Behind the Name: tazzz's Personal Name List

Phoenix

Gender: Masculine & Feminine

Usage: English (Modern)

Pronounced: FEE-niks

Rating: 56% based on 25 votes

From the name of a beautiful immortal bird that appears in Egyptian and Greek mythology. After living for several centuries in the Arabian Desert, it would be consumed by fire and rise from its own ashes, with this cycle repeating every 500 years. The name of the bird was derived from Greek φοῖνιξ (phoinix) meaning "dark red".

Condoleezza

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Various (Rare)

Pronounced: kahn-də-LEE-zə(American English) kawn-də-LEE-zə(British English)

Rating: 30% based on 21 votes

In the case of the former American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (1954-), it is derived from the Italian musical term con dolcezza meaning "with sweetness".

Antigone

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Greek Mythology, Ancient Greek [1]

Other Scripts: Ἀντιγόνη(Ancient Greek)

Pronounced: AN-TEE-GO-NEH(Classical Greek) an-TIG-ə-nee(English)

Rating: 50% based on 32 votes

Derived from Greek ἀντί (anti) meaning "against, compared to, like" and γονή (gone) meaning "birth, offspring". In Greek legend Antigone was the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta. King Creon of Thebes declared that her slain brother Polynices was to remain unburied, a great dishonour. She disobeyed and gave him a proper burial, and for this she was sealed alive in a cave.

Andromeda

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Greek Mythology

Other Scripts: Ἀνδρομέδα, Ἀνδρομέδη(Ancient Greek)

Pronounced: AN-DRO-MEH-DA(Classical Greek) an-DRAH-mi-də(American English) an-DRAW-mi-də(British English)

Rating: 72% based on 26 votes

Derived from Greek ἀνήρ (aner) meaning "man" (genitive ἀνδρός) combined with one of the related words μέδομαι (medomai) meaning "to be mindful of, to provide for, to think on" or μέδω (medo) meaning "to protect, to rule over". In Greek mythology Andromeda was an Ethiopian princess rescued from sacrifice by the hero Perseus. A constellation in the northern sky is named for her. This is also the name of a nearby galaxy, given because it resides (from our point of view) within the constellation.