foreverslowly's Personal Name List

Adavia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (South, Rare)
Aisha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic, Urdu, Western African, Eastern African, Hausa, Swahili, Kazakh, African American
Other Scripts: عائشة(Arabic) عائشہ(Urdu) Айша(Kazakh)
Pronounced: ‘A-ee-shah(Arabic) ie-EE-shə(English)
Personal remark: عائشة
Means "living, alive" in Arabic. This was the name of Muhammad's third wife, the daughter of Abu Bakr. Some time after Muhammad's death she went to war against Ali, the fourth caliph, but was defeated. Her name is used more by Sunni Muslims and less by Shias.

This name began to be used in America in the 1970s, possibly inspired by Princess Aisha of Jordan (1968-), the daughter of King Hussein and his British-born wife. It received a boost in popularity after Stevie Wonder used it for his first daughter in 1975.

Amani
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: أماني(Arabic)
Pronounced: a-MA-nee
Means "wishes" in Arabic.
Angeline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: AHN-ZHU-LEEN, AHN-ZHLEEN
Personal remark: French
French diminutive of Angela.
Aoide
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἀοιδή(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: ay-EE-dee(English)
Personal remark: Greek * Αοιδη
Means "song" in Greek. In Greek mythology she was one of the original three muses, the muse of song.
Apani
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Siksika
Personal remark: Sisika *
From the Blackfoot word apaniiwa "butterfly", with the animate noun suffix -wa omitted.
Arielle
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: A-RYEHL
Personal remark: French
French feminine form of Ariel.
Ayame
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 菖蒲, etc.(Japanese Kanji) あやめ(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: A-YA-MEH
Personal remark: Japanese 菖蒲 *
From Japanese 菖蒲 (ayame) meaning "iris (flower)". Other kanji or combinations of kanji can also form this name.
Dilay
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Turkish
Personal remark: Turkish *
Means "beautiful moon" in Turkish.
Dmitriy
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Дмитрий(Russian)
Pronounced: DMEE-tree
Russian form of Demetrius. A famous bearer was Dmitriy Mendeleev (1834-1907), the Russian chemist who devised the periodic table.
Eira 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: AY-ra
Personal remark: Welsh *
Means "snow" in Welsh. This is a recently created name.
Eira 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian
Pronounced: AY-rah(Swedish)
Personal remark: Old Norse root
Modern form of Eir.
Elsa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Finnish, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, English
Pronounced: EHL-za(German) EHL-sah(Finnish) EHL-sa(Italian) EHL-sə(English)
Personal remark: Germanic/Nordic short form
Short form of Elisabeth, typically used independently. Elsa von Brabant is the lover of Lohengrin in medieval German tales, and her story was expanded by Richard Wagner for his opera Lohengrin (1850). The name had a little spike in popularity after the 2013 release of the animated Disney movie Frozen, which featured a magical princess by this name.
Enki
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Sumerian Mythology
Other Scripts: 𒀭𒂗𒆠(Sumerian Cuneiform)
Pronounced: ENG-kee(English)
Personal remark: Egyptian/Sumerian *
From Sumerian 𒂗 (en) meaning "lord" and 𒆠 (ki) meaning "earth, ground" (though maybe originally from 𒆳 (kur) meaning "underworld, mountain"). Enki, called Ea by the Akkadians, Assyrians and Babylonians, was the Sumerian god of water and wisdom and the keeper of the Me, the divine laws.
Freyja
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Icelandic, Norse Mythology
Pronounced: FRAY-ya(Icelandic) FRAY-ə(English)
Personal remark: Old Norse
Icelandic and Old Norse form of Freya.
Gunnar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Norse Mythology
Pronounced: GUYN-nar(Swedish, Icelandic) GOON-nahr(Norwegian)
Personal remark: Old Norse root
From the Old Norse name Gunnarr, which was derived from the elements gunnr "war" and herr "army, warrior" (making it a cognate of Gunther). In Norse legend Gunnar was the husband of Brynhildr. He had his brother-in-law Sigurd murdered based on his wife's false accusations that Sigurd had taken her virginity.
Hala
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: هالة(Arabic)
Pronounced: HA-lah
Personal remark: Arabic * هالة
Means "halo around the moon" in Arabic. This was the name of a sister-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad.
Hana 3
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 花, 華, etc.(Japanese Kanji) はな(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: HA-NA
Personal remark: * Japanese 'flower' 花/Korean 'one' 하나/Arabic 'bliss' هناء/Hawaiian 'craft, work'/Maaori 'Glow'/Kurdish 'hope'/Albanian 'moon'/Persian 'flower'
From Japanese (hana) or (hana) both meaning "flower". Other kanji or kanji combinations can form this name as well.
Jade
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, French
Pronounced: JAYD(English) ZHAD(French)
Personal remark: English
