Lily-the-seal's Personal Name List

Spanish form of Abigail.

From the Hebrew name אֲבִיגָיִל (ʾAviḡayil) meaning "my father is joy", derived from the roots אָב (ʾav) meaning "father" and גִּיל (gil) meaning "joy". In the Old Testament this is the name of Nabal's wife. After Nabal's death she became the third wife of King David.

As an English name, Abigail first became common after the Protestant Reformation, and it was popular among the Puritans. The biblical Abigail refers to herself as a servant, and beginning in the 17th century the name became a slang term for a servant, especially after the release of the play The Scornful Lady (1616), which featured a character named Abigail. The name went out of fashion at that point, but it was revived in the 20th century.

Hungarian form of Abigail.

Means "nobleness, nobility", from the French form of the Germanic name Adalheidis, which was composed of adal "noble" and the suffix heit "kind, sort, type". It was borne in the 10th century by Saint Adelaide, the wife of the Holy Roman emperor Otto the Great.

In Britain the parallel form Alice, derived via Old French, has historically been more common than Adelaide, though this form did gain some currency in the 19th century due to the popularity of the German-born wife of King William IV, for whom the city of Adelaide in Australia was named in 1836.

Means "mistress of fire" in Kalmyk Orit, possibly influenced by the Russian word огонь (ogon') meaning "fire".

Means "stars" in Turkish.

Means "white seal" in Kyrgyz.

Form of Alexandra in several languages.

Short form of Adelina, Albina and names that end in alina.

Feminine form of Anastasius. This was the name of a 4th-century Dalmatian saint who was martyred during the persecutions of the Roman emperor Diocletian. Due to her, the name has been common in Eastern Orthodox Christianity (in various spellings). As an English name it has been in use since the Middle Ages. A famous bearer was the youngest daughter of the last Russian tsar Nicholas II, who was rumoured to have escaped the execution of her family in 1918.

Slovene, Croatian and Serbian diminutive of Anna.

Spanish, Portuguese, Croatian and Slovene diminutive of Ana.

Latinate diminutive of Anna.

Russian diminutive of Anna.

Derived from Finnish ansio "virtue" or ansa "trap".

Hawaiian form of Abigail.

Modern Hebrew form of Abigail.

Variant of Basha.

Yiddish form of Batya.

Hebrew variant of Bithiah.

Feminine form of Bernard.

Most likely a Scandinavian form of Bridget via the Latinized form Brigitta. Alternatively it could be a feminine derivative of Birger. This is the name of the patron saint of Europe, Birgitta of Sweden, the 14th-century founder of the Bridgettine nuns. Her father's name was Birger.

Means "little flame" in Yiddish.

Means "sad", derived from Irish brón meaning "sorrow". Saint Brónach was a 6th-century Irish mystic.

Irish form of Katherine.

Scottish Gaelic form of Katherine.

From the Choctaw kowi meaning "puma" and homma meaning "red".

Portuguese form of Constantia.

Medieval form of Constantia. The Normans introduced this name to England (it was the name of a daughter of William the Conqueror).

Romanian form of Constantia.

Feminine form of the Late Latin name Constantius, which was itself derived from Constans.

Spanish form of Constantia.

German form of Constantia.

Italian feminine form of Constans.

Feminine form of Custodio.

Means "laurel" in Hebrew, of Greek origin.

Derived from Thai ดารา (dara) meaning "star".

Derived from the Slavic word darŭ meaning "gift". It is sometimes used as a diminutive of names beginning with Dar.

Means "sea, ocean" in Persian.

Means "laurel" in Turkish, of Greek origin.

Bulgarian form of Danica.

Portuguese, Slovak and Hungarian feminine form of Aemilius (see Emily).

From the English word for the plant, ultimately from Old English fearn. It has been used as a given name since the late 19th century.

Swedish and Finnish feminine form of Frederick.

From Japanese 文 (fumi) meaning "writing", 史 (fumi) meaning "history", or other kanji or combinations of kanji that are read the same way. It is often written in hiragana or katakana.

