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.

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8 names, most popular first in United States

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Sunny Sunny is a unisex name taken from the English word, from the Old English sunne.
English #389 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.
Greek #612 in US
Robin Robin is a name of Germanic origin meaning "bright fame."
Germanic #704 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.
Irish #851 in US
Bobbie Bobbie is 83 percent female in our records and England and Wales ranks it 523rd on 110 births — far above the United States at 2072nd, reversing what an American nickname-name would usually do.
English #2,072 in US
Robbie Robbie is a unisex name of Germanic origin meaning "bright fame," a diminutive of Robert.
Scottish #2,124 in US
Ora Ora has three unrelated sources — the Latin imperative meaning pray, the Hebrew for light, and an Albanian word for hour — and our data marks it reviving across three markets.
Latin #3,744 in US
Kelley Kelley is the same Irish name as Kellie, spelled differently, and the two split its births between them — this one peaked in 1968 and that one in 1969, a year apart at nearly the same size.
Irish #7,207 in US

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