Amparo's Personal Name List

Modern Persian form of Zarathustra.

From the Arabic letters ي (called ya) and س (called sin). These letters begin the 36th chapter of the Quran (surah Ya Sin).

Hebrew feminine form of Jordan.

Means "mountainside, slope" in Turkish.

Hebrew form of Jair, as well as a Spanish variant.

Arabic form of Yoḥanan (see John) appearing in the Quran, as well as the Turkish and Persian form. This name honours John the Baptist, a prophet in Islam.

Variant or feminine form of Yahya.

Derived from the Slavic elements vojĭ "warrior, soldier" and utěxa "solace, comfort, joy". Saint Wojciech (also known by the Czech form of his name Vojtěch or his adopted name Adalbert) was a Bohemian missionary to Hungary, Poland and Prussia, where he was martyred in the 10th century.

Diminutive of Virtudes.

From Old Norse Verðandi meaning "becoming, happening". Verdandi was one of the three Norns, or goddesses of destiny, in Norse mythology. She was responsible for the present.

Derived from Georgian ვაჟი (vazhi) meaning "son".

Diminutive of Vasiliy.

Diminutive of Vasiliki.

Slovene form of Basil 1.

Diminutive of Vasil and perhaps in some cases also of Gervasi.

Probably of Persian origin, possibly a superlative form of 𐎺𐎢 (vahu) meaning "good". According to the Old Testament this was the name of the first wife of King Ahasuerus of Persia before he married Esther.

Feminine form of Vasanta.

From Sanskrit वर्ष (varṣa) meaning "rain".

From the name of a mountain in Gipuzkoa and Bizkaia. The origin of the name is uncertain: it could derive from urki "birch" or, more unlikely, from urkamendi "gallows".

Means "flourishing, living long" in Arabic, related to Arabic عمر (ʿumr) meaning "life". Umar was a companion and strong supporter of the Prophet Muhammad who became the second caliph of the Muslims. He is considered to be one of the great founders of the Muslim state. The name was also borne by a 12th-century poet from Persia, Umar Khayyam.

Basque form of Zephyrinus.

Variant of Tzuf.

Means "shell" in Hebrew, making it relative to the Arabic name Sadaf.

means "Sundew" in hebrew.

French form of Theresa. It was borne by the French nun Saint Thérèse of Lisieux (1873-1897), who is regarded as a Doctor of the Church.

Short form of Thandiwe.

Means "fight, strive" in Kurdish.

Directly taken from Hungarian tavasz "springtime".

Derived from Hebrew טַל (ṭal) meaning "dew".

Means "crown" in Arabic.

Variant of Thaís.

Means "(she) will light up" in Hebrew, making it relative to Yair.

Means "leaf" in Hungarian.

From the Indian name of the fourth brightest star in the night sky, called Arcturus in the western world.

Feminine form of Stylianos.

Russian diminutive of Sophia. This is the name of a character in Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace (1869, English translation 1886).

Means "virtuous, good karma, fortunate" in Tibetan.

French form of the Late Latin name Sollemnia, which was derived from Latin sollemnis "religious". This was the name of a French shepherdess who became a saint after she was killed by her master.

Alternate transcription of Arabic سفيان (see Sufyan) chiefly used in North Africa.

Variant of Skaði.

Kurdish form of Shirin.

Derived from Sanskrit श्याम (śyāma) meaning "dark, black, blue". This is a transcription of both the masculine form श्याम (another name of the Hindu god Krishna) and the feminine form श्यामा (another name of the goddess Kali).

From the name of a city in southern Iran.

Combination of the name Shir 1, meaning "song". And the word עַם (am), meaning "people" or "nation". Means "song of the nation" or "folk song" in Hebrew.

From Sanskrit शान्ती (śāntī) meaning "quiet, peace, tranquility".

Means "dew" in Persian and Urdu.

The river poured into the bay of Iskenderun by splitting the Adana oven.

Form of Said used in parts of French-influenced West Africa.

Means "support" in Kazakh.

Diminutive of Aleksandr.

Latvian form of Charlotte.

Means "my princess" in Hebrew, a possessive form of שָׂרָה (sara) meaning "lady, princess, noblewoman". In the Old Testament, this was Sarah's name before God changed it (see Genesis 17:15).

