Significado y origen

Names Connected with Strength: Valerius, Valentine, and Ethan

Compare the distinct linguistic roots of Valerius, Valentine, and Ethan, distinguishing Latin roots for strength, vigor, and health from Hebrew glosses of firmness and endurance.

Names That Mean Hope: Comparing Hope, Toivo, Nadezhda, and Esperanza

Compare four names meaning hope—Hope, Toivo, Nadezhda, and Esperanza—examining direct vocabulary meanings versus Latin roots to help build your shortlist.

Names with Nicknames: Four Full Names and Their Short Forms

Explore four given names—William, Elizabeth, Alexander, and Andrew—and their documented English short forms, including how shared diminutives function.

Nombres que significan luz: cuatro opciones y sus diferentes raíces

¿Busca un nombre relacionado con la luz? Lucius, Lucia, Lux y Zohar ofrecen cuatro opciones distintas provenientes de raíces latinas y hebreas.

Nombres de la naturaleza: comparación entre River, Willow, Sage, Ivy y Wren

¿Busca un nombre de bebé botánico, aviar o inspirado en el agua? Analizamos River, Willow, Sage, Ivy y Wren a partir de los registros oficiales de nacimiento de 2025 de la SSA y definiciones de diccionario.

Los nombres de bebé más populares en 2026

Los nombres de bebé más populares según los últimos datos oficiales de la SSA, qué se movió este año y cómo sopesar la popularidad al nombrar a tu hijo.

Cómo elegir un nombre de bebé que siga sintiéndose bien más adelante

Elegir un nombre de bebé se vuelve más fácil cuando separas el gusto de las comprobaciones que evitan arrepentimientos.

Cómo investigar el significado y el origen de un nombre

Los significados de los nombres en internet pueden ser ruidosos. Esta guía muestra en qué confiar y qué volver a comprobar.

Indian · Sanskrit

Aadhya

Aadhya is documented as an Indian name, but no source we cite glosses it. It ranked #960 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Arabic · English (modern) · African American (modern)

Aaliyah

Aaliyah is an Arabic feminine name whose English-speaking popularity traces to a single singer, boosted first by her 1994 debut and again by her death in 2001.

Hebrew · Biblical · possibly Egyptian

Aaron

Aaron is the name of Israel's first high priest, yet its own meaning is unsettled: most likely Egyptian and unknown, with Hebrew glosses like "high mountain" offered only as theories.

English

Abby

Abby is a feminine name used in English: diminutive of Abigail, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #731 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Biblical · Biblical Greek

Abdiel

Abdiel is a masculine name used in Biblical and Biblical Greek meaning "servant of God". It ranked #607 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English · French · Spanish

Abel

Abel is a masculine name used in English and French meaning "breath". It ranked #231 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Hebrew

Abigail

Abigail went from a Puritan favourite to a 17th-century slang word for a lady's maid, fell out of use for two centuries, and came back strong enough to sit in the American top 50.

English · Hebrew · Spanish

Abraham

Abraham is a masculine name used in English and Hebrew meaning "father of many". It ranked #209 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Ace

Ace is a plain-spoken English word name meaning "highest rank" that Behind the Name also records as an unrelated Macedonian pet form of Aleksandar.

Germanic · English

Ada

Ada is a short Germanic "noble" name best known today through Ada Lovelace, though Behind the Name also records completely unrelated Turkish and Hebrew names spelled the same way.

Not documented in the consulted reference sources

Adalee

Adalee is a feminine name in current American use whose origin is not documented in the reference works we cite. It ranked #987 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Germanic

Adaline

Adaline is the vintage English spelling in the Adeline family, pronounced with a long -line, and it traces straight back to the Germanic word for "noble".

English (modern) · Germanic

Adalyn

Adalyn is Adeline with the -lyn suffix, the single-n sibling of Adalynn, and beneath the modern spelling it means "noble".

English (modern) · Germanic

Adalynn

Adalynn is a Germanic name in modern dress: Adeline rebuilt with the fashionable -lynn suffix, tracing back through Adelina to the element meaning "noble".

Hebrew · Biblical · Quranic

Adam

Adam is simply the Hebrew word for "man", yet its deeper root is contested between "to be red" and an Akkadian verb "to make", and it is shared by the Bible, the Quran and nearly thirty languages.

Spanish · Hebrew

Adan

Adan is the Spanish form of Adam, carried into American use with the accent dropped. It ranked #482 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Hebrew

Adara

Adara is a feminine name used in Hebrew meaning "noble". It ranked #1004 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Addilyn

Addilyn is a feminine name used in English: variant of Adeline using the popular name suffix lyn, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #988 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English surname

Addison

Addison means "son of Adam" and was a surname first, but its modern life is as a girls' name that rose on the coattails of Madison.

English · Italian · Portuguese

Adelaide

Adelaide is a feminine name used in English and Italian meaning "nobleness, nobility". It ranked #289 for girls in the United States in 2025.

German · English · Italian

Adele

Adele is a feminine name used in German and English: german, English and Italian form of Adela, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #751 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Italian · Portuguese · Spanish

Adelina

Adelina is a feminine name used in Italian and Portuguese meaning "noble". It ranked #304 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Germanic · French · English

Adeline

Adeline is a medieval Norman import that spent a century out of fashion and has come back as a top-60 American name with half a dozen competing spellings, all pointing to one Germanic word for "noble".

English

Adelyn

Adelyn is a feminine name used in English: variant of Adeline using the popular name suffix lyn, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #355 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Adelynn

Adelynn is a feminine name used in English: variant of Adeline using the popular name suffix lynn, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #447 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Astronomy

Adhara

Adhara is a feminine name used in Astronomy meaning "maidens". It ranked #370 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Adley

Adley is a habitational surname that Wiktionary reads as a variant of Hadley. It ranked #805 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Greek Mythology

Adonis

Adonis is a masculine name used in Greek Mythology meaning "lord, master". It ranked #241 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Latin (Roman) · English · Romanian · Polish · German · Scandinavian · Russian

Adrian

Adrian is a Roman name with a papal pedigree that waited until modern times to become popular in English, and now travels unchanged across half of Europe.

Italian · Spanish · Portuguese

Adriana

Adriana is a feminine name used in Italian and Spanish: feminine form of Adrian, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #366 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Polish

Adrianna

Adrianna is a feminine name used in English and Polish: feminine form of Adrian, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #872 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Hebrew · Biblical

Adriel

Adriel is an obscure Old Testament name meaning "flock of God" that has found a second life in Brazil, the Spanish-speaking world and, now, the US top 100.

English · German · Dutch

Agnes

Agnes is a feminine name used in English and German meaning "chaste". It ranked #1016 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Irish · English

Aidan

Aidan is a masculine name used in Irish and English: anglicized form of Aodhán, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #326 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English (modern) · Irish

Aiden

Aiden is the respelling that outgrew its source: a modern English variant of the Irish name Aidan, carried by the same sound that lifted Braden and Hayden.

Finnish

Aila

Aila is a feminine name used in Finnish: finnish form of Áile, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #827 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English (modern) · Spanish (Latin American, modern) · possibly Hawaiian

Ailani

Ailani is a 2010s name that Behind the Name credits to fashion in sound rather than to a single origin, pointing to either a rare Hawaiian name or the Spanish Aylín.

Not documented in the consulted reference sources

Ailanny

Ailanny is a feminine name in current American use whose origin is not documented in the reference works we cite. It ranked #932 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English (Modern) · Spanish (Latin American, Modern)

Ailany

Ailany is a top-15 American girls' name that barely existed on the charts two years earlier, and the reference sources have almost nothing to say about where it comes from.

Scottish · Irish · English

Aileen

Aileen is a feminine name used in Scottish and Irish: variant of Eileen, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #799 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Basque · Spanish

Ainara

Ainara is a feminine name used in Basque and Spanish: variant of Enara, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #898 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Basque

Ainhoa

Ainhoa is a feminine name used in Basque: from the name of a town in southwestern France where there is a famous image of the Virgin Mary, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #961 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Scottish · English

Ainsley

Ainsley is a feminine name used in Scottish and English: from an English surname that was from a place name: either Annesley in Nottinghamshire or Ansley in Warwickshire, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #483 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Finnish

Aira

Aira is a feminine name used in Finnish: variant of Airi, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1082 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Arabic · Urdu · Hausa

Aisha

Aisha is a feminine name used in Arabic and Urdu meaning "living, alive". It ranked #337 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Spanish · Valencian place name

Aitana

Aitana is a Spanish place-name turned given name: a Valencian mountain range that a poet gave to his daughter in 1941, now in the US top 250.

Japanese

Akari

Akari is a masculine name used in Japanese: from Japanese 明, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #542 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Japanese

Akira

Akira is a feminine name used in Japanese: from Japanese 昭, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #983 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Basque · Spanish (Modern)

Alaia

Alaia is genuinely two names in one spelling: a Basque word for "joyful, happy," and a separate modern English coinage that may owe part of its recent popularity to a French fashion house.

English (modern)

Alaina

Alaina is what happens when two names meet: a variant of Alana whose spelling and sound, Behind the Name suggests, were pulled toward Elaine.

English

Alaiya

Alaiya is a feminine name used in English: variant of Alayah, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #792 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Scottish · Breton

Alan

Alan is a masculine name used in English and Scottish meaning "little rock". It ranked #191 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English · Breton

Alana

Alana is the feminine form of Alan, and its sound has proved so adaptable that Behind the Name lists ten English respellings of it.

English (modern) · possibly Hawaiian

Alani

Alani has two possible stories, a respelling of Alana or the Hawaiian word for an orange tree, and Behind the Name does not choose between them.

English

Alanna

Alanna is a feminine name used in English: feminine form of Alan, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #280 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Not documented in the consulted reference sources

Alara

Alara is a feminine name in current American use whose origin is not documented in the reference works we cite. It ranked #652 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Alaya

Alaya is a feminine name used in English: variant of Alayah, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #368 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Alayah

Alayah is a feminine name used in English: probably a variant of Aaliyah based on names such as Amaya and Anaya, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #412 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Alayna

Alayna is a feminine name used in English: variant of Alaina, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #332 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · German · French

Albert

Albert is a masculine name used in English and German meaning "noble and bright". It ranked #614 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Alden

Alden is a masculine name used in English: from a surname that was, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #598 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Aleah

Aleah is a feminine name used in English: variant of Aaliyah, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #965 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Aleena

Aleena is Wiktionary's rare spelling of Alina, itself a short form of longer names. It ranked #657 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Not documented in the consulted reference sources

Aleia

Aleia is a feminine name in current American use whose origin is not documented in the reference works we cite. It ranked #933 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Spanish

Alejandra

Alejandra is a feminine name used in Spanish: spanish form of Alexandra, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #604 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Spanish

Alejandro

Alejandro is a masculine name used in Spanish: spanish form of Alexander, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #195 for boys in the United States in 2025.

German · Czech · Slovak

Alena

Alena is a feminine name used in German and Czech: short form of Magdalena or Helena, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #707 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Italian

Alessandra

Alessandra is a feminine name used in Italian: italian form of Alexandra, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #443 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Italian

Alessandro

Alessandro is a masculine name used in Italian: italian form of Alexander, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #497 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Italian

Alessia

Alessia is a feminine name used in Italian: italian feminine form of Alexius, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #326 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Dutch · German

Alex

Alex is a masculine name used in English and Dutch: short form of Alexander, Alexandra and other names beginning with Alex, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #232 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English · German · Hungarian

Alexa

Alexa is a feminine name used in English and German: short form of Alexandra, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1029 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Ancient Greek · Latin

Alexander

How an ancient Macedonian given name meaning 'defending men' evolved into an enduring international standard across continents and centuries.

Greek · Ancient Greek · Greek Mythology

Alexandra

Alexandra means "defending men" and has been an epithet of Hera, an alias of Cassandra, a saint's name and a tsarina's, which makes it one of the most heavily credentialed girls' names in Europe.

English

Alexandria

Alexandria is a feminine name used in English: feminine form of Alexander, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #474 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Greek · French · Spanish

Alexia

Alexia is a feminine name used in Greek and French: feminine form of Alexis, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1040 for girls in the United States in 2025.

French · English · Greek

Alexis

Alexis is a unisex name used in French and English meaning "helper". It ranked #513 for boys and #554 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Arabic · Persian · Turkish

Ali

Ali is a masculine name used in Arabic and Persian meaning "lofty, sublime". It ranked #306 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Arabic

Alia

Alia is a feminine name used in Arabic: alternate transcription of Arabic علياء, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #587 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Spanish

Aliana

Aliana is a feminine name used in English and Spanish: variant of Alana or Eliana, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #603 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Not documented in the consulted reference sources

Alianna

Alianna is a feminine name in current American use whose origin is not documented in the reference works we cite. It ranked #938 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Germanic · Old French · English

Alice

Alice was one of the commonest names in medieval England, faded for three centuries, and was pulled back by a Victorian princess and a girl who fell down a rabbit hole; it is now a top-70 American name again.

Spanish · English · Swedish

Alicia

Alicia is a feminine name used in Spanish and English: latinized form of Alice, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #460 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Alijah

Alijah is a masculine name used in English: variant of Elijah, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #469 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Romanian · Polish · Russian · Ukrainian · Belarusian · Slovene · German · Italian · Spanish

Alina

Alina is a short form that became a name in its own right across Eastern Europe, clipped from Adelina, Albina and anything else ending in -alina.

English · French

Alison

Alison is a feminine name used in English and French: norman French diminutive of Aalis, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #476 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Portuguese

Alisson

Alisson is a feminine name used in Portuguese: brazilian variant of Allison, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #511 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Alivia

Alivia is a feminine name used in English: variant of Olivia, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #484 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Arabic · Urdu · Kyrgyz

Aliya

Aliya is a feminine name used in Arabic and Urdu: feminine form of Ali, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #823 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Arabic

Aliyah

Aliyah is a spelling that Behind the Name treats as shorthand for at least three different underlying Arabic and Hebrew names, so its exact meaning depends on which one a family has in mind.

Hebrew

Aliza

Aliza is a feminine name used in Hebrew meaning "joyful". It ranked #675 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Allen

Allen is a masculine name used in English: variant of Alan, or from a surname that was, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #578 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Allie

Allie is a feminine name used in English: diminutive of Alison, Alexandra and other names beginning with the same sound, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #569 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Scottish surname

Allison

Allison changed sides in the mid-20th century: an uncommon masculine surname-name that became the standard American spelling of the feminine Alison.

English · Spanish · Italian

Alma

Alma is a feminine name used in English and Spanish meaning "nourishing". It ranked #449 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Spanish

Alondra

Alondra is a feminine name used in Spanish meaning "lark". It ranked #680 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Alonzo

Alonzo is a masculine name used in English: variant of Alonso in use in America, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #511 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English (modern)

Alora

Alora is a name Behind the Name can describe in three words, "Variant of Elora", which leaves its meaning resting entirely on a name it does not explain here.

English

Alyssa

Alyssa is a feminine name used in English: variant of Alicia, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #453 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Basque · Spanish

Amaia

Amaia is a feminine name used in Basque and Spanish meaning "the end". It ranked #555 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Spanish · Italian · Romanian

Amalia

Amalia is a feminine name used in Spanish and Italian meaning "unceasing, vigorous, brave". It ranked #566 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Spanish · Portuguese

Amanda

Amanda is a feminine name used in English and Spanish meaning "lovable, worthy of love". It ranked #493 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Arabic

Amani

Amani is a feminine name used in Arabic meaning "wishes". It ranked #678 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Igbo

Amara

Amara is actually two unrelated names sharing one spelling: an Igbo word for "grace" and a Portuguese/Spanish feminine form of Amaro.

African American

Amari

Amari is a unisex name used in African American: meaning uncertain, perhaps from Arabic Ammar, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #185 for boys and #380 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Not documented in the consulted reference sources

Amaris

Amaris is a feminine name in current American use whose origin is not documented in the reference works we cite. It ranked #754 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Basque · Spanish · English (modern)

Amaya

Amaya is the Spanish spelling of a Basque name meaning "the end", launched by a 19th-century novel and, in America, by a 1999 reality-TV contestant.

English

Amayah

Amayah is a feminine name used in English: variant of Amaya, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #841 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Dutch

Amber

Amber is a feminine name used in English and Dutch: from the English word amber that denotes either the gemstone, which is formed from fossil resin, or the orange-yellow colour, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #520 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Germanic

Amelia

Exploring how Amelia evolved from an 18th-century Hanoverian royal name into an enduring transatlantic favorite often confused with Emilia.

German

Amelie

Amelie is a feminine name used in German: german variant of Amelia, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #828 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Amias

Amias is a masculine name used in English: variant of Amyas, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #642 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Arabic · Urdu · Chechen

Amina

Amina is a feminine name used in Arabic and Urdu meaning "safe, secure". It ranked #315 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Arabic · Persian · Urdu

Amir

Amir carries the weight of an old Arabic title of rank into everyday use as a first name, while an unrelated Hebrew entry of the same spelling means something much quieter: "treetop."

Arabic · Hebrew

Amira

Amira is the feminine form of Amir, but Behind the Name tracks two separate Amira entries — Arabic and Hebrew — with different underlying roots and the same modern meaning of authority.

Arabic · Malay

Amirah

Amirah is a feminine name used in Arabic and Malay: alternate transcription of Arabic أميرة, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #490 for girls in the United States in 2025.

African American

Amiri

Amiri is a unisex name used in African American: variant of Amari, probably modelled on Amir, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #604 for boys and #964 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Amiyah

Amiyah is a feminine name used in English: possibly a variant of Amaya, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #620 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English (modern) · Latin

Amora

Amora is a modern invention built on the Latin word for love, which makes it one of the few top-250 names with no history before its own popularity.

English

Amoura

Amoura is a feminine name used in English: variant of Amora, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #527 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Old French · Latin

Amy

Amy is one of the few English names whose meaning, "beloved", is exactly what it looks like, yet its path runs through medieval rarity and a 19th-century revival before today's steady mid-table standing.

Spanish · Portuguese · Slovene · Bulgarian · Romanian · Croatian · Serbian · Albanian · Macedonian · Georgian · Lithuanian · Fijian · Tongan

Ana

Ana is the single-n form of Anna shared by more than a dozen languages from Spanish to Tongan, which makes it one of the most portable names on the US girls' list.

Spanish (Latin American) · Guarani

Anahi

Anahi is a Latin American Spanish name tied to a Guarani legend about the coral tree. It ranked #482 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Biblical

Anaiah

Anaiah is a feminine name used in Biblical meaning "Yahweh has answered". It ranked #853 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Spanish · Catalan · French

Anais

Anais has two documented entries and an etymology its own reference calls uncertain. It ranked #892 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Popular Culture

Anakin

Anakin is a masculine name used in Popular Culture: meaning unknown, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #648 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Analeia

Analeia is a feminine name used in English: variant of Analía, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #514 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Spanish

Analia

Analia is a Spanish blend of Ana with Lía or Lucía that a telenovela pushed into American use. It ranked #711 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Greek · Russian · Ukrainian · English

Anastasia

Anastasia carries a 4th-century martyr and a 20th-century Romanov legend in one name, and English speakers have used it since the Middle Ages.

English

Anaya

Anaya is a feminine name used in English: meaning unknown, possibly, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #336 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Not documented in the consulted reference sources

Anayah

Anayah is a feminine name in current American use whose origin is not documented in the reference works we cite. It ranked #913 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Portuguese

Anderson

Anderson is a masculine name used in English and Portuguese meaning "son of Andrew". It ranked #363 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English · German

Andi

Andi is a feminine name used in English and German: diminutive of Andrea, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #632 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Andie

Andie is a feminine name used in English: diminutive of Andrew or Andrea, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #650 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · African American

Andre

Andre is a masculine name used in English and African American: english form of André, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #368 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Greek · Italian · English

Andrea

Andrea is grammatically masculine in Italian, honoring a Renaissance sculptor who trained Leonardo da Vinci, yet in America it is used almost entirely as a girls' name.

Estonian

Andres

Andres is a masculine name used in Estonian: estonian form of Andrew, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #200 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Ancient Greek · Old English

Andrew

How an ancient Greek descriptor of masculine valor became an enduring biblical classic across the English-speaking world.

English

Andy

Andy is a masculine name used in English: diminutive of Andrew or sometimes Andrea, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #565 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Medieval Latin · Greek

Angel

Angel is a name that Behind the Name calls "never very common" in English, yet it sits in the US top 100 for boys while also appearing on the girls' list.

English · Italian · German

Angela

Angela is a feminine name used in English and Italian: feminine form of Angelus, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #408 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Italian · Romanian

Angelica

Angelica is a feminine name used in English and Italian meaning "angelic". It ranked #708 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Italian · English · Russian

Angelina

Angelina is a feminine name used in Italian and English: latinate diminutive of Angela, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #347 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Italian

Angelo

Angelo is a masculine name used in Italian: italian form of Angelus, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #304 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Angie

Angie is a feminine name used in English: diminutive of Angela and other names beginning with Ang, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #705 for girls in the United States in 2025.

German · Dutch · Danish

Anika

Anika is a feminine name used in German and Dutch: diminutive of Anna or Ana, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #955 for girls in the United States in 2025.

African American

Aniya

Aniya is a feminine name used in African American: variant of Aniyah, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1071 for girls in the United States in 2025.

African American

Aniyah

Aniyah is a feminine name used in African American: an invented name, probably based on the sounds found in names such as Anita and Aaliyah, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #485 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Manx

Ann

Ann is a feminine name used in English and Manx: english and Manx form of Anne, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1076 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Hebrew (via Hannah) · Biblical Greek · Biblical Latin

Anna

Anna is the Greek and Latin Bible's spelling of Hannah, and it has quietly become the most common of the Ann, Anne and Anna trio across the English-speaking world.

English · French

Annabelle

Annabelle is a feminine name used in English and French: variant of Annabel, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #343 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Danish · English

Annalise

Annalise is a feminine name used in Danish and English: combination of Anna and Lise, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #409 for girls in the United States in 2025.

French · English · Swedish

Anne

Anne is a feminine name used in French and English: french form of Anna, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #619 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Danish

Annelise

Annelise is a feminine name used in Danish: combination of Anne and Lise, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1072 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · French · Dutch

Annie

Annie is the pet form of Anne that has become a standalone name in English, French and Dutch, ranking on its own in the US top 200.

Swedish · Dutch · Finnish

Annika

Annika is a feminine name used in Swedish and Dutch: swedish diminutive of Anna, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #995 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Latin · Etruscan

Anthony

How a Roman clan name of mysterious Etruscan origin gained an unetymological 'h' inspired by Greek and became a perennial Western classic.

Italian

Antonella

Antonella is a feminine name used in Italian: diminutive of Antonia, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #284 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Spanish · Italian · Croatian · Latin

Antonio

Antonio has been a common Italian name since the 14th century and Spain's top boys' name in the 1950s, yet its Roman root has no known meaning.

Russian · English

Anya

Anya is a feminine name used in Russian and English: russian diminutive of Anna, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #375 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Greek Mythology

Apollo

Apollo is a masculine name used in Greek Mythology meaning "strength". It ranked #445 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

April

April is a feminine name used in English: from the name of the month, probably originally, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #542 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Medieval Scottish · English

Arabella

Arabella is a medieval Scottish name whose scribes kept spelling it to look like Latin orabilis, "yielding to prayer", though it is probably just a variant of Annabel.

Spanish

Araceli

Araceli is a feminine name used in Spanish meaning "altar of the sky". It ranked #746 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Tigrinya

Araya

Araya is a feminine name used in Tigrinya meaning "exemplary, model". It ranked #1052 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English surname · Old French

Archer

Archer is an occupational surname that was already creeping up the charts when a 2009 animated spy comedy gave it a shove.

Scottish · English

Archie

Archie is a masculine name used in Scottish and English: diminutive of Archibald, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #301 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Arden

Arden is a feminine name used in English meaning "high". It ranked #975 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Not documented in the consulted reference sources

Arely

Arely is a feminine name in current American use whose origin is not documented in the reference works we cite. It ranked #984 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Greek Mythology

Ares

Ares is a masculine name used in Greek Mythology meaning "bane, ruin". It ranked #290 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Hebrew

Ari

Ari is a unisex name used in Hebrew meaning "lion". It ranked #393 for boys and #614 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Italian · Persian

Aria

Exploring Aria's dual identity as an Italian musical word name and a Persian masculine name alongside its 21st-century rise.

English

Ariah

Ariah is a feminine name used in English: variant of Aria, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #636 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Portuguese · English (modern)

Ariana

Ariana is the Portuguese form of the ancient Greek Ariadne, but most American parents met it through a pop singer rather than a myth.

Italian · English (modern)

Arianna

Arianna is the Italian form of the mythological Ariadne and the double-n twin of Ariana, so American parents effectively choose between two spellings of one name.

Hebrew · English · French

Ariel

Ariel is a unisex name used in Hebrew and English meaning "lion of God". It ranked #558 for boys and #356 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Hebrew · English (modern)

Ariella

Ariella is the unambiguously feminine form of Ariel, a Hebrew name meaning "lion of God" that English speakers already use for girls.

French · English

Arielle

Arielle is a feminine name used in French and English: french feminine form of Ariel, as well as an English variant, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #486 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Not documented in the consulted reference sources

Arisbeth

Arisbeth is a feminine name in current American use whose origin is not documented in the reference works we cite. It ranked #862 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Ariya

Ariya is a feminine name used in English: variant of Aria or Arya, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #615 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Ariyah

Ariyah is a feminine name used in English: variant of Aria, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #367 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Hindi · Marathi · Kannada

Arjun

Arjun is a masculine name used in Hindi and Marathi: modern form of Arjuna, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #490 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Catalan

Arlet

Arlet is a feminine name used in Catalan: catalan form of Arlette, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #642 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Spanish (Latin American) · French

Arleth

Arleth is a Latin American respelling of the French Arlette that has climbed into the US top 300 while remaining almost undocumented in English-language name references.

