Israella's Personal Name List
Wrenna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (Rare)
Pronounced: REN-ə
Elaborated form of
Wren. It coincides with Old English
wrenna meaning "(male) wren".
Wanda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Polish, English, German, French
Pronounced: VAN-da(Polish, German) WAHN-də(English) WAHN-DA(French)
Possibly from a Germanic name meaning "a Wend", referring to the Slavic people who inhabited eastern Germany. In Polish legends this was the name of the daughter of King Krak, the legendary founder of Krakow. It was introduced to the English-speaking world by the author Ouida, who used it for the heroine in her novel Wanda (1883).
Vivia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare), Late Roman
Thea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, English
Pronounced: TEH-a(German) THEE-ə(English)
Tessa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Dutch
Pronounced: TEHS-ə(English)
Tesharna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Yiddish
Other Scripts: טשארנא(Yiddish)
Temperance
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: TEHM-prəns, TEHM-pər-əns
From the English word meaning
"moderation" or
"restraint". This was one of the virtue names adopted by the
Puritans in the 17th century. It experienced a modest revival in the United States during the run of the television series
Bones (2005-2017), in which the main character bears this name.
Sybille
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, French
Pronounced: zee-BI-lə(German) SEE-BEEL(French)
German and French form of
Sibyl.
Shlomtzion
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: שְׁלוֹמְצִיּוֹן(Hebrew)
Pronounced: shlom-tzee-yon
Personal remark: nn Shalom/Shlomit
Means "peace of
Zion" in Hebrew. Queen
Salome Alexandra of Judaea (141-67 BCE) is known as Shlomtzion in Hebrew. It is borne by journalist Shlomzion Kenan, daughter of the late Israeli writer Amos Kenan.
Sheba
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (South, Archaic)
Shalom
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: שָׁלוֹם(Hebrew)
Pronounced: sha-LOM
Personal remark: I like it for both Genders for (f): Shalom Majesty
Means "peace" in Hebrew.
Seraphina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), German (Rare), Late Roman
Pronounced: sehr-ə-FEEN-ə(English) zeh-ra-FEE-na(German)
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.
Selma 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic
Pronounced: SEHL-mə(English) ZEHL-ma(German)
Meaning unknown, possibly a short form of
Anselma. It could also have been inspired by James Macpherson's 18th-century poems, in which it is the name of Ossian's castle.
Sapphira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: Σαπφείρη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: sə-FIE-rə(English)
From the Greek name
Σαπφείρη (Sappheire), which was from Greek
σάπφειρος (sappheiros) meaning
"sapphire" or
"lapis lazuli" (ultimately derived from the Hebrew word
סַפִּיר (sappir)). Sapphira is a character in Acts in the
New Testament who is killed by God for lying.
Salome
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), German (Rare), Georgian, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Other Scripts: სალომე(Georgian) Σαλώμη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: sə-LO-mee(English)
From an Aramaic name that was related to the Hebrew word
שָׁלוֹם (shalom) meaning
"peace". According to the historian Josephus this was the name of the daughter of
Herodias (the consort of Herod Antipas, the tetrarch of Galilee). In the
New Testament, though a specific name is not given, it was a daughter of Herodias who danced for Herod and was rewarded with the head of
John the Baptist, and thus Salome and the dancer have traditionally been equated.
As a Christian given name, Salome has been in occasional use since the Protestant Reformation. This was due to a second person of this name in the New Testament: one of the women who witnessed the crucifixion and later discovered that Jesus' tomb was empty. It is used in Georgia due to the 4th-century Salome of Ujarma, who is considered a saint in the Georgian Church.
Sabbath
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Puritan, Rare), Literature
Pronounced: sah-BATH(English (Puritan)) SAH-bith(English (Puritan))
From the word "sabbath," referring to the day of rest (Saturday).
Roza 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian, Bulgarian, Macedonian
Other Scripts: Роза(Russian, Bulgarian, Macedonian)
Pronounced: RO-zə(Russian)
Personal remark: Germania Roza
Means
"rose" in Russian, Bulgarian and Macedonian. It is a
cognate of
Rosa 1.
