Names by meaning
Each list comes from the meanings recorded in the names’ etymologies, so “light” includes Albert (“noble and bright”) as well as Lucy.
| Meaning | For example | Names |
|---|---|---|
| Names that mean beauty | Bella, Bonnie, Rebecca, Kenneth, Linda | 29 |
| Names that mean bird | August, Jonah, Malcolm, Wren, Jonas | 17 |
| Names that mean black | Blake, Maurice, Douglas, Melanie, Keira | 17 |
| Names that mean brave | Richard, Wyatt, Ferdinand, Fernando, Gerard | 13 |
| Names that mean deer | Oscar, Ray, Tabitha, Reed, Darby | 8 |
| Names that mean earth | George, Adam, Brodie, Lachlan, Rhea | 23 |
| Names that mean famous | Muhammad, Louis, Albert, Eleanor, Jude | 40 |
| Names that mean flower | Anthony, Florence, Zara, Zaynab, Fleur | 9 |
| Names that mean forest | Harley, Holly, Laura, Ollie, Ashley | 44 |
| Names that mean friend | Oscar, Ruth, Cara, Alvin, Khalil | 20 |
| Names that mean gift | Theodore, Matthew, Jonathan, Nathaniel, Nathanael | 11 |
| Names that mean god | Samuel, Joshua, Oscar, Theodore, Matthew | 64 |
| Names that mean gold | Orla, Aurelia, Zlatko, Cressida, Zarina | 9 |
| Names that mean grace | John, Jean, Anna, Hannah, Mila | 36 |
| Names that mean holy | Ariana, Archibald, Olga, Benedict, Oleg | 17 |
| Names that mean joy | Abigail, Felix, Beatrice, Tate, Alaia | 23 |
| Names that mean king | Richard, Frederick, Eric, Walter, Rory | 35 |
| Names that mean life | Dean, Vivian, Chaim, Chaya, Enid | 10 |
| Names that mean light | Albert, Phoebe, Lucy, Eleanor, Blake | 53 |
| Names that mean lion | Leo, Aaron, Leon, Leonard, Hamza | 15 |
| Names that mean love | David, Mila, Amy, Philip, Amanda | 36 |
| Names that mean mountain | Peter, Aaron, Harley, Stanley, Margaret | 39 |
| Names that mean night | Laila, Sariyah, Nisha, Yamini, Sharvari | 8 |
| Names that mean noble | Alice, Albert, Eric, Alan, Ada | 33 |
| Names that mean peace | Frederick, Fernando, Vladimir, Wilfred, Irene | 29 |
| Names that mean protector | Alexis, Simon, Raymond, Alejandro, Edmund | 15 |
| Names that mean queen | Freya, Sarah, Orla, Amira, Kyra | 14 |
| Names that mean rich | Edward, Felix, Otto, Edith, Edgar | 10 |
| Names that mean river | Lena, Warren, India, Pearl, Irving | 8 |
| Names that mean sea | Dylan, Kai, Margaret, Morgan, Marina | 16 |
| Names that mean sky | Selena, Celine, Celeste, Celia, Juno | 9 |
| Names that mean strong | Ethan, Gabriel, Audrey, Ronald, Vladimir | 28 |
| Names that mean sword | Oscar, Gary, Gerard, Edgar, Gerald | 14 |
| Names that mean victory | Nicholas, Victoria, Victor, Simon, Jay | 16 |
| Names that mean warrior | Louis, Walter, Kai, Wyatt, Miles | 27 |
| Names that mean water | Maxwell, Douglas, Warren, India, Kendall | 18 |
| Names that mean white | Blake, Barry, Fiona, Whitney, Blanche | 15 |
| Names that mean wolf | Wolfgang, Adolf, Wolf, Randolph, Lowell | 8 |