tamarandband's Personal Name List

Zaman
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic, Urdu
Other Scripts: زمان(Arabic, Urdu)
Pronounced: za-MAN(Arabic)
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Means "time, age, era" in Arabic.
Yume
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 夢, 裕芽, etc.(Japanese Kanji) ゆめ(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: YOO-MEH
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
From Japanese (yume) meaning "dream, vision". It can also come from (yu) meaning "abundant, rich, plentiful" and (me) meaning "bud, sprout", as well as other kanji or kanji combinations.
Wakana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 和奏, etc.(Japanese Kanji) わかな(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: WA-KA-NA
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
From Japanese (wa) meaning "harmony, peace" and (kana) meaning "play music, complete", as well as other combinations of kanji that are pronounced the same way.
Vutlhari
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Tsonga
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Means "wisdom" in Xitsonga.
Valsero
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Western African
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Created from Serval by inverting the order of syllables.

It is the stage name of the Kamerunian rapper and political activist Gaston Serval Abe.

Tola 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Polish
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Diminutive of names containing to, such as Antonina.
Tiras
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Hebrew [1]
Other Scripts: תִּירָס(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: TIE-rəs(English)
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
From Hebrew תִּירָס (Tiras), meaning unknown. Tiras is a grandson of Noah in the Old Testament. This is also a modern Hebrew word meaning "corn".
Simona
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Czech, Slovak, Romanian, Lithuanian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Macedonian
Other Scripts: Симона(Bulgarian, Macedonian)
Pronounced: see-MO-na(Italian) SI-mo-na(Czech) SEE-maw-na(Slovak)
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
Feminine form of Simon 1.
Shi
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Chinese
Other Scripts: 时, 实, 史, 石, etc.(Chinese) 時, 實, 史, 石, etc.(Traditional Chinese)
Pronounced: SHUR
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
From Chinese (shí) meaning "time, era, season", (shí) meaning "real, honest", (shǐ) meaning "history" or (shí) meaning "stone". Other characters can form this name as well.
Setoka
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese (Modern, Rare)
Other Scripts: 瀬戸香, 星秋華, 聖音花, etc.(Japanese Kanji) せとか(Japanese Hiragana) セトカ(Japanese Katakana)
Pronounced: SEH-TO-KA
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
The name of a seedless and highly sweet Japanese tangor (written in hiragana), which was first registered in 1998.
It can also be written in kanji, combining a se kanji like 瀬 meaning "shallows, rapids," 星 meaning "star" or 聖 meaning "sacred, holy," with a to kanji, such as 戸 meaning "door," 秋, from toki referring to an important time, or 音 meaning "sound," and a ka kanji like 香 meaning "fragrance" or 花/華 meaning "flower."

This name is extremely rare.

Serval
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Western African
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Directly taken from the name of the African cat species.
Satomi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 里美, 聡美, 智美, etc.(Japanese Kanji) さとみ(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: SA-TO-MEE
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
From Japanese (sato) meaning "village" or (sato) meaning "intelligent, clever, bright" combined with (mi) meaning "beautiful". Other kanji combinations are possible.
Renge
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 蓮華, 蓮花(Japanese Kanji) れんげ(Japanese Hiragana) レンゲ(Japanese Katakana)
Pronounced: RENG-GEH
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
From 蓮華/蓮花 (renge), referring to the lotus flower that is sacred to Buddhists, as well as Hindus.

Examples of fictional (female) characters include Renge Serizawa (芹沢 蓮華) from Battle Girl High School, Renge Hōshakuji (宝積寺 れんげ) from Ouran High School Host Club and Renge Miyauchi (宮内 れんげ) from Non Non Biyori.

