Historic Names, Meanings, and their History

Explore historic names from around the world to learn more about, including their meanings, pronunciation, and history.

This post about historic names is all you'll ever need.

The best part? You can submit new historic names to this list in case they are missing. We'll take a look and approve them.

Boy Girl

👧👦

Agin (AY-gin)

Find details about Agin including its meaning, pronunciation, and history, here.

ancient historic gender-neutral baby

agin name meaning

👦

Bindusar (BIN-doo-sar)

Find details about Bindusar including its meaning, pronunciation, and history, here.

kings masculine hindu ancient boy indian baby

bindusar name meaning

🤷

Burzinkurush (boor-zin-koo-roosh)

Find details about Burzinkurush including its meaning, pronunciation, and history, here.

ancient persian iranian kurdish-iranian baby zoroastrian farsi

burzinkurush name meaning

👦

Charleston (CHAHR-uhl-stuhn)

Find details about Charleston including its meaning, pronunciation, and history, here.

masculine baby american-english historic english american boy

charleston name meaning

👦

Dathan (Day-than)

Find details about Dathan including its meaning, pronunciation, and history, here.

religious gender-neutral baby biblical unisex traditional hebrew

dathan name meaning

👦

Duryasi (dur-yah-see)

Find details about Duryasi including its meaning, pronunciation, and history, here.

indian masculine boy ancient hindu traditional baby

duryasi name meaning

👧

Earna (ER-nah)

Find details about Earna including its meaning, pronunciation, and history, here.

uncommon baby scottish rare gender-neutral historic traditional

earna name meaning

👧

Etelburga (eh-tuhl-BUR-ga)

Find details about Etelburga including its meaning, pronunciation, and history, here.

anglo-saxon baby girl female traditional feminine english

etelburga name meaning

👦

Harischandra (Ha-ree-shan-dra)

Find details about Harischandra including its meaning, pronunciation, and history, here.

boy traditional baby historic hindu masculine male

harischandra name meaning

🤷

Hubur (HU-bur)

Find details about Hubur including its meaning, pronunciation, and history, here.

traditional strong boy powerful turkic historic ancient

hubur name meaning

👦

Huet (hweh)

Find details about Huet including its meaning, pronunciation, and history, here.

masculine german-english baby french french-german english-german bright

huet name meaning

👧👦

Kunala (koo-NAH-lah)

Find details about Kunala including its meaning, pronunciation, and history, here.

masculine historic male boy baby ancient hindu

kunala name meaning

Submit New Name Next Page