Su24's Personal Name List

Aloysius

Gender: Masculine

Usage: English

Pronounced: al-o-ISH-əs

Rating: 10% based on 3 votes

Latinized form of Aloys, an old Occitan form of Louis. This was the name of an Italian saint, Aloysius Gonzaga (1568-1591). The name has been in occasional use among Catholics since his time.

Faulkner

Gender: Masculine

Usage: English

Pronounced: FAWK-nər

Rating: 10% based on 3 votes

Transferred use of the surname Faulkner. A famous bearer of the surname was William Faulkner (1897–1962), Nobel Prize-winning American author and poet.

Hippolyte 2

Gender: Masculine

Usage: French

Pronounced: EE-PAW-LEET

Rating: 7% based on 3 votes

French form of Hippolytos.

Peregrine

Gender: Masculine

Usage: English (Rare)

Pronounced: PEHR-ə-grin

Rating: 3% based on 3 votes

From the Late Latin name Peregrinus, which meant "traveller". This was the name of several early saints.

Rosaire

Gender: Masculine

Usage: French

Pronounced: RO-ZEHR

Rating: 7% based on 3 votes

Means "rosary" in French.

Thorin

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Literature, Germanic Mythology, German (Modern), Popular Culture

Pronounced: THOR-in(Literature) TO-reen(German)

Rating: 10% based on 3 votes

German male name representing the Germanic god Thor.

Used by JRR Tolkien as the name of a dwarf, Thorin Oakensheild, who is the main dwarf in 'The Hobbit'. Tolkien took the name from the Dvergatal "Catalogue of Dwarves" in the Völuspá, a part of the Poetic Edda.

Vladislav

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Russian, Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian

Other Scripts: Владислав(Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian)

Pronounced: vlə-dyi-SLAF(Russian) VLA-gyi-slaf(Czech) VLA-gyee-slow(Slovak)

Rating: 7% based on 3 votes

From the Old Slavic name *Voldislavŭ, derived from the elements volděti "to rule" and slava "glory". This name has been borne by kings, princes and dukes of Croatia, Serbia, Bohemia, Poland and Wallachia.