Joiya's Personal Name List

Ulan
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Tagalog
Personal remark: "rain"
Rating: 56% based on 16 votes
Means "rain" in Tagalog.
Tala
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Philippine Mythology
Other Scripts: ᜆᜎ(Baybayin)
Pronounced: ta-LA(Tagalog)
Personal remark: "bright star" "planet"
Rating: 54% based on 17 votes
Means "star" in Tagalog, ultimately from Sanskrit तारा (tārā). In Tagalog mythology, Tala is the goddess of stars and a daughter of the supreme deity Bathala.
Reyna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: RAY-na
Personal remark: "queen"
Rating: 64% based on 18 votes
Variant of Reina 1.
Perlas
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Lithuanian (Rare), Tagalog
Pronounced: per-LASS(Tagalog)
Personal remark: "pearl"
Rating: 46% based on 13 votes
Derived from perlas, which in Lithuanian and Tagalog is the word for "pearl".

In Lithuania, this name is strictly masculine, whereas in the Philippines, it appears to be strictly feminine.

Nimuel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Filipino, Tagalog
Personal remark: "peace"
Rating: 47% based on 12 votes
Probably a variant of Nemuel.
Mayari
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Philippine Mythology
Other Scripts: ᜋᜌᜍᜒ(Baybayin)
Personal remark: moon princess
Rating: 60% based on 16 votes
Etymology uncertain, possibly from Tagalog mayari meaning "to make, to finish" or may-ari meaning "owner, master". In Tagalog mythology, as well as the mythologies of other Philippine ethnic groups, Mayari is a deity of the moon, night, war, revolution, equality, and strength. The figure is regarded as female in Tagalog belief and male by other groups. She is considered the daughter of Bathala by the Tagalogs. In some stories, she is also the the sister of Tala and Hanan while in others, she is the sister of Tala and Apolaki. In one myth, Mayari battled Apolaki, resulting in the loss of one of her eyes.
Makisig
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Tagalog
Pronounced: ma-KEE-seeg
Personal remark: "refined grace"
Rating: 34% based on 12 votes
Means "elegant, gallant" in Tagalog.
Magiting
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Tagalog
Pronounced: ma-GEE-teeng
Personal remark: "heroic"
Rating: 23% based on 12 votes
Means "brave, heroic" in Tagalog.
Luningning
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Tagalog
Pronounced: loo-neeng-NEENG
Personal remark: "light/brillance"
Rating: 38% based on 13 votes
Means "brilliance" in Tagalog.
Liwayway
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Filipino, Tagalog
Other Scripts: ᜎᜒᜏᜌ᜔ᜏᜌ᜔(Baybayin)
Pronounced: lee-wie-WIE(Tagalog)
Personal remark: "dawn"
Rating: 36% based on 14 votes
Means "dawn, daybreak" in Tagalog.
Kristal
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KRIS-təl
Personal remark: "crystal"
Rating: 31% based on 15 votes
Variant of Crystal.
Esmeralda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese, English, Albanian, Literature
Pronounced: ehz-meh-RAL-da(Spanish) izh-mi-RAL-du(European Portuguese) ehz-meh-ROW-du(Brazilian Portuguese) ehz-mə-RAHL-də(English)
Personal remark: "emerald"
Rating: 51% based on 15 votes
Means "emerald" in Spanish and Portuguese. Victor Hugo used this name in his novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831), in which Esmeralda is the Romani girl who is loved by Quasimodo. It has occasionally been used in the English-speaking world since that time.
Divina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Philippines), Portuguese (Brazilian)
Personal remark: "divine"
Rating: 52% based on 14 votes
From Spanish or Portuguese divina meaning "divine, godlike".
Buwan
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Tagalog
Pronounced: BUH-whan
Personal remark: "moon"
Rating: 33% based on 13 votes
Means "moon" in Tagalog. It is not often used as a given name.
Bituin
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Tagalog
Pronounced: bee-TOO-een
Rating: 21% based on 10 votes
Means "star" in Tagalog.
Banoy
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Filipino
Pronounced: bah-NOY
Personal remark: "eagle"
Rating: 37% based on 14 votes
Means "eagle" in Tagalog.
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