Oleg

Oleg (countable and uncountable, plural Olegs)

Borrowed from Russian Оле́г (Olég), a Varangian name, ultimately from Old Norse Helgi (“holy, sacred or blessed”). Cognate to modern Scandinavian Helge.

der

A male given name from the Slavic languages.


Ignatius

A saints' name from the Latin gens name Ignātius, Egnātius, of uncertain meaning, by folk etymology associated with Latin ignis (“fire”).
It might be related to Ancient Greek ἴγνης (ígnēs, “indigene”), ἴγνητος (ígnētos), from *ἔν-γνη-τες (*én-gnē-tes), formed from έν (én) + Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“to give birth, produce”), also seen in γίγνομαι (gígnomai, “to come into being”).

A male given name from Latin; of mostly Roman Catholic or Eastern Orthodox usage in English.


Dror

From Hebrew דְּרוֹר (d'rór, “Dror, freedom, sparrow”).


Maddy

A diminutive of the female given name Madeleine.

A diminutive of the unisex given name Madison.


Svetoslav

Светослав Светослав

A romanization of the Bulgarian male given name from the Slavic languages Светослав. Romanized diminutive/nickname: Svetlio.

bg:Светослав


Stefanos

Transliteration of Greek Στέφανος (Stéfanos), a male given name used in (modern) Greece. Cognate with English Stephen.

Στέφανος Στέφανος#Greek

A transliteration of the Greek male given name Στέφανος (Stéfanos).


Avinesh

A male given name from Sanskrit originating in India.


Clementine

From French Clémentine, from Clément (“Clement”) + -ine (feminine suffix), from Late Latin Clēmens (genitive Clēmentis), from clēmens (“merciful”).

Oh my darling, oh my darling, oh my darling Clementine!
Thou were lost and gone forever, dreadful sorry, Clementine.

1884, debated authorship, Oh My Darling Clementine (a ballad):

A female given name from Latin; feminine of Clement.


Ashlee

A female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Ashley.


Ames

From the clipping of Amy + -s (hypocoristic suffix).

Brittany looked up, and Amy's arrival was finally noticed. “Hey, Ames,” Brittany said, waving from the corner of the couch.

2019, Jenn Gott, Who's Afraid of Amy Sinclair?:

A diminutive of the female given name Amy


Norette

A female given name from Irish of Irish origin.


Noreen

Anglicized from Irish Nóirín (diminutive of Nóra (“Nora”)).

der

diminutive of <i class="Latn mention" lang="ga">Nóra</i> (“Nora”)


Noreen

Anglicized from Arabic نُورٍ (nūrin, “light”, in the genitive case).


Maximus

Maximus Byzantinus. Contemporary with Maximus of Ephesus: Socrates H. E. III. 1 Μάξιμος ὁ φιλόσοφος, οὐχ ὁ Βυζάντιος ὁ Εὐκλείδου πατὴρ, ἀλλ᾽ ὁ ᾿Εφέσιος. Speaking of cir. A. D. 350. These two Maximi are confounded by Suidas p. 2396 BC.

1850, Henry Fynes Clinton, Fasti Romani. The Civil and Literary Chronology of Rome and Constantinople. […], volume II (Appendix), Oxford, Oxfordshire: At the University Press, page 309:

[S]ix have references to other names, and then there are twenty-four different days of commemoration. The catalogue of Maximuses, of whom they are sixty-two recorded, is on a similar plan.

1881 July, “Article II. Smith’s Christian Antiquities.”, in The Southern Presbyterian Review, volume XXXII, Columbia, S.C.: […] Presbyterian Publishing House, page 433:

G.E. Ganss, Selected sermons of saint Maximus and saint Valerian’s homilies, FC 17, Washington 1965; F. Gallesio, Sermoni di s. Massimo di Torino, Rome 1975; Ed. and Eng. tr. B. Ramsey, The Sermons of St. Maximus of Turin, ACW 50 (1989). Studies supposing the identity of the two Maximi or referring uncritically to B. Bruni’s edition have a relative value.

1992, M. Pellegrino, translated by Adrian Walford, “MAXIMUS of Turin”, in edited by Angelo Di Berardino, Encyclopedia of the Early Church, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 549, column 1:

The company of men like the two Maximi, local landowner and provincial governor, may have deluded Julian into forming hopes which far outreached anything that could be achieved by anti-Christian legislation.

1993, Stephen Mitchell, Anatolia: Land, Men, and Gods in Asia Minor, volume II (The Rise of the Church), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, published 1995, →ISBN, page 91, column 2:

Socrates carefully distinguishes Maximus of Ephesus from Maximus of Byzantium, and identifies him, pejoratively, as the philosopher who was executed by Valentinian for magic. Given the care with which he differentiates the two Maximi, it is curious that he wrongly attributes the execution to Valentinian rather than to Valens.

2003, D. F. Buck, “Socrates Scholasticus on Julian the Apostate”, in Byzantion, volume LXXIII, Brussels, page 303:

To men he felt he could trust—Bassus, the two Maximi, Felix, Evagrius, and Ablabius, for instance—he was willing to delegate great authority over long periods of time; […]

2013, David [Stone] Potter, “An Ordered Society”, in Constantine the Emperor, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, published 2015, →ISBN, part 8 (Ruler of the World), page 274:


Hedwig

From German Hedwig, from Old High German Haduwig, Hadwig, from Proto-Germanic *Haþuwīgą (from *haþuz (“fight”) + *wīgą (“battle”)).


Batt

* As an English surname, a pet form of Bartholomew.
* Also as an English surname, possibly from Old English batt (“cudgel”); see modern bat.
* As a German surname, from a derivative of Medieval Latin beatus (“blessed”).

(Ireland) A diminutive of the male given name Bartholomew.


Daveon

A male given name transferred from the surname, of rare usage, variant of Davion.


Davion

The modern American usage is possibly transferred from the French surname Davion, based on a Provençal diminutive of David. It is not used as a given name in France.

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Hertha

From German Hertha (see that entry for more).

Hertha Ayrton

A female given name from the Germanic languages occasionally borrowed from German around 1900.


Waldemar

Borrowed from German Waldemar in the 19th century. Compare Vladimir, from Slavic, and the Scandinavian name Valdemar.

If, as a stranger in our land, you should require the aid of other judgment to guide your own, we can only say that Alicia, the daughter of our gallant knight Waldemar Fitzurse, has at our court been long held the first in beauty as in place.

(rare) A male given name from the Germanic languages.


Lancelot

en-proper noun

Lancelot (countable and uncountable, plural Lancelots)

From Middle English Launcelot, from Old French Lancelot, from Frankish *Lanzo, hypocoristic form of names beginning in *Land-, from Proto-Germanic *landą (“land”), and diminutive Old French endings -el and -ot.
Related to Old English Landbeorht (modern English Lambert).

"What's the first name?" - - -
"I have a horrible feeling that it's Lancelot!"
"Good God!" said Archie.
"It couldn't really be that, could it?"
Archie looked grave. He hated to give pain, but he felt he must be honest.
"It might," he said. "People give their children all sorts of rummy names. My second name's Tracy. And I have a pal in England who was christened Cuthbert De la Hay Horace. Fortunately everyone calls him Stinker."

1921, P.G.Wodehouse, Indiscretions of Archie, page 162:


Kamal

Transliteration of Arabic كَمَال (kamāl, “perfection”).


Kamal

Transliteration of Hindi कमल (kamal). Doublet of Kamala.


Everard

Variant of Everett, or from Old English eofor (“boar”) + heard (“hardy”).


Arnie

A diminutive of the male given name Arnold


Artie

A diminutive of the male given name Arthur, from the Celtic languages.


Raisa

Раи́са Раиса#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian female given name Раи́са (Raísa).


Etna

Possibly an anglicisation of Irish Eithne.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Etna.


Lemuel

From Hebrew לְמוּאֵל (l'mu'él), literally meaning “dedicated to God” or “devoted to God”.

THE Author of theſe Travels, Mr. Lemuel Gulliver, is my antient and intimate Friend; there is likewiſe ſome Relation between us by the Mother's Side.

1726 October 28, Richard Sympson [pseudonym], “The Publisher to the Reader”, in [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput), page iv:

A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.


Daryush

Transliteration of Persian داریوش (“Darius”).

A male given name from Persian, a rare transliteration.


Heraclitus

From Latin Hēraclītus, from Ancient Greek Ἡράκλειτος (Hērákleitos).

An Ancient Greek male given name from Ancient Greek, notably borne by Heraclitus of Ephesus, a pre-Socratic Ionian philosopher


Albertine

Borrowed from French Albertine. Variant of Albertina.

A female given name from the Germanic languages.


Valentina

en-proper noun

Valentina (countable and uncountable, plural Valentinas)

A female given name from Latin, feminine form of Valentine.


Ethelbert

From Old English Æþelbeorht, from Proto-West Germanic *Aþalberht. Compound of Old English æþele (“noble”) + beorht (“bright”). Doublet of Albert.

A male given name from Old English revived in the 19th century.


Albertina

A feminine diminutive form of Albert. Latinate variant of Albertine.


Enzo

Borrowed from Italian Enzo (equivalent to English Hank), from German Heinz, a diminutive of Heinrich (English Henry), from Old High German Heimrih, Haimirich (heim (“home”) + rihhi (“ruler”)), from Proto-Germanic *Haimarīks, from Proto-Indo-European roots.
Rare in the US and UK prior to 2003, popularized in the 2000s.


Jerrold

A male given name from the Germanic languages, a re-spelling of Gerald.


Gerry

A diminutive of the male given names Gerald and Gerard.

A diminutive of the female given name Geraldine.


Jerilyn

A female given name from the Germanic languages, a 20th century variant of Geraldine.


Yehudit

Transliteration of Hebrew יְהוּדִית (y'hudít, “Judith”). Doublet of Judith.

My mother was called Yehudit by her Russian Jewish parents when she was born in England, but the intransigent Englishman in the registry office had changed it first to Judith and then to Edith ( "good English names" ) - leaving the resultant impression that Jews were not even allowed to keep their own names.

1994, Erica Jong, Fear of Fifty, page 61:


Melodie

A female given name from English, of rather rare usage, variant of Melody.


Sylvanus

A male given name from Latin, variant of Silvanus.


Selwyn

From the Middle English form of Latin Silvanus. Also from the Old English given name Selewine, from sel (“hall”) + wine (“friend”). The places are named after bearers of the surname.

A male given name from Old English transferred back from the surname, in quiet use since the 19th century.


Silvanus

From Latin Silvanus, a Latin cognomen, from silva (“forest”). The name Silas, from the early Christian apostle, was Latinised as Silvanus by Paul.

A male given name from Latin, more often spelled Sylvanus, but never popular in either form.


Meaghan

A female given name from Welsh, a pseudo-Irish spelling of the Welsh Megan.


Becker

Becker (countable and uncountable, plural Beckers)

(countable) A male given name transferred from the surname.


Eugenie

The name agreed upon the child was Eugenie Victoria, but that afternoon Melanie unwittingly bestowed a name that clung, even as "Pittypat" had blotted out all memory of Sarah Jane. — And Bonnie she became until even her parents did not recall that she had been named for two queens.

1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC:

A female given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Eugenia via French Eugénie.


Everton

Everton (countable and uncountable, plural Evertons)

From Old English eofor (“wild boar”) + tūn (“settlement”).


Eugenia

From Ancient Greek Εὐγενία (Eugenía), feminine form of Εὐγένιος (Eugénios) ( =Eugene) "well born".

A female given name from Ancient Greek. Variant: Eugenie.


Aurelia

Borrowed from Latin Aurēlia, the feminine form of the Roman gens name Aurēlius, from aureus (“golden”).


Coralie

Borrowed from French Coralie. Coined in France in the end of the 18th century, from Latin corallium (“coral”).

Rosalind savors of quips and hose, / Araminta of wits and beaux; / Prue of old puddings, and Coralie / All of sawdust and spangled shows;

~1886 William Ernest Henley, A Ballade of Ladies' Names, Gleeson White:Ballades and Rondeaus, Read Books 1887, page 19


Corina

A female given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Corinna.


