From a Scottish surname that was derived from a Norman French town called "SaintClair". A notable bearer was the American author Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951).
Rosaire
Gender:Feminine & Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced:RO-ZEHR
Rating:40% based on 3 votes
Means "rosary" in French.
Pax
Gender:Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Pronounced:PAKS(Latin, English)
Rating:58% based on 4 votes
Means "peace" in Latin. In Roman mythology this was the name of the goddess of peace.
Narcisse
Gender:Masculine & Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced:NAR-SEES
Rating:0% based on 3 votes
French masculine and feminine form of Narcissus. This is also the French word for the narcissus flower.
Means "lion" in Russian and Ukrainian, functioning as a vernacular form of Leo. This was the real Russian name of both author Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) and revolutionary Leon Trotsky (1879-1940). This is also the name of the main character, Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, in the novel The Idiot (1868) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Ira 1
Gender:Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English, Hebrew, Biblical
Other Scripts:עִירָא(Hebrew)
Pronounced:IE-rə(English)
Rating:13% based on 4 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.
Io
Gender:Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts:Ἰώ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced:EE-AW(Classical Greek)IE-o(English)
Rating:53% based on 4 votes
Meaning unknown. In Greek mythology Io was a princess loved by Zeus, who changed her into a heifer in order to hide her from Hera. A moon of Jupiter bears this name in her honour.
Derived from the Latin word decem, meaning "ten". December is the twelfth month on the Gregorian calendar. This name is used regularly in America, mostly on females.
Astrophel
Gender:Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Literature
Rating:30% based on 4 votes
Probably intended to mean "star lover", from Greek ἀστήρ (aster) meaning "star" and φίλος (philos) meaning "lover, friend". This name was first used by the 16th-century poet Philip Sidney in his collection of sonnets Astrophel and Stella.
Apollinaire
Gender:Masculine & Feminine
Usage: French (Rare)
Rating:28% based on 4 votes
French form of Apollinaris. It was adopted as a surname by the Polish-French poet Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918), who based it on his Polish middle name Apolinary.