KathosAnnora's Personal Name List
Aero
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (American, Modern, Rare), Popular Culture
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
From the English combining form (
aero-), ultimately from Greek ἀήρ
(aer) "air" (originally "the lower air, the air that surrounds the earth" as opposed to αἰθήρ
(aither) "the upper air"; compare
Aither). In the 1993 video game
Aero the Acro-Bat, this is the name of an anthropomorphic bat that performs in a circus.
Aero
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Perhaps derived from the Greek verb ἀείρω
(aeiro), αἴρω
(airo) "to lift up, to raise". In Greek mythology, Aero (also called Haero, Aerope and Maerope) was a princess of the island of Chios, a daughter of
Oenopion and
Helice. She was beloved by
Orion, who was, in consequence, blinded by her father.
Altair
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Astronomy, Portuguese (Brazilian)
Pronounced: al-TEHR(American English) al-TEH(British English)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Means "the flyer" in Arabic. This is the name of a star in the constellation Aquila.
Animikii
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ojibwe, New World Mythology
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Means
"thunder, thunderer" in Ojibwe. In Anishinaabe
mythology this is the name of the thunderbird, an immense flying creature that makes thunder with its flapping wings.
Antares
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Astronomy
Pronounced: an-TEHR-eez(English)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
From Greek
Ἀντάρης (Antares), traditionally said to mean
"opposing Ares". This is the name of the brightest star in the constellation Scorpius.
Apricity
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: ə-PRI-si-tee
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
A rare English name with Latin origins meaning “the warmth of the sun in winter”.
Archer
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AHR-chər(American English) AH-chə(British English)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
From an English surname meaning "bowman, archer", of Old French origin. Although already slowly growing in popularity, this name accelerated its rise after the premiere of the American television series Archer in 2009.
Aster
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: AS-tər(American English) AS-tə(British English)
Rating: 100% based on 4 votes
From the name of the flower, which is derived via Latin from Greek
ἀστήρ (aster) meaning "star".
Caelian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Dutch
Rating: 85% based on 2 votes
English form of
Caelianus. The name has also been used in The Netherlands just a handful of times; the variant form
Celian has been used a little bit more often there.
Céleste
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: SEH-LEST
Rating: 43% based on 30 votes
French feminine and masculine form of
Caelestis.
Celeste
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, English
Pronounced: cheh-LEH-steh(Italian) theh-LEHS-teh(European Spanish) seh-LEHS-teh(Latin American Spanish) sə-LEST(English)
Rating: 75% based on 4 votes
Italian feminine and masculine form of
Caelestis. It is also the Portuguese, Spanish and English feminine form.
Célestin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: SEH-LEHS-TEHN
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Céline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: SEH-LEEN
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
French feminine form of
Caelinus. This name can also function as a short form of
Marceline.
Ciel
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Various (Rare)
Rating: 36% based on 26 votes
Means "sky" in French. It is not used as a given name in France itself.
Ciela
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern, Rare), Filipino, Spanish (Latin American, Modern, Rare)
Rating: 97% based on 3 votes
Either a modern variant of
Cielo or a truncated form of names that end in
-ciela.
Cielle
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American, Modern, Rare)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Cielo
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: SYEH-lo(Latin American Spanish) THYEH-lo(European Spanish)
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
Means "sky, heaven" in Spanish. In Mexico this name was popularized by a character named María del Cielo, called Cielo, on the telenovela Por tu amor (1999).
Esmeray
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Turkish
Rating: 93% based on 3 votes
Derived from Turkish esmer "dark" and ay "moon".
Heyoka
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Sioux
Other Scripts: Heyókȟa
Pronounced: hey-OH-kah
Rating: 93% based on 3 votes
Heyókȟa translates to a 'sacred clown' in the culture of the Sioux (Lakota and Dakota people) of the Great Plains of North America. In Lakota mythology, Heyókȟa is also a spirit of thunder and lightning; & influence of the content of dreams. It can be given as a name to someone who may act in a way that is considered in opposition to those around them or in juxtaposition to cultural or expected norms; some on who is a contrarian or satirical in nature. It can also be given to people believed to bring energetic healing through humor.
Kealohi
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Hawaiian
Pronounced: Keh-AH-LOH-hee
Rating: 87% based on 3 votes
In Polynesian Mythology, Kealohi is the name of a star that appears on the night of Hoaka in the month of Kaʻaona after the disappearance of Pau-ahi-lani; it in turn vanishes in Welehu. Lit., It means 'the brightness' in Native Hawaiian.
Lyra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Astronomy
Pronounced: LIE-rə(English)
Rating: 90% based on 4 votes
The name of the constellation in the northern sky containing the star Vega. It is said to be shaped after the lyre of Orpheus. This is the name of the main character in the His Dark Materials series of books by Philip Pullman (beginning 1995).
Orion
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ὠρίων(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: AW-REE-AWN(Classical Greek) o-RIE-ən(English)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Meaning uncertain, but possibly related to Greek
ὅριον (horion) meaning
"boundary, limit". Alternatively it may be derived from Akkadian
Uru-anna meaning
"light of the heavens". This is the name of a constellation, which gets its name from a legendary Greek hunter who was killed by a scorpion sent by the earth goddess
Gaia.
Seren
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: SEH-rehn
Rating: 93% based on 3 votes
Means "star" in Welsh. This is a recently created Welsh name.
Skye
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: SKIE
Rating: 55% based on 17 votes
From the name of the Isle of Skye off the west coast of Scotland. It is sometimes considered a variant of
Sky.
Suvi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: SOO-vee
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Means "summer" in Finnish.
Théogène
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: French (Archaic), Louisiana Creole, French (African)
Pronounced: TAY-O-ZHEN(French)
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
French form of
Theogenes. In modern times, this name is found primarily in Rwanda.
Tontawan
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Thai
Other Scripts: ต้นตะวัน(Thai)
Pronounced: Tun-tah-WAHN
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
From the Thai ต้นตะวัน meaning 'early sun'.
Tonweyawin
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Sioux
Pronounced: DOH-way-ya-wee
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Tonweyawin is Lakota in origin & translates to 'scout woman' from Toweya (to scout) + Win (woman).
Tuuli
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish, Estonian
Pronounced: TOO-lee(Finnish)
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
Means "wind" in Finnish and Estonian.
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