Mirai Kurai's Personal Name List

Debra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DEHB-rə
Personal remark: "bee", var: Devra
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
Variant of Deborah.
Dorota
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Polish, Czech, Slovak
Pronounced: daw-RAW-ta(Polish) DO-ro-ta(Czech) DAW-raw-ta(Slovak)
Personal remark: "gift of god" var: doroteea
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
Polish, Czech and Slovak form of Dorothea.
Helewise
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English
Personal remark: var: Helewis
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Medieval English form of Eloise.
Orange
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AWR-inj
Personal remark: var: Orengia (really)
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
First found as a feminine given name in medieval times, in the forms Orenge and Orengia. The etymology is uncertain, and may be after the place in France named Orange. This is a corruption of Arausio, the name of a Celtic water god which possibly meant "temple (of the forehead)". Later it was conflated with the name of the fruit, which comes from the Sanskrit for "orange tree", naranga. The word was used to describe the fruit's colour in the 16th century.

Orange is also a surname, which may be derived from the medieval feminine name, or directly from the French place name. First used with the modern spelling in the 17th century, apparently due to William, Prince of Orange, who later became William III. His title is from the French place name.

Sânziana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Romanian, Romanian Mythology, Theatre
Personal remark: var: iana, simziana
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Sânziana, also known as Iana Sânziana, is a fairy in Romanian mythology. Her name is a contraction of Romanian sfânt "holy" and zână "fairy" - but, according to Mircea Eliade, ultimately also influenced by the Latin phrase Sancta Diana "Holy Diana". Its use as a personal given name was at least partly due to a comedy written by Vasile Alecsandri, 'Sânziana și Pepelea' (1881), which George Stephănescu then made into an opera. The legendary creature was often associated with an annual folk festival celebrated on June 24, as well as the Galium verum or Cruciata laevipes flowers.
Zamfir
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Romanian (Rare), Old Church Slavic
Pronounced: zahm-fir(Romanian)
Personal remark: "sapphire" var: safirin
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
From the archaic Old Church Slavonic word самфиръ (samfirŭ) meaning "sapphire".
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