Reda
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: رضا(Arabic)
Pronounced: REE-da
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Alternate transcription of Arabic رضا (see Rida).
Rastaban
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Astronomy
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
Traditional name for Beta Draconis, the third brightest star in the Draco constellation. The name comes from Arabic ra's ath-thu'ban, which means "head of the serpent".
Patime
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Uyghur
Other Scripts: پاتىمە(Uyghur Arabic)
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Uyghur form of Fatima.
Ojo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Yoruba
Pronounced: O-JO
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
This name is given when a child is born with the umbilical cord around their neck.
Òdo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Kashubian
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Kashubian form of Odo.
Odo
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Efik
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Odera
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Nigerian
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Nigerian name meaning "fate, fortune, destiny".
Naomi 2
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 直美, 直己, etc.(Japanese Kanji) なおみ(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: NA-O-MEE
Rating: 85% based on 2 votes
From Japanese (nao) meaning "straight, direct" and (mi) meaning "beautiful" (usually feminine) or (mi) meaning "self" (usually masculine). Other kanji combinations can also form this name.
Nantan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Apache
Pronounced: NAENTAHN
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
Means "spokesman" in Apache.
Montague
Usage: English
Pronounced: MAHN-tə-gyoo
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
From a Norman place name meaning "sharp mountain" in Old French.
Markéta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Czech
Pronounced: MAR-keh-ta
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Czech form of Margaret.
Mahrem
Gender: Masculine
Usage: African Mythology
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
The pre-Christian Ethiopian (Aksumite) warrior god.
Madoka
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 円, 円香, 円花, 円華, 円佳, 窓香, 窓花, 窓華, 窓佳, 真香, 真花, 真華, 真佳, 真登香, 麻都香(Japanese Kanji) まどか(Japanese Hiragana) マドカ(Japanese Katakana)
Pronounced: MA-DO-KA
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
This name can be used as 円 (en, maru(.i), mado(.ka), maro.yaka) meaning "round, tranquil." It, along with 窓 (sou, su, (ten)mado, kemudashi) meaning "window" or 真 (shin, ma(-), makoto, mana, mado) meaning "real, true," can be combined with 香 (kou, kyou, ka, kao.ri/u) meaning "incense, smell, perfume," 花 or 華 (ka, ke, hana), both meaning "flower," or 佳 (ka) meaning "beautiful, good, excellent​."
Examples of 3-kanji combinations include 真登香 and 麻都香 with 麻 (ma, maa, asa) meaning "flax, hemp," 登 (tou, to, dou, shou, chou, nobo.ru, a.garu) meaning "ascend" and 都 (to, tsu, miyako) meaning "metropolis."

Bearers of this name include voice actress Madoka Kimura (木村 まどか) (1980-) and professional shōgi player Madoka Kitao (北尾 まどか) (1980-).

Machar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dinka
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Means "black bull" in Dinka. Black bulls are the second most important for sacrifices.
Loarn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Irish
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Possibly derived from Proto-Celtic *loɸerno- meaning "fox". This was the name of a legendary 6th-century king of Dál Riata.
Libitina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Pronounced: lee-bee-TEE-na(Latin)
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Meaning uncertain, possibly from Etruscan lupu "dead". Libitina was the Roman goddess of funerals, corpses and death.
Lerato
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Sotho
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Means "love" in Sotho.
Lèo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Central African
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Congolese form of Leo and the French equivalent Léo.
Len
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Afrikaans
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Variant of Leen.
Karina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: かりな(Japanese Hiragana) 桂里奈, 伽利菜, 伽利南, 伽梨菜, 伽梨南, 伽理菜, 伽理名, 伽理名, 伽里南, 伽莉奈, 佳利奈, 佳利名, 佳梨奈, 佳梨南, 佳理菜, 佳理名, 佳里南, 佳麗奈, 佳莉名, 加利名, 加理菜, 加理南, 加里菜, 加莉南, 可里奈, 可莉奈, 夏利南, 夏梨奈, 夏理菜, 夏里南, 夏莉南, 果利奈, 果利名, 果梨奈, 果梨名, 果理名, 果里名, 歌里奈, 花利奈, 花莉菜, 華璃那, 海梨奈, 刈菜, 香利菜, 香李奈, 香梨南, 香理菜, 香理名, 香莉菜, 香莉南, 風里奈, etc.(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: KAH-ṘEE-NAH
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
From Japanese 桂 (ka) meaning "the katsura, the Japanese Judas tree", 伽 (ka) meaning "temple", 佳 (ka) meaning "beautiful, good", 加 (ka) meaning "add, addition, increase", 可 (ka) meaning "passable", 夏 (ka) meaning "summer", 果 (ka) meaning "pieces of fruit", 歌 (ka) meaning "song, poem", 花 (ka) or 華 (ka) both meaning "flower", 海 (ka) meaning "sea, ocean", 刈 (kari) meaning "reap, cut (grass or other plants), prune", 香 (ka) meaning "fragrance" or 風 (ka) meaning "wind", 里 (ri) meaning "village", 利 (ri) meaning "profit, benefit", 梨 (ri) meaning "pear", 理 (ri) meaning "reason, logic", 麗 (ri) meaning "lovely, beautiful", 璃 (ri) meaning "glassy" or 李 (ri) meaning "plum" combined with 奈 (na) meaning "apple tree", 菜 (na) meaning "vegetables, greens", 南 (na) meaning "south", 名 (na) meaning "name" or 那 (na) meaning "what". Other kanji combinations are possible.

