DAFYDD (m) Welsh form of David.. Dafydd ap Gwilym was a 14th-century Welsh poet.
DAGMAR (f) "day maid" (Old Norse)
DAGNY (f) "day new" from Old Norse dag "day" and ny "new".
DAHLIA (f) "dahlia" (English), from the name of the flower, which was named for the Swedish botanist Anders Dahl.
DAISY (f) "daisy" (English), from the name of the white flower.
DAKARAI (f) "happiness" (African)
DAKOTA (m) "friend" (American Indian). This is the name of an American Indian people of the northern Mississippi valley.
DALE (m) "[dweller by the] dale" (Old English). From a surname.
DALLAS (m) Meaning unknown (Gaelic). From a surname which was from a Scottish place name. A city in Texas bears this name.
DALTON (m) "valley town" (Old English) from a surname. John Dalton was an English chemist and physicist who theorized about the existence of atoms.
DAMARIS (f) "calf" (Greek). In the New Testament this was the name of a woman who was converted by Saint Paul.
DAMIAN (m) "to tame" from the Greek name Damianos. He was a saint martyred with his twin brother Cosmo early in the 4th century. They are the patron saints of physicians. Saint Peter Damian was an Italian cardinal and theologian.
DAMIANA (f) Italian feminine form of Damian
DAMIANO (m) Italian form of Damian. DAMIEN
DAMON (m) "to tame" from Greek daman. According to Greek legend, Damon and Pythias were friends who lived on Syracuse in the 4th century BC. When Pythias was sentenced to death, Damon took his friend's place in prison while he went to put his affairs in order. Pythias returned just before Damon was to be executed, and the king was so impressed with their loyalty to one another that he pardoned Pythias.
DAN (m) Short form of Daniel or "he judged" (Hebrew). Dan in the Old Testament was one of the twelve sons of Jacob and the founder of one of the twelve tribes of Israel.
DANA (f,m) Either a feminine form of Dan or Daniel or from a surname.
DANE (m) From a surname that originally denoted someone who was Danish.
DANIA (f) Feminine form of Daniel.
DANICA (f) Variant of Danika.
DANIEL (m) "God is my judge" (Hebrew). Daniel was a Hebrew prophet whose story is told in the Book of Daniel in the Old Testament. He lived during the Jewish captivity in Babylon, where he served in the court of the king, rising to prominence by interpreting the king's dreams. The book also presents Daniel's four visions of the end of the world. Also, this was the name of English author Daniel Dafoe, Swiss mathematician Daniel Bernoulli, and American frontiersman Daniel Boone.
DANIELLE (f) French feminine form of Daniel.
DANIKA (f) "morning star" (Slavic)
DANITA (f) Feminine pet form of Daniel or possibly a feminine form of Donato
DANTE (m) "enduring" from the Italian name Durante, which was related to the Latin word durantem. Dante Alighieri was the medieval Italian poet who wrote 'The Divine Comedy'.
DANYA (f) Feminine form of Daniel
DAPHNE (f) "laurel" (Greek). In Greek mythology she was a nymph turned into a laurel tree by her father in order that she might escape the pursuit of Apollo.
DARA (f,m) Either "pearl of wisdom" (Hebrew; feminine) or "oak tree" (Irish; masculine)
DARBY (m) "deer town" (Old Norse). From a surname, which was from a place name.
DARCY (m) "from Arcy" from French D'Arcy. Originally a Norman surname denoting one who came from Arcy in France. This is the surname of a character in Jane Austin's novel 'Pride and Prejudice'.
DARDEN (m) "from Ardennes" (French). Ardennes is a forest in France. Originally a surname.
DAREO (m) Form of Darius.
DARIA (f) Feminine form of Darius. Saint Daria was a 3rd-century martyr from Greece.
DARIEN (m) Form of Darius.
DARIUS (m) "possess good" (Persian). This was the Greek form of the Persian name Darayavahush, composed of the elements daraya "to possess" and vahu "good". Several ancient kings of Persia bore this name, including Darius the Great who invaded Greece but was defeated in the Battle of Marathon.
DARLA (f) Form of Darleen.
DARLEEN (f) "darling" (Middle English)
DARLENE (f) Form of Darleen.
DARRELL (m) Form of Darryl
DARREN (m) From an Irish surname or possibly a form of Darien
DARRYL (m) "of Airelle" from French D'Airelle. This was originally a Norman surname denoting one who came from Airelle in France.
