Lady_Skywalker's Personal Name List

Bosnian form of Zarina.

Alternate transcription of Arabic زينة (see Zayna).

Means "wolf" in Cherokee.

Derived from Greek ξύλον (xylon) meaning "wood, timber", a word used in the New Testament of the cross (for example, Acts of the Apostles 5:30 and 10:39).

Variant of Xanthia.

From the name of the day of the week, which was derived from Old English wodnesdæg meaning "Woden's day". On the Addams Family television series (1964-1966) this was the name of the daughter, based on an earlier unnamed character in Charles Addams' cartoons. Her name was inspired by the popular nursery rhyme line Wednesday's child is full of woe.

Derived from the Germanic name elements viðr "forest, wood, tree" and fastr "firmly, fast".

Derived from Old Norse viðr "tree" combined with Old Norse björn "bear".

Means "wind-frozen". Svipdagr uses this as an alias when he goes to woo Menglǫð.

Combination of Old Norse víg "war, battle" and the name of the Norse god Þórr (see Þór).

Short form of names containing the Old Norse element víg "war".

Combination of Old Norse valr "the slain (in Valhalla)" and tívar "gods".

Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian form of Valerius.

Middle English form of the Old English name Wulfric. When it is used in modern times, it is usually as a variant of Ulrich.

From the English vocabulary word, ultimately from Old English stan.

Diminutive of Siegfried, Sieglinde, and other Old German names beginning with the element sigu meaning "victory".

French feminine form of Sidonius.

Hungarian diminutive of Sarah.

From Old Irish Sárait, derived from sár meaning "excellent". This was the name of a daughter of the legendary high king of Ireland, Conn of the Hundred Battles.

Feminine form of Sabinus, a Roman cognomen meaning "a Sabine" in Latin. The Sabines were an ancient people who lived in central Italy, their lands eventually taken over by the Romans after several wars. According to legend, the Romans abducted several Sabine women during a raid, and when the men came to rescue them, the women were able to make peace between the two groups. This name was borne by several early saints.

Variant of Rumina.

From Old Irish Ruaidrí meaning "red king", from rúad "red" combined with rí "king". This was the name of the last high king of Ireland, reigning in the 12th century.

Feminine form of Roscillus.

Means "feather (from the quetzal bird)" or "precious thing" in Nahuatl [1].

Meaning uncertain, though scholars agree that it suggests connotations of "ending"; possible meanings include "the warrior's seat is finished", "he has won all the honors of his race", and, from Apushamatahahubi, "a messenger of death" (literally "one whose rifle, tomahawk, or bow is alike fatal in war or hunting"). This was the name of a Choctaw leader who was highly regarded for his skill in both war and diplomacy.

Probably derived from the Greek noun ὄρος (oros) meaning "mountain, hill" (compare Orestes) combined with the Greek noun ἄνθος (anthos) meaning "flower". Also compare the similar-looking name Orinthia, which can even be an anagram of Orianthi, if you move the letters around a bit.

This name is best known for being the name of the Australian singer-songwriter Orianthi Panagaris (b. 1985), who is of Greek descent.

Manx cognate of Alasdair.

Alternate transcription of Russian/Bulgarian Николай (see Nikolay).

Anglicized form of Naomhán.

Diminutive of Natalia (Italian) or Natália (Portuguese).

Means "little saint", derived from Irish naomh "saint" combined with a diminutive suffix.

The first element of this name is derived from Greek μυριάς (myrias) meaning "ten thousand", which is ultimately derived from Greek μυρίος (myrios) meaning "countless, numberless, infinite". Also compare the English word myriad. The second element is derived from Greek ανθος (anthos) meaning "flower, blossom". As such, the meaning of this name is basically "ten thousand flowers" or "countless of flowers".

Feminine form of Miron 1.

From the Slavic element milŭ meaning "gracious, dear".

The name of a witch in Lucius Apuleius's 2nd-century Latin novel 'The Golden Ass', who murders a man named Socrates with her accomplice Panthia. It was probably taken from the name of an ancient city on the Nile.

In the English-speaking world, Meroë and its variant Meroe have been used occasionally since the 19th century.

The name of the main character in the Disney/Pixar movie Brave (2012) about a medieval Scottish princess. The meaning of her name is unexplained, though it could be based on the Spanish city of Mérida, derived from Latin Emerita Augusta meaning "veterans of Augustus", so named because it was founded by the emperor Augustus as a colony for his veterans.

From Arabic منّة (minna) meaning "favour, grace".

Likely coined by the playwright John Marston for his plays 'Antonio and Mellida'(1599) and 'Antonio's Revenge' (1601). It was presumably intended as a cross between Melissa and Phyllida.

Feminine form of Maximinus.

French feminine form of Maximilian.

Roman form of Maximilian.

Feminine form of Maël.

Portuguese and German form of Lucia.

Diminutive of Elizabeth.

Means "amusing, charming, graceful" in Sanskrit. The 12th-century mathematician Bhaskara gave this name to one of his books on mathematics, possibly after his daughter. This was also the name of a 13th-century queen of Sri Lanka.

Meaning uncertain, perhaps derived from Navajo łį́į́ʼ "horse" and łigaii "white". It was borne by Lilakai "Lily" Neil (1900-1961), the first woman to be elected to the Navajo Tribal Council (served 1946-1951).

Form of Leah used in the Greek Old Testament, as well as a Portuguese form. This is the name of a princess in the Star Wars movies by George Lucas, who probably based it on Leah.

Short form of Krystyna.

Old English for "male salmon".

Transferred use of the surname Keston.

