lo.ki's Personal Name List

Derived from the nickname barbon meaning "old codger" as well as referring to a "confirmed bachelor".

Derived from Middle High German becker meaning "baker".

Patronymic name from the Medieval personal name Ben Avid, of Arabic origin, derived from ibn Abd meaning "son of the servant of God".

Comes from the pesonal name 'Bona' which is derived from Latin 'bonus', which means 'great'.

Cana is the short form of 'cana de açucar' that means "sugar cane", and Brava is the feminine form of 'bravo' that means "angry". There is a municipality in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil, called Canabrava do Norte, and according to oral tradition, the origin of the name is due to the disease and subsequent death of some animals after eating a plantation of sugar cane.

Spanish cognate of Castle.

From the English word, derived from Old English cirice, ultimately from Greek κυριακόν (kyriakon) meaning "(house) of the lord". It probably referred to a person who lived close to a church.

From Middle English crane "crane (bird)", a nickname for a tall, thin man with long legs. The term included the heron until the introduction of a separate word for the latter in the 14th century. Can also be an Anglicized form of names with a similar meaning, such as German Krahn or Kranich.

Anglicized form of Irish Deasmhumhain meaning "south Munster", referring to the region of Desmond in southern Ireland, formerly a kingdom. It can also come from the related surname (an Anglicized form of Ó Deasmhumhnaigh), which indicated a person who came from that region. A famous bearer is the South African archbishop and activist Desmond Tutu (1931-2021).

From an English surname, of Norman French origin, meaning "from Evreux". Evreux is a town in France.

Meaning “given to God”, surname given to a child because they were given to a priest or monastery or either an orpan.

From an Irish surname, an Anglicized form of Ó Donndubháin, itself derived from the given name Donndubán. This name is borne by the Scottish folk musician Donovan Leitch (1946-), known simply as Donovan.

Means "from the forest", from French bois "forest".

Means "beautiful child" in Middle English.

From Irish Gaelic Ó Fearadaigh "descendant of Fearadach", a personal name probably based on fear "man", perhaps meaning literally "man of the wood". A famous bearer was British chemist and physicist Michael Faraday (1791-1867).

Denoted a person who lived near a hawthorn bush, a word derived from Old English hagaþorn, from haga meaning "enclosure, yard" and þorn meaning "thorn bush". A famous bearer was the American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), author of The Scarlet Letter.

Means "hunter" in German, from Old High German jagon meaning "to hunt".

From an English word meaning "carter, peddler". A famous bearer is the British musician Mick Jagger (1943-), the lead singer of the Rolling Stones.

The name of Marquis de Lafayette; a famous French man during the revolutionary war.

A Cajun surname meaning "the calf".

From a nickname for a lothario, derived from Middle English lufeles, Old English lufuleas meaning "loveless".

From a nickname derived from a Norman French lou meaning "wolf" and a diminutive suffix.

From a Scottish surname, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Amhalghaidh, itself derived from Amhalghadh, a given name of unknown meaning. A famous bearer of the surname was Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1861), a British Whig politician and noted historian. The given name is borne by the American former child actor Macaulay Culkin (1980-), who was named after the British politician.

From an aristocratic English surname meaning "sharp mountain", from Old French mont agu. In Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet (1596) this is the surname of Romeo and his family.

Derived from the given name Maurice.

From the name of a town in Normandy meaning "dead water, still water" in Old French.

Derived from the given name Osborn.

Means "peach tree" in Portuguese, ultimately from Latin persicum. It indicated a person who lived near or worked with peach trees.

Name possibly derived from the colour of the bark of trees or the name of the town Reedworth between Durham and Devon

Meaning "sacrament" in Spanish and Portuguese.

Habitational name for a person from the town of Villalobos, Spain, which is derived from Spanish villa "town" and lobo "wolf".

From the given name Vos, which comes from the Frisian name Fos, which is from Old German given names beginning with the element folk meaning "people".