hermeline's Personal Name List

Meaning unknown. In demonology, Abalam is a king of Jinnestan and one of the assistants of Paimon. This demon was featured in the 2010 film 'The Last Exorcism'.

Variant of Abel.

Alternate transcription of Hebrew עֲדִינָה (see Adina 3).

Feminine form of Amir 2.

Alternate transcription of Hebrew אראלה (see Erela).

Meaning: "a fierce lion" or "lion-like" and "venerable".

This was the name of two biblical men, Arioch was a king of Ellasar who was allied with Chedorlaomer (Gen. 14:1,9) and Captain of Nebuchadnezzar's guard (Dan. 2:14-15, 24-25).

Originally appears in the Book of Genesis chap. 14 as the "King of Ellasar", part of the confederation of kings who did battle with the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah and with Abraham in the vale of Siddim.

From Greek Ἀσμοδαῖος (Asmodaios) and Hebrew אשְׁמְדּאי (ʾAshmedʾai), probably from Avestan 𐬀𐬉𐬱𐬆𐬨𐬀 (aēshəma) meaning "wrath" and 𐬛𐬀𐬉𐬎𐬎𐬀 (daēuua) meaning "demon". In the apocryphal Book of Tobit this is the name of a demon who successively kills seven of Sarah's husbands on their wedding nights. He also appears in the Talmud.

Means "son of Sabas". It is the name of multiple biblical characters and saints.

Diminutive of Basia 2.

Variant of Monobaz.

Variant of Bräunle. It was recorded in early 16th-century Frankfurt, Germany.

Variant of Kenan 1 used in some versions of the Bible.

From a Slavic word meaning "black".

Derived from Old French chere, the feminine form of the adjective cher, chier "dear, dearest; expensive; costly; important, noteworthy" as well as a short form of Anchera.

Polonised spelling of Charna.

Combination of the name Dan 1 means "(he) judges" and the name Or means "light", used as first name and as last name.

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.

In Hebrew it’s a combination of the name Dar, means "(mother of) pearl, nacre" and El, reference to God. In English it’s used as variant of Darell.

Probably an elaborated form of Darrell, with an ending similar to biblical names such as Daniel.

Possibly means "fountain" in Hebrew. In the Old Testament this is the name of one of the conspirators against Moses.

Medieval Basque form of Dulce and medieval Jewish variant of Toltsa and Toltse. In the Basque country, it was recorded from 1344 onwards, as a Jewish name, it was recorded from the 12th century onwards.

Combination of the names Dor and El means "God's Generation" in Hebrew.

Possibly means "God's generation" in Hebrew, in which case it would be derived from Hebrew dor "generation" (see also Dor) combined with Hebrew el "God". This is the name of a character in Elie Wiesel's novel "A Mad Desire to Dance".

A Judeo-German spelling of Eidel

Feminine form of Elul.

Means "small deer" in Hebrew.

Means "cedar" in Hebrew.

it's a kind of a tree-tamarisk.

From a biblical place name, also called עַבְדּוֹן (ʿAvdon) meaning "servile", for which it may be a clerical error.

From the Spanish Estefania, brought to Eastern Europe by the Jews expelled from Spain during the Spanish Inquisition.

Diminutive of Galina.

Gemory is a demon listed in demonological grimoires. The demon is referenced by the pronoun "he" despite the fact that he appears as a beautiful woman with a duchess crown riding a camel.

Variant of Gershom.

Variant of Gela recorded in what is now Germany from the 11th century onwards.

From Yiddish גאָלד (gold) meaning "gold". This is the name of Tevye's wife in the musical Fiddler on the Roof (1964). It was also borne by the Israeli prime minister Golda Meir (1898-1978).

Diminutive of Guta and Gute.

Judeo-Spanish variant of both Haniyya and Hannah.

Greek form of Annas.

Contraction of Hanne 1 and Elisabeth.

Means "deer" in Yiddish, related to the English word "hind".

From Ἰωσῆς (Ioses), a Greek variant of Joseph used in the New Testament to distinguish Joseph the brother of James from the many other characters of that name.