French · Germanic

Arlett

Arlett reads as Arlette, the name of William the Conqueror's mother. It ranked #1085 for girls in the United States in 2025.

French

Arlette

Arlette is a feminine name used in French: french form of Herleva, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #494 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · literary

Arlo

Arlo is a top-150 boys' name whose meaning is honestly uncertain, with its best lead running through a 16th-century poem and an Irish valley.

Spanish · Italian · Portuguese

Armando

Armando is a masculine name used in Spanish and Italian: spanish, Italian and Portuguese form of Herman, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #556 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Armani

Armani is a unisex name used in English meaning "son of Ermanno". It ranked #495 for boys and #562 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Greek Mythology · Greek

Artemis

Artemis is a feminine name used in Greek Mythology and Greek meaning "safe". It ranked #1017 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Welsh · Celtic · Arthurian legend

Arthur

Arthur is one of the most storied names in English, yet its meaning is unknown and its king may never have existed.

Italian · Spanish

Arturo

Arturo is a masculine name used in Italian and Spanish: italian and Spanish form of Arthur, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #627 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Indo-Iranian · Literature

Arya

Arya carries an ancient Indo-Iranian meaning of nobility, but Behind the Name tracks its current English-language popularity to a Game of Thrones character created decades later.

Biblical · Hebrew · Biblical Hebrew

Asa

Asa is a masculine name used in Biblical and Hebrew meaning "healer". It ranked #483 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Hebrew

Asher

Exploring Asher's journey from an ancient biblical patriarch to a top-tier modern favorite.

English surname · Old English

Ashley

Ashley was a boys' name in the United States until the 1960s and the country's top girls' name by 1991, while Britain still hears it as masculine.

English

Ashlyn

Ashlyn is a feminine name used in English: combination of Ashley and the popular name suffix lyn, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #972 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Ashlynn

Ashlynn is a feminine name used in English: variant of Ashlyn, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #980 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Ashton

Ashton is a masculine name used in English meaning "ash tree town". It ranked #197 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English word · Old English

Aspen

Aspen is a modern word-name that carries two images at once, a trembling-leaved tree and a Colorado ski resort, and US data now files it firmly on the girls' side.

English

Aspyn

Aspyn is a feminine name used in English: variant of Aspen, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #869 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Swedish · Norwegian · Danish

Astrid

Astrid is a feminine name used in Swedish and Norwegian: modern Scandinavian form of Ástríðr, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #376 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Greek mythology

Athena

Athena is the goddess of wisdom whose own name has no known meaning, and who was probably named after her city rather than the other way round.

Ancient Greek

Atlas

Once confined to mythic skies and geography, Atlas has swiftly transformed into a sleek, top-100 contemporary boy name.

Greek Mythology

Atreus

Atreus is a masculine name used in Greek Mythology meaning "fearless". It ranked #582 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Literature · Ancient Greek

Atticus

Atticus is a masculine name used in Literature and Ancient Greek meaning "from Attica". It ranked #281 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Aubree

Aubree is a feminine name used in English: feminine variant of Aubrey, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #489 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Old French · Germanic · English

Aubrey

Aubrey began as a Norman boys' name descended from the Germanic Alberich, and a 1972 soft-rock song helped turn it into a girls' name in America.

English · Anglo-Saxon

Audrey

Audrey was nearly killed off by the word "tawdry", which was coined from its own saint's fair, before the 19th century and Audrey Hepburn gave it back its polish.

German · Polish · Scandinavian · Catalan · English (month name)

August

August is two names in one: the Continental form of the emperor's name Augustus, and in English also the month that was named for him.

English

Augustine

Augustine is a masculine name used in English: from the Roman name Augustinus, itself, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #545 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Ancient Roman · Dutch

Augustus

Augustus is a masculine name used in Ancient Roman and Dutch meaning "exalted, venerable". It ranked #407 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English · Italian · Spanish

Aura

Aura is a feminine name used in English and Italian: from the word aura, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #817 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Ancient Roman · Romanian · Italian

Aurelia

Aurelia is a feminine name used in Ancient Roman and Romanian: feminine form of Aurelius, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #290 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Latin · Roman mythology

Aurora

Aurora was a Roman goddess, then a rarity for three centuries, and is now a top-20 American girls' name lifted by Disney's Sleeping Beauty and a social-media taste for dreamy space names.

English · Latin (via Augustine)

Austin

Austin is medieval English shorthand for Augustine that now owes as much to a surname and a Texas city as to the saint.

English · Latin

Autumn

Autumn is the youngest of the season names in general use, a 1960s arrival that has settled into the US top 100.

English · Hebrew (via Eve) · Germanic · Persian

Ava

Ava is three different names wearing the same three letters — a variant of Eve, a medieval Germanic short form whose meaning nobody knows, and a Persian word for "voice" — and the two main reference sources pick different ones.

Marathi · Gujarati · Hindi

Avani

Avani is a feminine name used in Marathi and Gujarati meaning "earth". It ranked #806 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Averie

Averie is a feminine name used in English: variant of Avery, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #701 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Norman French · Old English · Germanic

Avery

Avery is a Norman-French surname built on an Old English or Germanic given name that was masculine for centuries, was pushed toward girls by a 1990s sitcom and film, and now ranks #37 for girls and #291 for boys in the United States.

English

Aviana

Aviana is a feminine name used in English meaning "bird". It ranked #887 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Avianna

Avianna is a feminine name used in English: variant of Aviana, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #595 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Danish · Hebrew (via Absalom)

Axel

Axel sounds like a rock-and-roll invention, but it is a medieval Danish form of the biblical name Absalom.

Japanese

Aya

Aya is a feminine name used in Japanese: from Japanese 彩, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #644 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Hindi

Ayaan

Ayaan is a masculine name used in Hindi meaning "not moving, natural disposition". It ranked #465 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Arabic

Ayah

Ayah is a feminine name used in Arabic: alternate transcription of Arabic آية, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #870 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · French

Ayden

Ayden is a masculine name used in English and French: variant of Aidan, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #257 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Hebrew · Turkish · Azerbaijani · Literature · English (Modern)

Ayla

Ayla is a single spelling shared by at least three unrelated names — a Hebrew form, a Turkish word for moonlight, and a 1980 novel's invented heroine.

English

Aylani

Aylani is a feminine name used in English: variant of Ailani, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #293 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Irish

Ayleen

Ayleen sits between Eileen and the Turkish Aylin, and Wiktionary says so. It ranked #863 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Turkish · Azerbaijani · Kazakh

Aylin

Aylin is a feminine name used in Turkish and Azerbaijani meaning "moon". It ranked #345 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Ayra

Ayra is a feminine name used in English: meaning uncertain, probably an invented name, maybe inspired by Arya or Arya, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #939 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Not documented in the consulted reference sources

Azael

Azael is a masculine name in current American use whose origin is not documented in the reference works we cite. It ranked #645 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Azalea

Azalea is a feminine name used in English: from the name of the flower, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #278 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Not documented in the consulted reference sources

Azari

Azari is a feminine name in current American use whose origin is not documented in the reference works we cite. It ranked #766 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Hebrew · English

Azaria

Azaria is a feminine name used in Hebrew and English: hebrew form of Azariah, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #638 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Biblical

Azariah

Azariah is a unisex name used in Biblical meaning "Yahweh has helped". It ranked #472 for boys and #630 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Biblical · Biblical Hebrew

Aziel

Aziel is a masculine name used in Biblical and Biblical Hebrew meaning "God comforts". It ranked #186 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Biblical

Azriel

Azriel is a masculine name used in Biblical meaning "my help is God". It ranked #529 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Bailee

Bailee is a feminine name used in English: variant of Bailey, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1069 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English surname · Middle English

Bailey

Bailey is an occupational surname meaning "bailiff" that American television turned into a girls' name, while Britain and Australia kept it mostly for boys.

English

Baker

Baker is a masculine name used in English meaning "baker". It ranked #217 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Banks

Banks is a masculine name used in English: from an English surname that was given to a person who lived near a hillside or a bank of land, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #310 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English · Italian · French

Barbara

Barbara is a feminine name used in English and Italian meaning "foreign, savage, strange". It ranked #968 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English surname · Middle English

Barrett

Barrett is a polished-sounding surname-name whose probable Middle English meaning, "quarrelsome, deceptive", is anything but flattering.

English

Baylee

Baylee is a feminine name used in English: variant of Bailey, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1008 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Baylor

Baylor is a unisex name used in English meaning "measuring stick". It ranked #386 for boys and #694 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Italian · English · Swedish

Beatrice

Beatrice is a feminine name used in Italian and English: italian form of Beatrix, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #508 for girls in the United States in 2025.

French vocabulary word · English

Beau

Beau is a French adjective meaning "handsome" that became an English-speaking given name only in the mid-20th century, and is rarely used as a name in France itself.

English surname

Beckett

Beckett is a modern surname-name whose meaning is genuinely uncertain: the surname could come from a word for "beak" or from one for "brook".

English surname · Old English place name

Beckham

Beckham is an English place-name surname meaning "Becca's homestead" that entered the first-name lists in the era of its most famous bearer, footballer David Beckham.

Spanish · Hebrew

Belen

Belen is the Spanish name for Bethlehem, given as a Marian devotional name. It ranked #785 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English (short form of Isabella) · Italian

Bella

Bella began as a clipped form of Isabella but is now heard as the Italian word for "beautiful", and a 2005 novel heroine gave it a life of its own.

English

Bellamy

Bellamy is a feminine name used in English meaning "beautiful friend". It ranked #797 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Belle

Belle is a feminine name used in English: short form of Isabella or names ending in belle, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1013 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Hebrew · Biblical

Benjamin

Benjamin is the biblical youngest son whose name was changed at birth from "son of my sorrow" to "son of the right hand", and it has become a top-15 American boys' name used across Jewish, Christian and Muslim families alike.

English · Anglo-Norman · Latin

Bennett

Bennett is not a modern surname name at all but the ordinary medieval English spelling of Benedict, "blessed", which lost out to the Latin form in the 18th century and has come back through the surname to rank #40 for American boys.

English

Benson

Benson is a masculine name used in English meaning "son of Benedict". It ranked #279 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Bentley

Bentley is a masculine name used in English: from a surname that was from a place name, itself, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #215 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Berkley

Berkley is a spelling of Berkeley, a place name meaning "birch meadow". It ranked #888 for girls in the United States in 2025.

French · English · German

Bernadette

Bernadette is a feminine name used in French and English: french feminine form of Bernard, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1034 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Bethany

Bethany is a feminine name used in English: from the name of a biblical town, Βηθανία, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #752 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Beverly

Beverly is a feminine name used in English: from an English surname that was originally, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1018 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Bexley

Bexley is a London borough whose name means "box-tree wood", now used as a girl's name. It ranked #963 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Italian · Romanian

Bianca

Bianca is a feminine name used in Italian and Romanian: italian cognate of Blanche, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #500 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Billie

Billie is a feminine name used in English: diminutive of Bill, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #691 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Birdie

Birdie is a feminine name used in English: diminutive of Bertha, Bernice and other names with a similar sound, or sometimes simply, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #670 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Scottish surname · Scottish Gaelic

Blair

Blair is a Scottish surname meaning "field" that is typically masculine in Scotland but was turned into a girls' name in America by two television characters, thirty years apart.

English

Blaire

Blaire is a feminine name used in English: variant of Blair, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #384 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Blake

Blake is a unisex name used in English meaning "black". It ranked #316 for boys and #295 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English surname · Old English

Blakely

Blakely is a modern girls' name built on an Old English surname that literally describes a "black woodland clearing".

Swedish · Danish

Bo

Bo is a masculine name used in Swedish and Danish meaning "to live". It ranked #449 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Bodhi

Bodhi is a masculine name used in English: from a term referring to enlightenment in Buddhism, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #265 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Bodie

Bodie is a masculine name used in English: variant of Bodhi, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #275 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Bonnie

Bonnie is a feminine name used in English meaning "pretty". It ranked #396 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Boone

Boone is a masculine name used in English meaning "good". It ranked #423 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Boston

Boston is a masculine name used in English: from the American city of Boston in Massachusetts, itself named after a town in Lincolnshire, England, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #620 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Bowen

Bowen is a masculine name used in English meaning "son of Owain". It ranked #266 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Bradley

Bradley is a masculine name used in English meaning "broad clearing". It ranked #403 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Brady

Brady is a masculine name used in English: from an Irish surname, an Anglicized form of Ó Brádaigh, itself, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #321 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Braelyn

Braelyn is a feminine name used in English: a name created in the early 1990s, using the popular name suffix lyn, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1080 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Braelynn

Braelynn is a feminine name used in English: variant of Braelyn, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #837 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Brandon

Brandon is a masculine name used in English meaning "hill covered with broom". It ranked #261 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Brantley

Brantley is a masculine name used in English: from a surname, an Americanized form of the German surname Brändle, ultimately from Old High German brant fire, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #499 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English surname · Old English place name

Braxton

Braxton is an Old English place-name surname, "Bracca's town", that in some American families has been given in honour of a Confederate general.

English

Brayden

Brayden is a masculine name used in English: variant of Braden, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #229 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English · Irish · Old Irish

Brian

Brian is a masculine name used in English and Irish meaning "hill, high". It ranked #339 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Briana

Briana is a feminine name used in English: feminine form of Brian, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #661 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Brianna

Brianna is a spelling variant that overtook the name it varies, Briana, and it comes with more alternative spellings than almost any name in its range.

English

Briar

Briar is a feminine name used in English: from the English word for the thorny plant, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #400 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Irish · English

Bridget

Bridget is a feminine name used in Irish and English meaning "the exalted one". It ranked #724 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Briella

Briella is a feminine name used in English: short form of Gabriella, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #362 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English (Modern)

Brielle

Brielle is the tail end of Gabrielle, cut loose as a name of its own; the towns that share its spelling have nothing to do with it.

English

Briggs

Briggs is a masculine name used in English meaning "bridge". It ranked #356 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Brinley

Brinley is a feminine name used in English meaning "burned clearing". It ranked #608 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Bristol

Bristol is a feminine name used in English: from the name of the city of Bristol in southwestern England that means the site of the bridge, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #728 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Brittany

Brittany is a feminine name used in English: from the name of the region of Brittany in the northwest of France, called in French Bretagne, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #928 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Brody

Brody is a masculine name used in English: from a Scottish surname that was originally, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #236 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Brooke

Brooke is a feminine name used in English: variant of Brook, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #313 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English (Modern) · Dutch place name

Brooklyn

Brooklyn is a place-name turned girls' name whose Dutch source can mean either "broken land" or "marsh land", and which reads as a boys' name across the Atlantic.

English

Brooklynn

Brooklynn is a feminine name used in English: variant of Brooklyn, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #488 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English surname

Brooks

Brooks is a top-100 boys' name built on the thinnest of etymologies: a surname that is simply a variant of Brook.

Scottish · English

Bruce

Bruce is a masculine name used in Scottish and English: from a Scottish surname, of Norman origin, which probably originally referred to the town of Brix in France, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #536 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Bryan

Bryan is a masculine name used in English: variant of Brian, based on the usual spelling of the surname that is, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #336 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Bryce

Bryce is a masculine name used in English: variant of Brice, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #357 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Brylee

Brylee is a feminine name used in English: variant of Briley, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #992 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English (Modern)

Brynlee

Brynlee is a 21st-century respelling of Brinley built from the elements Bryn and lee, a name whose look matters as much as its history.

English

Brynleigh

Brynleigh is a feminine name used in English: variant of Brinley, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #807 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Brynn

Brynn is a feminine name used in English: feminine variant of Bryn, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #407 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English surname

Bryson

Bryson is a surname meaning "son of Brice" that climbed the charts from the 1970s on the strength of its sound, not its history.

English

Cade

Cade is a masculine name used in English meaning "round". It ranked #248 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Caden

Caden is a masculine name used in English: sometimes explained as deriving, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #201 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Cadence

Cadence is a feminine name used in English meaning "rhythm, flow". It ranked #1022 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Caiden

Caiden is a masculine name used in English: variant of Caden, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #602 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Cairo

Cairo is a masculine name used in English: from the name of the city of Cairo in Egypt, called القاهرة, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #341 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Cal

Cal is a masculine name used in English: short form of Calvin and other names beginning with Cal, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #543 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Hebrew · Biblical

Caleb

Caleb is a Puritan favourite whose Hebrew root is genuinely uncertain: the leading theory says "dog", the rival one says "whole heart".

English

Cali

Cali is a feminine name used in English: variant of Callie, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #574 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Callahan

Callahan is a masculine name used in English: from an Irish surname, the Anglicized form of Ó Ceallacháin, itself, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #227 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Callan

Callan is a masculine name used in English: from an Irish surname, the Anglicized form of Ó Cathaláin, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #190 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Callen

Callen is a masculine name used in English: variant of Callan, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #516 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Callie

Callie is a nickname that has outgrown its parent: a diminutive of Caroline now given on its own to more American girls than many full names.

Greek Mythology

Calliope

Calliope is a feminine name used in Greek Mythology: latinized form of Kalliope, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #451 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Scottish · English

Callum

Callum is the anglicised spelling of Scottish Gaelic Calum, a name whose real story lives one step back in its parent form.

English · French surname

Calvin

Calvin means "bald", yet it became a first name in honour of a Reformation theologian and now belongs as much to a comic-strip six-year-old as to John Calvin.

English

Camden

Camden is a masculine name used in English meaning "enclosed valley". It ranked #205 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Scottish surname · Gaelic

Cameron

Cameron is a Scottish clan surname meaning "crooked nose" that is mainly a boys' name, yet its girls' spellings Camryn and Kamryn now outrank it for girls in the United States.

Spanish · Portuguese

Camila

Camila is the Spanish and Portuguese spelling of Camilla, and in the United States it is the single-l Spanish form, not the older English Camilla, that sits in the top 20.

English · Italian · Danish

Camilla

Camilla is a feminine name used in English and Italian: feminine form of Camillus, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #361 for girls in the United States in 2025.

French · Latin (via Camilla)

Camille

Camille is unisex in France and feminine in the English-speaking world, and the two pronunciations, ka-MEEY and kə-MEEL, mark which tradition a family is following.

Spanish · Portuguese

Camilo

Camilo is a masculine name used in Spanish and Portuguese: spanish and Portuguese form of Camillus, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #585 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Campbell

Campbell is a feminine name used in English meaning "crooked mouth". It ranked #617 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Camryn

Camryn is a feminine name used in English: variant, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #477 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Capri

Capri is a feminine name used in English: from the name of the picturesque Italian island of Capri, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #547 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Italian · Portuguese · Spanish

Carla

Carla is a feminine name used in Italian and Portuguese: feminine form of Carlo, Carlos or Carl, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1083 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Spanish · Portuguese

Carlos

Carlos is the Spanish and Portuguese face of Charles, a royal name that in the United States reads as thoroughly Hispanic rather than European-court.

English

Carly

Carly is a feminine name used in English: feminine form of Carl, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1009 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Spanish · English · Italian

Carmen

Carmen is a feminine name used in Spanish and English meaning "song". It ranked #389 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Italian · Spanish · Portuguese

Carolina

Carolina is a feminine name used in Italian and Spanish: latinate feminine form of Carolus, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #405 for girls in the United States in 2025.

French · Latin (via Carolus)

Caroline

Caroline is the French feminine form of Charles, and its two English pronunciations, -line and -lin, divide families more than any etymology does.

English · Scottish surname

Carson

Carson is a surname-name whose original meaning nobody can pin down, carried into first-name use by the fame of the surname itself.

English · Anglo-Norman

Carter

Carter is an occupational surname for someone who drove a cart that has become a top-50 American boys' name and, more quietly, a girls' name too, without ever having been a first name in the old sources.

English

Casey

Casey is a unisex name used in English: from the Irish surname Casey, an Anglicized form of Ó Cathasaigh, a patronymic, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #320 for boys and #1065 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Cash

Cash is a masculine name used in English meaning "case". It ranked #287 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Literature

Caspian

Caspian is a masculine name used in Literature: used by author C, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #491 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English · French · Greek Mythology

Cassandra

Cassandra is a feminine name used in English and French: from the Greek name Κασσάνδρα, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #631 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Ancient Roman

Cassian

Cassian is a masculine name used in Ancient Roman: from the Roman cognomen Cassianus, which was, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #479 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Cassidy

Cassidy is a feminine name used in English: from an Irish surname, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #541 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Ancient Roman

Cassius

Cassius is a masculine name used in Ancient Roman meaning "empty, vain". It ranked #583 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Spanish (Latin American, Modern) · English (Modern) · botanical name

Cataleya

Cataleya is an orchid name with a film-star origin: a 2011 action movie turned a botanical genus named for a British horticulturist into a top-250 US girls' name.

Spanish · Corsican

Catalina

Catalina is the Spanish face of Katherine, one of the most widely translated names in Europe, and it has entered the US top 120 without an English entry of its own.

French · English

Catherine

Catherine is a feminine name used in French and English: french form of Katherine, and also a common English variant, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #314 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Cayden

Cayden is a masculine name used in English: variant of Caden, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #414 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Cecelia

Cecelia is a feminine name used in English: variant of Cecilia, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #529 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Latin · Roman family name

Cecilia

Cecilia means "blind" yet is carried by the patron saint of music, a contrast that has kept the name in use across Europe since the Middle Ages.

Italian · Portuguese · Spanish · English

Celeste

Celeste is a Romance-language form of the Late Roman name Caelestis, feminine in English and Spanish but used for both sexes in Italian.

English · Spanish

Celia

Celia is a feminine name used in English and Spanish: feminine form of the Roman family name Caelius, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #774 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Polish · Portuguese · Spanish

Celina

Celina is a feminine name used in Polish and Portuguese: polish, Portuguese and Spanish form of Céline, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #829 for girls in the United States in 2025.

French · German · English

Celine

Celine is the accent-free form of the French Céline, a name whose sleek two-syllable sound has outrun the Roman family names it descends from.

Spanish

Cesar

Cesar is a masculine name used in Spanish: unaccented form of César used mainly in America and the Philippines, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #385 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Hebrew

Chana

Chana is a feminine name used in Hebrew: modern Hebrew form of Hannah, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #686 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Chance

Chance is a masculine name used in English: originally a diminutive of Chauncey, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #442 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Chandler

Chandler is a feminine name used in English meaning "candle seller". It ranked #895 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Charlee

Charlee is a feminine name used in English: feminine variant of Charlie, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #417 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Charleigh

Charleigh is a feminine name used in English: strictly feminine variant of Charlie, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #811 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Germanic · Latin · Old French · English · French

Charles

How a Germanic term for a free man became an enduring hallmark of Western royalty and classic nomenclature.

English

Charley

Charley is a feminine name used in English: diminutive or feminine form of Charles, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #760 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Charli

Charli is a feminine name used in English: variant of Charlie, typically feminine, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #496 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Charlie

Charlie began as a pet form of Charles and now stands on its own for both boys and girls, ranking in the US top 150 on each list.

French · Germanic

Charlotte

How a French royal diminutive became an enduring transatlantic literary classic and top-tier global favorite.

English

Chase

Chase is a masculine name used in English meaning "chase, hunt". It ranked #192 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Hebrew

Chaya

Chaya is a feminine name used in Hebrew meaning "living". It ranked #588 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Chelsea

Chelsea is a feminine name used in English meaning "landing place for chalk or limestone". It ranked #851 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Cheyenne

Cheyenne is a feminine name used in English: derived, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #920 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Italian

Chiara

Chiara is a feminine name used in Italian: italian form of Clara, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1066 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Greek

Chloe

Chloe is an ancient Greek word for a green shoot, an epithet of the goddess Demeter and a name in the New Testament, yet as an everyday English name it is barely older than the 1980s.

English

Chosen

Chosen is a masculine name used in English: from the English word, the past participle of choose, a word, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #555 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Chozen

Chozen is a masculine name used in English: variant of Chosen, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #523 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English · Dutch · German

Chris

Chris is a masculine name used in English and Dutch: short form of Christopher, Christian, Christine and other names that begin with Chris, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #646 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Medieval Latin · Greek (via Christos)

Christian

Christian is the rare name that is also a plain description of its bearer, and it was once given to girls as readily as to boys in medieval England.

English · German · Swedish

Christina

Christina is a feminine name used in English and German: from Christiana, the Latin feminine form of Christian, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #770 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Late Greek

Christopher

Christopher began as a metaphor for carrying Christ in one's heart, and a literal reading of that metaphor produced the river-crossing saint most people now associate with it.

Spanish

Cielo

Cielo is a feminine name used in Spanish meaning "sky, heaven". It ranked #795 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Irish

Cillian

Cillian is a masculine name used in Irish meaning "church". It ranked #507 for boys in the United States in 2025.

French

Claire

Claire is the French form of Clara, and the two forms have traded places: Clara has since overtaken Claire in France itself.

Latin

Clara

Clara means "clear, bright, famous", was carried to fame by a 13th-century saint who gave up her fortune, and has spent a century being overshadowed by its own French sister, Claire, before climbing back.