It means lover, beloved,sweatheart

From an Aramaic name that was related to the Hebrew word שָׁלוֹם (shalom) meaning "peace". According to the historian Josephus this was the name of the daughter of Herodias (the consort of Herod Antipas, the tetrarch of Galilee). In the New Testament, though a specific name is not given, it was a daughter of Herodias who danced for Herod and was rewarded with the head of John the Baptist, and thus Salome and the dancer have traditionally been equated.

As a Christian given name, Salome has been in occasional use since the Protestant Reformation. This was due to a second person of this name in the New Testament: one of the women who witnessed the crucifixion and later discovered that Jesus' tomb was empty. It is used in Georgia due to the 4th-century Salome of Ujarma, who is considered a saint in the Georgian Church.

Alternate transcription of Sa'id chiefly used in Northern Africa.

Means "seashell, mother-of-pearl" in Arabic.

Means "orchid" in Hebrew.

Means "soft breeze" in Persian.

Possibly derived from Persian روز (rūz) meaning "day". This name was borne by a 13th-century ruling queen of Georgia.

Means "fortunate, prosperous" in Persian, from روز (rūz) meaning "day" and به (beh) meaning "good, excellent".

Means "Blepharis" in Hebrew, this is a genus of plant in family Acanthaceae. It contains around 126 species found in seasonally dry to arid habitats from Africa over Arabia to Southeast Asia.

Variant of Rimmon. Biblical place name (Joshua 19:13).

Means "white antelope" in Arabic.

Armenian form of Reyhan.

Persian, Indonesian and Bengali form of Rida.

Means "kings" in Spanish. It is taken from the title of the Virgin Mary, La Virgen de los Reyes, meaning "The Virgin of the Kings". According to legend, the Virgin Mary appeared to King Ferdinand III of Castile and told him his armies would defeat those of the Moors in Seville.

Urdu form of Rida.

Chechen and Urdu form of Ramadan.

Means "archer, marksman" in Arabic. This is the Arabic name for the constellation Sagittarius.

A name with Avestic root Pouruyô, meaning "first; foremost; most ancient." The name Pouria is commonly associated with 13-14th century CE Iranian philosopher and pahlevan martial artist Pouria-ye-Vali.

Bulgarian and Macedonian form of Pascal.

Feminine form of Pascal.

Diminutive of Parvati. This is the name of the female lead in Saratchandra Chattopadhyay's novel 'Devdas' (1917).

Means "fairy" in Persian.

Meaning "new city of Pardis" and often translated to "new city of Paradise."

Means "orchard" in Hebrew.

Modern Greek transcription of Paraskeve.

Alternate transcription of Arabic وداد (see Widad) chiefly used in Northern Africa.

Means "light" in Arabic. In Islamic tradition النور (al-Nūr) is one of the 99 names of Allah.

Means "the view" in Hebrew. It may also be a short form of Nofar.

Possibly from Zapotec nadxiie lii meaning "I love you" or nayele' meaning "open".

Diminutive of Nasir and Naseer.

Uzbek and Kyrgyz form of Narges.

Bengali, Urdu and Tajik form of Narges.

Diminutive of Narine.

From Sanskrit नन्द (nanda) meaning "joy".

Means "joy" in Sanskrit. This is a transcription of both the masculine form नन्द and the feminine form नन्दा (spelled with a long final vowel).

In Hindu texts this is the name of the foster father of Krishna, as well as various other characters. In Buddhist texts this is the name of both a half-brother and half-sister of Buddha. Nanda was also a 4th-century BC king who founded a dynasty in Magadha in India.

In southern India this name is more common among males, while in the north it is typically feminine, with the form Nand being masculine.

Means "varicoloured, embroidered" in Armenian.

Russian and Bulgarian diminutive of Nadezhda. It is also an alternate transcription of Ukrainian Надія (see Nadiya).

Spanish and European Portuguese form of Monica.

Means "prince" from Persian میرزا (mīrzā), earlier امیرزاده (amīrzādeh), which is ultimately from Arabic أمير (ʾamīr) meaning "commander" combined with Persian زاده (zādeh) meaning "offspring".

Occitan (Mistralian) form of Mireille.

