Baby Name Meanings
By Pamela Redmond · Updated September 2026
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Xhosa, Zulu, Ndebele
"trust, hope"
Themba is a common male name in southern African countries such as Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Eswatini.
Slovak
"faith + glory, celebrating faith"
Dark and romantic, Vieroslava is a Slovak elaboration on Vera that combines the word viera, meaning "faith", with slava, meaning "glory". Its meaning can be understood as "celebrating faith", among…
Czech
Věroslav, a dramatic and intriguing Czech name, is considered a masculine form of Věra, or a combination of the word víra (faith) with slava (glory) — whose meaning can be understood as "celebrating…
French word name
"true"
A happy combination of several desirable genres: it's a word name, it has a foreign accent, and it has a highly virtuous meaning. And few other parents will be bold enough to choose it.
Choctaw, Native American
"believes"
A cute, upbeat name with a covetable meaning.
Arabic
"beauty of the faith"
Zinedine Zidane is France's biggest soccer star, spawning a legion of little Zinedines in that country.
Romani
"elf warrior or all true"
The meaning and origin of this extremely rare name are unclear, but it may be related to the Germanic name Alvar "elf warrior", or to Allovera/Elvira "all true". Historically, it has been recorded…
Variant of Alafair
Hawaiian; Swahili
"truthful; most beautiful"
Alika is a multicultural choice that's far off the beaten track.
Albanian
"good faith"
An Albanian boy name with a religious meaning that would work well internationally.
A charming Albanian name that offers both the sweet Bessie and the cool, international Mira as nicknames.
Welsh
"belief, trust, credit"
A Welsh name passed down from ancient history: the first known Coel was a leader in Romano-British times, who became a figure of medieval legend. Coel Hen (Coel the Old) was the name of a king in…
Hebrew
"belief in God"
Heard more in Israel than the U. S.
Irish
"true desire"
This Irish Gaelic name would be more accessible in other cultures in its modern Dervla form.
Sanskrit
"truth"
In Buddhism, Dharma embodies the basic principles of cosmic existence--making it a fitting name for the hippyish character on the sitcom Dharma and Greg , whose middle name was Freedom. Students of…
Diminutive of Dillon, Irish
"loyal"
Diminutive of Dillon
"genuine, steadfast, true"
Common in Wales, but would really stand out here. One of the middle names of Stella McCartney's daughter Reiley; Dilys Powell was a well-known British film critic, Professor Dilys Derwent a Harry…
Sumerian
"loyal son"
In ancient Mesopotamia, Dumuzid was the god of shepherds and fertility and husband of the goddess Inanna. Tammuz, the Semitic transcription of the name, is more likely to be used today.
