Behind the Name: isla_may's Personal Name List

Aurora

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, English, Romanian, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Roman Mythology

Pronounced: ow-RAW-ra(Italian) ow-RO-ra(Spanish, Latin) ə-RAWR-ə(English) OW-ro-rah(Finnish)

Rating: 79% based on 8 votes

Means "dawn" in Latin. Aurora was the Roman goddess of the morning. It has occasionally been used as a given name since the Renaissance.

Asfand

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Persian

Other Scripts: اسفند(Persian)

Rating: 52% based on 6 votes

Contracted form of Middle Persian اسفندارمذ (spandarmad) meaning “holy thought” that was originally the name of the fourth Amahraspand (divine deity) in Zoroastrianism. Esfand is the twelfth month of the solar Persian calendar as well as a name for the wild rue, used in fumigation against evil eye.

Arlo

Gender: Masculine

Usage: English

Pronounced: AHR-lo

Rating: 53% based on 7 votes

Meaning uncertain. It was perhaps inspired by the fictional place name Arlo Hill from the poem The Faerie Queene (1590) by Edmund Spenser. Spenser probably got Arlo by altering the real Irish place name Aherlow, meaning "between two highlands".

Annalise

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Danish, English (Modern)

Rating: 73% based on 7 votes

Combination of Anna and Lise.

Annabeth

Gender: Feminine

Usage: English (Rare)

Pronounced: AN-ə-beth

Rating: 70% based on 8 votes

Combination of Anna and Beth.

Alexa

Gender: Feminine

Usage: English, German, Hungarian

Pronounced: ə-LEHK-sə(English) AW-lehk-saw(Hungarian)

Rating: 68% based on 8 votes

Short form of Alexandra.

Alex

Gender: Masculine & Feminine

Usage: English, Dutch, German, French, Portuguese, Romanian, Greek, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Hungarian, Czech, Russian

Other Scripts: Άλεξ(Greek) Алекс(Russian)

Pronounced: AL-iks(English) A-lehks(Dutch, German, Romanian, Czech) A-LEHKS(French) A-lekhs(Icelandic) AW-lehks(Hungarian)

Rating: 81% based on 8 votes

Short form of Alexander, Alexandra and other names beginning with Alex.

Adela

Gender: Feminine

Usage: English, Spanish, Romanian, Polish, Slovak, Germanic [1]

Pronounced: ə-DEHL-ə(English) a-DHEH-la(Spanish) a-DEH-la(Polish) A-deh-la(Slovak)

Rating: 61% based on 7 votes

Originally a short form of names beginning with the Old German element adal meaning "noble" (Proto-Germanic *aþalaz). Saint Adela was a 7th-century Frankish princess who founded a monastery at Pfazel in France. This name was also borne by a daughter of William the Conqueror.