blackelectric's Personal Name List

Aarush
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Nepali
Other Scripts: आरुष(Hindi)
Derived from Sanskrit अरुषी (aruśi) meaning "dawn".
Aisultan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Kazakh
Other Scripts: Айсұлтан(Kazakh)
Derived from Kazakh ай (ay) meaning "moon" and сұлтан (sultan) meaning "sultan, king" (of Arabic origin).
Alain
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: A-LEHN
French form of Alan. A notable bearer is the French actor Alain Delon (1935-).
Alevtina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Алевтина(Russian)
Pronounced: u-lyi-FTYEE-nə
Personal remark: u-lyi-FTYEE-nə
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Possibly a variant of Valentina.
Arcadius
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἀρκάδιος(Ancient Greek)
Latinized form of Arkadios.
Archimedes
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek
Other Scripts: Ἀρχιμήδης(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: AR-KEE-MEH-DEHS(Classical Greek) ahr-ki-MEE-deez(English)
Derived from the Greek elements ἀρχός (archos) meaning "master" and μήδεα (medea) meaning "plans, counsel, cunning". This was the name of a 3rd-century BC Greek mathematician, astronomer and inventor.
Arkadiusz
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: ar-KA-dyoosh
Polish form of Arkadios.
Arusha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Indian
Means "shining" or "bright" in Sanskrit.
Aysel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Turkish, Azerbaijani
Means "moon flood" in Turkish and Azerbaijani, derived from ay "moon" and sel "flood, stream" (of Arabic origin).
Bašmu
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Near Eastern Mythology, Sumerian Mythology
Other Scripts: 𒈲𒊮𒉣𒇬(Akkadian Cuneiform)
Means "venomous snake", possibly deriving from the Sumerian elements muš ("snake, reptile") and uš ("venom, poison"). Name borne by a figure from Mesopotamian mythology, a horned snake with two forelegs and wings.
Blitha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English
Derived from Old English blíðe "merry; friendly" (compare Blíða and Blida).
Božidar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Macedonian, Sorbian
Other Scripts: Божидар(Serbian, Macedonian)
Pronounced: BAW-zee-dar(Sorbian)
Means "divine gift" from the Slavic elements božĭjĭ "divine" and darŭ "gift". This is a Slavic translation of Theodore.
Cezary
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: tseh-ZA-ri
Personal remark: tseh-ZA-ri
Polish form of Caesar.
Cochise
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Apache (Anglicized)
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
Meaning uncertain, possibly from Apache go-chizh "his firewood" or go-chįh "his nose". This was the name of a 19th-century chief of the Chiricahua Apache.
Czesława
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: chehs-WA-va
Feminine form of Czesław.
Edmonda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Italian feminine form of Edmund.
Emblyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Cornish, Medieval English
Late medieval English variant of Emmeline. Common in the 16th and 17th centuries, this name eventually died out in England in the 19th century, though it survived in Cornwall.
Esmeray
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Turkish
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
Derived from Turkish esmer "dark" and ay "moon".
Esmira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Azerbaijani
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Derived from Arabic أَسْمَر (ʾasmar) meaning "dark-skinned, brown, brunette".
Ezana
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ethiopian
Other Scripts: Ge'ez: ዔዛና
Ezana or Ezanas (c.303– c.350 CE/AD) was king of Aksum, now Ethiopia. Ezana was the first monarch of the Kingdom of Aksum to embrace Christianity. Ezana is a Geʽez (an ancient Ethiopian Semitic language) name of unknown meaning.

Female form of Ezan.

