Bitey's Personal Name List

Vespera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Esperanto
Pronounced: vehs-PEH-ra
Means "of the evening", derived from Esperanto vespero "evening", ultimately from Latin vesper.
Umber
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Pakistani
Meaning unknown.
Thamarai
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Tamil
Other Scripts: தாமரை(Tamil)
Means "lotus" in Tamil.
Somerled
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Norse (Anglicized)
Anglicized form of the Old Norse name Sumarliði meaning "summer traveller". This was the name of a 12th-century Norse-Gaelic king of Mann and the Scottish Isles.
Soledad
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: so-leh-DHADH
Means "solitude" in Spanish. It is taken from the title of the Virgin Mary, María de la Soledad, meaning "Mary of Solitude".
Scheherazade
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: shə-HEHR-ə-zahd(English)
Anglicized form of Shahrazad.
Salvatrix
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman
Feminine form of Salvator.
Romola
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: RAW-mo-la
Italian feminine form of Romulus.
Reverie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: REHV-ə-ree
From the English word meaning "daydream, fanciful musing", derived from Old French resverie, itself from resver meaning "to dream, to rave".
Perpetua
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Late Roman
Pronounced: pehr-PEH-twa(Spanish)
Derived from Latin perpetuus meaning "continuous". This was the name of a 3rd-century saint martyred with another woman named Felicity.
Olympia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek, Slovak
Other Scripts: Ολυμπία(Greek)
Feminine form of Olympos.
Odalis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American)
Possibly an elaboration of Odilia used in Latin America. In most countries it is a feminine name, but in the Dominican Republic it is commonly masculine.
Myrrhine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Μυρρίνη(Ancient Greek)
Derived from Greek μύρρα (myrrha) meaning "myrrh". This is the name of a character in the comedy Lysistrata by the Greek playwright Aristophanes.
Mariamne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: History
From Μαριάμη (Mariame), the form of Maria used by the historian Josephus when referring to the wife of King Herod.
Kimimela
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Sioux
From Lakota kimímela meaning "butterfly".
Isaura
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese, Spanish, Late Roman
Pronounced: ee-SOW-ra(Spanish)
Late Latin name meaning "from Isauria". Isauria was the name of a region in Asia Minor.
Ignatius
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Late Roman
Pronounced: ig-NAY-shəs(English)
From the Roman family name Egnatius, meaning unknown, of Etruscan origin. The spelling was later altered to resemble Latin ignis "fire". This was the name of several saints, including the third bishop of Antioch who was thrown to wild beasts by Emperor Trajan, and by Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556), founder of the Jesuits, whose real birth name was in fact Íñigo.
Howell
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Anglicized form of Hywel.
Hawthorne
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Transferred use of the surname Hawthorne.
Hadewych
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch (Rare)
Pronounced: HA-də-veekh
Dutch variant of Hedwig.
Gwenaël
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French, Breton
Pronounced: GWEH-NA-EHL(French)
Means "blessed and generous" from Breton gwenn meaning "white, blessed" and hael meaning "generous". Saint Gwenhael was a 6th-century abbot of Brittany.
Glendower
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Anglicized form of Glyndwr.
Eurydice
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Εὐρυδίκη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: ew-RUY-dee-keh(Latin) yuw-RID-i-see(English)
From the Greek Εὐρυδίκη (Eurydike) meaning "wide justice", derived from εὐρύς (eurys) meaning "wide" and δίκη (dike) meaning "justice, custom, order". In Greek myth she was the wife of Orpheus. Her husband tried to rescue her from Hades, but he failed when he disobeyed the condition that he not look back upon her on their way out.
Eligia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Polish (Rare), Late Roman
Pronounced: eh-LEE-khya(Spanish) eh-LEE-gya(Polish)
Feminine form of Eligius.
Edwyna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: ehd-WEEN-ə, ehd-WIN-ə
Variant of Edwina.
Desiderata
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman
Feminine form of Desideratus.
Calypso
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Καλυψώ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: kə-LIP-so(English)
From Greek Καλυψώ (Kalypso), which probably meant "she that conceals", derived from καλύπτω (kalypto) meaning "to cover, to conceal". In Greek myth this was the name of the nymph who fell in love with Odysseus after he was shipwrecked on her island of Ogygia. When he refused to stay with her she detained him for seven years until Zeus ordered her to release him.
Aurélien
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: O-REH-LYEHN
French form of Aurelianus.
Athénaïs
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: A-TEH-NA-EES
French form of Athenais.
Aristide
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French, Italian
Pronounced: A-REES-TEED(French) a-REES-tee-deh(Italian)
French and Italian form of Aristides.
Adelais
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Germanic (Latinized) [1]
Shortened form of Adalheidis.
Abaddon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: אֲבַדּוֹן(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: ə-BAD-ən(English)
Means "ruin, destruction" in Hebrew. In Revelation in the New Testament this is another name of the angel of the abyss.
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