Felie's Personal Name List

Ashanti

Gender: Feminine & Masculine

Usage: Various

Rating: 100% based on 1 vote

From the name of an African people who reside in southern Ghana. It possibly means "warlike" in the Twi language.

Zuri

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Swahili

Rating: 100% based on 1 vote

Means "beautiful" in Swahili.

Abimbola

Gender: Feminine & Masculine

Usage: Yoruba

Personal remark: Yoruba

Rating: 90% based on 1 vote

Means "born to me with wealth" in Yoruba.

Ade 1

Gender: Masculine & Feminine

Usage: Yoruba

Personal remark: Yoruba

Rating: 80% based on 1 vote

From Yoruba adé meaning "crown", also a short form of other names beginning with this element.

Adegoke

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Yoruba

Personal remark: Yoruba

Rating: 80% based on 1 vote

Means "the crown has ascended the mountain" in Yoruba.

Oluchi

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Igbo

Rating: 80% based on 1 vote

Means "work of God" in Igbo.

Bompaka

Gender: Masculine & Feminine

Usage: Kongo

Rating: 76% based on 7 votes

Means "old age" in Kikongo

Abiodun

Gender: Masculine & Feminine

Usage: Yoruba

Personal remark: Yoruba

Rating: 70% based on 1 vote

Means "born on a festival" in Yoruba.

Subira

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Swahili

Rating: 70% based on 1 vote

Means "patience" in Swahili.

Tadesse

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Amharic

Other Scripts: ታደሠ(Amharic)

Rating: 70% based on 1 vote

Means "revived" in Amharic.

Thema

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Akan

Rating: 69% based on 8 votes

Means "queen" in Akan.

Ambesa

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Tigrinya

Personal remark: Tigrinya

Rating: 68% based on 5 votes

Means "lioness" in Tigrinya.

Luyanda

Gender: Masculine & Feminine

Usage: South African, Zulu, Xhosa

Rating: 67% based on 3 votes

Means "it is growing, increasing" in Zulu and Xhosa, referring to love or the child’s family.

Lukinda

Gender: Masculine & Feminine

Usage: Kongo

Rating: 66% based on 9 votes

Amani

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Tigrinya

Personal remark: Tigrinya

Rating: 65% based on 8 votes

Means "faith" in Tigrinya.

Zula

Gender: Masculine & Feminine

Usage: Tigrinya

Other Scripts: ዙላ(Tigrinya) زولا‎(Arabic)

Rating: 64% based on 7 votes

Means "brilliant" in Tigrinya.

Zula is a small town in central Eritrea. It is situated near the head of Annesley Bay, on the Red Sea coast. Four kilometers away is the archeological site of Adulis, which was an emporium and the port of Axum.

Malundama

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Kongo

Rating: 63% based on 3 votes

Means "hidden things" in Kikongo.

Aman

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Tigrinya

Personal remark: Tigrinya

Rating: 63% based on 4 votes

Means "handsome" in Tigrinya.

Zola 2

Gender: Feminine & Masculine

Usage: Xhosa

Rating: 61% based on 7 votes

From the Xhosa root -zola meaning "calm".

Amleset

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Tigrinya

Rating: 60% based on 4 votes

Means "she made it return" in Tigrinya.

Kamaria

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Comorian

Rating: 60% based on 8 votes

From Arabic qamar meaning "moon", also the root of the name of the island country of the Comoros.

Kasese

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Kongo

Rating: 60% based on 4 votes

Manoka

Gender: Masculine & Feminine

Usage: Kongo

Rating: 58% based on 5 votes

Means "rain" in Kikongo.

Pula

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Sotho

Rating: 58% based on 4 votes

Means "rain" in Sotho.

Sahie

Usage: African

Rating: 58% based on 4 votes

Aranchi

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Tigrinya

Rating: 57% based on 6 votes

Means "orange (fruit)" in Tigrinya.

Makiadi

Gender: Masculine & Feminine

Usage: Kongo

Rating: 56% based on 7 votes

Means "misfortune" in Kikongo.

Addis

Gender: Feminine & Masculine

Usage: Amharic, Ethiopian

Other Scripts: አዲስ(Amharic)

Personal remark: Amharic

Rating: 55% based on 6 votes

Derived from Amharic አዲስ (addis) "new".