English

Clare

Clare is a feminine name used in English: medieval English form of Clara, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #924 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Clark

Clark is a masculine name used in English meaning "cleric". It ranked #377 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English · German · Dutch

Claudia

Claudia is a feminine name used in English and German: feminine form of Claudius, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1096 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Clay

Clay is a masculine name used in English: from an English surname that originally referred to a person who lived near or worked with clay, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #573 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Clayton

Clayton is a masculine name used in English meaning "clay settlement". It ranked #300 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Clementine

Clementine is a feminine name used in English: english form of Clémentine, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #456 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Cleo

Cleo is a feminine name used in English: short form of Cleopatra, Cleon or Cleopas, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #577 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Clover

Clover is a feminine name used in English: from the English word for the wild flower, ultimately deriving from Old English clafre, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #517 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Cody

Cody is a masculine name used in English meaning "descendant of the helpful one". It ranked #318 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Cohen

Cohen is a masculine name used in English meaning "priest". It ranked #225 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English · Old Norse

Colbie

Colbie is Wiktionary's documented variant of Colby, a Norse settlement name. It ranked #881 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Colby

Colby is a masculine name used in English: from an English surname, originally from various place names, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #615 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Cole

Cole is a masculine name used in English: from an English surname, itself originally, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #182 for boys in the United States in 2025.

French

Colette

Colette is a feminine name used in French: short form of Nicolette, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #316 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Scottish · English

Colin

Colin is a masculine name used in Scottish and English: anglicized form of Scottish Cailean, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #343 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Collin

Collin is a masculine name used in English: variant of Colin, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #493 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English surname · Irish surname

Collins

Collins is a surname that became a girls' name in the United States after one film role, while remaining a boys' name in parts of English-speaking Africa.

English

Colsen

Colsen is a masculine name used in English: variant of Colson, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #566 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Colson

Colson is a masculine name used in English meaning "son of Col". It ranked #311 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Colt

Colt is a masculine name used in English: from the English word for a young male horse or, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #285 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English (Modern) · English surname

Colter

Colter is an occupational surname for a keeper of horses that has only recently been pressed into service as a first name.

English surname · English place name

Colton

Colton looks like an old English place name and is one, but as a first name it dates only from the 1980s, when parents began hearing it as the long form of Cole or Colt.

Irish · English (Modern)

Connor

Connor is the surname spelling of the Irish name Conor, and outside Ireland it has become the default way to write it.

English · German · Germanic

Conrad

Conrad is a masculine name used in English and German meaning "brave counsel". It ranked #417 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Cooper

Cooper is a plain English trade name, the man who made barrels, that has moved from surname to a top-30 first name for American boys.

Greek mythology (Latinized) · English · German

Cora

Cora is a Greek mythological name that English speakers did not use at all until a novelist put it in The Last of the Mohicans in 1826.

Literature · French

Coraline

Coraline is a feminine name used in Literature and French: created by the French composer Adolphe Adam for one of the main characters in his opera Le Toréador, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #683 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Corbin

Corbin is a masculine name used in English meaning "raven". It ranked #512 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Literature · English

Cordelia

Cordelia is a feminine name used in Literature and English: from Cordeilla, a name appearing in the 12th-century chronicles of Geoffrey of Monmouth, borne by the youngest of the three daughters of King Leir and the only, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #981 for girls in the United States in 2025.

French · English

Corinne

Corinne is a feminine name used in French and English: french form of Corinna, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #999 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Crew

Crew is a masculine name used in English meaning "weir". It ranked #256 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Romanian · Spanish · Italian

Cristian

Cristian is a masculine name used in Romanian and Spanish: romanian form of Christian, as well as a Spanish, Italian and Portuguese variant form, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #362 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Spanish · Portuguese

Cruz

Cruz is a masculine name used in Spanish and Portuguese meaning "cross". It ranked #331 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English · French · Dutch

Cynthia

Cynthia is a feminine name used in English and French meaning "woman from Cynthus". It ranked #1014 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Biblical · Biblical Latin

Cyrus

Cyrus is a masculine name used in English and Biblical meaning "young". It ranked #268 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Italian · Spanish · Portuguese

Dafne

Dafne is a feminine name used in Italian and Spanish: italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of Daphne, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1047 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English word · Swedish surname

Dahlia

Dahlia is a flower name that is really a surname in disguise, since the bloom was named for the Swedish botanist Anders Dahl, and English speakers cannot agree on how to say it.

English (word name) · Old English

Daisy

Daisy is a Victorian flower name with an Old English poem hidden inside it: the flower is literally the "day's eye".

English

Dakota

Dakota is a unisex name used in English meaning "allies, friends". It ranked #319 for boys and #296 for girls in the United States in 2025.

American

Daleyza

Daleyza is a feminine name used in American: meaning uncertain, perhaps an elaboration of Dalia, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #538 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Spanish · Arabic

Dalia

Dalia is a feminine name used in Spanish and Arabic: spanish and Arabic form of Dahlia, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #800 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Dallas

Dallas is a unisex name used in English meaning "valley house". It ranked #238 for boys and #687 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Dalton

Dalton is a masculine name used in English meaning "valley town". It ranked #448 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Greek

Damian

Balancing an ancient Greek heritage of quiet restraint with modern cinematic intrigue, Damian carries both gentle elegance and enduring strength.

French · Ancient Greek

Damien

Tracing Damien from its French linguistic roots and Greek origins to its modern standing across international baby name charts.

Greek Mythology · English

Damon

Damon is a masculine name used in Greek Mythology and English meaning "to tame". It ranked #501 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Romanian · Czech · Slovak

Dana

Dana is a feminine name used in Romanian and Czech: feminine form of Daniel or Dan, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1027 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Dani

Dani is a feminine name used in English: diminutive of Danielle, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #747 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Italian

Dania

Dania is a feminine name used in Italian: italian diminutive of Daniela, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1063 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Hebrew

Daniel

Daniel is a Hebrew prophet's name that went rare in England by the 15th century, came back with the Reformation, and has since spread into more than a hundred spellings while staying in the American top 25.

Italian · German · Polish

Daniela

Daniela is a feminine name used in Italian and German: feminine form of Daniel, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #302 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Hungarian

Daniella

Daniella is a feminine name used in English and Hungarian: feminine form of Daniel, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #468 for girls in the United States in 2025.

French · English · Dutch

Danielle

Danielle is a feminine name used in French and English: french feminine form of Daniel, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #549 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Danna

Danna is a feminine name used in English: feminine form of Daniel or Dan, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #394 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Dutch · German

Danny

Danny is a masculine name used in English and Dutch: diminutive of Daniel, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #628 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Italian

Dante

Dante is a masculine name used in Italian: medieval short form of Durante, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #308 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Greek Mythology · English · Dutch

Daphne

Daphne is the Greek word for laurel and the name of the nymph who became the tree, a myth of escape that gives the name its enduring appeal.

English

Darcy

Darcy is a feminine name used in English: from an English surname that was, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #857 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Spanish

Dariel

Dariel is a masculine name used in English and Spanish: probably an elaborated form of Darrell, with an ending similar to biblical names such as Daniel, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #327 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Darla

Darla is a feminine name used in English: variant of Darlene using the suffix la, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #941 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Hebrew

David

David is the name of Israel's greatest king, the patron saint of Wales and two Scottish kings, and it has not left the American top 30 for a century, yet its one-time signature short form, Dave, now sounds distinctly mid-century.

English

Davina

Davina is a feminine name used in English: feminine form of David, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #749 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English surname

Dawson

Dawson means "son of David", but as a first name it is a television creation: a single teen drama multiplied its use tenfold in two years.

English

Daxton

Daxton is a masculine name used in English: elaboration of Dax influenced by names such as Paxton and Braxton, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #379 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Spanish

Dayana

Dayana is a feminine name used in Spanish: spanish variant of Diana, reflecting the English pronunciation, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #716 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Deacon

Deacon is a masculine name used in English: either, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #561 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English surname

Dean

Dean is a one-syllable surname name whose given-name fame owes much to the actor James Dean, but whose underlying surname has more than one origin.

English · Biblical

Deborah

Deborah is a feminine name used in English and Biblical meaning "bee". It ranked #864 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Irish · Old Irish · English

Declan

Declan is the name of a 5th-century Irish saint whose meaning is unknown beyond a probable opening "good", yet two Hollywood films did more for its American popularity than fifteen centuries of tradition.

English surname · Irish surname

Delaney

Delaney is a surname-turned-girl's-name that can be traced to either an English or an Irish family name, and the source consulted does not say which meaning applies.

Hebrew · Biblical

Delilah

Delilah is the biblical betrayer whose name the Puritans nonetheless adopted, and a 2006 pop song did more for its popularity than three centuries of quiet use.

English

Della

Della is a feminine name used in English: diminutive of Adela or Adelaide, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #563 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Greek · English

Demi

Demi is a feminine name used in Greek and English: alternate transcription of Greek Δήμη, Ντίμι or Ντίμη, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #381 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Denver

Denver is a unisex name used in English meaning "Dane ford". It ranked #518 for boys and #836 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Derek

Derek is a masculine name used in English: from the older English name Dederick, which was in origin a Low German form of Theodoric, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #284 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English · Irish

Desmond

Desmond is a masculine name used in English and Irish: anglicized form of Irish Deasmhumhain meaning south Munster, referring to the region of Desmond in southern Ireland, formerly a kingdom, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #376 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Destiny

Destiny is a feminine name used in English meaning "destiny, fate". It ranked #635 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Devin

Devin is a masculine name used in English: from a surname, either the Irish surname Devin or the English surname Devin, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #548 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Latin · Roman mythology

Diana

Diana is the name of a Roman goddess and of a modern princess, and it means exactly what both suggest: "divine, goddesslike".

Spanish · Italian

Diego

Diego may be a clipped form of Santiago or a Latin name meaning "teaching"; the two explanations have competed since medieval scribes wrote it as Didacus.

Late Latin · English

Dominic

Dominic means "of the Lord" and was once a name for Sunday-born children, but it owes its English career to a 13th-century saint and the friars he founded.

English

Dominick

Dominick is a masculine name used in English: variant of Dominic, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #622 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Donovan

Donovan is a masculine name used in English: from an Irish surname, an Anglicized form of Ó Donndubháin, itself, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #496 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English · French · Romanian

Dorian

Dorian is a masculine name used in English and French: the name was first used by Oscar Wilde in his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #539 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Dorothy

Dorothy is a feminine name used in English: usual English form of Dorothea, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #421 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Dream

Dream is a feminine name used in English: from the English word dream referring to imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping or a hope or wish, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #432 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Drew

Drew is a unisex name used in English: short form of Andrew, sometimes a feminine form, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #553 for boys and #706 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Arabic

Dua

Dua is a feminine name used in Arabic meaning "prayer". It ranked #1060 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Spanish · Portuguese

Dulce

Dulce is a feminine name used in Spanish and Portuguese meaning "sweet". It ranked #771 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Welsh · Welsh Mythology · English

Dylan

Dylan is a Welsh sea-god's name that stayed inside Wales until a poet and a folk singer who borrowed the poet's name carried it around the world in the second half of the 20th century.

English surname · Old English place name

Easton

Easton is a place-name-turned-surname-turned-first-name whose meaning is simply "east town", yet it now sits in the US top 120 for boys.

Hebrew · Biblical place name · English (modern) · French (modern)

Eden

Eden is a biblical place name used for both girls and boys, whose meaning depends on whether you trace it to Hebrew "delight" or Sumerian "plain".

English · French · Portuguese

Edgar

Edgar is a masculine name used in English and French: derived, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #486 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English · German · Swedish

Edith

Edith is a feminine name used in English and German: from the Old English name Eadgyð, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #499 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Spanish · Portuguese

Eduardo

Eduardo is a masculine name used in Spanish and Portuguese: spanish and Portuguese form of Edward, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #410 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English · Polish

Edward

Edward is a masculine name used in English and Polish meaning "rich guard". It ranked #224 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English · Dutch

Edwin

Edwin is a masculine name used in English and Dutch meaning "rich friend". It ranked #398 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Spanish

Eiden

Eiden is a masculine name used in Spanish: spanish form of Aidan, reflecting the English pronunciation, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #537 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Irish · English

Eileen

Eileen is a feminine name used in Irish and English: anglicized form of Eibhlín, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #654 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Not documented in the consulted reference sources

Eimy

Eimy is a feminine name in current American use whose origin is not documented in the reference works we cite. It ranked #1043 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English (modern) · Hebrew

Eithan

Eithan is a modern respelling of Ethan that sits inside the US top 100 on its own, borrowing the Hebrew meaning "solid, enduring, firm" while looking newer than the classic spelling.

English · Old French (via Elaine) · Greek (via Helen)

Elaina

Elaina takes the Arthurian Elaine and gives it an Italianate -a ending, so the name reads as a cousin of Elena even though it arrived by way of Old French.

English · Arthurian Cycle

Elaine

Elaine is a feminine name used in English and Arthurian Cycle: from an Old French form of Helen, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #305 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Not documented in the consulted reference sources

Elani

Elani is a feminine name in current American use whose origin is not documented in the reference works we cite. It ranked #844 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Greek Mythology

Elara

Elara is a feminine name used in Greek Mythology meaning "hazelnut, spear-shaft". It ranked #942 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Occitan · Old French · English

Eleanor

Eleanor may be the only top-15 name whose usual etymology is a Latin pun, "the other Aenor", and even that story is doubted by the sources that report it.

English

Eleanora

Eleanora is a feminine name used in English: latinate form of Eleanor, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #865 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Greek · Italian · Spanish · Romanian · Russian

Elena

Elena is the same name as Helen wearing a dozen different national costumes, and its rise in the American top 50 owes as much to Italian, Spanish and Russian families as to any English tradition.

Greek

Eleni

Eleni is a feminine name used in Greek: modern Greek form of Helen, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1038 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Hebrew · English · Biblical

Eli

Eli looks like a single simple name but Behind the Name actually tracks it as three separate entries with three separate origins, one masculine biblical, one a short form of Elijah-type names, and one feminine.

Italian

Elia

Elia is a feminine name used in Italian: italian form of Elijah, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #970 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Biblical · Biblical Hebrew

Eliam

Eliam is a masculine name used in Biblical and Biblical Hebrew meaning "God is a kinsman". It ranked #313 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Dutch · Hebrew (via Elijah or Elisabeth)

Elian

Elian ranks in the American top 150 for boys, but the only Behind the Name entry fetched for it is a rare Dutch name, so the name most US parents are choosing may be a different Elian.

Hebrew · Italian · Spanish · Portuguese · Latin

Eliana

Eliana is two names in one spelling — a Hebrew sentence meaning "my God has answered" and a Romance form of a Latin name traced to the Greek word for the sun — and it arrived in the American top ten in a single generation.

English (Modern)

Elianna

Elianna is one of four spellings of the same modern name, and the double n is a choice about looks rather than history.

Greek · Hebrew · Biblical

Elias

Elias is the Greek New Testament's spelling of Elijah, which makes it the same name as the American #7 while sounding like a different, more European choice.

Biblical · Biblical Hebrew · Biblical Greek

Eliel

Eliel is a masculine name used in Biblical and Biblical Hebrew meaning "my God is God". It ranked #586 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Hebrew · Biblical

Elijah

Elijah is a 9th-century BC prophet's name that died out in England, was resurrected by the Puritans, and then waited four centuries to become an American top-ten name.

Finnish · Estonian · Swedish

Elina

Elina is a feminine name used in Finnish and Estonian: finnish, Estonian and Swedish form of Helen, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #764 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Italian · Spanish

Elio

Elio is a masculine name used in Italian and Spanish: italian and Spanish form of Aelius, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #388 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Hebrew

Eliora

Eliora is a feminine name used in Hebrew: feminine form of Elior, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #914 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Italian · Spanish · Portuguese

Elisa

Elisa is a feminine name used in Italian and Spanish: short form of Elisabeth, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #458 for girls in the United States in 2025.

German · Dutch · Swedish

Elisabeth

Elisabeth is a feminine name used in German and Dutch: german and Dutch form of Elizabeth, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #925 for girls in the United States in 2025.

German · Scandinavian · Dutch · English · Hebrew (via Elizabeth)

Elise

Elise is a short form of Elizabeth that has become a full name across half of Europe, and English speakers cannot agree on how to say it.

Italian · Spanish

Eliseo

Eliseo is a masculine name used in Italian and Spanish: italian and Spanish form of Elisha, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #550 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English · Hebrew

Eliza

Eliza is a short form of Elizabeth that has outgrown its parent in feel: crisp, literary and forever attached to Eliza Doolittle of Pygmalion and My Fair Lady.

Hebrew · Ancient Greek · Middle English

Elizabeth

How Elizabeth evolved from an ancient biblical covenant name into one of the English-speaking world's most enduring and versatile royal standards.

Norman · Germanic · English

Ella

Ella is two names wearing one spelling: a Norman name from a Germanic word for "other", and a short form of everything that begins with El- — and most parents choosing it today are not choosing between them.

English

Elle

Elle is a feminine name used in English: diminutive of Eleanor and other names beginning with El, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #461 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · German · Danish

Ellen

Ellen is a feminine name used in English and German: medieval English form of Helen, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1062 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English (modern) · Greek (via Eliana, per Behind the Name)

Elliana

Elliana is a modern double-l respelling of Eliana, a name whose own origin Behind the Name splits across more than one entry, so its meaning depends on which Eliana you mean.

English

Ellianna

Ellianna is a feminine name used in English: variant of Eliana, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #643 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Ellie

Ellie has no meaning of its own: it is a nickname that outgrew its parents, reaching #2 in the United Kingdom in 2003 and #24 in the United States in 2025 while Eleanor, Ellen and Elizabeth stayed on the birth certificate less and less often.

English surname · Hebrew (via Elias / Elijah)

Elliot

Elliot is a surname three steps removed from the prophet Elijah, and the single-t spelling has quietly become a girls' name too.

English surname

Elliott

Elliott is a surname that quietly carries the biblical Elias inside it, and one of the few names that is used for both boys and girls at very different rates.

English · Welsh

Ellis

Ellis is a unisex name used in English and Welsh: from an English surname that was, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #243 for boys and #682 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Ellison

Ellison is a patronymic surname — "son of Ellis" — turned unisex given name. It ranked #1067 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Elodie

Elodie is a feminine name used in English: english form of Élodie, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #310 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Old French · Germanic

Eloise

Eloise sounds like a sunny French cousin of Louise, but its likely root is a hard-edged Germanic compound, and its most famous bearer is a 12th-century scholar whose love story ended in a monastery.

Popular Culture · English

Elora

Elora is a feminine name used in Popular Culture and English: probably an invented name, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #354 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Elouise

Elouise is a feminine name used in English: variant of Eloise, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #788 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Cornish

Elowen

Elowen is a feminine name used in Cornish meaning "elm tree". It ranked #798 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Cornish

Elowyn

Elowyn is a feminine name used in Cornish: variant of Elowen, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #299 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Swedish · Hebrew (via Elizabeth)

Elsie

Elsie is a nursery-sized pet form of Elizabeth that now stands on its own in the American top 125, carrying a Hebrew oath inside a two-syllable name.

English

Elyse

Elyse is a feminine name used in English: diminutive of Elizabeth, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #918 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Romanian · Portuguese · Swedish

Emanuel

Emanuel is a masculine name used in Romanian and Portuguese: form of Emmanuel in several languages, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #574 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English (Modern)

Ember

Ember is a modern English word-name whose appeal is almost entirely atmospheric: a glowing coal turned into a girl's name with no naming tradition behind it.

English

Emberly

Emberly is a feminine name used in English: elaboration of Ember, influenced by the spelling of Kimberly, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #688 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Emberlynn

Emberlynn is a feminine name used in English: elaboration of Ember using the popular name suffix lyn, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #929 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Emelia

Emelia is a feminine name used in English: variant of Amelia, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #601 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Emely

Emely is a feminine name used in English: variant of Emily, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #503 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Emerald

Emerald is a feminine name used in English: from the word for the green precious stone, which is the traditional birthstone of May, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #741 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Emerie

Emerie is a feminine name used in English: variant of Emery, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #553 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English surname

Emerson

Emerson is a surname meaning "son of Emery" that American parents now give to daughters more often than to sons.

English (modern respelling) · English surname

Emersyn

Emersyn is the deliberately feminine respelling of the surname Emerson, a name that already leans feminine in the United States without the extra y.

English · Norman French · Germanic

Emery

Emery began as a Norman French boys' name that faded after the Middle Ages, and returned centuries later, via the surname, as a name now given mostly to girls.

Japanese

Emi

Emi is a feminine name used in Japanese: from Japanese 恵, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #882 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Latin · Italian · Spanish

Emilia

Emilia is the Latin-flavoured sister of Emily that Boccaccio and Shakespeare both used, and it has climbed into the American top 50 just as Emily itself has slipped.

Italian · Spanish · Portuguese

Emiliana

Emiliana is a feminine name used in Italian and Spanish: feminine form of Emiliano, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #789 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Spanish · Italian · Portuguese · Latin

Emiliano

Emiliano carries a Roman family name and a 6th-century Spanish saint into the modern US top 100, where its four flowing syllables set it apart from the clipped Emil.

Italian · Spanish · Ancient Roman

Emilio

Emilio is the Italian and Spanish face of an ancient Roman family name, and the question for English-speaking parents is whether its warmth survives translation.

Latin · English

Emily

Emily was the #1 girls' name in America for twelve straight years, from 1996 to 2007, and it owes its English career to a Hanoverian princess who was actually named Amelia.

Turkish · Bosnian

Emir

Emir is a masculine name used in Turkish and Bosnian: turkish form and Bosnian variant of Amir, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #551 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Germanic

Emma

Emma was the #3 girls' name in America in 1880 and again in 2025, yet it began life not as a name at all but as a clipped fragment of longer Germanic names meaning "whole".

Biblical · French · English

Emmanuel

Emmanuel is a masculine name used in Biblical and French meaning "God is with us". It ranked #179 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Emmeline

Emmeline is a feminine name used in English meaning "unceasing, vigorous, brave". It ranked #922 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English surname · Germanic (via Emma)

Emmett

Emmett looks like a sturdy, self-contained boys' name, yet it descends from a surname built on a pet form of the girls' name Emma.

English

Emmie

Emmie is a feminine name used in English: diminutive of Emma or Emily, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #695 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · French · Swedish

Emmy

Emmy is a feminine name used in English and French: diminutive of Emma or Emily, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #445 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Emory

Emory is a feminine name used in English: variant of Emery, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #339 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Spanish

Enrique

Enrique is a masculine name used in Spanish: spanish form of Heinrich, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #571 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Ensley

Ensley is documented as an English surname whose own etymology is missing. It ranked #845 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Italian · French

Enzo

Enzo is a short Italian name of genuinely uncertain origin, part medieval Heinz, part Germanic Anzo, part modern clipping of Lorenzo and Vincenzo, that carries the glamour of Enzo Ferrari.

English · Swedish · German

Eric

Eric is a masculine name used in English and Swedish meaning "ever ruler". It ranked #273 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Erick

Erick is a masculine name used in English: variant of Eric, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #366 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Swedish · Norwegian · Danish

Erik

Erik is a masculine name used in Swedish and Norwegian: scandinavian form of Eric, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #546 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English · Irish

Erin

Erin is a feminine name used in English and Irish: anglicized form of Éireann, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #833 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Esme

Esme is a feminine name used in English: variant of Esmé, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #298 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Spanish · Portuguese · English

Esmeralda

Esmeralda is a feminine name used in Spanish and Portuguese meaning "emerald". It ranked #373 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Spanish

Esteban

Esteban is a masculine name used in Spanish: spanish form of Stephen, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #461 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Estella

Estella is a feminine name used in English: latinate form of Estelle, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #509 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · French

Estelle

Estelle is a feminine name used in English and French meaning "star". It ranked #573 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Hebrew · Persian · Biblical

Esther

Esther is the name of a biblical queen who saved her people, yet its own meaning is unsettled: possibly Persian for "star", possibly a trace of the goddess Ishtar.

Spanish

Estrella

Estrella is a feminine name used in Spanish: spanish form of Stella, coinciding with the Spanish word meaning star, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #612 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Biblical Hebrew

Ethan

How did Ethan transform from an obscure Old Testament sage and American revolutionary namesake into an international top-tier modern favorite?

English

Etta

Etta is a feminine name used in English: short form of Henrietta and other names that end with etta, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #930 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Hebrew · Latin (Biblical)

Eva

Eva is the Latin-Bible spelling of Eve, used across two dozen languages, and in English it outpaced Eve itself when both were revived in the 19th century.

Welsh · English

Evan

Evan looks like a compact modern English name but is really a Welsh form of John wearing an anglicised spelling.

Greek · English (literary)

Evangeline

Evangeline means "good news" in Greek, but as a given name it appears to be a 19th-century literary invention, launched by a Longfellow poem and echoed in Uncle Tom's Cabin.

English · Estonian · Biblical

Eve

Eve is a feminine name used in English and Estonian meaning "to breathe". It ranked #519 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Italian · Swedish

Evelina

Evelina is a feminine name used in English and Italian: latinate form of Aveline, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #778 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Old French · Germanic

Evelyn

Once an English surname-turned-masculine moniker, Evelyn transformed into a feminine staple and twenty-first-century favorite while preserving its Old French heritage.

English

Evelynn

Evelynn is a feminine name used in English: variant of Evelyn, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #301 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English surname

Everett

Everett is a surname-turned-first-name whose whole documented story is one sentence long: it comes from Everard, and everything else about its appeal is sound and style.

English

Everlee

Everlee is a feminine name used in English: variant of Everly, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #545 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English (Modern) · English surname

Everleigh

Everleigh is a spelling variant of a name that did not exist as a given name until this century, and its -leigh ending is the whole point.

English surname · Old English

Everly

Everly is a surname meaning "boar clearing" that barely existed as a first name before 2008, then climbed the US charts faster than almost any girls' name of its generation.

English

Evie

Evie is a pet form with two possible parents, Eve and Evelyn, and which one a family means changes both its meaning and how it is pronounced.

Hebrew · Biblical

Ezekiel

Ezekiel is a weighty Old Testament prophet's name meaning "God will strengthen" that now sits comfortably in the US top 100, softened by the nickname Zeke.

