Random Name Generator With Meaning

How this list was compiled: A list by a written rule, built on 3 October 2026 from two public sources read that day: the English given-name entries of English Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_given_names, CC BY-SA 4.0) and the name articles of English Wikipedia that carry a meaning in their fact box (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Given_names, CC BY-SA 4.0). 1,308 one-word names have both an article with a stated meaning and a dictionary entry. A name is listed when (1) the dictionary's etymology glosses the word the name comes from, (2) one of the meanings in the article's fact box says the same thing, word for word once small words are set aside (God, Yahweh and the Lord count as one word), (3) both sources name the same language family of origin, and (4) the article and the entry do not disagree about who the name is given to. 102 names pass. Left out by the rule: names the dictionary builds from two parts (Albert, Edmund), because one gloss cannot stand for both; names whose article calls the meaning unknown or uncertain; and every name where the two sources differ or only one gives a meaning, which is most of them. Left out by our own call: Portia and Connor, whose gloss holds a word we keep off a page children use, and Rosalind, where the dictionary glosses only half of a two-part name. The meaning on a card is the dictionary's gloss; the origin is the family both sources name (Germanic covers Old English, Old Norse and German; Celtic covers Irish, Welsh and Scottish Gaelic; the Other group holds French, Persian, Slavic); girls, boys or both is the article's statement. A meaning is the old word behind a name, not a statement about a person who has it, and many names have other explanations that these two sources do not share. Many meanings name God, and are printed as the dictionary gives them. Single names only, never a real person. Licence: Drawn from English Wiktionary and English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The test of agreement, the selection and the grouping are our own work.