JemimahGertrude's Personal Name List

Spanish form of Alexander. This was the most popular name for boys in Spain from the 1990s until 2006 (and again in 2011).

Variant of Alonso in use in America.

Maori form of Andrew.

Hebrew and Arabic form of Benjamin.

French form of Clorinda.

Hungarian and Swedish form of Edith.

European Portuguese form of Iphigeneia.

Hebrew form of Elizabeth.

Italian and Spanish form of Aemilius (see Emil).

Hungarian form of Elizabeth. This is the native name of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary. It was also borne by the infamous Erzsébet Báthory (1560-1614), a countess and alleged murderer.

French form of Stephen.

German form of Frederick. This was the name of several rulers of the Holy Roman Empire, Austria and Prussia. The philosophers Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) and Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) are two other famous bearers of this name.

German diminutive of Friedrich.

Hebrew form of Gabriel.

Form of George in several languages. This name was borne by the German idealist philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831).

Italian form of Iohannes (see John). This name has been very common in Italy since the late Middle Ages, as with other equivalents of John in Europe. The Renaissance writer Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), the painter Giovanni Bellini (1430-1516) and the painter and sculptor Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) were famous bearers of the name.

Italian form of Joseph. Two noteworthy bearers were Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882), a military leader who united Italy, and Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), a composer of operas.

French form of William.

Welsh form of William.

German form of Henry. This was the name of several German kings.

Dutch and Estonian cognate of Heinrich (see Henry).

Welsh and Galician form of Iacobus (see James). This was the name of two early Welsh kings of Gwynedd. It is also the name of the villain in Shakespeare's tragedy Othello (1603).

Arabic form of Abraham, also used in several other languages. This form appears in the Quran.

Portuguese form of Ignatius.

Modern Greek form of Ἰωάννης (see John).

Spanish form of Xavier.

Spanish and Portuguese form of George. A famous bearer was the Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986).

Spanish and Manx form of Iohannes (see John). Like other forms of John in Europe, this name has been extremely popular in Spain since the late Middle Ages.

The name is borne by Don Juan, a character from Spanish legend who, after killing his lover's father, is dragged to hell by the father's ghost. The story was adapted into plays by Tirso de Molina (1630) and Molière (1665), an opera by Mozart (1787), and an epic poem by Byron (1824), among other works.

Scandinavian form of Christopher.

Polish form of Xenia, as well as an alternate transcription of Russian Ксения or Ukrainian/Belarusian Ксенія (see Kseniya).

German short form of Elisabeth.

Dutch form of Ludwig.

Spanish form of Louis.

Originally a medieval Portuguese form of Matilda. This name was borne by the wife of Afonso, the first king of Portugal. In modern times it was the name of the titular character in a popular Argentine comic strip (published from 1964 to 1973) by Quino.

Irish form of Margaret.

Form of Matilda in several languages.

Italian form of Matthew.

French form of Maximilianus (see Maximilian).

Old French form of Millicent.

Hebrew form of Moses.

French form of Naomi 1.

French form of Ophelia.

Spanish, Italian and Portuguese form of Oswald.

Scottish Gaelic form of Patrick.

Italian and Spanish cognate of Pearl.

Scottish Gaelic form of Ruaidhrí.

Means "my princess" in Hebrew, a possessive form of שָׂרָה (sara) meaning "lady, princess, noblewoman". In the Old Testament, this was Sarah's name before God changed it (see Genesis 17:15).

Medieval Dutch form of Trijntje. This name has survived to modern times, but it is extremely rare in the Netherlands, especially when compared to its modern form Trijntje.

Derived from the Basque place name Etxeberria meaning "the new house". This was the surname of the Jesuit priest Saint Francis Xavier (1506-1552) who was born in a village by this name. He was a missionary to India, Japan, China, and other areas in East Asia, and he is the patron saint of the Orient and missionaries. His surname has since been adopted as a given name in his honour, chiefly among Catholics.

Russian form of Helen.

Alternate transcription of Russian Евгений (see Yevgeniy).

Hebrew form of Isaac. This was the name of two recent Israeli prime ministers.

Hebrew form of Jochebed.