CADE (m) "round" (Old English). From a surname that was originally a nickname.
CADI (f) Short form of Catrin.
CAESAR (m) Perhaps "hairy" (Latin). From a Roman family name. Julius Caesar and his adopted son Gaius Julius Caesar were both rulers of the Roman empire. Caesar was used as a title by the emperors that came after them.
CAITLIN (f) Irish form of Katherine.
CAITRIA (f) Irish form of Katherine.
CAL (m) Short form of Calvin.
CALEB (m) "dog" (Hebrew). One of the twelve spies sent by Moses to Israel. Of the Israelites who left Egypt with Moses, he and Joshua were the only ones who lived to see the promised land.
CALEIGH (f) Variant of Kaleigh.
CALIX (m) Either "wine cup" (Latin) or a short form of Callisto.
CALLIE (f) Short form of Callista.
CALLISTA (f) Feminine form of Callista.
CALLISTO (m) "most beautiful" from Greek kallistos. A nymph in Greek and Roman mythology who was loved by Zeus. She was changed into a she-bear by Hera, and subsequently became the Great Bear constellation. A moon of Jupiter bears this name.
CALUM (m) Scottish form of Columba.
CALVIN (m) "bald" (Latin). Originally a surname. Jean Calvin was a theologian from France who was one of the leaders of the Protestant Reformation.
CAMERON (m) "crooked nose" (Gaelic). From a Scottish surname. The Camerons were one of the great Highland clans.
CAMILLA (f) Meaning unknown (Etruscan) or "attendant at a religious service" (Latin). It is from the Roman family name Camillus, although the name may be of non-Roman origin. This was the name of a legendary warrior maiden of the Volscians, as told by Virgil in the 'Aeneid'.
CAMILLE (f,m) French feminine/masculine form of Camilla
CAMILLO (m) Masculine form of Camilla
CAMPBELL (m) "crooked mouth" (Gaelic). From a Scottish surname. The Campbells were one of the great Highland clans.
CAMRON (m) Form of Cameron.
CANDACE (f) Sometimes said to mean "incandescent" or "white" from Latin canditia, but it is more likely from an Ethiopic source. In the New Testament this is given as the title of the queens of Ethiopia.
CANDY (f) Short form of Candance.
CANUTE (m) Anglicized form of Knut.
CAOILAINN (f) From Gaelic caol "slender" and fionn "fair". The name of several Irish saints.
CAPRINA (f) From the name of the Italian island of Capri.
CARA (f) "beloved" (Latin) or "friend" (Gaelic)
CAREY (m) From the Irish surname Ó Ciardha, which means "descendent of Ciardha". Ciardha means "dark" in Gaelic.
CARINA (f) Pet form of Cara. A constellation in the southern sky.
CARISSA (f) Variant of Charissa.
CARL (m) German form of Charles. Carl Gauss was a German mathematician who made contributions to number theory and algebra, as well as physics and astronomy. Carl Jung was a Swiss psychologist who founded analytical psychology.
CARLA (f) Feminine form of Charles.CARLEY
CARLO (m) Italian form of Charles.
CARLOS (m) Spanish and Portuguese form of Charles.
CARLTON (m) Form of Charlton.
CARLY (f) Feminine form of Charles.
CARMEL (f) "garden" (Hebrew). From the title of Mary, 'Our Lady of Carmel'. Carmel is a mountain in Israel mentioned in the Old Testament, the site of several Christian monasteries.
CARMELLA (f) Latinized form of Carmel.
CARMEN (f) Spanish form of Carmel influenced by Latin carmen "song". The main character in George Bizet's opera 'Carmen'.
CAROL (f) Feminine form of Charles. It can also be given in reference to the English vocabulary word meaning "song" or "hymn".
CAROLA (f) Feminine form of Charles.
CAROLINA (f) Latin feminine form of Charles. This is the name of two American states: North and South Carolina. They were named for Charles I, king of England.
CAROLINE (f) French feminine form of Charles.
CAROLYN (f) Form of Caroline.
CARRIE (f) Short form of Caroline.
CARROLL (m) Anglicized form of Cearball. Lewis Carroll, pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, was the author of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'.
CARSTEN (f) Form of Karsten.
CARTER (m) "one who uses a cart" (Middle English). From a surname.
