skylerrae's Personal Name List
Winslow
Usage: English
Pronounced: WINZ-lo
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Means
"Wine's hill" in Old English. This is the name of a town in Buckinghamshire.
Winona
Usage: English
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
From the legendary figure of
Winona. This is the name of several towns in the United States.
Whitney
Usage: English
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Probably from Old English
hwit "white" and
ieg "island". This is the name of a small town in Herefordshire.
Weston
Usage: English
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
From Old English
west "west" and
tun "enclosure, yard, town". This is the name of several towns in England.
Westley
Usage: English
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
From Old English
west "west" and
leah "woodland, clearing". This is the name of a few small English towns.
Washington
Usage: English, German, Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: WAHSH-ing-tən(English)
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
Means
"settlement belonging to Wassa's people", from the given name
Wassa and Old English
tun meaning "enclosure, yard, town". This is the name of a town in northern England. It is also the name of the capital city and a state in the United States, both named after the president George Washington (1732-1799), whose surname was derived from the name of the English town.
Victoria
Usage: English
Pronounced: vik-TAWR-ee-ə
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
From the given name
Victoria. It has generally been bestowed in honour of Queen Victoria (1819-1901). This is the name of many places in the former British Empire, including an Australian state and a Canadian city.
Verona
Usage: Italian, Spanish, English, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: veh-RO-na(Italian) vi-RO-nə(English)
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
Meaning unknown, possibly of Latin, Gallic or Etruscan origin. This is the name of a city in northern Italy.
Valhalla
Usage: Norse Mythology
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
From Old Norse
Valhǫll meaning
"hall of the battle-dead", from
valr meaning "those slain in battle" and
hǫll meaning "hall, manor". In Norse
mythology this is the name of Odin's enormous hall where half of all warriors go after they die.
Valencia
Usage: Spanish, Italian, English, German
Pronounced: ba-LEHN-thya(European Spanish) ba-LEHN-sya(Latin American Spanish)
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
The name of a city and surrounding region in eastern Spain, originally named in Latin Valentia (Edetanorum) meaning "strength (of the Edetani people)", and derived from Latin valentius "strength, vigour", from valens "strong, vigorous". Besides the city in Spain, this is also the name of a city in Venezuala.
Trenton
Usage: English
Pronounced: TREHN-tən
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Means
"Trent's town". This is the name of a New Jersey city established in the 17th century by William Trent.
Trent 1
Usage: English
Pronounced: TRENT
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
River in England, possibly from the Celtic elements tri "across" and sant "travel", a reference to its frequent floods.
Thornton
Usage: English
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
From Old English
þorn "thorn" and
tun "enclosure, yard, town". This is the name of several English towns.
Tarah
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: תָּרַח(Ancient Hebrew)
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
A place name (an encampment) used in some versions of the
Old Testament. It is identical to the personal name
Terah.
Sydney
Usage: English
Pronounced: SID-nee
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
City in Australia that was named after Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney (1733-1800). His title originally came from the name of its first holder, Robert
Sidney (1563-1626).
Sousa
Usage: Portuguese
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Possibly derived from Latin salsus "salty" or saxa "rocks", but likely of pre-Latin origin. This is the name of a river in Portugal.
Skye
Usage: Scottish
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Sgitheanach, meaning unknown. This is the name of an island off the west coast of Scotland.
Sidney
Usage: English
Pronounced: SID-nee
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
Means "wide island", from Old English sid "wide" and eg "island". This is the name of a place in Surrey.
Shannon
Usage: Irish
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
From Irish
Sionainn, probably from Old Irish
sen meaning
"old, ancient". This is the name of a river in
Ireland. It is personified by the mythological figure
Sionann.
Selby
Usage: English
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
From Old Norse selja "willow, sallow" and býr "farm, settlement". This is the name of a city near York in England.
Sela
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: סֶלַע(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: SEE-lə(English)
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
Means
"rock" in Hebrew. In the
Old Testament this is the name of a city, the capital of Edom. In the Greek and Latin Old Testament the name is translated as
Petra, though it may be distinct from the Nabataean city.
Santiago
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
This is the name of several cities in Spain and Portugal, so named for
Saint James (see the given name
Santiago for more information). It is also used for many other cities in the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking worlds, notably the capital city of Chile.
Samara
Usage: Russian, English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, French, German
Other Scripts: Самара(Russian)
Pronounced: su-MA-rə(Russian)
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Meaning unknown, possibly from an Iranian root meaning "summer". This is the name of a city in Russia, founded in the 16th century, as well as the river on which it is situated.
Ryley
Usage: English
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
From Old English
ryge "rye" and
leah "woodland, clearing". This is the name of a town in Lancashire, England.
Romilly
Usage: French
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
From the Latin name
Romilius, a derivative of
Romulus. This is the name of several communes in northern France.
Romiley
Usage: English
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
From Old English
rum "roomy, spacious" and
leah "woodland, clearing". This was the name of a town that is now part of Greater Manchester.
