skylerrae's Personal Name List
Lada
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Slavic Mythology, Czech, Russian, Croatian
Other Scripts: Лада(Russian)
Pronounced: LA-da(Czech) LA-də(Russian)
Rating: 40% based on 4 votes
Lali
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Georgian
Other Scripts: ლალი(Georgian)
Pronounced: LAH-LEE
Rating: 48% based on 5 votes
Means "ruby" in Georgian, of Sanskrit origin.
Lani
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hawaiian
Pronounced: LA-nee
Rating: 33% based on 4 votes
Means "sky, heaven, royal, majesty" in Hawaiian.
Larisa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian, Ukrainian, Romanian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Slovene, Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Лариса(Russian, Ukrainian) Λάρισα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: lu-RYEE-sə(Russian) lu-ryi-SU(Lithuanian)
Personal remark: nn Lari
Rating: 40% based on 4 votes
Possibly derived from the name of the ancient city of Larisa in Thessaly, which meant
"citadel". In Greek legends, the nymph Larisa was either a daughter or mother of Pelasgus, the ancestor of the mythical Pelasgians. This name was later borne by a 4th-century Greek martyr who is venerated as a
saint in the Eastern Church. The name (of the city, nymph and saint) is commonly Latinized as
Larissa, with a double
s. As a Ukrainian name, it is more commonly transcribed
Larysa.
Larissa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, German, Portuguese (Brazilian), Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Λάρισα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: lə-RIS-ə(English) la-RI-sa(German)
Personal remark: nn Lara, Rissa
Rating: 64% based on 5 votes
Variant of
Larisa. It has been commonly used as an English given name only since the 20th century, as a borrowing from Russian. In 1991 this name was given to one of the moons of Neptune, in honour of the mythological character.
Laura
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan, French, Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian, Polish, Slovene, Croatian, Czech, Slovak, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, Dutch, Lithuanian, Latvian, Late Roman
Pronounced: LAWR-ə(English) LOW-ra(Spanish, Italian, Romanian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, German, Dutch) LOW-ru(Portuguese) LOW-rə(Catalan) LAW-RA(French) LOW-rah(Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish) LAW-oo-raw(Hungarian)
Rating: 40% based on 5 votes
Feminine form of the Late Latin name
Laurus, which meant
"laurel". This meaning was favourable, since in ancient Rome the leaves of laurel trees were used to create victors' garlands. The name was borne by the 9th-century Spanish martyr
Saint Laura, who was a nun thrown into a vat of molten lead by the Moors. It was also the name of the subject of poems by the 14th-century Italian poet Petrarch.
As an English name, Laura has been used since the 13th century. Famous bearers include Laura Secord (1775-1868), a Canadian heroine during the War of 1812, and Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957), an American author who wrote the Little House on the Prairie series of novels.
Laveda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (South, Rare)
Personal remark: nn Veda
Rating: 50% based on 5 votes
Meaning uncertain, possibly modelled on names such as
Lavera and
Lavena. It is often spelled as
LaVeda with the third letter capitalized.
Layla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic, English
Other Scripts: ليلى(Arabic)
Pronounced: LIE-la(Arabic) LAY-lə(English)
Rating: 64% based on 8 votes
Means
"night" in Arabic. Layla was the love interest of the poet
Qays (called Majnun) in an old Arab tale, notably retold by the 12th-century Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi in his poem
Layla and Majnun. This story was a popular romance in medieval Arabia and Persia. The name became used in the English-speaking world after the 1970 release of the song
Layla by Derek and the Dominos, the title of which was inspired by the medieval story.
Leandra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese, Spanish, Italian
Pronounced: leh-AN-dra(Spanish)
Personal remark: nn Lea, Andie
Rating: 50% based on 5 votes
Leda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, Italian
Other Scripts: Λήδα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: LEH-DA(Classical Greek) LEE-də(English) LAY-də(English) LEH-da(Italian)
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Leila
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Persian, Arabic, Kurdish, English, French, Georgian
Other Scripts: لیلا(Persian) ليلى(Arabic) لەیلا(Kurdish Sorani) ლეილა(Georgian)
Pronounced: lay-LAW(Persian) LIE-la(Arabic) LAY-lə(English) LEE-lə(English) LIE-lə(English) LAY-LA(French)
Rating: 62% based on 5 votes
Variant of
Layla, and the usual Persian transcription.
This spelling was used by Lord Byron for characters in The Giaour (1813) and Don Juan (1819), and it is through him that the name was introduced to the English-speaking world.
Leilani
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Hawaiian
Pronounced: lay-LA-nee
Personal remark: nn Lani
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
Means "heavenly flowers" or "royal child" from Hawaiian lei "flowers, lei, child" and lani "heaven, sky, royal, majesty".
Lenora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Personal remark: nn Leo, Nora
Rating: 63% based on 4 votes
Lenore
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: lə-NAWR(American English) lə-NAW(British English)
Personal remark: nn Noor
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
Short form of
Eleanor. This is the name of the departed love of the narrator in Edgar Allan Poe's poem
The Raven (1845).
Leocadia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Late Roman
Pronounced: leh-o-KA-dhya(Spanish)
Personal remark: nn Leo, Cady, Laia
Rating: 57% based on 6 votes
Late Latin name that might be derived from the name of the Greek island of
Leucadia or from Greek
λευκός (leukos) meaning
"bright, clear, white" (which is also the root of the island's name).
Saint Leocadia was a 3rd-century martyr from Spain.
Leona
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Czech
Pronounced: lee-O-nə(English) LEH-o-na(Czech)
Rating: 58% based on 5 votes
Leonora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Personal remark: nn Leo, Nora
Rating: 62% based on 5 votes
Lera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian, Ukrainian
Other Scripts: Лера(Russian, Ukrainian)
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Lesedi
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Tswana
Personal remark: nn Ledi
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Means "light" in Tswana.
Leslie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LEHZ-lee, LEHS-lee
Rating: 67% based on 7 votes
From a Scottish surname that was derived from a place in Aberdeenshire, probably from Gaelic leas celyn meaning "garden of holly". It has been used as a given name since the 19th century. In America it was more common as a feminine name after the 1940s.
