FlareonTheFlareon's Personal Name List

Variant of Æðelræd.

Portuguese and Galician form of Alfonso. This was the name of the first king of Portugal, ruling in the 12th century.

Short form of Adelina, Albina and names that end in alina.

Means "loving" in Latin. This was the name of several early saints. It has sometimes been confused with the name Amandus.

Western Armenian transcription of Arevik.

Modern form of Ashoka.

Armenian and Georgian form of Bagadata. This name was borne by several Georgian kings, though it is now uncommon there.

Diminutive of Bolesław.

Means "whelp, young dog" in Scottish Gaelic. This name was borne by Cailean Mór, a 13th-century Scottish lord and ancestor of Clan Campbell.

French feminine form of Carolus.

Proto-Slavic reconstruction of Ctirad.

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).

Feminine form of Dion.

Feminine variant of Eder 2.

Means "spruce tree" in Lithuanian. In a Lithuanian folktale Eglė is a young woman who marries a grass snake. At the end of the tale she turns herself into a spruce.

French feminine form of Fabianus (see Fabian).

From the English word fancy, which means either "like, love, inclination" or "ornamental". It is derived from Middle English fantasie, which comes (via Norman French and Latin) from Greek φαίνω (phaino) meaning "to show, to appear".

Old Irish form of Fionn, as well as the usual Anglicized spelling (with the Irish hero's name Anglicized as Finn McCool). As a surname it is borne by Huckleberry Finn, a character in Mark Twain's novels.

Latin form of Francis. This is also the official Dutch form, used on birth certificates but typically rendered Frans in daily life.

Latin form of Gláucio.

Anglicized form of Gobnait.

Dutch form of Gustav.

Simply from the English word Gypsy for the nomadic people who originated in northern India. The word was originally a corruption of Egyptian. As an ethnic term it is sometimes considered offensive.

Alternate transcription of Arabic هارون (see Harun).

Latinate form of Helen. This is the name of the heroine of William Shakespeare's play All's Well That Ends Well (1603).

Feminine form of Helge.

Feminine form of Herminius.

New Testament Greek form of Jairus.

Form of Irene in several languages.

Variant of Isaac.

From the Latin name Iustinus, which was derived from Justus. This was the name of several early saints including Justin Martyr, a Christian philosopher of the 2nd century who was beheaded in Rome. It was also borne by two Byzantine emperors. As an English name, it has occasionally been used since the late Middle Ages, though it did not become common until the second half of the 20th century. Famous modern bearers include pop stars Justin Timberlake (1981-) and Justin Bieber (1994-).

Variant of Cadence.

Means "spinner" in Greek. In Greek mythology Klotho was one of the three Fates or Μοῖραι (Moirai). She was responsible for spinning the thread of life.

Old Norse form of Knut.

Means "spear" in Sanskrit. In the Hindu epic the Mahabharata this is the name of a wife of Pandu and the mother of three of the five Pandavas. By the sun god Surya she was also the mother of the hero Karna.

Alternate transcription of Japanese Kanji 九郎 (see Kurō).

Feminine form of Liberius.

Meaning unknown, possibly derived from the Germanic root *luką meaning "lock". In Norse mythology Loki was a trickster god associated with magic and shape shifting. Loki's children include the wolf Fenrir, the sea serpent Jörmungandr, and the queen of the dead Hel. After he orchestrated the death of Balder, the other gods tied him to a rock below a snake that dripped venom onto his face. It is told that he will break free during Ragnarök, the final battle, and slay and be slain by Heimdall.

Older form (possibly) of Llywelyn.

Turkish feminine form of Lutfi.

Variant of Maylis.

Feminine form of Martinus (see Martin). Saint Martina was a 3rd-century martyr who is one of the patron saints of Rome.

Czech feminine form of Michal 1.

From Aymara nayra meaning "eye" or "early".

Derived from Croatian nedjelja and Serbian недеља (nedelja) meaning "Sunday".

From Japanese 乃 (no), a possessive particle, and 愛 (a) meaning "love, affection". This name can also be constructed from other kanji or kanji combinations.

Ukrainian form of Xenia.

Means "God honours me" in Yoruba.

Danish name, meaning unknown.

Italian form of Hosanna. This was the name of a 15th-century Italian saint and mystic, as well as a 16th-century Montenegrin saint.

Hebrew form of Obed.

Means "light, bright" in Persian.

French diminutive of Rose.

Meaning uncertain, possibly a variant of Sawda.

Short form of Patricia.

Hebrew form of Zephaniah.

Form of Walter used in several languages.

French form of Vespasianus (see Vespasian).

Old short form of Germanic names beginning with the element wentil meaning "a Vandal". The Vandals were a Germanic tribe who invaded Spain and North Africa in the 5th century. Their tribal name, which may mean "wanderer", has often been confused with that of the Wends, a Slavic people living between the Elbe and the Oder.

This is another name for Saint Wendelin.

Russian and Ukrainian form of the Greek name Ζηνόβιος (Zenobios), the masculine form of Zenobia.