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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83 names, most popular first in United States

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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.
Girl French #1,037 in US
Ernest Ernest is a boy's name from a Germanic word meaning serious or resolute, and it is far stronger in Europe than in America — 252nd in England and Wales and 276th in France against 1042nd in the United States.
Boy Germanic #1,042 in US
Billy Billy is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "resolute protector."
Boy Germanic #1,068 in US
Lyam Lyam is a boy's name, a French respelling of Liam, itself a short form of the Irish Uilliam and so of William.
Boy French #1,087 in US
Willie Willie is a pet form of William meaning resolute protector, and one of the more genuinely mixed names in our records — a quarter of the births we hold are female, which is unusual for a name read today as male.
Unisex Germanic #1,317 in US
Bryant Bryant means noble or high, and the t is a French accident — Norman scribes added it to the Irish Brian, so the surname carries a letter the original name never had.
Boy Irish #1,327 in US
Bernard Bernard is a boy's name from Germanic elements meaning brave as a bear.
Boy Germanic #1,364 in US
Lenny Lenny is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "lion-strong."
Boy Germanic #1,418 in US
Gerard Gerard is a boy's name from Germanic elements meaning brave with the spear.
Boy Germanic #1,722 in US
Valentine Valentine is a unisex name of Latin origin meaning "strong" or "healthy."
Unisex French #1,793 in US
Zorawar Zorawar is a boy's name of Persian origin meaning "powerful" or "brave", used chiefly by Punjabi Sikh families.
Boy Persian #1,896 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.
Girl English #1,963 in US
Kurt Kurt means bold counsel, shortened from Konrad — and the courteous reading commonly given is a false friend, coming from an unrelated French word that only sounds similar.
Boy German #2,279 in US
Angus Angus is a boy's name of Scottish Gaelic origin meaning "one choice" or "one strength," from Aonghas.
Boy Scottish #2,378 in US
Willard Willard means bold desire, and both halves are Germanic words about force of will — it is a surname from a personal name, and its American use is almost entirely nineteenth-century onward.
Boy English #2,761 in US
Rickey Rickey means strong ruler, and its peak is the largest in this group — 3,818 American births in 1958, against 45 in the most recent year we have.
Boy English #2,829 in US
Minnie Minnie Mouse did not make Minnie popular.
Girl Scottish #3,054 in US
Rick Rick means brave ruler, shortened from Richard — and the medieval habit of rhyming pet names is why Rick also produced Dick, which is the same name with a different first letter.
Boy English #3,075 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.
Girl English #3,346 in US
Kaïs Kaïs is a boy's name of Arabic origin, borne by the poet of the Layla and Majnun story, one of the most famous love legends of the Islamic world.
Boy Arabic #3,535 in US
Wilma Wilma means resolute protection, and The Flintstones did nothing for it.
Girl Germanic #3,667 in US
Wilbur Wilbur ranks 579th in England and Wales against 3956th in the United States, so a name most people think of as thoroughly American is now used more than six times more readily in England.
Boy English #3,956 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.
Girl French #4,442 in US
Conall Conall is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "strong wolf," borne by the Ulster Cycle hero who avenges Cú Chulainn.
Boy Irish #5,056 in US
Fergus Fergus is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "man of vigor," and its bearer's exile is what sets the Táin in motion.
Boy Irish #5,135 in US
Bill Bill comes from William, and the B is the point — medieval English made pet names by rhyming, which is why Will became Bill, Rob became Bob and Rick became Dick.
Boy English #5,272 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.
Girl French #5,823 in US
Djibril Djibril is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is my strength," the West African form of Gabriel — the angel who brought the Quran to Muhammad.
Boy Arabic #6,532 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.
Girl Germanic #6,805 in US
Guillaume Guillaume is a boy's name meaning resolute protector, the French form of William — and the man who conquered England in 1066 bore this form of it, not the English one.
Boy French 232,219 births
Fernand Fernand means bold journey, and it is Germanic rather than Spanish despite having arrived through Spain — the Visigoths carried it there, and it went on to become the royal name of both Castile and Aragon.
Boy French 120,178 births
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.
Girl French 85,546 births
Thibault Thibault is not related to Theodore, though the two are constantly confused — its first element is the Germanic theud, a people, while Theodore's is the Greek theos, a god.
Boy French 56,005 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.
Girl French 51,526 births
Cathal Cathal is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "battle rule," from cath and val.
Boy Irish 9,119 births

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