| Name | Meaning | Gender | Origin |
|---|
| Patsy | From Patricia - Well born maiden | Male | English |
| Peaches | Red, yellow skinned fleshy fruit | Female | English |
| Peaches | Red, yellow skinned fleshy fruit | Female | English |
| Persephone | The daughter of Demeter and Zeus who was abducted by Hades but rescued by her mother and thereafter spent six months of the year on earth and six months in the underworld.
| Female | Greek |
| Peter | A rock. Peter the biblical fisherman and apostle had impulsive nature and rocklike faith. In Catholic tradition he is the first pope.
| Male | Greek |
| Portia | pig, hog or doorway | Female | Latin |
| Prince | Principal one: first. The rock musician Prince.
| Male | Latin |
| Princess | Female member of a royal family | Female | Word |
| Priss | | Female | |
| Prissy | | Female | |
| Queenie | Queen
| Female | English |
| Rage | | Unisex | Hebrew |
| Ralph | Red wolf
| Male | English |
| Ralph | Red wolf
| Male | English |
| Randi | Variant of Randall. Shield, wolf.
| Female | Feminine |
| Randy | Diminutive of Randolph. House wolf: protector. Mythological wolf was esteemed for courage.
| Male | English |
| Ransom | son of the shield; redeemer | Male | English |
| Raven | Dark haired or wise
| Female | Word |
| Rebecca | bound, tied | Female | Hebrew |
| Regan | little king | Female | Irish |
| Ripley | after the novel and the movie The Talented Mr. Ripley | Male | English |
| Rock | Italian from German, rest | Male | English |
| Ronnie | Victorious | Unisex | English |
| Roxy | From Roxanne - Brilliant dawn | Female | English |
| Royal | kingly, royal | Male | |