Cinnabar's Personal Name List

Aatami

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Finnish (Rare)

Pronounced: AH-tah-mee

Rating: 60% based on 2 votes

Finnish form of Adam.

Aila

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Finnish

Pronounced: IE-lah

Rating: 100% based on 2 votes

Finnish form of Áile.

Aili

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Finnish, Estonian

Pronounced: IE-lee(Finnish)

Rating: 100% based on 2 votes

Finnish and Estonian form of Áile.

Airi 2

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Finnish

Pronounced: IE-ree

Rating: 100% based on 2 votes

From Finnish airut meaning "messenger, herald", also influenced by place names beginning with the same sound.

Akseli

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Finnish

Pronounced: AHK-seh-lee

Rating: 100% based on 2 votes

Finnish form of Axel.

Aleksanteri

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Finnish

Pronounced: AH-lehk-sahn-teh-ree

Rating: 100% based on 2 votes

Finnish form of Alexander.

Anneli

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Finnish, Estonian, Swedish, German

Pronounced: AHN-neh-lee(Finnish) A-nə-lee(German)

Rating: 100% based on 2 votes

Finnish, Estonian and Swedish form of Annelie, as well as a German variant.

Annika

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Swedish, Dutch, Finnish, Estonian, German, English (Modern)

Pronounced: AN-ni-ka(Swedish) AH-nee-ka(Dutch) AHN-nee-kah(Finnish) A-nee-ka(German) AN-i-kə(English) AHN-i-kə(English)

Rating: 70% based on 1 vote

Swedish diminutive of Anna.

Esteri

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Finnish

Pronounced: EHS-teh-ree

Rating: 100% based on 2 votes

Finnish form of Esther.

Hannele

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Finnish

Pronounced: HAHN-neh-leh

Rating: 80% based on 1 vote

Finnish diminutive of Johanna or Hannah.

Ilari

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Finnish

Pronounced: EE-lah-ree

Rating: 100% based on 1 vote

Finnish form of Hilarius.

Ilmar

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Estonian

Rating: 80% based on 1 vote

Estonian form of Ilmarinen.

Janika

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Estonian, Finnish

Pronounced: YAH-nee-kah(Finnish)

Rating: 60% based on 2 votes

Feminine form of Jaan (Estonian) or Jani (Finnish).

Janne 2

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Danish, Norwegian, Estonian

Rating: 60% based on 2 votes

Danish, Norwegian and Estonian diminutive of Johanne or Johanna.

Jussi

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Finnish

Pronounced: YOOS-see

Rating: 55% based on 2 votes

Finnish form of John.

Jyri

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Finnish

Pronounced: YUY-ree

Rating: 70% based on 2 votes

Finnish form of Jörg.

Kaarel

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Estonian

Rating: 80% based on 1 vote

Estonian form of Charles.

Kadri 1

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Estonian

Pronounced: KAH-dree

Rating: 60% based on 1 vote

Estonian form of Katherine.

Kaia

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Norwegian, Estonian

Rating: 100% based on 1 vote

Diminutive of Katarina or Katariina.

Katrin

Gender: Feminine

Usage: German, Swedish, Estonian

Pronounced: ka-TREEN(German) kah-TREEN(Swedish)

Rating: 80% based on 1 vote

German, Swedish and Estonian short form of Katherine.

Kersti

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Swedish, Estonian

Rating: 20% based on 2 votes

Variant of Kerstin.

Kielo

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Finnish

Pronounced: KEE-lo

Rating: 60% based on 1 vote

Means "lily of the valley" in Finnish (species Convallaria majalis).

Kirsi

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Finnish

Pronounced: KEER-see

Rating: 100% based on 1 vote

Finnish form of Christina, or a short form of Kirsikka. It also means "frost" in Finnish.

Kirsikka

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Finnish

Pronounced: KEER-seek-kah

Rating: 60% based on 1 vote

Means "cherry" in Finnish.

Kyllikki

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Finnish, Finnish Mythology

Pronounced: KUYL-leek-kee(Finnish)

Rating: 20% based on 2 votes

Derived from Finnish kyllä "abundance" or kyllin "enough". This is the name of a character in the Finnish epic the Kalevala.

Maarika

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Estonian, Finnish

Pronounced: MAH-ree-kah(Finnish)

Rating: 100% based on 1 vote

Diminutive of Maarja (Estonian) or Maaria (Finnish).

Matti

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Finnish

Pronounced: MAHT-tee

Rating: 60% based on 2 votes

Finnish form of Matthew.

