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Baby Names By Usage

Usage tells you in which languages, countries, or historical contexts a name is used as a given name - it's where and when people give a name to children. Browse through amazing names, search by the usage of names for timeless classics to rare, enchanting finds. Fall in love with the one that feels right.

Baby Names by Usage

Baby Names by Usage
(see below categories)

E.g. Type: Indian, Irish, Polish, Zulu, Biblical, Arabic…

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Usage Categories

Africa

  • African
  • Akan
  • Amharic
  • Berber
  • Chewa
  • Ewe
  • Ganda
  • Hausa
  • Ibibio
  • Igbo
  • Kikuyu
  • Luhya
  • Luo
  • Ndebele
  • Oromo
  • Shona
  • Somali
  • Sotho
  • Swahili
  • Tswana
  • Tumbuka
  • Urhobo
  • Xhosa
  • Yoruba
  • Zulu

Americas (Indigenous)

  • Native American
  • Apache
  • Cherokee
  • Cheyenne
  • Cree
  • Greenlandic
  • Inuit
  • Iroquois
  • Mapuche
  • Mayan
  • Nahuatl
  • Navajo
  • Ojibwe
  • Quechua
  • Sioux
  • Shawnee
  • Tupi

Asia (excluding India)

  • Arabic
  • Armenian
  • Azerbaijani
  • Bengali
  • Burmese
  • Chinese
  • Dhivehi
  • Filipino
  • Georgian
  • Hebrew
  • Hmong
  • Indonesian
  • Japanese
  • Javanese
  • Kazakh
  • Khmer
  • Korean
  • Kurdish
  • Kyrgyz
  • Malay
  • Mongolian
  • Nepali
  • Pakistani
  • Pashto
  • Persian
  • Punjabi
  • Sinhalese
  • Tagalog
  • Tajik
  • Tibetan
  • Thai
  • Turkish
  • Turkmen
  • Urdu
  • Uyghur
  • Uzbek
  • Vietnamese

Europe

  • Albanian
  • Avar
  • Basque
  • Belarusian
  • Bosnian
  • Breton
  • Bulgarian
  • Catalan
  • Chechen
  • Cornish
  • Corsican
  • Croatian
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • English
  • Estonian
  • Faroese
  • Finnish
  • French
  • Frisian
  • Galician
  • German
  • Greek
  • Hungarian
  • Icelandic
  • Irish
  • Italian
  • Latvian
  • Limburgish
  • Lithuanian
  • Low German
  • Macedonian
  • Manx
  • Norwegian
  • Occitan
  • Ossetian
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Romanian
  • Russian
  • Sardinian
  • Scottish
  • Serbian
  • Slovak
  • Slovene
  • Sorbian
  • Spanish
  • Swedish
  • Tatar
  • Ukrainian
  • Welsh
  • Yiddish

India

  • Indian
  • Bengali
  • Gujarati
  • Hindi
  • Kannada
  • Malayalam
  • Marathi
  • Odia
  • Punjabi
  • Tamil
  • Telugu
  • Urdu

Pacific & Australia

  • Fijian
  • Hawaiian
  • Indigenous Australian
  • Maori
  • Tahitian
  • Tongan

Other

  • African American
  • Esperanto

Other Categories

Mythology & Religion

  • Mythology
  • African Mythology
  • Afro-American Mythology
  • Anglo-Saxon Mythology
  • Aztec Mythology
  • Baltic Mythology
  • Celtic Mythology
  • Chinese Mythology
  • Egyptian Mythology
  • Far Eastern Mythology
  • Finnish Mythology
  • Germanic Mythology
  • Greek Mythology
  • Hindu Mythology
  • Irish Mythology
  • Japanese Mythology
  • Judeo-Christian-Legend
  • Mayan Mythology
  • Near Eastern Mythology
  • New World Mythology
  • Norse Mythology
  • Persian Mythology
  • Polynesian Mythology
  • Roman Mythology
  • Semitic Mythology
  • Slavic Mythology
  • Sumerian Mythology
  • Welsh Mythology

Biblical

  • All Biblical
  • Biblical
  • Biblical Greek
  • Biblical Hebrew
  • Biblical Latin

Ancient & Medieval

  • Ancient
  • Medieval
  • Ancient Egyptian
  • Ancient Greek
  • Ancient Persian
  • Anglo-Saxon
  • Ancient Assyrian
  • Germanic
  • Medieval English
  • Medieval French
  • Late Roman
  • Medieval Slavic
  • Medieval Spanish
  • Ancient Near Eastern
  • Ancient Irish
  • Ancient Scandinavian
  • Ancient Welsh
  • Phoenician
  • Ancient Roman

Other

  • Arthurian Cycle
  • Astronomy
  • Carolingian Cycle
  • History
  • Literature
  • Popular Culture