Behind the Name: Namelover2010's Personal Name List

Alessia

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Italian

Pronounced: a-LEHS-sya

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Italian feminine form of Alexius.

Andrea 1

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Italian

Pronounced: an-DREH-a

Rating: 40% based on 1 vote

Italian form of Andreas (see Andrew). A notable bearer of this name was Andrea Verrocchio, a Renaissance sculptor who taught Leonardo da Vinci and Perugino.

Edie

Gender: Feminine

Usage: English

Pronounced: EE-dee

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Diminutive of Edith.

Emilia

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Finnish, Polish, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, English, Greek, Bulgarian

Other Scripts: Αιμιλία(Greek) Емилия(Bulgarian)

Pronounced: eh-MEE-lya(Italian, Spanish, Polish) EH-mee-lee-ah(Finnish) eh-MEE-lee-ah(Swedish) i-MEE-lee-ə(English) eh-mee-LEE-a(Greek)

Rating: 40% based on 1 vote

Feminine form of Aemilius (see Emily). In Shakespeare's tragedy Othello (1603) this is the name of the wife of Iago.

Fyodor

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Russian

Other Scripts: Фёдор(Russian)

Pronounced: FYUY-dər

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Russian form of Theodore. It was borne by three tsars of Russia. Another notable bearer was Fyodor Dostoyevsky (or Dostoevsky; 1821-1881), the Russian author of such works as Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov.