Spiritual Names For Girl & Boys With Meanings​

I handpicked 83 spiritual boys first, girls after. Meaning and origin on every one are included.

List Of Spiritual Names for Boys:

Avyakta

Sanskrit for the unmanifest or invisible. In Samkhya philosophy Avyakta is the technical term for primordial matter.

Yeshurun

Yeshurun means ”beloved one” in Hebrew from the root yashar. It is a poetic name for Israel used in the Bible.

Nishkam

Nishkam is composed of nish (means ”without”) and kama (”action”). The third chapter of the Bhagavad Gita talks about nishkama karma, that is an action performed without any expectation.

Ojas

It is meaning “vital energy” and is also from Sanskrit. Ayurveda defines Ojas as ‘vigour’ and is both a mental and physical factor.

Yedidiah

Hebrew for beloved of the Lord. 2 Samuel 12:25 writes: ”… because the Lord loved him, he sent word through Nathan the prophet to name him Jedidiah.”

Basir

Al-Basir is one of the 99 names of God. It means “the one who sees clearly” in Arabic.

Beathan

Scottish Gaelic, from beatha, life.

Chrysanthos

Chrysos (means ”gold”) and anthos (”flower”). Martyr Chrysanthus has a feast day of 25 October with Daria.

Agathon

Greek for good or noble. Agathon was an Athenian tragic poet and a friend of Euripides.

Sanctus

It is Latin for consecrated. In 177 AD, during persecution in Lyon, a deacon called Sanctus died.

Svetoslav

Svetoslav is made of the Slavic elements svet and slav and is symbolizing “bright glory”. Save

Sorush

“Bringer of good news.”

Kiyoshi

Japanese for pure or clear, written 清.

Yazdan

The form is grammatically plural. Persian for God and has roots in yazata that is meaning ”worthy of worship.”

Zenko

It means ”virtuous action.” Zenkō-ji is a Buddhist temple located in the city of Nagano and enshrines images of the Amida Buddha.

Jigme

Tibetan for fearless. Jigme Singye Wangchuck, the 4th king of Bhutan, introduced the Gross National Happiness.

Sattvik

Sattva is one of the three gunas, three modes of existence. Indian cooking categorizes food by the gunas’ qualities.

Norbu

Norbu means ”jewel” in Tibetan. Norbulingka was the summer residence of the Dalai Lamas in Lhasa.

Dorje

The Tibetan word for vajra, a ritual scepter used in tantric practices and a symbol for sunyata.

Sanatan

Eternal, without beginning, in Sanskrit. Sanatana Dharma or absolute set of duties and the oldest known code of conduct for human beings.Save

Makarios

Makarios has Greek origins and is meaning ”blessed.” It opens every line of the Beatitudes in Matthew 5.

Ihsan

”Excellence” or ”doing beautiful things.”

Symeon

It is the Greek form of Shimon, ”he has heard.” Symeon the Stylite was a Syrian Christian ascetic who spent 36 years on a pillar and is commemorated as a saint in the Coptic Orthodox Church.

Anwar

Anwar is symbolizing”luminous” or ”brighter.”

Chidiebere

It is pronounced as chee-dee-EH-beh-reh and means ”God is merciful” in Igbo, the language of the people living chiefly in southeastern Nigeria.

Elior

“My God is light” in Hebrew.

Oluwaseun

Yoruba, thanks be to God.

Turiya

The fourth, in Sanskrit. In Hinduism, turiya is the true self (atman) as well as the autonomous realization of the non-causal Brahman according to Adi Shankara.

Mikoto

Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto is the goddess of humor and is used in Japanese anime names. It means ”life.”

Amos

Is means “carried by God.”

”Amos answered Amaziah, I was neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet, but I was a shepherd,…” Amos 7:14

Ishaan

Ishaan is an epithet of Shiva, ”the ruler.”

Declan

It comes from the Irish Deaglán that means ”man of prayer” or “full of goodness”. Declán of Ardmore converted the Déisi to Christianity in the late 5th century.

Ananda

”Bliss” in Sanskrit and Pali. Ananda served Gautama Buddha as his attendant for 31 years.

Tenzin

“Holder of Buddha Dharma” in Tibetan. Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989.

Bogdan

”Given by God” in Slavic, and is an early calque from Greek Theódoros.

Rahim

In Arabic, Rahim is ”kind” or ”merciful.” The root r-h-m also produces rahm, the womb.

