salamandered's Personal Name List

Ancient Greek form of Zeno, as well as the modern Polish form.

Means "life of Zeus", derived from Greek Ζηνός (Zenos) meaning "of Zeus" and βίος (bios) meaning "life". This was the name of the queen of the Palmyrene Empire, which broke away from Rome in the 3rd-century and began expanding into Roman territory. She was eventually defeated by the emperor Aurelian. Her Greek name was used as an approximation of her native Aramaic name.

Derived from the Greek adjective σῶς (sos) meaning "safe, whole, unwounded" (see Sosigenes) combined with the Greek noun βίος (bios) meaning "life".

From Egyptian šꜢbꜢkꜢ, of Kushite origin. This was the name of a Kushite pharaoh of the 25th Dynasty of Egypt (c.721 BCE - c.707 BCE). The Kingdom of Kush was an ancient African kingdom in what is now the Republic of Sudan.

From Egyptian z-n-wsrt meaning "man of Wosret", derived from z "man" combined with n(j) "of, belonging to" and the name of the goddess Wosret. This was the name of four Egyptian pharaohs and a vizier.

The name of a mayor of Thebes during the reign of Amenhotep II in the 18th Dynasty. His tomb is known as the “Tomb of the Vineyards” due to its decoration.

Ancient Egyptian feminine name meaning "Daughter of the Moon".

Greek form of Ptolemy.

Derived from the Greek adjective ποθεινός (potheinos) meaning "full of longing", which is ultimately derived from either the Greek noun ποθή (pothe) meaning "longing, desire" or the related noun πόθος (pothos) meaning "longing, yearning, regret".

Derived from Greek φιλωτέρα (philôtera) meaning "beloved". This was borne by the younger sister of Arsinoe II and Ptolemy II.

Meaning unknown, probably of Pre-Greek origin, but perhaps related to Greek πέρθω (pertho) meaning "to destroy" and φόνος (phonos) meaning "murder". In Greek myth she was the daughter of Demeter and Zeus. She was abducted to the underworld by Hades, but was eventually allowed to return to the surface for part of the year. The result of her comings and goings is the changing of the seasons. With her mother she was worshipped in the Eleusinian Mysteries, which were secret rites practiced at the city of Eleusis near Athens.

Short form of Panteleimon.

From Egyptian pꜣ-nḥsj meaning "the Nubian" (see Phinehas). This was the name of two ancient Egyptian priests and one vizier.

From Egyptian pꜣ-mjw or pꜣ-my meaning "the cat, the tomcat" or "he who belongs to the cat Bastet". It is sometimes incorrectly translated as pꜣ-mꜣj "the lion". This was the birth name of a pharaoh of the 22nd Dynasty.

Variant form of Pedubast.

Greek form of Egyptian nt-jqr.t meaning "Neith is excellent", derived from the name of the goddess Neith combined with jqr "excellent, worthy, reliable" and the suffix tj. This was the name of several prominent ancient Egyptian women, and may have been the nomen of pharaoh Netjerkare.

Ancient Egyptian masculine name meaning "He, who belongs to Heqet".

Derived from Greek μύρρα (myrrha) meaning "myrrh". This is the name of a character in the comedy Lysistrata by the Greek playwright Aristophanes.

Mina, a very old but yet a very modern name, is currently used by Coptic Christian males in Egypt.

Originally derives from the Egyptian Pharaoh King Menes who was a pharaoh of the Early Dynastic Period of Ancient Egypt and believed to be the one to unite Upper and Lower Egypt. Mina or Menes is traditionally known as the founder of the First Dynasty of Ancient Egypt (3200–3000 BC), and the first pharaoh of a unified Egypt.

The name was later adopted by Coptic Christians in its current form Mina or Mena. Most notable name that contributed to its widespread use among Christians in modern day Egypt, is Saint Mina (also known as St. Minas or St. Menas). St. Mina was a Coptic soldier in the Roman army in the 4th Century, martyred because he refused to recant his Christian faith.

Ancient Egyptian masculine name meaning "Beloved of Sekhmet".

From Egyptian mryt meaning "the beloved one", the feminine perfective relative form of mrj "to love, to have affection for, to be fond of" as well as "to want, to wish, to desire".

