The Hoarder's List of Names

  1. Dianthia
    • Dion
      • Origin:

        Diminutive of Dionysius, Greek
      • Meaning:

        "child of heaven and earth"
      • Description:

        In ancient Greece, a student of Plato; in modern America, a cool guy.
    • Dione
      • Origin:

        Greek
      • Meaning:

        "divine queen"
      • Description:

        In Greek mythology the mother of Aphrodite by Zeus, and also one of Saturn's moons; this is an astral name quite distinct from the better known Dionne.
    • Dionne
      • Origin:

        Greek, feminine variation of Dion
      • Meaning:

        "divine"
      • Description:

        Dionne is an Americanized version of the Greek Dione, with many sub-versions of its own, identified with singer Dionne Warwick. It was also the surname of the Canadian quintuplets born in 1934, who gained worldwide fame as the first kown quints to survive to adulthood.
    • Donald
      • Origin:

        Scottish
      • Meaning:

        "proud chief"
      • Description:

        Donald has been used for centuries in Scotland, where the Macdonald clan is one of the most ancient and where there have been six early Scottish kings by that name. Donald was a Top 20 name throughout most of the early twentieth century. But first there was the quacking Donald Duck, introduced in 1934, to affect its image, and then there was The Donald Trump, leaving it drained of much baby appeal. Trump's surprising run to the presidency didn't save Donald's decline on the baby name charts; it fell 47 spots between 2015 and 2016, from 441 to 488, and is now a less popular name than it's been since records have been kept.
    • Donall
      • Donnelly
        • Origin:

          Irish
        • Meaning:

          "dark brave one"
        • Description:

          Makes Donna into a cool twenty-first-century unisex Irish surname.
      • Donovan
        • Origin:

          Irish
        • Meaning:

          "dark"
        • Description:

          One of the first of the appealing Irish surnames to take off in this country, this boys’ name has long outgrown its "Mellow Yellow" association, which came via the single from a sixties singer-songwriter named Donovan.
      • Dorian
        • Origin:

          Greek, name of a tribe
        • Description:

          The Dorians were an ancient Greek tribe, one of the three major pre-Spartan tribes. It literally means "of Doris," a Greek district, or "of Doros," referring to the son of Helen of Sparta. Dorian derives from the Greek doron, meaning "gift," along with related names such as Dorothy and Dora.
      • Dorian
        • Origin:

          Greek
        • Meaning:

          "from Doris"
        • Description:

          A male name occasionally borrowed by the girls, as in Dorian Cramer, a long-running female character on the soap One Life to Live and famous midcentury model Dorian Leigh.
      • DOUGAL
        • Dovie
          • Origin:

            Short form of Dove or Deborah, nature name or Hebrew
          • Meaning:

            "bee"
          • Description:

            Dovie was a fairly popular nickname name a century or more ago, dropping off the Top 1000 in the 1940s only to be heading straight back uphill now.
        • Drago
          • Origin:

            Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Bulgarian
          • Meaning:

            "precious, dear"
          • Description:

            Drago sounds fierce but has a sweet meaning. It may be used as a standalone name or as a short form of other Slavic names beginning with the element dragu "dear", such as Dragoljub or Dragomir.
        • Draven
          • Origin:

            Modern invented name
          • Description:

            Inspired by Brandon Lee's character in The Crow and Cuba Gooding Jr.'s in In the Shadows, this name, with its Wiccan feel, was used by a member of Linkin Park. It has ranked in the US Top 1000 since 1995.
        • DRAVEN
          • Drennon
            • Origin:

              Irish
            • Meaning:

              "son of Draighnean"
            • Description:

              Brennan alternative.
          • Dresden
            • Origin:

              German place name
            • Meaning:

              "people of the forest"
            • Description:

              Sad tinge to the name of the beautiful German city firebombed during World War II. Its name derives from Sorbian drezga, meaning "forest".
          • Drexel
            • Origin:

              German
            • Meaning:

              "to turn"
            • Description:

              Drexel is an occupational surname but the original meaning of what a person who "turned" for a living actually did is unclear: It may mean turning the soil or making hay or spinning cloth or creating decorative objects. With the rise of the similar-sounding Dexter, Drexel might catch on.
          • DRYSTAN
            • Dugan
              • Origin:

                Irish
              • Meaning:

                "swarthy"
              • Description:

                Dugan is an open, friendly, and cheery Irish surname that would be suited to a dark-haired boy.