CARYS (f) "love" from Welsh caru
CASEY (m, f) From the Irish surname Ó Cathasaigh, which means "descendent of Cathasaigh". Cathasaigh means "vigilant" in Gaelic. Casey also serves as a form of Cass.
CASIMIR (m) "destroy great" or "destroy peace" (Slavic). Four kings of Poland have borne this name.
CASPER (m) Dutch form of Jasper. This is the name of a friendly ghost in comic books.
CASS (f) Short form of Cassandra.
CASSANDRA (f) "inflaming men with love" (Greek). She was a prophetic Trojan princess in Greek mythology, the daughter of Priam and Hecuba. When she spurned the advances of Apollo, he cursed her so no one would believe her prophecies.
CASSARAH (f) "what will be, will be" from Latin que sera, sera. A recently created name.
CASSIA (f) Either "cassia" (English) from the name of the spice tree , or a short form of Cassandra.
CASSIDY (m,f) "descendent of Caiside" (Gaelic). From the Irish surname Ó Caiside.
CATARINA (f) Form of Catherine.CATHY/CATRINA
CATHERINE (f) Variant of Katherine.CATHLEEN
CATRIN (f) Welsh form of Katherine.
CEARBHALL (m) "brave in fighting" (Gaelic)
CECIL (m) "blind" (Latin) from a Roman family name Caecilius. This was the name of a 3rd-century saint, a companion of Saint Cyprian. This name can also derive from the Welsh name Seissylt, which derives from Latin sextus "sixth".
CECILIA (f) Feminine form of Cecil. According to legend, Saint Cecilia was a 3rd-century martyr who was sentenced to die because she refused to worship the Roman gods. After attempts to suffocate her failed, she had her head chopped off. She is the patron saint of music and musicians.
CECILY (f) Form of Cecília.
CEDRIC (m) Invented by Sir Walter Scott for a character in his novel 'Ivanhoe'. Apparently he based it on the actual name Cerdic, of unknown meaning, the name of the legendary founder of the kingdom of Wessex. Cedric is also sometimes said to mean "bounty spectacle" from the Welsh name Cedrych, or "lord of wars" (Old English), but these theories are not likely true.
CELANDINE (f) From the name of the flower, which derives from Greek chelidon "a swallow".
CELESTE (f) "heavenly" (Latin)
CELIA (f) "blind" (Latin). From a Roman family name.
CELINE (f) Form of Cecilia or short form of Marceline or "heavenly" (Latin)
CERRIDWYN (f) "beautiful poetry" (Welsh) from cerdd "poetry" and gwyn "fair". The name of a Celtic goddess of poetry.
CERYS (f) Variant of Carys.
CESAIRE (m) French form of Caesar.
CESARE (m) Italian form of Caesar.
CHAD (m) "battle" or "warrior" (Celtic). A country in Africa bears this name, though it originates from a different source.
CHANCE (f,m) "chance" (English)
CHANDA (f) Meaning unknown. Possibly an invented name influenced by Chandra.
CHANDLER (m) "candle seller" (French). From a surname.
CHANDRA (f,m) "moon" (Sanskrit). This is a name used in Vedic texts to refer to the moon personified as a deity. This is also the name of a demon in Hindu legends.
CHANG (m) "free" (Chinese)
CHANNING (m) "a canal" (French). From a surname or a place name.
CHANTAL (f) Either "a song" (French) or "stony place" from a French surname, which came from a place name.
CHANTEL (f) Form of Chantal.
CHARISSA (f) "grace" or "kindness" from Greek charis
CHARITY (f) "charity" (English)
CHARLA (f) Feminine form of Charles.
CHARLENE (f) Feminine form of Charles.
CHARLES (m) "free man" (Teutonic), cognate with the Old English word ceorl "man". Charles the Great, also called Charlemagne, was a king of the Franks who came to rule over most of Europe. Several Holy Roman Emperors bore this name, as well as kings of England, France, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, and Hungary. Charles Darwin was the naturalist who revolutionized biology with his theory of evolution. Charles Dickens was the novelist who wrote such works as 'Great Expectations' and 'A Tale of Two Cities'.
CHARLOTTE (f) French feminine form of Charles. Charlotte Bronte, eldest of the three Bronte sisters, was the author of 'Jane Eyre' and 'Villette'.
