Behind the Name: Vellidragon's Personal Name List

Avalon

Gender: Feminine

Usage: English (Rare)

Pronounced: AV-ə-lahn

From the name of the island paradise to which King Arthur was brought after his death. The name of this island is perhaps related to Welsh afal meaning "apple", a fruit that was often linked with paradise.

Cleopatra

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized)

Other Scripts: Κλεοπάτρα(Ancient Greek)

Pronounced: klee-o-PAT-rə(English)

From the Greek name Κλεοπάτρα (Kleopatra) meaning "glory of the father", derived from κλέος (kleos) meaning "glory" combined with πατήρ (pater) meaning "father" (genitive πατρός). This was the name of queens of Egypt from the Ptolemaic royal family, including Cleopatra VII, the mistress of both Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. After being defeated by Augustus she committed suicide (according to popular belief, by allowing herself to be bitten by a venomous asp). Shakespeare's tragedy Antony and Cleopatra (1606) tells the story of her life.

Delfina

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese

Pronounced: dehl-FEE-na(Spanish)

Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of Delphina.

Isis

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Egyptian Mythology (Hellenized)

Other Scripts: Ἶσις(Ancient Greek)

Pronounced: IE-sis(English)

Greek form of Egyptian ꜣst (reconstructed as Iset, Aset or Ueset), possibly from st meaning "throne". In Egyptian mythology Isis was the goddess of the sky and nature, the wife of Osiris and the mother of Horus. She was originally depicted wearing a throne-shaped headdress, but in later times she was conflated with the goddess Hathor and depicted having the horns of a cow on her head. She was also worshipped by people outside of Egypt, such as the Greeks and Romans.

Luna

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Roman Mythology, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, English

Pronounced: LOO-na(Latin, Spanish, Italian) LOO-nə(English)

Means "the moon" in Latin (as well as Italian, Spanish and other Romance languages). Luna was the Roman goddess of the moon, frequently depicted driving a white chariot through the sky.

Marina

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, English, Greek, Finnish, Estonian, Russian, Romanian, Czech, Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Macedonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Georgian, Ancient Roman

Other Scripts: Μαρίνα(Greek) Марина(Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Macedonian) მარინა(Georgian)

Pronounced: ma-REE-na(Italian, Spanish, German, Macedonian) mə-REE-nə(Catalan) mə-REEN-ə(English) mu-RYEE-nə(Russian) MA-ri-na(Czech)

Feminine form of Marinus. This name was borne by a few early saints. This is also the name by which Saint Margaret of Antioch is known in the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Rain 1

Gender: Feminine & Masculine

Usage: English (Rare)

Pronounced: RAYN

Simply from the English word rain, derived from Old English regn.

River

Gender: Masculine & Feminine

Usage: English (Modern)

Pronounced: RIV-ər

From the English word that denotes a flowing body of water. The word is ultimately derived (via Old French) from Latin ripa "riverbank".

Storm

Gender: Masculine & Feminine

Usage: English (Modern), Dutch (Modern), Danish (Modern), Norwegian (Modern)

Pronounced: STAWRM(English, Dutch)

From the vocabulary word, ultimately from Old English or Old Dutch storm, or in the case of the Scandinavian name, from Old Norse stormr.