Means "mercies" (that is, the plural of mercy), from the Spanish title of the Virgin Mary, Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes, meaning "Our Lady of Mercies". It is ultimately from the Latin word merces meaning "wages, reward", which in Vulgar Latin acquired the meaning "favour, pity" [1].

Arabic form of Miryam (see Mary) appearing in the Quran. It is also the form used in several other languages. In Iran it is also the name of a flower, the tuberose, which is named after the Virgin Mary.

Means "waterfall" in Hebrew.

Derived from malla meaning "blonde, fair-haired" and mirza meaning "scribe, scholar".

Means "water" in Arabic, a dialectal variant of ماء (māʾ) [1].

Means "light source, bright star, morning star" in Spanish, a derivative of luz "light". Occasionally it is used as a diminutive of the name Luz. It is most common in Mexico and Colombia.

From the name of a French town. It became a popular center of pilgrimage after a young girl from the town had visions of the Virgin Mary in a nearby grotto.

From the name of a town in Italy, originally called Lauretum in Latin, meaning "laurel grove". Supposedly in the 13th century the house of the Virgin Mary was miraculously carried by angels from Nazareth to the town. In Spain it is a feminine name, from the Marian title Nuestra Señora de Loreto, while in Italy it is mostly masculine.

Derived from Greek λέων (leon) meaning "lion". During the Christian era this Greek name was merged with the Latin cognate Leo, with the result that the two forms are used somewhat interchangeably across European languages. In England during the Middle Ages this was a common name among Jews. A famous bearer was the communist revolutionary Leon Trotsky (1879-1940), whose name is Лев in Russian.

Derived from Pashto lal meaning "ruby" and zar meaning "gold".

Means "darling, favourite, cherished" in Hindi.

Feminine form of Kyriakos.

From Arabic كلثوم (kulṯūm) meaning "elephant" or "full-bodied, full-cheeked, with ruddy cheeks". Though it is solely feminine in Chechen, its origin (Kulthum) is considered a masculine name in the Arab world.

Form of Constantine in several languages.

Short form of Kisanna.

From the Persian title خواجه (khājeh) meaning "master, owner". It is more commonly a title than a given name.

Means "happiness" in Hindi, ultimately from Persian خوشی (khūshī).

Derived from Middle Persian xirs meaning "bear", of which the modern Persian equivalent is خرس (xers).

From Sino-Vietnamese 慶 (khánh) meaning "congratulate, celebrate".

Means "radiant beauty" in Kurdish.

Urdu and Kazakh form of Kawthar. It is a unisex name in Urdu, but solely feminine in Kazakh.

Belarusian form of Katherine.

From the name of a holy city in India, famous for its many temples dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva. Its name is derived from Sanskrit काशि (kāśi) meaning "shining".

Variant of Charisma.

Elaborated form of Karin.

Feminine form of Karim.

Variant form of Kanî.

From Sanskrit कनक (kanaka) meaning "gold".

Hungarian form of Calypso.

Form of Judith used in several languages.

Means "garden" or "paradise" in Arabic, ultimately from the root جنّ (janna) meaning "to cover, to hide".

Feminine form of Jayanta. This is this name of a daughter of the Hindu god Indra and a wife of Shukra.

Alternate transcription of Persian ژاله (see Zhaleh).

Means "world" in Persian. This name was borne by Shah Jahan, a 17th-century Mughal emperor who is best known as the builder of the Taj Mahal.

Means "ruler of the world" from Sanskrit जगत् (jagat) meaning "world" and ईश (īśa) meaning "ruler, lord". This is another name of the Hindu god Vishnu or his avatar Krishna.

Italian form of Iseult.

Modern Greek form of Irene.

Hud was a prophet of ancient Arabia mentioned in the Qur’an.

Possibly means "group of camels" in Arabic. Hind bint Abi Umayyah, also known as Umm Salama, was one of the wives of the Prophet Muhammad. This is also the Arabic name for the country of India.

Derived from the name of the "Harghita Mountains" (Hargita in Hungarian) in Romania.

Alternate transcription of Greek Χαρα (see Chara).

Means "lion" in Arabic, a derivative of حمز (ḥamuza) meaning "strong, sturdy". This was the name of an uncle of the Prophet Muhammad who was killed in battle.

