betsabe's Personal Name List

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].

Hebrew form of Jemima.

Form of Violet in several languages.

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

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

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

Feminine form of Theodoros (see Theodore).

Italian and Spanish form of Thekla.

Spanish form of Thaddeus.

Latin form of Tabitha.

Spanish and Czech form of Sebastianus (see Sebastian).

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 form of Reuben.

Feminine form of Rosendo.

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).

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

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

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

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

Italian and Spanish cognate of Pearl.

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

Spanish and Italian form of Ophelia.

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

Italian variant form of Nicholas.

Short form of Nicholas (or sometimes Nicodemus).

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.

Spanish and Portuguese form of Nathanael.

Spanish and Portuguese form of Moses.

Catalan form of Mirèio (see Mireille).

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".

Spanish and Portuguese form of Maximilianus (see Maximilian).

Spanish, Portuguese and Italian form of Matilda.

Spanish form of Matthias.

Form of Martha used in various languages.

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".

Elaborated form of Marisa.

Short form of María Isabel.

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.

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

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.

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-).

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.

Spanish, Portuguese and Swedish feminine form of Joseph.

Portuguese form of Jacob.

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

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.

Spanish form of Agnes.

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.

Diminutive of Ifan.

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.

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.

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

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 form of Gallus.

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 feminine form of Philip.

Spanish and Portuguese form of Ezekiel.

Elaborated form of Eva.

Form of Esther used in several languages.

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

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.

Means "bee" in Basque.

Anglicized form of Ailbhe.

Italian and Spanish form of Elisha.

Italian form of Aelius or Helios.

Spanish and Icelandic form of Elijah.

Feminine form of Eder 2.

Spanish form of Ephraim.

Spanish and Portuguese form of Edward.

Spanish feminine form of Adelmar.

Form of Dorothea in several languages.

French form of Diodorus.

Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of Delphina.

Spanish form of Christopher.

Spanish form of Crescentia.

Spanish form of Constantia.

Feminine form of Clement.

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

Italian and Spanish form of Claudius.

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

Italian and Spanish form of Caelius.

Latinate feminine form of Caelestinus.

Spanish and Italian form of Caecilius (see Cecilia).

Spanish and Corsican form of Katherine.

Short form of Candelaria.

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".

Spanish and Portuguese form of Beatrix.

Catalan form of Beatrix.

Spanish form of Bartholomew.

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

Italian and Spanish form of Aurelius.

Italian and Spanish form of Arthur.

Variant of Araceli.

Variant of Araceli.

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.

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

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 Amaryllis.

Spanish form of Alexius.

Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of Albert.

Spanish form of Augustinus (see Augustine 1).

Form of Agatha in various languages.

Short form of Adoración.

Elaborated form of Adela.