Luccca's Personal Name List

Valentijn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch
Pronounced: VA-lən-tayn
Personal remark: Dutch "strong/ healthy", [VAH-lenn-teen]
Rating: 17% based on 10 votes
Dutch form of Valentinus (see Valentine 1).
Tarjei
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norwegian
Pronounced: TAHR-yai
Personal remark: Norwegian "Thors spear", [TAHR-yeh]
Rating: 26% based on 10 votes
Norwegian form of Torgeir.
Matteo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: mat-TEH-o
Personal remark: Italian "to be" or "to become", [mah-TE-oh]
Rating: 30% based on 9 votes
Italian form of Matthew.
Livius
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Personal remark: Ancient Roman "blue", [LEE-vee-yuss]
Rating: 24% based on 10 votes
Roman family name that may be related to either Latin liveo "to envy" or lividus "blue, envious". Titus Livius, also known as Livy, was a Roman historian who wrote a history of the city of Rome.
Lior
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: לִיאוֹר(Hebrew)
Personal remark: Hebrew "light for me", [LEE-owr]
Rating: 46% based on 10 votes
Means "my light" in Hebrew, from לִי (li) "for me" and אוֹר (ʾor) "light".
Linos
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology, Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Λίνος(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: LEE-NOS(Classical Greek)
Personal remark: Greek "flax", [LEE-noss]
Rating: 25% based on 10 votes
Greek form of Linus.
Leo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Estonian, English, Croatian, Armenian, Late Roman
Other Scripts: Լեո(Armenian)
Pronounced: LEH-o(German, Dutch, Danish, Finnish) LEE-o(English)
Personal remark: European "lion", [LE-oh]
Rating: 44% based on 10 votes
Derived from Latin leo meaning "lion", a cognate of Leon. It was popular among early Christians and was the name of 13 popes, including Saint Leo the Great who asserted the dominance of the Roman bishops (the popes) over all others in the 5th century. It was also borne by six Byzantine emperors and five Armenian kings. Another famous bearer was the Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), name spelled Лев in Russian, whose works include War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Leo is also a constellation and the fifth sign of the zodiac.

In some cases this name can be a short form of longer names that start with Leo, such as Leonard.

Gábor
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hungarian
Pronounced: GA-bor
Rating: 24% based on 8 votes
Hungarian form of Gabriel.
Eneas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Galician, Spanish
Personal remark: Spanish/ Portugese "praise", [eh-NEH-ahs]
Rating: 22% based on 10 votes
Galician and Spanish form of Aeneas.
Emilius
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Danish, Dutch
Personal remark: Dutch "rival", [eh-MEE-lee-yus]
Rating: 46% based on 10 votes
Variant of Aemilius (see Emil).
Elior
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אֱלִיאוֹר(Hebrew)
Personal remark: Hebrew "God is my light", [EH-lee-ohr]
Rating: 32% based on 9 votes
Means "my God is my light" in Hebrew.
Elias
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Portuguese, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, English, Dutch, Greek, Amharic, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Ηλίας(Greek) ኤልያስ(Amharic) Ἠλίας(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: i-LEE-ush(European Portuguese) eh-LEE-us(Brazilian Portuguese) eh-LEE-as(German) EH-lee-ahs(Finnish, Dutch) i-LIE-əs(English) ee-LIE-əs(English)
Personal remark: European "to be" or "to become", [eh-LEE-as]
Rating: 48% based on 9 votes
Form of Elijah used in several languages. This is also the form used in the Greek New Testament, as well as some English translations.
Celestyn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: tseh-LEH-stin
Rating: 23% based on 8 votes
Polish form of Caelestinus.
Célestin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: SEH-LEHS-TEHN
Rating: 29% based on 9 votes
French form of Caelestinus.
Caspian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: KAS-pee-ən(English)
Rating: 59% based on 10 votes
Used by author C. S. Lewis for a character in his Chronicles of Narnia series, first appearing in 1950. Prince Caspian first appears in the fourth book, where he is the rightful king of Narnia driven into exile by his evil uncle Miraz. Lewis probably based the name on the Caspian Sea, which was named for the city of Qazvin, which was itself named for the ancient Cas tribe.
Aurel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Romanian, German (Rare)
Pronounced: ow-REHL(German)
Personal remark: Slavic "golden", [ow-REHL]
Rating: 35% based on 11 votes
Romanian and German form of Aurelius.
Arjan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch
Pronounced: AHR-yahn
Personal remark: Dutch "from Hadria", [AHR-yahn]
Rating: 33% based on 12 votes
Dutch form of Adrian.
Ares
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἄρης(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: A-REHS(Classical Greek) EHR-eez(English)
Personal remark: Greek "male", [AH-ress]
Rating: 31% based on 13 votes
Perhaps from either Greek ἀρή (are) meaning "bane, ruin" or ἄρσην (arsen) meaning "male". The name first appears as a-re in Mycenaean Greek writing. Ares was the bloodthirsty god of war in Greek mythology, a son of Zeus and Hera.
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