Slayden's Personal Name List

Adelice
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval French, Louisiana Creole, French (Modern)
Rating: 83% based on 3 votes
Variant of Adelicia. In France, this name was revived in the 1990s.
Adilie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Walloon, Louisiana Creole
Rating: 87% based on 3 votes
Variant of Adèle (compare Adélie). Sainte Adèle d'Orp-le-Grand (also known as Adilie) is particularly venerated in Wallonia.
Akhyad
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Chechen
Other Scripts: Ахъяд, Ахьяд(Chechen)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Chechen form of Ahad.
Amula
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Sanskrit, Indian, Hindi, Gujarati, Hinduism, Marathi
Other Scripts: अमूला(Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi, Nepali)
Pronounced: amoolaa(Sanskrit)
Rating: 90% based on 3 votes
MEANING : { rootless , Agnishikha plant ( Methonica Superba- Bot. ) , a bulbous plant
Origin - Sanskrit
Usage : Sanskrit, Indian, Tamil, Telugu, Nepali, Sinhala, Hindi, Sikh, Buddhist
Angelice
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: an-JEL-eese
Rating: 70% based on 3 votes
Variant of Angelise.
Angeline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: AHN-ZHU-LEEN, AHN-ZHLEEN
Rating: 63% based on 4 votes
French diminutive of Angela.
Anjay
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Sanskrit
Other Scripts: अंजय(Sanskrit)
Pronounced: Unjay
Rating: 88% based on 4 votes
Means "unconquerable, unbeatable" in Sanskrit.

It is found in the Hindu Veda Epic Cycle, the Mahabharata.

