Rodrigo's Personal Name List

Short form of Jozef.

Means "fate, destiny" in Mongolian.

Means "mind, heart, conscience" in Arabic.

Means "helper, supporter" in Arabic, related to ظهر (ẓahara) meaning "to be visible, to be clear". This can also be an alternate transcription of Arabic زاهر (see Zaahir 1) or ظاهر (see Zaahir 2).

From the Turkic and Mongol name Temür meaning "iron". This was the name of several Mongol, Turkic and Yuan leaders. A notable bearer was Timur, also known as Tamerlane (from Persian تیمور لنگ (Tīmūr e Lang) meaning "Timur the lame"), a 14th-century Turkic leader who conquered large areas of western Asia.

From Tibetan བསྟན་འཛིན (bstan-'dzin) meaning "upholder of teachings". This is one of the given names of the current Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso (1935-).

Turkish feminine form of Tahir.

Means "virtuous, pure, chaste" in Arabic.

Means "lucky, happy" in Kyrgyz.

Means "cross" in Greek, referring to the cross of the crucifixion.

Originally a diminutive of Stanislav and other names derived from the Slavic element stati meaning "stand, become".

From the Latin name Sebastianus, which meant "from Sebaste". Sebaste was the name a town in Asia Minor, its name deriving from Greek σεβαστός (sebastos) meaning "venerable" (a translation of Latin Augustus, the title of the Roman emperors). According to Christian tradition, Saint Sebastian was a 3rd-century Roman soldier martyred during the persecutions of the emperor Diocletian. After he was discovered to be a Christian, he was tied to a stake and shot with arrows. This however did not kill him. Saint Irene of Rome healed him and he returned to personally admonish Diocletian, whereupon the emperor had him beaten to death.

Due to the saint's popularity, the name came into general use in medieval Europe, especially in Spain and France. It was also borne by a 16th-century king of Portugal who died in a crusade against Morocco.

Form of Rostam in various languages.

Form of Yeruslan used by Aleksandr Pushkin in his poem Ruslan and Ludmila (1820), which was loosely based on Russian and Tatar folktales of Yeruslan Lazarevich.

Chechen and Urdu form of Ramadan.

Form of Ramadan in several languages.

Derived from Slavic radovati meaning "to make happy, to gladden".

Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Kyrgyz, Russian, Serbian, Slovene and Ukrainian form of Okeanos.

This given name is only in use in Bulgaria and Kyrgyzstan these days, where the name is unlikely to be given in honor of the Titan from Greek mythology. Instead, parents either bestow the name on their sons in honor of a 4th-century saint of the same name, or because they like nature names, since океан (okean) is the Bulgarian and Kyrgyz word for "ocean" (as it is also in most other Slavic languages).

Means "archer" in Turkish.

Means "bright boy" in Kazakh, Kyrgyz and Azerbaijani, ultimately from Arabic نور (nūr) meaning "light" and Turkic oglan meaning "young man, boy".

Meaning "halo" or "dark cloud." First seen as a label for the halos depicted around the heads of significant figures in religious artwork. Used as an etymological root for the names of clouds, especially storm clouds. Word itself is derived from nebh-, the Proto-Indo-European root meaning "cloud," and by extension the Greek words nephele and #nephos. Likely related to the name Nebula, another word derived from the same root.

Means "tranquil, happy, at ease" in Arabic, derived from the root نعم (naʿima) meaning "to live in comfort, to be delighted".

Spanish and Portuguese form of Lionel.

Form of Cyrus used in the Hebrew Bible.

Variant or short form of Okean, which is the Russian form of Okeanos.

This is the name by which the early 4th-century martyr and saint Oceanus is generally known in Russia.

Means "king, foundation, symbol of pride" in Persian.

Variant transcription of Keyvan.

Variant transcription of Keyvan.

From Sanskrit करुणा (karuṇā) meaning "compassion, mercy".

Means "successful, prosperous, fortunate" in Persian.

Means "stone" in Bulgarian. This is a translation of the Greek name Πέτρος (Petros).

Modern Persian form of Old Persian Kabujiya (see Cambyses).

English, German and Dutch form of Joséphine.

Means "beauty" in Arabic, from the root جمل (jamala) meaning "to be beautiful".

Turkish form of Alexander.

Means "first man" in Turkish, derived from ilk "first" and er "man, hero, brave".

Means "new moon" in Turkish, derived from ilk "first" and ay "moon".

Turkish form of Iqbal.

From the English word for a safe place, derived ultimately from Old English hæfen.

Means "jasmine" in Armenian.

Means "lion" in Arabic, a derivative of حمز (ḥamuza) meaning "strong, sturdy". This was the name of an uncle of the Prophet Muhammad who was killed in battle.

Means "patient, tolerant, mild" in Arabic. In Islamic tradition الحليم (al-Ḥalīm) is one of the 99 names of Allah.

Means "emperor, ruler" in Turkish.

Meaning uncertain. It appears in this form in Thomas Malory's 15th-century compilation of Arthurian legends Le Morte d'Arthur, in which the knight Gareth (also named Beaumains) is a brother of Gawain. He goes with Lynet to rescue her sister Lyonesse from the Red Knight. Malory based the name on Gaheriet or Guerrehet, which was the name of a similar character in French sources. It may ultimately have a Welsh origin, possibly from the name Gwrhyd meaning "valour" (found in the tale Culhwch and Olwen) or Gwairydd meaning "hay lord" (found in the chronicle Brut y Brenhinedd).