Rowen
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: RO-ən
Rowan
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Irish, English (Modern)
Pronounced: RO-ən(English)
Anglicized form of the Irish name
Ruadhán. As an English name, it can also be derived from the surname Rowan, itself derived from the Irish given name. It could also be given in reference to the rowan tree, a word of Old Norse origin (coincidentally sharing the same Indo-European root meaning "red" with the Irish name).
Romilly
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (British, Rare)
From an English surname that was derived from the name of various Norman towns, themselves from the given name
Romilius.
Rodelinde
Gender: Feminine
Usage: History (Germanized)
German form of
Rodelind. Rodelinde (6th-century), was a Lombard queen by marriage to king
Audoin, and mother of king
Alboin.
Retha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Afrikaans, English
Prudence
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English, French
Pronounced: PROO-dəns(English) PRUY-DAHNS(French)
Medieval English form of
Prudentia, the feminine form of
Prudentius. In France it is both the feminine form and a rare masculine form. In England it was used during the Middle Ages and was revived in the 17th century by the
Puritans, in part from the English word
prudence, ultimately of the same source.
Pleasance
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Archaic)
Pronounced: PLEHZ-əns
From the medieval name Plaisance, which meant "pleasant" in Old French.
Paloma
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: pa-LO-ma
Means "dove, pigeon" in Spanish.
Palestina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Obscure
Pacifica
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman, Medieval Italian
Odessa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Various
From the name of a Ukrainian city that sits on the north coast of the Black Sea, which was named after the ancient Greek city of
Ὀδησσός (Odessos), of uncertain meaning. This name can also be used as a feminine form of
Odysseus.
Odelina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Germanic, Medieval French (Latinized), Medieval English
Nymphodora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Νυμφοδώρα(Ancient Greek)
Feminine form of
Nymphodoros. This was the name of a 4th-century
saint who was martyred with her sisters Menodora and Metrodora.
Nouria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic (Maghrebi)
Other Scripts: نورية(Maghrebi Arabic)
Derived from Arabic نُور (nūr) meaning "light, glow, illumination" (chiefly Algerian).
Nesta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: NEHS-ta
Neonilla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Greek [1], Russian (Rare)
Other Scripts: Νεόνιλλα(Ancient Greek) Неонилла(Russian)
From a Greek name derived from
νέος (neos) meaning
"new". This was the name of an Orthodox Christian
saint, a 3rd-century Syrian woman martyred during the persecutions of the Roman emperor Decius.
Narcisse
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: NAR-SEES
French masculine and feminine form of
Narcissus. This is also the French word for the narcissus flower.
Naomi 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Hebrew, Biblical
Other Scripts: נָעֳמִי(Hebrew)
Pronounced: nay-O-mee(English) nie-O-mee(English)
From the Hebrew name
נָעֳמִי (Na'omi) meaning
"pleasantness". In the
Old Testament this is the name of the mother-in-law of
Ruth. After the death of her husband and sons, she returned to Bethlehem with Ruth. There she declared that her name should be
Mara because of her misfortune (see
Ruth 1:20).
Though long common as a Jewish name, Naomi was not typically used as an English Christian name until after the Protestant Reformation. A notable bearer is the British model Naomi Campbell (1970-).
Naemi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Finland Swedish, German, Norwegian (Rare), Danish (Rare)
Pronounced: nah-EH-mee(Swedish, Finland Swedish, German)
A German and Nordic variant of
Naomi 1. This name was used in the German translation of The Bible.
Modesty
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: MAHD-ə-stee
From the English word modesty, ultimately from Latin modestus "moderate", a derivative of modus "measure".
Modeste
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: MAW-DEST
French masculine and feminine form of
Modestus.
Mia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, German, Italian, Slovene, Croatian, English
Pronounced: MEE-ah(Swedish, Norwegian, Danish) MEE-a(Dutch, German, Italian) MEE-ə(English)
Personal remark: As a pet form of Miriam
Diminutive of
Maria. It coincides with the Italian word
mia meaning
"mine".
