Blood names cover far more ground than the theme suggests, running from the wearable Scarlet to the frankly gruesome Auiak. They are also genuinely rare: only 16 of the 50 names below turn up anywhere in U.S. Social Security Administration birth records, which publish a name only in years when at least five babies received it (1).
Scarlet is the outlier, ranked #510 among American girls in 2025 according to Social Security Administration data, on 581 births. Flynn is the other familiar pick, reported at #828 for boys in that same 2025 file. Garnet is the real surprise: according to the same federal records it was still charting in 2025, more than a century after its 1918 peak.
In many religions blood stands for salvation, protection, and sacrifice; in literature it does duty for guilt, kinship, and rebirth. Whether your reasoning is edgy or ancestral, there is something below for it.
Popularity at a Glance
The most popular names on this list in the United States, 1965 to 2025: Scarlet, Flynn, Chi, Damascus and Eztli.
50 Cool Names That Mean Blood
Every name below comes with its origin, meaning, pronunciation, and current U.S. popularity where the federal data has any.
Adamah
Adamah is the feminine form of Adam, which ties it to the first human and to the ground he was made from. The Hebrew root dam means blood, and the link runs through sacrifice, where blood returns to the earth. In the story of Cain and Abel the ground opens to swallow the evidence of a murder, which is where the darker reading comes from. For parents who want a spiritual name with weight rather than sweetness, Adamah carries both. Ada works as a softer nickname for daily use, even with a name this loaded.
- Origin: Hebrew
- Meaning: Red like blood
- Pronunciation: ah-DAH-mah
- Popularity: Adamah has never appeared in U.S. birth records, which list only names given to at least five babies in a year.
Agana
Agana is the Spanish era spelling of Hagatna, the capital of Guam, where the Chamorro root haga means blood and the suffix na is possessive, so the place name reads as her blood (2). Guam restored the Chamorro spelling by legislative act in 1998, which leaves Agana as the older, softer looking version of a name still on the map. It travels well for a girl, with Gana and Aga waiting as nicknames.
- Origin: Chamorro
- Meaning: Blood
- Pronunciation: uh-GAN-yah
- Popularity: Agana does not appear in U.S. name data, and it is far better known as a place name than a given name.
Akeldama
Akeldama comes straight out of the account of Judas Iscariot and the money he took for a betrayal. Some readings say Judas bought the field himself; others say the temple used the returned silver to buy a burial ground for strangers. Either way the name means field of blood and carries every bit of that weight. Nonbinary nicknames include Kelda, borrowed from a character in the Overlord series. Few names on this list carry this much biblical weight in five syllables.
- Origin: Aramaic
- Meaning: Field of blood
- Pronunciation: ah-KILL-duh-MAH
- Variations: Aceldama
- Popularity: Akeldama has never been recorded in U.S. birth data.
Amini
Amini describes the friend who becomes family, the blood brother rather than the blood relative. Alternate readings include loyalty, unwavering, and trustworthy, which is a lot of goodwill packed into five letters. It is better known as a surname, worn by the Tongan American football player Amini Silatolu. As a first name it has never charted in U.S. birth data. That rarity is part of what makes it feel personal rather than borrowed.
- Origin: Indian
- Meaning: Blood brother
- Pronunciation: AH-mih-nee, uh-MEE-nee
- Variations: Amin
- Namesakes: Amini Silatolu, a Tongan football player.
- Popularity: Amini is far more common as a surname and has never charted for American babies.
Antiphonus
In Greek mythology Antiphonus was a prince killed when his city fell, cut down by the son of Achilles in revenge for his father’s blood. The name says that story out loud: in revenge for blood. It is a heavy pick, and it suits parents who like their classical references unsoftened. It stays rare enough that a child would likely never meet another one.
- Origin: Greek
- Meaning: In revenge for blood
- Pronunciation: an-TIH-foh-nus
- Popularity: Antiphonus does not appear in U.S. name records.
Atakan
Atakan honors the family line rather than any one relative, reading as ancestor’s blood. Fearless is an alternate meaning, so the name works whether you want it looking backward or forward. Two accepted pronunciations give a family room to choose. It has barely registered in the United States. That is part of the appeal for parents hunting a strong Turkish name nobody else in the class will have.
- Origin: Turkish
- Meaning: Ancestor’s blood
- Pronunciation: AH-tah-kahn, uh-TAH-kan
- Namesakes: Atakan Yuksel, a Turkish wrestler.
