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Alzire f Theatre, Literature
Used by Voltaire for the heroine of his tragic play 'Alzire, ou les Américains' (1736), about a young indigenous Peruvian woman, daughter of a powerful chief. The heroine is named Alzira in Verdi's opera based on the play... [more]

Anairë f Literature
Means "holiest" in Quenya. In The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien Anairë is the wife of Fingolfin and mother of Fingon, Turgon, Aredhel and Argon... [more]

Bedyvere m Arthurian Cycle
Variant of Bedivere.

Bejolare f Arthurian Cycle

Belcolore f Medieval Italian, Literature
Combination of Italian bel "beautiful" and colore "colour". The Italian novelist Boccaccio used this name in his work 'The Decameron' (1350).

Bellangere m Arthurian Cycle
Alteration of Berengar, possibly influenced by French bel, beau meaning "fine, beautiful, great" and anger "anger" (thus "righteous anger")... [more]

Biancofiore f Literature
Italian form of Blanchefleur.

Blamore m Arthurian Cycle
Son of Nestor, brother of Sir Bleoberis de Ganis, cousin of Lancelot, and a Knight of the Round Table.... [more]

Blamoure m Arthurian Cycle
A knight who owned a white hart that Gawaine pursued on his first adventure.... [more]

Calidore m Literature
Perhaps derived from Greek kallos "beauty" and doron "gift". It was used by Edmund Spenser in his poem 'The Faerie Queene' (1596), where Sir Calidore, the Knight of Courtesy, is the hero of Book VI who tames the Blatant Beast as requested by Queen Gloriana.

Danubre m Arthurian Cycle
A Knight of the Round Table and brother of Acorant the Agile. He was related in some way to Lancelot.... [more]

Dúnhere m Literature
Used in the literature of the Tolkien universe.

Elemmírë f & m Literature
The name Elemmírë was a Quenya word that meant "star jewel", which comes from the words elen, meaning "star" and mírë, meaning "jewel". The form of the word does not specify gender.... [more]

Ellimere f Literature
Invented by Garth Nix for the Old Kingdom trilogy. Ellimere was the daughter of King Touchstone and Abhorsen Sabriel, and princess of the Old Kingdom.

Emaré f Literature
The eponymous character in "Emaré", a Middle English Breton lai, a form of mediaeval romance poem.

Ettarre f Arthurian Cycle
Used by Alfred Lord Tennyson in his Arthurian epic 'Idylls of the King' (1859) as the name of the lady loved by Pelleas. An earlier form, Ettard, was used by Sir Thomas Malory in his 'Le Morte d'Arthur' and may have been a variant or corrupted form of Arcade, the original name of the character in the Post-Vulgate Cycle.

Falsabre m Arthurian Cycle
A Saxon king who participated in the Saxon invasion of Britain in the early days of Arthur’s reign.

Feyre f Literature
Based on fayre the old fashioned spelling of the English word fair meaning "fair, beautiful", ultimately from Old English fæġer. This name was created for the series 'A Court of Thorns and Roses' by author Sarah J. Maas... [more]

Foucaire m Arthurian Cycle
A pirate who inhabited the Rock of the Perilous Port. He was slain by Pompey. His former abode was used by Mordrains during an adventure at sea.

Ganore f Arthurian Cycle
Variant of Gaynor used by George Augustus Simcox in his poem The Farewell of Ganore (1869).

Goldbeere f Literature
German translation of Goldberry, the wife of Tom Bombadil in the Lord of the Rings.

Grantaire m Literature
Grantaire is a fictional character from the 1862 novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo. He is a student from the South of France and is one of the principal characters of the revolutionary group known as the Friends of the ABC.

Gwenore f Arthurian Cycle
Form of Guinevere used in Thomas Chestre's romance Sir Launfal and in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

Helenore f English (Rare), Literature
An elaboration of Helen or Elenore. Used by Scottish poet Alexander Ross (1699-1784) in Helenore, or the Fortunate Shepherdess, published in 1768.

