annileaf's Personal Name List

Bedrosian

Usage: Armenian

Other Scripts: Պետրոսյան(Armenian)

Alternate transcription of Armenian Պետրոսյան (see Petrosyan).

Blackwood

Usage: English, Scottish

Pronounced: BLAK-wuwd(English)

From an English place name meaning "black wood".

Carmody

Usage: Irish

Anglicized form of Irish Ó Cearmada meaning "descendant of Cearmaid", a Gaelic given name.

Chaikin

Usage: Yiddish

Other Scripts: חייקין(Yiddish)

From a diminutive of the given name Chaya.

Czajka

Usage: Polish

Pronounced: CHIE-ka

Means "lapwing (bird)" in Polish.

Deering

Usage: English

From the Old English given name Deora meaning "dear, beloved".

Desrosiers

Usage: French

Means "from the rose bushes", from French rosier "rose bush". It probably referred to a person who lived close to, or cared for a rose garden.

Love

Usage: English

Pronounced: LUV

From the Old English given name Lufu meaning "love".

Marlow

Usage: English

Pronounced: MAHR-lo

Originally a name for a person from Marlow in Buckinghamshire, England. The place name means "remnants of a lake" from Old English mere "lake" and lafe "remnants, remains". A notable bearer was the English playwright and poet Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593).

Morgenstern

Usage: German, Jewish

Ornamental name meaning "morning star" in German.

Serafim

Usage: Portuguese

Derived from the Latin given name Seraphinus.

Serafin

Usage: Polish, Italian

Pronounced: seh-RA-feen(Polish)

Derived from the given name Serafin or Serafino.

Shirazi

Usage: Persian

Other Scripts: شیرازی(Persian)

Originally denoted someone who came from the city of Shiraz, located in southern Iran. The city's name is possibly of Elamite origin.