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English 419 Greek 281 Latin 255 Hebrew 243 Hawaiian 241 French 213 Arabic 211 Persian 211 Korean 210 Thai 210 Turkish 204 Celtic 200 Sanskrit 199 Basque 198 Italian 198 Irish 187 Filipino 186 Japanese 186 Welsh 186 Finnish 178 German 174 Armenian 171 Ethiopian (Amharic) 161 Hungarian 157 Dutch 156 Polish 153 Romanian 149 Portuguese 143 Vietnamese 138 Yoruba/Nigerian 135 Scottish 132 Swahili 123 Egyptian 119 Khmer 117 Spanish 115 Chinese 111 Scandinavian 109 Akan (Ghanaian) 99 Mongolian 96 Tamil 96 Punjabi 93 Telugu/Sanskrit 93 Maori 88 Bengali/Sanskrit 85 Georgian 85 Amazigh/Berber 76 Sinhala 70 Arabic/Malay 68 Slavic 54 Croatian 53 Kazakh 51 Igbo/Nigerian 50 Somali 50 Czech 47 Ghanaian (Akan) 46 Czech/Slovak 45 Old Norse 45 Somali/Arabic 44 Serbian 43 Native American (general) 42 Germanic 41 Ukrainian 38 Zulu 38 Javanese/Sanskrit 36 Egyptian/Arabic 34 Javanese 34 Xhosa 33 Bulgarian 31 Samoan 31 Sinhala/Sanskrit 30 Czech/Slovak (Slavic) 27 Russian 26 Latvian 23 Tongan 22 Ghanaian (Ewe) 20 Anglo-Saxon 18 Bengali 18 Bulgarian/Slavic 17 Old English 15 Ethiopian (Oromo) 14 Ethiopian (Tigrinya) 14 Latin/English 14 Uzbek/Persian 13 Arabic/Indonesian 12 Czech/Slovak (Latin) 12 Ethiopian (Amharic/Biblical) 12 Greek/English 12 Indonesian 12 Native American (Sioux) 12 Slovak 12 Slovenian 12 Swahili/Arabic 12 Uzbek 12 East African 11 Ghanaian (Ga) 11 Zulu/Xhosa 11 Germanic/English 10 Ukrainian/Greek 10 Xhosa/Zulu 10 French/English 9 Ghanaian (Fante) 8 Czech/Slovak (Hebrew) 7 Kazakh/Uzbek 7 Latin via Slovenian 7 Norse 7 Sioux 7 American 6 Cornish 6 Czech/Slovak (Germanic) 6 East African/Biblical 6 Latvian/Germanic 6 Malay 6 Native American (Algonquin) 6 Native American (Hopi) 6 Russian/Greek 6 Akan/Ghanaian 5 Amazigh/Berber (shared with Arabic) 5 Cherokee 5 Czech/Slovak (Greek) 5 Greek via Slovenian 5 Hebrew/English 5 Luo 5 modern invented 5 modern invented (English blend) 5 Tamil/Sanskrit 5 Ukrainian/Slavic 5 combination 4 Croatian (Dalmatian) 4 Croatian/Latin 4 Egyptian/Coptic 4 French/Latin 4 Germanic via Slovenian 4 Germanic/Spanish 4 Hopi 4 Kalenjin 4 Kamba 4 Kikuyu 4 Native American (Navajo) 4 Navajo 4 Sanskrit/Indonesian 4 Scottish/English 4 Serbian (Greek root) 4 Tamil (Christian) 4 Telugu 4 Urhobo/Nigerian 4 Uzbek/Arabic 4 Uzbek/Kazakh 4 Yoruba/Nigerian (Arabic-influenced) 4 American surname 3 Aramaic 3 Chichewa/East African 3 Choctaw 3 Czech (Greek) 3 Egyptian/Nubian 3 English (gemstone) 3 English (place name) 3 English (Puritan virtue name) 3 English surname 3 Hebrew-Arabic/Malay 3 Icelandic 3 Indonesian/Malay 3 Latvian/Norse 3 Native American (Cherokee) 3 Native American (Lakota Sioux) 3 Native American (Zuni) 3 Ojibwe 3 Persian/Arabic 3 Samoan/Tongan 3 Sanskrit/Persian 3 Spanish/English 3 Spanish/Latin 3 Swedish 3 Tamil (Muslim) 3 Ukrainian/Latin 3 Welsh/English 3 Yoruba/Nigeria 3 Algonquin 2 Amazigh/Berber (Tuareg) 2 Amazigh/Berber (variant of Ilyas) 2 Arabic (common in Indonesia) 2 Arabic-Persian/Malay 2 Arabic/Persian 2 Aramaic/Spanish 2 