Samantha

It was recorded in the 17th century in England.
Most probably a feminine form of Samuel, possibly influenced by Anthea. Other suggestions include Aramaic ܫܡܥܢܬܐ (šemʿanta, “listener”, noun), from ܫܡܥ.
In India, Samantha can be interpreted as a variant spelling of Samanta, from Sanskrit समन्त (samanta, “universal, adjacent”).

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These country girls, as they were called, had queer names, which added to the singularity of their appearance. Samantha, Triphena, Plumy, Leafy, Ruhamah, Lovey, and Florilla were among them.

1876, Phebe Ann Hanaford, Women of the Century, page 525:

"Its name is Samantha Jo, after Josiah and me. - - - If it had been a boy, we was layin' out to call it Josiah Sam, - Sam for Samantha."

1888, Marietta Holley, Josiah Allen's Wife as a P.A. and P.I.: Samantha at the Centennial, page 577:

"Middle of the depression - who's going to give a kid a nutty name like Samantha? Today's another matter, but around then, from what I hear, people weren't thinking about these stylish names."

1967, Howard Fast, Samantha, I Books, published 2004, →ISBN, page 42:

But here's my favorite name: Samuel. It's from the Bible. If it's a girl, name it Samantha. That sounds like something in a prayer, doesn't it? I think it's a name in the Chronicles. I've been reading the Bible every night." - - -
She found the Book of Chronicles and scanned it. - - - There was no Samantha in either the first or the second book of the Chronicles.

1985, Bobbie Ann Mason, In Country, Harper&Row, →ISBN, pages 182, 183:


Christine

Borrowed from French Christine. Doublet of Christina.

"Chris?" he repeated after her very softly, his eyes upon her, tenderly indulgent. "Ah! let it be Christine. I may call you that?"
"My actual name is Christina, but that's a detail. You can call me Christine if you like it best."

1913, Ethel May Dell, The Rocks of Valpré, BiblioBazaar, LLC, published 2007, →ISBN, page 36:


Wills

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Wills

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

A diminutive of the male given name William.


Joyce

Medieval (Middle English) given name from Old French Josse, name of a seventh century saint Latinized as Iodocus, from Breton Iodoc, diminutive of iudh (“lord”), from Proto-Celtic *youdos.

"It's a curious name," remarked Captain Levison. "Joyce - Joyce! I never heard such a name. Is it a Christian name or a surname?"
"She was baptised Joyce. It is not so very uncommon. Her name is Joyce Hallijohn. She has been with us several years."

1860, Mrs Henry Wood (Ellen Wood), East Lynne:

You call me mother, and I remember my mother again,
somewhere in greater Boston, dying.
I remember we named you Joyce
so we could call you Joy.

A female given name from the Celtic languages, associated by folk etymology with joy and rejoice.


Shana

Anglicized variant of the Welsh name Siân (pet form Siana) - or a version of the French name Jeanne.

Shayna

also spelled Shana; both derived from the Yiddish female given name שיינע (sheyne; )


Cristobal

A male given name from Spanish, an anglicized spelling of Spanish Cristóbal.


Roman

From Old French Romain, from Latin Rōmānus. In reference to the Byzantine Empire, via the Byzantine Greek endonym Ῥωμαῖος (Rhōmaîos). By surface analysis, Rome + -an. Doublet of Romano.

A male given name from Latin recently borrowed from continental Europe.


Ariah

From Hebrew אַרְיֵה (“God has promised. Also, lion of God”).


Christie

A diminutive of the female given name Christine and of its variant forms; fairly common as a formal female given name in the 20th century.

A mostly Scottish and Irish diminutive of the male given name Christopher.


Mohammed

A male given name from Arabic: alternative spelling of Muhammad


Karm

कर्म कर्म#Hindi

A male given name from Hindi कर्म (karm, “fate”).


Ismail

From Arabic إِسْمَاعِيل (ʔismāʕīl). Doublet of Ishmael.

Arabic إِسْمَاعِيل (ʔismāʕīl)

Исмаил Исмаил#Macedonian

A transliteration of the Macedonian male given name Исмаил (Ismail).


Hanif

From Arabic حَنِيف (ḥanīf, “true believer, righteous (person)”).


Geraldine

From Gerald + -ine. c. 1540 by the Earl of Surrey as a poetic name for Lady Elizabeth Fitzgerald, "one of the Fitzgeralds". Taken up as a given name in the 19th century, and used as a feminine form of Gerald.

Hunsdon did first present her to mine eyen; / Bright is her hue, and Geraldine she hight.

circa 1540 Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Description and praise of his love Geraldine

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 the Germanic languages.


Khadija

/xəˈdiːd͡ʒə/


Abel

From Middle English Abel, from Old English Ābel, from Latin Abel, from Ancient Greek Ἅβελ (Hábel), from Biblical Hebrew הֶבֶל (Héḇel, “Abel”), possibly from the homonymous word הֶבֶל (heḇel, “breath, vapor; vanity”) or from Akkadian 𒌉𒍑 (ablu, “son”).


Hasan

en-proper noun

Hasan (countable and uncountable, plural Hasans)

From Arabic حَسَن (ḥasan, “fine, good, good-looking, handsome, manly; strong”).

bor

A male given name from Arabic used by Muslims.


Husayn

Transliteration of Arabic حُسَيْن (ḥusayn), from the root ح س ن (ḥ-s-n).

translit

A male given name from Arabic used by Muslims, diminutive of حسن (“Hasan”) meaning good or handsome.


Hassan

From Arabic حَسَّان (ḥassān, “doer of good”).


Ibrahim

Etymology tree
Hebrew אַבְרָהָםbor.
Aramaic אברהםbor.
Arabic إِبْرَاهِيم (ʔibrāhīm)bor.
English Ibrahim
Transliteration of Arabic إِبْرَاهِيم (ʔibrāhīm). Doublet of Abraham.

etymon

ar>إِبْرَاهِيم>prophet


Sayyid

en-proper noun

Sayyid (countable and uncountable, plural Sayyids)

From Arabic سَيِّد (sayyid, “Master, Lord, the nobleman”).


Berkeley

From Old English beorc (“birch”) + leah (“meadow, leigh”). Equivalent to birch + -ley (“lea”).


Barnaby

* English surname of Aramaic origin, from בַּר נְבִיָּא (bar nəḇiyyā, literally “prophet’s son”).
* Also as an English surname, from Old English Beornwald, from beorn (“young warrior”) + wealdan (“rule”) + Old Norse býr (“farmstead”).

This day the sun is in his chiefest height
With Barnaby the Bright.

The name Barnaby may strike the reader as out of place in so Celtic a pedigree; but this was an anglicisation of the true name, Brian Oge - - - Now, times are altered, and his anglicised descendants will probably begin to use Brian as a family name again, rejecting Barnaby as less respectable.

1848, John O'Donovan, “The Annals of the Four Masters”, in The Dublin University Magazine, volume 31, page 577:

Barnaby liked his own name. He was proud of its differentness and would never answer to "Barney", or any other nickname.

1962, Edward Eager, Seven-Day Magic, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, published 1999, →ISBN, page 8:

But instead of pressing the button that would have taped the play she pressed the button that activated the built-in microphone and recorded a hundred and twenty minutes of hers and Barnaby's home life, which aurally consisted of 'Want a cup of tea?' 'No thanks.'

A male given name from Hebrew, from the medieval vernacular form of Barnabas.


Juliett

A female given name from Latin, of rare usage, variant of Juliet.


Ishmael

From Hebrew יִשְׁמָעֵאל (yishma'él (yišmāʿēl), “God hears, God will hear”).

der

Call me Ishmael.

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Loomings”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 1:


Ramadan

/ɹɑːməˈdɑːn/

/ˈɹɑːmədɑːn/

Transliteration of Arabic رَمَضَان (ramaḍān); see there for more.

translit

A male given name from Arabic, of Muslim usage.


Guillaume

From French. Doublet of Guillermo, William, and Wilhelm, etc.


Ashley

en-proper noun

Ashley (countable and uncountable, plural Ashleys)

From Old English *Æsċlēah, composed of æsċ (“ash tree”) + lēah (“wood, clearing”). Equivalent to Ash + -ley.

'There now, Scarlett! You admit it is true. What would you be doing with a husband like Ashley? 'Tis moonstruck they all are, all the Wilkes.'

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

But when Krystal McConnell and Ashley Flynn were named deep in the heart of the '80s the thing was cuteness, feminine delicacy raised to an aesthetic paradigm. --- And everyone named according to a particular version of the pedigree fantasy. Ashley : transplanted Southern privilege, a destiny lying in sorority mixers and a marriage of health club memberships, state-of-the-art appliances and night courses in nouvelle cuisine.

1999, Andrew Pyper, chapter 10, in Lost Girls:

I discovered that her full name was Margaret Lowell. I wasn't an expert on Earth names, but I still knew this was wildly inappropriate. She should have been called Lana Bellcurve or Ashley Brainsex or something.

2013, Matt Haig, The Humans, Canongate, →ISBN, page 832:

A female given name transferred from the surname.


Derek

Borrowed in the Middle Ages from a Middle Low German variant of Theodoric, and revived in the nineteenth century. Not related to Hebrew דֶּרֶךְ (déreḵ, “road”).

"Do you think so? Her husband has an odd name - Derek Keppel. He is a musician - a violinist."

1895, The American Magazine, Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, page 446:

We do not entertain as much anymore because of Derek. (He produces strain. We have to pretend he doesn't.) I used to like him when I still thought he was normal. I was fond of him. I used to call him Dirk, and Kiddo, Steamshovel, Dinky Boy, and Dicky Dare. Till I found out what he was. Now it's always formal: Derek.

1974, Joseph Heller, Something happened, →ISBN, page 509:

Frederick or Derek Boothby was in his late fifties, the son of a naval officer and a daughter of the Earl of Limerick.

2010, James Robertson, And the Land Lay Still, Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN, page 292:

A male given name from the Germanic languages.


Muhammad

Transliteration of Arabic مُحَمَّد (muḥammad, “praised, commendable, laudable”), the passive participle of حَمَّدَ (ḥammada, “to praise, commend, laud, extol”). From the same triconsonantal root ح م د (ḥ-m-d) as, but distinct from, Mahmud.

translit

Mahomet was the predominant form until the late 1700s. Mohammed was the predominant form from then until the 1940s

which has been predominant ever since. Other forms which are now quite common are Mohammad

which all came into common use after the 1820s

(countable) A male given name from Arabic very popular among Muslims.

Muhamed

fairly common historically but uncommon today:

Muħammad

derived from modern scholarly transliterations of Arabic:


Cooper

en-prop

Cooper (countable and uncountable, plural Coopers)

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


Nat

en-proper noun

Nat (countable and uncountable, plural Nats)

Coordinate term: Nate

Nathan was one of the tiniest, tottering along, holding on to the hand of a much older girl. Nat. Small like a gnat.

2008, Kate Atkinson, When Will There Be Good News, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 27:

A diminutive of the male given name Nathanael, Nathaniel, Nathan

A diminutive of the female given name Natasha, Natalie, Natalia


Stuart

Stuart (countable and uncountable, plural Stuarts)


Fran

A diminutive of the female given names Frances and Francine.

A diminutive of the male given name Francis.


Gen

Hal. Oh, don't fuss, Gen. I'll do my part all right. Mamma's 'structed me, you know.
Genevieve. Instructed, Hal.

“Gen? Listen, I'm so sorry I did that, Gen. You gotta believe me. I'm not like this and you know it.” “Listen...Kyle, I...I don't think I want to see you anymore.” Genevieve's voice cracked. “Gen!”