Romanian feminine form of George.

Feminine form of George. This form of the name has been in use in the English-speaking world since the 18th century.

Italian form of Jade.

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).

Elaboration of Gracia.

Scandinavian, Finnish and Hungarian form of Hedwig.

Czech and Slovene form of Hedwig.

From the Old German name Hadewig, derived from the Old German elements hadu "battle, combat" and wig "war". This was the name of a 13th-century German saint, the wife of the Polish duke Henry the Bearded. It was subsequently borne by a 14th-century Polish queen (usually known by her Polish name Jadwiga) who is now also regarded as a saint.

Derived from Old Norse heiðr meaning "bright, clear" and rún meaning "secret lore, rune". In Norse mythology this was the name of a goat that would eat the leaves from the tree of life and produce mead in her udder.

Diminutive of Vilhelmiina or Vilhelmina. It also means "pearl" in Finnish.

Feminine form of Hendrik.

Latinate form of Henriette. It was introduced to England by Henriette Marie, the wife of the 17th-century English king Charles I. The name Henriette was also Anglicized as Harriet, a form that was initially more popular.

French feminine diminutive of Henri.

Finnish feminine form of Heinrich (see Henry).

Finnish vernacular form of Hedvig.

Feminine form of Hugo or Hugolin used in the Old English times.

Means "pearl" in Kazakh.

Polish form of Hedwig. This was the name of a 14th-century ruling queen of Poland who has recently been canonized as a saint.

Feminine diminutive form of Ján, Jan 1 or János.

Feminine form of John.

From Sanskrit कविता (kavitā) meaning "poem".

Means "star" in Amharic.

Polish form of Constantia.

German form of Constantia.

From Bulgarian лале (lale) meaning "tulip". It is derived via Turkish from Persian لاله (lāleh).

Form of Lillian found in Scotland from about the 16th century [1].

Scottish Gaelic form of Lucia or Louisa.

Derived from the Old Norse name Hlíf meaning "protection". Its use has been influenced by the modern Scandinavian word liv meaning "life".

Estonian feminine form of Louis.

Feminine form of Lucius. Saint Lucia was a 4th-century martyr from Syracuse. She was said to have had her eyes gouged out, and thus she is the patron saint of the blind. She was widely revered in the Middle Ages, and her name has been used throughout Christian Europe (in various spellings). It has been used in the England since the 12th century, usually in the spellings Lucy or Luce.

Feminine form of Lucianus.

Means "favour of the people" from the Slavic elements ľudŭ "people" and milŭ "gracious, dear". Saint Ludmila was a 10th-century duchess of Bohemia, the grandmother of Saint Václav. She was murdered on the orders of her daughter-in-law Drahomíra.

As a Russian name, this is an alternate transcription of Людмила (usually rendered Lyudmila).

Medieval French form of Mathilde.

Proto-Germanic reconstruction of Matilda.

Welsh form of Maria (see Mary).

Form of Maia 1 in various languages.

Means "sea" in Spanish and Catalan. It is from a devotional title of the Virgin Mary, Nuestra Señora del Mar "Our Lady of the Sea", the patron saint of the Spanish province of Almería.

Means "made of the sea" in Esperanto, a derivative of maro "sea", ultimately from Latin mare.

Diminutive of Margarete or Margaretha.

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

Variant of Margalit.

Derived from Latin Margarita, which was from Greek μαργαρίτης (margarites) meaning "pearl", a word that was probably ultimately a borrowing from an Indo-Iranian language. Saint Margaret, the patron of expectant mothers, was martyred at Antioch in the 4th century. Later legends told of her escape from a dragon, with which she was often depicted in medieval art. The saint was popular during the Middle Ages, and her name has been widely used in the Christian world.

As an English name it has been very popular since the Middle Ages. It was the top name for girls in England and Wales in the 1920s, 30s and 40s, but it declined in the latter half of the 20th century.

