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Germanic Names

Old Germanic names are compounds, and the parts are almost always about war, protection, glory or wealth — a naming culture describing what it wanted a child to be. The elements were mixed and matched so freely that many combinations are more sound than sense, which is why a literal reading can produce something no parent ever intended.

Languages behind these names Germanic via French via Norman French Old High German via Latin via Spanish

Rankings for

107 names, most popular first in United States

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Frankie Frankie is a name of Germanic origin meaning "free man" or "Frenchman."
Unisex Germanic #551 in US
Jeffrey Jeffrey is a boy's name from Germanic roots whose first element is genuinely disputed, though the second means peace.
Boy Germanic #552 in US
Ledger Peaked in 2024 · 5,160 births since 1923
Boy Germanic #553 in US
Amalia Amalia is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "work" or "industrious," from the same root as Amelia and quite separate from the Latin for love.
Girl Germanic #568 in US
Louie Louie is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "famous warrior."
Boy Germanic #596 in US
Roland Roland is a boy's name meaning famous land, and its bearer is the hero of France's national epic — a knight who dies at Roncevaux because he is too proud to blow his horn for help.
Boy Germanic #609 in US
Albert Albert is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "noble and bright."
Boy Germanic #614 in US
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 #637 in US
Otis Otis is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "wealth" or "fortune."
Boy Germanic #655 in US
Billie Billie is a name of Germanic origin meaning "resolute protector."
Unisex Germanic #693 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
Emmie Emmie is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "whole" or "universal."
Girl Germanic #698 in US
Robin Robin is a name of Germanic origin meaning "bright fame."
Unisex Germanic #704 in US
Hugh Hugh is a boy's name from a Germanic word for mind or spirit, brought to Britain by the Normans.
Boy Germanic #732 in US
Rudy Rudy is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "famous wolf."
Boy Germanic #739 in US
Bruno Bruno is a boy's name from the Germanic word for brown, and it founded the Carthusians — the strictest order in the Western church, whose monks still live largely in silence.
Boy Germanic #740 in US
Ray Ray is a boy's name that serves as a short form of Raymond and as the English word for a beam of light.
Boy Germanic #792 in US
Amelie Amelie is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "work" or "industrious."
Girl Germanic #829 in US
Roger Roger is a boy's name from Germanic elements meaning famous spear.
Boy Germanic #834 in US
Derrick Derrick means ruler of the people, and the crane is named after a man — Thomas Derrick, an Elizabethan hangman whose gallows design was distinctive enough that his name became the word for it.
Boy Germanic #852 in US
Tilly Tilly is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "mighty in battle."
Girl Germanic #886 in US
Etta Etta is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "home ruler."
Girl Germanic #931 in US
Ricky Ricky is a boy's name, the pet form of Richard or Ricardo, meaning strong ruler.
Boy Germanic #949 in US
Harold Harold is a boy's name from Norse and Old English elements meaning army ruler, and it belongs to the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, killed at Hastings in 1066.
Boy Germanic #992 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
Harriet Harriet is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "home ruler."
Girl Germanic #1,071 in US
Randy Randy is a boy's name, the short form of Randall or Randolph, meaning shield-wolf.
Boy Germanic #1,088 in US
Bobby Bobby is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "bright fame."
Boy Germanic #1,101 in US
Ida Ida is a girl's name from a Germanic word for work or labor, and it charts in all seven markets we track.
Girl Germanic #1,123 in US
Carl Carl is a boy's name from the Germanic word for a free man, the same root as Charles.
Boy Germanic #1,134 in US
Gerald Gerald is a boy's name from Germanic elements meaning rule of the spear, and it gave Ireland one of its great Norman dynasties, the FitzGeralds.
Boy Germanic #1,208 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
Gilbert Gilbert is a boy's name from Germanic elements meaning bright pledge, and it founded the only medieval religious order native to England.
Boy Germanic #1,331 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
Robyn Robyn is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "bright fame."
Girl Germanic #1,439 in US
Arnold Arnold means eagle power, and England and Wales ranks it 631st on 59 births — well above the United States at 1478th, which is not what the name's twentieth-century American associations would predict.
Boy Germanic #1,478 in US
Randall Randall is a boy's name from Germanic elements meaning shield-wolf.
Boy Germanic #1,499 in US
Freddie Freddie is a name of Germanic origin meaning "peaceful ruler."
Boy Germanic #1,509 in US
Jeffery Jeffery is a boy's name whose first element is genuinely disputed, though the second means peace.
Boy Germanic #1,562 in US
Gerard Gerard is a boy's name from Germanic elements meaning brave with the spear.
Boy Germanic #1,722 in US
Reggie Reggie is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "ruler's counsel."
Boy Germanic #1,860 in US
Fred Fred is a boy's name, the short form of Frederick meaning peaceful ruler.
Boy Germanic #1,939 in US
Herman Herman means army man, and the German national hero Hermann is a Latin scribe's version of a Cheruscan name we cannot now recover — Arminius, the chief who destroyed three Roman legions in AD 9.
Boy Germanic #2,374 in US
Geraldine Geraldine was invented in a 1537 love poem — the Earl of Surrey coined it for Lady Elizabeth FitzGerald, calling her the Fair Geraldine.
Girl Germanic #2,438 in US
Herbert Herbert is a boy's name from Germanic elements meaning bright army.
Boy Germanic #2,661 in US
Roberta Roberta is a girl's name meaning bright fame, the feminine of Robert.
Girl Germanic #2,813 in US

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