elbowin's Personal Name List

Probably an elaboration of Zita 1.

German form of Zillah.

German form of the Biblical name Zeruiah

Frisian short form of Germanic names that contain the Gothic element valdan "to reign" (practically the same as wald "rule"). It is known as a masculine name since the 15th century, and as a feminine name since the 20th century. Also, in modern German, the word Wolke means "cloud" (so some German parents use the name for that reason, because they like nature names).

The name is borne by the German actress Wolke Hegenbarth.

A dithematic German name formed from the Germanic name elements folk "people" and beraht "bright".

Diminutive of Tasso. The Blessed Tassilo III (c. 741 – c. 796) was duke of Bavaria from 748 to 788, the last of the house of the Agilolfings. Modern-day bearers include Tassilo Thierbach (1956-), a German former pair skater, and Prince Tassilo Preslavski of Bulgaria (2002-).

German form of Tancred.

German form of Shulamith. Sulamith Wülfing (1901-1989) was a German artist and illustrator.

Germanized form of the French name Georges as well as the Hunsrik form of Jorge.

Short form of Elisabeth. Max Frisch used this name on one of his characters in the novel "Homo Faber" (published in English in 1959).

German name composed of the elements ragin "advice" and fridu "peace".

Contraction of Otto and Heinrich.

A famous name bearer was Otto-Henry (in German Ottheinrich), Elector Palatine (1502–1559).

From the name of the capital city of Norway (see Oslo). It was used for a character in the 2017 television series Money Heist (original Spanish title La casa de papel), about a team of nine robbers who adopt city names as pseudonyms for anonymity.

Directly taken from Turkish orkide "orchid".

A recent coinage gaining traction in 2020/21 in Germany, maybe derived from Cornelianus or created as a masculine form to Nele.

Maybe a dithematic name formed from the Germanic name elements mari "famous" and walt "to govern, to rule".

Maralde Meyer-Minnemann is a German translator.

Invented by Queen Marie of Romania for her children's book 'Kildine, histoire d'une méchante petite princesse' (Kildine: Story of a Naughty Little Princess), published ca. 1921. Known bearers include the professional tennis player Kildine Chevalier and the French noblewoman Kildine de Sambucy de Sorgue (1979-).

Probably from Arabic القُنَيْطَرَة, al-qunayṭara, "the little bridge", or a blend of Kenyatta with Anitra. It is also the name of a big city in Morocco (see Kenitra).

Latin "judge!" (imperative).

Judica is the name of the fifth Sunday of lent, after first word of the antiphon used on that Sunday. It is occasionally used as a given name in Germany.

Variant spelling of Jesco.

Short form of Slavonic names like Jaromir or Jarosław.

The name is frequently used in the German nobility family von Puttkamer but rare otherwise.

Derived from Latin imperium meaning "command; authority; rule, power; empire". This was the name of an obscure saint, who was venerated in Mauprévoir, France (also known as Impère and Impérie). It was also borne by the famous Italian courtesan Imperia Cognati (1486-1512), in whose case it was probably a pseudonym. Honoré de Balzac later used it in his short story La belle Impéria (1832), where it belongs to a fictional courtesan who is active at the Council of Constance (1414/1418); a statue of Imperia was erected at the entrance of the harbour of Konstanz in 1993. A similar name, Bel-imperia, was employed by Elizabethan dramatist Thomas Kyd for a character in his play The Spanish Tragedy (written between 1582 and 1592).

An old composition of Hugo and Dietrich.

Hugdietrich is the father of Wolfdietrich in the medieval epic of the same name.

A dithematic name formed from the Germanic name element hugu "mind, thought, heart, spirit" and mari "famous".

The name is traditional in the von Ditfurth family, a known namesake is the German writer Hoimar von Ditfurth (1921–1989).

Fifinella is a rare English name for girls. Literary uses include the title figure in a children's christmas play by Barry Jackson and Basil Dean, and the use a a generic term for a female gremlin in Roald Dahl's The Gremlins.

Fifinella is also the name of the gremlin mascot of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP).

Feminine form of Eberhard. This was borne by Christiane Eberhardine (1671-1727), the Saxon wife of Augustus II the Strong, King of Poland.

The only feminine dwarf named in the work of J.R.R. Tolkien.

She was daughter of Thráin II, sister of Thorin Oakenshield, and the mother of Fíli and Kíli.

Her name is identical to the Germanic name element dís "goddess".

From Latin clavis "key". The use as a given name is transferred from the humanist surname Clavius (originally Clau or Schlüssel) borne by Christopher Clavius, a 16th-century Jesuit, astronomer, and mathematician.

From Latin clāmor "clamor, loud cry, a shout", taken from the liturgical prayer 'Clamor meus ad te veniat' meaning "Let my cry come to thee".

Spelling variant of Kerstin. Note that it is still pronounced with an initial k.

Capitola Le Noir (aka Capitola Black or Cap Black) is a character from E.D.E.N. Southworth‘s 'The Hidden Hand' (published 1859). The name alludes to the words capital and capitalism as well as capitol.

Means "emerging, rising from the sea", derived from Greek αναδύομαι (anadyomai) meaning "to surface, emerge, rise to the surface". This was an epithet of Aphrodite.