Behind the Name: mpostman's Personal Name List

Avigail

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Hebrew

Other Scripts: אֲבִיגַיִל(Hebrew)

Modern Hebrew form of Abigail.

Avner

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew [1]

Other Scripts: אַבְנֵר(Hebrew)

Hebrew form of Abner.

Avram

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew [1]

Other Scripts: אַבְרָם(Hebrew)

Hebrew form of Abram 1.

Azriel

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Biblical

Other Scripts: עֲזְרִיאֵל(Ancient Hebrew)

Pronounced: AZ-ree-əl(English)

Means "my help is God" in Hebrew, derived from עֶזְרָה (ʿezra) meaning "help" and אֵל (ʾel) meaning "God". This is the name of three minor characters in the Old Testament.

Chava

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Hebrew

Other Scripts: חַוָּה(Hebrew)

Pronounced: kha-VA

Modern Hebrew form of Eve.

Chayyim

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Hebrew

Other Scripts: חַיִּים(Hebrew)

Pronounced: KHA-yeem

Alternate transcription of Hebrew חַיִּים (see Chaim).

Delaney

Gender: Feminine

Usage: English (Modern)

Pronounced: di-LAYN-ee

From a surname: either the English surname Delaney 1 or the Irish surname Delaney 2.

Eliana 2

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Hebrew

Other Scripts: אֶלִיעַנָה(Hebrew)

Means "my God has answered" in Hebrew.

Ephraim

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Biblical, Hebrew, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek

Other Scripts: אֶףְרָיִם(Hebrew) Ἐφραίμ(Ancient Greek)

Pronounced: EEF-ree-əm(English) EEF-rəm(English)

From the Hebrew name אֶףְרָיִם (ʾEfrayim) meaning "fruitful". In the Old Testament Ephraim is a son of Joseph and Asenath and the founder of one of the twelve tribes of Israel. This name was also borne by two early saints: Ephraim or Ephrem the Syrian, a 4th-century theologian, and Ephraim of Antioch, a 6th-century patriarch of Antioch.

Lemuel

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Biblical, Mormon, Biblical Hebrew [1]

Other Scripts: לְמוּאֵל(Ancient Hebrew)

Pronounced: LEHM-yoo-əl(English)

Means "for God" in Hebrew, from the proposition לְמוֹ (lemo) combined with אֵל (ʾel) meaning "God". This was the name of a king briefly mentioned in Proverbs in the Old Testament. In the Book of Mormon it is the name of a rebellious son of Lehi and Sariah. It is also borne by the hero of Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels (1726).

Miriam

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Hebrew, English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Italian, Portuguese, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Biblical

Other Scripts: מִרְיָם(Hebrew)

Pronounced: MIR-ee-əm(English) MI-ryam(German) MI-ri-yam(Czech) MEE-ree-am(Slovak)

Form of Mary used in the Old Testament, where it belongs to the elder sister of Moses and Aaron. She watched over the infant Moses as the pharaoh's daughter drew him from the Nile. The name has long been popular among Jews, and it has been used as an English Christian name (alongside Mary) since the Protestant Reformation.