inthenameofthemoon's Personal Name List

Diminutive of Alejandra. It might also be the feminine form of Alejo.

Means "altar of the sky" from Latin ara "altar" and coeli "sky". This is an epithet of the Virgin Mary in her role as the patron saint of Lucena, Spain.

Meaning unknown. This name was (first?) used by William Congreve in his comedy The Old Bachelor (1693) and later by John Vanbrugh in his comedy The Confederacy (1705). This was the original given name of abolitionist Harriet Tubman (1820-1913), who was born Araminta Ross.

Old Norse byname meaning "eagle".

Meaning unknown, possibly related either to Greek ἀρτεμής (artemes) meaning "safe" or ἄρταμος (artamos) meaning "a butcher". Artemis was the Greek goddess of the moon and hunting, the twin of Apollo and the daughter of Zeus and Leto. She was known as Diana to the Romans.

Either a French form of Koralia, or a derivative of Latin corallium "coral" (see Coral).

From the English word cypress, a group of coniferous trees. Ultimately from Greek kuparissos.

Feminine form of Elior.

Either from the English word fox or the surname Fox, which originally given as a nickname. The surname was borne by George Fox (1624-1691), the founder of the Quakers.

From the Greek word γαῖα (gaia), a parallel form of γῆ (ge) meaning "earth". In Greek mythology Gaia was the mother goddess who presided over the earth. She was the mate of Uranus and the mother of the Titans and the Cyclopes.

Variant of Gray.

From the English word indigo for the purplish-blue dye or the colour. It is ultimately derived from Greek Ἰνδικόν (Indikon) meaning "Indic, from India".

Possibly from the Scandinavian name Kaia, or simply an invented name based on the sounds found in other names such as Maya.

Feminine form of Kenneth.

From 聖 (kiyo) "holy, sacred" or 清 (kiyo) "pure, clean" and 美 (mi) "beautiful".

Kiyomi is also a Japanese citrus fruit, a hybrid of Miyagawa Wase mikan and a Citrus sinensis orange created in 1949.

Means "warrior, koa tree" in Hawaiian.

Koi means "Love, Affection, Yearn For" similarly to Ai 1, but it mostly refers to "Romantic, Passionate" love, rather than compassionate love. This is rarely used at all, my source is in the notes.

From a Scottish surname that was derived from the name of a district in Scotland. The district, called Leamhnachd in Gaelic, possibly means "place of elms". This name steadily rose in popularity in the 2000s, at the same time as the similar-sounding (but unrelated) names Lennon and Knox.

Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of Lucianus.

Diminutive of María del Carmen.

Combination of María and Teresa.

Diminutive of María and Alejandra. Actress Maleja Restrepo

Diminutive of María Victoria, María Virtudes or María Virginia. Known bearer Mariví Bilbao (1930-2013), a Spanish television actress, was born María Victoria.

From an English surname that was taken from a place name meaning either "pleasant wood", "boundary wood" or "marten wood" in Old English. A famous bearer of the surname was the Jamaican musician Bob Marley (1945-1981).

Means "a drink of water" in Arabic or a variant of Nala.

Modern Hebrew form of Noah 2, the daughter of Zelophehad in the Bible. It is also the form used in several other languages, as well as the spelling used in some English versions of the Old Testament.

Derived from Latin novus meaning "new". It was first used as a name in the 19th century.

Simply from the English word rain, derived from Old English regn.

Means "river" in Spanish or Portuguese. A city in Brazil bears this name. Its full name is Rio de Janeiro, which means "river of January", so named because the first explorers came to the harbour in January and mistakenly thought it was a river mouth.

From the English word that denotes a flowing body of water. The word is ultimately derived (via Old French) from Latin ripa "riverbank".

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

From the Old German element sahso meaning "a Saxon". The Saxons were a Germanic tribe, their name ultimately deriving from the Germanic word *sahsą meaning "knife". Saskia van Uylenburgh (1612-1642) was the wife of the Dutch painter Rembrandt.

From an Old Testament place name possibly meaning "tranquil" in Hebrew. It is also used prophetically in the Old Testament to refer to a person, often understood to be the Messiah (see Genesis 49:10). This may in fact be a mistranslation.

This name was brought to public attention after actors Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt gave it to their daughter in 2006.

Simply from the English word sky, which was ultimately derived from Old Norse ský "cloud".

Means "sun" in Spanish or Portuguese.

From the name of the bird, ultimately from Old English spearwa.

From the vocabulary word, ultimately from Old English or Old Dutch storm, or in the case of the Scandinavian name, from Old Norse stormr.

This name can be used as 大 (tai, dai, oo-, -oo.ini, oo.kii) meaning "big, large", 泰 (tai) meaning "calm, easy, peace, peaceful, Thailand," 太 (ta, tai, futo.i, futo.ru) meaning "big around, plump, thick", 耐 (tai, ta.eru) meaning "enduring" or 諦 (tai, tei, akira.meru, tsumabiraka, makoto) meaning "abandon, give up."
Rare examples of Tai with 2 kanji for females include 泰衣, 泰維, 泰依, 多衣 and 多以 with 衣 (i, e, kinu, -gi, koromo) meaning "clothes, dressing, garment", 維 (i) meaning "fibre, rope, tie", 依 (i, e, yo.ru) meaning "consequently, depend on, due to, reliant, therefore" and 以 (i, mo'.te) meaning "because, by means of, compared with, in view of."

Tai, when used as either 大 or 泰, can be used for both genders.

In the Edo Period (1603-1868), it was used as an uncommon to very uncommon feminine name.

One bearer of this name was film director and screenwriter Tai Katō (加藤 泰) (1916-1985).

Diminutive of Matilda.