Behind the Name: Mirai Kurai's Personal Name List

Abigaille

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Italian (Rare), Theatre

Pronounced: a-bee-ga-EEL-le(Italian) a-bee-GIEL-le(Italian)

Personal remark: i cant believe it's not french

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Italian form of Abigail, used for a character in Verdi's opera 'Nabucco' (1842).

Adamaris

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Spanish (Latin American), American (Hispanic), English

Pronounced: ah-dah-MAR-is(Latin American Spanish, Hispanic American)

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Either a combination of Ada 1 and Maris 2, or a combination of the prefix a with Damaris, or from Latin adamō meaning "I love truly, earnestly, deeply or greatly; covet".

Alcide

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Italian, French

Pronounced: al-CHEE-deh(Italian) AL-SEED(French)

Personal remark: "strength"

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Italian and French form of Alcides.

Alizée

Gender: Feminine

Usage: French (Modern)

Pronounced: A-LEE-ZEH

Personal remark: "trade wind"

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From French alizé meaning "trade wind".

Blai

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Catalan

Pronounced: BLIE

Personal remark: "lisping"

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Catalan form of Blasius (see Blaise).

Cyrielle

Gender: Feminine

Usage: French

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French feminine form of Cyril.

Cyrille

Gender: Masculine & Feminine

Usage: French

Pronounced: SEE-REEL

Personal remark: "lord"

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French form of Cyril, sometimes used as a feminine form.

Diletta

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Italian

Pronounced: dee-LEHT-ta

Personal remark: "beloved"

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Means "beloved" in Italian, from Latin dilectus.

Fiacre

Gender: Masculine

Usage: French (Rare)

Personal remark: "raven"

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French form of Fiachra.

Filaret

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Bulgarian, Russian, Ukrainian, Moldovan, Romanian, Polish (Rare)

Other Scripts: Филарет(Bulgarian, Russian) Філарет(Ukrainian)

Pronounced: fee-LA-reht(Polish)

Personal remark: "friend of virtue" or "virtuous friend"

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Form of Philaretos used in several languages.

Gennaro

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Italian

Pronounced: jehn-NA-ro

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Italian form of Januarius.

Giannis

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Greek

Other Scripts: Γιάννης(Greek)

Pronounced: YA-nees

Personal remark: "YAHWEH is gracious"

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Modern Greek variant of Ioannes (see John).

Ginepro

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Italian

Personal remark: "juniper"

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Italian cognate of Junípero.

Gioia

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Italian

Pronounced: JAW-ya

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Means "joy" in Italian.

Haizea

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Basque

Pronounced: ie-SEH-a

Personal remark: "wind"

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Means "wind" in Basque.

Heleia

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Greek Mythology

Other Scripts: Ἑλεία(Ancient Greek)

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From a Greek title of the goddess Artemis meaning "of marshes" (which may reflect her role as a goddess of streams and marshes). It is derived from Greek ἕλειος (heleios), from ἕλος (helos) "marsh-meadow". This is also the genus name of a type of bird.

Hermine

Gender: Feminine

Usage: German, French

Pronounced: hehr-MEE-nə(German)

Personal remark: Fem. form of HERMAN ("army man")

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German feminine form of Herman.

Jeannot

Gender: Masculine

Usage: French

Pronounced: ZHA-NO

Personal remark: As stated, it's a diminutive (old fashioned, too), not a name. ― luxsword

Diminutive of Jean 1.

Livrade

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Medieval French, History (Ecclesiastical)

Personal remark: the name of some fake Saint or sth

Alternate name of St. Wilgefortis.

Maël

Gender: Masculine

Usage: French, Breton

Pronounced: MA-EHL(French)

Personal remark: "chieftain, prince"

French form of Breton Mael meaning "prince, chieftain, lord". Saint Mael was a 5th-century Breton hermit who lived in Wales.

Mahaut

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Medieval French

Pronounced: MA-O(French)

Personal remark: "strength in battle"

Medieval French form of Mathilde.

Narcisse

Gender: Masculine & Feminine

Usage: French

Pronounced: NAR-SEES

French masculine and feminine form of Narcissus. This is also the French word for the narcissus flower.

Rosalba

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Italian

Italian name meaning "white rose", derived from Latin rosa "rose" and alba "white". A famous bearer was the Venetian painter Rosalba Carriera (1675-1757).

Ruggiero

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Italian, Carolingian Cycle

Pronounced: rood-JEH-ro(Italian)

Personal remark: "famous spear"

Italian form of Roger. This is the name of a Saracen knight in the epic poems Orlando Innamorato (1483) by Matteo Maria Boiardo and Orlando Furioso (1532) by Ludovico Ariosto, as well as several operas based on the poems. In the tales Ruggiero is a noble opponent of Orlando who falls in love with the female knight Bradamante.

Scevola

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Italian (Rare)

Pronounced: SHEH-vo-la

Personal remark: "left-handed"

Italian form of the Roman cognomen Scaevola, which was derived from Latin scaevus "left-handed". The first bearer of this name was Gaius Mucius Scaevola, who acquired it, according to legend, after he thrust his right hand into a blazing fire in order to intimidate the Etruscan king Porsenna, who was blockading the city of Rome.

Thaïs

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Ancient Greek [1], French

Other Scripts: Θαΐς(Ancient Greek)

Pronounced: TA-EES(French)

Personal remark: "bandage" (?)

Possibly means "bandage" in Greek. This was the name of a companion of Alexander the Great. It was also borne by a 4th-century saint from Alexandria, a wealthy socialite who became a Christian convert, though in her case the name may have had a distinct Coptic origin. She has been a popular subject of art and literature, including an 1891 novel by Anatole France and an 1894 opera by Jules Massenet.

Théotime

Gender: Masculine

Usage: French

Pronounced: TEH-O-TEEM

Personal remark: "honouring God"

French form of Theotimus.

Vauquelin

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Medieval French

Personal remark: "foreign"

Old French form of the Norman name Walchelin, derived from Old Frankish walh or Old High German walah meaning "foreigner, Celt, Roman" (Proto-Germanic *walhaz).