Addycakes's Personal Name List

Wyoming
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: American
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Transferred use of surname Wyoming
Nevada
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: nə-VAD-ə
Personal remark: 140th name saved into this collection.
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
From the name of the American state, which means "snow-capped" in Spanish.
Montana
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: mahn-TAN-ə(American English) mawn-TAN-ə(British English)
Personal remark: 125th name saved into this collection.
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
From the name of the American state, which is derived from Latin montanus "mountainous".
Kansas
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Personal remark: 145th name saved into this collection.
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
From the US state name.
Idaho
Gender: Masculine
Usage: American (Rare)
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
From the name of a state in the United States of America. The name of the state was made in the early 1860s, when the United States Congress was considering organizing a new territory in the Rocky Mountains, eccentric lobbyist George M. Willing suggested the name "Idaho", which he claimed was derived from a Shoshone language term meaning "the sun comes from the mountains" or "gem of the mountains".
Hawaii
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (Modern, Rare)
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
From the name of the US state, of uncertain origin.
Theories from Proto-Polynesian hawaiki which possibly means place of the gods" or from Proto-Polynesian sawaiki "homeland", or possibly named for Hawaiʻiloa, legendary discoverer of the Hawaiian islands.
Arkansas
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (American, Rare, Archaic)
Pronounced: AHR-kən-saw(American English)
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
From the place name Arkansas.
Alaska
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
From Aleut alaxsxaq "object to which the action of the sea is directed" or "mainland". It is the name of a US state.
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