2017, Emma G Prince, The Silent Life of Genevieve, →ISBN:

A female given name, a short form of Genevieve.


Alanna

A feminine form of Alan; variant spelling of Alana. Compare also Alannah.

A female given name from the Celtic languages.


Edith

Inherited from Old English Ēadġȳþ, from Proto-Germanic *audaz (“wealth, riches”) + *gunþiz (“battle”). Name of a 10th century English saint.

inh

Edith's pretty, but it looks / Better in old English books.

1809, Charles and Mary Lamb, Poetry for Children: Choosing a Name:

But suppose she had had an elder sister with a beautiful name like Edith. My conviction was deep and immovable that had I been named something really pretty like that, I would have found it easy to sew neatly and know my lessons.

1903, Elizabeth Bisland, A Candle of Understanding, Harper&Brothers, page 11:

- - but they went and gave it to this woman named Edith, if you can believe that any woman with a name like Edith would have a clue about what's fashionable." "Edith Head?" I said. "The Oscar-winning costume designer?"

2009, Linwood Barclay, Fear the Worst, Banrtam Books, →ISBN, page 76:


Patricia

From Latin patricia (“noble”); later also seen as the feminine form of the saint's name Patrick.

"[…] Our house is not of the era of Queen Isabella, but of the Princess Patricia."
"That sounds like Aunt Isabel. They always called me Patricia there. Don't you think, papa, now that I'm getting so grown up, I ought to be called Patricia? Patty is such a baby name."
"Patty is good enough for me," said Mr. Fairfield. "If you want to be called Patricia, you must get somebody else to do it. I dare say you could hire somebody for a small sum per week to call you Patricia for a given number of times every day."
"Now, you're making fun of me, papa; but I do want to grow up dignified, and not be a silly schoolgirl all my life."

1904, Carolyn Wells, “Shopping”, in Patty at Home, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, →OCLC, page 56:

"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:


Averil

A rare variant of the 7th century saint's name Everild, from Old English eofor (“boar”) + hild (“battle”).


Rudolph

From German Rudolph, Rudolf (compare Proto-Germanic *Hrōþiwulfaz).


Medina

* The province and city in Saudi Arabia is derived from Arabic اَلْمَدِينَة (al-madīna, “the city”). Doublet of Mdina.
* The river and former borough on the Isle of Wight are derived from Old English Meðune (“the middle one”).
* The river and county in Texas are derived from the Spanish surname Medina.

bor

اَلْمَدِينَة

A female given name transferred from the surname


Vishnu

Transliteration of Sanskrit विष्णु (viṣṇu).

translit

A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.


Kyle

en-proper noun

Kyle (countable and uncountable, plural Kyles)

From several places in Scotland and Northern Ireland, derived from Gaelic caol (“narrows”).

Wally Szalla was the least discomforting of men, nothing like the pushy arrogant guys I was always meeting, or who were always meeting me. Guys with names like Dale, Brock, Kevin, Kyle. Guys with names nothing like Wally.

2005, Joyce Carol Oates, Missing Mom, Ecco, →ISBN, page 110:

A male given name transferred from the surname.

(uncommon) A female given name transferred from the surname.

census-designated place
census-designated place

A census-designated place in South Dakota, United States

A placename
A city in Texas, United States


Alec

A diminutive of the male given name Alexander, from Ancient Greek, of Scottish origin.


Halle

* As a German surname, variant of Hall.
* As a French surname, from the noun halle (“covered room”).
* As a Belgian and Dutch surname, from Halle, Belgium.
* As a Jewish surname, from Halle in Saxony, named after the river Saale.

A female given name, alternative spelling of Hallie. popularized by american actress Halle Berry


Mick

A diminutive of the male given name Michael.


Helen

Helen (countable and uncountable, plural Helens)

→ Danish: Helen

→ Estonian: Helen

→ Hawaiian: Helena

→ Norwegian: Helen

→ Swedish: Helen

From French Hélène, from Latin Helena, from Ancient Greek Ἑλένη (Helénē). Doublet of Elaine.

Evelyn De Morgan
Helen of Troy (painting)

"Is her name Ellen or Helen, Miss Viner? I thought —"
Miss Viner closed her eyes.
"I can sound my h's, dear, as well as anyone, but Helen is not a suitable name for a servant. I don't know what the mothers in the lower classes are coming to nowadays."

1928, Agatha Christie, The Mystery of the Blue Train:

...in 1910 she brought Helen into the world, the little female, or "mujercita", as her mother called all the babies, naming her after the glittery label on a facial ointment, The Helen of Troy Beauty Pomade, said to eradicate wrinkles, to soften and add a youthful glow to the user's skin - a fortuitous choice because, of all the sisters, she would be the most beautiful and, never growing old, would always possess the face of a winsome adolescent beauty.

1993, Oscar Hijuelos, The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien, →ISBN, page 6:

Gemma followed her, thinking that Helen seemed rather an old-fashioned and elegant name for this rumpled young mother.

2003, Deborah Crombie, A Share in Death, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 189:


Ari

אֲרִי ארי#Hebrew

לייב לייב#Yiddish

A male given name from Hebrew, of Jewish usage, variant of Arieh (also transcribed as Aryeh, Arye). Ari derives directly from Hebrew: אֲרִי (arí, “lion”); compare Yiddish: לייב (leyb, “Leib”), English: Leo, Leon, French: Léo, Léon, Czech: Lev, Polish: Lew, Russian: Лев (Lev), and Ukrainian: Лев (Lev).

A diminutive of the female given names Arianna, Ariana, Ariel, Ariella, or Arielle, also used as a formal given name.


Sheandra

(rare) A female given name originating as a coinage, of modern usage.


Lucia

Latinate variant of Lucy, or today borrowed from modern Italian. Name of a Sicilian martyr, Latin Lūcia, feminine form of the Roman praenomen Lūcius.


Mamduh

A male given name from Arabic that means "[a] praised [person]", or someone who is always mentioned in a positive way.


Faheem

From Arabic فَهِيم (fahīm, “to understand”).


Stephanie

From French Stéphanie. The standard English feminine form of Stephen.

Allison made a careful note of the address and within the hour she had met, decided she liked, and moved in with a girl of twenty who called herself Steve Wallace.
"Don't call me Stephanie", Steve had said. "I don't know why it should, but being called Stephanie always makes me feel like something pale and dull out of Jane Austen."

1956, Grace Metalious, Peyton Place, UPNE, published 1999, →ISBN, Book Three,Chapter 13:


Mackenzie

Spelling pronunciation of Scots MacKenȝie with the letter yogh confused with Z. Ultimately from Scottish Gaelic MacCoinnich, itself from mac (“son, descendant”) + Coinnich (“of Coinneach”).

compound

A female given name transferred from the surname, of 1970s and later usage, also in the form Makenzie.

Northwest Territories
Northwest Territories#English

A river in the Northwest Territories, the longest in Canada, running from Great Slave Lake to the Beaufort Sea.

Fraser-Fort George
Fraser-Fort George#English

British Columbia
British Columbia#English

A district municipality in the Regional District of Fraser-Fort George, central British Columbia, Canada.

St. Louis County
St. Louis County#English

An unincorporated community in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States.


Diganta

From Hindi, dirgh (long) + Anta (end) = horizon.

A male given name from India, of Indian (particularly Assamese) usage.


Yehudi

From Hebrew יְהוּדִי (yehudí, “Jew”). Related to Judah. An endonym for and doublet of Jew.

A male given name from Hebrew of Jewish usage.


Ava

Ava Haynes, the oldest daughter, was a warm friend of Lillie Calhoun, whom she soon sought and led quickly into the conservatory.

1881, Mary E. Jackson, The Spy of Osawatomie; or, The Mysterious Companions of Old John Brown, W.S.Bryan, page 57:

My mother named me Ava because she liked how the English letters looked - the big A a beak pointed upward, the v a sharp slash of wings, the small a round and flat as a parrot's eye.

2004, Gayle Brandeis, The Book of Dead Birds: A Novel, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 5:

A female given name from Hebrew, a variant of Eva.

A female given name from Irish, an anglicization of Aoife.

A female given name from the Germanic languages, from a Germanic root *avi of uncertain meaning.


Karen

From Danish Karen, a vernacular form of Catherine that arose in medieval Denmark. The sense "middle-aged woman" comes from the popularity of the name among baby boomers and Gen-Xers. The derogatory usage was popularized via African-American Vernacular English.

Left you a lover in that far land, / O Karen sad, that you pine so long! / Would I could unravel and understand / That sorrowful, sweet Norwegian song!

1878 Celia Thaxter, Drift-Weed, Houghton, Osgood,1878, page 28 ("Karen")

I was not called Karen after Hans Andersen's dancing girl, but after a Danish friend of my mother's who married an Englishman and was my godmother. So much for our family affairs.

1918 Cecily Ullman Sidgwick, Karen, W.Collins, 1918, page 12


Karen

From Parthian 𐭊𐭓𐭍𐭉 (krny /Kārēn/), from Old Iranian. The Armenian name is from Armenian Կարեն (Karen), from the same Parthian name.

Կարեն Կարեն#Armenian

A transliteration of the Armenian male given name Կարեն (Karen).


Sherri

A female given name, variant of Sherry or Cheri.


Wanda

From Polish Wanda, possibly derived from an ethnic term for “a Wend”.

"Speaking of names, you're the first white Wanda I ever met."
Wanda peeled off two sweaters and a woolen scarf." Well, you're the fifth or sixth colored I've had to tell that Wanda is an old Polish name I inherited from my Polish great-grandmother on me sweet dead mother's side;

1998, Barbara Neely, Blanche Cleans Up, Penguin, published 1999, →ISBN, page 12:


Evan

Anglicization of Welsh Ifan, ultimately from Latin Jōhannēs, variant of Iōannēs, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννης (Iōánnēs), from Hebrew יוֹחָנָן (yōḥānān, yokhanán, literally “God is gracious”). Doublet of Giovanni, Ian, Ivan, Jack, Jean, Johan, Johann, Johannes, John, Sean, Shane, Shaun, and Shawn.

doublet

A male given name from Welsh Ifan, equivalent to English John.


Ethel

Short form of names of Old English [Term?] origin beginning with Ethel-, æþele (“noble”). First used in the 19th century. Cognate to the Germanic Adela and Adele.

If it is so false, and base, and hollow, this great world […] why does Ethel Newcome cling to it? Will you be fairer, dear, with any other name than your own?

1855, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes, Bradbury and Evans, page 95:

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:

A female given name from Old English, popular at the turn of the 20th century.


Fedlimid

A male given name from Irish, borne especially by a harper and the chief-storyteller in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology.


Troy

From Latin Troia, from Ancient Greek Τροία (Troía).


Troy

A male given name transferred from the surname, but today associated with the classical city.


Lyndsey

Spelling variant. A less common spelling of Lindsay or Lindsey.

A female given name transferred from the surname.


Dorothy

The English form of Latin Dorothea, the name of a legendary saint, from Ancient Greek Δωροθέα (Dōrothéa), from δῶρον (dôron, “gift”) + θεός (theós, “god”).

Piſt[ol]. Then, to you miſtris Dorothy, I will charge you. / Doro[thy]. Charge me? I ſcorne you, ſcuruy companion: […]

c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Second Part of Henrie the Fourth, […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv], signature [D4], recto:

"My name is Dorothy," said the girl, "and I am going to the Emerald City, to ask the great Oz to send me back to Kansas."