CHARLTON (m) The meaning of this name may be viewed either as "settlement of free men" or "settlement of Charles" (Old English).
CHARMAINE (f) Meaning unknown. Perhaps from the Roman family name Carmineus, perhaps an elaborate feminine form of Charles.
CHARNA (f) "dark" (Slavic)
CHARNETTE (f) Pet form of Charna.
CHASE (m) "chase" (Middle English). From a surname that originated as a nickname for a huntsman.
CHASTITY (f) "chastity" (English)
CHAUNCEY (m) Meaning unknown (French). From a surname.
CHAYA (f) "alive" or "animal" from Hebrew hayya
CHE (m) Pet form of José. The Argentinian revolutionary Che Guevara was active in many regions of South America.
CHELSEA (f) "landing place [on the river] for chalk or limestone" (Old English). From a place name in London.
CHERIE (f) Either "darling" (Anglicized French chérie "darling") or a form of Charity.
CHERILYN (f) Form of Charlene.
CHERISH (f) From the English word meaning "to treasure".
CHERRY (f) Form of Cherie or "cherry" (English) from the name of the fruit.CHERYL
CHESLEY (m) Meaning unknown (Old English). Probably from a place name or a surname.
CHESTER (m) "of Chester" (Old English) from a surname. Chester was an Roman settlement in Britain. The name of the settlement comes from Latin castrum "a fortified place".
CHET (m) Short form of Chester.
CHEVONNE (f) Form of Siobhan.
CHEYENNE (m,f) American Indian; "unintelligible speakers" from the Dakota word shahiyena. This is the name of an American Indian people who lived on the Great Plains.
CHIARA (f) Italian form of Clara.
CHLOE (f) "green shoot" (Greek). The Greek name Khloe was an epithet of the goddess Demeter. The name is also mentioned by Paul in one of his epistles in the New Testament.
CHLORIS (f) "green" from Greek khloros. Khloris, in Greek mythology, was a minor goddess of vegetation.
CHONSIE (f) Feminine form of Chauncey.
CHRIS (m,f) Short form of Christoper, Christian or Christine.
CHRISTA (f) Short form of Christina.
CHRISTELLE (f) French pet form of Christine.
CHRISTER (m) Swedish or Danish form of Christian.
CHRISTIAN (m) "Christian" (Latin). This name was borne by Hans Christian Andersen, a Danish author of such fairy tales as 'The Ugly Duckling' and 'The Emperor's New Clothes'.
CHRISTIANA (f) Feminine form of Christian. CHRISTIANNE
CHRISTINA (f) "Christian" (Latin). This was the name of a Swedish queen of the 17th century who was interested in the arts and philosophy. She gave up her crown to become a Roman Catholic.
CHRISTINE (f) French and English form of Christina
CHRISTOPHE (m) French form of Christopher.
CHRISTOPHER (m) "bearing Christ" (Greek). Christopher was the legendary saint who carried young Jesus across a river. He is the patron saint of travellers. Christopher Columbus was the explorer who reached the West Indies in the 15th century.
CHRISTY (f) Pet form of Christine.
CHRYSANTA (f) "golden flower" (Greek). From chrysanthemum, the flowering plant.
CHRYSSA (f) Form of Chrysanta.
CHUCK (m) Short form of Charles. Jet pilot Chuck Yeager was the first man to travel faster than the speed of sound. The musician Chuck Berry was one of the pioneers of rock music.
CHUN (f) "spring" (Chinese)
CHYLAN (m) Elaborated form of Kyle.
CIARA (f) Feminine form of Ciaran. Saint Ciara was an Irish nun who established a monastery at Kilkeary in the 7th century. Visit a web page devoted to the name Ciara.
CIARAN (m) "black" from Irish ciar with a diminutive suffix attached. This was the name of two Irish saints: Saint Ciaran the Elder, the patron of the Kingdom of Munster, and Saint Ciaran of Clonmacnoise, the founder of a monastery in the 6th century.
CICELY (f) Feminine form of Cecil, or perhaps from the name of the herb.
CIERRA (f) Feminine form of Ciaran
CINDRA (f) Combination of Cindy and Sandra
CINDY (f) Short form of Cynthia
CINZIA (f) Italian form of Cynthia
CLAIRE (f) French form of Clara
CLANCY (m) "red warrior" (Gaelic). From the Irish surname Mac Fhlannchaidh.
