Israella's Personal Name List

Means "adornment, ornament" in Hebrew. This was the name of the wives of both Lamech and Esau in the Old Testament.

Feminine form of Adelphus.

Means "young woman" in Hebrew.

From Altildis, a Latinized form of a Germanic name derived from the elements alt meaning "old" and hilt meaning "battle", making it a cognate of Old English Ealdhild.

French feminine and masculine form of Amantius.

Feminine form of Ampeliusz.

Means "answer" in Hebrew. In the Old Testament this name belongs to one female character and two male characters.

From Greek Athenai (plural because the city had several distinct parts), traditionally derived from Athena, but probably assimilated from a lost name in a pre-Hellenic language.

Yiddish and Judeo-French equivalent of Bella.

From Italian bella "beautiful, fair" and donna "lady". This is the name of a toxic plant, also called deadly nightshade (species Atropa belladonna).

From the English word bloom, ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- ("to thrive, flower, bloom").

From the English word blossom, ultimately from Old English blóstm. It came into use as a rare given name in the 19th century.

From Yiddish בלום (blum) meaning "flower".

Derived from Hebrew חָיָה (chayah) meaning "living", considered a feminine form of Chaim.

Diminutive of Clarissa.

From the name of the fourth letter in the Greek alphabet, Δ. It is also the name for an island formed at the mouth of a river.

Feminine form of Desideratus.

French form of Desiderata. In part it is directly from the French word meaning "desired, wished".

English form of Désirée. It was popularized in the English-speaking world by the movie Désirée (1954).

Diminutive of Odessa, Desiree or other names containing des.

Means "judged" in Hebrew. According to the Old Testament, Dinah was a daughter of Jacob and Leah who was abducted by Shechem. It has been used as an English given name since after the Protestant Reformation.

Modern Greek form of Helen.

Short form of Elisabeth, typically used independently. Elsa von Brabant is the lover of Lohengrin in medieval German tales, and her story was expanded by Richard Wagner for his opera Lohengrin (1850). The name had a little spike in popularity after the 2013 release of the animated Disney movie Frozen, which featured a magical princess by this name.

Variant of Elizabeth.

Means "flame" in Italian.

Means "birth, origin" in Greek. This is the name of the first book of the Old Testament in the Bible. It tells of the creation of the world, the expulsion of Adam and Eve, Noah and the great flood, and the three patriarchs.

Elaboration of Germana.

From the Old Welsh name Gwladus, probably derived from gwlad meaning "country". Alternatively, it may have been adopted as a Welsh form of Claudia. Saint Gwladus or Gwladys was the mother of Saint Cadoc. She was one of the daughters of Brychan Brycheiniog. This name became popular outside of Wales after it was used in Ouida's novel Puck (1870).

East Prussian German form of Henriette.

Variant of Hanna 1 as well as a short form of Jehanna.

Feminization of Henn, a medieval diminutive of Henry.

Means "my delight is in her" in Hebrew. In the Old Testament she is the wife of King Hezekiah of Judah and the mother of Manasseh.

A blend of Ilse with Hildegard or another name ending in -gard.

Means "envy" in Latin. This was the Roman goddess of vengeance, equivalent to the Greek goddess Nemesis.

German diminutive of Helene or Magdalena.

German and Dutch feminine form of Leonius.

From the Old German name Leutgard, which was derived from the elements liut "people" and gart "enclosure, yard". It was borne by Charlemagne's fifth and last wife. This was also the name of a 13th-century Flemish nun, the patron saint of easy deliveries.

French form of Lidwina.

Diminutive of Maria. It coincides with the Italian word mia meaning "mine".

This name was common in Sweden and Denmark in the 1970s [1]. It rose in popularity in the English-speaking world in the 1990s, entering the top ten for girls in the United States in 2009. It was also popular in many other countries at that time. Famous bearers include American actress Mia Farrow (1945-) and American soccer player Mia Hamm (1972-), birth names María and Mariel respectively.

French masculine and feminine form of Modestus.

From the English word modesty, ultimately from Latin modestus "moderate", a derivative of modus "measure".

From a Greek name derived from νέος (neos) meaning "new". This was the name of an Orthodox Christian saint, a 3rd-century Syrian woman martyred during the persecutions of the Roman emperor Decius.

From the name of a Ukrainian city that sits on the north coast of the Black Sea, which was named after the ancient Greek city of Ὀδησσός (Odessos), of uncertain meaning. This name can also be used as a feminine form of Odysseus.

Feminine form of Pacificus.

From the place name Palestina. Also compare Falasteen.

Means "dove, pigeon" in Spanish.

German form of Rodelind. Rodelinde (6th-century), was a Lombard queen by marriage to king Audoin, and mother of king Alboin.

Means "rose" in Russian, Bulgarian and Macedonian. It is a cognate of Rosa 1.

Means "peace" in Hebrew.

Means "peace of Zion" in Hebrew. Queen Salome Alexandra of Judaea (141-67 BCE) is known as Shlomtzion in Hebrew. It is borne by journalist Shlomzion Kenan, daughter of the late Israeli writer Amos Kenan.

Feminine form of Vivius.