Behind the Name: 20090521's Personal Name List

Larson

Gender: Masculine

Usage: English

Pronounced: LAHR-sun

Rating: 33% based on 4 votes

Transferred use of the surname Larson

Everest

Usage: English

Pronounced: EEV-rist

Rating: 70% based on 4 votes

Originally denoted a person from Évreux in Normandy, itself named after the Gaulish tribe of the Eburovices. Mount Everest in the Himalayas was named for the British surveyor George Everest (1790-1866).

Evelynn

Gender: Feminine

Usage: English (Modern)

Pronounced: EHV-ə-lin(English) EEV-lin(British English) EEV-ə-lin(British English)

Rating: 78% based on 4 votes

Variant of Evelyn.

Eleonore

Gender: Feminine

Usage: German

Pronounced: eh-leh-o-NO-rə

Rating: 75% based on 4 votes

German form of Eleanor.

Eden

Gender: Feminine & Masculine

Usage: Hebrew, English (Modern), French (Modern)

Other Scripts: עֵדֶן(Hebrew)

Pronounced: EE-dən(English)

Rating: 68% based on 6 votes

From the biblical place name, itself possibly from Hebrew עֵדֶן (ʿeḏen) meaning "pleasure, delight" [1], or perhaps derived from Sumerian 𒂔 (edin) meaning "plain". According to the Old Testament the Garden of Eden was the place where the first people, Adam and Eve, lived before they were expelled.