Names starting with V

Czech feminine form of Václav.

Turkish feminine form of Wahid.

From Tahitian vai "water" and here "loved, dear".

From Estonian vaikus meaning "silence, calm". This name was coined by Andres Saal for a character in his story Vambola (1889).

From Tahitian vai "water" and miti "sea, salt".

Probably from Latvian vairot meaning "to add, to increase".

Derived from the name of the Hindu god Vishnu, meaning "belonging to Vishnu". This is the name of the shakti (power) of Vishnu, identified with the...

From Tahitian vai "water" and tiare "flower".

From Lithuanian vaivorykštė meaning "rainbow".

Derived from Lithuanian vakaras meaning "evening".

Variant of Valerie.

Variant of Valerie.

From Valbona (or Valbonë), the name of a mountain valley and river in northern Albania.

Scandinavian form of Walburga.

Feminine form of Valdis.

Derived from Albanian valë "wave" and det "sea, ocean".

Feminine elaboration of Valdir.

Derived from Old Norse valr meaning "the dead, the slain" and dís meaning "goddess".

Derived from the English word signifying "wide river valley".

Derived from the name of cities in Spain and Venezuela, both from the Latin valentia meaning "strength, vigour".

Slovak feminine form of Valentinus (see Valentine 1).

Latvian feminine form of Valentinus (see Valentine 1).

Feminine form of Valentinus (see Valentine 1). A famous bearer is the Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova (1937-), who in 1963 became the first...

French feminine form of Valentinus (see Valentine 1).

Czech form of Valentina.

Ukrainian form of Valentina.

Portuguese, Hungarian and Slovak form of Valeria.

Catalan form of Valeria.

Feminine form of Valerius. This was the name of a 2nd-century Roman saint and martyr.

Feminine form of Valerianus (see Valerian).

French feminine form of Valerianus (see Valerian).

Diminutive of Valeria.

French and Czech form of Valeria.

English and German form of Valeria, as well as a Czech variant of Valérie.

Alternate transcription of Russian Валерия or Ukrainian Валерія (see Valeriya).

Latvian form of Valeria.

Form of Valeria in several languages.

Russian and Ukrainian feminine form of Valerius, as well as an alternate transcription of Belarusian Валерыя (see Valeryia).

Belarusian feminine form of Valerius.

Diminutive of Valeria.

Belarusian form of Valentina.

Diminutive of Valērija or Valentīna.

Means "chooser of the slain", derived from Old Norse valr "the slain" and kyrja "chooser". In Norse myth the Valkyries were maidens who led heroes...

Means "creeping plant" in Tamil. The Tamil Hindu goddess Valli is the wife of Murugan.

Anglicized form of Welsh fel Mai meaning "like May". It was invented by the Welsh author Allen Raine for her popular romance novel By Berwen Banks (18...

Feminine form of Valmir 1.

Means "valuable" in Esperanto.

Variant of Valerie.

Finnish form of Walburga.

Portuguese form of Valkyrie.

Diminutive of Valentina or Valentin.

From Sino-Vietnamese 雲 (vân) meaning "cloud".

Short form of Ivana or Jovana.

Means "goddess of the Vanir" in Old Norse. This was an epithet of the Norse goddess Freya, given because she was a member of the Vanir (as opposed to...

Means "sage woman" in Cheyenne [1].

Means "twinflower" in Finnish.

Form of Wanda in several languages.

Form of Vanessa in several languages.

Invented by author Jonathan Swift for his 1726 poem Cadenus and Vanessa [1]. He arrived at it by rearranging the initial syllables of the first name...

Hungarian form of Vanessa.