Behind the Name: Amara L.'s Personal Name List

Sakhr

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Arabic

Other Scripts: صخر(Arabic)

Pronounced: SAKHR

Rating: 27% based on 11 votes

Means "solid rock" in Arabic. This name appears in the poems of the 7th-century poetess Al-Khansa.

Ludivine

Gender: Feminine

Usage: French

Pronounced: LUY-DEE-VEEN

Rating: 31% based on 15 votes

Possibly from a feminine form of Leutwin. It was popularized in the 1970s by a character from the French miniseries Les Gens de Mogador.

Khamis

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Arabic

Other Scripts: خميس(Arabic)

Pronounced: kha-MEES

Rating: 44% based on 14 votes

Means "Thursday" in Arabic.

Ichabod

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Biblical

Other Scripts: אִי־כָבוֹד(Ancient Hebrew)

Pronounced: IK-ə-bahd(American English) IK-ə-bawd(British English)

Rating: 24% based on 15 votes

Means "no glory" in Hebrew, from the roots אִי (ʾi) meaning "not" and כָּבַד (kavaḏ) meaning "to be glorious". In the Old Testament this is the grandson of Eli and the son of Phinehas. He was named this because his mother despaired that "the glory has departed from Israel" (1 Samuel 4:21).

This name was used by Washington Irving for Ichabod Crane, the main character in his short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820).