Means "wise" in Arabic, from the root حكم (ḥakama) meaning "to pass judgement, to decide". In Islamic tradition الحكيم (al-Ḥakīm) is one of the 99 names of Allah.

Turkish and Albanian form of Hafiza.

Feminine form of Hafiz.

Means "preserver, guardian, keeper" in Arabic, a derivative of حفظ (ḥafiẓa) meaning "to preserve, to protect". This transcription represents two related yet distinct Arabic names: حافظ, in which the first vowel is long, and حفيظ, in which the second vowel is long. In Islamic tradition الحفيظ (al-Ḥafīẓ) is one of the 99 names of Allah.

Means "leader, guide" in Arabic, from the root هدى (hadā) meaning "to lead the right way, to guide".

From the surname of Maria Goretti, a 20th-century Italian saint who forgave her murderer on her deathbed. Her surname was derived from the given name Gregorio.

From Sanskrit गीत (gīta) meaning "song". The word appears in the name of the Bhagavad Gita, a sacred text of Hinduism (meaning "divine song").

From Sanskrit गङ्गा (Gaṅgā), the name of the Ganges River, derived from गम् (gam) meaning "to go". In Hindu tradition this is a personification of the river, typically depicted as a fair-skinned goddess riding a sea creature. As a given name, it is used by males as well.

Modern Greek feminine form of Galen.

Modern Greek form of Photine.

From the name of a town in Portugal, which was derived from the Arabic feminine name Fatima, apparently after a Moorish princess who converted to Christianity during the Reconquista. The town became an important Christian pilgrimage center after 1917 when three local children reported witnessing repeated apparitions of the Virgin Mary.

Derived from Arabic فطم (faṭama) meaning "to abstain, to wean" [1]. Fatima was a daughter of the Prophet Muhammad and the wife of Ali, the fourth caliph. She is regarded as the exemplary Muslim woman, especially among Shias.

Cognate of Epiphany, meaning "manifestation".

Means "daughter of Drupada" in Sanskrit. In the Hindu epic the Mahabharata this is the name of the daughter of King Drupada of Panchala. She married all of the Pandavas, the five sons of Pandu.

Hungarian variant form of Dolores.

Means "sorrows", taken from the Spanish title of the Virgin Mary Nuestra Señora de los Dolores, meaning "Our Lady of Sorrows". It has been used in the English-speaking world since the 19th century, becoming especially popular in America during the 1920s and 30s.

Kurdish form of Deioces.

Polish form of Dionysios (see Dionysius).

Derived from Persian دل (del) meaning "heart, mind" and ناز (nāz) meaning "delight, comfort".

From Persian دلاور‎ (delâvar) meaning "brave, courageous", derived from دل (del) meaning "heart" and آور (âvar) meaning "bringing, giving".

Modern form of Dhruva.

Means "of the angels", taken from the French title of the Virgin Mary Notre Dame des Anges, meaning "Our Lady of the Angels". It is most often found in French-speaking African countries.

Icelandic and Hungarian form of Debora.

Medieval short form of Durante. The most notable bearer of this name was Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), the Italian poet who wrote the Divine Comedy.

Variant of Denali.

Modern Greek transcription of Danaë.

Feminine short form of Danuta, Danisława, Bohdana and Danijela or Daniella and masculine short form of Danijel.

Means "subduing" in Sanskrit. In the Hindu epic the Mahabharata this is the name of a beautiful princess, the wife of Nala.

Means "conceived" in Italian, referring to the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary.

French form of Cleopatra.

French masculine and feminine form of Claudius. In France the masculine name has been common since the Middle Ages due to the 7th-century Saint Claude of Besançon. It was imported to Britain in the 16th century by the aristocratic Hamilton family, who had French connections. A famous bearer of this name was the French impressionist painter Claude Monet (1840-1926).

French form of Christina, as well as a variant in other languages. It was used by the French author Gaston Leroux for the heroine, Christine Daaé, in his novel The Phantom of the Opera (1910).

This was a popular name in the 20th century (especially the middle decades) in French, German, and English-speaking countries. In the United States Christina has been more common since 1973, though both forms are currently floundering on the charts.

French, Spanish and Portuguese form of Caesar. A famous bearer was the American labour organizer César Chávez (1927-1993).

