Behind the Name: RachaelHanna's Personal Name List

Alexa

Gender: Feminine

Usage: English, German, Hungarian

Pronounced: ə-LEHK-sə(English) AW-lehk-saw(Hungarian)

Short form of Alexandra.

Ariadne

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Greek Mythology

Other Scripts: Ἀριάδνη(Ancient Greek)

Pronounced: A-REE-AD-NEH(Classical Greek) ar-ee-AD-nee(English)

Means "most holy", composed of the Greek prefix ἀρι (ari) meaning "most" combined with Cretan Greek ἀδνός (adnos) meaning "holy". In Greek mythology, Ariadne was the daughter of King Minos. She fell in love with Theseus and helped him to escape the Labyrinth and the Minotaur, but was later abandoned by him. Eventually she married the god Dionysus.

Celina

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Polish, Portuguese, German

Pronounced: tseh-LEE-na(Polish)

Personal remark: Rose

Feminine form of Caelinus. This name can also function as a short form of Marcelina.

Ciara 1

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Irish

Pronounced: KEE-rə

Personal remark: KEERa

Feminine form of Ciar. This is another name for Saint Ciar.

Elena

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Slovak, Czech, Lithuanian, Estonian, Finnish, Russian, Greek, German, English

Other Scripts: Елена(Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian) Έλενα(Greek)

Pronounced: EH-leh-na(Italian, Czech, German) eh-LEH-na(Spanish) eh-lyeh-NU(Lithuanian) yi-LYEH-nə(Russian) i-LYEH-nə(Russian) EHL-ə-nə(English) ə-LAY-nə(English)

Personal remark: Nicole

Form of Helen used in various languages, as well as an alternate transcription of Russian Елена (see Yelena).

Freyja

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Icelandic, Norse Mythology

Pronounced: FRAY-ya(Icelandic) FRAY-ə(English)

Icelandic and Old Norse form of Freya.

Hana 3

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Japanese

Other Scripts: 花, 華, etc.(Japanese Kanji) はな(Japanese Hiragana)

Pronounced: HA-NA

Personal remark: (Ev)angeline 花

From Japanese 花 (hana) or 華 (hana) both meaning "flower". Other kanji or kanji combinations can form this name as well.

Jasmine

Gender: Feminine

Usage: English, French

Pronounced: JAZ-min(English) ZHAS-MEEN(French)

Personal remark: Audrey

From the English word for the climbing plant with fragrant flowers that is used for making perfumes. It is derived via Arabic from Persian یاسمین (yasamin), which is also a Persian name. In the United States this name steadily grew in popularity from the 1970s, especially among African Americans [1]. It reached a peak in the early 1990s shortly after the release of the animated Disney movie Aladdin (1992), which featured a princess by this name.

Lacie

Gender: Feminine

Usage: English (Modern)

Pronounced: LAY-see

Personal remark: Ashlynn

Variant of Lacy.

Luna

Gender: Feminine

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

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

Personal remark: Naomi

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.