Mirai Kurai's Personal Name List
Wynnstan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Anglo-Saxon [1][2]
Personal remark: "joy" + "stone"
Derived from the Old English elements
wynn "joy" and
stan "stone".
Wolfram
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German
Pronounced: VAWL-fram
Personal remark: "wolf raven"
Derived from the Old German element
wolf meaning "wolf" combined with
hram meaning "raven".
Saint Wolfram (or Wulfram) was a 7th-century archbishop of Sens. This name was also borne by the 13th-century German poet Wolfram von Eschenbach, the author of
Parzival.
Witimer
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic
Personal remark: "famous forest"
Means "famous forest", derived from Old High German witu "forest, wood" combined with Old High German mâri "famous."
Visvaldis
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Latvian
Personal remark: "all" + "rule"
From Latvian
viss "all" and
valdīt "to rule". It is thus a
cognate of the Slavic name
Vsevolod.
Vervain
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: American (Rare, Archaic)
Means "foliage", from the Latin verbena. Vervain, also known as verbena, is a genus in the botanical family Verbenaceae.
Vertiline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (Rare, Archaic)
Personal remark: orig. unknown
Verdell
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (American)
Pronounced: ver-DEL(American English)
Personal remark: "green"
Derived from the Spanish verde, meaning "green," combined with the suffix -ell. A notable bearer is Native American singer Verdell Primeaux (1966-).
Vartilet
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Chuvash
Other Scripts: Вартилет(Chuvash)
Personal remark: "kind, friendly"
Combination of Chuvash варлă (varlă) meaning "kind, friendly" and тилет (tilet) with an unknown meaning.
Valter
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Swedish, Slovene, Croatian, Estonian
Pronounced: VAL-tehr(Italian, Swedish)
Personal remark: "ruler of the army"
Form of
Walter used in several languages.
Vachel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (American, Rare, Archaic)
Personal remark: orig. unknown
Of unknown origin and meaning.
A famous bearer of the name is the American poet Vachel Lindsay.
Trevelyan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: tri-VEHL-yən
Personal remark: "homestead on the hill"
From a surname that was derived from a Cornish place name meaning "homestead on the hill".
Torill
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norwegian
Personal remark: "Thor's battle"
Theodoxia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Greek, History (Ecclesiastical)
Other Scripts: Θεοδοξία(Ancient Greek)
Derived from the Greek noun θεός
(theos) meaning "god" combined with the Greek noun δόξα
(doxa) meaning "notion, reputation, honour".
This name has regularly been confused with Theodosia, Theodota and Theodotia.
Theodota
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Theodoret
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Late Greek (Anglicized), Late Greek (Germanized)
Anglicized and germanized form of
Theodoretos.
Notable bearers of this name include saint Theodoret of Antioch (died in 362 AD) and the theologian Theodoret of Cyrus or Cyrrhus (died around 458 AD).
Tavish
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish
Personal remark: Scottish form of THOMAS (twin).
Anglicized form of
a Thàmhais, vocative case of
Tàmhas. Alternatively it could be taken from the Scottish surname
McTavish, Anglicized form of
Mac Tàmhais, meaning "son of
Tàmhas".
Taskill
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish (Rare)
Personal remark: "god helmet"
Tancred
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Norman [1]
Pronounced: TANG-krid(English)
Personal remark: "thought and counsel"
Norman form of the Germanic name
Thancrat meaning
"thought and counsel", derived from the elements
thank meaning "thought, consideration, thanks" (Old High German
danc, Old Frankish
þank) and
rat meaning "counsel, advice". This name was common among the medieval Norman nobility of southern Italy, being the name of the founder of the Hauteville family. It was borne by a leader of the First Crusade, described by Torquato Tasso in his epic poem
Jerusalem Delivered (1580).
Taionia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American
Personal remark: orig. unknown
Syer
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (British)
Pronounced: Sire(British English) sigh-er(British English)
Personal remark: orig. unknown
Possibly of Old French origin, Syer is a rare English given name primarily used as a secondary name within a longer compound name; e.g. Frederick Syer. It is particularly associated with the Eighteen family of Reading, Berkshire.
Sirvard
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Armenian
Other Scripts: Սիրվարդ(Armenian)
Personal remark: "love rose"
Means "love rose" in Armenian.
Sidony
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Archaic)
Personal remark: "of Sidon"
Feminine form of
Sidonius. This name was in use in the Middle Ages, when it became associated with the word
sindon (of Greek origin) meaning "linen", a reference to the Shroud of Turin.
