Artilitart's Personal Name List

Cunégonde

Gender: Feminine

Usage: French (Rare)

Pronounced: KUY-NEH-GAWND

French form of Kunigunde. Voltaire used this name in his novel Candide (1759).

Gossamer

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Theatre

Pronounced: GAHS-ə-mər

From the English word, which means "spider threads spun in fields of stubble in late fall" (apparently derived from Old English gos "goose" and sumer "summer"). A fictional bearer is Gossamer Beynon in Dylan Thomas' 1954 play 'Under Milk Wood' (Butcher Beynon's schoolteacher daughter).

Hewie

Gender: Masculine

Usage: English (Rare)

Pronounced: HYOO-ee

Variant of Hughie.

Jaxton

Gender: Masculine

Usage: English (Modern)

Pronounced: JAK-stən

Elaboration of Jax influenced by similar-sounding names such as Paxton and Braxton.

Kashton

Gender: Masculine

Usage: English (Modern)

Pronounced: KASH-tən

Probably a combination of Kash and the popular name suffix ton, inspired by names such as Ashton.