Spanish · Portuguese

Ezequiel

Ezequiel is a masculine name used in Spanish and Portuguese: spanish and Portuguese form of Ezekiel, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #348 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Not documented in the consulted reference sources

Eziah

Eziah is a masculine name in current American use whose origin is not documented in the reference works we cite. It ranked #610 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Hebrew · Biblical

Ezra

Tracing Ezra from its ancient Hebrew roots as a priestly name meaning 'help' to its enduring literary presence and 21st-century resurgence.

German · Dutch · Polish

Fabian

Fabian is a masculine name used in German and Dutch: from the Roman cognomen Fabianus, which was, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #468 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Faith

Faith is a Puritan virtue name that has outlasted almost all of its 17th-century siblings, because it works as a plain English word as well as a statement of belief.

English

Fallon

Fallon is a feminine name used in English: from an Irish surname that was an Anglicized form of the Irish Gaelic Ó Fallamháin, itself, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #779 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Arabic · Urdu · Bosnian

Fatima

Fatima is a feminine name used in Arabic and Urdu meaning "to abstain, to wean". It ranked #330 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Faye

Faye is a feminine name used in English: variant of Fay, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #515 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Felicity

Felicity is a feminine name used in English meaning "happiness". It ranked #473 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Latin (Ancient Roman)

Felix

Felix has meant "lucky" for two thousand years, and its history runs from a Roman general's nickname through four popes to a Romantic composer.

Spanish · Portuguese · Italian

Fernanda

Fernanda is a feminine name used in Spanish and Portuguese: spanish, Portuguese and Italian feminine form of Ferdinand, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #551 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Spanish · Portuguese · Italian

Fernando

Fernando is a masculine name used in Spanish and Portuguese: spanish, Portuguese and Italian form of Ferdinand, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #387 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Finley

Finley is a unisex name used in English: variant of Finlay, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #333 for boys and #415 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Irish Mythology · Old Irish · Irish

Finn

Finn is a masculine name used in Irish Mythology and Old Irish: old Irish form of Fionn, as well as the usual Anglicized spelling, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #206 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Finnegan

Finnegan is a masculine name used in English: from an Irish surname, an Anglicized form of Ó Fionnagáin, itself, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #526 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Scottish · English

Fiona

Fiona is a feminine name used in Scottish and English: feminine form of Fionn, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #470 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Fletcher

Fletcher is a masculine name used in English meaning "maker of arrows". It ranked #547 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English · Italian · Spanish

Flora

Flora is a feminine name used in English and Italian meaning "flower". It ranked #607 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · French

Florence

Florence is a feminine name used in English and French meaning "prosperous, flourishing". It ranked #391 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Ford

Ford is a masculine name used in English meaning "ford". It ranked #474 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Forrest

Forrest is a masculine name used in English meaning "forest". It ranked #374 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Frances

Frances is a feminine name used in English: feminine form of Francis, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #318 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Italian · Catalan

Francesca

Francesca is a feminine name used in Italian and Catalan: italian and Catalan feminine form of Franciscus, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #307 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · French

Francis

Francis is a masculine name used in English and French meaning "Frenchman". It ranked #420 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Spanish · Portuguese

Francisco

Francisco is a masculine name used in Spanish and Portuguese: spanish and Portuguese form of Franciscus, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #322 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English · German · Dutch

Frank

Frank is a masculine name used in English and German: from an Old German name that referred to a member of the Germanic tribe, the Franks, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #514 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Frankie

Frankie is a feminine name used in English: diminutive of Frank or Frances, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #552 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Portuguese

Franklin

Franklin is a masculine name used in English and Portuguese meaning "freeman". It ranked #359 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Frederick

Frederick is a masculine name used in English meaning "peaceful ruler". It ranked #435 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Old Norse · Norse Mythology

Freya

Freya is the English spelling of a Norse goddess's name that no Scandinavian country actually uses, and it became a modern favourite in Britain before crossing the Atlantic.

Icelandic · Norse Mythology

Freyja

Freyja is a feminine name used in Icelandic and Norse Mythology: icelandic and Old Norse form of Freya, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #772 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Hebrew · Biblical

Gabriel

Gabriel is the archangel's name shared by Judaism, Christianity and Islam, in use in England since the 12th century, yet it only became common among English speakers at the very end of the 20th century.

Portuguese · Polish · Romanian

Gabriela

Gabriela is a feminine name used in Portuguese and Polish: feminine form of Gabriel, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #317 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Italian · Hungarian · English · Swedish · Hebrew

Gabriella

Gabriella is the feminine of the archangel's name Gabriel, "God is my strong man", and its length makes it a generous source of nicknames from Gabi to Ella to Bree.

French · English

Gabrielle

Gabrielle is a feminine name used in French and English: french feminine form of Gabriel, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #633 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Breton · English (modern) · Spanish (modern) · Portuguese (modern)

Gael

Gael is a Breton name that probably comes from the word for Gaelic speakers, yet its recent rise in the United States runs through Spanish-speaking families rather than Celtic ones.

Italian · Spanish · English

Galilea

Galilea is a feminine name used in Italian and Spanish: feminine form of Galileo, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #647 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Garrett

Garrett is a masculine name used in English: from an English surname that was, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #564 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English · Scottish

Gavin

Gavin is a masculine name used in English and Scottish: medieval form of Gawain, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #303 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Italian

Gemma

Gemma is a medieval Italian nickname that means exactly what it sounds like, and it reached American parents by way of Britain rather than Italy.

Greek · English (modern) · Spanish

Genesis

Genesis is the title of the first book of the Bible turned girls' name: absent from the US top 1,000 before 1988, in the top 100 since 2008, and carried there largely by Hispanic families.

French · Germanic

Genevieve

Genevieve is the English dress of the French Geneviève, whose Germanic roots Behind the Name names but whose meaning this draft could not verify.

Greek

George

George means "farmer", yet it is best known as the name of a dragon-slaying saint and six British kings, and it was rare in England until a German king brought it to the throne.

English · Greek · Latin

Georgia

Georgia is the Latinate feminine of George, a "farmer" name that doubles as a US state named for King George II, and shares its spelling with a country whose name is unrelated.

English · Spanish · Hungarian

Georgina

Georgina is a feminine name used in English and Spanish: feminine form of George, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #689 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Italian

Gia

Gia is a feminine name used in Italian: diminutive of Gianna, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #287 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Giana

Giana is a feminine name used in English: variant of Gianna, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #921 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Italian · Greek

Gianna

Gianna is an Italian pet form of Giovanna that was already climbing in America when the 2020 helicopter crash that killed Gianna Bryant and her father turned it into one of the most-searched girls' names of the year.

Italian

Gianni

Gianni is a masculine name used in Italian: italian short form of Giovanni, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #524 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Italian

Giavanna

Giavanna is an American spelling of the Italian Giovanna, the feminine of Giovanni. It ranked #1061 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Biblical · Hebrew · English

Gideon

Gideon is a masculine name used in Biblical and Hebrew meaning "feller, hewer". It ranked #337 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Italian

Giovanna

Giovanna is a feminine name used in Italian: italian form of Iohanna, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #878 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Italian · Latin · Greek · Hebrew

Giovanni

Giovanni is simply John in Italian, yet in the United States it sits in the top 125 as a name of its own, carried by Renaissance writers and artists.

French · English

Giselle

Giselle is a feminine name used in French and English meaning "hostage, pledge". It ranked #382 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Italian

Giuliana

Giuliana is a feminine name used in Italian: feminine form of Giuliano, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #915 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Spanish · Italian

Gloria

Gloria is a feminine name used in English and Spanish meaning "glory". It ranked #655 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Goldie

Goldie is a feminine name used in English: from a nickname for a person with blond hair, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #621 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Latin

Grace

Grace is a Puritan virtue name that has now been through two full cycles of fashion: a Victorian peak, a long mid-20th-century slump, and a comeback strong enough to make it the top girls' name in England and Wales in 2006.

English

Gracelyn

Gracelyn is a feminine name used in English: elaboration of Grace using the popular name suffix lyn, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #466 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Gracelynn

Gracelynn is a feminine name used in English: elaboration of Grace using the popular name suffix lyn, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #442 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Gracie

Gracie is a nickname that has become a name in its own right, trading the Puritan seriousness of Grace for something warmer and more playful.

English

Grady

Grady is a masculine name used in English: from an Irish surname, itself, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #373 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Scottish · English · Old English

Graham

Graham is a Scottish surname built on an English place name meaning "gravelly homestead", long more popular in Britain and the Commonwealth than in the United States, where it has been climbing since about 2006.

English · Scottish

Grant

Grant is a masculine name used in English and Scottish meaning "great, large". It ranked #228 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English surname

Grayson

Grayson is a modern English surname-name meaning "son of the steward" whose rise owes as much to its sound as to its history.

English

Gregory

Gregory is a masculine name used in English meaning "watchful, alert". It ranked #593 for boys in the United States in 2025.

German · Italian · Swedish

Greta

Greta is a feminine name used in German and Italian: short form of Margareta, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #908 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English surname

Greyson

Greyson is the British-spelled twin of Grayson, and the two spellings together put "son of the steward" far higher on the American charts than either rank alone shows.

English

Griffin

Griffin is a masculine name used in English: latinized form of Gruffudd, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #222 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Arthurian Cycle

Guinevere

Guinevere is a feminine name used in Arthurian Cycle meaning "white phantom". It ranked #899 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Swedish · Norwegian · Danish

Gunnar

Gunnar is a masculine name used in Swedish and Norwegian: from the Old Norse name Gunnarr, which was, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #612 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Gunner

Gunner is a masculine name used in English: english variant of Gunnar, influenced by the vocabulary word gunner, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #506 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Italian · Spanish · Portuguese

Gustavo

Gustavo is a masculine name used in Italian and Spanish: italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of Gustav, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #625 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Welsh · English

Gwen

Gwen is a feminine name used in Welsh and English: from Welsh gwen, the feminine form of gwyn meaning white, blessed, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #725 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Gwendolyn

Gwendolyn is a feminine name used in English: variant of Gwendolen, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #360 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Biblical · Hebrew

Hadassah

Hadassah balances rich biblical heritage as the Hebrew name of Queen Esther with botanical serenity through its connection to the myrtle tree.

English

Hadlee

Hadlee is a feminine name used in English: variant of Hadley, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #931 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English surname · Old English place name

Hadley

Hadley is a place-name surname meaning "heather field" that Behind the Name lists for both sexes but American parents give almost entirely to girls.

English (modern) · English surname (via Hayley)

Hailey

Hailey is the spelling that won: one of eight ways to write Hayley, it overtook Haley in 2001 and became the default American form.

English

Haisley

Haisley is a feminine name used in English: modern name, probably a blend of Hayley or Hazel and Paisley, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #479 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Haley

Haley is a feminine name used in English: variant of Hayley, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #861 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Norwegian

Halle

Halle is a feminine name used in Norwegian: from the Old Norse name Halli, a diminutive of names containing the element hallr meaning rock, slab, slope, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #596 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English (via Harriet, Henriette and Henry)

Hallie

Hallie looks like a modern invention but is an old-fashioned pet form of Harriet, which makes it a hidden branch of the Henry family.

English

Halo

Halo is a feminine name used in English meaning "luminous disc or ring". It ranked #613 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Arabic · Turkish · Bosnian

Hamza

Hamza is a masculine name used in Arabic and Turkish meaning "lion". It ranked #541 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Arabic · Bosnian

Hana

Hana is a feminine name used in Arabic and Bosnian meaning "bliss, happiness". It ranked #658 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Hank

Hank is a masculine name used in English: originally a short form of Hankin, which was a medieval diminutive of John, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #413 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Swedish · Norwegian · Danish

Hanna

Hanna is a feminine name used in Swedish and Norwegian: form of Ḥanna, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #512 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Hebrew · Biblical

Hannah

Hannah is the original Hebrew form behind Anna, Anne and Ann, yet English speakers only took it up after the Reformation, centuries after adopting its Latin and French descendants.

English

Harlan

Harlan is a masculine name used in English meaning "hare land". It ranked #617 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Harlee

Harlee is a feminine name used in English: variant of Harley, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1048 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Harley

Harley is a feminine name used in English: from an English surname that was, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #418 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Harlow

Harlow is a feminine name used in English: from an English surname, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #309 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Harmoni

Harmoni is a feminine name used in English: variant of Harmony, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1000 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Harmony

Harmony is a feminine name used in English: from the English word harmony, ultimately deriving from Greek ἁρμονία, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #276 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Harper

Harper is an occupational surname for a harp player that a single novelist carried into the American top ten for girls within a couple of decades.

English

Harriet

Harriet is a feminine name used in English: english form of Henriette, and thus a feminine form of Harry, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1073 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English surname

Harrison

Harrison is a presidential surname that nearly disappeared as a first name until a single actor's career pulled it back.

English

Harvey

Harvey is a masculine name used in English: from the Breton given name Hoiarnviu or Haerviu, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #251 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Arabic · Persian · Urdu

Hassan

Hassan is a masculine name used in Arabic and Persian meaning "beautifier, improver". It ranked #626 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Hattie

Hattie is a feminine name used in English: diminutive of Harriet, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #334 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English word name · Old English

Haven

Haven is a plain English word turned name, chosen for what it means rather than where it comes from, and used mostly for girls despite no gender in the word itself.

English surname · Old English place name

Hayden

Hayden is an Old English place-name surname whose late-20th-century boom had less to do with hay valleys than with rhyming with Aidan and Braden.

English surname

Hayes

Hayes is a one-syllable presidential surname whose meaning depends on which of two unrelated surnames a family descends from, and the reference does not say.

English

Hazel

Hazel is a Victorian nature name that hit the US top 20 in the 1890s, faded for half a century, and came back on the strength of a 2012 novel.

English

Heaven

Heaven is a feminine name used in English meaning "paradise". It ranked #543 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · French · Greek Mythology

Hector

Hector is a masculine name used in English and French meaning "holding fast". It ranked #409 for boys in the United States in 2025.

German · Norwegian · Danish

Heidi

Heidi is a feminine name used in German and Norwegian: german diminutive of Adelheid, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #340 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Swedish · Norwegian

Helen

Helen is a feminine name used in English and Swedish meaning "torch". It ranked #462 for girls in the United States in 2025.

German · Dutch · Swedish

Helena

Helena is a feminine name used in German and Dutch: latinate form of Helen, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #363 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Hendrix

Hendrix is a masculine name used in English: from a Dutch surname that was, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #354 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Henley

Henley is a feminine name used in English: from the English surname Henley, itself, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1001 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Germanic · Old French · Middle English

Henry

How a royal Germanic title transformed across centuries into an approachable modern classic.

Biblical

Hezekiah

Hezekiah is a masculine name used in Biblical meaning "Yahweh strengthens". It ranked #485 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Holden

Holden is a masculine name used in English meaning "deep valley". It ranked #297 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Holland

Holland is a feminine name used in English: from the place name Holland or the related surname, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #550 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Holly

Holly is a feminine name used in English: from the English word for the holly tree, ultimately, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #416 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Honey

Honey is a feminine name used in English: simply, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #846 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Hope

Hope is a feminine name used in English: from the English word hope, ultimately from Old English hopian, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #352 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Hudson

Hudson is a top-20 boys' name whose two main references disagree on one small word: is it "son of Hudde" or "son of Hugh"?

Spanish · Portuguese · English

Hugo

Hugo is a masculine name used in Spanish and Portuguese: old German form of Hugh, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #378 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English surname · Old English

Hunter

Hunter is an occupational surname and an ordinary English word at the same time, which is why it feels rugged rather than antique and why it turns up on both the boys' and the girls' lists.

Scottish · Scottish Gaelic · Latin · Greek · Hebrew

Ian

Ian is simply John in Scottish dress, a two-syllable anglicisation of Gaelic Iain that took off across Britain in the early 20th century and only reached America in the 1960s.

Arabic · Malay · Indonesian

Ibrahim

Ibrahim is a masculine name used in Arabic and Malay: arabic form of Abraham, also used in several other languages, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #351 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Basque

Iker

Iker is a masculine name used in Basque meaning "visitation". It ranked #390 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Hindi

Ila

Ila is a feminine name used in Hindi meaning "earth". It ranked #718 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Greek · Bulgarian

Iliana

Iliana is a feminine name used in Greek and Bulgarian: feminine form of Ilias, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #730 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Swahili · African American

Imani

Imani is a feminine name used in Swahili and African American meaning "faith". It ranked #579 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Hittite Mythology

Inara

Inara is a feminine name used in Hittite Mythology: meaning unknown, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1049 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Arabic · Urdu

Inaya

Inaya is a feminine name used in Arabic and Urdu meaning "care, concern". It ranked #776 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Indie

Indie is a feminine name used in English: possibly a diminutive of India or Indiana, but also likely inspired by the term indie, short for independent, which is typically used to refer to media produced, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #634 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Indigo

Indigo is a feminine name used in English: from the English word indigo for the purplish-blue dye or the colour, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #854 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Popular Culture

Indy

Indy is a feminine name used in Popular Culture: diminutive of Indiana, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #768 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Hebrew · Biblical

Ira

Ira is a feminine name used in English and Hebrew meaning "watchful". It ranked #1086 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Italian · Spanish

Irene

Irene is a feminine name used in English and Italian meaning "peace". It ranked #651 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Greek

Iris

Tracing how Iris evolved from the ancient Greek goddess of the rainbow into a botanical and celestial favorite across centuries.

Hebrew · Biblical

Isaac

Isaac is the rare biblical name whose meaning, "he will laugh", is a joke the Bible itself explains, and it belongs to Newton, Asimov and a patriarch shared by three religions.

Occitan · Spanish · Portuguese · Hebrew

Isabel

Isabel began as a medieval Occitan way of saying Elizabeth, became the name of queens in Spain, Portugal, France and England, and in Spain and Portugal it still simply is Elizabeth.

Spanish · Portuguese · Romanian

Isabela

Isabela is a feminine name used in Spanish and Portuguese: latinate form of Isabel, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #664 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Italian · Latinate form of Occitan Isabel · Hebrew (via Greek and Latin)

Isabella

Isabella is a medieval royal name that was rarer than plain Isabel in the United States until the early 1990s, then climbed to #1 in only twenty years and still sits in the top 10.

French · Occitan · Hebrew

Isabelle

Isabelle is the French spelling of Isabel, itself a medieval Occitan form of Elizabeth, so the name means "my God is an oath" at two removes while sounding entirely French.

Hebrew · Biblical

Isaiah

Isaiah carries the name of an Old Testament prophet and the meaning "Yahweh is salvation", yet as an English given name it is a post-Reformation arrival that now sits in the US top 60.

Biblical Latin

Isaias

Isaias is a masculine name used in Biblical Latin: latin variant form of Isaiah, used in some versions of the Vulgate, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #426 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Scottish · English

Isla

Isla is a Scottish island name with no known root meaning that started life as a rare masculine name and became one of the most popular girls' names in the English-speaking world within a single generation.

Spanish · Portuguese · Biblical Greek

Ismael

Ismael is a masculine name used in Spanish and Portuguese: spanish and Portuguese form of Ishmael, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #263 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Jewish · English · Spanish

Israel

Israel is a masculine name used in Jewish and English meaning "God contends". It ranked #315 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Mayan

Itzel

Itzel is a feminine name used in Mayan meaning "resin, nectar, dew, liquid, enchanted". It ranked #359 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Russian · Slavic · Old Church Slavic · Greek · Hebrew

Ivan

Ivan is the Slavic John, borne by tsars and Bulgarian emperors and by Turgenev and Pavlov, yet in American use it is pronounced IE-vən and reads as a compact, slightly exotic classic.

Ukrainian

Ivanna

Ivanna is a feminine name used in Ukrainian: ukrainian feminine form of Ivan, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #567 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Ivey

Ivey is a surname spelling that Wiktionary runs back through Ive to Ivy. It ranked #926 for girls in the United States in 2025.

African American

Ivory

Ivory is a feminine name used in African American: from the English word for the hard, creamy-white substance that comes from elephant tusks and was formerly used to produce piano keys, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #378 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Ivy

Ivy is a plain English plant word that was fashionable in Edwardian England, peaked in 1904, faded for most of a century, and is now back in the American top 40.

English

Iyla

Iyla is a feminine name used in English: variant of Isla, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #525 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Hungarian · Polish · Russian

Izabella

Izabella is a feminine name used in Hungarian and Polish: hungarian, Polish and Russian form of Isabella, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #564 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Izaiah

Izaiah is a masculine name used in English: variant of Isaiah, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #635 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English · Greek

Jace

Jace is a clipped form of Jason that a 1950s television western nudged into American use and that has since outgrown its parent in feel, if not in age.

Middle English · Anglo-Norman · Middle Dutch

Jack

How a medieval diminutive for John became an independent powerhouse and an everyday English archetype.

English surname

Jackson

Jackson is a surname that literally means "son of Jack", and it is now more popular as a given name than the medieval pet name it was built on ever was in America before the 1990s.

Hebrew · Biblical

Jacob

Jacob and James are the same Hebrew name wearing two English spellings, and the one that was long regarded as Jewish went on to be America's #1 boys' name for fourteen straight years.

French · English

Jacqueline

Jacqueline is a feminine name used in French and English: french feminine form of Jacques, also commonly used in the English-speaking world, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #558 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · French · Spanish

Jade

Jade is a gemstone name whose word history is oddly medical, from a Spanish phrase for the "stone of the flank", and whose short life as a given name began unisex in the 1970s before settling on the girls' side.

English

Jaden

Jaden is a masculine name used in English: an invented name, using the popular den suffix sound found in such names as Braden, Hayden and Aidan, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #421 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Jaiden

Jaiden is a masculine name used in English: variant of Jaden, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #618 for boys in the United States in 2025.

African American

Jakai

Jakai is a masculine name used in African American: meaning uncertain, possibly an invented name combining the popular prefix ja with the name Kai, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #569 for boys in the United States in 2025.

African American

Jakari

Jakari is a masculine name used in African American: probably an invented name, modelled after names such as Jabari and Jamari, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #613 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Jake

Jake is a masculine name used in English: medieval variant of Jack, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #457 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Not documented in the consulted reference sources

Jalani

Jalani is a feminine name in current American use whose origin is not documented in the reference works we cite. It ranked #1068 for girls in the United States in 2025.

African American

Jalen

Jalen is a masculine name used in African American: an invented name, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #443 for boys in the United States in 2025.

African American

Jaliyah

Jaliyah is a feminine name used in African American: an invented name, based on the sound of Aaliyah, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #838 for girls in the United States in 2025.

African American

Jamari

Jamari is a masculine name used in African American: elaborated form of Jamar, sharing a sound with names such as Amari, Kamari and Jabari, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #576 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Hebrew · Latin · English

James

James and Jacob are the same Hebrew name wearing two English spellings, and James has been the more consistently popular of the two for as long as American records exist.

English surname

Jameson

Jameson turns one of the most consistently popular names in American history into a surname-style first name, borrowing James's weight while sounding newer.

Scottish · English

Jamie

Jamie is a unisex name used in Scottish and English: originally a Lowland Scots diminutive of James, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #577 for boys and #858 for girls in the United States in 2025.

African American

Jamir

Jamir is a masculine name used in African American: variant of Jamar, probably influenced by names such as Jamil, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #592 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Medieval English · Old French · Latin (via Iohannes)

Jane

Jane is the plainest of the feminine forms of John, yet it has spent four centuries trading places with Joan and never quite left the English-speaking nursery.

English

Janelle

Janelle is a feminine name used in English: diminutive of Jane, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #801 for girls in the United States in 2025.

African American

Janiyah

Janiyah is a feminine name used in African American: an invented name, blending the popular phonetic prefix ja with names like Shania and Aaliyah, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #783 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Biblical

Jared

Jared is a masculine name used in English and Biblical meaning "descent". It ranked #396 for boys in the United States in 2025.

African American

Jasai

Jasai is a masculine name used in African American: meaning unknown, possibly an invented name using the popular phonetic elements ja and sy, modelled on names such as Jakai and Jasiah, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #439 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Jasiah

Jasiah is a masculine name used in English: variant of Josiah, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #498 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Jaslyn

Jaslyn is a feminine name used in English: variant of Jazlyn, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #996 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English word · Persian (via Arabic)

Jasmine

Jasmine is a flower name with a Persian root that travelled through Arabic into English, and whose American peak was set by a Disney princess.

Greek · Greek mythology · Biblical

Jason

Jason belongs to both Greek myth and the New Testament, yet English speakers only took it up after the Reformation, and today it reads as a name of a particular American generation.

Latin · Hebrew (probable) · Old Persian (probable) · English word

Jasper

Jasper carries two stories at once: the treasurer-king of the Nativity tradition and the English gemstone, and parents may be choosing it for either.

Spanish

Javier

Javier is a masculine name used in Spanish: spanish form of Xavier, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #274 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Jax

Jax is a masculine name used in English: short form of Jackson, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #342 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English (modern) · English surname

Jaxon

Jaxon is Jackson with a modern respelling: same surname, same meaning, but a single letter that shifts it from traditional to trendy.

English (modern) · English surname

Jaxson

Jaxson is the spelling that keeps Jackson's full shape while swapping in the modern x, a middle path between the classic surname and the pared-down Jaxon.

English

Jay

Jay is a masculine name used in English: short form of names beginning with the sound J, such as James or Jason, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #392 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English · Greek (via Jason)

Jayce

Jayce is a short form of Jason that has grown into a name of its own, with a spelling that signals its modern, independent status.

English

Jayceon

Jayceon is a masculine name used in English: variant of Jason, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #629 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English (modern)

Jayden

Jayden is a modern invented name with no ancient meaning, whose spelling outran the original Jaden to become one of the fastest-rising boys' names of the 2000s.

