Aniya's Personal Name List

September
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: sehp-TEHM-bər
Personal remark: 9th month
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
From the name of the ninth month (though it means "seventh month" in Latin, since it was originally the seventh month of the Roman year), which is sometimes used as a given name for someone born in September.
October
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: ahk-TO-bər
Personal remark: Tenth month
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
From the name of the tenth month. It is derived from Latin octo meaning "eight", because it was originally the eighth month of the Roman year.
November
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: no-VEHM-bər, nə-VEHM-bə, no-VEHM-bə
Personal remark: The eleventh month
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
From the Latin word novem, meaning "nine". November was the ninth month of the Roman calendar before January and February were added around 713 BC. It is now the eleventh month of the year.

This is the name of one of the main adult female characters in Catherynne M. Valente's adult fantasy novel "Palimpsest" (2009). In the novel November remembers having read a book called "The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making" when she was a child, and the heroine of that book was called September. Valente later wrote that book as a crowd-funded work. It became the first volume in her bestselling "Fairyland" series.

May
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MAY
Personal remark: 5th month
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Derived from the name of the month of May, which derives from Maia, the name of a Roman goddess. May is also another name of the hawthorn flower. It is also used as a diminutive of Mary, Margaret or Mabel.
March
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Personal remark: 3rd month
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
From the name of the month, which was derived from the name of the Roman god Mars.
June
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JOON
Personal remark: 6th month
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
From the name of the month, which was originally derived from the name of the Roman goddess Juno. It has been used as a given name since the 19th century.
July
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: juw-LIE
Personal remark: 7th month
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
From the name of the month, which was originally named for Julius Caesar.
January
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JAN-yoo-ehr-ee
Personal remark: 1st month
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
From the name of the month, which was named for the Roman god Janus. This name briefly charted on the American top 1000 list for girls after it was borne by the protagonist of Jacqueline Susann's novel Once Is Not Enough (1973).
February
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (American, Rare)
Personal remark: 2nd month
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
The 2nd month of the year.
The name February comes from the Latin term "februum", meaning "purification". A purification ritual called Februa was held on February 15 in the Roman calendar.
December
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: dis-EM-bər, DEE-səm-bər
Personal remark: Twelfth month
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
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.
August
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Polish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Catalan, English
Pronounced: OW-guwst(German) OW-goost(Polish, Norwegian) OW-guyst(Swedish) AW-gəst(English)
Personal remark: 8th month
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
German, Polish, Scandinavian and Catalan form of Augustus. This was the name of three Polish kings.

As an English name it can also derive from the month of August, which was named for the Roman emperor Augustus.

April
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AY-prəl
Personal remark: 4th month
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
From the name of the month, probably originally derived from Latin aperire "to open", referring to the opening of flowers. It has only been commonly used as a given name since the 1940s.
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