From Μανεθών (Manethṓn), a Greek form of an Egyptian name which has been lost in time. This was the name of what is believed to be an Egyptian priest from Sebennytos who lived in the Ptolemaic Kingdom in the early 3rd-century BC.

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.

From Egyptian jw.f-ꜥnḫ meaning "he will live" or "may he live", derived from jwj "to come to pass" (compare jj "to come") combined with the masculine suffix .f and ankh "life, to live".

Feminine form of Isidore. This was the name of a 4th-century Egyptian saint and hermitess.

Hellenized form of Demotic jr.t-ḥr-r-r⸗w meaning "the eye of Horus is against them", ultimately derived from the same source as Coptic Nahrōw.

Derived from Greek ὕπατος (hypatos) meaning "highest, supreme". Hypatia of Alexandria was a 5th-century philosopher and mathematician, daughter of the mathematician Theon.

From Egyptian ḥr-wḏꜣ meaning "the healthy Horus" or "Horus is hale", derived from the name of the god Horus combined with wḏꜣ "to be safe, intact, unhurt".

Greek form of Heru (see Horus).

Means "peace of Amun" in Coptic.

Latinized form of Greek Ἕκτωρ (Hektor), which was derived from ἕκτωρ (hektor) meaning "holding fast", ultimately from ἔχω (echo) meaning "to hold, to possess". In Greek legend Hector was one of the Trojan champions who fought against the Greeks. After he killed Achilles' friend Patroclus in battle, he was himself brutally slain by Achilles, who proceeded to tie his dead body to a chariot and drag it about. This name also appears in Arthurian legends where it belongs to King Arthur's foster father.

Hector has occasionally been used as a given name since the Middle Ages, probably because of the noble character of the classical hero. It has been historically common in Scotland, where it was used as an Anglicized form of Eachann.

Persian form of Alexander.

Greek personal name derived from the name of the Greek god Dionysos. Famous bearers include two early tyrants of Syracuse and a 1st-century BC Greek rhetorician.

From the Greek name Κλεοπάτρα (Kleopatra) meaning "glory of the father", derived from κλέος (kleos) meaning "glory" combined with πατήρ (pater) meaning "father" (genitive πατρός). This was the name of queens of Egypt from the Ptolemaic royal family, including Cleopatra VII, the mistress of both Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. After being defeated by Augustus she committed suicide (according to popular belief, by allowing herself to be bitten by a venomous asp). Shakespeare's tragedy Antony and Cleopatra (1606) tells the story of her life.

Ancient Macedonian form of Berenice.

This name is listed in Kolatch's Complete Dictionary of English and Hebrew Names (1984), where it is given an Aramaic origin, meaning "air, atmosphere, spirit." It was the name of a Babylonian Talmudic scholar.

Means "belonging to the goddess Neith" in Ancient Egyptian. In the Old Testament this is the name of Joseph's Egyptian wife. She was the mother of Manasseh and Ephraim.

Variant of Arsinoé.

Means "virile" in Greek. Saint Arsenius was a 5th-century deacon who was tutor to the two sons of the Roman emperor Theodosius. The two sons, Arcadius and Honorius, divided the empire into eastern and western halves upon their father's death.

Feminine form of Apollonios. This was the name of a 3rd-century saint and martyr from Alexandria.

From Egyptian ꜥnḫ-n.s-nfr-jb-rꜥ meaning "Neferibre lives for her", derived from ankh "life" combined with n "to, for, because of; belonging to", .s "she, her, hers", and Neferibre, the throne name of pharaoh Psamtik II. Name borne by a daughter of Pstamtik II who would go on to hold the offices of Divine Adoratrice of Amun and God's Wife of Amun.

Means "he lives for Sekhmet" in Egyptian.

Greek form of an uncertain Persian name, perhaps *Umati which is equivalent to Avestan humaiti meaning "having good thought" (derived from hu "good, well, beautiful" and maiti "thought, opinion", from man "to know, to think"). This was borne by two famous Babylonian women: the wife of King Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon, for whom the Hanging Gardens of Babylon were said to have been built; and the daughter of the Persian king Xerxes I.

Means "mighty father". This was a Phoenician name for the highest deity. It was borne by a legendary Coptic saint who was martyred with his sister Irais (or Iraja, Herais, Rhais).