Behind the Name: LegendaryMyth's Personal Name List

Thandiwe

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Xhosa, Zulu, Ndebele

Pronounced: tan-DEE-weh

Personal remark: Means "loving one" in Xhosa, Zulu and Ndebele, from thanda "to love".

Rating: 50% based on 6 votes

Means "loving one" in Xhosa, Zulu and Ndebele, from thanda "to love".

Tendai

Gender: Masculine & Feminine

Usage: Shona

Personal remark: Means "be thankful" in Shona.

Rating: 50% based on 7 votes

From Shona tenda meaning "be thankful, thank" [1].

Selam

Gender: Feminine & Masculine

Usage: Eastern African, Amharic

Other Scripts: ሲላም(Amharic)

Personal remark: Means "peace" in Amharic.

Means "peace" in Amharic.

Saran

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Western African, Manding, Jula

Personal remark: Means "joy" in Jula. Dyula, also known as Jula, is a Mande language spoken in Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, and Mali.

Means "joy" in Jula.

Sabah

Gender: Feminine & Masculine

Usage: Arabic, Turkish

Other Scripts: صباح(Arabic)

Pronounced: sa-BAH(Arabic)

Personal remark: Means "morning" in Arabic and Turkish.

Means "morning" in Arabic and Turkish.

Osei

Gender: Masculine & Feminine

Usage: African

Pronounced: o- say

Personal remark: Ghanaian, Akan meaning of royalty

Rating: 54% based on 7 votes

Ghanaian, Akan meaning of royalty

Ola 3

Gender: Masculine & Feminine

Usage: Yoruba

Pronounced: AW-LA

Personal remark: From Yoruba ọlà meaning "wealth" or the related ọlá meaning "honour, respect". It is also a short form of names containing those elements.

From Yoruba ọlà meaning "wealth" or the related ọlá meaning "honour, respect". It is also a short form of names containing those elements.

Neith

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Egyptian Mythology (Hellenized)

Other Scripts: Νηΐθ(Ancient Greek)

Pronounced: NEE-ith(English)

Personal remark: Greek form of Egyptian nt, possibly meaning 'dread waters', the name of an early Egyptian goddess of weaving, hunting and war.

Greek form of Egyptian nt, possibly from nt "water" or nrw "fear, dread". This was the name of an early Egyptian goddess of weaving, hunting and war. Her character may have some correspondences with the goddesses Tanith, Anat or Athena.

Neema

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Swahili

Personal remark: Swahili name meaning "divine grace", common in East Africa. As a Western African feminine name it allegedly means "born during prosperous times".

Rating: 74% based on 5 votes

Means "divine grace" in Swahili, from Arabic نعمة (niʿma) meaning "blessing".

Mpho

Gender: Masculine & Feminine

Usage: Tswana, Sotho

Personal remark: Means "gift" in Tswana and Sotho, a derivative of fa "to offer".

Rating: 40% based on 3 votes

Means "gift" in Tswana and Sotho, a derivative of fa "to offer".

Monica

Gender: Feminine

Usage: English, Italian, Romanian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Late Roman

Pronounced: MAHN-i-kə(English) MAW-nee-ka(Italian) mo-NEE-ka(Romanian) MO-nee-ka(Dutch)

Personal remark: Meaning unknown, most likely of North African or Phoenician origin.

Rating: 56% based on 7 votes

Meaning unknown, most likely of Berber or Phoenician origin. In the 4th century this name was borne by a North African saint, the mother of Saint Augustine of Hippo, whom she converted to Christianity. Since the Middle Ages it has been associated with Latin moneo "advisor" and Greek μονός (monos) "one, single".

As an English name, Monica has been in general use since the 18th century. In America it reached the height of its popularity in the 1970s, declining since then. A famous bearer was the Yugoslavian tennis player Monica Seles (1973-).

Meritites

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Ancient Egyptian

Personal remark: Egyptian. " Beloved by her father". Born by many royal women.

Rating: 57% based on 6 votes

From Egyptian mryt-jts meaning "loved by her father". This name was borne by several Egyptian royals, including a wife and a daughter of the pharaoh Khufu.

