Names starting with W
114 Names found
Means "loyalty, faithfulness" in Arabic, a derivative of وفى (wafā) meaning "to fulfill, to live up to a promise".
From Indonesian wahyu meaning "revelation", derived from Arabic وحي (waḥy).
From Kikuyu irimũ meaning "ogre, giant". In the Kikuyu origin legend Wairimu is of one of the nine daughters of Mumbi.
From Japanese 和 (wa) meaning "harmony, peace" and 奏 (kana) meaning "play music, complete", as well as other combinations of kanji that are pronounced...
Means "power of the fortress" from Old German walt meaning "power, authority" and burg meaning "fortress" (or perhaps from Old English cognates,...
Old German form of Waltraud.
From the Old German elements walt "power, authority" and drud "strength". This name was borne by a 7th-century Frankish saint who founded a convent...
Means "zebra" in Kikuyu. This is one of Mumbi's nine daughters in the Kikuyu origin legend.
Possibly from a Germanic name meaning "a Wend", referring to the Slavic people who inhabited eastern Germany. In Polish legends this was the name of...
From Kikuyu ngarĩ meaning "leopard". In the Kikuyu origin legend this is the name of one of the nine daughters of Mumbi.
Means "fragrant" in Malay and Indonesian.
From Kikuyu ngũi meaning "song leader". This is one of Mumbi's nine daughters in the Kikuyu origin legend.
Meaning unknown. This is one of Mumbi's nine daughters in the Kikuyu origin legend.
Possibly from Kikuyu njĩra meaning "way, path". In the Kikuyu origin legend this is the name of one of the nine daughters of Mumbi.
Means "morning star, Venus" in Cree.
Biblical Hebrew form of Vashti.
Meaning uncertain. It may be a short form of a longer name such as Wāðsige, composed of the elements wāð "hunt" and sige "victory".
From a suffix meaning "woman" in Indonesian, ultimately from Sanskrit.
Signifies "development, prosperity, growth" in Thai, ultimately from Sanskrit वर्धन (vardhana).
From the rare English surname Waverley, derived from the name of a place in Surrey, itself possibly from Old English wæfre "flickering, wavering" and ...
From the name of the day of the week, which was derived from Old English wodnesdæg meaning "Woden's day". On the Addams Family television series...
Norwegian variant of Wenke. A famous bearer is the Norwegian singer Wenche Myhre (1947-), known as Wencke in some countries so as to avoid...
In the case of the character from J. M. Barrie's play Peter Pan (1904), it was created from the nickname fwendy "friend", given to the author by a...
Low German diminutive of Germanic names containing the element wini meaning "friend".
Variant of Winona. This spelling of the name was used by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow for the mother of Hiawatha in his 1855 epic...
From Chinese 文 (wén) meaning "literature, culture, writing" and 婷 (tíng) meaning "pretty, graceful". Other combinations of characters can form this...
From an English surname originally derived from a place name signifying "white island" in Old English. Its popular use as a feminine name was...
Indonesian form of Vidya.