rinafairy's Personal Name List

Xanthe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Ξάνθη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: KSAN-TEH(Classical Greek)
Personal remark: 01. The Crown Princess, Golden Queen
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Derived from Greek ξανθός (xanthos) meaning "yellow, blond, fair-haired". This was the name of a few minor figures in Greek mythology.
Violet
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: VIE-lit, VIE-ə-lit
Personal remark: 05. The Fifth Princess
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
From the English word violet for the purple flower, ultimately derived from Latin viola. It was common in Scotland from the 16th century, and it came into general use as an English given name during the 19th century.
Scarlett
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SKAHR-lit
Personal remark: 03. The Third Princess, Red Queen
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
From an English surname that denoted a person who sold or made clothes made of scarlet (a kind of cloth, possibly derived from Persian سقرلاط (saqrelāṭ)). Margaret Mitchell used it for the main character, Scarlett O'Hara, in her novel Gone with the Wind (1936). Her name is explained as having come from her grandmother. Despite the fact that the book was adapted into a popular movie in 1939, the name was not common until the 21st century. It started rising around 2003, about the time that the career of American actress Scarlett Johansson (1984-) started taking off.
Rosie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: RO-zee
Personal remark: 04. The Forth Princess
Diminutive of Rose.
Olive
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, French
Pronounced: AHL-iv(English) AW-LEEV(French)
Personal remark: 08. The Eight Pincess
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
From the English and French word for the type of tree, ultimately derived from Latin oliva.
Marigold
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: MAR-i-gold, MEHR-i-gold
Personal remark: 02. The Second Princess
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
From the name of the flower, which comes from a combination of Mary and the English word gold.
Indigo
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: IN-di-go
Personal remark: 06. The Sixth Princess
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
From the English word indigo for the purplish-blue dye or the colour. It is ultimately derived from Greek Ἰνδικόν (Indikon) meaning "Indic, from India".
Hazel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: HAY-zəl
Personal remark: 09. The Ninth princess
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
From the English word hazel for the tree or the light brown colour, derived ultimately from Old English hæsel. It was coined as a given name in the 19th century and quickly became popular, reaching the 18th place for girls in the United States by 1897. It fell out of fashion in the second half of the 20th century, but has since recovered.
Ebony
Gender: Feminine
Usage: African American
Pronounced: EHB-ən-ee(English)
Personal remark: 10. The Tenth Princess, Black Queen
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
From the English word ebony for the black wood that comes from the ebony tree. It is ultimately from the Egyptian word hbnj. In America this name is most often used in the black community.
Daisy
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DAY-zee
Personal remark: 12. The Twelfth Princess, White Queen
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Simply from the English word for the white flower, ultimately derived from Old English dægeseage meaning "day eye". It was first used as a given name in the 19th century, at the same time many other plant and flower names were coined.

This name was fairly popular at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th. The American author F. Scott Fitzgerald used it for the character of Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby (1925). The Walt Disney cartoon character Daisy Duck was created in 1940 as the girlfriend of Donald Duck. It was at a low in popularity in the United States in the 1970s when it got a small boost from a character on the television series The Dukes of Hazzard in 1979.

Bluebell
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Popular Culture
Pronounced: BLOO-bel(English)
Personal remark: 07. The Seventh Princess
Rating: 10% based on 2 votes
From the name of the flower, used to some extent as a first name when flower names were in vogue at the end of the 19th century.
Ashly
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ASH-lee
Personal remark: 11. The Eleventh Princess
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Variant of Ashley.
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