CaptainYulef's Personal Name List

From Middle High German wiz or Yiddish װייַס (vais) meaning "white". This was originally a nickname for a person with white hair or skin.

Means "buttocks" from Middle High German stuz.

Swedish and German form of Søren.

The name of a companion of Saint Paul in the New Testament. It is probably a short form of Silvanus, a name that Paul calls him by in the epistles. It is possible that Silvanus and Silas were Latin and Greek forms of the Hebrew name Saul (via Aramaic).

As an English name it was not used until after the Protestant Reformation. It was utilized by George Eliot for the title character in her novel Silas Marner (1861).

From the Old German elements hruod meaning "fame" and lant meaning "land", though some theories hold that the second element was originally nand meaning "brave" [1].

Roland was an 8th-century military commander, serving under Charlemagne, who was killed by the Basques at the Battle of Roncevaux. His name was recorded in Latin as Hruodlandus. His tale was greatly embellished in the 11th-century French epic La Chanson de Roland, in which he is a nephew of Charlemagne killed after being ambushed by the Saracens. The Normans introduced the name to England.

Derived from a diminutive of the given name Konrad.

German form of Iohannes (see John). Famous bearers include German composer Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), German novelist and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), and Austrian composers Johann Strauss the Elder (1804-1849) and his son Johann Strauss the Younger (1825-1899).

Variant of Huber.

German cognate of Holt.

Means "tall" in German.

From Old High German groz meaning "tall, big".

Variant of Gott.

German and Dutch cognate of Glass.

Occupational name for a goat herder, from southern German Geiss meaning "goat" and the suffix ler signifying an occupation.

From Old English and Old High German meaning "frost", a nickname for a person who had a cold personality or a white beard.

From a nickname derived from Middle High German vrume meaning "noble, honourable".

Means "joy" in German, a nickname for a cheerful person. A famous bearer was the psychologist Sigmund Freud (1856-1939).

Means "free" in German, probably referring to someone outside the feudal system.

Means "field" in German. The name was originally given to someone who lived on land cleared of forest.

Form of Elijah used in several languages. This is also the form used in the Greek New Testament, as well as some English translations.

Variant of Dreher.

German form of Christopher.

Variant of Brand 1 or Brand 2.

Derived from the name of several German towns called Boll or Böhl, meaning "hill".

Means "flower" in German and Yiddish.

Derived from the Old German elements ansi "god" and helm "helmet, protection". This name was brought to England in the late 11th century by Saint Anselm, who was born in northern Italy. He was archbishop of Canterbury and a Doctor of the Church.