Felie's Personal Name List

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.

Russian and Ukrainian form of Athena.

Form of Alexandra in several languages.

Short form of Magdalena or Helena. This was the name of a saint, possibly legendary, who was martyred near Brussels in the 7th century.

Form of Alice used in several languages.

Originally a Russian diminutive of Yelena. It is now used independently.

Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian form of Anastasia. This name was borne by the wife of the Russian tsar Ivan the Terrible.

Russian diminutive of Anna.

Derived from the South Slavic word бисер (biser) meaning "pearl" (ultimately of Arabic origin).

Serbian and Croatian variant of Diana, reflecting the English pronunciation.

From a Slavic word meaning "morning star, Venus". This name occurs in Slavic folklore as a personification of the morning star. It has sometimes been used in the English-speaking world since the 1970s.

From Serbian диван (divan) or Macedonian дивен (diven) meaning "wonderful".

Feminine form of Dominic.

Polish, Czech and Slovak form of Dorothea.

Feminine form of Dušan.

Polish form of Edith.

Created by the Hungarian poet Mihály Vörösmarty in the 19th century. He based it on the name of the legendary mother of the Hungarian people, Enéh, of Turkic origin meaning "young hind" (modern Hungarian ünő).

From Lithuanian graži meaning "beautiful". This name was created by Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz for his poem Grażyna (1823).

Feminine form of Grozdan.

Shortened form of Hajnal. The Hungarian poet Mihály Vörösmarty used it in his epic poem Zalán Futása (1825).

Means "violet" in Hungarian, ultimately from Latin viola.

Slovak feminine form of Emmerich.

Form of Irene in several languages.

Means "spark" in South Slavic.

Means "willow tree" in South Slavic.

Means "daisy" in Croatian.

Polish form of Hedwig. This was the name of a 14th-century ruling queen of Poland who has recently been canonized as a saint.

Feminine form of Jan 1.

Croatian, Serbian and Slovene form of Agnes. It also may be inspired by Serbo-Croatian janje meaning "lamb".

Polish, Lithuanian and Latvian form of Yolanda.

Polish form of Judith.

Polish form of Iustina (see Justina).

Means "viburnum tree" in Bulgarian, Macedonian and Polish.

Russian and Hungarian form of Camilla, as well as a Polish and Scandinavian variant. This is also the Hungarian word for the chamomile flower (species Matricaria chamomilla).

Diminutive of Katarzyna.

Polish form of Katherine.

Polish and Hungarian diminutive of Kunigunde.

Russian feminine form of Cyrus.

Short form of Alana (English) or Svetlana (Russian). In the English-speaking world it was popularized by actress Lana Turner (1921-1995), who was born Julia Jean Turner.

Russian short form of Larisa. It was introduced to the English-speaking world by a character from Boris Pasternak's novel Doctor Zhivago (1957) and the subsequent movie adaptation (1965). Between 1965 and 1969 it increased by almost 2,000 percent in the United States, however it is currently much more popular in the United Kingdom, Australia, Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Germany. Another famous fictional bearer is Lara Croft, first appearing in video games in 1996 and movies in 2001.

Short form of Valeriya.

Derived from the rare Serbo-Croatian word lijer meaning "lily" (the usual word is ljiljan).

Diminutive of Małgorzata.

Means "raspberry" in several Slavic languages.

Polish form of Malvina.

Slovene and Croatian form of Masha.

Short form of Miroslava and other names beginning with Mir (often the Slavic element mirŭ meaning "peace, world").

From Serbo-Croatian miran meaning "peaceful, calm".

Alternate transcription of Russian/Bulgarian Надежда (see Nadezhda).

Variant of Nadya 1 used in Western Europe, as well as an alternate transcription of the Slavic name. It began to be used in France in the 19th century [1]. The name received a boost in popularity from the Romanian gymnast Nadia Comăneci (1961-) [2].

Means "Sunday" in Bulgarian.

Short form of Geneva.

Derived from South Slavic neven meaning "marigold".

From the name of a Ukrainian city that sits on the north coast of the Black Sea, which was named after the ancient Greek city of Ὀδησσός (Odessos), of uncertain meaning. This name can also be used as a feminine form of Odysseus.

