JemimahGertrude's Personal Name List

Hebrew form of Jochebed.

Hebrew form of Isaac. This was the name of two recent Israeli prime ministers.

Alternate transcription of Russian Евгений (see Yevgeniy).

Russian form of Helen.

Derived from the Basque place name Etxeberria meaning "the new house". This was the surname of the Jesuit priest Saint Francis Xavier (1506-1552) who was born in a village by this name. He was a missionary to India, Japan, China, and other areas in East Asia, and he is the patron saint of the Orient and missionaries. His surname has since been adopted as a given name in his honour, chiefly among Catholics.

Medieval Dutch form of Trijntje. This name has survived to modern times, but it is extremely rare in the Netherlands, especially when compared to its modern form Trijntje.

Means "my princess" in Hebrew, a possessive form of שָׂרָה (sara) meaning "lady, princess, noblewoman". In the Old Testament, this was Sarah's name before God changed it (see Genesis 17:15).

Scottish Gaelic form of Ruaidhrí.

Italian and Spanish cognate of Pearl.

Scottish Gaelic form of Patrick.

Spanish, Italian and Portuguese form of Oswald.

French form of Ophelia.

French form of Naomi 1.

Hebrew form of Moses.

Old French form of Millicent.

French form of Maximilianus (see Maximilian).

Italian form of Matthew.

Form of Matilda in several languages.

Irish form of Margaret.

Originally a medieval Portuguese form of Matilda. This name was borne by the wife of Afonso, the first king of Portugal. In modern times it was the name of the titular character in a popular Argentine comic strip (published from 1964 to 1973) by Quino.

Spanish form of Louis.

Dutch form of Ludwig.

German short form of Elisabeth.

Polish form of Xenia, as well as an alternate transcription of Russian Ксения or Ukrainian/Belarusian Ксенія (see Kseniya).

Scandinavian form of Christopher.

Spanish and Manx form of Iohannes (see John). Like other forms of John in Europe, this name has been extremely popular in Spain since the late Middle Ages.

The name is borne by Don Juan, a character from Spanish legend who, after killing his lover's father, is dragged to hell by the father's ghost. The story was adapted into plays by Tirso de Molina (1630) and Molière (1665), an opera by Mozart (1787), and an epic poem by Byron (1824), among other works.

Spanish and Portuguese form of George. A famous bearer was the Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986).

Spanish form of Xavier.

Modern Greek form of Ἰωάννης (see John).

Portuguese form of Ignatius.

Arabic form of Abraham, also used in several other languages. This form appears in the Quran.

Welsh and Galician form of Iacobus (see James). This was the name of two early Welsh kings of Gwynedd. It is also the name of the villain in Shakespeare's tragedy Othello (1603).

Dutch and Estonian cognate of Heinrich (see Henry).

German form of Henry. This was the name of several German kings.

Welsh form of William.

French form of William.

Italian form of Joseph. Two noteworthy bearers were Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882), a military leader who united Italy, and Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), a composer of operas.

Italian form of Iohannes (see John). This name has been very common in Italy since the late Middle Ages, as with other equivalents of John in Europe. The Renaissance writer Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), the painter Giovanni Bellini (1430-1516) and the painter and sculptor Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) were famous bearers of the name.

Form of George in several languages. This name was borne by the German idealist philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831).

Hebrew form of Gabriel.

German diminutive of Friedrich.

German form of Frederick. This was the name of several rulers of the Holy Roman Empire, Austria and Prussia. The philosophers Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) and Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) are two other famous bearers of this name.

French form of Stephen.

Hungarian form of Elizabeth. This is the native name of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary. It was also borne by the infamous Erzsébet Báthory (1560-1614), a countess and alleged murderer.

Italian and Spanish form of Aemilius (see Emil).

Hebrew form of Elizabeth.

European Portuguese form of Iphigeneia.

Hungarian and Swedish form of Edith.

French form of Clorinda.

Hebrew and Arabic form of Benjamin.

Maori form of Andrew.

Variant of Alonso in use in America.

Spanish form of Alexander. This was the most popular name for boys in Spain from the 1990s until 2006 (and again in 2011).