Hopeful's Personal Name List

Cleo
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KLEE-o
Rating: 50% based on 4 votes
Short form of Cleopatra, Cleon or Cleopas.
Clove
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature, English (Modern)
Pronounced: KLOV(Literature)
Rating: 37% based on 3 votes
From the English word meaning either a slice of garlic or the dried flower bud of a tropical tree, used as a spice. This name was recently used in Suzanne Collins' popular book, The Hunger Games.
Echo
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἠχώ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: EH-ko(English)
Rating: 55% based on 4 votes
From the Greek word ἠχώ (echo) meaning "echo, reflected sound", related to ἠχή (eche) meaning "sound". In Greek mythology Echo was a nymph given a speech impediment by Hera, so that she could only repeat what others said. She fell in love with Narcissus, but her love was not returned, and she pined away until nothing remained of her except her voice.
Ellington
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 7% based on 3 votes
Derived from the English surname Ellington.
Fifer
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: American (Rare)
Pronounced: FIEF-er
Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
Transferred use of the surname Fifer.
Juniper
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: JOON-i-pər
Rating: 75% based on 4 votes
From the English word for the type of tree, derived ultimately from Latin iuniperus.
Lake
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: LAYK
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
From the English word lake, for the inland body of water. It is ultimately derived from Latin lacus.
Poet
Gender: Masculine
Usage: East Frisian (Archaic)
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
As an East Frisian name, Poet is a short form of names containing the element boto "messenger", for example Boeterich.

This name was in use as a strictly masculine name during the 1700s and 1800s.

Rocket
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
From Italian rocchetta, from Old Italian rochetto (“rocket”, literally “a bobbin”), diminutive of rocca (“a distaff”), from Lombardic rocko, rukka (“spinning wheel”), from Proto-Germanic *rukkô (“a distaff, a staff with flax fibres tied loosely to it, used in spinning thread”).
Zephyr
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Anglicized)
Other Scripts: Ζέφυρος(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: ZEHF-ər(English)
Rating: 73% based on 3 votes
From the Greek Ζέφυρος (Zephyros) meaning "west wind". Zephyros was the Greek god of the west wind.
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