radium's Personal Name List

French form of Zechariah and Zacharias.

Diminutive of Beatrix.

From the Old German element sahso meaning "a Saxon". The Saxons were a Germanic tribe, their name ultimately deriving from the Germanic word *sahsą meaning "knife". Saskia van Uylenburgh (1612-1642) was the wife of the Dutch painter Rembrandt.

Diminutive of Sarah.

Latinate feminine form of René.

Short form of Michaela.

Latin form of Greek Λουκᾶς (see Luke), as well as the form used in several other languages.

This name became very popular in the second half of the 20th century. It reached the top ten names for boys in France (by 1997), Belgium (1998), Denmark (2003), Canada (2008), the Netherlands (2009), New Zealand (2009), Australia (2010), Scotland (2013), Spain (2015) and the United States (2018).

Diminutive of Alexandra or Alexis.

Diminutive of Christopher or Katherine. A notable bearer was Kit Carson (1809-1868), an American frontiersman and explorer.

Danish and Norwegian form of Christina.

Diminutive of Katarina or Katariina.

Means "pretty" in French. This name was popularized by American actress Angelina Jolie (1975-), whose surname was originally her middle name. It is not used as a given name in France.

German, Estonian and Hungarian form of Evelina.

From the Roman family name Aemilius, which was derived from Latin aemulus meaning "rival".

Possibly a variant of Dean or Dena.

From the name of the fourth letter in the Greek alphabet, Δ. It is also the name for an island formed at the mouth of a river.

Variant of Deirdre.

Diminutive of Deborah.

From the English word dawn, ultimately derived from Old English dagung.

From an English surname that was derived from Norman French d'Arcy, originally denoting one who came from the town of Arcy in La Manche, France. This is the surname of a character, Fitzwilliam Darcy, in Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice (1813).

Feminine variant of Darcy.

From a Slavic word meaning "morning star, Venus". This name occurs in Slavic folklore as a personification of the morning star. It has sometimes been used in the English-speaking world since the 1970s.

Short form of Cleopatra, Cleon or Cleopas.

Means "sky" in French. It is not used as a given name in France itself.

English form of Cecilia. This was the usual English form during the Middle Ages.

Medieval Spanish form of Carmel, appearing in the devotional title of the Virgin Mary Nuestra Señora del Carmen meaning "Our Lady of Mount Carmel". The spelling has been altered through association with the Latin word carmen meaning "song". This was the name of the main character in George Bizet's opera Carmen (1875).

Feminine form of Alwin.