Names starting with U

Means "lotus" in Thai, derived from Sanskrit उत्पल (utpala).

Derived from Basque uda meaning "summer".

Derived from Lithuanian ugnis meaning "fire".

Means "eagle of God" in Igbo, from ùgó meaning "eagle, honour" and Chi 2, referring to God.

Variant of Iara.

Means "heavenly beauty" or "royal beauty" from Hawaiian uʻi "youth, beauty" and lani "heaven, sky, royal, majesty".

Means "fullness, plenty" in Igbo.

Means "hare" in Greenlandic [1].

Diminutive of Urszula (Polish) or Uršula (Slovene).

Possibly from Latin ululare "to wail" or lumen "light". It is borne by the lost love of the narrator in Edgar Allen Poe's poem Ulalume (1847).

Alternate transcription of Russian Ульяна or Ukrainian Уляна (see Ulyana).

Means "the Pleiades" in Turkish.

Means "the Pleiades" in Azerbaijani.

Means "ideal" in Turkish.

Scandinavian diminutive of Ulrika or Hulda 1, or a German diminutive of Ursula.

Feminine form of Ülo.

Feminine form of Ulric.

Finnish feminine form of Ulrich.

Swedish feminine form of Ulrich. This was the name of two queens of Sweden.

German feminine form of Ulrich.

Norwegian and Danish feminine form of Ulrich.

Feminine form of Ulvi.

Azerbaijani feminine form of Ulvi.

Diminutive of Ulyana.

Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian form of Juliana.

Feminine form of Ulysses.

Means "flax" in Sanskrit. This is another name of the Hindu goddess Parvati. In Hindu texts it is said to derive from the Sanskrit exclamation उ मा (u...

From a Turkic word meaning "womb" or "placenta". This was the name of a Turkic and Mongolian goddess associated with childbirth.

Means "little mother" in Arabic, from a diminutive of أمّ (ʾumm) "mother". This was the name of an aunt of the Prophet Muhammad.

From Japanese 梅 (ume) meaning "Japanese apricot, plum" (refers specifically to the species Prunus mume). In Japan the ume blossom is regarded as a...

Feminine form of Umed.

From Japanese 梅 (ume) meaning "apricot, plum" (referring to the species Prunus mume) and 子 (ko) meaning "child". Other kanji combinations are...

Feminine form of Umid.

Means "mother" in Arabic. This is often used in a kunya, a type of Arabic nickname (see the masculine counterpart Abu).

Combination of Umm and Kulthum. This was the name of a daughter of the Prophet Muhammad who married Uthman.

Turkish and Azerbaijani form of Umm Kulthum.

Probably derived from Old Irish úan meaning "lamb". This was a common name in medieval Ireland.

Scottish Gaelic form of Úna.

Anglicized form of Irish Úna or Scottish Ùna. It is also associated with Latin una, feminine form of unus meaning "one". The name features in Edmund...

Derived from Latin unda meaning "wave". The word undine was created by the 16th-century Swiss author Paracelsus, who used it for female water spirits.

Variant of Eunice.

From the English word unique, ultimately derived from Latin unicus.

From the English word unity, which is ultimately derived from Latin unitas.

Alternate transcription of Korean Hangul 은주 (see Eun-ju).

Norwegian form of Unnr.

Possibly a modern coinage based on the Old Norse elements unnr "wave" or unna "to love" combined with nýr "new" [1].

Derived from Old Norse unnr "wave" or unna "to love".

Icelandic form of Unnr.

Means "worship, devotion" in Sanskrit.

Means "love" in Swahili.

Latinized form of Ourania.

Feminine form of Urban.

From Old Norse Urðr meaning "fate". In Norse mythology Urd was one of the three Norns, or goddesses of destiny. She was responsible for the past.

Old Norse form of Urd.

Derived from Sanskrit ऊर्मि (ūrmi) meaning "wave, billow". In the Hindu epic the Ramayana she is the wife of Lakshmana and the younger sister of Sita.

Means "pigeon, dove" in Quechua.

Short form of Uršula.

Feminine form of Ursus. This is the name of two constellations in the northern sky: Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.

German diminutive of Ursula.

Variant of Ursula.