This name was common in Sweden and Denmark in the 1970s [1]. It rose in popularity in the English-speaking world in the 1990s, entering the top ten for girls in the United States in 2009. It was also popular in many other countries at that time. Famous bearers include American actress Mia Farrow (1945-) and American soccer player Mia Hamm (1972-), birth names María and Mariel respectively.
Mae
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MAY
Variant of
May. A famous bearer was the American actress Mae West (1893-1980), whose birth name was Mary.
Lydwine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Belgian, Rare), French, Flemish (Rare), Dutch (Rare), History (Ecclesiastical)
Luitgard
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German
From the Old German name
Leutgard, which was derived from the elements
liut "people" and
gart "enclosure, yard". It was borne by
Charlemagne's fifth and last wife. This was also the name of a 13th-century Flemish nun, the patron
saint of easy deliveries.
Liebe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Yiddish
Pronounced: LEE-bə
Variant of
Leeba (via its variant forms
Liba and
Libe).
(Liebe coincides with the modern German word for "love".)
Leonie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Dutch
Pronounced: LEH-o-nee(German) leh-o-NEE(Dutch)
German and Dutch feminine form of
Leonius.
Leni
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German
Pronounced: LEH-nee
Laudine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arthurian Cycle
Possibly a derivative of
Lot 2 (or derived from the same place name). It was used by the 12th-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes for a character in his romance
Yvain, the Knight of the Lion. Also called the Lady of the Fountain, Laudine married
Yvain after he killed her husband.
Itta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Jewish, Yiddish
Pronounced: ee-tah
Ashkenazic pet form of
Yehudit. Also variant spelling of
Ita.
Iskra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Bulgarian, Macedonian, Croatian
Other Scripts: Искра(Bulgarian, Macedonian)
Pronounced: EES-kru(Bulgarian) EES-kra(Macedonian, Croatian)
Means "spark" in South Slavic.
Invidia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Roman Mythology
Pronounced: een-WEE-dee-a(Latin)
Means
"envy" in Latin. This was the Roman goddess of vengeance, equivalent to the Greek goddess
Nemesis.
Ilsegard
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Rare, Archaic)
Pronounced: IL-zə-gard
Personal remark: "Ilse"
Hyacinthe
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: YA-SEHNT
Hephzibah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: חֶפְצִי־בָּה(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: HEHF-zi-bə(English) HEHP-zi-bə(English)
Personal remark: Eidel Hephzibah
Henna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Judeo-Anglo-Norman
Personal remark: I like it as a variant of Hanna or another spelling Henne (yiddish) הענע
Henna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English
Personal remark: Female form of Heinrich
Feminization of
Henn, a medieval diminutive of
Henry.
Hemma
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Rare, Archaic)
Pronounced: HEM-a
Variant of
Emma or
Helma.
Hemma von Gurk was a saint who lived from 990 to 1045 in Austria.
Heinriette
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (East Prussian)
Personal remark: It's a female form of Heinrich and I can see it 100/100
Hadassah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical, Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew
Other Scripts: הֲדַסָּה(Hebrew)
Gwendoline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh, English (British), French
Pronounced: GWEHN-də-lin(British English) GWEHN-DAW-LEEN(French)
Gladys
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh, English, French, Spanish
Pronounced: GLAD-is(English) GLA-DEES(French)
From the Old Welsh name
Gwladus, probably derived from
gwlad meaning
"country". Alternatively, it may have been adopted as a Welsh form of
Claudia.
Saint Gwladus or Gwladys was the mother of Saint
Cadoc. She was one of the daughters of
Brychan Brycheiniog. This name became popular outside of Wales after it was used in Ouida's novel
Puck (1870).
Germania
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Bessarabian), English (Rare)
Gerda 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Dutch
Pronounced: GEHR-da(German) GHEHR-da(Dutch)
Genesis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: JEHN-ə-sis
Means
"birth, origin" in Greek. This is the name of the first book of the
Old Testament in the Bible. It tells of the creation of the world, the expulsion of
Adam and
Eve,
Noah and the great flood, and the three patriarchs.