Clarisse

Borrowed from French Clarisse, from Italian Clarissa, from Medieval Latin Clarissa (“Poor Clare”); see there for more. Doublet of Clarissa and Clarice.


Deric

A male given name from the Germanic languages, a less common spelling of Derek.


Celine

From French Céline, from Latin Caelīna, derived from the Roman gens name Caelius, from caelum (“heaven”). Also a short form of Marceline, feminine diminutive of Marcel.


Celina

Variant of Celine, from French Céline, ultimately from Latin.


Clovis

Borrowed from French Clovis, from Frankish *Hlōdowig, the same Germanic source as French Louis, Dutch Lodewijk and German Ludwig, see there for further information. Doublet of Louis and Ludwig.
The New Mexican city was named after a Frankish king; the Native American site and culture were named after this city.

A male given name borne by several prominent people in Frankish/French and Germanic history.


Toni

"I'm not Toni any more. I'm Antonia." Sophy burst out laughing. "And I'm Sophia."

1979, William Golding, Darkness Visible, page 134:

A diminutive of the female given name Antonia, sometimes used as a formal given name.


Corinna

From Ancient Greek, probably from κόρη (kórē, “girl, maid, daughter”); compare kore.

1601, Thomas Campion, When to Her Lute Corinna Sings, A Book of Ayres, 2006, Jay Parini (editor), The Wadsworth Anthology of Poetry, page 614,
When to her lute Corinna sings, / Her voice revives the leaden strings,


Élise

A diminutive of the female given name Élisabeth.


Élisabeth

A female given name from French, equivalent to English Elizabeth.


Jeannine

From French Jeannine, from Jeanne + -ine, q.v. Sometimes also parsed as a diminutive of English Jean, Jeanne, &c.
Doublet of Ivanka, Jan, Janelle, Janet, Janey, Janine, Jeanette, Jeanie, Jeannette, Jen, Jenna, Jenny, Jessie, Jo, Jody, Juanita, Shanae, Sinead, and Vanna.


Francine

What I needed was an exciting name and I would give myself one. I was reading a book where the heroine's name was Adrienne. I printed that as my first name. Now what would go well with Adrienne? I peered over my shoulder at the little girl in back of me. Her name was Mary Frances Carroll. Frances...I thought. No, that's not exotic enough. Francine. Francine. That was beautiful. I printed in: FRANCINE

1962, Jane Trahey, Life with Mother Superior, page 4:


Letitia

Name of an obscure Spanish saint, Leticia, from Latin laetitia "gladness".

A female given name from Latin, popular in medieval England; rather rare today.


Laetitia

A female given name from Latin, a Latinate spelling of Letitia.


Zander

A diminutive of the male given name Alexander, from Ancient Greek, variant of Xander


Liddy

From Lydia + -y with phonetic respelling.

A pet form of the female given name Lydia.


Marla

American back-formation from Marlene, first used in the 1930s.


Roselyn

A female given name from Latin, variant of Rosaline.


Rosanna

Blend of Rose + Anna, possibly also inspired by Roxana.


Rosaline

An elaborate form of Rosalie, or a simplified form of Rosalind.

And in her train there is a gentle lady;
When tongues speak sweetly, then they name her name,
And Rosaline they call her.

c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, Act III, Scene I:


Roslyn

A variant of Rosaline inspired by the Scottish place name Roslin or Rosslyn.


Marleen

A female given name from Hebrew, a less common spelling of Marlene.


Roma

From Latin and Italian Roma (“Rome”). Doublet of Rome.

A female given name from Latin of English-speakers.


Liza

A female given name from Hebrew, diminutive of Eliza and Elizabeth.


Lissy

A diminutive of the female given name Elisabeth.


Manal

A female given name from Arabic, used in Arab countries.


Numidia

From Latin Numidia, from Numida + -ia, from an earlier interpretation of Ancient Greek Νομάς (Nomás) (genitive Νομάδος (Nomádos)). Compare Latin Nomas, whence English nomad.


Narayana

A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.


Euphrosyne

Translingual: Euphrosyne

From Ancient Greek Εὐφροσύνη (Euphrosúnē).

(rare) A female given name from Ancient Greek.


Eurydice

From Latin Eurydicē, from Ancient Greek Εὐρυδίκη (Eurudíkē).

That same week, a twenty-two-year-old comedian named Eurydice Dixon was raped and murdered as she walked home after work.

2019, Clementine Ford, Boys Will Be Boys:


Remus

A male given name from Latin, rare in English.


Aron

A male given name from Hebrew, a less common spelling of Aaron.


Adah

From Hebrew עָדָה (adá, “Adah”, literally “ornament, dawn”).


Oona

Borrowed from Irish Úna; doublet of Una.

The bright one I was now about to meet. Oona O'Neill! Her name sounds like a spring breeze - as ethereal and lovely as the girl herself.

1960, Charles Chaplin Jr., N. Rau, M. Rau, My Father, Charlie Chaplin, Random House, page 270:


Carlie

A female given name from the Germanic languages, a less common spelling of Carly.


Cosmo

Borrowed by Scotland from Italy in the 18th century. An Italian variant of Cosimo, from the name Cosmas of a saint (martyred with his brother Damian in the fourth century), from Ancient Greek κόσμος (kósmos, “order, ordered universe”).


Candi

A diminutive of the female given name Candace.


Bobbi

“We're here to check the locks,” Valdez said. “Bobbi thinks someone may have been hanging around here this morning before you came on duty.”

A diminutive of the female given name Roberta.


Vinnie

A diminutive of the male given name Vincent.

A diminutive of the female given name Lavinia.


Davie

A diminutive of the male given name David.


Lavinia

Latin Lavinia, of obscure meaning. Lavinium was a town in ancient Latium.

A female given name from Latin used since the 17th century. It was fairly popular in the 18th and 19th centuries, but rare today.


Moe

A male given name; diminutive of Moses and Maurice.


Biddie

A diminutive of the female given name Bridget


Bradly

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Biddy

"Was I absurd?" said Biddy, quietly raising her eyebrows; "I am sorry for that; I didn't mean to be. I only want you to do well, and to be comfortable."

1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC:

A diminutive of the female given name Bridget.


Aylmer

From Old English Æþelmǣr, from æþel (“noble”) + mǣre, mær (“famous”). Doublet of Elmer.

(rare) A male given name from Old English.


Flo

A diminutive of the female given names Florence or Flora.


Finnian

From Irish, variant of Fionnán; see fionn (“fair”).


Fredrick

A male given name from the Germanic languages, a less common spelling of Frederick.


Isadora

A female given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Isidora.


Gregg

A diminutive of the male given name Gregory.


Gena

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Gena.

A female given name, a rare variant of Gina or short form of Genevieve.


Junie

Junie Cobb, Junie Chatman

A pet form of the male given name Junius.

A pet form of the female given name June.


Keziah

Borrowed from Hebrew קְצִיעָה (Qəṣî‘āh).

bor

Hebrew קְצִיעָה (Qəṣî‘āh)

A female given name from Hebrew, variant of Kezia.


Kezia

From Hebrew קְצִיעָה (“cassia tree”). Compare cassia.


Bronwyn

Bronwyn Bishop, b. 1942


Shavon

A 20th-century phonetic spelling of Irish Siobhán.


Lakeisha

An African-American creation from the 1970s, possibly La- + Keisha.

A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.


Shavonne

Anglicization of Irish Siobhán as pronounced in modern Irish, under probable influence from Yvonne.


Lawrie

A diminutive of the male given name Lawrence.


Letty

He has a study on the top-floor and Aunt Letty says I must never go up there.

1955, C[live] S[taples] Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew, London: The Bodley Head, →OCLC:

A diminutive of the female given name Letitia.

A diminutive of the female given name Lettice.


Ima

(dated) A formerly common Anglo-American given name.


Amira

From Arabic أَمِيرَة (ʔamīra, “princess”).

A female given name from Arabic, female version of Amir.


Hany

Borrowed from Arabic هَانِيّ (hāniyy), meaning "one who lives in happiness and tranquillity"; "the embellisher"; or "luscious".


Lindie

A pet form of the female given names Linda and Lindsay.


Madge

Fie upon Caroline, Madge, Amelia - / These I reckon the essence of prose!

A diminutive of the female given name Margaret or, rarely, Madonna.


Lindy

Lindy herself hated the name Lindy. She said it sounded like a girl in pink gingham. At the beginning of this school year she'd started making all the teachers address her by her full name, Linnet.

2004, Anne Tyler, The Amateur Marriage, →ISBN, page 105:

A pet form of female given names, such as Linda.


Dianna

A female given name from Latin, a less common spelling of Diana.


Myles

A male given name from the Germanic languages. Alternative spelling of Miles, a less common one.


Marty

'Martin', Martin said.
'Marty', she said, smiling at him. He didn't correct her mistake. No one had ever called him Marty before. He liked the way 'Marty' seemed a more entertaining man than he knew himself to be.

2006, Kate Atkinson, One Good Turn, Black Swan, published 2007, →ISBN, page 248:

A diminutive of the male given names Martin or Marten.

A diminutive of the female given name Martha, or less often, of Martina.


Leighton

Various place names in England, Old English leac (“leek”) + tun (“settlement”), also in the sense of a herb garden.

A unisex given name transferred from the surname.


Marcos

From Romance (Spanish Marcos and Portuguese Marcos).

A male given name from Spanish or Portuguese, equivalent to English Mark.


Sarasvati

A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.


Anson

From Ann + -son (the former word is a diminutive).

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Marianna

"Marnie?" she said slowly, reading the name on the cover. "But how did you know? Marian was always called Marnie-" ( - - - )
"She was called Marianna," Gillie said, "after her great-grandmother. Marnie was so pleased about that! And of course it is a lovely name. It had a Spanish sound about it too, which pleased the father."

1967, Joan G. Robinson, When Marnie Was There, HarperCollins, published 2014, →ISBN, pages 250, 265:


Mara

From Hebrew מָרָא (mara, “bitterness”), derived from Hebrew מַר (mar, “bitter”). The modern given name may also be shortened from Maria or Tamara.

Call me not Naomi, call me Mara; for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ruth 1:20:


Noelene

A female given name from French, a 20th-century variant of Noelle.


Ryann

A female given name, a less common spelling of Ryan.


Noeleen

A female given name from French, a 20th century variant of Noelle.


Randal

A male given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Randall


Roxane

From French Roxane, from Ancient Greek Ῥωξᾱ́νη (Rhōxā́nē), from Old Persian *rauxšnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂. Doublet of Luna.

Your name is like a golden bell
Hung in my heart; and when I think of you,
I tremble, and the bell swings and rings - "Roxane!"
"Roxane!"...along my veins, "Roxane!"

1897, Edmond Rostand, translated by Brian Hooker, Cyrano de Bergerac, published 1923:


Nathanael

From Ancient Greek Ναθαναήλ (Nathanaḗl), from Biblical Hebrew נְתַנְאֵל (Netan'el, literally “God has given”).

der

A male given name from Hebrew; more common in the form Nathaniel.


Suyog

From Sanskrit (meaning "favourable juncture", "good opportunity" and "Auspicious time") from su- (best, very) and yoga (juncture).

A male given name from Sanskrit used in Nepal.


Roxana

From Ancient Greek Ῥωξᾱ́νη (Rhōxā́nē) of Old Persian or Bactrian origin. Akin to Persian روشن (rowšan).


Dhanish

A male given name from India, of Indian usage.


Roxanna

A female given name from Persian, variant of Roxana.


Rosaleen

Anglicized from Irish Róisín, a diminutive of Rose.

It had all been rather sudden, but he was sure we should all soon grow very fond of Rosaleen (such a very theatrical name, don't you think, dear? I mean definitely rather bogus.)

1948, Agatha Christie, Taken at the Flood, HarperCollins, published 2002, →ISBN, page 34:


Ananias

From Ancient Greek Ἀνανίας (Ananías), from Hebrew חֲנַנְיָה (khananyá).


