HoneyPot's Personal Name List

Aceley
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Archaic), English (Modern, Rare)
Rating: 43% based on 6 votes
Acelia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Old Swedish, Swedish (Rare)
Rating: 48% based on 6 votes
Latinized form of Assela.
Adaela
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (Rare, Archaic)
Rating: 45% based on 6 votes
Variant of Adela.
Adara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אַדָרָה(Hebrew)
Means "noble" in Hebrew.
Adelfa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish (Latin American), American (Hispanic, Rare), Filipino (Rare)
Rating: 62% based on 6 votes
Italian and Spanish form of Adelphia.
Adella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ə-DEHL-ə
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Variant of Adela.
Adelle
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ə-DEHL
Rating: 61% based on 7 votes
Variant of Adele.
Adina 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Other Scripts: Ἀδινά(Ancient Greek)
From the Hebrew name עֲדִינָא (ʿAḏina), derived from עָדִין (ʿaḏin) meaning "delicate". This name is borne by a soldier in the Old Testament.

The feminine name Adina 3 is from the same root, but is spelled differently in Hebrew.

Adrina
Usage: Indonesian
Rating: 70% based on 6 votes
Advena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (Rare, Archaic)
Rating: 62% based on 5 votes
Aerica
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese (Brazilian, Rare), English (American, Rare)
Rating: 46% based on 5 votes
Variant of Erica.
Aglaea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἀγλαΐα(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 33% based on 4 votes
Latinized form of Aglaia.
Ahélis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval French
Rating: 62% based on 5 votes
Ahuva
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אֲהוּבָה(Hebrew)
Means "beloved" in Hebrew.
Aleida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch, Spanish (Latin American)
Pronounced: a-LAY-da(Dutch) a-LAY-dha(Spanish)
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
Dutch and Spanish short form of Adelaide.
Alexia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek, French, Spanish, English (Modern)
Other Scripts: Αλεξία(Greek)
Pronounced: A-LEHK-SEE-A(French) a-LEHK-sya(Spanish) ə-LEHK-see-ə(English)
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Feminine form of Alexis.
Anette
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian
Rating: 44% based on 5 votes
Scandinavian variant of Annette.
Antonia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Romanian, Greek, Croatian, Bulgarian, Ancient Roman
Other Scripts: Αντωνία(Greek) Антония(Bulgarian)
Pronounced: an-TO-nya(Italian, Spanish, German) an-TO-nee-ə(English) ahn-TO-nee-a(Dutch) an-TO-nee-a(Latin)
Rating: 68% based on 4 votes
Feminine form of Antonius (see Anthony).
Aphria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Irish (Latinized)
Rating: 43% based on 4 votes
Latinization of Aifric.
Aracelis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American)
Pronounced: a-ra-SEH-lees(Latin American Spanish) a-ra-THEH-lees(European Spanish)
Rating: 80% based on 3 votes
Variant of Araceli.
Arianrhod
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh Mythology
Pronounced: ar-YAN-rawd(Welsh)
Rating: 53% based on 4 votes
Probably means "silver wheel" from Welsh arian "silver" and rhod "wheel". According to the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi [1], Arianrhod was the mother of the twins Dylan and Lleu Llaw Gyffes, whom she spontaneously birthed when she stepped over a magical wand. It is speculated that in earlier myths she may have been a goddess of the moon.
Ariela
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew, Albanian, Croatian, Italian (Rare), Polish
Rating: 68% based on 5 votes
Hebrew variant of Ariella, Polish feminine form of Ariel, Italian feminine form of Ariele as well as a Croatian and Albanian borrowing of the Italian name.
Arin
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
Variant of Erin or Aaron.
Arista
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Astronomy
Pronounced: ə-RIS-tə(English)
Rating: 92% based on 5 votes
Means "ear of grain" in Latin. This is the name of a star, also known as Spica, in the constellation Virgo.
Asherah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Semitic Mythology
Pronounced: ə-SHEER-ə(English)
Rating: 10% based on 1 vote
Perhaps derived from Semitic roots meaning "she who walks in the sea". This was the name of a Semitic mother goddess. She was worshipped by the Israelites before the advent of monotheism.
Atalia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: עֲתַלְיָה(Hebrew)
Modern Hebrew transcription of Athaliah.
Atarah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: עֲטָרָה(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: AT-ə-rə(English)
Means "crown" in Hebrew. In the Old Testament Atarah is a minor character, the wife of Jerahmeel.
