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.

Russian form of Alexis. This was the name of a 17th-century czar of Russia.

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

Alternate transcription of Russian Алексей (see Aleksey).

Czech and Slovak form of Alexis.

Form of Alice used in several languages.

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

Diminutive of Aleksey.

Older Russian and Bulgarian form of Anastasius.

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

Russian and Ukrainian form of Anatolius.

Russian diminutive of Anna.

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

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

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 16th-century Russian emperor Boris Godunov, 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 meaning "protection" combined with miru meaning "peace, world".

Derived from the Slavic elements chedo meaning "child" and miru meaning "peace, world".

Polish form of Caesar.

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.

Originally a diminutive of names containing the Slavic element daru meaning "gift".

Possibly from an old Slavic exclamation expressing joy or sorrow.

Russian variant of Dmitriy, using the Church Slavic spelling, as well as the Georgian form.

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

Bulgarian form of Dejan.

Alternate transcription of Serbian Ђорђе (see Đorđe).

Alternate transcription of Russian Дмитрий (see Dmitriy).

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

Feminine form of Dominic.

Polish, Czech and Slovak form of Dorothea.

Derived from the Slavic element dragu meaning "precious".

Derived from the Slavic element dragu meaning "precious" combined with miru meaning "peace, world".

Czech and Slovak form of Dragomir.

From the old Slavic word dubrava meaning "oak grove".

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).

Serbian form of Gabriel.

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

Means "mountain man", 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.

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.

Bulgarian and Macedonian form of Hilarion.

Slovak feminine form of Emmerich.

Form of Irene in several languages.

From a South Slavic word meaning "spark".

Means "willow tree" in South Slavic.

Means "daisy" in Croatian.

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.

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

Diminutive of Jakov.

Feminine form of Jan 1.

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

Polish form of George.

Polish, Lithuanian and Latvian form of Yolanda.

Polish form of Judith.

Diminutive of Juliusz or Julian.

Polish form of Iustina (see Justina).

Polish form of Jasper.

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).

Polish, Slovak and Slovene form of Karl.

Diminutive of Katarzyna.

Polish form of Katherine.

Polish form of Casimir.

Karachay-Balkar form of Khidr.

Polish and Hungarian diminutive of Kunigunde.

Russian feminine form of Cyrus.

Russian form of Cyril.

Polish and Slovak form of Cornelius.

Polish form of Christopher.

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, Portugual, 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.

Diminutive of Lech.

Derived from South Slavic lijer meaning "lily".

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

Diminutive of Małgorzata.

Means "raspberry" in several Slavic languages.

Polish form of Malvina.

Slovene and Croatian form of Masha.

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 names containing the Slavic element miru meaning "peace" or "world".

Means "peaceful" in Serbian and Croatian.

Short form of Miroslav.

Russian diminutive of Mikhail.

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 Comaneci (1961-) [2].

Means "Sunday" in Bulgarian.

Short form of Geneva.

Masculine form of Nevena.

Derived from South Slavic neven meaning "marigold".

Russian form of Niketas. This form is also used in Ukrainian and Belarusian alongside the more traditional forms Mykyta and Mikita.

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.

Derived from the Slavic elements rasti "growth" and slava "glory".

Feminine form of Ruslan.

French form of Sasha.

Croatian, Serbian and Slovene diminutive of Aleksander or Aleksandra.

Russian form of Simon 1.

Derived from the Slavic 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).

Form of Spartacus in several languages.

Polish form of Stanislav. Two kings of Poland have borne this name.

Russian and Ukrainian diminutive of Stanislav.

Diminutive of Stanislava or Anastasiya.

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".

Feminine form of Tsvetan.

Means "fairy" in Hungarian.

Polish form of Timothy.

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.

Derived from South Slavic vesel meaning "cheerful".

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.

Russian form and Modern Greek transcription of Bessarion.

Russian and Ukrainian form of Vitalis (see Vitale).

Feminine form of Vladislav.

Short form of Vladimir and other Slavic names beginning with the element vladeti meaning "rule".

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

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.

Derived from the Slavic elements voji "warrior, soldier" and tekha "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 Katherine.

Russian form of Eugene.

Medieval Polish diminutive of Żużanna and Polish form of Jeanne.

Derived from Serbian, Croatian and Macedonian žar meaning "ember, zeal, fervour".

Derived from South Slavic želja meaning "desire".

Feminine form of Zhivko.

Short form of Zinaida.

Means "golden", a derivative of the Slavic word zlato "gold".

From a South and West Slavic word meaning "dawn, aurora".

Masculine form of Zora.

Means "morning star" in Bulgarian.

Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian and Bulgarian form of Zoe.