CLARA (f) "clear" or "bright" from Latin clarus
CLARE (f) English form of Clara. Saint Clare, a follower of Saint Francis of Assisi, left her wealthy family to found the order of nuns known as the Poor Clares.
CLARENCE (m) "of Clare" (Latin). Clare is a place in Ireland.
CLARICE (f) A medieval elaborated form of Clara
CLARISSA (f) Latinized form of Clarice.
CLARISSE (f) French form of Clarice.
CLARK (m) "cleric" or "scolar" (Old English). From a surname. William Clark was an explorer of the west of North America. Clark Gable was an American actor.
CLAUDE (m) French form of Claudius. A famous bearer of this name was Claude Monet, the French impressionist painter.
CLAUDETTE (f) French feminine form of Claudius.
CLAUDIA (f) Feminine form of Claudius/CLAUDINE
CLAUDIO (m) Italian, Spanish or Portuguese form of Claudius
CLAUDIUS (m) "lame" from Latin claudus. A Roman family name. Claudius was a Roman emperor in the 1st century. He was poisoned by his wife Agrippina in order to bring her son Nero (Claudius's stepson) to power.
CLAY (m) "clay" (Old English) or form of Clayton. From a surname.
CLAYTON (m) "clay settlement" (Old English). From a place name or a surname.
CLELIA (f) Meaning unknown (Latin), from the name Cloelia. In Roman legend Cloelia was a maiden who was given as a hostage to an Etruscan invader, but escaped by swimming across the Tiber.
CLEMENS (m) German form of Clement
CLEMENT (m) "meek" or "gentle" (Latin). This was the name of 14 popes, including Saint Clement I, the third pope, one of the Apostolic Fathers. Another saint named Clement was Saint Clement of Alexandria, a theologian and church father who attempted to reconcile Christian and Platonic philosophies.
CLEMENTE (m) Italian or Spanish form of Clement
CLEMENTINE (f) Feminine form of Clement.
CLEO (f) Short form of Cleópatra.
CLEOPATRA (f) "glory of her father" from Greek kleos "glory" and pater "father". This was the name of queens of Egypt from the Ptolemaic royal family, including Cleopatra VII, the mistress of both Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. After being defeated by Augustus she committed suicide by allowing herself to be bitten by an asp. Shakespeare's tragedy 'Antony and Cleopatra' is based on her.
CLETES (m) Short form of Anacleto.CLETO/CLETUS
CLIFF (m) Form of Clive or short form of Clifford or Clifton.
CLIFFORD (m) "ford by a cliff" (Old English). From a place name or a surname.
CLIFTON (m) "settlement by a cliff" (Old English). From a surname.
CLINT (m) Short form of Clinton. Clint Eastwood is an American actor famous for his western movies.
CLINTON (m) "settlement on the summit" (Old English). From a surname.
CLIVE (m) "[dweller by the] cliff" (Teutonic). From a surname.
CLOTHILDE (f) "famous battle" from Teutonic hlud "famous" and hild "battle". This was the wife of the Frankish king Clovis, who converted him to Christianity.
CLOVIA (f) "clover" (Teutonic)
CLOVIS (m) "clover" (Teutonic). Clovis was a Frankish king who united France under his rule in the 6th century.
CLYDE (m) Meaning unknown (Celtic). From the name of the River Clyde in Scotland.
CODY (m) "helpful" (Gaelic)
COLE (m) "black" (Old English). From a surname.
COLETTE (f) Short form of Nicolette.
COLIN (m) Short form of Nicholas or form of Columba
COLLEEN (f) "girl" from Irish cailin.
COLM (m) Irish form of Columba
COLTON (m) "coal town" (Old English). From a surname, which was from a place name.
COLUMBA (m) "dove" (Latin). Saint Columba was a 6th-century Irish monk who established a convent on the island of Iona off the coast of Scotland. He is credited with the conversion of Scotland to Christianity.
CONAN (m) "wolf" or "hound" (Gaelic). Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was the author who wrote the Sherlock Holmes mystery stories.
CONCEPCION (f) "conception" (Spanish). A city in Chile bears this name.