Ukrainian form of Xenia.

Russian form of the Old Norse name Helga. The 10th-century Saint Olga was the wife of Igor I, the ruler of Kievan Rus (a state based around the city of Kyiv). Like her husband she was probably a Varangian, who were Norse people who settled in Eastern Europe beginning in the 9th century. Following Igor's death she ruled as regent for her son Svyatoslav for 18 years. After she was baptized in Constantinople she attempted to convert her subjects to Christianity, though this goal was only achieved by her grandson Vladimir.

Hungarian form of Prisca, influenced by the Hungarian word piros meaning "red".

Alternate transcription of Russian Прасковья (see Praskovya).

Derived from the Proto-Slavic word *pravьda meaning "truth; justice" in many Slavic languages.

Feminine form of Radko.

Probably a Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian form of Herais.

Russian and Polish form of Roxana.

Feminine form of Ruslan.

Derived from the Serbo-Croatian word snežan meaning "snowy".

Form of Sonya in various languages.

Russian diminutive of Sophia. This is the name of a character in Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace (1869, English translation 1886).

Diminutive of Stanislava or Anastasiya.

Feminine form of Tsvetan.

Means "fairy" in Hungarian.

Russian feminine form of Basil 1.

Means "faith" in Russian, though it is sometimes associated with the Latin word verus "true". It has been in general use in the English-speaking world since the late 19th century.

Means "spring" in many Slavic languages. This was the name of a Slavic spirit associated with the springtime. It has been used as a given name only since the 20th century.

Feminine form of Vladislav.

Possibly from a Germanic name meaning "a Wend", referring to the Slavic people who inhabited eastern Germany. In Polish legends this was the name of the daughter of King Krak, the legendary founder of Krakow. It was introduced to the English-speaking world by the author Ouida, who used it for the heroine in her novel Wanda (1883).

Polish form of Victoria.

Polish form of Viola.

Russian form of Katherine. This name was adopted by the German princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst in 1744 shortly before she married the future Russian emperor Peter III. She later overthrew her husband and ruled as empress, known as Catherine the Great in English.

Medieval Polish diminutive of Żużanna and Polish form of Jeanne.

Feminine form of Živko.

Short form of Zinaida.

Means "dawn, aurora" in the South Slavic languages, as well as Czech and Slovak.

Means "morning star" in Bulgarian.

Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian and Bulgarian form of Zoe.

Russian form of Alexius. This name was borne by a 14th-century Metropolitan of Kiev who is regarded as a saint in the Orthodox Church. It was also the name of a 17th-century tsar of Russia.

Alternate transcription of Russian Алексей (see Aleksey).

Czech and Slovak form of Alexius.

Diminutive of Aleksey.

Older Russian and Bulgarian form of Anastasius.

Russian and Ukrainian form of Anatolius.

Russian form of Arkadios. This is the name of one of the main characters in Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons (1862).

From a Bulgar Turkic name, also recorded as Bogoris, perhaps meaning "short" or "wolf" or "snow leopard". It was borne by the 9th-century Boris I of Bulgaria, who converted his realm to Christianity and is thus regarded as a saint in the Orthodox Church. To the north in Kievan Rus it was the name of another saint, a son of Vladimir the Great who was murdered with his brother Gleb in the 11th century. His mother may have been Bulgarian.

Other notable bearers of the name include the Russian emperor Boris Godunov (1552-1605), later the subject of a play of that name by Aleksandr Pushkin, as well as the Russian author Boris Pasternak (1890-1960), the Bulgarian king Boris III (1894-1943), and the Russian president Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007).

Derived from the Slavic element borna "protection" combined with mirŭ "peace, world".

Derived from Slavic čędo "child" and mirŭ "peace, world".

Polish form of Caesar.

From the Slavic element darŭ meaning "gift", originally a diminutive of names containing that element.

Meaning uncertain, possibly from an old Slavic exclamation expressing joy or sorrow. This was the name of a supposed Slavic war god. His name was the basis for the word davorije, a type of patriotic war song popular in the 19th century [1].

