Gooniyandi

An alternate name for Gunian (a Bunaban Australian Aboriginal prefixing language spoken at Fitzroy Crossing in the north of Western Australia).


Dhatki

An Indo-Aryan language spoken in parts of India and Pakistan.


Bhutani

The language of the aforementioned people.


Bihari

(uncountable) A group of Indo-Aryan languages spoken in Bihar and the surrounding states in India.


Madonna

From Italian madonna, from Old Italian ma (“my”) + donna (“lady”). The given name is derived from the English term, not used as a given name in Italy. Doublet of madam.

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:

But celebrities actually have a weak effect on baby names. As of 2000, the pop star Madonna had sold 130 million records worldwide but hadn't generated even the ten copycat namings―in California, no less―required to make the master index of four thousand names from which the sprawling list of girls' names on page 227 was drawn.

2005, Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner, Freakonomics, Allen Lane, published 2005, →ISBN, page 184:

MADONNA(S) Yes. (They look at each other with surprise. The room goes silent.) MR. STEIN Two Madonnas? (Pause.) MR. STEIN Did either of you know God? EIGHTIES MADONNA I knew of Him. BIBLICAL MADONNA We had a Son together. MR. STEIN […] I’m going to have to ask you to leave. (The eighties Madonna gets up with a smile and then without uttering another word flounces out of the room loudly humming the tune ‘Like a Virgin’.)

2013 February, Alan Baggett, God’s Will, →ISBN, page 39:


Giles

Medieval English form of Old French saints' name Giles, modern Gilles, an altered form of Latin Aegīdius, from Ancient Greek Αἰγίδιος (Aigídios), derivative of αἰγίδιον (aigídion, “kid, young goat”).


Louisa

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!

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

On being told that Mrs. Bounderby was there, she replied, at cross-purposes, that she had never called him by that name since he married Louisa; that pending her choice of an objectionable name, she had called him J; and that she could not at present depart from that regulation, not being yet provided with a permanent substitute.

1854, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in Hard Times. For These Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC:

A female given name from the Germanic languages, a latinized form of Louise used since the eighteenth century.


Hangaza

A dialect of the Rwanda-Rundi language of Tanzania.


Hiligaynon

From Hiligaynon Hiligaynon, from Spanish hiligaino + Hiligaynon -non, where Spanish hiligaino is from Hiligaynon Iligan + Spanish -ino, with the root from ilig + -an.

language of the native people of Iloilo and nearby areas of Panay, Guimaras, and Negros island


Sesotho

/sɛ̀.sʉ́.tʰʉ̀/

Sesoto (alternative)
Sesuto (alternative)
Sesutho (alternative)

A Bantu language spoken mainly in Lesotho and in the Free State and Gauteng provinces of South Africa.


Laken

The legislation is named after Laken Riley, a 22-year old Georgia student who was killed last year while out for a run. An undocumented migrant from Venezuela was convicted and sentenced to life without parole in the case that reignited a national debate over immigration and crime.

2025 January 22, Clare Foran, Haley Talbot and Priscilla Alvarez, “Congress passes immigrant detention bill in first legislative win for Trump”, in CNN:


Dante

From Italian Dante, a reduced form of Durante.

A male given name from Italian, presumably in honor of the poet Dante Alighieri.


Avar

A North Caucasian language spoken mainly in Avaria (Republic of Daghestan) as its official language, and in parts of Azerbaijan.


Avar

Of or pertaining to the Avar language or people.

авар

of or pertaining to the Avar language or people


Avar

The extinct language of the Eurasian Avars, probably belonging to the Oghur branch of the Turkic language family.


Avar

Of or pertaining to the Eurasian Avar language or people.

ավարական

of or pertaining to the Eurasian Avar language or people


Hurrian

From Hurrian 𒄷𒌨𒊑 (Ḫu-ur-ri). Falkenstein and Kramer had once connected it to Sumerian 𒄯𒊒𒌝 (ḫur-ru-um /ḫurrum/, “a mountain cave, cavern”) when it was misidentified as a proper name of a mountain rather than a generic term; see the epic Lugalbanda in the Mountain Cave.

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The language of Hurrians, neither Indo-European nor Semitic, whose only known relative is the Urartian.


Potawatomi

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Borrowed from Potawatomi Bodéwadmi (“those who tend the fire”), from bodewadm (“hearth”).

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Potawatami (alternative)
Pottawatomie (alternative)
Pottawatomi (alternative)
Pottawattamie (alternative)
Pottawattomi (alternative)

The Algonquian language spoken by the Potawatomi people.


Oscan

From Latin Osci, Opsci ("worshippers of Ops"), an Italic harvest goddess, related to Latin ops, opis (“riches, wealth, plenty”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ep-os- (“work”), from the verbal root *h₃ep- (“to work”).

The extinct language of the Oscan people.


Bungu

(linguistics) An African language of the Niger-Congo language family.


Ijekavian

Iyekavian (alternative)
Jekavian (alternative)
Yekavian (alternative)

A dialect, group of dialects or dialect continuum of Serbo-Croatian spoken through most of Croatia, Bosnia and Montenegro and parts of Serbia and distinguished by reflecting the Common Slavic jat (Old Cyrillic: ѣ, Glagolitic: ⱑ, Latin transcription /ě/) sound as disyllabic (triphonemic) /ije/ or diphthongal /je/ sequence.


Kaurna

The once extinct language spoken by the Kaurna people.


Mwera

A Bantu language spoken in the Ruvuma region of Tanzania.

A Bantu language spoken in the Lindi region of Tanzania.


Salem

From Biblical Hebrew שָׁלֵם (šālēm) (Genesis 14:18).

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placename

placenames (plural)
place-name (alternative)
place name (alternative)

With a complex site, different site elements may not be terminologically distinguished, or else a generic term may be optionally added to the placename to distinguish a site element, such as a hill, well, or claypan at the location.

2012, Nick Thieberger, The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Fieldwork, page 401:

The name of a place; a word or phrase which indicates a particular location or region.


Hemant

Transliteration of Hindi हेमंत (hemant).

A male given name from Sanskrit, of Hindu usage.


Muk-thang

Literally “good mouth”. From Kurnai mŭk-dhang.

mutually intelligible
mutually intelligible

The now-extinct language encompassing the dialect of the Kurnai, as well as nearby dialects with which it was mutually intelligible.


Elsie

From a Scottish diminutive of Alison/Alice and Elspeth/Elizabeth.

Elsie Marley is so neat, / 'Tis hard for one to walk the street / But every lad a lass they meet, / Cries do you ken Elsie Marley, honey?

1784, R. Christopher, The Bishopric Garland, or, Durham Minstrel, Stockton, page 22:

"And did he not speak of me, Heyward?" demanded Alice, with jealous affection; "surely, he forgot not altogether his little Elsie?"

1826, James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans/Chapter 6:

"Obviously I wasn't going to go through life saddled with a name like Elsie. When I got up to London at the age of eighteen everybody laughed at me, so a boyfriend suggested a tiny amendment, two letters swopped, and I've been Elise for thirty years."

2001, Susan Kelly, Killing the Fatted Calf, Allison & Busby, →ISBN, page 34:


Elsie

From a Scottish diminutive of Alexander.

(rare, obsolete) A diminutive of the male given name Alexander.


Madison

en-proper noun

Madison (countable and uncountable, plural Madisons)

Madisons (plural)
Maddison (alternative)
Maddison (alternative)
Madisyn (alternative)
Madyson (alternative)

From Middle English Madde (“Maud”) + -son.

A male given name transferred from the surname.

A female given name transferred from the surname, popular since 1984 when it appeared as the name of a mermaid in the film Splash.


Rajiv

From Sanskrit राजीव (rājīva), via various Indian languages.

A male given name from Sanskrit. It is a common male name in India. The name means 'lotus flower' in Hindi. In Sanskrit, the word means 'Sri Krishna'.


baptistry

baptistries (plural)
baptistery (alternative)

From Middle English baptistery, baptisterie, from Ecclesiastical Latin baptistērium, from Ancient Greek βαπτιστήριον (baptistḗrion); equivalent to baptism + -ry.

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βαπτιστήριον

(Christianity) A designated space within a church, or a separate room or building associated with a church, where a baptismal font is located, and consequently, where the sacrament of Christian baptism (via aspersion or affusion) is performed.


Orlando

/ɔːˈlæn.dəʊ/

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From Italian Orlando (“Roland”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *Hrōþiland. The city in Florida has gone by the name since 1857, perhaps in honor of the soldier Orlando Reeves, whom the Seminoles killed there in 1835. Previously, it had been settled in 1844 as Jernigan. Doublet of Roland.

St. Oswald's boys were not called Ben. St Oswald's boys were called Leon, or Jasper, or Rufus or Sebastian. A St Oswald's boy can pass off a name like Orlando, can make it sound like peppermint.

2010, Joanne Harris, blueeyedboy, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 99:


Boaz

A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin, in occasional use.


Julien

A male given name from French, equivalent to English Julian.


Julie

The first-born Child had every dawning Grace / And promis'd Beauty in her form and face. / "We'll call her Julie if you please, my dear," / The Mother cry'd, "I doat on Julie Vere." / "What! no Remembrance of her Aunt! for Shame! / You doat indeed! be Barbara her name!"

1813, George Crabbe, “Tracy”, in Adolphus William Ward, editor, Poems by George Crabbe, The University Press, published 1907, page 455:

"I loathe the name of Julia. Julie, in the French way, is quite pretty, but Julia! - "
"Call her Cousin Julie then; I've no doubt she'll prefer it. She's nothing if not progressive, I believe."

1917, Grace Flandrau, Cousin Julia, D. Appleton and Company, page 3:

They were called Jim & Julie, professionally. It seemed such a waste to deal in fantasy, in illusion and pretend, and not christen one's endeavor more suggestively. Kate wondered if their real names were Letitia and Sylvester, or Cleopatra and Mandrake; perhaps they'd gone undercover with white-bread names in quest of posh children's parties and Yankee suitability.

2000, Jayne Anne Phillips, Mother Kind, page 156:

A female given name from French Julie, popular in the latter half of the 20th century, equivalent to English Julia.

(rare) A diminutive of the female given name Julia.


Bert

Shortened version of Bertrand, Albert, Bertram, Robert, Herbert, Gilbert or any name containing the Germanic element bert/berht/beraht/brecht "bright".

A diminutive form of male given names containing the element bert, such as Albert or Robert, also used as a formal given name.


Canola

Of Celtic origin, a misprint of Irish Cana Cludhmor.


François

Borrowed from French François, from Medieval Latin Franciscus (from Francia + -iscus).

A male given name from French, equivalent to English Francis.


Valerie

From French Valérie, from Latin Valeria. Doublet of Valeria.

Cos since I've come home, well my body's been a mess
And I've missed your ginger hair and the way you dress
Won't you come on over stop making a fool out of me?
Why won't you come on over Valerie? Valerie? Valerie? Valerie?

2006, Zutons (lyrics and music), “Valerie”:


Nicky

A diminutive of the female given names Nicola, Nichola, or Nicole.

A diminutive of the male given name Nicholas.


Vicky

Vickey (alternative)
Vicki (alternative)
Vickie (alternative)
Vikki (alternative)

The next people I ran into were my gorgeous sister-in-law Vicky, Mrs. Mike Mulvaney Jr. with the caramel-colored hair—very pregnant—again—and her little girl Chrissy, my firstborn niece, for whom my heart always gave a lurch.