CeeCee

A diminutive of the female given name Cecilia.


Tamra

A female given name from Hebrew, a rare nonstandard spelling of Tamara.


Tisha

A diminutive of the female given name Letitia.


Terrie

A female given name; a spelling variant of Terry, diminutive of Teresa.


Tyron

A male given name transferred from the place name, of rare American usage, variant of Tyrone.


Vaughan

Borrowed from Welsh Vychan, from bychan, diminutive of bach (“little”).


Teri

A spelling variant of Terry, from Teresa.

'What's your name, by the way?'
'Teri.'
'Terry?'
She spelt it for him. 'But you can call me Miss Teri.'
Rebus smiled. 'I'll assume that's an assumed name. Maybe I'll see you around, Miss Teri.'

2003, Ian Rankin, A Question of Blood, Orion, →ISBN, page 34:

A diminutive of the female given name Teresa.


Oonagh

Variant spelling of Oona, Una, Anglicized from Irish Úna.


Vergil

A male given name from Latin, of rare usage, variant of Virgil.


Alesha

A female given name from the Germanic languages.


Ericka

A female given name from the Germanic languages, a less common spelling of Erica and Erika.


Sherlock

Supposedly from an Old English scir-lock (“bright-lock”).
One of a group of surnames originally denoting hair colour, parallel to Blacklock, Harlock (Old English har (“grey”)), Silverlock.
In the computing verb sense, refers to the software Sherlock, which in 2002 came to replicate some of the features of an earlier complementary program called Watson.

A male given name transferred from the surname, of rare usage.


Aditya

A male given name from Sanskrit mainly used in India and Nepal.


Barack

Anglicized spelling, used by Luo speakers, of Barak, ostensibly as an Old Testament name. A cognate of the biblical Baruch.

"What did Marcus call you just now? Some African name, wasn't it?" "Barack." "I thought your name was Barry." "Barack's my given name. My father's name. He was Kenyan." "Does it mean something?" "It means 'Blessed'. In Arabic. My grandfather was a Muslim."

1995, 2004 Barack Obama, Dreams from my Father, Crown Publishers (2004), page 104


Barbra

A female given name from Latin, a nonstandard spelling of Barbara. Associated with Barbra Streisand, who changed the spelling of her name from Barbara.


Eveleen

A female given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Evelyn.


Jacquelyn

Faith laughed, pointing out, "All of their names rhyme—Gwendolyn, Jacquelyn, Joelyn. It's kind of weird, don't you think?'

2009, Karin Slaughter, Genesis, Century, →ISBN, page 143:

A female given name from French, one of the spelling variants of Jacqueline.


Arron

A male given name from Hebrew, a less common spelling of Aaron.


Cloe

A female given name from Ancient Greek, an alternative spelling of Chloe


Sofya

Alternative spelling of Sophia, a female given name.


Constantin

From Latin Cōnstantīnus, the name of Roman emperors, Latin cōnstāns (“constant, steadfast”). Doublet of Konstadinos.


Ramona

Ramona (disambiguation)#Places
Ramona (name)


Trina

A diminutive of the female given name Katrina, from Ancient Greek


Juana

From Spanish Juana, from Old Spanish Johanna, from Medieval Latin Johanna, variant of Joanna, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννα (Iōánna), from Hebrew יוֹחָנָה (Yôḥānāh, literally “God is gracious”), the feminized form of יְהוֹחָנָן (Yəhōḥānān) which produced John and its many doublets.
Doublet of Ivana, Jana, Jane, Janice, Janis, Jean, Jeanne, Jen, Joan, Joanna, Joanne, Johanna, Shavonne, Sian, Siobhan, Shane, Shaun, Shauna, and Sheena.


Thaddeus

"You must call me 'Thaddeus,' Hazel Jones. Better yet, 'Thad'. 'Mr. Gallagher' is for servants and other hirelings."
When Hazel made no reply, Thaddeus learned toward her suggestively: "Will you call me 'Thad'? It's very like 'Chet', - eh? Almost no one calls me 'Thad' any longer, my old friends are falling away - every season, like dying leaves."

2007, Joyce Carol Oates, The Gravedigger's Daughter, Fourth estate, →ISBN, page 503:

A male given name from Ancient Greek, of common usage, variant of Thaddaeus.


Thad

A diminutive of the male given names Thaddeus or Thaddaeus, sometimes also used as a formal given name.


Thaddaeus

en-proper noun

Thaddaeus (countable and uncountable, plural Thaddaeuses)

From Latin Thaddaeus, from Ancient Greek Θαδδαῖος (Thaddaîos).

(rare) A male given name from Ancient Greek; usually spelled Thaddeus.


Linus

From the name of the second pope, Latin Linus, Ancient Greek Λῖνος (Lînos), of uncertain meaning.

Do thy diligence to come before winter. Eubulus greeteth thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren.

Yes, my children are Peanuts characters. Charlie, seven, and Lucy, five, were given their names without thought or reference to the comic strip. Charlie was named after Bob's grandfather and we both just liked the name Lucy. Then, when I was unexpectedly expecting again, […]
"I'd go with Schroeder," a work colleague offered. "No, definitely Linus. Or Woodstock," said another. It was only then that I realized the pattern we'd started with our first two kids. And I liked the name Linus.

2011, Lisa Genova, Left Neglected, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, pages 8–9:


Nicodemus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Νῑκόδημος (Nīkódēmos), from νῑ́κη (nī́kē, “victory”) + δῆμος (dêmos, “people”).

(rare) A male given name from Ancient Greek.


Theophilus

/θiːˈɒfɪləs/

Ancient Greek Θεόφιλος (Theóphilos), meaning "love of God" or "friend of God".

'That's a good one, that is!' said Ern. 'Lovaduck, I'd like to see Uncle Theophilus when I tell him that!'

1948, Enid Blyton, The Mystery of the Hidden House:

"Call me Ted, will you, Rip? 'Theophilus' is unmanageable and 'Theo' is awkward. Everybody calls me Ted or Teddie, now."

1973, Thornton Wilder, Theophilus North, page 118:

A male given name from Ancient Greek; rare in English.


Marija

Марија Марија#Macedonian

A transliteration of the Macedonian or Serbo-Croatian female given name Марија (Marija), equivalent to Mary


Jessamine

Quoth he, 'It is not the jessamine one smells, but a slave-girl named Jessamine, whom my father would not buy for me.'

1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night:

A female given name from English, variant of Jasmine.


Judie

(uncommon) A diminutive of the female given name Judith.


Arty

A diminutive of the male given name Arthur, from the Celtic languages.

A diminutive of the female given name Artemis, from Greek language


Adnan

From Arabic عَدْنَان (ʕadnān, “settler”).


Gottfried

Jewish and German surname, from Gott (“god”) + Friede (“peace”).

Gottfried Leibniz, a mathematician


Sampson

A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.


Drusilla

Latin Drusilla, feminine diminutive form of the cognomen Drusus.

And after certain days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, which was a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 24:24:


Prisca

Latin feminine form of the cognomen Priscus, from priscus (“old”).


Damaris

Uncertain, possibly from Ancient Greek as a variation of δάμαλις (dámalis, “calf”).

Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 17:34:

A female given name from Ancient Greek of biblical origin, in occasional use.


Simson

From Sim, the short form of Simon + -son.

(rare) A male given name transferred from the surname.


Vasil

Васі́ль Васіль#Belarusian

A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Васі́ль (Vasílʹ).

Васил Васил#Bulgarian

A transliteration of the Bulgarian or Macedonian male given name Васил (Vasil).


Kore

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κόρη (kórē, “girl, maiden”).


Justus

Name of several early saints, from Latin iustus (“just”), from iūs + -tus.

And they appointed two, Joseph called Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 1:23:


Stefany

A female given name from French, of rare usage, variant of Stephanie.


Stephany

A female given name from French, a less common spelling of Stephanie.


Jewell

Medieval/Middle English form of a Breton saint's name, from Old Breton Judicaël "lord" + "generous." The second element is from hael (“generous, bountiful”) and identical to Welsh hael (“generous”) (see that entry for details).

A male given name from the Celtic languages transferred back from the surname.

A female given name from English, of rare usage, variant of Jewel.

An unincorporated community in Marin County, California.

An unincorporated community in Clatsop County, Oregon.


Flavia

Latin Flavia, feminine form of the gens name Flavius, probably from flavus (“yellow”).

A female given name from Latin, quite rare in English.


Jonty

A diminutive of the male given name Jonathan.


Stefani

en-proper noun

Stefani (countable and uncountable, plural Stefanis)


Nikolina

Николина Николина#Macedonian

A transliteration of the Macedonian female given name Николина (Nikolina)


Vesna

Borrowed from Russian Весна (Vesna), Ukrainian Весна (Vesna), Serbo-Croatian Ве̏сна, etc. Doublet of Vasant and Basant, of Sanskrit origin.

A female given name of Eastern European usage


Salomon

Jewish, German, Dutch, Danish, Polish, French, Breton, Haitian, Mauritian, and Spanish (as Salomón) surname, all a variant of Solomon.


Marin

The county was either named after Chief Marin, of the Coast Miwok tribe, or derived from the Spanish name of its eastern bay known as Bahía de Nuestra Señora del Rosario la Marinera in 1775.

‘But youʼre going down to Ventura and Marin to find out for sure?’

1998, Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents, HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP (2019), page 278:

The place name of a county of 252,409 in northern California (see Marin County).


Marin

From Serbo-Croatian Marin, from Latin Marinus, from marinus.


Darin

A male given name transferred from the surname, variant of Darren.


Darrin

They called me the "magic" kid, and my mother named me Darrin, after the husband of the witch on the sixties TV sitcom Bewitched.

2006, Darrin Owens, Reader of Hearts, New World Library, →ISBN, page 14:


Georgiana

The shape of the letters on my father’s, gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair. From the character and turn of the inscription, “Also Georgiana Wife of the Above,” I drew a childish conclusion that my mother was freckled and sickly.

1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter I, in Great Expectations […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC:

A female given name from Ancient Greek derived from George.


Freeman

Freeman (countable and uncountable, plural Freemans)

* Proprialisation of freeman. From originating as a freeman (instead of a serf, indentured, or some other status)
* free + man. A surname taken up by freed slaves.


Shaye

(rare) A female given name transferred from the surname or from Irish, variant of Shay.


Shea

A unisex given name transferred from the surname.


Shanae

Anglicization of Irish Sinéad q.v. based on its modern Irish pronunciation.
Doublet of Ivanka, Jan, Janelle, Janet, Janey, Janine, Jeanette, Jeanie, Jeannette, Jeannine, Jen, Jenna, Jenny, Jessie, Jo, Jody, Juanita, Sinead, and Vanna.


Darien

A male given name originating as a coinage, variant of Darian.

(rare) A female given name originating as a coinage, variant of Darian.

A city, the county seat of McIntosh County, Georgia, United States.


Romola

From Italian Romola, feminine form of Romolo, from Latin Romulus.

Price. Wot does Rummy stand for? Pet name praps?
Rummy. Romola. It was out of a new book. Somebody me mother wanted to grow up like.
Price. We're companions in misfortune, Rummy. Both of us got names that nobody cawnt pronounce. Consequently I'm Snobby and you're Rummy because Bill and Sally wasn't good enough for our parents.

1906, George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara: Act I:

(rare) A female given name from Italian.


Elvira

en-proper noun

Elvira (countable and uncountable, plural Elviras)

A medieval Spanish royal name, of probably Gothic origin, and debated meaning. It became famous outside Spain after its appearance in Mozart's Don Giovanni (1787).

A female given name from Spanish, in quiet use since the 19th century.


Andrei

Андре́й Андрей#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian male given name Андре́й (Andréj), equivalent to Andrew.


Douglass

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Josias

And Josias begat Jechonias and his brethren, about the time they were carried away to Babylon:

A male given name from Hebrew, the New Testament Greek form of Josiah.


Alessia

A female given name from Italian, equivalent to English Alexis.


