elbowin's Personal Name List

Old German form of Baldric.

Variant of Dietlinde.

From German Dorn "thorn" and Rose "rose" combined with the diminutive suffix -chen. This is the name of Sleeping Beauty in the Brothers Grimm telling of the fairy tale.

Serbian form of Dositheos.

Derived from the Old German elements agil "edge, blade" and mari "famous". Egilmar (or Elimar) was the name of two counts of Oldenburg in the 12th century.

Means "hazel light", from Turkish ela meaning "hazel" combined with Arabic نور (nūr) meaning "light".

Russian form of Thekla.

Variant of Gefjon.

Probably means "the giving one", from Old Norse gefa "to give". Gefjon or Gefion was a Norse goddess associated with ploughing and fertility.

Diminutive of Gheorghe.

Dutch feminine form of Gisbert.

Variant of Jimena.

Derived from Phoenician 𐤇𐤍𐤍 (ḥann) meaning "grace, favour". This was a fairly common Punic name.

From an Old German byname derived from hraban meaning "raven".

Serbian form of Euphemia. This name was adopted by a 14th-century Serbian poet (born Jelena Mrnjavčević).

Diminutive of Jakob, Jörg or Joachim.

Swiss German short form of Georg.

From the English noble title Lady, derived from Old English hlæfdige, originally meaning "bread kneader". This name grew in popularity in Latin America after the marriage of Diana Spencer, known as Lady Di, to Prince Charles in 1981 and her death in 1997.

Russian form of Laurus (see Laura).

From the earlier form Loherangrin, derived from Lothringen, the German name for the region of Lorraine. It appears in Arthurian legend, initially in the 13th-century German poem Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach, belonging to a son of the knight Parzival. The tales were adapted by Richard Wagner for his opera Lohengrin (1850).

Form of Lohengrin used by the 13th-century German poet Wolfram von Eschenbach.

From the Punic name 𐤌𐤂𐤍 (Magon) possibly meaning "shield" [1]. This name was borne by three kings of Carthage, and also by a brother of Hannibal Barca.

Feminine form of Mahbub.

Spanish short form of Maximiliano (masculine) or German short form of Maximiliane (feminine) or Maximilian (masculine).

From Arabic نفيس (nafīs) meaning "precious, valuable", from the root نفس (nafusa) meaning "to be precious".

Namıka is a Turkish word meaning "printer, writer".

Strictly feminine form of Nasim.

From the name Nisa combined with Arabic نور (nūr) meaning "light".

Short form of Rimantas.

Means "rose red" in German, used in the Brothers Grimm folktale Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot (English translation Snow-White and Rose-Red). In the tale Rosenrot and her sister Schneeweißchen befriend a bear who has been cursed by an evil dwarf.

Short form of Ryan and other names beginning with Ry.

Means "snow white" in High German, thus a cognate of Low German Sneewittchen (see Snow White). This is the name of a peasant girl in the German folktale Snow-White and Rose-Red, recorded by the Brothers Grimm in 1837. Her sister is Rosenrot, translated into English as Rose-Red. This story is distinct from the Grimms' earlier tale Snow White.

German form of Snow White.

Italian and Spanish form of Syrus.

From Sanskrit सुख (sukha) "happiness, pleasure" and राम (rāma), the name of the Hindu god Rama 1.

A dithematic name composed from the Slavic name element světŭ "light" and an unidentified second part.

Soviet-era name derived from the usual Azerbaijani spelling of the surname of the German communist party leader Ernst Thälmann (1886-1944; see Thälmann).

Diminutive of Ulrich or Ulrike.

Alternate transcription of Russian Виктория or Ukrainian Вікторія (see Viktoriya).

Lithuanian masculine form of Virginia.

Derived from the Old German elements folk "people" and hart "hard, brave".

Derived from the Old German element folk "people" combined with mari "famous".

Variant of Waltraud.

Variant of Willehelm.

In medieval German literature, this is the name of the eponymous character of the epic poem Willehalm (13th century) written by the German poet Wolfram von Eschenbach (died around 1220).

Feminine form of William. A famous bearer of this name was Williamina Fleming (1857-1911), a Scottish astronomer.

Created by the German author Karl May for an Apache chief, first appearing in his 1875 novel Old Firehand and subsequently in several other works.

Compound of Wolf and Dietrich. Wolfdietrich is the title hero of a 13th-century Middle High German epic poem. By some traditions he is the grandfather of the more famous hero Dietrich von Bern.

Derived from the Old German element wolf meaning "wolf" combined with hart meaning "hard, firm, brave, hardy".

Means "little wolf", from a diminutive of the Gothic element wulfs. This was the name of a 4th-century Gothic bishop and missionary. He translated the New Testament into Gothic.