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32 names

Names starting
with D.

15 girls · 16 boys

D is a crisp dental consonant that anchors names with a sense of solidity. Our database lists 32 given names that begin with it — 15 for girls and 16 for boys.

At the top of each list, Debra (#4587 in 2023) leads the girls while David (#27) leads the boys.

The most-used D names on this page draw from Hebrew, French, Ancient Greek traditions, which is roughly the cultural footprint you'd expect from U.S. naming patterns.

The boy/girl split for D is fairly even, with neither side dominating.

Girl names

Starting with D.

A 20th-century spelling variant of Deborah, from Hebrew דְּבוֹרָה (Devorah) meaning 'bee'

French form of Diana, the Roman goddess of the hunt, the moon, and wild nature — ultimately from an Indo-European root meaning 'divine' or 'heavenly'

Girl ·Ancient Greek

From Greek Dōris, a Nereid (sea-nymph) — daughter of Oceanus and mother of the fifty Nereids by Nereus

French feminine of Denis, ultimately from Greek Dionysios — 'devoted to Dionysus', the god of wine and ecstasy

The Roman goddess of the moon, the hunt, and childbirth — equated with the Greek Artemis

An English word name from Old English dagung, 'daybreak' — first used as a given name in the late 19th century

From the Spanish title of the Virgin Mary, María de los Dolores — 'Mary of the Sorrows' — referring to the Seven Sorrows of Mary

A modern American coinage built from the affectionate word 'darling' with the -ene suffix popular in the early 20th century

A diminutive of Deborah, from Hebrew Devorah meaning 'bee'

From the flower, whose Old English name dæges ēage means "day's eye" — for the way the bloom opens with the sun and closes at dusk

From the English word, ultimately from Latin destinare ('to make firm, to determine')

An English elaboration of Diana (Roman goddess of the hunt) or a feminine of Dean

A spelling variant of Dolores, from the Spanish title María de los Dolores — 'Mary of the Sorrows' — referring to the Seven Sorrows of the Virgin Mary

Delicate, languishing

Dounia دُنْيَا

"The world, earthly life, that which is near

Boy names

Starting with D.

God is my judge

From Scottish Gaelic dubh ('dark') + glas ('stream' or 'water'); originally a place name on the River Douglas, then a powerful Scottish clan surname

Son of the sea; great wave

Boy ·Old English

From Old English dæl meaning 'valley' — originally a surname for someone who lived in a valley

A diminutive of Daniel, from Hebrew Daniyyel meaning 'God is my judge'

From the Old Germanic Theoderic — theod ('people') + ric ('ruler'); 'ruler of the people'

Boy ·Old English

From Old English or Old Norse Thurstan — Thor (the thunder god) + stan ('stone'); 'Thor's stone'

Boy ·Old English

From Old English denu ('valley') as a place-based surname, or from Anglo-Norman deien meaning 'leader of ten' (the source of the academic and church title 'dean')

From the Irish surname Ó Damhain meaning 'descendant of Damhán' — Damhán being a personal name from damh ('stag', 'poet')

A short form of Donald, from Scottish Gaelic Domhnall meaning 'world ruler' or 'world mighty'

From the Norman-French surname d'Airel — referring to someone from Airelle in Normandy

A spelling variant of Derek, from Old Germanic Theoderic — theod ('people') + ric ('ruler'); 'ruler of the people'

Anglicized form of Irish Dubhán — from dubh meaning 'dark', with the diminutive suffix -án; 'little dark one'

A short form of Daniel, from Hebrew Daniyyel meaning 'God is my judge'

From Δαμιανός (Damianos), from δαμάω, "to tame, subdue