MiryamChannah's Personal Name List
Ariadna
Gender:
Feminine
Usage:
Spanish, Catalan, Russian, Polish
Other Scripts:
Ариадна
(
Russian
)
Pronounced:
a-RYADH-na
(
Spanish
)
ə-RYADH-nə
(
Catalan
)
a-RYAD-na
(
Polish
)
Personal remark:
Arianna
Rating:
58% based on 18 votes
Spanish, Catalan, Russian and Polish form of
Ariadne
.
Avelina
1
Gender:
Feminine
Usage:
Germanic [1]
Rating:
77% based on 20 votes
Diminutive
of
Avila
.
Mave
Gender:
Feminine
Usage:
Irish (Rare)
Personal remark:
Maeve or Maeva
Rating:
51% based on 16 votes
Variant of
Maeve
.
Nerissa
Gender:
Feminine
Usage:
Literature
Pronounced:
nə-RIS-ə
(
English
)
Personal remark:
Nereisa
Rating:
54% based on 18 votes
Created by Shakespeare for a character in his play
The Merchant of Venice
(1596). He possibly took it from Greek
Νηρηΐς
(
Nereis
)
meaning "nymph, sea sprite", ultimately derived from the name of the Greek sea god
Nereus
, who supposedly fathered them.
Selene
Gender:
Feminine
Usage:
Greek Mythology
Other Scripts:
Σελήνη
(
Ancient Greek
)
Pronounced:
SEH-LEH-NEH
(
Classical Greek
)
si-LEE-nee
(
English
)
Rating:
66% based on 19 votes
Means
"moon"
in Greek. This was the name of a Greek goddess of the moon, a Titan. She was sometimes identified with the goddess
Artemis
.
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