konstancja's Personal Name List

Zoran
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Macedonian
Other Scripts: Зоран(Serbian, Macedonian)
Masculine form of Zora.
Zente
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hungarian
Pronounced: ZEHN-teh
Derived from Hungarian szent meaning "holy, saint".
Valentin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French, Romanian, German, Czech, Russian, Bulgarian, Slovene, Croatian, Swedish, Danish, Finnish
Other Scripts: Валентин(Russian, Bulgarian)
Pronounced: VA-LAHN-TEHN(French) va-lehn-TEEN(Romanian) VA-lehn-teen(German) VA-lehn-kyin(Czech) və-lyin-TYEEN(Russian)
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Form of Valentinus (see Valentine 1) in several languages.
Uzoamaka
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Igbo, African
Means "a good path" in Igbo.
Urvi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Marathi, Gujarati
Other Scripts: उर्वि, उर्वी(Marathi) ઉર્વી(Gujarati)
From Sanskrit उर्वी (urvī) meaning "wide".
Tshiamo
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Tswana
Means "goodness" in Tswana.
Temperance
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: TEHM-prəns, TEHM-pər-əns
From the English word meaning "moderation" or "restraint". This was one of the virtue names adopted by the Puritans in the 17th century. It experienced a modest revival in the United States during the run of the television series Bones (2005-2017), in which the main character bears this name.
Tamerlan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Chechen, Kazakh, Ingush, Ossetian, Azerbaijani
Other Scripts: Тамерлан(Chechen, Kazakh, Ingush, Ossetian)
Form of Tīmūr e Lang (see Timur) used in several languages.
Sviatoslav
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian, Ukrainian
Other Scripts: Святослав(Russian, Ukrainian)
Pronounced: svyi-tu-SLAF(Russian)
Alternate transcription of Russian/Ukrainian Святослав (see Svyatoslav).
Sverre
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norwegian
From the Old Norse name Sverrir meaning "wild, swinging, spinning".
Srinivas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Telugu, Kannada, Tamil
Other Scripts: శ్రీనివాస్(Telugu) ಶ್ರೀನಿವಾಸ್(Kannada) ஸ்ரீனிவாஸ்(Tamil)
Southern Indian form of Shrinivas.
Sizwe
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Xhosa
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Means "nation" in Xhosa.
Siobhán
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: SHI-wan, SHUW-wan, SHI-van, shə-VAN
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Irish form of Jehanne, a Norman French variant of Jeanne.
Sava
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Serbian, Bulgarian
Other Scripts: Сава(Serbian, Bulgarian)
Serbian and Bulgarian form of Sabas.
Salvatore
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: sal-va-TO-reh
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Italian cognate of Salvador.
Omphile
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Tswana, Sotho
Means "he has given" in Tswana and Sotho.
Octavian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History, Romanian
Pronounced: ahk-TAY-vee-ən(English)
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From the Roman name Octavianus, which was derived from the name Octavius. After Gaius Octavius (later the Roman emperor Augustus) was adopted by Julius Caesar he took the name Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus.
Nursultan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Kazakh
Other Scripts: Нұрсұлтан(Kazakh)
Pronounced: nuwr-suwl-TAHN
From Kazakh нұр (nur) meaning "light" and сұлтан (sultan) meaning "sultan, king" (both words of Arabic origin).
Nazerke
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Kazakh
Other Scripts: Назерке(Kazakh)
Derived from Persian ناز (nāz) meaning "delight, comfort" and Kazakh ерке (erke) meaning "naughty, spoiled, darling".
Naranbaatar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Mongolian
Other Scripts: Наранбаатар(Mongolian Cyrillic)
Means "sun hero" in Mongolian, from наран (naran) meaning "sun" and баатар (baatar) meaning "hero".
Nadzieja
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: na-JEH-ya
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Polish cognate of Nadezhda, being the Polish word meaning "hope".
Mirosława
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: mee-raw-SWA-va
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Feminine form of Mirosław.
Milan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Czech, Slovak, Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Macedonian, Dutch (Modern), German (Modern), French (Modern)
Other Scripts: Милан(Serbian, Macedonian)
Pronounced: MI-lan(Czech) MEE-lan(Slovak, Serbian, Croatian) MEE-lahn(Dutch)
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From the Slavic element milŭ meaning "gracious, dear", originally a short form of names that began with that element. It was originally used in Czech, Slovak, and the South Slavic languages, though it has recently become popular elsewhere in Europe.

