Sharley's Personal Name List

From the English word for the season, derived from Old English winter.

From the name of the tree, which is ultimately derived from Old English welig.

Means "gentle" in Finnish.

Hungarian form of Vitus.

Diminutive of Valentina or Valentin.

From the English word, ultimately from Greek θησαυρός (thesauros) meaning "treasure, collection".

From the name of the day of the week, which ultimately derives from Old English sunnandæg, which was composed of the elements sunne "sun" and dæg "day". This name is most common in Nigeria and other parts of Africa.

From the vocabulary word, ultimately from Old English or Old Dutch storm, or in the case of the Scandinavian name, from Old Norse stormr. It is unisex as an English name, but typically masculine elsewhere.

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.

Means simply "lyric, songlike" from the English word, ultimately derived from Greek λυρικός (lyrikos).

Diminutive of Christopher or Katherine. A notable bearer was Kit Carson (1809-1868), an American frontiersman and explorer.

From the name of the month, which was originally named for Julius Caesar.

From the Latin name Florentius or the feminine form Florentia, which were derived from florens "prosperous, flourishing". Florentius was borne by many early Christian saints, and it was occasionally used in their honour through the Middle Ages. In modern times it is mostly feminine.

This name can also be given in reference to the city in Italy, as in the case of Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), who was born there to British parents. She was a nurse in military hospitals during the Crimean War and is usually considered the founder of modern nursing.

A transferred use of the surname Fairlight used as far back as the 1800's in England and the States.

French feminine and masculine form of Camilla. It is also used in the English-speaking world, where it is generally only feminine.

From a surname meaning "cheerful" in Old English.

From the English word that means "sky blue". It is ultimately (via Old French, Latin and Arabic) from Persian لاجورد (lājvard) meaning "azure, lapis lazuli".

Elaboration of Azure.

Possibly means "enduring" from Greek τλάω (tlao) meaning "to endure". In Greek mythology he was a Titan punished by Zeus by being forced to support the heavens on his shoulders.

From an old Indo-Iranian root meaning "Aryan, noble". In India, this is a transcription of both the masculine form आर्य and the feminine form आर्या. In Iran it is only a masculine name.

Diminutive of Adelaide, Adeline, Addison and other names containing the same sound.