PurpleManners's Personal Name List

Amarant is a Dutch girl's name. The name comes from the Greek word Amarantos which means "unfading beauty".

In the 18th century it was a common name in the Netherlands. Nowadays the name still occurs sporadically in the Netherlands.

Spanish and Italian form of Amarantha.

Italian and Spanish form of Artemios.

Italian and Spanish form of Arthur.

Italian, Spanish and Galician form of Carmel.

Italian feminine and masculine form of Caelestis. It is also the Portuguese, Spanish and English feminine form.

Latinate feminine form of Caelestinus.

Latinized form of Kleio.

Italian feminine form of Cosimo.

Italian form of Cosmas. A famous bearer was Cosimo de' Medici (1389-1464), the founder of Medici rule in Florence, who was a patron of the Renaissance and a successful merchant. Other members of the Medici family have also borne this name.

Means "snow" in Welsh. This is a recently created name.

Means "snowdrop (flower)" in Welsh, a compound of eira "snow" and llys "plant".

Form of Eleanor in several languages.

Derived from Cornish elester meaning "iris flower". This is a recently coined Cornish name.

Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of Éliane.

Italian form of Aelius or Helios.

Italian form of Eloise.

Meaning uncertain, possibly related to a place name. Other suggested origins include elwydd/eilwydd, meaning "love tryst, meeting", or "beatic presence" from an invented word comprised of el- "much" and gwydd "presence".

Means "rainbow" in Welsh. This name was first used in the 19th century.

From Old English eoh "horse, steed" and #mære "famous, illustrious, known". Eomer was, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the great-great-grandfather of Creoda of Mercia, the first King of Mercia. His name may be the basis for the fictional Lord of the Rings character Éomer.

Means "horse joy" in Old English. This name was invented by J. R. R. Tolkien who used Old English to represent the Rohirric language. In his novel The Lord of the Rings (1954) Eowyn is the niece of King Theoden of Rohan. She slays the Lord of the Nazgul in the Battle of the Pelennor Fields.

Variant of Éowyn, which J. R. R. Tolkien invented using the Old English elements e(o)h "horse" and wynn "joy".

Italian form of Hermes.

Italian form of Aetius.

Either a variant of Lynette or else from the name of the small bird, a type of finch.

Italian and Romanian form of Lucas (see Luke). This name was borne by Luca della Robbia, a Renaissance sculptor from Florence.

Means "the moon" in Latin (as well as Italian, Spanish and other Romance languages). Luna was the Roman goddess of the moon, frequently depicted driving a white chariot through the sky.

Feminine form of Marinus. This name was borne by a few early saints. This is also the name by which Saint Margaret of Antioch is known in the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Italian feminine form of Matthew.

Italian form of Matthew.

Italian form of Matthias.

Diminutive of Mari 1.

Italian form of Mireille.

Italian form of Remus.

Derived from the Welsh elements rhos "rose" (cf. Rhosyn) and gwen "white, pure, holy, fair".

Means "rose" in Welsh. This is a modern Welsh name.

Italian form of the Late Latin Romaeus or Late Greek Ρωμαῖος (Romaios), which meant "from Rome" or "Roman". Romeo is best known as the lover of Juliet in William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet (1596). Shakespeare based his play on earlier Italian stories by Luigi Da Porto (1524) and Matteo Bandello (1554), which both featured characters named Giulietta and Romeo.

Late Latin name derived from rosa "rose". This was the name of a 12th-century Sicilian saint.

Italian diminutive of Rosa 1.

Italian diminutive of Rosa 1. This is the name of a character in Rossini's opera The Barber of Seville (1816).

From a Late Latin name that was derived from Latin serenus meaning "clear, tranquil, serene". This name was borne by an obscure early saint. Edmund Spenser also used it in his poem The Faerie Queene (1590). A famous bearer from the modern era is tennis player Serena Williams (1981-).

Form of Sophia used in various languages.

Means "star" in Latin. This name was created by the 16th-century poet Philip Sidney for the subject of his collection of sonnets Astrophel and Stella. It was a nickname of a lover of Jonathan Swift, real name Esther Johnson (1681-1728), though it was not commonly used as a given name until the 19th century. It appears in Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), belonging to the sister of Blanche DuBois and the wife of Stanley Kowalski.

Italian and Spanish form of Thekla.

Short form of Teodoro and other names that begin with Teo. In Georgian this is a feminine name, a short form of Teona.

Spanish, Portuguese and Italian form of Timothy.

Means "white wave" in Welsh. Tonwen (or simply Gwen) was the mother of Saint Cybi and sister of Non (herself mother of Wales' patron saint, David). It was used by John Cowper Powys for a character in his novel 'Porius' (1951).

Norwegian form of the Old Norse name Þórunn, from the name of the Norse god Þórr (see Thor) combined with unnr "wave" or unna "to love".

Feminine form of Tullius (see Tullio).

Feminine form of Valentinus (see Valentine 1). A famous bearer is the Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova (1937-), who in 1963 became the first woman to visit space.

Means "violet" in Latin. This is the name of the heroine of William Shakespeare's comedy Twelfth Night (1602). In the play she is the survivor of a shipwreck who disguises herself as a man named Cesario. Working as a messenger for Duke Orsino, she attempts to convince Olivia to marry him. Instead Viola falls in love with the duke.

Latin form of Yolanda.

Italian, Russian and Hungarian form of Violet.

From the Greek name Ζήνων (Zenon), which was derived from the name of the Greek god Zeus (the poetic form of his name being Ζήν). Zeno was the name of two famous Greek philosophers: Zeno of Elea and Zeno of Citium, the founder of the Stoic school in Athens.