CONLETH (m) "chief lord" (Gaelic), or perhaps "chaste fire" from Gaelic connla "chaste" and aodh "fire".
CONNIE (f) Short form of Constance.
CONNOR (m) "dog lover" or "wolf lover" from the Gaelic name Conchobhar. The name of an early Irish king.
CONRAD (m) "able council" (Teutonic). This was a famous 10th-century bishop from Switzerland. This was also the name of several kings of Germany.
CONSTANCE (f) "constancy" (Latin)
CONSTANTINE (m) "constant" or "steadfast" from the name Constantinus which is from Latin constans. Constantine the Great was the first Roman emperor to adopt Christianity. He moved the capital of the empire from Rome to Byzantium, which he renamed Constantinople (modern Istanbul).
CORA (f) Female form of Corey or short form of Corinna.
CORAL (f) "coral" (English) from the word for the underwater skeletal deposits which can form reefs.
CORBIN (m) Possibly "raven" (Latin)
CORDELIA (f) Variant of Cordula. This is the name of one of the daughters of King Lear in Shakespeare's play.
CORDELL (m) "maker of cord" or "seller of cord" (Teutonic). From a surname.
CORDULA (f) "heart" from Latin cor. Saint Cordula was one of the companions of Saint Ursula.
COREEN (f) Form of Corinna.
COREY (m) Possibly "ravine" (Gaelic)
CORIN (m) Possibly "spear" from Latin Quirinus. The name of a Roman god.
CORINNA (f) "maiden" (Greek) from the ancient Greek name Korinna. This was the name of a Greek lyric poet of the 5th century BC. The Roman poet Ovid wrote love poems about a woman named Corinna.
CORINNE (f) Form of Corinna.
CORNELIA (f) Feminine form of Cornelius.
CORNELIUS (m) Meaning unknown, from a Roman family name. It may contain the Latin element cornu "horn", or the Greek element helios "sun".
CORRADO (m) Italian form of Conrad. This was a 14th-century saint from Piacenza, Italy.
CORY (m) Variant of Corey.
CORYNN (f) Form of Corinna.
COSIMA (f) Feminine form of Cosmo.
COSMO (m) "order" (Greek) from the Greek name Kosmas, from Greek kosmos. Saint Cosmo was martyred with his twin brother Damian in the 4th century. They are the patron saints of physicians.
COURTNEY (f,m) "short nose" (French) or from a French place name meaning "domain of Curtis".
CRAIG (m) "[dweller by the] crag" from the Gaelic word creag meaning "rocks" or "crag". Originally from a surname.
CRISPIN (m) "curly hair" from Latin crispus.
CRISTEN (f) Form oChristina.
CRISTIANO (m) Italian form of Christian
CRISTOBAL (m) Spanish form of Christopher.
CRYSTAL (f) "crystal" from the English word for the clear, colourless glass, sometimes cut into the shape of a gemstone.
CURT (m) Form of Kurt or short form of Curtis.
CURTIS (m) "courteous" (French)
CUTHBERT (m) "famous bright" (Teutonic). Saint Cuthbert was a Celtic hermit who became the bishop of Lindisfarne, an island off the coast of England. He was known as performer of healing miracles.
CYMONE (f) Feminine form of Simon.
CYNTHIA (f) "of Cynthus" (Greek). Cynthia was an epithet of the Greek moon goddess Artemis, given because Kynthos was the mountain on Delos on which she and her twin brother Apollo were born. See also Delia..
CYRIL (m) "lord" or "ruler" (Greek). Saint Cyril of Jerusalem was a 4th-century bishop and a Doctor of the Church. Saint Cyril of Alexandria was a 5th-century theologian. Another Saint Cyril was a 9th-century linguist and a Greek missionary to the Slavs. The Cyrillic alphabet, which is still used today, was created by him and his brother in order to translate the Bible into Slavic.
CYRILLE (f) Feminine form of Cyril.
CYRUS (m) Meaning unknown (Persian), perhaps "son". Sometimes associated with Greek kyrios "lord". This was the name of several kings of Persia, including Cyrus the Great, who conquered Babylon. He is famous in the Old Testament for freeing the captive Jews and allowing them to return to Israel.
CZCIBOR (m) "praise fighting" (Slavic)
CZESLAW (m) "praise glory" (Slavic)