ccourtneyw's Personal Name List

Arabella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ar-ə-BEHL-ə
Rating: 25% based on 6 votes
Medieval Scottish name, probably a variant of Annabel. It has long been associated with Latin orabilis meaning "invokable, yielding to prayer", and the name was often recorded in forms resembling this.

Unrelated, this was an older name of the city of Irbid in Jordan, from Greek Ἄρβηλα (Arbela).

Avril
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Rare), English (Rare)
Pronounced: A-VREEL(French) AV-ril(English)
Rating: 38% based on 30 votes
French form of April. A famous bearer is the Canadian musician Avril Lavigne (1984-).
Daisy
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DAY-zee
Rating: 62% based on 32 votes
Simply from the English word for the white flower, ultimately derived from Old English dægeseage meaning "day eye". It was first used as a given name in the 19th century, at the same time many other plant and flower names were coined.

This name was fairly popular at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th. The American author F. Scott Fitzgerald used it for the character of Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby (1925). The Walt Disney cartoon character Daisy Duck was created in 1940 as the girlfriend of Donald Duck. It was at a low in popularity in the United States in the 1970s when it got a small boost from a character on the television series The Dukes of Hazzard in 1979.

Elicia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: ə-LEE-shə, ə-LEE-see-ə
Rating: 37% based on 13 votes
Variant of Alicia.
Keira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: KEER-ə
Rating: 56% based on 31 votes
Variant of Ciara 1. This spelling was popularized by British actress Keira Knightley (1985-).
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