Felie's Personal Name List

Ettore

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Italian

Pronounced: EHT-to-reh

Italian form of Hector.

Ester

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, Italian, Czech, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Finnish, Estonian, Hebrew

Other Scripts: אֶסְתֵר(Hebrew)

Pronounced: ehs-TEHR(Spanish) əs-TEHR(Catalan) EHS-tehr(Czech, Finnish)

Form of Esther used in several languages.

Esmeralda

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Spanish, Portuguese, English, Albanian, Literature

Pronounced: ehz-meh-RAL-da(Spanish) izh-mi-RAL-du(European Portuguese) ehz-meh-ROW-du(Brazilian Portuguese) ehz-mə-RAHL-də(English)

Means "emerald" in Spanish and Portuguese. Victor Hugo used this name in his novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831), in which Esmeralda is the Romani girl who is loved by Quasimodo. It has occasionally been used in the English-speaking world since that time.

Erica

Gender: Feminine

Usage: English, Swedish, Italian

Pronounced: EHR-i-kə(English)

Feminine form of Eric. It was first used in the 18th century. It also coincides with the Latin word for "heather".

Era

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Albanian

Derived from Albanian erë meaning "wind".

Ëmbla

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Albanian

Means "sweet, pleasant" in Albanian.

Elsa

Gender: Feminine

Usage: German, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Finnish, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, English

Pronounced: EHL-za(German) EHL-sah(Finnish) EHL-sa(Italian, Spanish) EHL-sə(English)

Short form of Elisabeth, typically used independently. In medieval German tales Elsa von Brabant was the lover of the hero Lohengrin. Her story was expanded by Richard Wagner for his opera Lohengrin (1850). The name had a little spike in popularity after the 2013 release of the animated Disney movie Frozen, which featured a magical princess by this name.

Eliseo

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Italian, Spanish

Pronounced: eh-lee-ZEH-o(Italian) eh-lee-SEH-o(Spanish)

Italian and Spanish form of Elisha.

Elia

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Italian, Albanian, Spanish

Feminine form of Elio.

Elettra

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Italian

Pronounced: eh-LEHT-tra

Italian form of Electra.