Names That Mean Holy
10 names whose etymology relates to “holy” — drawn from documented origins, sorted by all-time U.S. popularity.
SophiaChiefly from Latin Sophia, from Ancient Greek Σοφία (Sophía), from σοφία (sophía, “wisdom”), especially in reference to holy or divine wisdom under the influence of Biblical Heb…
Hollypx|none| API (disambiguation) on Wikipedia * As an Irish surname, calque of mac cuilinn (“holly”) (see McCullen) and sometimes McQuillan. * As an English surname, variant of Hol…
SofiaVariant spelling of Sophia and from various other languages' own adaptations of Ancient Greek Σοφία (Sophía, “wisdom, especially divine wisdom”). Sometimes borrowed into English…
ArianaModern simplification of Arianna, Ariane and Arianne, all forms of the Greek name Ariadne ("most holy"; Cretan Greek αρι (ari) "most" and αδνος (adnos) "holy"). There has been s…
GlendaCoined in the twentieth century from Welsh glân (“holy, fair”) and da (“good”).
OlgaBorrowed in the 19th century from Old East Slavic О́льга (Ólĭga), name of a Kievan knyaginya (Saint Olga of Kiev), a medieval form of Helga, Old Norse heilagr (“holy; inviolable…
SalvadorFrom Spanish and Portuguese Salvador, chiefly various placenames honoring Jesus Christ, from Spanish and Portuguese salvador (“savior”), from Latin salvator, from salvāre (“to s…
PalmerFrom Middle English palmer (“a pilgrim from the Holy Land”), from Old French.
ArchibaldFrom Anglo-Norman Arcebald, Arcenbald or Ercenbald, from Old French Archaunbault, from Proto-West Germanic *Erknabalþ, from *erkn (“pure, holy, genuine, precious”) +‎ *balþ …
HelgaFrom Old Norse Helga (“holy”), a pre-Christian term, feminine form of Helgi. Doublet of Olga.
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Etymologies adapted from Wiktionary, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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