1996, Joyce Carol Oates, We Were the Mulvaneys, Harper Perennial, published 2007, →ISBN, pages 389, 440:

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


Asha

Borrowed from Sanskrit आशा (āśā, “one having the knowledge of morality”).

bor

A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.


Zoë

From Ancient Greek ζωή (zōḗ, “life”). It was the name of a third century martyr venerated in the Orthodox Church.

Zoe (alternative)
Zoey (alternative)
Zooey (alternative)
Zöe (alternative)

"Zoë!" The high-born girl repeated her own name in genuine astonishment. / "Yes," replied the negress. "Rustan is very affectionate. He says that I am his Zoë, his "life", because he would surely die of starvation without me."

1907, Francis Marion Crawford, Arethusa, BiblioBazaar,LLC, published 2009, →ISBN, page 67:


Morton

From Old English mōr (“moor, marsh”) + tūn (“settlement”).


Chelsea

From Old English Celchyth, from cealc (“chalk”) + hȳþ (“landing place”).

A unisex given name transferred from the place name.

A female given name transferred from the place name.

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


Susy

Susie (alternative)
Suzi (alternative)
Suzie (alternative)
Suzy (alternative)

And trust me, Susy, added the corporal, turning to Susannah, whose eyes were swimming with water, before that time comes round again, a bright eye will be dim.

1765, Laurence Sterne, chapter VIII, in Tristram Shandy:

A diminutive of Susan and of related female given names.


Freddie

A diminutive of the male given name Frederick.


Edna

From Hebrew עֶדְנָה (“pleasure; delight”); a variant of Eden in the Book of Tobit.
In Ireland and Scotland it has been used as an anglicization of Eithne.

Edna also said to Tobias, The Lord of heaven restore thee, my dear brother, and grant that I may see thy children of my daughter Sara before I die.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Tobit 10:12:

'Edna', forsooth! No doubt her origin and morals are quite as apocryphal as her name.

1866, Augusta Jane Evans, St. Elmo, G. W. Dillingham, page 54:

Conjure faces to go with these names: Edna and Joy. Then I'll tell you that Edna, who has a wicked serve, is our team beauty, and Joy is as plain and dour as they come.


Eunice

A biblical name from Ancient Greek Εὐνίκη (Euníkē), from εὐ- (eu-, “good”) + νίκη (níkē, “victory”).

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When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.

"Eunice," he said consideringly.
She paused in the midst of licking a dab of frosting off one finger.
"Properly speaking," he said, "it should be 'You-nike-ee'. That's the way Greeks would have said it."
"You-niss is bad enough," she told him. "I've always hated my name."
"Oh, it's a fine name. It means 'victorious'."

2009, Anne Tyler, Noah's Compass, Vintage, →ISBN, pages 109–110:


Edlyn

A 20th-century coinage, apparently a blend of Ed + Lyn, or a variant of Edeline.

A female given name from the Germanic languages.


Sigourney

Sigourneys (plural)
Sigournay (alternative)

According to Ernest Nègre in his book Toponymie générale de la France (1990), the French placename Sigournais comes from Old French Segurniaci, which itself has been derived from Latin Secorinus + -acum. So it appears that the resemblance to Germanic dithematic names starting with *segaz is superficial.

“Please come and see me. . . . Phone book. . . . Under the name of Mrs. Sigourney Howard. . . . My aunt. . . .” [In the novel, "Mrs. Sigourney Howard" means "the wife of Mr. Sigourney Howard".]

1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 3, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1953, →ISBN, →OCLC:

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

The actress Sigourney Weaver took her ‘stage’ name from Sigourney Howard, a minor character mentioned in The Great Gatsby. But what is also worth noting is the fact that the character’s name, ‘Mrs Sigourney Howard’, actually refers to the husband, so Sigourney is a male given name in the novel.

2015, Interesting Literature, Five Fascinating Facts about The Great Gatsby:

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


Jocelyn

Jocelyns (plural)
Joselin (alternative)
Joselyn (alternative)
Joslyn (alternative)
Yoselin (alternative)
Yoselyn (alternative)

/ˈd͡ʒɒsəlɪn/

From the Middle English male given name from Old French Joscelin, German Gautzelin, diminutive of names beginning with the tribal name Gaut (“a Geat, a Goth”), the root form of which probably comes from Proto-Germanic *Gautalinþiz (from *gautaz + *linþaz); also used as a diminutive form of the Breton name Josse (= Joyce). It survived as a surname and was revived as a given name in the nineteenth century.
* Jocelyn is currently popular among U.S. Hispanics, and in the Philippines, by folk etymology explained as a feminine diminutive form of José (Joseph).

der

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

I drove Dorothy immediately to King George V Hospital and two hours later she delivered a beautiful baby daughter. We named her Jocelyn.

2006, Ted Freeman, Doctor in Vanuatu, Suva, Fiji: Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, →ISBN, page 34:


Jacqueline

From the French feminine diminutive form of Jacques (“James”). From Hebrew יעקב (“Ya‘akov”, from the Hebrew root עקב (‘akev, “heel”)), because Jacob was born just behind Esau, and was grasping Esau’s heel in an effort to prevent him from being born first.

from the Hebrew root <i class="Hebr mention" lang="he">עקב</i> (‘akev, “heel”)

Jaclyn (alternative)
Jacklyn (alternative)
Jacquelyn (alternative)

Jacqueline was so named simply because their mother had liked the ring of the word, sounding Parisian and worldly and auguring, to her mind, a good life.

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


Caleb

From Late Latin Caleb, Calebus, from Koine Greek Χάλεβ (Kháleb), from Biblical Hebrew כָּלֵב (Kālēḇ), possibly related to כֶּלֶב (keleḇ, “dog”), referring to the unconditional devotion of dogs to their masters.

"My brother's name was Caleb Peck."
"What a fine old-fashioned name," said Mrs. Tabor.

1976, Anne Tyler, Searching for Caleb, Berkley Books,New York, published 1983, →ISBN, page 14:

A male given name from Hebrew first used by Puritans.


Cuthbert

Name of early English saints, from Old English Cūþbeorht (“brightly known, famous”).

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

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


Cassius

Borrowed from Latin Cassius, a Roman name derived from the gens Cassia.


Herman

en-proper noun

Herman (countable and uncountable, plural Hermans)

From Old English here (“army”) + man (“man”) It was revived in the 19th century, partly due to American immigrants from continental Europe where the name has been more popular. Compare the German equivalent Hermann.


Humphrey

Name of a 9th-century French saint, brought to England by Normans; Proto-Germanic *unnaną (“to grant, bestow”) + *friþuz (“peace”). In Ireland it has been used to Anglicize Irish Amhlaoibh (= Olaf).

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I neuer ſaw but Humfrey Duke of Gloſter, / Did beare him like a Noble Gentleman: […]

1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second 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 i], page 121, column 2:

"Hump?" I asked. "Humphrey, really. But everybody calls him Hump. I know a lot of people who avoid calling him by his first name. For a long time people didn't think it was quite proper. But nowadays nobody seems to mind. What's happening to the power of words, Benny? Time was I used to blush at the words scrawled on fences, and now I hear them—everywhere. How are writers going to write books if language is going bland on them?"

1988, Howard Engel, chapter 6, in A Victim Must Be Found, Markham, Ont.: Viking, →ISBN, page 70:


Jennie

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


Nathaniel

Modification, under influence of Daniel, of Nathanael, from Ancient Greek Ναθαναήλ (Nathanaḗl), from Biblical Hebrew נְתַנְאֵל (Netan'el, literally “God has given”).

Nathaniel's coat, sir, was not fully made,
And Gabriel's pumps were all unpink'd i' the heel.

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

‘What’s your Christian name, Sir?’ angrily inquired the little judge. ‘Nathaniel, Sir.’ ‘Daniel—any other name?’ ‘Nathaniel, sir—my Lord, I mean.’ ‘Nathaniel Daniel, or Daniel Nathaniel?’ ‘No, my Lord, only Nathaniel —not Daniel at all.’ ‘What did you tell me it was Daniel for, then, sir?’ inquired the judge.

1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 34, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:

Marcella and Nathaniel. Now I know their names. I haven't thought much about having children, but if I did, I wouldn't give them names like that. They're the sort of names you choose if you think you're someone to be reckoned with.

2010, Sophie Hannah, A Room Swept White, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 102:


Mildred

From the name of an 8th-century English saint, Old English Mildþrȳþ (from milde (“mild”) + þrȳþ (“strength”)).

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Queens drop away, while blue-legg'd Maukin lives; / Drones thrive when bees are burnt within their hives; / And courtly Mildred dies, while country Madge survives.

~1625 Francis Quarles, Elegy on Lady Luckyn

One day Dunsford told him her name was Mildred. He had heard one of the other girls in the shop address her. "What an odious name," said Philip. "Why?" asked Dunsford. "I like it." . "It's so pretentious."

1915, W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage, Pan Books, published 1973, page 268:


Milly

A diminutive of the female given names Mildred, Millicent, Emily and Camilla, also used as a formal given name.


Tories

the Tories (canonical)
toreys (alternative)
Toryes (alternative)
Torys (alternative)

Helped by massive tax increases piled on to the electorate by the Tories in their first post-election budget, we slowly began to win the battle.

2011, Philip Gould, The Unfinished Revolution: How New Labour Changed British Politics:

(UK politics) The British Conservative Party


Olaf

And then all hundred and one of us trooped across the grass and onto the platform and got our diplomas from Mr. Halvorson, the superintendent of schools, and he said my name into the microphone―Tollefson, John Olaf―and there is was, the terrible secret of my middle name, revealed, and I slunk back to my seat and people whispered, 'Hey, Ole.'

1998, Garrison Keillor, Wobegon Boy, Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 71:


pitmatic

Pitmatic (alternative)
pitmatical (alternative)

The language spoken by inhabitants of the mining villages in Northumberland or Durham.


Pamela

Invented by Sir Philip Sidney for his pastoral poem The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (c 1593). Seemingly created from scratch; some imagine an analysis as Ancient Greek πᾶς (pâs, “all”) + μέλι (méli, “honey”) but there is no evidence that this was intended.

They lived about thirty miles from the Squire; and she told me, that I might be sure to find her out by one circumstance; for that they had a daughter with a very strange name, Pamĕla, or Pamēla; some pronounced it one way, and some the other.

1773, Henry Fielding, The History and Adventures of Joseph Andrews, page 259:

- But, Pamela, did you say? - A queer sort of name! - I've heard of it somewhere! - Is it a Christian or a Pagan name? - Linsey-woolsey - half one, half t'other - like thy girl - Ha, ha, ha.'

1786, Samuel Richardson, Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded, page 416:

A female given name originating as a coinage.

Philip Sidney
The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia


Merlin

From Middle English Merlyn, from Medieval Latin Merlinus and Old French Merlin, from Proto-Brythonic *Mor-ðin (literally “sea-hill”), from Proto-Celtic *mori (“sea”) + *dūnom (“stronghold, rampart”).

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census-designated place
census-designated place

Josephine County
Josephine County#English

A census-designated place in Josephine County, Oregon, United States.


Dicky

Dickey (alternative)
Dickie (alternative)

A diminutive of the male given name Richard.


Antoine

From French Antoine. Doublet of Anthony.

Antjuan (alternative)
Antuan (alternative)
Antwan (alternative)
Antwaun (alternative)
Antwoine (alternative)
Antwon (alternative)
Antwone (alternative)
Antwuan (alternative)

A male given name from French occasionally borrowed from French, mostly in the U.S.


