betsabe's Personal Name List

Elaborated form of Adela.

Short form of Adoración.

Form of Agatha in various languages.

Spanish form of Augustinus (see Augustine 1).

Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of Albert.

Spanish form of Alexius.

Spanish form of Amaryllis.

Italian form of Amadeus. A notable bearer of this name was Amedeo Avogadro (1776-1856), an Italian chemist most famous for the constant that now bears his name: Avogadro's Number. Another famous bearer was the Italian painter and sculptor Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920).

Spanish form of Annabel, also commonly used as a contraction of Ana Isabel.

Means "altar of the sky" from Latin ara "altar" and coeli "sky". This is an epithet of the Virgin Mary in her role as the patron saint of Lucena, Spain.

Variant of Araceli.

Variant of Araceli.

Italian and Spanish form of Arthur.

Italian and Spanish form of Aurelius.

Spanish form of Balthazar. This is also the form (of Belshazzar) used in the Greek Old Testament.

Spanish form of Bartholomew.

Catalan form of Beatrix.

Spanish and Portuguese form of Beatrix.

Spanish form of Bethlehem, the name of the town in Judah where King David and Jesus were born. The town's name is from Hebrew בֵּית־לֶחֶם (Beit-lechem) meaning "house of bread".

Short form of Candelaria.

Spanish and Corsican form of Katherine.

Spanish and Italian form of Caecilius (see Cecilia).

Latinate feminine form of Caelestinus.

Italian and Spanish form of Caelius.

Means "heavenly, from the sky" in Esperanto, from ĉielo "sky", ultimately derived from Latin caelum.

Italian and Spanish form of Claudius.

Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of Clemens (see Clement).

Feminine form of Clement.

Spanish form of Constantia.

Spanish form of Crescentia.

Spanish form of Christopher.

Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of Delphina.

French form of Diodorus.

Form of Dorothea in several languages.

Spanish feminine form of Adelmar.

Spanish and Portuguese form of Edward.

Spanish form of Ephraim.

Feminine form of Eder 2.

Spanish and Icelandic form of Elijah.

Italian form of Aelius or Helios.

Italian and Spanish form of Elisha.

Anglicized form of Ailbhe.

Means "bee" in Basque.

Means "emerald" in Spanish and Portuguese. Victor Hugo used this name in his novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831), in which Esmeralda is the Romani girl who is loved by Quasimodo. It has occasionally been used in the English-speaking world since that time.

Spanish form of the Late Latin name Sperantia, which was derived from sperare "to hope".

Form of Esther used in several languages.

Elaborated form of Eva.

Spanish and Portuguese form of Ezekiel.

Spanish feminine form of Philip.

Spanish and Portuguese form of Franciscus (see Francis). This is the Spanish name of Saint Francis Xavier (1506-1552). Other notable bearers include the Spanish painter and engraver Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) and the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco (1892-1975).

Spanish form of Gallus.

Spanish and French form of Haidee, from Lord Byron's Don Juan (1819). It was later used by Alexander Dumas for a character in The Count of Monte Cristo (1844).

Spanish and Portuguese feminine form of Heliodoro and Polish feminine form of Heliodor.

From the Greek name Ἡλιόδωρος (Heliodoros), derived from the elements ἥλιος (helios) meaning "sun" and δῶρον (doron) meaning "gift". Saint Heliodoro was a 4th-century bishop of Altino.

Means "sun" in Greek. This was the name of the young Greek sun god, a Titan, who rode across the sky each day in a chariot pulled by four horses. His sister was the moon goddess Selene.

Diminutive of Ifan.

Derived from the Germanic element id possibly meaning "work, labour" (Proto-Germanic *idiz). The Normans brought this name to England, though it eventually died out there in the Middle Ages. It was strongly revived in the 19th century, in part due to the heroine in Alfred Tennyson's poem The Princess (1847), which was later adapted into the play Princess Ida (1884) by Gilbert and Sullivan.

Though the etymology is unrelated, this is the name of a mountain on the island of Crete where, according to Greek myth, the god Zeus was born.

Spanish form of Agnes.

Medieval Spanish form of Eneko. This was the birth name of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, who changed it in honour of Saint Ignatius of Antioch. As such, this name is sometimes regarded as a form of Ignatius.