Lesly
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: LEHZ-lee, LEHS-lee
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Lesya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ukrainian
Other Scripts: Леся(Ukrainian)
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
Leta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Possibly derived from Latin laetus meaning "glad". Otherwise, it could be a short form of names ending in leta.
Leticia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: leh-TEE-thya(European Spanish) leh-TEE-sya(Latin American Spanish)
Personal remark: nn Letty, Cia
Rating: 55% based on 4 votes
Leto
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Λητώ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: LEH-TAW(Classical Greek) LEE-to(English)
Rating: 45% based on 4 votes
Possibly from Lycian
lada meaning
"wife". Other theories connect it to Greek
λήθω (letho) meaning
"hidden, forgotten". In Greek
mythology she was the mother of
Apollo and
Artemis by
Zeus.
Levana 1
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew [1]
Other Scripts: לְבָנָה(Hebrew)
Personal remark: nn Vana, Lana
Rating: 67% based on 6 votes
Hebrew form of
Lebanah. In modern Hebrew it is typically a feminine name.
Levenia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (South, Archaic), English (American, Archaic), Romani (Archaic)
Personal remark: nn Lia
Rating: 50% based on 4 votes
Of uncertain origin and meaning. Theories include a variant of
Luvenia and a feminine form of
Leven.
Leyre
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: LAY-reh
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
From the name of a mountain in Navarre in northern Spain, the site of the old monastery of San Salvador of Leyre. It is from Basque Leire, possibly derived from Latin legionarius meaning "pertaining to a legion".
Liliana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Polish, Czech, English
Pronounced: lee-LYA-na(Italian, Spanish, Polish) lil-ee-AN-ə(English) lil-ee-AHN-ə(English)
Personal remark: nn Lily, Lana
Rating: 68% based on 10 votes
Lilith
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Semitic Mythology, Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend
Other Scripts: לילית(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: LIL-ith(English)
Personal remark: nn Lily
Rating: 79% based on 9 votes
Derived from Akkadian
lilitu meaning
"of the night". This was the name of a demon in ancient Assyrian myths. In Jewish tradition she was
Adam's first wife, sent out of Eden and replaced by
Eve because she would not submit to him. The offspring of Adam (or
Samael) and Lilith were the evil spirits of the world.
Lillian
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LIL-ee-ən
Personal remark: nn Lilly
Rating: 76% based on 8 votes
Probably originally a
diminutive of
Elizabeth. It may also be considered an elaborated form of
Lily, from the Latin word for "lily"
lilium. This name has been used in England since the 16th century.
Lilo
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hawaiian
Pronounced: LEE-lo
Rating: 59% based on 7 votes
Means "generous" in Hawaiian. It was the name of a title character in Disney's 'Lilo and Stitch'.
Lindsey
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LIN-zee
Rating: 63% based on 3 votes
Linnea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish
Pronounced: lin-NEH-a(Swedish) LEEN-neh-ah(Finnish)
Rating: 64% based on 5 votes
Lisandra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American), Portuguese
Pronounced: lee-SAN-dra(Spanish)
Personal remark: nn Lana, Andie
Rating: 58% based on 6 votes
Loreida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Estonian
Personal remark: nn Lora, Rei, Reia
Rating: 58% based on 6 votes
Lorena 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian
Pronounced: lo-REH-na(Spanish, Italian)
Personal remark: nn Lora, Ren
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Romanian form of
Lorraine.
Lorenza
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: lo-REHN-tsa(Italian) lo-REHN-tha(European Spanish) lo-REHN-sa(Latin American Spanish)
Personal remark: nn Lora, Ren
Rating: 62% based on 5 votes
Italian and Spanish feminine form of
Laurentius (see
Laurence 1).
Lorraine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: lə-RAYN
Personal remark: nn Lora, Rae
Rating: 55% based on 4 votes
From the name of a region in eastern France, originally meaning "kingdom of
Lothar". Lothar was a Frankish king, the great-grandson of
Charlemagne, whose realm was in the part of France that is now called
Lorraine, or in German
Lothringen (from Latin
Lothari regnum). As a given name, it has been used in the English-speaking world since the late 19th century, perhaps due to its similar sound with
Laura. It became popular after World War I when the region was in the news, as it was contested between Germany and France.
Lowri
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: LOW-ri
Rating: 50% based on 4 votes
Lucero
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Spanish (Mexican), Spanish (Latin American)
Pronounced: loo-SEH-ro(Latin American Spanish) loo-THEH-ro(European Spanish)
Personal remark: nn Lucie, Lero
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Means "light source, bright star, morning star" in Spanish, a derivative of luz "light". It is most common in Mexico and Colombia.
Lucia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, German, Dutch, English, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Romanian, Slovak, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: loo-CHEE-a(Italian) LOO-tsya(German) loo-TSEE-a(German) LUY-see-a(Dutch) LOO-shə(English) loo-SEE-ə(English) luy-SEE-a(Swedish) LOO-chya(Romanian) LOO-kee-a(Latin)
Personal remark: nn Cia
Rating: 54% based on 5 votes
Feminine form of
Lucius.
Saint Lucia was a 4th-century martyr from Syracuse. She was said to have had her eyes gouged out, and thus she is the patron saint of the blind. She was widely revered in the Middle Ages, and her name has been used throughout Christian Europe (in various spellings). It has been used in the England since the 12th century, usually in the spellings
Lucy or
Luce.
Luciana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: loo-CHA-na(Italian) loo-THYA-na(European Spanish) loo-SYA-na(Latin American Spanish) loo-SYU-nu(European Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese)
Personal remark: nn Lucie, Cia
Rating: 58% based on 6 votes
Lucienne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: LUY-SYEHN
Personal remark: nn Lucie
Rating: 62% based on 5 votes
Lucille
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, English
Pronounced: LUY-SEEL(French) loo-SEEL(English)
Personal remark: nn Lucie
Rating: 72% based on 6 votes
French form of
Lucilla. A famous bearer was American comedienne Lucille Ball (1911-1989).
