thefancyapple's Personal Name List

Vitalia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Feminine form of Vitale.
Ton
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch
Pronounced: TAWN
Dutch short form of Anton.
Tajddigt
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Berber
Other Scripts: ⵜⴰⵊⴷⴷⵉⴳⵜ(Tifinagh)
Means "flower" in Tamazight.
Søren
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Danish
Pronounced: SUUW-ən
Danish form of Severinus. Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was a Danish philosopher who is regarded as a precursor of existentialism.
Sarpedon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Σαρπηδών(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: SAR-PEH-DAWN(Classical Greek) sahr-PEED-ən(English)
Meaning unknown. In Greek legend Sarpedon was the son of Zeus and Laodamia, and the king of the Lycians. He was one of the chief warriors who fought against the Greeks in defence of Troy, but he was killed by Patroclus. Another Sarpedon was the son of Zeus and Europa.
Sandro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Georgian
Other Scripts: სანდრო(Georgian)
Pronounced: SAN-dro(Italian) SAHN-DRAW(Georgian)
Short form of Alessandro (Italian) or Aleksandre (Georgian). Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) was an Italian Renaissance artist, the painter of The Birth of Venus and other famous works.
Pollux
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Pronounced: POL-looks(Latin) PAHL-əks(English)
Roman form of Greek Πολυδεύκης (Polydeukes) meaning "very sweet", from Greek πολύς (polys) meaning "much" and δευκής (deukes) meaning "sweet". In mythology he was the twin brother of Castor and a son of Zeus. The constellation Gemini, which represents the two brothers, contains a star by this name.
Onni
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: ON-nee
Means "happiness, luck" in Finnish.
Nils
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Pronounced: NILS
Scandinavian form of Nicholas.
Misha
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Миша(Russian)
Pronounced: MYEE-shə
Russian diminutive of Mikhail.
Mauro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: MOW-ro(Italian, Spanish)
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of Maurus.
Jurou
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 十郎, etc.(Japanese Kanji) じゅうろう(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: JOO-RO
Alternate transcription of Japanese Kanji 十郎 (see Jūrō).
Fortune
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: French, English (Rare)
Pronounced: FAWR-TUYN(French) FAWR-chən(English)
Simply from the word fortune, ultimately from Latin fortuna, a derivative of fors "luck".
Drago
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Bulgarian
Other Scripts: Драго(Serbian, Bulgarian)
Originally a short form of names beginning with the Slavic element dorgŭ (South Slavic drag) meaning "precious".
Conrad
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, German, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: KAHN-rad(English) KAWN-rat(German)
Means "brave counsel", derived from the Old German elements kuoni "brave" and rat "counsel, advice". This was the name of a 10th-century saint and bishop of Konstanz, in southern Germany. It was also borne by several medieval German kings and dukes, notably Conrad II, the first of the Holy Roman Emperors from the Salic dynasty. In England it was occasionally used during the Middle Ages, but has only been common since the 19th century when it was reintroduced from Germany.
Cearbhall
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: KYAR-ə-wəl
From Old Irish Cerball, probably from cerb meaning "pointed, sharp, cutting". This was the name of a few medieval Irish kings.
Carroll
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: KAR-əl(English)
Anglicized form of Cearbhall. A famous bearer of the surname was Lewis Carroll (1832-1898), whose real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a British author known for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Bratislav
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Serbian
Other Scripts: Братислав(Serbian)
Derived from the Slavic elements bratŭ "brother" and slava "glory".
Benjamine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: BEHN-ZHA-MEEN
French feminine form of Benjamin.
Avalon
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: AV-ə-lahn
From the name of the island paradise to which King Arthur was brought after his death. The name of this island is perhaps related to Welsh afal meaning "apple", a fruit that was often linked with paradise.
Allegra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, English (Rare)
Pronounced: al-LEH-gra(Italian) ə-LEHG-rə(English)
Means "cheerful, lively" in Italian. It was borne by a short-lived illegitimate daughter of Lord Byron (1817-1822).
Alix
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: A-LEEKS
Medieval French variant of Alice, also sometimes used as a masculine name. This is the name of the hero (a young Gaulish man) of a French comic book series, which debuted in 1948.
Agnessa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Агнесса(Russian)
Pronounced: ug-NYEHS-sə
Russian form of Agnes.
Agathe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, German, Norwegian (Rare), Danish (Rare), Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Ἀγάθη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: A-GAT(French) a-GA-tə(German) A-GA-TEH(Classical Greek)
Form of Agatha in several languages.
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