So, for the season of giving, here's a compilation of names that mean "gift".
Whatever your holiday is, I hope it's a happy one!
Boys:
- Abishai (ah-bi-SHY, Hebrew)--"my Father's gift"
- Ata (ah-tah, Arabic)
- Csaba (CHAH-bah, Hungarian)
- Devdan (dev-dahn, Indian [Hindi])--"gift of the gods". Variants include Debdan & Deodan.
- Doron (doh-ROHN, Hebrew")
- Ekrem (ek-REM, Turkish)--"most generous"
- Gebbert (GEB-bert, German)--"brave gift"
- Gennady (gen-AH-dee, Russian)--from Greek, "generous"
- Isidore (IZ-a-dor or ees-ah-DOHR, Greek)--"gift from Isis"
- Jesse (JES-see, Hebrew)
- Mattan (mah-tahn, Hebrew)
- Matthew (MATH-yoo, English)--from Hebrew, "gift of Yahweh". Variants include Matthias (Greek), Matteo (Italian), & Makaio (Hawaiian).
- Shai (SHY, Hebrew)
- Theodore (THEE-oh-dohr, Greek)--"gift of god"
Girls:
- Atiya (AH-tee-yah, Arabic)
- Dara (DAH-rah, Slavic)
- Dîyar (DEE-yar, Kurdish)
- Dorothea (doh-roh-THEH-ah, Greek)--"gift of god"
- Eudora (yoo-DOHR-ah, Greek)--"good gift"
- Gennadiya (gen-AH-dee-yah, Russian)--from Greek, "generous"
- Godiva (god-EYE-vah or goh-DEE-van, Anglo-Saxon)--"gift of god"
- Heba (HEB-ah, Arabic)
- Isidora (is-ih-DOHR-ah, ee-see-DOHR-ah, Greek)--"gift from Isis"
- Karima (kah-ree-mah, Arabic)--"generous"
- Lahja (LAH-hya, Finnish)
- Pandora (pan-DOH-rah, Greek)--"all gifts"
- Sunniva (soon-NEE-vah, Norwegian)--from Old English, "gift of the sun". Another form is Synnove (sin-NOH-veh).
- Theodora (theh-oh-DOHR-ah, Greek)--"gift of God"
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