Wendy--heart---heart's Personal Name List
Zera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Зера(Russian)
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Yiana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Greek (Rare, Expatriate)
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Wystan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
From the Old English name
Wigstan, composed of the elements
wig "battle" and
stan "stone". This was the name of a 9th-century Anglo-Saxon
saint. It became rare after the
Norman Conquest, and in modern times it is chiefly known as the first name of the British poet W. H. Auden (1907-1973).
Wisteria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: wis-TEHR-ee-ə, wis-TEER-ee-ə
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
From the name of the flowering plant, which was named for the American anatomist Caspar Wistar.
Whitaker
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: WIT-ə-kər(American English) WIT-ə-kə(British English)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
From a surname that was derived from a place name meaning "white field" in Old English.
Vinal
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
From a surname that was derived from a place name meaning "vine hall" in Middle English.
Vara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (Archaic)
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Trecia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Tempest
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: TEHM-pist
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
From the English word meaning "storm". It appears in the title of William Shakespeare's play The Tempest (1611).
Teal
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: TEEL
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
From the English word for the type of duck or the greenish-blue colour.
Sparrow
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: SPAR-o, SPEHR-o
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
From the name of the bird, ultimately from Old English spearwa.
Skylynn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: SKIE-lin
Rating: 10% based on 1 vote
Elaboration of
Sky using the popular name suffix
lyn.
Sinclair
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: sin-KLEHR(American English) sin-KLEH(British English)
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
From a Scottish surname that was derived from a Norman French town called "
Saint Clair". A notable bearer was the American author Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951).
Silver
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: SIL-vər(American English) SIL-və(British English)
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
From the English word for the precious metal or the colour, ultimately derived from Old English seolfor.
Sheard
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
From a surname that was originally from a place name meaning "gap between hills" in Old English.
Seraphina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), German (Rare), Late Roman
Pronounced: sehr-ə-FEEN-ə(English) zeh-ra-FEE-na(German)
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Feminine form of the Late Latin name
Seraphinus, derived from the biblical word
seraphim, which was Hebrew in origin and meant
"fiery ones". The seraphim were an order of angels, described by Isaiah in the Bible as having six wings each.
This was the name of a 13th-century Italian saint who made clothes for the poor. As an English name, it has never been common.
Sacheverell
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: sa-SHEHV-ə-rəl
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
From a now extinct English surname that was derived from a Norman place name. It was occasionally given in honour of the English preacher Henry Sacheverell (1674-1724), especially by the Sitwell noble family.
Rosalyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: RO-zə-lin(English) RAHZ-ə-lin(American English) RAWZ-ə-lin(British English)
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
Variant of
Rosaline. It can also be considered an elaboration of
Rose with the common name suffix
lyn.
Meredy
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Koria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 古里愛, etc.(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: KO-ṘEE-AH
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
From Japanese 古 (ko) meaning "ancient times", 里 (ri) meaning "village" combined with 愛 (a) meaning "love, affection". Other kanji combinations are possible.
Juvia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American, Modern, Rare)
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
Based off of the Spanish word lluvia "rain".
Jenya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American, Rare)
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Indigo
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: IN-di-go
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
From the English word
indigo for the purplish-blue dye or the colour. It is ultimately derived from Greek
Ἰνδικόν (Indikon) meaning "Indic, from India".
Hammond
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: HAM-ənd
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
From an English surname that was derived from either the Norman given name
Hamo or the Old Norse given name
Hámundr.
Grenville
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: GREHN-vil
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
From a surname that was a variant of
Granville.
Gray
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: GRAY
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
From an English surname meaning "grey", originally given to a person who had grey hair or clothing.
Ellington
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
Drina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Dortha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DAWR-thə(American English) DAW-thə(British English)
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Diamond
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), African American (Modern)
Pronounced: DIE-mənd(English)
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
From the English word diamond for the clear colourless precious stone, the traditional birthstone of April. It is derived from Late Latin diamas, from Latin adamas, which is of Greek origin meaning "unconquerable, unbreakable".
Chelseamarie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Chanté
Gender: Feminine
Usage: African American (Modern)
Pronounced: shahn-TAY(English)
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
From French chanter meaning "sing". This spelling corresponds with the past participle, meaning "sung".
Auberon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Carolingian Cycle
Pronounced: AW-bə-rahn(American English) O-bə-rahn(American English) AW-bə-rawn(British English) O-bə-rawn(British English)
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
From a
diminutive form of
Auberi, an Old French form of
Alberich. It is the name of the fairy king in the 13th-century epic
Huon de Bordeaux.
Astoria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: as-TAWR-ee-ə
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Feminine form of
Astor. This is also the name of several American towns, after the businessman John Jacob Astor.
Araminta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Meaning unknown. This name was (first?) used by William Congreve in his comedy The Old Bachelor (1693) and later by John Vanbrugh in his comedy The Confederacy (1705). This was the original given name of abolitionist Harriet Tubman (1820-1913), who was born Araminta Ross.
Anselm
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, English (Rare), Germanic [1]
Pronounced: AN-zelm(German) AN-selm(English)
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Derived from the Old German elements
ansi "god" and
helm "helmet, protection". This name was brought to England in the late 11th century by
Saint Anselm, who was born in northern Italy. He was archbishop of Canterbury and a Doctor of the Church.
Anna Maria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
Amyas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Meaning unknown, perhaps a derivative of
Amis. Alternatively, it may come from a surname that originally indicated that the bearer was from the city of Amiens in France. Edmund Spenser used this name for a minor character in his epic poem
The Faerie Queene (1590).
Alban
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, French, Albanian, English (Rare)
Pronounced: AL-ban(German) AL-BAHN(French) AL-bən(English) AWL-bən(English)
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
From the Roman
cognomen Albanus, which meant
"from Alba". Alba (from Latin
albus "white") was the name of various places within the Roman Empire, including the city Alba Longa. This name was borne by
Saint Alban, the first British martyr (4th century). According to tradition, he sheltered a fugitive priest in his house. When his house was searched, he disguised himself as the priest, was arrested in his stead, and was beheaded. Another 4th-century martyr by this name was Saint Alban of Mainz.
As an English name, Alban was occasionally used in the Middle Ages and was revived in the 18th century, though it is now uncommon.
Adair
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: ə-DEHR(American English) ə-DEH(British English)
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
From an English surname that was derived from the given name
Edgar.
Aaralyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Feminine elaboration of
Aaron using the popular name suffix
lyn.
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