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Names That Mean Noble

Names meaning noble, royal, ruler or high-born. Read carefully: in most of these the word marked a legal rank rather than a compliment, and the flattering sense came centuries later.

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

Rankings for

67 names, most popular first in United States

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Girls Boys Unisex

Amelia Amelia is a girl's name most often explained as a blend of two older names: the Germanic Amalia, meaning "work" or "industrious," and the Latin Emilia, from the Roman family name Aemilius.
Germanic #4 in US
Sadie Sadie is a girl's name that began as a pet form of Sarah, the Hebrew name meaning "princess" or "noblewoman."
Hebrew #50 in US
Adeline Adeline is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "noble," from the element adal.
Germanic #59 in US
Alice Alice is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "noble," arrived at by a long contraction of Adelaide.
Germanic #65 in US
Audrey Audrey is a girl's name of Old English origin meaning "noble strength," from Æthelthryth.
English #86 in US
Sarah Sarah is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "princess" or "noblewoman."
Hebrew #90 in US
Kinsley Kinsley is a girl's name of English origin meaning "king's meadow," from the Old English cyning, king, and leah, a clearing.
English #93 in US
Allison Allison is a girl's name of Norman French origin, from Alis — the medieval form of Alice — plus a diminutive ending.
Germanic #103 in US
Alina Alina is a girl's name with several origins. It functions as a short form of Adelina and so means "noble," from the Germanic adal; a Slavic line connects it to light or bright; and an Arabic reading gives "noble" from a different root entirely.
Germanic #130 in US
Amira Amira is a girl's name of Arabic origin meaning "princess" or "commander."
Arabic #132 in US
Arya Arya is a name of Sanskrit origin meaning "noble."
Sanskrit #159 in US
Ailani Ailani is a girl's name generally presented as Hawaiian, meaning "high chief" or "chief of the heavens," from ali'i, chief, and lani, sky or heaven.
Hawaiian #168 in US
Adalynn Adalynn is a girl's name of modern American coinage, formed from the Germanic element adal, meaning noble, with the -lynn suffix.
Germanic #184 in US
Sara Sara is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "princess" or "noblewoman."
Hebrew #198 in US
Adaline Adaline is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "noble."
Germanic #209 in US
Ada Ada is a girl's name with two origins. In Germanic it is a short form of names beginning with adal, noble; in Hebrew, Adah means "adornment" and belongs to two women in Genesis.
Germanic #220 in US
Brianna Brianna is a girl's name, the feminine of Brian, whose Irish meaning has never been securely established.
Irish #222 in US
Adalyn Adalyn is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "noble".
Germanic #260 in US
Adelaide Adelaide means noble in kind, and it is one of only three names in this group our data marks as rising — 230th in Canada, 289th in the United States, 344th in England and Wales, 416th in France and 618th in Scotland, and setting its English peak in the most recent year we hold.
German #289 in US
Kimberly Kimberly is a girl's name that reached America by way of a South African diamond town, which was itself named after a British colonial secretary.
English #302 in US
Adelina Adelina is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "noble".
Germanic #305 in US
Hattie Hattie is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "home ruler."
Germanic #334 in US
Heidi Heidi is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "noble one."
Germanic #341 in US
Adelyn Adelyn is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "noble".
Germanic #357 in US
Regina Regina is the Latin word for a queen, taken unchanged, and it is still the legal abbreviation in British courts — every criminal case against a defendant is formally Regina versus the accused.
Latin #395 in US
Sarai Sarai is a girl's name of Hebrew origin, the name Abraham's wife carried before God renamed her Sarah.
Hebrew #424 in US
Alicia Alicia is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "noble," a Latinate form of Alice.
Germanic #460 in US
Alison Alison means little Alice, and Alice means noble — but the Norman name behind it is a heavy compression of the Germanic Adalheidis, so the noble is all that survived of a longer compound.
French #477 in US
Aubree Aubree respells a name that began as elf-ruler — the Germanic Alberich names the dwarf king who guards the Nibelung hoard, and the same figure becomes Oberon in medieval French romance.
American #489 in US
Amirah Amirah is a girl's name of Arabic origin meaning "princess" or "commander".
Arabic #490 in US
Della Della has no single parent — it shortens Adela, Delia and Adelaide alike, and our data marks it reviving, at 563rd in the United States and 1010th in Scotland.
English #563 in US
Allie Allie means noble, and it serves three different names at once — Alice, Allison and Alexandra all shorten to it, so which one a given Allie belongs to cannot be read off the name itself.
English #570 in US
Halle Halle is a girl's name with a Norse and Germanic background, usually given as rock or as a form of a name meaning army ruler.
Norse #595 in US
Briana Briana is a feminine of Brian, and it first appears in Spenser's Faerie Queene in 1590 — which makes it one of very few names whose earliest recorded use is a specific poem.
Irish #661 in US
Adèle Adèle is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "noble," from the element adal.
French #753 in US
Etta Etta is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "home ruler."
Germanic #931 in US
Ayra Ayra is a girl's name of Arabic origin meaning "respectable" or "noble."
Arabic #939 in US
Harriet Harriet is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "home ruler."
Germanic #1,071 in US
Erika Erika means ever-ruler, the feminine of Erik — and it is also the botanical name for heather, which is a separate Greek word that happens to match.
Scandinavian #1,111 in US
Allyson Allyson descends from Alice by way of a French diminutive, and it is not Alice plus son — the ending is the Old French -on, the same one behind Marion, and nothing in it refers to a child.
English #1,140 in US
Sally Sally is a girl's name meaning princess, a pet form of Sarah reached by medieval rhyming.
Hebrew #1,152 in US
Bria Bria is a girl's name usually explained as a short form of Brianna, though an Italian source is also proposed.
Irish #1,168 in US
Alisha Alisha means noble, and it is British and Irish rather than American — England and Wales 376th, Ireland 381st and Northern Ireland 407th all rank it far above the United States at 1229th.
English #1,229 in US
Addie Addie shortens Adelaide and Adeline alike, and both descend from the Germanic word for noble — the same adal that sits inside Alice, Allison and Albert.
English #1,275 in US
Patricia Patricia is a girl's name from the Latin for noble or patrician, the feminine of Patrick.
Latin #1,338 in US
Erica Erica is a girl's name with two independent sources: the feminine of Eric, meaning eternal ruler, and the botanical Latin name of heather.
Norse #1,397 in US
Alissa Alissa means noble, and the flower it resembles was named for rabies — alyssum joins the Greek negative to lyssa, madness, because the plant was believed to cure the bite of a mad dog.
English #1,946 in US
Gina Gina is not one name — it is the ending of several different ones, and which name it shortens changes the meaning entirely.
Italian #2,086 in US

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