Matadi

Gender: Masculine & Feminine

Usage: Kongo

Rating: 55% based on 6 votes

Means "stone" in Kikongo.

Senai

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Tigrinya, Ethiopian

Rating: 55% based on 4 votes

Means "gift from Above" in Tigrinya.

Tesfalem

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Tigrinya

Rating: 55% based on 4 votes

Means "hope of wise man" in Tigrinya.

Unathi

Gender: Masculine & Feminine

Usage: Xhosa

Rating: 54% based on 7 votes

Means "he or she is with us" in Xhosa, from the prefix u- meaning "he, she" and nathi meaning "with us".

Rahwa

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Tigrinya

Rating: 53% based on 3 votes

Means "satisfied" in Tigrinya.

Samba

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Western African, Fula

Rating: 53% based on 3 votes

Senegalese Fula name used to denote a second-born son.

Armana

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Tigrinya

Rating: 53% based on 4 votes

Neans "our flag" in Tigrinya.

Amukelani

Gender: Masculine & Feminine

Usage: African, Tsonga

Rating: 52% based on 5 votes

Means "acceptance" in Tsonga.

Amondi

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Swahili

Rating: 52% based on 6 votes

Swahili form of Amani.

Otieno

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Luo

Rating: 52% based on 6 votes

Means "born at night" in Luo.

Themba

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Zulu, Xhosa, Ndebele

Rating: 52% based on 6 votes

Means "trust, hope" in Zulu, Xhosa and Ndebele.

Abeba

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Amharic

Other Scripts: አበባ(Amharic)

Personal remark: Amharic

Rating: 50% based on 5 votes

Means "flower" in Amharic.

Amondi

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Luo

Rating: 50% based on 5 votes

Feminine form of Omondi.

Daniat

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Tigrinya

Rating: 50% based on 4 votes

Means "judge" in Tigrinya.

Fikile

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Tsonga

Rating: 50% based on 1 vote

Means "arrived" in Tsonga.

Kakengo

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Kongo

Rating: 50% based on 3 votes

Lumingu

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Kongo

Rating: 50% based on 2 votes

Means "Sunday" in Kikongo.

Seretse

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Tswana

Rating: 50% based on 3 votes

Means “the clay that binds" in Tswana.

Seretse Khama (1921-1980) was the first President of Botswana, in office from 1966 to 1980. He was the son of Queen Tebogo and Sekgoma Khama II, the paramount chief of the Bamangwato people, and the grandson of Khama III, their king.

Sipho

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Zulu, Xhosa, Ndebele

Rating: 50% based on 2 votes

Means "gift" from Zulu, Xhosa and Ndebele isipho.

Tandzile

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Swazi

Rating: 50% based on 2 votes

Means "a female addition to the family" in Swazi.

Zarité

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Literature

Rating: 50% based on 5 votes

Zarité "Teté" is the name of an Haitian mixed-race woman who was a slave in Haiti. She is the main character of the book "Island Beneath the Sea" (2009) by Isabel Allende.

Saare

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Tigrinya

Rating: 48% based on 5 votes

Means "winner" in Tigrinya.

Thando

Gender: Masculine & Feminine

Usage: Xhosa, Zulu, Ndebele

Rating: 48% based on 5 votes

From Xhosa, Zulu and Ndebele thanda meaning "to love".

Afwerki

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Tigrinya, Ethiopian

Personal remark: Tigrinya

Rating: 48% based on 4 votes

Means "mouth of gold" in Tigrinya.

Aklilu

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Tigrinya

Personal remark: Tigrinya

Rating: 48% based on 4 votes

Means "laurel wreath" in Tigrinya.

Anbessa

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Tigrinya

Rating: 48% based on 4 votes

Means "lion" in Tigrinya.

Noham

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Tigrinya

Rating: 47% based on 3 votes

Means "comfort" in Tigrinya.

Seble

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Amharic

Other Scripts: ሰብለ(Amharic)

Rating: 47% based on 3 votes

Means "harvest" in Amharic.

Zeudi

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Tigrinya

Rating: 45% based on 2 votes

Means "crown" in Tigrinya. It is the name of the famous 1970 Eritrean-Italian actress Zeudi Araya (1951-).

Negus

Gender: Masculine

Usage: African American, Tigrinya

Other Scripts: ነጉሥ(Ge'ez, Amharic) ነጋሲ(Tigrinya)

Rating: 43% based on 3 votes

Means "king" in Tigrinya.