Italian form of Florian.

From the Roman cognomen Florianus, a derivative of Florus. This was the name of a short-lived Roman emperor of the 3rd century, Marcus Annius Florianus. It was also borne by Saint Florian, a martyr of the 3rd century, the patron saint of Poland and Upper Austria.

Means "happy" in Arabic, from the root فرح (fariḥa) meaning "to be happy".

Means "free" in Uzbek, Uyghur and Turkish.

From Turkish er "man, hero, brave" combined with either kan "blood" or han "khan, leader".

Means "tears become joy" in Yoruba.

Means "dragon" in Turkish, of Persian origin.

Anglicized form of Irish Deasmhumhain meaning "south Munster", referring to the region of Desmond in southern Ireland, formerly a kingdom. It can also come from the related surname (an Anglicized form of Ó Deasmhumhnaigh), which indicated a person who came from that region. A famous bearer is the South African archbishop and activist Desmond Tutu (1931-2021).

Medieval short form of Durante. The most notable bearer of this name was Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), the Italian poet who wrote the Divine Comedy.

Derived from Persian دانا (dānā) meaning "wise" and یار (yār) meaning "friend, companion".

Latin form of Greek Κῦρος (Kyros), from the Old Persian name 𐎤𐎢𐎽𐎢𐏁 (Kuruš), possibly meaning "young" or "humiliator (of the enemy)" [1]. Alternatively it could be of Elamite origin. The name has sometimes been associated with Greek κύριος (kyrios) meaning "lord".

The most notable bearer of the name was Cyrus the Great, the founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire in the 6th century BC. He is famous in the Old Testament for freeing the captive Jews and allowing them to return to Israel after his conquest of Babylon. As an English name, it first came into use among the Puritans after the Protestant Reformation.

Possibly a variant of Cassiel. It is the name of an angel in the grimoire the Heptameron, a work that is sometimes (probably incorrectly) attributed to the 13th-century philosopher Pietro d'Abano. It was also the name of a character (an angel) on the American television series Supernatural (2005-2020). The creator Eric Kripke chose it after an internet search revealed that Castiel was an angel associated with Thursdays, the day the show aired [1].

English form of the Polish name Kazimierz, derived from the Slavic element kaziti "to destroy" combined with mirŭ "peace, world". Four kings of Poland have borne this name, including Casimir III the Great, who greatly strengthened the Polish state in the 14th century. It was also borne Saint Casimir, a 15th-century Polish prince and a patron saint of Poland and Lithuania. The name was imported into Western Europe via Germany, where it was borne by some royalty.

Variant of Calum.

From a surname that was originally from a place name meaning "place of the cow sheds" in Old English. This was the surname of the romantic poet Lord Byron (1788-1824), the writer of Don Juan and many other works.

From Arabic براق (Burāq), the name of the legendary creature that, according to Islamic tradition, transported the Prophet Muhammad. Its name is derived from Arabic برق (barq) meaning "lightning" [1].

Means "given by God" from the Slavic elements bogŭ "god" and danŭ "given". This pre-Christian name was later used as a translation of Theodotus.

Means "festival" in Turkish.

From Albanian bashkë meaning "together".

Kazakh form of Bakhtiar, as well as an alternate transcription of Azerbaijani Bəxtiyar.

Means "lucky, fortunate" in Persian.

Means "virgin, maiden" in Arabic.

Means "moonlight" in Turkish, Azerbaijani and Uyghur, ultimately from Turkic ay meaning "moon" and Arabic نور (nūr) meaning "light".

From the name of the island paradise to which King Arthur was brought after his death. The name of this island is perhaps related to Welsh afal meaning "apple", a fruit that was often linked with paradise.

From the English word for a variety of deciduous trees in the genus Populus, derived from Old English æspe. It is also the name of a ski resort in Colorado.

From Turkic arslan meaning "lion". This was a byname or title borne by several medieval Turkic rulers, including the Seljuk sultan Alp Arslan (a byname meaning "brave lion") who drove the Byzantines from Anatolia in the 11th century. The author C. S. Lewis later used the name Aslan for the main protagonist (a lion) in his Chronicles of Narnia series of books, first appearing in 1950.

Means "happy, blessed" in Hebrew, derived from אָשַׁר (ʾashar) meaning "to be happy, to be blessed". Asher in the Old Testament is a son of Jacob by Leah's handmaid Zilpah, and the ancestor of one of the twelve tribes of Israel. The meaning of his name is explained in Genesis 30:13.

Russian form of Arkadios. This is the name of one of the main characters in Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons (1862).

From an ancient Greek name meaning "of Arcadia". Arcadia was a region in Greece, its name deriving from ἄρκτος (arktos) meaning "bear". This was the name of a 3rd-century saint and martyr.

Alternate transcription of Russian Аркадий (see Arkadiy).

Anglicized form of Aonghus.

Diminutive of Aleksey.

From Yiddish אַלט (alt) meaning "old". This name was traditionally given to a sickly newborn by Jewish parents in order to confuse the Angel of Death, in the hopes that he would go looking for somebody younger.

Means "red dawn" in Turkish.

Means "golden" in Mongolian.

From Sanskrit अभिषेक (abhiṣeka) meaning "anointing".