Baby name origins

Where a name comes from, and what it meant before it was a name.

Only names with an etymology we can stand behind appear here. Plenty of names, modern coinages, invented spellings and blends of two names among them, do not have one, and we would rather leave them out than make something up. A further 41 traditions are in the catalogue with only a handful of names each, so they do not have a page yet.

Or browse names by what they mean, every name A to Z.