meowzie's Personal Name List

Laika
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Popular Culture, Pet
Other Scripts: Лайка(Russian)
Pronounced: LIE-kə(Russian)
Means "barker" in Russian. This was the name of a Soviet dog who became one of the first animals to go to space.
Osborne
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AHZ-bawrn
From a surname that was a variant of Osborn.
Quasimodo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature
From the name of the Sunday that follows Easter, called Quasimodo Sunday, which gets its name from the opening words of the Latin chant quasi modo (geniti infantes...) meaning "like the way (that newborn infants do...)". It was used by Victor Hugo for his novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831), in which Quasimodo is a hunchbacked bellringer at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. He was named thus by Archdeacon Frollo because he was abandoned as a baby at the cathedral on Quasimodo Sunday, though Hugo states that Frollo may have been inspired by the alternate meaning for quasi "almost", referring to the almost-complete appearance of the foundling [1].
Tatty
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Diminutive of Charlotte.
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