Behind the Name: Stelle's Personal Name List

Esmé

Gender: Feminine & Masculine

Usage: English

Pronounced: EHZ-may, EHZ-mee

Means "esteemed" or "loved" in Old French. It was first recorded in Scotland, being borne by the first Duke of Lennox in the 16th century. It is now more common as a feminine name.

Evadne

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)

Other Scripts: Εὐάδνη(Ancient Greek)

From Greek Εὐάδνη (Euadne), from εὖ (eu) meaning "good" possibly combined with Cretan Greek ἀδνός (adnos) meaning "holy". This name was borne by several characters in Greek legend, including the wife of Capaneus. After Capaneus was killed by a lightning bolt sent from Zeus she committed suicide by throwing herself onto his burning body.

Idalia

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Germanic (Latinized) [1], Greek Mythology, Polish (Rare)

Other Scripts: Ἰδαλία(Ancient Greek)

Probably from a Germanic name derived from the element idal, an extended form of id possibly meaning "work, labour" [1]. Unrelated, this was also an epithet of the Greek goddess Aphrodite, given because the city of Idalion on Cyprus was a center of her cult.

This name was borne by the heroine of the Polish writer Juliusz Słowacki's play Fantazy (1841, published 1866).