Balinese 2 Batak (North Sumatra) 2 Border Xhosa/Sotho name 2 Breton 2 Bulgar (ancient) 2 Croatian/Greek 2 Czech (Germanic) 2 Czech (Latin) 2 Czech/Slovak (Hungarian/Greek) 2 Czech/Slovak (Latin, via Russian) 2 East African/Islamic 2 Edo/Nigerian 2 English/German 2 English/Irish 2 English/Italian 2 English/Latin 2 Fijian/Tongan 2 Frankish 2 French surname 2 French/Irish 2 German/Latin 2 Germanic/French 2 Germanic/Latin 2 Germanic/Scandinavian 2 Germanic/Scottish 2 Ghanaian (Akan, with English given name) 2 Greek mythology 2 Greek/Latin 2 Greek/Russian 2 Hebrew via Slovenian 2 Hebrew/French 2 Igbo/Nigeria 2 Indonesian (modern coinage) 2 Indonesian/Arabic 2 Invented/English 2 Iroquois 2 Italian surname 2 Javanese/Indonesian 2 Kazakh/Arabic 2 Kazakh/Kyrgyz 2 Kikuyu/East African 2 Latin/Germanic 2 Latin/Irish 2 Latin/Spanish 2 Latvian/Greek 2 Miwok 2 modern invented (surname-style) 2 Native American 2 Native American (Apache) 2 Native American (blended, Southwest) 2 Native American (Comanche) 2 Native American (Miwok) 2 Native American (Ojibwe) 2 Native American (Seminole) 2 Norwegian 2 Old French/English 2 Old German/English 2 Persian-Arabic/Malay 2 Punjabi/Persian 2 Russian/Latin 2 Sanskrit/Hindi 2 Sanskrit/Javanese 2 Slovak (Slavic) 2 Tongan/Fijian 2 Tongan/Samoan 2 West African 2 African/Latin 1 Amazigh/Berber (Kabyle diminutive) 1 Amazigh/Berber (regional, Rif-linked) 1 Amazigh/Berber (shared broader North African use) 1 Amazigh/Berber (shared broader use) 1 Amazigh/Berber (shared with Arabic/Persian) 1 American (19th-century coined) 1 American (modern coinage) 1 American (place: Juneau, Alaska) 1 American (place: Sedona, Arizona) 1 American blend of Ida + Ella 1 American blend of Louise + Etta 1 American coined name 1 American short form of Sophronia 1 American short form of Theodocia 1 American variant of Elijah/Elzey 1 American/botanical 1 American/vintage 1 Anglo-Saxon/Frankish 1 Apache 1 Arabic (place: Cairo, Egypt) 1 Arabic (place: the Sahara Desert) 1 Arabic-Malay 1 Arabic/Spanish 1 Arabic/Urdu-Indonesian 1 Aramaic/English 1 Australian/English 1 avoid 1 Babylonian 1 Babylonian/biblical 1 Babylonian/English 1 Balinese/Javanese 1 Bari/South Sudanese 1 Berber (place: Marrakesh, Morocco) 1 Biblical place name 1 Breton/French (variant of Corentin) 1 Bulgar (Old Turkic/Bulgarian) 1 Bulgarian (diminutive folk name) 1 Bulgarian (diminutive of Ivan) 1 Bulgarian (diminutive of Kiril) 1 Bulgarian (flower name) 1 Bulgarian (folk variant) 1 Bulgarian (from Archangel) 1 Bulgarian (from Elijah) 1 Bulgarian (from Elijah/Iliya) 1 Bulgarian (from George) 1 Bulgarian (from Greek Christos) 1 Bulgarian (from Rila mountains) 1 Bulgarian (Greek Cyril) 1 Bulgarian (Greek Methodios) 1 Bulgarian (Greek Nikephoros) 1 Bulgarian (Greek Theodora) 1 Bulgarian (place name, used rarely as given name) 1 Bulgarian (short form of Nedyalko) 1 Bulgarian (short form) 1 Canadian (gemstone, from fossilized ammonite shells) 1 combined English 1 Croatian/Hebrew 1 Croatian/South Slavic 1 Czech (Hebrew) 1 Czech (Slavic) 1 Czech/Slovak (Aramaic) 1 Czech/Slovak (English/Germanic) 1 Czech/Slovak (French/Hebrew) 1 Czech/Slovak (Greek, via Cornelia/Petronela) 1 Czech/Slovak (Greek, via Russian Sofia) 1 Czech/Slovak (Greek/Slavic) 1 Czech/Slovak (Hebrew, via Maria) 1 Czech/Slovak (Hebrew/Persian) 1 Czech/Slovak (Old Norse) 1 Czech/Slovak (Old Norse/Slavic) 1 Dakota 1 Danish 1 Dutch surname (rare literary use) 1 Dutch/American (place: Brooklyn, NYC) 1 Dutch/English 1 East African (Swahili-adjacent) 1 East African crossover 1 East African/Congolese 1 East African/Igbo 1 Egyptian/African 1 Elvish/Latin 1 English (diminutive of Antoinette/Jeanette) 1 English (gemstone variant of jasper) 1 English (gemstone, fire opal variety) 1 English (gemstone, named for chemist Benjamin Silliman) 1 English (gemstone, named for chemist Henry How) 1 English (gemstone, named for gem dealer Sid Pieters) 1 English (gemstone, named for its heavenly blue) 1 English (gemstone, named for J.P. Morgan) 1 English (gemstone, named for mineralogist Arthur Pain) 1 English (gemstone, named for prospector William Hidden) 1 English (gemstone, named for Tanzania) 1 English (gemstone, named for the Amazon River) 1 English (gemstone, named for Tiffany's George Kunz) 1 English (occupational surname, cloth dyer) 1 English (place: Aspen, Colorado; tree name) 1 English (place: coastal bay) 1 English (place: London, England) 1 English (place: Mount Everest) 1 English (surname, from Galloway) 1 English (variant of Loxley) 1 English (variant of Selwyn) 1 English (virtue-adjacent name) 1 English variant of Pearl 1 English/Danish 1 English/French 1 English/Hebrew 1 English/Norse 1 English/Scottish 1 English/Welsh 1 Ethiopian 1 Ethiopian (Amharic/Tigrinya) 1 Ethiopian (Tigrinya/Amharic) 1 Etruscan/Latin 1 Finnish surname 1 French ('citron,' lemon) 1 French ('flea,' for the color of a flea's blood) 1 French ('rousset,' reddish') 1 French ('unbleached, raw') 1 French (feminine of Bastien) 1 French (gemstone, named for paleontologist Eugène Dumortier) 1 French (named for a character in a play) 1 French (named for a liqueur made by monks) 1 French (named for the mallow flower) 1 French (origin uncertain, wood-soot pigment) 1 French (place: Lourdes, France) 1 French (variant of Perrine) 1 French/Arabic (gemstone) 1 French/Canadian (gemstone, named for Labrador) 1 French/English variant of Orville 1 French/German 1 French/Haitian 1 French/Hebrew 1 French/Norman 1 French/Provençal 1 French/Spanish 1 Frisian 1 Gaelic, feminine of Rowan 1 German ('kobold,' goblin) 1 German/Danish 1 German/Dutch 1 German/English 1 German/English (surname) 1 German/Greek 1 German/Hungarian 1 Germanic/Dutch 1 Germanic/Irish 1 Ghanaian (Akan, loaned) 1 Ghanaian (Fante/Akan) 1 Ghanaian (Ga, with English given name) 1 Greek ('aktis,' ray, for its ray-like crystals') 1 Greek ('amethystos,' not intoxicated) 1 Greek ('apate,' deceit, for being mistaken for other gems') 1 Greek ('axe,' for its blade-like crystal shape) 1 Greek ('beryllos') 1 Greek ('chrysos' + 'kolla,' gold glue') 1 Greek ('deep blue') 1 Greek ('diaspeirein,' to scatter') 1 Greek ('double appearance') 1 Greek ('eidos' + 'krasis,' mixed form') 1 Greek ('enstates,' opponent, for its resistance to heat') 1 Greek ('glaukos,' gleaming, bluish-gray') 1 Greek ('kinnabari') 1 Greek ('leek-colored stone') 1 Greek ('mallow,' for its green color) 1 Greek ('nephros,' kidney, for old belief it cured kidney ailments') 1 Greek ('pyropos,' fire-eyed') 1 Greek ('rose-colored') 1 Greek ('sappheiros') 1 Greek ('sepia,' cuttlefish) 1 Greek ('smaragdos') 1 Greek ('sun-turning') 1 Greek (combination of 'sard' and 'onyx') 1 Greek (disputed, possibly Germanic-Greek blend) 1 Greek (gemstone, 'gold leek') 1 Greek (gemstone, 'rose') 1 Greek (gemstone, 'violet stone') 1 Greek (gemstone, named for ancient city Chalcedon) 1 Greek (named for Selene, moon goddess) 1 Greek (named for tin, 'kassiteros') 1 Greek (place: ancient Persia, modern Iran) 1 Greek (place: ancient Sparta) 1 Greek (place: Ithaca, Greece) 1 Greek (place: river delta) 1 Greek (variant of heliotrope, 'sun-turning') 1 Greek (via Egyptian, sculpting stone) 1 Greek mythology, French form 1 Greek variant of Chloe 1 Greek-Arabic/Malay 1 Greek, from Egyptian pharaoh name 1 Greek/Aboriginal Australian 1 Greek/Aramaic 1 Greek/Egyptian 1 Greek/French (place: Paris, France) 1 Greek/Hawaiian 1 Greek/Hebrew 1 Greek/Persian 1 Greek/Scottish 1 Hausa/Nigerian 1 Hebrew (place: Bethany, biblical) 1 Hebrew (place: Jericho, biblical) 1 Hebrew (place: the biblical Promised Land) 1 Hebrew via Icelandic 1 Hebrew, biblical 1 Hebrew/African diaspora 1 Hebrew/Aramaic 1 Hebrew/Malay 1 Hebrew/Spanish 1 Icelandic form of Laura 1 Icelandic form of Petra 1 Icelandic/Old Norse 1 Indonesian (from Aldy/Aldo blend) 1 Indonesian/Persian 1 invented 1 Irish (surname, from Ó Ciaragáin) 1 Irish folklore 1 Irish/Aboriginal 1 Irish/English 1 Irish/Greek 1 Irish/Latin 1 Irish/Norman 1 Italian (architectural term) 1 Italian (feminine of Corrado) 1 Italian (feminine of Ottavio) 1 Italian (gemstone, 'by chance') 1 Italian (place: Capri, Italy) 1 Italian (place: Elba, Italy) 1 Italian (place: Genoa, Italy) 1 Italian (place: Sicily, Italy) 1 Italian/English 1 Italian/French 1 Italian/French (place: Corsica, France) 1 Italian/Latin 1 Japanese (gemstone, named for geologist Ken-ichi Sugi) 1 Javanese/Arabic 1 Javanese/Bali/Sanskrit 1 Kazakh/Persian 1 Kazakh/Tatar 1 Khmer/Pali 1 Lakota 1 Latin ('alburnus,' blond, shifted to reddish-brown) 1 Latin ('aqua marina,' sea water') 1 Latin ('cardo,' hinge, principal') 1 Latin ('cornus,' cherry, for its color') 1 Latin ('reddish-golden') 1 Latin ('to flow') 1 Latin (from Ceres, goddess of harvest) 1 Latin (gemstone, 'celestial') 1 Latin (gemstone, 'serpent-like') 1 Latin (gemstone, 'thorn') 1 Latin (named for Roman explorer Obsius) 1 Latin (named for the periwinkle flower) 1 Latin (Rose variant) 1 Latin (via Greek/Persian) 1 Latin variant of Pamela 1 Latin via Icelandic 1 Latin via Icelandic (Cecilia) 1 Latin/English (place: Austin, Texas) 1 Latin/French 1 Latin/German 1 Latin/Greek 1 Latin/Hebrew 1 Latin/Hungarian 