Balthasar's Personal Name List

From Japanese 結 (yu) meaning "tie, fasten, join, organize", 夢 (yu) meaning "dream", 優 (yu) meaning "gentleness, lithe, superior", 友 (yu) meaning "friend", 柚 (yu) meaning "grapefruit, pomelo, citrus fruit" or 由 (yu) meaning "cause, reason" combined with 々, a phonetic character indicting a duplication of the beginning kanji. Other kanji combinations are possible.

Variant of Wobbe.

Variant of Woody.

Diminutive of William, Wilhelm or Willem. It is both masculine and feminine in Dutch.

Means "mighty" in Tibetan, from དབང (dbang) meaning "power" and ཕྱུག (phyug) meaning "wealthy, possessing". This is the Tibetan name for the god Shiva.

From a nickname derived from Dutch vroom meaning "pious, devout".

Likely a variant of Vaginia, which seems to have been a variant of Virginia

Possibly denoted a person from the town of Unkel in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

From Old Irish Tairdelbach meaning "instigator", derived from tairdelb "prompting". This name was borne by several medieval Irish kings.

Diminutive of Letitia. This is now a slang word for the female breast, and the name has subsequently dropped out of common use.

Indicated a person from Tittensor, England, which means "Titten's ridge".

Greek form of Tutu.

Slovene and Russian form of Titus.

Hungarian form of Tiburtius (see Tiburcio).

Feminine form of Swann.

Originally a diminutive of Stanislav and other names derived from the Slavic element stati meaning "stand, become".

From Swedish smultron meaning "woodland strawberry".

Means "emerald" in Greek, of Semitic origin. This was the name of a 3rd-century Roman martyr and saint, better known by the Latinized form of his name Smaragdus.

Feminine form of Slobodan.

Probably referring to the unknown "Estate of Shrimp"

Roman praenomen, or given name, meaning "sixth" in Latin. It was traditionally given to the sixth child.

Form of Schwan. Also means tail in German.

Old variant of Sancho.

Means "we increased" in Zulu, Xhosa and Ndebele, from anda "to increase".

Alternate transcription of Arabic رحاب (see Rihab).

From a German nickname meaning "rainbow", probably a habitational name for someone who lived in a house with the sign of a rainbow. As a Jewish surname it is ornamental.

Old German form of Reynard.

Late Latin name meaning "first formed". Saint Primitivus was a 3rd-century Spanish martyr.

Meaning unknown.

Derived from the occupation of "pickler," which referred to someone who worked in the pickling industry, preserving foods such as vegetables or meats in brine or vinegar.

Derived from Middle English pighel meaning "small field".

Means "blow, scatter, disperse"; "paint, color, brush" or "repay" in Khmer.

Transferred use of the surname Peniston.

Bearers of this name include Peniston Lamb, 1st Viscount Melbourne, and his son, the Hon. Peniston Lamb.

Hawaiian form of Ben 1.

Variant of Parras.

Alternate transcription of Hebrew אוֹרְלִי (see Orli).

Transferred use of the surname Okey.

Finnish form of Olga.

From Egyptian 𓈖𓅱𓏏 (nwt) meaning "sky". Nut was the Egyptian goddess of the sky and heavenly bodies. She was the wife of her brother Geb, with whom she mothered Osiris, Isis, Seth, and Nephthys.

Old Irish form of Naoise.

Azerbaijani form of Negar.

In Inuit mythology, Negafook is a god of weather systems, particularly wintry cold ones.

Derived from Persian ناز (nāz) meaning "delight, comfort" and گل (gol) meaning "flower, rose".

Diminutive of Ignacio.

Turkmen form of Murad.

Yiddish diminutive of Mordecai. This is the name of a character in the musical Fiddler on the Roof (1964).

Derived from Bulgarian момче (momche) meaning "boy".

English surname, meaning "from Mitten" various towns with the name or similar spelling. The towns were presumably named after the glove.

Means "praise, eulogy" in Arabic, from the root مدح (madaḥa) meaning "to praise".

Diminutive of Guillermo.

Persian form of Mahbuba.

