Agrosha_Rhys's Personal Name List
Zitkala-ša
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Sioux
Means "red bird" from Lakota ziŋtkála "bird" and šá "red". This name was adopted by a Yankton Dakota writer and political activist, birth name Gertrude Simmons (1876-1938).
Zerah
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: זֵרַח(Ancient Hebrew)
Yseult
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Rare)
Pronounced: EE-ZUU
Yiska
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical Hebrew [1]
Other Scripts: יִסְכָּה(Ancient Hebrew)
Yabshi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Tibetan
Xhafer
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Albanian
Wyatt
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: WIE-ət
From an English surname that was derived from the medieval given name
Wyard or
Wyot, from the Old English name
Wigheard. Wyatt Earp (1848-1929) was an American lawman and gunfighter involved in the famous shootout at the OK Corral.
Utu
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Sumerian Mythology
Other Scripts: 𒀭𒌓(Sumerian Cuneiform)
Derived from Sumerian
𒌓 (ud) meaning
"sun". In Sumerian
mythology this was the name of the god of the sun. He was the son of the moon god
Nanna and
Ningal.
Uparmiya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Old Persian
Possibly from Old Persian uparva meaning "pre-eminent" or upara meaning "higher, superior", both derived from 𐎢𐎱𐎼𐎡𐎹 (upariy) meaning "over, above".
Tukulti-Apil-Esharra
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Assyrian
Other Scripts: 𒆪𒋾𒀀𒂍𒊹𒊏(Akkadian Cuneiform)
Tsillah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Pronounced: SEE-la
Rare variant spelling of
Zillah.
Thermuthis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend, Egyptian Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Θερμουθις(Ancient Greek)
Latinized form of Greek Θερμουθις
(Thermouthis), which was the Greek name for the Egyptian goddess
Renenutet. According to the 1st-century historian Josephus, this was the name of Pharaoh's daughter who adopted the infant Moses. It was used as an English Christian name in the 19th century, apparently (e.g. borne by the mother of Francis Kilvert (1840-1879), British clergyman and diarist).
Tedesca
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Italian
Derived from Proto-Germanic *þiudiskaz "of the people, popular, vernacular". It coincides with the modern Italian adjective tedesca, the feminine form of tedesco, "German".
Tazagul
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Kazakh (Rare), Kyrgyz (Rare)
Other Scripts: Тазагүл(Kazakh) تازاگۇل(Kazakh Arabic) Тазагул(Kyrgyz)
Pronounced: tah-ZAH-guyl(Kazakh)
From Kazakh таза (taza) meaning "clean, neat, pure" combined with гүл (gül) meaning "flower".
Suellen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: soo-EHL-ən
Contraction of
Susan and
Ellen 1. Margaret Mitchell used this name in her novel
Gone with the Wind (1936), where it belongs to Scarlett's sister.
Styliani
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Στυλιανή(Greek)
Stribog
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Slavic Mythology
Possibly from Old Slavic
sterti "to extend, to spread" and
bogŭ "god". Alternatively it could come from
strybati "to flow, to move quickly". Stribog was a Slavic god who was possibly associated with the wind.
Sterling
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: STUR-ling
From a Scots surname that was derived from city of Stirling, which is itself of unknown meaning. The name can also be given in reference to the English word sterling meaning "excellent". In this case, the word derives from sterling silver, which was so named because of the emblem that some Norman coins bore, from Old English meaning "little star".
Sorin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Romanian
Possibly derived from Romanian soare meaning "sun".
Sohrab
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Persian, Persian Mythology
Other Scripts: سهراب(Persian)
Pronounced: soh-RAWB(Persian)
From Persian
سهر (sohr) meaning "red" and
آب (āb) meaning "water". In the 10th-century Persian epic the
Shahnameh this is the name of the son of the hero
Rostam. He was tragically slain in battle by his father, who was unaware he was fighting his own son.
Snorri
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Norse [1], Icelandic
Derived from Old Norse snerra "attack, onslaught". This name was borne by Snorri Sturluson, a 13th-century Icelandic historian and poet, the author of the Prose Edda.
Sisenando
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of
Sisenand.