Nzuzi

Gender: Masculine & Feminine

Usage: Kongo

Rating: 43% based on 3 votes

Means "second born twin" in Kikongo.

Fessehaye

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Tigrinya

Rating: 40% based on 2 votes

Means "eternal happiness" in Tigrinya.

Hagos

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Tigrinya

Rating: 40% based on 2 votes

Means "joy" in Tigrinya.

Keise

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Kongo

Rating: 40% based on 4 votes

Haben

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Tigrinya

Rating: 35% based on 2 votes

Means "pride" in Tigrinya.

Matondo

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Kongo

Rating: 35% based on 2 votes

Means "thanksgiving" in Kikongo.

Semhar

Gender: Feminine & Masculine

Usage: Tigrinya

Rating: 35% based on 2 votes

Means "Eritrean region" in Tigrinya.

Dinknesh

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Amharic

Other Scripts: ድንቅ ነሽ(Amharic)

Rating: 30% based on 2 votes

Means "you are marvelous; the wondrous one" in Amharic.

This is the Ethiopian name of Lucy, the fossilized Australopithecus discovered in 1974.

Dumisani

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Zulu, Ndebele

Rating: 30% based on 1 vote

Means "praise" in Zulu and Ndebele.

Fumu

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Kongo

Rating: 30% based on 2 votes

Means "king" in Kikongo.

Gugulethu

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Xhosa, Zulu, Ndebele

Rating: 30% based on 2 votes

From Xhosa, Zulu and Ndebele igugu "treasure, pride" and lethu "our".

Mebrahtu

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Tigrinya

Rating: 30% based on 2 votes

Means "His light" in Tigrinya.

Zeila

Gender: Feminine

Usage: African American

Other Scripts: زيلع‎(Arabic)

Pronounced: ZEY-LAH

Rating: 30% based on 2 votes

Derived from Seylac, also called Zeila, town and port, extreme northwest Somalia, on the Gulf of Aden. Seylac also falls under the jurisdiction of the Republic of Somaliland (a self-declared independent state without international recognition that falls within the recognized borders of Somalia).

Bilen

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Amharic

Other Scripts: ቢለን(Amharic)

Rating: 5% based on 4 votes

Means "iris" in Amharic.

Ayo

Gender: Feminine & Masculine

Usage: Yoruba

Pronounced: A-YAW

From Yoruba ayọ̀ meaning "joy", or a short form of other names containing this element.

Babajide

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Yoruba

Personal remark: Yoruba

Means "father has awakened" in Yoruba.

Bonolo

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Sotho

Personal remark: Sotho

Means "ease" in Sotho.

Bosede

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Yoruba

Variant of Abosede.

Dada

Gender: Masculine & Feminine

Usage: Yoruba

Means "curly hair" in Yoruba.

Dayo

Gender: Masculine & Feminine

Usage: Yoruba

Means "joy arrives" in Yoruba.

Desta

Gender: Feminine & Masculine

Usage: Amharic

Other Scripts: ደስታ(Amharic)

Means "joy" in Amharic.

Fadzai

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Shona

From Shona fadza meaning "please, make happy" [1].

Folami

Gender: Masculine & Feminine

Usage: Yoruba (Rare)

Means "respect and honour me" in Yoruba.

Hlengiwe

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Zulu, Xhosa, Ndebele, Swazi

Means "helped, rescued, redeemed" in Zulu, Xhosa, Ndebele and Swazi.

Kayode

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Yoruba

Means "bringing joy" in Yoruba.

Lencho

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Oromo

Means "lion" in Oromo.

Mojisola

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Yoruba

Means "I wake up to wealth" in Yoruba.

Ngozi

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Igbo

Means "blessing" in Igbo.

Oyibo

Gender: Masculine & Feminine

Usage: Urhobo

Means "white" in Urhobo.

Wangari

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Kikuyu

From Kikuyu ngarĩ meaning "leopard". In the Kikuyu origin legend this is the name of one of the nine daughters of Mumbi.

Yao

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Ewe

Ewe form of Yaw.

Zakumi

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Popular Culture

Zakumi the Leopard was the official mascot for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. His name comes from ZA, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code for "South Africa" and kumi that means "ten" in several African languages.

Zindziswa

Gender: Feminine

Usage: South African, Xhosa