hermeline's Personal Name List
Zuriel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: צוּרִיאֵל(Ancient Hebrew)
Means
"my rock is God" in Hebrew, derived from
צוּר (tsur) meaning "rock" and
אֵל (ʾel) meaning "God". In the
Old Testament this name is borne by a chief of the Merarite Levites at the time of the Exodus.
Zephon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend
Other Scripts: צפון(Hebrew)
Variant of
Ziphion. Means "hidden" in Hebrew. In the apocryphal Book of Enoch this was the name of an angel sent by the archangel Gabriel, along with the angel
Ithuriel, to find the location of Satan after his fall.
Zebulon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: זְבוּלֻן(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: ZEHB-yə-lən(English)
Zebuleon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend
Zebuleon is an angel mentioned in the Greek Apocalypse of Ezra whose name was revealed to Esdras as one of the nine angels who will govern "at the end of the world".
Zazel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend
Other Scripts: Hebrew: זאזל
The darker spirit (demon) of Saturn, mentioned as a spirit in such works as the Key of Solomon.
Zagan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend
In The Lesser Key of Solomon, this is the name of a Great King and President of Hell, commanding over thirty-three legions of demons. Zagan is depicted as a griffin-winged bull that turns into a man after a while.
Zaddock
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: ZAD-ək
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(Anglicized) variant of
Zadok. A bearer of the variant
Zadock was Congressman Zadock Pratt (1790-1871), a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York.
Zaccai
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: זַכָּי(Ancient Hebrew)
From the Hebrew name
זַכָּי (Zakkai) meaning
"pure". This is the name of a minor character in the
Old Testament.
Yuval
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew [1]
Other Scripts: יוּבָל(Hebrew)
Hebrew form of
Jubal. It is used as both a masculine and feminine name in modern Hebrew.
Yudelkis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Caribbean)
Yoni
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: יוֹני(Hebrew)
Yonas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Amharic
Other Scripts: ዮናስ(Amharic)
Yona
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew [1]
Other Scripts: יוֹנָה(Hebrew)
Hebrew form of
Jonah. It is a unisex name in modern Hebrew.
Yeruslan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Folklore
Other Scripts: Еруслан(Russian) Єруслан(Ukrainian)
From Tatar
Уруслан (Uruslan), which was possibly from Turkic
arslan meaning
"lion". Yeruslan Lazarevich is the name of a hero in Russian and Tatar folktales. These tales were based on (or at least influenced by) Persian tales of their hero
Rostam.
Yarden
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: יַרְדֵן(Hebrew)
Vives
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Judeo-Anglo-Norman, Judeo-Catalan
Toben
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: TO-bin, TO-behn
Talitha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical
Pronounced: TAL-i-thə(English) tə-LEE-thə(English)
Means
"little girl" in Aramaic. The name is taken from the phrase
talitha cumi meaning "little girl arise" spoken by
Jesus in order to restore a young girl to life (see
Mark 5:41).
Soscha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch (Rare), German (Rare)
Dutch and German variant of
Shosha.
Shulamith
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: שׁוּלַמִּית(Hebrew)
Shadrach
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: שַׁדְרַך(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: SHAD-rak(English) SHAY-drak(English)
Means
"command of Aku" in Akkadian,
Aku being the name of the Babylonian god of the moon. In the
Old Testament Shadrach is the Babylonian name of
Hananiah, one of the three men cast into a fiery furnace but saved by God.
Saris
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Jewish, Jewish (Archaic)
Samularia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew (Rare)
Means "sweet one forever" in Hebrew.
Samarias
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Judeo-Anglo-Norman
Ruchy
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Yiddish
Rony
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: רוני(Hebrew)
Pronounced: RO-nee
Romiel
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew (Modern, Rare)
Other Scripts: רוֹמִיאֵל(Hebrew)
Combination of the names
Romi and
El means "God is my exaltation" in Hebrew.
