Behind the Name: Cinnabar's Personal Name List

Aitor

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Basque, Spanish

Pronounced: ie-TOR

Rating: 67% based on 3 votes

Possibly means "good fathers" from Basque aita "father" and on "good". This was the name of a legendary ancestor of the Basques.

Alaia 1

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Basque

Rating: 53% based on 7 votes

Means "joyful, happy" from Basque alai.

Amaia

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Basque

Rating: 90% based on 3 votes

Means "the end" in Basque. This is the name of a character in the historical novel Amaya, or the Basques in the 8th century (1879) by Francisco Navarro-Villoslada (Amaya in the Spanish original; Amaia in the Basque translation).

Ander

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Basque

Pronounced: AN-dehr

Rating: 60% based on 3 votes

Basque form of Andreas (see Andrew).

Balendin

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Basque

Pronounced: ba-LEHN-deen

Rating: 34% based on 7 votes

Basque form of Valentinus (see Valentine 1).

Danel

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Basque

Pronounced: da-NEHL

Rating: 47% based on 3 votes

Basque form of Daniel.

Enara

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Basque

Pronounced: eh-NA-ra

Rating: 47% based on 7 votes

Means "swallow (bird)" in Basque.

Erramun

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Basque

Rating: 24% based on 7 votes

Basque form of Raymond.

Esti 1

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Basque (Rare)

Rating: 87% based on 3 votes

Means "sweet, honey", from Basque ezti.

Ibai

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Basque

Pronounced: ee-BIE

Rating: 60% based on 2 votes

Means "river" in Basque.

Iban

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Basque

Pronounced: ee-BAN

Rating: 30% based on 2 votes

Basque variant form of John.

Iñaki

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Basque

Pronounced: ee-NYA-kee

Rating: 55% based on 2 votes

Basque form of Ignatius.

Izar

Gender: Feminine & Masculine

Usage: Basque

Pronounced: ee-SAR

Rating: 87% based on 3 votes

Means "star" in Basque.

Katalin

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Hungarian, Basque

Pronounced: KAW-taw-leen(Hungarian) ka-TA-leen(Basque)

Rating: 33% based on 7 votes

Hungarian and Basque form of Katherine.

Kemen

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Basque

Rating: 30% based on 3 votes

Means "courage, vigour" in Basque.

Maialen

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Basque

Pronounced: MIE-a-lehn, mie-A-lehn

Rating: 47% based on 7 votes

Basque form of Magdalene.

Miren

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Basque

Pronounced: MEE-rehn

Rating: 50% based on 3 votes

Basque form of Maria.

Naia

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Basque

Pronounced: NIE-a

Rating: 57% based on 7 votes

Means "wave, sea foam" in Basque.

Naiara

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Basque

Pronounced: nie-A-ra

Rating: 87% based on 3 votes

From the Basque name of the Spanish city of Nájera, which is Arabic in origin. In the 12th century there was a reported apparition of the Virgin Mary in a nearby cave.

Peru

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Basque

Rating: 27% based on 3 votes

Basque form of Peter.