riverpizza's Personal Name List

Abraham
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Hebrew, Spanish, French, Dutch, Biblical, Biblical German, Biblical Swedish, Biblical Norwegian, Biblical Danish, Biblical Latin
Other Scripts: אַבְרָהָם(Hebrew)
Pronounced: AY-brə-ham(English) a-bra-AM(Spanish) A-BRA-AM(French) A-bra-hahm(Dutch) A-bra-ham(German) AH-bra-ham(Swedish)
Rating: 47% based on 6 votes
From the Hebrew name אַבְרָהָם (ʾAvraham), which may be viewed either as meaning "father of many" or else as a contraction of Abram 1 and הָמוֹן (hamon) meaning "many, multitude". The biblical patriarch Abraham was originally named Abram but God changed his name (see Genesis 17:5). With his father Terah, he led his wife Sarah, his nephew Lot and their other followers from Ur into Canaan. He is regarded by Jews as being the founder of the Hebrews through his son Isaac and by Muslims as being the founder of the Arabs through his son Ishmael.

As an English Christian name, Abraham became common after the Protestant Reformation. A famous bearer was the American president Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), who pushed to abolish slavery and led the country through the Civil War.

Adhara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Astronomy
Pronounced: ə-DEHR-ə(English)
Rating: 50% based on 4 votes
Derived from Arabic عذارى (ʿadhārā) meaning "maidens". This is the name of the second brightest star (after Sirius) in the constellation Canis Major.
Aisling
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: ASH-lyən
Personal remark: *FM*
Rating: 72% based on 6 votes
Means "dream" or "vision" in Irish. This name was created in the 20th century.
Anastacia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American)
Pronounced: a-na-STA-sya
Rating: 48% based on 4 votes
Variant of Anastasia.
Aristaeus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἀρισταῖος(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: ar-is-TEE-əs(English)
Rating: 55% based on 4 votes
From the Greek name Ἀρισταῖος (Aristaios), derived from ἄριστος (aristos) meaning "best". This was the name of a minor Greek god of agriculture, hunting and cattle. He was the son of Apollo and the mortal Cyrene.
Bailey
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BAY-lee
Rating: 32% based on 5 votes
From an English surname derived from Middle English baili meaning "bailiff", originally denoting one who was a bailiff.

Already an uncommon masculine name, it slowly grew in popularity for American girls beginning in 1978 after the start of the sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati, which featured a character with this name. Though it remained more common as a feminine name, it got a boost for boys in 1994 from another television character on the drama Party of Five. In the United Kingdom and Australia it has always been more popular for boys.

Balbina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese (Rare), Polish (Rare), Italian (Rare), Ancient Roman
Pronounced: bal-BEE-na(Spanish, Italian)
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Feminine form of Balbinus. Saint Balbina was a 2nd-century Roman woman martyred with her father Quirinus.
Carine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: KA-REEN
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
French form of Carina 1. It can also function as a short form of Catherine, via Swedish Karin.
Chausiku
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swahili
Rating: 38% based on 4 votes
Means "born at night" in Swahili.
David
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Hebrew, French, Scottish, Welsh, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Czech, Slovene, Russian, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian, Romanian, Biblical, Biblical Latin
Other Scripts: דָּוִד(Hebrew) Давид(Russian, Serbian, Macedonian)
Pronounced: DAY-vid(English) da-VEED(Hebrew, Brazilian Portuguese) DA-VEED(French) da-BEEDH(Spanish) du-VEED(European Portuguese) də-BEET(Catalan) DA-vit(German, Dutch, Czech) DAH-vid(Swedish, Norwegian) du-VYEET(Russian)
Rating: 75% based on 4 votes
From the Hebrew name דָּוִד (Dawiḏ), which was derived from דּוֹד (doḏ) meaning "beloved" or "uncle". David was the second and greatest of the kings of Israel, ruling in the 10th century BC. Several stories about him are told in the Old Testament, including his defeat of Goliath, a giant Philistine. According to the New Testament, Jesus was descended from him.

This name has been used in Britain since the Middle Ages. It has been especially popular in Wales, where it is used in honour of the 5th-century patron saint of Wales (also called Dewi), as well as in Scotland, where it was borne by two kings. Over the last century it has been one of the English-speaking world's most consistently popular names, never leaving the top 30 names for boys in the United States, and reaching the top rank in England and Wales during the 1950s and 60s. In Spain it was the most popular name for boys during the 1970s and 80s.

