InanaKaya's Personal Name List

Willow
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: WIL-o
Rating: 67% based on 49 votes
From the name of the tree, which is ultimately derived from Old English welig.
Valkyrie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Various (Rare)
Pronounced: VAL-ki-ree(English)
Rating: 34% based on 43 votes
Means "chooser of the slain", derived from Old Norse valr "the slain" and kyrja "chooser". In Norse myth the Valkyries were maidens who led heroes killed in battle to Valhalla.
Sunday
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SUN-day
Rating: 35% based on 43 votes
From the name of the day of the week, which ultimately derives from Old English sunnandæg, which was composed of the elements sunne "sun" and dæg "day". This name is most common in Nigeria and other parts of Africa.
Sorrel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: SAWR-əl
Rating: 26% based on 13 votes
From the name of the sour tasting plant, derived from Old French sur "sour", a word of Frankish origin.
Sapphire
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: SAF-ie-ər
Rating: 38% based on 41 votes
From the name of the gemstone, typically blue, which is the traditional birthstone of September. It is derived from Greek σάπφειρος (sappheiros), ultimately from the Hebrew word סַפִּיר (sappir).
Radley
Usage: English
Pronounced: RAD-lee
Rating: 24% based on 41 votes
From rēadlēah meaning "red clearing". Radley is a village and civil parish in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England.
Peach
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern), Popular Culture
Pronounced: peech
Rating: 31% based on 14 votes
Derived from the name of the fruit, which itself derived its name from Late Latin persica, which came from older Latin malum persicum meaning "Persian fruit." In popular culture, this is the name of the Nintendo video game character Princess Peach, whom Mario often rescues from the evil Bowser.
Onyx
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AHN-iks
Rating: 40% based on 17 votes
From the English word for the gemstone (a variety of chalcedony), which can be black, red or other colours. It is derived from Greek ὄνυξ (onyx) meaning "claw, nail".
Magic
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (American, Rare)
Rating: 20% based on 14 votes
From the English word magic meaning "the power of apparently influencing the course of events by using mysterious or supernatural forces".
Ivory
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: African American
Pronounced: IE-və-ree(English) IEV-ree(English)
Rating: 32% based on 41 votes
From the English word for the hard, creamy-white substance that comes from elephant tusks and was formerly used to produce piano keys.
Fern
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: FURN
Rating: 47% based on 43 votes
From the English word for the plant, ultimately from Old English fearn. It has been used as a given name since the late 19th century.
Damiana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: da-MYA-na
Rating: 26% based on 39 votes
Italian feminine form of Damian.
Calypso
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Καλυψώ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: kə-LIP-so(English)
Rating: 52% based on 13 votes
From Greek Καλυψώ (Kalypso), which probably meant "she that conceals", derived from καλύπτω (kalypto) meaning "to cover, to conceal". In Greek myth this was the name of the nymph who fell in love with Odysseus after he was shipwrecked on her island of Ogygia. When he refused to stay with her she detained him for seven years until Zeus ordered her to release him.
Bronwyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Rating: 48% based on 40 votes
Variant of Bronwen used in the English-speaking world (especially Australia and New Zealand).
Brona
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish (Anglicized), English
Pronounced: BRO-nə, BRO-nah
Rating: 38% based on 12 votes
Anglicized form of Brónach.
Azara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Persian
Rating: 42% based on 12 votes
Allegedly a variant of Azar.
Azalea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: ə-ZAY-lee-ə
Rating: 55% based on 46 votes
From the name of the flower (shrubs of the genus Rhododendron), ultimately derived from Greek ἀζαλέος (azaleos) meaning "dry".
Aruna
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hinduism, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi
Other Scripts: अरुण, अरुणा(Sanskrit) అరుణ(Telugu) அருணா(Tamil) ಅರುಣ(Kannada) അരുണ(Malayalam) अरुणा(Hindi)
Rating: 31% based on 16 votes
Means "reddish brown, dawn" in Sanskrit. The Hindu god Aruna (अरुण) is the charioteer who drives the sun god Surya across the sky. The modern feminine form अरुणा (spelled with a final long vowel) is also transcribed as Aruna, however the modern masculine form is Arun.
Amora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Rating: 41% based on 15 votes
Apparently a modern coinage based on Latin amor meaning "love".
Alora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Rating: 53% based on 17 votes
Variant of Elora.
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