LACEY (f, m) French; from a place name.

LACHLAN (m) "from Norway" (Gaelic). In Scotland, Norway was known as the "land of the lochs", or Lochlann.

LADISLAS (m) English and French form of VLADISLAV

LAGINA (f) Form of GINA created by adding the popular name prefix la.

LAILA (f) Form of LEILA

LAKE (m) "lake" (English). From the name of the inland body of water.

LAKSHMI (f) "sign" or "mark" (Sanskrit). The Hindu goddess of good luck and prosperity, and the wife of Vishnu. Her symbol is the lotus flower.

LALO (m) "to sing a lullaby" (Latin)

LAMBERT (m) "land bright" from Teutonic lant "land" and beraht "bright"

LANA (f) Short form of ALANA

LANCE (m) "land" (Teutonic). This may also be used as a short form of LANCELOT

LANCELOT (m) Meaning unknown (Celtic). In 'The Tales of King Arthur' Lancelot was the bravest of the knights of the Round Table. He became the lover of Arthur's wife Guinevere.

LANE (m) "[living near a] lane" (Old English). From a surname.

LARA (f) Short form of LARISSA

LAREYNA (f) "the queen" (Spanish) or a form of LORRAINE

LARISSA (f) "laughing" from Latin hilaris, or feminine form of LARRY

LARRY (m) short form of LAURENCE

LARS (m) Scandinavian short form of LAURENCE

LASZLO (m) Hungarian form of VLADISLAV. Saint Laszlo was an 11th-century king of Hungary, looked upon as the embodiment of Christian virtue and bravery.

LATASHA (f) An variant of LATISHA

LATISHA (f) Form of LETITIA

LATONYA (f) An alteration of TONYA which is from ANTONIA

LATOYA (f) Form of LATONYA

LAURA (f) "laurel" (Latin) from the name of the laurel tree. Laura Secord was a Canadian heroine during the War of 1812.

LAURE (f) French form of LAURA

LAUREEN (f) Pet form of LAURA

LAUREL (f) "laurel" (English) from the name of the tree, or a pet form of LAURA

LAUREN (f) Pet form of LAURA or a feminine form of LAURENCE

LAURENCE (m) "of Laurentum" or "crowned with laurel" which both derive from Latin laurus "laurel". Laurentum was a town in Italy. Saint Laurence was a 3rd-century deacon and martyr from Rome. He was roasted alive on a gridiron because, when ordered to hand over the church's treasures, he presented the sick and poor.

LAURENT (m) French form of LAURENCE

LAURENTINE (f) French feminine form of LAURENCE

LAURETTA (f) Pet form of LAURA

LAURETTE (f) French pet form of LAURA

LAURIE (f) Form of LAURA

LAURINDA (f) Pet form of LAURA

LAURO (m) Form of LAURENCE

LAVERNE (f) "of Laverna" (Latin) or from a place name. Laverna was the Roman goddess of thievery.

LAVINA (f) Latin; From a Roman place name. In Roman legend Lavina was the daughter of King Latinus, the wife of Aeneas, and the ancestor of the Roman people.

LAVONE (f) Meaning unknown. Possibly a made up name.

LAWRENCE (m) Form of LAURENCE.

LAWSON (m) From a surname which means "son of LAURENCE".

LAZARE (m) French form of LAZARUS

LAZARUS (m) "God is my help" from the Hebrew name Eleazar.

LEA (f) Form of LEE

LEAH (f) "cow" or "weary" (Hebrew) or "mistress" or "ruler" (Assyrian).

LEANDER (m) "lion man" (Greek). In Greek mythology Leander was the lover of Hero. Every night he swan across a strait to meet her, but he eventually drowned in a storm. When Hero saw his dead body she drowned herself.

LEANDRA (f) Feminine form of LEANDER

LEANNA (f) Form of LEE-ANNA

LEANNE (f) Form of LEE-ANNE or LIANNE

LECH (m) Meaning unknown (Slavic).

LEE (m, f) Either "meadow" (from an Old English surname) or short form of LEO, LEON or LESLIE.

LEELA (f) Variant of LEILA

LEIF (m) Short form of names containing Old Norse leifr "heir". Leif Eriksson was a Norse explorer who apparently reached North America in the early 11th century. He was the son of Eric the Red.

LEIGH (f) Form of LEE

LEILA (f) "night" (Arabic). Used by Lord Byron in 'The Giaour' and 'Don Juan'.

LEILANI (f) "heavenly flowers" (Hawaiian)

LELAND (m) "fallow land" (Old English). From a surname.

LELIA (f) Meaning unknown (Latin). From the Roman family name Laelius.

