Color Names
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ORANGE COLOR NAMES:

• FEMALE:

  1. ALANI: Hawaiian name meaning "orange tree."

  2. CAM: Vietnamese name meaning "orange."

  3. JACINTH: English name derived from the name of the orange-colored gem.

  4. SIENNA: English name derived from the word sienna, meaning "reddish-orange." 

PINK COLOR NAMES:

• FEMALE:

  1. AFFERA: Variant of Arabic Afra, meaning "pink" or "reddish-white."

  2. AFFRA: Variant of Arabic Afra, meaning "pink" or "reddish-white."

  3. AFRA: Arabic name meaning "pink" or "reddish-white." 
  4. APHRA: Variant of Arabic Afra, meaning "pink" or "reddish-white."

  5. HUONG (Hùong): Vietnamese name meaning "pink" or "rose."

  6. PEMBE: Turkish name meaning "pink."

PURPLE COLOR NAMES:

• UNISEX:

  1. INDIGO: English unisex name, derived from vocabulary word, itself ultimately from Greek indikon, meaning "blue dye from India." 

• MALE:

  1. OINONE: Greek name meaning "violet tinted (clouds)."
  2. PORFIRIO: Italian and Spanish form of Greek Porphyrios, meaning "purple."
  3. PORPHYRIOS: Greek name derived from the word porphyra, meaning "purple."

• FEMALE:

  1. CALFURAY: Native American Mapuche flower name meaning "violet."

  2. IBOLYA: Hungarian equivalent of English Violet, meaning "violet color" and "violet flower."

  3. IOKASTE: Original Greek form of Latin Jocasta, possibly meaning "violet tinted (clouds)." 

  4. IOLA: Variant of Greek Iole, meaning "violet."

  5. IOLE: Greek myth name of a woman loved by Herakles, meaning "violet."

  6. JOCASTA: Latin form of Greek Iokaste, myth name of the mother and wife of Oedipus. Etymology is uncertain, but may mean "violet tinted (clouds)." 

  7. LANYING: Chinese name meaning "indigo lustrousness."

  8. LAVENDER: English name derived from the name of the "lavender flower." Also considered a color name.

  9. VI: Nickname for English Violet, meaning "violet color" and "violet flower." 

  10. VIOLA: Latin name meaning "violet." 

  11. VIOLCA: Probably a Romani form of Viola, meaning "violet." 

  12. VIOLET: English name meaning "violet color" or "violet flower." 
  13. VIOLETA: Bulgarian and Romanian form of English Violet, meaning "violet color" or "violet flower." 
  14. VIOLETTA: Italian form of English Violet, meaning "violet color" or "violet flower." 
  15. VIOLETTE: French form of English Violet, meaning "violet color" or "violet flower." 
  16. VIOLLCA: Variant of Romani Violca, meaning "violet."
  17. WIOLA: Polish form of Latin Viola, meaning "violet."
  18. WIOLETTA: Polish form of English Violet, meaning "violet color" or "violet flower." 

RED COLOR NAMES:

• UNISEX:

  1. BRAITH: Welsh unisex name derived from the word brith, meaning "diversely-colored," especially black and white or red and white. 
          Note: According to a 1967 etymological dictionary of Welsh, brych and brith are not the same but have often been confused. Brych means "pied, spotted, speckled," while brith means "diversely-colored," especially black and white or red and white. 

  2. PHOENIX: English unisex name derived from the Greek myth name of an immortal bird who would rise from its own ashes after being consumed by fire every 500 years, derived from the word phoinix, meaning "dark red."

  3. ROWAN: English surname transferred to unisex forename use, itself from Irish/Gaelic Ruadhán, meaning "little red one." 

  4. SHANI: Hebrew unisex name meaning "red."

• MALE:

  1. EDOM: Hebrew biblical name of an ancient kingdom, and a name applied to Esau and his descendants, meaning "red." 

  2. FLANN: Modern Irish form of Gaelic Floin, meaning "red, ruddy."

  3. FLANNABHRA: Irish/Gaelic name meaning "red eyebrows."

  4. FLANNAN (Flannán): Diminutive form of Irish Flann, meaning "little red one."

  5. FLANNCHADH: Gaelic name meaning "red warrior."

  6. FLANNCHADH: Gaelic name meaning "red warrior."
  7. FLANNGHAL: Irish name meaning "red valor."

  8. FLOIN: Gaelic name meaning "red, ruddy."

  9. FLYNN: "Red, ruddy." Irish surname transferred to forename use, itself from Gaelic Ó Floinn, meaning "descendant of Flann."

  10. GORRI: Basque name meaning "red."

  11. IDUMA: Greek form of Hebrew Edom, meaning "red."

  12. KAMAL: Hindi name meaning "red."

  13. LOOTAH: Native American Sioux name meaning "red." 

  14. MEOQUANEE: Native American Cheyenne name meaning "wears red."

  15. OGALEESHA: Native American Sioux name meaning "wears a red shirt."

  16. RADCLIFF: "Red cliff." English surname transferred to forename use, itself from the name of various places composed of the Old English elements read "red" and clif "cliff, slope, riverbank."