Síne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: SHEE-nyə
Shouya
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 祥也, 召夜, 将也, 将弥, 彰也, 彰弥, 昭哉, 昭弥, 正也, 璋也, 翔哉, 翔也, 翔矢, etc.(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: SHO:-YAH
From Japanese 祥 (shou) meaning "auspicious, happiness, blessedness, good omen, good fortune", 召 (shou) meaning "seduce, call, send for, wear, put on, ride in, buy, eat, drink, catch (cold)", 将 (shou) meaning "leader, commander, general, admiral, or, and again, soon, from now on, just about", 彰 (shou) meaning "patent, clear", 昭 (shou) meaning "shining, bright", 正 (shou) meaning "correct, justice, righteous", 璋 (shou) meaning "ceremonial jeweled implement" or 翔 (shou) meaning "soar, fly" combined with 也 (ya) meaning "also", 夜 (ya) meaning "night", 弥 (ya) meaning "all the more, increasingly", 哉 (ya), an exclamation or 矢 (ya) meaning "dart, arrow". Other kanji combinations are possible.
A famous bearer was Shoya Tomizawa, a Japanese motorcycle racer.
Shelena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: African American (Rare)
Pronounced: shə-LEE-nə(English)
Combination of the phonetic prefix
sha and the name
Lena.
Shammuramat
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Assyrian
Meaning unknown, possibly derived from a Western Semitic language and meaning
"high heaven". Shammuramat was a 9th-century BC queen of Assyria. After her young son inherited the throne, she acted as his regent for five years. The legendary figure
Semiramis may be loosely based on her.
Shalom
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: שָׁלוֹם(Hebrew)
Pronounced: sha-LOM
Means "peace" in Hebrew.
Shachar
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: שַׁחַר(Hebrew)
Means "dawn" in Hebrew.
Şevket
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Turkish
From Arabic
شفقة (shafaqa) meaning
"compassion", a derivative of
شفق (shafaqa) meaning "to pity, to sympathize".
Segovax
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Celtic
Celtic name, in which the first element is Proto-Celtic *
sego- "force, victory" (also found in the Gaulish name
Segomaros). The second element, *
uako, possibly means "empty" or "curved". This was the name of a king of the Cantiaci in modern Kent at the time of Julius Caesar's second expedition to Britain ca. 54 BC. Segovax is also the name of a fictional character in Edward Rutherfurd's historical novel 'London' (1997).
Savitr
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hinduism
Other Scripts: सवितृ(Sanskrit)
Means
"rouser, stimulator" in Sanskrit. This is the name of a
Vedic Hindu sun god, sometimes identified with
Surya.
Salampsio
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Hebrew (Hellenized)
Other Scripts: Σαλαμψιώ(Ancient Greek)
Hellenized form of the Hebrew name
Shalom-zion "peace of
Zion". The name "Shalom Zion" was used by the Judean royal family in the Roman period and is variously modified in rabbinical literature. (Cf.
Salome,
Shlomtzion.) According to the historian Josephus, Salampsio was the eldest daughter of Herod the Great.
Rudabeh
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Persian Mythology, Pakistani (Rare), Indian (Rare), Bengali (Rare)
Other Scripts: رودابه(Persian)
Pronounced: roo-daw-ba(Persian Mythology)
Derived from the Persian noun رود
(rud) meaning "river, torrent" combined with the Persian noun آب
(ab) meaning "water".
Rudabeh (also known as Rudaba) is the name of a Persian mythological figure, who was featured in the 10th-century Persian epic poem Shahnameh written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi. She was the mother of the hero Rostam and the wife of Zal.
In real life, a known bearer of this name is the Iranian-American journalist and news anchor Rudabeh Shahbazi (b. 1980).
Rasul
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic, Avar
Other Scripts: رسول(Arabic) Расул(Avar)
Pronounced: ra-SOOL
Means "prophet, messenger" in Arabic.
Rahab
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: רָחָב(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: RAY-hab(English)
Means
"spacious" in Hebrew. In the
Old Testament this is the name of a woman of Jericho who helped the Israelites capture the city.
Rafferty
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: RAF-ər-tee
From an Irish surname, itself derived from the given name Rabhartach meaning "flood tide".
Queralt
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Catalan
Pronounced: kə-RAL
From the name of a Spanish sanctuary (in Catalonia) that is devoted to the Virgin
Mary.
Pureum
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Korean (Modern)
Other Scripts: 푸름(Korean Hangul)
Pronounced: POO-RUM
From the verbal noun of adjective 푸르다
(pureuda) meaning "blue, green; fresh" (compare
Pureun and
Param).
Phyzante
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Romani
Pronounced: fie-ZAHN-tə
Phocas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Φωκᾶς(Ancient Greek)
Latinized form of the Greek name
Φωκᾶς (Phokas), which meant
"seal (animal)" from Greek
φώκη (phoke). This was the name of an early
saint and martyr from Asia Minor. Sentenced to death for being a Christian, he is said to have given his killers lodging and then dug his own grave before he was executed.
