From the Late Latin name Ambrosius, which was derived from the Greek name Ἀμβρόσιος (Ambrosios) meaning "immortal". Saint Ambrose was a 4th-century theologian and bishop of Milan, who is considered a Doctor of the Church. Due to the saint, the name came into general use in Christian Europe, though it was never particularly common in England.
Aminda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Esperanto
Pronounced: a-MEEN-da
Personal remark: Minda
Rating: 30% based on 3 votes
Means "lovable" in Esperanto.
Anara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Kazakh, Kyrgyz
Other Scripts: Анара(Kazakh, Kyrgyz)
Pronounced: ah-nah-RAH(Kazakh)
Personal remark: Nara, Ani
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
From Kazakh and Kyrgyz анар (anar) meaning "pomegranate", a word ultimately derived from Persian.
Anatoli
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian, Ukrainian, Georgian
Other Scripts: Анатолий(Russian) Анатолій(Ukrainian) ანატოლი(Georgian)
Pronounced: u-nu-TO-lyee(Russian) u-nu-TAW-lyee(Ukrainian) A-NA-TAW-LEE(Georgian)
Personal remark: Toli, Nat
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
Alternate transcription of Russian Анатолий or Ukrainian Анатолій (see Anatoliy), as well as the Georgian form.
Anatolia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Ἀνατολία(Ancient Greek)
Personal remark: Tully, Nat, Ana, Lia
Rating: 43% based on 4 votes
Feminine form of Anatolius. This was the name of a 3rd-century Italian saint and martyr. This is also a place name (from the same Greek origin) referring to the large peninsula that makes up the majority of Turkey.
Anesidora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ανησιδωρα(Ancient Greek)
Personal remark: Nessa, Dory, Ani
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Means "giver of gifts" (or "she who sends forth gifts", "sender-up of gifts") or "spender of gifts" in Greek. This was an epithet (and epiklesis) of the Greek goddesses Demeter, who had a temple under this name at Phlius in Attica, and Gaia; it was also applied to Pandora.
Anneke
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch
Pronounced: AH-nə-kə
Personal remark: Annie, Neka
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Dutch diminutive of Anna.
Anneliese
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Dutch
Pronounced: A-nə-lee-zə(German) ah-nə-LEE-sə(Dutch)
Personal remark: Nella, Annie
Rating: 62% based on 5 votes
Combination of Anne 1 and Liese.
Annessa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Personal remark: Nessa, Annie
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Variant of Anessa.
Annevi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish (Rare)
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Combination of Anne 1 and the Old Swedish name element "temple, sanctuary" (ultimately from the Old Norse name element "home; temple, sanctuary; devoted, dedicated").
Ansel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AN-səl
Personal remark: Sully
Rating: 55% based on 4 votes
From an English surname that was derived from the given name Anselm. A famous bearer was American photographer Ansel Adams (1902-1984).
Aoide
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἀοιδή(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: ay-EE-dee(English)
Personal remark: Edie
Rating: 30% based on 3 votes
Means "song" in Greek. In Greek mythology she was one of the original three muses, the muse of song.
Apollodora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek
Other Scripts: Ἀπολλοδώρα(Ancient Greek)
Personal remark: Polly, Dora, Dory
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Feminine form of Apollodoros.
Apollonia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1], Italian
Other Scripts: Ἀπολλωνία(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: A-POL-LAW-NEE-A(Classical Greek)
Personal remark: Polly, Loni
Rating: 50% based on 5 votes
Feminine form of Apollonios. This was the name of a 3rd-century saint and martyr from Alexandria.
Archander
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized), Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Personal remark: Archie, Anders, Andy
Rating: 30% based on 3 votes
Latinized form of Archandros.
Archimedes
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Ἀρχιμήδης(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: AR-KEE-MEH-DEHS(Classical Greek) ahr-ki-MEE-deez(American English) ah-ki-MEE-deez(British English)
Personal remark: Archie, Mede
Rating: 56% based on 5 votes
Derived from the Greek elements ἀρχός (archos) meaning "master" and μήδεα (medea) meaning "plans, counsel, cunning". This was the name of a 3rd-century BC Greek mathematician, astronomer and inventor.
Artem
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ukrainian, Russian
Other Scripts: Артем(Ukrainian) Артём(Russian)
Pronounced: ur-TEHM(Ukrainian) ur-TYUYM(Russian)
Personal remark: Temi, Artie
Rating: 45% based on 4 votes
Ukrainian form of Artemios. It is also an alternate transcription of Russian Артём (see Artyom).
Artemas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek, Biblical, Polish (Archaic)
Other Scripts: Ἀρτεμᾶς(Ancient Greek)
Personal remark: Temi, Artie, Mouse
Rating: 53% based on 4 votes
Presumably a short form or contraction of Artemidoros (compare Zenas, Alexas, Phileas). This name is mentioned briefly in the New Testament, in Saint Paul's letter to Titus. According to George Rippey Stewart in American Given Names (1979): 'It is chiefly remembered from General Artemas Ward, of the Revolution (born 1727). But there are other examples. In the mid-19th century the humorist C. F. Browne took Artemus (thus spelled) as his pseudonym.'
Atalia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: עֲתַלְיָה(Hebrew)
Personal remark: Tally
Rating: 37% based on 3 votes
Modern Hebrew transcription of Athaliah.
Aurelia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman, Romanian, Italian, Spanish, Polish
Pronounced: ow-REH-lee-a(Latin) ow-REH-lya(Italian, Spanish, Polish)
Personal remark: Rilla, Aura
Rating: 78% based on 5 votes
Feminine form of Aurelius.
Avalon
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: AV-ə-lahn(American English) AV-ə-lawn(British English)
Personal remark: Vale, Loni, Ava
Rating: 43% based on 4 votes
From the name of the island paradise to which King Arthur was brought after his death. The name of this island is perhaps related to Welsh afal meaning "apple", a fruit that was often linked with paradise.
Averill
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Personal remark: Rilla, Ava, Vera
Rating: 45% based on 4 votes
From an English surname that was originally derived from the feminine given name Eoforhild.
Avonlea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Personal remark: Lea, Vonnie, Ava
Rating: 30% based on 3 votes
Created by L. M. Montgomery as the setting for her novel Anne of Green Gables (1908). She may have based the name on the Arthurian island of Avalon, though it also resembles the river name Avon and leah "woodland, clearing".
Azzurra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ad-DZOOR-ra
Personal remark: Zuri, Azzie, Azra
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Means "azure, sky blue" in Italian.
Balendin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Basque
Pronounced: ba-LEHN-deen
Personal remark: Bale, Lenny
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
Basque form of Valentinus (see Valentine 1).
Bandia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: African
Personal remark: Dee, Bindi
Rating: 7% based on 3 votes
Bartolomea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: bar-to-lo-MEH-a
Personal remark: Mea, Barlo, Bea, Bartie
Rating: 10% based on 3 votes
Italian feminine form of Bartholomew.
Beatrix
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Hungarian, Dutch, English, Late Roman
Pronounced: beh-A-triks(German) BEH-a-triks(German, Dutch) BEH-aw-treeks(Hungarian) BEE-ə-triks(English) BEE-triks(English)
Personal remark: Bea, Bixa
Rating: 72% based on 6 votes
Probably from Viatrix, a feminine form of the Late Latin name Viator meaning "voyager, traveller". It was a common name amongst early Christians, and the spelling was altered by association with Latin beatus "blessed, happy". Viatrix or Beatrix was a 4th-century saint who was strangled to death during the persecutions of Diocletian.

In England the name became rare after the Middle Ages, but it was revived in the 19th century, more commonly in the spelling Beatrice. Famous bearers include the British author and illustrator Beatrix Potter (1866-1943), the creator of Peter Rabbit, and Beatrix of the Netherlands (1938-), the former queen.

Belisama
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Celtic Mythology
Personal remark: Bella, Sam
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Belisama was a goddess worshipped in ancient Gaul and Britain, associated with lakes and rivers, fire, crafts and light, who was identified with Minerva in the interpretatio romana. Her name is of debated origin and meaning: theories include a derivation from Gaulish bel "strong" and the superlative suffix -isama and a derivation from the root bel "bright" and the superlative suffix -isama ( based on this she has also been speculatively claimed as companion of Belenus, whose name seems to contain the same root).
Bellamira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American, Rare), Theatre
Personal remark: Mira, Bella
Rating: 30% based on 4 votes
Probably derived from the Latin elements bella "beautiful" and mira "wondrous" (cf. Mirabella). This name belongs to a courtesan in the play The Jew of Malta (written c. 1589 or 1590) by English dramatist Christopher Marlowe.
Bellamy
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Personal remark: Bell
Rating: 68% based on 5 votes
From an English surname derived from Old French bel ami meaning "beautiful friend".
Betony
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: BEHT-nee, BEHT-ə-nee
Personal remark: Betsy, Betty, Benny
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
From the name of the minty medicinal herb.
Bezlea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Baltic Mythology (Latinized)
Personal remark: Bezzie, Lea, Busy
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
The name of an alleged Lithuanian goddess of the evening.

The form Bezlea was first recorded by Polish historian and theologian Jan Łasicki in his treatise on idolatry De diis Samagitarum caeterorumque Sarmatarum et falsorum Christianorum, written ca. 1582 and published in 1615, while Polish historian Theodor Narbutt referred to her as Bezelea in his work Dzieje starożytne narodu litewskiego, written between 1835 and 1841.
Both forms are Latinizations; the original form, if there ever was one, is lost, however a Lithuanian form has since been reconstructed: Bežlėja.
It has been suggested that Bežlėja might be derived from Lithuanian blista "to darken; to get dark".

Since neither Łasicki nor Narbutt were intimately familiar with Lithuanian culture or language, the academic opinion on the value of their documents ranges from a valuable resource to a practical joke.