Famous bearers are Karina Maruyama, a Japanese footballer from Tokyo and Karina Nose, a Japanese model and actress.

Isa
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: いさ, ゐさ(Japanese Hiragana) イサ, イザ(Japanese Katakana) 威佐, 依紗, 依咲, 依沙, 伊三, 伊砂, 伊佐, 以佐, 惟瑳, 意沙, 意早, 衣咲, etc.(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: EE-SAH
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
From Japanese 威 (i) meaning "intimidate" combined with 佐 (sa) meaning "aid, help". Other kanji combinations are possible.
Ing
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic Mythology
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
From the Germanic *Ingwaz, possibly meaning "ancestor". This was the name of an obscure Germanic fertility god who was considered the ancestor of the tribe the Ingaevones. It is possible he was an earlier incarnation of the god Freyr.
Ine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: (Japanese Kanji) イ子(Kanji/Katakana) いね(Japanese Hiragana) イネ(Japanese Katakana)
Pronounced: EE-NE
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
This name can be used as 稲 (te, tou, ina-, ine) meaning "rice plant" or イ子 with イ representing the phonetic character for 'i' and 子 (shi, su, tsu, ko, -ko, ne) meaning "sign of the rat (first sign of Chinese zodiac)."

It was uncommon in the Edo period (1603-1868) and the uncommonness of Ine continues all the way into the Taishō period (1912-1926).

Ife
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Yoruba
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
From Yoruba ìfẹ́ meaning "love".
Idiris
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Somali
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
Somali form of Idris 1.
Idir
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Berber
Other Scripts: ⵉⴷⵉⵔ(Tifinagh) إدير(Arabic)
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Means "alive" in Tamazight.
Idalia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Germanic (Latinized) [1], Greek Mythology, Polish (Rare)
Other Scripts: Ἰδαλία(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Probably from a Germanic name derived from the element idal, an extended form of id possibly meaning "work, labour" [1]. Unrelated, this was also an epithet of the Greek goddess Aphrodite, given because the city of Idalion on Cyprus was a center of her cult.

This name was borne by the heroine of the Polish writer Juliusz Słowacki's play Fantazy (1841, published 1866).

Hitomi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 瞳, 史美, etc.(Japanese Kanji) ひとみ(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: KHEE-TO-MEE
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
From Japanese (hitomi) meaning "pupil of the eye". It can also come from (hito) meaning "history" and (mi) meaning "beautiful", as well as other kanji combinations. This name is often written with the hiragana writing system.
Helike
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, Ancient Greek, Astronomy
Other Scripts: Ἑλίκη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: HEH-LEE-KEH(Classical Greek)
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Means "something that winds; crack willow (species Salix fragilis)" in Greek. Compare the masculine form Helix.
In antiquity, Helike was a common name for the northern constellation Ursa Major (because it revolves around the pole). According to Greek myth she was a nymph whom Zeus changed into the constellation because she had nursed him as an infant on Crete. In 2005 this name was given to a moon of Jupiter.
Hasuki
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 蓮季, 蓮喜(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: Hä-So͞o-Kyee
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
From Japanese, 蓮 (hasu) meaning "lotus" combined with 季 (ki) meaning "season" or 喜 (ki) meaning "joy". Other combinations are also possible.
Hana 3
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 花, 華, etc.(Japanese Kanji) はな(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: HA-NA
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
From Japanese (hana) or (hana) both meaning "flower". Other kanji or kanji combinations can form this name as well.
Hakob
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Armenian
Other Scripts: Հակոբ, Յակոբ(Armenian)
Pronounced: hah-KAWB(Eastern Armenian) hah-GAWP(Western Armenian)
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Armenian form of Jacob (or James).
Hachi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese (Rare)
Other Scripts: (Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: HAH-CHEE
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Means "bee" in Japanese.
Eudora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Εὐδώρα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: yoo-DAWR-ə(English)
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
Means "good gift" in Greek, from the elements εὖ (eu) meaning "good" and δῶρον (doron) meaning "gift". This was the name of a nymph, one of the Hyades, in Greek mythology.
Emilie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Czech
Pronounced: eh-MEE-lyə(German) eh-MEE-lee-eh(Norwegian) EHM-i-lee(Swedish)
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
German, Scandinavian and Czech feminine form of Aemilius (see Emily).
Emer
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish Mythology
Pronounced: EE-mər(English)
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Meaning unknown. In Irish legend she was the wife of Cúchulainn. She was said to possess the six gifts of womanhood: beauty, voice, speech, needlework, wisdom and chastity.
Efe 2
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Urhobo
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
Short form of Efemena and other names containing efe "wealth".
Demetra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare), Romanian (Rare), Greek
Other Scripts: Δήμητρα(Greek)
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Italian and Romanian form of Demeter 1, as well as an alternate transcription of Greek Δήμητρα (see Dimitra).
Dagmar
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, German, Czech, Slovak
Pronounced: DOW-mar(Danish) DAK-mar(German) DAG-mar(Czech)
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
From the Old Norse name Dagmær, derived from the elements dagr "day" and mær "maid". This was the name adopted by the popular Bohemian wife of the Danish king Valdemar II when they married in 1205. Her birth name was Markéta.
Chronos
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Χρόνος(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
Means "time" in Greek. In Greek mythology the god Chronos was the personification of time.

