SEC908's Personal Name List

Reina 1

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Spanish

Pronounced: RAY-na

Rating: 43% based on 15 votes

Means "queen" in Spanish.

Rebekah

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Biblical, English

Other Scripts: רִבְקָה(Ancient Hebrew)

Pronounced: rə-BEHK-ə(English)

Rating: 35% based on 13 votes

Form of Rebecca used in some versions of the Bible.

Odessa

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Various

Rating: 42% based on 13 votes

From the name of a Ukrainian city that sits on the north coast of the Black Sea, which was named after the ancient Greek city of Ὀδησσός (Odessos), of uncertain meaning. This name can also be used as a feminine form of Odysseus.

Lottie

Gender: Feminine

Usage: English, Swedish

Pronounced: LAHT-ee(English)

Rating: 45% based on 13 votes

Diminutive of Charlotte or Liselotte.

Hale 2

Gender: Masculine

Usage: English

Pronounced: HAYL

Rating: 48% based on 13 votes

From a surname that was derived from a place name meaning "nook, retreat" from Old English healh.

Emerson

Gender: Masculine & Feminine

Usage: English

Pronounced: EHM-ər-sən

Rating: 34% based on 11 votes

From an English surname meaning "son of Emery". The surname was borne by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), an American writer and philosopher who wrote about transcendentalism.

Elise

Gender: Feminine

Usage: German, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Dutch, English

Pronounced: eh-LEE-zə(German) eh-LEE-seh(Norwegian, Danish, Swedish) i-LEES(English) EE-lees(English)

Rating: 61% based on 17 votes

Short form of Elizabeth.

Asher

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Hebrew, English, Biblical, Biblical Hebrew [1]

Other Scripts: אָשֵׁר(Hebrew)

Pronounced: ASH-ər(English)

Rating: 44% based on 16 votes

Means "happy, blessed" in Hebrew, derived from אָשַׁר (ʾashar) meaning "to be happy, to be blessed". Asher in the Old Testament is a son of Jacob by Leah's handmaid Zilpah, and the ancestor of one of the twelve tribes of Israel. The meaning of his name is explained in Genesis 30:13.