Behind the Name: apromaco's Personal Name List

Zelda 2

Gender: Feminine

Usage: English

Pronounced: ZEHL-də

Rating: 51% based on 9 votes

Short form of Griselda. This is the name of a princess in the Legend of Zelda video games, debuting in 1986 and called ゼルダ (Zeruda) in Japanese. According to creator Shigeru Miyamoto she was named after the American socialite Zelda Fitzgerald (1900-1948).

Ubul

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Hungarian (Rare)

Pronounced: OO-bool

Personal remark: nn Ubi

Rating: 30% based on 7 votes

Old Hungarian form of Hugbald.

Madrigal

Gender: Feminine & Masculine

Usage: American (Hispanic, Rare)

Pronounced: MAD-ri-gal(Hispanic American)

Rating: 50% based on 10 votes

Transferred from the Spanish surname Madrigal

A madrigal is also a form of Renaissance music that is still popular today.

Keiji

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Japanese

Other Scripts: 佳史, 佳慈, 佳治, 佳二, 佳, 佳久, 馨, 馨時, 馨二, 馨迩, 京, etc.(Japanese Kanji)

Pronounced: KEH-EE-ZHEE

Rating: 47% based on 9 votes

From Japanese 佳 (kei) meaning "beautiful, good" combined with 史 (ji) meaning "history". Other kanji combinations are possible.

Famous bearer are Keiji Inafune, a video game producer and illustrator, Keiji Yoshimura, Japanese footballer who plays for Nagoya Grampus, Keiji Gotoh, a Japanese anime director, character designer, manga artist, and member of three man production team gímik whose works include Kiddy Grade and Uta Kata and Keiji Mutoh, a Japanese professional wrestler who first gained international fame in the National Wrestling Alliance.

Akira

Gender: Masculine & Feminine

Usage: Japanese

Other Scripts: 昭, 明, 亮, 晶, etc.(Japanese Kanji) あきら(Japanese Hiragana)

Pronounced: A-KYEE-RA

Rating: 58% based on 11 votes

From Japanese 昭 (akira) meaning "bright", 明 (akira) meaning "bright" or 亮 (akira) meaning "clear". Other kanji with the same pronunciation can also form this name. A famous bearer was the Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998), given name written 明.