LeoBeyene's Personal Name List

Feminine form of Adrian.

Feminine form of Andreas (Greek) or Andrey (Bulgarian).

Latinate diminutive of Angela. A famous bearer is American actress Angelina Jolie (1975-).

Combination of Anne 1 and Liese.

Medieval English variant of Honora.

Feminine form of Antoninus.

Italian form of Ariadne.

From Auberi, an Old French form of Alberich brought to England by the Normans. It was common in the Middle Ages, and was revived in the 19th century. Since the mid-1970s it has more frequently been given to girls, due to Bread's 1972 song Aubrey along with its similarity to the established feminine name Audrey.

Feminine form of Augustinus (see Augustine 1).

French feminine form of Aurelius.

Diminutive of Elisabeth (German), Benedetta or Elisabetta (Italian), or Erzsébet (Hungarian).

Short form of Brianna, Gabriella and other names containing bri.

From the name of two types of plants, the true calla (species Calla palustris) and the calla lily (species Calla aethiopica), both having white flowers and growing in marshy areas. Use of the name may also be inspired by Greek κάλλος (kallos) meaning "beauty".

Feminine form of Carlo, Carlos or Carl.

Italian, Spanish and Galician form of Carmel.

French feminine form of Caelinus. This name can also function as a short form of Marceline.

Italian diminutive of Daniela.

Variant of Denise.

Greek form of Electra.

French feminine form of Aemilius (see Emily).

Variant of Gwendolen.

Simply from the English word honey, ultimately from Old English hunig. This was originally a nickname for a sweet person.

Form of Jasmine in several languages.

Italian and French form of Katya, as well as an alternate transcription of the Slavic name.

Form of Christina in several languages. It is also an English variant of Christina and a Bulgarian variant of Hristina.

Means "playful, charming, desirable" in Sanskrit. In Hindu belief this is the name of one of the playmates of the young Krishna. It is also another name of the goddess Parvati.

Variant of Larisa. It has been commonly used as an English given name only since the 20th century, as a borrowing from Russian. In 1991 this name was given to one of the moons of Neptune, in honour of the mythological character.

Diminutive of Laura.

Short form of names ending in lena, such as Helena, Magdalena or Yelena.

Variant of Leila, and the usual Turkish, Azerbaijani and Kurdish form.

Variant of Liana or Leanna.

From the name of a flower, also known as the twinflower. The Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus named it after himself, it being his favourite flower.

From the name of the city of Medina, Arabic المدينة (al-Madinah), which means "the city". The Saudi city is considered an Islamic holy site because the Prophet Muhammad was based there for a period.

From the English word for the tree, derived from Old English mapul. This is the name of a girl in Robert Frost's poem Maple (1923) who wonders about the origin of her unusual name.

Combination of Maria and Anna. It has been confused with the Roman name Mariana to the point that it is no longer easy to separate the two forms. It is sometimes also used as a Latinized form of Mariamne.

Italian diminutive of Maria.

French diminutive of Marie.

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.

Elaboration of Mel, either from names such as Melissa or from Greek μέλι (meli) meaning "honey". A famous bearer was Greek-American actress Melina Mercouri (1920-1994), who was born Maria Amalia Mercouris.

Short form of Wilhelmina and other names ending in mina. This was the name of a character in the novel Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker.

Derived from Latin mirabilis meaning "wonderful". This name was coined during the Middle Ages, though it eventually died out. It was briefly revived in the 19th century.

Short form of Antonia, Sidonia and other names ending in nia.

From the English word opal for the iridescent gemstone, the birthstone of October. The word ultimately derives from Sanskrit उपल (upala) meaning "jewel".

From a Scots surname, originally from the name of a town near Glasgow, maybe ultimately derived from Latin basilica "church". This is also a word (derived from the name of that same town) for a type of pattern commonly found on fabrics.

French form of Rosalind. Saint Roseline of Villeneuve was a 14th-century nun from Provence.

Means "safe", derived from Arabic سلم (salima) meaning "to be safe".

Diminutive of Sara, or sometimes a variant of Serena.

Variant of Savannah.

Feminine form of the Late Latin name Seraphinus, derived from the biblical word seraphim, which was Hebrew in origin and meant "fiery ones". The seraphim were an order of angels, described by Isaiah in the Bible as having six wings each.

This was the name of a 13th-century Italian saint who made clothes for the poor. As an English name, it has never been common.

Elaborated form of Star.

Perhaps a short form of Demetria and other names ending in a similar sound.

Feminine form of Vivianus (see Vivian). Saint Viviana (also known as Bibiana) was a Roman saint and martyr of the 4th century.

From the name of the flowering plant, which was named for the American anatomist Caspar Wistar.

French feminine form of Yves.

Means "life of Zeus", derived from Greek Ζηνός (Zenos) meaning "of Zeus" and βίος (bios) meaning "life". This was the name of the queen of the Palmyrene Empire, which broke away from Rome in the 3rd-century and began expanding into Roman territory. She was eventually defeated by the emperor Aurelian. Her Greek name was used as an approximation of her native Aramaic name.

From the name of the flower, which was itself named for the German botanist Johann Zinn.

Modern Greek transcription of Zenobia.