Russian variant of Dmitriy, as well as the Georgian form.

Bulgarian form of Dejan.

Alternate transcription of Serbian Ђорђе (see Đorđe).

Alternate transcription of Russian Дмитрий (see Dmitriy).

Derived from the Slavic elements dobrŭ "good" and slava "glory".

Derived from the Slavic element dorgŭ (South Slavic drag) meaning "precious".

Derived from the Slavic element dorgŭ (South Slavic drag) meaning "precious" combined with mirŭ meaning "peace, world".

Czech and Slovak form of Dragomir.

From the Old Slavic word *dǫbrava meaning "oak grove".

Serbian form of Gabriel.

From South Slavic gojiti meaning "grow, heal, foster, nurture".

Derived from South Slavic gora meaning "mountain". It was popularized by the Croatian poet Ivan Goran Kovačić (1913-1943), who got his middle name because of the mountain town where he was born.

Bulgarian and Macedonian form of Hilarion.

Perhaps derived from an old Bulgar name meaning "wolf". This was the name of a 13th-century emperor of Bulgaria. It is possible that this spelling was the result of a 15th-century misreading of his real name Vulo from historical documents.

Modern form of Jacenty.

Diminutive of Jakov.

Polish form of George.

Diminutive of Juliusz or Julian.

Polish form of Jasper.

Polish, Slovak and Slovene form of Karl.

Polish form of Casimir.

Karachay-Balkar form of Khidr.

Russian form of Cyril.

Polish and Slovak form of Cornelius.

Polish form of Christopher.

Originally a diminutive of Lech. The name was borne by several medieval dukes of Poland.

Russian, Belarusian and Macedonian form of Maximus, as well as an alternate transcription of Ukrainian Максим (see Maksym).

Slovak form of Matthias, used to refer to the apostle chosen to replace Judas Iscariot. Also the Slovene, Croatian and Macedonian form of Matthew, used to refer to the evangelist and apostle also known as Levi.

Variant transcription of Matvey.

Czech and Slovak form of Michael.

Polish cognate of Miloš.

Short form of Miroslav and other names beginning with Mir (often the Slavic element mirŭ meaning "peace, world").

Russian diminutive of Mikhail.

Masculine form of Nevena.

Russian form of Niketas. This form is also used in Ukrainian and Belarusian alongside the more traditional forms Mykyta and Mikita. A notable bearer was the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971).

Derived from the Slavic elements orsti "to grow" and slava "glory".

Russian form of Simon 1.

Form of Spartacus in several languages.

Polish form of Stanislav. Two kings of Poland have borne this name, as well as a few saints.

Russian and Ukrainian diminutive of Stanislav.

Polish form of Simon 1.

Father Tomor is the personification of Mount Tomorr, also known as Mount Tomor in Albanian, a mountain range which includes the highest peak in central Albania. Mount Tomorr is considered the home of the gods in central Albanian popular belief. The name itself is derived from Illyrian Tómaros, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tómhxes-, "dark".

Polish form of Timothy.

Derived from South Slavic vesel meaning "cheerful".

Russian form and Modern Greek transcription of Bessarion.

Russian and Ukrainian form of Vitalis (see Vitale).

Short form of Vladimir and other names beginning with the Slavic element volděti (South Slavic vladati) meaning "to rule, to control".

Derived from Serbian vuk meaning "wolf". This was the name of a 14th-century Serbian ruler.

Derived from the Slavic elements vojĭ "warrior, soldier" and utěxa "solace, comfort, joy". Saint Wojciech (also known by the Czech form of his name Vojtěch or his adopted name Adalbert) was a Bohemian missionary to Hungary, Poland and Prussia, where he was martyred in the 10th century.

Russian form of Eugene.

Derived from South Slavic žar meaning "ember, zeal, fervour".

Derived from South Slavic želja meaning "desire", ultimately from Old Slavic želěti.

Derived from South Slavic zlato meaning "gold", a derivative of Old Slavic zolto.

Masculine form of Zora.

French and Dutch form of Sasha.

Croatian, Serbian and Slovene diminutive of Aleksander or Aleksandra.