English

Jayla

Jayla is a feminine name used in English: an invented name, using the phonetic elements jay and la, and sharing a sound with other popular names such as Kayla, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #530 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Jaylani

Jaylani is a feminine name used in English: an invented name, a variant of Kailani using the popular phonetic element jay, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #471 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Jayleen

Jayleen is a feminine name used in English: variant of Jaylene, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1098 for girls in the United States in 2025.

African American · English

Jaylen

Jaylen is a masculine name used in African American and English: variant of Jalen, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #361 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Spanish

Jaziel

Jaziel is a masculine name used in Spanish: variant of Jaasiel, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #198 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Jazlyn

Jazlyn is a feminine name used in English: combination of the popular phonetic elements jaz and lyn, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #537 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English (modern coinage)

Jazlynn

Jazlynn is a documented modern blend of Jasmine and the -lynn ending. It ranked #1057 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Jazmin

Jazmin is a feminine name used in English: variant of Jasmine, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #710 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Jazmine

Jazmine is a feminine name used in English: variant of Jasmine, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #993 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Jeffrey

Jeffrey is a masculine name used in English: medieval variant of Geoffrey, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #552 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Jemma

Jemma is a feminine name used in English: variant of Gemma, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #866 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Jenesis

Jenesis is a feminine name used in English: variant of Genesis, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #816 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Finnish · French

Jenna

Jenna is a feminine name used in English and Finnish: variant of Jenny, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #679 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Cornish · Welsh · Celtic

Jennifer

How a localized Cornish adaptation of Arthurian Guinevere transformed into a defining mid-to-late twentieth-century American naming phenomenon.

English

Jensen

Jensen is a masculine name used in English meaning "son of Jens". It ranked #282 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Hebrew · Biblical · English

Jeremiah

Jeremiah is the prophet's full name that English speakers avoided for centuries in favour of Jeremy, until the Reformation made the long form respectable.

English · Biblical

Jeremy

Jeremy is a masculine name used in English and Biblical: english form of Jeremiah, originally a medieval vernacular form, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #292 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English · Dutch · Finnish

Jesse

Jesse is a masculine name used in English and Dutch meaning "gift". It ranked #184 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English · French · German

Jessica

Jessica is a feminine name used in English and French: this name was first used in this form by William Shakespeare in his play The Merchant of Venice, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #665 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Scottish · English

Jessie

Jessie is a feminine name used in Scottish and English: originally a Scots diminutive of Jean, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #824 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Biblical · Ancient Aramaic · Biblical Greek · Portuguese

Jesus

Jesus is the English form of the name of Christianity's central figure, and traces through Greek and Aramaic back to the same Hebrew roots as Joshua.

English (Modern)

Jett

Jett is a word name that plays on two unrelated meanings of "jet" at once, aircraft speed and mineral-black color, without committing to either.

Not documented in the consulted reference sources

Jianna

Jianna is a feminine name in current American use whose origin is not documented in the reference works we cite. It ranked #973 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Spanish

Jimena

Jimena is a feminine name used in Spanish: variant of Ximena, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #578 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Joan

Joan is a feminine name used in English: medieval English form of Johanne, an Old French form of Iohanna, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1087 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Polish · Biblical

Joanna

Joanna is a feminine name used in English and Polish: english and Polish form of Latin Iohanna, which was, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #306 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Spanish

Joaquin

Joaquin is a masculine name used in Spanish: unaccented form of Joaquín used mainly in America, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #355 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English · French

Jocelyn

Jocelyn is a feminine name used in English and French: from a Frankish masculine name, variously written as Gautselin, Gauzlin, along with many other spellings, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #393 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Spanish · Portuguese

Joel

Joel is a masculine name used in English and Spanish meaning "Yahweh is God". It ranked #219 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Joelle

Joelle is a feminine name used in English: feminine form of Joel, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1010 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Swedish · Norwegian · Danish

Johan

Johan is a masculine name used in Swedish and Norwegian: scandinavian and Dutch form of Iohannes, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #572 for boys in the United States in 2025.

German · Swedish · Norwegian

Johanna

Johanna is a feminine name used in German and Swedish: latinate form of Greek Ioanna, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #871 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Hebrew · Biblical Greek · Biblical Latin · Middle English

John

How did a biblical Hebrew name meaning 'Yahweh is gracious' become so deeply woven into English history that it defined everyday identity?

Hebrew · English

Johnathan

Blending the biblical lineage of Jonathan with the familiar English orthography of John, Johnathan carries an intriguing visual hybridity.

English

Johnny

Johnny is a masculine name used in English: diminutive of John, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #458 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Jolene

Jolene is a feminine name used in English: formed from Jo and the common name suffix lene, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #666 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Dutch

Jolie

Jolie is a feminine name used in English and Dutch meaning "pretty". It ranked #1030 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Hebrew · Biblical · English

Jonah

Jonah means "dove", a gentle meaning attached to the Bible's most famous story of a man swallowed by a fish.

Lithuanian

Jonas

Jonas is a masculine name used in Lithuanian: lithuanian form of Iohannes, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #599 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Hebrew · Biblical · English

Jonathan

Jonathan is the biblical name of David's loyal friend, a story of friendship over family that still shapes how the name feels.

Hebrew place name · English · French

Jordan

Jordan is a river name that crusaders turned into a baptismal name, died out, and came back as one of the best-known unisex names of the late 20th century.

English

Jordyn

Jordyn is a feminine name used in English: feminine variant of Jordan, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #371 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Spanish · Portuguese

Jorge

Jorge is a masculine name used in Spanish and Portuguese: spanish and Portuguese form of George, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #323 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Spanish · Hebrew

Jose

Jose is José without its accent: the Spanish form of Joseph as it is written in the United States and the Philippines, and a US top-100 name in that spelling.

Hebrew · Latin · Greek

Joseph

How has an ancient biblical name maintained steady, enduring popularity across centuries and continents?

French · Hebrew

Josephine

Josephine began as a French pet form of a pet form, was made grand by an empress, and now lives a double life as a formal three-syllable name whose bearers mostly answer to Josie or Jo.

Hebrew · Biblical · English

Joshua

Joshua is the Old Testament name that shares its Hebrew root with Jesus, a fact most parents who choose it never learn.

Hebrew · Biblical · English

Josiah

Josiah is a Reformation-era Bible name for a reforming king that now sits inside the US top 60 while sounding gentler than its Old Testament story.

English

Josie

Josie is a nickname that has outgrown its parent: a pet form of Josephine now used on its own inside the US top 100.

Spanish · Portuguese · French · Hebrew

Josue

Josue is the Spanish, Portuguese and French form of Joshua. It ranked #330 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English (Modern)

Journee

Journee respells an everyday English word for a life's path into a modern given name.

English

Journey

Journey is a feminine name used in English: from the English word, derived via Old French from Latin diurnus of the day, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #411 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Journi

Journi is a feminine name used in English: variant of Journey, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #786 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Not documented in the consulted reference sources

Jovi

Jovi is a feminine name in current American use whose origin is not documented in the reference works we cite. It ranked #1036 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Not documented in the consulted reference sources

Jovie

Jovie is a feminine name in current American use whose origin is not documented in the reference works we cite. It ranked #521 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Joy

Joy is a feminine name used in English: simply, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #419 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Joyce

Joyce is a feminine name used in English meaning "lord". It ranked #1074 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Jream

Jream is a feminine name used in English: variant of Dream, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #518 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Spanish · Hebrew

Juan

Juan is the Spanish face of John, one of the most reproduced names in the Christian world, and has been extremely popular in Spain since the late Middle Ages.

English · Hebrew

Jubilee

Jubilee is the English word for a year of release, and its root is a ram's-horn trumpet. It ranked #1053 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Biblical · Hebrew

Judah

Judah names a biblical patriarch, a kingdom, and a Maccabean revolutionary all at once, and it is also the root of the New Testament names Judas and Jude.

Hebrew · Biblical

Jude

Jude owes its modern warmth partly to the Beatles, but Behind the Name's own entry leaves its ultimate Hebrew meaning unglossed.

English · Jewish · German

Judith

Judith is a feminine name used in English and Jewish meaning "Jewish woman". It ranked #790 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Latin · Ancient Roman · Biblical

Julia

Julia carries two thousand years of history, from the imperial Roman family to Shakespeare, yet its actual meaning is still an open question.

Latin · Ancient Roman

Julian

Julian carries an ancient Roman family name whose original meaning is genuinely uncertain, was a girl's name in medieval England (the mystic Julian of Norwich was a woman), and is now a top-25 boys' name in the United States.

Spanish · Portuguese · English · Ancient Roman

Juliana

Juliana is the feminine counterpart of Julian, a name carried across centuries by saints, a mystic and a queen of the Netherlands.

Hungarian · Polish · English

Julianna

Julianna is a feminine name used in Hungarian and Polish: feminine form of Iulianus, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #398 for girls in the United States in 2025.

French · Danish · Norwegian

Julie

Julie is a feminine name used in French and Danish: french, Danish, Norwegian and Czech form of Julia, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #873 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Literature

Juliet

Juliet is inseparable from Shakespeare's tragic heroine, but the spelling itself is just one English rendering of an older Italian diminutive chain running back to the Roman family name Julius.

Spanish · Portuguese

Julieta

Julieta is a feminine name used in Spanish and Portuguese: spanish and Portuguese form of Juliet, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #285 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Latin

Julietta

Julietta is an elaborated Juliet, and the family runs back to the Roman Julius. It ranked #819 for girls in the United States in 2025.

French · Latin

Juliette

Juliette is a French pet form of Julie that English speakers now use as a full, formal name in its own right.

Spanish

Julio

Julio is a masculine name used in Spanish: spanish form of Julius, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #641 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Ancient Roman · English · German

Julius

Julius is a masculine name used in Ancient Roman and English meaning "downy-bearded". It ranked #424 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English word · Latin

June

June is a month name with a goddess behind it, and a 19th-century vintage that has come back into fashion.

English word · Latin

Juniper

Juniper is a nature name lifted straight from the tree: Latin at its root, but with almost no given-name history before the modern era.

English · French · Slovene

Justin

Justin is a masculine name used in English and French: from the Latin name Iustinus, which was, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #233 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Kade

Kade is a masculine name used in English: variant of Cade, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #349 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Kaden

Kaden is a masculine name used in English: variant of Caden, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #328 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Not documented in the consulted reference sources

Kaeli

Kaeli is a feminine name in current American use whose origin is not documented in the reference works we cite. It ranked #756 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Hawaiian

Kahlani

Kahlani has no entry of its own; it reads as a respelling of Hawaiian Kalani, "the heavens". It ranked #875 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Frisian · German · Danish · Norwegian · Swedish · Finnish · Dutch · English

Kai

Kai looks like one short, simple name but is actually several unrelated names from different languages that happen to share a spelling, from a fairy-tale boy to the Hawaiian word for "sea".

Norwegian · Estonian

Kaia

Kaia is a Norwegian and Estonian pet form of Katarina that now reads to English speakers as a breezy, standalone modern name rather than a nickname.

English

Kaiden

Kaiden is a masculine name used in English: variant of Caden, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #237 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Hawaiian

Kailani

Kailani joins two Hawaiian words for sea and sky into a single name that has spread well beyond Hawaii into modern American use.

English · Spanish

Kailany

Kailany is a feminine name used in English and Spanish: variant of Kailani, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #581 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Estonian

Kairi

Kairi is a feminine name used in Estonian: possibly a combination of Kai and Mari, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1041 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Kairo

Kairo is a masculine name used in English: variant of Cairo, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #226 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Kaison

Kaison is a masculine name used in English: variant of Kyson or Cason, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #540 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Kaitlyn

Kaitlyn is a feminine name used in English: variant of Caitlin, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #802 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Not documented in the consulted reference sources

Kaiya

Kaiya is a feminine name in current American use whose origin is not documented in the reference works we cite. It ranked #994 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Kaizen

Kaizen is a masculine name used in English meaning "improvement". It ranked #364 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Hawaiian

Kalani

Kalani is a feminine name used in Hawaiian meaning "the heavens". It ranked #387 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Kaleb

Kaleb is a masculine name used in English: english variant of Caleb, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #295 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Hinduism · Bengali · Tamil

Kali

Kali is a feminine name used in Hinduism and Bengali meaning "the black one". It ranked #323 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Hawaiian

Kalia

Kalia is a documented Hawaiian name meaning "waited for", and also a tree. It ranked #1064 for girls in the United States in 2025.

African American

Kaliyah

Kaliyah is a feminine name used in African American: an invented name, based on the sound of Aaliyah, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #392 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Kallie

Kallie is a feminine name used in English: variant of Callie, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #934 for girls in the United States in 2025.

African American

Kamari

Kamari is a masculine name used in African American: combination of the sounds found in names such as Jamari, Amari and Kamaria, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #391 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Kameron

Kameron is a masculine name used in English: variant of Cameron, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #466 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Czech · Slovak · Polish

Kamila

Kamila is a feminine name used in Czech and Slovak: czech, Slovak and Polish form of Camilla, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #357 for girls in the United States in 2025.

African American

Kamiyah

Kamiyah is a feminine name used in African American: an invented name, blending the popular phonetic prefix ka and Maya, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #985 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Kamryn

Kamryn is a feminine name used in English: variant, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #556 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Kane

Kane is a masculine name used in English: from an Irish surname, an Anglicized form of Ó Catháin, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #451 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Kara

Kara is a feminine name used in English: variant of Cara, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1075 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Swedish · Danish · Norwegian

Karina

Karina is a feminine name used in Swedish and Danish: elaborated form of Karin, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #750 for girls in the United States in 2025.

German · Swedish · Norwegian

Karla

Karla is a feminine name used in German and Swedish: feminine form of Karl, Karel or Karlo, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #803 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Karson

Karson is a masculine name used in English: variant of Carson, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #453 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Karsyn

Karsyn is a feminine name used in English: variant of Carson, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #719 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Karter

Karter is a unisex name used in English: variant of Carter, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #270 for boys and #989 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Not documented in the consulted reference sources

Kasai

Kasai is a masculine name in current American use whose origin is not documented in the reference works we cite. It ranked #639 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Kasen

Kasen is a masculine name used in English: variant of Cason, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #484 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Kash

Kash is a masculine name used in English: variant of Cash, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #286 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Kashton

Kashton is a masculine name used in English: probably a combination of Kash and the popular name suffix ton, inspired by names such as Ashton, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #400 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Kason

Kason is a masculine name used in English: variant of Cason, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #597 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Kassidy

Kassidy is a feminine name used in English: variant of Cassidy, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1039 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Spanish · English

Kataleya

Kataleya is a feminine name used in Spanish and English: variant of Cataleya, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #459 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Spanish

Katalina

Katalina is a feminine name used in Spanish: variant of Catalina, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #430 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Croatian

Kate

Kate is a feminine name used in English and Croatian: short form of Katherine, often used independently, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #522 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Katelyn

Katelyn is a feminine name used in English: variant of Caitlin, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1077 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Greek · English

Katherine

Katherine's own etymology is genuinely unsettled among four competing theories, yet the name became one of English's most enduring classics through a tortured 4th-century saint.

English

Kathryn

Kathryn is a feminine name used in English: contracted form of Katherine, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #729 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Katie

Katie is a feminine name used in English: diminutive of Kate, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #646 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Kayce

Kayce is a masculine name used in English: variant of Casey or Case, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #375 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English (Modern)

Kayden

Kayden is a K-spelling of Caden, a name whose story is about a fashionable sound rather than a verified meaning.

English

Kayla

Kayla is a feminine name used in English: combination of the popular phonetic elements kay and la, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #364 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English (Modern) · Hawaiian

Kaylani

Kaylani respells the Hawaiian Kailani with a familiar English Kay- opening, keeping the sea-and-sky meaning while changing the look.

English (Modern)

Kaylee

Kaylee is a purely phonetic, late-20th-century American coinage built by joining two popular sound elements rather than by descending from an older name.

English

Kayleigh

Kayleigh is a feminine name used in English: variant of Kaylee, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #804 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Kaysen

Kaysen is a masculine name used in English: variant of Cason, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #415 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Kayson

Kayson is a masculine name used in English: variant of Cason, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #264 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Hawaiian

Keanu

Keanu is a masculine name used in Hawaiian meaning "the cool breeze". It ranked #649 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Keegan

Keegan is a masculine name used in English: from an Irish surname, the Anglicized form of Irish Gaelic Mac Aodhagáin, which was, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #621 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English (Modern) · Hawaiian

Kehlani

Kehlani is a Hawaiian-rooted name whose specific spelling was carried into the mainstream by one singer.

Hawaiian

Keilani

Keilani is a feminine name used in Hawaiian meaning "glorious heaven". It ranked #727 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Keira

Keira is a feminine name used in English: variant of Ciara, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #622 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Irish · English

Kelly

Kelly is a feminine name used in Irish and English: anglicized form of the Irish given name Ceallach or the surname, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #852 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Kelsey

Kelsey is a feminine name used in English: from an English surname that is, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #814 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Kendall

Kendall is a feminine name used in English meaning "valley on the river Kent". It ranked #328 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Kendra

Kendra is a feminine name used in English: feminine form of Ken or Kendrick, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #849 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Kendrick

Kendrick is a masculine name used in English: from a surname that has several different origins, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #535 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Scottish

Kenna

Kenna is a feminine name used in Scottish: feminine form of Kenneth, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #759 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Kennedi

Kennedi is a feminine name used in English: variant of Kennedy, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #709 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Irish

Kennedy

Kennedy moved from an Irish surname to a presidential namesake to, more recently, a name popularized for girls by a 1990s MTV host.

Scottish · English · Swedish

Kenneth

Kenneth is a masculine name used in Scottish and English: anglicized form of both Coinneach and Cináed, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #294 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Kensley

Kensley is a feminine name used in English: variant of Kinsley, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #742 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Kenzie

Kenzie is a feminine name used in English: short form of Mackenzie, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #736 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Japanese · French

Kenzo

Kenzo is a masculine name used in Japanese and French: alternate transcription of Japanese Kanji 謙三, 健三 or 賢三, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #630 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English · Irish · French

Kevin

Kevin is a masculine name used in English and Irish meaning "beloved birth". It ranked #221 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Not documented in the consulted reference sources

Keyla

Keyla is a feminine name in current American use whose origin is not documented in the reference works we cite. It ranked #821 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Biblical

Keziah

Keziah is a feminine name used in Biblical meaning "cassia, cinnamon". It ranked #767 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Arabic · Urdu · Bengali

Khadija

Khadija is a feminine name used in Arabic and Urdu meaning "premature child". It ranked #982 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Hawaiian

Khalani

Khalani has no entry of its own; it reads as a respelling of Hawaiian Kalani, "the heavens". It ranked #904 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Literature

Khaleesi

Khaleesi is a feminine name used in Literature: from a title used in the George R, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #690 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Arabic · Persian · Urdu

Khalil

Khalil is a masculine name used in Arabic and Persian meaning "friend". It ranked #384 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English (Modern)

Khloe

Khloe is a 21st-century respelling of an ancient Greek name, popularized by reality television rather than by any older naming tradition.

Persian

Kian

Kian is a masculine name used in Persian meaning "king, foundation, symbol of pride". It ranked #401 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Hawaiian · English

Kiana

Kiana is a feminine name used in Hawaiian and English: hawaiian form of Diana, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #743 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English (Modern) · Italian

Kiara

Kiara is a modern variant built to sound like Ciara and Chiara, and its biggest popularity boost came not from either of those names but from a cartoon lion cub.

Irish · English

Kiera

Kiera is a feminine name used in Irish and English: anglicized form of Ciara, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1097 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Irish · English

Kieran

Kieran is a masculine name used in Irish and English: anglicized form of Ciarán, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #389 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Irish · French

Killian

Killian is a masculine name used in Irish and French: anglicized form of Cillian, also used in France, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #418 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Kimber

Kimber is a feminine name used in English: short form of Kimberly, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #936 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Kimberly

Kimberly is a feminine name used in English: from the name of the city of Kimberley in South Africa, which was named after Lord Kimberley, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #303 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

King

King is a masculine name used in English: from the English vocabulary word king, ultimately, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #405 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Kingston

Kingston is a masculine name used in English meaning "king's town". It ranked #204 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Kinley

Kinley is a feminine name used in English: from a Scottish surname, an Anglicized form of Mac Fhionnlaigh, itself, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #692 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Kinslee

Kinslee is a feminine name used in English: variant of Kinsley, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #956 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English place-name surname

Kinsley

Kinsley was practically unheard of as a girls' name before 1990 and has since overtaken the similar-sounding names that likely inspired its rise.

Russian · Ukrainian · Belarusian

Kira

Kira is a feminine name used in Russian and Ukrainian: russian feminine form of Cyrus, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #385 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Japanese

Kiyomi

Kiyomi is a Japanese name whose two elements are documented even though its kanji vary. It ranked #765 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Latin

Klarity

Klarity is the English word clarity respelled with a K. It ranked #791 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Knox

Knox is a masculine name used in English meaning "round hill". It ranked #196 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Hawaiian

Koa

Koa is a masculine name used in Hawaiian meaning "warrior, koa tree". It ranked #269 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Flemish

Kobe

Kobe is a masculine name used in Flemish: dutch, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #519 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Koda

Koda is a masculine name used in English meaning "friend, companion". It ranked #411 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Dutch

Koen

Koen is a masculine name used in Dutch: short form of Koenraad, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #623 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Kohen

Kohen is a masculine name used in English: variant of Cohen, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #296 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Not documented in the consulted reference sources

Kollyns

Kollyns is a feminine name in current American use whose origin is not documented in the reference works we cite. It ranked #905 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Not documented in the consulted reference sources

Kolter

Kolter is a masculine name in current American use whose origin is not documented in the reference works we cite. It ranked #600 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Kolton

Kolton is a masculine name used in English: variant of Colton, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #594 for boys in the United States in 2025.

German

Kora

Kora is a feminine name used in German: german variant of Cora, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #491 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Kori

Kori is a feminine name used in English: feminine form of Corey, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #978 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Krew

Krew is a masculine name used in English: variant of Crew, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #601 for boys in the United States in 2025.

African American

Kyaire

Kyaire is a masculine name used in African American: likely a blend of Kyrie and Zaire, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #367 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Kyla

Kyla is a feminine name used in English: feminine form of Kyle, or a combination of the popular phonetic elements ky and la, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #580 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Kylan

Kylan is a masculine name used in English: invented name based on the sounds found in other names such as Kyle and Rylan, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #579 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Kyle

Kyle is a masculine name used in English meaning "narrows, channel, strait". It ranked #509 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Kylee

Kylee is a feminine name used in English: variant of Kylie, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #876 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Kyler

Kyler is a masculine name used in English: probably a blend of the sounds of Kyle and Tyler, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #404 for boys in the United States in 2025.

French

Kylian

Kylian is a masculine name used in French: french variant of Cillian, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #624 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Australian Aboriginal (Nyungar) · English

Kylie

Kylie's meaning depends on which coast you're on: an Aboriginal Australian word for "boomerang" in one telling, a made-up blend of popular sounds in another.

Popular Culture

Kylo

Kylo is a masculine name used in Popular Culture: meaning unexplained, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #402 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Not documented in the consulted reference sources

Kyomi

Kyomi is a feminine name in current American use whose origin is not documented in the reference works we cite. It ranked #548 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Kyra

Kyra is a feminine name used in English: variant of Kira, sometimes considered a feminine form of Cyrus, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #830 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Not documented in the consulted reference sources

Kyren

Kyren is a masculine name in current American use whose origin is not documented in the reference works we cite. It ranked #584 for boys in the United States in 2025.

African American

Kyrie

Kyrie is a masculine name used in African American: invented name, based on the sounds found in names such as Tyree and Kyle, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #244 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Kyro

Kyro is a masculine name used in English: variant of Cairo, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #611 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Kyson

Kyson is a masculine name used in English: an invented name, using the same sound found in names such as Bryson and Tyson, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #471 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Lacey

Lacey is a feminine name used in English: variant of Lacy, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #738 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Scottish · English

Lachlan

Lachlan is a masculine name used in Scottish and English: anglicized form of Lachlann, the Scottish Gaelic form of Lochlainn, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #606 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Arabic · Urdu · English

Laila

Laila is a feminine name used in Arabic and Urdu: variant of Layla, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #413 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Hawaiian

Lailani

Lailani has no entry of its own; it reads as a respelling of Hawaiian Leilani, "heavenly flowers". It ranked #1070 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English (Modern) · Old French · Greek

Lainey

Lainey is a nickname that climbed into the American top 30 on its own, four etymological steps away from a Greek word for "torch" that almost nobody choosing it is thinking about.

English

Lakelyn

Lakelyn is a feminine name used in English: variant of Lakelynn, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #673 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Lakelynn

Lakelynn is a feminine name used in English: elaboration of Lake using the popular name suffix lyn, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #498 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Not documented in the consulted reference sources

Laken

Laken is a feminine name in current American use whose origin is not documented in the reference works we cite. It ranked #990 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Russian · Croatian

Lana

Lana is a feminine name used in English and Russian: short form of Alana, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #406 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Old English · English surname

Landon

Landon began as a description of terrain, "long hill," before becoming a surname and, much later, a first name possibly nudged along by a mid-century television actor.

French

Landry

Landry is a feminine name used in French: french form of Landric, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #935 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Lane

Lane is a masculine name used in English meaning "lane, path". It ranked #250 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Laney

Laney is a feminine name used in English: diminutive of Elaine, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #674 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Russian · English · German

Lara

Lara is a feminine name used in Russian and English: russian short form of Larisa, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #693 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English (from a place name) · French

Laramie

Laramie is a Wyoming city named for a fur trapper, now used as a given name. It ranked #1088 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Spanish · Italian

Laura

Laura is a feminine name used in English and Spanish meaning "laurel". It ranked #379 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Laurel

Laurel is a feminine name used in English: from the name of the laurel tree, ultimately from Latin laurus, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #734 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Lauren

Lauren is a feminine name used in English: variant or feminine form of Laurence, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #401 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Lavender

Lavender is a feminine name used in English: from the English word for the aromatic flower or the pale purple colour, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1095 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Lawrence

Lawrence is a masculine name used in English: variant of Laurence, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #520 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Lawson

Lawson is a masculine name used in English meaning "son of Laurence 1". It ranked #381 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Arabic

Layan

Layan is a feminine name used in Arabic meaning "soft, delicate". It ranked #831 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Arabic

Layla

Tracing how a medieval Arabic romance heroine transformed into a modern English classic propelled by rock and roll.