Ari 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אֲרִי(Hebrew)
Rating: 80% based on 3 votes
Means "lion" in Hebrew.
Auremir
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Brazilian
Rating: 93% based on 3 votes
Auremir Evangelista dos Santos is a Brazilian professional footballer.
Auster
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Pronounced: OWS-tehr(Latin)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Means "south" in Latin (descended from the Indo-European root *hews- meaning "dawn", making it related to the English word east). Auster was the Roman god of the south wind.
Avera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American)
Pronounced: ə-VE-rə(American English)
Rating: 100% based on 3 votes
A feminine form of Avery, or an elaboration of Vera 1.
Bashlam
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Chechen (Rare)
Other Scripts: Башлам(Chechen)
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
From Bashlam, the Chechen name for Mount Kazbek.
Beatus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Late Roman
Rating: 80% based on 3 votes
Masculine form of Beata. According to legend, Saint Beatus was ordained a priest by Saint Peter and evangelized in Switzerland. Another saint by this name was an 8th-century Asturian theologian.
Beaujay
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Obscure
Rating: 73% based on 3 votes
Bekkhan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Chechen, Ingush
Other Scripts: Бекхан(Chechen, Ingush)
Pronounced: byik-KHAN(Russian)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From the Turkish military title beg meaning "chieftain, master" combined with the Turkic title khan meaning "ruler, leader".
Benjie
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ben-jee
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
Diminutive of Benjamin.
Beslan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Chechen, Ingush, Circassian, Abkhaz, Karachay-Balkar
Other Scripts: Беслан(Chechen, Ingush, Abkhaz, Karachay-Balkar) Беслъэн(Eastern Circassian) Беслъан(Western Circassian)
Pronounced: byi-SLAN(Russian)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From the Turkish military title beg meaning "chieftain, master" combined with Turkic arslan meaning "lion".
Betriek
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch
Rating: 85% based on 4 votes
Bijay
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Bengali, Odia, Nepali
Other Scripts: বিজয়(Bengali) ବିଜୟ(Odia) बिजय(Nepali)
Rating: 15% based on 2 votes
Bengali, Odia and Nepali form of Vijaya.
Bryani
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American, Rare)
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Cainan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Latin
Other Scripts: קֵינָן(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: KAY-nən(English) kay-IE-nən(English)
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Variant of Kenan 1 used in some versions of the Bible.
Calder
Gender: Masculine
Usage: American
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Transferred use of the surname Calder.
Chriselda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Afrikaans, South African, Filipino
Rating: 63% based on 3 votes
Presumably a variant of Griselda, influenced by names beginning with "Chris-", such as Christine.
Chrislaine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Rare)
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
A blend of two names, the first one starting in Chris and the second one ending in -aine (e.g., Ghislaine or Elaine).
Christeney
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American, Rare, Archaic), German (Rare, Archaic, Expatriate)
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
Variant of Christine.
Christhilda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Rare), English (Rare, Archaic)
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Variant of Christhild.
Christophine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Rare, Archaic)
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
Feminine form of Christoph.
Chryseis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Χρυσηΐς(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: KRUY-SEH-EES(Classical Greek) krie-SEE-is(English)
Rating: 93% based on 4 votes
Patronymic derived from Chryses. In Greek legend she was the daughter of Chryses, a priest of Apollo. After she was taken prisoner by the Greeks besieging Troy, Apollo sent a plague into their camp, forcing the Greeks to release her.
Creina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (British), English (Australian)
Rating: 73% based on 3 votes
Cyrene
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Κυρήνη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: sie-REE-nee(English)
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Latinized form of Greek Κυρήνη (Kyrene), the name of a Hellenic city in ancient Libya, itself probably named for a nearby spring Κύρη (Kyre). It has been associated with κῦρος (kyros) meaning "power, authority". In Greek mythology this is the name of a Thessalian princess loved by Apollo. He took her to Libya, where he founded the city in her honour and installed her as queen.
Dachelin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval English, Anglo-Norman
Probably a Romanic diminutive of Germanic names such as Dagobert that begin with the element tac meaning "day".
Dacher
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (American, Rare)
Transferred use of the surname Dacher.
Dalkhan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Chechen
Other Scripts: Далхан(Chechen)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Dankler
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Brazilian
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Dankler Luis de Jesus Pereira is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a central defender.
Darley
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Portuguese (Brazilian, Rare)
Rating: 100% based on 3 votes
Davorin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Croatian, Slovene
Rating: 85% based on 4 votes
Variant of Davor.
Delice
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Variant of Delicia.
Dilek
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Turkish
Pronounced: dee-LEHK
Means "wish, desire" in Turkish.
Dražen
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Croatian, Serbian
Other Scripts: Дражен(Serbian)
Pronounced: DRA-zhehn
Rating: 90% based on 3 votes
Derived from the Slavic element dorgŭ (South Slavic drag) meaning "precious", originally a diminutive of names beginning with that element.
Elbek
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Uzbek, Chechen
Other Scripts: Элбек(Uzbek Cyrillic, Chechen)
