Behind the Name: Ada Isabel's Personal Name List

Iris

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Greek Mythology, English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, French, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Slovene, Croatian, Greek

Other Scripts: Ἶρις(Ancient Greek) Ίρις(Greek)

Pronounced: IE-ris(English) EE-ris(German, Dutch) EE-rees(Finnish, Spanish, Catalan, Italian) EE-REES(French)

Means "rainbow" in Greek. Iris was the name of the Greek goddess of the rainbow, also serving as a messenger to the gods. This name can also be given in reference to the word (which derives from the same Greek source) for the iris flower or the coloured part of the eye.

Beata

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Polish, German, Swedish, Danish, Late Roman

Pronounced: beh-A-ta(Polish, German)

Derived from Latin beatus meaning "blessed". This was the name of a few minor saints.

Angharad

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Welsh, Old Welsh (Modernized) [1], Welsh Mythology

From an Old Welsh name recorded in various forms such as Acgarat and Ancarat. It means "much loved", from the intensive prefix an- combined with a mutated form of caru "to love". In the medieval Welsh romance Peredur son of Efrawg, Angharad Golden-Hand is the lover of the knight Peredur.

Ada 1

Gender: Feminine

Usage: English, Italian, Spanish, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Finnish, Germanic [1]

Pronounced: AY-də(English) A-dha(Spanish) A-da(Polish) AH-dah(Finnish)

Originally a short form of Germanic names such as Adelaide or Adelina that begin with the element adal meaning "noble". Saint Ada was a 7th-century Frankish abbess at Le Mans. This name was also borne by Augusta Ada King (1815-1852), the Countess of Lovelace (known as Ada Lovelace), a daughter of Lord Byron. She was an assistant to Charles Babbage, the inventor of an early mechanical computer.