1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, “How Dorothy saved the Scarecrow”, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC, page 38:

Don't you think the world has gone steadily downhill ever since parents stopped naming their children Lucy and Dorothy and started naming them Samantha?

1990, Russell Baker, There's a Country in My Cellar, Morrow, →ISBN, page 418:


Lucy

Lucy
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
Saint Lucy

From Middle English Lucy, from Old French Lucie (notably after the Christian martyr Lucia of Syracuse), from Latin Lucia (feminine of Lucius, a Roman praenomen), from lux (“light”).
The name of the Australopithecus skeleton came from the Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", which was being played repeatedly at the dig site camp at the time of the discovery. The slang term for LSD also derives from the song name, which many believe is essentially a reference to the drug.

Then did my younger brother Amidas / Love that same other Damzell, Lucy bright,/ To whom but little dowre allotted was;/ Her vertue was the dowre, that did delight.

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 9:

She lived unknown, and few would know / When Lucy ceased to be;/ But she is in her grave, and, oh,/ The difference to me!

1798, William Wordsworth, She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways:

But certainly there are some names which seem to belong to particular classes of character, to form the mind and even influence the destiny: Louisa, now; - is not your Louisa necessarily a die-away damsel, who reads novels, and holds her head on one side, languishing and given to love! Is not Lucy a pretty soubrette, a wearer of cast gowns and cast smiles, smart and coquettish!

1830, Mary Russell Mitford, Our Village: Fourth Series: Cottage Names::

Now we'll just use a fiction name / Lucy that sounds nice / A name we can remember / Without repeating twice / / My name is so old fashioned / And they are very few / But some will have a puzzled look / And whisper Lucy who?

2009 Dora Raymond, Aunt Dora's Legacy, AuthorHouse, page 19 ( Lucy Who )


Edgar

From Old English Ēadgār, the name of early English kings, from Old English ēad (“rich”) + gār (“spear”). Compare Icelandic Auðgeir.

What? did my father's godson seek your life? He whom my father nam'd? your Edgar?

c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

My father was the eldest of three sons, each of whom was given Adelia's idea of a high-toned name: Norval and Edgar and Percival, Arthurian revival with a hint of Wagner.

2000, Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, Random House, →ISBN, page 62:


Gilgamesh

/ˈɡɪl.ɡə.mɛʃ/

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Learned borrowing from Akkadian 𒄑𒂆𒈦 (Gilgameš), from Sumerian 𒀭𒄑𒉋𒂵𒎌 (ᵈgilgameš₂ /Gilgameš/)

lbor

A semi-legendary king of Uruk, who is the hero of the Babylonian poem Epic of Gilgamesh.


Amata

From Latin amāta (“loved, beloved”); feminine perfect passive participle of amāre (“love”). It can also be interpreted as the feminine form of the saint's name Amātus.

A female given name from Latin; always rare in English.


Jake

Originally a medieval variant of Jack; today also used as a diminutive form of Jacob and James.

Brett smiled at him. "I've promised to dance this with Jacob," she laughed. "You've a hell of a biblical name, Jake."

1927, Ernest Hemingway, chapter 3, in The Sun Also Rises:

Her attendant - Jake, she had called him, which seemed an appropriate name for a redheaded, no-neck redneck with the muscles of a dedicated weight lifter - -

1985, Ed McBain, Snow White and Rose Red, page 10:


Leslie

From a placename in Aberdeenshire, originally Lesslyn, Scottish Gaelic lios cuileann (“garden of hollies”).

der

A male given name transferred from the surname.

'Leslie with an "ie",' she had to tell everyone in England because they spelt it with a 'y'. 'Really?' Dominic's mother said, as if Leslie herself was a spelling mistake.

2010, Kate Atkinson, Started Early, took My Dog, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 19:

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

A number of places in the United States:

A minor city in Searcy County, Arkansas.

A township and city therein, in Ingham County, Michigan.

Greenbrier County
Greenbrier County#English

An unincorporated community in Greenbrier County, West Virginia.


Erica

A feminine form of Eric, ultimately from Old Norse. The name has also been associated with the flower genus.

But Erica Mann Jong is, alas, just as patriarchal as Erica Jong. When Thomas Mann's daughter, Erika, was alive, the confusion of names bothered me. My parents had met and admired Thomas Mann. They loved his daughter's name and wished creativity upon me. Erica means white flower in German, and queen in old Scandinavian, but to them, it meant writer.

1994, Erica Jong, Fear of Fifty, page 140:

A female given name from the Germanic languages or Old Norse.


Katrina

A female given name from Ancient Greek. A variant of Catherine.


Constantine

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

Helen, the mother of great Constantine
 Nor yet Saint Philip's daughters were like thee.

1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:


Rabbie

A Scottish form of Robbie, a short form of the male given name Robert.


Robbie

A diminutive of the male given name Robert, particularly popular in Scotland.

A diminutive of the female given name Roberta


Jovan

A transliteration of the Macedonian male given name Јован (Jovan), equivalent to John


Rita

From Romance (Italian rita, Spanish Rita). A shortening of Italian Margherita, and Spanish Margarita, cognates of English Margaret. An Italian Saint Rita was canonized in 1900. The English name came into regular use in early twentieth century.

Born Margarita Carmen Cansino to Eduardo and Volga Haworth Cansino on October 17, 1918, in New York City, Rita Hayworth was no stranger to show business.

1993, Diane Telgen, Jim Kamp, editors, Notable Hispanic American Women, VNR AG, →ISBN, page 194:

A female given name from the Romance languages, Italian, or Spanish.


Rita

From South Asian languages, from Sanskrit रीता (rītā).


Shannon

Captain Samuel Shannon is frequently mentioned in the public records, and he had something more than a local reputation. He must have been very popular, as the name "Shannon" as a Christian name is so common throughout the valley as to be noticeable.

1896, Report of the Commission to Locate the Site of the Frontier Forts of Pennsylvania, C.M.Busch, state printer, page 283:

Everything in my life is okay except I have this terrible problem with my sister Shannon. I'm spelling her name the way most people would. She spells it Sionna ever since the priest told us that's the real Irish way to spell it. It's the name of a river and a goddess. Shanny doesn't think she's a river. She's really Shannon Marie.

2005, Andrew M. Greeley, Mary G. Durkin, The Book of Love, Macmillan, →ISBN, pages 193–194:

A unisex given name transferred from the surname or place name (from the river); first used in the USA in early 20th century, and only recently in Ireland.


Clyde

The name of a river in Scotland, from the Gaelic name Cluaidh, of uncertain origin. Possibly influenced by clut (“the cleansing one”).

(chiefly US) A male given name transferred from the place name (the River Clyde in Scotland).


Bogdan

From Proto-Slavic *Bogъdanъ, a calque of Ancient Greek Θεόδωρος (Theódōros, “Theodore”, literally “gift of God”).

cog

A male given name from the Slavic languages.


Pericles

From Latin Periclēs, from Ancient Greek Περικλῆς (Periklês, “far-famed”), from περί (perí, “around”) + κλέος (kléos, “glory”).

der

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


Waquita

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


Erik

A spelling variant of Eric, or directly borrowed from modern Swedish Erik.

A male given name from Old Norse, variant of Eric.


Bart

A diminutive of the male given name Bartholomew.


Hudson

en-proper noun

Hudson (countable and uncountable, plural Hudsons)

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Iamblichus

Borrowed from Latin Iamblichus, from Koine Greek Ἰάμβλιχος (Iámblikhos), from Aramaic ימלכו (Yamlīḵū), perhaps originally a causative form of the verb מלך (mlk, “to rule”).

Iamblichus (c. 245 – c. 325), a Syrian Neoplatonist philosopher.


Neave

Neave (countable and uncountable, plural Neaves)

Two main origins:
* A variant of the English surname Neve.
* Variant of Nevay, a Scottish habitational surname.

Neave was born in Utica, New York, into a wealthy Anglo-American family.

2018 January 12, Mark Swenarton, “Neave Brown obituary”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media Limited, retrieved 2024-03-31:

Since this photo was taken, my daughter Neave has grown up.

2024 March 30, Anna Cafolla, “‘We have five in our bed – any more and I wouldn’t sleep!’: meet the extreme [British] dog owners”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media Limited, retrieved 2024-03-31:


Titty

A diminutive of the female given name Letitia.


Montague

Montague (countable and uncountable, plural Montagues)


Jeremy

Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 2:17:

He had the name of Jeremy given to him, because Jeremiah, as his father said, was a family name; and there was an advantage in curtailing a syllable, and in showing a preference towards the names of the New Testament over those of the old.

1840, John Bowring, Memoirs of Jeremy Bentham. Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, p.169:

Fry: You don't meet many American Jeremies, do you? Have you ever met an American Jeremy?
Clarkson: No, it's too complicated. There's three syllables.

2004 October 22, QI, Season 2, Episode 4

A male given name from Hebrew, English form of Jeremiah. Also used to anglicize Irish Diarmaid (Dermot).


Tina

Tina (countable and uncountable, plural Tinas)

Short form of Christina or of any female name ending in -tina, such as Martina or Albertina; frequently from Latin -ina

A female given name
A female given name from Ancient Greek.

A female given name
A female given name from Latin.


Marissa

A female given name from Spanish, a contraction of Maria Lisa or Maria Luisa, though sometimes regarded as a re-interpretation of the name Melissa as a homophone in another European language.


Ganesh

A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.


Polly

"Well, Johnny," she replied, rather hurt, "if you want to call me something else, you may do so; but I will not have any outlandish, ridiculous names. I don't like it much, but if you really wish it, you may call me Polly."
Polly, indeed! Mary was getting more and more prosaic.

1860, Elizabeth Harcourt Mitchell, The Lighthouse, Saunders, Otley and co., page 161:

A female given name from Hebrew, nickname for Mary created by rhyming with Molly.


Percy

From the Norman baronial surname from a place in Normandy (Percy-en-Auge), Old French Perci, Late Latin Persiacum, from the Gallo-Roman personal name Persius.

I have written again to ask if I may visit there sometime soon, and talk to the administrator, who it turns out is an old acquaintance, a man called Percival Quinn, I think the only Percy I have heard of in the present era, let alone met.

2008, Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture, Faber and Faber, →ISBN, pages 198 - 199:

A male given name transferred from the surname, of Middle Ages and later usage.


Meredith

Meredith (countable and uncountable, plural Merediths)

What was his name now? Literary sort of name - I've got it. Meredith. Meredith Blake. Don't know whether he's alive or not.

1942, Agatha Christie, Five Little Pigs, HarperCollins, published 1994, →ISBN, page 26:

"What did I hear you say her name was?"
"Meredith. Mary and Edith. Names from both sides of the family."
"Meredith," he repeated softly. "I like it."

2004, Jo Goodman, Forever In My Heart, Zebra Books, →ISBN, page 412:

A female given name from Welsh; sometimes mistaken for a combination of Mary and Edith.

A number of places in the United States:

An unincorporated community in Pitkin County, Colorado.

An unincorporated community in Franklin Township, Clare County, Michigan.

A township in Wake County, North Carolina, mostly occupied by portions of Raleigh.


Xerxes

From Ancient Greek Ξέρξης (Xérxēs), from Old Persian 𐎧𐏁𐎹𐎠𐎼𐏁𐎠 (x-š-y-a-r-š-a /Xšayāršā/, “ruler among kings”). Doublet of Ahasuerus.

der

A male given name from Old Persian mainly applied to historical and fictional characters.


Sid

A short form of the male given names Sidney and Siddhartha.

