Behind the Name: veeduh96's Personal Name List

Dario

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Italian, Croatian

Pronounced: DA-ryo(Italian) DA-ree-o(Croatian)

Rating: 54% based on 7 votes

Italian form of Darius.

Dean

Gender: Masculine

Usage: English

Pronounced: DEEN

Rating: 41% based on 7 votes

From a surname, see Dean 1 and Dean 2. The actor James Dean (1931-1955) was a famous bearer of the surname.

Dudão

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Brazilian, Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese

Pronounced: doo:,d.aow(Brazilian, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese)

Rating: 42% based on 6 votes

Form/Diminutive of Eduardo.

Elisa

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Finnish, English

Pronounced: eh-LEE-za(Italian, German) eh-LEE-sa(Spanish) EH-lee-sah(Finnish) ə-LEE-sə(English)

Rating: 63% based on 7 votes

Short form of Elisabeth.

Rebeca

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian

Pronounced: reh-BEH-ka(Spanish)

Rating: 68% based on 6 votes

Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian form of Rebecca.

Sarah

Gender: Feminine

Usage: English, French, German, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, Hebrew, Arabic, Biblical

Other Scripts: שָׂרָה(Hebrew) سارة(Arabic)

Pronounced: SEHR-ə(English) SAR-ə(English) SA-RA(French) ZA-ra(German) SA-ra(Danish, Dutch, Arabic)

Rating: 79% based on 7 votes

From the Hebrew name שָׂרָה (Sara) meaning "lady, princess, noblewoman". In the Old Testament this is the name of Abraham's wife, considered the matriarch of the Jewish people. She was barren until she unexpectedly became pregnant with Isaac at the age of 90. Her name was originally Sarai, but God changed it at the same time Abraham's name was changed (see Genesis 17:15).

In England, Sarah came into use after the Protestant Reformation. It was consistently popular in the 20th century throughout the English-speaking world, reaching the top of the charts for England and Wales in the 1970s and 80s.

Notable bearers include Sarah Churchill (1660-1744), an influential British duchess and a close friend of Queen Anne, and the French actress Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923).