Behind the Name: hubofangels's Personal Name List

Viola

Gender: Feminine

Usage: English, Italian, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak

Pronounced: vie-O-lə(English) vi-O-lə(English) VIE-ə-lə(English) VYAW-la(Italian) vi-OO-la(Swedish) VEE-o-la(German) vee-O-la(German) VEE-o-law(Hungarian) VI-o-la(Czech) VEE-aw-la(Slovak)

Rating: 80% based on 1 vote

Means "violet" in Latin. This is the name of the heroine of William Shakespeare's comedy Twelfth Night (1602). In the play she is the survivor of a shipwreck who disguises herself as a man named Cesario. Working as a messenger for Duke Orsino, she attempts to convince Olivia to marry him. Instead Viola falls in love with the duke.

Venera 2

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Italian

Rating: 80% based on 1 vote

Derived from the Latin name Veneranda, from venerandus meaning "venerable, worthy of veneration". This was the name of a 2nd-century saint who was martyred in Rome or Sicily.

Serena

Gender: Feminine

Usage: English, Italian, Late Roman

Pronounced: sə-REEN-ə(English) seh-REH-na(Italian)

Rating: 80% based on 1 vote

From a Late Latin name that was derived from Latin serenus meaning "clear, tranquil, serene". This name was borne by an obscure early saint. Edmund Spenser also used it in his poem The Faerie Queene (1590). A famous bearer from the modern era is tennis player Serena Williams (1981-).

Rosario

Gender: Feminine & Masculine

Usage: Spanish, Italian

Pronounced: ro-SA-ryo(Spanish) ro-ZA-ryo(Italian)

Rating: 60% based on 1 vote

Means "rosary", and is taken from the Spanish title of the Virgin Mary Nuestra Señora del Rosario meaning "Our Lady of the Rosary". This name is feminine in Spanish and masculine in Italian.

Noè

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Italian, Biblical Italian

Pronounced: no-EH(Italian)

Rating: 80% based on 1 vote

Italian form of Noah 1.

Luna

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Roman Mythology, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, English

Pronounced: LOO-na(Latin, Spanish, Italian) LOO-nə(English)

Rating: 100% based on 1 vote

Means "the moon" in Latin (as well as Italian, Spanish and other Romance languages). Luna was the Roman goddess of the moon, frequently depicted driving a white chariot through the sky.

Leone 1

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Italian

Pronounced: leh-O-neh

Rating: 40% based on 1 vote

Italian form of Leo and Leon.

Fiore

Gender: Feminine & Masculine

Usage: Italian

Pronounced: FYO-reh

Rating: 60% based on 1 vote

Means "flower" in Italian. It can also be considered an Italian form of the Latin names Flora and Florus.

Felice

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Italian

Pronounced: feh-LEE-cheh

Rating: 50% based on 1 vote

Italian form of Felix.

Elio

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Italian

Pronounced: EH-lyo

Rating: 90% based on 1 vote

Italian form of Aelius or Helios.

Celino

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Italian (Rare), Spanish (Rare)

Pronounced: cheh-LEE-no(Italian) theh-LEE-no(European Spanish) seh-LEE-no(Latin American Spanish)

Rating: 80% based on 1 vote

Italian and Spanish form of Caelinus or a short form of Marcelino.

Carmine

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Italian

Pronounced: KAR-mee-neh

Rating: 90% based on 1 vote

Italian masculine form of Carmen.

Ave

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Italian, Estonian

Pronounced: A-veh(Italian) AH-veh(Estonian)

Rating: 70% based on 1 vote

Possibly from the name of the prayer Ave Maria, in which Ave is Latin meaning "greetings, salutations". In Estonian it is also associated with the word ava meaning "open".

Aurea

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Late Roman

Rating: 80% based on 2 votes

Late Latin name that was derived from aureus "golden". This was the name of a 3rd-century saint from Ostia (near Rome), as well as an 11th-century Spanish saint.

Augusto

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Spanish, Italian, Portuguese

Pronounced: ow-GHOOS-to(Spanish) ow-GOOS-to(Italian) ow-GOOSH-too(European Portuguese) ow-GOOS-too(Brazilian Portuguese)

Rating: 20% based on 1 vote

Spanish, Italian and Portuguese form of Augustus. This name was borne by the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet (1915-2006).

Angelo

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Italian

Pronounced: AN-jeh-lo

Rating: 40% based on 1 vote

Italian form of Angelus (see Angel).

Anastasio

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Italian, Spanish

Pronounced: a-na-STA-zyo(Italian) a-na-STA-syo(Spanish)

Rating: 50% based on 1 vote

Italian and Spanish form of Anastasius.

Agostino

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Italian

Pronounced: a-go-STEE-no

Rating: 20% based on 1 vote

Italian form of Augustinus (see Augustine 1).