Dragon_Clarinet's Personal Name List
Abigaia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical Greek
Other Scripts: Ἀβιγαία(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 43% based on 11 votes
Adelaide
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Portuguese
Pronounced: A-də-layd(English) a-deh-LIE-deh(Italian) a-di-LIE-di(European Portuguese) a-di-LIED(European Portuguese) a-deh-LIE-dee(Brazilian Portuguese)
Rating: 80% based on 18 votes
Means
"nobleness, nobility", from the French form of the Germanic name
Adalheidis, which was composed of
adal "noble" and the suffix
heit "kind, sort, type". It was borne in the 10th century by
Saint Adelaide, the wife of the Holy Roman emperor Otto the Great.
In Britain the parallel form Alice, derived via Old French, has historically been more common than Adelaide, though this form did gain some currency in the 19th century due to the popularity of the German-born wife of King William IV, for whom the city of Adelaide in Australia was named in 1836.
Alexandria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: al-ig-ZAN-dree-ə
Rating: 66% based on 12 votes
Feminine form of
Alexander. Alexander the Great founded several cities by this name (or renamed them) as he extended his empire eastward. The most notable of these is Alexandria in Egypt, founded by Alexander in 331 BC.
Amaryllis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: am-ə-RIL-is(English)
Rating: 48% based on 9 votes
Derived from Greek
ἀμαρύσσω (amarysso) meaning
"to sparkle". This was the name of a heroine in
Virgil's epic poem
Eclogues [1]. The amaryllis flower is named for her.
Anatolia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman
Rating: 32% based on 6 votes
Feminine form of
Anatolius. This was the name of a 3rd-century Italian
saint and martyr. This is also a place name (from the same Greek origin) referring to the large peninsula that makes up the majority of Turkey.
Andromeda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἀνδρομέδα, Ἀνδρομέδη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: AN-DRO-MEH-DA(Classical Greek) an-DRAH-mi-də(English)
Rating: 53% based on 9 votes
Derived from Greek
ἀνήρ (aner) meaning "man" (genitive
ἀνδρός) combined with one of the related words
μέδομαι (medomai) meaning "to be mindful of, to provide for, to think on" or
μέδω (medo) meaning "to protect, to rule over". In Greek
mythology Andromeda was an Ethiopian princess rescued from sacrifice by the hero
Perseus. A constellation in the northern sky is named for her. This is also the name of a nearby galaxy, given because it resides (from our point of view) within the constellation.
Ariadne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἀριάδνη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: A-REE-AD-NEH(Classical Greek) ar-ee-AD-nee(English)
Personal remark: AHR-ee-AD-nee
Rating: 72% based on 10 votes
Means
"most holy", composed of the Greek prefix
ἀρι (ari) meaning "most" combined with Cretan Greek
ἀδνός (adnos) meaning "holy". In Greek
mythology, Ariadne was the daughter of King
Minos. She fell in love with
Theseus and helped him to escape the Labyrinth and the Minotaur, but was later abandoned by him. Eventually she married the god
Dionysus.
Astraea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἀστραία(Ancient Greek)
Personal remark: recently added this; tied for second favorite.
Rating: 58% based on 9 votes
Latinized form of the Greek
Ἀστραία (Astraia), derived from Greek
ἀστήρ (aster) meaning
"star". Astraea was a Greek goddess of justice and innocence. After wickedness took root in the world she left the earth and became the constellation Virgo.
Avelina 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Germanic [1]
Rating: 46% based on 7 votes
Azzurra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ad-DZOOR-ra
Personal remark: ahd-ZOR-ah in Italian; ah-ZOOR-ah regularly
Rating: 41% based on 8 votes
Means "azure, sky blue" in Italian.
Benjamine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: BEHN-ZHA-MEEN
Personal remark: ben-zha-MEEN
Rating: 49% based on 8 votes
Bisera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Bulgarian, Macedonian
Other Scripts: Бисера(Bulgarian, Macedonian)
Rating: 30% based on 6 votes
Derived from the South Slavic word
бисер (biser) meaning
"pearl" (ultimately of Arabic origin).
Bithiah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: בִּתְיָה(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: bi-THIE-ə(English)
Personal remark: bith-EYE-ah
Rating: 34% based on 8 votes
Means
"daughter of Yahweh" in Hebrew, from the roots
בַּת (bat) meaning "daughter" and
יָה (yah) referring to the Hebrew God. In the
Old Testament this is the name of a daughter of Pharaoh. She is traditionally equated with the pharaoh's daughter who drew
Moses from the Nile.