Frances
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: FRAN-sis
Feminine form of
Francis. The distinction between
Francis as a masculine name and
Frances as a feminine name did not arise until the 17th century
[1]. A notable bearer was
Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini (1850-1917), a social worker and the first American to be canonized.
Fiamma
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: FYAM-ma
Means "flame" in Italian.
Esther
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, French, Spanish, Dutch, German, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Jewish, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Other Scripts: אֶסְתֵר(Hebrew) Ἐσθήρ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: EHS-tər(English, Dutch) EHS-TEHR(French) ehs-TEHR(Spanish) EHS-tu(German)
Possibly means
"star" in Persian. Alternatively it could be a derivative of the name of the Near Eastern goddess
Ishtar. The Book of Esther in the
Old Testament tells the story of Queen Esther, the Jewish wife of the king of Persia. The king's advisor
Haman persuaded the king to exterminate all the Jews in the realm. Warned of this plot by her cousin
Mordecai, Esther revealed her Jewish ancestry and convinced the king to execute Haman instead. Her original Hebrew name was
Hadassah.
This name has been used in the English-speaking world since the Protestant Reformation. In America it received a boost in popularity after the birth of Esther Cleveland (1893-1980), the daughter of President Grover Cleveland [1].
Elsabeth
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Personal remark: nn Elsa
Elsa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Finnish, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, English
Pronounced: EHL-za(German) EHL-sah(Finnish) EHL-sa(Italian, Spanish) EHL-sə(English)
Short form of
Elisabeth, typically used independently. Elsa von Brabant is the lover of
Lohengrin in medieval German tales, and her story was expanded by Richard Wagner for his opera
Lohengrin (1850). The name had a little spike in popularity after the 2013 release of the animated Disney movie
Frozen, which featured a magical princess by this name.
Elodie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Eleni
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Ελένη(Greek)
Pronounced: eh-LEH-nee
Personal remark: Eleni Rosa
Modern Greek form of
Helen.
Eisa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norse Mythology
Means "glowing embers" in Old Norse. In Norse mythology this was the name of the daughter of
Logi and
Glut.
Edna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Hebrew, Biblical
Other Scripts: עֶדְנָה(Hebrew)
Pronounced: EHD-nə(English)
Means
"pleasure" in Hebrew. This name appears in the
Old Testament Apocrypha, for instance in the Book of Tobit belonging to the wife of
Raguel. It was borne by the American poet Edna Dean Proctor (1829-1923). It did not become popular until the second half of the 19th century, after it was used for the heroine in the successful 1866 novel
St. Elmo by Augusta Jane Evans
[1]. It peaked around the turn of the century and has declined steadily since then, falling off the American top 1000 list in 1992.
Eartha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: UR-thə
Combination of the English word earth with the feminine name suffix a. It has been used in honour of African-American philanthropist Eartha M. M. White (1876-1974). Another famous bearer was American singer and actress Eartha Kitt (1927-2008).
Dulce
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: DOOL-theh(European Spanish) DOOL-seh(Latin American Spanish)
Means "sweet" or "candy" in Spanish.
Douce
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Rare), French (Belgian, Rare), Judeo-French
Pronounced: DOOS(French, Belgian French) doos(Judeo-French)
Derived from French
douce, the feminine form of the adjective
doux "sweet; soft; mild, gentle" (ultimately from Latin
dulcis "sweet" via Old French
dous "soft; tender"), this name is a cognate of
Dulcie.
Doralice
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature, Theatre, Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian)
Pronounced: doh-rah-LEE-cheh(Italian)
Name used by the poets Boiardo and Ariosto in their
Orlando poems (1495 and 1532), where it belongs to a Saracen princess. Boiardo perhaps intended it to mean "gift of the dawn" from Greek δῶρον
(doron) "gift" and λύκη
(lyke) "dawn", or he may have formed it from a contraction of
Dora and
Alice.