Boyd
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BOID
Rating: 37% based on 3 votes
From a Scottish surname that was possibly derived from the name of the island of Bute (Bód in Gaelic).
Bram
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Dutch
Pronounced: BRAM(English) BRAHM(Dutch)
Rating: 63% based on 3 votes
Short form of Abraham. This name was borne by Bram Stoker (1847-1912), the Irish author who wrote Dracula.
Bramble
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: BRAM-bool
Personal remark: Bram, Bell, Bull
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Transferred use of the surname Bramble.
Brannock
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History (Ecclesiastical)
Personal remark: Bran, Nox, Brock
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
The name of the eponymous saint of the village of Braunton in Devon, England. Saint Brannock (or Brannoc) is said to have originated from South Wales and established a monastery at Braunton in the 6th century. His name may be related to the Welsh Brynach.
Brighton
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BRIE-tun
Personal remark: Bright, Tony
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
Transferred use of the surname Brighton.
Brindabella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Indigenous Australian
Pronounced: brin-duh-BEL-uh
Personal remark: Bindi, Bella, Dabble, Brinda
Rating: 15% based on 2 votes
Locational name, from the Brindabella mountain range on the border of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. Usually said to be from a local language, meaning "two hopping mice" - hopping mice are native Australian mice. Another theory is that it is from brindy brindy, meaning "water running over rocks", with a European -bella added to suggest "beautiful".
Brynja
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Icelandic, Old Norse
Pronounced: PRIN-ya(Icelandic)
Personal remark: Bryn
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Means "armour" in Old Norse.
Bryony
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: BRIE-ə-nee
Personal remark: Briney
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
From the name of a type of Eurasian vine, formerly used as medicine. It ultimately derives from Greek βρύω (bryo) meaning "to swell".
Burke
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BURK(American English) BUK(British English)
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
From an English surname that was derived from Old English burg meaning "fortress".
Cade
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KAYD
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
From an English surname that was originally derived from a nickname meaning "round" in Old English.
Calandra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (Rare)
Personal remark: Andra, Landry, Callie
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Caliadne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Καλιαδν(Ancient Greek)
Personal remark: Caddie, Lia, Addy, Callie
Rating: 37% based on 3 votes
Means "beautiful and holy". From the Greek kalos (καλή) 'beautiful' and adnos (αδνος) 'holy'. In Greek mythology she is a naiad of the river Nile in Egypt, a daughter of the god of the Nile, Neilus. She was one of the wives of Aegyptus, and bore him twelve sons.
Callum
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish
Pronounced: KAL-əm
Personal remark: Cal
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Variant of Calum.
Calluna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Dutch (Rare)
Personal remark: Luna, Callie
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
From the genus name of common heather, a flowering shrub. It comes from the Greek verb καλλύνω (kalluno) meaning "to beautify, sweep clean", ultimately from καλός (kalos) "beautiful".
Carrick
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: KA-rik
Personal remark: Cary, Rick, Cricket
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Transferred use of the surname Carrick.
Celandine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: SEHL-ən-deen, SEHL-ən-dien
Personal remark: Landy, Cilla
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
From the name of the flower, which is derived from Greek χελιδών (chelidon) meaning "swallow (bird)".
Charalampos
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Χαράλαμπος(Greek)
Pronounced: kha-RA-lam-bos
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Means "to shine from happiness" from Greek χαρά (chara) meaning "happiness" combined with λάμπω (lampo) meaning "to shine".
Chariclo
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Χαρικλώ(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 15% based on 2 votes
Latinized form of Chariklo. It is the name of two nymphs in Greek mythology.
Clara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, Catalan, Romanian, English, Swedish, Danish, Late Roman
Pronounced: KLA-ra(German, Spanish, Italian) KLA-ru(Portuguese) KLA-RA(French) KLEHR-ə(American English) KLAR-ə(American English) KLAH-rə(British English)
Personal remark: Clary, Clare
Rating: 60% based on 4 votes
Feminine form of the Late Latin name Clarus, which meant "clear, bright, famous". The name Clarus was borne by a few early saints. The feminine form was popularized by the 13th-century Saint Clare of Assisi (called Chiara in Italian), a friend and follower of Saint Francis, who left her wealthy family to found the order of nuns known as the Poor Clares.

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

Cobina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Personal remark: Cobie, Bina
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
Presumably a short form of Jacobina.
Coby
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KO-bee
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Masculine or feminine diminutive of Jacob.
Conall
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish, Old Irish [1], Irish Mythology
Personal remark: Con
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
Means "rule of a wolf", from Old Irish "hound, dog, wolf" (genitive con) and fal "rule" [2]. This is the name of several characters in Irish legend including the hero Conall Cernach ("Conall of the victories"), a member of the Red Branch of Ulster, who avenged Cúchulainn's death by killing Lugaid.
Concordia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Pronounced: kon-KOR-dee-a(Latin) kən-KAWR-dee-ə(American English) kən-KAW-dee-ə(British English)
Personal remark: Cordy
Rating: 48% based on 4 votes
Means "harmony" in Latin. This was the name of the Roman goddess of harmony and peace.
Coppélia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Theatre, French (Rare)
Personal remark: Lia, Peli
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
The name of a life-sized mechanical doll created by the mysterious Doctor Coppélius in Léo Delibes' comic ballet Coppélia (1870), based on two macabre stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann. The inventor's name is possibly a Latinized form of Yiddish Koppel. Alternatively this name may be inspired by Greek κοπελιά (kopelia) meaning "young woman", a dialectal variant of κοπέλα (kopela).
Cordelia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature, English
Pronounced: kawr-DEEL-ee-ə(American English) kaw-DEE-lee-ə(British English)
Personal remark: Cordy, Delia
Rating: 52% based on 5 votes
From Cordeilla, a name appearing in the 12th-century chronicles [1] of Geoffrey of Monmouth, borne by the youngest of the three daughters of King Leir and the only one to remain loyal to her father. Geoffrey possibly based her name on that of Creiddylad, a character from Welsh legend.

The spelling was later altered to Cordelia when Geoffrey's story was adapted by others, including Edmund Spenser in his poem The Faerie Queene (1590) and Shakespeare in his tragedy King Lear (1606).

Corentin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Breton, French
Pronounced: ko-REHN-teen(Breton) KAW-RAHN-TEHN(French)
Personal remark: Cory, Ren
Rating: 67% based on 3 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.
Cosima
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: KAW-zee-ma
Personal remark: Cosy, Sibi
Rating: 73% based on 4 votes
Italian feminine form of Cosimo.
Cosmina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Romanian
Pronounced: kos-MEE-na
Personal remark: Cosy, Mina
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Feminine form of Cosmin.
Coventina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Celtic Mythology
Personal remark: Covey
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
Coventina was a Romano-British goddess of wells and springs. She is known from multiple inscriptions at one site in Northumberland county of England, an area surrounding a wellspring near Carrawburgh on Hadrian's Wall. She personified a holy spring that had healing powers. Her name is generally derived from Proto-Celtic *kom-men- "memory" and *ti-ni "to melt; to disappear".
Cricket
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (South)
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
Originally a diminutive of Christina and Christine.
Dahlia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: DAL-yə, DAHL-yə, DAYL-yə
Personal remark: Dia, Dolly
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
From the name of the flower, which was named for the Swedish botanist Anders Dahl.
Dainora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Lithuanian
Pronounced: die-NO-rah
Personal remark: Nora, Dinah
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
Means "desire for a song" (and thus refers to someone who either wishes to sing or desires to hear a song), derived from the Lithuanian noun daina meaning "song" (see Daina) combined with the Lithuanian noun noras meaning "wish, desire", which is ultimately derived from the Lithuanian verb norėti meaning "to wish, to want, to desire".
Daisy
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DAY-zee
Rating: 75% based on 4 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.

Danica
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Slovak, Macedonian, English
Other Scripts: Даница(Serbian, Macedonian)
Pronounced: DA-nee-tsa(Serbian, Croatian) DA-nyee-tsa(Slovak) DAN-i-kə(English)
Personal remark: Dani, Nic
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
From a Slavic word meaning "morning star, Venus". This name occurs in Slavic folklore as a personification of the morning star. It has sometimes been used in the English-speaking world since the 1970s.
Dashiell
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: də-SHEEL, DASH-il
Personal remark: Dash
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
In the case of American author Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) it was from his mother's surname, which was possibly an Anglicized form of French de Chiel, of unknown meaning.
Dean
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DEEN
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
From a surname, see Dean 1 and Dean 2. The actor James Dean (1931-1955) was a famous bearer of the surname.
Dean 1
Usage: English
Pronounced: DEEN
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Derived from Middle English dene meaning "valley".
Delaney
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: di-LAYN-ee
Personal remark: Del, Lane, Dane
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
From a surname: either the English surname Delaney 1 or the Irish surname Delaney 2.
Delia 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Δηλία(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: DEE-lee-ə(English) DEH-lya(Italian, Spanish) DEH-lee-a(Romanian)
Personal remark: Dee, Dilly
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Means "of Delos" in Greek. This was an epithet of the Greek goddess Artemis, given because she and her twin brother Apollo were born on the island of Delos. The name appeared in several poems of the 16th and 17th centuries, and it has occasionally been used as a given name since that time.
Despina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Δέσποινα(Greek)
Pronounced: DHEH-spee-na
Personal remark: Dessa, Desi
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Modern Greek form of Despoina.
Dessa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Obscure
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Diminutive of Odessa, Desiree or other names containing des.
Donovan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DAHN-ə-vən(American English) DAWN-ə-vən(British English)
Personal remark: Van, Nova, Donnie
Rating: 70% based on 4 votes
From an Irish surname, an Anglicized form of Ó Donndubháin, itself derived from the given name Donndubán. This name is borne by the Scottish folk musician Donovan Leitch (1946-), known simply as Donovan.
Dulcinea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: dool-thee-NEH-a(European Spanish) dool-see-NEH-a(Latin American Spanish) dul-si-NEE-ə(English)
Personal remark: Dulcie, Nea
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Derived from Spanish dulce meaning "sweet". This name was (first?) used by Miguel de Cervantes in his novel Don Quixote (1605), where it belongs to the love interest of the main character, though she never actually appears in the story.
Early
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 10% based on 2 votes
Transferred use of the surname Early.
Edessa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (Rare)
Pronounced: e-DES-sa
Personal remark: Dessa, Eddy
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Edessa is a city in northern Greece and the capital of the Pella regional unit, in the Central Macedonia region of Greece. It was also the capital of the defunct province of the same name. The Greek name Ἔδεσσα (Édessa) is probably of Phrygian origin. One scholar considers it to be Illyrian. Seleucus I Nicator named the city of Edessa in Mesopotamia (modern Şanlıurfa, Turkey) after the Macedonian Edessa.
Edevie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American, Rare), Filipino (Rare)
Personal remark: Vie, Eddy, Dev
Rating: 37% based on 3 votes
Of uncertain origin and meaning.