Lucina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Pronounced: loo-KEE-na(Latin) loo-SIE-nə(English) loo-SEE-nə(English)
Personal remark: nn Lucie, Cia
Rating: 60% based on 6 votes
Derived from Latin lucus meaning "grove", but later associated with lux meaning "light". This was the name of a Roman goddess of childbirth.
Lumi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: LOO-mee
Rating: 50% based on 4 votes
Means "snow" in Finnish.
Luna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, English
Pronounced: LOO-na(Latin, Spanish, Italian) LOO-nə(English)
Rating: 80% based on 5 votes
Means "the moon" in Latin (as well as Italian, Spanish and other Romance languages). Luna was the Roman goddess of the moon, frequently depicted driving a white chariot through the sky.
Lyra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Astronomy
Pronounced: LIE-rə(English)
Rating: 50% 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).
Lysandra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Λυσάνδρα(Ancient Greek)
Personal remark: nn Lya, Lana, Andie
Rating: 61% based on 9 votes
Feminine form of
Lysandros (see
Lysander).
Maëlys
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: MA-EH-LEES
Personal remark: nn Mae
Rating: 65% based on 6 votes
Feminine form of
Maël, possibly influenced by the spelling of
Mailys.
Maeva
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Tahitian, French
Pronounced: MA-EH-VA(French)
Personal remark: nn Mae
Rating: 58% based on 6 votes
Means "welcome" in Tahitian. It gained popularity in France during the 1980s.
Maeve
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish, English, Irish Mythology
Pronounced: MAYV(English)
Personal remark: nn Mae
Rating: 75% based on 10 votes
Anglicized form of the Irish name
Medb meaning
"intoxicating". In Irish legend this was the name of a warrior queen of Connacht. She and her husband
Ailill fought against the Ulster king
Conchobar and the hero
Cúchulainn, as told in the Irish epic
The Cattle Raid of Cooley.
Magdalena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Polish, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Lithuanian, Spanish, Catalan, Occitan, Slovene, Czech, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Croatian, Serbian, Romanian, English
Other Scripts: Магдалена(Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian)
Pronounced: mag-da-LEH-na(Polish) mak-da-LEH-na(German) mahgh-da-LEH-na(Dutch) magh-dha-LEH-na(Spanish) məg-də-LEH-nə(Catalan) MAG-da-leh-na(Czech) mag-də-LAY-nə(English)
Personal remark: nn Maggie, Malena, Lena
Rating: 63% based on 6 votes
Mai 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 舞, 麻衣, 真愛, etc.(Japanese Kanji) まい(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: MA-EE
Rating: 61% based on 7 votes
From Japanese
舞 (mai) meaning "dance" or
麻衣 (mai) meaning "linen robe". It can also come from
真 (ma) meaning "real, genuine" combined with
愛 (ai) meaning "love, affection". Other kanji or kanji combinations can also form this name.
Maia 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, Roman Mythology, Portuguese, Georgian
Other Scripts: Μαῖα(Ancient Greek) მაია(Georgian)
Pronounced: MIE-A(Classical Greek) MAY-ə(English) MIE-ə(English) MIE-ya(Latin) MAH-EE-AH(Georgian)
Rating: 60% based on 5 votes
From Greek
μαῖα (maia) meaning
"good mother, dame, foster mother", perhaps in origin a nursery form of
μήτηρ (meter). In Greek and Roman
mythology she was the eldest of the Pleiades, a group of stars in the constellation Taurus, who were the daughters of
Atlas and
Pleione. Her son by
Zeus was
Hermes.
Maiara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Tupi
Personal remark: nn Mai
Rating: 63% based on 7 votes
From Tupi maya arya meaning "great-grandmother".
Maile
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hawaiian
Pronounced: MIE-leh
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
From the name of a type of vine that grows in Hawaii and is used in making leis.
Mairead
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Scottish Gaelic [1]
Pronounced: MA-ryəd
Personal remark: nn Mae
Rating: 53% based on 7 votes
Mairwen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Rating: 62% based on 5 votes
Combination of
Mair and Welsh
gwen meaning "white, blessed".
Makeda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: History
Personal remark: nn Eda
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Possibly means
"greatness" in Ethiopic. This was the name of an Ethiopian queen of the 10th-century BC. She is probably the same person as the Queen of Sheba, who visited Solomon in the
Old Testament.
Mara 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Hebrew [1], Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Other Scripts: מָרָא(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: MAHR-ə(English) MAR-ə(English) MEHR-ə(English) MA-ra(Spanish)
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Means
"bitter" in Hebrew. In the
Old Testament this is a name that
Naomi calls herself after the death of her husband and sons (see
Ruth 1:20).
Maren
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Danish, Norwegian
Pronounced: MAH-rehn(Danish)
Rating: 50% based on 4 votes
Mareva
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Tahitian
Rating: 54% based on 5 votes
Literally means "the one that passes quickly without turning", metaphorically meaning "shooting star".
Margo
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MAHR-go(American English) MAH-go(British English)
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
Margot
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: MAR-GO
Rating: 66% based on 5 votes
Mari 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Estonian, Finnish, Welsh, Breton, Hungarian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Georgian, Armenian
Other Scripts: მარი(Georgian) Մարի(Armenian)
Pronounced: MAH-ree(Finnish) MAW-ree(Hungarian) mah-REE(Swedish)
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Estonian, Finnish, Welsh and Breton form of
Maria, as well as a Hungarian
diminutive of
Mária. It is also a Scandinavian, Georgian and Armenian form of the French name
Marie.
Mari 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 真理, 真里, etc.(Japanese Kanji) まり(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: MA-REE
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
From Japanese
真 (ma) meaning "real, genuine" combined with
理 (ri) meaning "reason, logic" or
里 (ri) meaning "village". Many other combinations of kanji characters can form this name.
Mariana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese, Spanish, Romanian, Czech, Bulgarian, Ancient Roman
Other Scripts: Мариана, Марияна(Bulgarian)
Pronounced: mu-RYU-nu(European Portuguese) ma-RYU-nu(Brazilian Portuguese) ma-RYA-na(Spanish)
Personal remark: nn Mari
Rating: 53% based on 4 votes
Roman feminine form of
Marianus. After the classical era it was sometimes interpreted as a combination of
Maria and
Ana. In Portuguese it is further used as a form of
Mariamne.