- Popularity: Atakan reached #8,276 for American boys in 2000, the only year the SSA has recorded it, with seven births.
Auiak
Auiak is among the most graphic meanings on this list, and coagulated blood is not a meaning that softens with familiarity. Greenlandic usage treats it as equally at home on a boy or a girl. Anyone squeamish should keep scrolling. Anyone raising a future surgeon may find it oddly perfect.
- Origin: Greenlandic
- Meaning: Coagulated blood
- Pronunciation: OW-yak
- Popularity: Auiak has never been recorded in American birth data.
Ayuna
Ayuna sounds gentle and reads dark, which is most of its charm. The Japanese interpretation is bloody, an evil interpretation that sits oddly against such a soft sound. Red is the tamer alternate meaning if you want the color without the wound. It surfaced in U.S. data exactly once, in 2008. That is a single blip rather than a trend.
- Origin: Japanese
- Meaning: Bloody
- Pronunciation: eye-YOO-nuh
- Popularity: Ayuna appeared in U.S. data once, at #14,055 in 2008, with seven births.
Berkan
Berkan is a lineage name meaning of strong blood, and it wears that meaning lightly rather than grimly. The Turkish basketball player Berkan Dumaz keeps it in circulation. Berk is the obvious nickname and a strong one on its own. For a family proud of where it came from, this is among the least gory ways to say so.
- Origin: Turkish
- Meaning: Of strong blood
- Pronunciation: bur-KAHN
- Namesakes: Berkan Dumaz, a Turkish basketball player.
- Popularity: Berkan is popular in Europe but has never appeared in U.S. birth records.
Blessed
Blessed began as a term for consecrating something with blood, a ritual sense long buried under the modern one. Today it reads as pure gratitude, the gift rather than the offering. It is used for both boys and girls, and the gap between what it once meant and what it means now is the whole appeal for parents who like a name with a double life.
- Origin: English, African
- Meaning: To consecrate with blood
- Pronunciation: BLESS-ehd
- Popularity: Blessed still charts, at #12,125 for girls and #5,237 for boys in 2025, with a best girls showing of #7,321 in 2021.
Blodughadda
Blodughadda is one of the nine daughters of the sea in Norse myth, and her name points at the red tinged foam that washes ashore looking like hair. It is a mouthful to spell and a mouthful to say, which is the price of a name this unusual. Ocean loving parents tend to forgive it. Hadda makes the daily version manageable.
- Origin: Norse
- Meaning: One with bloody hair
- Pronunciation: BLOH-doo-gah-dah
- Popularity: Blodughadda has never charted in the United States.
Chi
Chi is a small name doing enormous work across several cultures, standing in for the life force itself. The Japanese reading gives it blood specifically, the substance rather than the idea. Alternate meanings include younger energy and tree branch. The musician Chi Cheng of the Deftones is its best known bearer. One syllable, no spelling arguments, and a meaning most people will ask about.
- Origin: Japanese, Vietnamese
- Meaning: Blood
- Pronunciation: CHEE
- Variations: Ki
- Namesakes: Chi Cheng, an American musician and member of The Deftones band.
- Popularity: Chi ranked #6,596 for American girls in 2025 and #8,379 for boys, well down from its 1973 best of #2,516. It is the biggest revival on this list, back to about 3.7 times its 1999 low.
Chibeni
Chibeni sounds sweet and means red as blood, a contrast the name never resolves. Blood lace is the alternate reading, which is somehow both prettier and worse. It is rarely seen anywhere, so a girl carrying it will spend a lifetime explaining it, which suits a parent who wants a name that starts a conversation.
- Origin: Japanese
- Meaning: Red as blood
- Pronunciation: CHIH-beh-nee
- Popularity: Chibeni does not appear in U.S. birth records.
Chikage
Chikage reads as blood shadow, a phrase that lands stranger in English than it does in Japanese. The anime Blood Shadow, which first aired in 2001, gave it a pop culture anchor. Alternate meanings include love and flower, so the name can go soft or sharp depending on the characters used to write it. The actress and politician Chikage Oogi is its most prominent bearer. Her long public career gives the name a face beyond the anime.
- Origin: Japanese
- Meaning: Blood shadow
- Pronunciation: chee-KAH-jay
- Namesakes: Chikage Oogi, a Japanese actress and the first female president of the House of Councillors.
- Popularity: Chikage has never charted in the United States.
Chikumo
Blood spider is not a meaning most parents go looking for, but Chikumo has its followers. Spiders carry decent symbolism once you get past the legs, standing for patience, craft, and communication. It stays rare enough to feel like a genuine discovery.
