MiryamChannah's Personal Name List

Selene

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Greek Mythology

Other Scripts: Σελήνη(Ancient Greek)

Pronounced: SEH-LEH-NEH(Classical Greek) si-LEE-nee(English) si-LEEN(English)

Rating: 66% based on 19 votes

Means "moon" in Greek. This was the name of a Greek goddess of the moon, a Titan. She was sometimes identified with the goddess Artemis.

Nerissa

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Literature

Pronounced: nə-RIS-ə(English)

Personal remark: Nereisa

Rating: 54% based on 18 votes

Created by Shakespeare for a character in his play The Merchant of Venice (1596). He possibly took it from Greek Νηρηΐς (Nereis) meaning "nymph, sea sprite", ultimately derived from the name of the Greek sea god Nereus, who supposedly fathered them.

Mave

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Irish (Rare)

Personal remark: Maeve or Maeva

Rating: 51% based on 16 votes

Variant of Maeve.

Avelina 1

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Germanic [1]

Rating: 77% based on 20 votes

Diminutive of Avila.

Ariadna

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Spanish, Catalan, Russian, Polish

Other Scripts: Ариадна(Russian)

Pronounced: a-RYADH-na(Spanish) ə-RYADH-nə(Catalan) a-RYAD-na(Polish)

Personal remark: Arianna

Rating: 58% based on 18 votes

Spanish, Catalan, Russian and Polish form of Ariadne.