About Legacy Baby Names

Legacy Baby Names is a guide to baby names from around the world. It has 980 names from 31 cultures and languages, and more are added all the time.

How we explain meanings

Many names are used in more than one culture. Often a name came about separately in different languages, so it has a different meaning in each. When that happens, we show every meaning instead of choosing one.

In Japanese, Chinese and Sino-Korean names, the meaning depends on the characters a family chooses. For these names we give a common reading, but the same name can be written in many ways.

The meanings of some very old names are not certain, and scholars sometimes disagree. We give the meaning that is most widely accepted.

Pronunciation

Our pronunciation guides use simple English spelling. The syllable in CAPITAL letters is the stressed one. How a name is said can differ between regions and families, so our guides are a starting point.

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