Behind the Name: caried1's Personal Name List

Søren

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Danish

Pronounced: SUUW-ən

Rating: 46% based on 7 votes

Danish form of Severinus. Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was a Danish philosopher who is regarded as a precursor of existentialism.

Lilja

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Icelandic, Faroese, Finnish

Pronounced: LIL-ya(Icelandic) LEEL-yah(Finnish)

Rating: 39% based on 8 votes

Icelandic, Faroese and Finnish cognate of Lily.

Leona

Gender: Feminine

Usage: English, Czech

Pronounced: lee-O-nə(English) LEH-o-na(Czech)

Rating: 44% based on 8 votes

Feminine form of Leon.

Leon

Gender: Masculine

Usage: English, German, Dutch, Polish, Slovene, Croatian, Greek, Ancient Greek [1]

Other Scripts: Λέων(Greek)

Pronounced: LEE-ahn(English) LEH-awn(German, Dutch, Polish, Slovene)

Rating: 29% based on 7 votes

Derived from Greek λέων (leon) meaning "lion". During the Christian era this Greek name was merged with the Latin cognate Leo, with the result that the two forms are used somewhat interchangeably across European languages. In England during the Middle Ages this was a common name among Jews. A famous bearer was the communist revolutionary Leon Trotsky (1879-1940), whose name is Лев in Russian.

Hershel

Gender: Masculine

Usage: American, Yiddish

Other Scripts: הירשל(Yiddish) הירשׁל(Hebrew)

Rating: 18% based on 8 votes

Yiddish diminutive of Hirsh. As a non-Jewish American name (somewhat common around the end of the 19th century), it was likely inspired by the German surname Herschel, borne for instance by the British-German astronomer William Herschel (1738-1822).

Axel

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, German, French, English

Pronounced: A-ksehl(Swedish) A-ksəl(German) A-KSEHL(French) AK-səl(English)

Rating: 36% based on 9 votes

Medieval Danish form of Absalom.

Asa

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Biblical, Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew [1]

Other Scripts: אָסָא(Hebrew)

Pronounced: AY-sə(English)

Rating: 49% based on 8 votes

Possibly means "healer" in Hebrew. This name was borne by the third king of Judah, as told in the Old Testament.