Some sources claim it might be linked to, if not be a younger variant of, Edeva. Others surmise that it might simply be a combination of Ed or any name containing the element Ed and Evie or any name ending in -ev(i)e. Yet another source claims that Edevie is a variant of Adawiyah, an Arabic name which is derived from an Arabic word used in the Qur'an for a type of plant or shrub that appears in the summer. It is unclear what exactly this plant is.

While all of these theories need further in-depth research, the name is used, albeit rarely, in the English-speaking world as well as in Spanish-speaking countries.

Edsel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Various
Personal remark: Sully, Eddie
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Variant of Etzel notably borne by Edsel Ford (1893-1943), the son of the American industrialist Henry Ford.
Eglantine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: EHG-lən-tien, EHG-lən-teen
Personal remark: Landy
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
From the English word for the flower also known as sweetbrier. It is derived via Old French from Vulgar Latin *aquilentum meaning "prickly". It was early used as a given name (in the form Eglentyne) in Geoffrey Chaucer's 14th-century story The Prioress's Tale (one of The Canterbury Tales).
Eliot
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHL-ee-ət
Rating: 73% based on 3 votes
From a surname that was a variant of Elliott. A famous bearer of the surname was T. S. Eliot (1888-1965), an Anglo-American poet and dramatist, the writer of The Waste Land. As a given name, it was borne by the American mob-buster Eliot Ness (1903-1957).
Eloisa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: eh-lo-EE-za
Personal remark: Ella, Lola
Rating: 73% based on 3 votes
Italian form of Eloise.
Elunia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Polish (Rare)
Personal remark: Luna, Ella
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
Diminutive of Elżbieta.
Elysia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Various
Pronounced: i-LIZ-ee-ə(English) i-LIS-ee-ə(English) i-LEE-zhə(English)
Personal remark: Lysi, Ella
Rating: 70% based on 3 votes
From Elysium, the name of the realm of the dead in Greek and Roman mythology.
Emberly
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: EHM-bər-lee(American English) EHM-bə-lee(British English)
Personal remark: Emmy, Embry
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Elaboration of Ember, influenced by the spelling of Kimberly.
Emblyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Cornish, Medieval English
Personal remark: Emmy, Ember, Lyn
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Late medieval English variant of Emmeline. Common in the 16th and 17th centuries, this name eventually died out in England in the 19th century, though it survived in Cornwall.
Embry
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Literature, English (Modern, Rare)
Pronounced: EHM-bree
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
Transferred use of the surname Embry. It was used by Stephenie Meyer for a character in her 'Twilight' series of books.
Émeric
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: EHM-REEK
Personal remark: Ric
Rating: 65% based on 4 votes
French form of Emmerich.
Emmaretta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare, Archaic), African American (Rare)
Personal remark: Etta, Retta, Emmy, Mari
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
Altered form of Amoretta. This is the name of a 1969 song by the English rock band Deep Purple, named for Emmaretta Marks (1945-), a cast member of the musical Hair whom singer Rod Evans was trying to seduce.
Emmeline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHM-ə-leen, EHM-ə-lien
Personal remark: Emmy, Mellie, Lina
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
From Old French Emeline, a diminutive of Germanic names beginning with the element amal meaning "unceasing, vigorous, brave". The Normans introduced this name to England.
Endymion
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἐνδυμίων(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: EHN-DUY-MEE-AWN(Classical Greek) ehn-DIM-ee-ən(English)
Personal remark: Ender, Dymi, Damon
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
Derived from Greek ἐνδύω (endyo) meaning "to dive into, to enter". In Greek mythology he was an Aeolian mortal loved by the moon goddess Selene, who asked Zeus to grant him eternal life. Zeus complied by putting him into an eternal sleep in a cave on Mount Latmos.
Énora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Breton (Gallicized), French (Modern)
Personal remark: Nora
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Gallicized form of Enora.
Eos
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἠώς(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: EH-AWS(Classical Greek) EE-ahs(American English) EE-aws(British English)
Personal remark: Yassa, Ossie, Ozzie
Rating: 30% based on 3 votes
Means "dawn" in Greek. This was the name of the Greek goddess of the dawn.
Erlea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque (Rare)
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
Means "bee" in Basque.
Ersa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ερσα(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Doric Greek form of Herse, the Greek goddess of dew whose name ultimately derives from Ἑρση (herse) meaning "dew".
Esti 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque (Rare)
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Means "sweet, honey", from Basque ezti.
Eulalia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Italian, Polish, English, Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Εὐλαλία(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: ew-LA-lya(Spanish, Italian) yoo-LAY-lee-ə(English)
Personal remark: Lally, Eulie, Lia
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
Derived from Greek εὔλαλος (eulalos) meaning "sweetly-speaking", itself from εὖ (eu) meaning "good" and λαλέω (laleo) meaning "to talk". This was the name of an early 4th-century saint and martyr from Mérida in Spain. Another martyr by this name, living at the same time, is a patron saint of Barcelona. These two saints might be the same person.
Eunomia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Εὐνομία(Ancient Greek)
Personal remark: Nomi, Mia, Euni
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
Means "good order" in Greek, ultimately from εὖ (eu) meaning "good" and νόμος (nomos) meaning "law, custom". Eunomia was a Greek goddess, one of the Ὥραι (Horai), presiding over law.
Eurybia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Εὐρυβία(Ancient Greek)
Personal remark: Bee, Eury, Reba
Rating: 30% based on 3 votes
Means "of wide power, with far-reaching might" from the Greek elements εὐρύς (eurys) "wide" and βία (bia) "force", with all of its connotations. This was the name of the ancient Greek goddess of the mastery of the sea; she did not so much preside over the whole, but rather the external influences such as seasonal weather, the power of the winds and the rise of constellations which were believed to influence it. Hesiod described Eurybia as 'having a heart of flint within her'.
Evander 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized), Roman Mythology
Other Scripts: Εὔανδρος(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: i-VAN-dər(American English) i-VAN-də(British English)
Personal remark: Van, Vander, Andy, Evan
Rating: 73% based on 3 votes
Variant of Evandrus, the Latin form of the Greek name Εὔανδρος (Euandros) meaning "good of man", derived from εὖ (eu) meaning "good" and ἀνήρ (aner) meaning "man" (genitive ἀνδρός). In Roman mythology Evander was an Arcadian hero of the Trojan War who founded the city of Pallantium near the spot where Rome was later built.
Evanora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Popular Culture, English
Personal remark: Nora, Vannie, Eva
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
The name of a witch in the movie Oz the Great and Powerful. Could be a female form of Evan, a combination of Eva and Nora 1 or an altered form of Eleanora
Evolet
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Popular Culture, English
Pronounced: EV-o-let(Popular Culture)
Personal remark: Lettie, Eva, Evie
Rating: 45% based on 4 votes
It has been suggested that the name was created from an elaboration of love as a palindrome, or from the backwards spelling of t(h)e love with the h omitted for the sake of aesthetics, or from evolve as an incomplete anagram. It could also be used as a combination of the names Eve and Violet.

The name of a prehistoric woman in the 2008 film 10,000 B.C. directed by Roland Emmerich, meaning "the promise of life" in the fictitious language spoken by the character's adopted tribe, the Yaghal.

Ezra
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Hebrew, Biblical
Other Scripts: עֶזְרָא(Hebrew)
Pronounced: EHZ-rə(English)
Rating: 63% based on 3 votes
Means "help" in Hebrew. Ezra is a prophet of the Old Testament and the author of the Book of Ezra. It has been used as a given name in the English-speaking world since the Protestant Reformation. The American poet Ezra Pound (1885-1972) was a famous bearer.
Eztia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque (Rare)
Personal remark: Esti
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
Derived from Basque ezti "honey; sweet" and, by extension, "gentle; pleasant; melodious".
Fable
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: FAY-bel
Personal remark: Fae, Bella
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Derived from the word for a succinct story, in prose or verse, that features animals, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature which are given human qualities, and that illustrates a moral lesson.
The word "fable" comes from the Latin fabula (a "story"), itself derived from fari ("to speak") with the -ula suffix that signifies "little".
Fender
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch (Rare), Popular Culture
Pronounced: FEN-dər(Dutch)
Personal remark: Fen
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
First seen in the Dutch naming statistics in 1993 (when 16 baby boys were given this name), the name Fender has since enjoyed a stable presence in the naming statistics (with 16 births each year) until a sudden increase in popularity in 2008 (20 births), which it has maintained so far. The meaning of the name is unknown; one Dutch celebrity (the musician and television host Eddy Zoëy) who gave his son (born in 2006) this name, once said in an interview with a Dutch magazine that he had named him after the Fender brand of guitars. However, in a different interview years later, he suddenly claimed to have named his son after the character of Fender from the 2005 American computer-animated film "Robots", which he had voiced in the Dutch dubbed version of the film.

