BeccyLeader2's Personal Name List

Zephyrine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: ZEF-ə-rin, ZEF-reen
Rating: 37% based on 6 votes
Anglicized form of Zéphyrine.
Wiley
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: WIE-lee
Rating: 3% based on 3 votes
From a surname that was derived from various English place names: towns named Willey or the River Wylye.
Tigerlily
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: TIE-gər-lil-ee(American English) TIE-gə-lil-ee(British English)
Rating: 10% based on 2 votes
From tiger lily, a name that has been applied to several orange varieties of lily (such as the species Lilium lancifolium). Tiger Lily is also the name of the Native American princess in J. M. Barrie's play Peter Pan (1904).
Tedros
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Amharic, Ge'ez
Other Scripts: ቴዎድሮስ(Amharic, Ge'ez)
Rating: 12% based on 6 votes
Variant of Tewodros.
Sonora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American, Rare)
Pronounced: sa-NOR-ah(American English)
Rating: 29% based on 7 votes
Of uncertain origin and meaning. It might be inspired by the name of the north-western Mexican state Sonora or possibly be derived from Latin sonorus "resounding; sonorous".
Orli
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אוֹרְלִי(Hebrew)
Rating: 30% based on 3 votes
Means "light for me" in Hebrew.
Nayani
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Indian
Rating: 40% based on 6 votes
Feminine form of Nayan, from Sanskrit नयन (nayana) meaning "eye".
Marie-Madeleine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: MA-REE-MAD-LEHN
Rating: 10% based on 2 votes
Combination of Marie and Madeleine, referring to Mary Magdalene from the New Testament.
Jasperine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch (Rare), English (Rare)
Pronounced: yahs-pə-REE-nə(Dutch) yahs-pə-REEN(Dutch)
Rating: 14% based on 7 votes
Variant form of Jasperina.
Inka
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish, Frisian, German
Pronounced: EENG-kah(Finnish) ING-ka(German)
Rating: 27% based on 7 votes
Finnish and Frisian feminine form of Inge.
Elani
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Australian)
Rating: 15% based on 2 votes
Echo
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἠχώ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: EH-ko(English)
Rating: 38% based on 10 votes
From the Greek word ἠχώ (echo) meaning "echo, reflected sound", related to ἠχή (eche) meaning "sound". In Greek mythology Echo was a nymph given a speech impediment by Hera, so that she could only repeat what others said. She fell in love with Narcissus, but her love was not returned, and she pined away until nothing remained of her except her voice.
Clemency
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: KLEH-mən-see, KLEH-mənt-see
Rating: 33% based on 8 votes
Medieval variant of Clemence. It can also simply mean "clemency, mercy" from the English word, ultimately from Latin clemens "merciful".
Antoinette
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: AHN-TWA-NEHT
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Feminine diminutive of Antoine. This name was borne by Marie Antoinette, the queen of France during the French Revolution. She was executed by guillotine.
Anemone
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: ə-NEHM-ə-nee
Rating: 30% based on 8 votes
From the name of the anemone flower, which is derived from Greek ἄνεμος (anemos) meaning "wind".
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