blackelectric's Personal Name List

Ziv
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: זִיו(Hebrew)
Means "bright, radiant" in Hebrew. This was the ancient name of the second month of the Jewish calendar.
Zeev
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: זְאֵב(Hebrew)
Means "wolf" in Hebrew, an animal particularly associated with the tribe of Benjamin (see Genesis 49:27).
Zahara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: זָהֳרָה(Hebrew)
Feminine form of Zohar.
Yonatan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew [1]
Other Scripts: יוֹנָתָן(Hebrew)
Hebrew form of Jonathan.
Yitzhak
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: יִץְחָק(Hebrew)
Hebrew form of Isaac. This was the name of two recent Israeli prime ministers.
Yaffa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: יָפָה(Hebrew)
Alternate transcription of Hebrew יָפָה (see Yafa).
Yaara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: יַעֲרָה(Hebrew)
Means "honeycomb" and "honeysuckle" in Hebrew.
Yaakov
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: יַעֲקֹב(Hebrew)
Hebrew form of Jacob.
Tzvia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: ץְבִיָה(Hebrew)
Feminine form of Tzvi.
Tzvi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: ץְבִי(Hebrew)
Means "gazelle, roebuck" in Hebrew, an animal particularly associated with the tribe of Naphtali (see Genesis 49:21).
Tuvya
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: טוּבִיָה(Hebrew)
Modern Hebrew form of Tobiah.
Tsila
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: ציִלָּה(Hebrew)
Alternate transcription of Hebrew ציִלָּה (see Tzila).
Tryphosa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Greek [1], Ancient Greek [2]
Other Scripts: Τρυφῶσα(Ancient Greek)
Derived from Greek τρυφή (tryphe) meaning "softness, delicacy". In the New Testament this name is mentioned briefly as belonging to a companion of Tryphena.
Tryphena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: Τρύφαινα(Ancient Greek)
From the Greek name Τρύφαινα (Tryphaina), derived from Greek τρυφή (tryphe) meaning "softness, delicacy". This name is mentioned briefly in the New Testament.
Tova 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: טוֹבָה(Hebrew)
Means "good" in Hebrew.
Tikva
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: תִּקְוָה(Hebrew)
Means "hope" in Hebrew.
Tamir 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: תָּמִיר(Hebrew)
Means "tall" in Hebrew.
Talia 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: טַלְיָה, טַלְיָא(Hebrew)
Means "dew from God" in Hebrew, from טַל (ṭal) meaning "dew" and יָהּ (yah) referring to the Hebrew God.
Tali
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: טַלִי(Hebrew)
Means "my dew" in Hebrew.
Tal
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: טַל(Hebrew)
Pronounced: TAL
Derived from Hebrew טַל (ṭal) meaning "dew".
Stav
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: סתָו, סתיו(Hebrew)
Means "autumn" in Hebrew.
Sivan
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: סִיוָן, סִיווָן(Hebrew)
From the name of the ninth month of the Hebrew calendar (occurring in late spring). It was adopted from the Babylonian calendar, derived from Akkadian simānu meaning "season, occasion" [1].
Simcha
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: שִׂםְחָה(Hebrew)
Means "happiness, joy" in Hebrew.
Shamira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: שָׁמִירָה(Hebrew)
Means "guardian, protector" in Hebrew, from the root שָׁמַר (shamar) "to guard, to watch".
Shai
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: שַׁי(Hebrew)
Either from Hebrew שַׁי (shai) meaning "gift" or else a Hebrew diminutive of Isaiah.
Shachar
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: שַׁחַר(Hebrew)
Personal remark: guttural 'ch'
Means "dawn" in Hebrew.
Sapir
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: סַפִּיר(Hebrew)
Means "sapphire" in Hebrew.
Ovadia
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: עֹבַדְיָה(Hebrew)
Hebrew form of Obadiah.
Oshrat
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אוֹשֶׁרַת, אֹשֶׁרַת(Hebrew)
Feminine form of Osher.
Ophira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אוֹפִירָה(Hebrew)
Alternate transcription of Hebrew אוֹפִירָה (see Ofira).
Ofra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: עֹףְרָה, עוֹףְרָה(Hebrew)
Personal remark: AWF-rə
Means "fawn" in Hebrew.

The masculine biblical name Ophrah is derived from the same root.

