German Maiden's Personal Name List

Verity
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: VEHR-i-tee
Rating: 46% based on 16 votes
From the English word meaning "verity, truth", from Latin verus "true, real". This was one of the virtue names adopted by the Puritans in the 17th century.
Sydney
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SID-nee
Rating: 48% based on 22 votes
From a surname that was a variant of the surname Sidney. This is the name of the largest city in Australia, which was named for Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney in 1788. Formerly used by both genders, since the 1980s this spelling of the name has been mostly feminine.
Suri
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Yiddish
Other Scripts: שרה(Yiddish)
Rating: 50% based on 22 votes
Yiddish form of Sarah.
Sparrow
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: SPAR-o, SPEHR-o
Rating: 45% based on 21 votes
From the name of the bird, ultimately from Old English spearwa.
Sora
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 空, 昊, etc.(Japanese Kanji) そら(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: SO-RA
Rating: 48% based on 21 votes
From Japanese 空 (sora) or 昊 (sora) both meaning "sky". Other kanji with the same pronunciations can also form this name.
Sid
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SID
Rating: 31% based on 15 votes
Short form of Sidney.
Enosh
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Hebrew [1]
Other Scripts: אֱנוֹשׁ(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: EE-nahsh(English)
Rating: 35% based on 15 votes
Means "man, person, mortal" in Hebrew. He was a son of Seth and a grandson of Adam according to the genealogies in Genesis in the Old Testament.
Enos
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek [1]
Other Scripts: אֱנוֹשׁ(Ancient Hebrew) Ἐνώς(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: EE-nahs(English)
Rating: 35% based on 15 votes
Form of Enosh used in some versions of the Bible (including the King James Version).
Embla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norse Mythology, Icelandic, Swedish, Norwegian
Pronounced: EHM-blah(Icelandic, Swedish, Norwegian)
Rating: 35% based on 14 votes
Meaning uncertain, perhaps related to Old Norse almr "elm". In Norse mythology Embla and her husband Ask were the first humans. They were created by three of the gods from two trees.
Blythe
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: BLIEDH
Rating: 40% based on 17 votes
From a surname meaning "cheerful" in Old English.
Ask
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norse Mythology
Rating: 19% based on 16 votes
Derived from Old Norse askr "ash tree". In Norse mythology Ask and his wife Embla were the first humans created by the gods.
Anita 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese, Croatian, Slovene, English, Dutch, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Polish, Latvian, Hungarian
Pronounced: a-NEE-ta(Spanish, Dutch, German) ə-NEET-ə(English) AH-nee-tah(Finnish) a-NYEE-ta(Polish) AW-nee-taw(Hungarian)
Rating: 33% based on 19 votes
Spanish, Portuguese, Croatian and Slovene diminutive of Ana.
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