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.

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158 names, most popular first in United States

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Eugénie Eugénie means well-born, and its most famous bearer lost an empire — Empress Eugénie was the last French empress, fled Paris in 1870 and died in Madrid in 1920 having outlived the regime by fifty years.
Girl French #11,114 in US
Maëlan Maëlan is a boy's name from Brittany, a diminutive of Maël, which comes from a Breton word for a prince or chief.
Boy Breton #11,802 in US
Basile Basile is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning "royal" or "kingly," from basileus, a king.
Boy French #11,995 in US
Orlaith Orlaith is a girl's name of Irish origin meaning "golden princess," and it was borne by a sister of Brian Boru who was executed for adultery.
Girl Irish #13,355 in US
Arnaud Arnaud means eagle-power, built from two Germanic words, and it is the French form of the name English knows as Arnold.
Boy French 139,847 births
Henriette Henriette means home ruler, and the home in question is an estate rather than a house — the Germanic element meant an enclosure or domain, so the name describes holding territory, not housekeeping.
Girl French 128,291 births
Régine Régine means queen, and it completes a set — Rex is the Latin nominative, Regis the genitive, Régine the feminine, and all three are large enough to hold their own page on this site.
Girl French 64,525 births
Frédérique Frédérique means peaceful ruler, and the pairing is not the contradiction it looks — a medieval ruler's job was to impose the peace, so power and quiet were the same undertaking.
Girl French 55,027 births
Ruaridh Ruaridh is a boy's name of Scottish Gaelic origin meaning "red king," a shortened spelling of Ruairidh.
Boy Scottish 2,246 births
Orlagh Orlagh is a girl's name from the Irish Órlaith, meaning golden sovereign.
Girl Irish 1,853 births
Ruairidh Ruairidh is a boy's name of Scottish Gaelic origin meaning "red king," the Gaelic spelling of Rory.
Boy Scottish 1,690 births
Conn Conn is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "chief" or "hound," borne by the High King from whom Connacht takes its name.
Boy Irish 806 births
Saorlaith Saorlaith is a girl's name of Irish origin meaning "noble princess," from saor and flaith.
Girl Irish 415 births
Rioghnach Rioghnach is a girl's name of Irish origin meaning "queenly," from rí, and it is one of very few Irish women's names built on the word for a king.
Girl Irish 126 births

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