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Latin Names

Latin names reach English by two separate routes that produce different results: directly, through the church and the Roman calendar of saints, and indirectly, through French, Spanish and Italian, which wore the endings down first. The same Latin root can therefore appear twice on this site in forms that no longer look related.

Languages behind these names Latin via French uncertain via Italian Old French possibly from Etruscan

Rankings for

324 names, most popular first in United States

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Emil Peaked in 1917 · 36,469 births since 1880
Boy Latin #1,271 in US
Christine Christine is a girl's name from the Latin for a follower of Christ, the French form of Christina.
Girl Latin #1,272 in US
Antonia Antonia has no known meaning, and the flower reading given everywhere is a Renaissance invention — humanists attached the Greek anthos to a Roman family name that has never been explained.
Girl Latin #1,279 in US
Emilie Emilie is a girl's name, the French and Danish form of Latin Aemilia, usually given as rival.
Girl Latin #1,314 in US
Markus Peaked in 1994 · 18,939 births since 1915
Boy Latin #1,337 in US
Patricia Patricia is a girl's name from the Latin for noble or patrician, the feminine of Patrick.
Girl Latin #1,338 in US
Nathalia Peaked in 2006 · 8,703 births since 1899
Girl Latin #1,362 in US
Martina Peaked in 1964 · 29,271 births since 1880
Girl Latin #1,368 in US
Anton Peaked in 1915 · 32,989 births since 1880
Boy Latin #1,389 in US
Virgil Virgil is misspelled and always has been — the poet's name was Vergilius, and medieval scribes changed the e to an i by association with virgo, which is how a Roman family name acquired a meaning it never had.
Boy Latin #1,412 in US
Pia Pia is a girl's name from Latin meaning dutiful or devout, the feminine of Pius.
Girl Latin #1,455 in US
Verity Peaked in 2009 · 5,695 births since 1996
Girl Latin #1,479 in US
Maxim Peaked in 2012 · 18,437 births since 1923
Boy Latin #1,521 in US
Terrence Terrence descends from a Roman playwright who was born enslaved in North Africa — Terence was freed by his owner, wrote six comedies that survive complete, and shaped Latin prose style for centuries.
Boy Latin #1,585 in US
Chester Chester is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "fortress" or "walled camp."
Boy Latin #1,597 in US
Lori Lori is a girl's name, a short form of Laura meaning laurel.
Girl Latin #1,732 in US
Laurence Laurence is the one name on this site that changes sex at the Channel: it is a man's name in English and a woman's name in French.
Unisex Latin #1,750 in US
Oriana Peaked in 2003 · 6,582 births since 1966
Girl Latin #1,791 in US
Julianne Peaked in 1989 · 36,025 births since 1912
Girl Latin #2,001 in US
Norma Norma is a girl's name that appears to have been invented for an opera — Bellini's Norma of 1831 — and it was the birth name of Marilyn Monroe, who appears elsewhere in these pages under the name that replaced it.
Girl Latin #2,005 in US
Octavius Peaked in 1991 · 3,799 births since 1911
Boy Latin #2,064 in US
Sianna Peaked in 2024 · 3,450 births since 1978
Girl Latin #2,144 in US
Marnie Marnie is a girl's name of Hebrew origin, usually given as "of the sea."
Girl Latin #2,177 in US
Sylvester Sylvester means of the woods, and a pope carried it into the calendar — Sylvester I died on 31 December, which is why New Year's Eve is still called Silvester across much of Europe.
Boy Latin #2,211 in US
Lavinia Peaked in 1921 · 7,394 births since 1880
Girl Latin #2,290 in US
Adora Peaked in 2021 · 2,902 births since 1916
Girl Latin #2,352 in US
Terra Peaked in 1980 · 15,790 births since 1940
Girl Latin #2,416 in US
Maksim Peaked in 2011 · 4,338 births since 1993
Boy Latin #2,461 in US
Florian Florian means flowering, from the Latin word for a flower, and England and Wales ranks it 875th — within six places of France at 869th, which is the closest cross-market pairing anywhere in this group.
Boy Latin #2,488 in US
Primrose Primrose is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "first rose."
Girl Latin #2,556 in US
Mirabel Peaked in 2022 · 1,528 births since 1982
Girl Latin #2,565 in US
Dianna Dianna means the shining one, and the root is the same one behind Zeus and Jupiter — an Indo-European word for the bright daytime sky that also gives us the ordinary word day.
Girl Latin #2,574 in US
Terence Terence has no known meaning, and its most famous bearer was a slave — the playwright Terence was North African, brought to Rome, freed, and became one of the two Latin comic dramatists whose work survives.
Boy Latin #2,763 in US
Tina Tina is a girl's name that serves as the tail end of several unrelated names — Christina, Martina, Valentina and Bettina — so its meaning depends entirely on which one a family had in mind.
Girl Latin #2,804 in US
Laurie Laurie is a name meaning laurel, and it is genuinely mixed by country — masculine in Britain as a short form of Laurence, feminine in America as a short form of Laura.
Girl Latin #2,847 in US
Viktoria Peaked in 2015 · 4,644 births since 1950
Girl Latin #2,864 in US
Lora Lora means from Laurentum, and the laurel is one step removed — the Roman town was named for its bay trees, and the personal name says which town you came from rather than which plant crowned you.
Girl Latin #2,927 in US
Loren Loren means from Laurentum, a town rather than a plant — the laurel reading came second, and the town itself was probably named for its laurels, so the connection is real but runs the long way round.
Unisex Latin #3,011 in US
Lillia Peaked in 2013 · 3,992 births since 1881
Girl Latin #3,018 in US
Adria Peaked in 1979 · 7,561 births since 1910
Girl Latin #3,059 in US
Claude Claude is a name from a Roman family name meaning lame, one of very few widely used names with an unflattering literal sense.
Unisex Latin #3,060 in US
Fabiola Peaked in 1996 · 12,266 births since 1892
Girl Latin #3,067 in US
Connie Connie is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "steadfast" or "constant."
Girl Latin #3,090 in US
Caio Peaked in 2023 · 1,364 births since 1990
Boy Latin #3,367 in US
Nox Peaked in 2023 · 358 births since 2010
Boy Latin #3,395 in US
Marcia Marcia means dedicated to Mars, and that god's name is also where the month of March comes from — the Roman year began in March, because that was when the campaigning season opened up again after the winter.
Girl Latin #3,419 in US
Verna Verna means springtime, from the Latin for spring — and our data marks it reviving, though from a low base at 3464th in the United States on a 1918 peak of 1,885.
Girl Latin #3,464 in US
Gaius Peaked in 2014 · 606 births since 1920
Boy Latin #3,603 in US

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