Daphne

From Ancient Greek δάφνη (dáphnē, “laurel, bay”).

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My wife. Daphne. Yes, that was, is, her name. For some reason people have always found it faintly comic. I think it matches very well her damp, dark, myopic beauty.

1989, John Banville, The Book of Evidence, page 7:


Baldwin

en-proper noun

Baldwin (countable and uncountable, plural Baldwins)

From Proto-West Germanic *Balþawini, from Proto-Germanic *Balþawiniz (“bold friend”).

der

(countable) A male given name from the Germanic languages; rather rare in English.

Baldwin IV, king of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem from 1174 to 1187. Also known as the leper king.


Lucian

From Latin Lūcianus, either a derivative of the Roman praenomen Lūcius, from lūx (“light”); or from Ancient Greek Λουκιανός (Loukianós), of obscure meaning.

A male given name from Latin, rare in the English-speaking world.


Yindjibarndi

A Pama-Nyungan Australian Aboriginal language spoken in and around Roebourne and Onslow in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.


Olympia

From Ancient Greek Ὀλυμπία (Olumpía), from Ὄλυμπος (Ólumpos, “Olympus”).

Olympia
Olympia, Greece
Olympia, Washington

A female given name from Ancient Greek; quite rare in English.


Haitian Creole

A language spoken in Haiti; developed first as a creole based on French and several West African languages.


Zaparoan

An endangered language family of Peru and Ecuador.


Andoa

A probably extinct Zaparoan language, spoken in Peru.


Záparo

A Zaparoan language, spoken in Peru and Ecuador.


Mandinka

From Mandinka Mandinka (“someone from Mande”), from Mandiŋ (“Mande”) + -ka (“inhabitant suffix”).

uder

The language spoken by these people, of the Mandé group of the Niger-Congo language family.


Henriette

From French Henriette, feminine form of Henri (“Henry”) coined in the seventeenth century; in English more popular as Harriet and Henrietta.


Norris

An Anglo-Norman surname, from Old French norreis (“a northerner, a migrant from the north”). More at French norois.

der

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Wallace

en-proper noun

Wallace (countable and uncountable, plural Wallaces)

An Old English byname for a Welshman or Breton, from Anglo-Norman waleis (“foreign”); see wielisc.

(countable) A male given name transferred from the surname, of 19th century and later usage.


Malcolm

Royal name in Scotland, anglicised from various historical Goidelic names equivalent to Scottish Gaelic Maol Chaluim or Calum, Irish Maol Colm, Middle Irish Máel Coluim, Old Irish Máel Columb (literally “devotee of [Saint] Columba”); proper nouns derived from máel (“tonsured”) from Proto-Celtic *mailos, and columb (“dove”) from Latin columbus.

der

We will establish our estate upon / Our eldest, Malcolm, whom we name hereafter / The Prince of Cumberland.

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

Maol Chaluim
Maol Chaluim#Scottish_Gaelic

A male given name from Scottish Gaelic or Goidelic, variant of Calum or Callum, feminine equivalent Malcolmina, equivalent to Scottish Gaelic Maol Chaluim.


Cynthia

Cynthias (plural)
Cinthia (alternative)
Cinthya (alternative)
Cintia (alternative)
Cintya (alternative)
Cynthea (alternative)
Cyntheia (alternative)
Cynthya (alternative)
Sinthia (alternative)
Sintia (alternative)
Synthea (alternative)
Synthia (alternative)
Syntia (alternative)

Borrowed from Latin Cynthia, from Ancient Greek Κυνθία (Kunthía), feminine of Κύνθιος (Kúnthios, “Cynthian (of or pertaining to Mount Cynthus, a mountain of Delos, celebrated as the birthplace of Apollo and Artemis)”).

“Cynthia seems to me such an out-of-the-way name, only fit for poetry, not for daily use.”

1864 August – 1866 January, [Elizabeth] Gaskell, chapter 10, in Wives and Daughters. An Every-day Story. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1866, →OCLC:

Cynthia, the domestic-minded, looked as dashing as a young commando. It was a pity that her spelling was so bad, but perhaps there was something Elizabethan about her spelling as well as about her name.

1978, Graham Greene, The Human Factor, →ISBN, page 59:

Her twin daughters were on the playground equipment. Cynthia and Melinda, reduced to Cindy and Mindy, as Carella had dreaded would happen from the moment she named them.

1999, Ed McBain, The Big Bad City, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 139:


Shelley

From Old English, meaning "clearing on a bank".

A male given name transferred from the surname, of mostly before 1930 usage.

Shelley Berman

(rare) A diminutive of the male given name Sheldon.

A female given name transferred from the surname, of 1930s and later usage, also explained as a variant of Shirley or Michelle.

Shelley Berkley

A diminutive of the female given name Rochelle.

A city in Bingham County, Idaho, United States.


Sara

Through faith also Sara her selfe receiued strength to conceiue seede, and was deliuered of a child when she was past age, because she iudged him faithful who had promised.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Hebrews 11:11:

Olive learnt that her young beauty's name, so far from being anything so fine as Maddalena, was plain Sarah — or Sara, as its owner took care to explain. Olive was rather disappointed - but she thought of Coleridge's ladye love; consoled herself, and tried to console the young lady, with repeating
My pensive Sara! thy soft cheek reclined, &c.
At which Miss Sara Derwent laughed, and asked who wrote that very pretty poetry?

1850 Dinah Craik, Olive, Chapman and Hall, page 151

'I wish I was called Sara,' she said out loud.
'Sarah?' her mother said. 'Why the heck is being called Sarah better than being called Tracy?'
'Not Sarah, Sara,' Tracy said. 'There's no h, you say Saaara.'

2008, Philip Hensher, The Northern Clemency, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 175:

A female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], variant of Sarah.


Marguerite

/ˌmɑː(ɹ)ɡəˈɹiːt/

Borrowed from French Marguerite in the 1860s. Doublet of Margaret, ultimately from the Ancient Greek μαργαρίτης (margarítēs, “pearl”).


Lionel

A Middle English diminutive of French Léon, Latin Leo (“lion”), or of the Middle English nickname Lion + -el (diminutive suffix).

, Scene IV
His grandfather was Lionel, Duke of Clarence,
Third son to the third Edward, King of England.
Spring crestless yeomen from so deep a root?

"Yes. You see, I was born under the sign of Leo, though it's not my real name."
"What is your real name?"
I saw Marcus looking at me, but I couldn't refuse to tell her.
"It's Lionel. But don't tell anyone."
"Why not?"
"Because it's rather a fancy name."

1953, L. P. Hartley, The Go-Between, Hamish Hamilton, published 1974, pages 49–50:

A male given name from Latin of mostly British usage.


Cyrus

From Latin Cȳrus, from Ancient Greek Κῦρος (Kûros), from Old Persian 𐎤𐎢𐎽𐎢𐏁 (kuruš). As a saints' name it has been identified by folk etymology with Ancient Greek κύριος (kúrios, “lord”).

Cyrus] There were two Cyri the greater, meant here, Conqueror of Aſia, Scythia, and all the Eaſt, reigning in the time of Tarquin the proud. […] The other was Cyrus the leſſer, ſonne to Darius, brother to Artaxerxes, whoſe iourney into Perſia, Xenophon wrote. [marginal note:] The tvvo Cyri. […] Cyri who they were.

1610, Io[annes] Lod[ovicus] Viues, translated by I[ohn] H[ealey], Sᵗ. Augustine, of the Citie of God: With the Learned Comments of Io. Lod. Viues. […], [London]: […] George Eld, page 125 and index:

At this passage the Behistun inscription does not enumerate the names of all the nine Achaemenians, but from an inscription Aššurbānapli to be dated to 639 B. C. we know that a certain Kuraš was the king of the country of Parsumaš at this time and this could be the grandfather of Cyrus «the Great». In the family tree between the two Cyri appears Cambyses I, who is mentioned by Herodotus.

1973, D. Hegyi, “Historical Authenticity of Herodotus in the Persian «Logoi»”, in Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, volume 21, Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, →ISSN, pages 76–77:

Contrast Arrian’s statement that the camp belonged to the younger Cyrus (ii, 4.3). It is unlikely that both Cyri camped in the same area (pace Mützell), for when Cyrus marched against Croesus he entered Asia Minor on the northerly route, as Pteria was his first objective (Hdt. i, 76.1), and he would not therefore have gone through the Cilician Gates.

1980, J[ohn] E[dward] Atkinson, “Commentary on Book 3”, in A Commentary on Q. Curtius Rufus’ Historiae Alexandri Magni, Books 3 and 4, Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, →ISBN, page 137:


Cain

From Hebrew קַיִן (Káyin, “craftsman”), present since Old English.


Seymour

From a Norman surname from a place in Normandy, from Old French Saint-Maur, from Late Latin Sanctus Maurus (“Saint Maurus”). The name is cognate to Murry and Maurice.


Jem

You may know what one man thinks of another by his manner of calling him. Thomas and James and Richard and William are stupid young gentlemen; Tom and Jem and Dick and Will are fine spirited fellows.

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

A diminutive of the male given names James, Jeremy, or Jeremiah.

A diminutive of the female given name Jemima.


Luigi

Killing of Brian Thompson
Luigi Mangione

Borrowed from Italian Luigi. Doublet of Ludovico, Luis, Ludwig, and other cognates. The verb sense emerged shortly after the December 2024 killing of American healthcare CEO Brian Thompson by accused perpetrator Luigi Mangione.

dbt

A motherly woman lived there with her son, Luigi, a gay young man with an olive-oily skin, glistening teeth and a rubbery smile.

1952, Paul Brickhill, “The Man who Would Not Die”, in Escape—or Die: Authentic Stories of the R.A.F. Escaping Society, London: Pan Books Ltd., published 1956, page 106:

As the senior mafia padrone, Luigi Sansone used his four-man mafia team to start collections from Sicilian businesses on the Hill.

2011, J.C.R., Sally A. Forehand, J C R Forehand, Murder at the St. Louis Worlds Fair, page 75:

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


Marcia

From Latin Marcia, feminine form of Marcius, a derivative of Marcus, ultimately from Mārs, the god of war.


Horatio

/həˈɹeɪʃiəʊ/

From Latin Horātius, a Roman gens name of uncertain meaning, possibly “timekeeper”. Doublet of Horace.

There are more things in heauen and earth Horatio,
Then are Dream’t of, in your philoſophie, […]

c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shake-speare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and Iohn Trundell, published 1603, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v], signature D, verso:


Brooke

Audio (US)

A topographic surname for someone who lived near a brook.

A female given name transferred from the surname, fairly popular since the 1970s. it was further popularized by Brooke Shields in the 80s.


Skolt Sami

A Finno-Ugric language spoken by 300 people in the area north of the lake Inari in Finland and nearby parts of Russia.


Clarissa

Clarissa
Clarissa (novel)
Samuel Richardson

Borrowed from Italian Clarissa, from Medieval Latin Clarissa; see there for more. Popularized in English by Samuel Richardson's 1748 novel Clarissa. Doublet of Clarisse.

My wife's maiden name—Unmarried name, I should rather say […] was Harlowe—Clarissa Harlowe—you heard me call her my Clarissa—
I did—but I thought it to be a feigned or a love-name, said Miss Rawlins. […]
No—it was her real name, I said.

A female given name from Latin or Italian.


Roderick

Medieval English name from Proto-Germanic *Hrōþirīks, revived after Walter Scott used it in a poem in 1811, where it is a translation of its Spanish cognate Rodrigo. Roderick is also used to anglicize Scottish Ruairidh and Welsh Rhydderch.