Feminine form of Isidore. This was the name of a 4th-century Egyptian saint and hermitess.

Portuguese form of Jacob.

Spanish, Portuguese and Swedish feminine form of Joseph.

Late Latin name that might be derived from the name of the Greek island of Leucadia or from Greek λευκός (leukos) meaning "bright, clear, white" (which is also the root of the island's name). Saint Leocadia was a 3rd-century martyr from Spain.

Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of Leonard. A notable bearer was Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), an Italian artist and scientist of the Renaissance. He is known as the inventor of several contraptions, including flying machines, as well as the painter of the Mona Lisa. Another famous bearer was Leonardo Fibonacci, a 13th-century Italian mathematician. A more recent bearer is American actor Leonardo DiCaprio (1974-).

Spanish and Portuguese form of Eleanor. It was brought to Spain in the 12th-century by Eleanor of England, who married King Alfonso VIII of Castile.

From Μαριάμη (Mariame), the form of Maria used by the historian Josephus when referring to the wife of King Herod.

Roman feminine form of Marianus. After the classical era it was frequently interpreted as a combination of Maria and Ana. In Portuguese it is further used as a form of Mariamne.

Short form of María Isabel.

Elaborated form of Marisa.

Short form of María Soledad. It is sometimes considered a combination of María and Sol 1, or from Spanish mar y sol "sea and sun".

Form of Martha used in various languages.

Spanish form of Matthias.

Spanish, Portuguese and Italian form of Matilda.

Spanish and Portuguese form of Maximilianus (see Maximilian).

Means "miracles" in Spanish. It is taken from the title of the Virgin Mary, Nuestra Señora de los Milagros, which means "Our Lady of Miracles".

Catalan form of Mirèio (see Mireille).

Spanish and Portuguese form of Moses.

Spanish and Portuguese form of Nathanael.

Possibly from Basque nere, a dialectal variant of nire meaning "mine". Alternatively, it could be a feminine form of Nereus. This name arose in Basque-speaking regions of Spain in the first half of the 20th century, though it is now popular throughout the country.

Short form of Nicholas (or sometimes Nicodemus).

Italian variant form of Nicholas.

Means "snows" in Spanish, derived from the title of the Virgin Mary Nuestra Señora de las Nieves meaning "Our Lady of the Snows".

Spanish and Italian form of Ophelia.

Spanish feminine form of the Late Latin name Pacificus meaning "peacemaker".

Italian and Spanish cognate of Pearl.

Derived from Latin perpetuus meaning "continuous". This was the name of a 3rd-century saint martyred with another woman named Felicity.

From Latin pomus "fruit tree". This was the name of the Roman goddess of fruit trees.

Form of Raphael in various languages. A famous bearer is the Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal (1986-).

Means "dew" in Spanish. It is taken from the title of the Virgin Mary María del Rocío meaning "Mary of the Dew".

Generally this can be considered to be from Latin rosa meaning "rose", though originally it may have come from the unrelated Germanic name Roza 2. This was the name of a 13th-century saint from Viterbo in Italy. In the English-speaking world it was first used in the 19th century. Famous bearers include the Polish-German revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) and the American civil rights activist Rosa Parks (1913-2005).

Feminine form of Rosendo.

Spanish form of Reuben.

Means "Saint James", derived from Spanish santo "saint" combined with Yago, an old Spanish form of James, the patron saint of Spain. It is the name of the main character in the novella The Old Man and the Sea (1951) by Ernest Hemingway. This also is the name of the capital city of Chile, as well as several other cities in the Spanish-speaking world.

Spanish and Czech form of Sebastianus (see Sebastian).

Latin form of Tabitha.

Spanish form of Thaddeus.

Italian and Spanish form of Thekla.

Feminine form of Theodoros (see Theodore).

Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of Theodoros (see Theodore).

From the name of cities in Spain and Venezuela, both derived from Latin valentia meaning "strength, vigour".

Spanish and Slovak form of Valentinus (see Valentine 1).

Form of Violet in several languages.

Hebrew form of Jemima.

From Jessenia, the genus name of a variety of palm trees found in South America. As a given name, it was popularized by the writer Yolanda Vargas Dulché in the 1970 Mexican telenovela Yesenia and the 1971 film adaptation [1].