nevercontent's Personal Name List

Torbjörn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish
From the Old Norse name Þórbjǫrn, which meant "Thor's bear" from the name of the Norse god Þórr (see Thor) combined with bjǫrn "bear".
Pelle
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish
Pronounced: PEHL-leh
Swedish diminutive of Per.
Oskar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Polish, Czech, Slovene, Basque
Pronounced: AWS-kar(German, Swedish, Polish) OS-kar(Basque)
Form of Oscar in several languages. A famous bearer was Oskar Schindler (1908-1974), who is credited for saved over 1,000 Polish Jews during World War II.
Love 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish
Pronounced: LOO-veh
Swedish form of Louis.
Kjell
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian
Pronounced: SHEHL(Swedish) KHEHL(Norwegian)
Variant of Ketil.
Ilya
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian, Belarusian
Other Scripts: Илья(Russian) Ілья(Belarusian)
Pronounced: i-LYA(Russian)
Russian and Belarusian form of Elijah.
Ieva
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Lithuanian, Latvian
Lithuanian and Latvian form of Eve. This is also the Lithuanian and Latvian word for a type of cherry tree (species Prunus padus).
Henning
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish
Pronounced: HEH-ning(German) HEHN-ning(Norwegian, Swedish)
Diminutive of Henrik.
Hannes
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Swedish, Dutch, Icelandic, Finnish, Estonian
Pronounced: HA-nəs(German) HAN-nehs(Swedish) HAH-nəs(Dutch) HAHN-nehs(Finnish)
Short form of Johannes.
Geir
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norwegian, Icelandic
Pronounced: GAYR(Norwegian)
Derived from the Old Norse element geirr meaning "spear".
Erik
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Estonian, Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Croatian, Hungarian, German, Dutch, English, Spanish
Pronounced: EH-rik(Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Czech, German, Dutch) EH-reek(Finnish, Slovak, Slovene, Hungarian, Spanish) EHR-ik(English)
Scandinavian form of Eric. This was the name of kings of Sweden, Denmark and Norway. King Erik IX of Sweden (12th century) is the patron saint of that country.
Eric
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Swedish, German, Spanish
Pronounced: EHR-ik(English) EH-rik(Swedish, German) EH-reek(Spanish)
Means "ever ruler", from the Old Norse name Eiríkr, derived from the elements ei "ever, always" and ríkr "ruler, king". A notable bearer was Eiríkr inn Rauda (Eric the Red in English), a 10th-century navigator and explorer who discovered Greenland. This was also the name of several early kings of Sweden, Denmark and Norway.

This common Norse name was first brought to England by Danish settlers during the Anglo-Saxon period. It was not popular in England in the Middle Ages, but it was revived in the 19th century, in part due to the children's novel Eric, or Little by Little (1858) by Frederic William Farrar.

Eliška
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Czech, Slovak
Pronounced: EH-lish-ka(Czech) EH-leesh-ka(Slovak)
Czech and Slovak diminutive of Elizabeth.
Ania
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Polish, Russian
Other Scripts: Аня(Russian)
Pronounced: A-nya(Polish)
Polish diminutive of Anna, and an alternate transcription of Russian Аня (see Anya).
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