Dragon_Clarinet's Personal Name List
AGATHA
Gender: Feminine
Other Scripts: Αγαθη (Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: AG-ə-thə (English)
Rating: 73% based on 4 votes
Latinized form of the Greek name
Αγαθη (Agathe), derived from Greek
αγαθος (agathos) meaning "good".
Saint Agatha was a 3rd-century martyr from Sicily who was tortured and killed after spurning the advances of a Roman official. The saint was widely revered in the Middle Ages, and her name has been used throughout Christian Europe (in various spellings). The mystery writer Agatha Christie (1890-1976) was a famous modern bearer of this name.
ANTIGONE
Gender: Feminine
Pronounced: an-TIG-ə-nee (English)
Personal note: an-TIG-uh-nee; beautiful
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
Derived from Greek
αντι (anti) "against, compared to, like" and
γονη (gone) "birth, offspring". In Greek legend Antigone was the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta. King Creon of Thebes declared that her slain brother Polynices was to remain unburied, a great dishonour. She disobeyed and gave him a proper burial, and for this she was sealed alive in a cave.
AVELINE
Gender: Feminine
Pronounced: AV-ə-lien, av-ə-LEEN
Personal note: I love this name. av-eh-LEEN
Rating: 73% based on 6 votes
From the Norman French form of the
Germanic name
Avelina, a
diminutive of
AVILA. The
Normans introduced this name to Britain. After the Middle Ages it became rare as an English name, though it persisted in America until the 19th century.
CECILY
Gender: Feminine
Pronounced: SES-i-lee
Rating: 78% based on 4 votes
English form of
CECILIA. This was the usual English form during the Middle Ages.
CERRIDWEN
Gender: Feminine
Rating: 76% based on 5 votes
CHARLOTTE
Gender: Feminine
Pronounced: SHAR-LAWT (French), SHAHR-lət (English), shar-LAW-tə (German), shah-LOT (Swedish), shahr-LAWT-tə (Dutch)
Rating: 74% based on 5 votes
French feminine
diminutive of
CHARLES. It was introduced to Britain in the 17th century. A notable bearer was Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855), the eldest of the three Brontë sisters and the author of 'Jane Eyre' and 'Villette'.
CLAUDIE
Gender: Feminine
Pronounced: KLO-DEE
Personal note: klo-DEE in French
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
French feminine variant of
CLAUDE.
CRESSIDA
Gender: Feminine
Pronounced: KRES-ə-də (English)
Personal note: CRESS-ih-dah
Rating: 87% based on 3 votes
Medieval form of
CHRYSEIS. Various medieval tales describe her as a woman of Troy, daughter of Calchus, who leaves her Trojan lover Troilus for the Greek hero Diomedes.
Shakespeare's play 'Troilus and Cressida' (1602) was based on these tales.
DELPHINE
Gender: Feminine
Pronounced: DEL-FEEN
Rating: 64% based on 5 votes
ÉLODIE
Gender: Feminine
Pronounced: E-LAW-DEE
Rating: 87% based on 3 votes
ESPERANZA
Gender: Feminine
Pronounced: es-pe-RAN-tha (European Spanish), es-pe-RAN-sa (Latin American Spanish)
Personal note: Amazing<3
Rating: 68% based on 4 votes
Spanish form of the Late Latin name Sperantia which was derived from sperare "to hope".
ESTELLE
Gender: Feminine
Pronounced: es-TEL (English), ES-TEL (French)
Personal note: One of my favorite old-fashioned names; now recycled.
Rating: 81% based on 9 votes
From an Old French name which was derived from Latin
stella, meaning "star". It was rare in the English-speaking world in the Middle Ages, but it was revived in the 19th century, perhaps due to the character Estella Havisham in Charles Dickens' novel 'Great Expectations' (1860).
EVREN
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Means "cosmos, the universe" in Turkish. In Turkic
mythology the Evren is a gigantic snake-like dragon.
GINEVRA
Gender: Feminine
Pronounced: jee-NEV-ra
Rating: 90% based on 4 votes
Italian form of
GUINEVERE. This is also the Italian name for the city of Geneva, Switzerland. It is also sometimes associated with the Italian word
ginepro meaning "juniper".