LEMOINE (m) "the monk" (French). From a surname.

LEMPI (f) "love" (Finnish)

LEMUEL (m) "devoted to God" or "belonging to God" (Hebrew).

LENA (f) Short form of HELEN

LENORE (f) Form of ELEONOR

LEO (m) "lion" (Latin). This was the name of 13 popes and several Byzantine emperors.

LEOCADIA (f) "bright" or "clear" from Greek leukos.

LEON (m) "lion" (Greek).

LEONA (f) Feminine form of LEON

LEONARD (m) "lion brave" (Teutonic).

LEONARDO (m) Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of LEONARD.

LEONHARD (m) German form of LEONARD.

LEONIE (f) French feminine form of LEON

LEONOR (f) Form of ELEONOR

LEOPOLD (m) "people bold" (Teutonic).

LEROY (m) "the king" (French)

LESIA (f) Pet form of ALEXANDRA

LESLEY (m, f) Form of LESLIE

LESLIE (m, f) "meadow land" (Old English) from a place name or a surname.

LESTER (m) "of Leicester" (Old English) from a surname. Leicester is the name of a city in England.

LESZEK (m) Pet form of LECH

LETITIA (f) "gladness" (Latin)

LEVI (m) "attached" (Hebrew).

LEWIS (m) "fame warrior" from Teutonic hlud "fame" and wig "warrior".

LEXA (f) Short form of ALEXANDRA or ALEXIS

LI (m) "strength" (Chinese)

LIADAN (f) Possibly "grey lady" (Irish)

LIAM (m) Irish short form of WILLIAM

LIANE (f) Short form of ELIANE

LIANNE (f) Form of JULIANNE

LIBANIA (f) "love" (Russian)

LIBERATORE (m) "liberator" (Latin)

LIDA (f) Form of LYDIA

LIESA (f) German pet form of ELIZABETH

LIESEL (f) German short form of ELIZABETH

LIESELOTTE (f) Contraction of LIESEL and CHARLOTTE

LILA (f) "lilac" (Persian)

LILIA (f) Form of LILIAN

LILIAN (f) "lily" from Latin lilium

LILITH (f) "of the night" (Assyrian).

LILO (f) Short form of LIESELOTTE

LILY (f) "lily" (English), from the name of the flower.

LINCOLN (m) From the name of the city in England, meaning "lake colony" from Welsh lynn "lake" or "pool" and Latin colonia "colony". The city name became a surname, which then became a first name. Abraham Lincoln was president of the United States during the American Civil War.

LINDA (f) "beautiful" (Spanish) or short form of BELINDA or MELINDA. It can also mean "snake" or "serpent" from Teutonic linde.

LINDEN (f) English; from the name of the tree. Or perhaps an elaboration of LINDA

LINDSAY (f,m) "Lincoln's wetland" (Old English). From a Scottish surname which came from a place name.

LINDSEY (f,m) Form of LINDSAY

LINDY (f) Pet form of LINDA

LINETTE (f) Pet form of LYNN

LING (f) "delicate" (Chinese)

LINH (f) "spring" (Vietnamese)

LINNETTE (f) Pet form of LYNN

LINUS (m) "flax" (Greek). In Greek legend this was a son of Apollo who was a music teacher to Hercules. This was the name of the second pope.

LINWOOD (m) "stream forest" (Old English). From a place name or a surname.

LIONEL (m) French pet form of LEON

LIOUBA (f) Variant of LYUBA

LISA (f) Short form of ELIZABETH.

LISANNE (f) Possibly a form of LISA - ANNE

LISETTE (f) French pet form of ELIZABETH

LISSA (f) Short form of MELISSA

LIZ (f) Short form of ELIZABETH

LIZA (f) Short form of ELIZABETH

LIZOLET (f) Form of LIESELOTTE

LLEWELYN (m) Form of LLYWELYN

LLOYD (m) "grey" (Celtic). The composer Andrew Lloyd Weber is a famous bearer of this name.

LLYWELYN (m) "bright _" (Welsh) from the Celtic name Lugobelinos. The second element is unknown. This was the name of a Welsh prince who fought against England.

LOGAN (m) From a surname which was from a Scottish place name.

LOIS (f) "good" or "desirable" (Greek).

LOLA (f) Pet form of DOLORES

LOLITA (f) Pet form of LOLA

LONDON (m) From the name of the capital city of the United Kingdom. The surname has belonged to the American author Jack London.

LONNIE (m) Short form of ALONSO

LORA (f) "weeper" (Latin) or a German form of LAURA or short form of LORRAINE

LOREEN (f) Elaboration of LORA

LOREN (f,m) Form of LAUREN

LORENA (f) Latinized form of LOREN

LORENZ (m) German form of LAURENCE

LORENZA (f) Italian feminine form of LAURENCE

LORENZO (m) Italian form of LAURENCE.