Menes

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Ancient Egyptian (Hellenized)

Other Scripts: Μήνης(Ancient Greek)

Personal remark: Greek form of Egyptian mnj probably meaning "he who endures", derived from mn "to endure". Traditionally, Menes was the Egyptian pharaoh who first united Upper and Lower Egypt around the 31st century.

Greek form of Egyptian mnj probably meaning "he who endures", derived from mn "to endure". According to tradition, Menes was the Egyptian pharaoh who first united Upper and Lower Egypt around the 31st century BC. He is probably the same as the pharaoh known as Narmer; Menes could have been his throne name.

Marial

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Dinka

Pronounced: MAR-ee-ǝl

This is a historical name of "Dinka" people in South Sudan in Africa. The meaning refers to a mixture of beautiful colors of black and white type of a bull. Is a name given to a male child after his mother's bride price was inform of such colored bull. Dinka people are traditionally known as cattle keepers in Africa.

Iyasus

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Ethiopian, Theology

Other Scripts: ኢየሱስ(Amharic)

Personal remark: Form of Jesus used in Ethiopia. Also the name of a 1700 Ethiopian king.

Form of Jesus used in Ethiopia.

Ismaïla

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Western African

Personal remark: Western African form of Ismail (see Ishmael).

Rating: 70% based on 7 votes

Western African form of Ismail (see Ishmael).

Ife

Gender: Feminine & Masculine

Usage: Yoruba

Personal remark: West African. Means "love" in Yoruba.

Rating: 53% based on 4 votes

From Yoruba ìfẹ́ meaning "love".

Gudit

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Eastern African, Ge'ez

Other Scripts: ጉዲት(Ge'ez)

Personal remark: Ge'ez form of Judith, from the Hebrew name Yehudit meaning "Jewish woman". Gudit was a Ethiopian falasha queen (flourished ca. 960)

Ge'ez form of Judith.

Gudit was a Ethiopian falasha queen (flourished ca. 960).

Eyob

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Amharic, Ge'ez, Tigrinya

Other Scripts: እዮብ(Ge'ez)

Personal remark: Ethiopian and Eritrean form of Job. It is the ancient Ethiopic language Geʽez translation of Job.

Ethiopian and Eritrean form of Job.

Eleni

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Greek

Other Scripts: Ελένη(Greek)

Pronounced: eh-LEH-nee

Personal remark: The name of 15th C Eleni of Hadiya, empress consort and later queen mother of Ethiopia

Modern Greek form of Helen.

Bintanath

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Ancient Egyptian

Personal remark: Means "daughter of Anat". She was the daughter of Ramses II and Isetnofret, later becoming a Great Royal Wife of her father following the death of Nefertari.

Rating: 30% based on 7 votes

Means "daughter of Anat 1" in Egyptian.

She was the daughter of Ramses II and Isetnofret, later becoming a Great Royal Wife of her father following the death of Nefertari.

Behati

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Afrikaans

Pronounced: bay-AH-tee

Personal remark: Possibly an Afrikaans variant of BEATA.

Rating: 68% based on 6 votes

Possibly an Afrikaans variant of Beata. It is the name of Namibian fashion model Behati Prinsloo (b. 1989).

Andretti

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Caribbean (Rare), South American (Rare)

Personal remark: Caribbean. Likely a transferred use of the surname Andretti.

Rating: 60% based on 3 votes

Likely a transferred use of the surname Andretti. This is borne by Bahamian sprinter Andretti Bain (1985-).

Ammon

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Egyptian Mythology (Hellenized)

Other Scripts: Ἄμμων(Ancient Greek)

Personal remark: Greek form of Egyptian Yamanu (see Amon).

Greek form of Egyptian Yamanu (see Amon).

Amasis

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Ancient Egyptian (Hellenized), History

Other Scripts: Ἄμασις(Ancient Greek)

Personal remark: Hellenized form of the ancient Egyptian name IaH-ms or I'h-ms meaning "son of Iah".

Rating: 43% based on 7 votes

Variant form of Άμωσις (Amosis), which is the hellenized form of the ancient Egyptian name IaH-ms or I'h-ms meaning "son of Iah". It is composed of the name of the Egyptian god Iah combined with the word mes "son" or mesu "be born". Also see Ahmose, which is the anglicized form of the aforementioned name Amosis.

A well-known bearer of this name was Amasis II, an Egyptian pharaoh from the 6th century BC.