NixieAvUlver's Personal Name List

Zita 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Portuguese, German, Czech, Slovak, Lithuanian, Latvian
Pronounced: DZEE-ta(Italian) TSEE-ta(German) ZI-ta(Czech) ZEE-ta(Slovak) zyi-TU(Lithuanian)
Rating: 48% based on 4 votes
Means "little girl" in Tuscan Italian. This was the name of a 13th-century saint, the patron saint of servants.
Suibhne
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish Mythology
Pronounced: SIV-nyə(Irish)
Rating: 28% based on 4 votes
From Old Irish Suibne, possibly derived from subae meaning "joy, pleasure". This was the name of several figures from early Irish history, including a 7th-century high king and an 8th-century saint. It also appears in the Irish legend Buile Suibhne (meaning "The Madness of Suibhne") about a king who goes insane after being cursed by Saint Rónán Finn.
Ruaidhrí
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: RWU-ryee
Rating: 40% based on 4 votes
From Old Irish Ruaidrí meaning "red king", from rúad "red" combined with "king". This was the name of the last high king of Ireland, reigning in the 12th century.
Nuallán
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval Irish
Rating: 45% based on 4 votes
Irish byname derived from nuall meaning "famous, loud" combined with a diminutive suffix.
Maia 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, Roman Mythology, Portuguese, Georgian
Other Scripts: Μαῖα(Ancient Greek) მაია(Georgian)
Pronounced: MIE-A(Classical Greek) MAY-ə(English) MIE-ə(English) MIE-ya(Latin) MAH-EE-AH(Georgian)
Rating: 70% based on 5 votes
From Greek μαῖα (maia) meaning "good mother, dame, foster mother", perhaps in origin a nursery form of μήτηρ (meter). In Greek and Roman mythology she was the eldest of the Pleiades, a group of stars in the constellation Taurus, who were the daughters of Atlas and Pleione. Her son by Zeus was Hermes.
Lóegaire
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish Mythology, Old Irish
Rating: 38% based on 4 votes
Means "calf herder", derived from Old Irish lóeg "calf". In Irish legend Lóegaire Búadach was an Ulster warrior. He saved the life of the poet Áed, but died in the process. This was also the name of several Irish high kings.
Kjerstin
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norwegian, Swedish
Pronounced: SHESH-tin(Swedish)
Rating: 33% based on 4 votes
Norwegian and Swedish form of Christina.
Kennedy
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Irish
Pronounced: KEHN-ə-dee(English)
Rating: 45% based on 4 votes
From an Irish surname, an Anglicized form of Irish Gaelic Ó Cinnéidigh, itself derived from the given name Cennétig. The name has sometimes been given in honour of assassinated American president John F. Kennedy (1917-1963). It was popularized as a name for girls by Lisa Kennedy Montgomery (1972-), known simply as Kennedy, the host of the television program Alternative Nation on MTV from 1992 to 1997.
Idonea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Archaic)
Rating: 40% based on 5 votes
Medieval English name, probably a Latinized form of Iðunn. The spelling may have been influenced by Latin idonea "suitable". It was common in England from the 12th century [1].
Henri
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French, Finnish
Pronounced: AHN-REE(French) HEHN-ree(Finnish)
Rating: 43% based on 4 votes
French form of Heinrich (see Henry). A notable bearer was the French artist Henri Matisse (1869-1954).
Arthfael
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval Welsh
Rating: 30% based on 4 votes
Medieval Welsh form of Armel.
Arseniy
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian, Ukrainian
Other Scripts: Арсений(Russian) Арсеній(Ukrainian)
Pronounced: ur-SYEH-nyee(Russian)
Rating: 8% based on 4 votes
Russian and Ukrainian form of Arsenios.
Ansgar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Norwegian, Swedish, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: ANS-gar(German)
Rating: 6% based on 5 votes
Derived from the Old German elements ansi "god" and ger "spear". Saint Ansgar was a 9th-century Frankish missionary who tried to convert the Danes and Norwegians.
Angelika
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Polish, Hungarian
Pronounced: ang-GEH-lee-ka(German) ang-geh-LEE-ka(Polish) AWNG-geh-lee-kaw(Hungarian)
Rating: 43% based on 6 votes
Form of Angelica in several languages.
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