Precious

See also: precious

English

Proper noun

Precious

1. A surname transferred from the nickname, originating as a male or female nickname.
2. A female given name from English.
   • 2009, Alexander McCall Smith, Tea Time for the Traditionally Built, Abacus, published 2010, →ISBN, page 6:

     She and Mma Ramotswe were fortunate, with their reasonably straightforward names of Grace and Precious respectively; she had contemporaries who were not so fortunate and had been saddled by their parents with names that were frankly ridiculous.

Cebuano

Etymology

From English Precious.

Proper noun

Precious

1. a female given name from English