Pheme
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Φήμη(Ancient Greek)
Means
"rumour, reputation" in Greek. In Greek
mythology she was the personification of fame and rumours.
Perez
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: פֶּרֶץ(Ancient Hebrew)
Means
"breach, burst forth" in Hebrew. In the
Old Testament this is the name of the twin brother of
Zerah.
Penelope
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, English
Other Scripts: Πηνελόπη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: PEH-NEH-LO-PEH(Classical Greek) pə-NEHL-ə-pee(English)
Probably derived from Greek
πηνέλοψ (penelops), a type of duck. Alternatively it could be from
πήνη (pene) meaning "threads, weft" and
ὄψ (ops) meaning "face, eye". In
Homer's epic the
Odyssey this is the name of the wife of
Odysseus, forced to fend off suitors while her husband is away fighting at Troy.
It has occasionally been used as an English given name since the 16th century. It was moderately popular in the 1940s, but had a more notable upswing in the early 2000s. This may have been inspired by the Spanish actress Penélope Cruz (1974-), who gained prominence in English-language movies at that time. It was already rapidly rising when celebrities Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick gave it to their baby daughter in 2012.
Olya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Оля(Russian)
Pronounced: O-lyə
Nurten
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Turkish
Means
"radiant skin" in Turkish, ultimately from Arabic
نور (nūr) meaning "light" and Persian
تن (tan) meaning "body".
Nur
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Arabic, Turkish, Azerbaijani, Urdu, Bengali, Uyghur, Indonesian, Malay
Other Scripts: نور(Arabic, Urdu) নূর(Bengali) نۇر(Uyghur Arabic)
Pronounced: NOOR(Arabic, Turkish, Uyghur) NUWR(Indonesian, Malay)
Means
"light" in Arabic. In Islamic tradition
النور (al-Nūr) is one of the 99 names of Allah.
Noreia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Celtic Mythology, German (Modern, Rare), Galician (Modern, Rare)
Noreia used to be considered the epithet of an unidentified pre-Roman mother goddess who left her name in inscriptions throughout the Roman province Noricum (present-day Austria and Slovenia). Current theories suggest, however, that she might have been a Roman "creation" to gain the loyalty of the Norici (ever since
Vespasian's time, she was associated with the goddess
Isis and referred to as Isisi-Noreia). It has been claimed that she was a goddess of fate and fortune, life's happiness, fertility, mining and healing waters. The origin and meaning of her name are lost to time.
Noemi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Czech, Polish, Romanian, German, Biblical Latin
Pronounced: no-EH-mee(Italian)
Form of
Naomi 1 in several languages.
Narseh
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Middle Persian
Other Scripts: 𐭭𐭥𐭮𐭧𐭩(Pahlavi)
Mylitta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Near Eastern Mythology (Hellenized)
Other Scripts: Μύλιττα(Ancient Greek)
From an Assyrian epithet of the goddess
Ishtar meaning "the mediatrix, midwife" (from
mu'allidtu). It was recorded by the Greek historian Herodotus, who wrote in the 5th century BC: "The Assyrians call
Aphrodite Mylitta, the Arabians
Alilat, and the Persians
Mitra."
Murugan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hinduism, Tamil
Other Scripts: मुरुगन(Sanskrit) முருகன்(Tamil)
From a Tamil word meaning
"young". This was the name of a Tamil war god who is now identified with
Skanda.
Muirgheal
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish (Rare)
Mohini
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hinduism, Hindi, Marathi
Other Scripts: मोहिनी(Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi)
Means
"perplexing, enchanting" in Sanskrit. This was the name of a beautiful female avatar of the Hindu god
Vishnu, a form he took in order to trick the asuras (demons) into relinquishing the amrita (elixir of immortality).
Meilyr
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh, Medieval Welsh
Pronounced: MAY-lir
Of uncertain origin and meaning. Current theories include a derivation from Welsh
Mai "May (the month)" and
Llyr and a Welsh form of
Magloire.
Medesicaste
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Μηδεσικάστη(Ancient Greek)
Means "adorned with prudence", or possibly "the one that surpasses them all in wisdom", derived from Greek μήδεσι
(medesi), dative plural of μήδεα
(medea) meaning "plans, counsel, cunning", and κέκασμαι
(kekasmai) meaning "to surpass, to excel". In Greek mythology, this name belonged to two women of the Trojan royal house.
Mayamiko
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Chewa
Pronounced: mah-yah-MEE-ko
Means "praise, gratitude" in Chewa.
Mabyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Cornish
Possibly from Old Cornish
mab meaning
"son". This was the name of a 6th-century Cornish
saint, said to be one of the children of
Brychan Brycheiniog. She is now regarded as a woman, but some early sources describe her as a man.
Liubou
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Belarusian
Other Scripts: Любоў(Belarusian)
Libuše
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Czech
Pronounced: LI-boo-sheh
Derived from Czech
libý meaning
"pleasant, nice", from the Slavic element
ľuby meaning "love". According to Czech legend Libuše was the founder of Prague.
Leandros
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Λέανδρος(Ancient Greek)
LaToya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: African American
Pronounced: lə-TOI-ə(English)
Combination of the popular prefix
la with the name
Toya.
Kylian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Kola-sariğ
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Shor
Derived from Кола (kola) meaning "bronze" and сарығ (sarığ) meaning "yellow".
Kjellfrid
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norwegian
Pronounced: SHEHL-free
From the Old Norse name
Ketilríðr, derived from the elements
ketill meaning "kettle" and
fríðr meaning "beautiful, beloved".
K'itura
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greenlandic
Archaic spelling of
Qitura (according to the old Kleinschmidt orthography which was used to write Greenlandic until 1973, when orthographic reforms were introduced). This is borne by Greenlandic sculptor K'itura Kristoffersen (1939-).
Khenthap
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Egyptian
From Egyptian
ḫnt-Ḥp meaning "musician of
Hapi", derived from
ḫnwt "(female) musician" combined with the name of the god
Apis.
Khandroma
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Far Eastern Mythology
Other Scripts: མཁའ་འགྲོ་མ་(Tibetan)
The Tibetian name for
Dakini, a spirit or type of spirit in Vajrayana Buddhism. It is reported to mean "skygoer" and may be derived from the Sanskrit
khecara, a term from the Cakrasaṃvara Tantra.
Kenanyahu
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical Hebrew [1]
Other Scripts: ךְּנַןְיָהוּ(Ancient Hebrew)
Kemuel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: קְמוּאֵל(Ancient Hebrew)
Keegan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KEE-gən
From an Irish surname, the Anglicized form of Irish Gaelic
Mac Aodhagáin, which was derived from the given name
Aodhagán, a double
diminutive of
Aodh.
Kagutsuchi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Japanese Mythology
Other Scripts: 迦具土(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: KA-GOO-TSOO-CHEE
From Japanese 迦
(ka), a phonetic character, 具
(gu) meaning "tool, means" and 土
(tsuchi) meaning "ground, earth, soil". In Japanese mythology, Kagutsuchi was the god of fire, as well as the son of
Izanagi and
Izanami. He burned his mother during birth, which caused Izanagi to kill him.
Jytte
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Danish
Pronounced: YUY-də
Jyne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Filipino (Rare), English (African, Rare)
Junko
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 順子, 純子, etc.(Japanese Kanji) じゅんこ(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: JOONG-KO
From Japanese
順 (jun) meaning "obedience" or
純 (jun) meaning "pure" combined with
子 (ko) meaning "child". Other combinations of kanji characters are also possible.
Jubal
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: יוּבָל(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: JOO-bəl(English)
Means
"stream" in Hebrew. This name is mentioned in Genesis in the
Old Testament as belonging to the first person to be a musician.
Jovydė
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Lithuanian
Joshana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Indian (Rare)
Derived from Sanskrit जोषण (jośana) meaning "approval, satisfaction, liking".
Johannes
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Estonian, Late Roman
Pronounced: yo-HA-nəs(German) yo-HAH-nəs(Dutch) yo-HAN-əs(Danish) YO-hahn-nehs(Finnish)
Latin form of Greek
Ioannes (see
John). Notable bearers include the inventor of the printing press Johannes Gutenberg (1398-1468), astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), painter Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675), and composer Johannes Brahms (1833-1897).
Jianhong
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Chinese
Other Scripts: 健宏, etc.(Chinese)
Pronounced: CHYEHN-KHUWNG
From Chinese
健 (jiàn) meaning "build, establish" combined with
宏 (hóng) meaning "wide, spacious, great, vast". This name can also be formed from other character combinations.
Jerusha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: יְרוּשָׁה(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: jə-ROO-shə(English)
Jerneja
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Slovene
Jelena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Estonian, Lithuanian
Other Scripts: Јелена(Serbian)
Form of
Yelena in several languages. In Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia it is also associated with the South Slavic words
jelen meaning "deer, stag" and
jela meaning "fir tree".
