Smaragd's Personal Name List

Selim

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Turkish, Albanian

Pronounced: seh-LEEM(Turkish)

Rating: 75% based on 2 votes

Turkish and Albanian form of Salim. This was the name of three Ottoman sultans, including the father of Süleyman the Magnificent.

Mirza

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Persian, Arabic, Urdu, Bosnian

Other Scripts: میرزا(Persian) ميرزا(Arabic) مرزا(Urdu)

Pronounced: meer-ZAW(Persian) MEER-za(Arabic)

Rating: 70% based on 2 votes

Means "prince" from Persian میرزا (mīrzā), earlier امیرزاده (amīrzādeh), which is ultimately from Arabic أمير (ʾamīr) meaning "commander" combined with Persian زاده (zādeh) meaning "offspring".

Ilyas

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Arabic, Urdu, Indonesian, Kazakh, Chechen, Tatar, Bashkir

Other Scripts: إلياس(Arabic) الیاس(Urdu) Ілияс(Kazakh) Ильяс(Chechen, Tatar, Bashkir)

Pronounced: eel-YAS(Arabic)

Rating: 43% based on 3 votes

Arabic form of Elijah, also used in several other languages.