English names are personal names used in, or originating in, England. In England, as elsewhere in the English-speaking world, a complete name usually...

in the U.S were named after places in England largely as a result of English settlers and explorers of the Thirteen Colonies. Some names were carried over...

This is a set of lists of English personal and place names having spellings that are counterintuitive to their pronunciation because the spelling does...

name of a taxon or organism (also known as a vernacular name, English name, colloquial name, country name, popular name, or farmer's name) is a name that...

Norse), Anglo-Saxon (Old English), continental (Frankish, Old High German and Low German), and East Germanic (see Gothic names) forms. By the High Middle...

original Czech name háček, meaning "little hook". the Polish crossed Ł and ogonek (as in Lech Wałęsa) – the former pronounced as English "w", the latter...

The identity of the longest word in English depends on the definition of a word and of length. Words may be derived naturally from the language's roots...

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on...

"Zero" is the usual name for the number 0 in English. In British English "nought" is also used and in American English "naught" is used occasionally for...

English place names in Canada is a list of Canadian place names which are named after places in England, carried over by English emigrants and explorers...

The English Place-Name Society (EPNS) is a learned society concerned with toponomastics and the toponymy of England, in other words, the study of place-names...

personal names known in English that are modified from another language and are or were not used among the person themselves. It does not include: names of...

country known in English as Burma, or Myanmar, has undergone changes in both its official and popular names worldwide. The choice of names stems from the...

romanized: ʾIsmāʿīl) is an Arabic given name. It corresponds to the English name Ishmael. The literal translation of the name Ismail is "heard by God" and according...

English or english in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. English usually refers to: English language English people English may also refer to: English,...

An English exonym is a name in the English language for a place (a toponym), or occasionally other terms, which does not follow the local usage (the endonym)...

is a given name of Hebrew origin. It derives its popularity from the biblical figure Jesse, father of Israelite monarch David. The English version is...

be chosen as a Chinese name, a Hong Kong name, a Japanese name, a Korean name, a Malaysian Chinese name, or a Vietnamese name, but they would be spelled...

The English name of Switzerland is a compound containing Switzer, an obsolete term for the Swiss, which was in use during the 16th to 19th centuries. The...

Old English lēah, meaning a meadow or forest clearing. This developed variously into the surnames Lee, Lea, and Leigh.[citation needed] The name in Ireland...

Lucas is a Latin masculine given name (from the verb "lucere" - "to shine"), from which the English name Luke comes. Lucas Bryant (born 1978), Canadian-American...

Greece. Similarly, the Latin name of the nation was Graeci, which is the origin of the English name Greeks. Those names, in turn, trace their origin from...

Name change is the legal act by a person of adopting a new name different from their current name. The procedures and ease of a name change vary between...

James is an English language given name that is the Greek derivative of the name Jacob, most commonly used for males. It is a modern descendant, through...

were given names of places in England by English emigrants and explorers. It also includes place names where there is a similar place name in England...

of the 8th century. The English name of Turkey (from Medieval Latin Turchia/Turquia) means "land of the Turks". Middle English usage of Turkye is attested...

Jasmine is an English feminine given name. The English name is a reference to the plant of the same name. However, in terms of etymology, the word jasmine...

and short names at the United Nations are Česká republika and Česko in Czech, and the Czech Republic and Czechia in English. All these names derive from...

Jiovanni, or, when used as an English name, its female counterpart is Giovanna. Pope St. Paul VI (1897-1978), whose given name was Giovanni Battista Montini...

Middle English (abbreviated to ME) is a form of the English language that was spoken after the Norman Conquest of 1066, until the late 15th century. The...