blackelectric's Personal Name List

Means "bright, radiant" in Hebrew. This was the ancient name of the second month of the Jewish calendar.

Means "wolf" in Hebrew, an animal particularly associated with the tribe of Benjamin (see Genesis 49:27).

Feminine form of Zohar.

Hebrew form of Jonathan.

Hebrew form of Isaac. This was the name of two recent Israeli prime ministers.

Derived from Hebrew יָפֶה (yafeh) meaning "beautiful".

Means "honeycomb" and "honeysuckle" in Hebrew.

Hebrew form of Jacob.

Feminine form of Tzvi.

Means "gazelle, roebuck" in Hebrew, an animal particularly associated with the tribe of Naphtali (see Genesis 49:21).

Means "watching" in Hebrew.

Modern Hebrew form of Tobiah.

Alternate transcription of Hebrew ציִלָּה (see Tzila).

Means "good" in Hebrew.

Means "hope" in Hebrew.

Means "tall" in Hebrew.

Means "dew from God" in Hebrew, from טַל (tal) meaning "dew" and יָה (yah) referring to the Hebrew God.

Means "my dew" in Hebrew.

Derived from Hebrew טַל (tal) meaning "dew".

Means "autumn" in Hebrew.

From the name of the ninth month of the Hebrew calendar (occurring in late spring). It was adopted from the Babylonian calendar, derived from Akkadian simānu meaning "season, occasion" [1].

Means "happiness, joy" in Hebrew.

Means "guardian, protector" in Hebrew, from the root שָׁמַר (shamar) "to guard, to watch".

Either from Hebrew שַׁי (shai) meaning "gift" or else a Hebrew diminutive of Isaiah.

Means "dawn" in Hebrew.

Means "sapphire" in Hebrew.

Modern Hebrew form of Obadiah.

Feminine form of Osher.

Alternate transcription of Hebrew אוֹפִירָה (see Ofira).

Modern Hebrew form of Ophrah. Originally it was a masculine name, but it is now used for females too.

Means "pleasantness" in Hebrew. A famous bearer is Noam Chomsky (1928-), an American linguist and philosopher.

Means either "speech, expression" or "fang, tusk" in Hebrew.

Means "sign" in Hebrew.

Means "beautiful" in Hebrew.

Modern Hebrew form of Naamah.

Derived from Hebrew מַיִם (mayim) meaning "water".

Means "pearl" in Hebrew, ultimately from Greek μαργαρίτης (margarites).

Means "queen" in Hebrew.

Means "spring of water" in Hebrew.

Means "white" in Hebrew.

Means "my light" in Hebrew, from לִי (li) "for me" and אוֹר ('or) "light".

Means "heart" in Hebrew.

Anglicized variant of Liora.
In some cases, however, it might have been given as a contracted form of Leonora.

Means "lion" in Hebrew.

From the name of a large lake in northern Israel, usually called the Sea of Galilee in English. Its name is derived from Hebrew כִּנּוֹר (kinnor) meaning "harp" because of its shape.

Means "rainbow" in Hebrew.

Means "the crowned Lord" (or possibly "crown of God") in Hebrew. From the Hebrew keter (כֶּתֶר) "crown" and el (אֵל) "god".

Means "amber" in Hebrew.

Feminine form of Ilan.

Hebrew form of Gabriel.

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.

Hebrew form of Elizabeth.

Means "my God is my light" in Hebrew.

Feminine form of Dan 1. It can also be considered a compound meaning "judgement from God", using the element יָה (yah) referring to the Hebrew God.

Hebrew variant of Basemath.

Means "house of mercy" or "house of grace", derived from Aramaic בית (beth) "house, home" and חסדא (hesda) "mercy, kindness; favour, clemency". The second element could also derive from an identical word meaning "shame, dishonour". This was the name of a pool in Jerusalem, mentioned in the New Testament, which was known for its healing properties.

Hebrew variant of Bathsheba.

Modern Hebrew form of Abishai.

Means "my father" in Hebrew. It is also a diminutive of Avraham or Aviram.

Means "lion of God" in Hebrew, from אֲרִי ('ari) meaning "lion" and אֵל ('el) meaning "God". In the Old Testament it is used as another name for the city of Jerusalem. Shakespeare utilized it for a spirit in his play The Tempest (1611) and Alexander Pope utilized it for a sylph in his poem The Rape of the Lock (1712), and one of the moons of Uranus bears this name in his honour. As an English name, it became more common for females in the 1980s, especially after it was used for the title character in the Disney film The Little Mermaid (1989).

Feminine form of Amir 2.

Means "joyful" in Hebrew.

From an Aramaic form of Yaakov. Akiva (or Akiba) ben Joseph was a prominent 1st-century Jewish rabbi.

Means "noble" in Hebrew.