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Names by origin
Every name carries the rhythm of where it came from. Wander by region.
Celtic & Isles
From the foggy edges of the Atlantic, names with weather in them.
Modern English
2,967 names
Old English
264 names
English
176 names
Welsh
65 names
Irish
62 names
Scottish
46 names
Irish Gaelic
23 names
Middle English
21 names
Scottish Gaelic
20 names
Gaelic
16 names
Medieval English
11 names
Old Irish
8 names
Breton
4 names
Old Welsh
3 names
Cornish
2 names
Celtic, Welsh
1 name
Dutch/English
1 name
English, German, Czech
1 name
English, German, Dutch
1 name
English/Welsh
1 name
Finnish, Hungarian, Welsh
1 name
French, Catalan, Welsh
1 name
Gaelic/Old English
1 name
German, Scottish, Slovak, Slovene
1 name
Irish/English
1 name
Irish/Scottish
1 name
Old English, Welsh, Gaelic
1 name
Old French/Old English
1 name
Scandinavian, Breton
1 name
Scandinavian, Welsh
1 name
Scottish English
1 name
Swedish/Medieval English
1 name
Welsh, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Armenian
1 name
Welsh/Old English
1 name
Germanic & Nordic
Forest and fjord, names with old roots and hard consonants softened by time.
Germanic
108 names
Old Norse
104 names
German
46 names
Dutch
21 names
Old German
12 names
Danish
10 names
Swedish, Norwegian
5 names
German, Dutch, Scandinavian
4 names
Norwegian
4 names
Scandinavian
4 names
Swedish
4 names
Dutch, Scandinavian
3 names
Danish, Norwegian
2 names
Frisian
2 names
German, Dutch
2 names
German, Scandinavian
2 names
Italian, Germanic
2 names
Low German
2 names
Old Germanic
2 names
Scandinavian, Finnish
2 names
Dutch, Czech, Slovene
1 name
Dutch, German
1 name
Dutch, Scandinavian, Finnish
1 name
French, Dutch
1 name
French, Dutch, Norwegian
1 name
French, German, Dutch
1 name
French, Scandinavian
1 name
German, Dutch, Polish
1 name
German, Polish, Scandinavian, Catalan
1 name
German, Portuguese, Finnish
1 name
German, Russian, Macedonian
1 name
German, Scandinavian, Croatian
1 name
German, Scandinavian, Czech
1 name
German, Scandinavian, Finnish
1 name
German/French
1 name
Italian, Dutch
1 name
Low German, Danish
1 name
Medieval Low German
1 name
Modern Dutch
1 name
Norse
1 name
Old Swedish
1 name
Russian, German
1 name
Scandinavian, Dutch
1 name
Scandinavian, Dutch, German
1 name
Scandinavian, Finnish, Estonian, andHung
1 name
Scandinavian, German
1 name
Scandinavian, German, Polish, Russian
1 name
Scandinavian, German, Polish, Slovene
1 name
Slovak/Dutch
1 name
Spanish, German, Dutch
1 name
Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish
1 name
Swedish, Danish
1 name
Swedish, Finnish
1 name
Swedish, German
1 name
Swedish, Low German
1 name
Swedish, Norwegian, Lithuanian
1 name
Swiss German
1 name
Mediterranean
Sun-warmed stone, names that have been spoken for thousands of years.
Greek
290 names
Latin
290 names
italian
110 names
Spanish
80 names
Spanish, Portuguese
31 names
Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
30 names
Italian, Spanish
29 names
Spanish and Portuguese
15 names
Modern Greek
14 names
Basque
12 names
Portuguese
10 names
Spanish, Italian
9 names
Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
9 names
Spanish, Portuguese, Italian
9 names
Ancient Greek
8 names
Romanian
6 names
Late Latin
5 names
Modern Italian
5 names
Biblical Greek
3 names
Catalan
3 names
Italian, Portuguese
3 names
Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
2 names
Old Greek
2 names
Portuguese, Spanish, Italian
2 names
Basque, Galician
1 name
Brazilian Portuguese
1 name
Celtic/Roman
1 name
Finnish, Portuguese
1 name
French, Occitan, Catalan, Polish
1 name
French, Romanian, Croatian, Serbian, and
1 name
French/Italian
1 name
Greek and Latin
1 name
Greek, Arabic
1 name
Italian and Spanish
1 name
Italian, French
1 name
Italian, Romanian
1 name
Italian, Slovene, Croatian
1 name
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese
1 name
Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Galician
1 name
Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian
1 name
Latin/Brythonic
1 name
Latin/Greek
1 name
Modern Greek, Russian
1 name
Modern Portuguese
1 name
Modern Spanish
1 name
Polish, Catalan
1 name
Portuguese and Spanish
1 name
Portuguese, French
1 name
Portuguese, Italian
1 name
Roman
1 name
Romanian, Bulgarian, Macedonian
1 name
Romanian, French
1 name
Russian, Romanian, Greek
1 name
Russian, Romanian, Macedonian
1 name
Spanish and Italian
1 name
Spanish, Italian, Russian, Ukrainian
1 name
Spanish, Portuguese, Latin
1 name
Spanish/Basque
1 name
Francophone
Light on the tongue, a particular elegance carried from medieval courts.
