Addycakes's Personal Name List

Æbbe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Anglo-Saxon [1][2]
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Old English form of Ebba 2.
Asia 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern), Italian (Modern)
Pronounced: AY-zhə(English) A-zya(Italian)
Personal remark: The world's largest and most populated continent.
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
From the name of the continent, which is perhaps derived from Akkadian asu, meaning "east".
Bray
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: BRAY
Rating: 10% based on 3 votes
Transferred use of the surname Bray, derived from Cornish bre meaning "hill".
Črt
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Slovene
Personal remark: 250th name saved into this collection.
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Short form of Črtomir.
Cuba
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Pronounced: q-ba
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Goddess who helped the child transition from cradle to bed.
Cyan
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: SIE-an
Rating: 70% based on 3 votes
From the English word meaning "greenish blue, cyan", ultimately derived from Greek κύανος (kyanos).
Gaia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, Italian
Other Scripts: Γαῖα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: GIE-A(Classical Greek) GIE-ə(English) GAY-ə(English) GA-ya(Italian)
Rating: 58% based on 4 votes
From the Greek word γαῖα (gaia), a parallel form of γῆ (ge) meaning "earth". In Greek mythology Gaia was the mother goddess who presided over the earth. She was the mate of Uranus and the mother of the Titans and the Cyclopes.
Hi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: Hi
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Short form of Hiram.
Iran
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Persian
Other Scripts: ایران(Persian)
Pronounced: 'i:ra:n
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Jean 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: ZHAHN
Rating: 70% based on 3 votes
Modern French form of Jehan, the Old French form of Iohannes (see John). Since the 12th century it has consistently been the most common male name in France. It finally dropped from the top rank in 1958, unseated by Philippe.

The French theologian Jean Calvin (1509-1564) and the philosophers Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) and Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) are well-known bearers of this name. It was also borne by the German-French Dadaist artist Jean Arp (1886-1966).

Mali
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Thai
Other Scripts: มาลี(Thai)
Pronounced: ma-LEE
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Means "jasmine" in Thai.
Mimi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MEE-mee
Personal remark: All I think of is a certain song from The Backyardigans. The song in question is called "A Singing Telegram".
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
Diminutive of Maria and other names beginning with M.
Mẫn
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Vietnamese
Pronounced: MUN, MUNG
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
From Sino-Vietnamese 敏 (mẫn) meaning "quick, clever".
Myla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: MIE-lə
Personal remark: A happy little miner mining for treasure near the entrance to Crystal Peak.
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Possibly a feminine form of Miles, influenced by similar-sounding names such as Kyla.
Nice
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Rare), Ancient Greek (Latinized), Italian
Pronounced: NEE-cheh(Italian)
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Ancient Greek variant as well as Latinized and Italian form of Nike. In Italy it's also used as diminutive of names with the element nice (derived from nike) such as Berenice and Eunice.

In Greek mythology, Nice (transcribed this and not with the usual Nike) was a Thespian princess as one of the 50 daughters of King Thespius and Megamede, daughter of Arneus (or by one of his many wives). She bore Nicodromus to the hero Heracles.

Ob
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Sanskrit, Indian, Hindi, Hinduism, Bengali, Marathi
Other Scripts: ओब(Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi)
Pronounced: ob(Sanskrit) obb(Sanskrit)
Personal remark: Used either in reference to the Ob, a major river in Russia, or the Gulf of Ob.
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
Name : Ob ओब
MEANING - cluster
Usage - Sanskrit, Indian, Tamil, Telugu, Nepali, Sinhala, Hindi, Sikh, Buddhist
Odd
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norwegian
Rating: 17% based on 3 votes
Derived from Old Norse oddr meaning "point of a sword".
Okay
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Turkish
Pronounced: o-kie
Rating: 7% based on 3 votes
Oman
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Indian
Other Scripts: ओमन्(Hindi)
Pronounced: oman, o-mun
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
MEANING - "friend, protector, helper, favour, help"
Origin - Sanskrit, Indian, Tamil, Telugu, Nepali, Sinhala, Hindi, sikh, Buddhist
Opal
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: O-pəl
Rating: 70% based on 3 votes
From the English word opal for the iridescent gemstone, the birthstone of October. The word ultimately derives from Sanskrit उपल (upala) meaning "jewel".
Or
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אוֹר(Hebrew)
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Means "light" in Hebrew.
Oslo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Popular Culture, English (American, Modern)
Pronounced: AHZ-lo(American English)
Personal remark: Capital city of Norway.
Rating: 37% based on 3 votes
From the name of the capital city of Norway (see Oslo). It was used for a character in the 2017 television series Money Heist (original Spanish title La casa de papel), about a team of nine robbers who adopt city names as pseudonyms for anonymity.
Paul
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Estonian, Romanian, Biblical
Pronounced: PAWL(English, French) POWL(German, Dutch, Swedish)
Personal remark: All I can think of is Paul Revere the messenger.
Rating: 40% based on 4 votes
From the Roman family name Paulus, which meant "small" or "humble" in Latin. Paul was an important leader of the early Christian church. According to Acts in the New Testament, he was a Jewish Roman citizen who converted to Christianity after the resurrected Jesus appeared to him. After this he travelled the eastern Mediterranean as a missionary. His original Hebrew name was Saul. Many of the epistles in the New Testament were authored by him.

