HoneyPot's Personal Name List

Latinized form of Assela.

Variant of Adela.

Means "noble" in Hebrew.

Italian and Spanish form of Adelphia.

Variant of Adela.

Variant of Adele.

From Hebrew עֲדִינָא ('adina') meaning "delicate". This name is borne by a soldier in the Old Testament. It is also used in modern Hebrew as a feminine name, typically spelled עֲדִינָה.

Variant of Erica.

Latinized form of Aglaia.

Means "beloved" in Hebrew.

Dutch short form of Adelaide.

Feminine form of Alexis.

Scandinavian variant of Annette.

Feminine form of Antonius (see Anthony).

Latinization of Aifric.

Variant of Araceli.

Probably means "silver wheel" from Welsh arian "silver" and rhod "wheel". According to the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi [1], Arianrhod was the mother of the twins Dylan and Lleu Llaw Gyffes, whom she spontaneously birthed when she stepped over a magical wand. It is speculated that in earlier myths she may have been a goddess of the moon.

Hebrew variant of Ariella, Polish feminine form of Ariel, Italian feminine form of Ariele as well as a Croatian and Albanian borrowing of the Italian name.

Variant of Erin or Aaron.

Means "ear of grain" in Latin. This is the name of a star, also known as Spica, in the constellation Virgo.

Perhaps derived from Semitic roots meaning "she who walks in the sea". This was the name of a Semitic mother goddess. She was worshipped by the Israelites before the advent of monotheism.

Modern Hebrew transcription of Athaliah.

Means "crown" in Hebrew. In the Old Testament Atarah is a minor character, the wife of Jerahmeel.

Variant of Athina.

Variant of Atina.

Variant of Audrey.

Variant of Ava 1.

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.

From the Norman French form of the Germanic name Avelina, a diminutive of Avila. The Normans introduced this name to Britain. After the Middle Ages it became rare as an English name, though it persisted in America until the 19th century [1].

Derived from the Old German element awi, of unknown meaning. Rarely, this name may be given in honour of the 16th-century mystic Saint Teresa of Ávila, Ávila being the name of the town in Spain where she was born.

Feminine variant of Aviv.

Alternate transcription of Hebrew אֵלָה (see Ela 3).

Spanish and Portuguese feminine form of Calixtus.

Alternate transcription of Persian ژاله (see Zhaleh).

Variant of Kelly.

Combination of Lou and the popular name suffix ella.

Used by British author Edward Bulwer-Lytton for a blind flower-seller in his novel The Last Days of Pompeii (1834). He perhaps based it on Latin nidus "nest".

From the English word sage, which denotes either a type of spice or else a wise person.

French form of Zipporah.

Greek form of Zipporah.

Anglicized form of Siobhán. In some cases it might be considered a combination of the phonetic element sha and Yvonne.

Means "summer" in Finnish.

Means "dream" in Lithuanian.

Ancient Greek form of Thalia.

Short form of Tatiana or Christiana. It was rare in the United States until it jumped in popularity in 1975, perhaps due to the Vietnamese-American actress Tiana Alexandra (1956-), who had some exposure at that time. It was used as the name of the princess in the Disney movie The Princess and the Frog (2009).

Short form of Katrina.

From the Hebrew name צִפּוֹרָה (Tzipporah), derived from צִפּוֹר (tzippor) meaning "bird". In the Old Testament this is the name of the Midianite wife of Moses. She was the daughter of the priest Jethro.