MorganaQueen's Personal Name List
Alazne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque
Pronounced: a-LAS-neh
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From Basque
alatz meaning
"miracle". It is an equivalent of
Milagros, proposed by Sabino Arana in his 1910 list of Basque
saints names.
Aldana
Usage: Basque
Personal remark: brothel madam
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
From the name of a Basque town, derived from aldats meaning "slope".
Alkmene
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἀλκμήνη(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Aloña
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque (Rare), Basque Mythology
Pronounced: ah-LON-yah(Basque)
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Taken from the name of a massif on the Basque Mountains range.
According to Basque folklore, there is a refuge of
Mari 3, one of the key characters in Basque mythology, on the Aloña massif.
Amilamia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque, Basque Mythology, Spanish (Mexican, Rare)
Pronounced: ah-MIL-yah-mee-ah(Basque)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
In Basque mythology, Amilamia is a benevolent being who helps those in need.
She is known to sit by the mountain brooks combing her hair.
Argider
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Basque
Pronounced: ar-GEE-dhehr
Personal remark: knight middle name
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Derived from Basque argi "light" and eder "beautiful".
Arzola
Usage: Basque
Pronounced: ər-SAW-lah, ər-ZO-lə
Personal remark: #37's surname
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Castilianized form of a Basque topographic name, derived from (h)arri "stone, rock; glass" combined with -tza "large quantity, abundance" and -ola "location, place of".
Auria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman, Medieval Basque, Basque, History
Personal remark: Princess
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Derived from Latin aurum "gold" and aureus "golden, gilded". Auria was an early consort of Pamplona.
Biteri
Usage: Basque
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Non-Castilianized form of
Viteri.
Egia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque
Pronounced: eh-ghee-a
Personal remark: scary old lady
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Derived from Basque egia "truth; verity".
Elio
Usage: Basque
Pronounced: EH-lyo(Spanish)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From the name of a location in Navarre, Spain, of uncertain etymology.
Elizalde
Usage: Basque, Spanish
Pronounced: eh-lee-THAL-deh(Spanish) eh-lee-SAL-deh(Latin American Spanish, Filipino Spanish)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From Basque eleiza meaning "church" combined with the suffix -alde "by". This could be either a habitational name for a person who was from the town of Elizalde in Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, or a topographic name for someone living near a church.
Enedina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: History (Ecclesiastical), Spanish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Sardinian (Rare), Medieval Basque
Pronounced: eh-neh-DEE-na(Spanish) eh-neh-JEE-nu(Brazilian Portuguese)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Possibly from Greek ἐνηδύνω
(enedýno) meaning "to cheer, to gratify". This was the name of an early Christian saint from Sardinia, known as
Henedina in Latin; she was martyred with Saints
Justa and
Justina in the year 130 AD. This name has also been documented in Medieval Basque in Navarre, and according to local folklore this name belonged to the most beautiful woman in the shire of Sakana.
Eztia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque (Rare)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Derived from Basque ezti "honey; sweet" and, by extension, "gentle; pleasant; melodious".
Ganboa
Usage: Basque
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Habitational name of uncertain etymology. Possibly derived from Basque gain "height, summit, peak; over, above", or from the hypothetical archaic word *ganbo "hot spring, sulphurous water".
Garai
Usage: Basque
Pronounced: ga-rie
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Means "height, summit, peak" and "high, tall; prominent, outstanding" in Basque.
Gari
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Basque
Pronounced: ga-ree
Personal remark: boy judge and stoner
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Derived from Basque gari "wheat".
Gizon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval Basque
Personal remark: head of royal judiciary
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Derived from Basque gizon "man".
Iker
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Basque
Pronounced: EE-kehr
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Means
"visitation" in Basque. It is an equivalent of the Spanish name
Visitación, coined by Sabino Arana in his 1910 list of Basque
saints names.
Iluna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque (Rare)
Personal remark: Bride
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Ancient Basque name that was first found on inscriptions in Aquitaine dating back to the 1st to 3rd centuries.
Its origin and meaning are uncertain; there is, however, a theory that it might be derived from the Basque adjective ilun (illun in Old Basque, ilunn in Aquitain), meaning "darkness; dark; sombre; gloomy; mysterious; obscure".
Ira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Ήρα(Greek)
Pronounced: EE-rah
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Modern Greek form of
Hera.
Irala
Usage: Basque
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Itzal
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque
Pronounced: ee-TSAL
Personal remark: evil dude
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Means "shadow, protection" in Basque.
Izadi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Means "nature, forest" in Basque.
Izara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque (Rare), French (Rare), Spanish (Latin American, Rare)
Personal remark: priestess
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
In the Basque country and French-speaking areas, this name is now generally considered a variant of
Izar and
Izarra. There is, however, another theory which derives Izara from
izar, the Pyrenean French cognate of French
isard "chamois".
Whichever theory might be true, this name is extremely rare in the French-speaking world with 7 births in France between 1916 and 1990 and 5 births in French-speaking Belgium from 2002 to present.
Jare
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Means "free, release" in Basque.
Jasso
Usage: Basque
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Jenara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque, Spanish
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Kipir
Usage: Turkish
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Kristobal
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Basque (Archaic)
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Lander
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Basque, Medieval Basque
Pronounced: LAN-dehr(Basque)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Of debated origin and meaning.