However, there is one other possible etymology for the surname: one source claims that it was derived from an Old French form of the given name Christian, which had been introduced to England after the Norman Conquest of 1066. This seems possible in theory, if only for the visual similarities between Keston and Christian.

With that said, known bearers of Keston as a given name include the British poet Keston Sutherland (b. 1976), the Trinidadian sprint athlete Keston Bledman (b. 1988) and the Guyanese-Sint Maartener cricketer Keston Dornick (b. 1988).

From an Irish surname, an Anglicized form of Irish Gaelic Ó Cinnéidigh, itself derived from the given name Cennétig. The name has sometimes been given in honour of assassinated American president John F. Kennedy (1917-1963). It was popularized as a name for girls by Lisa Kennedy Montgomery (1972-), known simply as Kennedy, the host of the television program Alternative Nation on MTV from 1992 to 1997.

From an English surname that comes from the name of the city of Kendale in northwestern England meaning "valley on the river Kent". Originally mostly masculine, the name received a boost in popularity for girls in 1993 when the devious character Kendall Hart began appearing on the American soap opera All My Children.

Means "Yahweh establishes" in Hebrew, from כָּנַן (kanan) meaning "to establish" and יָהּ (yah) referring to the Hebrew God. This was the name of two minor Old Testament characters.

A name appearing in the Bible, meaning "Voice of the Lord, gathering together"

Basque and Bulgarian adaption of Cateline.

French form of Iustina (see Justina). This is the name of the heroine in the novel Justine (1791) by the Marquis de Sade.

As a medieval German name, some academics consider this name to be derived from a Latin dative form of Isla.

The name of the wives of Józef Boruwłaski, Daniel Lambert, and Ignace Nau.

Possibly a Romanian variant of Elena. In Romanian folklore this is the name of a princess kidnapped by monsters and rescued by a heroic knight.

Means "raven" in Old Norse.

Reconstructed Frankish form of Hilderic.

Feminine form of Frederik.

Form of Eve used in various languages. This form is used in the Latin translation of the New Testament, while Hava is used in the Latin Old Testament. A notable bearer was the Argentine first lady Eva Perón (1919-1952), the subject of the musical Evita. The name also appears in Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) belonging to the character Little Eva, whose real name is in fact Evangeline.

This is also an alternate transcription of Russian Ева (see Yeva).

Feminine form of Esmé.

From the Hebrew name אֱלִיעֶזֶר (ʾEliʿezer) meaning "my God is help", derived from אֵל (ʾel) meaning "God" and עֵזֶר (ʿezer) meaning "help". This is the name of several characters in the Old Testament, including a servant of Abraham and one of the sons of Moses (see Exodus 18:4 for an explanation of the significance of the name). It also appears in the New Testament belonging to an ancestor of Jesus in the genealogy in the Gospel of Luke.

Diminutive of Eleni.

Latinized form of Douceline (compare Dulcelinus).

Transferred use of the surname Cully.

Cully Barnaby is the daughter of D.C.I. Tom Barnaby in the 'Midsomer Murders' novels and TV show. From the town of Cully in Switzerland, which is derived from the Roman family name Coclius, of unknown meaning.

Modern Greek form of Christopher.

Latin feminine form of Christian.

Carasynthia "Cara" Dune is a Human female Alderaanian who served in the Rebel Alliance as a shock trooper, and who later became a mercenary in the Star Wars Disney+ series The Mandalorian.

Feminine form of Caesonius. This name was borne by Milonia Caesonia, the last wife of the Roman emperor Caligula.

From an English surname that originally indicated a person who lived near or worked on a bridge.

Derived from the Archaic or Primitive Irish ᚁᚏᚐᚅᚑᚌᚓᚅᚔ (Branogeni) meaning "raven clan".

Variant of Boudicca.

French feminine form of Bernard. Bernadette Soubirous (1844-1879) was a young woman from Lourdes in France who claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary. She was declared a saint in 1933.

Created by L. M. Montgomery as the setting for her novel Anne of Green Gables (1908). She may have based the name on the Arthurian island of Avalon, though it also resembles the river name Avon and leah "woodland, clearing".

Manx form of Aifric, from Gaelic aith-bhric or ath-breac meaning "somewhat dappled, speckled". According to 'An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language' (1896) by Alexander MacBain, the old Gaelic feminine name Affric belonged to a water nymph in local folklore who gave her name to the river Affric (which itself gave its name to the Scottish glen and loch Affric).

Means "south" in Latin (descended from the Indo-European root *hews- meaning "dawn", making it related to the English word east). Auster was the Roman god of the south wind.

Meaning: "a fierce lion" or "lion-like" and "venerable".

This was the name of two biblical men, Arioch was a king of Ellasar who was allied with Chedorlaomer (Gen. 14:1,9) and Captain of Nebuchadnezzar's guard (Dan. 2:14-15, 24-25).

Originally appears in the Book of Genesis chap. 14 as the "King of Ellasar", part of the confederation of kings who did battle with the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah and with Abraham in the vale of Siddim.

Derived from Greek ἀρεία (areia) meaning "warlike, martial", literally "of Ares, devoted to Ares", the feminine form of ἄρειος (areios) (see Areios). This was an epithet of the goddesses Aphrodite and Athena. In some Greek myths this name was also borne by the mother of Miletus, founder of the ancient city of Miletus.

From the name of the Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland.

Polish form of Angela.

Norman French form of Alverad

Combination of Alexandra with the suffix -etta.

Estonian form of Ivar.

Means "bearer of good news", derived from Greek ἀγαθός (agathos) meaning "good" and ἄγγελος (angelos) meaning "messenger, angel". Saint Agathangelus of Rome was a 4th-century deacon who was martyred during the persecutions of the emperor Diocletian.

Variant of Adelina.