hermeline's Personal Name List

Variant of Isabet, recorded in 15th-century Valencia.

Galician form of Julian.

Catalan form of Sasson.

This name is possibly a combination of Xavier with a Hebrew name ending in -iel, such as Gabriel. However, given the fact that this name has been around in the Spanish-speaking world since at least the 18th century, it could also be an independent name of its own (in which case its etymology is unknown), as combining names in that manner generally seems to be a fairly modern phenomenon in the Spanish-speaking world.

A known bearer of this name was the Asturian (Spanish) writer Xaviel Vilareyo (1967-2015).

Basque form of Andrés.

Portuguese borrowing of Villana.

Short form of Giovanna.

Tchelio is a magician and the king's (and prince's) protector in "L'amour des trois oranges", a 1921 satirical French-language opera by Sergei Prokofiev.

Variant of Seferina.

Italian form of Roxana.

Means "golden rose", derived from Latin rosa "rose" and aurea "golden". This name was (first?) used by Pedro Calderón de la Barca for a character in his play Life Is a Dream (1635).

Spanish form of Roland.

Variant of Poppaea. This name was used for the title character of Claudio Monteverdi's opera 'L'incoronazione di Poppea' (1642).

Italian form of Pygmalion.

Portuguese form of Percilia, the name of a genus of perch-like fish native to Chile. It is a diminutive of Latin perca, from Ancient Greek πέρκη (perke) "perch", cognate with περκνός (perknos) "dark-spotted".

Spanish, Catalan, Italian and Croatian word for "palm". This name typically referred to Palm Sunday, the Sunday before Easter, and was historically given to girls born on this day.

Means "wonderful" in Esperanto.

Variant of Mira.

Feminine form of Maurilio.

Spanish and Portuguese form of Leonnatus. This is the name of the father of Hero and/or Beatrice in William Shakespeare's romantic comedy 'Much Ado About Nothing' (1599).

Feminine form of Lalin.

Short form of Augustas and other names containing gust.

Means "worthy of glory" in Esperanto, ultimately from Latin gloria.

Italian short form of Giovanni and Romansh short form of Giovannes. Giovan Giuseppe della Croce (John Joseph of the Cross in English; 15 August 1654 – 5 March 1739) was an Italian priest and a professed member from the Order of Friars Minor who hailed from the island of Ischia. He had a reputation for austerity and for the gift of miracles and was appointed Master of Novices. Beatified in 1789 and later canonized in 1839, he is the patron saint of the Italian island of Ischia.

Means "joy" in Italian.

Masculine form of "Gilda".

Modern Greek variant of Ioannes (see John).

Feminine form of Galileo.

Variant of Froilán.

Italian form of Frank, also used as a short form of the related name Francesco.

From Latin Francia meaning "France" (see Francia). Also compare France 1.

Contracted form of Francesca.

From the Late Latin name Fidelis meaning "faithful", a derivative of fides "faith". A famous bearer was the revolutionary leader and Cuban president Fidel Castro (1926-2016).

Short form of Fernando.

Elaborated variant of Fauna.

Georgian, Sardinian and Basque form of Helen.

Latinized form of Douceline (compare Dulcelinus).

From the Roman name Duilius, which is possibly derived from Latin duellum "war". This was the name of a Roman consul who defeated the Carthaginians in a naval battle.

Dorilea is a shepherdess in the 17th-century play "Granida" by Dutch playwright Pieter Cornelisz.

From Spanish dorar "to gild, to cover in gold". Dorado is one of the constellations created by Dutch explorers in the 16th century. It represents the dolphinfish.

Means "sorrowful" in Latin, taken from the Latin title of the Virgin Mary Mater Dolorosa "Mother of Sorrows". As such, it is cognate to Spanish Dolores and Italian Addolorata.

Possibly a variant of Doralice.

Italian diminutive of Daniela.

Form of Chryseis used by the Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio in his 14th-century poem Il Filostrato. In the poem she is a woman of Troy, daughter of Calchas, who leaves her Trojan lover Troilus for the Greek hero Diomedes. The story was taken up by Chaucer (using the form Criseyde) and Shakespeare (using the form Cressida).

Aragonese form of Jonas 2.

Feminine form of Castrense.

Latinized form of Caspar.

Meaning uncertain. This is the name of the 11th-century patron saint of Toledo, Spain. It might have an Arabic origin (Saint Casilda was a Moorish princess), perhaps from قصيدة (qaṣīda) meaning "poem" [1]. Alternatively it could be derived from a Visigothic name in which the second element is hilds meaning "battle".

Medieval Spanish form of Carmel, appearing in the devotional title of the Virgin Mary Nuestra Señora del Carmen meaning "Our Lady of Mount Carmel". The spelling has been altered through association with the Latin word carmen meaning "song". This was the name of the main character in George Bizet's opera Carmen (1875).

Created by Shakespeare for the monstrous son of Sycorax in his play The Tempest (1611). It has been suggested that it is a variant or anagram of the Spanish word caníbal "cannibal".

Feminine form of Bernabé.

Variant of Belina.

A combination of the French masculine adjective beau meaning "beautiful, handsome" with the name Chiana. Interestingly, this given name has a strong resemblance with the French surname Beauchain and its variant Beauchaine. As such, it might be possible that in some cases, Beauchiana was inspired by the surname or even an attempted feminization of it.

Italian form of Angelus (see Angel).

Latinate diminutive of Angela. A famous bearer is American actress Angelina Jolie (1975-).

Variant of Amora, possibly influenced by Laura and similar names.

Galician form of the Visigothic name *Hildiwara, which was composed of the Gothic elements hilds "battle" and wars "aware, cautious". This was the name of the 7th-century wife of the Visigothic king Gundemar. It was also borne by the mother of Saint Rosendo (10th century).

This is the name of the star Beta Cygni.

The origin of this name according to Wikipedia:

The system's traditional name Albireo is a result of misunderstanding and mistranslation. It is thought that it originated in the Greek name ornis for the constellation of Cygnus, which became urnis in Arabic. When translated into Latin, this name was thought to refer to the Greek name Erysimon for the plant called Hedge Mustard (Sisymbrium officinale, which in Latin is ireo), and so was described in Latin in the Arabo-Latin Almagest of 1515 as 'Eurisim: et est volans; et jam vocatur gallina. et dicitur eurisim quasi redolens ut lilium ab ireo' ('Eurisim: and it is the flyer, and now it is called the hen, and it is called Eurisim, as if redolent like the lily from the 'ireo''), via a confusion between ireo and the scented flower Iris florentina. This was variously miscopied, until 'ab ireo' was treated as a miscopy of an Arabic term and changed into al-bireo.

Combination of Ada 1 and Iris.

Italian feminine form of Abele and Niçard feminine form of Abel.