Behind the Name: meowzie's Personal Name List

Atari

Gender: Masculine & Feminine

Usage: Obscure (Modern)

Pronounced: ə-TAHR-ee

From the Japanese word 当たり (atari) meaning "a hit, a good move" (specially in the game of Go). Atari is the name of an American videogame company that released the video game console Atari 2600 in the year 1977. Starting in 1979, this name has been given to at least 85 boys and 53 girls in the United States.

Attilio

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Italian

Pronounced: at-TEE-lyo

Italian form of the Roman family name Atilius, which is of unknown Etruscan origin. Marcus Atilius Regulus was a Roman consul and hero of the First Punic War.

Azarel

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Biblical, Biblical Hebrew [1]

Other Scripts: עֲזַרְאֵל(Ancient Hebrew)

Means "God has helped" in Hebrew, derived from עָזַר (ʿazar) meaning "to help" and אֵל (ʾel) meaning "God". This is the name of several minor Old Testament characters.

Azriel

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Biblical

Other Scripts: עֲזְרִיאֵל(Ancient Hebrew)

Pronounced: AZ-ree-əl(English)

Means "my help is God" in Hebrew, derived from עֶזְרָה (ʿezra) meaning "help" and אֵל (ʾel) meaning "God". This is the name of three minor characters in the Old Testament.

Linh

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Vietnamese

Pronounced: LING, LIN

From Sino-Vietnamese 靈 (linh) meaning "spirit, soul".

Matthias

Gender: Masculine

Usage: German, French, Dutch, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek [1]

Other Scripts: Ματθίας, Μαθθίας(Ancient Greek)

Pronounced: ma-TEE-as(German) MA-TYAS(French) mah-TEE-yahs(Dutch) mə-THIE-əs(English) MAT-tee-as(Latin)

From Greek Ματθίας (Matthias), a variant of Ματθαῖος (see Matthew). This form appears in the New Testament as the name of the apostle chosen to replace the traitor Judas Iscariot. This was also the name of kings of Hungary (spelled Mátyás in Hungarian), including Matthias I who made important reforms to the kingdom in the 15th century.

Philomena

Gender: Feminine

Usage: English, German, Ancient Greek (Latinized)

Other Scripts: Φιλουμένη(Ancient Greek)

Pronounced: fil-ə-MEE-nə(English)

From Greek Φιλουμένη (Philoumene) meaning "to be loved", an inflection of φιλέω (phileo) meaning "to love". This was the name of an obscure early saint and martyr. The name came to public attention in 1802 after a tomb seemingly marked with the name Filumena was found in Rome, supposedly belonging to another martyr named Philomena. This may have in fact been a representation of the Greek word φιλουμένη, not a name.

Val

Gender: Masculine & Feminine

Usage: English

Pronounced: VAL

Short form of Valentine 1, Valerie and other names beginning with Val.

Victor

Gender: Masculine

Usage: English, French, Portuguese, Romanian, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Late Roman

Pronounced: VIK-tər(English) VEEK-TAWR(French) VEEK-tor(Romanian) VIK-tawr(Dutch)

Roman name meaning "victor, conqueror" in Latin. It was common among early Christians, and was borne by several early saints and three popes. It was rare as an English name during the Middle Ages, but it was revived in the 19th century. A famous bearer was the French writer Victor Hugo (1802-1885), who authored The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and Les Misérables.