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Names That Mean Light

Names meaning light, bright, shining or radiant. Worth reading closely: light in a name is often a metaphor for fame or for clarity rather than for brightness, and the two senses sit on one root in several languages.

Every name here has a researched page whose stated meaning carries this sense.

Rankings for

93 names, most popular first in United States

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Aurora Aurora is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "dawn."
Girl Latin #15 in US
Lucy Lucy is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "light," from lux.
Girl Latin #25 in US
Lainey Lainey is a girl's name that developed as a pet form of Elaine, itself an Old French version of Helen.
Girl French #30 in US
Elena Elena is a girl's name of Greek origin, the Italian, Spanish, and Russian form of Helen.
Girl Greek #42 in US
Clara Clara is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "bright" or "clear," from clarus.
Girl Latin #63 in US
Claire Claire is a girl's name of French origin meaning "clear" or "bright," from the Latin clarus.
Girl French #68 in US
Lucia Lucia is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "light," the feminine of Lucius from lux.
Girl Latin #83 in US
Robert Robert is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "bright fame," from hrod, fame, and beraht, bright.
Boy Germanic #92 in US
Phoebe Phoebe is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "bright" or "radiant."
Girl Greek #157 in US
Finn Finn is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "fair" or "white."
Boy Irish #206 in US
Zara Zara is a girl's name with more than one origin. It is read as "radiance" or "blossom" from the Arabic zahrah, and as a form of Sarah, meaning "princess," from Hebrew — and both readings are in active use.
Girl Arabic #212 in US
Kiara Kiara is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "bright" or "clear."
Girl Latin #229 in US
Lucille Lucille is a girl's name from the Latin for light, given to children born at daybreak.
Girl French #237 in US
Diana Diana is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "divine" or "heavenly," the Roman goddess of the hunt and the moon.
Girl Latin #244 in US
Elaina Elaina is a girl's name of Greek origin, a variant of Helen.
Girl Greek #267 in US
Luciana Luciana is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "light".
Girl Latin #273 in US
Lena Lena is a girl's name used as a short form of Helena, Magdalena and Elena, so it usually carries the sense "light" or "torch."
Girl Greek #279 in US
Poppy Poppy is a girl's name of Latin origin taken from the flower, whose name comes from the Latin papaver.
Girl English #292 in US
Luciano Luciano is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "light".
Boy Latin #305 in US
Aylin Aylin is a girl's name of Turkish origin meaning "moon halo".
Girl Turkish #345 in US
Sunny Sunny is a unisex name taken from the English word, from the Old English sunne.
Unisex English #389 in US
Uriel Uriel is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is my light".
Boy Hebrew #445 in US
Helen Helen is a girl's name from Greek whose meaning is not settled, though torch and shining are the usual readings.
Girl Greek #461 in US
Lucian Lucian is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "light".
Boy Latin #462 in US
Arjun Arjun is a boy's name of Sanskrit origin meaning "bright", "white" or "silver".
Boy Indian #490 in US
Nellie Nellie is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "shining light."
Girl Greek #533 in US
Zahra Zahra is a girl's name of Arabic origin meaning "radiant" or "blossoming."
Girl Arabic #539 in US
Roberto Roberto means bright fame, the Italian and Spanish form of Robert, and both halves of the compound mean roughly the same thing — which is normal in Germanic naming rather than a redundancy.
Boy Italian #569 in US
Halo Halo is a unisex name taken from the ring of light, whose Greek root halos meant a threshing floor — the circular patch of ground where oxen trod in circles to separate grain.
Unisex Greek #612 in US
Albert Albert is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "noble and bright."
Boy Germanic #614 in US
Cassandra Cassandra is a girl's name from Greek myth, borne by a prophet cursed to see the future and never be believed.
Girl Greek #630 in US
Noor Noor is a name of Arabic origin meaning "light."
Girl Arabic #659 in US
Robin Robin is a name of Germanic origin meaning "bright fame."
Unisex Germanic #704 in US
Ray Ray is a boy's name that serves as a short form of Raymond and as the English word for a beam of light.
Boy Germanic #792 in US
Alberto Alberto means bright nobility, and both halves are compliments — the Germanic joins a word for noble descent to one meaning bright or famous, with nothing descriptive about the person at all.
Boy Italian #820 in US
Kelly Kelly is a name from the Irish surname Ó Ceallaigh, borne almost entirely by men for most of its history and now 86 percent female in our data.
Unisex Irish #851 in US
Lucien Lucien is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "light," the French form of Lucian.
Boy French #897 in US
Clare Clare is the older English spelling and the one the Irish county carries, and its history is British and Irish rather than American — England, Scotland and Ireland all peaked far above the United States.
Girl English #924 in US
Chiara Chiara is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "bright" or "clear," the Italian form of Clare, and its saint is the patron of television.
Girl Italian #1,067 in US
Bobby Bobby is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "bright fame."
Boy Germanic #1,101 in US
Clarissa Clarissa means bright, and it names one of the longest novels in English — Richardson's Clarissa runs to about a million words, which makes it longer than the whole of Proust in most editions.
Girl Latin #1,116 in US
Lucie Lucie is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "light," the French form of Lucy.
Girl French #1,131 in US
Alba Alba is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "dawn" or "white."
Girl Latin #1,262 in US
Nelly Nelly charts in five markets and England ranks it highest at 353rd — ahead of Scotland 486th, Ireland 640th, France 726th and the United States 1294th.
Girl English #1,294 in US
Roxanne Roxanne means dawn or bright, and it is Persian rather than Greek — Alexander married Roxana in Bactria, and she and their son were murdered after his death.
Girl Persian #1,313 in US
Gilbert Gilbert is a boy's name from Germanic elements meaning bright pledge, and it founded the only medieval religious order native to England.
Boy Germanic #1,331 in US
Robyn Robyn is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "bright fame."
Girl Germanic #1,439 in US
Nour Nour is a girl's name of Arabic origin meaning "light," from nur.
Girl Arabic #1,532 in US

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