Jeetendra
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hindi, Marathi
Other Scripts: जितेन्द्र(Hindi) जितेंद्र(Marathi)
Jayanta
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hinduism, Bengali, Assamese
Other Scripts: जयन्त, जयंत(Sanskrit) জয়ন্ত(Bengali, Assamese)
Derived from Sanskrit
जयन्त (jayanta) meaning
"victorious". This is the name of a son of the Hindu god
Indra and the goddess
Indrani, as well as other legendary figures.
Jacinto
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: kha-THEEN-to(European Spanish) kha-SEEN-to(Latin American Spanish)
Ištanu
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Near Eastern Mythology
Deriving from the Hattic estan meaning "Sun deity, day". This was an epithet likely used to refer to the of the Sun Goddess of Arinna. It was also used in reference to a solar deity known as the Sun God of Heaven (equivalent to the Hurrian Simige).
'Ismat
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: عصمت(Arabic)
Pronounced: ‘EES-mat
Alternate transcription of Arabic
عصمت (see
Ismat).
Ishme-karab
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Near Eastern Mythology, Elamite Mythology
This was the name of a goddess in Elamite religion. Her name is Akkadian and means "she who has heard the prayer" or "she has heard the supplication". The Elamite form of her name is said to be Išnikarap. The fact that her name is Akkadian rather than Elamite, is possibly due to the fact that Elam had repeatedly been under Akkadian rule and was thus influenced by the Akkadian language and culture. It is not certain whether Ishme-karab was originally an Akkadian goddess that was eventually adopted by the Elamites, or whether she had always been an Elamite goddess but was simply given an Akkadian name (possibly during a period of Akkadian rule) rather than an Elamite one. It should be noted though, that where the first possibility is concerned, there is barely evidence (archeological or otherwise) available of her having been worshipped outside of Elam. Either way, her function in the Elamite pantheon was to support the god Inshushinak in his position as judge of the dead. She did this together with the goddess Lagamar, so in other words, Inshushinak really had two assistants. Some sources say that she also acted as judge of the dead (a co-judge perhaps?), while others say that she acted as a counsel for defence for the newly dead in the underworld (while Lagamar acted as a counsel for prosecution), before Inshushinak made his final judgement about the newly dead. There are also sources who claim that, apart from her function in the underworld, she was also a goddess of oaths - much like Inshushinak himself. Lastly, it should also be noted that there are some sources who claim that Ishme-karab was a male god rather than a female god.
Iotape
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Old Persian (Hellenized)
Other Scripts: Ἰωτάπη(Ancient Greek)
Hellenized form of the Persian feminine name یوتاب (Yutâb), which is also found written as Youtab and Euttob.
In'am
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: إنعام(Arabic)
Pronounced: een-‘AM
Alternate transcription of Arabic
إنعام (see
Inam).
Imamu
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swahili
Means
"spiritual leader" in Swahili, ultimately from Arabic
إمام (ʾimām).
Ildikó
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hungarian
Pronounced: EEL-dee-ko
Possibly a form of
Hilda. This name was borne by the last wife of
Attila the Hun.
Idris 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic, Malay, Indonesian
Other Scripts: إدريس(Arabic)
Pronounced: eed-REES(Arabic) EE-drees(Malay, Indonesian)
Possibly means
"interpreter, teacher" in Arabic, related to the root
درس (darasa) meaning "to study, to learn". According to the
Quran this was the name of an ancient prophet. He is traditionally equated with the Hebrew prophet
Enoch.
Hylaeus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Latinized form of Greek Ὑλαιος (Hylaios), which is probably derived from Greek ὕλη (hylē) meaning "forest, woodland". However, it could also have been derived from Greek ὗλις (hylis) "mud" or from Greek ὑλάω (hylaō) meaning "to bark, to bay". In Greek mythology, Hylaeus was the name of a centaur.
Hugleikr
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Norse
Old Norse name derived from
hugr "mind, thought, mood" and
leikr "play".
Hosanna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical
Pronounced: ho-ZAN-ə(English)
From the Aramaic religious expression
הושע נא (Hoshaʿ na) meaning
"deliver us" in Hebrew. In the
New Testament this is exclaimed by those around
Jesus when he first enters Jerusalem.
Hólmgeirr
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Norse [1]
Hirune
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque
Pronounced: ee-ROO-neh
Himiko
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese Mythology
Other Scripts: 卑弥呼, 卑彌呼(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: HEE-mee-ko
Meaning "sun daughter" or "sun child" or possibly "princess" in archaic Japanese. This is from Old Japanese hime (姫) meaning 'young noblewoman, princess', or from hi (日) 'sun' and me (女) 'woman' or miko (覡 or 巫女) 'shamaness, shrine maiden, priestess'. Some sources posit that Himiko (Pimiko) is from an archaic Japanese title, himeko, which means 'princess', from hime with the female name suffix -ko (子) 'child'.