Anglicized form the surname of the Gaelic 'Mac Chruiteir', meaning 'player of the crwth', a string instrument primarily used in Celtic music. A famous bearer of this surname is the American clergyman, Alexander MacWhorter.

From the name of a barrio (district) in Seville, which got its name from a temple that may have been named for a person named Macarius (see Macario). The Virgin of Macarena, that is Mary, is widely venerated in Seville.

Yiddish variant of Eliezer. This is the name of a character in the musical Fiddler on the Roof (1964).

Occupational name for a butcher who dealt in veal, from German kalb meaning "calf" and fleisch meaning "meat".

This name is used as either 甲 (ka, kan, kou, kinoe, kabuto) meaning "armour, headpiece" or 兜 (to, tou, kabuto) meaning "headpiece, (war) helmet."
As a word, it refers to a helmet of an armour or a headpiece.

This name is rarely given to boys, if given at all.

Kabuto is also used as a surname.

German diminutive of Joseph.

Finnish (allegedly Karelian) form of Jeremiah. This was the name of a character in Juhani Aho's novel Panu (1897).

Basque form of Joachim.

Scots diminutive of Jack.

Diminutive of Jakob, Jörg or Joachim.

Croatian diminutive of Jerome.

Old Swedish variant of Erik.

Variant of Jankin.

Alteration of Hyam influenced by Yiddish מאַן (man) meaning "man".

Diminutive of names beginning with Hel, such as Helga or Helena.

Scottish short form of Hector.

Variant of Heather.

A German Satzname, from the expression "Hass den Teufel" meaning "hate the devil".

From Hittite hanna- meaning "grandmother". She is a Hurrian Mother Goddess related to or influenced by the pre-Sumerian goddess Inanna. Hannahannah was also identified with the Hurrian goddess Ḫepat.

German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) habitational name for someone from Hamburg.

Norwegian diminutive of Gudrun.

Italian form of William.

Said to be derived from Proto-Celtic *kawaro- "hero, champion" (compare Breton kaour, Welsh cawr "giant, champion"). Saint Goron or Goronus is the patron saint of St Goran, a coastal parish in Cornwall.

Form of Goneril used by Geoffrey of Monmouth, who wrote in Latin.

Italian, Portuguese and Spanish form of Glaucus.

Albanian form of George.

Possibly a topographic name for someone who lived on a mountain near the town of Gindels in Bavaria, Germany.

Hungarian form of Gregory.

From Egyptian 𓎼𓃀𓃀 (gbb) meaning "earth". In Egyptian mythology he was the god of the earth and crops. His consort was his sister the sky goddess Nut.

Combination of Gay (or possibly Gayle) with the popular suffix -land. The name fell out of use after the mid 20th century, alongside similar names, when the word gay gained the additional meaning of "homosexual".

From the English word gay meaning "gay, happy". By the mid-20th century the word had acquired the additional meaning of "homosexual", and the name has subsequently dropped out of use.

Denoted someone from Frisia, an area along the coastal region of the North Sea stretching from Netherlands to Germany.

Scottish Gaelic feminine form of Francis.

Dutch form of Florentius (see Florence) or Flora.

Occupational name for a butcher from German fleisch "flesh meat", and an agent derivative of hacken "to chop or cut".

Russian form of Theodora. This was the name of an 1898 opera by the Italian composer Umberto Giordano (who based it on an 1882 French play).

Means "dark man" from Old Irish fer "man" and dorchae "dark".

Mande form of Fatima.

Meaning of Fail: Name Fail in the Arabic origin, means A performing man. Name Fail is of Arabic origin and is a Boy name. People with name Fail are usuallyby religion.

Short form of names beginning with Ev, such as Eva or Evert.

Variation of Durand.

From the Korean Hangul 동 (dong) that can translate the Hanja 冬 meaning "winter" or 東 meaning "east" or 銅 meaning "copper" or 洞 meaning "neighborhood".

From Sanskrit दिशा (diśā) meaning "region, direction".

Masculine form of Dipa.

Croatian diminutive of Dominic.