Hawaiian

Laylani

Laylani has no entry of its own; it reads as a respelling of Hawaiian Leilani, "heavenly flowers". It ranked #769 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Hebrew · German · Dutch

Lea

Lea is a feminine name used in Hebrew and German: form of Leah used in several languages, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #848 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Hebrew · Biblical

Leah

Leah is a top-60 American name whose most likely meaning is "weary" — a biblical first wife remembered mainly for being the one Jacob did not choose.

Spanish · Portuguese · Italian

Leandro

Leandro is a masculine name used in Spanish and Portuguese: spanish, Portuguese and Italian form of Leander, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #406 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Leanna

Leanna is a feminine name used in English: probably this was originally a variant of Liana, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #890 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Ledger

Ledger is a masculine name used in English: from the surname Ledger, itself, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #554 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Legacy

Legacy is a feminine name used in English meaning "something inherited from a predecessor, heritage". It ranked #662 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Legend

Legend is a masculine name used in English: from the English word, referring to a story about the past, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #193 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Biblical Greek · Portuguese · Popular Culture

Leia

Leia is a feminine name used in Biblical Greek and Portuguese: form of Leah used in the Greek Old Testament, as well as a Portuguese form, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #297 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Leighton

Leighton is a feminine name used in English: variant of Layton, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #342 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Arabic · Persian

Leila

Leila means "night" in Arabic and reached English readers through Lord Byron before it ever became a modern American favourite.

Hawaiian

Leilani

Leilani is a Hawaiian name that most of America first heard in a 1937 Bing Crosby song — and it has never really left the charts since.

English

Leilany

Leilany is a feminine name used in English: variant of Leilani, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #696 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Leland

Leland is a masculine name used in English meaning "fallow land". It ranked #494 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Swedish · Norwegian · Danish

Lena

Lena is a feminine name used in Swedish and Norwegian: short form of names ending in lena, such as Helena, Magdalena or Yelena, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #279 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Irish surname

Lennon

Lennon carries a single Beatle's surname into the given-name pool, and in America it has settled in mainly as a girls' name rather than the tribute-to-John name one might expect.

English

Lennox

Lennox is a unisex name used in English: from a Scottish surname that was, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #289 for boys and #717 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Lenora

Lenora is a feminine name used in English: short form of Elenora, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #539 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Latin · Ancient Roman

Leo

Leo is one of the few names that is simultaneously an animal, a constellation, a zodiac sign and the name of fourteen popes — and it means exactly what it looks like.

Ancient Greek

Leon

Leon carries a simple, ancient meaning — "lion" — but Behind the Name notes it has been used interchangeably with Leo for centuries, blurring where one name ends and the other begins.

English · Czech

Leona

Leona is a feminine name used in English and Czech: feminine form of Leon, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #429 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Dutch · German

Leonard

Leonard is a masculine name used in English and Dutch meaning "brave lion". It ranked #637 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of Leonard

Leonardo

Leonardo carries the weight of two Renaissance-defining namesakes and a modern movie star, all under a name that simply means "brave lion".

Spanish · Portuguese

Leonel

Leonel is a masculine name used in Spanish and Portuguese: spanish and Portuguese form of Lionel, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #350 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Greek · Ancient Greek

Leonidas

Leonidas is a masculine name used in Greek and Ancient Greek: derived from Greek λέων, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #510 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Leslie

Leslie is a feminine name used in English meaning "garden of holly". It ranked #712 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Lettie

Lettie is a feminine name used in English: diminutive of Lettice, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #757 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Hebrew

Levi

Levi is an Old Testament priestly name that spent centuries as a marker of religious seriousness and now sits in the American top 15 as a soft, denim-adjacent modern favourite.

English

Lewis

Lewis is a masculine name used in English: medieval English form of Louis, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #433 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Lexi

Lexi is a feminine name used in English: diminutive of Alexandra or Alexis, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #628 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Turkish · Azerbaijani · Turkmen

Leyla

Leyla is a feminine name used in Turkish and Azerbaijani: variant of Leila, and the usual Turkish, Azerbaijani and Kurdish form, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #611 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Hawaiian

Leylani

Leylani has no entry of its own; it reads as a respelling of Hawaiian Leilani, "heavenly flowers". It ranked #971 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Italian · Portuguese · Greek · Hebrew

Lia

Lia is really two names in one spelling: a foreign-language form of the biblical Leah, and, separately, a short form of any -lia name from Julia to Rosalia.

Irish · Germanic (via William)

Liam

Liam is technically a nickname — the Irish short form of William — and it has spent nearly a decade as the most popular boys' name in the United States, outranking the full name it came from.

German

Lian

Lian is a masculine name used in German: short form of Julian or Kilian, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #428 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Italian · Portuguese · Romanian

Liana

Liana is a feminine name used in Italian and Portuguese: short form of Juliana, Liliana and other names that end in liana, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #386 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Hindi · Sanskrit · English

Lila

Lila is a genuine two-origin name: Behind the Name records it separately as a Sanskrit word for divine play and as an English variant of Leila or short form of Delilah.

English

Lilah

Lilah sits at the crossing of two separate name traditions, the Persian-Arabic Leila and the Hebrew Bible's Delilah, and Behind the Name does not pick between them.

Spanish · Italian · Polish

Lilia

Lilia is a feminine name used in Spanish and Italian: latinate form of Lily, as well as an alternate transcription of Russian Лилия or Ukrainian Лілія, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #859 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · French · Romanian

Lilian

Lilian is a feminine name used in English and French: english variant of Lillian, as well as a French and Romanian masculine form, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #560 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Italian · Spanish · Portuguese · Romanian · Polish · Czech · English

Liliana

Liliana is a Latinate elaboration of Lillian, but Lillian itself descends from the sprawling European Elizabeth name family, not from the flower.

Polish · English

Lilianna

Lilianna is a feminine name used in Polish and English: variant of Liliana, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #891 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Akkadian · Hebrew

Lilith

Exploring how Lilith transitioned from an ancient Mesopotamian demon and folklore outcast into a stylish, independent modern name.

English

Lillian

Lillian looks like a flower name and is filed as one, but Behind the Name's first reading is that it began as a nickname for Elizabeth — two very different stories behind one Edwardian-sounding name.

English

Lilliana

Lilliana is a feminine name used in English: variant of Lillian, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #446 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Lillie

Lillie is a feminine name used in English: variant of Lily, or a diminutive of Lillian or Elizabeth, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #676 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Scandinavian

Lilly

Lilly is a doubled-L English spelling of Lily that also does double duty in Scandinavia as a short form of Elisabeth.

English · Latin

Lily

Lily is the shortest of the Victorian flower names and the one that survived best — partly because it doubles as a nickname for Lillian, Liliana and even Elizabeth.

Bulgarian

Lilyana

Lilyana is a feminine name used in Bulgarian: bulgarian form of Lillian, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1050 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Arabic · Turkish

Lina

Lina is a feminine name used in Arabic and Turkish meaning "soft, tender". It ranked #572 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English surname/place name

Lincoln

Lincoln began as a Roman-era English city name and is now given almost entirely in tribute to one American president.

English · German · Dutch

Linda

Linda is a feminine name used in English and German meaning "soft, flexible, tender". It ranked #902 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Hebrew

Liora

Liora is a feminine name used in Hebrew: strictly feminine form of Lior, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #900 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · German · Dutch

Lisa

Lisa is a feminine name used in English and German: short form of Elizabeth, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #991 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Norwegian · Swedish · Danish

Liv

Liv is a feminine name used in Norwegian and Swedish meaning "protection". It ranked #896 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Italian · Romanian · German

Livia

Livia is a feminine name used in Italian and Romanian: feminine form of Livius, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #820 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Malay

Liyana

Liyana is a feminine name used in Malay meaning "soft, delicate". It ranked #1059 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Irish

Lochlan

Lochlan is a masculine name used in Irish: anglicized form of Lochlainn, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #644 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Scottish surname

Logan

Logan is a Scottish surname meaning "little hollow" that rocketed from obscurity to a top-five US boys' name partly thanks to 1970s pop culture, and now spans both genders.

Spanish

Lola

Lola began as a Spanish pet form of Dolores, a name that literally means "sorrows", but Lola itself now reads as bright and independent of that origin.

English

London

London is a feminine name used in English: from the name of London, the capital city of the United Kingdom, the meaning of which is uncertain, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #431 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Londyn

Londyn is a feminine name used in English: variant of London, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #388 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Lorelai

Lorelai is a feminine name used in English: variant of Lorelei, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #333 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Literature · English

Lorelei

Lorelei is a feminine name used in Literature and English: from German Loreley, the name of a rock headland on the Rhine River, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #441 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Italian · Spanish · Roman

Lorenzo

Lorenzo owes much of its resonance in English to a single Renaissance ruler, Lorenzo de' Medici, rather than to its own underlying etymology, which the cached sources leave unglossed.

English · Italian

Loretta

Loretta is a feminine name used in English and Italian: perhaps a variant of Lauretta or Loreto, or a diminutive of names beginning with Lor, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #606 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Lorraine

Lorraine is a feminine name used in English: from the name of a region in eastern France, originally meaning kingdom of Lothar, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1044 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Swedish

Lottie

Lottie is a feminine name used in English and Swedish: diminutive of Charlotte or Liselotte, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #528 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Louie

Louie is a masculine name used in English: diminutive of Louis, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #596 for boys in the United States in 2025.

French · English · Dutch

Louis

Louis is a masculine name used in French and English: french form of Ludovicus, the Latinized form of Ludwig, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #249 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English · German · Dutch

Louisa

Louisa is a feminine name used in English and German: latinate feminine form of Louis, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #697 for girls in the United States in 2025.

French · English · Danish

Louise

Louise is a feminine name used in French and English: french feminine form of Louis, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #516 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Swedish

Love

Love is a feminine name used in Swedish: swedish form of Louis, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #957 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Italian · Romanian · Latin · Greek

Luca

Luca is the Italian form of Luke, but its meaning is a place rather than a virtue — and the same four letters are a feminine name in Hungary.

Latin · Greek · Biblical

Lucas

Lucas is usually glossed as "light", but the reference sources point somewhere far less poetic: a Greek nickname that probably just meant "from Lucania", a region of southern Italy.

English

Lucca

Lucca is a masculine name used in English: variant of Luca, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #425 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Feminine form of Lucius

Lucia

Lucia links a bright Latin root to a martyr's story of blindness and light, then travels across a dozen languages with almost no change in spelling.

Romanian · English

Lucian

Lucian is a masculine name used in Romanian and English: romanian and English form of Lucianus, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #462 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Italian · Ancient Roman

Luciana

Luciana traces back through Lucianus to a Latin root usually rendered as "light", though the cached Behind the Name data names the root without translating it.

Italian · Spanish · Portuguese

Luciano

Luciano is a masculine name used in Italian and Spanish: italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of Lucianus, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #305 for boys in the United States in 2025.

French · English

Lucille

Lucille is the French form of an old "light" name, carried into English mainly through the fame of one comedienne.

Latin · English

Lucy

Lucy is the plain English answer to a Latin name about light — in continuous English use since the Middle Ages, yet it still reads fresh enough to sit in the current top 25.

English

Luella

Luella is a feminine name used in English: variant of Louella, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #780 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Spanish · Germanic

Luis

Luis is the Spanish form of Louis, inheriting a Germanic "famous warrior" meaning through a royal French name that named eighteen kings of France.

Spanish · Italian

Luisa

Luisa is a feminine name used in Spanish and Italian: feminine form of Luis, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #903 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Macedonian, Russian, Georgian form of Lucas (see Luke)

Luka

Luka is the Slavic and Georgian form of Luke, carrying its Gospel-writer's name across borders with barely a letter changed.

German · Swedish · Norwegian

Lukas

Lukas is a masculine name used in German and Swedish: german, Scandinavian, Dutch and Lithuanian form of Lucas, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #288 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English · Greek · Biblical

Luke

Luke is a gospel writer's name that most modern parents first met in a 1977 space opera, and its actual meaning is probably not a quality at all but a place in southern Italy.

Latin · Roman mythology

Luna

Luna is the rare name whose meaning nobody has to be told — it is just the Latin word for the moon — and it went from outside the American top 1,000 to the top 30 in about two decades.

Spanish

Luz

Luz is a feminine name used in Spanish meaning "light". It ranked #839 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Literature

Lyanna

Lyanna is a feminine name used in Literature: created by author George R, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #877 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Greek place name

Lydia

Lydia is named for a place rather than a virtue — an ancient region of Asia Minor whose name outlived the kingdom itself.

Arabic (via Leila/Layla) · English

Lyla

Lyla traces, through two variant hops, back to an Arabic word for "night" popularized in English by a 1970s rock song.

English

Lylah

Lylah is a feminine name used in English: variant of Leila or a feminine form of Lyle, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #585 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Astronomy

Lyra

Lyra is a feminine name used in Astronomy: the name of the constellation in the northern sky containing the star Vega, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #435 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Lyric

Lyric is a feminine name used in English meaning "lyric, songlike". It ranked #640 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Latin

Mabel

Mabel is a medieval name that nearly vanished after the 1400s and was pulled back into use by a single popular Victorian novel.

English

Maci

Maci is a feminine name used in English: variant of Macy, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #773 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Macie

Macie is a feminine name used in English: variant of Macy, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #438 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Mack

Mack is a masculine name used in English: from a surname, originally a shortened form of various Irish and Scottish surnames beginning with Mac or Mc, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #463 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Scottish surname · Gaelic

Mackenzie

Mackenzie crossed from a Scottish clan surname into a girls' first name largely because of one 1970s sitcom actress, and it has stayed more common for girls in America ever since.

English

Macy

Macy is a feminine name used in English: from an English surname that was from various towns called Massy in France, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #720 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Madalyn

Madalyn is a feminine name used in English: variant of Madeline, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #946 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Maddie

Maddie is a feminine name used in English: diminutive of Madeline or Madison, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #927 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Maddison

Maddison is a feminine name used in English: variant of Madison, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #439 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Maddox

Maddox is a masculine name used in English meaning "son of Madoc". It ranked #210 for boys in the United States in 2025.

French · English · Swedish

Madeleine

Madeleine is a feminine name used in French and English: french form of Magdalene, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #455 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English form of Madeleine

Madeline

Madeline is the English spelling of an old saint's name best known today through a French storybook heroine rather than through church history.

English (via Madeline/Magdalene)

Madelyn

Madelyn is one of a large family of modern respellings of Madeline that ultimately trace back to Mary Magdalene's home town.

English

Madelynn

Madelynn is a feminine name used in English: variant of Madeline, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #524 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Madilyn

Madilyn is a feminine name used in English: variant of Madeline, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #464 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Madilynn

Madilynn is a feminine name used in English: variant of Madeline, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #860 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Madison

Madison is a patronymic surname that became one of America's most popular girls' names because a mermaid in a 1984 film read a street sign.

English

Madisson

Madisson is a feminine name used in English: variant of Madison, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #319 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Mae

Mae is a feminine name used in English: variant of May, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #501 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Not documented in the consulted reference sources

Maelynn

Maelynn is a feminine name in current American use whose origin is not documented in the reference works we cite. It ranked #1055 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Irish · Irish Mythology

Maeve

Maeve carries the name of a legendary Irish warrior queen who went to war rather than be outdone by her husband.

Polish · German · Dutch

Magdalena

Magdalena is a feminine name used in Polish and German: latinate form of Magdalene, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #850 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Maggie

Maggie is a feminine name used in English: diminutive of Margaret, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #294 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English word name · French (botanical)

Magnolia

Magnolia carries a French botanist's own surname inside it, one step removed from the flower most people assume it simply describes.

Greek Mythology · Roman Mythology · Portuguese

Maia

Maia is a feminine name used in Greek Mythology and Roman Mythology meaning "good mother, dame, foster mother". It ranked #433 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Scottish

Maisie

Maisie is technically a nickname for Margaret, but it has been a name in its own right in Scotland for so long that most bearers never touch the formal Mairead or Margaret at all.

English

Maisy

Maisy is a feminine name used in English: variant of Maisie, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #745 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Scottish · English

Maizie

Maizie is a listed spelling of Maisie, a Scottish pet form of Margaret. It ranked #901 for girls in the United States in 2025.

African American

Makai

Makai is a masculine name used in African American: variant of Mekhi, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #481 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Makayla

Makayla is a feminine name used in English: variant of Michaela, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #568 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Makenna

Makenna is a feminine name used in English: variant of McKenna, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #593 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Makenzie

Makenzie is a feminine name used in English: variant of Mackenzie, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #700 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Hebrew · Biblical

Malachi

Malachi carries the weight of prophecy in its meaning, "my messenger", even though Behind the Name notes it may not originally have been a personal name at all.

Fijian · Tongan · English

Malakai

Malakai is a masculine name used in Fijian and Tongan: fijian and Tongan form of Malachi, as well as a modern English variant, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #213 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Malani

Malani is a feminine name used in English: possibly a variant of Melanie using the Hawaiian name element lani meaning heaven, sky, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #374 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Not documented in the consulted reference sources

Malaya

Malaya is a feminine name in current American use whose origin is not documented in the reference works we cite. It ranked #775 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Not documented in the consulted reference sources

Malayah

Malayah is a feminine name in current American use whose origin is not documented in the reference works we cite. It ranked #1084 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Malaysia

Malaysia is a feminine name used in English: from the name of the country of Malaysia in southeastern Asia, the home of the Malay people, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #958 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Scottish · English

Malcolm

Malcolm is a masculine name used in Scottish and English meaning "disciple of Saint Columba". It ranked #272 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Hawaiian · English · German

Malia

Malia is a feminine name used in Hawaiian and English: hawaiian form of Maria, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #349 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Arabic · Urdu · Indonesian

Malik

Malik is a masculine name used in Arabic and Urdu meaning "king". It ranked #437 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Maliyah

Maliyah is a feminine name used in English: variant of Malia, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #626 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Hebrew

Malka

Malka is a feminine name used in Hebrew meaning "queen". It ranked #1011 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Mallory

Mallory is a feminine name used in English meaning "unfortunate". It ranked #372 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Spanish · Portuguese · German

Manuel

Manuel is a masculine name used in Spanish and Portuguese: spanish and Portuguese form of Emmanuel, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #371 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Maple

Maple is a feminine name used in English: from the English word for the tree, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1092 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Biblical · Biblical Hebrew · Italian

Mara

Mara is a feminine name used in Biblical and Biblical Hebrew meaning "bitter". It ranked #589 for girls in the United States in 2025.

French

Marceline

Marceline is a feminine name used in French: french feminine form of Marcellinus, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #424 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Italian · German · Ancient Roman

Marcella

Marcella is a feminine name used in Italian and German: feminine form of Marcellus, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #948 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Spanish · Portuguese

Marcelo

Marcelo is a masculine name used in Spanish and Portuguese: spanish and Portuguese form of Marcellus, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #399 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Italian · Spanish · Portuguese

Marco

Marco is a masculine name used in Italian and Spanish: italian form of Marcus, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #370 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Spanish · Portuguese

Marcos

Marcos is a masculine name used in Spanish and Portuguese: spanish and Portuguese form of Marcus, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #517 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Ancient Roman · Biblical Latin · English

Marcus

Marcus is a masculine name used in Ancient Roman and Biblical Latin: roman praenomen, or given name, that was probably, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #258 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Danish · Norwegian

Maren

Maren is a feminine name used in Danish and Norwegian: danish diminutive of Marina or Maria, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #472 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Greek · Latin · English

Margaret

Margaret has been the top girls' name in England, the name of two English queens, and the given name behind more nicknames (Peggy, Daisy-adjacent Maggie, Meg) than almost any other in the language.

English

Margo

Margo is a feminine name used in English: variant of Margot, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #559 for girls in the United States in 2025.

French · German

Margot

Margot is a crisp French short form of Marguerite that reads as a stand-alone name in English, trading the older name's floral length for two clean syllables.

Latin form of Greek Μαρία, from Hebrew (see Mary)

Maria

Maria is the shared form of a name used, with barely a spelling change, across dozens of languages and both a queen's title and the world's most common Christian namesake.

English

Mariah

Mariah is a feminine name used in English: variant of Maria, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #448 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Biblical Greek · Georgian · Armenian

Mariam

Mariam is a feminine name used in Biblical Greek and Georgian: form of Maria used in the Greek Old Testament, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #505 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Ancient Roman · Portuguese · Spanish

Mariana

Mariana is the Roman feminine form of Marianus, but for centuries it has also been heard as a fusion of Maria and Ana, giving it two plausible stories in one name.

Italian · Hungarian · Slovak

Marianna

Marianna is a feminine name used in Italian and Hungarian: combination of Maria and Anna, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #874 for girls in the United States in 2025.

French · Czech · German

Marie

Marie is a feminine name used in French and Czech: french and Czech form of Maria, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #618 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Spanish · English

Mariel

Mariel is a feminine name used in Spanish and English: diminutive of Maria, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #893 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Italian

Mariella

Mariella is a feminine name used in Italian: italian diminutive of Maria, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #943 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Marigold

Marigold is a feminine name used in English: from the name of the flower, which comes from a combination of Mary and the English word gold, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #590 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Marilyn

Marilyn is a feminine name used in English: combination of Mary and the common name suffix lyn, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #761 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Italian · Spanish · Portuguese

Marina

Marina is a feminine name used in Italian and Spanish: feminine form of Marinus, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #602 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Italian · Spanish · German

Mario

Mario is a masculine name used in Italian and Spanish: italian and Spanish form of Marius, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #438 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Spanish

Marisol

Marisol is a feminine name used in Spanish meaning "sea and sun". It ranked #667 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Marjorie

Marjorie is a feminine name used in English: medieval variant of Margery, influenced by the name of the herb marjoram, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1019 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Russian · Ukrainian

Mark

Mark is a masculine name used in English and Russian: form of Latin Marcus used in several languages, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #245 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Marlee

Marlee is a feminine name used in English: variant of Marley, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #536 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Marleigh

Marleigh is a feminine name used in English: variant of Marley, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #976 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Marley

Marley is a feminine name used in English: from an English surname that was taken from a place name meaning either pleasant wood, boundary wood or marten wood in Old English, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #322 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Marlowe

Marlowe is a feminine name used in English meaning "remnants of a lake". It ranked #523 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Marshall

Marshall is a masculine name used in English: from an English surname that originally denoted a person who was a marshal, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #340 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English · Swedish · Norwegian

Martha

Martha is a feminine name used in English and Swedish meaning "the lady, the mistress". It ranked #713 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · French · German

Martin

Martin is a masculine name used in English and French: from the Roman name Martinus, which was, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #335 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Hebrew · Biblical · English

Mary

Mary was, for over a century, the single most common name given to American girls, yet its own original meaning has never been settled with certainty.

Arabic · Persian · Urdu

Maryam

Maryam is a feminine name used in Arabic and Persian: arabic form of Miryam, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #351 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Old French · Frankish

Mason

Mason is a trade name that spent centuries meaning exactly what it says, then jumped to #2 in America on the strength of a reality-television baby.

Spanish · Croatian · Hebrew (ultimate roots)

Mateo

Mateo is the Spanish form of one of the oldest names in the Christian world, and it now sits in the American top ten without ever having been an English name at all.

French · German · Swedish

Mathias

Mathias is a masculine name used in French and German: variant of Matthias, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #312 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Finnish · Portuguese · Biblical Greek

Matias

Matias is the Finnish and Portuguese form of the New Testament name Matthias, worn by the apostle chosen to replace Judas Iscariot.

English · Swedish · Finnish

Matilda

Matilda is a feminine name used in English and Swedish meaning "strength in battle". It ranked #365 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Italian · Hebrew

Matteo

Matteo is the Italian face of Matthew, one of the most globally reproduced names in Christianity thanks to its Gospel-author namesake.

Hebrew · Biblical Greek · English

Matthew

Matthew was near the very top of the American charts through the 1980s and 90s, which is the awkward thing about a name that has otherwise been in continuous English use since the Middle Ages: it now reads as both ancient and specifically Gen-X.

German · French · Dutch

Matthias

Matthias is a masculine name used in German and French: from Greek Ματθίας, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #372 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Mattie

Mattie is a feminine name used in English: diminutive of Matilda, Martha or Matthew, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1005 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Maverick

Maverick means "independent" only because one Texan didn't brand his calves — the name is an English word that is an eponym that is a surname, and it is now a top-50 American boys' name.

English

Mavis

Mavis is a feminine name used in English: from the name of the type of bird, also called the song thrush, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #561 for girls in the United States in 2025.

German · English · Swedish

Max

Max is a masculine name used in German and English: short form of Maximilian or Maxim, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #180 for boys in the United States in 2025.

German · English · Swedish

Maximilian

Maximilian is a masculine name used in German and English meaning "greatest". It ranked #590 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Spanish · Portuguese

Maximiliano

Maximiliano is a masculine name used in Spanish and Portuguese: spanish and Portuguese form of Maximilianus, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #280 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Spanish · Portuguese · Latin

Maximo

Maximo is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the Roman cognomen Maximus. It ranked #580 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Ancient Roman

Maximus

Maximus is a masculine name used in Ancient Roman meaning "greatest". It ranked #276 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Maxine

Maxine is a feminine name used in English: feminine elaboration of Max, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #497 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Maxwell

Maxwell is a masculine name used in English meaning "Mack's stream". It ranked #189 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Sanskrit · English (variant of Maia) · Hebrew

Maya

Maya is four names wearing one spelling — Sanskrit "illusion", Hebrew "water", a variant of the Greek Maia, and a reference to the Maya civilisation — and no single meaning can be claimed for it.