The etymology of the name of the robot is uncertain, but it might possibly be related to the English word fender or even the slang term fender-bender. But in the case of the guitar brand, there is more certainty. The brand derives its name from the surname of its founder, Leo Fender (1909-1991), which is said to be an occupational surname that refers to a town guard (from Anglo-French defendre meaning "to defend").

Fionola
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish (Rare)
Personal remark: Nola, Fi
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Anglicized form of Fionnuala.
Frederic
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Catalan, Occitan
Personal remark: Freddie, Ric
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Catalan and Occitan form of Frederik. A notable bearer was the French/Occitan writer Frederic Mistral (1830-1914), whose name was written Frédéric in French.
Fulviana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman, Italian, Spanish (Latin American), Portuguese (Brazilian)
Personal remark: Ana, Vannie, Via
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Feminine form of Fulvianus.
Gable
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: GAY-bəl
Personal remark: Gabe
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Transferred use of the surname Gable.
Galia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: גַּלְיָה(Hebrew)
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
Elaboration of Gal 1. It could also be considered a compound meaning "wave from God", using the element יָהּ (yah) referring to the Hebrew God.
Galvin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish (Anglicized)
Personal remark: Vin
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Anglicized form of Ó Gealbháin.
Gareth
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh, English (British), Arthurian Cycle
Pronounced: GAR-əth(British English)
Personal remark: Rett, Gary
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Meaning uncertain. It appears in this form in Thomas Malory's 15th-century compilation of Arthurian legends Le Morte d'Arthur, in which the knight Gareth (also named Beaumains) is a brother of Gawain. He goes with Lynet to rescue her sister Lyonesse from the Red Knight. Malory based the name on Gaheriet or Guerrehet, which was the name of a similar character in French sources. It may ultimately have a Welsh origin, possibly from the name Gwrhyd meaning "valour" (found in the tale Culhwch and Olwen) or Gwairydd meaning "hay lord" (found in the chronicle Brut y Brenhinedd).
Garrick
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: GAR-ik
Personal remark: Rick, Gary
Rating: 63% based on 3 votes
From an English surname, of French Huguenot origin, that was derived from Occitan garric meaning "oak tree grove".
Gil 2
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: GIL
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Short form of Gilbert and other names beginning with Gil.
Gilbert
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French, Dutch, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: GIL-bərt(American English) GIL-bət(British English) ZHEEL-BEHR(French) GHIL-bərt(Dutch)
Personal remark: Gil, Gilby
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Means "bright pledge", derived from the Old German elements gisal "pledge, hostage" and beraht "bright". The Normans introduced this name to England, where it was common during the Middle Ages. It was borne by a 12th-century English saint, the founder of the religious order known as the Gilbertines.
Gilliam
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare, Archaic)
Personal remark: Gil, Liam
Rating: 55% based on 4 votes
Possibly a variant of William or Gillian.
Gillis
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish (Rare), Dutch (Rare)
Pronounced: YIL-lis(Swedish) GHI-lis(Dutch)
Personal remark: Gil
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Swedish and Dutch form of Gilles.
Ginevra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: jee-NEH-vra
Personal remark: Ginny, Neve
Rating: 70% based on 4 votes
Italian form of Guinevere. This is also the Italian name for the city of Geneva, Switzerland. It is also sometimes associated with the Italian word ginepro meaning "juniper".
Gossamer
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Theatre
Pronounced: GAHS-ə-mər
Personal remark: Sam, Merry, Gossie
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
From the English word, which means "spider threads spun in fields of stubble in late fall" (apparently derived from Old English gos "goose" and sumer "summer"). A fictional bearer is Gossamer Beynon in Dylan Thomas' 1954 play 'Under Milk Wood' (Butcher Beynon's schoolteacher daughter).
Gowan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish, Medieval English
Pronounced: GOW-en(Scottish)
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
From a Scots name for the daisy and other golden or white field flowers, perhaps ultimately from Old Norse gollinn "golden". Robert Burns' poem "To a Mountain Daisy" (1786) was originally titled "The Gowan". In the 17th and 18th centuries it occurs in the region as a masculine name, possibly a variant of Gawain or from the surname Gowan, which is from Gaelic gobhan "metal worker, blacksmith" (genitive gobhainn; compare Gobán).
Graham
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish, English
Pronounced: GRAY-əm(English) GRAM(English)
Personal remark: Gray
Rating: 73% based on 4 votes
From a Scottish surname, originally derived from the English place name Grantham, which probably meant "gravelly homestead" in Old English. The surname was first taken to Scotland in the 12th century by the Norman baron William de Graham [1]. A famous bearer of the surname was Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), the Scottish-Canadian-American inventor who devised the telephone. A famous bearer of the given name was the British author Graham Greene (1904-1991).

During the 20th century, Graham was more common in the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada than it was in the United States. However, it has been rising on the American charts since around 2006.

Granite
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: GRA-nit
Personal remark: Grant, Gray
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
From the English word referring to a type of rock.
Gregor
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Scottish, Slovak, Slovene
Pronounced: GREH-go(German) GREH-gawr(Slovak)
Personal remark: Gory, Gig
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
German, Scottish, Slovak and Slovene form of Gregorius (see Gregory). A famous bearer was Gregor Mendel (1822-1884), a Czech monk and scientist who did experiments in genetics.
Greta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Italian, Swedish, Lithuanian, Polish, English
Pronounced: GREH-ta(German, Italian, Swedish, Polish) GREHT-ə(English)
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
Short form of Margareta. A famous bearer of this name was the Swedish actress Greta Garbo (1905-1990).
Gullevi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Variant of Guðví or combination of gull "gold" and "home, temple, sanctuary".
Gulliver
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: GUL-i-vər
Personal remark: Gull
Rating: 37% based on 3 votes
Transferred use of the surname Gulliver. First used in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, published 1726, as the surname of the protagonist Lemuel Gulliver.
Haizea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque
Pronounced: ie-SEH-a
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
Means "wind" in Basque.
Hallam
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: HAL-əm
Personal remark: Hal, Ham
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
From a surname that was derived from a place name meaning either "at the rocks" or "at the nook" in Old English.
Heleia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἑλεία(Ancient Greek)
Personal remark: Leia
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
From a Greek title of the goddess Artemis meaning "of marshes" (which may reflect her role as a goddess of streams and marshes). It is derived from Greek ἕλειος (heleios), from ἕλος (helos) "marsh-meadow". This is also the genus name of a type of bird.
Hemma
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Rare, Archaic)
Pronounced: HEM-a
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
Variant of Emma or Helma.

Hemma von Gurk was a saint who lived from 990 to 1045 in Austria.

Henrietta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Hungarian, Finnish, Swedish
Pronounced: hehn-ree-EHT-ə(English) HEHN-ree-eht-taw(Hungarian) HEHN-ree-eht-tah(Finnish)
Personal remark: Etta, Hettie, Henna
Rating: 78% based on 4 votes
Latinate form of Henriette. It was introduced to England by Henriette Marie, the wife of the 17th-century English king Charles I. The name Henriette was also Anglicized as Harriet, a form that was initially more popular.
Hesperia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, Spanish
Other Scripts: Ἑσπερια(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: hes-PEER-ee-ə(Greek Mythology)
Personal remark: Speri, Sparrow, Peri
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
Derived from Greek hesperos "evening" (see Hesperos). In Greek myth this was the name of one of the three Hesperides, goddesses of the evening and sunsets. Hesperia was also a Greek name of Italy, meaning "the land where the sun sets" (as in the case of asteroid 69 Hesperia).
Hesychia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek, Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἡσυχία(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
Derived from the Greek noun ἡσυχία (hesychia) meaning "rest, quiet". In Greek mythology, this is the name of a daemon or spirit of quiet, rest, silence and stillness.
Hibernia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: hie-BUR-nee-ə
Personal remark: Hibby, Nia, Bernie
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
From the Roman name for Ireland, which was influenced by Latin hibernus "wintry". (Cf. Ierne, Iverna, Juverna.)
Homily
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: HAHM-ə-lee
Personal remark: Milly
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
The name of a character from the children's novel 'The Borrowers' (1952) by Mary Norton. A homily is a Catholic sermon, but the name was probably a borrower corruption of Emily (their names were all mispronounced forms of traditional names).
Icaro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: Cary, Ico
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
Italian form of Ikaros (see Icarus).
Idonea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Archaic)
Personal remark: Idda, Nea
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
Medieval English name, probably a Latinized form of Iðunn. The spelling may have been influenced by Latin idonea "suitable". It was common in England from the 12th century [1].
Idony
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Archaic)
Personal remark: Idda, Nia
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
Medieval English vernacular form of Idonea.
Imogen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (British)
Pronounced: IM-ə-jehn
Personal remark: Ginny
Rating: 80% based on 4 votes
The name of the daughter of King Cymbeline in the play Cymbeline (1609) by William Shakespeare. He based her on a legendary character named Innogen, but it was printed incorrectly and never emended. Innogen is probably derived from Gaelic inghean meaning "maiden". As a given name it is chiefly British and Australian.
Inara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern, Rare)
Pronounced: i-NA-rə
Personal remark: Nara
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Variant of Inaara. This name was popularized in the United States by character Inara Serra on the space Western TV show Firefly (2002).
Isalie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Louisiana Creole (Archaic), American (South, Archaic), French (Acadian), French (Rare)
Personal remark: Izzy, Sally
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Isaura
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese, Spanish, Late Roman
Pronounced: ee-SOW-ra(Spanish)
Personal remark: Zara, Isa, Izzy
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
Late Latin name meaning "from Isauria". Isauria was the name of a region in Asia Minor.
Isolina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Catalan, Galician
Personal remark: Zola, Lina, Izzy
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Diminutive of Italian Isola and Catalan and Galician Isolda.
Ithaca
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Personal remark: Tac, Thac
Rating: 37% based on 3 votes
This name comes from the name of a Greek island, a legendary home of Odysseus, located in the Ionian Sea.

The etymology is uncertain, but the first element is, perhaps, derived from Phoenician I meaning "island."