DARWIN (m) "dear friend" (Old English). Charles Darwin was an English naturalist who first proposed the theory of natural selection which subsequently revolutionized biology. A city in Australia bears this name.
DAVE (m) Short form of David.
DAVENA (f) Feminine form of David.
DAVID (m) "friend" or "beloved" (Hebrew). David was the second and greatest of the kings of Israel, ruling in the 10th century BC. Several stories about him are told in the Old Testament, including his defeat of Goliath, a giant Philistine. Jesus was supposedly descended from him. Other famous bearers of this name include the 5th-century patron saint of Wales, two kings of Scotland, empiricist philosopher David Hume, and explorer David Livingstone. This is also the name of the hero of Charles Dickens's semiautobiographical novel 'David Copperfield'.
DAVIDA (f) Feminine form of David.DAVINA
DAVIS (m) From a surname based on the name David. Jefferson Davis was the only president of the Confederate States of America.
DAWN (f) "dawn" (English). Related to the name of Aurora, the Roman goddess of morning.
DAWSON (m) "son of David" (Old English). From a surname.
DEAN (m) From a surname which means either "valley" (Old English) or "dean" (Latin). The actor James Dean was a famous bearer of this name.
DEANNA (f) Form of Diana or feminine form of Dean.DEANNE
DEBBIE (f) Short form of Deborah.
DEBORAH (f) "bee" (Hebrew). Deborah was the nurse of Rebecca in the Old Testament. Also in the Old Testament, this was the name of a heroine and prophetess who led the Israelites in defeating the Canaanites.
DEBRA (f) Short form of Deborah.
DECLAN (m) Meaning unknown (Irish). Saint Declan was a 5th-century missionary to Ireland.
DEE (f) Short form of names beginning with D, or from the Dee River in England.
DEEANN (f) Form of Dee-Ann.
DEEMER (m) "judge" (Old English). From a surname.
DEIDRE (f) Form of Deirdre.
DEIRBHILE (f) "daughter of a poet" from Gaelic der "daughter" and file "poet". This was a 6th-century Irish saint.
DEIRDRE (f) Meaning unknown, perhaps "woman" (Celtic). She was a tragic character in Celtic legend who died of a broken heart after Conchobhar, the king of Ulster, killed her lover Naoise and forced her to be his bride.
DEITRA (f) Form of Deirdre.
DELBERT (m) Meaning unknown. The second element is from Teutonic beraht "bright".
DELFINA (f) Italian and Spanish form of Delphine.
DELIA (f) "of Delos" (Greek). An epithet of Artemis, Greek goddess of the moon and hunting, given because she and her twin brother Apollo were born on the island of Delos. See also Cynthia..
DELILAH (f) Meaning unknown (Hebrew). In the Old Testament she was the lover of Samson who betrayed him to the Philistines by cutting his hair, which was the source of his power.
DELMAR (m) "of the sea" from Spanish del mar.
DELPHIA (f) Greek; from Philadelphia, "brotherly love", the name of a city in the New Testament and a city in the United States.
DELPHINE (f) "of Delphi" (Greek). Delphi was a city in ancient Greece. The word is possibly related to the Greek word for "dolphin".
DELPHINIA (f) Form of Delphine. Delphinia was a name of the Greek goddess Artemis. She had a shrine at Delphi in Greece.
DEMETER (f) "earth mother" from Greek de "earth" and meter "mother". In Greek mythology Demeter was the goddess of agriculture, the daughter of Cronus, the sister of Zeus, and the mother of Persephone.
DEMETRIA (f) Feminine form of Demetrius.
DEMETRIUS (m) "of Demeter" (Greek). Demeter was a Greek goddess. Kings of Macedonia and the Seleucid kingdom have had this name. This was also the name of several early saints including a Saint Demetrius who was martyred in the 4th century.
DENA (f) "dale" or "valley" (American Indian)
DENIS (m) "of Dionysus" from the Greek name Dionyios. Dionysus was the Greek god of wine. Saint Denis was a 3rd-century missionary to Gaul who was beheaded in Paris. He is the patron saint of France. Also, Denis Diderot was a French philosopher.
DENISE (f) Feminine form of Denis. Visit a web page devoted to the name Denise.
DENIZ (m) Turkish form of Denis.