Pronounced: ehl-BYEHK(Russian)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From Turkic el meaning "nation, people, country" combined with the Turkish military title beg meaning "chieftain, master".
Éléonie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Rare), French (Quebec, Rare), French (Swiss, Rare)
Rating: 63% based on 3 votes
Contracted form of Éléonore via the diminutive Léonie.
Éléonise
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Acadian)
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Émelise
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Louisiana Creole
Rating: 87% based on 3 votes
18th and 19th-century elaboration of Émelia and Émelie with the then-popular feminine name suffix -lise.
Emirhan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Turkish
Rating: 97% based on 3 votes
Derived from Turkish emir meaning "amir, prince" and han meaning "khan, ruler, leader".
Em-jade
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Rating: 100% based on 3 votes
A combination of Em, short for Emma or Emily and Jade.
Emjay
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Modern, Rare)
Rating: 100% based on 3 votes
Phonetic spelling of the initials MJ.
Everald
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval French, Medieval English
Rating: 100% based on 3 votes
Derived from Old High German ebur "boar" and Old High German walt "power; authority". This name was borne by Blessed Everald Hanse (died 31 July 1581), an English Roman Catholic martyr.
Evie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EE-vee, EHV-ee
Rating: 73% based on 4 votes
Diminutive of Eve or Evelyn.
Farelie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Louisiana Creole, French (Acadian)
Rating: 93% based on 3 votes
Gamelyn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval English, Literature
Rating: 93% based on 3 votes
Anglo-Scandinavian form of Gamall. In literature, The Tale of Gamelyn is a romance written in c. 1350 in a dialect of Middle English, considered part of the Matter of England. Although The Tale of Gamelyn is included among Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in two early manuscripts, where it follows the unfinished Cook's Tale, modern scholars do not consider this to be written by Chaucer, although it is possible that he had included the character of Gamelyn among his papers, with the intention of rewriting it for a suitable character.
Geordie
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JAWR-dee
Rating: 97% based on 3 votes
Diminutive of George.
Gílson
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Portuguese (Brazilian)
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Portuguese borrowing of the surname Gilson.
Gilton
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Brazilian
Rating: 90% based on 3 votes
Gilton Ribiero is a Brazilian football defender.
Glory
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: GLAWR-ee
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Simply from the English word glory, ultimately from Latin gloria.
Greteliese
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Rare)
Rating: 77% based on 3 votes
Combination of Grete and Liese.
Guilin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Walloon
Rating: 90% based on 3 votes
Walloon form of Ghislain.
Harrell
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: HER-əl, HAR-əl
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Of Old German origin, meaning "Commander"
Variant of Harold
Hayner
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Brazilian
Rating: 83% based on 3 votes
Hayner William Monjardim Cordeiro , simply known as Hayner, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as defender.
Hercílio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Portuguese (Brazilian)
Rating: 93% based on 3 votes
Hercílio Pedro da Luz was a Brazilian politician who was the Governor of Santa Catarina.
Irelyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American, Modern, Rare)
Pronounced: IER-lən(American English) IER-lin(American English)
Rating: 100% based on 3 votes
Variant of Ireland using the popular name suffix lyn.
Isalie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Louisiana Creole (Archaic), American (South, Archaic), French (Acadian), French (Rare)
Rating: 83% based on 3 votes
Iselia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American, Rare)
Rating: 70% based on 3 votes
Elaboration of Isela.
Ivanor
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Portuguese (Brazilian)
Rating: 97% based on 3 votes
Ivelin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Bulgarian
Other Scripts: Ивелин(Bulgarian)
Rating: 97% based on 3 votes
Masculine form of Ivelina.
Ivelise
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Caribbean), Spanish (Latin American)
Rating: 70% based on 3 votes
Variant of Ivelisse.
Iverine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Jamaican Patois (Modern, Rare), Norwegian (Archaic)
Rating: 90% based on 3 votes
Feminine form of Iver.
Jamie
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Scottish [1], English
Pronounced: JAY-mee
Rating: 100% based on 3 votes
Originally a Lowland Scots diminutive of James. Since the late 19th century it has also been used as a feminine form.
Janus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Pronounced: YA-noos(Latin) JAY-nəs(English)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Means "archway" in Latin. Janus was the Roman god of gateways and beginnings, often depicted as having two faces looking in opposite directions. The month of January is named for him.
Javen
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JA-VIN
Rating: 63% based on 3 votes
Variant of Javan.
Jordy
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Rating: 43% based on 4 votes
Variant of Geordie.
Juscelina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese (Brazilian)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Variant of Jucelina.
Kephas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Κηφᾶς(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Greek form of Cephas.
Lamech
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek [1]
Other Scripts: לֶמֶךְ, לָמֶךְ(Ancient Hebrew) Λάμεχ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: LAY-mik(English)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Possibly means "to make low" in Hebrew. This is the name of two characters in Genesis in the Old Testament, the first being a descendant of Cain, and the second being a descendant of Seth and the father of Noah.
Loleini
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Tongan
Rating: 97% based on 3 votes
Lyline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Majolus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Latinized form of Mayeul.