Jacia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese (Brazilian, Rare)
Personal remark: Jaci, Jace
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Either an elaboration of Jaci 2 or a contraction of Jaciara.
Jacoby
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: JAK-ə-bee, jə-KO-bee
Personal remark: Coby, Jax, Jack
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Transferred use of the surname Jacoby.
Jamina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish (Rare), Finnish (Rare), Norwegian (Rare), Danish (Rare), German (Rare), Hungarian (Rare), Dutch (Rare), Flemish (Rare), Afrikaans (Rare), English (American, Archaic)
Personal remark: Mina, Jamie
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Feminine form of Jamin. In some cases it may also be a truncated form of Benjamina or a contracted form of Jacomina.
Jane
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JAYN
Personal remark: Janie
Rating: 70% based on 4 votes
Medieval English form of Jehanne, an Old French feminine form of Iohannes (see John). This became the most common feminine form of John in the 17th century, surpassing Joan. In the first half of the 20th century Joan once again overtook Jane for a few decades in both the United States and the United Kingdom.

Famous bearers include the uncrowned English queen Lady Jane Grey (1536-1554), who ruled for only nine days, British novelist Jane Austen (1775-1817), who wrote Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice, British primatologist Jane Goodall (1934-), and American actress Jane Fonda (1937-). This is also the name of the central character in Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre (1847), which tells of Jane's sad childhood and her relationship with Edward Rochester.

Jannali
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Indigenous Australian
Pronounced: jah-NAL-ee
Personal remark: Nally, Janie
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
Allegedly an Aboriginal name from the Northern Territory, meaning “the moon”.
Jaren
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew, English
Other Scripts: יארך(Hebrew)
Pronounced: Jaren(Hebrew)
Personal remark: Jary
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
To sing or talk out loud
Jedda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Indigenous Australian, Nyungar, Popular Culture
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
Means "wren" or "little wild goose" from djida, a word in Noongar, spoken in South West Region, Western Australia.

Jedda is the name of the Aboriginal main character in the 1955 Australian film 'Jedda' by Charles Chauvel.

Jeniver
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern, Rare)
Personal remark: Neve, Jen
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
Originally an obsolete form of Juniper, ultimately derived from French genèvre, this name has resurfaced in recent times, likely influenced by the popularity of Jennifer.
Jennet
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Archaic), Medieval English, Medieval Scottish, Scottish (Archaic)
Personal remark: Nettie, Jet, Jen
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
Variant of Janet found in medieval documents from England, Scotland and Ireland.
Jiminy
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Popular Culture
Personal remark: Jimi
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
Jiminy Cricket is the Walt Disney version of The Talking Cricket, a fictional character created by Carlo Collodi for his children's book The Adventures of Pinocchio, which Disney adapted into the animated film Pinocchio in 1940.

Jiminy Glick is a fictional character portrayed by Martin Short in the TV series Primetime Glick (2001–2003), the subsequent film Jiminy Glick in Lalawood, and Short's Broadway show Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me.

Jinn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: JIN
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
Joren
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch, Flemish
Personal remark: Jory
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Jory
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Cornish
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Cornish form of George.
Jovie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (Modern), Popular Culture
Pronounced: JO-vee
Rating: 15% based on 2 votes
Inspired by the English word jovial meaning "merry; cheerful and good-humored", which is itself derived from the name of the god Jove. Zooey Deschanel played a character by this name in the popular 2003 Christmas movie Elf.

In some cases, it could be a diminutive of Jovan or Jovana or a variant of Jovi.

Jubilee
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern), Popular Culture
Pronounced: joo-bə-LEE(English) JOO-bə-lee(English)
Personal remark: Billie, Jubie
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
From the English word jubilee meaning "season of rejoicing", which is derived from Hebrew יוֹבֵל (yovel) "ram, ram's horn; a jubilee year: a year of rest, prescribed by the Jewish Bible to occur each fiftieth year, after seven cycles of seven years; a period of celebration or rejoicing" (via Late Latin iubilaeus and Greek ἰώβηλος (iobelos)). In Latin, the form of the word was altered by association with the unrelated Latin verb iubilare "to shout with joy".

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

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

June
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JOON
Personal remark: Junie
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
From the name of the month, which was originally derived from the name of the Roman goddess Juno. It has been used as a given name since the 19th century.
Juniana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman, Dutch (Archaic)
Personal remark: Junie, Ana, Annie
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Variant spelling of Iuniana, which is the feminine form of Iunianus (see Junianus).
Kai
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Navajo
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Means "willow" or "hazel" in Navajo.
Kainoa
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Hawaiian
Pronounced: kie-NO-wə
Personal remark: Kai, Noa
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
This name can mean "sea of freedom," which would derive from kai meaning "sea, sea water" and noa meaning "freedom," or "the namesake," which would derive from ka, which is a definite article, and inoa meaning "name(sake)."
Kaleida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Obscure (Modern)
Personal remark: Leidi, Kady
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Perhaps based on the English word kaleidoscope, coined in 1817 by its inventor, Sir David Brewster (1781-1868), from Greek kalos "beautiful" with eidos "shape" and the suffix scope (to resemble the word telescope); its literal meaning is "observer of beautiful forms".

This name would literally mean "beautiful form", from simply the first two elements: kalos "beautiful" and eidos "form".

Kalindi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Indian, Hinduism
Pronounced: KAH-lin-dee
Personal remark: Lindi, Kindi, Kali
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
Sanskrit name meaning "sun".

In Hindu mythology, Kalindi was the wife of Sri Krishna and a daughter of Surya, the sun god.

Katsuki
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 佳月, 伽月, 嘉月, 夏月, 歌月, 加月, 克己, 克希, 克樹, 克紀, 勝己, 勝希, 勝樹, 勝紀(Japanese Kanji) かつき(Japanese Hiragana) カツキ(Japanese Katakana)
Pronounced: KAHTS-KEE, KAH-TSUU-KEE
Personal remark: Suki, Kat
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
As a unisex name, it combines 佳 (ka, kei) meaning "beautiful, excellent, good, pleasing, skilled", 伽 (ka, ga, kya, gya, togi) meaning "attending, entertainer, nursing", 嘉 (ka, yoi, yomi.suru) meaning "applaud, esteem, praise", 夏 (ka, ga, ge, natsu) meaning "summer", 歌 (ka, uta, uta.u) meaning "sing, song" or 加 (ka, kuwa.eru, kuwa.waru) meaning "add(ition), Canada, include, increase, join" with 月 (gatsu, getsu, tsuki) meaning "month, moon."
As a masculine name, it combines 克 (koku, ka.tsu) meaning "kindly, overcome, skillfully" or 勝 (shou, ka.tsu, katsu, -ga.chi, sugu.reru, masa.ru) meaning "excel, prevail, victory, win" with 己 (ki, ko, onore, tsuchinoto, na) meaning "self, serpent, snake", 希 (ki, ke, mare) meaning "beg, beseech, few, Greece, hope, phenomenal, pray, rare, request", 樹 (ju, ki) meaning "timber trees, wood" or 紀 (ki) meaning "account, annals, chronicle, geologic period, history, narrative."

One bearer of this name is film director Katsuki Iwauchi (岩内 克己) (1925-).

Katsuki is also used as a surname.

Kenna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Scottish
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Feminine form of Kenneth.
Kennick
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Romani
Personal remark: Nick, Kenny
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Directly taken from Romani kennick "house-dweller", ultimately derived from Romani ken "house".
Kensa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Cornish (Modern)
Personal remark: Kensi, Kenna
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Derived from Cornish kensa "first". This is a modern Cornish name.
Kerensa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Cornish
Personal remark: Kensi, Kenna, Renna
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
Means "love" in Cornish.
Kincaid
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KIN-kayd
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Derived from Gaelic ceann "top, head" and either caithe "pass" or catha "battle". Kincaid is a famous Scottish Clan.
The clan's name was used in the Strathclyde Kingdom and then by people who lived at Kincaid in the county of Stirlingshire, Scotland.
Lalla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
Derived from Persian لاله (lāleh) meaning "tulip". This was the name of the heroine of Thomas Moore's poem Lalla Rookh (1817). In the poem, Lalla, the daughter of the emperor of Delhi, listens to a poet sing four tales.
Larkin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval English
Pronounced: LAHR-kin(American English) LAH-kin(British English)
Personal remark: Kin, Lark
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Medieval diminutive of Laurence 1.
Laurentin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French (Rare)
Personal remark: Rennie, Ren, Laurie
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
French form of Laurentinus.
Leander
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Λέανδρος(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: lee-AN-dər(American English) lee-AN-də(British English)
Personal remark: Leo, Anders, Andy
Rating: 73% based on 3 votes
Latinized form of the Greek name Λέανδρος (Leandros), derived from λέων (leon) meaning "lion" and ἀνήρ (aner) meaning "man" (genitive ἀνδρός). In Greek legend Leander was the lover of Hero. Every night he swam across the Hellespont to meet her, but on one occasion he was drowned when a storm arose. When Hero saw his dead body she threw herself into the waters and perished.
Lennox
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: LEHN-əks
Personal remark: Nox, Lex, Len
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
From a Scottish surname that was derived from the name of a district in Scotland. The district, called Leamhnachd in Gaelic, possibly means "place of elms". This name steadily rose in popularity in the 2000s, at the same time as the similar-sounding (but unrelated) names Lennon and Knox.
Lila 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LIE-lə
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Variant of Leila.
Lillevi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish
Pronounced: LIL-le-vee
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
From the Swedish word lilla "little" combined with the popular name suffix vi, found in such names as Åsvi, Hillevi, and Torvi. The second element is often regarded as a derivative of Old Norse "devoted, dedicated", and the name has been interpreted to mean "little devoted one". It has been in use only since the 20th century.
Lilou
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: LEE-LOO
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Either a diminutive of French names containing the sound lee or a combination of Lili and Louise.
Lincoln
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LING-kən
Personal remark: Linc
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
From an English surname that was originally from the name of an English city, called Lindum Colonia by the Romans, derived from Brythonic lindo "lake, pool" and Latin colonia "colony". This name is usually given in honour of Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), president of the United States during the American Civil War.
Llyr
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh Mythology
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
Unaccented variant of Llŷr.
Lorelei
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature, English
Pronounced: LAWR-ə-lie(English)
Personal remark: Rilla, Lola, Leila
Rating: 55% based on 4 votes
From German Loreley, the name of a rock headland on the Rhine River. It is of uncertain meaning, though the second element is probably old German ley meaning "rock" (of Celtic origin). German romantic poets and songwriters, beginning with Clemens Brentano in 1801, tell that a maiden named the Lorelei lives on the rock and lures boaters to their death with her song.

