littletoes101's Personal Name List

Zhivka
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Bulgarian, Macedonian
Other Scripts: Живка(Bulgarian, Macedonian)
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Feminine form of Živko.
Yoshino
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 吉野(Japanese Kanji) よしの(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: YO-SHEE-NO
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
From Japanese 吉 (yoshi) meaning "good luck" and 野 (no) meaning "field, wilderness".
Veljko
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Serbian, Croatian
Other Scripts: Вељко(Serbian)
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Diminutive of Veselko.
Sofia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Catalan, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, Finnish, Estonian, Slovak, Romanian, English, Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian
Other Scripts: Σοφία(Greek) София(Russian, Bulgarian) Софія(Ukrainian)
Pronounced: saw-FEE-a(Greek) so-FEE-a(Italian) soo-FEE-u(European Portuguese) so-FEE-u(Brazilian Portuguese) soo-FEE-ə(Catalan) suw-FEE-a(Swedish) zo-FEE-a(German) SO-fee-ah(Finnish) su-FYEE-yə(Russian)
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Form of Sophia used in various languages.
Siward
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic [1]
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Variant of Sigiward.
Neno
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Serbian, Croatian
Other Scripts: Нено(Serbian)
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Diminutive of Nenad.
Micheline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: MEESH-LEEN
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
French feminine diminutive of Michel.
Macek
Usage: Czech
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Derived from a diminutive of the given name Matěj.
Jephthah
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: יִףְתַח(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: JEHF-thə(English)
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Means "he opens" in Hebrew, derived from the root פָּתַח (paṯaḥ) meaning "to open" [1]. In the Old Testament this is the name of a ruling judge. He successfully defended Israel from the Ammonites, but was then obliged to sacrifice his daughter because of a vow he had made.
Iphigeneia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἰφιγένεια(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: EE-PEE-GEH-NEH-A(Classical Greek)
Rating: 15% based on 2 votes
Derived from Greek ἴφιος (iphios) meaning "strong, stout" and γενής (genes) meaning "born". In Greek myth Iphigenia was the daughter of King Agamemnon. When her father offended Artemis it was divined that the only way to appease the goddess was to sacrifice Iphigenia. Just as Agamemnon was about to sacrifice his daughter she was magically transported to the city of Taurus.

In Christian tradition this was also the name of a legendary early saint, the daughter of an Ethiopian king Egippus.

Fiona
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Scottish, English
Pronounced: fee-O-nə(English)
Rating: 70% based on 3 votes
Feminine form of Fionn. This name was (first?) used by the Scottish poet James Macpherson in his poem Fingal (1761), in which it is spelled as Fióna.
Colton
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: KOL-tən
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
From an English surname that was originally derived from a place name meaning "Cola's town". It started being used as a given name in the 1980s. Likely in some cases it was viewed as an elaborated or full form of Cole or Colt.
Burrell
Usage: English
Rating: 3% based on 3 votes
English form of Bureau.
Antuma
Usage: Frisian
Rating: 10% based on 3 votes
Variant of Antema.
Antema
Usage: Frisian
Rating: 7% based on 3 votes
Means "son of Ante 2".
Akilina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian (Rare)
Other Scripts: Акилина(Russian)
Rating: 7% based on 3 votes
Russian form of the Roman name Aquilina, a feminine derivative of Aquila.
Ajello
Usage: Italian
Rating: 7% based on 3 votes
Variant of Aiello.
Aileas
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Scottish Gaelic
Pronounced: A-ləs
Rating: 23% based on 4 votes
Scottish Gaelic form of Alice.
Agathinus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἀγαθῖνος(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 20% based on 4 votes
Latinized form of Greek Ἀγαθῖνος (Agathinos), derived from ἀγαθός (agathos) meaning "good".
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