Roma
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Romanian, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: RO-ma(Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Latin) RO-mə(Catalan)
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Resey
Usage: Kazakh
Other Scripts: Ресей(Kazakh)
Pronounced: ryeh-SYAY
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Rennes
Usage: French, English
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
From Latin (Condate) Riedonum, derived from the name of the Gaulish tribe of the Redones. This is the name of a town in Brittany, France.
Rayne
Usage: English
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Possibly from an Old English word meaning "shelter". This is the name of a town in Essex.
Ravenna
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ra-VEHN-na
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
Meaning unknown, probably of Etruscan origin. This is the name of a city in Italy.
Rasiya
Usage: Belarusian
Other Scripts: Расія(Belarusian)
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Petra
Usage: Ancient Greek, English
Other Scripts: Πέτρα(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
From Greek
πέτρα (petra) meaning
"rock". This was the Greek name of the capital city of the Nabataeans, which may have been known as
Raqmu to its Semitic inhabitants. Its ruins lie in
Jordan.
Orellana
Usage: Spanish
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Probably from Latin
Aureliana. This is the name of towns in Badajoz, Spain.
Odessa
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Одесса(Russian)
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
From the name of the ancient Greek city of
Odessos (which was located at a different site). This is the name of a Ukrainian city that sits on the north coast of the Black Sea.
Nysa
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Νῦσα(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Possibly from an archaic Greek word meaning
"tree". In Greek
mythology Nysa was the mountainous region where young
Dionysos was raised.
Noruega
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese
Rating: 15% based on 2 votes
Spanish and Portuguese form of
Norway.
Moriah
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Hebrew
Other Scripts: מֹרִיָה(Ancient Hebrew)
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Montana
Usage: English
Pronounced: mahn-TAN-ə
Rating: 15% based on 2 votes
Derived from Latin montanus "mountainous". This is the name of an American state.
Misri
Usage: Akkadian
Other Scripts: 𒈪𒄑𒊑𒄿(Akkadian Cuneiform)
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Miranda
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese
Rating: 15% based on 2 votes
Possibly a derivative of Latin mirandus "admirable, wonderful". This is the name of several towns in Spain, Portugal and the Americas. It is also the name of a Venezuelan state.
Messina
Usage: Italian, English
Pronounced: mehs-SEE-na(Italian) meh-SEE-nə(English)
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Later form of
Messana, the Latin form of
Messene. This is the name of a city on Sicily. Founded by Greek settlers as
Zankle, it was renamed in honour of the Greek city of
Messene in the 5th century BC.
Mérida
Usage: Spanish
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
From Latin
Emerita Augusta meaning "veterans of
Augustus". This was a colony founded by the emperor Augustus for his veterans, and it is now a city in Extremadura, Spain. There are other cities named after it in Mexico and Venezuela.
Mendoza
Usage: Basque
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
From Basque mendi "mountain" and hotz "cold". This is the name of a town in Álava, Spain.
Medina
Usage: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Dutch, Croatian, Serbian
Other Scripts: Медина(Serbian)
Pronounced: mə-DEE-nə(English)
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Form of Arabic
المدينة (al-Madinah) meaning
"the city". This is the name of a city in Saudi Arabia, considered a holy site in Islam because the Prophet
Muhammad was based there for a period.
Maylis
Usage: French
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Meaning uncertain, though said to derive from Occitan mair "mother" and French lys "lily". This is the name of a commune in southern France.
Marlow
Usage: English
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Means "remnants of a lake" in Old English, from mere "lake" and lafe "remnants, remains". This is the name of a town in Buckinghamshire, England.
Madinah
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: مدينة(Arabic)
Pronounced: ma-DEE-nah
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Arabic form of
Medina, usually written with the definite article:
المدينة (al-Madinah).
Lorraine
Usage: French, English
Pronounced: LAW-REHN(French) lə-RAYN(English)
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Ultimately from Latin
Lothari regnum meaning
"kingdom of Lothar". Lothar was a Frankish king, the great-grandson of Charlemagne, whose realm was in the part of France now called
Lorraine, or in German
Lothringen.
Loreto
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
From Latin Lauretum meaning "laurel grove". This is the name of a town in eastern Italy.
Lorena
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Romanian
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian form of
Lorraine.
Lindsey
Usage: English
Pronounced: LIN-zee
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
Means
"Lincoln island" in Old English. This is the name of a region and historical kingdom in Lincolnshire.
Lincoln
Usage: English
Pronounced: LING-kən
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Derived from Brythonic lindo "lake, pool" and Latin colonia "colony". This is a city in eastern England, called Lindum Colonia by the Romans.
Leyre
Usage: Spanish
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
Layton
Usage: English
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
From Old English
leac "leek, herb" and
tun "enclosure, yard, town". This is the name of towns in England.
Jordan
Usage: English, Danish, Norwegian, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Macedonian, German, Swedish, Finnish, Estonian, Polish, Slovene, Biblical
Other Scripts: Јордан(Serbian, Macedonian) יַרְדֵן(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: JAWR-dən(American English) JAW-dən(British English)
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
River that flows between the countries of Jordan and Israel. The river's name in Hebrew is
יַרְדֵן (Yarden), and it is derived from
יָרַד (yarad) meaning
"descend" or
"flow down". The river has lent its name to the country to the east (in German, Swedish, Finnish, Estonian, Polish and Slovene this is only the name of the river, with the name of the country taking a different form).
