Exakhan's Personal Name List

Léan
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish
Rating: 20% based on 3 votes
Irish form of Helen.
Leofflæd
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Anglo-Saxon [1][2]
Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
Derived from the Old English elements leof "dear, beloved" and flæd, possibly meaning "beauty".
Lía
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Galician
Pronounced: LEE-u
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Galician form of Leah.
Linda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, German, Dutch, Italian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, French, Latvian, Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, Germanic
Pronounced: LIN-də(English) LIN-da(German, Dutch, Czech) LEEN-da(Italian) LEEN-DA(French) LEEN-dah(Finnish) LEEN-daw(Hungarian)
Rating: 18% based on 4 votes
Originally a medieval short form of Germanic names containing the element lind meaning "soft, flexible, tender" (Proto-Germanic *linþaz). It also coincides with the Spanish and Portuguese word linda meaning "beautiful". In the English-speaking world this name experienced a spike in popularity beginning in the 1930s, peaking in the late 1940s, and declining shortly after that. It was the most popular name for girls in the United States from 1947 to 1952.
Liùsaidh
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Scottish Gaelic
Pronounced: LYOO-si
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Scottish Gaelic form of Lucia or Louisa.
Lunete
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arthurian Cycle
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Form of Eluned used by the 12th-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes in his poem Yvain, the Knight of the Lion. In the poem she is a servant of the Lady of the Fountain who aids the knight Yvain.
Lyubov
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian, Ukrainian
Other Scripts: Любовь(Russian) Любов(Ukrainian)
Pronounced: lyuw-BOF(Russian)
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
Derived from the Slavic element ľuby meaning "love".
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