Saints Names

Names carried by the calendar of saints, which is how most Latin and Greek names reached northern Europe at all. The saint is often the only reason the name survived the language it came from.

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19 names, most popular first in United States

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Lucy Lucy is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "light," from lux.
Latin #25 in US
Clara Clara is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "bright" or "clear," from clarus.
Latin #63 in US
Lucia Lucia is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "light," the feminine of Lucius from lux.
Latin #83 in US
Cecilia Cecilia is a girl's name of Latin origin from the Roman family name Caecilius, which derives from caecus, meaning blind.
Latin #108 in US
Veronica Veronica is a girl's name from a Latin phrase meaning true image, and the saint behind it was invented to explain a relic — the cloth came first, and the woman was named after it.
Latin #427 in US
Monica Monica is a girl's name whose meaning is genuinely unknown, and whose saint — the mother of Augustine — came from Roman North Africa, so the name may be Berber rather than Latin or Greek at all.
Latin #737 in US
Teresa Teresa is a girl's name whose meaning is genuinely uncertain, though harvester is the usual reading.
Spanish #909 in US
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.
French #1,037 in US
Inès Inès is a girl's name meaning "pure" or "holy," the French and Spanish form of Agnes.
French #1,112 in US
Lucie Lucie is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "light," the French form of Lucy.
French #1,131 in US
Theresa Theresa is a girl's name of uncertain meaning, the German and English spelling of Teresa.
German #1,548 in US
Zélie Zélie is a girl's name of French origin, a short form of Azélie, and belongs to Saint Zélie Martin, the mother of Thérèse of Lisieux, canonised in 2015.
French #1,698 in US
Thérèse Thérèse is a girl's name of genuinely uncertain meaning, the French form of Teresa.
French #2,318 in US
Monique Monique is a girl's name, the French form of Monica, whose meaning is genuinely unknown despite the confident answers usually given for it.
French #3,356 in US
Jeanne Jeanne is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is gracious," the French feminine of Jean.
French #4,565 in US
Cécile Cécile is a girl's name meaning blind, the French form of Cecilia — and its saint became patron of music through a mistranslation of a single line in her passion.
French #5,705 in US
Véronique Véronique is a girl's name meaning true image, the French form of Veronica. It holds 237,412 recorded births and does not currently chart in any of the six markets we track, while the English form still charts in four.
French #9,966 in US
Apolline Apolline is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "belonging to Apollo," the French feminine of Apollinaris.
French #10,745 in US
Agathe Agathe is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning simply "good," from agathos.
French 63,897 births

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