DENNIS (m) Form of Denis.DENNY
DENZEL (m) "of Denzell" (Celtic) from a surname. Denzell was a place name in Cornwall.
DEON (m) Form of Dion.
DEREK (m) Low German short form of Theodoric
DERMOT (m) Anglicized form of Diarmaid.
DERRICK (m) English form of Derek.
DERVLA (f) Anglicized form of Deirbhile.
DÉSIRÉE (f) "desired" (French)
DESMOND (m) "from south Munster" (Gaelic) from a surname. Munster is a province in Ireland that was once an ancient Irish kingdom.
DESTA (f) Short form of Idesta
DESTINY (f) "destiny" from the English word.
DETLEF (m) "people heritage" (Teutonic)
DEVA (f) "goddess" from Sanskrit deva
DEVEN (m) "poet" from Gaelic damh.
DEVON (m) Variant of Deven or possibly from the name of the county in England.
DEWEY (m) Welsh form of David.
DEWI (m) Welsh form of David. Saint Dewi was a Welsh bishop of the 5th century who is the patron saint of Wales.
DEXTER (m) either "one who dyes" (from an Old English surname), or "right-handed" or "skilled" (Latin).
DIANA (f) "devine" or perhaps "shining" (Latin). Diana was the Roman equivalent of the Greek moon goddess Artemis. She was also the goddess of nature and fertility. Diana Spencer, the Princess of Wales, was a famous bearer of this name.
DIANE (f) French form of Diana
DIARMAID (m) Perhaps either "freeman" or "without envy" (Irish). This was the name of a hero in Irish legend. Also, the name of several ancient Irish kings.
DICK (m) Short form of Richard
DIDO (f) Meaning unknown (possibly Greek). Dido was the queen of Carthage in Virgil's 'Aeneid' who burns herself to death when Aenias leaves her.
DIEDERICH (m) German form of Theodoric
DIEDERICK (m) Dutch form of Theodoric
DIEGO (m) Possibly a Spanish form of Jacob or possibly "teaching" (Greek) or possibly a Latinized form of an Iberian name.
DIERK (m) Pet form of Diederick
DIETER (m) "people warrior" (Teutonic)
DIETHELM (m) "people helmet" (Teutonic)
DIETMAR (m) "people famous" (Teutonic)
DIETRICH (m) German form of Theodoric
DIGBY (m) "ditch town" (Old Norse). From the name of a town in England.
DILBERT (m) Meaning unknown. The second element is probably Teutonic beraht "bright". This is the title character in a comic strip by Scott Adams.
DIMITRI (m) Russian form of Demetrius
DINA (f) Variant of Dinah
DINAH (f) "judged" or "vindicated" (Hebrew). She was the daughter of Jacob and Leah in the Old Testament.
DINH (m) "summit" (Vietnamese)
DINIS (m) Portuguese form of Denis
DINO (m) Short form of names ending in dino.
DIODORE (m) Form of Theodore
DION (m) "of Dionysus" (Greek). Dionysus was the Greek god of wine.
DIONYSUS (m) Meaning unknown (Greek). The first element is from Greek Dio "Zeus". In Greek myth Dionysus was the god of wine, revelry, fertility, and dance. He was the son of Zeus.
DIRK (m) Pet form of Diederick
DIXIE (f) From the term that refers to the southern United States.
DJAMILA (f) Variant of Jamila
DMITRI (m) Russian form of Demetrius
DMITRY (m) Russian form of Demetrius. Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev was the Russian chemist who devised the periodic table.
DMYPHNAH (f) "suitable one" (Gaelic)
DOBROGOST (m) "kind guest" (Slavic)
DOBROMIL (m) "kind grace" (Slavic)
DOIREANN (f) Possibly "sullen" or "daughter of Fionn" (Irish)
DOLLY (f) Pet form of Dorothy
DOLORES (f) "sorrows" (Spanish). From the title of Mary, Maria de los Dolores, meaning "Mary of Sorrows".
DOMENICA (f) Italian feminine form of Dominic
DOMENICO (m) Italian form of Dominic. Domenico Veneziano was a Renaissance painter who lived in Florence.
DOMINGA (f) Spanish feminine form of Dominic
DOMINGO (m) Spanish form of Dominic
DOMINIC (m) "of the Lord" from Latin Dominus "the Lord". This name was traditionally given to a child born on Sunday. Saint Dominic was the founder of the Dominican order of monks in the 13th century.