1 Latin/Italian place name 1 Latin/Norse 1 Latin/Polish 1 Latin/Roman (mythological queen of gods) 1 Latin/Russian 1 Latin/Scandinavian 1 Latin/Shakespearean 1 Latin/Spanish variant 1 Latin/Welsh 1 Latvian/Latin 1 literary (from Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene) 1 Luhya 1 Maasai (place: Nairobi, Kenya) 1 Malawian 1 Malay/Arabic 1 Maori/English blend 1 Minangkabau/Malay 1 modern invented (blend of Adele + Elmira) 1 modern invented (blend of Barnaby + Sycamore) 1 modern invented (blend of Bracken + Rose) 1 modern invented (blend of Brendan + Moor) 1 modern invented (blend of Brooke + Bellamy) 1 modern invented (blend of Corinne + Anthe) 1 modern invented (blend of Fae + Lynn) 1 modern invented (blend of Falcon + Stone) 1 modern invented (blend of Ferro + Wyn) 1 modern invented (blend of Gale + Hart) 1 modern invented (blend of Isabel + Esmeralda) 1 modern invented (blend of Isolde + Linden) 1 modern invented (blend of Mar + Sol, sea and sun) 1 modern invented (blend of Mara + Ravel) 1 modern invented (blend of Marisol + Senna) 1 modern invented (blend of Marna + Elise) 1 modern invented (blend of Meridian + Ellyn) 1 modern invented (blend of Odessa + Lyn) 1 modern invented (blend of Ren + Frost) 1 modern invented (blend of Rowan + Aidan) 1 modern invented (blend of Stellar + Alaric) 1 modern invented (Celtic-influenced) 1 modern invented (Cornish/Welsh blend) 1 modern invented (elaborated Marigold) 1 modern invented (English blend of Cor + Gwyn) 1 modern invented (English blend of Rose + Gwyn) 1 modern invented (English place-style) 1 modern invented (English surname-style) 1 modern invented (fantasy-Celtic blend) 1 modern invented (French-style diminutive of Marie) 1 modern invented (from Amara + -eth) 1 modern invented (from banner) 1 modern invented (from Corbin, raven) 1 modern invented (from Delphine) 1 modern invented (from dusk) 1 modern invented (from ember) 1 modern invented (from fennec fox) 1 modern invented (from Greek Nyx, goddess of night) 1 modern invented (from Greek Selene, moon) 1 modern invented (from halcyon) 1 modern invented (from juniper) 1 modern invented (from kestrel) 1 modern invented (from Latin aureus, golden) 1 modern invented (from Latin corvus, raven) 1 modern invented (from Latin sol, sun) 1 modern invented (from Liese, short for Elisabeth) 1 modern invented (from medieval title) 1 modern invented (from sable) 1 modern invented (Manx-influenced, from Quirk) 1 modern invented (variant of Pierce) 1 modern invented (variant of Remy) 1 Modern literary, Gregory Maguire invention 1 Named for botanist Leonhart Fuchs 1 Named for Cambodia, where the resin originates 1 Named for Cordoba, Spain 1 Named for Muscovy, Russia (used as window glass) 1 Named for the ancient city Alabanda 1 Named for the ancient city Byzantium 1 Named for the Battle of Solferino, Italy 1 Named for the city of Damascus 1 Narragansett 1 Native American (Algonquin, rare) 1 Native American (Blackfoot greeting/name) 1 Native American (blended, Anglicized) 1 Native American (blended, modern) 