Virvo's Personal Name List

Younger form of Yngvildr.

Elaboration of Vör, perhaps influenced by Karin. It is also associated with the Norwegian word vår meaning "spring (the season)".

Variant of Tawana.

From the Old Norse name Þórketill meaning "Thor's cauldron" from the name of the Norse god Þórr (see Thor) combined with ketill "cauldron".

German and Dutch short form of Matthias.

Variant of Tollak.

Means "good friend" from the Sanskrit prefix सु (su) meaning "good" combined with मित्र (mitra) meaning "friend". It is a feminine name in India and Thailand while it is masculine in Indonesia. In the Hindu epic Ramayana she is the mother of Lakshmana and Shatrughna and the stepmother of the hero Rama.

From the Persian name for Mount Sinai or the Sinai Peninsula.

Alternate transcription of Persian سیّد (see Seyyed).

Means "love, infatuation" in Turkish and Azerbaijani, ultimately from Arabic سوداء (sawdāʾ) meaning "black bile, melancholy, sadness" [1].

Turkish and Turkmen form of Sardar.

Variant transliteration of Saniyya.

From Sino-Korean 常 (sang) meaning "common, frequent, regular" or other characters that are pronounced similarly. It usually occurs in combination with another character.

Feminine form of Samir 1.

Feminine form of Salim.

This name is used as 左近 with 左 (sa, sha, hidari) meaning "left" and 近 (kin, kon, chika.i) meaning "akin, early, near, tantamount."

One bearer of this name is racing driver Sakon Yamamoto (山本 左近) (1982-).

Sanskrit, indian

Means "light, bright" in Persian.

Feminine form of Pascal.

Anglicized form of Nóirín.

Means "like the moon" in Persian.

Variant of Lodve. It also means "lion" in Norwegian.

Short form of Lorens.

Of debated origin and meaning.

Original Latin form of Letitia, as well as a French variant. This name began rising in popularity in France around the same time that Serge Gainsbourg released his 1963 song Elaeudanla Téïtéïa (this title is a phonetic rendering of the letters in the name Lætitia). It peaked in 1982 as the fourth most common name for girls.

From Arabic اقْرأ (iqraʾ) meaning "read, recite, confess". This is another name of the 96th chapter of the Quran.

From the Old Norse name Gulbrandr, a variant of Guðbrandr (see Gudbrand).

Diminutive of Emma or Emily.

From the word for the green precious stone, which is the traditional birthstone of May. The emerald supposedly imparts love to the bearer. The word is ultimately from Greek σμάραγδος (smaragdos).

Dialectal form of Ingebjørg.

Variant of Elisha.

Norwegian form of Eyrún.

Feminine form of Edmé.

Possibly a short form of Denica.

Feminine form of Darius. Saint Daria was a 3rd-century woman who was martyred with her husband Chrysanthus under the Roman emperor Numerian. It has never been a particularly common English given name. As a Russian name, it is more commonly transcribed Darya.

Modern form of Dagheiðr.

Lithuanian, Spanish and Portuguese form of Bellona.

Means "powerful, respected, beloved" in Arabic, derived from the root عزّ (ʿazza) meaning "to be powerful" or "to be cherished". In Islamic tradition العزيز (al-ʿAzīz) is one of the 99 names of Allah. A notable bearer of the name was Al-'Aziz, a 10th-century Fatimid caliph.

MEANING : procuring, gaining , earning, acquiring
Usage : Sanskrit, Indian, Tamil, Telugu, Nepali, Sinhala, Hindi, Sikh, Buddhist

From Avestan 𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬑𐬱𐬀 (Ərəxsha), of uncertain meaning, possibly from a root meaning "bear" [1]. In Iranian legend Arash was an archer who was ordered by the Turans to shoot an arrow, the landing place of which would determine the new location of the Iran-Turan border. Arash climbed a mountain and fired his arrow with such strength that it flew for several hours and landed on the banks of the far-away Oxus River.

Alternate transcription of Serbian Анђела (see Anđela).

Variant of Aletta.

Alternate transcription of Arabic علاء (see Ala 1).