Blodeuwedd
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh Mythology
Personal remark: blo-DAY-weth; th as in bathe
Rating: 19% based on 7 votes
Means
"face of flowers" in Welsh. According to the Fourth Branch of the
Mabinogi [1], she was created out of flowers by
Gwydion to be the wife of his nephew
Lleu Llaw Gyffes. Originally she was named
Blodeuedd meaning simply "flowers". She was eventually transformed into an owl by Gwydion after she and her lover
Gronw attempted to murder Lleu, at which point he renamed her
Blodeuwedd.
Brynja
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Icelandic, Old Norse
Pronounced: PRIN-ya(Icelandic)
Personal remark: BRIN-yah. :3
Rating: 34% based on 10 votes
Means "armour" in Old Norse.
Calliope
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Καλλιόπη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: kə-LIE-ə-pee(English)
Rating: 62% based on 10 votes
Calypso
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Καλυψώ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: kə-LIP-so(English)
Rating: 47% based on 11 votes
From Greek
Καλυψώ (Kalypso), which probably meant
"she that conceals", derived from
καλύπτω (kalypto) meaning "to cover, to conceal". In Greek
myth this was the name of the nymph who fell in love with
Odysseus after he was shipwrecked on her island of Ogygia. When he refused to stay with her she detained him for seven years until
Zeus ordered her to release him.
Caoimhe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: KEE-vyə
Rating: 41% based on 7 votes
Derived from Irish caomh meaning "dear, beloved, gentle".
Claudia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: KLAW-dee-ə(English) KLOW-dya(German, Italian, Romanian) KLOW-dee-a(Dutch, Latin) KLOW-dhya(Spanish)
Rating: 57% based on 7 votes
Feminine form of
Claudius. It is mentioned briefly in the
New Testament. As a Christian name it was very rare until the 16th century.
Csilla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hungarian
Pronounced: CHEEL-law
Rating: 36% based on 7 votes
Derived from Hungarian csillag meaning "star". This name was created by the Hungarian author András Dugonics for an 1803 novel and later used and popularized by the poet Mihály Vörösmarty.
Desiderata
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman
Rating: 33% based on 6 votes
Doriane
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Rating: 33% based on 7 votes
French feminine form of
Dorian.
Drahomíra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Czech, Slovak
Pronounced: DRA-ho-mee-ra(Czech) DRA-haw-mee-ra(Slovak)
Rating: 34% based on 8 votes
Czech and Slovak feminine form of
Dragomir.
Élodie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: EH-LAW-DEE
Rating: 68% based on 8 votes
Elspeth
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Scottish
Pronounced: EHLS-peth
Rating: 50% based on 6 votes
Embla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norse Mythology, Icelandic, Swedish, Norwegian
Pronounced: EHM-blah(Icelandic, Swedish, Norwegian)
Personal remark: For some reason I like the sound of this.
Rating: 59% based on 9 votes
Meaning uncertain, perhaps related to Old Norse
almr "elm". In Norse
mythology Embla and her husband
Ask were the first humans. They were created by three of the gods from two trees.
Enid
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh, English, Arthurian Romance
Pronounced: EH-nid(Welsh) EE-nid(English)
Rating: 57% based on 6 votes
Probably derived from Welsh
enaid meaning
"soul, spirit, life". In Arthurian tales she first appears in the 12th-century French poem
Erec and Enide by Chrétien de Troyes, where she is the wife of Erec. In later adaptations she is typically the wife of
Geraint. The name became more commonly used after the publication of Alfred Tennyson's Arthurian poem
Enid in 1859, and it was fairly popular in Britain in the first half of the 20th century.
Estella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ehs-TEHL-ə
Rating: 60% based on 7 votes
Latinate form of
Estelle. This was the name of the heroine, Estella Havisham, in Charles Dickens' novel
Great Expectations (1860).
Ezra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical, English, Hebrew
Other Scripts: עֶזְרָא(Hebrew)
Pronounced: EHZ-rə(English)
Personal remark: Only on a girl
Rating: 39% based on 8 votes
Means
"help" in Hebrew. Ezra is a prophet of the
Old Testament and the author of the Book of Ezra. It has been used as a given name in the English-speaking world since the
Protestant Reformation. The American poet Ezra Pound (1885-1972) was a famous bearer.
Fabienne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: FA-BYEHN
Rating: 20% based on 6 votes
French feminine form of
Fabianus (see
Fabian).