"You must not forget that eventually Roderick will have to succeed whatever title you choose. We must not select anything which would seem ridiculous in connection with Roderick. His actual name is bad enough, as it is. Roderick!" Mrs. Hammond winced. This was a painful subject with her. "How often I pleaded with poor Lucy to call him Thomas!"

1924, P. G. Wodehouse, Bill the Conqueror, George H. Doran, published 1924, page 16:

A male given name from the Germanic languages.


Whitney

From Old English hwītan, dative of hwīt (“white”) + īeġ (“island”), "white island".

"I don't believe I've ever known a woman named 'Whitney'," I said, trying not to look too deeply into her bright blue eyes. "Or, hell, even a man for that matter."
"You've never heard of Whitney Houston?"
"Who's that?" I said, realizing that I had never gotten really serious about a woman with blue eyes.

1993, James Crumley, The Mexican Tree Duck, Picador, published 1994, →ISBN, page 138:

A female given name transferred from the surname, popular in the 1980s and 1990s due to the fame of Whitney Houston.


Juliette

A diminutive of the female given name Julie, from French Juliette.


Penelope

From Ancient Greek Πηνελόπη (Pēnelópē), possibly from πηνέλοψ (pēnélops, “duck”).

"She's a sort of pretend auntie - an old friend of Mummy's. Her real name's Miss Penelope Gill but we always call her Gillie."
"Don't you ever let her hear you calling her Penelope!" said Mrs Lindsay, laughing. "She hates the name, though really I can't see why. I suppose it wasn't so fashionable when she was young."

1967, Joan G. Robinson, When Marnie Was There, HarperCollins, published 2014, →ISBN, page 194:

"What's her name?" He meant the baby's. "Penelope. We're never going to call her Penny. Penelope." - - - ""Oh. Well, it's Penelope Henderson - Porteous I guess. Or Porteous - Henderson. But maybe that's too much of a mouthful, when she's already called Penelope? We knew that we wanted Penelope. We'll have to settle it somehow."

2004, Alice Munro, Runaway:Stories, Knopf, page 93:


Susie

Susy (alternative)
Suzie (alternative)
Suzy (alternative)

Susie has yellow hair, - - - . She has a little breathless voice and a startled little laugh; even her name is like a powder puff.

1988, Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye, page 295:

A diminutive of Susan and of related female given names.


Suzie

Susie (alternative)
Susy (alternative)
Suzi (alternative)
Suzy (alternative)


Leonard

From Old French Leonard, name of a 6th century Frankish saint, from Old High German leo (“lion”) or Old High German liut (“person”) and hart (“hard”). As a surname, also used as an anglicisation of Irish Ó Leannáin (Lennon).

- - - save the delight of being called "Leo" by those whom the newspapers call "the leading fashionables", whereas, had he stuck to the city, he might still have been called only Leonard, like his father before him.

1844, Catherine Gore, The Birthright and Other Tales, Henry Colburn, published 1844, page 251:

"You want names, I'll give you names. My name is Leonard Alfred Schneider. What was I doing when I took the name Lenny Bruce? I was moving towards the invisible middle.

1997, Don DeLillo, Underworld, Simon&Schuster, published 1998, →ISBN, page 592:


Románico

From the Latin Latin romanice (“in the manner of the Romans”).

der

An artificial language composed of regularized source words common to the major Romance languages, created in 1991. It is closely related to Esperanto and Ido.


paternoster

/ˈpɑtəɹˌnɔstɚ/

From Middle English paternoster, pater noster, from Old English Paternoster, from Latin Pater noster (“our father”) (the first two words of the Oratio Dominica (“the Lord's prayer”)), from pater (“father”) + noster (“our”). The lift and the fishing equipment are named from their resemblance to a rosary.

(Christianity) The Lord's Prayer, especially in a Roman Catholic context.


Bryan

en-proper noun

Bryan (countable and uncountable, plural Bryans)

Bryans (plural)
Brienne (alternative)
de Brienne (alternative)
de Bryan (alternative)

A male given name from Irish, a less common alternative spelling of Brian.


Angelica

Church Italian Angelica, from Latin angelica or a Latinate elaboration of Angela. Name of a heroine in Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (1516).

Look to the bak'd meats, good Angelica, / Spare not for cost.

c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:


Boyd

From Scottish Gaelic, either buidhe (“blond, yellow, fair”), or a habitational surname from the Isle of Bute in Scotland.

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Elise

From French Élise or German Elise, both variants of Elisabeth.

"Obviously I wasn't going to go through life saddled with a name like Elsie. When I got up to London at the age of eighteen everybody laughed at me, so a boyfriend suggested a tiny amendment, two letters swopped, and I've been Elise for thirty years."

2001, Susan Kelly, Killing the Fatted Calf, Allison & Busby, →ISBN, page 34:


New High German

The modern form of the German language, successor to Middle High German.


New High German

The history of the New High German word Körper (corpus) starts with its Middle High German borrowing from the Latin word corpus, body flesh, corpse, shadow (of a dead person), trunk, belly, person, nature, and others, and leads over the years to the latest form.

1995, Ilse Middendorf, The Perceptible Breath: A Breathing Science (Preface); in: Don Hanlon Johnson (ed.), Bone, Breath & Gesture: Practices of Embodiment, page 75:

nyhøjtysk

of or relating to the modern German language


Lib Dem

(Australian politics, UK politics, informal) Liberal Democrat


Early New High German

…
Middle High German c1050–1350 nëment …
Transition period c1350–1500 nemen / nement …
Early New High German c1500–1650 nemen …
…

2008, Kjartan Ottosson, The diffusion of systemic changes through the inflectional system: Evidence from person-number inflection in the Nordic languages and German, in: Thórhallur Eythórsson (ed.), Grammatical Change and Linguistic Theory: The Rosendal papers (John Benjamins Publishing Company: Amsterdam/Philadelphia), p. 329ff., here p. 352 *

The form of the German language spoken from 1350 or 1500 to 1650 CE, successor to Middle High German.

Frühneuhochdeutsch (as adjective: frühneuhochdeutsch)


Vance

en-prop

Vance (countable and uncountable, plural Vances)

From a Southern English dialectal form of Old English fenn (“marsh, bog”).

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


Johanna

/d͡ʒəʊˈhænə/

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


Shangaan

From the name of Soshangani, the leader of the Revolt against Chaka Zulu, who fled to Zimbabwe. Alternatively from Zulu: shangane: a wanderer.


Les Bleus

But they ran out of time and inspiration as Les Bleus set up a deserved semi-final clash with Wales.

2011, Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France:

“The Blues”; nickname for the French national team in various sports.


Pythagoras

/paɪˈθæɡ.əɹ.əs/

/pɪˈθæɡ.əɹ.əs/

/paɪˈθæɡ.ɚ.əs/

From Ancient Greek Πῡθαγόρᾱς (Pūthagórās).

Pitagora

A male given name from Ancient Greek of mostly historical use, and a transliteration from modern Greek.

Gratiano:
O, be thou damn'd, inexecrable dog!
And for thy life let justice be accused.
Thou almost makest me waver in my faith,
To hold opinion with Pythagoras,
That souls of animals infuse themselves
Into the trunks of men: thy currish spirit
Govern'd a wolf, who, hang'd for human slaughter,
Even from the gallows did his fell soul fleet,
And, whilst thou lay'st in thy unhallow'd dam,
Infused itself in thee; for thy desires
Are wolfish, bloody, starved, and ravenous.

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

Pythagoras (c. 570 – c. 495 BC), an Ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher.


Annabel

Originally a mishearing or misreading of Latin amabilis (“lovable”) (= Amabel, Mabel), used since the 12th century and by folk etymology interpreted as Anna + belle, "beautiful Anna".

I was a child and she was a child, / In this kingdom by the sea: / But we loved with a love that was more than love — / I and my Annabel Lee;


Seri

The language of this group, variously considered an isolate or a member of the Hokan family.


Kamba

Under the plan released last week, the highway known as G695 will run through southern Tibet’s Cona (Tibetan: Tsona) county – which lies immediately north of the disputed India-Tibet border demarcated by the Line of Actual Control (LAC) – Kamba county, host of a noted military camp, and Gyirong county near the border with Nepal.

2022 July 21, “China to build second highway through Aksai Chin, claimed by India as part of Ladakh”, in Tibetan Review, archived from the original on 2022-07-21:

A county of Shigatse, Tibet Autonomous Region, China


Karuk

Borrowed from Karok káruk (“upstream, upriver (people)”), because they live upstream on the Klamath River while the Yurok live downstream.

bor+

The language spoken by this tribe, which is either a language isolate or perhaps Hokan.


Kerebe

a language spoken on Ukerewe Island, Tanzania


Khakas

Borrowed from Russian хака́с (xakás, “a Khakas”).

A Yenisei Turkic language spoken by the Khakas people.


Kichagga

a Bantu language spoken in parts of Tanzania


Kikuyu

A large town in Kiambu County, Kenya, named after the Kikuyu people.


Pauline

From French Pauline, in turn from Latin Paulina; in regular use since the 19th century.

The youngest child of George and Emily Johnson was named Emily after her mother, and Pauline in honor of the only sibling of Emperor Napoleon of France, whose life was the object of George Johnson's consuming interest.

1987, Betty Keller, Pauline: A Biography of Pauline Johnson, Formac Publ. Co., published 1989, →ISBN, page 19:


Lambya

A Bantu language of Malawi and Tanzania.


Lumasaaba

‘Add to that, I am Ganda: don’t even speak Lumasaaba.’

2019, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, “Love Made in Manchester”, in Manchester Happened, Oneworld Publications (2020), page 287:

a Bantu language spoken in eastern Uganda.


Lusoga

a Bantu language spoken in the Busoga region of Uganda.


Munukutuba

Republic of the Congo
Republic of the Congo

One of the official languages of the Republic of the Congo.


Makonde

From Chimakonde or Makonde, the Makonde name of the language.

The Bantu language spoken by the Makonde.


Manda

A diminutive of the female given name Amanda.


Maragoli

A dialect of the Luhya language of western Kenya.


Maragoli

A subdivision of the Luhya tribe. The Maragoli speak Luragooli, a language belonging to the Luhya group and very similar to Luganda, Kikuyu, Gishu and several languages in Eastern, Central and Southern Africa.


Shan

From Burmese ရှမ်း (hram:), from Thai สยาม (sà-yǎam). Doublet of Siam.

The Thai proper are related to the Shans of Burma, the Siamese of Thailand and the Lao of Indochina. The Chinese segment of the Thai ethnic group is settled in Yünnan Province, where it numbers 580,000. It constitutes the Hsi-shuang-pan-na Autonomous Chou in the southern part of the province and shares the Tehung Autonomous Chou in the west with the Chingpo (Kachin). The Thai of the Hsi-shuang-pan-na Chou speak the Lü dialect, those of the Tehung Chou are more closely related to the Shans of northern Burma.

1956, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map: A Political and Economic Geography of The Chinese People's Republic, Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 42:

Although holding mainly high upland territory in Burma, the Shan themselves live only in the valleys and in stretches of plain. The surrounding hill country is occupied by relatively primitive hill peoples living in economic symbiosis with the Shan, but there is no clear genetic distinction between the Shan and their neighbours. With minor exceptions modern Shan communities are Buddhist. Most Shan are cultivators of rice; they have a characteristic species of feudal political structure. Shan culture probably diffused southward and westward from west-central China from Han times (c. 200 B.C.) onward.

