KayEmAy's Personal Name List
Aaro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish, Estonian
Pronounced: AH-ro(Finnish)
Rating: 45% based on 4 votes
Finnish and Estonian form of
Aaron.
Akari
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 明里, 朱里, 朱莉, etc.(Japanese Kanji) あかり(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: A-KA-REE
Rating: 68% based on 6 votes
From Japanese
明 (aka) meaning "bright" or
朱 (aka) meaning "vermilion red" combined with
里 (ri) meaning "village" or
莉 (ri) meaning "white jasmine". Other combinations of kanji characters can also form this name.
Alix
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: A-LEEKS
Rating: 53% based on 6 votes
Medieval French variant of
Alice, also sometimes used as a masculine name. This is the name of the hero (a young Gaulish man) of a French comic book series, which debuted in 1948.
Banks
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: BANGKS
Rating: 32% based on 5 votes
From an English surname that that was given to a person who lived near a hillside or a bank of land.
Bay
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Russian
Other Scripts: Бай(Russian)
Rating: 45% based on 4 votes
Derived from the archaic Russian verb баять (bayat) meaning "to speak, to tell", which is ultimately derived from Church Slavonic bajati meaning "to speak, to talk, to tell, to narrate".
Clarke
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KLAHRK
Rating: 48% based on 4 votes
Variant of
Clark. As a feminine name it came into use in the early 1990s, influenced by the character Clarke Betancourt from the 1990 film
Mo' Better Blues. It was further popularized by Clarke Griffin, a character in the television series
The 100 (2014-2020).
Demi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek, English (Modern)
Other Scripts: Δήμη, Ντίμι, Ντίμη(Greek)
Pronounced: də-MEE(English) DEHM-ee(English)
Rating: 50% based on 4 votes
Alternate transcription of Greek
Δήμη or
Ντίμι or
Ντίμη (see
Dimi), as well as a short form of
Demetria. A famous bearer is American actress Demi Moore (1962-), and it is because of her that the name rose in popularity in the United States in the late 1980s. Though some sources claim Moore's birth name is Demetria, the actress herself has said she was born as Demi and named after a makeup product. The name received a further boost after 2008 with the release of the debut album by the singer Demi Lovato (1992-), who pronounces the name differently than the older actress. Lovato's birth name is Demetria.
Dove
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DUV
Rating: 50% based on 5 votes
From the English word for the variety of bird, seen as a symbol of peace.
Famke
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Frisian, Dutch
Pronounced: FAHM-kə(Dutch)
Rating: 52% based on 5 votes
Variant of
Femke. It also coincides with a Frisian word meaning "girl".
Harley
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: HAHR-lee(American English) HAH-lee(British English)
Rating: 58% based on 6 votes
From an English surname that was derived from a place name, itself from Old English
hara "hare" or
hær "rock, heap of stones" and
leah "woodland, clearing". An American name for boys since the 19th century, it began to be used for girls after a character with the name began appearing on the soap opera
Guiding Light in 1987.
Harlow
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: HAHR-lo(American English) HAH-lo(British English)
Rating: 30% based on 5 votes
From an English surname derived from a place name, itself derived from Old English
hær "rock, heap of stones" or
here "army", combined with
hlaw "hill". As a name for girls, it received some attention in 2008 when the American celebrity Nicole Richie used it for her daughter.
Hayden
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: HAY-dən
Rating: 57% based on 6 votes
From an English surname that was derived from place names meaning either
"hay valley" or
"hay hill", derived from Old English
heg "hay" and
denu "valley" or
dun "hill". Its popularity at the end of the 20th century was due to the sound it shared with other trendy names of the time, such as
Braden and
Aidan.
Hunter
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: HUN-tər(American English) HUN-tə(British English)
Rating: 42% based on 5 votes
From an English occupational surname for a hunter, derived from Old English hunta. A famous bearer was the eccentric American journalist Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005).
Jade
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, French
Pronounced: JAYD(English) ZHAD(French)
Rating: 80% based on 6 votes
From the name of the precious stone that is often used in carvings. It is derived from Spanish (piedra de la) ijada meaning "(stone of the) flank", relating to the belief that jade could cure renal colic. As a given name, it came into general use during the 1970s. It was initially unisex, though it is now mostly feminine.
Katja
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Dutch, Slovene, Croatian
Pronounced: KAT-ya(German) KAHT-ya(Dutch)
Rating: 60% based on 5 votes
Form of
Katya in various languages.
Kaz
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English, Polish, Lithuanian, Russian
Pronounced: KAZ(English)
Rating: 64% based on 5 votes
Kit
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KIT
Rating: 62% based on 5 votes
Lennox
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: LEHN-əks
Rating: 46% based on 5 votes
From a Scottish surname that was derived from the name of a district in Scotland. The district, called
Leamhnachd in Gaelic, possibly means "place of elms". This name steadily rose in popularity in the 2000s, at the same time as the similar-sounding (but unrelated) names
Lennon and
Knox.
Lexa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LEHK-sə
Rating: 56% based on 5 votes
Maze
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Breton
Rating: 42% based on 5 votes
Miller
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MIL-ər(American English) MIL-ə(British English)
Rating: 26% based on 5 votes
From an English occupational surname for a miller, derived from Middle English mille "mill".
Monroe
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: mən-RO
Rating: 53% based on 4 votes
From a Scottish surname meaning
"from the mouth of the Roe". The Roe is a river in Northern Ireland. Two famous bearers of the surname were American president James Monroe (1758-1831) and American actress Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962).
