elbowin's Personal Name List

Means "little wolf", from a diminutive of the Gothic element wulfs. This was the name of a 4th-century Gothic bishop and missionary. He translated the New Testament into Gothic.

Derived from the Old German element wolf meaning "wolf" combined with hart meaning "hard, firm, brave, hardy".

Compound of Wolf and Dietrich. Wolfdietrich is the title hero of a 13th-century Middle High German epic poem. By some traditions he is the grandfather of the more famous hero Dietrich von Bern.

Created by the German author Karl May for an Apache chief, first appearing in his 1875 novel Old Firehand and subsequently in several other works.

Feminine form of William. A famous bearer of this name was Williamina Fleming (1857-1911), a Scottish astronomer.

Variant of Willehelm.

In medieval German literature, this is the name of the eponymous character of the epic poem Willehalm (13th century) written by the German poet Wolfram von Eschenbach (died around 1220).

Variant of Waltraud.

Derived from the Old German element folk "people" combined with mari "famous".

Derived from the Old German elements folk "people" and hart "hard, brave".

Lithuanian masculine form of Virginia.

Alternate transcription of Russian Виктория or Ukrainian Вікторія (see Viktoriya).

Diminutive of Ulrich or Ulrike.

Soviet-era name derived from the usual Azerbaijani spelling of the surname of the German communist party leader Ernst Thälmann (1886-1944; see Thälmann).

A dithematic name composed from the Slavic name element světŭ "light" and an unidentified second part.

From Sanskrit सुख (sukha) "happiness, pleasure" and राम (rāma), the name of the Hindu god Rama 1.

Italian and Spanish form of Syrus.

German form of Snow White.

Means "snow white" in High German, thus a cognate of Low German Sneewittchen (see Snow White). This is the name of a peasant girl in the German folktale Snow-White and Rose-Red, recorded by the Brothers Grimm in 1837. Her sister is Rosenrot, translated into English as Rose-Red. This story is distinct from the Grimms' earlier tale Snow White.

Short form of Ryan and other names beginning with Ry.

Means "rose red" in German, used in the Brothers Grimm folktale Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot (English translation Snow-White and Rose-Red). In the tale Rosenrot and her sister Schneeweißchen befriend a bear who has been cursed by an evil dwarf.

Short form of Rimantas.

From the name Nisa combined with Arabic نور (nūr) meaning "light".

Strictly feminine form of Nasim.

Namıka is a Turkish word meaning "printer, writer".

From Arabic نفيس (nafīs) meaning "precious, valuable", from the root نفس (nafusa) meaning "to be precious".

Spanish short form of Maximiliano (masculine) or German short form of Maximiliane (feminine) or Maximilian (masculine).

Feminine form of Mahbub.

From the Punic name 𐤌𐤂𐤍 (Magon) possibly meaning "shield" [1]. This name was borne by three kings of Carthage, and also by a brother of Hannibal Barca.

Form of Lohengrin used by the 13th-century German poet Wolfram von Eschenbach.

From the earlier form Loherangrin, derived from Lothringen, the German name for the region of Lorraine. It appears in Arthurian legend, initially in the 13th-century German poem Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach, belonging to a son of the knight Parzival. The tales were adapted by Richard Wagner for his opera Lohengrin (1850).

Russian form of Laurus (see Laura).

From the English noble title Lady, derived from Old English hlæfdige, originally meaning "bread kneader". This name grew in popularity in Latin America after the marriage of Diana Spencer, known as Lady Di, to Prince Charles in 1981 and her death in 1997.

Swiss German short form of Georg.

Diminutive of Jakob, Jörg or Joachim.

Serbian form of Euphemia. This name was adopted by a 14th-century Serbian poet (born Jelena Mrnjavčević).

From an Old German byname derived from hraban meaning "raven".

Derived from Phoenician 𐤇𐤍𐤍 (ḥann) meaning "grace, favour". This was a fairly common Punic name.

Variant of Jimena.

Dutch feminine form of Gisbert.

Diminutive of Gheorghe.

Probably means "the giving one", from Old Norse gefa "to give". Gefjon or Gefion was a Norse goddess associated with ploughing and fertility.

Variant of Gefjon.

Russian form of Thekla.

Means "hazel light", from Turkish ela meaning "hazel" combined with Arabic نور (nūr) meaning "light".

Derived from the Old German elements agil "edge, blade" and mari "famous". Egilmar (or Elimar) was the name of two counts of Oldenburg in the 12th century.

Serbian form of Dositheos.

From German Dorn "thorn" and Rose "rose" combined with the diminutive suffix -chen. This is the name of Sleeping Beauty in the Brothers Grimm telling of the fairy tale.

Variant of Dietlinde.

Old German form of Baldric.