blackelectric's Personal Name List

Adara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אַדָרָה(Hebrew)
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Means "noble" in Hebrew.
Aliza
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: עַלִיזָה(Hebrew)
Pronounced: ah-LEE-zah
Personal remark: ah-LEE-zah
Means "joyful" in Hebrew.
Amira 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אַמִירָה(Hebrew)
Pronounced: ah-MEER-ah
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Feminine form of Amir 2.
Ariel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew, English, French, Spanish, Polish, Biblical, Biblical Greek
Other Scripts: אֲרִיאֵל(Hebrew) Ἀριήλ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: a-ree-EHL(Hebrew) EHR-ee-əl(English) AR-ee-əl(English) A-RYEHL(French) a-RYEHL(Spanish) A-ryehl(Polish)
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Means "lion of God" in Hebrew, from אֲרִי (ʾari) meaning "lion" and אֵל (ʾel) meaning "God". In the Old Testament it is used as another name for the city of Jerusalem. Shakespeare utilized it for a spirit in his play The Tempest (1611) and Alexander Pope utilized it for a sylph in his poem The Rape of the Lock (1712), and one of the moons of Uranus bears this name in his honour. As an English name, it became more common for females in the 1980s, especially after it was used for the title character in the Disney film The Little Mermaid (1989).
Avi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אֲבִי(Hebrew)
Means "my father" in Hebrew. It is also a diminutive of Avraham or Aviram.
Avishai
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אֲבִישַׁי(Hebrew)
Personal remark: ah-vee-SHY
Modern Hebrew form of Abishai.
Batsheva
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: בַּת־שֶׁבַע(Hebrew)
Hebrew variant of Bathsheba.
Bosmat
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: בָּשְׂמַת(Hebrew)
Hebrew variant of Basemath.
Danya 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: דַּנְיָה(Hebrew)
Feminine form of Dan 1. It can also be considered a compound meaning "judgement from God", using the element יָהּ (yah) referring to the Hebrew God.
Elior
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אֱלִיאוֹר(Hebrew)
Means "my God is my light" in Hebrew.
Gavriel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: גַּבְרִיאֵל(Hebrew)
Personal remark: GAV-ree-el
Hebrew form of Gabriel.
Inbar
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: עִנְבָּר, עִינְבָּר(Hebrew)
Means "amber" in Hebrew.
Keshet
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: קֶשֶׁת(Hebrew)
Means "rainbow" in Hebrew.
Kinneret
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: כִּנֶּרֶת(Hebrew)
Alternate transcription of Hebrew כִּנֶּרֶת (see Kineret).
Leora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Jewish, English, Hebrew
Pronounced: lay-OH-ra(Jewish, Hebrew)
Anglicized variant of Liora.
In some cases, however, it might have been given as a contracted form of Leonora.
Lev 2
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: לֵב(Hebrew)
Means "heart" in Hebrew.
Lior
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: לִיאוֹר(Hebrew)
Means "my light" in Hebrew, from לִי (li) "for me" and אוֹר (ʾor) "light".
Maayan
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: מַעֲיָן(Hebrew)
Personal remark: MAH-yahn
Means "spring of water" in Hebrew.
Malka
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: מַלְכָּה(Hebrew)
Means "queen" in Hebrew.
Margalit
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: מַרְגָלִית(Hebrew)
Personal remark: mahr-ga-LEET
Means "pearl" in Hebrew, ultimately from Greek μαργαρίτης (margarites).
Naama
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: נַעֲמָה(Hebrew)
Pronounced: nah-ah-MAH
Personal remark: nah-ah-MAH
Modern Hebrew form of Naamah.
Noam
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew, French
Other Scripts: נוֹעַם(Hebrew)
Pronounced: NO-am(Hebrew) NOM(English) NAW-AM(French)
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Means "pleasantness" in Hebrew. A famous bearer is Noam Chomsky (1928-), an American linguist and philosopher.
Ofra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: עֹפְרָה, עוֹפְרָה(Hebrew)
Personal remark: AWF-rə
Means "fawn" in Hebrew.

The masculine biblical name Ophrah is derived from the same root.

Ophira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אוֹפִירָה(Hebrew)
Alternate transcription of Hebrew אוֹפִירָה (see Ofira).
Oshrat
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אוֹשֶׁרַת, אֹשֶׁרַת(Hebrew)
Feminine form of Osher.
Ovadia
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: עֹבַדְיָה(Hebrew)
Hebrew form of Obadiah.
Sapir
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: סַפִּיר(Hebrew)
Means "sapphire" in Hebrew.
Shai
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: שַׁי(Hebrew)
Either from Hebrew שַׁי (shai) meaning "gift" or else a Hebrew diminutive of Isaiah.
Simcha
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: שִׂמְחָה(Hebrew)
Means "happiness, joy" in Hebrew.
Sivan
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: סִיוָן, סִיווָן(Hebrew)
From the name of the ninth month of the Hebrew calendar (occurring in late spring). It was adopted from the Babylonian calendar, derived from Akkadian simānu meaning "season, occasion" [1].
Stav
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: סתָו, סתיו(Hebrew)
Means "autumn" in Hebrew.
Tal
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: טַל(Hebrew)
Pronounced: TAL
Derived from Hebrew טַל (ṭal) meaning "dew".
Tali
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: טַלִי(Hebrew)
Means "my dew" in Hebrew.
Talia 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: טַלְיָה, טַלְיָא(Hebrew)
Means "dew from God" in Hebrew, from טַל (ṭal) meaning "dew" and יָהּ (yah) referring to the Hebrew God.
Tamir 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: תָּמִיר(Hebrew)
Means "tall" in Hebrew.
Tikva
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: תִּקְוָה(Hebrew)
Means "hope" in Hebrew.
Tsila
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: ציִלָּה(Hebrew)
Alternate transcription of Hebrew ציִלָּה (see Tzila).
Tuvya
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: טוּבִיָה(Hebrew)
Modern Hebrew form of Tobiah.
Tzvi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: צְבִי(Hebrew)
Means "gazelle, roebuck" in Hebrew, an animal particularly associated with the tribe of Naphtali (see Genesis 49:21).
Tzvia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: צְבִיָה(Hebrew)
Feminine form of Tzvi.
Yaakov
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: יַעֲקֹב(Hebrew)
Hebrew form of Jacob.
Yaara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: יַעֲרָה(Hebrew)
Means "honeycomb" and "honeysuckle" in Hebrew.
Yaffa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: יָפָה(Hebrew)
Alternate transcription of Hebrew יָפָה (see Yafa).
Yonatan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew [1]
Other Scripts: יוֹנָתָן(Hebrew)
Hebrew form of Jonathan.
Zahara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: זָהֳרָה(Hebrew)
Feminine form of Zohar.
Zeev
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: זְאֵב(Hebrew)
Means "wolf" in Hebrew, an animal particularly associated with the tribe of Benjamin (see Genesis 49:27).
Ziv
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: זִיו(Hebrew)
Means "bright, radiant" in Hebrew. This was the ancient name of the second month of the Jewish calendar.
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