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.

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

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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 98 in 2025
Julianne Peaked in 1989 · 36,025 births since 1912
Girl Latin 96 in 2025
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 95 in 2025
Octavius Peaked in 1991 · 3,799 births since 1911
Boy Latin 72 in 2025
Sianna Peaked in 2024 · 3,450 births since 1978
Girl Latin 87 in 2025
Marnie Marnie is a girl's name of Hebrew origin, usually given as "of the sea."
Girl Latin 85 in 2025
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 64 in 2025
Lavinia Peaked in 1921 · 7,394 births since 1880
Girl Latin 80 in 2025
Adora Peaked in 2021 · 2,902 births since 1916
Girl Latin 78 in 2025
Terra Peaked in 1980 · 15,790 births since 1940
Girl Latin 74 in 2025
Maksim Peaked in 2011 · 4,338 births since 1993
Boy Latin 55 in 2025
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 54 in 2025
Primrose Primrose is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "first rose."
Girl Latin 69 in 2025
Mirabel Peaked in 2022 · 1,528 births since 1982
Girl Latin 68 in 2025
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 68 in 2025
Hillary Hillary is a girl's name meaning "cheerful" or "happy," from the Latin hilaris.
Girl Latin 67 in 2025
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 47 in 2025
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 61 in 2025
Laurie Laurie is a name meaning laurel, and it is mixed by country — masculine in Britain as a short form of Laurence, feminine in America as a short form of Laura.
Girl Latin 60 in 2025
Viktoria Peaked in 2015 · 4,644 births since 1950
Girl Latin 59 in 2025
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 58 in 2025
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 95 in 2025
Lillia Peaked in 2013 · 3,992 births since 1881
Girl Latin 55 in 2025
Adria Peaked in 1979 · 7,561 births since 1910
Girl Latin 54 in 2025
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 40 in 2025
Fabiola Peaked in 1996 · 12,266 births since 1892
Girl Latin 53 in 2025
Connie Connie is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "steadfast" or "constant."
Girl Latin 53 in 2025
Caio Peaked in 2023 · 1,364 births since 1990
Boy Latin 35 in 2025
Nox Peaked in 2023 · 358 births since 2010
Boy Latin 34 in 2025
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 45 in 2025
Verna Verna means springtime, from the Latin for spring — and it is reviving, though from a low base at 3,464th in the United States on a 1918 peak of 1,885.
Girl Latin 44 in 2025
Chapel Chapel is a rare unisex name taken from the English word for a small place of Christian worship.
Unisex Latin 67 in 2025
Gaius Peaked in 2014 · 606 births since 1920
Boy Latin 31 in 2025
Marcie Peaked in 1971 · 16,863 births since 1897
Girl Latin 42 in 2025
October Peaked in 2022 · 1,348 births since 1969
Girl Latin 49 in 2025
Ora Ora has three unrelated sources — the Latin imperative meaning pray, the Hebrew for light, and an Albanian word for hour — and it is reviving across three markets.
Unisex Latin 40 in 2025
Acacius Peaked in 2025 · 34 births since 2015
Boy Latin 28 in 2025
Rufus Rufus means red-haired, and it named a king by his complexion — William II of England was called Rufus for his ruddy face, and he died with an arrow in him in the New Forest.
Boy Latin 27 in 2025
Lucious Lucious is a boy's name meaning "light."
Boy Latin 25 in 2025

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