While some scholars consider this name a Basque form of
Leander, others theorize that it might in fact be derived from Basque
lander "poor; pilgrim".
As a given name, it was first recorded in 1284.
Lantaron
Usage: Basque
Personal remark: knight's surname
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
It indicates familial origin within the eponymous municipality.
Legazpi
Usage: Basque
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
It indicates familial origin within the eponymous municipality with the coordinates 43° 03′ 18″ N, 2° 20′ 06″ W.
Loyola
Usage: Spanish, Basque
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
From the name of a place name near the town of Azpeitia in the Basque Country of Spain, derived from Basque
loi meaning "mud". This was the birthplace of
Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556), the founder of Jesuits.
Maitagarri
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque, Basque Mythology
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Derived from the Basque adjective
maitagarri "lovable; nice; affable".
In Basque mythology, a maitagarri is a fairy.
Malen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque
Personal remark: assassin/protag
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Marigorri
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque Mythology, Basque
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Epithet for the moon. This name is possibly derived from a combination of the name of
Mari 3, one of the key figures in Basque mythology, and the adjective
gorri "red, rosé, Virginian, fierce".
Mendoza
Usage: Spanish, Basque
Pronounced: mehn-DO-tha(European Spanish) mehn-DO-sa(Latin American Spanish)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From a Basque place name derived from mendi "mountain" and hotz "cold".
Mirari
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque
Pronounced: mee-RA-ree
Personal remark: Mother
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Montagnet
Usage: French, Basque
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Montoya
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: mon-TO-ya
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
From the name of a village in the province of Álava in Spain. It is possibly of Basque origin, or possibly from Latin mons "mountain, hill".
Mungia
Usage: Basque
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
From the name of a town and municipality in Biscay, Basque Country, possibly derived from the personal name
Munio combined with the locative suffix
-(t)egi.
Nabar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval Basque
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Of uncertain origin and meaning. Current theories include a derivation from the place name Navarre and a derivation from Basque nabar "multicolored".
Ola
Usage: Basque
Personal remark: judge that Malen bribes
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
From Basque ola meaning "hut, small house, forge".
Olano
Usage: Basque
Pronounced: o-la-no
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From the name of a hamlet in Álava, Basque Country, derived from ola "factory, forge, ironworks; hut cabin" and the diminutive suffix -no.
Orozco
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: o-ROTH-ko(European Spanish) o-ROS-ko(Latin American Spanish)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From the name of a valley in the Basque region of Spain.
Otsando
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval Basque
Pronounced: o-TSAN-do
Personal remark: knight
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Possibly from Basque
otso "wolf" (which would make it a variant of
Otso) or from
otzan "tame".
Saioa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From Saioa, the name of a mountain located in Navarre, Spain.
Salazar
Usage: Basque, Spanish
Pronounced: sa-la-THAR(European Spanish) sa-la-SAR(Latin American Spanish)
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
From Spanish sala meaning "hall" and Basque zahar meaning "old". It can also refer to the town of Salazar in Burgos, Spain, which is of the same origin.
Sandora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque (Rare)
Personal remark: queen
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Feminine form of
Sanduru, derived from Basque
saindu/santu "saint".
It is considered the Basque equivalent of
Toussainte, the feminine form of
Toussaint, and is celebrated on November 1.
To get even closer to the meaning of "All Saints", two newer "forms" of this name were created: Deunore and Deunorone, from Basque deun "saint" and oro "all". They are now considered quasi-variants of Sandora.
Solo
Usage: Basque
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Means "rural estate" in Basque.
Talasa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Talesia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Basque
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Tello
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval Spanish, Medieval Basque
Personal remark: #37
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Tibalt
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval Basque
Personal remark: King
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Urbina
Usage: Basque
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Derived from Basque ur "water" and bi "two", indicating a place where two waterways met.
Urdin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval Basque
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Derived from Basque urdin "blue".
Urenda
Usage: Basque
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Probably a topographic name formed with Basque
ur "water".
Urizar
Usage: Basque
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Habitational name derived from Basque uri "town, city" and zahar "old, aged".
Xabier
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Basque, Galician
Pronounced: sha-BYEHR
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Basque and Galician form of
Xavier.
Zabala
Usage: Basque
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Originally denoted someone who lived in a place of this name in Biscay. It is derived from Basque zabal meaning "large, wide".
Zambrano
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: tham-BRA-no(European Spanish) sam-BRA-no(Latin American Spanish)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Possibly a habitational name for someone from Zambrana, a town in the province of Álava in Spain.
Zarate
Usage: Basque
Pronounced: sa-ra-teh(Basque) THA-ra-teh(Spanish)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From the name of a hamlet in Álava province, Spain, possibly derived from Basque zara "thicket".
Zerua
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Modern coinage derived from Basque zeru "sky; heavens; heaven".
Ziro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Basque
Personal remark: Number 1
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Zorion
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Basque
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Means "happiness" in Basque.
Zuñiga
Usage: Basque
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
From the name of a Spanish town, formerly named Estuniga in Basque, possibly derived from Basque istuin "channel, strait".
Zuria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque (Modern), Medieval Basque
Pronounced: soo-REE-a(Basque)
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Medieval Basque calque of
Blanca and
Blanche, derived from Basque
zuri meaning "white". During the Middle Ages, this name was popular in all regions of the Basque Country. Although the form
Zuriñe (created by Sabino Arana) is more common nowadays, Zuria has also been revived in modern times.
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