In the English-speaking world this name has been occasionally given since the early 20th century. It started rising in America after the variant Lorelai was used for the main character (and her daughter, nicknamed Rory) on the television series Gilmore Girls (2000-2007).

Louisa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, German, Dutch
Pronounced: loo-EEZ-ə(English) loo-EE-za(German)
Personal remark: Lula, Lou, Lousi
Rating: 85% based on 4 votes
Latinate feminine form of Louis. A famous bearer was the American novelist Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888), the author of Little Women.
Lowri
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: LOW-ri
Personal remark: Lola
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
Welsh form of Laura.
Luisa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Italian
Pronounced: LWEE-sa(Spanish) LWEE-za(Italian)
Personal remark: Lula, Lusi
Rating: 85% based on 4 votes
Feminine form of Luis.
Lyra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Astronomy
Pronounced: LIE-rə(English)
Rating: 80% based on 3 votes
The name of the constellation in the northern sky containing the star Vega. It is said to be shaped after the lyre of Orpheus. This is the name of the main character in the His Dark Materials series of books by Philip Pullman (beginning 1995).
Lyric
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: LIR-ik
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
Means simply "lyric, songlike" from the English word, ultimately derived from Greek λυρικός (lyrikos).
Lys
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Rare)
Pronounced: LEES
Rating: 70% based on 3 votes
Diminutive of Élisabeth. It is also the French word for "lily".
Mabli
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: MAB-lee
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Welsh form of Mabel. It was coined circa 1900.
Mackenzie
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: mə-KEHN-zee
Personal remark: Mac
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
From a Scottish surname, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Coinnich, itself derived from the given name Coinneach. As a feminine given name it was popularized by the American actress Mackenzie Phillips (1959-), especially after she began appearing on the television comedy One Day at a Time in 1975. In the United Kingdom it is more common as a masculine name.
Magalie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: MA-GA-LEE
Personal remark: Meg, Gali
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
Variant of Magali.
Magdalen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MAG-də-lən
Personal remark: Lena, Dahlia, Linny, Linnet, Meg, Lenna
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Variant of Magdalene.
Maggia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Feminine form of Maggio and thus ultimately derived from Italian maggio "May". This name was occasionally given to children born in the month of May (compare English May).
Magnolia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: mag-NO-lee-ə
Personal remark: Nola, Meg, Noly
Rating: 63% based on 3 votes
From the English word magnolia for the flower, which was named for the French botanist Pierre Magnol.
Maike
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Frisian, German
Pronounced: MIE-kə(German)
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Frisian diminutive of Maria.
Malachite
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: MA-lə-kiet
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
From the name of the mineral. The stone's name derives from Greek μαλαχίτης (λίθος) (malachíti̱s (líthos)) meaning "mallow stone," which is, ultimately, from Ancient Greek μαλαχή (malakhḗ) meaning "mallow." The mineral was given this name due to its resemblance to the leaves of the Mallow plant.

In the show Steven Universe, Malachite is the fusion of Jasper and Lapis Lazuli.

Maralina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese (Brazilian), South American
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Variant of Mara with diminutive -lina.
March
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval Welsh
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Welsh form of Mark.
Melusine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Mythology
Personal remark: Mina, Lusi, Mella
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Meaning unknown. In European folklore Melusine was a water fairy who turned into a serpent from the waist down every Saturday. She made her husband, Raymond of Poitou, promise that he would never see her on that day, and when he broke his word she left him forever.
Neelie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch
Pronounced: NAY-lee
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Variant spelling of Nelie. A famous bearer of this name is Neelie Kroes (b. 1941), a Dutch politician and European Commissioner.
Nella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: NEHL-la
Personal remark: Nell
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
Short form of Antonella.
Nelle
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: NEHL
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Variant of Nell.
Nelleke
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Dutch diminutive of Cornelia and Petronella, formed using the diminutive suffix -ke. A literary bearer is Dutch novelist Nelleke Noordervliet (1945-), born Petronella.
Nessa 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew (Rare)
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Means "miracle" in Hebrew.
Netta 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: NEHT-ə
Personal remark: Nettie
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Short form of names ending in netta.
Nevena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Bulgarian, Macedonian, Croatian, Serbian
Other Scripts: Невена(Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian)
Personal remark: Nena, Neve
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Derived from South Slavic neven meaning "marigold".
Nikomedes
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Νικομήδης(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Derived from Greek νίκη (nike) meaning "victory" and μήδεα (medea) meaning "plans, counsel, cunning". This was the name of a 1st-century saint, a priest beaten to death for refusing to worship the Roman gods.
Nikori
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese (Modern, Rare)
Other Scripts: にこり(Japanese Hiragana) ニコリ(Japanese Katakana)
Pronounced: NEE-KO-REE
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
This name is written phonetically as にこり/ニコリ, used as an onomatopoeic word (usually written as にっこり (nikkori)) referring to the action of smiling sweetly or grinning.

It is extremely rarely used.

Nina 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian, Italian, English, German, French, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Lithuanian, Dutch, Polish, Slovene, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Belarusian
Other Scripts: Нина(Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian) Ніна(Ukrainian, Belarusian)
Pronounced: NYEE-nə(Russian) NEE-na(Italian, German, Dutch, Slovak) NEE-nə(English) NEE-NA(French) NEE-nah(Finnish) nyi-NU(Lithuanian) NYEE-na(Polish) NI-na(Czech)
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Short form of names that end in nina, such as Antonina or Giannina. It was imported to Western Europe from Russia and Italy in the 19th century. This name also nearly coincides with the Spanish word niña meaning "little girl" (the word is pronounced differently than the name).

A famous bearer was the American jazz musician Nina Simone (1933-2003).

Nola
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: NO-lə
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Meaning uncertain, possibly a feminine form of Noll inspired by Lola. It has been most common in Australia and New Zealand, especially in the first half of the 20th century.
Nyx
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Νύξ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: NUYKS(Classical Greek) NIKS(English)
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Means "night" in Greek. This was the name of the Greek goddess of the night, the daughter of Khaos and the wife of Erebos.
Oberon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: O-bə-rahn(American English) O-bə-rawn(British English)
Personal remark: Bear, Bron, Obie
Rating: 85% based on 2 votes
Variant of Auberon. Oberon and Titania are the king and queen of the fairies in Shakespeare's comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595). A moon of Uranus bears this name in his honour.
Odessa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Various
Personal remark: Dessa
Rating: 85% based on 2 votes
From the name of a Ukrainian city that sits on the north coast of the Black Sea, which was named after the ancient Greek city of Ὀδησσός (Odessos), of uncertain meaning. This name can also be used as a feminine form of Odysseus.
Ogden
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: AWG-dən
Personal remark: Denny
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
From a surname that was derived from a place name meaning "oak valley" in Old English. A famous bearer was the humorous American poet Ogden Nash (1902-1971).
Omri
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew [1]
Other Scripts: עָמְרִי(Hebrew)
Pronounced: AHM-rie(American English) AHM-ree(American English) AWM-rie(British English) AWM-ree(British English)
Rating: 10% based on 1 vote
Possibly means "servant" in Hebrew (or a related Semitic language), from the root עָמַר (ʿamar) meaning "to bind" [2]. This was the name of a 9th-century BC military commander who became king of Israel. He appears in the Old Testament, where he is denounced as being wicked.
Ondina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese, Italian
Personal remark: Ondi, Ondine
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Portuguese and Italian form of Undine.
Oriana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: o-RYA-na
Personal remark: Ori, Ana
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
Possibly derived from Latin aurum "gold" or from its derivatives, Spanish oro or French or. In medieval legend Oriana was the daughter of a king of England who married the knight Amadis.
Orrin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish
Personal remark: Orrie
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Anglicized form of Odhrán.
Ottilia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish
Pronounced: oot-TEE-lee-ah
Personal remark: Tilly, Lia
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Swedish form of Odilia.
Ottoline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Personal remark: Tolly, Lina
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Diminutive of Ottilie. A famous bearer was the British socialite Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873-1938).
Pacey
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: PAY-see
Personal remark: Pace
Rating: 10% based on 1 vote
From an English surname that was derived from the French place name Pacy, itself derived from Gaulish given name of unknown meaning.
Palila
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hawaiian, Polynesian, Tahitian
Pronounced: pə-LEE-lə(Hawaiian)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Name of a bird.

Also, in Hawaiian mythology, a male bears this name. Palila is a great warrior hero of Kauai, he killed warriors of Hamakua and became the ruling chief of Hilo.
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Means "with a spirit as free as a bird" in Tahitian .

