German Maiden's Personal Name List

Anita 1

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Spanish, Portuguese, Croatian, Slovene, English, Dutch, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Polish, Latvian, Hungarian

Pronounced: a-NEE-ta(Spanish, Dutch, German) ə-NEET-ə(English) AH-nee-tah(Finnish) a-NYEE-ta(Polish) AW-nee-taw(Hungarian)

Rating: 32% based on 18 votes

Spanish, Portuguese, Croatian and Slovene diminutive of Ana.

Ask

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Norse Mythology

Rating: 19% based on 15 votes

Derived from Old Norse askr "ash tree". In Norse mythology Ask and his wife Embla were the first humans created by the gods.

Blythe

Gender: Feminine & Masculine

Usage: English (Rare)

Pronounced: BLIEDH

Rating: 42% based on 16 votes

From a surname meaning "cheerful" in Old English.

Embla

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Norse Mythology, Icelandic, Swedish, Norwegian

Pronounced: EHM-blah(Icelandic, Swedish, Norwegian)

Rating: 35% based on 13 votes

Meaning uncertain, perhaps related to Old Norse almr "elm". In Norse mythology Embla and her husband Ask were the first humans. They were created by three of the gods from two trees.

Enos

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek

Other Scripts: אֱנוֹשׁ(Ancient Hebrew) Ἐνώς(Ancient Greek)

Pronounced: EE-nahs(English)

Rating: 34% based on 14 votes

Form of Enosh used in many versions of the Old Testament.

Enosh

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Biblical, Biblical Hebrew

Other Scripts: אֱנוֹשׁ(Ancient Hebrew)

Pronounced: EE-nahsh(English)

Rating: 34% based on 14 votes

Means "man, person, mortal" in Hebrew. He was a son of Seth and a grandson of Adam in the genealogies in Genesis in the Old Testament.

Sid

Gender: Masculine

Usage: English

Pronounced: SID

Rating: 33% based on 14 votes

Short form of Sidney.

Sora

Gender: Feminine & Masculine

Usage: Japanese

Other Scripts: 空, 昊, etc.(Japanese Kanji) そら(Japanese Hiragana)

Pronounced: SO-RA

Rating: 49% based on 20 votes

From Japanese 空 (sora) or 昊 (sora) both meaning "sky". Other kanji with the same pronunciations can also form this name.

Sparrow

Gender: Masculine & Feminine

Usage: English (Rare)

Pronounced: SPAR-o, SPEHR-o

Rating: 45% based on 20 votes

From the name of the bird, ultimately from Old English spearwa.

Suri

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Yiddish

Other Scripts: שרה(Yiddish)

Rating: 51% based on 21 votes

Yiddish form of Sarah.

Sydney

Gender: Feminine & Masculine

Usage: English

Pronounced: SID-nee

Rating: 48% based on 21 votes

From a surname that was a variant of the surname Sidney. This is the name of the largest city in Australia, which was named for Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney in 1788. Formerly used by both genders, since the 1980s this spelling of the name has been mostly feminine.

Verity

Gender: Feminine

Usage: English

Pronounced: VEHR-i-tee

Rating: 42% based on 15 votes

From the English word meaning "verity, truth", from Latin verus "true, real". This was one of the virtue names adopted by the Puritans in the 17th century.