Names starting with P
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Likely from Greek πηνέλοψ (penelops), a type of duck. It could alternatively derive from πήνη (pene) "threads, weft" and ὄψ (ops) "face, eye". In Home...
From the Chinese 朋 (péng) meaning "friend" or 蓬 (péng) meaning "vigorous", as well as other characters that are pronounced in a similar fashion.
The Biblical Hebrew form of Peninnah.
Signifies "pearl, coral, precious stone" in Hebrew. In the Old Testament, this is one of the wives of Elkanah, the other being Hannah.
A Bulgarian feminine diminutive of Petar.
A Bulgarian diminutive of Petar.
A diminutive of Penelope. It can also be given in reference to the copper coin (a British pound or an American dollar are worth 100 of them), derived...
Signifies "facing God" in Hebrew, from פָּנָה (pana) "to turn to" and אֵל (ʾel) "God". Two minor characters in the Old Testament bear this name.
From the English word for the type of flower. Originally thought to possess healing properties, it was named after the Greek medical deity Pæon.
A Slovene diminutive of Jožefa.
A Spanish diminutive of José.
A Frankish name of uncertain meaning, possibly signifying "awe-inspiring" from the Germanic word *bibēną "to tremble". Three majordomos of Austrasia...
A Spanish feminine diminutive of Joseph.
A Spanish diminutive of Joseph.
Likely from the English words pepper or pep (meaning "energy", itself derived from the name of the spice). Peppa Pig is a British animated children's...
A diminutive of Giuseppe.
From the English word for the spice, prepared from dried berries of the pepper plant. The word derives from Latin piper, ultimately from an...
An Italian diminutive of Giuseppe.
A diminutive form of Giuseppe.
The Old French form of Percival employed by Chrétien de Troyes.
Signifies "elegant lady", from Armenian պերճ (perch) "elegant, splendid" combined with the feminine suffix ուհի (uhi).
Created by the 12th-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes for his poem Perceval, the Story of the Grail. Chrétien may have derived it from Old...
From an English surname derived from the Norman town Perci, itself perhaps from a Gaulish given name Latinized as Persius. The surname belonged to a...
From Latin perditus signifying "lost". Shakespeare invented this name for the daughter of Hermione and Leontes in his play The Winter's Tale (1610)....
Of uncertain meaning, possibly "hard spears" from Welsh peri "spears" and dur "hard, steel" [1]. In early Welsh poetry and histories, the brothers...
From the Late Latin name Peregrinus signifying "traveller". Several early saints bore this name.
The Latin form of Peregrine.
The Hebrew form of Perez.
Signifies "breach, burst forth" in Hebrew. In the Old Testament, this is the name of the twin brother of Zerah.
The Spanish form of the Latin name Perfectus signifying "achieved, completed, perfected". Saint Perfectus was a 9th-century martyr from Córdoba,...
The Latin form of Perfecto.
From Greek περί (peri) "around, exceedingly" and βοῦς (bous) "ox, cow". Several minor characters in Greek mythology bear this name, including the...
A Croatian diminutive of Petar.
From the Greek name Περικλῆς (Perikles), from Greek περί (peri) "around, exceedingly" and κλέος (kleos) "glory". This was borne by a 5th-century BC...
A Breton diminutive of Per.
Signifies "queen of the fairies", from Turkish peri "fairy, sprite, nymph" (of Persian origin) and han "khan, ruler, leader".
The ancient Greek form of Pericles.
From Greek περιφανής (periphanes) signifying "seen all around, conspicuous, famous", from the prefix περί (peri) "around" and φανής (phanes) "appearin...
A diminutive of Pearl.
A diminutive of Perla.
A Swedish short form of Petronilla.
A Danish and Norwegian short form of Petronilla.
A diminutive of Petar.