Baby names by meaning

Start with the idea and find the name. 15,390 names sorted into 85 meanings, from light and strength to the sea, a warrior and a gift. Each page splits them into girls' and boys' names, commonest first, with the meaning and the official birth figures beside every one.

A name is listed under a meaning because that word, or one close to it, appears in the meaning we hold for it. It is a plain word match, not a judgement, and it only runs over names with a meaning we can stand behind. Plenty of names, modern coinages and invented spellings especially, have no traceable meaning, and they are left out rather than made up.

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