Names That Mean Eagle

  1. Arden
    • Origin:

      English
    • Meaning:

      "valley of the eagle; high"
    • Description:

      Arden, the name of the magical forest in Shakespeare's As You Like It, is a stylish A name with a strong, straightforward image. Another reason to love Arden: its similarity to "ardent." Arden is solidly unisex, with the current gender distribution running about 60 percent girls and 40 percent boys.
  2. Arden
    • Origin:

      English
    • Meaning:

      "valley of the eagle; high"
    • Description:

      Arden is a gender-neutral name that's sleek and stylish but always seems to bob just below the surface of popularity, despite ticking all the boxes with its fashionable two-syllable, N-ending shape and its awesome nature-inspired meanings. In the 2021 US statistics, 41 percent of the babies named Arden were boys to 59 percent girls.
  3. Vega
    • Origin:

      Arabic, Spanish
    • Meaning:

      "swooping eagle; meadow"
    • Description:

      Another astral name, this one relating to one of the largest and brightest stars in the heavens, is popular in Scandinavia and Spain, where it ranks among the Top 50 girls' names. Although still very rare in the US, we think it has serious potential to follow the likes of Luna and Lyra up the charts.
  4. Adler
    • Origin:

      German
    • Meaning:

      "eagle"
    • Description:

      Adler is a German-Jewish surname that is beginning to be used occasionally as a first and is among the stylish new German names for boys. Among the distinguished bearers of Adler as a last name are Freud colleague Alfred Adler, actress and influential acting teacher Stella Adler and Guns N' Roses drummer Steve Adler.
  5. Ezio
    • Origin:

      Italian from Greek
    • Meaning:

      "eagle"
    • Description:

      An operatic Italian option via South Pacific star Pinza, one of several Italian names currently hot in France. Ezio is the Italian form of the Greek name Aetius.
  6. Anne
    • Origin:

      French, Frisian
    • Meaning:

      "grace or eagle"
    • Description:

      Anne, usually seen as a girls' name, is also attested as a boys' name - for example, Anne de Montmorency, who was a French soldier, statesman and diplomat. He became Marshal of France and Constable of France. It is also a Frisian male name deriving from the element arn "eagle", as in Dutch author Anne de Vries.
  7. Arnold
    • Origin:

      English from German
    • Meaning:

      "ruler, strong as an eagle"
    • Description:

      Strange as it may now seem, the venerable St. Arnold was a Greek by birth, a musician who became a member of the court of Charlemagne. The name is said to have been introduced into Britain by the Normans in the form Arnaud.
  8. Arno
    • Origin:

      German
    • Meaning:

      "eagle"
    • Description:

      Subtract the last two letters of Arnold, and you're left with a much more modern-sounding name. Arno is also the name of the main river in Florence, upon which sits the famed Ponte Vecchio. The Italian river name means "flowing water".
  9. Talako
    • Origin:

      Choctaw, Native American
    • Meaning:

      "eagle"
    • Description:

      Also spelled Tahlako, this Choctaw name is an animal related name.
  10. Aquila
    • Origin:

      Latin
    • Meaning:

      "eagle"
    • Description:

      An evocative ancient word that's used as a first name in the New Testament, among other places. It's also the name of an eagle-shaped constellation.
  11. Vega
    • Origin:

      Arabic, Spanish
    • Meaning:

      "swooping eagle, meadow"
    • Description:

      This striking name has a lot going for it: it's a self-confident Spanish surname, it identifies one of the most brilliant stars in the sky, and it has a musical reference to singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega.
  12. Arne
    • Origin:

      Dutch and Scandinavian variation of Arnold
    • Meaning:

      "ruler; strong as an eagle"
    • Description:

      Works better as a full name than Arnie does as a nickname.
  13. Aras
    • Origin:

      Lithuanian
    • Meaning:

      "eagle"
    • Description:

      A sweet, simple name with roots in several cultures. In Lithuanian, Aras is a poetic bird name, while in Persian and Kurdish it is both a word ("equal"), and the name of a river that flows through Turkey, Armenia, Iran and Azerbaijan. It is one of the most popular boy names in Turkey, and also ranks in the Netherlands and England and Wales.
  14. Paco
    • Origin:

      Spanish, diminutive of Francisco; Native American
    • Meaning:

      "eagle"
    • Description:

      Another winning and relaxed but energetic o-ending Latin name, sometimes associated with designer Paco Rabanne.
  15. Andor
    • Origin:

      Norwegian; Swedish; Hungarian
    • Meaning:

      "eagle; manly"
    • Description:

      Unusual but accessible multi-cultural choice.
  16. Wohali
    • Origin:

      Cherokee
    • Meaning:

      "eagle"
    • Description:

      Cherokee name that honors the eagle, a sacred symbol in Native American culture.
  17. Arnelle
    • Origin:

      English
    • Meaning:

      "eagle power"
    • Description:

      Feminine spin on Arnold that received a brief flurry of use in the early 1990s.
  18. Arnaud
    • Origin:

      French variation of Arnold
    • Meaning:

      "ruler, strong as an eagle"
    • Description:

      French given and surname.
  19. Aquilia
    • Origin:

      Latin
    • Meaning:

      "eagle"
    • Description:

      This and two other female forms -- AQUILA and AQUILINA -- of the Roman family name Aquilius might live on in modern times.
  20. Ákos
    • Origin:

      Hungarian from Turkish
    • Meaning:

      "white eagle"