Su24's Personal Name List

Bash
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare), Popular Culture
Personal remark: Sebastian
Rating: 55% based on 6 votes
Diminutive of Sebastian.
Celia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Spanish
Pronounced: SEEL-yə(English) SEE-lee-ə(English) THEHL-ya(European Spanish) SEHL-ya(Latin American Spanish)
Personal remark: Cecilia
Rating: 64% based on 5 votes
Feminine form of the Roman family name Caelius. Shakespeare used it in his play As You Like It (1599), which introduced the name to the English-speaking public at large. It is sometimes used as a short form of Cecilia.
Drina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Personal remark: Alexandrina
Rating: 26% based on 5 votes
Diminutive of Adriana or Alexandrina.
Dulcie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DUL-see
Personal remark: Dulcinea
Rating: 14% based on 5 votes
From Latin dulcis meaning "sweet". It was used in the Middle Ages in the spellings Dowse and Duce, and was recoined in the 19th century.
Ludo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Flemish
Pronounced: LUY-do
Personal remark: Ludovic/Ludovico
Rating: 40% based on 5 votes
Short form of Ludovicus or Ludolf.
Nando
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian
Pronounced: NAN-do(Spanish, Italian) NUN-doo(Portuguese)
Personal remark: Ferdinand/Fernando
Rating: 40% based on 5 votes
Short form of Fernando or Ferdinando.
Nell
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: NEHL
Personal remark: Eleanor
Rating: 48% based on 5 votes
Medieval diminutive of names beginning with El, such as Eleanor, Ellen 1 or Helen. It may have arisen from the medieval affectionate phrase mine El, which was later reinterpreted as my Nel.
Nico
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Dutch, German, Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: NEE-ko(Italian, Dutch, Spanish)
Personal remark: Nicolas/Nicholas
Rating: 43% based on 4 votes
Short form of Nicholas (or sometimes Nicodemus).
Obie
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: O-bee
Personal remark: Oberon/Auberon
Rating: 45% based on 6 votes
Diminutive of names that begin with Ob-, like Obadiah, Obed and Oberon.
Polo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, English, Italian, English (American), Medieval Spanish, Medieval Italian
Pronounced: POH-LOH(Spanish) Po-LOH(English) PI-OLO(Italian) PO-LO(American English) PO-lo(Medieval Spanish) po-LO(Medieval Italian)
Personal remark: Leopold
Rating: 30% based on 4 votes
This name likely roots from Paolo or Paulo, and Polo is a variant of both. It can be used in association with the sport also, but very rarely is.
Sacha
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: French, Dutch
Pronounced: SA-SHA(French) SAH-sha(Dutch)
Personal remark: Alexander/Alexandra
Rating: 30% based on 4 votes
French and Dutch form of Sasha.
Tatia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Personal remark: Tatiana
Rating: 50% based on 4 votes
Feminine form of Tatius. A bearer of this name was the wife of Numa Pompilius, a king of Rome from the 7th century BC.
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