Maricruz
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: ma-ree-KROOTH(European Spanish) ma-ree-KROOS(Latin American Spanish)
Personal remark: nn Mari, Cruz
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Mariko
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 真里子, etc.(Japanese Kanji) まりこ(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: MA-REE-KO
Personal remark: nn Mari, KO
Rating: 60% based on 8 votes
From Japanese
真 (ma) meaning "real, genuine",
里 (ri) meaning "village" and
子 (ko) meaning "child". Many different combinations of kanji characters can form this name.
Marilyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MAR-ə-lin
Rating: 67% based on 7 votes
Combination of
Mary and the common name suffix
lyn. It was very rare before the start of the 20th century. It was popularized in part by the American stage star Marilyn Miller (1898-1936), who was born Mary Ellen Reynolds and took her
stage name from a combination of her birth name and her mother's middle name
Lynn. It became popular in the United States during the 1920s, reaching a high point ranked 13th in 1936. Famous bearers include American actress Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962; real name Norma Jeane Mortenson) and American opera singer Marilyn Horne (1934-).
Marina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, English, Greek, Finnish, Estonian, Russian, Romanian, Czech, Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Macedonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Georgian, Ancient Roman
Other Scripts: Μαρίνα(Greek) Марина(Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Macedonian) მარინა(Georgian)
Pronounced: ma-REE-na(Italian, Spanish, German, Dutch, Macedonian) mə-REE-nə(Catalan) mə-REEN-ə(English) mu-RYEE-nə(Russian) MA-ri-na(Czech)
Rating: 60% based on 6 votes
Feminine form of
Marinus. This name was borne by a few early
saints. This is also the name by which Saint
Margaret of Antioch is known in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Marisa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, English
Pronounced: ma-REE-za(Italian) ma-REE-sa(Spanish) mə-RIS-ə(English)
Personal remark: nn Mari
Rating: 63% based on 3 votes
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese combination of
Maria and
Luisa.
Marisol
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: ma-ree-SOL
Personal remark: nn Mari, Sol
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
Short form of
María Soledad. It is sometimes considered a combination of
María and
Sol 1, or from Spanish
mar y sol "sea and sun".
Maritza
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American)
Pronounced: ma-REET-sa
Personal remark: nn Mari
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
Elaboration of
Maria used particularly in Latin America. The suffix could be inspired by the name of the Itza people of Central America (as seen in the name of the old Maya city of Chichen Itza, Mexico). It also nearly coincides with the name of the Maritsa River in southeastern Europe.
Mariya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Belarusian
Other Scripts: Мария(Russian, Bulgarian) Марія(Ukrainian) Марыя(Belarusian)
Pronounced: mu-RYEE-yə(Russian) mu-RYEE-yu(Ukrainian)
Rating: 62% based on 6 votes
Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian form of
Maria, as well as an alternate transcription of Belarusian
Марыя (see
Maryia).
Marley
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: MAHR-lee(American English) MAH-lee(British English)
Personal remark: nn Mar
Rating: 58% based on 6 votes
From an English surname that was taken from a place name meaning either "pleasant wood", "boundary wood" or "marten wood" in Old English. A famous bearer of the surname was the Jamaican musician Bob Marley (1945-1981).
Marlowe
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: MAHR-lo(American English) MAH-lo(British English)
Personal remark: nn Mar
Rating: 55% based on 4 votes
From a surname that was derived from a place name meaning "remnants of a lake" in Old English. A famous bearer of the surname was the English playwright Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593).
Mathilde
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish
Pronounced: MA-TEELD(French) ma-TIL-də(German, Dutch)
Rating: 63% based on 6 votes
Form of
Matilda in several languages.
Matilda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Swedish, Finnish, Slovak, Slovene
Pronounced: mə-TIL-də(English) MAH-teel-dah(Finnish) MA-teel-da(Slovak)
Personal remark: nn Tilly
Rating: 81% based on 11 votes
From the Germanic name
Mahthilt meaning
"strength in battle", from the elements
maht "might, strength" and
hilt "battle".
Saint Matilda was the wife of the 10th-century German king Henry I the Fowler. The name was common in many branches of European royalty in the Middle Ages. It was brought to England by the
Normans, being borne by the wife of William the Conqueror himself. Another notable royal by this name was a 12th-century daughter of Henry I of England, known as the Empress Matilda because of her first marriage to the Holy Roman emperor Henry V. She later invaded England, laying the foundations for the reign of her son Henry II.
The name was very popular until the 15th century in England, usually in the vernacular form Maud. Both forms were revived by the 19th century. This name appears in the popular Australian folk song Waltzing Matilda, written in 1895.
Maureen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish, English
Pronounced: maw-REEN(English)
Rating: 62% based on 6 votes
Mayra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American), American (Hispanic)
Pronounced: MIE-ra(Spanish)
Personal remark: nn May
Rating: 65% based on 6 votes
Hispanic variant of
Myra.
Mayura
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Indian, Marathi, Kannada, Thai, Sinhalese
Other Scripts: मयुरा, मयुर(Marathi) ಮಯೂರ(Kannada) มยุรา(Thai) මයුර(Sinhala)
Pronounced: ma-yoo-RA(Thai)
Rating: 64% based on 5 votes
Feminine form of
Mayur as well as a masculine alternate transcription. It is used as a unisex name in India, a feminine name in Thailand and a masculine name in Sri Lanka.
McKinley
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: mə-KIN-lee
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
From a Scottish surname, an Anglicized form of
Mac Fhionnlaigh, from the given name
Fionnlagh. A famous bearer of the surname was the American president William McKinley (1843-1901).
As a given name in America, it was mainly masculine in the late 19th century and the majority of the 20th, being most common around the times of the president's election and assassination. During the 1990s it began growing in popularity for girls, probably inspired by other feminine names beginning with Mac or Mc such as Mackenzie and McKenna.