Hellenore f English (Rare), Literature
Borne by a character in Edmund Spenser's 1590 masterpiece, The Faerie Queene. ... [more]

Ilmarë f Literature
Invented by J.R.R. Tolkien for one of the chiefs of the Maiar. Her name comes from the Quenya word ilma meaning "starlight".

Ivárë m Literature
Meaning unknown. In Tolkien's Legendarium this is the name of a character mentioned briefly as the "most magical" of Elven minstrels.

Jaufre m Lengadocian, Arthurian Cycle
Languedocian form of of Jaufré. 'Jaufre' is the only surviving Arthurian romance written in Occitan; its main character is equivalent to Sir Griflet son of Do, a Knight of the Round Table known from other literature.

Langwidere f Literature
From the name of Princess Langwidere, the character that appears in the Baum's third Oz book Ozma of Oz (1907). Her name is a pun of the phrase "languid air".

Liamere f Arthurian Cycle
The Queen of Libya, the wife of King Amire, and the daughter of King Garez in "Wigalois" by Wirnt von Grafenberg.

Maggiore m Literature
Means 'elder' or 'greater' in Italian. Used in Stuart Hill's book ' The Cry Of The Icemark', Maggiore was a tutor to the princess.

Makalaurë m Literature
Means "gold-cleaver" in Quenya. In Tolkien's 'Legendarium', this is the mother-name of Maglor.

Marganore m Carolingian Cycle, Literature
This is the name of a tyrant in the 16th-century Italian epic poem Orlando Furioso written by the Italian poet Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533). It was invented by the author, who used as a base the Greek verb μαργαίνω (margaino) meaning "to rage, to be mad"... [more]

Margondre m Arthurian Cycle
A king of the Saxons.

Mayre f Literature
Possibly a variant of Mary or Marie influenced by May. This name was created by L. Frank Baum for the character Mayre "Trot" Griffiths, a character appearing in several of his Oz books.

Melisandre f Literature, Popular Culture
The name of a witch, known as the Red Priestess, in George R. R. Martin's book series "A Song of Ice and Fire." He likely based her name off the French name Mélisande.

Morganore m Arthurian Cycle

Paladore m Arthurian Cycle
A lover of Morgan le Fay slain by Arthur, causing a rift between Arthur and Morgan.

Pedivere m Arthurian Cycle

Philidore m English, French, Literature
Philidore likely meaning "gift of love", from the Greek philos (φιλος) meaning "friend, lover" and doron (δωρον) meaning "gift".... [more]

Pire f & m Mapuche, Literature
From Mapudungun pire meaning "snow, hail" (compare Piren, derived from the verb).... [more]

Qvarqvare m Georgian (Archaic), Literature
The general consensus is that this name is ultimately derived from the Georgian verb უყვარს (uqvars) meaning "to love", which basically gives the name the meaning of "beloved". Also compare Saqvarela.... [more]

Safere m Arthurian Cycle
A Knight of the Round Table.

Sagramore m Arthurian Cycle, Popular Culture
An Old French variant of the Old French sicamor meaning "sycamore", as in the tree.... [more]

Salandre m Arthurian Cycle
A knight defeated in joust by Perceval.

Sémaphore m Literature
Derived from the French noun sémaphore meaning "semaphore", which is a visual signalling system. The word is ultimately derived from the ancient Greek words σῆμα (sema) meaning "sign, mark, token" and φέρω (phero) meaning "to bear, to carry"... [more]

Shere m Literature, Popular Culture
Shere Khan is a fictional tiger in Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book stories (1894). Shere means "tiger" or "lion" in Persian, Urdu, and Punjabi.

Vairë f Literature
Means "weaver" in Quenya. This was the name of one of the Valar in Tolkien's 'The Simarillion'. Vairë was the wife of Mandos and the weaver of all the stories of the world.

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