Sumy

A diminutive of the female given name Sumaya


Jedidiah

/ˌd͡ʒɛdɪˈdaɪə/

Borrowed from Hebrew יְדִידְיָה (“beloved of Yahweh”).


Evette

A female given name from the Germanic languages, a spelling variant of Yvette, confused with Eve.


Jaydon

A male given name originating as a coinage, of modern usage, variant of Jadon or Jayden.


Wendell

Short form of Germanic compound names beginning with the tribal name Wendel-, "a Wend".

A male given name from the Germanic languages transferred back from the surname.


Charmian

Diminutive form of Ancient Greek χάρμα (khárma, “joy”). According to Plutarch, the name of a servant and advisor of Cleopatra.

Help me away, dear Charmian, I shall fall:

c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:

Charmian Lyle had given herself her first name at the age of sixteen, upon encountering it in an English novel. Her baptismal name was Ethel. When her husband Walter was extremely angry with her, he called her Ethel. Charmian, she thought, suited her much better. She didn't think she looked, felt, or sounded like Ethel. Nor like her middle name, which she really detested, Edna.

1979, Mary McMullen, But Nellie Was So Nice, Doubleday, page 23:


Crispus

Latin Crispus, a Roman gens name from crispus (“curly”).

And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized.

A male given name from Latin of mostly historical use.


Mateo

From Spanish Mateo, from Latin Matthaeus, from Ancient Greek Ματθαῖος (Matthaîos), from Hebrew מַתִּתְיָהוּ (mattiṯyāhū). Doublet of Matthew.

der

מַתִּתְיָהוּ

Hebrew מַתִּתְיָהוּ (mattiṯyāhū)


Rajkumari

Borrowed from Hindi राजकुमारी (rājkumārī).


Syntyche

From Ancient Greek Συντύχη (Suntúkhē, “fortunate”), from συν- (sun-, “with”) + τύχη (túkhē, “fate”).

prefix

I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Philippians 4:2:

(very rare, outside the Bible) A female given name from Ancient Greek.


Rosanne

Blend of Rose + Anne, possibly also inspired by Roxanne.


Zelma

A female given name from Arabic, variant of Selma.


Isiah

A male given name from Hebrew, variant of Isaiah.


Roseanne

A female given name from Latin, variant of Rosanne.


Lora

A female given name from Latin, an alternative spelling of Laura.


Leonora

From the Italian short form of Eleonora, cognate to Eleanor.


Marcellus

Borrowed from Latin Marcellus. Doublet of Marcel.


Hieronymus

en-proper noun

Hieronymus (countable and uncountable, plural Hieronymuses)

From Latin Hierōnymus, from Ancient Greek Ἱερώνυμος (Hierṓnumos, “holy name”). Doublet of Jerome.

der

A male given name from Ancient Greek of historical use.


Dunstan

From the name of a 10th century Archbishop of Canterbury, from Old English dunn (“dark”) + stān (“stone”).

"Let me do one thing more for you," she said. "Let me rename you. How on earth did you ever get yourself called Dunstable?"
"My mother's maiden name," said I. "Lots of people in Canada get landed with their mother's maiden name as a Christian name. But what's wrong with it?"
"It's hard to say, for one thing," said she, "and it sounds like a cart rumbling over cobblestones. You'll never get anywhere in the world named Dumbledum Ramsay. Why don't you change it to Dunstan? St. Dunstan was a marvellous person and very much like you - mad about learning, terribly stiff and stern and scowly, and an absolute wizard at withstanding temptation.

1970, Robertson Davies, Fifth Business, →ISBN, pages 96–97:


Sibylla

If I live to be as old as Sibylla, I will die as chaste as Diana

c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

A female given name from Ancient Greek of historical use; the Latin form of Sibyl.


Vasthy

A female given name from Persian, variant of Vashti.


Kilian

A male given name from Irish, variant of Killian


Mohamed

A male given name from Arabic: alternative spelling of Muhammad


Surya

From Sanskrit सूर्य (sū́rya, “the sun or its deity”). Doublet of sun.

bor

A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.


Lambda

Lambda, on the other hand, was practically giddy when she finished crawling through the lander.

2022, James Breakwell, The Chosen Twelve:


Amabel

Medieval English name apparently based on Latin amabilis (“lovable”).

All the same, they didn't hold it against her, and if, as sometimes happened behind closed doors, they referred to her origin, they called her shamefacedly but rather proudly, their love-child. Hence the name, Amabel, which seemed to unite love with beauty.

1970, L.P.Hartley, My Sister's Keeper, page 4:


Grizel

A female given name from the Germanic languages; a medieval variant of Griselda, rare today.


Grissel

For patience she will prove a second Grissel.

c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:


Jimi

LEGAL COACH: Jimi Hendrix, Mr. President - the first name is spelled Jimi, not Jimmy, as you've written it here.
TRICKY: Well, let's correct it, then, because that is just the sort of error, inadvertently made, that tends to be totally misconstrued by the press. Now I never claimed to know how to spell the names of every colored person in this country, but I will tell you this much: where someone's name is concerned, colored or not, he has the constitutional right to have it spelled correctly

1971, Philip Roth, Our Gang (starring Tricky and his Friends), →ISBN, page 79:

A rare spelling variant of Jimmy, diminutive of the male given name James.


Mentor

en-proper noun

Mentor (countable and uncountable, plural Mentors)

From Ancient Greek Μέντωρ (Méntōr, “Mentor”).

(countable) A male given name from Ancient Greek


Paymon

From Classical Persian پیمان (paymān, literally “pact, promise, commitment”), possibly transmitted via Tajik Паймон (Paymon) based on transliteration.

bor

پیمان پیمان#Persian

A transliteration of the Persian male given name پیمان (peymân).


Vincenzo

A male given name from Italian, equivalent to English Vincent.


Dario

Borrowed from Italian Dario and Spanish Darío.


Aurelian

From Latin Aurelianus, derivative of the gens name Aurelius (“golden”).

A male given name from Latin, of mostly historical use in English.


Aurelius

Would the name Marcus Aurelius have meant anything to him? In all probability, he would have thought it a fancy name for a black slave.

1992, Anne Rice, The Tale of the Body Thief, Arrow Books, →ISBN, page 169:

A male given name from Latin; of mostly historical use in the Anglo-Saxon world.


Persis

Ancient Greek Περσίς (Persís, “a Persian woman”).

uder

A female given name from Ancient Greek, in occasional use since the 16th century.


Tiziano

A male given name from Italian, equivalent to English Titian.


Syeda

Borrowed from Arabic سَيِّدَة (sayyida).
* (female given name): From Urdu سیدہ, from Arabic سَيِّدَة (sayyida)

A female given name from Urdu; feminine of Syed


Olly

A diminutive of the female given name Olivia.

A diminutive of the male given name Oliver.


Linette

In modern use a spelling variant of Lynette, though it is also identical with a rare French name, diminutive of Line, from Caroline, Pauline and other female names ending in -line.

When Damian addressed the wild flower, perhaps you are not aware that Linné is the name of a beautiful weed, originally selected by a great botanist to bear his appellation, and that it is also the endearing abbreviation for Linette. - - - The roses still continued to bloom on the grave, whose headstone recorded the name of "Linette".

1850 Linne, the Woodland Flower, from Gazette of the Union, The Golden Rule, Vol. 12, J. D. Stewart & W. B. Smith, page 270


Osmond

Old Norse Ásmundr, from áss (“a god”) + mund (“protection, hand”). Later merged with a Norman French Osmont, from the same Old Norse root.

A male given name from the Germanic languages, rare in English.


Osmund

A male given name from the Germanic languages, of rare usage, variant of Osmond.


Harun

From Arabic هَارُون (hārūn). Doublet of Aaron.

An Arabic male given name from Arabic, equivalent to English Aaron


Osman

From Ottoman Turkish and Persian عثمان (ʿOsman), from Arabic عُثْمَان (ʕUṯmān). Widely used as an anglicization of cognate names across the Islamic world, including Somali Cismaan.

der

Arabic عُثْمَان (ʕUṯmān)


Humbert

From Old English Hunbeorht, from Proto-Germanic *hūnaz (“offspring, (bear) cub”) + *berhtaz (“bright”). Name of a Flemish saint, and of Italian royalty.

inh

"Humbert Humbert", their author, had died in legal captivity, - - -
And I have toyed with many pseudonyms for myself before I hit a particularly apt one. There are in my notes "Otto Otto" and "Mesmer Mesmer" and "Lambert Lambert", but for some reason I think my choice expresses the nastiness best.

1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, Foreword; - - - Chapter 36:


Pankaj

Borrowed from Sanskrit पङ्कज (paṅkaja, “lotus”, literally “mud-born”), from पङ्क (paṅka, “mud”) + ज (ja, “born”).

bor+

A male given name from Sanskrit common in India.


Anselm

From Proto-Germanic *ansuz (“god”) + Old High German helm (“helmet”). Name of an Archbishop of Canterbury.

A male given name from the Germanic languages; quite rare in English.


Dmitry

From Russian Дми́трий (Dmítrij), from Byzantine Greek Δημήτριος (Dēmḗtrios), from Δημήτηρ (Dēmḗtēr, “Demeter”). Doublet of Demetrius and Dimitris.

Дми́трий Дмитрий#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian male given name Дми́трий (Dmítrij).


Wenonah

In the moonlight and the starlight,
Fair Nokomis bore a daughter.
And she called her name Wenonah,
As the first-born of her daughters.

1855, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha:

A female given name, a less common spelling of Winona.


Winona

From Dakota winúŋna (“firstborn daughter”). While not originally used as a personal name by the Dakota, it has been adopted as such by English speakers.
John Koontz suggested that the name was a compound of wi- (“female”) + no (“first”) + -na (a diminutive suffix) and thus a reflex of Proto-Siouan *rǫ/*nǫ (“one”). That root is otherwise unattested in the Sioux languages, which use reflexes of *wį(y)ą (“one”) instead, and a more prosaic analysis identifies the first elements of the name with winyan (“woman”).

I've met the full Clairol spectrum of Winonas, and I have come to recognize them the way you might watch for pretty little coral snakes in Florida. Isn't that sweet? you think—until it bites you and you die. Just like those pretty little snakes, Winona talks in a sort of a soft and wispy hiss and tells you how confused she is […]

2001, Julia Cameron, God Is No Laughing Matter:

A female given name from Dakota, used mainly in the United States.


Allegra

Borrowed from Italian allegra (“cheerful”), inspired by the musical term allegro.

From my study I see in the lamplight,
Descending the broad hall stair,
Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra,
And Edith with golden hair.

1860, Henry Wadswoth Longfellow, The Children's Hour:


Jahan

جهان جهان#Persian

A transliteration of the Persian unisex given name جهان (jahân).


Carrol

A male given name transferred from the surname.

A female given name from the Germanic languages, of less common usage, variant of Carol.


Debora

A female given name from Hebrew, a less common spelling of Deborah.


Leander

From Ancient Greek Λέανδρος (Léandros), from λέων (léōn, “lion”) + ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man”).

A male given name from Ancient Greek, also of a Spanish sixth century saint.


Fabius

Latin Fabius, name of a Patrician Roman gens, from faba (“bean”).

A male given name from Latin, of historical use in English.


Irvine

en-prop

Irvine (countable and uncountable, plural Irvines)

Probably from Celtic words cognate with Welsh ir, yr (“green, fresh”) + afon (“water”).


Cathleen

A female given name from Irish, a less common spelling of Kathleen.


Fareed

فَرِيد فريد#Arabic

A transliteration of the Arabic male given name فَرِيد (farīd).


Ehsan

From Persian احسان (ehsân, literally “favor, kindness, beneficence”), from Arabic إِحْسَان (ʔiḥsān).

der

Arabic إِحْسَان (ʔiḥsān)

احسان احسان#Persian

A transliteration of the Persian male given name احسان (ehsân).


Octavia

From Latin Octāvia, feminine form of the gens name Octāvius, from octavus (“the eighth”).

If beauty, wisdom, modesty can settle
The heart of Antony, Octavia is
A blessed lottery to him.