Meeli
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Estonian
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Mei 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Chinese
Other Scripts: 美, 梅, etc.(Chinese)
Pronounced: MAY
Rating: 60% based on 5 votes
From Chinese
美 (měi) meaning "beautiful" or
梅 (méi) meaning "Chinese plum" (species Prunus mume), as well as other characters that are pronounced similarly.
Meilin
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Chinese
Other Scripts: 美林, 美琳, 美麟, 梅林, 梅琳, 玫林, 玫琳, etc.(Chinese)
Pronounced: MAY-LEEN
Personal remark: nn Mei
Rating: 54% based on 5 votes
From Chinese 美
(měi) meaning "beautiful", 梅
(méi) meaning "plum, apricot" or 玫
(méi) meaning "rose, gemstone" combined with 林
(lín) meaning "forest", 琳
(lín) meaning "fine jade, gem" or 麟
(lín) meaning "female unicorn". Other character combinations can form this name as well.
Melina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Greek
Other Scripts: Μελίνα(Greek)
Pronounced: mə-LEE-nə(English)
Rating: 63% based on 3 votes
Elaboration of
Mel, either from names such as
Melissa or from Greek
μέλι (meli) meaning "honey". A famous bearer was Greek-American actress Melina Mercouri (1920-1994), who was born Maria Amalia Mercouris.
Mentari
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Indonesian
Pronounced: mən-TA-ree
Personal remark: nn Mari
Rating: 58% based on 5 votes
Means "sun" in Indonesian.
Mercedes
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: mehr-THEH-dhehs(European Spanish) mehr-SEH-dhehs(Latin American Spanish) mər-SAY-deez(American English) mə-SAY-deez(British English)
Personal remark: nn Cedes
Rating: 63% based on 3 votes
Means
"mercies" (that is, the plural of mercy), from the Spanish title of the Virgin
Mary,
Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes, meaning "Our Lady of Mercies". It is ultimately from the Latin word
merces meaning "wages, reward", which in Vulgar Latin acquired the meaning "favour, pity"
[1].
Meredith
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Welsh, English
Pronounced: MEHR-ə-dith(English)
Rating: 67% based on 6 votes
From the Welsh name
Maredudd or
Meredydd, from Old Welsh forms such as
Margetud, possibly from
mawredd "greatness, magnificence" combined with
iudd "lord". The Welsh forms of this name were well used through the Middle Ages. Since the mid-1920s it has been used more often for girls than for boys in English-speaking countries, though it is still a masculine name in Wales. A famous bearer of this name as surname was the English novelist and poet George Meredith (1828-1909).
Merida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Popular Culture
Rating: 60% based on 6 votes
The name of the main character in the Disney/Pixar movie
Brave (2012) about a medieval Scottish princess. The meaning of her name is unexplained, though it could be based on the Spanish city of Mérida, derived from Latin
Emerita Augusta meaning "veterans of
Augustus", so named because it was founded by the emperor Augustus as a colony for his veterans.
Merryn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Cornish
Rating: 55% based on 4 votes
Meaning unknown. This was the name of an early Cornish (male)
saint.
Meztli
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Aztec and Toltec Mythology, Nahuatl
Rating: 62% based on 6 votes
Miakoda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Omaha-Ponca, Literature
Personal remark: nn Koda, Koa
Rating: 58% based on 5 votes
Means "power of the moon" in Omaha-Ponca, from Omaha miⁿ "moon, sun" and akoⁿda "power".
Mielikki
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish Mythology
Rating: 37% based on 3 votes
Derived from Finnish mieli meaning "mind, mood". This was the name of a Finnish goddess of forests and hunting. By some accounts she is the wife of the god Tapio.
Milbry
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (South)
Rating: 48% based on 4 votes
Minako
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 美奈子, etc.(Japanese Kanji) みなこ(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: MEE-NA-KO
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
From Japanese
美 (mi) meaning "beautiful",
奈 (na), a phonetic character, and
子 (ko) meaning "child". Other kanji combinations are possible.
Mirai
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Shona
Rating: 57% based on 6 votes
Means "wait" in Shona.
Mireia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Catalan, Spanish
Pronounced: mee-REH-yə(Catalan) mee-REH-ya(Spanish)
Personal remark: nn Mira, Rei, Reia
Rating: 67% based on 7 votes
Mireya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: mee-REH-ya
Personal remark: nn Mira, Rey, Reya
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Miriam
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew, English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Italian, Portuguese, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Biblical
Other Scripts: מִרְיָם(Hebrew)
Pronounced: MIR-ee-əm(English) MI-ryam(German) MI-ri-yam(Czech) MEE-ree-am(Slovak)
Personal remark: nn Miri
Rating: 65% based on 8 votes
Form of
Mary used in the
Old Testament, where it belongs to the elder sister of
Moses and
Aaron. She watched over the infant Moses as the pharaoh's daughter drew him from the Nile. The name has long been popular among Jews, and it has been used as an English Christian name (alongside
Mary) since the
Protestant Reformation.
Misaki
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 美咲, etc.(Japanese Kanji) みさき(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: MEE-SA-KYEE
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
From Japanese
美 (mi) meaning "beautiful" and
咲 (saki) meaning "blossom". This name can be formed from other combinations of kanji as well.
Miyako
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 美夜子, etc.(Japanese Kanji) みやこ(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: MEE-YA-KO
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
From Japanese
美 (mi) meaning "beautiful",
夜 (ya) meaning "night" and
子 (ko) meaning "child". This name can be formed from other combinations of kanji as well.
Miyuki
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 美幸, 美雪, etc.(Japanese Kanji) みゆき(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: MEE-YOO-KYEE
Personal remark: nn Yuki
Rating: 64% based on 5 votes
From Japanese
美 (mi) meaning "beautiful" combined with
幸 (yuki) meaning "happiness" or
雪 (yuki) meaning "snow". Other kanji combinations can also form this name.
Moira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish, Scottish, English
Pronounced: MOI-rə(English)
Rating: 66% based on 5 votes
Anglicized form of
Máire. It also coincides with Greek
Μοῖρα (Moira) meaning "fate, destiny", the singular of
Μοῖραι, the Greek name for the Fates. They were the three female personifications of destiny in Greek
mythology.
