brrryce's Personal Name List

Adrien
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: A-DREE-YEHN
Rating: 53% based on 7 votes
French form of Adrian.
Andreas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Greek, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Welsh, Ancient Greek [1], Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek [2]
Other Scripts: Ανδρέας(Greek) Ἀνδρέας(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: an-DREH-as(German, Swedish) ahn-DREH-ahs(Dutch) AN-DREH-AS(Classical Greek)
Rating: 47% based on 6 votes
Ancient Greek and Latin form of Andrew. It is also the form used in Modern Greek, German and Welsh.
Antonín
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Czech
Pronounced: AN-to-nyeen
Rating: 48% based on 5 votes
Czech form of Antoninus, also used as the Czech form of Antonius (see Anthony). A famous bearer was the Czech composer Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904).
'Azarya
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical Hebrew [1]
Other Scripts: עֲזַרְיָה(Ancient Hebrew)
Rating: 46% based on 5 votes
Hebrew form of Azariah.
Azra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic, Turkish, Bosnian, Persian, Urdu
Other Scripts: عذراء(Arabic) عذرا(Persian, Urdu)
Pronounced: ‘adh-RA(Arabic)
Rating: 54% based on 5 votes
Means "virgin, maiden" in Arabic.
Azriel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: עֲזְרִיאֵל(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: AZ-ree-əl(English)
Rating: 53% based on 6 votes
Means "my help is God" in Hebrew, derived from עֶזְרָה (ʿezra) meaning "help" and אֵל (ʾel) meaning "God". This is the name of three minor characters in the Old Testament.
Cosmina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Romanian
Pronounced: kos-MEE-na
Rating: 52% based on 5 votes
Feminine form of Cosmin.
Dagmara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: dag-MA-ra
Rating: 47% based on 6 votes
Polish form of Dagmar.
Dagny
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Pronounced: DAHNG-nuy(Swedish)
Rating: 40% based on 4 votes
From the Old Norse name Dagný, which was derived from the elements dagr "day" and nýr "new".
Daris
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Bosnian (Modern)
Rating: 43% based on 4 votes
Meaning unknown, possibly from Arabic دارس (dāris) meaning "learned, educated", a derivative of درس (darasa) meaning "to study, to learn".
Dmitrii
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian, Medieval Slavic [1][2][3]
Other Scripts: Дмитрий(Russian) Дмитріи, Дмитрии, etc.(Church Slavic)
Pronounced: DMEE-tree(Russian)
Rating: 38% based on 4 votes
Alternate transcription of Russian Дмитрий (see Dmitriy), as well as a transcription of the medieval Slavic form.
Eldin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Bosnian, Arabic
Rating: 45% based on 4 votes
Either a variant of Aldin or Alden.
Elena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Slovak, Czech, Lithuanian, Estonian, Finnish, Russian, Greek, German, English
Other Scripts: Елена(Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian) Έλενα(Greek)
Pronounced: EH-leh-na(Italian, Slovak, Czech, German) eh-LEH-na(Spanish, Romanian, German) eh-LEH-nu(Bulgarian) eh-lyeh-NU(Lithuanian) EH-leh-nah(Finnish) yi-LYEH-nə(Russian) i-LYEH-nə(Russian) EHL-ə-nə(English) ə-LAY-nə(English)
Rating: 64% based on 7 votes
Form of Helen used in various languages, as well as an alternate transcription of Russian Елена (see Yelena).
Ella 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Hungarian
Pronounced: EHL-ə(English) EHL-lah(Finnish) EHL-law(Hungarian)
Rating: 50% based on 5 votes
Diminutive of Eleanor, Ellen 1 and other names beginning with El. It can also be a short form of names ending in ella.
Elmas
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Turkish
Pronounced: ehl-MAS
Rating: 48% based on 4 votes
Means "diamond" in Turkish, ultimately from Persian.
Elyse
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Rating: 63% based on 6 votes
Diminutive of Elizabeth. It was popularized in the early 1980s by a character from the television comedy Family Ties.
Emyr
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: EH-mir
Rating: 53% based on 4 votes
Means "king, lord" in Welsh.
Esben
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Danish, Norwegian
Rating: 48% based on 4 votes
Variant of Asbjørn.
Esmée
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (British), Dutch
Pronounced: EHZ-may(British English) EHZ-mee(British English) ehs-MEH(Dutch)
Rating: 72% based on 5 votes
Feminine form of Esmé.
Esmina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Bosnian (Rare), South American (Rare)
Rating: 50% based on 4 votes
Bosnian elaboration of Esma.
Evren
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Turkish
Pronounced: ehv-REHN
Rating: 68% based on 5 votes
Means "cosmos, the universe" in Turkish. In Turkic mythology the Evren is a gigantic snake-like dragon.
Eydís
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Old Norse [1], Icelandic
Rating: 64% based on 5 votes
Derived from the Old Norse elements ey "good fortune" or "island" and dís "goddess".
Ezra
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Hebrew, Biblical
Other Scripts: עֶזְרָא(Hebrew)
Pronounced: EHZ-rə(English)
Rating: 76% based on 5 votes
Means "help" in Hebrew. Ezra is a prophet of the Old Testament and the author of the Book of Ezra. It has been used as a given name in the English-speaking world since the Protestant Reformation. The American poet Ezra Pound (1885-1972) was a famous bearer.
Frida 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Germanic [1]
Rating: 30% based on 4 votes
Originally a short form of names containing the Old German element fridu meaning "peace" (Proto-Germanic *friþuz). A famous bearer was the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907-1954).
Isara
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Thai
Other Scripts: อิสระ(Thai)
Pronounced: eet-sa-RA
Rating: 70% based on 5 votes
Alternate transcription of Thai อิสระ (see Itsara).