Fernande
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: FEHR-NAHND
Personal remark: fer-NAHN
Rating: 34% based on 7 votes
Fioralba
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Rating: 33% based on 6 votes
Combination of Italian
fiore "flower" (Latin
flos) and
alba "dawn".
Fiorenza
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: fyo-REHN-tsa
Rating: 35% based on 6 votes
Italian feminine form of
Florentius (see
Florence).
Gaia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, Italian
Other Scripts: Γαῖα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: GIE-A(Classical Greek) GIE-ə(English) GAY-ə(English) GA-ya(Italian)
Personal remark: GUY-ah
Rating: 49% based on 11 votes
From the Greek word
γαῖα (gaia), a parallel form of
γῆ (ge) meaning
"earth". In Greek
mythology Gaia was the mother goddess who presided over the earth. She was the mate of
Uranus and the mother of the Titans and the Cyclopes.
Genevieve
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JEHN-ə-veev
Personal remark: old favorite.
Rating: 64% based on 9 votes
Genovefa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Old Germanic (Latinized, ?) [1][2]
Rating: 18% based on 8 votes
Gethsemane
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Various
Pronounced: geth-SEHM-ə-nee(English)
Rating: 26% based on 9 votes
From a biblical place name, the garden where
Jesus was arrested, located on the Mount of Olives near Jerusalem. It is derived from
Γεθσημανί (Gethsemani), the Greek form of an Aramaic name meaning "oil vat". It is very rarely used as a given name.
Halkyone
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἁλκυόνη(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 35% based on 6 votes
Greek variant (or misspelling) of
Halcyone.
Herminia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: ehr-MEE-nya(Spanish)
Rating: 17% based on 6 votes
Hermione
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἑρμιόνη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: HEHR-MEE-O-NEH(Classical Greek) hər-MIE-ə-nee(English)
Rating: 79% based on 8 votes
Derived from the name of the Greek messenger god
Hermes. In Greek
myth Hermione was the daughter of
Menelaus and
Helen. This is also the name of the wife of
Leontes in Shakespeare's play
The Winter's Tale (1610). It is now closely associated with the character Hermione Granger from the
Harry Potter series of books, first released in 1997.
Italia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Rating: 24% based on 7 votes
From the Italian name of the country of Italy,
Italia (see
Italus).
Kekepania
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hawaiian
Personal remark: kay-kay-PAHN-ee-ah
Rating: 13% based on 6 votes
Léontine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: LEH-AWN-TEEN
Personal remark: lay-on-TEEN
Rating: 46% based on 5 votes
Lestari
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Indonesian
Pronounced: ləs-TA-ree
Rating: 36% based on 9 votes
Means "eternal, abiding" in Indonesian.
Lilias
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Scottish
Rating: 50% based on 5 votes
Form of
Lillian found in Scotland from about the 16th century
[1].
Loredana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Romanian
Rating: 37% based on 7 votes
Used by the French author George Sand for a character in her novel Mattea (1833) and later by the Italian author Luciano Zuccoli in his novel L'amore de Loredana (1908). It was possibly based on the Venetian surname Loredan, which was derived from the place name Loreo.
Luminița
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Romanian
Pronounced: loo-mee-NEE-tsa
Personal remark: loo-mee-NEET-zah.
Rating: 48% based on 10 votes
Means
"little light", derived from Romanian
lumina "light" combined with a
diminutive suffix.
Magdalen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MAG-də-lən
Rating: 46% based on 5 votes
Marsaili
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Scottish Gaelic [1]
Pronounced: MAR-si-li
Rating: 40% based on 5 votes
Meritxell
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Catalan
Pronounced: mə-ree-CHEHL
Personal remark: mehr-eet-SHELL
Rating: 39% based on 7 votes
From the name of a village in Andorra where there is a sanctuary dedicated to the Virgin
Mary. The name of the village may derive from Latin
meridies meaning "midday".
Miriam
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew, English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Italian, Portuguese, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Biblical, Biblical Hebrew
Other Scripts: מִרְיָם(Hebrew)
Pronounced: MIR-ee-əm(English) MI-ryam(German) MI-ri-yam(Czech) MEE-ree-am(Slovak)
Rating: 67% based on 9 votes
Hebrew form of
Mary. It is used in the
Old Testament, where it belongs to the elder sister of
Moses and
Aaron. She watched over the infant Moses as the pharaoh's daughter drew him from the Nile. The name has long been popular among Jews, and it has been used as an English Christian name (alongside
Mary) since the
Protestant Reformation.