Pultzelina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Jewish, Jewish (Archaic)
Derived from Old French pulcella, pucelle "maid, young woman".
Pesseline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Jewish, Judeo-French
Diminutive of
Pesse (compare
Pessel) recorded in the border region between modern-day France and modern-day Germany in the 14th century.
Miykal
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Means “who is like God” in Hebrew.
Mirian
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Judeo-Spanish, Judeo-Anglo-Norman
Spanish, Judeo-Spanish and Judeo-Anglo-Norman variant of
Miriam.
Mirele
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Yiddish (Rare)
Other Scripts: מירעלע(Yiddish)
Meyer
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: מֵאִיר(Hebrew)
Alternate transcription of Hebrew
מֵאִיר (see
Meir). It also coincides with a German surname meaning "mayor, leader".
Mazel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Yiddish
In Hebrew, the word is generally transliterated as mazal, and literally refers to a "star" or "planet in the night sky" or "zodiac constellation." It came to mean "lucky" in medieval times due to the widespread belief in astrology and that the planets and constellations can influence one's fate.
Margarede
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Judeo-Anglo-Norman
Margalit
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: מַרְגָלִית(Hebrew)
Maidel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Jewish, Yiddish
Yiddish name and word for "young girl."
Lachan
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Hebrew (Modern, Rare)
Other Scripts: לַחַן(Hebrew)
Pronounced: LAH-khahn
Means "melody", "tune", "strain" in Hebrew.
Judeline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Haitian Creole
Judelin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Judeo-Anglo-Norman
Joses
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: Ἰωσῆς(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: JO-səs(English)
From
Ἰωσῆς (Ioses), a Greek variant of
Joseph used in the
New Testament to distinguish Joseph the brother of James from the many other characters of that name.
Hinda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Yiddish, Jewish
Pronounced: HIN-dah
Means "deer" in Yiddish, related to the English word "hind". A common nickname is Hindy or Hindie.
Hannelie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Afrikaans
Hannas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Ἅννας, Ἄννας(Ancient Greek)
Hania
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Judeo-Spanish
Guthela
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Jewish, Yiddish (Archaic)
Geyla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Jewish, Jewish (Archaic)
Variant of
Gela recorded in what is now Germany from the 11th century onwards.
Gercyon
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Puritan)
Gemory
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend
Gemory is a demon listed in demonological grimoires. The demon is referenced by the pronoun "he" despite the fact that he appears as a beautiful woman with a duchess crown riding a camel.
Galya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian, Bulgarian
Other Scripts: Галя(Russian, Bulgarian)
Evron
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew (Rare)
Other Scripts: עֶבְרוֹן(Hebrew)
From a biblical place name, also called
עַבְדּוֹן (ʿAvdon) meaning "servile", for which it may be a clerical error.
Erez
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אֶרֶז(Hebrew)
Means "cedar" in Hebrew.
Elula
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Jewish, Hebrew
Other Scripts: אֱלוּלה(Hebrew)
Edel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Yiddish
Other Scripts: איידל(Yiddish)
A Judeo-German spelling of
Eidel
Doriel
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew, Literature
Other Scripts: דוריאל(Hebrew)
Possibly means "God's generation" in Hebrew, in which case it would be derived from Hebrew
dor "generation" (see also
Dor) combined with Hebrew
el "God". This is the name of a character in Elie Wiesel's novel "A Mad Desire to Dance".
Dorel
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew (Modern)
Other Scripts: דוראל(Hebrew)
Combination of the names
Dor and
El means "God's Generation" in Hebrew.
Donnola
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Judeo-Italian (Archaic), Medieval Jewish
Doltza
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Basque, Medieval Jewish
Medieval Basque form of
Dulce and medieval Jewish variant of
Toltsa and
Toltse. In the Basque country, it was recorded from 1344 onwards, as a Jewish name, it was recorded from the 12th century onwards.