Molly
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MAHL-ee(American English) MAWL-ee(British English)
Rating: 70% based on 7 votes
Medieval
diminutive of
Mary, now often used independently. It developed from
Malle and
Molle, other medieval diminutives. James Joyce used this name in his novel
Ulysses (1922), where it belongs to Molly Bloom, the wife of the main character.
Monet
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Various
Rating: 57% based on 6 votes
From a French surname that was derived from either
Hamon or
Edmond. This was the surname of the French impressionist painter Claude Monet (1840-1926).
Monica
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Romanian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Late Roman
Pronounced: MAHN-i-kə(American English) MAWN-i-kə(British English) MAW-nee-ka(Italian) mo-NEE-ka(Romanian) MO-nee-ka(Dutch)
Rating: 58% based on 5 votes
Meaning unknown, most likely of Berber or Phoenician origin. In the 4th century this name was borne by a North African
saint, the mother of Saint
Augustine of Hippo, whom she converted to Christianity. Since the Middle Ages it has been associated with Latin
moneo "advisor" and Greek
μονός (monos) "one, single".
As an English name, Monica has been in general use since the 18th century. In America it reached the height of its popularity in the 1970s, declining since then. A famous bearer was the Yugoslavian tennis player Monica Seles (1973-).
Monique
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, English, Dutch
Pronounced: MAW-NEEK(French) mə-NEEK(English) mo-NEEK(English, Dutch)
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
Monroe
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: mən-RO
Rating: 56% based on 5 votes
From a Scottish surname meaning
"from the mouth of the Roe". The Roe is a river in Northern Ireland. Two famous bearers of the surname were American president James Monroe (1758-1831) and American actress Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962).
As a given name it was mostly masculine in America until around 2009. It was already rising in popularity for girls when singer Mariah Carey gave it to her daughter born 2011 (though this probably helped accelerate it).
Morana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Slavic Mythology, Croatian
Rating: 37% based on 3 votes
From Old Slavic
morŭ meaning
"death, plague" [1]. In Slavic
mythology this was the name of a goddess associated with winter and death.
Morena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Slavic Mythology, Croatian, Serbian
Other Scripts: Морена(Serbian)
Pronounced: maw-RRE-nah
Personal remark: nn Renna
Rating: 63% based on 7 votes
Morgan 1
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Welsh, English, French
Pronounced: MAWR-gən(American English) MAW-gən(British English) MAWR-GAN(French)
Rating: 64% based on 7 votes
From the Old Welsh masculine name
Morcant, which was possibly derived from Welsh
mor "sea" and
cant "circle". Since the 1980s in America
Morgan has been more common for girls than boys, perhaps due to stories of
Morgan le Fay or the fame of actress Morgan Fairchild (1950-).
Morgan 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arthurian Cycle
Pronounced: MAWR-gən(American English) MAW-gən(British English)
Rating: 66% based on 5 votes
Modern form of
Morgen, which was used by Geoffrey of Monmouth
[1] in the 12th century for the Arthurian sorceress Morgan le Fay, who was unnamed in earlier stories. Geoffrey probably did not derive it from the Welsh masculine name
Morgan, which would have been spelled
Morcant in his time. It is likely from Old Welsh
mor "sea" and the suffix
gen "born of"
[2].
Morrígan
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish Mythology
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
Means either
"demon queen" or
"great queen", derived from Old Irish
mor "demon, evil spirit" or
mór "great, big" combined with
rígain "queen". In Irish
mythology Morrígan (called also The Morrígan) was a goddess of war and death who often took the form of a crow.
Murphy
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MUR-fee(American English) MU-fee(British English)
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
From a common Irish surname, the Anglicized form of Irish Gaelic
Ó Murchadha, itself derived from the given name
Murchadh. As a given name, it has been borne by female characters on the American television series
Murphy Brown (1988-1998) and the movie
Interstellar (2014).
Myra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MIE-rə
Rating: 65% based on 6 votes
Created by the 17th-century poet Fulke Greville. He possibly based it on Latin
myrra meaning "myrrh" (a fragrant resin obtained from a tree). Otherwise, he may have simply rearranged the letters from the name
Mary. Although unrelated etymologically, this is also the name of an ancient city of Anatolia.
Nadezhda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian, Bulgarian
Other Scripts: Надежда(Russian, Bulgarian)
Pronounced: nu-DYEZH-də(Russian)
Rating: 56% based on 5 votes
Means "hope" in Russian and Bulgarian.
Nadia 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, Italian, Spanish, Polish, English, Russian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian
Other Scripts: Надя(Russian, Bulgarian) Надія(Ukrainian)
Pronounced: NA-DYA(French) NA-dya(Italian, Polish) NA-dhya(Spanish) NAD-ee-ə(English) NAHD-ee-ə(English) NA-dyə(Russian)
Rating: 65% based on 4 votes
Variant of
Nadya 1 used in Western Europe, as well as an alternate transcription of the Slavic name. It began to be used in France in the 19th century
[1]. The name received a boost in popularity from the Romanian gymnast Nadia Comăneci (1961-)
[2].
Nadia 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic, Urdu, Bengali, Indonesian, Malay
Other Scripts: ناديّة(Arabic) نادیہ(Urdu) নাদিয়া(Bengali)
Pronounced: na-DEE-ya(Arabic)
Rating: 65% based on 6 votes
Alternate transcription of Arabic
ناديّة (see
Nadiyya), as well as the usual form in several other languages.
Nadie
Usage: African
Rating: 62% based on 5 votes
Nadine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, German, English, Dutch
Pronounced: NA-DEEN(French) na-DEE-nə(German, Dutch) na-DEEN(German, Dutch) nay-DEEN(English)
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
Naia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque
Pronounced: NIE-a
Rating: 60% based on 4 votes
Means "wave, sea foam" in Basque.
Naira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Aymara
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
From Aymara nayra meaning "eye" or "early".
