Behind the Name: hermeline's Personal Name List

Suzel

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish, French, Theatre

Pronounced: Soo-zel(Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, French, Theatre)

Rating: 50% based on 2 votes

Suzel is the name of a main character in 'L'amico Fritz', an opera by Pietro Mascagni, premiered in 1891 from a libretto by P. Suardon (Nicola Daspuro, with additions by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti) based on the French novel 'L'ami Fritz' by Émile Erckmann and Pierre-Alexandre Chatrian.

Snowdrop

Gender: Feminine

Usage: English (Rare)

Pronounced: SNO-drahp

The name of the flower used as a first name, mainly between the 1890s and 1920s, but never one of the more popular names of this kind.

Sibeth

Gender: Feminine

Usage: French (African, Rare)

Rating: 60% based on 2 votes

Sibeth Ndiaye was appointed as spokesman of the French government in 2019.

Ouisie

Gender: Feminine

Usage: American (Rare)

Pronounced: WEEZ-ee

Rating: 40% based on 7 votes

Diminutive of Louise. Also compare Wheezy, Weezy, Ouiser.

Myribel

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Obscure

Rating: 60% based on 2 votes

In the case of the submitter it is a contraction of Myrna and Isabel.

Mildrey

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Spanish (Latin American, Rare)

Rating: 55% based on 2 votes

Isilee

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Literature

Rating: 35% based on 2 votes

From Shannon Hale's novel The Goose Girl, a retelling of the Grimms' fairytale.
The princess Anidori Kiladra Talianna Isilee's lady-in-waiting leads a mutiny during the princess's journey to be married in a foreign land. The lady-in-waiting poses as the princess, and 'Ani' becomes a goose girl for the king. Ani eventually uses her own special, nearly magical powers to find her way to her true destiny.

Heilfrid

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Germanic

Rating: 42% based on 5 votes

Derived from the Old German elements heil "healthy, whole" and fridu "peace".

Hampus

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Swedish

Pronounced: HAHM-poos

Rating: 25% based on 2 votes

Swedish diminutive of Hans.

Güelfa

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Literature, Catalan (Valencian)

Pronounced: GWEHL-fa(Valencian Catalan)

Rating: 50% based on 2 votes

Catalan feminine form of Welf. Used in the 15th century novel Curial e Güelfa.

Glorisel

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Spanish (Latin American, Rare)

Rating: 45% based on 2 votes

Elaboration of Gloria.

Gloribel

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Spanish (Latin American, Rare)

Pronounced: glo-ree-BEHL(Latin American Spanish)

Rating: 60% based on 2 votes

Combination of Gloria and the popular suffix -bel.

Gerbald

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Germanic [1]

Rating: 40% based on 3 votes

Derived from the Old German elements ger meaning "spear" and bald meaning "bold, brave". This was the name of a 7th-century Frankish saint, a bishop of Bayeux (also called Gerbold).

Frister

Gender: Masculine

Usage: West Frisian (Rare)

Pronounced: FRIS-tər

Rating: 45% based on 2 votes

Variant of Fritser, which probably came into being through metathesis.

Fearghal

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Irish

Rating: 65% based on 2 votes

Modern Irish Gaelic form of Fergal.

Fairamay

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Literature

Rating: 63% based on 8 votes

A character from the novel The Journey to the Forest of Temptation by George Harpen.

Elby

Gender: Masculine

Usage: English

Pronounced: EL-bee

Rating: 45% based on 2 votes

English form of Ælfwig.

Edengale

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Romani (Archaic)

Rating: 75% based on 8 votes

Variant of Edingale.

Dovel

Usage: English

Pronounced: dO.vɛɭ

Rating: 30% based on 2 votes

A English name that originated from the french surname Duval in 1725 in England, the Dovels are historically farmers and are mostly found in the USA.

Dousabel

Gender: Feminine

Usage: English

Rating: 60% based on 2 votes

Form of Dowsabel

Delcie

Gender: Feminine

Usage: English (Rare)

Pronounced: DEHL-see

Rating: 55% based on 2 votes

Variant of Delsie.

Beaflurs

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Arthurian Cycle

Rating: 60% based on 2 votes

Means "beautiful flower" (compare Blanchefleur). This was the name of a fairy in the Middle High German romance 'Parzival' (Wolfram von Eschenbach's adaptation of 'Perceval, the Story of the Grail', a poem by Chrétien de Troyes). Beaflurs was the mother of Liahturteltart, a page to Queen Ampflise of France in the time of Uther.

Ainsel

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Folklore

Rating: 35% based on 2 votes

Used for a fairy in Thomas Keightley's The Fairy Mythology, released in 1870. Ainsel was a fairy who came down the chimney to play with a little boy.