1968, “SHAN”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 20, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 344, column 2:

A member of a people living primarily in the Shan State of Myanmar (also known as Burma), and in adjacent areas of China, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, with about 6 million people.


Ilonggo

Batiano River
Fort San Pedro (Iloilo)
Iloilo River

From Tagalog Ilonggo, from Spanish ilongo, from ilong + -o, the root referring to Hiligaynon ilong (“nose”), from the nose-like shape of the land between the Iloilo River and Batiano River where the Spanish Fort San Pedro is located. See also Spanish pampango.

An Austronesian language of the Visayan language family, spoken in Western Visayas in the Philippines.


Connie

A diminutive of the female given name Constance or, rarely, of Concepción.


Philippa

A Latinate feminine form of Philip, recorded in medieval England, but originally pronounced like the masculine form.

"You detest every thing insincere, I know, charming Philippa — pardon me, your beautiful name betrays me constantly. Is it not — like your voice — stolen from poetry or music?"

1854, John Esten Cooke, The Youth of Jefferson, Redfield, published 1854, page 22:

They had an expensive, well-cut air which was like a uniform, and their conversation was all about people with names like Terence and Geoffrey, Philippa and Vivien, who lived in London and County Wicklow and who were "terribly amusing".

1963, Jane McIlvaine, Cammie's Cousin, Bobbs-Merrill, page 58:


Hamish

Anglicized spelling of Scottish Gaelic Sheumais, vocative case of Seumas, from English James.

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


Jimbo

A diminutive of the male given name James.


Ophelia

/əʊˈfiː.lɪə/

Hamlet
Jacopo Sannazaro
William Shakespeare

Borrowed from Italian Ofelia, coined by the poet Jacopo Sannazaro in his poem Arcadia (1504), probably from the Ancient Greek ὠφέλειᾰ (ōphéleiă, “help, aid, succour”). The name was used by William Shakespeare for the ill-fated love interest of Hamlet.

uder

I lov’d Ophelia: forty thousand brothers // Could not, with all their quantity of love, // Make up my sum.

1599–1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act V, Scene i


Hanna

en-proper noun

Hanna (countable and uncountable, plural Hannas)

Variant spelling of Hannah or romanization of Hebrew חַנָּה (Ḥanâ), chiefly for the mother of Samuel, from חַנָּה (ḥanâ, “grace, gracious, graced with child”). As an Oklahoman town, named for Hanna Bullett, one of the initial settlers. As a Polish village, named for the queen Anna Jagiellon.

(uncommon) A female given name from Hebrew, variant of Hannah.


Lou

Lou (countable and uncountable, plural Lous)

A diminutive of the male given name Louis.

A diminutive of the female given names Louisa or Louise; often also used as a middle name.


Lou

A Southeast Admiralty Islands language spoken on Lou Island of Manus Province, Papua New Guinea.

The Torricelli language of Papua New Guinea.


Kendal

From Old English Cent + dæl = "valley of the river Kent".

Westmorland and Furness
Westmorland and Furness#English

A town and civil parish with a town council in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in South Lakeland district (OS grid ref SD5192).

A habitational surname from Old English, also as a variant of Kendall.

A male given name transferred from the surname.

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


Ricardo

From Portuguese and Spanish Ricardo. Doublet of Richard.

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


Keavy

Anglicised form of the Irish and Scottish Gaelic Caoimhe (“beautiful, precious”).

der

Keeva (alternative)
Keevah (alternative)
Kiva (alternative)
Keava (alternative)
Keva (alternative)

A female given name from Irish used in Ireland and Scotland.


Sumerian

/səˈmɪəɹiən/

(linguistics) The ancient language spoken in Sumer, a language isolate.


Kildin Sami

One of the languages spoken by the Sami people, written using the Cyrillic alphabet (http://www.omniglot.com/writing/saami.htm).


Seumas

A male given name from Scottish Gaelic, equivalent to English James.


Mickey D's

For those five days each month when we've been hormonally hijacked, there are women's health clinics to be defended, underpaid amigas at Mickey D's to be organized, and redwood trees to be protected.

2001, Susan Jane Gilman, Kiss My Tiara: How to Rule the World as a SmartMouth Goddess, page 42:

He looked around. This place wasn't exactly Mickey D's, but it was sure a lot better than some of the places he'd been eating in lately.

2003, JoAnn Ross, Magnolia Moon, page 121:

What would I tell him, “Sorry, darling, I was at Mickey D's”?

2004, Mariane Pearl, A Mighty Heart: The Inside Story of the Al Qaeda Kidnapping of Danny Pearl, page 97:

"Hey, listen here, ya'll," Serena said, "I don't know if big is beautiful, but Mickey D's fries and Dunkin' Donuts are damn masterpieces. They're straight-up works of art. O-kayyyy?"

"This like Mickey D's. It's all about the dollar." "I can pay you," said the old woman. She raised a pathetic handful of ragged bills.

2005, John Connolly, The Black Angel: A Thriller, page 24:

(US, slang) McDonald's (the chain of fast food restaurants).


Sammie

Sammies (plural)
Sammy (alternative)
Sami (alternative)


Sammie

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

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


Immanuel

Immanuels (plural)
Emmanuel (alternative)

From Hebrew עִמָּנוּאֵל (ʿimanuʾél), from עִמָּנוּ אֵל (ʿimánu ʾél, literally “God is with us”).

Hebrew עִמָּנוּאֵל (ʿimanuʾél)

A male given name from Hebrew: alternative form of Emmanuel


Britisher

(India) The British colonial authorities; a European member of the British Raj, especially an officer from the colonial authorities.


Siberian

[saɪˈbɪəɹɪən]


Siberian

[saɪˈbɪəɹɪən]


Houston

en-proper noun

Houston (countable and uncountable, plural Houstons)

Houstons (plural)
Hoston (alternative)
Houstoun (alternative)
Hughesdon (alternative)

Originally from a place near Glasgow, from the Middle English equivalent of "Hugh's town". Analyzable as Hugh + -s- + -ton

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


Wilfred

The name of two early Anglo-Saxon saints Wilfriþ, from Old English wil (“will”) + friþ (“peace”).

A male given name from Old English, popular in the U.K. in the early twentieth century.


Dallas

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Dallas
Dallas (disambiguation)
George M. Dallas

# The Texas city was named after George M. Dallas, vice president to Polk; family name is evolved from dalhous (13th c.), meaning "dweller at the house in the dale," from dale + house.
# The Scottish place-name is from Pictish, equivalent to Welsh dôl (“meadow, haugh”) + gwas (“abode”).

A male given name transferred from the place name.


Felix

From Latin Fēlīx (literally “happy, lucky”).

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

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

Had a funny first name, like Oscar or maybe - no! I remember now. It was Felix. Felix Tanner.

2005 Marc Cerasini, etc, Operation Hell Gate, HarperEntertainment, page 134


Dominique

From French Dominique. Doublet of Dominic.


Dupont

Dupont (countable and uncountable, plural Duponts)


Mkuu

a dialect of the Rombo language of Tanzania.


Rombo

A Bantu language of Tanzania, spoken by the Chaga people.


Gabi-Gabi

Gabi Gabi (alternative)
Gabigabi (alternative)
Kabi-Kabi (alternative)
Kabi Kabi (alternative)
Kabikabi (alternative)
Gubbi Gubbi (alternative)


Ndamba

a language of Tanzania similar to Mbunga and Pogolo.


Lavukaleve

A language spoken on the Russell Islands, Solomon Islands.


Elisabeth

The spelling of Elizabeth used in the Authorized Version of the New Testament. Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἐλισάβετ (Elisábet), a transliteration of Hebrew אֱלִישֶׁבַע (Elishéva, “my God is an oath”).

der

A female given name from Hebrew, a less common form of Elizabeth in English.


Paakantyi

Baagandji (alternative)
Barkindji (alternative)
Barkandji (alternative)

An aboriginal people of New South Wales.


Paakantyi

A Pama-Nyungan Australian Aboriginal suffixing language of this people; Baagandji.


Ahmad

From Arabic أَحْمَد (ʔaḥmad), from حَمِدَ (ḥamida, “to thank or to praise”).

Aahmed (alternative)
Achmad (alternative)
Achmat (alternative)
Achmed (alternative)
Achmet (alternative)
Ahamed (alternative)
Ahmed (alternative)
Ahmet (alternative)

A male given name from Arabic, variant of Ahmed.


Norn

Ultimately from Old Norse norrǿnn (“northern, Norse”)

An extinct North Germanic language once spoken on the Shetland and Orkney Islands.


Elton

From a number of sources, including:
# For the places in Cheshire, County Durham, and Derbyshire, England: from Old English ēl (“eel”) + tūn (“farm, village”) since the village is situated above a small stream. Less likely, from Old English personal name Ella + tūn.
# For the place in Cambridgeshire, England: from Middle English Adelintune, from Old English æþeling (“prince”) + tūn (“estate”).
# For the place in Gloucestershire, England: from Middle English Elwinton, from Old English personal name Ælfwine, feminine genitive singular Ælfwynne + tūn (“estate”).
# For the place in Herefordshire, England: from Middle English Elintona, from Old English *æling (“eel fishery”) + tūn (“estate”), in reference to nearby Wigmore Lake.
# For the place in Nottinghamshire, England, see Elton on the Hill.


Graeme

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Jen

Usually a clipped or hypocoristic form of Jennifer, although also used for Jean, Jeanette, Jeannette, etc.
Doublet of Ivanka, Jan, Janelle, Janet, Janey, Janine, Jeanette, Jeanie, Jeannette, Jeannine, Jenna, Jenny, Jessie, Jo, Jody, Juanita, Shanae, Sinead, and Vanna in these secondary derivations.

dbt

The New York Post also temporarily took down and then revised and republished an article about the Fox reporter’s exchange with White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Monday.

2021 April 27, Daniel Dale, “New York Post temporarily deletes, then edits false story that claimed Harris’ book was given out in migrant ‘welcome kits’”, in CNN:


Roswell

en-proper noun

Roswell (countable and uncountable, plural Roswells)

Metathesized from Middle English Roweshill, from a contraction of either the Old English personal name Hrōþwulf or its Norman cognate Rolf, Rouf, Rou (in the genitive case, adding -es) + Old English hyll (“hill”).

An unincorporated community in Canyon County, Idaho.

(1997) So go on with your life / Forget that Roswell crap / Show love to the black suit / 'Cuz that's the Men In … Black "Men in Black" by Will Smith (1997)

A city, the county seat of Chaves County, New Mexico, known for conspiracy theories that its Roswell Army Air Field has recovered UFOs and extraterrestrials.

Among the cases he examined was an incident that has come to be known as England’s Roswell.

1998, Jim Wilson, “Six Unexplainable Encounters”, in Popular Mechanics, Hearst Magazines, page 66:

Kazantsev’s story was for some unaccountable reason taken seriously in the West, leading to some enthusiasts referring to Tunguska as the Russian Roswell.

2007, Rodney Castleden, Natural Disasters That Changed the World, Book Sales, page 272:

Dubbed “Mexico’s Roswell,” the mid-air collision near Coyame of an airplane and a UFO has been the subject of a major documentary for the History Channel’s UFO Hunters series in 2008, and numerous articles in newspapers, magazines, and Websites.

2008, Noe Torres, Ruben Uriarte, Mexico's Roswell: The Chihuahua UFO Crash, Lulu.com, page 3:

The most significant ufological event of a region.