Nanako
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 菜々子(Japanese Kanji) ななこ(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: NA-NA-KO
Rating: 60% based on 4 votes
From Japanese
菜 (na) meaning "vegetables, greens" duplicated and
子 (ko) meaning "child". Other kanji combinations are possible as well.
Nasrin
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Persian, Bengali
Other Scripts: نسرین(Persian) নাসরীন(Bengali)
Pronounced: nas-REEN(Persian)
Rating: 60% based on 6 votes
Means "wild rose" in Persian.
Naya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: African American (Modern)
Pronounced: NIE-ə
Rating: 63% based on 4 votes
Variant of
Nia 2, probably modelled on
Maya 2. It was borne by the actress Naya Rivera (1987-2020).
Nayeli
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Zapotec (Hispanicized), Spanish (Mexican)
Pronounced: na-YEH-lee(Spanish)
Personal remark: nn Ayli, Eli
Rating: 66% based on 5 votes
Possibly from Zapotec nadxiie lii meaning "I love you" or nayele' meaning "open".
Nereida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: neh-RAY-dha
Personal remark: nn Neri, Rei, Reida
Rating: 64% based on 7 votes
Derived from Greek
Νηρηΐδες (Nereides) meaning
"nymphs, sea sprites", ultimately derived from the name of the Greek sea god
Nereus, who supposedly fathered them.
Nerida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Indigenous Australian
Rating: 63% based on 3 votes
Possibly means "water lily" in an Australian Aboriginal language.
Nesrin
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Turkish
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Noa 3
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 乃愛, etc.(Japanese Kanji) のあ(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: NO-A
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
From Japanese
乃 (no), a possessive particle, and
愛 (a) meaning "love, affection". This name can also be constructed from other kanji or kanji combinations.
Noelani
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hawaiian
Pronounced: no-eh-LA-nee
Personal remark: nn Lani
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
Means "heavenly mist" from Hawaiian noe "mist" and lani "heaven, sky, royal, majesty".
Noelia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: no-EH-lya
Personal remark: nn Ellie, Noa
Rating: 63% based on 7 votes
Spanish feminine form of
Noël.
Noelle
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: no-EHL
Rating: 53% based on 4 votes
Noemi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Czech, Polish, Romanian, German, Biblical Latin
Pronounced: no-EH-mee(Italian)
Personal remark: nn Em
Rating: 53% based on 4 votes
Form of
Naomi 1 in several languages.
Nohemi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: no-EH-mee
Personal remark: nn Em
Rating: 60% based on 4 votes
Nolie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (South, Rare), English (Canadian, Rare), Filipino (Rare)
Rating: 55% based on 4 votes
Noor 1
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Arabic, Urdu, Bengali, Malay, Indonesian
Other Scripts: نور(Arabic, Urdu) নূর(Bengali)
Pronounced: NOOR(Arabic)
Rating: 65% based on 4 votes
Alternate transcription of Arabic/Urdu
نور or Bengali
নূর (see
Nur), as well as a Malay and Indonesian variant.
Nora 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Irish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Latvian, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: NAWR-ə(English) NO-ra(German, Dutch, Spanish)
Rating: 65% based on 4 votes
Short form of
Honora or
Eleanor. Henrik Ibsen used it for a character in his play
A Doll's House (1879).
Norah 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Irish
Pronounced: NAWR-ə(English)
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
Noreen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish, English
Pronounced: naw-REEN(English)
Rating: 65% based on 4 votes
Noriko
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 典子, 紀子, 法子, etc.(Japanese Kanji) のりこ(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: NO-REE-KO
Personal remark: nn Nori
Rating: 67% based on 7 votes
From Japanese
典 (nori) meaning "rule, ceremony" or
紀 (nori) meaning "chronicle" combined with
子 (ko) meaning "child". Other kanji combinations are possible.
Nour
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: نور(Arabic)
Pronounced: NOOR
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Alternate transcription of Arabic
نور (see
Nur).
Noura
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: نورة, نورا(Arabic)
Pronounced: NOO-ra
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Nova
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Swedish (Modern), Dutch (Modern)
Pronounced: NO-və(English) NO-va(Swedish, Dutch)
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
Derived from Latin novus meaning "new". It was first used as a name in the 19th century.
Novalee
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Personal remark: nn Nova
Rating: 63% based on 4 votes
Elaboration of
Nova using the popular name suffix
lee. It was used for the central character in the novel
Where the Heart Is (1995), as well as the 2000 film adaptation.
Nyla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: NIE-lə
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Probably a feminine form of
Niles. It gained popularity in the early 2000s, influenced by similar-sounding names such as
Kyla.
Nyx
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Νύξ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: NUYKS(Classical Greek) NIKS(English)
Rating: 37% based on 3 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.
Octavia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Spanish, Romanian, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: ahk-TAY-vee-ə(American English) awk-TAY-vee-ə(British English) ok-TA-bya(Spanish) ok-TA-wee-a(Latin)
Personal remark: nn O, Avi
Rating: 50% based on 4 votes
Feminine form of
Octavius. Octavia was the wife of Mark Antony and the sister of the Roman emperor Augustus. In 19th-century England it was sometimes given to the eighth-born child.
Odalis
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American)
Pronounced: o-DHA-lees
Rating: 68% based on 4 votes
Possibly an elaboration of
Odilia used in Latin America. In most countries it is a feminine name, but in the Dominican Republic it is commonly masculine.
Odalys
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American)
Pronounced: o-DHA-lees
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
Odessa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Various
Personal remark: nn Essie
Rating: 60% based on 6 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.
Odeya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אוֹדֶיָּה(Hebrew)
Personal remark: nn Day
Rating: 63% based on 6 votes
Derived from a Hebrew phrase meaning "I will thank God", which is said to consist of Hebrew
ode "I will thank, praise" (compare the Hebrew name
Odelia 2) combined with Hebrew
ya,
yah "Yahweh". It is borne by Israeli-American actress Odeya Rush (1997-).
Oleksandra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ukrainian
Other Scripts: Олександра(Ukrainian)
Pronounced: aw-lehk-SAN-dru
Personal remark: nn Olesa, Lena, Lana
Rating: 66% based on 5 votes
Olenna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Rating: 57% based on 6 votes
Used in G.R.R. Martin's
A Song of Ice and Fire.