LORETTA (f) Form of LAURETTA

LORI (f) Pet form of LAURA

LORINDA (f) Form of LAURINDA

LORNA (f) "of Lorne" (Celtic) or from the title 'Marquis of Lorne'. Lorne is a Scottish place name.

LORNE (m) Masculine form of LORNA

LORRAINE (f) "kingdom of Lothair" (Teutonic). Lothair was a Frankish king. His realm was in the part of France that is now called Lorraine, or in German Lothringen. This name may also serve as a form of LAURA-ANN

LORRIE (f) Form of LAURA

LOTHAIR (m) "famous army" from Teutonic hlud "fame" and heri "army".

LOTHAIRE (m) French form of LOTHAIR

LOTHAR (m) Form of LOTHAIR

LOTTE (f) Short form of LIESELOTTE or CHARLOTTE

LOTUS (f) From Greek lotos, which means "lotus". From the name of the flower, or the fruit which comes from the lotus tree.

LOUIS (m) French form of LEWIS

LOUISE (f) French feminine form of LOUIS

LOURDES (f) From the name of a French town. It became a popular center of pilgrimage after a young girl from the town had visions of the Virgin Mary in a nearby grotto.

LOVE (f) "love" (English)

LOWELL (m) "wolf cub" (French). From a surname.

LUANNA (f) Form of LUCY-ANNA

LUBOMIR (m) "love great" or "love peace" (Slavic)

LUC (m) French form of LUKE

LUCA (m) Italian form of LUKE.

LUCAS (m) Earlier form of LUKE

LUCE (f) French feminine form of LUKE

LUCIA (f) Feminine form of LUCIUS.

LUCIANO (m) Italian, Spanish or Portuguese form of LUCIEN

LUCIEN (m) From the Roman family name Lucianus, which derived from the Roman name LUCIUS

LUCIENNE (f) French feminine form of LUCIEN

LUCILLA (f) Latin pet form of LUCIA

LUCILLE (f) French pet form of LUCIA

LUCINA (f) "grove" from Latin lucus, but later associated with lux "light". This was the name of a Roman goddess of childbirth.

LUCINDA (f) An elaboration of LUCIA created by Cervantes for his novel 'Don Quixote'.

LUCIO (m) Italian form of LUCIUS

LUCIUS (m) From a Roman name which derived from Latin lux, which meant "light". Two Etruscan kings of early Rome and a later Roman emperor have had this name.

LUCJAN (m) Polish form of LUCIUS

LUCRETIA (f) Meaning unknown (Latin), from the Roman family name Lucretius.

LUCY (f) Feminine form of LUCIUS

LUDMILA (f) "favour of the people" (Slavic). A character in Aleksandr Pushkin's poem 'Ruslan and Ludmila'. This was also the name of a 10th-century saint from Bohemia, the grandmother of Saint Wenceslas.

LUDOVIC (m) Medieval Scottish form of LEWIS

LUDOVICA (f) Feminine form of LUDOVIC

LUDWIG (m) German form of LEWIS. Ludwig van Beethoven, the German composer, is a well known bearer of this name. Also, Ludwig Wittgenstein was an Austrian philosopher who contributed to logic and the philosophy of language.

LUDWIK (m) Polish form of LEWIS

LUIGI (m) Italian form of LOUIS

LUIS (m) Spanish form of LOUIS

LUISE (f) German form of LOUISE

LUKA (m) Croatian form of LUKE

LUKE (m) "of Lucania" from Greek Loukas.

LUNA (f) "the moon" (Latin). Luna is the Roman goddess of the moon, frequently depicted driving a white chariot through the sky.

LUPE (f) Short form of GUADALUPE

LUPITA (f) Pet form of GUADALUPE

LUTHER (m) "people army" from Teutonic liut "people" and heri "army".

LUTZ (m) German pet form of LUDWIG

LUZIA (f) "light" (Spanish)

LYDA (f) Form of LYDIA

LYDIA (f) "of Lydia" (Greek). Lydia was a region in Asia. In the New Testament this is the name of a woman converted by Saint Paul.

LYDIE (f) French form of LYDIA

LYLE (m) "from the island" from French de l'isle. This was originally a surname.

LYNETTE (f) Form of LYNN

LYNN (f) Short form of LYNNA or LINDA

LYNNA (f) "a cascade" (Teutonic)

LYNWOOD (m) Form of LINWOOD

LYUBA (f) "love" (Russian). A character in Tolstoy's 'War and Peace'.