konstancja's Personal Name List

From the name of a Hindu ritual in which offerings of lamps or candles are made to various gods, derived from Sanskrit आरात्रिक (ārātrika).

Means "golden autumn" in Mongolian, from алтан (altan) meaning "golden" and намар (namar) meaning "autumn".

Meaning unknown. This name was (first?) used by William Congreve in his comedy The Old Bachelor (1693) and later by John Vanbrugh in his comedy The Confederacy (1705). This was the original given name of abolitionist Harriet Tubman (1820-1913), who was born Araminta Ross.

Derived from Hungarian arany meaning "gold". It is used as a vernacular form of Aurélia.

Means "beautiful soul" in Kazakh.

Turkish, Azerbaijani and Uyghur form of Arezou.

Polish form of Athanasius.

From ata meaning "morning" and rangi meaning "sky" in Maori.

Derived from Arabic عظمة (ʿaẓama) meaning "majesty, glory".

Kazakh form of Bakhtiar, as well as an alternate transcription of Azerbaijani Bəxtiyar.

Means "given by God" from the Slavic elements bogŭ "god" and danŭ "given". This pre-Christian name was later used as a translation of Theodotus.

Derived from Hungarian csillag meaning "star". This name was created by the Hungarian author András Dugonics for an 1803 novel and later used and popularized by the poet Mihály Vörösmarty.

Masculine form of Cvetka.

From an English surname that was derived from Norman French d'Arcy, originally denoting one who came from the town of Arcy in La Manche, France. This is the surname of a character, Fitzwilliam Darcy, in Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice (1813).

Derived from Slavic dobro "good, kind" combined with Slavic mir "peace".

Polish feminine form of Dobroslav.

From the biblical place name, itself possibly from Hebrew עֵדֶן (ʿeḏen) meaning "pleasure, delight" [1], or perhaps derived from Sumerian 𒂔 (edin) meaning "plain". According to the Old Testament the Garden of Eden was the place where the first people, Adam and Eve, lived before they were expelled.

Modern Hebrew form of Elijah.

Means "generous" in Mongolian.

French form of Stephen.

Means "angel" in Persian.

From Sol prefixed with 한 (han), either a determiner from the numeral Hana 4 meaning "one," or the present determiner form of adjective 하다 (hada) meaning "big, large, great."
It can also be written with hanja, prefixing a sol hanja like 率 meaning "taking care; pursuit; following" with a han hanja, such as 韓, referring to Korea, 翰 meaning "letter; document; (writing) brush" or 漢, referring to China.

Russian and Belarusian form of Elijah.

Hungarian form of Stephen. This was the name of the first king of Hungary. Ruling in the 11th century, he encouraged the spread of Christianity among his subjects and is considered the patron saint of Hungary.

Modern form of Jacenty.

Spanish and Portuguese form of Hyacinthus.

Means "world conqueror, world seizer" in Persian, from جهان (jahān) meaning "world" and گیر (gīr) meaning "catch, seize, conquer". This was the name of a 17th-century Mughal emperor.

Bosnian masculine form of Jasmine.

Feminine form of Jayanta. This is this name of a daughter of the Hindu god Indra and a wife of Shukra.

West Frisian masculine variant and feminine form of Jinne.

Means "viburnum tree" in Bulgarian, Macedonian and Polish.

From Greek καλός Ἰωάννης (kalos Ioannes) meaning "handsome John", the nickname of a 13th-century emperor of Bulgaria. He successfully defended the empire from the Fourth Crusade.

Feminine form of Kazimierz (Polish) or Kazimieras (Lithuanian).

From the Hungarian royal title kende or kündü, which referred to the ceremonial Magyar king (who ruled together with the military leader the gyula in the period before the Magyars settled in Hungary).

From an Irish surname, an Anglicized form of Irish Gaelic Ó Cinnéidigh, itself derived from the given name Cennétig. The name has sometimes been given in honour of assassinated American president John F. Kennedy (1917-1963). It was popularized as a name for girls by Lisa Kennedy Montgomery (1972-), known simply as Kennedy, the host of the television program Alternative Nation on MTV from 1992 to 1997.

Georgian form of Katayoun. It is sometimes used as a Georgian form of Katherine.

Derived from Hungarian kincs meaning "treasure". This name was created by Hungarian author Mór Jókai in The Novel of the Next Century (1872).

Means "pleasure, joy" in Turkish.

Czech form of Wido.

Means "love" in Sotho.

Romanian form of Livius.

Combination of Maria and Anna. It can also be regarded as a variant of the Roman name Mariana, or as a Latinized form of Mariamne.

Combination of Mete and Turkish han meaning "khan, ruler, leader", referring to the 3rd-century BC Xiongnu ruler Modu Chanyu.

From the Slavic element milŭ meaning "gracious, dear", originally a short form of names that began with that element. It was originally used in Czech, Slovak, and the South Slavic languages, though it has recently become popular elsewhere in Europe.

A city in Italy bears this name, though in this case it originates from Latin Mediolanum, perhaps ultimately of Celtic origin meaning "middle of the plain". In some cases the city name may be an influence on the use of the given name.

Feminine form of Mirosław.

Polish cognate of Nadezhda, being the Polish word meaning "hope".

Means "sun hero" in Mongolian, from наран (naran) meaning "sun" and баатар (baatar) meaning "hero".

Derived from Persian ناز (nāz) meaning "delight, comfort" and Kazakh ерке (erke) meaning "naughty, spoiled, darling".

From Kazakh нұр (nur) meaning "light" and сұлтан (sultan) meaning "sultan, king" (both words of Arabic origin).

From the Roman name Octavianus, which was derived from the name Octavius. After Gaius Octavius (later the Roman emperor Augustus) was adopted by Julius Caesar he took the name Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus.

Means "he has given" in Tswana and Sotho.

Italian cognate of Salvador.

Serbian and Bulgarian form of Sabas.

Irish form of Jehanne, a Norman French variant of Jeanne.

Means "nation" in Xhosa.

Southern Indian form of Shrinivas.

From the Old Norse name Sverrir meaning "wild, swinging, spinning".

Alternate transcription of Russian/Ukrainian Святослав (see Svyatoslav).

Form of Tīmūr e Lang (see Timur) used in several languages.

From the English word meaning "moderation" or "restraint". This was one of the virtue names adopted by the Puritans in the 17th century. It experienced a modest revival in the United States during the run of the television series Bones (2005-2017), in which the main character bears this name.

Means "goodness" in Tswana.

From Sanskrit उर्वी (urvī) meaning "wide".

Means "a good path" in Igbo.

Form of Valentinus (see Valentine 1) in several languages.

Derived from Hungarian szent meaning "holy, saint".

Masculine form of Zora.