Alternative form of Syd (“unisex given name”).

A minor river in East Devon, England, which flows into the English Channel at Sidmouth.


Ysabel

R. Jeeves: In my experience, ladies who spell Gladys with a W are seldom noted for their reliability, sir. It gives them romantic notions.
B.W. Wooster: With a W, Jeeves? No, no, no, no. You spell it with a G.
R. Jeeves: If I might draw your attention to the signature on the portrait, sir.
B.W. Wooster: Good Lord! G-W?
R. Jeeves: I blame Alfred Lord Tennyson and his Idylls of the King. It also accounts for Kathryn, Ysabel, and Ethyl, all spelt with a Y, but Gwladys is a particularly virulent form, sir.

1993 May 16, “Return to New York”, in Jeeves and Wooster, Series 3, Episode 6:

Alternative form of Isabel: a female given name.


Denise

French Denise, from Latin Dionysia (feminine form of Dionysius, a male name of Ancient Greek origin indicating "Dedication to Dionysus"). Dionysus is the mythological Greek god of wine responsible for growth of the vines and the originator of winemaking.

feminine form of <i class="Latn mention" lang="la">Dionysius</i>, a male name of Ancient Greek origin indicating "Dedication to Dionysus"

A female given name from French, Latin, or Ancient Greek.


Isabelle

A female given name from French Isabelle, ultimately a variant of Elizabeth.


Carlo

From Italian Carlo, from Latin Carolus, from Germanic. Doublet of Charles, Carl, and Carlos.

Charles, come here and be presented to your cousin, Mabel Earnshaw. His name is Carlo, but I couldn't possibly call him by it; it sounds so like a dog. At least, pronounced in my English fashion. And I can't roll my r's.

1867 June 15, Frances Trollope, “Mabel's Progress”, in All the Year Round, page 579:

A male given name from Italian, equivalent to English Charles


Margot

"I like names that end with an a, don't you? Or other vowels? Most often it seems to be an a. But wait: Margo's name ends with an o, for mercy's sake! Barnaby's mother. Or it used to be o. Then she met Barnaby's father and added a t."
Sophia looked at me. I told her, "Mom thought Margot with a t was higher class."
"First time I saw it written that way was on the wedding invitations," Gram said. "She brought them home from the printer's and I said, 'Who's this?' She said, 'That's me.' Well, I did try to accommodate. Her dad said it was stuff and nonsense, but I told Jeffrey the next time he came to call, 'Mar-gott will be down in a minute.' He laughed because he thought I was joking but I was serious. I honestly assumed people pronounced the t."

1998 Anne Tyler, A Patchwork Planet, A.A.Knopf Inc., page 3


Julia

From Latin Iūlia, feminine form of the Roman gens name Iūlius. Further popularized by early Christian saints. Doublet of Julie.

89 Julia
Julia
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Salute Philologus & Iulia, Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas, and all the Saints which are with them.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 16:15:

"Julia!" when alone he would exclaim; "what a sweet sounding and romantic name: Julia! what music and magic in its sound! 'tis a name worthy only the fairest and purest of creation!

1826 The New-York Literary Gazette and American Athenaeum, July 8, 1826, J.G.Brooks&G.Bond, page 216

“Why, I mean,” I replied, recoiling, “I mean—in short—that—in other words—I didn't know your name was Julia.”

"Why did you name her Julia?" Amy asked, letting the orange ice cream melt down the backs of her hands.
"Because it sounds dignified."

2000, Luanne Rice, Follow the Stars Home, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 93:


Marco

From Romance Marco (Italian Marco, Portuguese Marco, Spanish Marco).

A male given name from the Romance languages, equivalent to English Mark

Marco mainly sells his clothes online.


Jessika

A female given name from Hebrew, a rare modern spelling variant of Jessica


Isabella

Latinate and Italian form of Isabel. The grape cultivar is popularly thought to have been discovered by a Mrs Isabella Gibbs of South Carolina in 1816.

Can you so stead me,
As bring me to the sight of Isabella,
A novice of this place, and the fair sister
To her unhappy brother Claudio?

A contemporary, and usually very accurate chronicler, Bartholomew of Norwich, tells us that the queen called her infant by the barbarous name of Walkiniana; others again call her Isabella; but, in the wardrobe accounts, and all other state records, she is invariably designated Elizabeth.

1857 Mary Anne Everett Green, Lives of the Princesses of England, Vol. 3, page 2 ("Elizabeth, eighth daughter of Edward I")


Paco

Borrowed from Spanish Paco, diminutive of Francisco. See also Spanish Pancho.


Paolo

Borrowed from Italian Paolo. Doublet of Paul.

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


Isabel

From Spanish Isabel, from Old Occitan Elisabel, from Latin Elisabeth, from Ancient Greek Ἐλισάβετ (Elisábet), from Hebrew אֱלִישֶׁבַע (Elishéva, “my God is an oath”). Doublet of Elizabeth.

Mariana. O my good lord! Sweet Isabel, take my part:
Lend me your knees, and all my life to come,
I'll lend you all my life to do you service.

There is a silvery bell-like music in the name, which is exceedingly attractive, and which has made it a favorite with the poets. - - - Mary Howitt, in her Flower comparisons, has the following melodious lines:
Now for mad-cap Isabel: / What shall suit her, pr'y thee tell? / Isabel is brown and wild; /Will be evermore a child;

1852 August, D. H. Jacques, “A Chapter on Names”, in The Knickerbocker, or, New-York Monthly Magazine, volume XL, page 119:

I'm glad you spell your name like that. It's the best of all the ways to spell Isabel.

1994 Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell), No Night Is Too Long, page 110

How many poor girls, who would have been wild and raging and beautiful and free sex goddesses if only their parents had found it in their hearts to name them Isabel, instead had to stuff their poor psyches into the name Heather?

2002, Cynthia Heimel, If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?, Grove Press, →ISBN, page 177:


Angus

Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Aonghas, perhaps literally "one choice".

Angus was a great enlargement of experience for me, because he illustrated how haphazardly Fate attributes names to her unoffending children. Angus McGubbin: a Scots giant, red-haired and scowling - wouldn't you think so?

1994, RobertsonDavies, The Cunning Man, Viking, published 1995, →ISBN, page 168:

A male given name from Scottish Gaelic of mostly Scottish usage.


Jesse

From Ancient Greek Ἰεσσαί (Iessaí), from Hebrew יִשַׁי (Yishai).

Jesse James was a lad that killed many a man, / He robbed the Glendale train. / He stole from the rich and he gave to the poor, / He'd a hand and a heart and a brain.

A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.

We had decided to change the spelling of our names. Mine was to become Jesse instead of Jessie, and hers was to be Meribeth, not MaryBeth. We signed these names to the test papers we turned in at school.
The teacher waved my paper in the air. "I can't give a mark to this person, because I don't know who this person is," she said. "Who is this Jesse?" She spelled the name out loud. "That is a boy's name. Does anybody here know a boy named Jesse?"

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


Nando

A diminutive of the male given name Fernando.


Raleigh

From Old English rā, rāha (“roe deer”) + lēah (“woodland, clearing”). Equivalent to roe + -ley (“lea”).

A male given name, transferred from the surname.


Davo

(Australia) A diminutive of the male given name David


Darren

Unknown. A twentieth-century invention, possibly from a rare Irish surname of obscure meaning, possibly from Dara or Daragh, meaning "oak". It is also the name of an old silver mine near Aberystwyth, Wales.
* The name became popular, particularly in the UK, because of a character in the 1960s American TV series Bewitched, actually spelled Darrin.
* (person with sense of entitlement): As a rhyming equivalent for Karen.

Darren was a beautiful youth, strong and well made.

1959, Gwen Bristow, Celia Garth, Crowell, page 15:

One of those awful names, Gareth or Darren - no, Jason.

1998 Barbara Vine ( Ruth Rendell ), The Chimney Sweeper's Boy, page 315

A male given name originating as a coinage.


Gilbert

en-proper noun

Gilbert (countable and uncountable, plural Gilberts)

From Old French Gislebert, from Proto-Germanic *Gīslaberhtaz, from *gīslaz (“pledge”) + *berhtaz (“bright, famous”), from Proto-Celtic *Gēstloberxtos.

compound

Gilbert - - - because it is written in Dooms-day book Gislebert, I judge it rather to signifie Bright or brave pledge - - - .So it is a well fitting name for children which are the only sweet pledges and pawns of love between man and wife.

1605, William Camden, Remains Concerning Britain, John Russell Smith, published 1870, page 81:

A male given name from the Germanic languages.


Rocco

From the Italian form of the name of French 14th century saint Roch, of Germanic origin. The meaning is obscure; Old High German hruoh (“crow”) (from Proto-Germanic *hrōkaz), hrok (“rest”) (modern Ruhe) and rohōn (“to roar”) (modern röhren) have been suggested.

A male given name from Italian, of mostly American usage.


Fernando

From Spanish Fernando, a contraction of Ferdinando, equivalent to English Ferdinand. From Proto-Germanic *fardiz (“journey”) or *friþuz (“peace”) + *nanþaz (“daring”) (from the root of *ninþaną (“to be daring”)).

A male given name from Spanish of Spanish origin. Diminutive: Nando, Fer


Peggy

"Peggy Fitzgerald," he had said, laughing in what he later remebered as his one and only attempt at humor with her. "Peggy Fitzgerald," he had said, in his easily remembered brogue. "Puts me in mind of me mither, an Irish lass from County Galway."
Margaret Bunker Fitzgerald had not been amused. "You'll never get over it, will you?" she had spat at him furiously. "You'll never get over being an Irishman, a black Irish Catholic from a Boston slum. Don't you ever dare to call me Peggy again. My name is Margaret, and don't you forget it!"

1956, Grace Metalious, Peyton Place, UPNE, published 1999, →ISBN, Book Two, Chapter 9:

When Caroline gave birth to another daughter, they named her Margaret Ann, after me and then Oscar's mother. They didn't realize that Peggy was my given name. Now they call her Ann, because I do.

1996, Elizabeth McCracken, The Giant's House, page 257:

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


Guido

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


Hugo

From Old French Hugo, of Germanic origin, from Frankish *hugi (“thought, mind, spirit”).

der

He had liked a girl named Sandra in seventh grade. "Where did you get the name Hugo?" she had asked him once. "It sounds like a made-up name. What's your real name, Hugo? Or are you a Russian spy?"

1986, Kitty Burns Florey, Real Life, Morrow, →ISBN, page 34:

A male given name from the Germanic languages, a Latinized form of Hugh.


Preston

en-proper noun

Preston (countable and uncountable, plural Prestons)

From Old English prēost (“priest”) + tūn (“settlement”). Doublet of Prestatyn.

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Bruno

Bruno (countable and uncountable, plural Brunos or Brunoes)

From Italian, German etc continental European Bruno, name of medieval Italian and German saints and royalty, Latinized form of Old High German brūn (“brown”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūn. The surname is mostly borrowed from Italian Bruno. Doublet of Brown.

He was the man who brought us those great bruising, bristle-chinned teams, with players who had fearsome names like Bruno and Bulldog.

1983, Mike Royko, Studs Terkel, One More Time.The Best of Mike Royko, University of Chicago Press, published 2000, →ISBN, page 169:

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


Alfonso

From Spanish Alfonso and Italian Alfonso. Doublet of Alphonse.


Solomon

Solomon (countable and uncountable, plural Solomons)

From Latin Solomōn (variant of Salomon), from Ancient Greek Σολομών (Solomṓn), from Biblical Hebrew שְׁלֹמֹה (šĕlōmōʰ), from שָׁלוֹם (šālōm, “peace”). Doublet of Shlomo and Suleiman.

