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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12 names, very rare — fewer than 25 babies a year, in United States

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Girls Boys Unisex

Wilbert Wilbert means bright will, and it is one of a small set of names joining desire to brightness — the same beorht that ends Albert, Robert and Gilbert, on a first element meaning wanting something.
Boy German 20 in 2025
Lucienne Lucienne is a French girl's name meaning light, and our data marks it stable rather than falling — an unusual reading for a name that peaked in 1920 and has not ranked highly anywhere since.
Girl French 24 in 2025
Kellie Kellie has no settled meaning — the Irish Ceallach has been read as bright-headed, as strife, and as one who frequents churches, and the three readings are not close to reconciling.
Girl Irish 19 in 2025
Delbert Delbert is recorded in one country and nowhere else — every one of its 47,056 births is American, with no births in any other market in any year we hold, which is rare even among American coinages.
Boy American 12 in 2025
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.
Unisex Irish 24 in 2025
Malo Malo is a boy's name of Breton origin, borne by the sixth-century saint who gave his name to Saint-Malo.
Boy Breton 11 in 2025
Ayline Ayline is a girl's name of Turkish origin meaning "halo of the moon," from ay, the moon.
Girl Turkish 13 in 2025
Eilidh Eilidh is a girl's name of Scottish Gaelic origin, generally taken as the Gaelic form of Helen and meaning "bright" or "shining one."
Girl Scottish 12 in 2025
Lucette Lucette means little light, a French double diminutive — and the root behind it stands in Lucifer too, which was simply the Latin name for the morning star before it named anything else.
Girl French 10 in 2025
Alberta Alberta means noble and bright, and a Canadian province carries it — Alberta was named for Queen Victoria's fourth daughter, whose full name was Louise Caroline Alberta.
Girl Germanic 10 in 2025
Bob Bob comes from Robert, and the B is not a corruption but a system — medieval English made pet names by rhyming, which is why Rob gave Bob, Will gave Bill and Rick gave Dick.
Boy English 7 in 2025
Roxane Roxane is a girl's name of Persian origin meaning "bright" or "dawn," borne by the Bactrian noblewoman who married Alexander the Great.
Girl French 6 in 2025

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