Due to the renown of Saint Paul the name became common among early Christians. It was borne by a number of other early saints and six popes. In England it was relatively rare during the Middle Ages, but became more frequent beginning in the 17th century. In the United States it was in the top 20 names for boys from 1900 to 1968, while in the United Kingdom it was very popular from the 1950s to the 80s. It has also been heavily used in Germany and France and continues to be popular there, though it is currently on the decline in the English-speaking world.

A notable bearer was the American Revolutionary War figure Paul Revere (1735-1818), who warned of the advance of the British army. Famous bearers in the art world include the French impressionists Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) and Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), and the Swiss expressionist Paul Klee (1879-1940). It is borne by actor Paul Newman (1925-2008) and the musicians Paul Simon (1941-) and Paul McCartney (1942-). This is also the name of the legendary American lumberjack Paul Bunyan and the fictional Paul Atreides from Frank Herbert's novel Dune (1965).

Peru
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Basque
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Basque form of Peter.
Qing
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Chinese
Other Scripts: 青, 清, etc.(Chinese)
Pronounced: CHEENG
Personal remark: The Qing dynasty.
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
From Chinese (qīng) meaning "blue, green, young", as well as other characters pronounced in a similar way.
Ra
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Egyptian Mythology
Pronounced: RAH(English)
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
From Egyptian rꜥ meaning "sun" or "day". Ra was an important Egyptian sun god originally worshipped in Heliopolis in Lower Egypt. He was usually depicted as a man with the head of a falcon crowned with a solar disc. In later times his attributes were often merged with those of other deities, such as Amon, Atum and Horus.
Rose
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, French
Pronounced: ROZ
Rating: 85% based on 4 votes
Originally a Norman French form of the Germanic name Hrodohaidis meaning "famous type", composed of the elements hruod "fame" and heit "kind, sort, type". The Normans introduced it to England in the forms Roese and Rohese. From an early date it was associated with the word for the fragrant flower rose (derived from Latin rosa). When the name was revived in the 19th century, it was probably with the flower in mind.
Ruby
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ROO-bee
Rating: 88% based on 4 votes
Simply from the name of the precious stone (which ultimately derives from Latin ruber "red"), which is the traditional birthstone of July. It came into use as a given name in the 16th century [1].
Sly
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SLIE
Personal remark: 10th name in the Sly Cooper collection.
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Short form of Sylvester. The actor Sylvester Stallone (1946-) is a well-known bearer of this nickname.
Star
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: STAHR(American English) STAH(British English)
Rating: 70% based on 3 votes
From the English word for the celestial body, ultimately from Old English steorra.
Togo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Rating: 73% based on 3 votes
The greatest hero dog of 1925 serum run to Nome. Due to media coverage overshadowed by Balto.
Named after Tōgō Heihachirō, admiral of the fleet in the Imperial Japanese Navy and one of Japan's greatest naval heroes.
In the film Balto from 1995 portrayed as a 'bad guy' Steele the dog.
Úna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish, Medieval Irish [1]
Pronounced: OO-nə(Irish)
Rating: 23% based on 3 votes
Probably derived from Old Irish úan meaning "lamb". This was a common name in medieval Ireland.
Urs
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German (Swiss)
Pronounced: UWRS
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
German form of the Latin name Ursus, which meant "bear". Saint Ursus was a 3rd-century soldier in the Theban Legion who was martyred with Saint Victor. He is the patron saint of Solothurn in Switzerland.
Viện
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Vietnamese
Pronounced: VEEYN, VEEYNG, YEEYNG
Personal remark: 150th name saved into this collection.
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From Sino-Vietnamese (viện) meaning "courtyard, institution".
Xoán
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Galician
Pronounced: SHWANG
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Galician form of John.
Xuân
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Vietnamese
Pronounced: SWUN, SWUNG
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From Sino-Vietnamese (xuân) meaning "spring (season)".
You
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Chinese
Other Scripts: (Chinese)
Pronounced: yǒu
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
From the Chinese 友 (yǒu) which means "friendly or friendship."
Zion
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Jewish, Biblical
Other Scripts: צִיוֹן(Hebrew)
Pronounced: ZIE-ən(English)
Personal remark: 280th name saved into this collection.
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
From the name of a citadel that was in the center of Jerusalem. Zion is also used to refer to a Jewish homeland and to heaven.
Zyta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: ZI-ta
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Possibly a Polish form of Zita 1, or possibly a short form of Felicyta.
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