Saint Majolus of Cluny is a famous bearer.

Marily
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Estonian (Modern)
Rating: 80% based on 3 votes
Variant of Marili.
Marjolaine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: MAR-ZHAW-LEHN
Rating: 88% based on 4 votes
Means "marjoram" in French, from Latin maiorana. Marjoram is a minty herb.
Mayella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (Rare), Literature
Pronounced: may-EL-ə(American)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Possibly a variant of Majella or a combination of May and Ella 1.

Harper Lee used this name in her novel To Kill a Mockingbird (1960).

Megory
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American
Rating: 83% based on 3 votes
Melise
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Modern)
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Gallicized form of Turkish Melis.
Michie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese (Rare)
Other Scripts: 路恵, 道枝, etc.(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: Mee-chee-ay
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
One possible meaning is "Beautiful Wisdom" or it could be perceived as "Beautiful and Wise" instead.
Milas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Danish (Modern)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Meaning unknown. Possibly related to Mylasos, or the Slavic name element mil- (see Mila, Miloš, Miloslav).
Nikhila
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Telugu, Hindi
Other Scripts: నిఖిల(Telugu) निखिला(Hindi)
Rating: 80% based on 3 votes
Feminine form of Nikhil.
Orethy
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare, Archaic)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Possibly an old corruption of Dorothy.
Osman
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Turkish, Kurdish, Albanian, Bosnian, Malay
Other Scripts: ئۆسمان(Kurdish Sorani)
Pronounced: os-MAN(Turkish)
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Turkish, Kurdish, Albanian, Bosnian and Malay form of Uthman. This was the name of the founder of the Ottoman Empire in the 14th century. It was later borne by two more Ottoman sultans.
Ouisie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (Rare)
Pronounced: WEEZ-ee
Rating: 77% based on 3 votes
Diminutive of Louise. Also compare Wheezy, Weezy, Ouiser.
Pacey
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: PAY-see
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From an English surname that was derived from the French place name Pacy, itself derived from Gaulish given name of unknown meaning.
Phlegon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek, Greek Mythology, Biblical, Biblical Greek, Biblical Latin
Other Scripts: Φλέγων(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Essentially means "burning, aflame, inflamed, fiery", since it is derived from the Greek verb φλέγω (phlego) meaning "to burn (up), to inflame". A known bearer of this name was Phlegon of Tralles (2nd century AD), a Greek writer and freedman of the Roman emperor Hadrian.

In Greek mythology, Phlegon is the name of one of the four horses of the chariot of the sun-god Helios.

Raphah
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Christian name meaning Tall
Rigel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Astronomy
Pronounced: RIE-jəl(English)
Rating: 93% based on 3 votes
Derived from Arabic الرجل (al-Rijl) meaning "foot". This is the name of the star that forms the left foot of the constellation Orion.
Romelias
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew (Hellenized), Biblical Greek
Other Scripts: Ῥομελίας(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Greek form of Remaliah, as it first appeared in the Septuagint.
Romilly
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (British, Rare)
Rating: 93% based on 4 votes
From an English surname that was derived from the name of various Norman towns, themselves from the given name Romilius.
Samory
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Western African
Rating: 100% based on 3 votes
Shernold
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: African American
Rating: 97% based on 3 votes
Soleila
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Obscure
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Tabea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German
Pronounced: ta-BEH-a
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
German short form of Tabitha. This form was used in earlier editions of the Luther Bible.
Taylan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Turkish
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Means "tall" in Turkish.
Theola
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (South, Rare), Afrikaans (Rare), South African
Rating: 90% based on 3 votes
Possibly a shortened form of Theolene or Theolinde (compare Theora, Theoda, Theda).
Thierry
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: TYEH-REE
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
French form of Theodoric. It was very popular in France from the 1950s, peaking in the mid-1960s before falling away. A famous bearer is the French former soccer player Thierry Henry (1977-).
Tomiyauh
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Nahuatl
Means "our maize flower", derived from Nahuatl to- "our" and miyahuatl "maize tassel flower".
Umaira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic, Urdu
Other Scripts: عميرة(Arabic) عمیرہ(Urdu)
Pronounced: ‘oo-MIE-ra(Arabic)
Rating: 100% based on 3 votes
Alternate transcription of Arabic عميرة (see Umayra), as well as the Urdu form.
Yancy
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: YAN-see
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
From a surname, which was an Americanized form of the Dutch surname Jansen meaning "Jan 1's son".
Yola
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Γιόλα(Greek)
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Zahari
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Bulgarian
Other Scripts: Захари(Bulgarian)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Bulgarian form of Zechariah.
Zulikhan
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Chechen
Other Scripts: Зулихан(Chechen)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Chechen form of Zulaykha.
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