Slavic
Wide plains and onion domes, names with weight and warmth.
Russian
24 names
Polish
10 names
Serbian
9 names
Ukrainian
9 names
Bulgarian
7 names
Russian, Ukrainian
6 names
Croatian
4 names
Russian, Bulgarian
4 names
Bulgarian, Macedonian
2 names
Croatian/Slovene
2 names
Czech
2 names
Polish, Czech, Slovak
2 names
Russian, Armenian
2 names
Serbian/Croatian
2 names
Slovene, Croatian
2 names
Czech, Ukrainian
1 name
Hungarian, Croatian
1 name
Macedonian
1 name
Macedonian, Serbian, Croatian
1 name
Old Russian
1 name
Polish, Ukrainian
1 name
Russian, Belarusian, Macedonian
1 name
Russian, Czech, Bulgarian, Slovene, andM
1 name
Serbian, Bulgarian
1 name
Serbian, Croatian, Bulgarian, Macedonian
1 name
Serbian, Macedonian
1 name
Serbian, Macedonian, Croatian, Georgian
1 name
Serbo-Croatian
1 name
Slovene and Croatian
1 name
Ukrainian, Belarusian
1 name
Ukrainian/Esperanto
1 name
Semitic & Levantine
Names carried by scripture, trade, and song across deserts.
Persian & Turkic
Poets' names, the long line of Persian and Turkic tradition.
South Asian
Sanskrit roots branching through every modern Indian language.
East Asian
Brushstroke names where each character is a held meaning.
African
Names from across the continent, each shaped by its own land and language.
Americas
Names of the New World, old and new, indigenous and arrived.
Modern & Other
Coined recently, drifted between traditions, or simply elsewhere.
unknown
56,522 names
uncertain
22,642 names
Modern American
10,217 names
Invented
3,011 names
Mandarin
41 names
Slavic
33 names
Historical language
22 names
Phonetic blend
15 names
Finnish
11 names
Egyptian
10 names
Yiddish
10 names
Armenian
9 names
Khmer
8 names
Albanian
6 names
Hungarian
6 names
Ancient Egyptian
5 names
Shona
5 names
Akkadian
4 names
South Slavic
4 names
Turkic
4 names
Celtic
3 names
Dakota
3 names
Georgian
3 names
Hmong
3 names
Mapuche
3 names
Semitic
3 names
Avestan
2 names
Indonesian
2 names
Kazakh
2 names
Kikuyu
2 names
Latvian
2 names
Lithuanian
2 names
Old Slavic
2 names
Respelling
2 names
Sindarin
2 names
Slovene
2 names
Sumerian
2 names
Tswana
2 names
Ugaritic
2 names
Algonquin
1 name
American
1 name
Ancient Mesopotamian
1 name
Anglo-Saxon
1 name
Australian Aboriginal
1 name
Baltic
1 name
Brythonic
1 name
Chewa
1 name
Comanche
1 name
Dravidian
1 name
Estonian
1 name
Estonian, Slovene
1 name
Georgian, Armenian
1 name
Gothic
1 name
Hispanic
1 name
Illyrian
1 name
Indo-Iranian
1 name
Indonesian, Malay
1 name
Iroquoian
1 name
Limburgish
1 name
Lithuanian, Latvian
1 name
Lowland Scots
1 name
Luganda
1 name
Modern Brazilian
1 name
Modern Israeli
1 name
Norman
1 name
Shawnee
1 name
Slavic/Turkic
1 name
Tagalog
1 name
Taino
1 name
Turkmen
1 name
Twi
1 name
Zapotec
1 name