(countable) A male given name from Ancient Greek [in turn from Hebrew], feminine equivalent Salome.


Renjith

From Sanskrit, meaning "victor in wars".

A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.


Shawnee

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Ultimately from Shawnee Shawanwa (“Shawnee”) or shawanoki (“southerners”), a hypothetical intermediary term is sometimes supposed to have facilitated the entry into English, such as Munsee sawanow.

The girls from our year were mainly named some version of Shawn. There was Shawna, Dawna, Shawnee, Dawnali, Shalana, and just plain Dawn and Shawn.

2012, Louise Erdrich, The Round House, Corsair, published 2013, →ISBN, page 292:

A female given name, derived from the name of this tribe.


Corbin

An Anglo-Norman nickname from corb (“crow”), or shortened from the Corbinian, the name of a Frankish eighth-century saint, probably from Latin corvus (“crow, raven”).


Conrad

A variant of German Konrad, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *Kōnirād, from *kōnī (“bold, brave”) + *rād (“counsel”). Cognate of Old English Cēnrǣd, Dutch Koenraad and Icelandic Konráð.

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There was no further need for words, because the lexicon of Romance jargon has just been fully deployed. In it chaps are called names like Conrad, and girls names like Delora, quite unlike the names of those who are reading it on the way to work.

1985, Philip Howard, The State of the Language, OUP, →ISBN, page 58:

კონრად (ḳonrad) (when used with a title or surname)


Alaric

From Gothic 𐌰𐌻𐌻𐍃 (alls, “all”) + 𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌺𐍃 (reiks, “ruler”), from Proto-Germanic *Alarīks.

We feel bound to add, however, that it is not very likely, in the usual chances of events, that such names as Alaric Attila Watts should have met in matrimony with those of Zillah Madonna Wiffen; and an unkind world may suggest a mystification somewhere.

1835 June, Fraser's Magazine, volume XI, page 652:


Seamus

Anglicization of Irish Séamas (“James”), itself from English James.


Irwin

en-proper noun

Irwin (countable and uncountable, plural Irwins)

From a medieval given name Erwin, Old English eofor (“boar”) + wine (“friend”), the latter of which is from Proto-West Germanic *wini.


Emerson

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


Aeschylus

Borrowed from Latin Aeschylus, from Ancient Greek Αἰσχύλος (Aiskhúlos).

(historical) A male given name from Ancient Greek.


Ging

Clipped form of Ginger, itself sometimes a nickname for Virginia.

Amelia thereupon taught Ginger Park and Lucy. [...] In one picture Amelia and three friends—Katherine Dolan (referred to as Dolan), Lucy (Toot), Virginia Park (Ging) are lying on their stomachs, their chins cupped in their hands, staring at the camera either before or after a basketball game; it is Amelia who is holding the ball.

But while Crosby was their first main topic of conversation, Johnny and Ginger soon began to have the experiences that draw people closer together. [...] “For years,” Mercer said, “anytime anything went wrong, Ging and I would just look at each other and say ‘Borough Hall!’ and think of that poor man who thought he was on his way to Harlem.”

Her taste for philosophical conundrums having been whetted rather than sated by decades of nothing to do, Ging often likes to speculate at length on whether we’re an incarnation that became a refuge, or a refuge that became an incarnation.

(hypocoristic) A diminutive of the female given names Ginger and Virginia.


Tana

A female given name, Alternative form of Tanya


Drina

A diminutive of the female given name Alexandrina


Cecilia

From Latin Caecilia, feminine form of Caecilius, a Roman family name possibly derived from the byname caecus (“blind”). Popularized by Saint Cecilia, third century Roman martyr, the patron saint of music. Doublet of Sheila.

Hark how the flutes and trumpets raise / At bright Cecilia's name, their lays!

1694, Joseph Addison, A Song for St. Cecilia's Day:

‘Sissy is not a name,’ said Mr. Gradgrind. ‘Don’t call yourself Sissy. Call yourself Cecilia.’ ‘It’s father as calls me Sissy, sir,’ returned the young girl in a trembling voice, and with another curtsey. ‘Then he has no business to do it,’ said Mr. Gradgrind. ‘Tell him he mustn’t. Cecilia Jupe. Let me see. What is your father?’

1854, Charles Dickens, “Book I, Chapter II”, in Hard Times. For These Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC:

Because they had named her Cecilia, her parents fancied that the matter of her life and character had been fairly well settled. She would, of course, be quiet and pale and mystical, like the saint whose picture hung above the old upright piano in the Kirby living-room.

1928, Lynn Montross, “Silent Minstrel”, in American Magazine, volume 106, page 14:

Cæcilia (alternate with the “æ” ligature)

Celia

often regarded as a short form of Cecilia

Celia”)

Latin: Caelia, from Caelius, probably from caelum (“heaven

Sheila

alternate spellings: Sheela, Sheelagh, Shelagh, Sheilagh, Sile


Fleming

From Middle English flameng, from late Old English Flæmingi, from Old Norse Flǽmingr, Middle Dutch Vlaminc, Vleminc, from Old Frisian (unattested) (compare West Frisian Flaming), from Proto-Germanic *flaumaz (“flowing, current (water)”) and the patronymic suffix *-ingaz (“belonging to, descended from”). More at Flanders.

der

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


Joel

/ˈd͡ʒəʊ(ə)l/

From Hebrew יוֹאֵל (yo'él, “Yahweh (is) God”). As a medieval French and English given name, it is also from Breton Judicaël (related to Joyce and Jocelyn). Cf. Elijah.


Sydwell

(rare) A male given name transferred from the surname, variant of Sidwell.


Jonathon

A male given name from Hebrew, variant of Jonathan.


Fergus

From Irish or Scottish Gaelic Fearghas. The first element may be related to modern fìor (“true”) or fear (“man”) (cf. Fearchar). The second element has been understood to mean 'choice' (cf. Angus). Thus the name means either "most chosen one" or "chosen man".


Lucas

From Latin Lucas, from Ancient Greek Λουκᾶς (Loukâs). See the Greek entry for more.

There salute thee Epaphras, my fellowprisoner in Christ Jesus; Marcus, Aristarchus, Demas, Lucas, my fellowlabourers.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Philemon 23-24::


Gibson

en-proper noun

Gibson (countable and uncountable, plural Gibsons)


Wilma

A female given name from the Germanic languages, a contraction of Wilhelmina.


Larisa

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


Virgil

From Middle English Vyrgyle, from Latin Virgilius, from the Roman clan name Vergilius, from Etruscan and of unknown meaning.

A wedding dance at the Avon Ballroom on July 22nd for Mary Paterek and Virgil Loucks (imagine, a youth named Virgil, he must be the youngest Virgil in Minnesota, maybe the last of the Virgil line).

1985, Garrison Keillor, Lake Wobegon Days, Penguin, published 1990, →ISBN:

(mainly US) A male given name from Latin.


Athan

Perhaps from Nathan, via rebracketing of "my Nathan" as "mine Athan"; compare Ned, derived from Ed via rebracketing in the opposite direction.


Eden

From Hebrew עֵדֶן (eden), perhaps from Sumerian 𒂔 (edin, “steppe, garden”).

We call Edith Eden now because that is what she called herself before she could pronounce 'th'. It is rather a lovely name, I think. Edith sounds like someone's old aunt. I can't think why Mother and Father chose it.

1986 Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell): A Dark-Adapted Eye: page 35

A female given name from Hebrew from the biblical place name; also a medieval diminutive of Old English compound names beginning with the element ēad (“riches”).


Nicole

Borrowed from the French Nicole, the feminine form of Nicolas (“Nicholas”).

Nicole. They were all named Ashley or Nicole or Ashley Nicole. A sultry temptress of thirteen was after poor innocent Bob who was still a child, although lately his voice had been getting deeper […]

1999, Perri O'Shaughnessy, Acts of Malice, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 26:


Kare

Kare Narain Pathak (born 1941), Indian theoretical condensed-matter physicist


Brock

"I suppose you," she said, "were named for General Clive." "I was. And my father was named for General Brock." "General Brock?" she asked, mystified. "General Isaac Brock, you know. The Battle of Queenston Heights, where we defeated the Americans." Her puzzled expression showed that she had not heard of the occasion. Young Busby was shocked.

1949, Mazo de la Roche, Mary Wakefield, Dundurn Press, published 2009, →ISBN, page 132:


Knox

Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic cnoc (“round hill”).


Jennifer

From Cornish, from Middle Cornish Gwynnever (cognate with Welsh Gwenhwyfar), from Proto-Brythonic *Gwɨnnohuɨβar. Doublet of Guinevere. Compare Irish Fionnbharr, Fionnabhair, which may be cognate.

RIDGEON. Thats a wonderful drawing. Why is it called Jennifer?
MRS DUBEDAT. My name is Jennifer.
RIDGEON. A strange name.
MRS DUBEDAT. Not in Cornwall. I am Cornish. It's only what you call Guinevere.

1906, George Bernard Shaw, The Doctor's Dilemma, act I:

"Most people's sisters have decent names like Jennifer or Jane or something. What did you say hers was?"

1960, Jerrard Tickell, The Hunt for Richard Thorpe, Doubleday, page 10:

Jennifer. Jenny with the light brown hair. Jenny-fair, their high school French teacher had called her, and fair she had been.

2000, Dana Stabenow, Nothing Gold Can Stay, Dutton, →ISBN, page 131:

A female given name from Cornish, Middle Cornish, or Proto-Brittonic.


Gael

Book of Llandaff
Brill Publishers
Goídel Glas
Lebor Gabála Érenn

Borrowed from Irish Gael, alt. Gaol, from earlier Gaoidheal, cognate with Scottish Gaelic Gàidheal and Manx Gael, from Middle Irish Gaídel, from Old Irish Goídel (“Irishman”), a loanword from Old Welsh Guoidel (“wild man, warrior”) (also recorded as a personal name in the Book of Llandaff), from Proto-Brythonic *guɨðel (“savage, woodsman”), from Proto-Celtic *weidelos (“savage, woodsman”), related to *weidus (“wild”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁- (“wood, wilderness”) (cf. Old English wāþ (“hunt”)). Doublet of Goidel, unrelated to Gaul or Gallia.
Medieval Irish traditions, including the Lebor Gabála Érenn, trace the origin of the Goídels to an eponymous ancestor, Goídel Glas, but this is no longer held to be the ultimate etymology of the word.


Latonia

A female given name transferred from the place name or originating as a coinage, a blend of the female name prefix La- + Tonia.


Eliza

"My real name's !Eliza!. I've sometimes thought she called me after Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion." "Come again?" said Sean. "Because she intended to do the same thing with me as Pygmalion did with Galatea and as Professor Higgins did with Eliza Doolittle, he remade her to be the way he wanted her, or let's say he had an ideal and he tried to turn her into that." - - - "She said she didn't, anyway, when I asked her. She just liked the name."

1993, Ruth Rendell, The Crocodile Bird, page 76:

A female given name from Hebrew, popular in the 19th century.


Darius

Borrowed from Latin Dārīus, from Ancient Greek Δᾱρεῖος (Dāreîos), from Old Persian 𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎢𐏁 (Dārayauš), shortened form of 𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎺𐎢𐏁 (Dārayavaʰuš), see it for more.


Miguel

Borrowed from Spanish and Portuguese Miguel. Doublet of Michael.

bor+

A male given name from Portuguese or Spanish.