Pamina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Theatre
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
Pamina is a character in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte in German, 1791).
Pannonica
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Obscure
Rating: 10% based on 1 vote
In the case of Baroness Pannonica "Nica" de Koenigswarter (1913-1988), a patron of several New York City jazz musicians and a member of the Rothschild family of Jewish bankers (born Kathleen Annie Pannonica Rothschild), it was derived from the place name Pannonia and given in reference to Eastern Europe's Pannonian plain. Pannonica de Koenigswarter's mother was a Hungarian baroness, of Austrian-Jewish descent.
Parla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Turkish, Azerbaijani
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
From Turkish parlamak, meaning "to shine".
Pastorella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Rating: 10% based on 1 vote
From Italian pastorella meaning "little shepherdess" or "young shepherdess". Alternatively it could be a feminine diminutive of Pastor. Edmund Spenser used this name for a minor character in his epic poem 'The Faerie Queene' (1590-1596); Pastorella is raised by shepherds, but in the last Canto of Book 6 she is revealed to be the daughter of Sir Bellamoure and Lady Claribell.
Paventia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Rating: 10% based on 1 vote
The name of a minor Roman goddess, who protects against childhood fears (pavor), protects against sudden fright and comforts those who have been frightened.
Pellam
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arthurian Cycle
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Form of Pellehan used by Thomas Malory in his 15th-century compilation Le Morte d'Arthur.
Penn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Welsh Mythology
Pronounced: PEN
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Means "head, top" in Welsh. This was the name of two characters in Welsh legend. It can also come from the English surname which was from a place name meaning "hill" in Old English.
Penna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American
Pronounced: PEN-ə
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
The Latin word for "feather, wing". American actor Ian Ziering has a daughter named Penna, born 2013.
Péroline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
A form of Pétronille (cf. Peronel, Perenelle). The virgin martyr Saint Petronilla is also known as Péroline in French.
Persinette
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature, Theatre
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
"Persinette" is a 1698 French fairy-tale by novelist Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force adapted from earlier 'Petrosinella' by Giambattista Basil and later adapted by the Grimms brothers to become 'Rapunzel'. The name was revived in the title of a child opera by the Austrian composer Albin Fries in 2019.
Peter
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, German, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Slovene, Slovak, Biblical
Pronounced: PEET-ər(American English) PEE-tə(British English) PEH-tu(German) PEH-tər(Dutch, Danish, Slovene) PEH-tehr(Slovak)
Personal remark: Pete
Rating: 83% based on 3 votes
Derived from Greek Πέτρος (Petros) meaning "stone". This is a translation used in most versions of the New Testament of the name Cephas, meaning "stone" in Aramaic, which was given to the apostle Simon by Jesus (compare Matthew 16:18 and John 1:42). Simon Peter was the most prominent of the apostles during Jesus' ministry and is often considered the first pope.

Due to the renown of the apostle, this name became common throughout the Christian world (in various spellings). In England the Normans introduced it in the Old French form Piers, which was gradually replaced by the spelling Peter starting in the 15th century [1].

Besides the apostle, other saints by this name include the 11th-century reformer Saint Peter Damian and the 13th-century preacher Saint Peter Martyr. It was also borne by rulers of Aragon, Portugal, and Russia, including the Russian tsar Peter the Great (1672-1725), who defeated Sweden in the Great Northern War. Famous fictional bearers include Peter Rabbit from Beatrix Potter's children's books, Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up in J. M. Barrie's 1904 play, and Peter Parker, the real name of the comic book superhero Spider-Man.

Petrinola
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Πετρινόλα(Greek)
Pronounced: Petrinóla
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
A rare Greek given name, found mostly on the island Naxos of Cyclades where it probably originated. It is possibly a derivative form of the Latin name Petronilla, since Naxos and most of Cyclades were occupied, as the Duchy of Naxos, by the Republic of Venice from 1207 to 1579 A.D.
Petromira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Bulgarian (Rare)
Other Scripts: Петромира(Bulgarian)
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
Feminine form of Petromir.
Petrosinella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Personal remark: Rosie, Nella
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
South Italian dialect word meaning "little parsley" derived from Latin petrosilium, from Greek πετροσέλινον (petroselinon) "rock-selery".

This is the name of the main character in an early version of Rapunzel written by Giambattista Basile.

Philomela
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Φιλομήλη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: fil-ə-MEE-lə(English)
Personal remark: Mela, Lomi
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
From Greek Φιλομήλη (Philomele), derived from φίλος (philos) meaning "lover, friend" and μῆλον (melon) meaning "fruit". The second element has also been interpreted as Greek μέλος (melos) meaning "song". In Greek myth Philomela was the sister-in-law of Tereus, who raped her and cut out her tongue. Prokne avenged her sister by killing her son by Tereus, after which Tereus attempted to kill Philomela. However, the gods intervened and transformed her into a nightingale.
Philyra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Φιλύρα(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
Means "lime tree, linden tree" in Greek. In Greek mythology Philyra was one of the 3,000 Oceanids, water nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys. She was loved by the Titan Cronus. 'When his wife Rhea came upon their rendezvous, he quickly transformed himself into a horse to escape detection. As a result, Philyra birthed a half-horse, half-man hybrid, the centaur Chiron. To ease her shame, Cronus transformed her into a lime-tree.'
Podrick
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Popular Culture
Pronounced: Pod-rik
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Podrick Payne, frequently called Pod, is the squire of Tyrion Lannister (from the "Song of Ice and Fire" series of books by George R. R. Martin).
Poliana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese (Brazilian)
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
Brazilian Portuguese adoption of Pollyanna. The name features prominently in the telenovela As Aventuras de Poliana (2018 - 2020), which is based on Eleanor H. Porter's classic children's novel Pollyanna (1913).
Pollicina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Folklore
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
This name is one of the two Italian forms of Thumbelina (the other is Mignolina). It is derived from Italian pollice meaning "thumb" combined with the Italian feminine diminutive suffix -ina. Also compare the similar-looking name Polissena.
Pomellina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Italian
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
Diminutive of either Poma or Pomona, which are both given names that are ultimately derived from Latin pomus or pomum, both of which are nouns that can mean "fruit" as well as "fruit tree".

In some cases, the name Pomellina can also be a direct derivation of the word pomella, which means "apple" in some Italian dialects. In other Italian dialects, the same word means "grapefruit", as a variation on pomello, which is the usual word for the fruit. And finally, in the Venetian language (which is often mistakenly believed to be an Italian dialect), the word pomella means "red berry (of thorny bushes)".

As you can see, all etymological explanations for the name ultimately refer to some type of fruit. As such, we can conclude that the aforementioned Latin pomus and/or pomum are ultimately at the very root of each of the explanations, because Italian (as do its dialects) and Venetian are ultimately descended from the Latin language.

The name Pomellina was mainly used in the Republic of Genoa during the Late Middle Ages. A known bearer of this name was Pomellina Fregoso (c. 1387-1468), a Genovese noblewoman who was the wife of Jean I of Monaco (c. 1382-1454), who himself was ultimately of Genovese descent as well. Her name was gallicized to Pomelline in Monaco, as it was (and still is) predominantly a French-speaking country.

Poppea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare, Archaic), Theatre, Italian (Rare, Archaic, ?)
Pronounced: pah-PAY-ə(English)
Rating: 10% based on 1 vote
Variant of Poppaea. This name was used for the title character of Claudio Monteverdi's opera 'L'incoronazione di Poppea' (1642).
Prosper
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French, English
Pronounced: PRAWS-PEHR(French) PRAHS-pər(American English) PRAWS-pə(British English)
Personal remark: Spero, Spark
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
From the Latin name Prosperus, which meant "fortunate, successful". This was the name of a 5th-century saint, a supporter of Saint Augustine. It has never been common as an English name, though the Puritans used it, partly because it is identical to the English word prosper.
Prosperina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Italian (Rare)
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
Feminine form of Prosper and Prospero and diminutive form of Prospera.
Pruitt
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (American, Rare)
Rating: 10% based on 1 vote
Transferred use of the surname Pruitt.
Quillan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: KWIL-ən, KWIL-in
Personal remark: Quill, Quinn
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Transferred use of the surname Quillen.
Ravenna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: rə-VEHN-ə
Personal remark: Venna, Ravi, Renna
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Either an elaboration of Raven, or else from the name of the city of Ravenna in Italy.
Rilla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: RIL-ə
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Short form of names ending in rilla. It is short for Marilla in L. M. Montgomery's sequels to her 1908 novel Anne of Green Gables, where it belongs to a daughter of Anne.
Scott
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Scottish
Pronounced: SKAHT(American English) SKAWT(British English)
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
From an English and Scottish surname that referred to a person from Scotland or a person who spoke Scottish Gaelic. It is derived from Latin Scoti meaning "Gael, Gaelic speaker", with the ultimate origin uncertain.
Seraphina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), German (Rare), Late Roman
Pronounced: sehr-ə-FEEN-ə(English) zeh-ra-FEE-na(German)
Personal remark: Finn, Sera, Raphie
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Feminine form of the Late Latin name Seraphinus, derived from the biblical word seraphim, which was Hebrew in origin and meant "fiery ones". The seraphim were an order of angels, described by Isaiah in the Bible as having six wings each.

This was the name of a 13th-century Italian saint who made clothes for the poor. As an English name, it has never been common.

