Names starting with V

From the Old Norse name Vébjǫrn, derived from the elements vé "holy" and bjǫrn "bear".

Diminutive of Vesna.

Older form of Václav.

Means "knowledge" in Sanskrit.

Bosnian masculine form of Widad.

Variant of Vedastus.

Possibly a Latinized form of a Germanic or Celtic name, possibly Germanic Widogast. This was the name of a 6th-century saint who helped to convert...

Turkish masculine form of Widad.

Means "clear, cheerful" in Croatian and Serbian.

Feminine form of Vedran.

Limburgish short form of Vera 1.

Finnish and Estonian form of Vera 1.

Diminutive of Veer.

Dutch (mainly Flemish) form of Pharaildis.

Finnish diminutive of Fredrik or Ferdinand.

Means "meadow, plain" in Spanish. It is taken from a title of the Virgin Mary, La Virgen de la Vega, meaning "The Virgin of the Meadow". She is the...

The name of a star in the constellation Lyra. Its name is from Arabic الواقع (al-Wāqiʿ) meaning "the swooping (eagle)".

From the Old Norse name Végarðr, derived from the elements vé "holy" and garðr "enclosure, yard".

Old Norse form of Vegard.

Originally a diminutive of Veikko.

From a colloquial form of the Finnish word veli meaning "brother".

Estonian form of Veikko.

German form of Vitus.

Means "bird woman" in Cheyenne, derived from vé'kėséhe- "bird" and the feminine suffix -e'é [1].

Means "bird chief" in Cheyenne, derived from vé'kėséhe- "bird" and vého "chief" [1].

The medieval Spanish form of Vasco.

Meaning unknown, possibly a derivative of the Old German element walt meaning "power, authority".

Possibly derived from Old Slavic volŭ meaning "ox" or velĭ meaning "great". Veles or Volos was the Slavic god of cattle, also associated with the...

Means "brother" in Finnish.

Turkish and Albanian form of Wali.

From the Roman family name Velius, which possibly means "concealed" in Latin.

Derived from the Slavic elements velĭ "great" and borti "battle".

Feminine form of Velichko.

Derived from Bulgarian велик (velik) meaning "great".

Derived from the Slavic elements velĭ "great" and mirŭ "peace, world".

Bulgarian form of Wielisław.

Bulgarian and Serbian form of Belisarius.

Diminutive of Veselko.

From Finnish velloa "to surge, to swell". This was the name of a Finnish goddess of the sea, the wife of Ahti.

From a diminutive form of the Estonian word veli meaning "brother".

Probably a variant of Wilma, the spelling with an e perhaps due to the influence of Selma 1. This name has been in use since the 19th century.

Derived from Latvian velte meaning "gift, tribute". The Latvian playwright Aspazija used it for a character in her play Zaudētās Tiesības (1894).

Means "little wolf" in Yiddish, a diminutive of װאָלףֿ (volf) meaning "wolf". This is a vernacular form of Zeev.

Feminine form of Velvel.

From the English word for the soft fabric. It became used as a given name after the main character in Enid Bagnold's book National Velvet (1935) and...

From the Old Norse name Vémundr, derived from the elements vé "holy" and mundr "protection".

Old Norse form of Vemund.

Means "yearning, desire" in Sanskrit. According to Hindu scripture this was the name of an evil and irreligious king.

French form of Venantius.

Spanish form of Venantius.

Derived from Latin venans meaning "hunting, chasing, pursuing". This name was borne by several early saints, including a 6th-century bishop of...

Italian form of Venantius.

The Hungarian form of Václav.

Italian form of Václav, via the Latinized form Venceslaus.

French form of Václav, via the Latinized form Venceslaus.

Portuguese form of Václav, via the Latinized form Venceslaus.

Medieval Latinized form of Veceslav (see Václav).

Czech variant of Veceslav (see Václav).

Slovene form of Veceslav (see Václav).

Feminine form of Věnceslav.