A city in Italy bears this name, though in this case it originates from Latin Mediolanum, perhaps ultimately of Celtic origin meaning "middle of the plain". In some cases the city name may be an influence on the use of the given name.

Metehan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Turkish
Combination of Mete and Turkish han meaning "khan, ruler, leader", referring to the 3rd-century BC Xiongnu ruler Modu Chanyu.
Marianna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Hungarian, Slovak, Polish, Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Russian, Greek, English
Other Scripts: Марианна(Russian) Μαριάννα(Greek)
Pronounced: ma-ree-AN-na(Italian) MAW-ree-awn-naw(Hungarian) MA-ree-a-na(Slovak) ma-RYAN-na(Polish) MAH-ree-ahn-nah(Finnish) mahr-ee-AHN-ə(English) mar-ee-AN-ə(English)
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Combination of Maria and Anna. It can also be regarded as a variant of the Roman name Mariana, or as a Latinized form of Mariamne.
Liviu
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Romanian
Pronounced: LEE-vyoo
Romanian form of Livius.
Lerato
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Sotho
Means "love" in Sotho.
Kvido
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Czech
Pronounced: KVI-do
Czech form of Wido.
Kıvanç
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Turkish
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Means "pleasure, joy" in Turkish.
Kincső
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hungarian
Pronounced: KEEN-chuu
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Derived from Hungarian kincs meaning "treasure". This name was created by Hungarian author Mór Jókai in The Novel of the Next Century (1872).
Ketevan
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Georgian
Other Scripts: ქეთევან(Georgian)
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Georgian form of Katayoun. It is sometimes used as a Georgian form of Katherine.
Kennedy
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Irish
Pronounced: KEHN-ə-dee(English)
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From an Irish surname, an Anglicized form of Irish Gaelic Ó Cinnéidigh, itself derived from the given name Cennétig. The name has sometimes been given in honour of assassinated American president John F. Kennedy (1917-1963). It was popularized as a name for girls by Lisa Kennedy Montgomery (1972-), known simply as Kennedy, the host of the television program Alternative Nation on MTV from 1992 to 1997.
Kende
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hungarian
Pronounced: KEHN-deh
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From the Hungarian royal title kende or kündü, which referred to the ceremonial Magyar king (who ruled together with the military leader the gyula in the period before the Magyars settled in Hungary).
Kazimiera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Polish, Lithuanian
Pronounced: ka-zhee-MYEH-ra(Polish)
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Feminine form of Kazimierz (Polish) or Kazimieras (Lithuanian).
Kaloyan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Bulgarian
Other Scripts: Калоян(Bulgarian)
From Greek καλός Ἰωάννης (kalos Ioannes) meaning "handsome John", the nickname of a 13th-century emperor of Bulgaria. He successfully defended the empire from the Fourth Crusade.
Kalina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Bulgarian, Macedonian, Polish
Other Scripts: Калина(Bulgarian, Macedonian)
Pronounced: ka-LEE-na(Polish)
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Means "viburnum tree" in Bulgarian, Macedonian and Polish.
Jinte
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: West Frisian, Dutch, Flemish
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West Frisian masculine variant and feminine form of Jinne.
Jayanti
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hinduism, Hindi
Other Scripts: जयन्ती, जयंती(Sanskrit, Hindi)
Feminine form of Jayanta. This is this name of a daughter of the Hindu god Indra and a wife of Shukra.
Jasmin 2
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Bosnian
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Bosnian masculine form of Jasmine.
Jahangir
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Persian, Urdu
Other Scripts: جهانگیر(Persian) جہانگیر(Urdu)
Pronounced: ja-hawng-GEER(Persian)
Means "world conqueror, world seizer" in Persian, from جهان (jahān) meaning "world" and گیر (gīr) meaning "catch, seize, conquer". This was the name of a 17th-century Mughal emperor.
Jacinto
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: kha-THEEN-to(European Spanish) kha-SEEN-to(Latin American Spanish)
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Spanish and Portuguese form of Hyacinthus.
Jacek
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: YA-tsehk
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Modern form of Jacenty.
István
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hungarian
Pronounced: EESHT-van
Hungarian form of Stephen. This was the name of the first king of Hungary. Ruling in the 11th century, he encouraged the spread of Christianity among his subjects and is considered the patron saint of Hungary.
Ilya
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian, Belarusian
Other Scripts: Илья(Russian) Ілья(Belarusian)
Pronounced: i-LYA(Russian)
Russian and Belarusian form of Elijah.
