Names That Mean Strength

Names meaning strong, mighty, firm or powerful. Germanic naming leans on this harder than any other tradition, which is why so many are compounds where strength is only the first half.

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

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25 names, most popular first in United States

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Valentina Valentina is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "strong" or "healthy," the feminine form of Valentinus, from the verb valere, meaning to be strong or to be well.
Latin #35 in US
Madison Madison is a name of English origin meaning "son of Maud," a medieval surname formed from the woman's name Maud plus -son.
English #40 in US
Audrey Audrey is a girl's name of Old English origin meaning "noble strength," from Æthelthryth.
English #86 in US
Gabriella Gabriella is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is my strength," the Italian feminine of Gabriel.
Hebrew #105 in US
Valerie Valerie is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "strong" or "healthy," from the verb valere, meaning to be strong or to be well.
Latin #127 in US
Brielle Brielle is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is my strength."
Hebrew #143 in US
Valeria Valeria is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "strong" or "healthy."
Latin #162 in US
Andrea Andrea is a name meaning "manly" or "brave," from the Greek aner.
Greek #235 in US
Gabriela Gabriela means God is my strength, and the archangel behind it is the one who announces rather than fights — Gabriel delivers the message in both Daniel and Luke, and in Islamic tradition brings the Qur'an.
Spanish #317 in US
Briella Briella is a girl's name of Hebrew origin, a short form of Gabriella meaning "God is my strength".
Hebrew #362 in US
Matilda Matilda is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "mighty in battle."
Germanic #364 in US
Maddison Maddison is a girl's name of English origin meaning "son of Maud."
English #438 in US
Gabrielle Gabrielle is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is my strength," the French feminine of Gabriel.
French #634 in US
Tilly Tilly is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "mighty in battle."
Germanic #886 in US
Mattie Mattie serves two entirely unrelated names — Martha, which is Aramaic for a lady, and Matilda, which is Germanic for might in battle.
English #1,006 in US
Bernadette Bernadette is a girl's name meaning brave as a bear, and its bearer was a fourteen-year-old miller's daughter whose visions at Lourdes in 1858 turned a Pyrenean grotto into one of the most visited places on earth.
French #1,037 in US
Mildred Mildred is a girl's name from Old English elements meaning gentle strength, and it is among the least fashionable names of the twentieth century — yet our data marks it reviving, ninety years after its 1920 peak.
English #1,963 in US
Minnie Minnie Mouse did not make Minnie popular.
Scottish #3,054 in US
Maude Maude belonged to the woman who nearly became England's first ruling queen — the Empress Matilda fought her cousin for the throne through nineteen years of civil war the chroniclers called the Anarchy.
English #3,346 in US
Wilma Wilma means resolute protection, and The Flintstones did nothing for it.
Germanic #3,667 in US
Andrée Andrée is a girl's name meaning manly or brave, the French feminine of André — so it is a woman's name built from a Greek word for a man.
French #4,442 in US
Mathilde Mathilde is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "mighty in battle," and its bearer commissioned the Bayeux Tapestry by tradition.
French #5,823 in US
Gertrude Gertrude is a girl's name from Germanic elements meaning spear-strength, and its saint is patron of cats — a modern attribution that no medieval source supports.
Germanic #6,805 in US
Fernande Fernande is the French feminine of Ferdinand, meaning bold journey, and it is one of two faded names in this group — it peaked at 3,140 French births in 1920 and now ranks nowhere at all.
French 85,546 births
Maud Maud is the same name as Maude and peaked ninety-three years later — the e-less spelling belongs to France, which set its high in 1981 while the American form was already a century past its own.
French 51,526 births

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