Dolce
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Judeo-Italian
Derived from Italian
dolce "sweet" (compare
Dulcie).
Docia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Archaic)
Dinah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Hebrew, English
Other Scripts: דִּינָה(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: DIE-nə(English) DEE-nə(English)
Deva
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Slavic, Medieval Russian, Serbian (Rare)
Other Scripts: де́ва, дѣва(Church Slavic, Russian, Serbian)
Means "maiden, girl, lass", derived from the Proto-Slavic děva, itself from the Proto-Indo-European dʰeh₁ "to suck, suckle".
Dessa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Obscure
Désirée
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, Dutch, German
Pronounced: DEH-ZEE-REH(French)
French form of
Desiderata. In part it is directly from the French word meaning "desired, wished".
Desiree
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: dehz-i-RAY
English form of
Désirée. It was popularized in the English-speaking world by the movie
Désirée (1954).
Desiderata
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman
Demi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek, English (Modern)
Other Scripts: Δήμη, Ντίμι, Ντίμη(Greek)
Pronounced: də-MEE(English) DEHM-ee(English)
Alternate transcription of Greek
Δήμη or
Ντίμι or
Ντίμη (see
Dimi), as well as a short form of
Demetria. A famous bearer is American actress Demi Moore (1962-), and it is because of her that the name rose in popularity in the United States in the late 1980s. Though some sources claim Moore's birth name is Demetria, the actress herself has said she was born as Demi and named after a makeup product. The name received a further boost after 2008 with the release of the debut album by the singer Demi Lovato (1992-), who pronounces the name differently than the older actress. Lovato's birth name is Demetria.
Delta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DEHL-tə
From the name of the fourth letter in the Greek alphabet,
Δ. It is also the name for an island formed at the mouth of a river.
Darcy
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DAHR-see
From an English surname that was derived from Norman French d'Arcy, originally denoting one who came from the town of Arcy in La Manche, France. This is the surname of a character, Fitzwilliam Darcy, in Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice (1813).
Damaris
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Other Scripts: Δάμαρις(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: DAM-ə-ris(English)
Probably means
"calf, heifer, girl" from Greek
δάμαλις (damalis). In the
New Testament this is the name of a woman converted to Christianity by
Saint Paul.
Claudia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: KLAW-dee-ə(English) KLOW-dya(German, Italian, Romanian) KLOW-dee-a(Dutch, Latin) KLOW-dhya(Spanish)
Feminine form of
Claudius. It is mentioned briefly in the
New Testament. As a Christian name it was very rare until the 16th century.
Classie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (South, Archaic)
Personal remark: nn for Clarissa
Clairdelune
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Filipino (Rare)
Pronounced: CLĒR-DĒH-LOON
Means "moonlight" in french, this name is common but also rare in the island country of the Philippines.
Chaya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: חַיָה(Hebrew)
Pronounced: KHA-ya
Derived from Hebrew
חָיָה (chayah) meaning
"living", considered a feminine form of
Chaim.
Cameron
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KAM-rən
From a Scottish surname meaning
"crooked nose" from Gaelic
cam "crooked" and
sròn "nose". As a given name it is mainly used for boys. It got a little bump in popularity for girls in the second half of the 1990s, likely because of the fame of actress Cameron Diaz (1972-). In the United States, the forms
Camryn and
Kamryn are now more popular than
Cameron for girls.
Bluma
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Yiddish
Other Scripts: בלומאַ(Yiddish)
Pronounced: BLOO-mah
From Yiddish
בלום (blum) meaning
"flower".
Blossom
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BLAH-səm
From the English word blossom, ultimately from Old English blóstm. It came into use as a rare given name in the 19th century.
Bloom
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
From the English word bloom, ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- ("to thrive, flower, bloom").
Bellatrix
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Astronomy
Pronounced: bə-LAY-triks(English) BEHL-ə-triks(English)
Means "female warrior" in Latin. This is the name of the star that marks the left shoulder of the constellation Orion.