GWENAËLLE
Gender: Feminine
Pronounced: GWE-NA-EL (French)
Rating: 43% based on 4 votes
GWYNEIRA
Gender: Feminine
Personal note: gwin-AY-rah
Rating: 76% based on 5 votes
Means "white snow" from the Welsh
element gwyn meaning "white, fair, blessed" combined with
eira meaning "snow".
HELIODOROS
Gender: Masculine
Personal note: Rate this as Heliodora (since it's not in the database and I love it)
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
LÍADAN
Gender: Feminine
Pronounced: LEE-din
Rating: 68% based on 5 votes
Means "grey lady" in Irish Gaelic. In Irish legend she was a poetess who became a nun, but then missed her lover Cuirithir so much that she died of grief.
MACARIA
Gender: Feminine
Pronounced: ma-KA-rya
Rating: 10% based on 2 votes
MAEVE
Gender: Feminine
Pronounced: MAYV (Irish)
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Anglicized form of the Gaelic name
Medb meaning "intoxicating". In Irish legend this was the name of a warrior queen of Connacht. Her fight against Ulster and the hero
Cúchulainn is told in the Irish epic 'The Cattle Raid of Cooley'.
MAIALEN
Gender: Feminine
Rating: 80% based on 5 votes
MARGALIT
Gender: Feminine
Personal note: MARG-ah-leet/MARG-ah-lit; adore this
Rating: 68% based on 5 votes
MEHITABEL
Gender: Feminine
Pronounced: mi-HIT-ə-bel (English), mee-HIT-ə-bel (English)
Rating: 65% based on 6 votes
NEVENA
Gender: Feminine
Other Scripts: Невена (Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian)
Personal note: NEH-ven-ah
Rating: 87% based on 3 votes
Derived from South
Slavic neven meaning "marigold".
NIAMH
Gender: Feminine
Pronounced: NYEE-əv (Irish), NYEEV (Irish)
Personal note: old favorite.
Rating: 48% based on 5 votes
Means "bright" in Irish. She was the daughter of the sea god in Irish legends. She fell in love with the poet
Oisín, son of
Fionn.
NIOBE
Gender: Feminine
Other Scripts: Νιοβη (Ancient Greek)
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Meaning unknown. In Greek
mythology Niobe was the daughter of Tantalos, a king of Asia Minor. Because she boasted that she was superior to
Leto, Leto's children
Apollo and
Artemis killed her 14 children with poison arrows. In grief, Niobe was turned to stone by
Zeus.
NOA (1)
Gender: Feminine
Other Scripts: נוֹעָה (Hebrew)
Rating: 55% based on 4 votes
SAOIRSE
Gender: Feminine
Pronounced: SEER-sha
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
Means "freedom" in Irish Gaelic.
SASKIA
Gender: Feminine
Pronounced: SAHS-kee-a: (Dutch), ZAS-kya (German)
Rating: 90% based on 5 votes
From the
Germanic element Sahs "Saxon". The Saxons were a Germanic tribe, their name ultimately deriving from the Germanic word
sahs meaning "knife".
SHOSHANA
Gender: Feminine
Personal note: show-SHAH-nah; my newest love<3
Rating: 83% based on 3 votes
TEOFILA
Gender: Feminine
Pronounced: te-aw-FEE-la (Polish)
Personal note: Love this, too
Rating: 63% based on 3 votes
ZÉPHYRINE
Gender: Feminine
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
French feminine form of
Zephyrinus (see
ZEFERINO).
ZINOVIA
Gender: Feminine
Rating: 40% based on 4 votes
ZIPPORAH
Gender: Feminine
Pronounced: zi-PAWR-ə (English), ZIP-ər-ə (English)
Personal note: I adore this <3 zih-PAWR-ah
Rating: 40% based on 7 votes
From the Hebrew name
צִפּוֹרָה (Tzipporah), derived from
צִפּוֹר (tzippor) meaning "bird". In the
Old Testament this is the name of the Midianite wife of
Moses. She was the daughter of the priest
Jethro.
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