Names starting with N
1,157 Names found
The Hebrew variant of Naphtali.
Signifies "lord of snakes" from Sanskrit नाग (nāga) "snake" (also "elephant") combined with the Hindu god Indra, used here as "lord". In Hindu mytholo...
The modern Persian form of Anahita. This is also the Persian name for the planet Venus.
Signifies "snorting" in Hebrew. In the Old Testament, Nahor is both the grandfather and a brother of Abraham.
Signifies "comfort" in Hebrew, from נָחַם (naḥam) "to comfort, to console". Nahum is one of the twelve minor prophets of the Old Testament. He authore...
From the Basque name of the Spanish city of Nájera, of Arabic origin. A reported apparition of the Virgin Mary occurred in a nearby cave in the 12th...
Signifies "mischief maker" in Apache. A 19th-century Chiricahua Apache chief, the son of Cochise, bore this name.
Of uncertain meaning, possibly from Greek Ναϊάς (Naias), a type of water nymph in Greek mythology (plural Ναϊάδες). It might alternatively be linked...
The Azerbaijani variant of Naila.
The female form of Nail. The wife of Uthman, the third caliph, bore this name. She tried unsuccessfully to prevent a mob from murdering her husband...
Signifies "tranquil, happy, at ease" in Arabic, from نعم (naʿima) "to live in comfort, to be delighted".
A form of Naima found in North Africa and other French-influenced parts of the continent.
Of uncertain meaning. It might come from Nair al Zaurak, an Arabic name for the star Ankaa in the constellation Phoenix, meaning "light of the boat"....
From Aymara nayra meaning "eye" or "early".
From the name of the capital city of Kenya, from Maasai enkare nyrobi "cold water".
From Avestan 𐬥𐬀𐬌𐬭𐬌𐬌𐬀 (nairiia) "male" and 𐬯𐬀𐬢𐬵𐬀 (sangha) "word, utterance, proclamation". Nairyosangha was a Zoroastrian Yazata (holy being) who...
From Greenlandic najaa meaning "his younger sister" [1]. It was popularized in Denmark by writer B. S. Ingemann in his novel Kunnuk and Naja, or the...
The Macedonian variant of Nayden.
Signifies "intimate friend" in Arabic, from نجا (najā) "to save, to entrust, to confide in". This can also be another transliteration of ناجي (see Naa...