Bertie2's Personal Name List

German, Scandinavian and Greek variant of Victoria. It is also an alternate transcription of Russian/Bulgarian Виктория or Ukrainian Вікторія (see Viktoriya) or Belarusian Вікторыя (see Viktoryia), as well as the usual Georgian transcription.

Derived from Bulgarian весел (vesel) meaning "cheerful".

Form of Veronica in several languages.

Form of Venus, from the genitive form Veneris.

Diminutive of Valentina or Valentin.

Feminine form of Valentinus (see Valentine 1). A famous bearer is the Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova (1937-), who in 1963 became the first woman to visit space.

Feminine form of Tihomir.

Feminine form of Theodoros (see Theodore).

English variant and Bulgarian form of Stephanie. A notable bearer is Stefani Germanotta (1986-), an American singer better known as Lady Gaga.

Form of Sophia used in various languages.

Bulgarian form of Silvia.

Means "hollyhock" in Bulgarian (referring to flowering plants from the genera Alcea and Althaea). This is also an alternate transcription of Macedonian Ружа (see Ruža).

Feminine form of Rumen.

Alternate transcription of Bulgarian Росица (see Rositsa).

Means "dew" in the South Slavic languages.

Either a Bulgarian form of Regina or a feminine form of Rayno.

Diminutive of Rayna 1 or Raisa 1.

Feminine form of Peter. This was also the name of an ancient city in the region that is now Jordan.

Alternate transcription of Russian/Bulgarian Петя (see Petya).

Bulgarian and Russian feminine form of Patricius (see Patrick).

Bulgarian and Macedonian form of Paraskeve.

Derived from South Slavic neven meaning "marigold".

Latinate form of Natalia (see Natalie).

Feminine form of Miroslav.

Short form of Miroslava and other names beginning with Mir (often the Slavic element mirŭ meaning "peace, world").

Feminine form of Milan. It began to be used in Italy in honour of Milena Vukotić (1847-1923), mother of Helen of Montenegro, the wife of the Italian king Victor Emmanuel III. In Italy it can also be considered a combination of Maria and Elena.

Feminine form of Mihail or Mihael.

Feminine form of Marinus. This name was borne by a few early saints. This is also the name by which Saint Margaret of Antioch is known in the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Spanish and Bulgarian diminutive of Maria.

Means "raspberry" in several Slavic languages.

Old Church Slavic form of Magdalene, as well as a Bulgarian variant form.

Latinate form of Magdalene.

Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian cognate of Lily.

Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian form of Lydia.

From Bulgarian лале (lale) meaning "tulip". It is derived via Turkish from Persian لاله (lāleh).

Feminine form of Krasimir.

Bulgarian form of Cornelia.

Greek contracted form of Katerina. This name had a spike in popularity in America in 1972 when it was used for a newborn baby on the soap opera Where the Heart Is.

Means "viburnum tree" in Bulgarian, Macedonian and Polish.

Diminutive of Iva 1, Iva 2 or Iva 3.

Feminine form of Ivaylo.

Means "willow tree" in South Slavic.

Form of Irene in several languages.

Bulgarian, Macedonian and Serbian form of Christina.

Feminine form of Gabriel.

Latinate form of Aveline. It was revived by the author Fanny Burney for the heroine of her first novel Evelina (1778). It is often regarded as a variant of the related name Evelyn or an elaboration of Eve.

Bulgarian feminine form of Evangelos.

Form of Eve used in various languages. This form is used in the Latin translation of the New Testament, while Hava is used in the Latin Old Testament. A notable bearer was the Argentine first lady Eva Perón (1919-1952), the subject of the musical Evita. The name also appears in Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) belonging to the character Little Eva, whose real name is in fact Evangeline.

This is also an alternate transcription of Russian Ева (see Yeva).

Bulgarian, Ukrainian and Russian feminine form of Aemilius (see Emily).

Feminine form of Aemilius (see Emily). In Shakespeare's tragedy Othello (1603) this is the name of the wife of Iago.

Variant form of Elizabeth.

Bulgarian and Macedonian form of Elizabeth.

Form of Eleanor in several languages.

Form of Helen used in various languages, as well as an alternate transcription of Russian Елена (see Yelena).

Bulgarian and Macedonian form of Katherine, and an alternate transcription of Russian Екатерина (see Yekaterina).

Short form of Dorothy, Theodora or Isidora.

Means "divine, goddesslike", a derivative of Latin dia or diva meaning "goddess". It is ultimately related to the same Indo-European root *dyew- found in Zeus. Diana was a Roman goddess of the moon, hunting, forests and childbirth, often identified with the Greek goddess Artemis.

As a given name, Diana has been regularly used since the Renaissance. It became more common in the English-speaking world following Walter Scott's novel Rob Roy (1817), which featured a character named Diana Vernon. It also appeared in George Meredith's novel Diana of the Crossways (1885). A notable bearer was the British royal Diana Spencer (1961-1997), the Princess of Wales.

Alternate transcription of Bulgarian Деница (see Denitsa).

Feminine form of Branimir.

Derived from the South Slavic word бисер (biser) meaning "pearl" (ultimately of Arabic origin).

Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Bulgarian and Armenian form of Angela.

Feminine form of Antoninus.

Feminine form of Antonius (see Anthony).

Form of Hannah used in the Greek and Latin Old Testament. Many later Old Testament translations, including the English, use the Hannah spelling instead of Anna. The name appears briefly in the New Testament belonging to a prophetess who recognized Jesus as the Messiah. It was a popular name in the Byzantine Empire from an early date, and in the Middle Ages it became common among Western Christians due to veneration of Saint Anna (usually known as Saint Anne in English), the name traditionally assigned to the mother of the Virgin Mary.

In England, this Latin form has been used alongside the vernacular forms Ann and Anne since the late Middle Ages. Anna is currently the most common of these spellings in all English-speaking countries (since the 1970s), however the biblical form Hannah is presently more popular than all three.

The name was borne by several Russian royals, including an 18th-century empress of Russia. It is also the name of the main character in Leo Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina (1877), about a married aristocrat who begins an ultimately tragic relationship with Count Vronsky.

Latinate diminutive of Angela. A famous bearer is American actress Angelina Jolie (1975-).

Diminutive of Anna.

Alternate transcription of Bulgarian Анелия (see Aneliya).

Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian form of Anastasia. This name was borne by the wife of the Russian tsar Ivan the Terrible.

Form of Anna used in various languages.

Bulgarian form of Xenia, as well as an alternate transcription of Russian Аксинья (see Aksinya).

From a Germanic name that was derived from the element adal meaning "noble" (Proto-Germanic *aþalaz).