Han-sol
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Korean (Modern)
Other Scripts: 한솔(Korean Hangul) 韓率, 翰率, 漢率, etc.(Korean Hanja)
Pronounced: HAN-SOL
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From Sol prefixed with 한 (han), either a determiner from the numeral Hana 4 meaning "one," or the present determiner form of adjective 하다 (hada) meaning "big, large, great."
It can also be written with hanja, prefixing a sol hanja like 率 meaning "taking care; pursuit; following" with a han hanja, such as 韓, referring to Korea, 翰 meaning "letter; document; (writing) brush" or 漢, referring to China.
Fereshteh
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Persian
Other Scripts: فرشته(Persian)
Pronounced: feh-resh-TEH
Means "angel" in Persian.
Étienne
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: EH-TYEHN(European French) EH-TSYEHN(Quebec French)
French form of Stephen.
Enerelt
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Mongolian
Other Scripts: Энэрэлт(Mongolian Cyrillic) ᠡᠨᠡᠷᠢᠯᠲᠦ(Traditional Mongolian)
Means "generous" in Mongolian.
Eliyahu
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אֵלִיָּהוּ(Hebrew)
Pronounced: eh-lee-YAH-hoo
Modern Hebrew form of Elijah.
Eden
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Hebrew, English (Modern), French (Modern)
Other Scripts: עֵדֶן(Hebrew)
Pronounced: EE-dən(English)
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
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.
Dobrosława
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: daw-braw-SWA-va
Polish feminine form of Dobroslav.
Dobromir
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Bulgarian, Polish
Other Scripts: Добромир(Bulgarian)
Pronounced: daw-BRAW-meer(Polish)
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Derived from Slavic dobro "good, kind" combined with Slavic mir "peace".
Darcy
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DAHR-see
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From an English surname that was derived from Norman French d'Arcy, originally denoting one who came from the town of Arcy in La Manche, France. This is the surname of a character, Fitzwilliam Darcy, in Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice (1813).
Cvetko
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Slovene
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Masculine form of Cvetka.
Csilla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hungarian
Pronounced: CHEEL-law
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Derived from Hungarian csillag meaning "star". This name was created by the Hungarian author András Dugonics for an 1803 novel and later used and popularized by the poet Mihály Vörösmarty.
Bogdan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish, Russian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, Romanian
Other Scripts: Богдан(Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Macedonian)
Pronounced: BAWG-dan(Polish) bug-DAN(Russian) BOG-dan(Serbian, Croatian) bog-DAN(Romanian)
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Means "given by God" from the Slavic elements bogŭ "god" and danŭ "given". This pre-Christian name was later used as a translation of Theodotus.
Bakhtiyar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Kazakh, Azerbaijani
Other Scripts: Бақтияр(Kazakh)
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Kazakh form of Bakhtiar, as well as an alternate transcription of Azerbaijani Bəxtiyar.
Azamat
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Kyrgyz, Kazakh, Uzbek, Bashkir
Other Scripts: Азамат(Kyrgyz, Kazakh, Uzbek, Bashkir)
Pronounced: ah-zah-MAHT(Kazakh, Bashkir)
Derived from Arabic عظمة (ʿaẓama) meaning "majesty, glory".
Atarangi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Maori, Cook Islands Maori
Pronounced: AT-A-RANG-EE
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From ata meaning "morning" and rangi meaning "sky" in Maori.
Atanazy
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish
Polish form of Athanasius.
Arzu
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Turkish, Azerbaijani, Uyghur
Other Scripts: ئارزۇ(Uyghur Arabic)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Turkish, Azerbaijani and Uyghur form of Arezou.
Aruzhan
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Kazakh
Other Scripts: Аружан(Kazakh)
Means "beautiful soul" in Kazakh.
Aranka
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hungarian
Pronounced: AW-rawng-kaw
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Derived from Hungarian arany meaning "gold". It is used as a vernacular form of Aurélia.
Araminta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Meaning unknown. This name was (first?) used by William Congreve in his comedy The Old Bachelor (1693) and later by John Vanbrugh in his comedy The Confederacy (1705). This was the original given name of abolitionist Harriet Tubman (1820-1913), who was born Araminta Ross.
Altannamar
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Mongolian
Other Scripts: Алтаннамар(Mongolian Cyrillic)
Means "golden autumn" in Mongolian, from алтан (altan) meaning "golden" and намар (namar) meaning "autumn".
Aarti
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hindi, Marathi
Other Scripts: आरती(Hindi, Marathi)
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
From the name of a Hindu ritual in which offerings of lamps or candles are made to various gods, derived from Sanskrit आरात्रिक (ārātrika).
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