Dathan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: דָּתָן(Ancient Hebrew)
Possibly means
"fountain" in Hebrew. In the
Old Testament this is the name of one of the conspirators against
Moses.
Dariel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern), Spanish (Caribbean, Modern)
Pronounced: da-RYEHL(Spanish)
Probably an elaborated form of
Darrell, with an ending similar to biblical names such as
Daniel.
Darel
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Hebrew (Rare)
Other Scripts: דראל(Hebrew)
Pronounced: DAR-əl(English) dahr-EL(Hebrew)
In Hebrew it’s a combination of the name
Dar, means "(mother of) pearl, nacre" and
El, reference to God. In English it’s used as variant of
Darell.
Danor
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew (Modern, Rare)
Other Scripts: דנאור, דן-אור(Hebrew)
Pronounced: dahn-OR
Combination of the name
Dan 1 means "(he) judges" and the name
Or means "light", used as first name and as last name.
Czarna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Yiddish (Rare)
Other Scripts: טשארנא(Yiddish)
a Polonized spelling of
Charna
Chera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Judeo-Provençal, Judeo-Spanish, Judeo-Anglo-Norman
Derived from Old French
chere, the feminine form of the adjective
cher, chier "dear, dearest; expensive; costly; important, noteworthy" as well as a short form of
Anchera.
Charna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Yiddish (Rare)
Other Scripts: טשאַרנאַ(Yiddish)
From a Slavic word meaning "black".
Cainan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Latin
Other Scripts: קֵינָן(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: KAY-nən(English) kay-IE-nən(English)
Variant of
Kenan 1 used in some versions of the Bible.
Bronnelin
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Jewish, Yiddish (Archaic)
Variant of
Bräunle. It was recorded in early 16th-century Frankfurt, Germany.
Bashevis
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Ancient Hebrew, Yiddish
Other Scripts: בשביס(Hebrew) באַשעװיס (Yiddish)
Basel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Yiddish
Pronounced: BAH-tzel
Barsabas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Means "son of
Sabas". It is the name of multiple biblical characters and saints.
Asmodeus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend
Pronounced: az-mə-DEE-əs(English)
From Greek
Ἀσμοδαῖος (Asmodaios) and Hebrew
אשְׁםְדּאי (ʾAshmedʾai), probably from Avestan
𐬀𐬉𐬱𐬆𐬨𐬀 (aēshəma) meaning "wrath" and
𐬛𐬀𐬉𐬎𐬎𐬀 (daēuua) meaning "demon". In the apocryphal Book of Tobit this is the name of a demon who successively kills seven of Sarah's husbands on their wedding nights. He also appears in the Talmud.
Arioch
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Biblical, Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend, Hebrew
Pronounced: A´rEok(Biblical English, Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend, Hebrew)
Meaning: "a fierce lion" or "lion-like" and "venerable".
This was the name of two biblical men, Arioch was a king of Ellasar who was allied with Chedorlaomer (Gen. 14:1,9) and Captain of Nebuchadnezzar's guard (Dan. 2:14-15, 24-25).
Originally appears in the Book of Genesis chap. 14 as the "King of Ellasar", part of the confederation of kings who did battle with the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah and with Abraham in the vale of Siddim.
Arella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אראלה(Hebrew)
Alternate transcription of Hebrew אראלה (see
Erela).
Amira 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אַמִירָה(Hebrew)
Pronounced: ah-MEER-ah
Aluna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Judeo-Spanish
Adena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew (Rare)
Other Scripts: עֲדִינָה(Hebrew)
Abeley
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Judeo-French
Abalam
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Popular Culture, Judeo-Christian-Islamic Legend
Pronounced: ab-a-lamb(Popular Culture)
Meaning unknown. In demonology, Abalam is a king of Jinnestan and one of the assistants of Paimon. This demon was featured in the 2010 film 'The Last Exorcism'.
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