Other saints by this name include a queen of Scotland and a princess of Hungary. It was also borne by Queen Margaret I of Denmark, who united Denmark, Sweden, and Norway in the 14th century. Famous literary bearers include American writer Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949), the author of Gone with the Wind, and Canadian writer Margaret Atwood (1939-). Others include American anthropologist Margaret Mead (1901-1978) and British prime minister Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013).

Estonian, Finnish, Welsh and Breton form of Maria, as well as a Hungarian diminutive of Mária. It is also a Scandinavian, Georgian and Armenian form of the French name Marie.

From the Germanic name Mahthilt meaning "strength in battle", from the elements maht "might, strength" and hilt "battle". Saint Matilda was the wife of the 10th-century German king Henry I the Fowler. The name was common in many branches of European royalty in the Middle Ages. It was brought to England by the Normans, being borne by the wife of William the Conqueror himself. Another notable royal by this name was a 12th-century daughter of Henry I of England, known as the Empress Matilda because of her first marriage to the Holy Roman emperor Henry V. She later invaded England, laying the foundations for the reign of her son Henry II.

The name was very popular until the 15th century in England, usually in the vernacular form Maud. Both forms were revived by the 19th century. This name appears in the popular Australian folk song Waltzing Matilda, written in 1895.

German feminine form of Maximilian.

Means "jasmine flower" in Malay and Indonesian, ultimately from Sanskrit मालती (mālatī).

Means "violet (the flower)" in Turkish.

Means "sea" in Finnish.

Scottish Gaelic form of Muirgel.

Means "bright sea", derived from Old Irish muir "sea" and gel "bright".

Possibly a feminine form of Moshe.

Irish form of Nancy.

Scottish Gaelic diminutive of Anna.

Means "sun light" in Mongolian, from наран (naran) meaning "sun" and гэрэл (gerel) meaning "light".

Means "sun flower" in Mongolian, from наран (naran) meaning "sun" and цэцэг (tsetseg) meaning "flower".

From Sanskrit नील (nīla) meaning "dark blue".

From the Old Norse name Oddbjǫrg, derived from oddr "point of a sword" and bjǫrg "help, save, rescue".

Old Norse form of Oddbjørg.

From Old Norse oddr "point of a sword" and nýr "new".

From Old Norse oddr "point of a sword" and rún "secret lore, rune". This is the name of a woman in the Old Norse poem Oddrúnargrátr in the Poetic Edda.

Norwegian form of Oddrún.

Means "golden ruler", from Old Irish ór "gold" combined with flaith "ruler, sovereign, princess". This name was borne by several medieval Irish royals, including a sister of the king Brian Boru.

Roman name, a diminutive of Prisca. In Acts in the New Testament Paul lived with Priscilla (also known as Prisca) and her husband Aquila in Corinth for a while. It has been used as an English given name since the Protestant Reformation, being popular with the Puritans. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow used it in his 1858 poem The Courtship of Miles Standish [1].

From Yiddish רויז (roiz) meaning "rose".

Finnish short form of Margaret, used independently.

Finnish short form of Fredrika, Henriikka and other names ending in rika.

Short form of Fredrika, Henrika and other names ending in rika.

From Japanese 理 (ri) meaning "reason, logic", 梨 (ri) meaning "pear", 里 (ri) meaning "village", or 利 (ri) meaning "profit, benefit" and 香 (ka) meaning "fragrance", 花 or 華 (ka) both meaning "flower", 佳 (ka) meaning "good, beautiful", 加 (ka) meaning "increase", or 化 (ka) meaning "to change, to influence". Other kanji combinations can form this name as well.

From Japanese 莉 (ri) meaning "white jasmine" or 里 (ri) meaning "village" combined with 奈 (na), a phonetic character, or 菜 (na) meaning "vegetables, greens". Other kanji combinations are possible.

Short form of Margherita and other names ending in rita. Saint Rita (born Margherita Lotti) was a 15th-century nun from Cascia, Italy. Another famous bearer was the American actress Rita Hayworth (1918-1987).