Merike

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Estonian

Rating: 80% based on 1 vote

From Estonian meri "sea" with a diminutive suffix.

Niko

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Finnish, Croatian, Slovene, Georgian, German

Other Scripts: ნიკო(Georgian)

Pronounced: NEE-ko(Finnish)

Rating: 70% based on 2 votes

Finnish form of Nicholas, as well as a Croatian, Slovene, Georgian and German short form.

Olavi

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Finnish, Estonian

Pronounced: O-lah-vee(Finnish)

Rating: 60% based on 1 vote

Finnish and Estonian form of Olaf.

Paavali

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Finnish (Rare)

Pronounced: PAH-vah-lee

Rating: 60% based on 1 vote

Finnish form of Paul used in the Bible.

Pekka

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Finnish

Pronounced: PEHK-kah

Rating: 70% based on 2 votes

Finnish form of Peter.

Petteri

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Finnish

Pronounced: PEHT-teh-ree

Rating: 70% based on 2 votes

Finnish form of Peter.

Pilvi

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Finnish, Estonian

Pronounced: PEEL-vee(Finnish)

Rating: 60% based on 1 vote

Means "cloud" in Finnish and Estonian.

Piret

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Estonian

Rating: 60% based on 1 vote

Estonian form of Birgitta.

Pyry

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Finnish

Pronounced: PUY-ruy

Rating: 60% based on 1 vote

Means "snowstorm, blizzard" in Finnish.

Sakari

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Finnish

Pronounced: SAH-kah-ree

Rating: 100% based on 1 vote

Finnish form of Zacharias.

Sanna

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Swedish, Finnish

Pronounced: SAHN-nah(Finnish)

Rating: 100% based on 1 vote

Short form of Susanna. It can also be derived from Swedish sann meaning "true".

Seija

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Finnish

Pronounced: SAY-yah

Rating: 45% based on 6 votes

Derived from Finnish seijas meaning "tranquil, serene".

Severi

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Finnish

Pronounced: SEH-veh-ree

Rating: 25% based on 6 votes

Finnish form of Severus.

Sinikka

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Finnish

Pronounced: SEE-neek-kah

Rating: 100% based on 1 vote

Elaborated form of Sini, also meaning "bluebird".

Sirje

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Estonian

Rating: 100% based on 1 vote

Possibly from Estonian sinisirje meaning "blue-feathered", a word associated with a magical bird in the Estonian national epic Kalevipoeg (1857) by Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald. Apparently this name was suggested by the linguist Julius Mägiste in the 1920s. It was subsequently used in the 1945 opera Tasuleegid by Eugen Kapp.

Suvi

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Finnish

Pronounced: SOO-vee

Rating: 100% based on 1 vote

Means "summer" in Finnish.

Taavi

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Estonian, Finnish

Pronounced: TAH-vee(Finnish)

Rating: 65% based on 2 votes

Estonian and Finnish form of David.

Taneli

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Finnish

Pronounced: TAH-neh-lee

Rating: 80% based on 1 vote

Finnish form of Daniel.

Tauno

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Finnish, Estonian

Pronounced: TOW-no(Finnish)

Rating: 70% based on 2 votes

Means "peaceful, modest" in Karelian Finnish.

Teija

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Finnish

Pronounced: TAY-yah

Rating: 80% based on 1 vote

Finnish short form of Dorothea.

Tuija

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Finnish

Pronounced: TOOY-yah

Rating: 70% based on 2 votes

Means "cedar" in Finnish.

Tuuli

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Finnish, Estonian

Pronounced: TOO-lee(Finnish)

Rating: 70% based on 2 votes

Means "wind" in Finnish and Estonian.

Tuulikki

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Finnish, Finnish Mythology

Pronounced: TOO-leek-kee(Finnish)

Rating: 20% based on 2 votes

Means "little wind" in Finnish, derived from tuuli "wind". This was the name of a Finnish forest goddess, the daughter of Tapio.

Veli

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Finnish

Pronounced: VEH-lee

Rating: 80% based on 1 vote

Means "brother" in Finnish.

Virva

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Finnish

Pronounced: VEER-vah

Rating: 75% based on 2 votes

Possibly derived from Finnish virvatuli meaning "will o' the wisp". In folklore, will o' the wisp is a floating ball of light that appears over water.

Virve

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Estonian, Finnish

Pronounced: VEER-veh(Finnish)

Rating: 75% based on 2 votes

From Estonian virves meaning "sprout, shoot" or virve meaning "ripple, shimmer".