Sefton
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: SEHF-tən
Personal remark: "town in the rushes"
From a surname that was derived from a place name meaning "town in the rushes" in Old English.
Roswell
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: RAHZ-wehl
Personal remark: "horse spring"
From a surname that was derived from an Old English place name meaning "horse spring".
Rohese
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English
Personal remark: "rose" (medieval english)
Richmal
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Personal remark: uncertain: Richard + Mary?
Meaning uncertain, possibly a combination of
Richard and
Mary. This name has been used since at least the late 18th century, mainly confined to the town of Bury in Lancashire.
Radcliff
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: RAD-klif
Personal remark: "red cliff"
From a surname that was derived from a place name meaning "red cliff" in Old English.
Praise
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (African)
Pronounced: PRAYZ
From the English word praise, which is ultimately derived (via Old French) from Late Latin preciare, a derivative of Latin pretium "price, worth". This name is most common in English-speaking Africa.
Paget
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: PAJ-it
Personal remark: "little page"
From a French and English surname that meant
"little page" (see
Paige).
Ortrun
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Rare), Germanic
Pronounced: AWRT-roon(German)
Personal remark: "secret point"
Derived from the Old German elements
ort "point" and
runa "secret lore, rune". In the medieval German epic
Kudrun this is the name of
Hartmut's sister.
Orrin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish
Personal remark: "little pale green one"/ "orange"
Myrthe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch
Pronounced: MEER-tə
Morven
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Scottish
Pronounced: MAWR-vehn
Personal remark: "big gap"
From the name of a region in western Scotland, also called Morvern or in Gaelic A' Mhorbhairne, meaning "the big gap". This is the location of Fingal's kingdom in James Macpherson's 18th-century poems.
Masterman
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: MAS-tər-mən
From an English surname that originally belonged to a person who worked as a servant.
Margery
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MAHR-jə-ree
Personal remark: Medieval English form of MARGARET.
Madoc
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh (Rare)
Personal remark: "fortunate"
From the Old Welsh name
Matauc, derived from
mad meaning
"good, fortunate" combined with a
diminutive suffix. This is the name of a warrior mentioned in the 7th-century Welsh poem
Y Gododdin. It was also borne by several medieval rulers, including the 12th-century Madoc ap Maredudd, the last prince of Powys. Another bearer, according to later folklore, was a son of the 12th-century
Owain the Great who sailed to the Americas.
Lowell
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LO-əl
Personal remark: "wolf"
From an English surname that was derived from a Norman French nickname, from
lou "wolf" and a
diminutive suffix. The surname was borne by American poet and satirist James Russell Lowell (1819-1891).
Letha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Personal remark: "truth"
Possibly a short form of
Aletha.
Knox
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: NAHKS
Personal remark: "round hill"
From a Scots surname that was derived from various places named Knock, from Gaelic cnoc "round hill". It jumped in popularity after the actors Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt had a baby by this name in 2008.
Kinneret
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: כִּנֶּרֶת(Hebrew)
Personal remark: "harp"
Kinborough
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English
Personal remark: "royal fortress"
Kenelm
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: KEHN-əlm
Personal remark: "bold / keen helmet"
From the Old English name
Cenhelm, which was composed of the elements
cene "bold, keen" and
helm "helmet".
Saint Kenelm was a 9th-century martyr from Mercia, where he was a member of the royal family. The name was occasionally used during the Middle Ages, but has since become rare.
Katla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Icelandic, Old Norse [1]
Personal remark: "kettle, cauldron" (later also acquiring the meaning "helmet")
Jotham
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: יוֹתָם(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: JO-thəm(English)
Personal remark: "YAHWEH is perfect"
Means
"Yahweh is perfect" in Hebrew, derived from
יוֹ (yo) referring to the Hebrew God and
תָּם (tam) meaning "perfect, complete". In the
Old Testament this is the name of both a son of
Gideon and a king of Judah.
Ingvar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish, Icelandic, Norwegian, Danish
Personal remark: Germanic god YNGVI + arr ("warrior")
From the Old Norse name
Yngvarr, which was derived from the name of the Germanic god
Yngvi combined with
herr meaning "army, warrior".
Inge
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, German, Dutch, Estonian
Pronounced: ING-eh(Danish, Norwegian, Swedish) ING-ə(German, Dutch)
Short form of Scandinavian and German names beginning with the element
ing, which refers to the Germanic god
Ing. In Sweden and Norway this is primarily a masculine name, elsewhere it is usually feminine.
