Rhubarb's Personal Name List

Zelda 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Yiddish
Other Scripts: זעלדאַ(Yiddish)
Rating: 66% based on 8 votes
Possibly a feminine form of Zelig.
Yosefa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: יוֹסֵפָה(Hebrew)
Rating: 41% based on 7 votes
Feminine form of Yosef.
Yochanan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew [1]
Other Scripts: יוֹחָנָן(Hebrew)
Rating: 23% based on 7 votes
Hebrew form of John (and Johanan). This is a contracted form of the longer name יְהוֹחָנָן (Yehoḥanan).
Yaara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: יַעֲרָה(Hebrew)
Rating: 49% based on 7 votes
Means "honeycomb" and "honeysuckle" in Hebrew.
Shira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: שִׁירָה(Hebrew)
Rating: 66% based on 8 votes
Means "singing" in Hebrew.
Shimon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew [1]
Other Scripts: שִׁמְעוֹן(Hebrew)
Pronounced: sheem-ON(Hebrew)
Rating: 30% based on 7 votes
Hebrew form of Simeon (and Simon 1).
Shiloh
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: שִׁלוֹ, שִׁילֹה(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: SHIE-lo(English)
Rating: 61% based on 9 votes
From an Old Testament place name possibly meaning "tranquil" in Hebrew. It is also used prophetically in the Old Testament to refer to a person, often understood to be the Messiah (see Genesis 49:10). This may in fact be a mistranslation.

This name was brought to public attention after actors Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt gave it to their daughter in 2006.

Rafi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew, Spanish
Other Scripts: רפי(Hebrew)
Pronounced: rah-fee(Hebrew)
Rating: 49% based on 7 votes
Diminutive of Raphael.
Mirian
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Judeo-Spanish, Judeo-Anglo-Norman
Rating: 64% based on 10 votes
Spanish, Judeo-Spanish and Judeo-Anglo-Norman variant of Miriam.
Michal 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical, Hebrew
Other Scripts: מִיכַל(Hebrew)
Rating: 50% based on 6 votes
Possibly means "brook" in Hebrew. In the Old Testament this is the name of a daughter of Saul. She was married to David, but after David fled from Saul he remarried her to someone else. Later, when David became king, he ordered her returned to him.
Meital
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: מֵיטַל(Hebrew)
Rating: 63% based on 6 votes
Means "dew drop" in Hebrew.
Meira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: מֵאִירָה(Hebrew)
Rating: 54% based on 7 votes
Feminine form of Meir.
Malachi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew, English, Biblical, Biblical Latin
Other Scripts: מַלְאָכִי(Hebrew)
Pronounced: MAL-ə-kie(English)
Rating: 39% based on 7 votes
From the Hebrew name מַלְאָכִי (Malʾaḵi) meaning "my messenger" or "my angel", derived from a possessive form of מַלְאָךְ (malʾaḵ) meaning "messenger, angel". This is one of the twelve minor prophets of the Old Testament, the author of the Book of Malachi, which some claim foretells the coming of Christ. In England the name came into use after the Protestant Reformation.
Ira 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Hebrew, Biblical
Other Scripts: עִירָא(Hebrew)
Pronounced: IE-rə(English)
Rating: 53% based on 9 votes
Means "watchful" in Hebrew. In the Old Testament this is the name of King David's priest. As an English Christian given name, Ira began to be used after the Protestant Reformation. In the 17th century the Puritans brought it to America, where remained moderately common into the 20th century.
Inbar
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: עִנְבָּר, עִינְבָּר(Hebrew)
Rating: 53% based on 7 votes
Means "amber" in Hebrew.
Hadas
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: הֲדַס(Hebrew)
Rating: 61% based on 8 votes
Means "myrtle tree" in Hebrew.
Elul
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Jewish, Hebrew
Other Scripts: אֱלוּל(Hebrew)
Rating: 31% based on 7 votes
Elul is the twelfth month of the Jewish civil year and the sixth month of the ecclesiastical year on the Hebrew calendar, usually coinciding with parts of August and September.

The meaning is uncertain: it could derive from the Akkadian Elūlu meaning "harvest" or the Aramaic root for "to search" or also from an acronym for the Hebrew phrase Ani L'dodi V'dodi Li that means "I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine".

Avital
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Biblical Hebrew [1], Hebrew
Other Scripts: אֲבִיטָל(Hebrew)
Rating: 40% based on 6 votes
Hebrew form of Abital, sometimes used as a masculine name in modern times.
Akiva
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: עֲקִיבָא(Hebrew)
Pronounced: ah-KEE-vah
Rating: 40% based on 7 votes
From an Aramaic form of Yaakov. Akiva (or Akiba) ben Joseph was a prominent 1st-century Jewish rabbi.
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