Behind the Name: armydad3_8's Personal Name List

Ruslan

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Russian, Tatar, Bashkir, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Turkmen, Azerbaijani, Ossetian, Chechen, Ingush, Avar, Circassian, Indonesian, Malay

Other Scripts: Руслан(Russian, Tatar, Bashkir, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Ossetian, Chechen, Ingush, Avar) Руслъан(Western Circassian, Eastern Circassian)

Pronounced: ruws-LAN(Russian)

Rating: 35% based on 20 votes

Form of Yeruslan used by Aleksandr Pushkin in his poem Ruslan and Ludmila (1820), which was loosely based on Russian and Tatar folktales of Yeruslan Lazarevich.

Royce

Gender: Masculine

Usage: English

Pronounced: ROIS

Rating: 31% based on 20 votes

From an English surname that was derived from the medieval given name Royse, a variant of Rose.

Reva

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Hinduism, Hindi

Other Scripts: रेवा(Sanskrit, Hindi)

Rating: 43% based on 27 votes

Means "one that moves" in Sanskrit. This is another name of the Hindu goddess Rati.

Phoenix

Gender: Masculine & Feminine

Usage: English (Modern)

Pronounced: FEE-niks

Rating: 61% based on 23 votes

From the name of a beautiful immortal bird that appears in Egyptian and Greek mythology. After living for several centuries in the Arabian Desert, it would be consumed by fire and rise from its own ashes, with this cycle repeating every 500 years. The name of the bird was derived from Greek φοῖνιξ (phoinix) meaning "dark red".

Parker

Gender: Masculine & Feminine

Usage: English

Pronounced: PAHR-kər

Rating: 48% based on 22 votes

From an English occupational surname that meant "keeper of the park".