Sophronia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature, Late Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Σωφρονία(Ancient Greek)
Personal remark: Sophie, Phronsie, Ronnie
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Feminine form of Sophronius. Torquato Tasso used it in his epic poem Jerusalem Delivered (1580), in which it is borne by the lover of Olindo.
Sullivan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French
Pronounced: SUL-i-vən(English)
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
From an Irish surname, the Anglicized form of Ó Súileabháin, itself from the given name Súileabhán, which was derived from Irish súil "eye" and dubh "dark, black" combined with a diminutive suffix. This name has achieved a moderate level of popularity in France since the 1970s. In the United States it was rare before the 1990s, after which it began climbing steadily. A famous fictional bearer of the surname was James P. Sullivan from the animated movie Monsters, Inc. (2001).
Sunniva
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norwegian
Personal remark: Sunny, Niva
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Scandinavian form of the Old English name Sunngifu, which meant "sun gift" from the Old English elements sunne "sun" and giefu "gift". This was the name of a legendary English saint who was shipwrecked in Norway and killed by the inhabitants.
Sylvia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish
Pronounced: SIL-vee-ə(English) SIL-vee-a(Dutch) SUYL-vee-ah(Finnish)
Personal remark: Sylvie, Sibi
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Variant of Silvia. This has been the most common English spelling since the 19th century.
Sylvie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, Czech
Pronounced: SEEL-VEE(French) SIL-vi-yeh(Czech)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
French and Czech form of Silvia.
Tabitha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Biblical, Biblical Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Ταβιθά(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: TAB-i-thə(English)
Personal remark: Tibby, Bitty
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Means "gazelle" in Aramaic. Tabitha in the New Testament was a woman restored to life by Saint Peter. Her name is translated into Greek as Dorcas (see Acts 9:36). As an English name, Tabitha became common after the Protestant Reformation. It was popularized in the 1960s by the television show Bewitched, in which Tabitha (sometimes spelled Tabatha) is the daughter of the main character.
Talulla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish (Rare)
Personal remark: Lula, Tally
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
Anglicized form of the Old Irish name Taileflaith, Tuileflaith or Tuilelaith, probably from tuile "abundance" and flaith "ruler, sovereign, princess". This was the name of an early saint, an abbess of Kildare.
Tambry
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American, Modern, Rare)
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Tamsin
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (British)
Pronounced: TAM-zin
Personal remark: Zinny, Tam
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Contracted form of Thomasina. It was traditionally used in Cornwall.
Tansy
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: TAN-zee
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
From the name of the flower, which is derived via Old French from Late Latin tanacita.
Tennyson
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: TEHN-ə-sən
Personal remark: Tenny
Rating: 73% based on 3 votes
From an English surname that meant "son of Tenney", Tenney being a medieval form of Denis. A notable bearer of the surname was the British poet Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892), commonly called Lord Tennyson after he became a baron in 1884.
Tesla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: TEHS-lə
Personal remark: Tess
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Transferred use of the surname Tesla. This was the surname or Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla (1856-1943). He is known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system. There has been a resurgence in popular interest in Tesla since the 1990s.
Tesni
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Personal remark: Tessa
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Means "warmth" in Welsh.
Tessa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Dutch
Pronounced: TEHS-ə(English) TEH-sa(Dutch)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Contracted form of Theresa.
Thaddeus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Biblical, Biblical Latin
Other Scripts: Θαδδαῖος(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: THAD-ee-əs(English) tha-DEE-əs(English)
Personal remark: Tad, Thad, Theo
Rating: 93% based on 3 votes
From Θαδδαῖος (Thaddaios), the Greek form of the Aramaic name תַדַּי (Ṯaddai). It is possibly derived from Aramaic תַּד (taḏ) meaning "heart, breast", but it may in fact be an Aramaic form of a Greek name such as Θεόδωρος (see Theodore). In the Gospel of Matthew, Thaddaeus is listed as one of the twelve apostles, though elsewhere in the New Testament his name is omitted and Jude's appears instead. It is likely that the two names refer to the same person.
Tobin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: TO-bin
Personal remark: Toby
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
From an English surname that was itself derived from the given name Tobias.
Tullia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: TOOL-lya(Italian)
Personal remark: Tula, Tully, Lia
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Feminine form of Tullius (see Tullio).
Ulysses
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Roman Mythology, English
Pronounced: yoo-LI-seez(Latin) yoo-LIS-eez(American English, British English) YOOL-i-seez(British English)
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Latin form of Odysseus. It was borne by Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885), the commander of the Union forces during the American Civil War, who went on to become an American president. Irish author James Joyce used it as the title of his book Ulysses (1922), which loosely parallels Homer's epic the Odyssey.
Uri
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Latin, Hebrew
Other Scripts: אוּרִי(Hebrew)
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Means "my light" in Hebrew, a possessive form of אוּר (ʾur) meaning "light". This is the name of the father of Bezalel in the Old Testament.
Ursula
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Swedish, Danish, German, Dutch, Finnish, Late Roman
Pronounced: UR-sə-lə(American English) U-syuw-lə(British English) U-sə-lə(British English) UWR-zoo-la(German) OOR-soo-lah(Finnish)
Personal remark: Ursi
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Means "little bear", derived from a diminutive form of the Latin word ursa "she-bear". Saint Ursula was a legendary virgin princess of the 4th century who was martyred by the Huns while returning from a pilgrimage. In England the saint was popular during the Middle Ages, and the name came into general use at that time.
Vale
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: VAYL
Rating: 10% based on 1 vote
From the English word meaning "wide river valley".
Vaughn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: VAWN
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
From a Welsh surname, a variant of Vaughan.
Veronica
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Romanian, Late Roman
Pronounced: və-RAHN-i-kə(American English) və-RAWN-i-kə(British English) veh-RAW-nee-ka(Italian)
Personal remark: Vonnie, Vee, Nic
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Latin alteration of Berenice, the spelling influenced by the ecclesiastical Latin phrase vera icon meaning "true image". This was the name of a legendary saint who wiped Jesus' face with a towel and then found his image imprinted upon it. Due to popular stories about her, the name was occasionally used in the Christian world in the Middle Ages. It was borne by the Italian saint and mystic Veronica Giuliani (1660-1727). As an English name, it was not common until the 19th century, when it was imported from France and Scotland.
Vespasian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History
Pronounced: vehs-PAY-zhee-ən(English) vehs-PAY-zhən(English)
Personal remark: Pacey
Rating: 85% based on 2 votes
From the Roman cognomen Vespasianus, derived either from Latin vesper meaning "west" or "evening" or vespa meaning "wasp". This was the name of a 1st-century Roman emperor, Titus Flavius Vespasianus, the founder of the Flavian dynasty.
Virva
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: VEER-vah
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Possibly derived from Finnish virvatuli meaning "will o' the wisp". In folklore, will o' the wisp is a floating ball of light that appears over water.
Wendelin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: VEHN-deh-leen(German)
Personal remark: Dell, Wen, Wendell
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
Old diminutive of Germanic names beginning with the element wentil (see Wendel). Saint Wendelin was a 6th-century hermit of Trier in Germany.
Wendell
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: WEHN-dəl
Personal remark: Dell, Wen
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
From a German and Dutch surname that was derived from the given name Wendel. In America this name has been given in honour of the poet Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809-1894) and his son the Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841-1935). The elder's middle name came from his mother's maiden name (which had been brought to America by a Dutch ancestor in the form Wendel, with the extra l added later).
Wesley
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: WEHS-lee, WEHZ-lee
Personal remark: Wes
Rating: 77% based on 3 votes
From an English surname that was derived from a place name, itself meaning "west meadow" from Old English west "west" and leah "woodland, clearing". It has been sometimes given in honour of John Wesley (1703-1791), the founder of Methodism.
Willem
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch
Pronounced: VI-ləm
Personal remark: Will, Wim
Rating: 87% based on 3 votes
Dutch form of William. Willem the Silent, Prince of Orange, was the leader of the Dutch revolt against Spain that brought about the independence of the Netherlands. He is considered the founder of the Dutch royal family. In English he is commonly called William of Orange.
Willemina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch
Pronounced: vi-lə-MEE-na
Personal remark: Willa, Mina, Emi
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Feminine form of Willem.
Winifred
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Welsh
Pronounced: WIN-ə-frid(English)
Personal remark: Freddie, Winnie
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
From Latin Winifreda, possibly from a Welsh name Gwenfrewi (maybe influenced by the Old English masculine name Winfred). Saint Winifred was a 7th-century Welsh martyr, probably legendary. According to the story, she was decapitated by a prince after she spurned his advances. Where her head fell there arose a healing spring, which has been a pilgrimage site since medieval times. Her story was recorded in the 12th century by Robert of Shrewsbury, and she has been historically more widely venerated in England than in Wales. The name has been used in England since at least the 16th century.
Wren
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: REHN
Rating: 77% based on 3 votes
From the English word for the small songbird. It is ultimately derived from Old English wrenna.
Xanthe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Ξάνθη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: KSAN-TEH(Classical Greek)
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
Derived from Greek ξανθός (xanthos) meaning "yellow, blond, fair-haired". This was the name of a few minor figures in Greek mythology.
Yannic
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Breton
Personal remark: Nic
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
Diminutive of Yann or Yanna 2.
Yvaine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature, Various
Pronounced: ee-VAYN(Literature)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
It is most probable that it is the feminine form of the name Yvain. Though, it is commonly thought of as a combination of Yvonne and Elaine.

The name is most popularly recognized as the name of the fallen star in Neil Gaiman's novella 'Stardust'.

Zane 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ZAYN
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
From an English surname of unknown meaning. It was introduced as a given name by American author Zane Grey (1872-1939). Zane was in fact his middle name — it had been his mother's maiden name.
Zebulon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: זְבוּלֻן(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: ZEHB-yə-lən(English)
Personal remark: Zeb, Bull, Lon
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Variant of Zebulun.
Zedekiah
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: צִדְקִיָּהוּ(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: zehd-ə-KIE-ə(English)
Personal remark: Zed, Deke, Zeke, Kai
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
From the Hebrew name צִדְקִיָּהוּ (Tsiḏqiyyahu) meaning "Yahweh is righteousness", from צֶדֶק (tseḏeq) meaning "justice, righteousness" and יָהּ (yah) referring to the Hebrew God. In the Old Testament this is the name of the last king of Judah.
Zoraida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: tho-RIE-dha(European Spanish) so-RIE-dha(Latin American Spanish)
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Perhaps means "enchanting" or "dawn" in Arabic. This was the name of a minor 12th-century Spanish saint, a convert from Islam. The name was used by Cervantes for a character in his novel Don Quixote (1606), in which Zoraida is a beautiful Moorish woman of Algiers who converts to Christianity and elopes with a Spanish officer.
Zorion
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Basque
Personal remark: Zory, Rion
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Means "happiness" in Basque.
Zuriñe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque
Personal remark: Zuri, Zina, Rina,
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Derived from Basque zuri "white". This is a Basque equivalent of Blanca.
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