radium's Personal Name List

Feminine form of Alwin.

Medieval Spanish form of Carmel, appearing in the devotional title of the Virgin Mary Nuestra Señora del Carmen meaning "Our Lady of Mount Carmel". The spelling has been altered through association with the Latin word carmen meaning "song". This was the name of the main character in George Bizet's opera Carmen (1875).

English form of Cecilia. This was the usual English form during the Middle Ages.

Means "sky" in French. It is not used as a given name in France itself.

Short form of Cleopatra, Cleon or Cleopas.

From a Slavic word meaning "morning star, Venus". This name occurs in Slavic folklore as a personification of the morning star. It has sometimes been used in the English-speaking world since the 1970s.

Feminine variant of Darcy.

From an English surname that was derived from Norman French d'Arcy, originally denoting one who came from the town of Arcy in La Manche, France. This is the surname of a character, Fitzwilliam Darcy, in Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice (1813).

From the English word dawn, ultimately derived from Old English dagung.

Diminutive of Deborah.

Variant of Deirdre.

From the name of the fourth letter in the Greek alphabet, Δ. It is also the name for an island formed at the mouth of a river.

Possibly a variant of Dean or Dena.

From the Roman family name Aemilius, which was derived from Latin aemulus meaning "rival".

German, Estonian and Hungarian form of Evelina.

Means "pretty" in French. This name was popularized by American actress Angelina Jolie (1975-), whose surname was originally her middle name. It is not used as a given name in France.

Diminutive of Katarina or Katariina.

Danish and Norwegian form of Christina.

Diminutive of Christopher or Katherine. A notable bearer was Kit Carson (1809-1868), an American frontiersman and explorer.

Diminutive of Alexandra or Alexis.

Latin form of Greek Λουκᾶς (see Luke), as well as the form used in several other languages.

This name became very popular in the second half of the 20th century. It reached the top ten names for boys in France (by 1997), Belgium (1998), Denmark (2003), Canada (2008), the Netherlands (2009), New Zealand (2009), Australia (2010), Scotland (2013), Spain (2015) and the United States (2018).

Short form of Michaela.

Latinate feminine form of René.

Diminutive of Sarah.

From the Old German element sahso meaning "a Saxon". The Saxons were a Germanic tribe, their name ultimately deriving from the Germanic word *sahsą meaning "knife". Saskia van Uylenburgh (1612-1642) was the wife of the Dutch painter Rembrandt.

Diminutive of Beatrix.

French form of Zechariah and Zacharias.