Not documented in the consulted reference sources

Maylee

Maylee is a feminine name in current American use whose origin is not documented in the reference works we cite. It ranked #1023 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Mazie

Mazie is a feminine name used in English: variant of Maisie, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #966 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Mckenna

Mckenna is a feminine name used in English: from an Irish and Scottish surname, an Anglicized form of Mac Cionaodha, itself, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #410 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Mckenzie

Mckenzie is a feminine name used in English: variant of Mackenzie, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #576 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Mckinley

Mckinley is a feminine name used in English: from a Scottish surname, an Anglicized form of Mac Fhionnlaigh, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #714 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Meadow

Meadow is a feminine name used in English: from the English word meadow, ultimately from Old English mædwe, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #286 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Hindi · Marathi · Malayalam

Meera

Meera is a feminine name used in Hindi and Marathi: alternate transcription of Hindi/Marathi मीरा, Malayalam മീര, Tamil மீரா or Kannada ಮೀರಾ, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1020 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Welsh · English

Megan

Megan is a feminine name used in Welsh and English: welsh diminutive of Margaret, usually used independently, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #889 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English (modern coinage) · Hawaiian

Meilani

Meilani is a modern American coinage built on the Hawaiian ending -lani. It ranked #591 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Spanish · Greek

Melani

Melani is the Spanish spelling of Melanie, a name meaning "black, dark". It ranked #1056 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Greek · French

Melanie

Melanie means "black, dark" but Behind the Name credits its modern popularity to a golden-hearted character in Gone with the Wind.

English

Melany

Melany is a feminine name used in English: variant of Melanie, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #399 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Greek

Melina

Melina is a feminine name used in English and Greek: elaboration of Mel, either from names such as Melissa or from Greek μέλι, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #660 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Dutch · Ancient Greek

Melissa

Melissa is a feminine name used in English and Dutch meaning "bee". It ranked #420 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English (word name) · Greek

Melody

Melody is one of the rare English names taken directly from an everyday word rather than filtered through a surname or saint.

English

Memphis

Memphis is a masculine name used in English: from the name of an important city of ancient Egypt, or the city in Tennessee that was named after it, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #640 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Mercy

Mercy is a feminine name used in English: from the English word mercy, ultimately from Latin merces wages, reward, a derivative of merx goods, wares, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #867 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Welsh · English

Meredith

Meredith is a feminine name used in Welsh and English: from the Welsh name Maredudd or Meredydd, from Old Welsh forms such as Margetud, possibly from mawredd greatness, magnificence combined with iudd lord, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #469 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Merritt

Merritt is a feminine name used in English meaning "boundary gate". It ranked #703 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Theology · English

Messiah

Messiah is a masculine name used in Theology and English meaning "saviour". It ranked #207 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Biblical · English

Micah

Micah spent centuries as a rare Puritan revival name before becoming, at the end of the 20th century, one of the more common Old Testament names in wide use.

Hebrew

Michael

Michael is a rhetorical question — "who is like God?" — that was the most popular American boys' name for forty-four consecutive years and is still the name of more living Americans than any other.

German · Swedish · English

Michaela

Michaela is a feminine name used in German and Swedish: feminine form of Michael, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #843 for girls in the United States in 2025.

French · English · Dutch

Michelle

Michelle is a feminine name used in French and English: french feminine form of Michel, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #465 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Spanish · Portuguese · Galician

Miguel

Miguel is a masculine name used in Spanish and Portuguese: spanish, Portuguese and Galician form of Michael, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #212 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Swedish · Finnish · English

Mikaela

Mikaela is a feminine name used in Swedish and Finnish: swedish and Finnish feminine form of Mikael, as well as an English variant of Michaela, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1037 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Mikayla

Mikayla is a feminine name used in English: variant of Michaela, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #748 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Slavic

Mila

Mila began as a Slavic short form meaning "gracious, dear" — but Spanish, Arabic, Turkish and Tibetan speakers each have their own Mila, so the same four letters carry different stories depending on who is saying them.

Czech · Slovak · Serbian

Milan

Milan is a unisex name used in Czech and Slovak meaning "gracious, dear". It ranked #242 for boys and #753 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Serbian · Croatian · Russian

Milana

Milana is a feminine name used in Serbian and Croatian: feminine form of Milan, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #812 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Milani

Milani is a feminine name used in English: from the name of the Italian city of Milan, as in the name of the American cosmetics company founded in 2002, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #288 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Serbian · Macedonian · Bulgarian

Milena

Milena is a feminine name used in Serbian and Macedonian: feminine form of Milan, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #950 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Germanic · Norman French

Miles

Miles looks like the Latin word for "soldier" and has been read that way for centuries — but Behind the Name says the real meaning is not known for certain, and the soldier gloss may be an accident of resemblance.

English

Miley

Miley is a feminine name used in English: in the case of actress and singer Miley Cyrus, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #338 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Miller

Miller is a unisex name used in English: from the English occupational surname Miller, originally used by those who were millers, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #369 for boys and #571 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Millie

Millie is a catch-all diminutive that has outgrown the longer names it was originally short for.

Germanic · Ancient Greek (Latinized)

Milo

Tracing Milo from its Germanic and Latinate heritage to its modern, energetic appeal across languages.

English · Dutch

Mina

Mina is a feminine name used in English and Dutch: short form of Wilhelmina and other names ending in mina, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #597 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Hindi · Marathi · Malayalam

Mira

Mira is a feminine name used in Hindi and Marathi meaning "sea, ocean". It ranked #335 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Miracle

Miracle is a feminine name used in English meaning "wonder, marvel". It ranked #492 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Dutch · Italian

Miranda

Miranda is a feminine name used in English and Dutch meaning "admirable, worthy of being admired". It ranked #656 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Hebrew · Biblical

Miriam

Miriam is the Old Testament form of Mary, borne by the sister of Moses, and it has stayed a living name among Jews for millennia while also settling into English usage.

Arabic · Dhivehi · Swahili

Mohamed

Mohamed is a masculine name used in Arabic and Dhivehi: alternate transcription of Arabic محمّد, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #527 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Persian · Arabic · Urdu

Mohammad

Mohammad is a masculine name used in Persian and Arabic: persian form of Muhammad, as well as an alternate transcription for Arabic and several other languages, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #562 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Arabic · Bengali

Mohammed

Mohammed is a masculine name used in Arabic and Bengali: alternate transcription of Arabic محمّد or Bengali মুহাম্মদ, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #595 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Spanish · Portuguese · Hebrew · Egyptian

Moises

Moises is the Spanish and Portuguese form of Moses, whose own root is Egyptian rather than Hebrew. It ranked #587 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Molly

Molly began life purely as a medieval nickname for Mary and has stood on its own for so long that most parents no longer think of it as a nickname at all.

English · Italian · Romanian

Monica

Monica is a feminine name used in English and Italian meaning "to advise". It ranked #737 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Monroe

Monroe is a feminine name used in English meaning "from the mouth of the Roe". It ranked #467 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Montana

Montana is a feminine name used in English: from the name of the American state of Montana, which is, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1033 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Welsh · English · French

Morgan

Morgan is a unisex name used in Welsh and English: from the Old Welsh masculine name Morcant or Morgant, which was possibly, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #559 for boys and #312 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Moriah

Moriah is a feminine name used in English: from Hebrew מֹרִיָה, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1093 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Jewish · Biblical

Moses

Moses is a masculine name used in English and Jewish meaning "son". It ranked #515 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Hebrew · Biblical Hebrew

Moshe

Moshe is a masculine name used in Hebrew and Biblical Hebrew: hebrew form of Moses, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #436 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Arabic · Urdu · Punjabi

Muhammad

Muhammad is a masculine name used in Arabic and Urdu meaning "praised, commendable". It ranked #239 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Murphy

Murphy is a feminine name used in English: from a common Irish surname, the Anglicized form of Irish Gaelic Ó Murchadha, itself, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #397 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Arabic · Turkish · Azerbaijani

Musa

Musa is a masculine name used in Arabic and Turkish: arabic form of Moses appearing in the Quran, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #470 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Mya

Mya is a feminine name used in English: variant of Maya, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #444 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English (Modern)

Myla

Myla is a very modern invention, and even Behind the Name can only guess at how it was built: probably a feminine Miles blended with the sound of Kyla.

English

Mylah

Mylah is a feminine name used in English: variant of Myla, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #605 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English variant of Miles

Myles

Myles carries a meaning that has never been settled: is it Slavic for "gracious, dear", or Latin for "soldier"? Behind the Name says both were attached to it historically.

English

Myra

Myra is a feminine name used in English: created by the 17th-century poet Fulke Greville, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #663 for girls in the United States in 2025.

French · Italian · Spanish

Nadia

Nadia is a feminine name used in French and Italian: variant of Nadya used in Western Europe, as well as an alternate transcription of the Slavic name, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #565 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Not documented in the consulted reference sources

Naiari

Naiari is a feminine name in current American use whose origin is not documented in the reference works we cite. It ranked #1031 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Hinduism

Nala

Nala is a feminine name used in Hinduism meaning "stem". It ranked #856 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Hawaiian

Nalani

Nalani is the Hawaiian Nālani, "the heavens", with the macron dropped. It ranked #414 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Spanish

Nancy

Nancy is a feminine name used in English and Spanish: previously a medieval diminutive of Annis, though since the 18th century it has been a diminutive of Ann, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #967 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Hebrew · Japanese

Naomi

How does an ancient biblical name meaning pleasantness intersect with an independent Japanese name?

English

Nash

Nash is a masculine name used in English meaning "at the ash tree". It ranked #255 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Arabic · Persian · Urdu

Nasir

Nasir is a masculine name used in Arabic and Persian meaning "helper". It ranked #487 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Latin · Roman

Natalia

Natalia is the Latinate form of Natalie, and its Latin root "relating to birth" was historically tied to Christmas Day itself.

From the Roman name Natalis/Natalia, from Latin natalis

Natalie

Natalie's root meaning of "birthday" narrowed over the centuries into a specific reference to Christmas Day, before an American film star reset its popular image entirely.

English · Spanish

Nataly

Nataly is a feminine name used in English and Spanish: variant of Natalie, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #907 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Hebrew · Biblical

Nathan

Nathan carries a straightforward Hebrew meaning, "he gave", earned by a Biblical prophet bold enough to confront a king.

Biblical · Biblical Greek

Nathanael

Nathanael is a masculine name used in Biblical and Biblical Greek meaning "God has given". It ranked #632 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Biblical Hebrew

Nathaniel

How Nathaniel established itself as the dominant English spelling over the biblical Nathanael while retaining its ancient Hebrew roots.

English

Navy

Navy is a feminine name used in English meaning "sea force, fleet, armed forces of the sea". It ranked #327 for girls in the United States in 2025.

African American

Naya

Naya is a feminine name used in African American: variant of Nia, probably modelled on Maya, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #813 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Zapotec (Hispanicized)

Nayeli

Nayeli carries one of the more emotionally direct possible meanings of any popular name, "I love you", though Behind the Name flags it only as a possibility rather than a settled fact.

Arabic

Nayla

Nayla is a feminine name used in Arabic: alternate transcription of Arabic نائلة, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1078 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Not documented in the consulted reference sources

Naylani

Naylani is a feminine name in current American use whose origin is not documented in the reference works we cite. It ranked #897 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Biblical

Nehemiah

Nehemiah is a masculine name used in Biblical meaning "Yahweh comforts". It ranked #429 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English · Swedish

Nellie

Nellie is a feminine name used in English and Swedish: diminutive of Nell and other names containing nel, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #533 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Biblical

Neriah

Neriah is a feminine name used in Biblical meaning "lamp of Yahweh". It ranked #762 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English (Modern)

Nevaeh

Nevaeh is the rare hit name with a documented birth date: the word "heaven" spelled backward, popularized by a single celebrity naming in the year 2000.

Welsh

Nia

Nia is a feminine name used in Welsh: welsh form of Niamh, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #702 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Greek · English

Nicholas

Nicholas means "victory of the people," but the saint it honors is better remembered today as the folkloric ancestor of Santa Claus than as a champion of any political victory.

Italian · Dutch · German · Spanish · Portuguese

Nico

Nico is a short form that traditionally stands in for Nicholas, yet it now works as a confident standalone name across several European languages at once.

French

Nicolas

Nicolas is the French form of Nicholas, single-l spelling and all, honoring the same 4th-century saint who inspired Santa Claus.

French · English · Dutch

Nicole

Nicole is a feminine name used in French and English: french feminine form of Nicholas, commonly used in the English-speaking world since the middle of the 20th century, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #383 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Finnish · Croatian · Slovene

Niko

Niko is a masculine name used in Finnish and Croatian: finnish form of Nicholas, as well as a Croatian, Slovene, Georgian and German short form, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #325 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Russian · Bulgarian

Nikolai

Nikolai is a masculine name used in Russian and Bulgarian: alternate transcription of Russian/Bulgarian Николай, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #605 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Russian · Italian · English

Nina

Nina is a feminine name used in Russian and Italian meaning "little girl". It ranked #324 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Hebrew · Biblical

Noa

Noa is the modern Hebrew name of a Bible heroine most English speakers have never heard of, sharing a spelling — but not necessarily an origin — with the masculine Noah.

Biblical Hebrew

Noah

Tracing how an ancient Hebrew name associated with an ark and a flood transformed into a dominant global chart-topper.

English

Noel

Noel is a masculine name used in English: english form of Noël or Noëlle, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #478 for boys in the United States in 2025.

French · English

Noelle

Noelle is the English spelling of a French Christmas name, tying the bearer's identity to the season of her birth or naming rather than to a saint or ancestor.

Italian · Czech · Polish

Noemi

Noemi is a feminine name used in Italian and Czech: form of Naomi in several languages, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #583 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Nola

Nola is a feminine name used in English: meaning uncertain, possibly a feminine form of Noll inspired by Lola, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #822 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Irish surname

Nolan

Nolan is an Anglicized Irish surname that climbed American charts on the strength of a baseball legend's name.

Arabic · Urdu · Bengali

Noor

Noor is a feminine name used in Arabic and Urdu: alternate transcription of Arabic/Urdu نور or Bengali নূর, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #659 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Irish · Latin

Nora

Nora is a short form that outlived both its parents — nobody names a baby Honora any more, but Nora is in the American top 20.

English · Irish

Norah

Norah looks like a single tidy name but Behind the Name actually tracks it as two: an English/Irish variant of Nora, and a separate Arabic name transcribed the same way.

Latin

Nova

Exploring how an astronomical Latin term meaning 'new' transformed into a sleek, modern personal name across English and European naming cultures.

English

Novah

Novah is a feminine name used in English: variant of Nova, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1006 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Novalee

Novalee is a feminine name used in English: elaboration of Nova using the popular name suffix lee, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #977 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Nyla

Nyla is a modern English coinage that reads as a feminine echo of Niles, riding into use on the same sound-wave as Kyla.

English

Nylah

Nylah is a feminine name used in English: variant of Nyla, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #504 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Not documented in the consulted reference sources

Nyomi

Nyomi is a feminine name in current American use whose origin is not documented in the reference works we cite. It ranked #825 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Oaklee

Oaklee is a feminine name used in English: variant of Oakley, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #535 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Oakleigh

Oakleigh is a feminine name used in English: strictly feminine variant of Oakley, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #668 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English surname

Oakley

Oakley is a genuinely unisex surname name, ranking in the SSA top names for both boys and girls in 2025, with sharpshooter Annie Oakley as its most famous namesake.

English

Oaklyn

Oaklyn is a feminine name used in English: variant of Oakley using the popular name suffix lyn, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #637 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English (Modern)

Oaklynn

Oaklynn is a double invented name — a variant of Oaklyn, itself built from Oakley plus the popular suffix -lyn — three layers removed from its oak-tree root.

English

Ocean

Ocean is a feminine name used in English: simply, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #787 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Spanish · Romanian

Octavia

Octavia is a feminine name used in English and Spanish: feminine form of Octavius, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #308 for girls in the United States in 2025.

French

Odette

Odette is a feminine name used in French: french diminutive of Oda or Odilia, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #883 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Norse Mythology · English

Odin

Odin is a masculine name used in Norse Mythology and English meaning "frenzied, furious, inspired". It ranked #502 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English · French · Latin

Olive

Olive is a plain botanical name, borrowed straight from the tree and its fruit, whose only real variation is its own nickname, Ollie.

Old French · Latin · Germanic (possible)

Oliver

Everyone reads Oliver as the olive tree, but the sources allow a Norse or Frankish name underneath the Latin spelling — and the name was once so tied to Oliver Cromwell that England stopped using it.

Latin

Olivia

Tracing Olivia from Shakespearean stagecraft to its modern reign at the very top of international birth charts.

Arabic · Bosnian · Kazakh

Omar

Omar is a masculine name used in Arabic and Bosnian: alternate transcription of Arabic عمر, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #260 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Onyx

Onyx is a masculine name used in English: from the English word for the gemstone, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #365 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Opal

Opal is a feminine name used in English: from the English word opal for the iridescent gemstone, the birthstone of October, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #423 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Ancient Greek · Literature

Ophelia

Ophelia is a name Shakespeare made famous through a tragic drowning, yet it has climbed the popularity charts anyway.

Greek Mythology

Orion

Orion is a masculine name used in Greek Mythology meaning "boundary, limit". It ranked #334 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English · Irish · Portuguese

Oscar

Oscar is a masculine name used in English and Irish meaning "deer friend". It ranked #223 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Otis

Otis is a masculine name used in English: from an English surname that was, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #652 for boys in the United States in 2025.

German · Swedish · Norwegian

Otto

Otto is a masculine name used in German and Swedish meaning "wealth, fortune". It ranked #277 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Welsh · English · Irish

Owen

Owen is one English spelling covering two separate Celtic names — Welsh Owain and Irish Eoghan — plus a French homograph, which is why sources that look like they disagree about its meaning are often describing different names.

English

Ozzy

Ozzy is a masculine name used in English: variant of Ozzie, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #549 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Spanish

Pablo

Pablo is a masculine name used in Spanish: spanish form of Paulus, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #430 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Paige

Paige is a feminine name used in English meaning "servant, page". It ranked #346 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Paislee

Paislee is a feminine name used in English: variant of Paisley, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #669 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Scottish · English

Paisleigh

Paisleigh reads as a -leigh respelling of Paisley, a town near Glasgow. It ranked #1045 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Scottish surname/place name

Paisley

Paisley shares its name with a Scottish town and, by extension, with the swirling textile pattern the town gave the world.

English surname · Latin

Palmer

Palmer names a pilgrim, not a person who touches palms — it comes from the palm fronds pilgrims carried home from the Holy Land as proof of their journey.

Spanish

Paloma

Paloma is a feminine name used in Spanish meaning "dove, pigeon". It ranked #793 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Greek Mythology

Paris

Paris is a feminine name used in Greek Mythology: meaning unknown, possibly of Luwian or Hittite origin, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #592 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English occupational surname

Parker

Parker is a straightforward occupational surname turned given name, now used almost as evenly for boys and girls as its meaning is plain.

Irish · English · French

Patrick

Patrick is a masculine name used in Irish and English meaning "nobleman, patrician". It ranked #235 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English · French · German

Paul

Paul is a masculine name used in English and French meaning "small". It ranked #262 for boys in the United States in 2025.

German · English · Finnish

Paula

Paula is a feminine name used in German and English: feminine form of Paulus, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #855 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Spanish · Portuguese · Polish

Paulina

Paulina is a feminine name used in Spanish and Portuguese: feminine form of Paulinus, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #784 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Paxton

Paxton is a masculine name used in English meaning "Pœcc's town". It ranked #338 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Payton

Payton is a feminine name used in English: variant of Peyton, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #440 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Pearl

Pearl is a feminine name used in English: from the English word pearl for the concretions formed in the shells of some mollusks, ultimately from Medieval Latin perla, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #777 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Spanish · Portuguese

Pedro

Pedro is a masculine name used in Spanish and Portuguese: spanish and Portuguese form of Peter, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #455 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Greek

Penelope

Penelope belongs to the most famously patient wife in Western literature, and its likeliest etymology is not "weaver" but a duck.

English

Penny

Penny is a feminine name used in English: diminutive of Penelope, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #740 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Greek Mythology

Persephone

Persephone is a feminine name used in Greek Mythology meaning "thresher of corn". It ranked #735 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · German · Dutch

Peter

Peter is a masculine name used in English and German meaning "stone". It ranked #187 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English surname

Peyton

Peyton began as a rare boys' surname-name and only crossed over for girls after a 1992 thriller cast it on a villain.

English · Swedish · Norwegian

Philip

Philip is a masculine name used in English and Swedish meaning "friend of horses". It ranked #528 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Phillip

Phillip is a masculine name used in English: variant of Philip, inspired by the usual spelling of the surname, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #651 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Greek · Greek Mythology · Biblical

Phoebe

Phoebe descends from a Titan of Greek myth and a minister named in the New Testament, but Behind the Name credits Friends and Charmed for its late-1980s revival.

English

Phoenix

Phoenix is a unisex name used in English: from the name of a beautiful immortal bird that appears in Egyptian and Greek mythology, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #329 for boys and #534 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Pierce

Pierce is a masculine name used in English: from an English surname that was, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #505 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English surname

Piper

Piper is an occupational surname for a flute player, and Behind the Name credits a single 1998 TV witch with turning it into a popular given name.

English

Poppy

Poppy is a feminine name used in English: from the word for the red flower, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #292 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Porter

Porter is a masculine name used in English meaning "doorkeeper". It ranked #560 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English surname

Presley

Presley is a place-name surname whose entire modern identity rides on a single famous bearer: Elvis.

English

Preston

Preston is a masculine name used in English meaning "priest town". It ranked #299 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Prince

Prince is a masculine name used in English: from the English word prince, a royal title, which comes ultimately from Latin princeps, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #447 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Princeton

Princeton is a masculine name used in English: from the name of the town or university in New Jersey, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #653 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English · Italian · French

Priscilla

Priscilla is a feminine name used in English and Italian: roman name, a diminutive of Prisca, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #544 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Promise

Promise is a feminine name used in English: from the English word promise, from Latin promissum, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #826 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Quincy

Quincy is a unisex name used in English: from an English surname that was derived, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #654 for boys and #815 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Irish

Quinn

Quinn shifted from a mostly boys' name to a majority-girls' name in the United States almost overnight, a change Behind the Name pins to a single Glee character.

Hebrew · Biblical

Rachel

Rachel means "ewe" in Hebrew and belongs to Jacob's favourite wife in Genesis, yet its late-20th-century American peak owes at least something to a sitcom character who shared the name.

English

Raegan

Raegan is a feminine name used in English: variant of Reagan, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #506 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Raelyn

Raelyn is a feminine name used in English: combination of Rae and the popular name suffix lyn, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #502 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English (Modern)

Raelynn

Raelynn is a modern invented compound, built by stitching the name Rae onto the popular name-ending suffix -lyn rather than descending from any older word or tradition.

Spanish · Portuguese · German

Rafael

Rafael is a masculine name used in Spanish and Portuguese: form of Raphael in various languages, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #218 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Japanese Mythology · English

Raiden

Raiden is a masculine name used in Japanese Mythology and English: from Japanese 雷, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #432 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Bulgarian

Raina

Raina is a feminine name used in Bulgarian: alternate transcription of Bulgarian Райна, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #916 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Spanish · Romanian · English

Ramona

Ramona is a feminine name used in Spanish and Romanian: feminine form of Ramón, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #733 for girls in the United States in 2025.

German · English · Biblical

Raphael

Raphael is a masculine name used in German and English meaning "God heals". It ranked #394 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Portuguese · Italian · Romanian

Raul

Raul is a masculine name used in Portuguese and Italian: portuguese, Italian and Romanian form of Radulf, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #634 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Raven

Raven is a feminine name used in English: from the name of the bird, ultimately from Old English hræfn, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #404 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Bulgarian · Russian

Raya

Raya is a feminine name used in Bulgarian and Russian: diminutive of Rayna or Raisa, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #369 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Arabic

Rayan

Rayan is a masculine name used in Arabic: alternate transcription of Arabic ريّان, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #588 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English · French

Raymond

Raymond is a masculine name used in English and French: from the Germanic name Raginmund, composed of the elements regin advice, counsel, decision and munt protection, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #395 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Bulgarian

Rayna

Rayna is a feminine name used in Bulgarian: either a Bulgarian form of Regina or a feminine form of Rayno, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #796 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Rayne

Rayne is a feminine name used in English: from a surname that was a variant of Raine, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #906 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Irish surname · English (Modern)

Reagan

Reagan started as an Irish surname best known through a presidential name, then turned into a modern given name that, despite its masculine surname roots, is now used mainly for girls.

English · Italian · Swedish

Rebecca

Rebecca is a feminine name used in English and Italian meaning "join, tie, snare". It ranked #350 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Biblical · English

Rebekah

Rebekah is a feminine name used in Biblical and English: form of Rebecca used in some versions of the Bible, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #884 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Welsh · English

Reece

Reece is a masculine name used in Welsh and English: anglicized form of Rhys, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #460 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Reed

Reed is a masculine name used in English meaning "red". It ranked #419 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Welsh · English

Reese

Reese anglicizes a Welsh royal name meaning "ardour," but its feminine use owes entirely to one actress choosing it as her stage name.

