BellamynSora's Personal Name List

Means "moonlight, halo" in Turkish.

Derived from Latin beatus meaning "blessed". This was the name of a few minor saints.

From the English word dawn, ultimately derived from Old English dagung.

Feminine form of Ebbe.

Bulgarian, Macedonian and Romanian form of Gabriel.

From a biblical place name, the garden where Jesus was arrested, located on the Mount of Olives near Jerusalem. It is derived from Γεθσημανί (Gethsemani), the Greek form of an Aramaic name meaning "oil vat". It is very rarely used as a given name.

From the Hebrew name גִּדְעוֹן (Giḏʿon) meaning "feller, hewer", derived from גָּדַע (gaḏaʿ) meaning "to cut, to hew" [1]. Gideon is a hero and judge of the Old Testament. He led the vastly outnumbered Israelites against the Midianites, defeated them, and killed their two kings. In the English-speaking world, Gideon has been used as a given name since the Protestant Reformation, and it was popular among the Puritans.

From Sanskrit गीत (gīta) meaning "song". The word appears in the name of the Bhagavad Gita, a sacred text of Hinduism (meaning "divine song").

Means "to dawn" in Norwegian, Danish and Swedish.

Finnish feminine form of Heinrich (see Henry).

Short form of Isabella.

Means "nocturnal journey" in Arabic, derived from سرى (sarā) meaning "to travel by night". According to Islamic tradition, the Isra was a miraculous journey undertaken by the Prophet Muhammad.

Feminine form of Ivo 1.

Derived from Hebrew יְרֵשָׁה (yeresha) meaning "possession" [1]. In the Old Testament she is the wife of King Uzziah of Judah and the mother of Jotham.

From the Hebrew name אִיּוֹב (ʾIyyov), which means "persecuted, hated". In the Book of Job in the Old Testament he is a righteous man who is tested by God, enduring many tragedies and hardships while struggling to remain faithful.

Medieval variant of Joyce, influenced by the Latin word iocosus or jocosus "merry, playful".

Diminutive of Élisabeth. It is also the French word for "lily".

Latinate form of Mercy. This was also the name of an old Anglo-Saxon kingdom, though it has a different origin.

From the English word mercy, ultimately from Latin merces "wages, reward", a derivative of merx "goods, wares". This was one of the virtue names adopted by the Puritans in the 17th century.

From an English surname meaning "noble, high-born". The name can also be given in direct reference to the English word noble.

Hebrew form of Rebecca.

From Japanese 空 (sora) or 昊 (sora) both meaning "sky". Other kanji with the same pronunciations can also form this name.

Alternate transcription of Hebrew טוֹבָה (see Tova 1).

Feminine form of Ulysses.

German diminutive of Ursula.

Derived from the Basque place name Etxeberria meaning "the new house". This was the surname of the Jesuit priest Saint Francis Xavier (1506-1552) who was born in a village by this name. He was a missionary to India, Japan, China, and other areas in East Asia, and he is the patron saint of the Orient and missionaries. His surname has since been adopted as a given name in his honour, chiefly among Catholics.