Olenna Tyrell, born Olenna Redwyne, is the mother of Mace Tyrell, lord of Highgarden, and the grand-mother of Margaery, Loras, Garlan and Willas Tyrell.
Martin most likely based her name on Olena.
Olesya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ukrainian, Russian
Other Scripts: Олеся(Ukrainian, Russian)
Rating: 65% based on 4 votes
Ukrainian
diminutive of
Oleksandra. This was the name of an 1898 novel by the Russian author Aleksandr Kuprin.
Olwen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh, Welsh Mythology, Arthurian Cycle
Pronounced: OL-wehn(English)
Rating: 59% based on 7 votes
Means
"white footprint" from Welsh
ol "footprint, track" and
gwen "white, blessed". In the Welsh tale
Culhwch and Olwen she was a beautiful maiden, the lover of
Culhwch and the daughter of the giant Yspaddaden. Her father insisted that Culhwch complete several seemingly impossible tasks before he would allow them to marry.
Olyana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Mari
Other Scripts: Оляна(Mari)
Rating: 53% based on 4 votes
Olympia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek, Slovak
Other Scripts: Ολυμπία(Greek)
Personal remark: nn Oli
Rating: 65% based on 4 votes
Oneida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: o-NIE-də
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
From the name of a Native American tribe, perhaps meaning "standing rock".
Opal
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: O-pəl
Rating: 60% based on 5 votes
From the English word
opal for the iridescent gemstone, the birthstone of October. The word ultimately derives from Sanskrit
उपल (upala) meaning "jewel".
Orinthia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Personal remark: nn Rin, Rinna
Rating: 65% based on 6 votes
Possibly related to Greek
ὀρίνω (orino) meaning
"to excite, to agitate". George Bernard Shaw used this name in his play
The Apple Cart (1929).
Ottilie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German
Pronounced: aw-TEE-lyə
Rating: 53% based on 4 votes
Pearl
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: PURL(American English) PUL(British English)
Rating: 65% based on 4 votes
From the English word pearl for the concretions formed in the shells of some mollusks, ultimately from Late Latin perla. Like other gemstone names, it has been used as a given name in the English-speaking world since the 19th century. The pearl is the traditional birthstone for June, and it supposedly imparts health and wealth.
Penelope
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, English
Other Scripts: Πηνελόπη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: PEH-NEH-LO-PEH(Classical Greek) pə-NEHL-ə-pee(English)
Personal remark: nn Nellie
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
Probably derived from Greek
πηνέλοψ (penelops), a type of duck. Alternatively it could be from
πήνη (pene) meaning "threads, weft" and
ὄψ (ops) meaning "face, eye". In
Homer's epic the
Odyssey this is the name of the wife of
Odysseus, forced to fend off suitors while her husband is away fighting at Troy.
It has occasionally been used as an English given name since the 16th century. It was moderately popular in the 1940s, but had a more notable upswing in the early 2000s. This may have been inspired by the Spanish actress Penélope Cruz (1974-), who gained prominence in English-language movies at that time. It was already rapidly rising when celebrities Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick gave it to their baby daughter in 2012.
Persephone
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Περσεφόνη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: PEHR-SEH-PO-NEH(Classical Greek) pər-SEHF-ə-nee(American English) pə-SEHF-ə-nee(British English)
Personal remark: nn Percy, Effie
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Meaning unknown, probably of Pre-Greek origin, but perhaps related to Greek
πέρθω (pertho) meaning "to destroy" and
φόνος (phonos) meaning "murder". In Greek
myth she was the daughter of
Demeter and
Zeus. She was abducted to the underworld by
Hades, but was eventually allowed to return to the surface for part of the year. The result of her comings and goings is the changing of the seasons. With her mother she was worshipped in the Eleusinian Mysteries, which were secret rites practiced at the city of Eleusis near Athens.
Petra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Dutch, Spanish, Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Croatian, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Swedish, Finnish, English
Other Scripts: Петра(Bulgarian) Πέτρα(Greek)
Pronounced: PEH-tra(German, Dutch, Spanish, Czech, Slovak) PEH-traw(Hungarian) PEHT-rah(Finnish) PEHT-rə(English)
Rating: 60% based on 4 votes
Feminine form of
Peter. This was also the name of an ancient city in the region that is now Jordan.
Phoenix
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: FEE-niks
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
From the name of a beautiful immortal bird that appears in Egyptian and Greek
mythology. After living for several centuries in the Arabian Desert, it would be consumed by fire and rise from its own ashes, with this cycle repeating every 500 years. The name of the bird was derived from Greek
φοῖνιξ (phoinix) meaning "dark red".
Pilar
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: pee-LAR
Rating: 37% based on 3 votes
Means
"pillar" in Spanish. It is taken from the title of the Virgin
Mary,
María del Pilar, meaning "Mary of the Pillar". According to legend, when
Saint James the Greater was in Saragossa in Spain, the Virgin Mary appeared on a pillar.
Piper
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: PIE-pər(American English) PIE-pə(British English)
Rating: 55% based on 4 votes
From an English surname that was originally given to a person who played on a pipe (a flute). It was popularized as a given name by a character from the television series
Charmed, which debuted in 1998
[1].
Poppy
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: PAHP-ee(American English) PAWP-ee(British English)
Rating: 35% based on 4 votes
From the word for the red flower, derived from Old English popæg.
Qiana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: African American (Modern)
Rating: 62% based on 5 votes
From the word for the silk-like material, introduced by DuPont in 1968 and popular in the fashions of the 1970s
[1].
Quetzalli
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Nahuatl
Personal remark: nn Zalli
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
Means
"feather (from the quetzal bird)" or
"precious thing" in Nahuatl
[1].
Quinn
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KWIN
Rating: 72% based on 6 votes
From an Irish surname, an Anglicized form of Irish Gaelic
Ó Cuinn, itself derived from the given name
Conn. In the United States it was more common as a name for boys until 2010, the year after the female character Quinn Fabray began appearing on the television series
Glee.
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