A famous bearer of the name is the Empress Himiko (Pimiko), a shaman queen also known as Yamtohime No Mikoto, the Sun Queen or Sun Goddess of Japanese legend. She is alleged to be the first known ruler of Wa (Japan), and of the legendary land of Yamatai, believed by some to be the same as Wa. She is the supposed originator of the Grand Shrine of Ise, which is considered one of the most important Shintō sanctuaries in Japan to this day.
Hikaru
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 光, 輝, etc.(Japanese Kanji) ひかる(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: KHEE-KA-ROO
From Japanese
光 (hikaru) meaning "light" or
輝 (hikaru) meaning "brightness". Other kanji can also form this name.
Hierax
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek, Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἱέραξ(Ancient Greek)
Derived from the Greek noun ἱέραξ (hierax) meaning "hawk, falcon". This was the name of a Spartan admiral from the 4th century BC.
Helmi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish, Swedish
Pronounced: HEHL-mee(Finnish)
Harsiese
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Egyptian, Egyptian Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἁρσιησις
From Egyptian
ḥr-zꜣ-ꜣst meaning "
Horus, son of
Isis". This was used as an epithet of the god Horus as well as a given name.
Halle 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norwegian (Rare)
From the Old Norse name
Halli, a
diminutive of names containing the element
hallr meaning "rock".
Gormlaith
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Old Irish [1]
Derived from Old Irish
gorm "blue" or "illustrious" and
flaith "ruler, sovereign, princess". This was the name of several medieval Irish royals, including the wife of the 11th-century king
Brian Boru.
Goibniu
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish Mythology
Derived from Old Irish
gobae meaning
"smith". In Irish
mythology this was the name of a divine metalsmith and weapon maker of the Tuatha Dé Danann. He also provided them with feasts that protected them from old age. He may be derived from an earlier Celtic smith god (seen also in Gaulish
Gobannos and Welsh
Gofannon).
Gioconda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: jo-KON-da
From the Late Latin name Iucunda, which meant "pleasant, delightful, happy". Leonardo da Vinci's painting the Mona Lisa is also known as La Gioconda because its subject is Lisa del Giocondo.
Gilukhipa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hurrian
Means "
Ḫepat is my strength" in Hurrian. Hepat is a sun goddess, whose name is commonly seen as an element in Hurrian and Hittite theophoric names. Name borne by a wife of Amenhotep III.
Giles
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JIELZ
From the Late Latin name
Aegidius, which is derived from Greek
αἰγίδιον (aigidion) meaning
"young goat".
Saint Giles was an 8th-century miracle worker who came to southern France from Greece. He is regarded as the patron saint of the crippled. In Old French the name
Aegidius became
Gidie and then
Gilles, at which point it was imported to England. Another famous bearer was the 13th-century philosopher and theologian Giles of Rome (
Egidio in Italian).
Gijs
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch
Pronounced: GHAYS
Ghayth
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: غيث(Arabic)
Pronounced: GHIETH
Means "rain" in Arabic.
Geula
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: גְּאֻלָה(Hebrew)
Means "redemption" in Hebrew.
Eyvindr
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Norse [1]
Eryx
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἔρυξ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: ERIKS
Derived from the Greek verb ἐρύκω (eruko) or (eryko) meaning "to keep in, to curb, to hold back, to restrain". This is the name of several characters in Greek mythology, one of them being a king of the Elymian people from Sicily. A mountain and city in Sicily were named after him, but are now called Erice.
Enikő
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hungarian
Pronounced: EH-nee-kuu
Created by the Hungarian poet Mihály Vörösmarty in the 19th century. He based it on the name of the legendary mother of the Hungarian people, Enéh, of Turkic origin meaning "young hind" (modern Hungarian ünő).
Elías
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Icelandic
Pronounced: eh-LEE-as(Spanish)
Spanish and Icelandic form of
Elijah.
Elara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἐλάρα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: EHL-ə-rə(English)
Possibly derived from Greek
ἄλαρα (alara) meaning
"hazelnut, spear-shaft". In Greek
mythology Elara was one of
Zeus's mortal lovers and by him the mother of the giant Tityos. A moon of Jupiter bears this name in her honour.
