blackelectric's Personal Name List

Zunaira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Urdu, Punjabi
Other Scripts: زنیرہ(Urdu)
Feminine form of Zunair.
Zunair
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Pakistani, Urdu
Other Scripts: زونیر(Urdu)
Means "moonlight, shine of the moon" in Urdu.
Zazil
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Mayan
Means "clear, light, clarity" in Yucatec Maya [1]. Zazil Há was a 16th-century Maya woman who married the Spanish shipwreck survivor Gonzalo Guerrero.
Shahrivar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Persian Mythology
Other Scripts: شهریور(Persian)
Persian form of Avestan 𐬑𐬱𐬀𐬚𐬭𐬀⸱𐬬𐬀𐬌𐬭𐬌𐬌𐬀 (Xshathra Vairiia) meaning "desirable power". In Zoroastrianism this was the name of a god (one of the Amesha Spenta) associated with the creation of metals. The sixth month of the Iranian calendar is named for him.
Seraphia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish (Rare), Late Roman
Variant of Serapia. Saint Seraphia (or Serapia) was a 2nd-century Syrian martyr.
Sébire
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Norman
Norman form of Sibyl.
Remme
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Frisian
Possibly originally a Frisian short form of Germanic names such as Ratamar or Raginmar.
Ramunė
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Lithuanian
Means "chamomile (plant)" in Lithuanian.
Otieno
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Luo
Means "born at night" in Luo.
Noemin
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical Greek
Other Scripts: Νωεμίν(Ancient Greek)
Form of Naomi 1 used in the Greek Old Testament.
Nasrin
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Persian, Bengali
Other Scripts: نسرین(Persian) নাসরীন(Bengali)
Pronounced: nas-REEN(Persian)
Means "wild rose" in Persian.
Naomhán
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish
Means "little saint", derived from Irish naomh "saint" combined with a diminutive suffix.
Margilia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Breton, Breton (Archaic)
Of uncertain origin and meaning. One - debatable - theory connects this name with the Vulgar Latin term margella.
Either way, from the early 1600s onwards, when every given name "had to" be associated with a Catholic saint, up to its disappearance in the late 1700s, Margilia and its variant Margilie were used as quasi-equivalents of Marguerite (due to phonetic similarities to Margarit, one of the Breton variants of this name).
Leutha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Leutha is a female character appearing in the mythology of William Blake. According to S. Foster Damon, A Blake Dictionary, she stands for 'sex under law'.
Khushi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hindi
Other Scripts: खुशी(Hindi)
Means "happiness" in Hindi, ultimately from Persian خوشی (khūshī).
Gwendal
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Breton
Derived from Breton gwenn meaning "white, blessed" and tal meaning "brow, forehead".
Erzulie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Afro-American Mythology, Haitian Creole
This is the Haitian Voodoo love goddess and goddess of elemental forces. She is personified as a water snake. She is also called Ezili.
Erez
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אֶרֶז(Hebrew)
Means "cedar" in Hebrew.
Dana 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Romanian, Czech, Slovak, German, Hebrew
Other Scripts: דָּנָה(Hebrew)
Pronounced: DA-na(Czech, Slovak, German)
Personal remark: DA-na
Feminine form of Daniel or Dan 1.
Conn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish, Irish Mythology, Old Irish [1]
Perhaps from Old Irish conn meaning "sense, reason" or cenn meaning "head, chief". This was the name of a legendary high king of Ireland, Conn of the Hundred Battles.
Conan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish
Means "little wolf" or "little hound" from Irish "wolf, hound" combined with a diminutive suffix. This was the name of several early saints, including a 7th-century bishop of the Isle of Man. It appears in Irish legend as a companion Fionn mac Cumhaill. A famous bearer of it as a middle name was Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), the author of the Sherlock Holmes mystery stories. It is also the name of the hero of the Conan the Barbarian series of books, comics and movies, debuting 1932.
Cerera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Croatian, Lithuanian
Pronounced: tse-RER-ah, TSE-rer-ah
Personal remark: tse-RER-ah, TSE-rer-ah
Croatian and Lithuanian form of Ceres.
Ariën
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch
Variant form of Arian, which may possibly have been inspired by the French name Adrien in its spelling. This form ultimately led to the form Arjen, which since steadily outgrew Ariën in popularity and is nowadays by far the most common of the two. Known Dutch bearers of this name include the drummer Ariën van Weesenbeek (b. 1980) and the soccer player Ariën Pietersma (b. 1987).
Anaru
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Maori
Maori form of Andrew.
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