Tuscarawas County
Tuscarawas County#English

A place in the United States:
A village in Tuscarawas County, Ohio.

A census-designated place in Miner County, South Dakota.


Trenton

⇒ Translingual: trentonensis

Originally named "Trent's town" in the 17th century, after a Quaker, William Trent.
The town in Nova Scotia is named after the capital of New Jersey.

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


Sorcha

Borrowed from Irish and Scottish Gaelic Sorcha (“light, radiant”).

bor

A female given name from Scottish Gaelic.


Dorcha

Borrowed from Irish and Scottish Gaelic Dorcha (literally “dark”).


Languedoc

Borrowed from French Languedoc, from langue d’oc (“the language of oc”), from Dante Alighieri’s De vulgari eloquentia, where he wrote in Latin: “nam alii oc, alii si, alii vero dicunt oil” (‘some say òc, others say sì, others say oïl’). Based on the Occitan word òc (“yes”), in contrast to Old French oïl (now French oui).

Pertaining to the Occitan language: Provençal, related to Catalan.


Rotuman

A language spoken on the island of Rotuma in Fiji.


Rukiga

A Great Lakes Bantu language spoken by the Kigezi people, the Bakiga.


Sangu

An ethnic group based in the Usangu Plain of Chunya District of Mbeya Region, Tanzania.


complainer

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(Scots law) A complainant (an alleged victim in a criminal trial).


Shubi

A dialect of the Rwandi-Rundi language of Tanzania.


Hakka

Of or relating to the Hakka (Kejia, 客家 (Kèjiā)), an ethnic group of the Han Chinese.


Hakka

The first county centre gone through, that of Tsengcheng, was full of new construction. After it, the language on the road right on into the Meihsien prefecture was Hakka.

1977 May, Rewi Alley, “Meihsien—the Great Hakka Centre”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVI, number 5, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 16:

We passed through a large Hakka town (Hakka is a Chinese language, one of the three official languages in Taiwan; more on that in later posts) and then began to pitch and roll through a series of white-knuckling switchbacks up Hsinchu County Road 22.

2011 April 28, John MacMillan, “A day in Cingcyuan”, in a tiny revolution (Blog), archived from the original on 2024-02-07:

As a mainland China national, the counter for our trial was fluent in English, Putonghua, and the Sichuan dialect, and was familiar with a number of other major Chinese languages such as Cantonese and Hakka.

2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 10:

A Chinese language mainly spoken in the south-eastern part of mainland China (Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangdong and Guangxi), Taiwan, Hong Kong, and by the Chinese minorities in Southeast Asia.


Maeve

Anglicized from Irish Méabh, from Middle Irish Medb (literally “intoxicating”), name of a legendary queen of Connacht.

der

A female given name from Irish of mostly Irish usage.


Reynold

From Anglo-Norman Reinald, from Proto-Germanic *Raginawaldaz brought to England by Normans and partly merged with the earlier equivalent Ronald, from Old Norse Rǫgnvaldr. Doublet of Renault.

A male given name from the Germanic languages, today more popular in the forms Reginald and Ronald. Modern use is partly transferred from the surname.


Tokyoite

en-adj

Tokyoite (comparative more Tokyoite, superlative most Tokyoite)

more Tokyoite (comparative)
most Tokyoite (superlative)

Of or relating to Tokyo, the capital of Japan.


Bashkir

A Turkic language with many dialects, spoken in parts of Russia, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan.


Galwegian

Galwegian (comparative more Galwegian, superlative most Galwegian)

more Galwegian (comparative)
most Galwegian (superlative)

/ɡɔːlˈwiːdʒən/

Of or pertaining to Galloway, Scotland, or to its historic people, language and culture.


Galwegian

/ɡɔːlˈwiːdʒən/


Wembawemba

An aboriginal people of New South Wales.


Wik-Mungkan

A Pama-Nyungan Australian Aboriginal language spoken in Aurukun, Queensland.


Winnebago

From Ojibwe Wiinibiigoo (“Winnebago person”), from wiinibiig (“murky water”) (of Lake Winnipeg), from wiini’ (“to make someone dirty”), wiinad (“it is dirty”), plus nibi (“water”), plural nibig (“waters”).

A village in Winnebago County, Illinois, United States

Winnebago County
Winnebago County#English

A small city in Faribault County, Minnesota, United States.

Faribault County
Faribault County#English

A village in Thurston County, Nebraska, United States.

An unincorporated community in Winnebago County, Wisconsin, United States.


Vaughn

en-proper noun

Vaughn (countable and uncountable, plural Vaughns)

A variant of Vaughan, from Welsh bychan (“small”).

A male given name transferred from the surname.

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

A census-designated place in Cascade County, Montana, named after Robert Vaughn (Montana rancher).

An unincorporated community in Lower Paxton Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.


Zigua

a Bantu language of Tanzania and Somalia


Proto-Sino-Tibetan

The original language, or rather, cluster of dialects, from which descended the Sino-Tibetan family of languages.

漢藏語原型 /汉藏语原型

cluster of dialects from which descend the Sino-Tibetan family of languages


Rupert

A German name, brought to England by Prince Rupert of the Rhine in the seventeenth century. Doublet of Robert.

A St Oswald's boy can pass off a name like Orlando, can make it sound like peppermint. Even Rupert sounds somehow cool when attached to a navy-blue St Oswald's blazer.

2010, Joanne Harris, blueeyedboy, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 99:

'What about Rupert?' his mother says brightly. 'I've always loved the name Rupert and it's an old family name on my side.'
'Sounds like...a whatdyoucallit?' Ted's father says, folding up the newspaper and tossing it to the floor.
'What?'
'A...' Ted's father puts his hand to his brow '...you know...a thing that children take to bed. Um...Brideshead...um...teddy-bear! That's it. A teddy-bear.'

2010, Maggie O'Farrell, The Hand That First Held Mine, Headline, →ISBN, page 91:

“Gossip” is about a lot more than just juicy tidbits and the columnists that peddle them, presenting a multifaceted look at gossip’s role in the newspaper/media ecosystem and at Rupert Murdoch’s enterprises in particular.

2021 August 20, Brian Lowry, “‘Gossip’ charts how tabloid tattlers ‘escaped from their cages’ and rippled through the media”, in CNN:

(chiefly UK) A male given name from the Germanic languages.


Randolph

From Old Norse rǫnd (“shield”) + úlfr (“wolf”).


Gaston

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


Mortimer

A habitational surname from Mortemer in France, from Old Northern French, literally meaning “dead pond”.

I like the names Herbert and Mortimer more all the time. They are so distinguished and new and American. Do you know how I came to think of them? I was reading the newspaper in bed after my first boy was born. I was reading the society page, which is always so interesting.

1941, Delmore Schwartz, Shenandoah, New Directions, page 13:


Manuel

From Spanish and Portuguese, short for Emanuel.


Arabella

Uncertain, used in Scotland since the sixteenth century; possibly from Latin orabilis "yielding to prayer" or a variant of Annabel.


Vivian

Early saints' name from Latin Vīviānus, and of its feminine form Vīviāna, probably from vīvus (“alive”).

Of the you're-going-to-get-it-anyway faction was a young Australian on board by the name, so help me, of Vivian Nankervis. - - - And he was beautiful, even with a name like Vivian; moreover, he had never been ill a day in his life.

1942, Caroline Mytinger, Headhunting in the Solomon Islands, Macmillan, page 13:

'What's your name?' 'Vivian.' 'Isn't that one of the names that mean something?' She said, 'It means my mother used to go to the movies.'

1990, Paul Theroux, Chicago Loop, Hamish Hamilton Ltd, →ISBN, page 70:


Curtis

From Old French corteis and curteis (Modern French courtois (“polite, courteous”). Doublet of courteous.

A cold world, Curtis, in every office but thine; and therefore, fire.

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

The night once come, our happiness, our unhappiness, — it is all abolished; vanished, clean gone; a thing that has been: ‘not of the slightest consequence’ whether we were happy as eupeptic Curtis, as the fattest pig of Epicurus, or unhappy as job with potsherds, as musical Byron with Giaours and sensibilities of the heart […]

1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “chapter IV, Happy”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker):

Without undue haste, we named him Curtis simply because we liked the name. It seemed to suit the little guy too. Knowing my love of aviation, several friends and relatives wrongly assumed we have named him after the Curtiss Aircraft Company. I hadn't thought of this, but it was a great idea. There are some terrific aircraft company names to choose. You'll see the likes of Douglas, Martin, Edwards, Ryan, Miles and Albert just to name a few.

1999, Bernie Runstedler, Jr., Breezes Against My Brow, General Store Publishing House., →ISBN, page 77:


Matilda

From Middle English Matilda, from Old French Mathilde, from Old High German Mahthilt, Mehthilt, from Old High German maht, meht (“might”) + hild, hilta (“battle”); compare German Mechthild, Old English Mæþhild (“Matilda”).

But wondrously begotten, and begonne / By false illusion of a guilefull Spright, / On a faire Ladie Nonne, that whilome hight / Matilda, daughter to Pubidius, […]

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 13:

Countess of Laussitz - Matilda, too, by the mark! A good name, a marvellous good name, is not, Algernon? Musical, pretty, soft, smoothing, loveable. - - - many a fair prospect is spoiled by the mistake in the name. Call Matilda Joan, or Louisa Deborah, and you are ruined forever!

1844, George Payne Rainsford James, Rose D'Albret, Or, Troublous Times, a Romance, Harper, page 20:

At one time Joan invented other names for her. 'Matilda' brought to mind dingy curtains, gray tent flaps, a slack-skinned old woman. How about Sharon? Lilliane? Elizabeth? Then, Joan didn't know how, the name Matilda became transformed. It started shining like silver. The "il" in it was silver. But not metallic. In Joan's mind the name gleamed now like a fold of satin.

1990, Alice Munro, Friend of My Youth, .Stories, →ISBN, page 187:

A female given name from the Germanic languages.

ম্যাটিল্ডা

female given name, cognates and transliterations


Sophy

Ultimately from Ancient Greek; see Sophia.

I knew Sophy was a good girl, and would not fall in love to make me angry.

A diminutive of the female given name Sophia.


Montgomery

From a Norman surname, from a place in Normandy (Old French for "Gomeric's hill"). Gumaric was a Germanic personal name composed of *gumô (“man”) and *rīks (“ruler”) (whence the modern French surnames Gomery, Gommery and Gumery or the Galician placename Gomariz).


Aileen

Though her name was Aileen the minister drafted in continually referred to her as Eileen, but neither Louise nor the ramshackle bunch of people who regarded themselves as her mother's friends had bothered to correct him. Louise liked the way 'Eileen' made her mother seem like someone else altogether, a stranger and not her mother.

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

A female given name from Irish, variant of Eileen.


Cal

A short form of the male given names Caleb, Calum or Calvin.

A diminutive of the female given name Caroline.


Estelle

From Old French estelle (“star”), originally from Latin stella. Name of a third century martyr.

A female given name from French borrowed from French.


Ariadne

Ariadne (countable and uncountable, plural Ariadnes)

(rare, countable) A female given name from Ancient Greek.


Freddy

A diminutive of the male given name Frederick.


Fipa

A Bantu language of Tanzania and Zambia.


Franny

A diminutive of the female given names Frances, Francine, and Francesca.


Frannie

From Fran + -ie. The town was named after Frannie Morris, daughter of the town's first postmaster.

