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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13 names, rare — 25 to 99 a year, in United States

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Gerard Gerard is a boy's name from Germanic elements meaning brave with the spear.
Boy Germanic 95 in 2025
Zorawar Zorawar is a boy's name of Persian origin meaning "powerful" or "brave", used chiefly by Punjabi Sikh families.
Boy Persian 83 in 2025
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 98 in 2025
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 62 in 2025
Angus Angus is a boy's name of Scottish Gaelic origin meaning "one choice" or "one strength," from Aonghas.
Boy Scottish 58 in 2025
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 47 in 2025
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 45 in 2025
Minnie Minnie Mouse did not make Minnie popular.
Girl Scottish 54 in 2025
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 40 in 2025
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 46 in 2025
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 32 in 2025
Wilma Wilma means resolute protection, and The Flintstones did nothing for it.
Girl Germanic 41 in 2025
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 27 in 2025

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