Somali form of Ali 1.

Means "full moons" in Arabic (a plural form of Badr).

From a Spanish surname, used as a given name in honour of the Jesuit priest Saint Francis Borja (1510-1572). The surname, also spelled Borgia, is derived from the name of a Spanish town, ultimately from Arabic برْج (burj) meaning "tower".

Spanish borrowing of Bilqis. Bearers of this name include the late Cuban artist Belkis Ayón (1967-1999) and Cuban-American writer Belkis Cuza Malé (1942-).

Means "sour cherry" in Kurdish.

Possibly an Afrikaans variant of Beata. It is the name of Namibian fashion model Behati Prinsloo (b. 1989).

Kurdish version of Banu.

Derived from Turkish ay meaning "moon" and taç meaning "crown" (of Persian origin).

Short form of Asunción.

Means "protector" in Arabic, from the root عصم (ʿaṣama) meaning "to protect".

Modern form of Ashoka.

Possibly a variant of Asaf.

Turkish form of Asif.

Meaning uncertain, possibly from Old Persian meaning "message of truth" [1]. This is the name of a holy book in Manichaeism, written by Mani. It is also the name of a character in the 10th-century Persian epic the Shahnameh.

From an old Indo-Iranian root meaning "Aryan, noble". In India, this is a transcription of both the masculine form आर्य and the feminine form आर्या. In Iran it is only a masculine name.

Middle Persian form of Old Persian Artaxšaça (see Artaxerxes). This was the name of a 3rd-century king of Persia who defeated the Parthians and founded the Sasanian Empire. He also reestablished Zoroastrianism as the state religion.

Possibly means "marker, stake" in Turkish.

Alternate transcription of Hindi/Marathi आरती (see Aarti).

Altai form of Afanasiy.

Means "sweet" in Armenian. This was the name of an 1890 novel by the Armenia writer Hovhannes Tumanyan. It was adapted into an opera in 1912 by Armen Tigranian.

Variation of Anouk.

Alternate transcription of Armenian Անուշ (see Anush).

Alternate transcription of Anwar chiefly used in Northern Africa.

Hungarian diminutive of Anna.

Means "angels", taken from the Spanish title of the Virgin Mary Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles, meaning "Our Lady the Queen of the Angels".

Means "nightingale" in Arabic and Persian.

Possibly originally a diminutive of Ana.

From Akan ananse meaning "spider". In West African and Caribbean folklore, this is the name of a trickster who frequently takes the form of a spider.

Possibly from the Guarani name for the cockspur coral tree (species Erythrina crista-galli). In a Guarani legend this is the name of a young woman burned at the stake by the conquistadors, after which she is transformed into the flowering tree.

Means "life" in Arabic, from عمر (ʿamara) meaning "to live long, to thrive". The final و is generally not pronounced in this name.

Means "protection, shelter, refuge" in Spanish. It is taken from the title of the Virgin Mary, Nuestra Señora del Amparo, meaning "Our Lady of Refuge".

Means "friend" in Hebrew.

Derived from Arabic أمين (ʾamīn) meaning "truthful". This was the name of the sixth Abbasid caliph.

Contracted form of Amaliko, which is a diminutive of Amalia.

Form of Ahmad used in West Africa.

Form of Ahmad used in parts of French-influenced West Africa.

Slovene, Croatian and Serbian form of Alyosha. In Slovene it can also be a feminine name.

Means "lofty, sublime" in Arabic, from the root علا (ʿalā) meaning "to be high". Ali ibn Abi Talib was a cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad and the fourth caliph to rule the Muslim world. His followers were the original Shia Muslims, who regard him as the first rightful caliph.

This name is borne by the hero in Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, the tale of a man who finds the treasure trove of a band of thieves. Another famous bearer was the boxer Muhammad Ali (1942-2016), who changed his name from Cassius Clay upon his conversion to Islam.

Russian form of Joachim.

Pakistani form of Akbar.

Means "greater, greatest" in Arabic, a derivative of كبير (kabīr) meaning "great, big". This was the name of a 16th-century Mughal ruler who expanded the empire to include most of India.

Means "God's gift" in Hindi.

Modern Greek form of Aphrodite.

Variant of Afanasiy.