Etymology — The Origins of English Words

From Portuguese patagão and Spanish patagón (“Patagonian”) + -ia.

From Ottoman Turkish بصره (Basra) and Arabic البَصْرَة (al-Baṣra), from ال (al-, “the, land of the”) + بَصْرَة (baṣra, “overseer”).

A playful extension of indeed with the added suffix -y, popular in folksy or comic speech.

From the fictional character John Rambo, a Vietnam War veteran in the Rambo film series, whose surname itself traces back to Scandinavian settler families in the United States.

From Middle English pronunciation of the letter, ultimately tied to the French name for "Q".

Borrowed from German Baumann.

From French Ludovic, tracing back to Medieval Latin Lūdovīcus — the same root that gives English "Louis" and German "Ludwig."

Formed by clipping the longer name and adding the familiar "-y" ending.

From Bate + man, with the meaning "servant of Bate".

From Hebrew פֶּרֶץ (pérets).

Borrowed from Italian Enzo (equivalent to English Hank), from German Heinz, a diminutive of Heinrich (English Henry), from Old High German Heimrih, Haimirich (heim (“home”) + rihhi (“ruler”)), from Proto-Germanic *Haimarīks, from Proto-Indo-European roots. Rare in the US and UK prior to 2003, popularized in the 2000s.

From Italian Dimitri, tracing back through Latin Demetrius to Ancient Greek Demetrios, meaning "follower of Demeter," the goddess of agriculture.

Patronymic surname, borrowed from French Baptiste. This surname is mostly found in Haiti.

From Ancient Greek Pandōra, literally "all-gifted" or "all gifts," from pan- ("all") + dōron ("gift").

From Japanese GL(ジーエル) (jīeru), from ガールズラブ (gāruzu rabu), from English girls + love.

From evidence + -ary.

A French-influenced variant of Albertina, from Albert.

From the Latin "valens," meaning strong or vigorous.

From Old Norse Yggdrasill, generally explained as combining "Yggr" (a name for Odin, meaning "the terrible one") with "drasill" ("steed") — poetically, "Odin's horse", referring to a myth of Odin hanging from the tree.

From a- + line, possibly from Middle English alinen (“copulate”), Middle French aligner.

French Claudine

From Italian riviera, from Old French riviere, tracing back to Latin riparius ("of a riverbank") — the same ultimate root as "river."

Transliteration of Russian Ле́нин (Lénin), probably due to the use of a passport of a friend, Nikolay Lenin, whose surname originated from the Siberian Lena river. It is commonly believed that the Lena derives its name from the original Even-Evenk name Elyu-Ene, which means "the Large River". By surface analysis, Lena + -in, "the man from the Lena". Another street name of a fellow Old Bolshevik conspirator, Stalin (“the man of steel”), is comparable as an alias based on an alleged attribute; and Bukharin is morphologically comparable as "a person from said place" (Bukhara + -in) but was Nikolai Bukharin's real surname rather than a street name.

A playful baby-talk version of "footsie," itself derived from "foot."