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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17 names, uncommon — 100 to 499 a year, in United States

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Gabrielle Gabrielle is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is my strength," the French feminine of Gabriel.
Girl French 471 in 2025
Leonard Leonard is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "lion-strong," and its saint is the patron of prisoners and of women in labor.
Boy Germanic 438 in 2025
Valentin Valentin is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "strong" or "healthy," the French form of Valentine.
Boy French 418 in 2025
Gerardo Gerardo means brave with a spear, and both halves are weapons talk — the Germanic joins the word for a spear to one meaning hardy, which is the same ger that hides inside garlic.
Boy Italian 401 in 2025
Darius Darius means holding firm the good, and we know that because the king said so — the Behistun inscription has Darius the Great explain his own name and reign in three languages, carved on a cliff face.
Boy Persian 322 in 2025
Tilly Tilly is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "mighty in battle."
Girl Germanic 302 in 2025
Ricky Ricky is a boy's name, the pet form of Richard or Ricardo, meaning strong ruler.
Boy Germanic 263 in 2025
Mattie Mattie serves two entirely unrelated names — Martha, which is Aramaic for a lady, and Matilda, which is Germanic for might in battle.
Girl English 249 in 2025
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 241 in 2025
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 213 in 2025
Billy Billy is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "resolute protector."
Boy Germanic 217 in 2025
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 198 in 2025
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 156 in 2025
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 146 in 2025
Bernard Bernard is a boy's name from Germanic elements meaning brave as a bear.
Boy Germanic 137 in 2025
Lenny Lenny is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "lion-strong."
Boy Germanic 189 in 2025
Valentine Valentine is a unisex name of Latin origin meaning "strong" or "healthy."
Unisex French 159 in 2025

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