KathosAnnora's Personal Name List

Aerie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern, Rare)
Pronounced: ER-ee, EE-ree
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Diminutive of names beginning with Aer, coinciding with the English word aerie, "a bird of prey's nest".
Aerith
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Popular Culture, English (American, Modern, Rare)
Pronounced: ER-ith(English)
Rating: 45% based on 11 votes
From a near-anagram of the English word earth. This is the name of a character in the 1997 videogame 'Final Fantasy VII'.
Annika
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Dutch, Finnish, Estonian, German, English (Modern)
Pronounced: AN-ni-ka(Swedish) AH-nee-ka(Dutch) AHN-nee-kah(Finnish) A-nee-ka(German) AN-i-kə(English) AHN-i-kə(English)
Rating: 60% based on 31 votes
Swedish diminutive of Anna.
August
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Polish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Catalan, English
Pronounced: OW-guwst(German) OW-goost(Polish, Norwegian) OW-guyst(Swedish) AW-gəst(English)
Rating: 68% based on 32 votes
German, Polish, Scandinavian and Catalan form of Augustus. This was the name of three Polish kings.

As an English name it can also derive from the month of August, which was named for the Roman emperor Augustus.

Blaise
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: BLEHZ
Rating: 28% based on 23 votes
From the Roman name Blasius, which was derived from Latin blaesus meaning "lisping". Saint Blaise was a 4th-century Armenian martyr. A famous bearer was the French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal (1623-1662).
Cindra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: SIN-drə
Rating: 56% based on 12 votes
Combination of Cindy and Sandra.
Coast
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From the English word coast
Coral
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Spanish
Pronounced: KAWR-əl(English) ko-RAL(Spanish)
Rating: 62% based on 27 votes
From the English and Spanish word coral for the underwater skeletal deposits that can form reefs. It is ultimately derived (via Old French and Latin) from Greek κοράλλιον (korallion).
Drake
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DRAYK
Rating: 50% based on 24 votes
From an English surname derived from the Old Norse byname Draki or the Old English byname Draca both meaning "dragon", both via Latin from Greek δράκων (drakon) meaning "dragon, serpent". This name coincides with the unrelated English word drake meaning "male duck". A famous bearer is the Canadian actor and rapper Drake (1986-), who was born as Aubrey Drake Graham.
Lærke
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Danish
Rating: 37% based on 3 votes
Means "lark" in Danish.
Lake
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: LAYK
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From the English word lake, for the inland body of water. It is ultimately derived from Latin lacus.
Lark
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: LAHRK(American English) LAHK(British English)
Rating: 51% based on 14 votes
From the English word for the type of songbird.
Lärka
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish (Modern, Rare)
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Swedish form of Lærke.
Rio 1
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Various
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Means "river" in Spanish or Portuguese. A city in Brazil bears this name. Its full name is Rio de Janeiro, which means "river of January", so named because the first explorers came to the harbour in January and mistakenly thought it was a river mouth.
River
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: RIV-ər(American English) RIV-ə(British English)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From the English word that denotes a flowing body of water. The word is ultimately derived (via Old French) from Latin ripa "riverbank".
Storm
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Modern), Dutch (Modern), Danish (Modern), Norwegian (Modern)
Pronounced: STAWRM(American English, Dutch) STAWM(British English)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
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.
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