A female given name from Latin, in quiet use since the Middle Ages.


Octavius

From Latin Octāvius, name of a Roman gens.

A male given name from Latin, in occasional use.


Mei

From Mandarin 美 (měi, “beautiful”), a common Chinese given name among women.


Cathie

A spelling variant of Cathy, diminutive of the female given name Catherine.


Cathi

A 20th century spelling variant of Cathy, diminutive of the female given name Catherine.


Catheryn

A female given name from Ancient Greek, a rare nonstandard spelling variant of Catherine.


Cathryn

A female given name from Ancient Greek, of rare usage, variant of Catherine.


Amey

Variant spelling of Amy, from Old French or Latin.

By their dresses, their names, and the airs of quality they give themselves, I am rendered ridiculous among all my acquaintance. My wife, who is a very plain good woman, and whose name is Amey, has been new-christened, and is called Amelia; and my little daughter, a child of a year old, is no longer Polly, but Maria.

1776 Adam Fitz-Adam: The World of Adam Fitz-Adam. Edinburgh, Apollo Press 1776: Numb. 187. Thursday, July 29, 1756

A female given name from Latin, an old spelling variant of Amy, no longer current.


Amory

Medieval personal name from Proto-Germanic *amal- (“vigor, bravery”) + *rīks (“ruler”). For the first element, compare *ammōną (“to bother, irritate”).

Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while.

1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, chapter I, in This Side of Paradise:

A male given name from the Germanic languages, today often transferred back from the surname.


Kathie

A spelling variant of the female name Kathy.


Kathi

A 20th-century variant of Kathy, diminutive of the female given name Katherine and related names.


Peregrine

Saint's name from Latin Peregrinus, from peregrinus (“foreigner”).

Pringle didn't say anything about Roger always being called Hodge. He sensed that Mr. Liddon wouldn't call him Hodge any more than he would call him Pringle. He was right. / "Parents well, are they, Peregrine?" - - - / Hodge capered about, his thumbs in his ears and his hand flapping. "Tweet, tweet, mad bird. His master chains him up like a dog. Tweet, tweet, birdie!" / "I'd rather be a hunting falcon than Roger the lodger the sod," said Pringle.

1985, Ruth Rendell, The New Girlfriend: The Fen Hall, pages 124, 127:

(rather rare) A male given name from Latin; and of mostly British usage.


Emory

A male given name from the Germanic languages, in modern use transferred back from the surname.


Emery

From medieval Germanic personal names, either a variant of Amory, from Amalric, Proto-Germanic *amal (“vigor, bravery”) (compare *ammōną) + Old High German rīhhi (“ruler”), or of Henry, from Old High German Heimrich, from heim (“home”) + rīhhi (“ruler”).

A surname transferred from the given name.

A female given name transferred from the surname, of 2000s usage, also associated with the mineral emery.


Trish

"Trix" was a derivation of Trish, our mother's girlhood name, or cognomen, as she called it; Trish was itself a derivation of Patricia. Trix disliked her original name because she thought it prissy and old-fashioned, but she didn't much like "Trix" either.

1991, Joyce Carol Oates, Heat And Other Stories, Dutton, →ISBN:

A diminutive of the female given name Patricia.


Kirstie

A diminutive of the female given name Kristine, variant of Kirsty, a 20th-century variant of Kirsty, a form of Christina.


Kammryn

(rare) A female given name transferred from the surname, of uncommon usage, variant of Kamryn.


Joelle

A female given name from French Joëlle [in turn from Hebrew], masculine equivalent Joel.


Ogden

Places in England, from Old English āc (“oak”) + denu (“valley”).

Even from an aesthetic point of view the sight of the bulging child offended him. Ogden Ford was round and blobby and looked overfed.

1917, P.G.Wodehouse, chapter 1, in Piccadilly Jim:

A male given name transferred from the surname, of occasional usage.


Geffrey

That Geffrey was thy elder brother born,
And this his son; England was Geffrey's right,
And this is Geffrey's.

c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

A male given name from the Germanic languages, a medieval spelling of Geoffrey, rarely used today.


Guendolen

"I am quite aware," she added, "that we shall be in a certain sense gambling with a conscipious, individualizing name, for she may grow up commonplace-looking or a fright; but we must take some chances in life, mustn't we, Fred?"
"Either Rosamond, Eleanor, or Guendolen is appropriate for a beauty," said I, with non-committal subserviency,

1892, Robert Grant, The Reflections of a Married Man, Scribner, page 101:

A female given name from Welsh, variant of Gwendolen.


Montezuma

From Classical Nahuatl Motēuczōma (literally “he frowns like a lord”).

A Nahuatl male given name, the name of two Aztec emperors.


Lorie

A less common spelling of Laurie, diminutive of the female given name Laura.


Clarice

Borrowed from French Clarisse, from Italian Clarissa, from Medieval Latin Clarissa (“Poor Clare”); see there for more. Doublet of Clarissa and Clarisse.


Krissy

A diminutive of the female given names Kristine/Christine or Kristina/Christina.


Bryon

A male given name from Irish, a nonstandard spelling of Brian.


Georgianna

Alberta is more like a man's name than any other name that comes from a men's, more than Georgianna which is just like a magnolia blossom or Henrietta which most people change to Etta or Geraldine which nobody ever thinks of coming from a man's Irish name like Gerald.

1936, George Weller, Clutch and Differential, Ayer, published 1970, →ISBN, page 196:

A female given name from Ancient Greek, a spelling variant of Georgiana, confused with George + Anna.


Bryant

en-prop

Bryant (countable and uncountable, plural Bryants)

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Jugg

(obsolete) A female given name, nickname for Joan.


Miki

A unisex given name
diminutive of Michael
Alternative form of Mickey


Miki

Borrowed from Japanese 三木 (Miki), 三鬼 (Miki) or みき (Miki).


Ararat

From Latin Ararat, from Ancient Greek Ἀραράτ (Ararát), from Biblical Hebrew אֲרָרָט (ʾărārāṭ), in Genesis 8:4. Corresponds to Akkadian 𒆳𒌵 (Urarṭu, “Urartu”), the name of a land which in Classical Antiquity became known as 𐎠𐎼𐎷𐎡𐎴 (a-r-mi-i-n /Armina/) (in Behistun inscription, 6th century BC), Ἀρμενία (Armenía) (in Hecataeus of Miletus, ca. 476 BC).
The place names in modern Armenia and the given name are from Armenian Արարատ (Ararat).

Արարատ Արարատ#Armenian

A transliteration of the Armenian male given name Արարատ (Ararat).


Jerald

A male given name from the Germanic languages, a nonstandard spelling of Gerald.


Beki

A modern spelling variant of Becky, which is in itself, a shortened form of Rebecca, a female given name.


Jimmer

/ˈd͡ʒɪmə(ɹ)/

You see, Da Jimmer has been to outer space and he’s different. Very different.

(North Wisconsin, Yooper) Alternative form of James, usually a diminutive, but also occasionally a given name.


Earle

(chiefly US) A male given name transferred from the surname.

(chiefly US) A male given name, variant of Earl.


Earlene

Outside of that, and having a name like Earlene, what’s her problem?

1991, Elmore Leonard, Maximum Bob, Dell, published 1992, →ISBN, page 232:

(US) A female given name from English derived from Earl.


Mabelle

Mabelle his wife - what an affected way of spelling Mabel. The next moment it seemed pretty and aristocratic, such was the Trimingham spell.

1953, L. P. Hartley, The Go-Between, Hamish Hamilton, published 1974, page 168:

A female given name from Latin, variant of Mabel.


Kelley

A unisex given name transferred from the surname.


Earline

He reached into the wallet he kept chained to his bell loop and pulled out two hundred 1-dollar bills. He said, "My given name's Earl. Earl for a boy, Earline for a girl." I don't know why I said okay, but I did.

2001, George Singleton, These People Are Us: Short Stories, River CityPress, →ISBN, page 27:


Juley

Seated in a row close to one another were three ladies — Aunts Ann, Hester (the two Forsyte maids), and Juley (short for Julia), who not in first youth had so far forgotten herself as to marry Septimus Small, a man of poor constitution.

1906 John Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga: The Man of Property: Chapter 1

A diminutive of the female given name Julia.


Valerius

"Here you are!" said George, pointing with his cigar. "Cato - Publius Valerius by Virgil out of Lydia. That's what you want. Publius Valerius is Christian enough."
Dartie, on arriving home, had informed Winifred. She had been charmed. It was so 'chic'. And Publius Valerius became the baby's name, though it afterwards transpired that they had got hold of the inferior Cato. In 1890, however, when little Publius was nearly ten, the word 'chic' went out of fashion, and sobriety came in; Winifred began to have doubts. They were confirmed by little Publius himself, who returned from his first term at school complaining that life was a burden to him - they called him Pubby. Winifred - a woman of real decision - promptly changed his school and his name to Val, the Publius being dropped even as an initial.

1920 John Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga: In Chancery:I: Chapter 2

A male given name from Latin of mostly historical use in English.


Murad

From Ottoman Turkish مراد (murad), from Arabic مُرَاد (murād).

A male given name, of Turkish origin, borne by various Ottoman dignitaries


Melony

A female given name from Ancient Greek, a less common spelling of Melanie.


Benjie

A diminutive of the male given name Benjamin.


Rickie

A diminutive of the male given name Richard.


Fulton

From Foulden, a village in Norfolk, from Old English fuġol (“bird”) + tūn (“dwelling”).


Jeannie

A diminutive of the female given name Jean


Caty

A less common spelling of Katie, diminutive of the female given name Catherine and related names.


Louie

A diminutive of the male given name Louis.

A diminutive of the female given names Louise or Louisa.


Bennie

A diminutive of the female given names Bernice or Bernadette.


Lauretta

An Italian pet form of Laura; first introduced into English as the name of one of the narrators in the Decameron.

Lauretta, ay, you would have her called so; but for my part I never knew any good come of giving girls these heathen Christian names; if you had called her Deborah, or Tabitha, or Ruth, or Rebecca, or Joan, nothing of this had ever happened; but I always knew Lauretta was a runaway name.

1775, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, St. Patrick's Day, Kessinger Publishing, published 2004, →ISBN, page 58:


Vikki

20th-century fanciful respelling of Vicky.

A diminutive of the female given name Victoria, variant of Vicky, also used as a formal given name.


Marky

A diminutive of the male given name Mark.


Elmo

From an Italian contraction of Erasmo, cognate with Erasmus. Also a German short form of Elmar.
* By folk etymology seen as a short form of Elmer.

MING. About his name. Oscar. Asians always pick out the most curious and most discarded English names from books and TV. Like Cornelius. Elmo. Wellington.

1996 Chay Yew, A Language of Their Own, Two Plays, Grove/Atlantic Inc.


Cohen

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Kirby

en-proper noun

Kirby (countable and uncountable, plural Kirbys)

Originally Kirkby, from kirk (“church”) + -by (“habitation”), "village with a church".

(countable) A unisex given name transferred from the surname.


Prue

Rosalind savors of quips and hose, / Araminta of wits and beaux; / Prue of old puddings, and Coralie / All of sawdust and spangled shows;

~1886 William Ernest Henley, A Ballade of Ladies' Names, Gleeson White:Ballades and Rondeaus, Read Books 1887, page 19


Baha

From Arabic بَهَاء (bahāʔ, “splendor, glory”).


Smriti

A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.


Edythe

A female given name from Old English, variant of Edith.


Meyer

en-proper noun

Meyer (countable and uncountable, plural Meyers)

* As a German and Alemannic German surname, from the noun Meier (“leaseholder of a manor”). Compare Maier, Mayer, Meier, Myer.
* As a Jewish surname, from Yiddish מאיר (mir). Compare Majer, Major, Mayor, Meir.
* As a Dutch/West Flemish surname, variant of Meijer.

(countable) A male given name from Hebrew, of Jewish usage, an alternative form of Meir.


Vahagn

Borrowed from Armenian Վահագն (Vahagn). Doublet of Verethragna.