Vik

A diminutive of the male given names Viktor and Vikram.


Lisa

Diminutive of Elisabeth in several European languages. The computer is named after Lisa Brennan-Jobs, officially explained as an acronym for “Locally Integrated Software Architecture”.

You were born in the '70s? Were you named after Lisa on As the World Turns?

Elizabeth coloured.
"Oh, I don't want the doll called after me, if that is what you mean," she said, rather disdainfully.
"Nonsense, Lisa!" laughed her father, "you ought to consider yourself highly honoured to have such a handsome lady as this for your namesake."

1868, William Meynell Whittmore, editor, Sunshine, page 138:

Lisa is a better name. Claudia bangs, like the gong in the hall at Sotleigh. Bang - whoom! Lisa makes a nice silky noise, like streams or rain.

1997, Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger, Grove Press, →ISBN:

Did I want to be burdened with a common name? Be the third Lisa and fourth Susan in my classroom? Darleen or Doreen or Maureen?
I did.

2007, Elinor Lipman, My Latest Grievance, →ISBN, page 16:


Clive

"I suppose you," she said, "were named for General Clive." "I was. And my father was named for General Brock."

A male given name transferred from the surname. Popular in Britain in the mid-twentieth century.


Dionysius

From Latin Dionysius, from Ancient Greek Διονύσιος (Dionúsios).

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:

An Ancient Greek male given name from Ancient Greek


Viktor

Ви́ктор Виктор#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian male given name Ви́ктор (Víktor).


Timothy

From Middle French Timothée, from Latin Tīmotheus, from Ancient Greek Τῑμόθεος (Tīmótheos), from τῑμάω (tīmáō, “I honour”) + θεός (theós, “god”).

The name Timothy was an inspiration of Cherry's own. - - - "Now then, TIMOTHY!" and this she said with a rapid forte crescendo movement which made her mother laugh and also with a jerk which spilt the milk on the little one's forehead. "Well, mother," says Cherry gaily, "I've christened him at all events." And Timothy being a distinctive name, and a scriptural one, it was retained as the appellative of this mite,

1867, William Brighty Rands, Shoemakers' Village, Strahan, published 1871, pages 89–90:

O Timothy Tim / Has ten pink toes, / And ten pink toes / Has Timothy Tim.

1932 A. A. Milne, The Christopher Robin Verses: Cradle Song

A male given name from Ancient Greek of biblical origin, also borne by early Christian saints.


Steph

Female: shortened from Stephanie, from French Stéphanie.
Male: shortened from Stephan.

A diminutive of the female given name Stephanie.

A diminutive of the male given name Stephan.


Briana

Sayd then that Squire: The Lady which doth owne
This Castle, is by name Briana hight.
Then which a prouder Lady liveth none:

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 14:

A female given name from Irish, masculine equivalent Brian, in regular use since the 1970s.


Reuben

en-proper noun

Reuben (countable and uncountable, plural Reubens)

* From Hebrew רְאוּבֵן (r'uvén), from רְאוּ (r'ú, “see [masculine plural imperative]”) + בֵּן (ben, “son”); its literal meaning is therefore roughly, "See, all: a son!"
* There are several unconfirmed etymologies for the name of the sandwich.


Homer

Homer (countable and uncountable, plural Homers)

From Latin Homērus, from Ancient Greek Ὅμηρος (Hómēros).


Dakota

Dakota (countable and uncountable, plural Dakotas)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Dakota.wav

'Montana?' I said. 'You can't call a kid Montana'―these friends of mine were going to call their new baby girl Montana and I tried to talk them out of it, because I'm sick of Australians naming their kids after American placenames, I'm sick of all these Montanas and Delawares and Indianas and Dallases. You'd never hear it the other way around; you're not going to hear about an American kid called Warrnambool or Kooweerup― [- - -] and they said,'Okay okay, we won't call her Montana.' So they called her Dakota.

2002, Danny Katz, Dork Geek Jew, Allen & Unwin, published 2002, →ISBN, page 12:

A unisex given name transferred from the place name.


Sanjay

A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.


Olyvia

(rare) A female given name from Latin, a nonstandard spelling of Olivia.


Frenchy

Franchelle "Frenchie" Davis
w:Frenchie Davis

A short form of various names: Francine, Franchelle, Francoise, etc., e.g. Franchelle "Frenchie" Davis.


Prissy

A diminutive of the female given name Priscilla.


Elvis

From the anglicisation of the Irish name of Saint Ailbe (Saint Elvis), also known as Saint Eilfyw or Eilfw. Ultimate origin is uncertain.


Priscilla

Feminine diminutive form of a Roman cognomen Priscus, from Latin prisca (“ancient”).

Letters written by Alden, and full of the name of Priscilla, / Full of the name and the fame of the Puritan maiden Priscilla!

1858, Henry Wadswoth Longfellow, The Courtship of Miles Standish:

'Priscilla,' she said, --- 'The same name I've had for twenty years!' She smiled cynically. 'And, before you ask why, I was stoned when I chose it, so any thoughts of Cill were in my subconscious. I used to think it was classier than Louise or Daisy... probably because the Trevelyans were such snobs.'

2003, Minette Walters, Disordered Minds, Macmillan., →ISBN, page 354:

A female given name from Latin of biblical origin.


Olivia

From Latin Olīva, an early saints’ name from olīva (“olive; olive branch”). First popularized by Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

O! when mine eyes did see Olivia first / Methought she purg’d the air of pestilence.

1601, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, act I, scene 1:

I intended to call her after Aunt Grizel, but my wife who, during pregnancy, had been reading romances, insisted upon her being called Olivia. In less than another year we had another daughter, and now I was determined that Grizel should be her name; but a rich relation taking a fancy to stand godmother, the girl was, by her directions, called Sophia, so that we had two romantic names in the family, but I solemnly protest I had no hand in it.

1766, Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield:

‘Olivia, that's a fine posh name for Castlebay,’ he said approvingly. ‘Ah, they're sick of these Davids and Clares and Gerrys, the dull old names,’ Clare laughed. ‘I hope they won't call her Olly,’ David said. ‘Make your own nickname then,’ Gerry said. ‘Livy?’ Clare suggested. ‘Liffey even?’ Gerry said.

1985, Maeve Binchy, Echoes, Arrow Books, published 2006, →ISBN, page 404:


Verity

A female given name from English derived from the Latin for truth; one of the Puritan virtue names.


Prakash

From Sanskrit प्रकाश (prakāśa, “light”).

A male given name from Sanskrit. It is a common name among Indic races, mostly Hindus, with some usage among Jains, Sikhs and recently Indic Christians.


Sonya

Borrowed from Russian Со́ня (Sónja), an informal pet form of Со́фья (Sófʹja) or Софи́я (Sofíja, “Sofia, Sophia”), from the Ancient Greek σοφία (sophía, “wisdom”). It was introduced into English through 19th century Russian literature and taken into general use in early twentieth century.

It was Valery who had named her firstborn Sonya, after the figure skater Sonja Henie. "She moves through space so smoothly! She has such freedom!" she explained to Ray, the child's father. "Anything you want, honey," he replied, with a half-smile.

1983, Sheila Ballantyne, Imaginary Crimes, Penguin Group USA, →ISBN:

He said nothing, then asked, “Is Sonya your real name?”
“Harinderjeet.”
“A good name. A strong name.”
He could see her face in the bar's surface, frowning as she returned the card to her purse. “Is Sonya not a nice name?”
He felt her leaning in.
“A sexy name?”

2016, Sunjeev Sahota, The Year of the Runaways: A novel, Vintage, →ISBN:


Huey

Huey (countable and uncountable, plural Hueys)

A diminutive of the male given name Hugh.


Huey

A diminutive of the male given name Hubert.


Mustafa

From Arabic مُصْطَفَى (muṣṭafā, “the chosen one”).

uder

A male given name from Arabic used by Muslims.


Samatha

From Sanskrit समाधान (samādhāna) (śamatha) meaning "tranquility" and "concentration" (referring to Buddhist meditation) or "equality".


Kiara

A female given name from Irish, variant of Keira or Ciara.


Jayla

“When you sing your song, be sure to sing loud enough that everyone can hear,” Ms. Tate told her daughter.
“I hope I can sing that loud,” Jayla said.

2013, Caitlind L. Alexander, The Case of the Pageant Princess:

A female given name originating as a coinage, a 1990s coinage similar to Jaylen and Kayla.


Christina

Name of an early martyr, shortened from Latin Chrīstiāna (“Christian (woman)”). Doublet of Kirsten.

For never yet that maiden's woes
To check our social pleasure rose,
Her joy she shares, her grief's her own,
CHRISTINA CHRISTIAN weeps alone.

1811, Mary Mitford, Christina, the Maid of the South Seas, London: A.J.Valpy, page 26:

Her name "Christina" was derived from one of the Bonaparte family, Lady Dudley Stuart

1900, Elisabeth Luther Cary, The Rossettis:Dante Gabriel and Christina., Putnam's Sons, page 230:

She was born on Christmas Day. I wanted to name her Holly. But with the last name of Wood, your mama wouldn't go for that. So we named her Christina.

2006, Richard Paul Evans, Finding Noel: A Novel, Simon&Schuster, →ISBN, page 168:


Darrell

Derived from d'Airel, name of a Norman family that came from a place called Airelle in Calvados.

A male given name transferred from the surname in the 19th century.


Kenny

A diminutive of the male given name Kenneth


Dani

A diminutive of the female given name Danielle and of its variant forms.

A rare spelling variant of Danny, diminutive of the male given name Daniel.


Dani

* As an Italian, Slovak (Dáni), Romanian, and German surname, from diminutives of the given name Daniel.
* As an Albanian surname, from Dan, a short form of the Islamic name Ramadan.
* As an Indian surname, borrowed from Gujarati દાણી (dāṇī), from Sanskrit दानिन् (dānin, “giving, generous”).


Marshall

* As an English surname, from the noun marshal.
* As a French surname, variant of Mercier.
* As a German surname, variant of Marschall.

A unisex given name transferred from the surname, of 19th century and later usage.


Brigid

/ˈbɹɪ.d͡ʒɪd/

From Irish Brighid, from Old Irish Brigit, from Proto-Celtic *Brigantī (“high, exalted”).

A female given name from Irish, equivalent to English Bridget, sometimes borrowed from Irish.


Craig

en-proper noun

Craig (countable and uncountable, plural Craigs)

Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic creag (“rock”).

bor+

He told her the name he had used to rent the cabin. " I'm Craig Hemsworth."
She burst out laughing. "That's a funnier name than mine. It sounds like the kind of name they give a movie actor when they decide his own name won't do.

1979, Bruce Jackson, The Programmer: A Novel, Doubleday, page 168:

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Byron

Habitational surname from Old English byrum (“at the byre or cattleshed”).

inh

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


Lazarus

From Late Latin Lazarus, from Koine Greek Λᾱ́ζᾱρος (Lā́zāros), the given name of Biblical characters found in Luke 16 and John 12, from Biblical Hebrew אֶלְעָזָר ('El'azár), a given name shared by various figures in the Hebrew Bible and literally meaning "God has helped". Doublet of Eleazar.


Leidy

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


Theodoric

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *Þeudarīks. Doublet of Theoderic; piecewise doublet of Tudor.
Unrelated to Theodore, of Greek origin.

A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by two kings of the Visigoths


Silvius

From Latin Silvius, from silva (“forest”).

