LeifGender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Pronunciation: LAYF
Meaning & History
From the Old Norse name Leifr, meaning "descendant, heir." A famous bearer of this name was Leif Erikson, son of Erik the Red, a Norse explorer who reached America in the early 11th century -- five hundred years before Columbus.
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Pronunciation: EE-lǝm (English)
Meaning & History
Unknown meaning. This was the given name of several people in the Old Testament, including a son of Shem, a son of Noah, who was the ancestor of the Elamites.
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronunciation: AHR-den
Meaning & History
An English surname, originally taken from various place names, and derived from a Celtic word meaning "high."
Leah's character. =]
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish
Pronunciation: do-RAHN, dor-EHN
Meaning & History
From an Irish surname derived from Ó Deoradháin, meaning "a descendant of Deoradháin." The name Deoradháin means "exile" or "wanderer" in Gaelic.
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To each is given a bag of tools,
A shapeless mass, and a book of rules,
And each must make, ere life is flown,
A stumbling block or a stepping stone.
-Anonymous-