- Origin: Japanese
- Meaning: Blood spider
- Pronunciation: chee-KOO-moh
- Popularity: Chikumo has never been recorded in American name data.
Chizuke
Chizuke describes a moon that turns deep red during an eclipse. The event has a plain physical explanation and centuries of superstition stacked on top of it, including readings of divine anger. That mix of science and omen is exactly why the name appeals to parents drawn to a story with layers.
- Origin: Japanese
- Meaning: Blood moon
- Pronunciation: chee-ZOO-kee
- Variations: Chisuke
- Popularity: Chizuke does not appear in U.S. birth records.
Damascus
Damascus is a city name first and a first name second, borrowed from one of the oldest capitals still standing. The gory meaning is metaphorical: the river running through it is the city’s lifeblood. Christians know it as the road where Paul was converted, which gives the name a second layer entirely. It sounds grand without sounding invented, closer to a place a family might have visited than an entry pulled from a name list. Parents who want a name with a real place behind it, not just a meaning, will find few options this solid.
- Origin: Greek
- Meaning: A sack full of blood
- Pronunciation: duh-MASK-iss
- Popularity: Damascus last charted at #11,232 in 2024 and did best in 1967 at #3,316.
Demirkan
Demirkan means iron blood, the family line described as something forged rather than inherited. It survives mostly as a surname, worn by the Turkish composer Demir Demirkan. As a given name it is close to obsolete, which leaves the field wide open. Demir on its own is the softer everyday option.
- Origin: Turkish
- Meaning: Iron blood
- Pronunciation: duh-MUR-kan
- Popularity: Demirkan is used as a surname and has never charted as an American first name.
Djimon
Djimon points at powerful blood, the kind that comes with an influential family or a mystical inheritance, depending on who is telling it. The actor Djimon Hounsou carried the name into American living rooms, Blood Diamond included. Its American high point came in the late 1990s and the name has been sliding ever since. It is the steepest faller on this list, down about 43 percent over the previous decade. That decline makes it a rare choice today, carried mostly by admirers of the actor rather than family tradition.
- Origin: African
- Meaning: Powerful blood
- Pronunciation: JEE-mahn, JEYE-mahn
- Namesakes: Djimon Hounsou, a Beninese-American actor known for his role in Blood Diamond.
- Popularity: Djimon peaked at #1,374 for American boys in 1998 and last charted at #12,837 in 2022. It is the steepest faller on this list, down about 43 percent on the previous decade.
Edom
Edom was a byname for Esau and the name of the kingdom his descendants built. The story ends badly, with King David conquering the Edomites, so this is one of the biblical titles that is not all sunshine. Its closeness to Adam means most people will hear something familiar and never ask about the history. Red is the plain meaning sitting underneath it all.
- Origin: Hebrew
- Meaning: Red, of blood
- Pronunciation: ee-DOM
- Popularity: Edom last appeared in U.S. data at #12,553 in 2021, with its best showing at #9,726 in 2014.
Erkan
Erkan means brave blood, and it serves as a popular surname and first name in Turkey. The musician Erkan Ogur, who invented the fretless classical guitar, is its best known bearer. In America it has charted only once, in 1985, so a son today would not be sharing it with a single classmate.
- Origin: Turkish
- Meaning: Brave blood
- Pronunciation: AIR-kahn, UR-kan
- Variations: Erkhaan
- Namesakes: Erkan Ogur, a Turkish musician and inventor of the fretless classical guitar.
- Popularity: Erkan charted once in the United States, at #6,866 in 1985.
Euaemon
Euaemon shows up more than once in Greek myth, with at least three figures claiming it. The best known is a son of Poseidon and Cleito who took charge of a share of Atlantis. Full blooded is the meaning, which reads as vigor rather than violence for once.
- Origin: Greek
- Meaning: Full-blooded
- Pronunciation: yoo-ay-EE-mon
- Popularity: Euaemon has never appeared in U.S. name data.
Eztli
Eztli is the Nahuatl word for blood, which in Aztec belief was the substance that kept the world running. Names with Z read as modern, so a word this old lands as current. It suits a boy or a girl, and the nicknames split neatly: Ez for one, Li for the other.
- Origin: Aztec
- Meaning: Blood
- Pronunciation: EHZ-tlee
- Popularity: Eztli ranked #11,256 for girls and #11,097 for boys in 2025, and it is the fastest riser on this list, up about 115 percent on the previous decade.
