Names beginning with I
Every name in Namewise's catalogue whose recorded spelling begins with I, listed alphabetically. Names are grouped by the spelling a registrar published, so a name spelled differently in another country appears under that spelling's own letter.
499 names beginning with "I"
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Commonly traced to a Germanic element possibly meaning 'work' or 'labour'.
A Scottish place name; not generally treated as having a separate lexical 'meaning' beyond the river/place it names.
Traditionally understood as 'he will laugh' or 'he laughs', tied to the biblical narrative in which Abraham and Sarah laugh at the prophecy of Isaac's birth in their old age.
An Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Iain, itself from Latin Iohannes — ultimately from the same Hebrew root as John.
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