Names starting with W
415 Names found
Derived from a surname that originated from various English place names, themselves from Old English winn "meadow, pasture" and feld "field".
Means "friend of peace" from the Old English elements wine "friend" and friþ "peace". This was the birth name of the 8th-century missionary Saint Boni...
Old English form of Winfred.
Variant of Winfrið.
From Latin Winifreda, possibly from a Welsh name Gwenfrewi (maybe influenced by the Old English masculine name Winfred). Saint Winifred was a...
Created by the German author Karl May for an Apache chief, first appearing in his 1875 novel Old Firehand and subsequently in several other works.
Diminutive of Winifred. Winnie-the-Pooh, a stuffed bear in children's books by A. A. Milne, was named after a real bear named Winnipeg who lived at...
Means "firstborn daughter" in Dakota or Lakota. According to folklore, this was the name of a daughter of a Dakota chief (possibly Wapasha III) who...
From a surname derived from an Old English place name signifying "hill belonging to Wine". A famous bearer was American painter Winslow Homer...
From an English surname, which could derive either from the Old English given name Wynnstan or from place names meaning "town belonging to Wine". A fa...
Derived from a surname that was originally taken from town names signifying either "Wine's village" or "Wigmund's village" in Old English.
Derived from a surname that originated from a place name signifying "enclosure belonging to Wine" in Old English.
Means "pure, chaste, abstinent" in Thai, derived from Sanskrit विरति (virati) meaning "ceasing, abstinence".
Means "badge, medal" in Arabic, derived from the root وسم (wasama) meaning "to mark, to distinguish".
From the name of the flowering plant, which was named for the American anatomist Caspar Wistar.
Diminutive of Witold or Wit.
Variant of Wihtburg.
Diminutive of Władysław.
Feminine form of Władysław.
Old Polish form of Vladislav.
Frisian diminutive of Germanic names beginning with the element walt meaning "power, authority".
Originally a Frisian short form of Waldebert (and other names starting with the Old German element walt meaning "power, authority" and a second...
Derived from the Slavic elements vojĭ "warrior, soldier" and utěxa "solace, comfort, joy". Saint Wojciech (also known by the Czech form of his name Vo...
Diminutive of Wojciech.
A short form of Wolfgang, Wolfram and other names containing the Old German element wolf signifying "wolf" (Proto-Germanic *wulfaz). It can also...
Compound of Wolf and Dietrich. Wolfdietrich is the title hero of a 13th-century Middle High German epic poem. By some traditions he is the...
A variant of Wolf, influenced by the spelling of the surname (which is also derived from the animal).
Derived from the Old German elements wolf meaning "wolf" and gang meaning "path, way". Saint Wolfgang was a 10th-century bishop of Regensburg. Two...
Derived from the Old German element wolf meaning "wolf" combined with hart meaning "hard, firm, brave, hardy".
Derived from the Old German element wolf meaning "wolf" combined with hram meaning "raven". Saint Wolfram (or Wulfram) was a 7th-century archbishop...
Limburgish form of William.