HoneyPot's Personal Name List

Adaela
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (Rare, Archaic)
Rating: 55% based on 12 votes
Variant of Adela.
Adella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: ə-DEHL-ə
Rating: 55% based on 10 votes
Variant of Adela.
Avalon
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: AV-ə-lahn
Rating: 82% based on 18 votes
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.
Cleo
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KLEE-o
Rating: 80% based on 7 votes
Short form of Cleopatra, Cleon or Cleopas.
Demeter 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Δημήτηρ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: DEH-MEH-TEHR(Classical Greek) də-MEET-ər(English)
Rating: 73% based on 14 votes
Possibly means "earth mother", derived from Greek δᾶ (da) meaning "earth" and μήτηρ (meter) meaning "mother". In Greek mythology Demeter was the goddess of agriculture, the daughter of Cronus, the sister of Zeus, and the mother of Persephone. She was an important figure in the Eleusinian Mysteries, which were secret rites performed at Eleusis near Athens.
Havana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: hə-VAN-ə
Rating: 48% based on 8 votes
From the name of the capital city of Cuba (see Havana). The 2017 song Havana by Cuban-American singer Camila Cabello caused this name to gain some popularity, along with its similarity in sound to Savannah.
Ivy
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: IE-vee
Rating: 48% based on 12 votes
From the English word for the climbing plant that has small yellow flowers. It is ultimately derived from Old English ifig.
Kinsley
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: KINZ-lee
Rating: 53% based on 15 votes
From a surname that was derived from an English place name, itself meaning "clearing belonging to Cyne". The Old English given name Cyne is a short form of longer names beginning with cyne meaning "royal".

As an American name for girls, Kinsley was very rare before 1990. It has steadily grown in popularity since then, perhaps inspired by similar-sounding names such as Kinsey and Ainsley (both of which it has surpassed).

Kyle
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KIEL
Rating: 48% based on 13 votes
From a Scottish surname that was derived from various place names, themselves from Gaelic caol meaning "narrows, channel, strait". As a given name it was rare in the first half of the 20th century. It rose steadily in popularity throughout the English-speaking world, entering the top 50 in most places by the 1990s. It has since declined in all regions.
Preston
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: PREHS-tən
Rating: 58% based on 12 votes
From an English surname that was originally derived from a place name meaning "priest town" (Old English preost and tun).
Raquel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese, English
Pronounced: ra-KEHL(Spanish) ru-KEHL(European Portuguese) ha-KEW(Brazilian Portuguese) rə-KEHL(English)
Rating: 57% based on 14 votes
Spanish and Portuguese form of Rachel.
Sashenka
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Сашенька(Russian)
Pronounced: SA-shin-kə
Rating: 70% based on 8 votes
Diminutive of Sasha.
Sébastienne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: SEH-BAS-TYEHN
Rating: 49% based on 8 votes
French feminine form of Sebastianus (see Sebastian).
Sigrid
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, German, Estonian, Finnish (Archaic)
Pronounced: SEE-grid(Swedish) SEEG-reed(Finnish)
Rating: 76% based on 10 votes
From the Old Norse name Sigríðr, which was derived from the elements sigr "victory" and fríðr "beautiful, beloved".
Thalia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized), Greek
Other Scripts: Θάλεια(Greek)
Pronounced: THAY-lee-ə(English) thə-LIE-ə(English)
Rating: 64% based on 13 votes
From the Greek name Θάλεια (Thaleia), derived from θάλλω (thallo) meaning "to blossom". In Greek mythology she was one of the nine Muses, presiding over comedy and pastoral poetry. This was also the name of one of the three Graces or Χάριτες (Charites).
Tonya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Russian
Other Scripts: Тоня(Russian)
Pronounced: TAHN-yə(English)
Rating: 26% based on 5 votes
English diminutive of Antonia or a Russian diminutive of Antonina. In the English-speaking world its use has likely been positively influenced by the name Tanya.
Vera 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian, English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, Slovene, Serbian, Croatian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Belarusian, Georgian
Other Scripts: Вера(Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Belarusian) ვერა(Georgian)
Pronounced: VYEH-rə(Russian) VEE-rə(English) VEHR-ə(English) VEH-ra(German, Dutch) VEH-rah(Swedish) BEH-ra(Spanish) VEH-raw(Hungarian)
Rating: 81% based on 8 votes
Means "faith" in Russian, though it is sometimes associated with the Latin word verus "true". It has been in general use in the English-speaking world since the late 19th century.
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