Means "famous battle" from the Germanic elements hruom "fame, glory" and hilt "battle".

Feminine form of Ronald.

Feminine form of Ronald.

Generally this can be considered to be from Latin rosa meaning "rose", though originally it may have come from the unrelated Germanic name Roza 2. This was the name of a 13th-century saint from Viterbo in Italy. In the English-speaking world it was first used in the 19th century. Famous bearers include the Polish-German revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) and the American civil rights activist Rosa Parks (1913-2005).

Late Latin name derived from rosa "rose". This was the name of a 12th-century Sicilian saint.

French, German and Dutch form of Rosalia. In the English-speaking this name received a boost after the release of the movie Rosalie (1938), which was based on an earlier musical.

Italian diminutive of Rosa 1. This is the name of a character in Rossini's opera The Barber of Seville (1816).

Means "rose" in Russian, Bulgarian and Macedonian. It is a cognate of Rosa 1.

Polish and Romanian form of Rosalia.

Feminine form of Rumen.

Feminine form of Rumen.

Old Norse, Icelandic and Faroese feminine form of Rune.

Feminine form of Rune.

Polish and Latvian form of Ruth 1.

Derived from the Slavic name elements sam "alone; oneself" and boji "battle; to fight".

Romanian, Croatian and Latvian short form of Alexandra.

Derived from South Slavic sanjati meaning "to dream".

Diminutive of Sara, or sometimes a variant of Serena.

Possibly a Polish Yiddish diminutive of Selda, found in documents from the early 1800s regarding contemporary Yiddish-speakers in Poland.

Means "star" in Welsh. This is a recently created Welsh name.

Means "dew" in Persian and Urdu.

Means "dark blue (eyes)" or "dark red (eyes)" in Persian.

From Chinese 淑 (shū) meaning "good, pure, virtuous, charming", besides other characters that are pronounced similarly.

From Chinese 淑 (shū) meaning "good, pure, virtuous, charming" combined with 芬 (fēn) meaning "fragrance, aroma, perfume". Other character combinations are possible as well.

Means "flame" in Arabic.

Diminutive of Siân.

Norwegian form of Sigrún.

From an Irish surname, an Anglicized form of Ó Sluaghadháin, itself derived from the given name Sluaghadhán.

Means "solitude" in Spanish. It is taken from the title of the Virgin Mary, María de la Soledad, meaning "Mary of Solitude".

Means "glowing, burning" in Kurdish.

From Croatian spomenak meaning "forget-me-not (flower)".

From the English word for the celestial body, ultimately from Old English steorra.

Elaborated form of Star.

Means "star" in Latin. This name was created by the 16th-century poet Philip Sidney for the subject of his collection of sonnets Astrophel and Stella. It was a nickname of a lover of Jonathan Swift, real name Esther Johnson (1681-1728), though it was not commonly used as a given name until the 19th century. It appears in Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), belonging to the sister of Blanche DuBois and the wife of Stanley Kowalski.

Means "legend, myth" in Finnish. It is also used as a diminutive of Tarja.

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.

From Sino-Vietnamese 秋 (thu) meaning "autumn".

Means "victory" in Latin, being borne by the Roman goddess of victory. It is also a feminine form of Victorius. This name was borne by a 4th-century saint and martyr from North Africa.

Though in use elsewhere in Europe, the name was very rare in the English-speaking world until the 19th century, when Queen Victoria began her long rule of Britain. She was named after her mother, who was of German royalty. Many geographic areas are named after the queen, including an Australian state and a Canadian city.

Hawaiian form of Victoria.

Feminine form of Willem.

Derived from the Old English elements wulf "wolf" and run "secret lore, rune". This was the name of a 10th-century English noblewoman who founded the city of Wolverhampton.

Derived from the Old English elements wulf "wolf" and wynn "joy".

Some link this name to a pet form of Yocheved, while others say it is a Yiddish form of Jacinthe. See Yachna.

From the Navajo word náhineesyiz meaning "brave".

Means "dew" or "moonlight" in urdu.