Behind the Name: lemongrass77777's Personal Name List

Adelia

Gender: Feminine

Usage: English, Spanish

Pronounced: ə-DEHL-ee-ə(English) a-DHEH-lya(Spanish)

Elaborated form of Adela.

Sable

Gender: Feminine

Usage: English (Modern)

Pronounced: SAY-bəl

From the English word meaning "black", derived from the name of the black-furred mammal native to northern Asia, ultimately of Slavic origin.

Selma 1

Gender: Feminine

Usage: English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic

Pronounced: SEHL-mə(English) ZEHL-ma(German)

Meaning unknown, possibly a short form of Anselma. It could also have been inspired by James Macpherson's 18th-century poems, in which it is the name of Ossian's castle.

Vera 1

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Russian, English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, Slovene, Serbian, Croatian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Belarusian, Georgian

Other Scripts: Вера(Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Belarusian) ვერა(Georgian)

Pronounced: VYEH-rə(Russian) VEE-rə(English) VEHR-ə(English) VEH-ra(German, Dutch) VEH-rah(Swedish) BEH-ra(Spanish) VEH-raw(Hungarian)

Means "faith" in Russian, though it is sometimes associated with the Latin word verus "true". It has been in general use in the English-speaking world since the late 19th century.