Duri
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Korean
Other Scripts: 두리(Korean Hangul)
Pronounced: TOO-REE
Means "two" in Korean (Gyeongsang dialect).
Dranafile
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Albanian (Rare, Archaic)
Albanian cognate of
Triantafyllia. Bearer Dranafile "Drane" Bernai was the mother of the 20th-century Albanian-born nun and missionary Mother Teresa.
Dazhdbog
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Slavic Mythology
Daumantas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Lithuanian
From Lithuanian
daug "much" combined with
mantus "intelligent" or
manta "property, wealth". This name was borne by a 13th-century Lithuanian ruler of Pskov who is venerated as a
saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Daryush
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Persian
Other Scripts: داریوش(Persian)
Daryawesh
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical Hebrew [1]
Other Scripts: דָּרְיָוֶשׁ(Ancient Hebrew)
Form of
Darius used in the Hebrew Bible.
Darayavaush
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Persian
Other Scripts: 𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎺𐎢𐏁(Old Persian)
Dal-nim
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Korean Mythology
Other Scripts: 달님(Korean Hangul)
Pronounced: dahl-neem
In Korean mythology, she is the moon. She is the sister to the sun,
Hae-nim.
Daliborka
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Croatian, Serbian, Slovene
Other Scripts: Далиборка(Serbian)
Dae-Jung
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Korean
Other Scripts: 대중(Korean Hangul) 大中, etc.(Korean Hanja)
Pronounced: TEH-JOONG
From Sino-Korean
大 (dae) meaning "big, great, vast, large, high" combined with
中 (jung) meaning "middle". Other combinations of hanja characters can form this name as well. A notable bearer was South Korean president Kim Dae-jung (1924-2009).
Cruzita
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Rare)
Pronounced: kroo-THEE-ta(European Spanish) kroo-SEE-ta(Latin American Spanish)
Conleth
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish
Anglicized form of the Old Irish name
Conláed, possibly meaning
"constant fire" from
cunnail "prudent, constant" and
áed "fire".
Saint Conláed was a 5th-century bishop of Kildare.
Cloelia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Feminine form of
Cloelius. In Roman legend Cloelia was a maiden who was given to an Etruscan invader as a hostage. She managed to escape by swimming across the Tiber, at the same time helping some of the other captives to safety.
Cívánka
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hopi
Means "the one who writes blossoms" from Hopi cíhu "blossom, flower" combined with bána "to figure, write, draw" and ka "the one that".
Chetan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Kannada
Other Scripts: चेतन(Hindi, Marathi) ચેતન(Gujarati) ಚೇತನ್(Kannada)
From Sanskrit
चेतन (cetana) meaning
"visible, conscious, soul".
Cailean
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish Gaelic [1]
Pronounced: KA-lan
Means "whelp, young dog" in Scottish Gaelic. This name was borne by Cailean Mór, a 13th-century Scottish lord and ancestor of Clan Campbell.
Bulan
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Indonesian
Pronounced: BOO-lan
Means "moon" (or "month") in Indonesian.
Brogán
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish (Rare)
From the Old Irish name
Broccán, derived from
bróc "shoe, sandal, greave" combined with a
diminutive suffix. This was the name of several Irish
saints, including Saint
Patrick's scribe.
Brennan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BREHN-ən
From an Irish surname (Anglicized from Irish Gaelic
Ó Braonáin) that was derived from the byname
Braonán, itself from Irish
braon meaning "rain, moisture, drop" combined with a
diminutive suffix. As a given name, it has been used since the 1960s as an alternative to
Brendan or
Brandon, though it has not been as popular as them.
Bradán
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval Irish
Pronounced: BRA-dan(Irish)
Means
"salmon" in Irish. It could also be formed from Irish
brad "thief" and a
diminutive suffix.
Boroo
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Mongolian
Other Scripts: Бороо(Mongolian Cyrillic)
Pronounced: PAW-ro
Means "rain" in Mongolian. Alternatively, it could be derived from бор (bor) meaning "brown, grey, dark (colour)".
Bithiah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: בִּתְיָה(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: bi-THIE-ə(English)
Means
"daughter of Yahweh" in Hebrew, from the roots
בַּת (baṯ) meaning "daughter" and
יָהּ (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.
Bessarion
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Late Greek
Other Scripts: Βησσαρίων(Ancient Greek)
Meaning uncertain, possibly from Greek
βῆσσα (bessa) meaning
"wooded valley". This was the name of a 5th-century Egyptian hermit who was a disciple of
Saint Anthony the Great. It was later adopted by the scholar Basilios Bessarion (1403-1472), a Greek born in Byzantine Anatolia who became a Roman Catholic bishop.
