blackelectric's Personal Name List

20th-century adoption of the name of Mount Shasta in Northern California (or the Shasta daisy, named after the mountain), which comes from the name of a Native American tribe that lived in the area; its origin and meaning is lost to time.

While the main character Shasta in the 1954 C. S. Lewis novel The Horse and His Boy was male, this is now generally considered a feminine name in the English-speaking world.

Diminutive of Queen.

Italian, Spanish, Polish and Romanian form of Melanie.

German form of the Roman title Caesar (see Caesar). It is not used as a given name in Germany itself.

Scots diminutive of Jack.

From the English word gay meaning "gay, happy". By the mid-20th century the word had acquired the additional meaning of "homosexual", and the name has subsequently dropped out of use.

Medieval diminutive of Richard. The change in the initial consonant is said to have been caused by the way the trilled Norman R was pronounced by the English [1].

Of uncertain origin, possibly a variant of Elizabeth.