LyresAndLarks's Personal Name List

Means "morning" in Finnish.

Finnish, Estonian, German and Danish diminutive of Anna.

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

French feminine diminutive of Charles. It was introduced to Britain in the 17th century. It was the name of a German-born 18th-century queen consort of Great Britain and Ireland. Another notable bearer was Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855), the eldest of the three Brontë sisters and the author of Jane Eyre and Villette. A famous fictional bearer is the spider in the children's novel Charlotte's Web (1952) by E. B. White.

This name was fairly common in France, England and the United States in the early 20th century. It became quite popular in France and England at the end of the 20th century, just when it was at a low point in the United States. It quickly climbed the American charts and entered the top ten in 2014.

Latinized form of Greek Κιναιδιον (Kinaidion), which meant "(Eurasian) Wryneck", a type of small grey-brown woodpecker (traditionally associated with passionate and restless love as well as witchcraft, i.e., used by witches in a charm to recover unfaithful lovers). In Greek mythology this was an epithet of the nymph Iynx.

Meaning uncertain, possibly a variant of Aila or a rare Norwegian diminutive of Elin. It was used by the Finnish author Väinö Kataja for a character in his novel Tuskaa (1907), and it became fairly popular in Finland in the first half of the 20th century.

Means "maiden, virgin" in Finnish.

Modern Greek form of Hera.

Form of Irene in several languages.

German and Finnish form of Jasmine, as well as an English variant.

Swedish short form of Katherine.

Means "lily of the valley" in Finnish (species Convallaria majalis).