Nausicaa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ναυσικάα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: naw-SIK-ee-ə(English)
Personal remark: naw-see-KAY/KEYE-uh
Rating: 20% based on 6 votes
Latinized form of Greek
Ναυσικάα (Nausikaa) meaning
"burner of ships". In
Homer's epic the
Odyssey this is the name of a daughter of Alcinous who helps
Odysseus on his journey home.
Nephthys
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Egyptian Mythology (Hellenized)
Other Scripts: Νέφθυς(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 29% based on 9 votes
Greek form of Egyptian
nbt-ḥwt (reconstructed as
Nebet-Hut) meaning
"lady of the house", derived from
nbt "lady" and
ḥwt "house". This was the name of an Egyptian goddess associated with the air, death and mourning. She was wife of the desert god
Seth.
Nevena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Bulgarian, Macedonian, Croatian, Serbian
Other Scripts: Невена(Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian)
Rating: 50% based on 5 votes
Derived from South Slavic neven meaning "marigold".
Niamh
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish, Irish Mythology
Pronounced: NYEEW(Irish) NYEEV(Irish)
Personal remark: old favorite.
Rating: 66% based on 7 votes
Means
"bright" in Irish. She was the daughter of the sea god
Manannán mac Lir in Irish legends. She fell in love with the poet
Oisín, the son of
Fionn mac Cumhaill. It has been used as a given name for people only since the early 20th century.
Octavia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Spanish, Romanian, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: ahk-TAY-vee-ə(English) ok-TA-bya(Spanish) ok-TA-wee-a(Latin)
Rating: 50% based on 8 votes
Feminine form of
Octavius. Octavia was the wife of Mark Antony and the sister of the Roman emperor Augustus. In 19th-century England it was sometimes given to the eighth-born child.
Oenone
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Οἰνώνη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: ee-NO-nee(English)
Personal remark: ee-NO-nee / EE-no-nee
Rating: 30% based on 6 votes
Latinized form of the Greek
Οἰνώνη (Oinone), derived from
οἶνος (oinos) meaning
"wine". In Greek
mythology Oenone was a mountain nymph who was married to Paris before he went after Helen.
Ofelia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Italian
Pronounced: o-FEH-lya
Personal remark: oh-FEL-yah
Rating: 52% based on 5 votes
Spanish and Italian form of
Ophelia.
Olya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Оля(Russian)
Pronounced: O-lyə
Rating: 55% based on 6 votes
Ophelia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Literature, Ancient Greek
Other Scripts: Ὠφελία(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: o-FEEL-ee-ə(English) o-FEEL-yə(English)
Rating: 63% based on 10 votes
Derived from Greek
ὠφέλεια (opheleia) meaning
"help, advantage". This was a rare ancient Greek name, which was either rediscovered or recreated by the 15th-century poet Jacopo Sannazaro for a character in his poem
Arcadia. It was borrowed by Shakespeare for his play
Hamlet (1600), in which it belongs to the daughter of
Polonius and the potential love interest of
Hamlet. She eventually goes insane and drowns herself after Hamlet kills her father. In spite of this negative association, the name has been in use since the 19th century.
Persephone
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Περσεφόνη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: PEHR-SEH-PO-NEH(Classical Greek) pər-SEHF-ə-nee(English)
Personal remark: all-time favorite.
Rating: 80% based on 10 votes
Meaning unknown, probably of Pre-Greek origin, but perhaps related to Greek
πέρθω (pertho) meaning "to destroy" and
φόνος (phonos) meaning "murder". In Greek
myth she was the daughter of
Demeter and
Zeus. She was abducted to the underworld by
Hades, but was eventually allowed to return to the surface for part of the year. The result of her comings and goings is the changing of the seasons. With her mother she was worshipped in the Eleusinian Mysteries, which were secret rites practiced at the city of Eleusis near Athens.
Phaedra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Φαίδρα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: FEED-rə(English) FEHD-rə(English)
Rating: 48% based on 10 votes
From the Greek
Φαίδρα (Phaidra), derived from
φαιδρός (phaidros) meaning
"bright". Phaedra was the daughter of Minos and the wife of
Theseus in Greek
mythology.
Aphrodite caused her to fall in love with her stepson
Hippolytos, and after she was rejected by him she killed herself.
Phyllida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: FIL-i-də
Rating: 33% based on 6 votes
From
Φυλλίδος (Phyllidos), the genitive form of
Phyllis. This form was used in 17th-century pastoral poetry.
Primrose
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: PRIM-roz
Rating: 68% based on 9 votes
From the English word for the flower, ultimately deriving from Latin prima rosa "first rose".
