LemonBamboo's Personal Name List

Of unknown meaning. Theories include a derivation from an Ancient Norse word for "she-bear" with the same roots as Latin ursa (compare Ursula, which used to be used as a Latinization of Yrsa), even though this seems rather unlikely. Another theory derives Yrsa from the Old Norse (and Icelandic) feminine name Ýrr, which itself is derived from Old Norse œrr "mad; furious; wild".

Means "bear" in Cherokee.

Derived from Old High German witu meaning "forest, wood" combined with Proto-Germanic beran or bernu meaning "bear" (bero and bern in Old High German).

Frisian form of Wibern, an ancient Germanic given name which was often encountered as a variant form of Wigbern and Witubern. However, it can also be a name in its own right, in which case its first element is derived from either Old High German wîh meaning "holy, sacred" or from Old High German wîp meaning "woman". As with the aforementioned names, the second element of the name is derived from Proto-Germanic beran or bernu meaning "bear" (bero and bern in Old High German).

With that said, it should be noted that in Frisia, the name Wibren has also been used as a variant form of Wibrân.

Roman cognomen which was derived from Latin ursulus meaning "little bear", itself ultimately derived from the Latin noun ursus meaning "bear" (see Urs) combined with the Latin diminutive suffix -ulus. In other words, you could say that this name is the masculine form of Ursula.

Ursulus was the name of the State Treasurer under the Roman emperor Julian the Apostate (4th century AD).

Means "bear" in Chuvash.

Combination of Icelandic unnr "wave" and bjǫrn "bear".

The name of a goddess involved in the Korean creation myth. Her name is derived from the hanja 熊 (ung) meaning "bear" and 女 (nyeo) meaning "woman".

Diminutive of Urszula (Polish) or Uršula (Slovene).

Means "salmon net" from an Ancient Finnish word sometimes used also to mean "bear" or "wheel".

Otava (or Otavainen) is the Finnish name of the Big Dipper (the Plough), a large asterism consisting of seven bright stars of the constellation Ursa Major.

The name is also mentioned in the Finnish epic Kalevala and its sister collection Kanteletar.

Name of character in Disney's Special Agent Oso and means "bear" in Spanish.

Medieval Polish masculine name meaning "bear".

Means "polar bear" in Inuktitut.

Means "(polar) bear" in Greenlandic.

Means "teddy bear" in Finnish and it is often used as a nickname for the Swedish name Björn.

Russian diminutive of Mikhail.

Derived from Arabic al-maraqq, meaning "the loins (of the bear)". This is the traditional name of the star Beta Ursae Majoris, in the constellation Ursa Major.

Maylu in Pushtu dialect (from Pakistan) means "Bear".

Means "toad" in the Abnaki language.

Means "bear" in Algonquin.

Means "bear growl" in Miwok.

Means "bear" in Pawnee.

From Japanese 熊 (kuma) meaning "bear" and English "monster".

"Fortunate bear"

From Japanese くま (kuma) meaning "bear" or other kanji which are pronounced the same way.

The word koala comes from the Dharug gula. Although the vowel 'u' was originally written in the English orthography as "oo" (in spellings such as coola or koolah), it was changed to "oa", possibly in error. Because of the koala's supposed resemblance to a bear, it was often miscalled the koala bear, particularly by early settlers. The generic name, Phascolarctos, is derived from the Greek words phaskolos "pouch" and arktos "bear". The specific name, cinereus, is Latin for "ash coloured".

Derived from Middle Persian xirs meaning "bear", of which the modern Persian equivalent is خرس (xers).

Means "bear" in Koryak.

Means "bear" in Finnish.

Derived from Basque hartz "bear".

From Hopi hónawuu "bear".

Means "bear" in Kurdish.

Derived from Miwok elkini "to hang over the top of" or "to drape over", with the implied meaning "bear hanging intestines of people on top of rocks or bushes".

Means "bear" in Hebrew.

From an Old Norse byname derived from bjǫrn meaning "bear".

Old Norse form of Björn.

Variant of Björn or Bjørn used outside of Scandinavia and Germany.

Short form of names that contain the element bann meaning "ban" or else a short form of names containing the element barn / bern "bear".
This name was in use mainly during the 1500s and 1600s.

Means "bear cub" in Armenian.

Derived from either Greek ἀρκτικός (arktikos) "artic, northern" or from Greek ἄρκτος (arktos) "bear".

From Ancient Greek Ἀρκτοῦρος (Arktouros), the name of the fourth brightest star in the sky, part of the constellation Boötes. It means "guardian of the bear", derived from ἄρκτος (arktos) meaning "bear" and οὖρος (ouros) meaning "guardian", referring to the star's position close to the constellations Ursa Minor and Ursa Major.

Meaning, "black bear."