A diminutive of the female given names Frances and Francine.


okurigana

(orthography) In the Japanese language, the kana which follow a stem written with kanji, which record how that stem is inflected, and guides recognition of the appropriate kun'yomi reading (word stem associated with the kanji); for example, く (ku) and かべる (kaberu) in 浮(う)く (uk-u, “to float”, intransitive) and 浮(う)かべる (uk-aberu, “to float”, transitive), or む (mu) and きる (kiru) in 生(う)む (umu, “to birth”) and 生(い)きる (ikiru, “to live”). Perhaps analogous to -st, -nd in English 1st (first), 2nd (second).


Hilary

From Latin Hilarius (“cheerful, happy”), name of a fourth-century saint and from its feminine form Hilaria.


Jules

A male given name A nickname for Julian or Julius.

A female given name A nickname for Julia or Julie.


Antoinette

From French Antoinette, feminine diminutive of Antoine, equivalent to Anthony.

A female given name from French; best known for the ill-fated French queen Marie Antoinette.

安托瓦妮特

female given name from French Antoinette


Johnnie

A diminutive of the male given name John.


Bess

King Edward. Come hither, Bess, and let me kiss my boy.

c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third 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 V, scene vi]:

"Jack, couldn't you call me Bette again? You know how much I hate Bess. I don't know what's happened; you've been calling me Bette since we came to California and now, suddenly, you're calling me Bess."
There's a long silence. Dad's still up on his knees; I'm driving along Sepulveda Boulevard toward Olympic.
"Well, Bette, I married you as Bess and I've always liked that name. It's a name you don't hear very often; it's a strong name like you. Every time I call you Bette I'm afraid somebody else might answer."

1981, William Wharton, Dad, Knopf, →ISBN, page 293:

A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth.


Bradley

Bradley (countable and uncountable, plural Bradleys)

Bradleys (plural)
Bradly (alternative)
Bradeley (alternative)
Bradly (alternative)
Bradlee (alternative)
Bradleigh (alternative)
Bradlie (alternative)
Bradly (alternative)
Broadley (alternative)

Ultimately from Old English brād (“broad”) + lēah (“woodland”). Equivalent to broad + -ley.

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Henderson

en-prop

Henderson (countable and uncountable, plural Hendersons)

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


Mabia

a group of languages spoken in Niger and Congo


Caitlin

Caitlins (plural)
Caitlyn (alternative)
Catelyn (alternative)
Catelin (alternative)
Kaitlin (alternative)
Kaitlyn (alternative)
Katelyn (alternative)
Katelin (alternative)
Katelynn (alternative)

Beautiful, charming, rich, clever Caitlin needs one thing: love.

1997, Bernard Alger Drew, The 100 Most Popular Young Adult Authors: Biographical Sketches and Biographies, page 327:

Caitlin is sixteen and a sixth former at The Magna and is under a lot of pressure with exams.

2003, Helena Pielichaty, After School Club, page 3:

Sixteen-year-old Caitlin — and all our nieces and sisters and friends — need to grow up in a culture that prizes difference, not conformity.

2006, Suzanne Holland, “The Integrity Conundrum”, in Carol Taylor, Roberto Dell'Oro, editors, Health And Human Flourishing: Religion, Medicine, And Moral Anthropology, page 114:

A female given name from Irish Caitlín, equivalent to English Catherine.


Ivrit

the Hebrew language, especially Modern Hebrew


Brittish

en-adj

Brittish (comparative more Brittish, superlative most Brittish)

more Brittish (comparative)
most Brittish (superlative)

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren.

1776, Thomas Jefferson, others, The [United States'] Declaration of Independence:


Kev

A diminutive of the male given name Kevin.


yus

Russian юс (jus), from Old Church Slavonic ѫсъ (ǫsŭ, “big yus”)

uder

Either of two letters, little yus (Ѧ) and big yus (Ѫ), representing nasal vowel sounds in the Cyrillic alphabet. The only major Slavic language retaining these sounds is Polish, which is written in the Latin alphabet.


Goliath

Ultimately from Hebrew גָּלְיָת (golyāṯ).


Anirban

From Bengali অনির্বাণ (onirban), from Sanskrit अनिर्वाण (anirvāṇa), meaning an eternal or inextinguishable flame (of life), from Sanskrit अ- (a-, “un-”) + निर्वाण (nirvāṇa, “dying”).

A male given name from Bengali, one of the most common names found among Bengalis.


Ariana

Modern simplification of Arianna, Ariane and Arianne, all forms of the Greek name Ariadne ("most holy"; Cretan Greek αρι (ari) "most" and αδνος (adnos) "holy"). There has been some confusion with the similar sounding Adriana and Adrienne.
* By folk etymology also associated with Welsh arian (“silver”).


Sameer

Transliteration of Arabic سَمِير (samīr).


Susmita

From Hindi सुष्मिता (suṣmitā, “lovely smile”), from सु- (su-, adjectival prefix) + स्मित (smile) + -आ (-ā, feminine suffix).

af

Sushmita (alternative)
Sushmitha (alternative)

A female given name from India, of Indian usage.


Lourdes

From French Lourdes, corruption of Medieval Latin Lorus (778), the baptismal name taken by a Moorish leader who converted to Christianity, though of unknown ultimate meaning.
The town in Newfoundland is named after the town in France.

A female given name from Spanish, from the Spanish epithet of Virgin Mary as Nuestra Señora de Lourdes.


Gestuno

An international Sign, also known as IS or International Sign, in a way like the Esperanto of the sign-language world.


Abdon

en-proper noun

Abdon (countable and uncountable, plural Abdons)

From Hebrew עבדון (abdon, “servant”). Compare Arabic عَبْد (ʕabd) (as in Abdullah), which also means servant.


Abey

A diminutive of the male given name Abraham, from Hebrew.


Adolpho

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


Adolphus

Would any man named Adolphus - any man called Dolly! - object to being called something else?

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

Sometimes as a child I used to wonder why my brother was called after the man whose very name we were later taught to fear. But then who knows what goes on inside the minds of ambitious, proud Ibo fathers? As most Ibo boys born around that time were called Adolphus after the German leader, Adol is still a fairly common name among the Ibos of Nigeria.

1986, Buchi Emecheta, Head Above Water. An Autobiography. p.11:

A male given name from the Germanic languages, a Latinized variant of Adolph.


Abram

Abram (countable and uncountable, plural Abrams)


Aiden

A male given name from Irish, variant of Aidan.


Allistair

From Scottish Gaelic Alasdair (“Alexander”). A rare spelling of Alistair.


Alejandro

/ˌæləˈhɑndɹoʊ/

From Spanish Alejandro, from Ancient Greek Ἀλέξανδρος (Aléxandros, literally “the man who repels [enemies]”). Doublet of Alexander.

der

A male given name from Spanish, equivalent to English Alexander.


Clem

A diminutive of the male given name Clement.

A diminutive of the female given name Clementine.


Lowell

A Middle English diminutive of Old French lou + -el (diminutive suffix), meaning "little wolf". Akin to Wolfie.

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Windsor

Inherited from Middle English Wyndelsore, from Old English Windlesōra (“Windsor”, literally “bank with a windlass, winch by the riverside”), from *windel ("reel, winch"; > Middle English windel (“reel, spool”)) + ōra (“bank, shore”). See windlass.

gloss

"reel, winch"; > Middle English <i class="Latn mention" lang="enm">windel</i> (“reel, spool”)


Arapaho

/əˈɹeɪpəhoʊ/

From a Siouan language, perhaps Hidatsa arúpahu (“Arapaho person”) or Crow aaraxpéahu (“tattooed person”).


Hagar

From Hebrew הָגָר (Hagar, “stranger”). Compare Arabic هَاجَر (hājar), Tiberian Hebrew הָגָר (Hāḡār).


Lizzy

A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth.


Lidia

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


Yvonne

From the French feminine form of Yvon, variant of Yves, from a Germanic root for "yew" (see Old English iw). It might have originally been used of an archer, since yew wood was used to make bows.

In your mother's apple orchard
When the world was left behind:
You were shy, so shy, Yvonne!
But your eyes were calm and kind.

1896, Ernest Christopher Dowson, Yvonne of Brittany:

A female given name from French borrowed from France, in regular use since the twentieth century.


Millie

A diminutive of the female given names Mildred, Millicent, Emily, Amelia, or Camilla, also used as a formal given name.


Canaries

/kəˈnɛəɹiːz/

The Canaries went ahead when the home defence failed to clear their lines and Pilkington was on hand to slide in his eighth goal of the campaign.

2012 April 9, Mandeep Sanghera, “Tottenham 1 - 2 Norwich”, in BBC Sport:

Norwich City Football Club
w:Norwich City F.C.

(UK) Nickname of Norwich City Football Club.


Bessy

Come o'er the bourn, Bessy, to me.

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 III, scene vi]:

A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth; today more often spelled Bessie.


sun letter

Calque of Arabic حَرْف شَمْسِيّ (ḥarf šamsiyy).

calque

حَرْف شَمْسِيّ

الصِّين الصين#Arabic

(linguistics) One of fourteen Arabic letters that cause the "L" of a preceding definite article اَل (al-) to be assimilated in pronunciation. The sun letter suppresses the sound of the "L" and then geminates: al + ṣīn = aṣ-ṣīn. The effect of the sun letter is limited to pronunciation and does not affect the spelling, except that a shadda may be written over the sun letter and in the fully vocalised spelling lām lacks any diacritics: الصِّين (aṣ-ṣīn). The fourteen sun letters are ت (t), ث (ṯ), د (d), ذ (ḏ), ر (r), ز (z), س (s), ش (š), ص (ṣ), ض (ḍ), ط (ṭ), ظ (ẓ), ل (l), ن (n). Phonetically, they represent coronal consonants.


moon letter

Calque of Arabic حَرْف قَمَرِيّ (ḥarf qamariyy).

حَرْف قَمَرِيّ

القُرْآن القرآن#Arabic

(linguistics) One of fourteen Arabic letters that do not affect the pronunciation of the "L" of a preceding definite article (ال- (al--)). The "L" in the Arabic definite article is pronounced "L" when followed by a moon letter: e.g., القُرْآن (al-qurʔān). The fourteen moon letters are: ء (ʔ), ب (b), ج (j), ح (ḥ), خ (ḵ), ع (ʕ), غ (ḡ), ف (f), ق (q), ك (k), م (m), ه (h), و (w), ي (y)


Katrine

A female given name from Ancient Greek of Danish origin, occasionally used in English.


Brangelina

/ˌbɹænd͡ʒəˈlinə/

This tabloid has three separate Brangelina articles.

(slang) The couple consisting of celebrities Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, together from 2005 to 2016.


Gina

Ginas (plural)
Geena (alternative)
Gena (alternative)
Jena (alternative)

* (name from Greek): Clipping of Georgina.
* (name from Latin): Clipping of Regina.
* (name from Italian): Italian Gina

Coordinate term: George

A diminutive of the female given name Georgina, from Ancient Greek.

Coordinate term: Rex

A diminutive of the female given name Regina, from Latin.

Coordinate term: Gino

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo proudly held up the progress of American industry on semiconductor manufacturing Sunday, declaring the U.S. has “outinnovated” China as the two nations fight to advance their domestic technology manufacturing.

2024 April 21, Nick Robertson, “Gina Raimondo says ‘we’ve outinnovated China’ amid chips war”, in The Hill:

A female given name.
A female given name from Italian.


Mongolic

/mɑŋˈɡoʊlɪk/

A major language family spoken primarily in Mongolia and surroundings.