Itaria
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: イタリア(Japanese Katakana)
Pronounced: EE-TA-REE-A
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Japanese form of
Italia (see
Italy).
Indie
Usage: Polish, Czech
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
Polish and Czech form of
India.
Ibarra
Usage: Basque, Spanish
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Derived from Basque ibar meaning "meadow". This is the name of a few Basque towns.
Harley
Usage: English
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
From Old English
hara "hare" or
hær "rock, heap of stones" and
leah "woodland, clearing". This is the name of towns in England.
Georgia 1
Usage: English, Italian, Spanish, Norwegian, Finnish, Greek, Late Roman
Other Scripts: Γεωργία(Greek)
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Possibly of Persian origin, maybe from Middle Persian
gurg meaning
"wolf". In Europe the name was long explained as derived from the given name
George. This is the name of a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. It is called
Sakartvelo in Georgian.
Éire
Usage: Irish
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Possibly means
"abundant land" in Old Irish. This is the Irish name of the country and island of Ireland. According to legend the island was named for the goddess
Ériu, though in fact it was she who was named for the island.
Eden
Usage: Hebrew, Biblical
Other Scripts: עֵדֶן(Hebrew)
Pronounced: EE-dən(English)
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Possibly from Hebrew
עֵדֶן ('eden) meaning
"pleasure, delight", or perhaps derived from Sumerian
𒂔 (edin) meaning
"plain". According to the
Old Testament the Garden of Eden was the place where the first people, Adam and Eve, lived before they were expelled.
Devon
Usage: English
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
From the name of the Dumnonii, a Celtic tribe. This is the name of a county in England.
Dallas
Usage: English
Pronounced: DAL-əs
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Several of the places bearing this name, including probably the city in Texas, were named for the American vice president George M. Dallas (1792-1864). His surname is of Old English origin meaning "valley house".
Columbia
Usage: English, Italian, Spanish, Late Roman
Pronounced: kə-LUM-bee-ə(English) ko-LOOM-bya(Spanish)
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Named after the explorer Christopher Columbus, called
Cristoforo Colombo in Italian (see the surname
Colombo). This is the name of several cities in the Americas (including the District of Columbia, also called Washington D.C.), and a river in Canada and the United States. It is also a name used historically to refer to the New World.
Carlisle
Usage: English
Pronounced: KAH-liel(British English) KAHR-liel(American English)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Originally called by the Romans
Luguvalium meaning
"stronghold of Lugus". Later the Brythonic element
ker "fort" was appended to the name of the city. This is the name of a city in Cumbria in northern England.
Cale
Usage: Ancient Roman
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Possibly from Celtic
gall meaning
"Gaul, Celt". This was the name of an ancient town in what is now Portugal, near the modern city of
Porto.
Caiatia
Usage: Ancient Roman
Rating: 15% based on 2 votes
Bristol
Usage: English
Pronounced: BRIS-təl
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Name of a city in southwestern England, derived from Old English Brycgstow meaning "the site of the bridge".
Bentley
Usage: English
Rating: 15% based on 2 votes
From Old English
beonet "bent grass" and
leah "woodland, clearing". This is the name of several English towns.
Belén
Usage: Spanish, Biblical Spanish
Pronounced: beh-LEHN(Spanish)
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Avonlea
Usage: Literature
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
Created by Lucy Maud Montgomery as the setting for her novel
Anne of Green Gables (1908). She may have based the name on the Arthurian island of
Avalon, though it also resembles the river name
Avon and
leah "woodland, clearing".
Avalon
Usage: Arthurian Cycle
Pronounced: AV-ə-lahn(English)
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
The name of the island paradise to which King
Arthur was brought after his death. The name of this island is perhaps related to Welsh
afal meaning
"apple", a fruit that was often linked with paradise.
Audley
Usage: English
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Means
"Ealdgyð's clearing" in Old English. This is the name of a village in Staffordshire, England.
Ashton
Usage: English
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
From Old English
æsc "ash tree" and
tun "enclosure, yard, town". This is the name of several English towns.
Anatolia
Usage: Late Roman, English
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Latin form of Greek
ἀνατολή (anatole) meaning
"sunrise", a term used by the Greeks to refer to the peninsula to the east (modern
Turkey).
Altena
Usage: Dutch
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Possibly means "close, near" in Dutch. This is the name of a town in the Netherlands.
Alexandreia
Usage: Ancient Greek
Other Scripts: Ἀλεξάνδρεια(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Aeron
Usage: Welsh
Rating: 15% based on 2 votes
River in Wales, possibly derived from the hypothetical Celtic goddess
Agrona.
Abilene
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Other Scripts: Ἀβιληνή(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: AB-i-leen(English) ab-i-LEE-nee(English)
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Probably from Hebrew
אָבֵל ('avel) meaning
"meadow, grassy place". This is the name of a place briefly mentioned in the
New Testament.
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