Diminutive of Judah.

An elaboration of Jude 2 with the popular name suffix -line. Also compare Judaline and Judelyn.

Means "melody", "tune", "strain" in Hebrew.

Yiddish name and word for "young girl."

Means "pearl" in Hebrew, ultimately from Greek μαργαρίτης (margarites).

Variant of Margaret.

In Hebrew, the word is generally transliterated as mazal, and literally refers to a "star" or "planet in the night sky" or "zodiac constellation." It came to mean "lucky" in medieval times due to the widespread belief in astrology and that the planets and constellations can influence one's fate.

Alternate transcription of Hebrew מֵאִיר (see Meir). It also coincides with a German surname meaning "mayor, leader".

Yiddish diminutive of Miriam.

Spanish, Judeo-Spanish and Judeo-Anglo-Norman variant of Miriam.

Means “who is like God” in Hebrew.

Form of Uriel used in the Greek Old Testament.

Diminutive of Pesse (compare Pessel) recorded in the border region between modern-day France and modern-day Germany in the 14th century.

Derived from Old French pulcella, pucelle "maid, young woman".

Combination of the names Romi and El means "God is my exaltation" in Hebrew.

Variant of Roni 1.

Diminutive of Ruchel.

Means "sweet one forever" in Hebrew.

Diminutive of Sarah.

Means "command of Aku" in Akkadian, Aku being the name of the Babylonian god of the moon. In the Old Testament Shadrach is the Babylonian name of Hananiah, one of the three men cast into a fiery furnace but saved by God.

Yiddish diminutive of Shoshana.

In Yiddish literature, Shosha is the name of the eponymous character of the novel Shosha (1978) written by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1903-1991).

Alternate transcription of Hebrew שׁוּלַמִּית (see Shulamit).

Dutch and German variant of Shosha.

Means "little girl" in Aramaic. The name is taken from the phrase talitha cumi meaning "little girl arise" spoken by Jesus in order to restore a young girl to life (see Mark 5:41).

Means "strength, vigour" in Mongolian.

It means "God Is Good" It is derived from the Greek name Tobias

Means "palm tree" in Hebrew.

Variant of Vivus.

Hebrew form of Jordan.

From Tatar Уруслан (Uruslan), which was possibly from Turkic arslan meaning "lion". Yeruslan Lazarevich is the name of a hero in Russian and Tatar folktales. These tales were based on (or at least influenced by) Persian tales of their hero Rostam.

Hebrew form of Jonah. It is a unisex name in modern Hebrew.

Tigrinya and Amharic form of Jonah.

Diminutive of Yonatan.

Yiddish short form of Judith.

Alternate transcription of Hebrew יולי (see Yuli 3). A known bearer is Israeli documentary filmmaker Yulie Cohen (1956-).

Hebrew form of Jubal. It is used as both a masculine and feminine name in modern Hebrew.

From the Hebrew name זַכָּי (Zakkai) meaning "pure". This is the name of a minor character in the Old Testament.

(Anglicized) variant of Zadok. A bearer of the variant Zadock was Congressman Zadock Pratt (1790-1871), a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York.

In The Lesser Key of Solomon, this is the name of a Great King and President of Hell, commanding over thirty-three legions of demons. Zagan is depicted as a griffin-winged bull that turns into a man after a while.

The darker spirit (demon) of Saturn, mentioned as a spirit in such works as the Key of Solomon.

Zebuleon is an angel mentioned in the Greek Apocalypse of Ezra whose name was revealed to Esdras as one of the nine angels who will govern "at the end of the world".

Variant of Zebulun.

Variant of Ziphion. Means "hidden" in Hebrew. In the apocryphal Book of Enoch this was the name of an angel sent by the archangel Gabriel, along with the angel Ithuriel, to find the location of Satan after his fall.

Means "my rock is God" in Hebrew, derived from צוּר (tsur) meaning "rock" and אֵל (ʾel) meaning "God". In the Old Testament this name is borne by a chief of the Merarite Levites at the time of the Exodus.