Historical Names

Discover timeless baby names with our list of over 21 historical names for boys and girls. Explore classic and evocative options to honor your heritage.

Showing 97–144 of 1,198 names

from Assisi

Proto-Bulgar / Turkic

horse-lord

welcome, embrace

father of peace

from Assisi

Blessed, happy

star

The Lord is exalted

Germanic, through Italian

noble wolf

Germanic, through Italian

father of the Goths

The Lord is exalted

The Lord is exalted

ancient, old; father

Little Father

The Lord is exalted

Born with big buttocks; after a king of Kano

Scottish Gaelic / Brythonic

field of the flat stone

rich, prosperous, fortunate

115.Aurivillius

golden village

from Ausonia (ancient name for Italy)

increasing, growing

great, magnificent, venerable

possibly related to 'Augustus' (venerable, majestic)

Holy Wisdom

house-famous

Ancient Greek, Swahili

Land of the Blacks, or from the verb 'to hear'

from Azeglio

noble, of noble kind

Basque, likely via Latin

fox

father, guardian

Marathi, Indian

father master

Name of a Katsina King (1565-1575)

Unknown, possibly related to 'Badis', a historical figure

from Baghdad

Gift of God; Garden of God

God's gift

Name of an ancient city, Vaishali

Catalan, possibly from Latin or Germanic

possibly 'white' or 'pale'

left-handed

stammerer, stutterer

Italian, from Greek and Aramaic/Babylonian

Baal protects the king

138.Baldassarre

Akkadian, Babylonian

Ba'al protect the king

bold friend

lord, master

Baal protects the king

Aramaic, Persian, Greek

Baal protects the king

basket maker

bean

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