(He is not to be confused with the Titan Cronus.)

Chidi
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Igbo
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Means "God exists" in Igbo, derived from Chi 2, referring to God, and dị meaning "is". It is also a short form of Igbo names beginning with Chidi.
Cereus
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
From the genus name of a type of night-blooming cacti found from California to Chile, from Latin cereus "waxen, waxy", which was also used as a substantive to mean "a wax-light, -taper" ("particularly those brought by clients to their patrons as presents at the time of the Saturnalia"), and so called because the cactus' shape "suggests a candle."
Carme 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Κάρμη(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Latinized form of Greek Κάρμη (Karme), which was derived from κείρω (keiro) meaning "to shear". This was the name of a Cretan goddess of the harvest.
Caramia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Various (Rare)
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
From the Italian phrase cara mia meaning "my beloved".
Capella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Astronomy
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
This is the brightest star in the constellation Auriga. Its name means "little she-goat" from Latin capra "she-goat" with a diminutive suffix. In Roman mythology the star represented the goat Amalthea.
Aphra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Various (Rare)
Personal remark: poss. name sol
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Meaning uncertain; possibly a variant of Afra 1, or possibly a variant of Aphrah, a biblical place name meaning "dust". This name was borne by the English writer Aphra Behn (1640-1689).
Anzu
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 杏, 杏子, 杏珠(Japanese Kanji) あんず(Japanese Hiragana) アンズ(Japanese Katakana)
Pronounced: AN-ZOO
Rating: 15% based on 2 votes
From 杏 or 杏子 (anzu), referring to a type of apricot known as Prunus armeniaca (also called the ansu, Siberian or Tibetan apricot).
The second kanji can be substituted with one that can be read as zu, like 珠 meaning "gem, jewel."

One bearer of this name is actress Anzu Nagai (永井 杏) (1992-).

Amarantha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Various (Rare)
Personal remark: poss. name sol
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
From the name of the amaranth flower, which is derived from Greek ἀμάραντος (amarantos) meaning "unfading". Ἀμάραντος (Amarantos) was also an Ancient Greek given name.
Algernon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AL-jər-nən
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Originally a Norman French nickname, derived from aux gernons "having a moustache", which was applied to William de Percy, a companion of William the Conqueror. It was first used a given name in the 15th century (for a descendant of William de Percy). This name was borne by a character (a mouse) in the short story Flowers for Algernon (1958) and novel of the same title (1966) by the American author Daniel Keyes.
Abd al-Malik
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: عبد الملك(Arabic)
Pronounced: ‘ab-DOOL-ma-leek
Rating: 10% based on 2 votes
Means "servant of the king" from Arabic عبد (ʿabd) meaning "servant" combined with ملك (malik) meaning "king". This was the name of the fifth Umayyad caliph, who made Arabic the official language of the empire.
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