1 Native American (blended) 1 Native American (Cherokee, rare) 1 Native American (Cheyenne Nation) 1 Native American (Chinook) 1 Native American (Chiricahua Apache, Spanish-adapted) 1 Native American (Chiricahua Apache) 1 Native American (Choctaw) 1 Native American (Delaware/Lenape) 1 Native American (Koyukon Athabaskan) 1 Native American (Mapuche) 1 Native American (Miwok, short form) 1 Native American (Miwok/Sioux use) 1 Native American (Narragansett) 1 Native American (Oglala Lakota) 1 Native American (Pomo) 1 Native American (Powhatan/Algonquian) 1 Native American (Quechua-influenced) 1 Native American (Salinan) 1 Native American (Sioux, variant) 1 Native American (Tupi-Guarani) 1 Native American (Wampanoag) 1 Native American-influenced (Spanish/place) 1 Norman 1 Norse/English 1 Norse/Germanic 1 Norwegian (gemstone, named for Larvik, Norway) 1 Old English (place: Boston, Massachusetts) 1 Old English (place: Bristol, England) 1 Old English (place: eastern town) 1 Old English (place: Kensington, London) 1 Old English (place: Sussex, England) 1 Old English/Invented 1 Old English/Norse 1 Old English/Welsh 1 Old French 1 Old German 1 Old Norse/Invented 1 Persian (via French, 'lazhward,' lapis lazuli) 1 Persian feminine of Cyrus 1 Persian via Slavic 1 Persian via Slovenian 1 Persian/English 1 Persian/Indonesian 1 Persian/Malay 1 Polish/Lithuanian 1 Potawatomi 1 Rare archaic English variant 1 Romani 1 Russian (diminutive of Anna via Anushka) 1 Russian (gemstone, named for Tsar Alexander II) 1 Russian/French 1 Sanskrit/Arabic 1 Sanskrit/English (place: India) 1 Sanskrit/Russian 1 Scottish (place: Houston, Texas) 1 Scottish form of Greek John 1 Scottish Gaelic 1 Scottish surname 1 Scottish/Celtic 1 Scottish/Greek 1 Scottish/Irish 1 Semitic (place: Damascus, Syria) 1 Semitic/Italian (place: Malta) 1 Serbian/Croatian 1 Shoshone 1 Sindarin/Invented 1 Sinhala/Pali 1 Sinhala/Persian 1 Slavic (diminutive of Aleksandar) 1 Slavic/English 1 Slavic/Greek 1 Slavic/Sanskrit 1 Slovak (Greek) 1 Slovak (Latin) 1 Slovak/Czech (variant of Andrew) 1 Sotho/Tswana 1 Spanish (Caribbean, blend of Ivette + Elisse) 1 Spanish (gemstone, Dominican Republic) 1 Spanish (place: Havana, Cuba) 1 Spanish (place: Montana, USA) 1 Spanish (place: mountain range) 1 Spanish (place: Seville, Spain) 1 Spanish variant of Alfonso 1 Spanish/Arabic 1 Spanish/Arabic (place: Casablanca, Morocco) 1 Spanish/English (gemstone, named for San Benito County, CA) 1 Spanish/English (place: grassy plain, also Savannah, Georgia) 1 Spanish/Greek 1 Spanish/Italian 1 Spanish/Slavic 1 Swedish/Sami 1 Ukrainian/Norse 1 Ukrainian/Persian 1 Uzbek/Persian-Arabic 1 Variant of Otis 1 Welsh (variant of Anwen) 1 Welsh form of Greek John 1 Welsh/Arthurian (place: mythical island of legend) 1 Welsh/Invented 1 Welsh/Latin 1 Xhosa (clan-linked) 1 Xhosa (Sotho-influenced border name) 1 Yoruba/Igbo 1 Zulu (clan name used as given name) 1 Zulu (clan/surname used as given name) 1 Zulu (variant of Jabulani) 1 Zuni 1

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