Mongolic

/mɑŋˈɡoʊlɪk/

Of or relating to the Mongolic language family.


Navid

From Persian نوید (navid, novid, literally “good news”).

bor

نوید نوید#Persian

A transliteration of the Persian male given name نوید (navid, novid).


Naveed

نوید نوید#Persian


Aharon

Transliteration of Hebrew אהרן (Ahărōn).


Abundius

Name of an early Italian saint, from Latin abundiantus (“abundant, plentiful”).

der

A male given name from Latin, of historical usage.


Elmer

Medieval variant of the given name Aylmer, from Old English Æþelmǣr, from æþel (“noble”) + mǣre (“famous”).

A male given name from Old English transferred back from the surname in the 19th century U.S.


Krisa

the language of this village and the surrounding area.


Mickey

A diminutive of the male given names Michael, Mike or Mick.

A diminutive of the female given name Michaela.


Gunners

(informal, soccer) Arsenal football club.


Micky

A diminutive of the male given name Michael, Mike or Mick.

"What's yor name?" "Micky." "That's a name for a boy or a mouse. So it's probably Michelle. Most women your age are named Michelle or Heather or Courtney." "My age?" "No offense meant." "It's Michelina."

2001, Dean Ray Koontz, One Door Away from Heaven, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 3:

A diminutive of the female given name Michaela or Michelle.


Naved

From Classical Persian نوید (nuwēd, literally “good news”) via Urdu نوید (naved, literally “good news”).

bor

Naveed (alternative)
Navid (alternative)

نوید نوید#Persian

A transliteration of the Classical Persian male given name نوید (Nuwēd).

نوید نوید#Urdu

A transliteration of the Urdu male given name نوید (navīd, naved).


Achaius

A male given name of historical usage only.


Adair

A male given name from Scottish Gaelic, of Scottish usage, equivalent to English Edgar.


Ahab

From Middle English Achab, from Latin Achab, from Ancient Greek Ἀχαάβ (Akhaáb), from Hebrew אַחְאָב (ʼAḥʼāḇ, “uncle”); from אַח (ʼaḥ, “brother”) + אָב (ʼāḇ, “father”). Attested in Akkadian as 𒀀𒄩𒀊𒁍 (Aḫabbu).

A male given name from Hebrew, very rarely used.


Abi

A diminutive of the female given name Abigail.


Aegidius

From Late Latin Aegīdius, from Ancient Greek Αἰγιδιός (Aigidiós, “kid skin”) (sometimes interpreted as “the protecting”).

der

A male given name from Ancient Greek, of historical usage.


Abie

A diminutive of the male given name Abraham, from Hebrew.


Sudip

From Sanskrit, meaning "good light, enlightenment".

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


Abdullatif

Borrowed from Arabic عَبْد اللَّطِيف (ʕabd al-laṭīf, “servant of the Kind”).

bor

عَبْد اللَّطِيف


Abdulmalik

Borrowed from Arabic عَبْدُ المَلِك (ʕabdu l-malik).

عَبْدُ المَلِك


Abdunnasir

From the Arabic عَبْد النَّاصِر (ʕabd an-nāṣir, “servant of the Protector”).

der

عَبْد النَّاصِر


Alven

A male given name from Old English, of rare usage, variant of Alvin.


Alwin

From Old English Æþelwine, from æþel (“noble”) + wine (“friend”); partly merged with Ælfwine (“Alvin”, literally “elf friend”).

A male given name from Old English; always rather rare in English.


Alwyn

A male given name from Old English, of rare usage, variant of Alwin.


Alphonse

From French Alphonse, from Spanish Alfonso, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *Aþalafunsaz, from *aþalaz + *funsaz. Doublet of Alfonso.

A male given name from the Germanic languages.


Alfonzo

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


Alfie

A diminutive of the male given names Alfred or Alfonso, from the Germanic languages, also used as a formal given name.


Alfy

A diminutive of the male given names Alfred or Alfonso, from the Germanic languages.


Albie

A diminutive of the male given name Albert, from the Germanic languages.


Alby

From place names in England. Variant: Albee.

A habitational surname from Old English.


Alby

Anglicized from Irish Ailbhe, name of an Irish saint also anglicized as Albert, and name of heroines in Irish legend.

A female given name from Irish mainly used in Ireland.


Alain

A male given name from French, equivalent to English Alan.


Erasmus

From Medieval Latin Erasmus. The EU student exchange programme is named after Erasmus of Rotterdam, and also a backronym for “European [Community] Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students”.

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


Harley

From Old English hær (“rock”) or hara (“hare”) + lēah (“wood, clearing”). Equivalent to hare + -ley (“lea”).

A unisex given name transferred from the surname.


Harley Street

After Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer (1869-1741).

(by extension) The English medical profession (especially the private sector) as a group.


Alban

From Latin Albānus (“resident of Alba”) (a mountain region and an ancient city of Latium).

Act II, Scene I
Forsooth, a blind man at Saint Alban's shrine
Within this half hour hath receiv'd his sight


Albin

Early saints' name, from the Roman cognomen Albīnus, derivative of Latin albus (“white”). In the case of individuals from Germanic nations, partly also from Germanic (cf. Albwin (literally “elf friend”)), of which Alvin is the native English form.


Alastair

From Scottish Gaelic Alasdair (“Alexander”). Doublet of Alexander.


Alen

Alens (plural)
Alan (alternative)
Allan (alternative)
Allen (alternative)


Aleck

A diminutive of the male given name Alexander, from Ancient Greek, of Scottish usage, variant of Alec.


Alistair

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


Allistaire

A rare spelling variant of Alistair, from Scottish Gaelic Alasdair (“Alexander”).


Allister

Anglicized from Alasdair, the Scottish Gaelic form of Alexander


Aleksei

Transliteration of Russian Алексе́й (Alekséj)

transliteration

Алексе́й Алексей#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian male given name Алексе́й (Alekséj).


Aleksey

Алексе́й Алексей#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian male given name Алексе́й (Alekséj), equivalent to Alexius.


Arjuna

en-proper noun

Arjuna (countable and uncountable, plural Arjunas)

Transliteration of Sanskrit अर्जुन (arjuna).

translit

A male given name from Sanskrit, popular in South Asia.


Elgar

From Old English Ælfgār (from Proto-Germanic *Albigaizaz, equivalent to ælf (“elf”) + gār (“spear”)) and Old English Æþelgār (from Proto-Germanic *Aþalagaizaz, equivalent to æþele (“noble”) + gār (“spear”)).

(rare) A male given name from Old English.


Scheherazade

/ʃəˌhɛɹəˈzɑːd(ə)/

/ʃəˈhɛɹəzɑd/

Borrowed from German Scheherazade, from Russian Шехераза́да (Šexerazáda), from Classical Persian شَهْرَازَاد (šahrāzād), alternative form of شَهْرْزَاد (šahrzād, from شَهْر (šahr, “city”) + ـزَاد (-zād, “child of”), literally “child of the city”).
Popularized by the fictional character below.

af

Scheherezade (alternative)
Shahrazad (alternative)
Shahrzad (alternative)
Sheherazade (alternative)


Ashleigh

"You never asked us," replied Ashleigh, his vexation vanishing, [...]

1879, Stephen Watson Fullom, The man of the world; or, Vanities of the lay, page 132:

"Ashleigh!" her mother called. "Could you bring me a wrap for Slewette's leg from the feed room?" "Okay!" Ashleigh let herself out of Wanderer's stall. She'd check back in a little while to see if the mare had finally eaten anything.

1995, Joanna Campbell, Ashleigh's Diary, Harper Collins, →ISBN, page 22:

She simply smiled and squeezed Gina's arm, her fingers lingering, burning her skin. “Thanks.” Gina couldn't speak. She just nodded. She finally released Ashleigh, her hands falling away from her.

2010, Gerri Hill, Love Waits, Bella Books, →ISBN:

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


Denis

Shall not thou and I, between Saint Denis and Saint George, compound a boy, half French, half English, that shall go to Constantinople and take the Turk by the beard?

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 V, scene ii]:

A male given name from Ancient Greek, a mostly British and Irish spelling variant of Dennis.


Santa Cruz

From Spanish and Portuguese Santa Cruz (“Holy Cross”), various places named in honor of the True Cross upon which Jesus was crucified. Doublet of Holy Cross and Saint Croix.

San Francisco del Monte
San Francisco del Monte#English

A barangay of San Francisco del Monte district, Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines.

A barangay of Cebu City, Cebu, Philippines.

A census-designated place in Pinal County, Arizona, United States.

A locality in Pima County, Arizona, United States.

Santa Barbara County
Santa Barbara County#English

An island in Santa Barbara County, California, off the coast, one of the Channel Islands.

A census-designated place in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, United States; suburb of Santa Fe.

A former census-designated place in Starr County, Texas, United States, now split into the El Chaparral and Santa Rosa CDP's.

A census-designated place in Starr County, Texas, United States, unrelated to the former CDP of the same name.


Maghrebi

Maghrebis (plural)
Maghrebin (alternative)


Moldovan

Moldavian (alternative)
Moldovian (alternative)
Moldavan (alternative)

The dialect of Romanian spoken in the Republic of Moldova, which may be written in either the Cyrillic or the Roman alphabet.

The Romanian language (a name used primarily in Moldova).


Georges

A male given name from French, equivalent to English George.


Isthmus-Mecayapan Nahuatl

A variety of the Nahuatl language spoken in parts of Mexico.


Classical Nahuatl

The variants of the Nahuatl language spoken in central Mexico at the time of the Spanish colonization.

nàhuatl

variants of the Nahuatl language spoken in Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest


Yatzachi Zapotec

A variety of Zapotec spoken in Oaxaca, Mexico


Clint

Diminutive of Clinton.
The Yorkshire place name is from Old Danish klint.


Courtney

en-proper noun

Courtney (countable and uncountable, plural Courtneys)

Courtneys (plural)
Cotney (alternative)
Kourtney (alternative)

Variant of Courtenay, an aristocratic Norman surname derived from place names in Normandy, from Latin Curtenus, a personal name from curtus (“short”).

A male given name transferred from the surname.

"One girl ten, another one eight. Courtney and Ashley. I'd have named 'em something else. Sara and Diane, Patti and Jill, something like that. I don't even understand girls.

1985, Sue Grafton, B is for Burglar, Macmillan, published 2005, →ISBN, page 125:

A female given name transferred from the surname, popular in the 1980s and the 1990s.

An unincorporated community in Jackson County, Missouri.

An unincorporated community in South Liberty Township, Yadkin County, North Carolina.

Washington County
Washington County#English

A village in Union Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania.


Sheridan

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

A census-designated place in Placer County, California, United States.


Maasai

Masai (alternative)
Massai (alternative)

An Eastern Nilotic language spoken in Southern Kenya and Northern Tanzania by the Maasai people.


Haakon

Håkon (alternative)
Hakon (alternative)
Haco (alternative)

A male given name from Old Norse; that of many kings of Norway.


Hezekiah

/ˌhɛzəˈkaɪə/

From Hebrew חִזְקִיָּה (chizkiyá, “Hezekiah”).

der

A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.


Pashtun

Borrowed from Pashto پښتون (pax̌tūn). Doublet of Pathan.

Pushtun (alternative)
Pashtoon (alternative)
Pushtoon (alternative)
Pushtun (alternative)
Pakhtun (alternative)
Pukhtun (alternative)
Pakhtoon (alternative)
Pukhtoon (alternative)

Pashto: the language of the Pashtun ethnic group.