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Names That Mean Warrior

Names meaning warrior, battle, army or defender. In early medieval Europe these were not aspirational so much as descriptive of an expected life, which is why they outnumber every gentler theme in the Germanic and Norse lists.

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

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101 names, most popular first in United States

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Alexander Alexander is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning "defender of men," from alexein, to defend, and aner, man.
Boy Greek #30 in US
Wyatt Wyatt is a boy's name of English origin meaning "brave in war," from the medieval given name Wyot, itself from Old English elements meaning war and hardy.
Boy English #38 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.
Girl English #40 in US
Miles Miles is a boy's name of disputed origin, usually connected to the Latin miles, meaning soldier.
Boy Latin #44 in US
Waylon Waylon is a boy's name of English origin, generally traced to Wayland, the legendary smith of Germanic myth, whose name means something close to "battle land."
Boy English #56 in US
Myles Myles is a boy's name and a variant spelling of Miles, whose origin is disputed.
Boy Latin #100 in US
Milo Milo is a boy's name of disputed origin, arriving in England with the Normans alongside Miles.
Boy Latin #119 in US
Ryder Ryder is a boy's name of English origin meaning "mounted warrior" or "messenger."
Boy English #132 in US
Luis Luis is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "famous warrior."
Boy Germanic #144 in US
Callan Callan is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "battle" or "rock."
Boy Irish #190 in US
Oscar Oscar is a boy's name with two competing origins: the Irish os, deer, plus cara, friend, giving "deer lover," or the Old Norse Ásgeirr, meaning "god's spear."
Boy Irish #223 in US
Alexandra Alexandra is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "defender of men," and it appears as a title of the goddess Hera before it was ever a personal name.
Girl Greek #238 in US
Mark Mark is a boy's name of Latin origin, most likely meaning "of Mars," borne by the evangelist who wrote the earliest gospel.
Boy Latin #245 in US
Louis Louis is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "famous warrior."
Boy Germanic #249 in US
Walter Walter is a boy's name from Germanic elements meaning ruler of the army.
Boy Germanic #251 in US
Harvey Harvey is a boy's name of Breton origin meaning "battle worthy."
Boy Breton #253 in US
Marcus Marcus is a boy's name of Latin origin most likely meaning "of Mars," and it was one of only about eighteen first names Roman men used.
Boy Latin #258 in US
Xander Xander is a boy's name, a short form of Alexander meaning defender of men.
Boy Greek #259 in US
Koa Koa is a boy's name of Hawaiian origin meaning "warrior" or "brave."
Boy Hawaiian #269 in US
Harlow Harlow is a unisex name from an Essex place name meaning "army hill," most likely a mound where a Saxon assembly met rather than a battlefield.
Unisex English #309 in US
Alessia Alessia is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "defender".
Girl Greek #326 in US
Finley Finley is a name of Scottish Gaelic origin meaning "fair-haired warrior."
Unisex Scottish #333 in US
Matilda Matilda is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "mighty in battle."
Girl Germanic #364 in US
Marco Marco means dedicated to Mars, and it has the tightest seven-market spread on this site — the United States 370th, Ireland and England both 467th, Scotland 477th, Northern Ireland 501st and France 502nd, all inside 132 places.
Boy Italian #370 in US
Zander Zander is a boy's name of Greek origin, a short form of Alexander meaning "defender of men".
Boy Greek #396 in US
Murphy Murphy is a unisex name of Irish origin meaning "sea warrior".
Unisex Irish #397 in US
Lewis Lewis is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "famous warrior," the English form of Louis.
Boy English #433 in US
Maddison Maddison is a girl's name of English origin meaning "son of Maud."
Girl English #438 in US
Kane Kane is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "battle", from Ó Catháin.
Boy Irish #451 in US
Alexandria Alexandria is the city before it is the name — Alexander founded it in 331 BC, and the feminine given name was formed from the place rather than directly from Alexandra, which took a different route.
Girl Greek #474 in US
Edgar Edgar is a boy's name meaning wealthy spear, and it is one of very few Old English names still in wide use.
Boy English #487 in US
Armani Armani is a unisex name of Italian origin, a surname meaning "son of Armanno" — a Germanic name built from elements for army and man.
Unisex Italian #495 in US
Edith Edith is a girl's name of Old English origin meaning "prosperous in war."
Girl English #499 in US
Alonzo Alonzo is the Spanish descendant of a Visigothic name, and our data marks it rising — 511th in the United States, 1186th in Canada, 1324th in France and 1714th in England and Wales, having peaked as recently as 2022, which is unusual for a name our records carry from 1880.
Boy Spanish #511 in US
Louise Louise is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "famous warrior," the French feminine form of Louis.
Girl French #515 in US
Troy Troy is a boy's name with two independent sources — an Irish surname meaning foot soldier, and the ancient city.
Boy Irish #533 in US
Ozzy Ozzy is a boy's name of Old English origin meaning "god-spear."
Boy English #549 in US
Armando Armando means army man, and it is the same name as Herman — one Germanic compound that reached Spanish through the Visigoths and English through the Normans, ending up unrecognisably different.
Boy Spanish #556 in US
Garrett Garrett means spear-strength or spear-rule, and it descends from two different Germanic names that medieval English speakers could no longer tell apart.
Boy English #564 in US
Louie Louie is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "famous warrior."
Boy Germanic #596 in US
Alejandra Alejandra means defender of men, and the Spanish form lost a consonant Greek never had trouble with — Alexandros became Alejandro because Spanish shifted the sh sound to the throaty j it uses today.
Girl Spanish #605 in US
Lexi Lexi is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "defender of men," a diminutive of Alexandra taken from the middle of the name rather than the start.
Girl English #629 in US
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 #678 in US
Sasha Sasha is a unisex name of Greek origin meaning "defender of men," the Russian familiar form of Alexander.
Unisex Russian #684 in US
Louisa Louisa is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "famous warrior," a Latinate form of Louise.
Girl Germanic #694 in US
Marcel Marcel is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "little warrior," a diminutive of Marcus and so ultimately from Mars.
Boy French #730 in US
Roger Roger is a boy's name from Germanic elements meaning famous spear.
Boy Germanic #834 in US
Neil Neil means champion or cloud, from Irish, and it traveled to Iceland with the Vikings and back to England with the Normans — so the English Neil arrived by way of Scandinavia and France.
Boy Irish #850 in US

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