From the name of the precious stone that is often used in carvings. It is derived from Spanish (piedra de la) ijada meaning "(stone of the) flank", relating to the belief that jade could cure renal colic. As a given name, it came into general use during the 1970s. It was initially unisex, though it is now mostly feminine.
Kai 3
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hawaiian
Pronounced: KIE
Personal remark: Hawaiian
Means "sea" in Hawaiian.
Kaja 3
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Estonian
Pronounced: KAH-yah
Personal remark: Estonian
Means "echo" in Estonian.
Kielo
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: KEE-lo
Means "lily of the valley" in Finnish (species Convallaria majalis).
Lacie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: LAY-see
Variant of Lacy.
Layla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic, English
Other Scripts: ليلى(Arabic)
Pronounced: LIE-la(Arabic) LAY-lə(English)
Personal remark: Arabic * ليلى
Means "night" in Arabic. Layla was the love interest of the poet Qays (called Majnun) in an old Arab tale, notably retold by the 12th-century Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi in his poem Layla and Majnun. This story was a popular romance in medieval Arabia and Persia. The name became used in the English-speaking world after the 1970 release of the song Layla by Derek and the Dominos, the title of which was inspired by the medieval story.
Leda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, Italian
Other Scripts: Λήδα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: LEH-DA(Classical Greek) LEE-də(English) LAY-də(English) LEH-da(Italian)
Personal remark: Greek * Ληδα
Meaning unknown. In Greek myth she was a Spartan queen and the mother of Castor, Pollux, Helen and Clytemnestra by the god Zeus, who came upon her in the form of a swan.
Lucian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Romanian, English
Pronounced: LOO-chyan(Romanian) LOO-shən(English)
Personal remark: Romanian, Latin root *
Romanian and English form of Lucianus. Lucian is the usual name of Lucianus of Samosata in English.
Luna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, English
Pronounced: LOO-na(Latin, Spanish, Italian) LOO-nə(English)
Personal remark: Latin root *
Means "the moon" in Latin (as well as Italian, Spanish and other Romance languages). Luna was the Roman goddess of the moon, frequently depicted driving a white chariot through the sky.
Mikko
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: MEEK-ko
Personal remark: Finnish
Finnish form of Michael.
Morwenna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Cornish, Welsh
Personal remark: Welsh *
From Old Cornish moroin meaning "maiden, girl" (related to the Welsh word morwyn [1]). This was the name of a 6th-century Cornish saint, said to be one of the daughters of Brychan Brycheiniog.
Nadine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, German, English, Dutch
Pronounced: NA-DEEN(French) na-DEE-nə(German) na-DEEN(German) nay-DEEN(English)
Personal remark: French form of
French diminutive of Nadia 1.
Nina 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Indigenous American, Quechua, Aymara
Personal remark: Quechua
Means "fire" in Quechua and Aymara.
Nisha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, Bengali, Nepali
Other Scripts: निशा(Hindi, Marathi, Nepali) ನಿಶಾ(Kannada) നിഷാ(Malayalam) நிஷா(Tamil) నిషా(Telugu) નિશા(Gujarati) নিশা(Bengali)
Personal remark: Sanskrit
Means "night" in Sanskrit.
Nyx
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Νύξ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: NUYKS(Classical Greek) NIKS(English)
Personal remark: Greek * Νυξ
Means "night" in Greek. This was the name of the Greek goddess of the night, the daughter of Khaos and the wife of Erebos.
Phoenix
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: FEE-niks
Personal remark: Greek; Greek/Egyptian myths φοινιξ
From the name of a beautiful immortal bird that appears in Egyptian and Greek mythology. After living for several centuries in the Arabian Desert, it would be consumed by fire and rise from its own ashes, with this cycle repeating every 500 years. The name of the bird was derived from Greek φοῖνιξ (phoinix) meaning "dark red".
Rain 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: RAYN
Personal remark: English
Simply from the English word rain, derived from Old English regn.
Raven
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: RAY-vən
Personal remark: Old English hræfn. Ravenna
From the name of the bird, ultimately from Old English hræfn. The raven is revered by several Native American groups of the west coast. It is also associated with the Norse god Odin.
Rikhard
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: REEK-hahrd
Finnish form of Richard.
Sabrina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, German, French, Spanish
Pronounced: sə-BREEN-ə(English) sa-BREE-na(Italian, Spanish) za-BREE-na(German) SA-BREE-NA(French)
Personal remark: English form of
Latinized form of Habren, the original Welsh name of the River Severn. According to Geoffrey of Monmouth, Sabrina was the name of a princess who was drowned in the Severn. Supposedly the river was named for her, but it is more likely that her name was actually derived from that of the river, which is of unknown meaning. She appears as a water nymph in John Milton's masque Comus (1634).