Flann
Flann is one of the few Irish boy names that mean blood, and it is the cheerful one. Blood red here describes coloring rather than carnage, with ruddy and red haired as the alternates. The novelist and playwright Flann O’Brien gives it literary credit, keeping the name rooted in Irish letters rather than American birth charts.
- Origin: Irish, Gaelic
- Meaning: Blood red
- Pronunciation: FLAN
- Namesakes: Flann O’Brien, an Irish novelist and playwright.
- Popularity: Flann has never appeared in U.S. birth records.
Fluonia
Fluonia comes from Juno Fluonia, the aspect of the Roman goddess who governed the flow of blood and held it in the womb during pregnancy. Juno is better remembered as the goddess of marriage, so this side of her tends to surprise people. To flow is the literal meaning, which keeps the name from turning gory. The mythology behind it stays obscure enough to reward anyone who looks it up.
- Origin: Latin, Greek
- Meaning: To flow
- Pronunciation: floo-OH-nee-ah
- Popularity: Fluonia does not appear in American name data.
Flynn
Flynn arrived in most American households with Tangled in 2010 and never really left. Orlando Bloom and Miranda Kerr used it for their son, which did the rest. The meaning is blood red or crimson, with son of the red haired man as the fuller reading, so it is a natural for a ginger baby. It is the second most common name on this list, ranking behind only Scarlet, and it stays familiar without feeling overused. That combination of movie exposure and real family use makes it one of the most practical picks here.
- Origin: Irish
- Meaning: Blood red, crimson
- Pronunciation: FLIN
- Variations: Flinn
- Namesakes: Flynn Morrison, an American actor known for his role in Pretty Little Liars.
- Popularity: Flynn ranked #828 for American boys in 2025 with 299 births, and its best year was 2021 at #654. It has been rising, up about 86 percent on the previous decade.
Garnet
Garnet takes its name from the pomegranate, whose seeds match the stone’s deep red, and blood is the association that follows. Bloodstone is the alternate meaning, which leans harder into the theme. It is January’s birthstone, a neat fit for a baby born in the first weeks of the year. The Canadian folk musician Garnet Rogers keeps it in circulation. It was a common American name a century ago and, contrary to the usual story, it never fully disappeared from the record.
- Origin: English
- Meaning: Pomegranate
- Pronunciation: GAR-net
- Namesakes: Garnet Rogers, a Canadian folk musician.
- Popularity: Garnet is charting again, at #11,263 in 2025, though it is far from its 1918 peak of #407.
Gazini
Gazini means blood, and little else about it is documented, which is either a problem or an opportunity. There is no famous bearer to compete with and no spelling everyone already knows. Zini and Gaz both work as nicknames, but for parents who want their son’s name to belong to him alone, that blank slate is the real point.
- Origin: African
- Meaning: Blood
- Pronunciation: gah-ZEE-nee
- Popularity: Gazini has never charted in the United States.
Gwyar
Gwyar belongs to Welsh legend as the father of two of King Arthur’s finest warriors. The name points at blood spilled, most likely in battle, which is fitting company. Fluidity is the gentler alternate meaning and it changes the whole feel of the name. Gwy is the short form.
- Origin: Welsh
- Meaning: Blood, flow
- Pronunciation: GOO-yar
- Popularity: Gwyar has never been recorded in U.S. birth data.
Haemon
Greek myth is full of Haemons and the stories rarely end well. One had forty nine brothers with a taste for pranks; when Zeus turned up disguised as a peasant to test them, they failed and paid for it. That is where the bloody reading comes from, a myth heavy enough that most parents have left the name alone.
- Origin: Greek
- Meaning: Bloody
- Pronunciation: hee-MAHN, HYE-mahn
- Variations: Haimon
- Popularity: Haemon does not appear in American name records.
Harkin
Harkin reads as red blood, and the surname it comes from once belonged to butchers, which does the meaning no favors. It survives mostly as a last name, worn by the Irish footballer Mo Harkin. As a first name it is rare enough to feel deliberate.
- Origin: Irish, Gaelic
- Meaning: Red blood
- Pronunciation: HAR-kin
- Popularity: Harkin is common as a surname and has never charted as a U.S. first name.
Idumea
Idumea is the land the Edomites settled, known for soil so red it looked like blood. Alternate meanings include death, a reference to King Herod’s order against the baby boys of Bethlehem. It is a heavy name that reads as beautiful before anyone looks it up, a name mostly discovered rather than borrowed from someone else’s son.