Inbar
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: עִןְבָּר, עִיןְבָּר(Hebrew)
Personal remark: "amber"
Means "amber" in Hebrew.
Howell
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Personal remark: "eminent"
Anglicized form of
Hywel.
Hiram
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, English
Other Scripts: חִירָם(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: HIE-rəm(English)
Personal remark: "exalted brother"
From Phoenician
𐤇𐤓𐤌 (Ḥirom) meaning
"exalted brother". This was the name of a king of Tyre according to the
Old Testament. He may have reigned in the 10th century BC. As an English given name,
Hiram came into use after the
Protestant Reformation. In the 17th century the
Puritans brought it to America, where it gained some currency.
Hillevi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Finnish
Pronounced: HIL-leh-vee(Swedish) HEEL-leh-vee(Finnish)
Personal remark: "happy hearty healthy war"
Swedish and Finnish form of
Heilwig.
Helewise
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English
Personal remark: var: Helewis
Medieval English form of
Eloise.
Hekla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Icelandic
Pronounced: HEHH-kla
Personal remark: "cloak"
From the name of an active Icelandic volcano, derived from Old Norse hekla meaning "cloak".
Heard
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Anglo-Saxon [1]
Personal remark: "brave, hardy"
Short form of various Old English names containing the element
heard meaning
"hard, firm, brave, hardy".
Harlow
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: HAHR-lo
Personal remark: hær ("rock") or here ("army") + hlaw ("hill")
From an English surname derived from a place name, itself derived from Old English
hær "rock, heap of stones" or
here "army", combined with
hlaw "hill". As a name for girls, it received some attention in 2008 when the American celebrity Nicole Richie used it for her daughter.
Halsten
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish (Rare)
Personal remark: "rock, stone"
Old Swedish form of
Hallsteinn (see
Hallstein).
Gry
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norwegian, Danish, Swedish
Means "to dawn" in Norwegian, Danish and Swedish.
Flannery
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: FLAN-ə-ree
Personal remark: "red valour"
From an Irish surname, an Anglicized form of Ó Flannghaile, derived from the given name Flannghal meaning "red valour". A famous bearer was American author Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964).
Finnian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish
Personal remark: "white"
Derived from Old Irish
finn "white, blessed". This was the name of several Irish
saints, including the founders of monasteries at Clonard and Movilla (both 6th century).
Finnbar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish (Rare)
Pronounced: FIN-bahr(English)
Fenimore
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Personal remark: "fine love"
Transferred use of the surname
Fenimore, an English surname which was originally a nickname derived from Old French
fin "fine, splendid" and
amour "love".
Fenella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Scottish
Personal remark: "white shoulder"
Form of
Fionnuala used by Walter Scott for a character in his novel
Peveril of the Peak (1823).
Everard
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Personal remark: "brave boar"
From
Everardus, the Latinized form of
Eberhard. The
Normans introduced it to England, where it joined the Old English
cognate Eoforheard. It has only been rarely used since the Middle Ages. Modern use of the name may be inspired by the surname
Everard, itself derived from the medieval name.
Ender
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Turkish
Means "very rare" in Turkish.
Embeth
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Germanic Mythology, Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend
The name of one of the three
Beten (or
Bethen,
Beden), a German group of three saints. They are adored in minor churches and chapels in South Tyrol (Italy), Upper Bavaria, Baden and the Rhineland. Although the cult of the ''Three Virgins' is known since the late Middle Ages, it is only distributed regionally and not contained in the official lists of saints of the Catholic church. St. Einbeth (Embeth) is known in Strasbourg already in the second half of the 12th century. In the second half of the 14th century she is accompanied by
Wilbeth and
Borbeth. The origin of the three names is unknown. In the time of Romanticism in the 19th century speculation arose that the Three Virgins could be some kind of Christianized pagan Germanic, Celtic or Roman goddesses. Some theorize three saints are from a Germanic or Indo-European Triple Goddess, similar to the Fates of Greece.
Ellery
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHL-ə-ree
Personal remark: "cheerful"
From an English surname that was originally derived from the medieval masculine name
Hilary.
Driskoll
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: DRIS-kəl
Personal remark: "descendant of the messenger"
Dimity
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Australian, Rare)
The name given to a type of lightweight sheer cotton fabric used for bed upholstery and curtains, used as a female given name mainly in the United Kingdom and Australia.
Daveth
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Cornish
Cyneric
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Anglo-Saxon [1][2]
Personal remark: "royal ruler"
Derived from Old English
cyne "royal" and
ric "ruler, king".