Վահագն Վահագն#Armenian

A transliteration of the Armenian male given name Վահագն (Vahagn).


Thais

From Ancient Greek Θαΐς (Thaḯs), became known as the name of the mistress of Alexander the Great.


Zooey

A female given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Zoë.


Zolten

A male given name derivative of the common Hungarian name Zoltán.


Zsuzsanna

A female given name from Hungarian, equivalent to English Susanna.


Burhan

From Arabic بُرْهَان (burhān, “proof”), an epithet of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.


Kenzie

A female given name, short form of MacKenzie

A male given name, short form of MacKenzie


Jehoshaphat

/d͡ʒəˈhoʊ.ʃəˌfæt/

/d͡ʒəˈhɒʃ.ə.fæt/

/d͡ʒɪˈhɒʃ.ə.fæt/

From Hebrew יְהוֹשָׁפָט, from יהוה (“Yahweh”) + שָׁפַט (shafát, “to judge”), meaning "Yahweh has judged".

der

Hebrew יְהוֹשָׁפָט

compound

(biblical) A male given name from Hebrew


Bennet

From Benedict. See French Benoît, Norman Beneît. Doublet of Benoit and Benito.

A male given name from Latin, in modern use often transferred back from the surname.


Malia

Borrowed from Hawaiian Malia (“Mary”) and in some cases from Mālia (“calm”).


Croesus

Audio (US)

From Latin Croesus, from Ancient Greek Κροῖσος (Kroîsos), from Lydian.

(historical) A male given name from Ancient Greek.


Abednego

/əˈbɛd.nɪˌɡoʊ/

From Hebrew עֲבֵד נְגוֹא, itself derived from a reconstructed Aramaic name meaning likely "servant of Nabu" or "servant of Nergal".

bor

עֲבֵד נְגוֹא

Hebrew עֲבֵד נְגוֹא


Braiden

A male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.


Remington

The surname is from Rimington, from Old English rima (“edge, border”) + -ing + -tun (literally “settlement by the boundary stream”).


Elissa

From Ancient Greek Ἔλῐσσᾰ (Élissa); probably from Phoenician 𐤀𐤋𐤀𐤎𐤕 (ʾlʾst /Elishat/), 𐤀𐤋𐤀𐤎 (ʾlʾs /Elisha/).


Shadrach

From Biblical Hebrew שדרך (šdrk /šadrak/), from Iranian, ultimately from Proto-Iranian *čiθráh with the hypocoristic suffix *-akah.

A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.


Meshach

From Biblical Hebrew מישך (myšk /mēšak/), from Iranian, ultimately from Proto-Iranian *mayšáh (“sheep, ram”) with the hypocoristic suffix *-akah.


Vashti

Hebrew וַשְׁתִּי (vaštī)

A female given name from Persian of biblical origin.


Prajesh

A Hindi name that can be translated as "leader of men". It is also a name for Brahma, the Creator God.

A male given name from India, popular for boys in Nepal and India.


Leilani

Sweet Leilani, Heavenly Flower
I dreamed of a paradise for two.

1934, Harry Owens, Sweet Leilani (a song):


Kirill

From Russian Кири́лл (Kiríll), from Ancient Greek Κύριλλος (Kúrillos). Doublet of Cyril.

Кири́лл Кирилл#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian male given name Кири́лл (Kiríll).


Anatoli

Transliteration of Russian Анато́лий (Anatólij), from Ancient Greek ἀνατολή (anatolḗ, “sunrise”). Cognate with English Anatole and Latin Anatolius.

der

Анато́лий Анатолий#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian male given name Анато́лий (Anatólij).


Nadezhda

Transliteration of Russian Наде́жда (Nadéžda), from наде́жда (nadéžda, “hope”).

transliteration

Наде́жда Надежда#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian female given name Наде́жда (Nadéžda).


Yelena

From Russian Еле́на (Jeléna), from Latin Helena, from Ancient Greek Ἑλένη (Helénē). Doublet of Helena.

Еле́на Елена#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian female given name Еле́на (Jeléna), equivalent to Helen.


Coleen

Her name is spelled Coleen making her "Co" with a hard O and not Colleen by any stretch - I'm suspicious on her authority on the subject.

2007, Laurie Lindeen, Petal Pusher, Atria Books, →ISBN, page 137:

A female given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Coline, from Nicoline.


Anatole

From French Anatole, from Ancient Greek ἀνατολή (anatolḗ, “sunrise”). Cognate with Latin Anatolius.

(rare) A male given name from Ancient Greek.


Phemie

I was named Euphemia, after my mother's mother. A terrible name, such as nobody has nowadays. At home they called me Phemie, but when I started to work, I called myself Fame. My husband, Dan Casey, called me Fame. Then in a bar of the Shamrock Hotel, years later, after my divorce, when I was going out, a man said to me, "Fame, I've been meaning to ask you, just what is it that you are famous for?"

1985, Alice Munro, The Progress of Love, Chatto&Windus, published 1987, →ISBN, page 7:

A diminutive of the female given name Euphemia.


Anatolius

From Latin Anatolius, from Ancient Greek ἀνατολή (anatolḗ, “sunrise”). Name of early saints in the Eastern Orthodox Church.

A male given name from Ancient Greek, of only historical usage (though its cognates are common given names in Eastern Europe).


Euphemia

Name of an early Christian martyr, from Ancient Greek Εὐφημία (Euphēmía), from εὐ- (eu-, “good”) + φήμη (phḗmē, “repute”) + -ίᾱ (-íā).

affix

"Euphemia is Grandmama's name, my dear." The children looked grave. Euphemia sounded very strange and old-fashioned to them. "Or Effie," added Mr. Barclay, "if you like that better."
Effie, the prettiest of diminutives, gained all suffrages.

1835, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Home, James Munroe and Company, published 1850, page 52:

"Euphemia," said Kipps at last, unable altogether to keep to himself this suspicion of a high origin that floated so delightfully about him, "Eu-phemia; it isn't a name common people would give to a girl, is it?" - - -
"It's givin' girls names like that," said Buggins, "that nine times out of ten makes 'em go wrong. It unsettles 'em. If ever I was to have a dozen girls, I'd call 'em all Jane.

1905, H. G. Wells, Kipps, Kessinger Publishing, published 2005, →ISBN, page 136:


Electra

From Ancient Greek Ἠλέκτρα (Ēléktra), from ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron, “amber”), related to ἠλέκτωρ (ēléktōr, “shining sun”).

(rare) A female given name from Ancient Greek.


Satvinder

A unisex given name from India, of Punjab usage.


Jocasta

Jocasta had my blessing when she seduced you, you stuck-up piffler.

2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:


Euclid

From Ancient Greek Εὐκλείδης (Eukleídēs).

A male given name from Ancient Greek of mostly historical use.


Darla

A female given name from English, a back-formation from Darlene.


Sharlene

The name Sharlene sounds like a chemical, she thought. Aunt Gwen has no taste.

1968, Myron S. Kaufmann, Thy Daughter's Nakedness, Lippincott, published 1968, page 39:

A female given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Charlene.


Cassian

From Latin Cassianus, derivative of Cassius. Name of early saints.

A male given name from Latin of mostly historical use.


Jarvis

A surname derived from a Middle English form of Gervase.

A male given name from the Germanic languages transferred back from the surname.


Cass

* As an English surname, from a pet form of Cassandra.
* As an Irish surname, from Ó Cais (“descendant of the curly-haired one”), from cas (“curly”).

Most of the time, Anne Marie and Kathleen got along as well as any sisters six years apart would: Kathleen called Anne Annie, and Anne Marie called Kathleen Cass or Kate.

1999, Ann Rule, And Never let Her Go, Warner Books, published 2000, →ISBN, page 30:

A diminutive of the female given name Cassandra of medieval origin, later also used for Cassidy, and Catherine with its variant forms.

A male given name transferred from the surname.

A diminutive of the male given name Cassius.


Gervase

Name of an early saint, Latin Gervasius, of unknown meaning, possibly Latinized from some Germanic name: Proto-Germanic *gaizaz (“spear”), second element of uncertain meaning, possibly vallis (“valley”), Proto-Celtic *wastos (“servant”), or the Brythonic name for the river Isara.

A male given name from the Germanic languages, common in the Middle Ages but rare today.


Seljuk

Book of Dede Korkut
Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk
Mahmud al-Kashgari
Seljuk (warlord)

From Ottoman Turkish سلجوق (Selcuk), ultimately from Old Anatolian Turkish سلجك (Selcuk) attested in the Dede Korkut and Karakhanid سلجك (Selcuk) attested in Mahmud al-Kashgari's Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk, of uncertain etymology. Compare modern Turkish Selçuk.
Pelliot & al. favored derivation via Arabic سَلْجُوق (Saljūq) from Proto-Oghuz [Term?] (*Sälčük), following some accounts taking the name from Proto-Turkic *sāl (“raft”) + *-čük (“-ock, -let: forming diminutives”) from the warlord's supposed birth on a raft on the Syr Darya. There are other early Persian and Arabic transcriptions, however, including سلجوك (Saljūk), سلچوق (Salčūq), and سلجق (Saljuq). Some sources take the original form of the name to have been *Salçuğ or *Salçığ with the meaning "one who fights", "disputes", or "struggles". Some arguing for an original pronunciation of [Term?] (*Selčük) or [Term?] (*Selčuk) would derive it from an early borrowing of Persian سیل (seyl, “flood”) + *-čük (“-ock, -let: forming diminutives”); others from *Sel as an earlier name of the Muztagh Ata in the Eastern Pamirs. Caferoğlu and Gedikli argue for derivation from a modified borrowing of Old Uyghur clean, pure (sil) + Proto-Turkic *-čük.


Shawna

From Shawn + -a. Doublet of Ivana, Jana, Jane, Janice, Janis, Jean, Jeanne, Jen, Joan, Joanna, Joanne, Johanna, Juana, Shavonne, Sian, Siobhan, Shane, Shaun, Shauna, and Sheena.

doublet

"That's an interesting name—Shawna. Almost sounds Indian," he said, knowing she was dying to tell him about her.

1979, Sandy Johnson, The CUPPI, Delacorte Press/E.Friede, →ISBN, page 31:


Lani

Until then he had not thought of following Lani Aldrich to Honolulu. He had been so sure that she would return to him.

1940, Hearst's International combined with Cosmopolitan, v.109, July-December 1940, page 106:

(chiefly US) A female given name from Hawaiian.

Lani pronounced his name Lonny, and someone told me it had been spelled that way at one time. […] Lonny is a boy's name. Who knows what Lani is?

2002, Carol Plum-Ucci, What Happened to Lani Garver, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page XI:


Lani

An indigenous people of Puncak, Central Papua and Lanny Jaya, Highland Papua.


Bel

Short form of Isabel; a variant of Belle and Bell.


Kalani

Kalani Wright, a 24-year old^([sic]) from Mississippi, wanted to have Lipo 360, a procedure that removes fat from all areas of the midsection, and a B.B.L. last year.

2022 May 11, Sandra E. Garcia, “Butt Lifts Are Booming. Healing Is No Joke.”, in The New York Times Magazine:


Kaylie

A female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Kaylee.


Meghann

"Meggie...It hasn't got enough dignity, it doesn't suit you a bit. I'd rather you were called something like Belinda or Madeline, but if Meggie's the best you've got to offer, I'll go for it. What's the Meggie stand for - Margaret?"
"No, Meghann."
"Ah, now that's more like! I'll call you Meghann."
"No, you won't!" she snapped. "I detest it!"

1977, Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds, Gramercy Books, published 1998, →ISBN, page 290:

A female given name from Welsh, a rare modern spelling variant of Megan.


Deane

* As an Irish surname, Anglicized from Mac an Deagánaigh (“son of the Deacon”), see Deacon.
* As an English surname, variant of Dean.


Meggie

I teleported home one night
With Ron and Sid and Meg.
Ron stole Meggie’s heart away
And I got Sidney's leg.

1980 October, Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, London: Pan Books, →ISBN, page 170:

A diminutive of the female given name Margaret.

