hermeline's Personal Name List

Chechen form of Zulaykha.

Diminutive of Zsuzsanna.

From Japanese 優 (yuu) meaning "gentleness, lithe, superior", 里 (ri) meaning "village" combined with 亜 (a) meaning "second, Asia". Other kanji combinations are possible.
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From Japanese 百合 (yuri) for "lily" and 愛 (a) for "love."

From Persian یار (yār) meaning "friend, helper".

Bulgarian, Russian and Ukrainian form of Jana 1.

Hebrew form of Jachin.

Spanish form of Xochitl.

This is the name of one of the Thirteen and later king of Qarth in George R. R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire.

Variant of Weimar.

Weymar Rois is the name of Waymar Royce in the German translation of 'The song of ice and fire'.

Transferred use of the surname Vaden.

Means "shell, bivalve" in Greenlandic.

Means "victory mood" in the fictional language Sindarin. In the Silmarillion (1977) by J. R. R. Tolkien, Turin was a cursed hero, the slayer of the dragon Glaurung. He was also called Turambar, Mormegil, and other names. This is also the Anglicized name of the city of Torino in Italy.

Yiddish form of Theodore. This name was originally used to translate Nathan and Jonathan.

Czech, Slovak and Romanian form of Tímea.

Alternate transcription of Burmese သူရိန် (see Thurein).

From the name of an ancient Greek town in Boeotia, itself supposedly named after a nymph. In a Greek legend (the oldest surviving version appearing in Latin in Ovid's Metamorphoses) this is the name of a young woman from Babylon. Believing her to be dead, her lover Pyramus kills himself, after which she does the same to herself. The splashes of blood from their suicides is the reason mulberry fruit are red.

Short form of Theodora. A famous bearer was actress Theda Bara (1885-1955), who was born Theodosia Goodman.

Variant of Tewodros.

Modern Hebrew acronym for "Made in The Beautiful Land of Israel" (Hebrew: תוצרת ארץ ישראל היפה)

Alternate transcription of Tawus.

Means "spring rain" in Kurdish and/or "healthy, strong" in Uzbek.

An invented name, combining the phonetic elements ta, my and ya, and based on the sounds of names such as Tamia and Amaya. It can be spelled Tamya or with a capitalized third letter as TaMya (or Ta'Mya).

Means "rain" in Quechua.

Nicaragua-spanish

Air Headed

Means "first daughter" in Khana.

A minor character from the 2014 young-adult book "Dorothy Must Die" by Danielle Paige bears this name.

Old Swedish form of Sigríkr.

Modern Scandinavian form of Signý.

Irish form of Isabel.

Variant of Sheila, or a combination of the popular phonetic elements shy and la.

Shurali is a forest spirit in Tatar and Bashkir mythology. According to legends, Shurali lives in forests. He has long fingers, a horn on its forehead, and a woolly body. He lures victims into the thickets and can tickle them to death.

From the Chinese 姝 (shū) meaning "beautiful girl" and 娜 (nà) meaning "elegant, graceful, delicate".

Anglicized form of Séamus.

Meaning uncertain, possibly a derivative of Mapuche ayün "love".

Modern form of Sanjaya.

Transferred use of the surname Sagan, often given after American astronomer Carl Sagan.

The name of a werewolf-like creature in Laurentian French. It is derived from standard French loup garou "werewolf" (where loup means "wolf" and garou is a borrowed word from Germanic were-wolf via Frankish garulf).

Common diminutive of Restituto. This is also occasionally used as a diminutive of Restituta.

Variant of Ryan.

Means "wife" / "beloved" in Hebrew.

Originally a diminutive of names beginning with the Slavic element radŭ meaning "happy, willing". In Poland it is usually a diminutive of Radosław.

Italian variant of Rachele, Polish form of Rachel as well as a Latinate form of Rachel.

Means "it has rained", derived from Nahuatl quiyahuitl "rain, rainstorm", the nineteenth day sign of the tonalpohualli.

Variant of Quashie.

Feminine of Pyrrhos.

In Greek mythology, Pyrrha and her husband, Deucalion, built an arc to survive a great flood created by Zeus. When they reached land, they threw rocks over their shoulders, and the rocks became men and women.

Pravuil is an archangel briefly mentioned in the Second Book of Enoch as God's scribe and recordkeeper. In Enoch II, God commands Pravuil to bring Enoch writing materials so he could document his journey through the heavens.

Most likely used as a first name due to John Joseph Pershing, General of the Armies for the United States at the end of World War I. His paternal ancestors were of German descent, and the original spelling was likely Pfoersching. The name derives from pfersich, the German word meaning "peach", and was used as a metonymic occupational name meaning "grower or seller of peaches". Pfersich comes from persica, the Late Latin word for peach, originally malum persicum meaning "Persian apple".

French form of Pamphilus.

Ovie means “King” in Urhobo, a language that belongs to the Urhobo people of Nigeria. It will have baby walking (or crawling) around with all the swagger deserving of a monarch.

Combination of Latin oct- "eight" and Greek -ander "man" given to children born in October or to the eighth child of the family.

From Sanskrit निखिल (nikhila) meaning "whole, entire".

Hellenized form of Nero 1 as well as the Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Polish, Russian, Serbian and Ukrainian form of the name.

Possibly from Zapotec nadxiie lii meaning "I love you" or nayele' meaning "open".

Spanish and Portuguese form of Naiara.

Variant of Nia 2, probably modelled on Maya 2. It was borne by the actress Naya Rivera (1987-2020).

Means "New" in Hindi

Derived from Arabic أَمِير (ʾamīr) meaning "prince, commander" (see Amir 1) combined with the name Ali 1.