Belenus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Gaulish Mythology
Latinized form of Gaulish
Belenos or
Belinos, possibly from Celtic roots meaning either
"bright, brilliant" (from Indo-European *
bhel-) or
"strong" (from Indo-European *
bel-)
[1]. This was the name of a Gaulish god who was often equated with
Apollo. He is mostly known from Gallo-Roman inscriptions and was especially venerated in Aquileia in northern Italy.
Barzillai
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Hebrew [1]
Other Scripts: בַּרְזִלָּי(Ancient Hebrew)
From the Hebrew name
בַּרְזִלָּי (Barzillai), derived from
בַּרְזֶל (barzel) meaning
"iron" [2]. This is the name of three different characters in the
Old Testament, including Barzillai the Gileadite.
Bahru
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Amharic
Other Scripts: ባህሩ(Amharic)
Means "the sea" in Amharic.
Bahram
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Persian, Persian Mythology
Other Scripts: بهرام(Persian)
Pronounced: bah-RAWM(Persian)
Modern Persian form of Avestan
𐬬𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬚𐬭𐬀𐬖𐬥𐬀 (Vərəthraghna) meaning
"victory over resistance". This was the name of a Zoroastrian god (one of the Amesha Spenta) associated with victory and war. It was also borne by several Sasanian emperors. It is also the Persian name for the planet Mars.
Babis
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Μπάμπης(Greek)
Pronounced: BA-bees
Armazi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Georgian Mythology
Other Scripts: არმაზი(Georgian)
Possibly related to the name of the Armenian god
Aramazd or the Zoroastrian god
Ahura Mazda. In pre-Christian Georgian
mythology Armazi was the supreme god.
Apostolos
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Απόστολος(Greek)
Means "messenger, apostle" in Greek.
Apollo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἀπόλλων(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: ə-PAHL-o(English)
From Greek
Ἀπόλλων (Apollon), which is of unknown meaning, though perhaps related to the Indo-European root *
apelo- meaning
"strength". Another theory states that Apollo can be equated with Appaliunas, an Anatolian god whose name possibly means
"father lion" or
"father light". The Greeks later associated Apollo's name with the Greek verb
ἀπόλλυμι (apollymi) meaning
"to destroy". In Greek
mythology Apollo was the son of
Zeus and
Leto and the twin of
Artemis. He was the god of prophecy, medicine, music, art, law, beauty, and wisdom. Later he also became the god of the sun and light.
Aphrah
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English, English (Puritan)
Pronounced: AH-frah(English)
From the biblical place Aphrah in the Book of Micah, meaning "dust." This name was used by Puritans, but has since become rare.
Angerdlartoĸ
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Greenlandic
Means "the one returning back home" in Greenlandic.
Amir 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir, Malay, Indonesian, Bosnian
Other Scripts: أمير(Arabic) امیر(Persian, Urdu) Әмір(Kazakh) Әмир(Tatar, Bashkir) Амир(Russian)
Pronounced: a-MEER(Arabic, Persian) ə-MEER(Urdu)
Means "commander, prince" in Arabic. This was originally a title, which has come into English as the Arabic loanword emir.
Amílcar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Portuguese, Spanish
Pronounced: a-MEEL-kar(Spanish)
Portuguese and Spanish form of
Hamilcar.
Altwidus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic (Latinized) [1]
Derived from the Old German elements
alt "old" and
witu "forest".
Altôra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greenlandic
Archaic spelling of
Altoora (using the old Kleinschmidt orthography, used to write Greenlandic until 1973).
Alope
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Apache
Borne by the first wife of the Apache chief Geronimo (1829-1909), daughter of Noposo, from the Nedni-Chiricahua band of Apache. She and her three children with Geronimo were killed by Mexican raiders.
Alemayehu
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Amharic
Other Scripts: አለማየሁ(Amharic)
Means "I have seen the world" in Amharic.
Achlys
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἀχλύς(Ancient Greek)
Means
"mist, darkness" in Greek. According to a poem by Hesiod, she was one of the figures portrayed on the shield of
Herakles. She is described as a wraithlike woman personifying death and sorrow.
Abilene
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Various (Rare)
Other Scripts: Ἀβιληνή(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: AB-i-leen(English) ab-i-LEE-nee(English)
From a place name mentioned briefly in the
New Testament. It is probably from Hebrew
אָבֵל (ʾavel) meaning "meadow, grassy area". It has occasionally been used as a given name in modern times.
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