Fioralba
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Combination of Italian fiore "flower" (Latin flos) and alba "dawn".
Ilir
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Albanian
Means "Illyrian" in Albanian, referring to an ancient people who inhabited the Balkans.
Ilva
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, German (Modern)
Adoption of Ilva, the Latin name of the island of Elba. The island's name has been speculated to be of Etruscan origin and as such to be derived from a word meaning "iron".
Iris
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, French, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Slovene, Croatian, Greek
Other Scripts: Ἶρις(Ancient Greek) Ίρις(Greek)
Pronounced: IE-ris(English) EE-ris(German, Dutch) EE-rees(Finnish, Spanish, Catalan, Italian) EE-REES(French)
Means "rainbow" in Greek. Iris was the name of the Greek goddess of the rainbow, also serving as a messenger to the gods. This name can also be given in reference to the word (which derives from the same Greek source) for the iris flower or the coloured part of the eye.
Izajasz
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: ee-ZA-yash
Polish form of Isaiah.
Leora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Jewish, English, Hebrew
Pronounced: lay-OH-ra(Jewish, Hebrew)
Anglicized variant of Liora.
In some cases, however, it might have been given as a contracted form of Leonora.
Livna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: לִבְנָה(Hebrew)
Means "white" in Hebrew.
Marsida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Albanian
Miro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Croatian, Slovene
Short form of Miroslav and other names beginning with Mir (often the Slavic element mirŭ meaning "peace, world").
Nadia 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, Italian, Spanish, English, Russian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian
Other Scripts: Надя(Russian, Bulgarian) Надія(Ukrainian)
Pronounced: NA-DYA(French) NAD-ee-ə(English) NAHD-ee-ə(English) NA-dyə(Russian)
Variant of Nadya 1 used in Western Europe, as well as an alternate transcription of the Slavic name. It began to be used in France in the 19th century [1]. The name received a boost in popularity from the Romanian gymnast Nadia Comăneci (1961-) [2].
Naditsa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Bulgarian
Diminutive of Nadia 1.
Nadzieja
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: na-JEH-ya
Personal remark: na-JEH-ya
Polish cognate of Nadezhda, being the Polish word meaning "hope".
Roan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Frisian
Originally a short form of names beginning with the Old German element hraban meaning "raven".
Romana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Polish, Slovene, Croatian, Czech, Slovak, Late Roman
Pronounced: ro-MA-na(Italian) RO-ma-na(Czech) RAW-ma-na(Slovak)
Feminine form of Romanus (see Roman).
Romel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Romanian (Rare)
Diminutive of Romeo.
Romelle
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Rosalette
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Possibly an elaborated form of Rosa 1 or Rosalie.
Seòras
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish Gaelic [1]
Pronounced: SHO-rahs
Scottish Gaelic form of George.
Sharad
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hindi, Marathi, Nepali
Other Scripts: शरद(Hindi, Marathi, Nepali)
From Sanskrit शरद् (sharad) meaning "autumn".
Sharada
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hinduism, Hindi, Marathi, Nepali
Other Scripts: शारदा(Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi, Nepali)
Means "autumnal, associated with autumn" in Sanskrit, a derivative of शरद् (sharad) meaning "autumn". This is another name for the Hindu goddess Saraswati.
Shi
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Chinese
Other Scripts: 时, 实, 史, 石, etc.(Chinese) 時, 實, 史, 石, etc.(Traditional Chinese)
Pronounced: SHEE
From Chinese 时 (shí) meaning "time, era, season", 实 (shí) meaning "real, honest", 史 (shǐ) meaning "history" or 石 (shí) meaning "stone". Other characters can form this name as well.
Simone 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, English, German, Dutch, Danish, Portuguese
Pronounced: SEE-MAWN(French) sə-MON(English) zee-MO-nə(German)
French feminine form of Simon 1. A famous bearer was Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986), a French feminist and philosopher.
Sommer
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Variant of Summer, coinciding with the German word for summer.
Suvi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: SOO-vee
Means "summer" in Finnish.
Tobias
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, German, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, English, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Other Scripts: Τωβίας(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: to-BEE-as(German) tuw-BEE-as(Swedish) tə-BIE-əs(English)
Greek form of Tobiah. This is the name of the hero of the apocryphal Book of Tobit, which appears in many English versions of the Old Testament. It relates how Tobit's son Tobias, with the help of the angel Raphael, is able to drive away a demon who has plagued Sarah, who subsequently becomes his wife. This story was popular in the Middle Ages, and the name came into occasional use in parts of Europe at that time. In England it became common after the Protestant Reformation.
Živa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Slavic Mythology, Slovene, Serbian
Other Scripts: Жива(Serbian)
From the Old Slavic word živŭ meaning "alive, living". According to the 12th-century Saxon priest Helmold, this was the name of a Slavic goddess possibly associated with life or fertility.
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