- Origin: Hebrew
- Meaning: Bloody, earth
- Pronunciation: ee-doo-ME-uh
- Popularity: Idumea has never appeared in U.S. birth records.
Ixquic
Ixquic is the moon goddess of Mayan legend and, in some tellings, a guardian of the underworld. Her story runs through a forbidden tree, a death sentence, and an escape she talked her way out of. Her escape from the underworld makes for a strong namesake story to tell a daughter one day.
- Origin: Mayan
- Meaning: Blood lady
- Pronunciation: IKS-kwik
- Variations: Xquic
- Popularity: Ixquic does not appear in American name data.
Jira
Jira describes someone related to you by blood, which makes it a quietly affectionate choice for a newborn. Japanese usage links it to Godzilla, the sea monster with a grudge. African usage tends to treat it as a girls name while Japan treats it as unisex. The Thai director Jira Maligool, known for Seven Something, is a notable bearer. In the United States it has charted exactly once, in 1998, which keeps it rare on this side of the Pacific too.
- Origin: African, Japanese
- Meaning: Related by blood
- Pronunciation: GEE-rah
- Namesakes: Jira Maligool, a Thai director known for his work on Seven Something.
- Popularity: Jira charted in the United States exactly once, at #15,198 in 1998.
Kanik
Kanik is used for boys in Hindu naming and for either in Greenland, which gives it unusually wide range. Atom is the alternate meaning, a neat counterweight to blood: the smallest piece of a person alongside the stuff that keeps them going. That range across two unrelated cultures is unusual for a name this short.
- Origin: Greenlandic, Indian
- Meaning: Blood
- Pronunciation: KAH-nik
- Popularity: Kanik is a familiar surname and has never charted as a U.S. first name.
Kesshuu
Kesshuu means smell of blood, which is about as visceral as this list gets. Kanji naming lets one Japanese name carry several meanings depending on the characters chosen, and bloody autumn is the other reading here. That makes it an unusually good fit for a baby born near Halloween. Kess is the short form for everyday use.
- Origin: Japanese
- Meaning: Smell of blood
- Pronunciation: KEH-shoo
- Popularity: Kesshuu has never been recorded in U.S. birth data.
Muhjah
Muhjah means heart’s blood, an Arabic way of pointing at the innermost self rather than the circulatory system. It is not a Quranic name, but the meaning has kept it in steady use anyway. This is a name about interior life, a quiet counterweight to the gorier picks here.
- Origin: Arabic
- Meaning: Heart’s blood
- Pronunciation: MOO-jah
- Popularity: Muhjah is common in Muslim communities but has never appeared in U.S. birth records.
Numaan
Numaan had a long run among the Ghassanid kings, roughly from 327 to 600 AD, and one of the Prophet Muhammad’s close companions carried it too. The old meanings were red and blood; the modern one is bliss, which is a rare upgrade in a name’s fortunes. Several accepted spellings give a family room to choose. Numaan is easy to say and carries that shift from war to joy quietly, without needing an explanation.
- Origin: Arabic
- Meaning: Blood, red
- Pronunciation: noo-MAHN
- Variations: Nu’man, Nu’maan, Nouman
- Popularity: Numaan does not appear in modern U.S. name records.
Odol
Odol is four letters, easy to say, and means blood or bloodline depending on which tradition you follow. It sounds far gentler than it reads. Cute nicknames include Dol, and for parents who want the theme without the theatrics, this is the understated option.
- Origin: African, Basque
- Meaning: Blood, bloodline
- Pronunciation: OH-dahl
- Popularity: Odol has no U.S. birth record on file.
Pasdammin
Pasdammin is a place in the Bible, the spot where David beat the Philistines, and like most place names it belongs to no gender in particular. Boundary of blood is the alternate reading, more striking than the literal one. It is long, but Dam and Day both cut it down.
- Origin: Hebrew
- Meaning: Portion of diminishing of blood
- Pronunciation: pas-DAY-mihn
- Popularity: Pasdammin has never appeared in American birth data.
Preciosa
Preciosa is the Spanish word for precious, and its place on a blood list comes from devotional language about the precious blood of Jesus. That gives it a spiritual reading without a drop of gore. Even outside a religious family it works plainly as a word name for a daughter you consider valuable. Precious translates cleanly across languages, so the meaning needs no explanation at a baptism or a birthday.
