Behind the Name: Videntia's Personal Name List

Yvette

Gender: Feminine

Usage: French, English

Pronounced: EE-VEHT(French) ee-VEHT(English) i-VEHT(English)

French feminine form of Yves.

Yuuna

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Japanese

Other Scripts: 優菜, 優奈, 柚菜, etc.(Japanese Kanji) ゆうな(Japanese Hiragana)

Pronounced: YOO-NA

Alternate transcription of Japanese Kanji 優菜 or 優奈 or 柚菜 (see Yūna).

Yumi

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Japanese

Other Scripts: 弓, 由美, 友美, 弓美, etc.(Japanese Kanji) ゆみ(Japanese Hiragana)

Pronounced: YOO-MEE

From Japanese 弓 (yumi) meaning "archery bow". It can also come from 由 (yu) meaning "reason, cause", 友 (yu) meaning "friend" or a nanori reading of 弓 (yu) meaning "archery bow" combined with 美 (mi) meaning "beautiful". Other kanji or kanji combinations are also possible.

Yuliya

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Bulgarian

Other Scripts: Юлия(Russian, Bulgarian) Юлія(Ukrainian, Belarusian)

Pronounced: YOO-lyi-yə(Russian)

Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian and Bulgarian form of Julia.

Yuina

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Japanese

Other Scripts: 結菜, etc.(Japanese Kanji) ゆいな(Japanese Hiragana)

Pronounced: YOO-EE-NA

From Japanese 結 (yui) meaning "tie, bind" and 菜 (na) meaning "vegetables, greens". Other kanji combinations are possible.

Yentl

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Yiddish (Rare)

Other Scripts: יענטל(Yiddish)

Diminutive of Yente.

Shantel

Gender: Feminine

Usage: English

Pronounced: shahn-TEHL

Variant of Chantel.

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-Nur) is one of the 99 names of Allah.

Nabila

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Arabic

Other Scripts: نبيلة(Arabic)

Pronounced: na-BEE-lah

Feminine form of Nabil.

Misty

Gender: Feminine

Usage: English

Pronounced: MIS-tee

From the English word misty, ultimately derived from Old English. The jazz song Misty (1954) by Erroll Garner may have helped popularize the name.

Gita 1

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Nepali

Other Scripts: गीता(Hindi, Marathi, Nepali) গীতা(Bengali)

Means "song" in Sanskrit. The word appears in the name of the Bhagavad Gita, a sacred text of Hinduism (meaning "divine song").

Fiqa

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Arabic

Pronounced: FEEQ-uh

Short form of Shafiqa.

Burgundy

Gender: Feminine

Usage: English (Rare)

Pronounced: BUR-gən-dee

This name can refer either to the region in France, the wine (which derives from the name of the region), or the colour (which derives from the name of the wine).