Behind the Name: Write-ON's Personal Name List

Rosaline

Gender: Feminine

Usage: English

Pronounced: RO-zə-leen, RAHZ-ə-lin, RAHZ-ə-lien

Medieval variant of Rosalind. This is the name of characters in Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost (1594) and Romeo and Juliet (1596).

Amirah

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Arabic, Malay

Other Scripts: أميرة(Arabic)

Pronounced: a-MEE-ra(Arabic)

Alternate transcription of Arabic أميرة (see Amira 1), as well as the usual Malay form.

Amalia

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Spanish, Italian, Romanian, Greek, Finnish, Swedish, Dutch, German, Germanic (Latinized) [1]

Other Scripts: Αμαλία(Greek)

Pronounced: a-MA-lya(Spanish, Italian, German) a-MA-lee-a(Dutch)

Short form of Germanic names beginning with the element amal. This element means "unceasing, vigorous, brave", or it can refer to the Gothic dynasty of the Amali (derived from the same root).

This was another name for the 7th-century saint Amalberga of Maubeuge.

Akira

Gender: Masculine & Feminine

Usage: Japanese

Other Scripts: 昭, 明, 亮, 晶, etc.(Japanese Kanji) あきら(Japanese Hiragana)

Pronounced: A-KYEE-RA

From Japanese 昭 (akira) meaning "bright", 明 (akira) meaning "bright" or 亮 (akira) meaning "clear". Other kanji with the same pronunciation can also form this name. A famous bearer was the Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998), given name written 明.