Isidora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Serbian, Portuguese (Rare), Italian (Rare), English (Rare), Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Исидора(Serbian, Russian) Ἰσιδώρα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: ee-see-DHO-ra(Spanish) ee-zee-DAW-ra(Italian) iz-ə-DAWR-ə(English)
Rating: 78% based on 6 votes
Feminine form of Isidore. This was the name of a 4th-century Egyptian saint and hermitess.
Kaia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norwegian, Estonian
Rating: 30% based on 5 votes
Diminutive of Katarina or Katariina.
Kinneret
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: כִּנֶּרֶת(Hebrew)
Rating: 43% based on 4 votes
Alternate transcription of Hebrew כִּנֶּרֶת (see Kineret).
Kiran
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil, Gujarati, Nepali, Urdu
Other Scripts: किरण(Hindi, Marathi, Nepali) ಕಿರಣ್(Kannada) కిరణ్(Telugu) കിരൺ(Malayalam) கிரண்(Tamil) કિરણ(Gujarati) کرن(Urdu)
Rating: 45% based on 4 votes
Derived from Sanskrit किरण (kiraṇa), which can mean "dust" or "thread" or "sunbeam".
Lisandro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American), Portuguese
Pronounced: lee-SAN-dro(Spanish)
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Spanish and Portuguese form of Lysander.
Mathieu
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: MA-TYUU
Rating: 66% based on 5 votes
French variant form of Matthew.
Milena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Serbian, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Slovene, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Russian, Italian
Other Scripts: Милена(Serbian, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Russian)
Pronounced: MI-leh-na(Czech) MEE-leh-na(Slovak) mee-LEH-na(Polish, Italian) myi-LYEH-nə(Russian)
Rating: 73% based on 6 votes
Feminine form of Milan. It began to be used in Italy in honour of Milena Vukotić (1847-1923), mother of Helen of Montenegro, the wife of the Italian king Victor Emmanuel III. In Italy it can also be considered a combination of Maria and Elena.
Mireli
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Romani (Archaic)
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Variant of Mirelli.
Natalia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Polish, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Greek, Georgian, Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Late Roman
Other Scripts: Ναταλία(Greek) ნატალია(Georgian) Наталия(Russian, Bulgarian) Наталія(Ukrainian)
Pronounced: na-TA-lya(Polish, Italian, Spanish) na-ta-LEE-a(Italian) na-TA-lee-a(Romanian) nə-TAHL-ee-ə(English)
Rating: 74% based on 8 votes
Latinate form of Natalia (see Natalie).
Nayeli
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Zapotec (Hispanicized), Spanish (Mexican)
Pronounced: na-YEH-lee(Spanish)
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Possibly from Zapotec nadxiie lii meaning "I love you" or nayele' meaning "open".
Neftalí
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Spanish form of Naphtali.
Nikolai
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian, Bulgarian
Other Scripts: Николай(Russian, Bulgarian)
Pronounced: nyi-ku-LIE(Russian)
Rating: 80% based on 6 votes
Alternate transcription of Russian/Bulgarian Николай (see Nikolay).
Rozyna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Polish
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
Polish form of Rosina.
Selma 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic
Pronounced: SEHL-mə(English) ZEHL-ma(German) SEHL-ma(Dutch)
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Meaning unknown, possibly a short form of Anselma. It could also have been inspired by James Macpherson's 18th-century poems, in which it is the name of Ossian's castle.
Seraiah
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: שְׂרָיָה(Ancient Hebrew)
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Means "Yahweh is ruler" in Hebrew, from שָׂרָה (sara) meaning "to have power" and יָהּ (yah) referring to the Hebrew God. This is the name of several minor characters in the Old Testament, including the father of Ezra.
Sireli
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Estonian
Rating: 53% based on 4 votes
Derived from Estonian sireli, the genitive form of sirel, "lilac".
Sorina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Romanian
Pronounced: so-REE-na
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Feminine form of Sorin.
Suvi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: SOO-vee
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Means "summer" in Finnish.
Tadala
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Chewa
Pronounced: tah-DAH-lah
Rating: 43% based on 4 votes
Means "we have been blessed" in Chewa.
Tidir
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Berber
Other Scripts: ⵜⵉⴷⵉⵔ(Tifinagh)
Rating: 68% based on 5 votes
Feminine form of Idir.
Tiidrik
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Estonian (Archaic)
Rating: 50% based on 4 votes
Estonian form of Theodoric.
Tilda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Swedish, Finnish
Pronounced: TIL-də(English) TEEL-dah(Finnish)
Rating: 55% based on 6 votes
Short form of Matilda.
Tovah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: טוֹבָה(Hebrew)
Rating: 68% based on 5 votes
Alternate transcription of Hebrew טוֹבָה (see Tova 1).
Valeria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Romanian, German, Russian, Ukrainian, Ancient Roman
Other Scripts: Валерия(Russian) Валерія(Ukrainian)
Pronounced: va-LEH-rya(Italian) ba-LEH-rya(Spanish) vu-LYEH-ryi-yə(Russian) wa-LEH-ree-a(Latin) və-LEHR-ee-ə(English) və-LIR-ee-ə(English)
Rating: 52% based on 6 votes
Feminine form of Valerius. This was the name of a 2nd-century Roman saint and martyr.
Xochitl
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Nahuatl
Pronounced: SHO-cheech
Rating: 66% based on 5 votes
Means "flower" in Nahuatl [1].
Zora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Slovene, Czech, Slovak
Other Scripts: Зора(Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian)
Pronounced: ZO-ra(Czech) ZAW-ra(Slovak)
Rating: 66% based on 5 votes
Means "dawn, aurora" in the South Slavic languages, as well as Czech and Slovak.
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