Addycakes's Personal Name List

Africa 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: African American (Rare)
Pronounced: AF-ri-kə(English)
Personal remark: The second largest and most populated continent.
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
From the name of the continent, which is of Latin origin, possibly from the Afri people who lived near Carthage in North Africa. This rare name is used most often by African-American parents.
Alberta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
Pronounced: al-BUR-tə(English) al-BEHR-ta(Italian)
Personal remark: One of the ten provinces of Canada.
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Feminine form of Albert. This is the name of a Canadian province, which was named in honour of a daughter of Queen Victoria.
Alert
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Low German, Dutch (Rare)
Rating: 15% based on 2 votes
Low German and Dutch form of Athalhart.
America
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ə-MEHR-i-kə
Personal remark: Used in reference to either the Americas as a single continent, North America, South America, or the United States of America.
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
In the English-speaking world, this name is usually given in reference to the United States of America (see Amerigo). It came into use as an American name in the 19th century.
Antarctica
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Personal remark: Earth's southernmost and least populated continent. + 100th name saved into this collection so far.
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
The name Antarctica is the romanised version of the Greek compound word ἀνταρκτική (antarktiké), feminine of ἀνταρκτικός (antarktikós), meaning "opposite to the Arctic ", "opposite to the north".
Arabia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: History
Other Scripts: Ἀραβία
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Arabia (fl. 565) was the only recorded daughter of Byzantine Emperor Justin II (r. 565–578) and Empress Sophia. While mentioned in several primary sources, her name is only recorded in the Patria of Constantinople. The name is generally accepted as genuine. It appears to be a unique personal name, and Arabia seems to have been named by her great aunt, Empress Theodora, as a show of gratitude to Arab phylarch Arethas.
Arizona
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (Rare), Popular Culture
Pronounced: Ar eh ZOH nah(American)
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Etymology of Arizona is still debated, they may include:

From the Basque word aritz ona meaning "the good oak." This name was adopted for the US state.

From O'odham or Papago-Pima, an Uto-Aztecan language of southern Arizona and northern Sonora, Mexico, where the Tohono O'odham (formerly called the Papago) and Pima reside. It is said to derive from the phrase "ali ṣona-g via Arizonac" meaning "Having a little spring."

From the Spanish phrase, "zonas áridas" meaning "arid zones."

Asia 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern), Italian (Modern)
Pronounced: AY-zhə(English) A-zya(Italian)
Personal remark: The world's largest and most populated continent.
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
From the name of the continent, which is perhaps derived from Akkadian asu, meaning "east".
Britain
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (American, Rare)
Personal remark: Used either in reference to Great Britain, an island in Europe, or the United Kingdom, an island country also in Europe.
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Variant of Britton.
Brittany
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BRIT-ə-nee, BRIT-nee
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
From the name of the region of Brittany in the northwest of France, called in French Bretagne. It was named for the Britons who settled there after the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the invasions of the Anglo-Saxons.

As a given name, it first came into common use in America in the early 1970s, reaching the third ranked spot for girls by 1989. This was an extraordinary increase over only two decades, though it has since fallen almost as dramatically as it climbed.

Europe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Εὐρώπη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: EW-RAW-PEH(Classical Greek)
Personal remark: A large continent.
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Greek form of Europa.
Georgia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Greek
Other Scripts: Γεωργία(Greek)
Pronounced: JAWR-jə(English) yeh-or-YEE-a(Greek)
Personal remark: Used either in reference to the country or the U.S. state.
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Latinate feminine form of George. This is the name of an American state, which was named after the British king George II. The country of Georgia has an unrelated etymology. A famous bearer was the American painter Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986).
Greenland
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Modern, Rare)
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
From the name of the island and Danish territory Greenland.
Holland
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (American, Rare), Romani (Archaic)
Pronounced: HAH-lənd(American English)
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
From the name of geographic places called Holland 1, or transferred usage of the surname Holland 1.
Ob
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Sanskrit, Indian, Hindi, Hinduism, Bengali, Marathi
Other Scripts: ओब(Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi)
Pronounced: ob(Sanskrit) obb(Sanskrit)
Personal remark: Used either in reference to the Ob, a major river in Russia, or the Gulf of Ob.
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Name : Ob ओब
MEANING - cluster
Usage - Sanskrit, Indian, Tamil, Telugu, Nepali, Sinhala, Hindi, Sikh, Buddhist
Odesa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare, Archaic)
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Variant of Odessa.
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