Names beginning with P
30 names, with meanings and origins. Part of a library of 1,000.
Paislee
Paisley pattern (Prince's Paisley Park)
Scottish/English
Palesa
Flower (Southern African heritage)
Sotho/Tswana
Palmer
Pilgrim (Keke Palmer, Nope; modern unisex)
English/Latin
Pamela
All sweet (Samuel Richardson's heroine; peaked #10 in 1953)
English/Greek
Paola
Small / humble (Paola Espinosa Olympic diver; Princess Paola of Belgium)
Italian/Latin
Parveen
Pleiades star cluster (Parveen Shakir Urdu poet)
Persian/Urdu
Patacara
Cloak-walker (Buddhist nun who lost everything)
Pali/Sanskrit
Patience
Forbearance (Puritan virtue name)
Latin/English
Patsy
Noble (Patsy Cline; Patsy Mink, first woman of color in Congress)
English/Latin
Patty
Noble (Patty Duke, youngest Oscar winner; Patty Murray, US Senator)
English/Latin
Paulette
Small / humble (Paulette Goddard, Chaplin's Modern Times)
French/Latin
Pauli
Small (lawyer-priest-poet Pauli Murray)
Latin/English
Paulina
Small / humble (Paulina Porizkova; Paulina Rubio)
Latin/Spanish
Pauline
Small (Pauline Kael, film critic; Pauline Viardot)
French/Latin
Peggy
Pearl (iconic Peggy Whitson NASA first female ISS commander)
English/Greek
Perla
Pearl (Spanish + Italian)
Spanish/Italian
Pernille
Rock (Danish Peter)
Danish/Norwegian
Pertiwi
Mother Earth
Sanskrit/Other
Philomene
Loved one (French elaborated form of Philomena)
French/Greek
Phylicia
Happy / lucky (Phylicia Rashad, first Black Best Actress Tony)
English/Latin
Pia
Pious (Pia Wurtzbach, Miss Universe 2015)
Italian/Latin
Pipaluk
Little one (Inuit Greenlandic heritage)
Greenlandic/Inuit
Policarpa
Colombian independence martyr (La Pola)
Greek/Spanish
Polina
Small; sun
Russian/Greek
Porter
Doorkeeper (Cole Porter; modern unisex)
French/Latin
Prairie
Grassland / meadow (modern American nature name)
French/English
Praskovya
Friday / Preparation (Russian Orthodox tradition)
Russian/Greek
Priscila
Ancient / venerable (Spanish-Portuguese form of Priscilla)
Latin/Spanish
Prudence
Wisdom (cardinal Christian virtue; Puritan name)
Latin/English
Puabi
Sumerian Queen of Ur (c. 2600 BCE)
Sumerian/Akkadian