Rosmunda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Germanic [1]
Rating: 42% based on 5 votes
Roxelana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: History
Rating: 38% based on 6 votes
From a Turkish nickname meaning "Ruthenian". This referred to the region of Ruthenia, covering Belarus, Ukraine and western Russia. Roxelana (1502-1558), also known by the name Hürrem, was a slave and then concubine of Süleyman the Magnificent, sultan of the Ottoman Empire. She eventually became his wife and produced his heir, Selim II.
Rubena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Esperanto
Pronounced: roo-BEH-na
Rating: 43% based on 7 votes
From Esperanto rubeno meaning "ruby", ultimately from Latin ruber "red".
Salvatrix
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman
Rating: 37% based on 9 votes
Saoirse
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: SEER-shə
Personal remark: SEER-sha
Rating: 76% based on 9 votes
Means "freedom" in Irish Gaelic. It was first used as a given name in the 20th century.
Sapphira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: Σαπφείρη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: sə-FIE-rə(English)
Personal remark: sah-FIE-rah
Rating: 40% based on 7 votes
From the Greek name
Σαπφείρη (Sappheire), which was from Greek
σάπφειρος (sappheiros) meaning
"sapphire" or
"lapis lazuli" (ultimately derived from the Hebrew word
סַפִּיר (sappir)). Sapphira is a character in Acts in the
New Testament who is killed by God for lying.
Sedna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: New World Mythology
Rating: 48% based on 8 votes
Meaning unknown. This is the name of the Inuit goddess of the sea, sea animals and the underworld. According to some legends Sedna was originally a beautiful woman thrown into the ocean by her father. A dwarf planet in the outer solar system was named for her in 2004.
Selvaggia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: sehl-VAD-ja
Personal remark: sehl-VAHJ-ee-ah
Rating: 40% based on 8 votes
Means "wild" in Italian.
Sethunya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Southern African, Tswana
Rating: 17% based on 6 votes
Means "bloom, flower" in Tswana, derived from thunya "to bloom".
Shoshannah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical Hebrew
Other Scripts: שׁוֹשַׁנָּה(Ancient Hebrew)
Personal remark: show-SHAH-nah; my newest love<3
Rating: 56% based on 8 votes
Sigrun
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norwegian, German
Rating: 41% based on 7 votes
Soleil
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Various
Pronounced: SAW-LAY(French)
Rating: 46% based on 7 votes
Means "sun" in French. It is not commonly used as a name in France itself.
Sylvie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, Czech
Pronounced: SEEL-VEE(French) SIL-vi-yeh(Czech)
Rating: 52% based on 5 votes
French and Czech form of
Silvia.
Talitha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical
Pronounced: TAL-i-thə(English) tə-LEE-thə(English)
Rating: 47% based on 6 votes
Means
"little girl" in Aramaic. The name is taken from the phrase
talitha cumi meaning "little girl arise" spoken by
Jesus in order to restore a young girl to life (see
Mark 5:41).
Theophania
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Θεοφάνια(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 38% based on 8 votes
Toiréasa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish
Personal remark: TOR-ish-ah
Rating: 38% based on 6 votes
Xanthippe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Ξανθίππη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: KSAN-TEEP-PEH(Classical Greek) zan-TIP-ee(English) zan-THIP-ee(English)
Rating: 33% based on 7 votes
Feminine form of
Xanthippos. This was the name of the wife of
Socrates. Because of her supposedly argumentative nature, the name has been adopted (in the modern era) as a word for a scolding, ill-tempered woman.
Zabel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Armenian
Other Scripts: Զաբել(Armenian)
Rating: 46% based on 7 votes
Armenian form of
Isabel. A 13th-century ruling queen of Cilician Armenia bore this name.
Zdravka
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Bulgarian
Other Scripts: Здравка(Serbian, Bulgarian)
Rating: 32% based on 6 votes
Zéphyrine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Rare)
Rating: 60% based on 8 votes
French feminine form of
Zephyrinus (see
Zeferino).
Zora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Macedonian
Other Scripts: Зора(Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian)
Pronounced: ZO-ra(Czech) ZAW-ra(Slovak)
Rating: 49% based on 10 votes
From a South and West Slavic word meaning "dawn, aurora".
Zulaykha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic (Rare)
Other Scripts: زليخا(Arabic)
Pronounced: zoo-LIE-kha
Rating: 34% based on 10 votes
Zvonimira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Croatian
Rating: 35% based on 6 votes
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