Jeremiah

“Yahweh uplifts” or ”Yahweh will exalt”. The English jeremiad comes from the Lamentations and the prophet.

Immanuel

God with us, from Isaiah 7:14, ”The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.”

Samael

”Venom of God.” As per the Book of Enoch, Samael is an archangel who collects the soul at death, which works as many dark fantasy character names.

Daniel

It is symbolizing ”God is my judge.”

Bodhi

It is meaning ”awakening” or “understanding of true nature” in Pali. The original Bodhi Tree (the sacred fig tree under which Siddhartha attained enlightenment) is in Bodh Gaya, India,

Elisha

”God is salvation.” Elisha asks Elijah for a double portion of his spirit in 2 Kings 2:9.

Theodore

Gift of God, in Greek. In 668 Theodore of Tarsus was consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury. Nicknames that I like are Theo and Teddy.

Spiritual Names for Girls:

Anahata

“Unstruck”, in Sanskrit. The heart chakra is called Anahata and is located in the centre of the chest. Save

Redempta

Redempta means ”redeemed” in Latin and it comes comes from the verb redimere, “to buy back.”

Zikra

Arabic for remembrance or recollection.

Kyriaki

”Of the Lord” in Greek and is pronounced as kee-ree-ah-KEE. Saint Kyriaki was martyred under the Roman emperor Diocletian.

Innocentia

Harmlessness, from nocere, to injure.

Muirgen

Born of the sea, in Irish. In the tale of Lí Ban Muirgen survives 300 years underwater as a half-fish. It means ” born of the sea” in Irish.

Myoko

Myoko 妙子 means ”beautiful harbor” or ”wonderful child.”

Lasair

Irish for flame.

Naomh

Naomh is the Irish word for holy as well is also used for a saint.

Choden

Tibetan for devout, one who holds the dharma. Save

Prajna

”The highest and purest form of wisdom.” The Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra is the best-known Mahayana sutra.

Perpetua

Latin for continuous, unbroken.

Bhavani

Bhavani is a title of Parvati, the life-giver.

Evangelia

Good news, in Greek, plural of evangelion.

Ratri

Sanskrit for night, so Ratri is good for the list of names that mean darkness and night.

Selah

Selah is meaning “pause” and appears 71 times in Psalms and 3 more times in Habakkuk.

Miroslava

Miroslava means ”peace and glory” in Slavic.

Bozena

Bozena Nemcova published Babicka in 1855 and it is now the foundational work of modern Czech literature. Bozena is meaning ”divine.”

Damaris

Greek, possibly from damalis, heifer. Acts 17:34 explains: ”Among them was Dionysius, a member of the Areopagus, also a woman named Damaris, and a number of others.”

Dorothea

Gift of God, with the elements reversed from Theodora.

Tabitha

Aramaic for gazelle.

Sophronia

Sophronia comes from ”sophrosyne” and means ”self-command,” one of the four cardinal virtues in Greek ethics.

Benedicta

”Well-spoken” or ”blessed.”

Devika

Little goddess in Sanskrit.

Anjali

Anjali is an offering held in both cupped hands.

Kalyani

Kalyani (”auspicious” or ”fortunate”) is the 65th melakarta ragam under the Katapayadi sankhya.

Padma

”Lotus”, purity that rises from the mud.

Brigid

”Exalted one.” Brigid is an Irish goddess and a member of the Tuatha Dé Danann. She is a patroness of dairy workers and blacksmiths.

Michiko

”Child of the path.”

Kiyomi

In Japanese, it is symbolziing ”pure beauty.” Actress Kiyomi Asai portrayed Mayuko Asano in Great Teacher Onizuka.

Iman

Arabic for faith or belief. It is also spelled as Imane or Eman.

Eden

The Garden of Eden is the biblical paradise and the very first home God created for humanity. It was part of God’s good creation as described in Genesis 2-3.

Anastasia

Resurrection in Greek.

Harmony

Harmony is derived from the Greek harmonia and variants that I found interesting are Harmonii and Harmonee.

Svetlana

”Light” in Slavic.

Nevaeh

Heaven reversed.

Amina

Amina bint Wahb was the mother of Muhammad and her tribe were descendants of Abraham. ”Safe one” is the meaning.

Vera

”Sincere” or ”truth.”

Mercy

Mercy has origins in the Latin merces and is meaning kindness. Puritan families used it a lot in the 1600s.

Blessing

”A state of happiness and prosperity”.