SaphiraTheBlue's Personal Name List

Zijian
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Chinese
Other Scripts: 子建, 子健, etc.(Chinese)
Pronounced: TSUZ-CHYEHN
From Chinese 子 (zǐ) meaning "child" combined with 建 (jiàn) "build, establish" or 健 (jiàn) "strong, healthy". This name can be formed from other character combinations as well.
Ríkví
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Old Norse
Old Norse combination of ríkr "mighty", "distinguished", "rich" and vé "home", "temple", "sanctuary".
Magnhild
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norwegian
Derived from Old Norse magn "power, strength" and hildr "battle". This was the name of an 1877 novel by the Norwegian author Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson.
Isami
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 勇, 勇海, 功己, 勇美, 衣紗美(Japanese Kanji) いさみ(Japanese Hiragana) イサミ(Japanese Katakana)
Pronounced: EE-SA-MEE
In the case for males, this uncommonly used name is used as 勇 "yuu, isa.mu" meaning "bravery, be in high spirits, courage, heroism", although it's more often used as Isamu. Rarer examples of Isami include 勇海 with 海 (kai, umi) meaning "ocean, sea" and 功己 with 功 (isao) meaning "achievement, credit, honour, merits" and 己 (ki, onore, mi) meaning "self, serpent, snake."

For females, this is a very rare name. If it's used, it usually consists of 2 or 3 kanji. Examples include 勇美 with 美 (mi) meaning "beauty, beautiful" (although it's more often written as Yūmi) and 衣紗美 with 衣 (i) meaning "clothes, dressing, garment" and 紗 (sa, sha) meaning "gauze, gossamer."

One famous bearer is Isami Kondō (近藤 勇), the leader of Shinsengumi, a pro-shogunate group that was around in the last decades of the Edo era (1603-1868).

Iphis
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἶφις(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: IE-fis
Possibly from Greek ιφιος (iphios) meaning "strong, stout". This was the name of seven characters in Greek myth, both male and female, including the slave woman given to Patroclus by his cousin Achilles in Homer's 'Iliad'.
Imara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swahili
Means "strong, firm, stable" in Swahili.
Fraisende
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval French
Derived from Old High German frāgēn "to ask" and Old Saxon swīth, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *swinþaz "strong".
Etana
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ethiopian, Oromo
Amestris
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Old Persian (Hellenized)
Other Scripts: Ἄμηστρις(Ancient Greek)
Ionic Greek variant of Άμαστρις (Amāstris), the Hellenized form of an Old Persian name, perhaps from a hypothetic name like *Amāstrī- (composed of the elements *ama- "strength, strong" and *strī- "woman"). It could be connected to the biblical name Esther, both perhaps derived from the Akkadian Ummu-Ishtar "Ishtar is (my) mother" (or Ammu-Ishtar). Alternatively it could be derived from an Old Persian word meaning "friend". It was borne by the wife of Xerxes and mother of Artaxerxes.
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