French, Portuguese and Galician form of Andreas (see Andrew).
Apollinaire
Gender:Masculine & Feminine
Usage: French (Rare)
Rating:28% based on 4 votes
French form of Apollinaris. It was adopted as a surname by the Polish-French poet Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918), who based it on his Polish middle name Apolinary.
Astrophel
Gender:Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Literature
Rating:30% based on 4 votes
Probably intended to mean "star lover", from Greek ἀστήρ (aster) meaning "star" and φίλος (philos) meaning "lover, friend". This name was first used by the 16th-century poet Philip Sidney in his collection of sonnets Astrophel and Stella.
December
Gender:Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced:dis-EM-bər, DEE-səm-bər
Rating:45% based on 4 votes
Derived from the Latin word decem, meaning "ten". December is the twelfth month on the Gregorian calendar. This name is used regularly in America, mostly on females.
Meaning unknown. In Greek mythology Io was a princess loved by Zeus, who changed her into a heifer in order to hide her from Hera. A moon of Jupiter bears this name in her honour.
Ira 1
Gender:Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English, Hebrew, Biblical
Other Scripts:עִירָא(Hebrew)
Pronounced:IE-rə(English)
Rating:13% based on 4 votes
Means "watchful" in Hebrew. In the Old Testament this is the name of King David's priest. As an English Christian given name, Ira began to be used after the Protestant Reformation. In the 17th century the Puritans brought it to America, where remained moderately common into the 20th century.
Lev 1
Gender:Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Russian, Ukrainian
Other Scripts:Лев(Russian, Ukrainian)
Pronounced:LYEHF(Russian)
Rating:37% based on 3 votes
Means "lion" in Russian and Ukrainian, functioning as a vernacular form of Leo. This was the real Russian name of both author Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) and revolutionary Leon Trotsky (1879-1940). This is also the name of the main character, Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, in the novel The Idiot (1868) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
From a Scottish surname that was derived from a Norman French town called "SaintClair". A notable bearer was the American author Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951).