Virvo's Personal Name List

Alternate transcription of Arabic علاء (see Ala 1).

Variant of Aletta.

Alternate transcription of Serbian Анђела (see Anđela).

From Avestan 𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬑𐬱𐬀 (Ərəxsha), of uncertain meaning, possibly from a root meaning "bear" [1]. In Iranian legend Arash was an archer who was ordered by the Turans to shoot an arrow, the landing place of which would determine the new location of the Iran-Turan border. Arash climbed a mountain and fired his arrow with such strength that it flew for several hours and landed on the banks of the far-away Oxus River.

MEANING : procuring, gaining , earning, acquiring
Usage : Sanskrit, Indian, Tamil, Telugu, Nepali, Sinhala, Hindi, Sikh, Buddhist

Means "powerful, respected, beloved" in Arabic, derived from the root عزّ (ʿazza) meaning "to be powerful" or "to be cherished". In Islamic tradition العزيز (al-ʿAzīz) is one of the 99 names of Allah. A notable bearer of the name was Al-'Aziz, a 10th-century Fatimid caliph.

Lithuanian, Spanish and Portuguese form of Bellona.

Modern form of Dagheiðr.

Feminine form of Darius. Saint Daria was a 3rd-century woman who was martyred with her husband Chrysanthus under the Roman emperor Numerian. It has never been a particularly common English given name. As a Russian name, it is more commonly transcribed Darya.

Possibly a short form of Denica.

Feminine form of Edmé.

Norwegian form of Eyrún.

Variant of Elisha.

Dialectal form of Ingebjørg.

From the word for the green precious stone, which is the traditional birthstone of May. The emerald supposedly imparts love to the bearer. The word is ultimately from Greek σμάραγδος (smaragdos).

Diminutive of Emma or Emily.

From the Old Norse name Gulbrandr, a variant of Guðbrandr (see Gudbrand).

From Arabic اقْرأ (iqraʾ) meaning "read, recite, confess". This is another name of the 96th chapter of the Quran.

Original Latin form of Letitia, as well as a French variant. This name began rising in popularity in France around the same time that Serge Gainsbourg released his 1963 song Elaeudanla Téïtéïa (this title is a phonetic rendering of the letters in the name Lætitia). It peaked in 1982 as the fourth most common name for girls.

Of debated origin and meaning.

Short form of Lorens.

Variant of Lodve. It also means "lion" in Norwegian.

Means "like the moon" in Persian.

Anglicized form of Nóirín.

Feminine form of Pascal.

Means "light, bright" in Persian.

Sanskrit, indian

This name is used as 左近 with 左 (sa, sha, hidari) meaning "left" and 近 (kin, kon, chika.i) meaning "akin, early, near, tantamount."

One bearer of this name is racing driver Sakon Yamamoto (山本 左近) (1982-).

Feminine form of Salim.

Feminine form of Samir 1.

From Sino-Korean 常 (sang) meaning "common, frequent, regular" or other characters that are pronounced similarly. It usually occurs in combination with another character.

Variant transliteration of Saniyya.

Turkish and Turkmen form of Sardar.

Means "love, infatuation" in Turkish and Azerbaijani, ultimately from Arabic سوداء (sawdāʾ) meaning "black bile, melancholy, sadness" [1].

Alternate transcription of Persian سیّد (see Seyyed).

From the Persian name for Mount Sinai or the Sinai Peninsula.

Means "good friend" from the Sanskrit prefix सु (su) meaning "good" combined with मित्र (mitra) meaning "friend". It is a feminine name in India and Thailand while it is masculine in Indonesia. In the Hindu epic Ramayana she is the mother of Lakshmana and Shatrughna and the stepmother of the hero Rama.

Variant of Tollak.

German and Dutch short form of Matthias.

From the Old Norse name Þórketill meaning "Thor's cauldron" from the name of the Norse god Þórr (see Thor) combined with ketill "cauldron".

Variant of Tawana.

Elaboration of Vör, perhaps influenced by Karin. It is also associated with the Norwegian word vår meaning "spring (the season)".

Younger form of Yngvildr.