Corbin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KAWR-bin
From a French surname that was derived from
corbeau "raven", originally denoting a person who had dark hair. The name was probably popularized in America by actor Corbin Bernsen (1954-)
[1].
Conleth
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish
Anglicized form of the Old Irish name
Conláed, possibly meaning
"constant fire" from
cunnail "prudent, constant" and
áed "fire".
Saint Conláed was a 5th-century bishop of Kildare.
Clovis
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History, French
Pronounced: KLO-vis(English) KLAW-VEES(French)
Personal remark: "famous battle"
Contemporary spelling, via the Latinized form
Clodovicus, of the Germanic name
Hludwig (see
Ludwig). Clovis was a Frankish king who united the Franks under his rule in the 5th century. The name was subsequently borne by two further Merovingian kings.
Clive
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KLIEV
Personal remark: "cliff"
From an English surname derived from Old English clif meaning "cliff", originally belonging to a person who lived near a cliff.
Cenric
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Anglo-Saxon [1]
Personal remark: "bold ruler"
Derived from Old English
cene "bold" and
ric "ruler, king".
Cavan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
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Either from the name of the Irish county, which is derived from Irish
cabhán "hollow", or else from the Irish surname
Cavan.
Branwen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh, Welsh Mythology
Pronounced: BRAN-wehn(Welsh)
Personal remark: "beautiful raven"
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Means
"white raven" from Old Welsh
bran "raven" and
gwen "white, blessed". According to the Second Branch of the
Mabinogi [1] she was the daughter of
Llŷr. After she was mistreated by her husband Matholwch, the king of Ireland, she managed to get a message to her brother
Brân, the king of Britain. Brân launched a costly invasion to rescue her, but she died of grief shortly after her return.
Blodwen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: BLOD-wehn
Personal remark: "white flowers"
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Means "white flowers" from Welsh blodau "flowers" combined with gwen "white, blessed". This is the name of an 1878 Welsh opera by Joseph Parry.
Bellabeth
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Obscure
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Bairre
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish
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Azmaveth
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: עַזְמָוֶת(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: AZ-mə-veth(Biblical English)
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This name is comprised of two parts: עזז (
'azaz) meaning "to be strong" and מות (
mut) meaning "to kill". Some sources claim the combined meaning of this name is "Death is Strong".
This name is used many times in the Bible. It is also the name a town mentioned in Nehemiah 12:29.
Averill
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Personal remark: "boar battle"
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From an English surname that was originally derived from the feminine given name
Eoforhild.
Ashling
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: ASH-ling(English)
Personal remark: "vision, dream"
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Asenath
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: אָסְנַת(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: AS-i-nath(English)
Personal remark: "devoted to the goddess Neith"
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Armistice
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Popular Culture, American (Rare)
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From the English word armistice meaning "truce, ceasefire", ultimately derived from Latin arma "arms" and -stitium "stoppage". This is the name of a character on the HBO series 'Westworld'.
Anneth
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Cornish (?)
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From the Cornish word annedh "home". A fictional bearer is Anneth Sizemore in Silas House's 2001 novel 'Clay's Quilt'.
Annesley
Usage: English
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From Old English
anne "alone, solitary" and
leah "woodland, clearing". This is the name of a town in Nottinghamshire.
Androw
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Archaic), Cornish
Personal remark: var: androwe
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Archaic English variant and Cornish form of
Andrew. This was borne by Androw Myllar (floruit 1503-1508), the first Scottish printer.
Amyas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
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Meaning unknown, perhaps a derivative of
Amis. Alternatively, it may come from a surname that originally indicated that the bearer was from the city of Amiens in France. Edmund Spenser used this name for a minor character in his epic poem
The Faerie Queene (1590).
Amity
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: A-mi-tee
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From the English word meaning "friendship", ultimately deriving from Latin amicitia.
Amice
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English
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Medieval name derived from Latin amicus meaning "friend". This was a popular name in the Middle Ages, though it has since become uncommon.
Aldara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Galician
Personal remark: hild ("battle") + war ("vigilant, cautious")
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Galician form of the Visigothic name *
Hildiwara, which was composed of the Gothic elements
hilds "battle" and
wars "aware, cautious". This was the name of the 7th-century wife of the Visigothic king Gundemar. It was also borne by the mother of
Saint Rosendo (10th century).
Adair
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: ə-DEHR
Personal remark: (ə-DEHR) From EDGAR.
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From an English surname that was derived from the given name
Edgar.
Accepted
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Puritan)
Pronounced: ak-SEHP-tid
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Referring to being accepted into the Kingdom of God.
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