"Meggie...It hasn't got enough dignity, it doesn't suit you a bit. I'd rather you were called something like Belinda or Madeline, but if Meggie's the best you've got to offer, I'll go for it. What's the Meggie stand for - Margaret?"
"No, Meghann."

A diminutive of the female given name Megan (and variant spellings).


Royal

A habitational surname, shaped by folk etymology, from places in England, Riehale, Righale, Ryhill and Ryall, Old English ryge (“rye”) + hyll (“hill”), and Royle, rā (“roe”) + hyll (“hill”).

Royal - he had been his mother's little king. Most of his mates called him "Roy". Perhaps only her and Mrs Natwick had stuck to the christened name, they felt it suited.

1974, Patrick White, Five-Twenty, Shorter Novels and Stories, Cape, published 1974, →ISBN, page 173:

A male given name from English from the surname


Royal

A male given name from the word "royal".


Raymonn

A male given name from the Germanic languages, of rare usage, variant of Raymond or Ramón.


Aristarchus

From Ancient Greek Ἀρίσταρχος (Arístarkhos).

A male given name from Ancient Greek, of historical use only in English.


Sheilagh

Rare spelling variant of Sheila, anglicization of Irish Síle.


Beyoncé

The recent use of this name is due to the American singer Beyoncé Knowles (born 1981), after her mother's maiden name, which was different from her own parents' surname, Beyincé, due to a clerical error on her birth certificate. It is probably derived from the French surname Boyancé.

A female given name transferred from the surname.


Clarinda

Her nearest handmayd, whom she most did trust, / And to her said: Clarinda, whom of all / I trust a live, sith I thee fostred first; […]

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 29:


Vaishak

A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.


Suren

Ultimately from Parthian 𐭎𐭅𐭓𐭉𐭍 (swryn /Sūrēn/).

Սուրեն Սուրեն#Armenian

A transliteration of the Armenian male given name Սուրեն (Suren).


Gerri

A diminutive of the female given name Geraldine, also used as a formal given name.


Jerri

A diminutive of the female given names Geraldine and Jerilyn, also used as a formal given name.


Hereward

Borrowed from Old English Hereweard, a compound of here (“army”) + weard (“guard”). Doublet of Harvard and Harward.

Look at me, dread me! I am the Hereward. [Footnote: “Guardian of the army”]

1866, Charles Kingsley, chapter 3, in Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 94:

A male given name from Old English of mostly historical use.


Jeri

Teleplay by Kenneth Biller and Jeri Taylor.

1999, Michael Okuda, Denise Okuda, The Star Trek encyclopedia:

Jeri Ellsworth invented the C-One, a single board computer that is not an emulator, but a reimplementation of the original C64 hardware.

2011, Chris Kohler, Retro Gaming Hacks, page 258:

A diminutive of the female given names Geraldine or Jerilyn, also used as a formal given name.


Harper

A male given name transferred from the surname.

A female given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.


Edeline

A female given name from the Germanic languages, of rare usage, variant of Adeline.


Greig

A male given name transferred from the surname, of mainly Scottish usage.


Ewen

A male given name from Scottish Gaelic, variant of Ewan.


Jenn

A diminutive of the female given name Jennifer.


Vivaan

Borrowed from Hindi विवान (vivān), from Sanskrit विवान (vivāna, “plaiting, twisting”).


Jemma

A female given name from Italian, a spelling variant of Gemma; by folk etymology also used as a feminine form of James/Jem.


Kirsteen

A female given name from Ancient Greek, a Scottish variant of Kirsten (Christina).


Keri

A female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Kerry.


Lafe

(US) A diminutive of the male given name Lafayette.


LaTonya

A female given name originating as a coinage, variant of Latonia.


Fayette

Fayette
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette

After Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette

(US) A male given name transferred from the surname or place name.


Lillias

A female given name from Latin, alternative spelling of Lilias


Linnet

Lindy herself hated the name Lindy. She said it sounded like a girl in pink gingham. At the beginning of this school year she'd started making all the teachers address her by her full name, Linnet. (She'd been named for an English bird that a soldier had mentioned to their mother during the war.) At first Karen had tried to call her that too, but it had felt so unnatural that she'd gradually given it up.

2004, Anne Tyler, The Amateur Marriage, →ISBN, page 105:

A female given name from English, occasionally recorded since the 19th century.


Lilias

First recorded in 16th-century Scotland, a variant of Lilian or possibly from the Spanish Liliosa, name of a 9th-century saint, both ultimately from Late Latin lilium (“lily”).

"Poor little thing! She is very wee and frail, isn't she? Only two months old. We came away from the north, as soon as I was able to travel. She is called Lily."
I remembered Horace having once told me that his mother's name had been Lilias.

1864, Frances Eleanor Trollope, The Tale of Aunt Margaret's Trouble, in All the Year Round, Aug 11th, 1866, page 100

"Lilias! Lilias!" he answered. "Lilias! Where are you?"
"In the garden," it came back like a sound from a golden flute.

1909, Frances Hodgson Burnett, chapter XXVII, in The Secret Garden:


Anmol

From Hindi अनमोल (anmol, literally “priceless”).

bor

A unisex given name from Hindi used in India among the followers of Hinduism, particularly in the northern part of the country.


Aleister

From Scottish Gaelic Alasdair, from Norman French Alexandre or Latin Alexander, from Ancient Greek Ἀλέξανδρος (Aléxandros), from ἀλέξω (aléxō, “I defend”) + ἀνδρ- (andr-), the stem of ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man”).

A male given name from Scottish Gaelic, of rare usage, variant of Alastair.


Rae

CHUCK. Joyce Mathews! I see and this girl's name is Rae Edwards. What does Rae stand for?
CHRIS. Rae, Rae!
CHUCK. Rachel? That's what I'm trying to find out; Sugar Ray? Rae doesn't mean too much to me. Hooray, Sugar Ray, etc. So her name is Rachael H? I see.

1965, Lewis Yablonsky, The Tunnel Back: Synamon, Macmillan, page 204:

A diminutive of the female given name Rachel, also used as a formal given name, mostly as a middle name.

Although the name on his birth certificate was spelled "Ray", Ray said he was originally given the name "Rae" after Rae Williams, a cousin on his father's side.

2005, Sam Weller, The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury, William Morrow, →ISBN, page 12:

A male given name; possible variant of Ray.


Cy

A diminutive of the male given name Cyril.

A diminutive of the male given name Cyrus.


Thomasina

A female given name from Aramaic, a feminine form of Thomas.


Tamar

From Hebrew תָּמָר (tamár, “Tamar”, literally “date palm, date”).

der

A female given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.


Sanders

en-proper noun

Sanders (countable and uncountable, plural Sanderses)

From the Middle English Sander, a shortened form of Alexander + suffix -s.

(rare) A male given name transferred from the surname.


Mags

A diminutive of the female given name Maggie, which is a diminutive of the female given name Margaret.


Pegah

پگاه پگاه#Persian

A transliteration of the Persian female given name پگاه (pagâh).


Marv

Marvin: I have a million ideas, but, they all point to certain death.
Arthur: Thanks very much, Marv!

2005, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film)

A diminutive of the male given name Marvin.


Masha

A female given name of Russian origin, diminutive of Maria.


Izzy

From the /ɪz-/ root of the names + -y. The common noun derives from Isaac and Israel, male given names of Hebrew origin, popular among Jewish people, the latter also being the name of the self-defined Jewish state.

"I approve of anything you desire to do, Izzy," said Henchard huskily.

1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge:

A diminutive of the female given name Isabel, Isobel, Isabelle, Isabella, Elizabeth, Isidora, Isra, Izebel, Ismara and Isobelle.

“Geez, Cecil, you sound just like Izzy Benet,” Patrick said. “We don’t need two Izzies. Nobody needs two Izzies.”

2012 [2011], R. M. Meluch, The Ninth Circle: A Novel of the U.S.S. Merrimack (Tour of the Merrimack; 5), New York, NY: DAW Books, →ISBN, page 367:

A diminutive of the male given name Israel, Isaac, Isambard, Isidore, Ismail, Chreistus, Chreistos, Isaiah, Isiah, Izzet, Isarn, Ismail and Isam.


Carmine

The given name is borrowed from Italian Carmine.


Aida

Borrowed from Italian Aida, made famous by the opera.

Her name was Aida, like the opera, and I said I’d heard it meant happy in Italian. More laughter. Oh, I always live up to it.

2023, C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey, Hutchinson Heinemann, page 23:

A female given name from Italian in quiet use since the 1870s.


Lilibet

"Oh, Betty, this is so awful for mummy and Margaret," Lilibet wrote to a family friend, Elizabeth Cecil, soon after she became queen.

2005, Carolly Erickson, Lilibet: An Intimate Portrait of Elizabeth II:

A variant of the female given name Lilibeth.


Lisetta

"And you can buy a dress for your wife off this piece of stuff," said Lisetta, who had always an eye to business.

1857, The National Magazine, volumes 10-11, page 350:

(rare) A female given name from Italian.


Jacinta

Borrowed from Spanish Jacinta. Variant of Jacinda and Jacintha.


Ringo

From ring + -o. From the stage name of one of the Beatles, Ringo Starr, actually named Richard Starkey, the drummer of the quartet. From ring, from the rings worn by Richard "Ringo Starr" Starkey.


Ringo

From Japanese りんご (Ringo), from 林檎(りんご) (ringo, “apple”).

ja-r

<i class="Latn mention" lang="en">apple</i>

(countable) A male given name from Japanese


Lalage

From Ancient Greek λᾰλᾰγή (lalagḗ, “to prattle”).

der

"What's her name?"
"Lalage." She pronounced it as a dactyl, the g hard. Still she could not raise her eyes. " Mr Rossetti approached me one day in the street. […] He himself proposed the name. He is her godfather." She murmured, "I know it is strange."

1969, John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman, Penguin, published 1981, →ISBN, page 359:


Fingal

From Scottish Gaelic Fionnghall, from fionn (“fair”) + gall (“stranger”). Used by Macpherson as a rendering of the Irish Fionn mac Cumhail.

Fingal! thou king of heroes! Ossian, next to him in war! ye have fought in your youth; your names are renowned in song.

1765, James Macpherson, The Poems of Ossian, Tauchnitz, published 1847, page 204:

A male given name from Scottish Gaelic, best known in Scotland.


Hortensia

A female given name from Spanish, equivalent to English Hortense.


Lilith

bor

Hebrew לִילִית (lîlîṯ)


Imelda

From Romance (Italian Imelda, Spanish Imelda), from German Irmhild.

A female given name from the Romance languages


Ossian

An anglicisation, made known by James Macpherson, of Irish Oisín, diminutive form of os (“deer”).

A male given name from Irish; rather rare in the Anglo-Saxon world.


Stacee

A female given name from Ancient Greek, a fanciful respelling of Stacy or Stacey.


Amie

A female given name from Latin, a less common spelling of Amy.


Clotilda

A Latinate form of the French Clotilde, of Germanic origin (Proto-Germanic *Hlūdahildiz).

A female given name from the Germanic languages; of mostly historical use in the Anglo-Saxon world.


Lilah

Short form of Delilah; also a variant of Leila.

Who was Lilah? I am sure / She was young and sweet and pure; / - - - So to Lilah's name above / I will add two names I love

1874, James Thomson, “Lilah Alice Hypatia”, in The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems, Reeves and Turner, published 1895, page 282:


Leela

Dorothy's daughters were of exceptional beauty and the sisters could complain only that the Hindi names Dorothy had chosen - Mira, Leela, Lena - were meant to pass as Western ones.

1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Penguin Books, published 1977, →ISBN, page 366:

A female given name from Sanskrit used in India, a spelling variant of Lila.


Almira

Coined name, possibly inspired by Elmira, of a queen of Castile in C. F. Handel's opera Almira (1705) to an Italian [Term?] libretto.

Almira was the only daughter of a worthy merchant in the city of London.