Noam
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew, French
Other Scripts: נוֹעַם(Hebrew)
Pronounced: NO-am(Hebrew) NOM(English) NAW-AM(French)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Means "pleasantness" in Hebrew. A famous bearer is Noam Chomsky (1928-), an American linguist and philosopher.
Niv
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: נִיב(Hebrew)
Means either "speech, expression" or "fang, tusk" in Hebrew.
Nissa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Indonesian
Variant of Nisa.
Nava
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: נָאוָה(Hebrew)
Means "beautiful" in Hebrew.
Naama
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: נַעֲמָה(Hebrew)
Pronounced: nah-ah-MAH
Personal remark: nah-ah-MAH
Modern Hebrew form of Naamah.
Margalit
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: מַרְגָלִית(Hebrew)
Personal remark: mahr-ga-LEET
Means "pearl" in Hebrew, ultimately from Greek μαργαρίτης (margarites).
Malka
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: מַלְכָּה(Hebrew)
Means "queen" in Hebrew.
Maayan
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: מַעֲיָן(Hebrew)
Personal remark: MAH-yahn
Means "spring of water" in Hebrew.
Lior
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: לִיאוֹר(Hebrew)
Means "my light" in Hebrew, from לִי (li) "for me" and אוֹר (ʾor) "light".
Lev 2
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: לֵב(Hebrew)
Means "heart" in Hebrew.
Leora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Jewish, English, Hebrew
Pronounced: lay-OH-ra(Jewish, Hebrew)
Anglicized variant of Liora.
In some cases, however, it might have been given as a contracted form of Leonora.
Lavi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: לָבִיא(Hebrew)
Means "lion" in Hebrew.
Kinneret
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: כִּנֶּרֶת(Hebrew)
Alternate transcription of Hebrew כִּנֶּרֶת (see Kineret).
Keshet
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: קֶשֶׁת(Hebrew)
Means "rainbow" in Hebrew.
Katriel
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew, English (Modern, Rare)
Other Scripts: כתריאל(Hebrew)
Pronounced: kah-dhree-EL(Hebrew)
Means "the crowned Lord" (or possibly "crown of God") in Hebrew. From the Hebrew keter (כֶּתֶר) "crown" and el (אֵל) "god".
Inbar
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: עִןְבָּר, עִיןְבָּר(Hebrew)
Means "amber" in Hebrew.
Ilana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אִילָנָה(Hebrew)
Feminine form of Ilan.
Gavriel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: גַּבְרִיאֵל(Hebrew)
Personal remark: GAV-ree-el
Hebrew form of Gabriel.
Ezra
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Hebrew, Biblical
Other Scripts: עֶזְרָא(Hebrew)
Pronounced: EHZ-rə(English)
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Means "help" in Hebrew. Ezra is a prophet of the Old Testament and the author of the Book of Ezra. It has been used as a given name in the English-speaking world since the Protestant Reformation. The American poet Ezra Pound (1885-1972) was a famous bearer.
Elisheva
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew [1]
Other Scripts: אֱלִישֶׁבַע(Hebrew)
Hebrew form of Elizabeth.
Elior
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אֱלִיאוֹר(Hebrew)
Means "my God is my light" in Hebrew.
Danya 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: דַּןְיָה(Hebrew)
Feminine form of Dan 1. It can also be considered a compound meaning "judgement from God", using the element יָהּ (yah) referring to the Hebrew God.
Bosmat
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: בָּשְׂמַת(Hebrew)
Hebrew variant of Basemath.
Batsheva
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: בַּת־שֶׁבַע(Hebrew)
Hebrew variant of Bathsheba.
Avishai
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אֲבִישַׁי(Hebrew)
Personal remark: ah-vee-SHY
Modern Hebrew form of Abishai.
Avi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אֲבִי(Hebrew)
Means "my father" in Hebrew. It is also a diminutive of Avraham or Aviram.
Ariel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew, English, French, Spanish, Polish, Biblical, Biblical Greek
Other Scripts: אֲרִיאֵל(Hebrew) Ἀριήλ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: a-ree-EHL(Hebrew) EHR-ee-əl(English) AR-ee-əl(English) A-RYEHL(French) a-RYEHL(Spanish) A-ryehl(Polish)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Means "lion of God" in Hebrew, from אֲרִי (ʾari) meaning "lion" and אֵל (ʾel) meaning "God". In the Old Testament it is used as another name for the city of Jerusalem. Shakespeare utilized it for a spirit in his play The Tempest (1611) and Alexander Pope utilized it for a sylph in his poem The Rape of the Lock (1712), and one of the moons of Uranus bears this name in his honour. As an English name, it became more common for females in the 1980s, especially after it was used for the title character in the Disney film The Little Mermaid (1989).
Amira 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אַמִירָה(Hebrew)
Pronounced: ah-MEER-ah
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Feminine form of Amir 2.
Aliza
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: עַלִיזָה(Hebrew)
Pronounced: ah-LEE-zah
Personal remark: ah-LEE-zah
Means "joyful" in Hebrew.
Akiva
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: עֲקִיבָא(Hebrew)
Pronounced: ah-KEE-vah
Personal remark: ah-KEE-vah
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
From an Aramaic form of Yaakov. Akiva (or Akiba) ben Joseph was a prominent 1st-century Jewish rabbi.
Adara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אַדָרָה(Hebrew)
Rating: 100% based on 2 votes
Means "noble" in Hebrew.
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