Behind the Name: Kaleidoscope Queen's Personal Name List

Tinúviel

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Literature

Rating: 42% based on 15 votes

Means "daughter of twilight, nightingale" in the fictional language Sindarin. In the Silmarillion (1977) by J. R. R. Tolkien, Tinuviel was another name of Lúthien, the daughter of Thingol the elf king. She was the beloved of Beren, who with her help retrieved one of the Silmarils from the iron crown of Morgoth.

Tempest

Gender: Feminine

Usage: English (Rare)

Pronounced: TEHM-pist

Rating: 58% based on 17 votes

From the English word meaning "storm". It appears in the title of William Shakespeare's play The Tempest (1611).

Somerled

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Old Norse (Anglicized)

Rating: 41% based on 14 votes

Anglicized form of the Old Norse name Sumarliði meaning "summer traveller". This was the name of a 12th-century Norse-Gaelic king of Mann and the Scottish Isles.

Midas

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Greek Mythology

Other Scripts: Μίδας(Ancient Greek)

Pronounced: MEE-DAS(Classical Greek) MIE-dəs(English)

Rating: 42% based on 14 votes

Meaning unknown. In Greek myth Midas was a king of Phrygia in Asia Minor. He was granted a wish by the god Dionysos — that everything he touch be turned to gold.

Marlowe

Gender: Feminine & Masculine

Usage: English (Modern)

Pronounced: MAHR-lo

Rating: 54% based on 17 votes

From a surname that was derived from a place name meaning "remnants of a lake" in Old English. A famous bearer of the surname was the English playwright Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593).

Andromeda

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Greek Mythology

Other Scripts: Ἀνδρομέδα, Ἀνδρομέδη(Ancient Greek)

Pronounced: AN-DRO-MEH-DA(Classical Greek) an-DRAH-mi-də(English)

Rating: 63% based on 20 votes

Derived from Greek ἀνήρ (aner) meaning "man" (genitive ἀνδρός) combined with one of the related words μέδομαι (medomai) meaning "to be mindful of, to provide for, to think on" or μέδω (medo) meaning "to protect, to rule over". In Greek mythology Andromeda was an Ethiopian princess rescued from sacrifice by the hero Perseus. A constellation in the northern sky is named for her. This is also the name of a nearby galaxy, given because it resides (from our point of view) within the constellation.