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


Theobald

/ˈθiːoʊbɔɫd/

From Old English Þēodbald and later Old French Theobald, Tibaut; both ultimately derived from Proto-Germanic *Þeudōbalþaz. Common in the Middle Ages under various spellings in the archaic pronunciation. After it became obsolete a spelling pronunciation took over. Doublet of Theudebald.

A male given name from the Germanic languages


Theo

Short form of Theodore, or of the rare given names Theobald, Theophilus or Theodoric, or of Theodora.

He has three teeth and two names: Theodore, which is what health visitors call him, and Theo, which is what I call him.

2010, Maggie O'Farrell, The Hand That First Held Mine, Headline, →ISBN, page 341:

A male given name from Ancient Greek and nickname.

(less common) A diminutive of the female given name Theodora.


Winston

Originally only a place name, then also a family name, later also a given name in the Churchill family. Likely from Old English wine (“friend”) + stān (“stone”), or from wines (“friend's”) + tun (“town”).

A male given name derived from the place name.


Savior

مُنْقِذ

(Christianity) Jesus Christ — see also savior, Messiah

(uncommon) A male given name from English


Sylvia

Feminine form of a Medieval form of Silvius, from Latin silva (“forest”). In myths, Rhea Silvia was the mother of famous twins Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome. 6th-century saint Silvia was the mother of the pope Gregory the Great.

What lovely names for girls there are!
There's Stella like the Evening Star,
And Sylvia like a rustling tree, […]

1933, Eleanor Farjeon, “Girls' Names”, in Over the Garden Wall, Faber and Faber, page 91:

A female given name from Latin, a popular spelling variant of Silvia.


Amalia

Derived from Germanic compound names beginning with *amala-, a word of unknown meaning, like Ostrogothic Amalaberga and Amalafrida.

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


Tristan

Old French, the name of a knight, lover of Iseult in medieval romance Tristan and Iseult, from Celtic Drystan derived from drest meaning "riot" or "tumult".

After the first son had been properly named after the grandfather, the second caught the brunt of her few impulses, being named "Tristan", gleaned from medieval lore from her years at Wellesley.

1978, Jim Harrison, Legends of the Fall, Dell, published 1994, →ISBN, page 201:

'His name is Tristan, by the way.' 'Tristan?' 'Yes. Oh, I should have told you. You must have wondered about my own queer name. It was my father. Great Wagnerian. It nearly ruled his life. It was music all the time – mainly Wagner.'

2012 May 17, James Herriot, All Creatures Great and Small: The Classic Memoirs of a Yorkshire Country Vet, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN:

A male given name from the Celtic languages.

Tristan da Cunha
Tristan da Cunha#English


Silvia

Feminine form of Silvius, from Latin silva (“forest”). In myths, Rhea Silvia was the mother of famous twins Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome. 6th-century saint Silvia was the mother of the pope Gregory the Great.

Who is Silvia? what is she? / That all our swains commend her? / Holy, fair and wise is she; / The heaven such grace did lend her, / That she might admired be.

c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:


Amelia

A variant of Amalia, derived from Germanic compound names beginning with *amal, "vigor, bravery". The name and its variants have been confused with the Latin name Aemilia (whence Emilia, Emily) and the French Aimée (whence Amy).

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

We must have heard it first on the battery radio, the news about Amelia Earhart, lost over the ocean. […] Air Heart, I saw it spelled, Amelia ... a name like a soft, bold bird.

1982 Carol Fenner, Saving Amelia Earhart,The Third Coast: Contemporary Michigan Fiction page 66

A female given name from the Germanic languages


Delia

From the Ancient Greek Δήλῐᾰ (Dḗlia), epithet of the goddess Artemis, referring to her birth on the island of Delos.

Sentiment hallows the vowels of Delia;/Sweet simplicity breathes from Rose;

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

"I'm Delia Grinstead," she told him. - - - "I don't believe I've ever run into a Delia before." "Well, it's Cordelia, really. My father named me that."

1995, Anne Tyler, Ladder of Years, Knopf, →ISBN, page 8:


Liana

A female given name from Latin, derived from Juliana or Eliana


Dusty

A diminutive of the male given name Dustin.


Sunita

A female given name from Sanskrit of Hindi and Sanskrit origin, meaning: reliable one, one of good character, one with good morals, good behaviour, a daughter of Dharma or goddess of divine bliss.


Julian

A male given name from Latin Iulianus, from Iulius.

A female given name from Latin, of medieval English usage, variant of Gillian.

San Diego County
San Diego County#English

A census-designated place in San Diego County, California; named for early settler Mike Julian.


Celia

Borrowed from Latin Caelia, feminine of Roman family name Caelius, probably from caelum (“heaven”). Introduced into English by William Shakespeare in As You Like It.

Rosalind: But what will you be called?
Celia: Something that hath a reference to my state:
No longer Celia, but Aliena.


Bradford

* Various place names in England, from Old English brād (“broad”) + ford (“ford”).
* (shaken martini)

"Bradford? I didn't know you called him Bradford." "That's just one more thing you don't know about me. I call him Bradford because it makes me feel like I'm in a soap opera. That's what they name men on soap operas. Bradford and Desmond and Elliott and Royce. - - -

1988, K. C. Constantine, Joey's Case, →ISBN, page 132:

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


Mandy

But Mother and Father and Grandpa and Grandma and Uncle and Aunty couldn't very well call out "Millicent Margaret Amanda" every time they wanted her, so they shortened it to "Milly-Molly-Mandy" which is quite easy to say.

1928, Joyce Lankester Brisley, chapter 1, in Milly-Molly-Mandy Stories:

Without looking up, she asked: "Is your name Mandy or Amanda Price?"
"Mandy, Miss Etienne." In other circumstances Mandy would have pointed out that if her name were Amanda the CV would have said so.

1994, P.D.James, Original Sin, →ISBN, page 10:

A diminutive of the female given name Amanda. Popular as a formal given name in the UK in the 1960s and 1970s.


Catharine

A great number of children, amongst the lower classes, are Carolines. - - - A clergyman in my neighbourhood used to mistake the sound, and christen the babies Catharine; - a wise error, for Kate is a noble abbreviation.

1830, Mary Russell Mitford, Our Village: Fourth Series: Cottage Names::

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


Cody

A unisex given name transferred from the surname.


Tish

A diminutive of the female given name Letitia.


Zeke

A diminutive of the male given name Ezekiel, also used as a formal given name.


Igor

Transliterated from Russian И́горь (Ígorʹ), a Varangian name derived from Old Norse Yngvarr, Ingvarr, from Yngvi (name of a god) + herr (“army”). Doublet of Ivor.


Freya

Scottish form of Old Norse Freyja (“mistress, lady”).

A female given name from Old Norse of mostly British usage.


Boris

Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (2019–2022)

2000 January, Frank McCourt (interviewee), Morning Edition, National Public Radio
It's not like a Russian novel, where you read nine hundred forty-three pages and then finally Boris the peasant decides to commit suicide, and you wish he’d done it on page four. It’s not like that at all.

A male given name from the Slavic languages.


Columbus

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Columbus.wav

From Latin columbus (“a dove”). Doublet of Colombo. The verb is a reference to the Italian explorer.


Jena

A female given name of rare usage, variant of Gina.


Jasmine

en-proper noun

Jasmine (countable and uncountable, plural Jasmines)

From French jasmin, from Arabic يَاسَمِين (yāsamīn), from Classical Persian یاسمین (yāsamīn), from earlier یاسمن (yāsaman), from Middle Persian yʾsmn' (yāsaman).


Enya

A female given name from Irish; the phoneticised form of the Irish Eithne.


Cassandra

From Ancient Greek Κασσάνδρα (Kassándra).

But succeeding ages (little regarding S. Chrysosthome's admonition to the contrary) have recalled prophane names, so as now Diana, Cassandra, Hyppolytus, Venus, Lais, names of unhappy disaster are as rife, as ever they were in paganism.

1605, William Camden, Remains Concerning Britain, John Russell Smith, published 1870, page 56:

Warren J. Tyler, son of Joel, was born in Byron, July 28, 1828. He married Cassandra Tyler, of Stafford, and has four children living.

1890, Frederick W. Beers, Gazetteer and Biographical Record of Genesee County, N.Y., 1788–1890, page 656:

"What's your name?" I asked.
"Cassandra."
Ah, a mythical name. It fit with the fairy-tale looks.

2004, Torey Hayden, chapter 1, in Twilight Children, HarperCollins UK, published 2013, →ISBN:

Cassandra sat down on a small sofa next to Mrs Budley.

2013, M. C. Beaton, chapter 4, in Miss Tonks Turns to Crime:


Ricky

A diminutive of the male given name Richard.


Prichard

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Alison

Alison (countable and uncountable, plural Alisons)

From Old French Alison, brought to England by the Normans (from Anglo-Norman Alison, from Norman Alison), diminutive of Aliz, equivalent to English Alice, from Old High German Adalhaid (“of noble kind”). Became Middle English Alisoun.

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He came up close and kneeling gently down
He said, "My love, my dearest Alison,
So help me God, I never again will hit
You, love; and if I did, you asked for it.

1951, Geoffrey Chaucer, “Wife of Bath's Prologue”, in Nevill Coghill, transl., The Canterbury Tales: Translated into Modern English (Penguin Classics), Penguin Books, published 1977:

(countable) A female given name from the Germanic languages.


Lydia

From Ancient Greek Λυδία (Ludía, “the region of Lydia”), from λυδία (ludía, “beautiful one, noble one”), a feminine form of Λυδός (Ludós) (Lydus, from λυδός (ludós) (lydus)). The region of Lydia is said to be named for a king Λυδός (Ludós) (Lydus, from λυδός (ludós) (lydus)); the given name Lydia originally indicated ancestry or residence in the region of Lydia.

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Lydia was a stout, well-grown girl of fifteen, with a fine complexion and good-humoured countenance; a favourite with her mother, whose affection had brought her into public at an early age.

1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], “Chapter 9”, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:

The first three, Macklin, Lydia, and Randall, were the special ones. Even those names, we thought, showed greater imagination, greater involvement on our parents' part, than ours did: Nina, Mary, Sarah.

1990, Sue Miller, Family Pictures, Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 5:


Georgie

/ˈd͡ʒɔɹd͡ʒi/

A diminutive of the male given name George.

A diminutive of the female given name Georgina


Demi

A female given name, a diminutive of Demetria introduced into English in the 1990s by the actress Demi Moore.


Liz

"Liz. That doesn't sound like your name, wildcat. It is far too hard and brittle." She shrugged. "I'm sorry to disappoint you, but that is my name. Elizabeth is too stuffy, Beth is too soft, so Liz it is."

2010, R. G. Alexander, Midnight Falls, Samhain Publishing,, →ISBN, page 67:

A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth.


Tania

"Does she? What a name that child has got. Tania."
"That's not so odd a name," Hazel said. "Not nowadays."
"I know. They all have outlandish international names, like Tania and Natasha and Erin and Solange and Carmen. No one has family names. These girls with rooster hair I see on the streets. They pick the names. They're the mothers."

1990, Alice Munro, Friend of My Youth, →ISBN, page 102:

A diminutive of the female given name Tatiana.


Rodney

From Old English placename Hrōdanīeġ, Hrōdanīġ (literally “Hroda's island”), from Proto-Germanic *hrōþiz (“fame”) and *awjō (“island”).


Martina

Usually interpreted as the feminine form of the saints' name Martin, though there was an identical Roman name, likewise derived from Latin Martinus.


Natalie

From the French form of the Late Latin saint's name Natalia, from nātālis (diēs) (“birthday [of Christ], Christmas”). Doublet of Natalya.