The name was brought to public attention by Samuel A. Taylor's play Sabrina Fair (1953) and the movie adaptation Sabrina that followed it the next year. This is also the name of a comic book character, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, first introduced 1962 and with television adaptations in 1970-1974 and 1996-2003, both causing minor jumps in popularity. Another jump occurred in 1976, when it was used for a main character on the television series Charlie's Angels.

Sasha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian, Ukrainian, English, French
Other Scripts: Саша(Russian, Ukrainian)
Pronounced: SA-shə(Russian) SASH-ə(English) SAH-shə(English) SA-SHA(French)
Personal remark: Russian Саша
Russian and Ukrainian diminutive of Aleksandr or Aleksandra.
Selena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Russian, Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Селена(Russian) Σελήνη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: seh-LEH-na(Spanish)
Personal remark: Greek * Σεληνη
Latinized form of Selene. This name was borne by popular Mexican-American singer Selena Quintanilla (1971-1995), who was known simply as Selena. Another famous bearer is the American actress and singer Selena Gomez (1992-).
Seth 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Other Scripts: שֵׁת(Ancient Hebrew) Σήθ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: SETH(English)
Personal remark: Hebrew שֵׁת
Means "placed" or "appointed" in Hebrew. In the Old Testament he is the third named son of Adam and Eve, and the ancestor of Noah and all humankind. In England this name came into use after the Protestant Reformation.
Shani 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: שָׁנִי(Hebrew)
Personal remark: Hebrew שָׁנִי
Means "red, scarlet" in Hebrew.
Sunny
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SUN-ee
Personal remark: English
From the English word meaning "sunny, cheerful".
Taru
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: TAH-roo
Personal remark: Finnish
Means "legend, myth" in Finnish. It is also used as a diminutive of Tarja.
Tsisana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Georgian
Other Scripts: ცისანა(Georgian)
Pronounced: TSEE-SAH-NAH
Personal remark: Georgian ცისანა
Probably derived from Georgian ცის (tsis) meaning "of the sky", the genitive case of ცა (tsa) meaning "sky, heaven". This is also an alternative Georgian word for the forget-me-not flower.
Valtteri
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: VAHLT-teh-ree
Personal remark: Finnish
Finnish form of Walter.
Vincent
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Slovak
Pronounced: VIN-sənt(English, Dutch) VEHN-SAHN(French) VEEN-tsent(Slovak)
From the Roman name Vincentius, which was derived from Latin vincere meaning "to conquer". This name was popular among early Christians, and it was borne by many saints. As an English name, Vincent has been in use since the Middle Ages, though it did not become common until the 19th century. Famous bearers include the French priest Saint Vincent de Paul (1581-1660) and the post-impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890).
Wolf
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Jewish, English (Rare), Germanic [1]
Other Scripts: װאָלףֿ(Yiddish)
Pronounced: VAWLF(German) WUWLF(English)
Personal remark: English, German
Short form of Wolfgang, Wolfram and other names containing the Old German element wolf meaning "wolf" (Proto-Germanic *wulfaz). It can also be simply from the German or English word.
Zoltán
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hungarian, Slovak
Pronounced: ZOL-tan(Hungarian) ZAWL-tan(Slovak)
Personal remark: Hungarian
Possibly related to the Turkish title sultan meaning "king, sultan". This was the name of a 10th-century ruler of Hungary, also known as Zsolt.
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