  17. RADCLYFFE: English unisex variant of masculine Radcliff, meaning "red cliff."

  18. RADLEY: "Red clearing/wood." English surname transferred to forename use, itself from the name of a place composed of the Old English elements read "red" and leah "clearing, wood."

  19. RALEIGH: "Red clearing/wood." English surname transferred to forename use, itself from the place name in Devon composed of the Old English elements read "red" and leah "clearing, wood."

  20. READ: "Red-headed; ruddy." English surname transferred to forename use, itself originally a nickname for a red-head or ruddy-complexioned person, from Middle English read, meaning "red." 

  21. RED: "Red-head; ruddy." Old nickname transferred to forename use, derived from Old English read, meaning "red."
  22. REDD: Variant of English Red, meaning "red-head; ruddy."
  23. REED: Variant of English Read, meaning "red-headed; ruddy."
  24. REID: Variant of English Read, meaning "red-headed; ruddy." 
  25. RORIE: Variant of English Rory, meaning "red king."
  26. RORY: English form of Irish Ruairi, meaning "red king."

  27. ROUSEL: "Little red one." Old French nickname derived from the word rous "red," and combined with a diminutive suffix.

  28. ROY: Scottish name derived from the Gaelic word ruadh, meaning "red."

  29. RUADH: Old Irish/Gaelic byname meaning "red."
  30. RUADHAN (Ruadhán): "Little red one." Diminutive form of Irish/Gaelic Ruadh, "red."
  31. RUAIDHRI (Ruaidhrí): "Red king." Irish/Gaelic name composed of the Celtic elements ruadh "red" and rí "king."
  32. RUAIDRI: Variant of Irish Ruaidhri, meaning "red king."
  33. RUAIRÍ: Variant of Irish Ruaidhri, meaning "red king."

  34. RUDYARD: English surname transferred to forename use, meaning "red paddock/yard." 

  35. RUSS: Nickname for English Russell, meaning "little red one."
  36. RUSSEL: Variant of English Russell, meaning "little red one."
  37. RUSSELL: English surname transferred to forename use, itself from the Old French nickname Rousel, meaning "little red one."

  38. WAPASHA: Native American Dakota name meaning "red leaf."

• FEMALE:

  1. AKANE: Japanese name meaning "brilliant red."

  2. BURGUNDY: English name derived from the wine name, itself named for the place in France which got its name from Latin Burgundiones, literally meaning "highlanders." May also sometimes be given as a color name.

  3. GARNET: English jewel name derived from the name of the precious stone, itself from Middle English grenat, meaning "red like a pomegranate." 
  4. GARNETTE: Variant of English Garnet, meaning "garnet; red like a pomegranate."

  5. GORRIA: Feminine form of Basque Gorri, meaning "red."

  6. HONG: Chinese unisex name meaning "great" or "wild swan" for boys and "red (wedding color)" for girls.

  7. KAMALA: Feminine form of Hindi Kamal, meaning "red."

  8. MEOQUANEE: Native American Cheyenne name meaning "wears red."

  9. NINGHONG: Chinese name meaning "tranquil red."

  10. ROWANNE: Feminine variant of unisex Rowan, meaning "little red one."

  11. RUBY: English name derived from the name of the precious stone, itself from Latin ruber, meaning "red."

  12. SANUYE: Native American Miwok name meaning "red cloud at sundown."

  13. SCARLET: English color name meaning "scarlet red."

  14. SCARLETT: English occupational surname for a "dyer" or "seller of fabrics," transferred to forename use, itself from Old French escarlate, meaning "scarlet cloth." 

  15. SHIHONG: Chinese name meaning "the world is red."

  16. TALUTAH: Native American Sioux name meaning "blood-red."

  17. YEGHNIG: Armenian name meaning "hind; red deer."

SILVER COLOR NAMES:

• UNISEX:

  1. SILVER: English unisex name meaning "silver," which may refer to either the precious metal or the color.

• MALE:

  1. ARGYRIS: Variant of Greek Argyros, meaning "silver."

  2. ARGYROS: Greek name meaning "silver." 

  3. ZILAR: Basque name meaning "silver."

• FEMALE:

  1. ARIANRHOD: "Silver wheel." Modern form of the Welsh Aranrhod which has a different origin and meaning. This form of the name is composed of the elements arian "silver" and rhod "wheel." 

  2. FIDDA: Arabic name meaning "silver."

  3. FIZZA: Variant of Arabic Fidda, meaning "silver."

  4. GINA: Japanese name meaning "silvery."

  5. LUJAYN: Arabic name meaning "silver."

  6. SIMIN: Persian name meaning "silvery."

  7. SOOLEAWA: Native American Algonquin name meaning "silver."

  8. SREBRENKA: Serbian name meaning "silver."

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