z.amy's Personal Name List

Shirin

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Persian

Other Scripts: شیرین(Persian)

Pronounced: shee-REEN

Means "sweet" in Persian. This was the name of a character in Persian and Turkish legend.

Phaedra

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)

Other Scripts: Φαίδρα(Ancient Greek)

Pronounced: FEED-rə(English) FEHD-rə(English)

From the Greek Φαίδρα (Phaidra), derived from φαιδρός (phaidros) meaning "bright". Phaedra was the daughter of Minos and the wife of Theseus in Greek mythology. Aphrodite caused her to fall in love with her stepson Hippolytos, and after she was rejected by him she killed herself.

Kestrel

Gender: Feminine

Usage: English (Rare)

Pronounced: KEHS-trəl

From the name of the bird of prey, ultimately derived from Old French crecelle "rattle", which refers to the sound of its cry.

Kateri

Gender: Feminine

Usage: History

From the Mohawk pronunciation of Katherine. This was the name adopted by the 17th-century Mohawk saint Tekakwitha upon her baptism.