English · German · Italian

Regina

Regina is a feminine name used in English and German meaning "queen". It ranked #395 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Reid

Reid is a masculine name used in English: from a surname, a Scots variant of Reed, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #293 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Reign

Reign is a feminine name used in English: from the English word reign, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #452 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Spanish

Reina

Reina is a feminine name used in Spanish meaning "queen". It ranked #582 for girls in the United States in 2025.

French

Remi

Remi is a breezy modern respelling of the French Rémi, but the deeper meaning of that French name is not confirmed in this pass's sources.

English

Remington

Remington is a unisex name used in English meaning "settlement on the Riming stream". It ranked #307 for boys and #513 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Remy

Remy is a unisex name used in English: english form of Rémy, also used as a feminine name, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #408 for boys and #721 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Italian · Portuguese · Spanish

Renata

Renata is a feminine name used in Italian and Portuguese: feminine form of Renatus, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #481 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Renee

Renee is a feminine name used in English: english form of Renée, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1099 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Not documented in the consulted reference sources

Reya

Reya is a feminine name in current American use whose origin is not documented in the reference works we cite. It ranked #1003 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Spanish

Reyna

Reyna is a feminine name used in Spanish: variant of Reina, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #594 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Greek Mythology · Roman Mythology

Rhea

Rhea is a feminine name used in Greek Mythology and Roman Mythology meaning "to flow". It ranked #639 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Rhett

Rhett is a masculine name used in English: from a surname, an Anglicized form of the Dutch de Raedt, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #188 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Rhodes

Rhodes is a masculine name used in English: from the English surname Rhodes, which was, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #575 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Welsh · English

Rhys

Rhys is a masculine name used in Welsh and English meaning "ardour, enthusiasm". It ranked #412 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Spanish · Portuguese

Ricardo

Ricardo is a masculine name used in Spanish and Portuguese: spanish and Portuguese form of Richard, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #380 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English · French · German

Richard

Richard is a masculine name used in English and French meaning "brave ruler". It ranked #234 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Ridge

Ridge is a masculine name used in English: from the English vocabulary word denoting a continuous elevated mountain crest, or, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #530 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English · Irish

Riley

Riley is two surnames wearing one spelling — an Irish O'Reilly and an English "rye clearing" — and in the United States it crossed from boys' name to girls' name in 2003 while staying masculine in Britain and Australia.

Various

Rio

Rio is a masculine name used in Various meaning "river". It ranked #532 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Ripley

Ripley is a feminine name used in English: from a surname that was, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1032 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English word name

River

River is simply the English word for a flowing body of water, used as a name for both boys and girls with no gender attached to the vocabulary itself.

Hebrew

Rivka

Rivka is a feminine name used in Hebrew: hebrew form of Rebecca, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #629 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Germanic: Hrodebert

Robert

Robert was America's single most popular boys' name for over a decade and remains loaded with royal, literary and Hollywood namesakes even as its everyday ranking has cooled.

Italian · Spanish · Portuguese

Roberto

Roberto is a masculine name used in Italian and Spanish: italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of Robert, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #570 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English · French · Dutch

Robin

Robin is a feminine name used in English and French: medieval English diminutive of Robert, now usually regarded as an independent name, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #704 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Italian · Germanic

Rocco

Rocco is a masculine name used in Italian and Germanic meaning "crow, rook". It ranked #459 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Rocky

Rocky is a masculine name used in English: diminutive of Rocco and other names beginning with a similar sound, or else a nickname referring to a tough person, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #568 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Spanish · Portuguese · Italian

Rodrigo

Rodrigo is a masculine name used in Spanish and Portuguese: spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Galician form of Roderick, via the Latinized Gothic form Rudericus, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #492 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English · French · German

Roland

Roland is a masculine name used in English and French: roland was an 8th-century military commander, serving under Charlemagne, who was killed by the Basques at the Battle of Roncevaux, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #608 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Latin

Roman

Roman is one of the few names whose meaning is simply a nationality — "Roman" — and it travelled from Latin saints through the Slavic world before landing in the American top 50.

English

Rome

Rome is a masculine name used in English: from the name of Rome, the capital city of Italy, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #452 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Italian · Romanian

Romeo

Romeo is a masculine name used in Italian and Romanian meaning "from Rome". It ranked #302 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Hebrew

Romi

Romi is a feminine name used in Hebrew meaning "my height, my exaltation". It ranked #818 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Italian

Romina

Romina is a feminine name used in Italian: possibly a variant of Romana, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #531 for girls in the United States in 2025.

German · Dutch · French

Romy

Romy is a feminine name used in German and Dutch: diminutive of Rosemarie, Rosemary, and names beginning with Rom, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #698 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Scottish · English · Dutch

Ronald

Ronald is a masculine name used in Scottish and English: scottish form of Ragnvaldr, a name introduced to Britain by Scandinavian settlers and invaders, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #638 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Breton · Irish · French

Ronan

Ronan is a masculine name used in Breton and Irish: breton and Anglicized form of Rónán, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #247 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Ronin

Ronin is a masculine name used in English meaning "masterless samurai". It ranked #504 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Irish · Scottish Gaelic

Rory

Rory is a boys' name by long tradition and a girls' name by television accident, and the SSA data shows it is now genuinely used for both.

Spanish · Italian · Portuguese

Rosa

Rosa is a feminine name used in Spanish and Italian meaning "rose". It ranked #653 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Rosalee

Rosalee is a feminine name used in English: variant of Rosalie, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #954 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Italian · Late Roman

Rosalia

Rosalia is a feminine name used in Italian and Late Roman meaning "rose". It ranked #609 for girls in the United States in 2025.

French · German · Dutch · English · Late Latin

Rosalie

Rosalie carries a 12th-century Sicilian saint's name through French, German and Dutch, and got a mid-20th-century English boost from a Hollywood musical.

Portuguese · Spanish

Rosalina

Rosalina is a feminine name used in Portuguese and Spanish: latinate form of Rosaline, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #681 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Rosalyn

Rosalyn is a feminine name used in English: variant of Rosaline, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1051 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Germanic · Norman French · English

Rose

Rose was originally a Germanic name meaning "famous type" that only came to be linked with the flower by coincidence of sound, yet the flower meaning is now the only one anyone hears.

English

Roselyn

Roselyn is a feminine name used in English: variant of Rosalyn, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #979 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Rosemary

Rosemary reads as one name but carries two full stories: a fusion of Rose and Mary, and a separate life as the name of the fragrant herb.

English

Rosie

Rosie is a feminine name used in English: diminutive of Rose, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #283 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Irish · English

Rowan

Exploring how Rowan bridges the ancient Irish moniker Ruadhán with the botanical imagery of the rowan tree.

English

Rowen

Rowen is a masculine name used in English: variant of Rowan, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #488 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Not documented in the consulted reference sources

Rowyn

Rowyn is a feminine name in current American use whose origin is not documented in the reference works we cite. It ranked #699 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Scottish · English · Dutch

Roy

Roy is a masculine name used in Scottish and English: anglicized form of Ruadh, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #525 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Royal

Royal is a masculine name used in English: from the English word royal, derived, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #476 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Royalty

Royalty is a feminine name used in English: from the English word royalty, derived, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #782 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Royce

Royce is a masculine name used in English: from an English surname that was, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #500 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Dutch · Swedish · Norwegian

Ruben

Ruben is a masculine name used in Dutch and Swedish: form of Reuben in several languages, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #480 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Slovene

Rubi

Rubi is a feminine name used in Slovene meaning "ruby". It ranked #1079 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Latin

Ruby

Ruby has no story behind it beyond the stone itself — a 16th-century word-name that outlasted every other Victorian jewel name and is now a top-75 American girls' name.

English

Russell

Russell is a masculine name used in English meaning "little red one". It ranked #345 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Hebrew · Biblical

Ruth

Ruth is a Hebrew Bible heroine's name that got a second, secular English layer of meaning centuries later from the unrelated word "ruth," meaning pity.

English

Ruthie

Ruthie is a feminine name used in English: diminutive of Ruth, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #781 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Irish surname, Anglicized form of Ó Riain

Ryan

Ryan's rise owes as much to a single 1970 film title as to its own "little king" meaning, and it spent decades as a fixture of the U.S. top 20.

English surname

Ryder

Ryder is a modern English surname-name that Behind the Name says rode the coattails of Ryan and Riley rather than any long tradition of its own.

English

Ryker

Ryker is a masculine name used in English meaning "rich". It ranked #183 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Rylan

Rylan is a masculine name used in English: possibly a variant of Ryland, though it could also be an invented name inspired by other names like Ryan and Riley, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #416 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English surname · Irish surname

Rylee

Rylee is a modern respelling of Riley that inherits its parent name's Irish-surname meaning without any separate history of its own.

English

Ryleigh

Ryleigh is a feminine name used in English: feminine variant of Riley, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #344 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Rylie

Rylie is a feminine name used in English: variant of Riley, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #478 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Not documented in the consulted reference sources

Rynlee

Rynlee is a feminine name in current American use whose origin is not documented in the reference works we cite. It ranked #755 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Indian (Hindi)

Saanvi

Saanvi is documented as a Hindi name, but the Hindi entries behind it do not exist. It ranked #944 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Italian · German

Sabrina

Sabrina is a feminine name used in English and Italian: latinized form of Habren, the original Welsh name of the River Severn, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #321 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English (diminutive) · Hebrew (via Sarah)

Sadie

Sadie is a nickname that stopped needing its parent: a diminutive of Sarah that was a top-100 American name in the 1800s, nearly vanished, and came back on its own terms.

Persian · Turkish · Arabic

Safa

Safa is a feminine name used in Persian and Turkish: persian and Turkish form of Safaa or Safaa', as well as an alternate Arabic transcription of either of those names, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1007 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English (Modern)

Sage

Sage is a word name that carries two English meanings at once, an aromatic herb and a wise elder, and it is used about equally for boys and girls.

English

Saige

Saige is a feminine name used in English: variant of Sage, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #480 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Saint

Saint is a masculine name used in English meaning "holy, saintly". It ranked #267 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Arabic

Salem

Salem is a feminine name used in Arabic: alternate transcription of Arabic سالم, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #436 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Arabic · Urdu · Bengali

Salma

Salma is a feminine name used in Arabic and Urdu meaning "safe". It ranked #937 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · German · Georgian

Salome

Salome is a feminine name used in English and German meaning "peace". It ranked #1042 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Sam

Sam is a masculine name used in English: short form of Samuel, Samson, Samantha and other names beginning with Sam, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #647 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English · Hebrew (uncertain)

Samantha

Samantha's origin is genuinely uncertain — Behind the Name calls it only a probable feminine coinage from Samuel — and its popularity owes more to a 1960s sitcom witch than to any older lineage.

English · Portuguese

Samara

Samara is a feminine name used in English and Portuguese: possibly, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #320 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Arabic · Azerbaijani

Samir

Samir is a masculine name used in Arabic and Azerbaijani meaning "companion in evening talk". It ranked #643 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Arabic · Persian

Samira

Samira is a feminine name used in Arabic and Persian: feminine form of Samir, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #723 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Biblical · English · French

Samson

Samson is a masculine name used in Biblical and English: from the Hebrew name שִׁמְשׁוֹן, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #477 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Hebrew

Samuel

Samuel has two rival Hebrew readings — "name of God" and "God has heard" — and has never left the American top 100 since records began in 1880, which makes it one of the steadiest names in the language.

Spanish · Portuguese

Santiago

Santiago is not really one name but a fused phrase — "Saint James" run together — and that compression is why one word can be a boy, a saint, a pilgrimage and the capital of Chile.

Italian

Santino

Santino is a masculine name used in Italian: diminutive of Santo, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #353 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Irish

Saoirse

Saoirse is a feminine name used in Irish meaning "freedom". It ranked #1089 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Sapphire

Sapphire is a feminine name used in English: from the name of the gemstone, typically blue, which is the traditional birthstone of September, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1058 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Hebrew

Sara

Sara is the pan-European spelling of Sarah, carrying the same Hebrew "princess" meaning without the silent final letter.

Hebrew: שָׂרָה (Sara)

Sarah

Sarah's meaning of "princess" reflects a name change recorded in Genesis, when God renamed Abraham's wife from Sarai to Sarah.

Not documented in the consulted reference sources

Sarahi

Sarahi is a feminine name in current American use whose origin is not documented in the reference works we cite. It ranked #917 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Biblical · Biblical Latin · Biblical Hebrew

Sarai

Sarai is a feminine name used in Biblical and Biblical Latin meaning "my princess". It ranked #425 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Mormon

Sariah

Sariah is a feminine name used in Mormon: possibly from an alternate reading of Hebrew שׂריה, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #951 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Arabic

Sariyah

Sariyah is an Arabic name for a cloud that travels by night. It ranked #625 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Russian · Ukrainian · English

Sasha

Sasha is a feminine name used in Russian and Ukrainian: russian and Ukrainian diminutive of Aleksandr or Aleksandra, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #684 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Biblical · Jewish · Biblical Latin

Saul

Saul is a masculine name used in Biblical and Jewish meaning "asked for, prayed for". It ranked #557 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Savanna

Savanna is a feminine name used in English: variant of Savannah, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1090 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English word · Taíno

Savannah

Savannah is a landscape word turned name, and Behind the Name traces its American revival to a specific 1980s film rather than to any older naming tradition.

English surname

Sawyer

Sawyer went from a rare occupational surname to a mainstream unisex first name largely on the strength of two fictional characters: Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer and, over a century later, a castaway on the television series Lost.

English surname · Old French

Saylor

Saylor looks like a modern occupational word name, but Behind the Name traces it to an Old French surname meaning "acrobat", not the sea.

English

Scarlet

Scarlet is a feminine name used in English: either a variant of Scarlett or else, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #510 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Scarlett

Scarlett is a colour, a cloth trade and a surname before it is a first name, and it waited more than sixty years after Gone with the Wind before American parents actually used it.

English · Scottish

Scott

Scott is a masculine name used in English and Scottish: from an English and Scottish surname that referred to a person from Scotland or a person who spoke Scottish Gaelic, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #534 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English · Scottish

Scottie

Scottie is a diminutive of Scott that Behind the Name lists for both sexes, but only girls currently show up in the SSA's recent top-name data.

English

Scout

Scout is a feminine name used in English meaning "one who gathers information covertly". It ranked #997 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Irish · English

Sean

Sean is a masculine name used in Irish and English: anglicized form of Seán, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #489 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Latin · Greek

Sebastian

Sebastian means "from Sebaste" — a place name that is itself a translation of the imperial title Augustus — so the grandeur parents hear in it is real, but it is borrowed twice over.

Hebrew · Biblical

Selah

Selah is not a name so much as a word lifted straight from the Psalms — a musical pause whose exact meaning even biblical scholars debate.

Greek Mythology · Spanish

Selena

Selena is a moon goddess's name in mythology that became, through two famous namesakes, a modern pop-culture name in its own right.

Greek Mythology

Selene

Selene is a feminine name used in Greek Mythology meaning "moon". It ranked #623 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Italian · Spanish · Portuguese

Serafina

Serafina is a feminine name used in Italian and Spanish: italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of Seraphina, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1024 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · German · Late Roman

Seraphina

Seraphina is a feminine name used in English and German meaning "fiery ones". It ranked #600 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Italian · Ancient Roman

Serena

Serena is a feminine name used in English and Italian meaning "clear, tranquil, serene". It ranked #325 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Latin · English word name

Serenity

Serenity is an abstract-virtue word name, borrowing calm as a wish for a child in the same way older names once borrowed faith, grace or hope.

Italian · Spanish

Sergio

Sergio is a masculine name used in Italian and Spanish: italian and Spanish form of Sergius, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #441 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English · Biblical · Biblical Latin

Seth

Seth is a masculine name used in English and Biblical meaning "placed, set". It ranked #581 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Sevyn

Sevyn is a feminine name used in English: variant of Seven, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #575 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Irish · English

Shane

Shane is a masculine name used in Irish and English: anglicized form of Seán, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #636 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Shelby

Shelby is a feminine name used in English: from an English surname, which was possibly a variant of Selby, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #649 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Shepherd

Shepherd is a masculine name used in English meaning "sheep herder, shepherd". It ranked #246 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Biblical

Shiloh

Shiloh is a unisex name used in Biblical meaning "tranquil". It ranked #278 for boys and #281 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Siena

Siena is a feminine name used in English: variant of Sienna, with the spelling perhaps influenced by that of the Italian city, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #610 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English word, from the city of Siena, Italy

Sienna

Sienna is one of the rarer baby names taken directly from a color word, and that color word is itself named after a city rather than the reverse.

English

Sierra

Sierra is a feminine name used in English meaning "mountain range". It ranked #616 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Biblical · Biblical Greek · Biblical Latin

Silas

Silas is a New Testament companion's name, likely a short form of Silvanus, that found a second life as a George Eliot novel's title character.

English · French · Swedish

Simon

Simon is a masculine name used in English and French meaning "hearing, listening". It ranked #230 for boys in the United States in 2025.

French · English · German

Simone

Simone is a feminine name used in French and English: french feminine form of Simon, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #998 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Sincere

Sincere is a masculine name used in English: from the English word meaning genuine or heartfelt, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #631 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Not documented in the consulted reference sources

Siya

Siya is used on three continents, and no source we cite settles which one it comes from. It ranked #879 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Sky

Sky is a feminine name used in English: simply, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #949 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Skye

Skye is a feminine name used in English: from the name of the Isle of Skye off the west coast of Scotland, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #532 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Skyla

Skyla is a feminine name used in English: feminine variant of Skyler, formed using the popular name suffix la, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #986 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English (Modern)

Skylar

Skylar is a screen-driven respelling of a Dutch surname that swapped genders on television, moving from a mostly-boys name in the 1980s to a heavily girls' name today.

English

Skyler

Skyler is a feminine name used in English: variant of Schuyler, based on the pronunciation of the surname but respelled as if it was a blend of the English word sky with names such as Tyler, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #671 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Sloan

Sloan is a feminine name used in English: variant of Sloane, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #840 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Irish surname

Sloane

Sloane traces to an Irish given name by way of a surname, but Behind the Name does not gloss the meaning of that original Gaelic name.

Greek

Sofia

Sofia is not a respelling of Sophia so much as the other half of the same name: Greek Σοφία reached the Romance languages as Sofia and English, via German, as Sophia — and both are now in the American top ten.

Spanish · Portuguese

Sol

Sol is a feminine name used in Spanish and Portuguese meaning "sun". It ranked #722 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Spanish

Solana

Solana is a feminine name used in Spanish meaning "sunny spot, place exposed to the sun". It ranked #495 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Various

Soleil

Soleil is a feminine name used in Various meaning "sun". It ranked #758 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Biblical · English · Jewish

Solomon

Solomon is a masculine name used in Biblical and English: from the Hebrew name שְׁלֹמֹה, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #422 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Sonny

Sonny is a masculine name used in English: from a nickname that is commonly used to denote a young boy, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #298 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Greek

Sophia

Sophia means "wisdom", and its first saint may never have existed — the legend appears to have grown out of a misreading of the name of a Constantinople basilica.

French (form of Sophia) · Greek

Sophie

Sophie is the French spelling of a Greek abstract noun — "wisdom" — and the shape of a saint who may never have existed; English-speaking parents use it beside Sophia as if the two were different names.

Persian · Spanish · French

Soraya

Soraya is a feminine name used in Persian and Spanish: persian form of Thurayya, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #868 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Soren

Soren is a masculine name used in English: english form of Søren, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #464 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Spencer

Spencer is a unisex name used in English meaning "dispenser of provisions". It ranked #360 for boys and #1025 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Latin

Stella

Stella means "star" in Latin, but it is not an ancient name: a 16th-century English poet invented it for a sonnet sequence, and it took three more centuries to become a name real children were given.

English · German

Stephanie

Stephanie is a feminine name used in English and German: feminine form of Stephen, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #557 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Biblical

Stephen

Stephen is a masculine name used in English and Biblical meaning "crown, wreath". It ranked #383 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Sterling

Sterling is a masculine name used in English: from a Scots surname that was, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #346 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English surname

Stetson

Stetson is a place-name surname whose modern appeal likely leans on its association with the cowboy hat rather than its literal medieval meaning.

English · Dutch

Steven

Steven is a masculine name used in English and Dutch: medieval English variant of Stephen, and a Dutch variant of Stefan, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #271 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Greek · English

Stevie

Stevie is a nickname that outgrew its full names, worn as a first name in its own right by both sexes, from Stevie Wonder to Stevie Nicks.

English

Stormi

Stormi is a feminine name used in English: variant of Stormy, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #910 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · French

Sullivan

Sullivan is a masculine name used in English and French: from an Irish surname, the Anglicized form of Ó Súileabháin, itself, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #314 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Old English

Summer

Summer is a plain season word turned name, with Behind the Name dating its given-name use only as far back as the 1970s.

English

Sunday

Sunday is a feminine name used in English: from the name of the day of the week, which ultimately derives from Old English sunnandæg, which was composed of the elements sunne sun and dæg day, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #947 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Sunnie

Sunnie reads as an -ie respelling of Sunny, the English word for cheerful weather. It ranked #1094 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Sunny

Sunny is a feminine name used in English meaning "sunny, cheerful". It ranked #390 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Susan

Susan is a feminine name used in English: english variant of Susanna, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #1091 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English surname

Sutton

Sutton is a placename-turned-surname-turned-first-name, meaning simply "south town," and it works about equally well for boys and girls.

English

Sydney

Sydney is a feminine name used in English: from a surname that was a variant of the surname Sidney, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #348 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Biblical Polish

Sylas

Sylas is a masculine name used in English and Biblical Polish: variant of Silas, as well as the form found in the Polish New Testament, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #440 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English · German · Dutch

Sylvia

Sylvia is a feminine name used in English and German: variant of Silvia, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #300 for girls in the United States in 2025.

French · Czech

Sylvie

Sylvie is a feminine name used in French and Czech: french and Czech form of Silvia, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #282 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Spanish

Tadeo

Tadeo is a masculine name used in Spanish: spanish form of Thaddeus, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #427 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Hebrew

Talia

Talia has a clean Hebrew meaning, "dew from God", but Behind the Name also documents a completely unrelated Australian place-name origin for the identical spelling.

English

Tallulah

Tallulah is a feminine name used in English: this is the name of waterfalls in Georgia, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #940 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Tanner

Tanner is a masculine name used in English meaning "one who tans hides". It ranked #475 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Tara

Tara is a feminine name used in English meaning "elevated place". It ranked #847 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Tate

Tate is a masculine name used in English: from an English surname that was, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #194 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English surname

Tatum

Tatum owes its modern use to a specific child actress in the 1970s, yet it took another twenty years and a horror movie to actually catch on.

English

Taylor

Taylor is a feminine name used in English: its modern use as a feminine name may have been influenced by the British-American author Taylor Caldwell, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #403 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Taytum

Taytum is a feminine name used in English: variant of Tatum, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #732 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Teagan

Teagan is a feminine name used in English: variant of Tegan, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #341 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Spanish · Portuguese · Italian

Teresa

Teresa is a feminine name used in Spanish and Portuguese: form of Theresa used in several languages, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #911 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Dutch

Tessa

Tessa is a feminine name used in English and Dutch: contracted form of Theresa, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #311 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Greek Mythology · Greek

Thalia

Thalia is a feminine name used in Greek Mythology and Greek meaning "to blossom". It ranked #648 for girls in the United States in 2025.

German · Swedish · Danish

Thea

Thea is a feminine name used in German and Swedish: short form of Dorothea, Theodora, Theresa and other names with a similar sound, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #353 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Ancient Greek · Germanic

Theo

Exploring Theo's evolution from an ancient Greek diminutive to an independent international favorite.

English · Greek · Ancient Greek

Theodora

Theodora is a feminine name used in English and Greek: feminine form of Theodore, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #726 for girls in the United States in 2025.

Ancient Greek · Latin

Theodore

How Theodore evolved from an ancient Greek theophoric compound into an enduring presidential and international classic.

Portuguese (Brazilian) · Spanish · Hebrew

Thiago

Thiago is what is left of "Saint James" after Portuguese speakers trimmed the saint off the front — a Brazilian respelling of Tiago that has climbed into the American top 50.

Aramaic · Greek · Biblical

Thomas

Thomas means "twin" — a nickname, not a virtue — and it has been among the most-used English names for eight centuries without ever once being fashionable.

English

Tiana

Tiana is a feminine name used in English: short form of Tatiana or Christiana, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #598 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Tiffany

Tiffany is a feminine name used in English: medieval form of Theophania, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #880 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Tilly

Tilly is a feminine name used in English: diminutive of Matilda, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #885 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English · Biblical

Timothy

Timothy is a masculine name used in English and Biblical meaning "honouring God". It ranked #203 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Ancient Roman · English · German

Titus

Titus is a masculine name used in Ancient Roman and English meaning "title of honour". It ranked #358 for boys in the United States in 2025.

Biblical · German · Swedish

Tobias

Tobias is a masculine name used in Biblical and German: greek form of Tobiah, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #283 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Travis

Travis is a masculine name used in English meaning "to cross". It ranked #434 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Treasure

Treasure is a feminine name used in English: from the English word, ultimately from Greek θησαυρός, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #809 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Trinity

Trinity is a feminine name used in English: from the English word Trinity, given in honour of the Christian belief that God has one essence, but three distinct expressions of being: Father, Son and Holy S, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #428 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Tripp

Tripp is a masculine name used in English meaning "journey, stumble". It ranked #522 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English · French · Arthurian Cycle

Tristan

Tristan is a masculine name used in English and French: probably, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #309 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Troy

Troy is a masculine name used in English: originally from a surname that denoted a person, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #533 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Tru

Tru is a unisex name used in English: variant of True, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #591 for boys and #974 for girls in the United States in 2025.

English

Truett

Truett is a masculine name used in English: from the English surname Truett, which was, according to Behind the Name. It ranked #521 for boys in the United States in 2025.

English

Tucker