Belladonna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Various
Pronounced: behl-ə-DAHN-ə(English)
From Italian bella "beautiful, fair" and donna "lady". This is the name of a toxic plant, also called deadly nightshade (species Atropa belladonna).
Beila
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Judeo-French, Yiddish
Pronounced: bie-lah, bay-lah
Personal remark: A variant of Beyla
Yiddish and Judeo-French equivalent of
Bella.
Bathsheba
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: בַּת־שֶׁבַע(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: bath-SHEE-bə(English)
Means
"daughter of the oath" in Hebrew. According to the
Old Testament, this was the name of a woman married to
Uriah the Hittite. She became pregnant by King
David, so he arranged to have her husband killed in battle and then married her. She was the mother of
Solomon.
Autumn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AW-təm
From the name of the season, ultimately from Latin autumnus. This name has been in general use since the 1960s.
Athens
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (American)
From Greek
Athenai (plural because the city had several distinct parts), traditionally derived from
Athena, but probably assimilated from a lost name in a pre-Hellenic language.
Athaliah
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: עֲתַלְיָה(Ancient Hebrew)
Possibly means
"Yahweh is exalted" in Hebrew. In the
Old Testament this is both a feminine and masculine name. It was borne by the daughter of
Ahab and
Jezebel, who later came to rule Judah as a queen.
Atarah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical, Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew
Other Scripts: עֲטָרָה(Hebrew)
Pronounced: AT-ə-rə(English)
Means
"crown" in Hebrew. In the
Old Testament Atarah is a minor character, the wife of Jerahmeel.
Anah
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Hebrew
Other Scripts: עֲנָה(Ancient Hebrew)
Personal remark: The name of my biblical oc Anah Ben-Amon
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Means
"answer" in Hebrew. In the
Old Testament this name belongs to one female character and two male characters.
Ampelia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Polish (Rare)
Pronounced: ahm-PEL-yah
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Amerie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval English, English (Rare)
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Late medieval variant of
Ameria. It was revived in the 1800s.
Its modern-day usage might in part be inspired by the masculine name
Amery.
Amelia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Medieval French
Pronounced: ə-MEE-lee-ə(English) ə-MEEL-yə(English) a-MEH-lya(Spanish, Italian, Polish)
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Variant of
Amalia, though it is sometimes confused with
Emilia, which has a different origin. The name became popular in England after the German House of Hanover came to the British throne in the 18th century — it was borne by daughters of both George II and George III. The author Henry Fielding used it for the title character in his novel
Amelia (1751). Another famous bearer was Amelia Earhart (1897-1937), the first woman to make a solo flight over the Atlantic Ocean.
This name experienced a rise in popularity at the end of the 20th century. It was the most popular name for girls in England and Wales from 2011 to 2015.
Amaris
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American)
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Amance
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: French (Rare)
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French feminine and masculine form of
Amantius.
Altilde
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Frankish
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From
Altildis, a Latinized form of a Germanic name derived from the elements
alt meaning "old" and
hilt meaning "battle", making it a cognate of Old English
Ealdhild.
Althea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἀλθαία(Ancient Greek)
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From the Greek name
Ἀλθαία (Althaia), perhaps related to Greek
ἄλθος (althos) meaning
"healing". In Greek
myth she was the mother of Meleager. Soon after her son was born she was told that he would die as soon as a piece of wood that was burning on her fire was fully consumed. She immediately extinguished the piece of wood and sealed it in a chest, but in a fit of rage many years later she took it out and set it alight, thereby killing her son.
Alma 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: עַלְמָה(Hebrew)
Personal remark: as a Hebrew name עלמה "young lady"
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Means "young woman" in Hebrew.
Adelphia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman, English
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Adara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אַדָרָה(Hebrew)
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Means "noble" in Hebrew.
Adah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Hebrew
Other Scripts: עָדָה(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: AY-də(English)
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Means
"adornment, ornament" in Hebrew. This was the name of the wives of both
Lamech and
Esau in the
Old Testament.
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