sartre_sbinalla42's Personal Name List

Eustace
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: YOO-stis
English form of Eustachius or Eustathius, two names of Greek origin that have been conflated in the post-classical period. Saint Eustace, who is known under both spellings, was a 2nd-century Roman general who became a Christian after seeing a vision of a cross between the antlers of a stag he was hunting. He was burned to death for refusing to worship the Roman gods and is now regarded as the patron saint of hunters. Due to him, this name was common in England during the Middle Ages, though it is presently rare.
Hayden
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: HAY-dən
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From an English surname that was derived from place names meaning either "hay valley" or "hay hill", derived from Old English heg "hay" and denu "valley" or dun "hill". Its popularity at the end of the 20th century was due to the sound it shared with other trendy names of the time, such as Braden and Aidan.
Saburō
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 三郎, etc.(Japanese Kanji) さぶろう(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: SA-BOO-RO
From Japanese (sabu) meaning "three" and () meaning "son". This was traditionally a name for the third son. Other kanji combinations are possible as well.
Sal
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SAL
Short form of Sally, Salvador and other names beginning with Sal.
Sally
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SAL-ee
Diminutive of Sarah, often used independently.
Sam 1
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SAM
Short form of Samuel, Samson, Samantha and other names beginning with Sam. A notable fictional bearer is Sam Spade, a detective in Dashiell Hammett's novel The Maltese Falcon (1930). In J. R. R. Tolkien's 1954 novel The Lord of the Rings (1954) this is a short form of Samwise.
Satchel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: SACH-əl
From an English surname derived from Old English sacc meaning "sack, bag", referring to a person who was a bag maker. A famous bearer was the American baseball player Satchel Paige (1906-1982). In his case it was a childhood nickname acquired because he sold bags.
Sawyer
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: SOI-ər, SAW-yər
From an English surname meaning "sawer of wood". Mark Twain used it for the hero in his novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876).

Very rare as an American given name before 1980, it increased in popularity in the 1980s and 90s. It got a boost in 2004 after the debut of the television series Lost, which featured a character by this name.

Sbigneo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian (Rare), Portuguese (Rare), Spanish (Rare)
Italian, Portuguese and Spanish form of Zbigniew.
Sǽbiǫrn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Norse
Derived from the Germanic name elements sær "sea" and bjǫrn "bear".
Sean
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish, English
Pronounced: SHAWN(English)
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Anglicized form of Seán. This name name, along with variants Shawn and Shaun, began to be be used in the English-speaking world outside of Ireland around the middle of the 20th century.
Sefton
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: SEHF-tən
From a surname that was derived from a place name meaning "town in the rushes" in Old English.
Sevyn
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: SEHV-ən
Variant of Seven.
Seward
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SOO-ərd
From an English surname, either Seward 1 or Seward 2.
Seymour
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SEE-mawr
From a Norman surname that originally belonged to a person coming from the French town of Saint Maur (which means "Saint Maurus").
Sherwood
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SHUR-wuwd
From an English place name (or from a surname that was derived from it) meaning "bright forest". This was the name of the forest in which the legendary outlaw Robin Hood made his home.
Sigurd
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Norse Mythology
Pronounced: SEE-gurd(Swedish)
From the Old Norse name Sigurðr, which was derived from the elements sigr "victory" and vǫrðr "guard, guardian". Sigurd was the hero of the Norse epic the Völsungasaga, which tells how his foster father Regin sent him to recover a hoard of gold guarded by the dragon Fafnir. After slaying the dragon Sigurd tasted some of its blood, enabling him to understand the language of birds, who told him that Regin was planning to betray him. In a later adventure, Sigurd disguised himself as Gunnar (his wife Gudrun's brother) and rescued the maiden Brynhildr from a ring of fire, with the result that Gunnar and Brynhildr were married. When the truth eventually came out, Brynhildr took revenge upon Sigurd. The stories of the German hero Siegfried were in part based on him.
Silas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Greek, Danish, German, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Σίλας(Greek)
Pronounced: SIE-ləs(English)
The name of a companion of Saint Paul in the New Testament. It is probably a short form of Silvanus, a name that Paul calls him by in the epistles. It is possible that Silvanus and Silas were Latin and Greek forms of the Hebrew name Saul (via Aramaic).

As an English name it was not used until after the Protestant Reformation. It was utilized by George Eliot for the title character in her novel Silas Marner (1861).

Silvester
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Slovak, Slovene, Serbian, German, English, Late Roman
Other Scripts: Силвестер(Serbian)
Pronounced: zil-VEHS-tu(German) sil-VEHS-tər(English)
From a Latin name meaning "wooded, wild", derived from silva "wood, forest". This was the name of three popes, including Saint Silvester I who supposedly baptized the first Christian Roman emperor, Constantine the Great. As an English name, Silvester (or Sylvester) has been in use since the Middle Ages, though it became less common after the Protestant Reformation.
Skyler
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: SKIE-lər
Variant of Schuyler, based on the pronunciation of the surname but respelled as if it was a blend of the English word sky with names such as Tyler. It was rare before 1980, and first gained popularity as a name for boys. It is now more common for girls, though it is more evenly unisex than the mostly feminine variant Skylar.
Sly
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SLIE
Short form of Sylvester. The actor Sylvester Stallone (1946-) is a well-known bearer of this nickname.
Stace
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Medieval English, English
Pronounced: STAYS(English)
Medieval short form of Eustace. As a modern name it is typically a short form of Stacy.
Stathis
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Στάθης(Greek)
Pronounced: STA-thees
Short form of Efstathios.
Storm
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Modern), Dutch (Modern), Danish (Modern), Norwegian (Modern)
Pronounced: STAWRM(English, Dutch)
From the vocabulary word, ultimately from Old English or Old Dutch storm, or in the case of the Scandinavian name, from Old Norse stormr. It is unisex as an English name, but typically masculine elsewhere.
Stuart
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Scottish
Pronounced: STOO-ərt(English) STYOO-ərt(English)
From a Scottish occupational surname originally belonging to a person who was a steward. It is ultimately derived from Old English stig "house" and weard "guard". As a given name, it arose in 19th-century Scotland in honour of the Stuart royal family, which produced several kings and queens of Scotland and Britain between the 14th and 18th centuries.
Sutton
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: SUT-ən
From a surname, itself derived from the name of numerous English towns, of Old English origin meaning "south town".
Wolke
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: German, West Frisian, East Frisian
Frisian short form of Germanic names that contain the Gothic element valdan "to reign" (practically the same as wald "rule"). It is known as a masculine name since the 15th century, and as a feminine name since the 20th century. Also, in modern German, the word Wolke means "cloud" (so some German parents use the name for that reason, because they like nature names).

The name is borne by the German actress Wolke Hegenbarth.

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