Names starting with I

Means "strong" in Hawaiian.

Greek form of Icarus.

Turkish form of Iqbal.

Diminutive of Isaac. It was the nickname of American president Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), derived from the initial sound of his surname.

Means "power of God" in Igbo.

Means "power of the father" in Igbo.

Means "visitation" in Basque. It is a Basque equivalent of the Spanish name Visitación, coined by Sabino Arana in his 1910 list of Basque saints" name...

Hebrew form of Ichabod.

Turkish form of Iqra.

Alternate transcription of Arabic إكرام (see Ikram).

Means "honour" in Arabic, from the root كرم (karuma) meaning "to be generous".

From the name İkra combined with Arabic نور (nūr) meaning "light".

Means "earth" or "speech" in Sanskrit.

Means "goddess" in Azerbaijani, from Arabic إلاهة (ʾilāha), the feminine form of إلٰه (ʾilāh) meaning "god, deity".

Possibly from the Hebrew root עָלָה (ʿala) meaning "to ascend". In the Old Testament, this is one of King David"s mighty warriors.

Means "tree" in Hebrew.

Feminine form of Ilan.

Feminine form of Ilan.

Welsh form of Hilarius. A 6th-century Welsh saint bore this name.

Means "moon" in Basque, composed of hil "month" and argi "light".

Finnish form of Hilarius.

Italian feminine form of Hilarius.

Italian form of Hilarius.

Bulgarian and Macedonian form of Hilarion.

Russian form of Hilarius.

Italian form of Hilary.

This name might be based on the term for a water sprite in Turkish.

Norman variation of Hildebert.

Italian and Portuguese form of Hilda, or a short form of names ending in ilda.

Tatar and Bashkir form of Eldar.

Spanish form of the Visigothic name *Hildifuns, meaning "battle ready", from the Gothic elements hilds "battle" and funs "ready". A 7th-century saint...

Latinized form of Hildefons.

Hungarian diminutive of Ildikó.

Possibly a form of Hilda. It was borne by the last wife of Attila the Hun.

Hungarian diminutive of Ildikó.

Macedonian diminutive of Ilija.

Variant of Eileen.

Possibly a Romanian variant of Elena. In Romanian folklore, this is a princess abducted by monsters and rescued by a heroic knight.

Variant of Eileen.

Modern Greek form of Elektra.

Variant of Eileen, likely influenced by the spelling of Irene.

Meaning unknown, possibly an elaborated variant of Elena.

Derived from Latvian ilgas meaning "longing, desire" or ilgs meaning "long time".

Azerbaijani masculine form of Ilham.

Means "inspiration" in Arabic.

Azerbaijani feminine form of Ilham.

Turkish form of Ilham.

From the Mongolian title il-Khan meaning "subordinate Khan", first adopted by Hulagu, a grandson of Genghis Khan, who ruled the Ilkhanate stretching...

Bosnian form of İlhan.

Bosnian feminine form of İlhan.

Uzbek and Tajik form of Ilham.

Hungarian diminutive of Ilona.

Georgian form of Elijah. It is also an alternate transcription of Russian Илья or Belarusian Ілья (see Ilya) or Bulgarian Илия (see Iliya).

Alternate transcription of Bulgarian Илиян (see Iliyan).

Feminine form of Ilias (Greek) or Iliya (Bulgarian).

Modern Greek form of Elias.

The Romanian version of Elias.

Macedonian, Serbian and Croatian form of Elijah, and an alternate transcription of Bulgarian Илия (see Iliya).

Hungarian diminutive of Ilona.

Feminine form of Iliya.