Of debated origin and meaning. Theories include a derivation from Latin maius "the month of may" and a diminutive of Germanic names containing the element mag, a variant of megin meaning "strength". This was the name of a 10th-century abbot of Cluny.

Swedish and Norwegian short form of Magdalene.

It is an acronym of the name of the martyred Rabbinic scholar Rabbi Meir of Rothenberg

Possibly a variant of Mahala, or from Tagalog "mahál", meaning 'loved one.'

Variant of Mahala.

Transferred use of the surname Luxon.

Meaning unknown, though possibly related to the Slavic element mirŭ meaning "peace, world". In Czech legend this is the name of a bard.

Short form of Charlotte or Liselotte.

A character in the Game of Thrones universe, Loras Tyrell.

Hawaiian form of Lorin.

Hawaiian form of Lorraine.

Short form of Lochlainn or taken directly from the Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Scots word loch meaning ''lake''.

It could also be transferred from the originally German surname Loch.

Variant of Liwen using Spanish spelling conventions.

From a surname that was derived from Lassy, the name of a town in Normandy. The name of the town was Gaulish in origin, perhaps deriving from a personal name that was Latinized as Lascius. Formerly more common for boys in America, this name began to grow in popularity for girls in 1975.

Meaning unknown.

Diminutive of Klara.

Short form of Kaya'aton'my', a name invented for the Native American girl of the Nimíipuu or Nez Percé tribe in the American Girl series of dolls, accompanied by books. The doll was the eighth historical character in the series and released together with the book in 2002.

It was made clear by the creators that in reality a Nez Percé girl wouldn't shorten her name, however it was used in this manner to make it easier for younger readers.

Means "beautiful" in Arabic, from the root جمل (jamala) meaning "to be beautiful".

Means "alone, unique, only", from Nahuatl icel.

Means "sparkle brilliance" in the fictional language Sindarin. In the Silmarillion (1977) by J. R. R. Tolkien, Idril was the daughter of Turgon, the king of Gondolin. She escaped the destruction of that place with her husband Tuor and sailed with him into the west.

This name can used as 炎 (en, honoo) meaning "blaze, flame" or 秀邑 with 秀 (shuu, hii.deru, ho) meaning "beauty, excel(lence), surpass" and 邑 (yuu, ure.eru, kuni, mura) meaning "village, hamlet."

As a word, Homura (炎) refers to a blaze or a flame.

Two fictional bearers of this name are Homura Akemi (暁美 ほむら), the antihero in the anime Puella Magi Madoka Magica, and Homura Akai (赤井 ほむら) from dating sim Tokimeki Memorial 2.

Homura is very rarely given to girls, if given at all.

Homura is also used as a surname.

Form of Nerthus. The spelling change from N to H resulted from a misreading of Tacitus's text.

Derived from Greek ἥβη (hebe) meaning "youth". In Greek mythology Hebe was the daughter of Zeus and Hera. She was a goddess of youth who acted as the cupbearer to the gods.

She is a kindly forest goddess in Haida mythology whose name translates to "Lady Hanging Hair."

Welsh form of William.

Variant spelling of Góyąń.

Variant of Fionn.

Turkish form of Fadl.

Means "butterfly" in Italian. This is the name of the titular character of the ballet Le papillon (1860). Farfalla is a Circassian princess who is kidnapped by a fairy and enchanted in the form of a butterfly.

Feminine form of Evan.

Derived from Mapuche elun meaning "give".

Means "snow" in Welsh. This is a recently created name.

Means "planting stars" in Navajo. This is the Navajo name of the star cluster known in English as the Pleiades.

Diminutive of Desmond, Desiree and other names beginning with a similar sound. In the case of musician and actor Desi Arnaz (1917-1986) it was a diminutive of Desiderio.

According to the legend of the Aboriginals, the original settlers of Australia, Darana was one of the Deities during Dreamtime (the time before humans occupied Earth).
According to legend, Darana created witchetty grubs and put two in a bag. He then hung the bag from a tree in Australia. Later, two human young men killed the grubs with a boomerang. Apparenty, this was a no-no because the dust of the destroyed grubs glowed with a light that turned the sunset red, which alerted evil spirits who killed the humans.
Daran felt bad for this, and turned the young men's bodies into sacred stones. If the stones are scratched, there will be famine. And if they are destroyed, the universe will turn to dust. For this reason, the stones were hidden in a bag in a secret location where they remain untouched to this very day.

Combination of Da and Li 1.

Probably a form of Cadeyrn, perhaps derived from its Cornish cognate. In Arthurian romance this was the name of Guinevere's guardian. According to the 12th-century chronicler Geoffrey of Monmouth, Cador was a ruler of Cornwall and the father of Constantine, King Arthur's successor.
K.M. Sheard writes, 'It is not even beyond the realms of possibility that it derives ultimately from the name of the Celtic god Belactucadros.'

From a Welsh surname that was derived from ap Evan meaning "son of Evan". As a given name, it is particularly common in New Zealand and Australia.

Means "knife" in Apache. This was the name of a 19th-century chief of the Tchihende Apache.

Combination of Bahri and the Minangkabau masculine suffix -zal.

Transferred use of the surname Aven.

Means "light of the early dawn" or "sunset glow" in Hawaiian, literally "flaming road" from Hawaiian ala "path, road" and ula "flame".

Variant of Ayelen.

Means "sister" or "eldest daughter" (a formal, poetic term) in Indonesian. The name was used by Dutch writer Eduard Douwes Dekker (1820-1887), better known by his pen name Multatuli, for one of the eponymous characters in his story "Saïdjah and Adinda" in his 1860 novel Max Havelaar.

In Mandaeism, Adathan is an uthra who stands with Yadathan at the Gate of Life in the World of Light, praising and worshipping Hayyi Rabbi.

Hungarian diminutive of Ábrahám.