Famous bearers include empiricist philosopher David Hume (1711-1776), explorer David Livingstone (1813-1873), musician David Bowie (1947-2016), and soccer player David Beckham (1975-). This is also the name of the hero of Charles Dickens' semi-autobiographical novel David Copperfield (1850).

Davina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: də-VEE-nə
Rating: 55% based on 4 votes
Feminine form of David. It originated in Scotland.
Dilwen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
Feminine form of Dilwyn.
Enoch
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Other Scripts: חֲנוֹך(Ancient Hebrew) Ἐνώχ, Ἑνώχ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: EE-nək(English)
Personal remark: *FM*
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
From the Hebrew name חֲנוֹך (Ḥanoḵ) meaning "dedicated". In Genesis in the Old Testament this is the name of the son of Cain. It is also the name of a son of Jared and the father of Methuselah, who was the supposed author of the apocryphal Books of Enoch.
Estela
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese, Spanish
Pronounced: ehs-TEH-la(Spanish)
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Portuguese and Spanish form of Estelle.
Esther
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, French, Spanish, Dutch, German, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Jewish, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Other Scripts: אֶסְתֵר(Hebrew) Ἐσθήρ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: EHS-tər(English, Dutch) EHS-TEHR(French) ehs-TEHR(Spanish) EHS-tu(German)
Personal remark: *FM*
Rating: 70% based on 3 votes
From the Hebrew name אֶסְתֵר (ʾEsṯer), which possibly means "star" in Persian. Alternatively it could be a derivative of the name of the Near Eastern goddess Ishtar. The Book of Esther in the Old Testament tells the story of Queen Esther, the Jewish wife of the king of Persia. The king's advisor Haman persuaded the king to exterminate all the Jews in the realm. Warned of this plot by her cousin Mordecai, Esther revealed her Jewish ancestry and convinced the king to execute Haman instead. Her original Hebrew name was Hadassah.

This name has been used in the English-speaking world since the Protestant Reformation. In America it received a boost in popularity after the birth of Esther Cleveland (1893-1980), the daughter of President Grover Cleveland [1].

Fionnuala
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish, Irish Mythology
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Means "white shoulder" from Old Irish finn "white, blessed" and gúala "shoulder". In Irish legend Fionnuala was one of the four children of Lir who were transformed into swans for a period of 900 years.
Gussie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: GUS-ee
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Diminutive of Augusta.
Imke
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Frisian, Dutch, Low German
Pronounced: IM-kə(Dutch, Low German)
Rating: 70% based on 4 votes
Diminutive of Ime 2.
Inanna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Sumerian Mythology
Other Scripts: 𒀭𒈹(Sumerian Cuneiform)
Pronounced: i-NAH-nə(English)
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Possibly derived from Sumerian nin-an-a(k) meaning "lady of the heavens", from 𒎏 (nin) meaning "lady" and the genitive form of 𒀭 (an) meaning "heaven, sky". Inanna was the Sumerian goddess of love, fertility and war. She descended into the underworld where the ruler of that place, her sister Ereshkigal, had her killed. The god Enki interceded, and Inanna was allowed to leave the underworld as long as her husband Dumuzi took her place.

Inanna was later conflated with the Semitic (Akkadian, Assyrian and Babylonian) deity Ishtar.

Jaden
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: JAY-dən
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
An invented name, using the popular den suffix sound found in such names as Braden, Hayden and Aidan. This name first became common in America in the 1990s when similar-sounding names were increasing in popularity. The spelling Jayden has been more popular since 2003. It is sometimes considered a variant of the biblical name Jadon.
Jerald
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JEHR-əld
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Variant of Gerald.
Jubal
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: יוּבָל(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: JOO-bəl(English)
Personal remark: *FM*
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Means "stream" in Hebrew. This name is mentioned in Genesis in the Old Testament as belonging to the first person to be a musician.
Krystle
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: KRIS-təl
Rating: 78% based on 4 votes
Variant of Crystal. This particular spelling was popularized by the character Krystle Carrington from the American soap opera Dynasty (1981-1989).
Laurentin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French (Rare)
Rating: 15% based on 2 votes
French form of Laurentinus.
Lillias
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Scottish
Personal remark: *FM*
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Variant of Lilias.
Lolita
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: lo-LEE-ta
Personal remark: So cute, so misunderstood.
Rating: 72% based on 5 votes
Diminutive of Lola. This is the name of a 1955 novel by Vladimir Nabokov.
Lonán
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish, Old Irish [1]
Pronounced: LUW-nan(Irish)
Personal remark: *FM*
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Means "little blackbird", derived from Old Irish lon "blackbird" combined with a diminutive suffix. This name was borne by several early saints.
Lothar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: LO-tar(German)
Rating: 15% based on 2 votes
From the Germanic name Hlothar meaning "famous army", derived from the elements hlut "famous, loud" and heri "army". This was the name of medieval Frankish rulers of the Holy Roman Empire, Italy and France. It was also borne by four earlier Merovingian kings of the Franks, though their names are usually spelled as Chlothar.
Lusine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Armenian
Other Scripts: Լուսինե(Armenian)
Pronounced: loo-see-NEH
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
From Armenian լուսին (lusin) meaning "moon".
Lyric
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: LIR-ik
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Means simply "lyric, songlike" from the English word, ultimately derived from Greek λυρικός (lyrikos).
Marcas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish, Scottish Gaelic [1]
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Irish and Scottish Gaelic form of Marcus (see Mark).
Marcelino
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: mar-theh-LEE-no(European Spanish) mar-seh-LEE-no(Latin American Spanish)
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Spanish and Portuguese form of Marcellinus.
Medeia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Μήδεια(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: MEH-DEH-A(Classical Greek)
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Greek form of Medea.
Melody
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MEHL-ə-dee
Rating: 60% based on 4 votes
From the English word melody, which is derived (via Old French and Late Latin) from Greek μέλος (melos) meaning "song" combined with ἀείδω (aeido) meaning "to sing".
Paaie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Manx
Personal remark: *FM*
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Manx form of Peggy.
Petunia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: pə-TOON-yə
Personal remark: *FM/*
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
From the name of the flower, derived ultimately from a Tupi (South American) word.
Redmond
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish
Personal remark: *FM*
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Anglicized form of Réamonn.
Roch
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French, Polish
Pronounced: RAWK(French) RAWKH(Polish)
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
French and Polish form of Rocco.
Ruth 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Estonian, Spanish, Biblical, Biblical Latin
Other Scripts: רוּת(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: ROOTH(English) ROOT(German, Spanish)
Personal remark: *FM*
Rating: 50% based on 5 votes
From the Hebrew name רוּת (Ruṯ), probably derived from the word רְעוּת (reʿuṯ) meaning "female friend". This is the name of the central character in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament. She was a Moabite woman who accompanied her mother-in-law Naomi back to Bethlehem after Ruth's husband died. There she met and married Boaz. She was an ancestor of King David.

As a Christian name, Ruth has been in use since the Protestant Reformation. In England it was associated with the archaic word ruth meaning "pity, compassion" (now only commonly seen in the word ruthless). The name became very popular in America following the birth of "Baby" Ruth Cleveland (1891-1904), the daughter of President Grover Cleveland.

Ruthie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ROO-thee
Rating: 30% based on 3 votes
Diminutive of Ruth 1.
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: SHEH
Personal remark: *FM*
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Modern Irish form of Séaghdha.
Shel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SHEHL
Personal remark: *FM*
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Short form of Sheldon.
Tafari
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Amharic (Rare)
Other Scripts: ተፈሪ(Amharic)
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
Possibly means "he who inspires awe" in Amharic. This name was borne by Lij Tafari Makonnen (1892-1975), also known as Haile Selassie, the last emperor of Ethiopia. Rastafarians (Ras Tafari meaning "king Tafari") revere him as the earthly incarnation of God.
Toby
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: TO-bee
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Medieval form of Tobias. It was sometimes used as a feminine name in the 1930s and 40s due to the influence of American actress Toby Wing (1915-2001).
Valère
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
French form of Valerius.
Winnifred
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Welsh
Pronounced: WIN-ə-frid(English)
Personal remark: *FM*
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
Variant of Winifred.
Yvon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: EE-VAWN
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
Medieval diminutive of Yves.
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