- Origin: Spanish
- Meaning: Precious, valuable
- Pronunciation: preh-see-OH-sah
- Popularity: Preciosa is popular in Spanish-speaking countries and last charted in the United States at #16,306 in 2011, after a 1999 best of #5,601.
Rudhir
Rudhir is a variation of Rudar, the Sanskrit god of storms, wind, and rain, which gives the name a weather system’s worth of energy. Mars is an alternate meaning, tying it to the red planet and to Scorpio. If astrology matters in your house, that makes it a natural for an October or November baby.
- Origin: Indian
- Meaning: Blood
- Pronunciation: ROOD-heer
- Variations: Rudar
- Popularity: Rudhir is popular in India but has never charted in the United States.
Sanguinex
Anime fans will place Sanguinex immediately as the vampire from Beyblade. The Latin root sanguine sits underneath it, though the name has traveled a long way from anything optimistic. It is a rare case of a pop culture pick with real linguistic roots hiding underneath the costume.
- Origin: Latin, Japanese
- Meaning: Bloodthirsty, of blood
- Pronunciation: san-GWEE-niks
- Popularity: Sanguinex does not appear in U.S. name records.
Scarlet
Scarlet belongs to the family of color titles that make unusually wearable first names. Catholic cardinals wear the shade to stand for the blood of Christ and of the martyrs, which is how a color ended up on a list like this. Stripped of the symbolism it still reads as passion, nerve, and a creative streak. It is less common than the Scarlett spelling, which keeps it familiar without being the crowded choice. A daughter gets an easy name without carrying the version everyone else already picked.
- Origin: French
- Meaning: Red
- Pronunciation: SCAR-leht
- Variations: Scarlette, Scarlett
- Popularity: Scarlet ranked #510 for American girls in 2025 with 581 births, the highest ranked name on this list. Its best year was 2013 at #370.
Serkan
Serkan means of noble blood, and Turkey has produced no shortage of athletes, artists, and politicians to prove it, the conceptual artist Serkan Ozkaya among them. Chief is an alternate meaning, so the name sets a high bar either way. It gives a boy something to grow into rather than something to live down. Ser and Kan both work short.
- Origin: Turkish
- Meaning: Of noble blood
- Pronunciation: SER-kahn
- Namesakes: Serkan Ozkaya, a Turkish conceptual artist.
- Popularity: Serkan is popular in Turkey and last charted in the United States at #9,423 in 2006.
Sheerah
Sheerah appears in the Bible as a woman who built cities, a rare enough credit that the name has kept it. Blood kin is the literal meaning, with kinswoman as the warmer version. Other meanings include light, which pulls the name well clear of the gore. Between the biblical builder and the gentler meaning, it carries more range than most entries here.
- Origin: Hebrew
- Meaning: Blood kin
- Pronunciation: SHEE-rah
- Popularity: Sheerah has never charted in U.S. birth data.
Talutah
Talutah describes the color of blood rather than the substance, which softens it considerably. It sits close to Talulah in sound and slots in beside names like Delilah and Arabella. Tali and Luta are the ready nicknames.
- Origin: Native American
- Meaning: Blood red
- Pronunciation: tuh-LOO-tah
- Popularity: Talutah does not appear in American name records.
Tokito
Tokito points at vermillion, the blood red mineral pigment once prized for paint and dye. That history gives the name a link to portraiture and color rather than injury. It is a cheerful sound for a name built from a word for blood, easy for a toddler to say back.
- Origin: Japanese
- Meaning: Bloody, red, vermillion
- Pronunciation: toh-KEE-toh
- Popularity: Tokito has not shown up in U.S. birth data.
Tsuguto
Tsuguto means paternal blood, the son who continues the line. Like most Japanese names it shifts with the characters used to write it, and helper and succeed are among the alternates. It is a straightforward wish for a boy to do well and stay close. Tsugu makes an easy nickname while a boy grows into the full name.
- Origin: Japanese
- Meaning: Paternal blood, offspring
- Pronunciation: SOO-goo-toh
- Popularity: Tsuguto has never appeared in U.S. birth records.
Vendetta
Vendetta names a blood feud, the kind that runs between families for generations. Romeo and Juliet is the fictional example everyone already knows. Underneath the violence it is a name about loyalty carried too far, which is a strange and interesting thing to hand a child. It reads unisex on paper and feminine out loud. Detta is the nickname, and it is lovely.
- Origin: Italian
- Meaning: Blood feud
- Pronunciation: ven-DEH-tah
- Popularity: Vendetta last charted in the United States at #10,568 in 1975, well below its 1951 best of #1,361.