Variant of Jupiter, also known as Jove, a god who brings the birthing baby toward the daylight.

From Old English dic "ditch" combined with man "person, man". It was originally a name for a ditch digger or someone who lived near a ditch.

From the name of a village in Asturias, Spain. Called Cuadonga in Asturian, it probably means "cave of the spring", though it has long been associated with Vulgar Latin Cova Dominica "Cave of Our Lady". This is the site of an important shrine to the Virgin Mary, and its use as a given name stems from the Marian title Nuestra Señora de Covadonga "Our Lady of Covadonga".

Derived from the Latin word commodus, which can mean "suitable, convenient, opportune" as well as "full, complete, of full weight". The word is ultimately derived from Latin com "with, together" and modus "measure, manner". Also compare the Latin verb commodo "to lend, to provide, to bestow, to accommodate" and the Latin noun commodum "a convenient opportunity, favourable condition, convenience, advantage". A famous bearer of this name was Commodus, a Roman Emperor from the 2nd century AD.

Short form of both Cornelis and Cornelius (for men) and Cornelia (for women). It probably first started out as a contraction of a diminutive of these names, which might have been Corneelke, Corneliske, Correke or something similar. Also compare the related names Cox, Cocky and Cokkie.

This name is predominantly masculine in the Netherlands, especially as an official name on birth certificates. For women, the name is now almost always an informal name.

Known Dutch bearers of this name include the singer Cock van der Palm (1936-2004), the soccer player Cock Rijkens (1952-2018) and the former politician Cock Kerling-Simons (b. 1929).

Urdu and Kashmiri form of Bhatt.

From the name of towns in Spain and Italy, derived from Late Latin bustum meaning "ox pasture".

Dutch, Afrikaans and West Frisian form of the ancient Germanic name Burghar.

This given name is very rare in the Netherlands nowadays and is likely to remain so, since burger is also a regular word in Dutch. It usually means "citizen", but it can also be a short form of the word hamburger meaning "hamburger". Interestingly, in both cases, the word is etymologically related to the name. Also compare Birger.

A known bearer of this name is the South African shot putter Burger Lambrechts (b. 1973).

Possibly a variant of Breda 1.

Diminutive of Božidar, now often used independently.

Diminutive of Bogdan or Slobodan.

Feminine form of Balthasar.

From Old Norse Baldr meaning "hero, lord, prince", derived from baldr meaning "brave, bold". In Norse mythology Balder was the handsome son of Odin and Frigg. Because of the disturbing dreams he had when he was young, his mother extracted an oath from every thing in the world that it would not harm him. However the devious god Loki learned that she had overlooked mistletoe. Being jealous, he tricked the blind god Hoder into throwing a branch of mistletoe at Balder, which killed him.

Denoted a person from Assel, Asselt or Hasselt, the name of communities in the Netherlands and Belgium. They derive from Old Dutch ask "ash tree" and loh "woods on sandy soil", or hasal "hazel tree".

It means "you bless", and it is also the device used by priests to spread holy water over people or places

Possibly a Mandaic form of Enos, this is the name of an angel in Mandaeism who performs miracles.

French form of Amator.

Diminutive of Adam.

Means "the crown is complete" in Yoruba.

This is one of Chaxiraxi's names and it means "behold his mother, the Spirit that sustains the universe".

Of uncertain origin, perhaps a derivative of the Gaulish name Acco (itself from Gaulish *acu- meaning "fast, swift, quick"). Sir Accolon, also spelled Accalon, is a character in Arthurian legends, possibly first appearing in the Post-Vulgate Suite du Merlin (c.1230-40). He is a knight from Gaul and the paramour of Morgan le Fay, who uses him as an unwitting participant in a plot against her half-brother Arthur; sensing the deception, Arthur defeats Accolon in battle. Thomas Malory included the tale in his 15th-century compilation of Arthurian legends Le Morte d'Arthur. Sir Accolon also appears in subsequent modern Arthurian works.

Means "Tuesday-born girl" in Ewe.

Variant of Avigdor.

Means "son of Arend".

Old Swedish variant of Alf 1.

Variant of Aaghe.