1762, Almira: Being the History of a Young Lady of Good Birth and Fortune, but more Distinguish'd Merit, W. Owen, page 1:

(rare) A female given name originating as a coinage, of mainly 18th and 19th century usage.


Lilia

Borrowed from Latin lilia, plural of lilium (“lily”), or a Latinization of the English Lily.

Lilia, wild with sport, / Half child, half woman as she was, had wound / A scarf of orange round the stony helm,

1853 Alfred Tennyson, The Princess, The Prologue


Christyn

A female given name from Latin, variant of Christine


Ermengarde

From the Old English name reinforced by its Norman cognate, from Proto-Germanic *ermunaz (“all,whole”) + *gardaz (“enclosure”), "strong protection". Cognate with the German saint's name Irmgard.

"What is your name?" she said. [...] "My name's Ermengarde St. John," she answered. / "Mine is Sara Crewe," said Sara. "Yours is very pretty. It sounds like a story-book."

1905, Frances Hodgson Burnett, “Ermengarde”, in A Little Princess: […], New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 26:

(rare) A female given name from Old English.


Lila

Variant of Leila or Lilah, depending on pronunciation; also associated with Spanish lila (“lilac”).

Your name is flowery too. I used to say Mamita would have called you Lady Viola; but violet colors and lilac colors are cousins, and they both suit your complexion and your name, Mamita Lila.

1867, Lydia Maria Francis Child, A Romance of the Republic, Ticknor and Fields, published 1867, page 149:

“I been thinking about ‘Lila.’ I had a sister Lila. Give her a pretty name, maybe she could turn out pretty.”

2014, Marilynne Robinson, Lila, Hachette UK, →ISBN:


Lila

From Sanskrit लीला (līlā, “play, charm”).

A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.


Zebul

(very rare) A male given name from Hebrew.


Vitus

Name of an early martyr, Late Latin Vitus, perhaps from a Thracian word meaning "a person from Bithynia". By folk etymology associated with Latin vita (“life”). Vitus has also been used as a Latinization of Guy.

(historical) A male given name from Latin.


Fliss

It was addressed to "Fliss Benson", so it must be from someone who knows me.' 'Why must it?' Laurie demands. 'They'd have written "Felicity" otherwise.' He squints at me. 'Is your name Felicity?'

2010, Sophie Hannah, A Room Swept White, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 22:

A diminutive of the female given name Felicity.


Ajeesh

A male given name from India, of Indian usage.


Melia

A diminutive of the female given name Amelia.


Moana

en-proper-noun

Moana (countable and uncountable, plural Moanas)

From Hawaiian Moana (“sea, ocean”), Maori moana, and other Polynesian languages.

A unisex given name from Polynesian
(US) A unisex given name from Hawaiian

A unisex given name from Polynesian
A unisex given name from Hawaiian


Tori

The American singer Tori Amos was born in 1963.

A diminutive of the female given name Victoria


Daffodil

From the daffodil flower, used since the end of the 19th century.

"Pansy would be his wife," Delia guessed.
"Yes, and the baby's name is Daffodil, can you believe it?"
"There's a baby?"
"And it wasn't even a springtime baby! It was born in October!"

1995, Anne Tyler, Ladder of Years, Knopf, →ISBN, page 148:

(rare) A female given name from English.


Rahab

Wycherly reflected that any woman raised by a clergyman who named her daughter Rahab was probably making something in the nature of a personal statement.

1997, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Gravelight, →ISBN, page 173:


Pru

A diminutive of the female given name Prudence.


Bing

A male given name transferred from the surname.

A diminutive of the male given names Bingley or Bingham (see also Bing Crosby).


Ridge

en-proper noun

Ridge (countable and uncountable, plural Ridges)

From ridge. Originating from Middle English.


Becki

A fanciful respelling of Becky, diminutive of Rebecca.

A diminutive of the female given name Rebecca, variant of Becky


Hayk

A transliteration of the Armenian male given name Հայկ (Hayk).


Queenie

George sat down. Queenie got up. 'Could I have some money to buy a birthday present for somebody?' she asked.

1940, Enid Blyton, The Naughtiest Girl In The School:


Fox

Fox (countable and uncountable, plural Foxes or Foxs)

* (surname): From fox (“vulpine animal”)


Annabella

A female given name from Latin, variant of Annabel or Annabelle.


Philomena

From Latin Filumena, from Ancient Greek Φιλουμένη (Philouménē, literally “beloved”). Name of an alleged early martyr whose remains were discovered in 1802 in Rome.

der

"Why did St Philomena get crossed off, I wonder?" asked Celia.
"I don't know, maybe they found her out," Tom grinned. "I know my sister Phil was very annoyed at the time, she felt it was an attack of some sort."

1984, Maeve Binchy, The Lilac Bus, Delacorte Press, published 1991, →ISBN, page 136:


Lateef

From Arabic لَطِيف (laṭīf, “gentle, kind”).


Saar

סַעַר סער#Hebrew


Astghik

Աստղիկ Աստղիկ#Armenian

A transliteration of the Armenian female given name Աստղիկ (Astġik).


Caburn

(Sussex, rare) A male given name transferred from the place name deriving from the hill in Sussex, mainly found in the city of Brighton.


Sabin

* As an English and French surname, from a personal name derived from Latin Sabinus.
* As an Irish surname, from Ó Sabháin (“descendant of Sabhán”), from sabh (“cub”). Also found as Savage.

Sabin Figaro, Final Fantasy character


Kaila

From Yiddish קיילה (kaila)), In modern use a spelling variant of Kayla or Kyla.

How we got to Kate I don't know. My mother must have sought it to keep as clear as possible the link to her grandmother Kaila, not realizing how intensely Catholic a name it then was.

1982, Kate Simon, Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhood, Viking Press, →ISBN, page 23:


Ysabelle

A female given name from Hebrew, variant of Ysabel.


Soraya

Borrowed from Iranian Persian ثریا (sorayyâ), from Classical Persian ثریا (surayyā, “brilliant gem; Pleiades”), ultimately from Arabic ثُرَيَّا (ṯurayyā).

m+

Lots of exotics to choose from - Malaysian, Thai, Chinese, you name it. He spends an evening with another Soraya - Soraya has become, it seems, a popular nom de commerce - in a hotel room in Long Street.

1999, J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace, Penguin, published 2000, →ISBN, page 8:


Aferdita

Orthographic simplification of Albanian Afërdita. Doublet of Aphrodite.

An English spelling of an Albanian female given name, equivalent to English Aphrodite.


Samira

A female given name from Persian mainly used by Persians.


Jonquil

From jonquil; one of the flower names invented in the 19th century.


Chastity

Since she was saddled with that awful name, Chastity Bono has given her parents much grief over it. "It helps to get into a show or something, but most of the time it's a pain," she told McCall's. The girl blames mama Cher who was inspired by a movie.

1990, Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso, The Real Frank Zappa Book, Simon&Schuster, →ISBN, page 247:

(rare) A female given name from English from the virtue chastity.


Royce

Derived from the Middle English given name Rose. See English Rose.

A unisex given name transferred from the surname.


Blythe

en-proper noun

Blythe (countable and uncountable, plural Blythes)

English surname, from Old English blīþe (“merry”). Many senses are derived from placenames, such as the River Blythe, all from the Old English adjective.

布萊斯

transliterations of place in England and U.S.A.

(countable) A female given name transferred from the surname, reinforced by the word blithe.


Egbert

From Old English Ecgberht, name of early English kings, from Old English ecg (“edge (of a blade)”) + beorht (“bright”) or Proto-Germanic *Agjōberhtaz.


Royston

From a place name in Hertfordshire, from the medieval given name Royce + Old English tūn (“settlement”).

Royston Gower was the man to whom De Marchmont had trusted this mission; he was a hardy old soldier, one who had been to the Holy Land, and seen blood spilt as plentifully as water; - - -

1838, Thomas Miller, Royston Gower, or, The Days of King John, London: Henry Colburn, page 235:


Janelle

From Jane + -elle, q.v.
Doublet of Ivanka, Jan, Janet, Janey, Janine, Jeanette, Jeanie, Jeannette, Jeannine, Jen, Jenna, Jenny, Jessie, Jo, Jody, Juanita, Shanae, Sinead, and Vanna.

doublet

That must be her name. Janelle Waters. It sounded smooth as silk. Sweet as honey.

2007, Gail Herman, Everybody Hates Romeo and Juliet, →ISBN, page 32:


Lilliana

A female given name from Latin, a less common spelling of Liliana.


Lilliane

A female given name from Latin, a less common spelling of Lilian.


Lillia

A female given name from Latin, a less common spelling of Lilia.


Emmabel

Perhaps a blend of Emma + Annabel or blend of Emma + Mabel.

July 4, 1899 (Tuesday) at house of Joseph B. Bennett by Joseph B. Bennett, Judge Greenup County Court, in presence of Annie L. Bennett and Emmabel Bennett […]

2007, Patricia Porter Phillips, Greenup County, Kentucky Marriages: The First 100 Years, 1803-1903:

(rare) A female given name originating as a coinage.


Kamala

en-prop

Kamala (countable and uncountable, plural Kamalas)

Transliteration of Sanskrit कमला (kamalā). Doublet of Kamal.

translit

On Monday, Vice President Kamala Harris appeared on “The Drew Barrymore Show,” and in a lighthearted moment, explained — as she did during the last presidential election cycle — that in her blended family, her stepchildren affectionately call her Momala.

2024 May 1, Charles M. Blow, “Kamala Harris Isn’t Americans’ ‘Momala.’ She’s Our Vice President.”, in The New York Times:


Kamala

From Hawaiian Kamala, from English Tamara.

A female given name originating from the Bible [in turn from Hebrew], variant of Tamara


Filomena

From Latin Filumena, ultimately from Ancient Greek Φιλομήνη (Philomḗnē).

A female given name from the Romance languages Synonym of Philomena


Jennilyn

The girl, Jennilyn, was very dark, like her mama […]

1995, Timothy Mo, Brownout on Breadfruit Boulevard:

[…] Jennilyn Mann, who painstakingly put the manuscript into desktop publishing format […]

1999, Mary Ann Farquhar, Children's literature in China: from Lu Xun to Mao Zedong:

Jennilyn, you check the closets. I'll check the yard and the swings. Suzi, you check with the neighbors. Trudy, go to the barn […]

2003, Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Chicken soup for the horse lover's soul:

A female given name originating as a coinage, a twentieth-century blend of Jennifer and Lyn (or their variants).


Meagan

A female given name from Welsh, a pseudo-Irish spelling of the Welsh Megan.


Shavaughn

A 20th-century phonetic spelling of Irish Siobhán.


Arleen

A female given name originating as a coinage, variant of Arlene.


Arline

I have lost the taste of joy, and the sight of youth and beauty recalls to my memory that treasure of both, my loved and lost Arline.

1843 Michael William Balfe - Alfred Bunn, The Bohemian Girl, Act II, Scene II

A female given name originating as a coinage, of older usage, variant of Arlene.


Mahlon

From Biblical Hebrew מַחְלוֹן (makhlón).

(rare) A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.


Tryphena

From Ancient Greek τρῠφή (truphḗ, “softness, daintiness”).

uder

(rare) A female given name from Ancient Greek of biblical origin.


Zipporah

From Biblical Hebrew צִפֹּרָה (ṣippōrā), a feminization of ציפור / צִפֹּר (ṣippōr, “bird”).

he-m

ציפור / צִפֹּר (ṣippōr, “bird”)

A female given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.


Eleazar

Borrowed from Hebrew אֶלְעָזָר ('El'azár, “God has helped”). Doublet of Lazarus.


Tehani

"Tehani," he announced in my ear, which is to say "the Darling," a name by no means inappropriate, I thought.

1936 Charles Nordhoff - James Norman Hall, Mutiny on the Bounty.The Bounty Trilogy, Little, Brown and co, 1940, page 84

"I am Tehani, chief Tatai's daughter."
"Tehani," Teroro interpreted. "The little darling."

1959, James Michener, Hawaii, Corgi Books, published 1981, →ISBN, page 54: