threevelvetbullets's Personal Name List

Darien
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DAR-ee-ən
Rating: 41% based on 24 votes
Variant of Darian.
Ian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish, English
Pronounced: EE-ən(English)
Rating: 53% based on 24 votes
Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Iain, itself from Latin Iohannes (see John). It became popular in the United Kingdom outside of Scotland in the first half of the 20th century, but did not begin catching on in America until the 1960s.
Matthias
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, French, Dutch, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Ματθίας, Μαθθίας(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: ma-TEE-as(German) MA-TYAS(French) mah-TEE-ahs(Dutch) mə-THIE-əs(English) MAT-tee-as(Latin)
Rating: 57% based on 22 votes
From Greek Ματθίας (Matthias), a variant of Ματθαῖος (see Matthew). This form appears in the New Testament as the name of the apostle chosen to replace the traitor Judas Iscariot. This was also the name of kings of Hungary (spelled Mátyás in Hungarian), including Matthias I who made important reforms to the kingdom in the 15th century.
Sebastián
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Czech
Pronounced: seh-bas-TYAN(Spanish) SEH-bas-ti-yan(Czech)
Rating: 48% based on 24 votes
Spanish and Czech form of Sebastianus (see Sebastian).
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