As a given name it was mostly masculine in America until around 2009. It was already rising in popularity for girls when singer Mariah Carey gave it to her daughter born 2011 (though this probably helped accelerate it).
Paige
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: PAYJ
Rating: 42% based on 6 votes
From an English surname meaning
"servant, page" in Middle English. It is ultimately derived (via Old French and Italian) from Greek
παιδίον (paidion) meaning "little boy".
As a given name for girls, it received some public attention from a character in the 1958 novel Parrish and the 1961 movie adaptation [1]. It experienced a larger surge in popularity in the 1980s, probably due to the character Paige Matheson from the American soap opera Knots Landing.
Palmer
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: PAH-mər(American English) PAH-mə(British English)
Rating: 24% based on 5 votes
From an English surname meaning "pilgrim". It is ultimately from Latin palma "palm tree", since pilgrims to the Holy Land often brought back palm fronds as proof of their journey.
Piper
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: PIE-pər(American English) PIE-pə(British English)
Rating: 56% based on 5 votes
From an English surname that was originally given to a person who played on a pipe (a flute). It was popularized as a given name by a character from the television series
Charmed, which debuted in 1998
[1].
Rae
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: RAY
Rating: 55% based on 6 votes
Short form of
Rachel. It can also be used as a feminine form of
Ray.
Red
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: REHD
Rating: 48% based on 5 votes
From the English word for the colour, ultimately derived from Old English read. This is typically a nickname given to a person with red hair or a ruddy complexion.
Rogue
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Rating: 42% based on 5 votes
From Breton rog (“haughty”) or Middle French rogue (“arrogant, haughty”), from Old Northern French rogre, Old Norse hrokr (“excess, exuberance”).
Roxie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: RAHK-see(American English) RAWK-see(British English)
Rating: 40% based on 5 votes
Salem 2
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: SAY-ləm
Rating: 34% based on 5 votes
From the name of a biblical town,
שָׁלֵם (Shalem) in Hebrew, meaning
"complete, safe, peaceful". According to the
Old Testament this was the town where Melchizedek was king. It is usually identified with
Jerusalem. Many places are named after the biblical town, most in America, notably a city in Massachusetts where the infamous Salem witch trials occurred in 1692.
Sam 1
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SAM
Rating: 66% based on 5 votes
Short form of
Samuel,
Samson,
Samantha and other names beginning with
Sam. A notable fictional bearer is Sam Spade, a detective in Dashiell Hammett's novel
The Maltese Falcon (1930). In J. R. R. Tolkien's 1954 novel
The Lord of the Rings (1954) this is a short form of
Samwise.
Saylor
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: SAY-lər(American English) SAY-lə(British English)
Rating: 50% based on 5 votes
From an English surname that was derived from Old French sailleor meaning "acrobat, dancer". As a modern English given name it could also come from the homophone vocabulary word sailor.
Scottie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SKAHT-ee(American English) SKAWT-ee(British English)
Rating: 32% based on 5 votes
Shay 1
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: SHAY(English)
Rating: 66% based on 5 votes
Anglicized form of
Séaghdha, sometimes used as a feminine name.
Sinclair
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: sin-KLEHR(American English) sin-KLEH(British English)
Rating: 48% based on 4 votes
From a Scottish surname that was derived from a Norman French town called "
Saint Clair". A notable bearer was the American author Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951).
Skye
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: SKIE
Rating: 78% based on 6 votes
From the name of the Isle of Skye off the west coast of Scotland. It is sometimes considered a variant of
Sky.
Sloane
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: SLON
Rating: 64% based on 5 votes
From an Irish surname, an Anglicized form of
Ó Sluaghadháin, itself derived from the given name
Sluaghadhán.
Snow
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: SNO
Rating: 45% based on 6 votes
From the English word, derived from Old English snāw.
Stiles
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: STY-LS
Rating: 48% based on 5 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Stiles.
Talon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: TAL-ən
Rating: 45% based on 4 votes
From the English word meaning "talon, claw", ultimately derived (via Norman French) from Latin talus "anklebone".
Tigerlily
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: TIE-gər-lil-ee(American English) TIE-gə-lil-ee(British English)
Rating: 52% based on 6 votes
From tiger lily, a name that has been applied to several orange varieties of lily (such as the species Lilium lancifolium). Tiger Lily is also the name of the Native American princess in J. M. Barrie's play Peter Pan (1904).
Vallie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (Rare, Archaic)
Pronounced: VAL-ee
Rating: 52% based on 5 votes
Veda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Telugu, Kannada
Other Scripts: వేద(Telugu) ವೇದ(Kannada)
Rating: 54% based on 8 votes
Means "knowledge" in Sanskrit.
Vega 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Astronomy
Rating: 65% based on 6 votes
The name of a star in the constellation Lyra. Its name is from Arabic
الواقع (al-Wāqiʿ) meaning "the swooping (eagle)".
Walker
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: WAWK-ər(American English) WAWK-ə(British English)
Rating: 20% based on 5 votes
From an English surname that referred to the medieval occupational of a walker, also known as a fuller. Walkers would tread on wet, unprocessed wool in order to clean and thicken it. The word ultimately derives from Old English wealcan "to walk".
Wolfe
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: WUWLF
Rating: 48% based on 5 votes
Variant of
Wolf, influenced by the spelling of the surname (which is also derived from the animal).
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