Atina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek (Cypriot, Rare), Hungarian
Rating: 40% based on 4 votes
Variant of Athina.
Attina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Popular Culture
Rating: 55% based on 4 votes
Variant of Atina.
Audrea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: AWD-ree-ə
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
Variant of Audrey.
Avah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
Variant of Ava 1.
Avalon
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: AV-ə-lahn(American English) AV-ə-lawn(British English)
Rating: 70% based on 5 votes
From the name of the island paradise to which King Arthur was brought after his death. The name of this island is perhaps related to Welsh afal meaning "apple", a fruit that was often linked with paradise.
Aveline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: AV-ə-lien, AV-ə-leen
Rating: 73% based on 4 votes
From the Norman French form of the Germanic name Avelina, a diminutive of Avila. The Normans introduced this name to Britain. After the Middle Ages it became rare as an English name, though it persisted in America until the 19th century [1].
Avila
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Germanic [1]
Rating: 73% based on 3 votes
Derived from the Old German element awi, of unknown meaning. Rarely, this name may be given in honour of the 16th-century mystic Saint Teresa of Ávila, Ávila being the name of the town in Spain where she was born.
Avina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Aviva
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אֲבִיבָה(Hebrew)
Pronounced: ah-VEE-vah
Rating: 68% based on 4 votes
Feminine variant of Aviv.
Ayla 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אֵלָה(Hebrew)
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Alternate transcription of Hebrew אֵלָה (see Ela 3).
Calixta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese (Rare)
Pronounced: ka-LEEKS-ta(Spanish)
Personal remark: Vera Emigdia
Spanish and Portuguese feminine form of Calixtus.
Jaleh
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Persian
Other Scripts: ژاله(Persian)
Pronounced: zhaw-LEH
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Alternate transcription of Persian ژاله (see Zhaleh).
Kelleigh
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: KEHL-ee
Rating: 87% based on 3 votes
Variant of Kelly.
Louella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: loo-EHL-ə
Rating: 60% based on 4 votes
Combination of Lou and the popular name suffix ella.
Nydia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Spanish, Literature
Pronounced: NID-ee-ə(English) NEE-dhya(Spanish)
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
Used by British author Edward Bulwer-Lytton for a blind flower-seller in his novel The Last Days of Pompeii (1834). He perhaps based it on Latin nidus "nest".
Sage
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: SAYJ
Rating: 63% based on 3 votes
From the English word sage, which denotes either a type of spice or else a wise person.
Séphora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: SEH-FAW-RA
French form of Zipporah.
Sepphora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical Greek
Other Scripts: Σεπφώρα(Ancient Greek)
Greek form of Zipporah.
Shavonne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern), African American (Modern)
Pronounced: shə-VAHN(American English) shə-VAWN(British English)
Rating: 97% based on 3 votes
Anglicized form of Siobhán. In some cases it might be considered a combination of the phonetic element sha and Yvonne.
Suvi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: SOO-vee
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Means "summer" in Finnish.
Svajonė
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Lithuanian
Means "dream, wish" in Lithuanian.
Thaleia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Θάλεια(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Ancient Greek form of Thalia.
Tiana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: tee-AHN-ə, tee-AN-ə
Rating: 73% based on 4 votes
Short form of Tatiana or Christiana. It was rare in the United States until it jumped in popularity in 1975, perhaps due to the Vietnamese-American actress Tiana Alexandra (1956-), who had some exposure at that time. It was used as the name of the princess in the Disney movie The Princess and the Frog (2009).
Trina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: TREE-nə
Rating: 85% based on 4 votes
Short form of Katrina.
Zipporah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical, Hebrew
Other Scripts: צִפּוֹרָה(Hebrew)
Pronounced: zi-PAWR-ə(English) ZIP-ə-rə(English)
From the Hebrew name צִפּוֹרָה (Tsippora), derived from צִפּוֹר (tsippor) meaning "bird" [1]. In the Old Testament this is the name of the Midianite wife of Moses. She was the daughter of the priest Jethro.
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