[…] often I have listened to my dear brother, as he told me the pretty story of the sad gentleman whom he met, when I was but an infant, and how he spoke to me so tenderly, and sighed for his own Natalie. I had no other name then but Sea-flower, and I have been called by that name ever since; yet after that day, my Christian name was Natalie.

1860, Emma V. Hallett, Natalie: A Gem Among the Sea-weeds, W. F. Draper, published 1860, page 264:

I was ashamed of my very name, Natalie. Nobody else in town had the name Natalie. I wanted to have a name like Frances or Elizabeth, as two of the most popular little girls were named. When old ladies at church would say to me kindly enough,"What's your name, little girl?" I would answer "Natalie," and they would say, "Madaline, Mattie, what did you say?"

1964, Natalie Robinson Cole, The Arts in the Classroom, The John Day Company, page 129:

ELSTON. Natalie is a beautiful name.
NATALIE. Well, yes. It is. Thank you.
ELSTON. A real spy name. My wife Natasha has a spy name and I'm forever telling her […]

1998, Phyllis Nagy, Plays 1, Methuen Drama, →ISBN, page 133:


Stefan

From Ancient Greek στεφανίζω (stephanízō, “to crown”) & Ancient Greek στέφανος (stéphanos, “that which surrounds, crown, wreath”).


Aletta

From a Middle Low German diminutive form of Adelheid, related to English Adelaide and Alice.


Tatiana

Popular saints' name in the Eastern Orthodox Church, feminine of Latin Tatianus, derivative of Tatius, a Roman family name of obscure origin. Modern English usage is derived from Russian Татья́на (Tatʹjána).

Татья́на Татьяна#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian female given name Татья́на (Tatʹjána).


Nichole

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


Ginevra

From Italian Ginevra. Doublet of Jennifer.

A female given name from Italian, variant of Guinevere


Ephraim

From Hebrew אֶפְרַיִם (Efráyim, “Ephraim”, literally “fruitful”), via Latin.


Leonid

Borrowed from Russian Леони́д (Leoníd) or Ukrainian Леоні́д (Leoníd), from Ancient Greek Λεωνίδας (Leōnídas). Cognate with the English historical name Leonidas.

A male given name, a transliteration of a common East Slavic name (notably that of the first two Ukrainian presidents, Leonid Kravchuk and Leonid Kuchma, as well as Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev).


Danielle

Borrowed from French Danielle, the feminine form of Daniel.

A female given name from Hebrew, masculine equivalent Daniel.


Niall

Borrowed from Irish Niall or Scottish Gaelic Niall, ultimately from Old Irish Níall, of uncertain original meaning. Suggestions include nél (“cloud”) and niadh (“champion”), which is from Proto-Indo-European *h₃neyd- (“to revile”). Doublet of Neil.

A male given name from Irish or Scottish Gaelic used in Ireland and Scotland since the Middle Ages.


Isis

Learned borrowing from Latin Īsis from Ancient Greek Ἶσις (Îsis), from Egyptian st-t:H8-B1 (ꜣst).

Isis had crawled under the center table with its red plush cover with little round balls for fringe.

1924, Zora Neale Hurston, Drenched in Light:

'Beloved Isis,' Elias grinned, 'would you kindly cast some light into the poor occluded mind of our brother here on the matter of the co-essential nature of the body and the soul?'

(uncommon) A female given name from Egyptian or Ancient Greek


Nina

Borrowed into English in the nineteenth century, apparently from several sources. Many borrowings are of Russian Ни́на (Nína), the name of a Georgian fourth-century saint, also known as Nino, of obscure origin and meaning, possibly connected with the Assyrian king Ninus. Others are of an Italian short form of diminutives like Annina from Anna and Giovannina from Giovanna.
Phonologically or orthographically similar names are present in several languages, including Afrikaans, Hindi, Italian, Persian, Romanian, Russian, Spanish and some Native American languages. In many of those, it is a nickname for names ending in -ina or -nina.
(hidden message in crossword): After Nina Hirschfeld, daughter of American caricaturist Al Hirschfeld; her name was often concealed in his drawings.

The first three, Macklin, Lydia, and Randall, were the special ones. Even those names, we thought, showed greater imagination, greater involvement on our parents' part, than ours did: Nina, Mary, Sarah. Clearly by that time they had run out of gas.
"Nina. Such a pretty, old-fashioned name. I hope you don't mind my saying that." "No; I'm glad you think so."

1990, Sue Miller, Family Pictures, Harper & Row, →ISBN, pages 5, 25:

A female given name in continuous use since the 19th century.


Johannes

/dʒəʊˈhænɪs/

From Late Latin Iōhannēs, variant of Latin Iōannēs, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννης (Iōánnēs), from Biblical Hebrew יוֹחָנָן (Yôḥānān).

יוֹחָנָן יוחנן#Hebrew

A male given name from Late Latin Iōhannēs [in turn from Koine Greek Ἰωάννης (Iōánnēs), in turn from Biblical Hebrew יוֹחָנָן (Yôḥānān, “God is gracious”)], variant of John or Jon.


Forbes

A unisex given name from Scottish Gaelic.


Derrick

A male given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Derek.


Maureen

Anglicized from Irish Máirín, diminutive of Máire, an Irish equivalent of Mary. By surface analysis, Maura + -een.

I am Maureen because Uncle Louis liked the film star Maureen O'Hara. Fine. The fact that a small sallow baby born in Hull was unlikely to grow up into a flame-haired temptress with flashing green eyes and the cleavage the size of Galway was neither here or there. Maureen I became. Or Marine on the other side of the Atlantic. Also no-one in our house could foresee that since my father's name was Maurice I would be constantly called, with mounting frustration, 'Mauri-Morry-Maureen!'

2000, Maureen Lipman, Lip Reading, Franz Steiner Verlag, →ISBN, page 12:


Prudence

A female given name from English, one of the Puritan virtue names.


Stacey

An English surname transferred from the given name derived from a medieval diminutive of Eustace.

A male given name from Ancient Greek transferred back from the surname.

A female given name from Ancient Greek popular in the 1970s, from the surname, sometimes also explained as a short form of Anastasia.


Stacy

A male given name from Ancient Greek transferred from the surname.

A female given name from Ancient Greek derived from the surname, popular in the 1970s.


Zeb

Diminutive of Zebedee, Zebulun, and Zebadiah.


Zebadiah

/ˌzɛbəˈdaɪə/

From Hebrew זְבַדְיָה (Zəḇaḏyâ, “gift of God, God has bestowed”), from זַבְדִּי (zab̲dî, “my gift”). Doublet of Zebedee.

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A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.


Zebedee

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Ζεβεδαῖος (Zebedaîos), from Hebrew זְבַדְיָה (Zəḇaḏyâ), from זַבְדִּי (zab̲dî, “my gift”). Doublet of Zebadiah.

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Hebrew זְבַדְיָה (Zəḇaḏyâ)

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


Suzane

A female given name from Hebrew, of rare usage, variant of Suzanne.


Davy

Tell him, I'll knock his leek about his pate
Upon Saint Davy's day.

1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

A diminutive of the male given name David.


Suzanne

From French Suzanne. Doublet of Susanna.

'Suzanne' was the name given to the baby. It was Vivian's choice, but she had doubts about it later. Wasn't it a shade on the exotic side? Perhaps 'Susan' was preferable.

1987, Alexander Walker, The Life of Vivien Leigh, Grove Press, published 1994, →ISBN, page 43:


Kathy

During her childhood she was a romanticized Katherine, dressed by her misty-eyed, fussy mother in dresses that looked like ruffled pillowcases. By high school she'd shed the frills and emerged as a bouncy, round-faced Kathy […] At university she was Kath, blunt and no-bullshit in her Take-Back-the-Night jeans and checked shirt […] When she ran away to England, she sliced herself down to Kat. It was economical, street-feline, and pointed as a nail.

1991, Margaret Atwood, Wilderness Tips, →ISBN, page 36:

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


Robby

A diminutive of the male given name Robert.

Robby is contemplating macramé.

2020 October 19, Thunderbox Entertainment, Tsuro - The Game of The Path:

A diminutive of the female given name Roberta.


Garrett

A medieval English and Irish form of the Germanic given names Gerard and Gerald. Of Old High German origin.

Alternative form: Garret

A male given name from the Germanic languages, transferred from an English and an Irish surname, or in Ireland directly from Gerard.


Ingram

From a Middle English given name, from Proto-Germanic *Ingwaz (“a Germanic god”) + *hrabnaz (“raven”). The places are named after persons with the surname.

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


Ariel

General American, Mary–marry–merry merger

Alexander Pope
Ariel
John Herschel
The Rape of the Lock
The Tempest
William Lassell
William Shakespeare

From Biblical Hebrew אֲרִיאֵל (ari'él, a compound of אֲרִי (arí, “lion”) + אֵל (él, “God”), literally “lion of God”).
* (moon of Uranus): All of Uranus’s moons are named after characters created by William Shakespeare or Alexander Pope. The names of all four satellites of Uranus then known were suggested by John Herschel in 1852 at the request of William Lassell, though it is uncertain if Herschel devised the names, or if Lassell did so and then sought Herschel’s permission. Ariel is the name of the leading sylph in Pope’s The Rape of the Lock and also the spirit who serves Prospero in Shakespeare’s The Tempest.

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Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 29:1:

(biblical) A name for the city of Jerusalem, the claimed (and de-facto) capital city of modern Israel, and the claimed capital city of modern Palestine.

Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan, and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib, and for Elnathan, men of understanding.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezra 8:16:

All hail, great master! grave sir, hail! I come / To answer thy best pleasure; be't to fly, / To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride / On the curl'd clouds; to thy strong bidding task / Ariel and all his quality.

Nor stood unmindful Abdiel to annoy / The Atheist crew, but with redoubl’d blow / Ariel and Arioc, and the violence / Of Ramiel scorcht and blasted overthrew.

1667, John Milton, “Book CLX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

Of these am I, who thy Protection claim, / A watchful Sprite, and Ariel is my Name.

1712 May, [Alexander Pope], “The Rape of the Locke. An Heroi-comical Poem.”, in Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, canto:

You don't look like a Daniel (your pre-chosen name). There's something fierce and tawny about you. You're the Lion! You're Ariel: God's Lion. You'll be my father Leon's namesake — and for your father, you'll have a Hebrew name.
I dub thee Ariel, faery spirit of my tempest. You'll be my Jerusalem...

1979, Phyllis Chesler, With Child, Crowell, →ISBN, page 121:

A male given name from Hebrew, also ascribed to spirits and angels in English literature.

"I'm going to name her Ariel," Laura said, ignoring them completely as she stared down at the baby. "The boys like the name because it's the same as the girl in the Little Mermaid movie. And I like it, because it's pretty."

1992, Kristina Logan, The Right Man for Loving, Thorndike Press, →ISBN, page 190:

All the miniature Cinderellas, Belles, and Ariels who fill the streets every Halloween are essentially paying homage to characters that will slowly and inevitably chip away at their sense of worth in years to come.

2018, Jen Kim, Love and…: Bad Boys, “The One” & Other Fun Ways to Sabotage Your Relationship, Skyhorse Publishing, →ISBN:

A female given name from Hebrew, used mainly since the 1980s.


Susanna

From Ancient Greek Σουσάννα (Sousánna), the New Testament form of Hebrew שׁוֹשַׁנָּה (šōšannā, “lily”).

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Hebrew שׁוֹשַׁנָּה (šōšannā, “lily”)