DOMINIQUE (f,m) French feminine/masculine form of Dominic
DONALD (m) "world rule" from the Gaelic name Domhnall, which is composed of the Celtic elements dubno "world" and val "rule".
DONARD (m) The first element is either Celtic dubno "world" or Gaelic donn "brown". The second element is unknown.
DONATA (f) Feminine form of Donato
DONATELLA (f) Pet form of Donata
DONATELLO (m) Pet form of Donato. The Renaissance sculptor Donato di Niccolo di Bette Bardi was better known as Donatello.
DONATIEN (m) French form of Donato
DONATIENNE (f) French feminine form of Donato
DONATO (m) "given" (Latin). Several early saints had this name. The name was also borne by two Renaissance masters: the sculptor Donato di Niccolo di Bette Bardi (also known as Donatello), and the architect Donato Bramante.
DONNA (f) Either "lady" (Italian) or feminine form of Donald
DONOVAN (m) "little brown dark one" from the Gaelic name Donndubhan, which is composed of the elements donn "brown", dubh "dark" and and a diminutive suffix. The modern first name comes from a surname, which itself was originally a first name.
DORA (f) Short form of Dorothy, Doris, Theodora
DORCAS (f) "gazelle" (Greek). In the New Testament this is the Greek name of Tabitha.
DOREAN (f) Form of Doireann
DOREEN (f) Possibly a made up name but perhaps a form of Doireann or an Irish form of Dorothy. The name was (first?) used by novelist Edna Lyall in her novel 'Doreen'.
DORES (f) Form of Doris or Portuguese form of Dolores
DORETTA (f) Form of Dorothea
DORIAN (m) The name was first used by Oscar Wilde in his novel 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'. He may have intended for it to be a masculine form of Doris or a form of Darius.
DORIANE (f) French feminine form of Dorian
DORIS (f) "Dorian woman" (Greek). The Dorians were an ancient Greek tribe who conquered much of Greece. They claimed descent from Hercules. Doris was also the name of a minor Greek goddess of the sea.
DOROTHEA (f) "gift of God" (Greek). This is the name Theodora with the elements reversed.
DOROTHY (f) Form of Dorothea.. This is the name of the central character in the fantasy novel 'The Wizard of Oz' by Lyman Frank Baum.
DOUG (m) Short form of Douglas. Visit a web page devoted to the name Doug.
DOUGLAS (m) "dark blue river" or "blood river" from Gaelic dubn "dark blue" and glas "water, river". Douglas was originally a river name, the site of a particularly bloody battle, which then became a Scottish surname. The surname belonged to a powerful line of Scottish earls.
DOYLE (m) From the Gaelic surname Ó Dubhghaill, which means "descendent of Dubhghall". Dubhghall means "dark stranger" (Gaelic). Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was the author of the Sherlock Holmes mystery stories.
DRAGAN (m) Short form of Dragomir
DRAGANA (f) Feminine form of Dragan
DRAGOMIR (m) "precious great" or "precious peace" from Slavic dorogo "precious" combined with either meri "great" or mir "peace".
DREW (m) Either a short form of Andrew or "skillful" (Teutonic)
DRISCOLL (m) From the Irish surname Ó Eidirsceoil, which means "descendent of Eirdirsceol". Eirdirsceol may mean "messenger" in Gaelic.
DRISKOLL (m) Variant of Driscoll
DUANE (m) Form of Dwayne
DUDLEY (m) "Dudda's clearing" (Old English) from a surname which was originally a place name.
DUFF (m) "dark blue" (Gaelic)
DUKE (m) "duke" (English), from the noble title.
DULCIE (f) "sweet" (Latin)
DUNCAN (m) "brown warrior" or "dark chief" (Celtic). This was the name of two kings of Scotland, including the one who was featured in Shakespeare's play 'Macbeth'.
DURWARD (m) "door guard" (Old English). Originally a surname.
DUSTIN (m) "Thor's stone" from Old Norse Dorsteinn. Thor was the Norse god of strength and thunder.
DWAYNE (m) "dark" or "black" from the Gaelic name Dubhan, which contains the root dubh, meaning "dark" or "black".
DWIGHT (m) From a surname which derives from Denis or Dion.
DYLAN (m) "of the sea" (Welsh). This was the god of the sea in Welsh mythology. The Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and the musician Bob Dylan are famous bearers of this name.