Katja Eidis's Personal Name List

Algernon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AL-jər-nən(American English) AL-gər-nən(American English) AL-jə-nən(British English)
Rating: 30% based on 17 votes
Originally a Norman French nickname, derived from aux gernons "having a moustache", which was applied to William de Percy, a companion of William the Conqueror. It was first used a given name in the 15th century (for a descendant of William de Percy). This name was borne by a character (a mouse) in the short story Flowers for Algernon (1958) and novel of the same title (1966) by the American author Daniel Keyes.
Balthazar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend
Pronounced: BAL-thə-zahr(American English) BAL-thə-zah(British English)
Rating: 55% based on 17 votes
Variant of Belshazzar. Balthazar is the name traditionally assigned to one of the wise men (also known as the Magi, or three kings) who visited the newborn Jesus. He was said to have come from Arabia. This name was utilized by Shakespeare for minor characters in The Comedy of Errors (1594) and The Merchant of Venice (1596).
Corentin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Breton, French
Pronounced: ko-REHN-teen(Breton) KAW-RAHN-TEHN(French)
Rating: 43% based on 16 votes
French form of the Breton name Kaourintin, possibly from korventenn meaning "hurricane, storm". Alternatively, it could be connected to the Brythonic root *karid meaning "love" (modern Breton karout). This was the name of a 5th-century bishop of Quimper in Brittany.
Dante
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: DAN-teh(Italian) DAHN-tay(English) DAN-tee(English)
Rating: 59% based on 19 votes
Medieval short form of Durante. The most notable bearer of this name was Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), the Italian poet who wrote the Divine Comedy.
Eduard
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Catalan, Dutch, Estonian, Romanian, Georgian, Armenian
Other Scripts: Эдуард(Russian, Belarusian) Едуард(Ukrainian) ედუარდ(Georgian) Էդուարդ(Armenian)
Pronounced: EH-dwart(German) i-duw-ART(Russian) eh-doo-AHRD(Ukrainian) EH-doo-art(Czech) EH-doo-ard(Slovak) ə-doo-ART(Catalan) EH-duy-ahrt(Dutch)
Rating: 44% based on 16 votes
Form of Edward in various languages.
Friedrich
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German
Pronounced: FREE-drikh
Rating: 45% based on 15 votes
German form of Frederick. This was the name of several rulers of the Holy Roman Empire, Austria and Prussia. The philosophers Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) and Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) are two other famous bearers of this name.
Hodei
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Basque
Pronounced: o-DHAY
Rating: 31% based on 15 votes
Means "cloud" in Basque.
Jáchym
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Czech
Pronounced: YA-khim
Rating: 41% based on 15 votes
Czech form of Joachim.
Konstantin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, German, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian
Other Scripts: Константин(Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian)
Pronounced: kən-stun-TYEEN(Russian) KAWN-stan-teen(German) KON-stahn-teen(Finnish) KON-shtawn-teen(Hungarian)
Rating: 57% based on 15 votes
Form of Constantine in several languages.
Lonán
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish, Old Irish [1]
Pronounced: LUW-nan(Irish)
Rating: 43% based on 15 votes
Means "little blackbird", derived from Old Irish lon "blackbird" combined with a diminutive suffix. This name was borne by several early saints.
Luken
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Basque
Pronounced: LOO-kehn
Rating: 49% based on 18 votes
Basque form of Lucianus.
Morpheus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Μορφεύς(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: MOR-PEWS(Classical Greek) MAWR-fee-əs(American English) MAW-fee-əs(British English)
Rating: 33% based on 15 votes
Derived from Greek μορφή (morphe) meaning "shape", referring to the shapes seen in dreams. In Greek mythology Morpheus was the god of dreams.
Ptolemy
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History
Other Scripts: Πτολεμαῖος(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: TAHL-ə-mee(American English) TAWL-ə-mee(British English)
Rating: 44% based on 15 votes
From the Greek name Πτολεμαῖος (Ptolemaios), derived from Greek πολεμήϊος (polemeios) meaning "aggressive, warlike". Ptolemy was the name of several Greco-Egyptian rulers of Egypt, all descendants of Ptolemy I Soter, one of the generals of Alexander the Great. This was also the name of a 2nd-century Greek astronomer.
Tiernan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish
Rating: 54% based on 16 votes
Anglicized form of Tighearnán.
Torben
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Danish, German
Pronounced: TOR-behn(Danish) TAWR-bən(German)
Rating: 39% based on 15 votes
Danish form of Torbjörn.
Wolfgang
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: VAWLF-gang(German) WUWLF-gang(English)
Rating: 44% based on 17 votes
Derived from the Old German elements wolf meaning "wolf" and gang meaning "path, way". Saint Wolfgang was a 10th-century bishop of Regensburg. Two other famous bearers of this name were Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) and German novelist and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832).
Yannick
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Breton, French
Pronounced: YA-NEEK(French)
Rating: 47% based on 11 votes
Diminutive of Yann or Yanna 2.
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