Behind the Name: Addycakes's Personal Name List

You

Gender: Masculine & Feminine

Usage: Chinese

Other Scripts: 友(Chinese)

Pronounced: yǒu

Rating: 64% based on 5 votes

From the Chinese 友 (yǒu) which means "friendly or friendship."

Vidka

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Slovene

Personal remark: Reminds me of vodka.

Rating: 62% based on 5 votes

Diminutive of Vida 2, occasionally used as a given name in its own right.

Pilot

Gender: Masculine

Usage: English (Rare)

Pronounced: PIE-lət

Rating: 52% based on 5 votes

Either from the surname Pilot, which is derived from Pilate, or directly from the vocabulary word pilot, which is derived from either Greek πηδον (pedon) "steering oar" or πλωτης (plotes) "sailor". This name is borne by Pilot Inspektor Lee (2003-), son of American actor Jason Lee.

Paxton

Gender: Masculine

Usage: English (Modern)

Pronounced: PAK-stən

Personal remark: 320th name saved into this collection.

Rating: 57% based on 6 votes

From an English surname that was derived from a place name meaning "Pœcc's town". Pœcc is an Old English given name of unknown meaning.

Paaie

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Manx

Personal remark: Sounds like 'pie' to me. XD

Rating: 56% based on 5 votes

Manx form of Peggy.

Odd

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Norwegian

Rating: 38% based on 5 votes

Derived from Old Norse oddr meaning "point of a sword".

Mimi

Gender: Feminine

Usage: English

Pronounced: MEE-mee

Personal remark: All I think of is a certain song from The Backyardigans. The song in question is called "A Singing Telegram".

Rating: 86% based on 5 votes

Diminutive of Maria and other names beginning with M.

Medusa

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)

Other Scripts: Μέδουσα(Ancient Greek)

Pronounced: meh-DOO-sə(English)

Personal remark: Name of the Day - 11/16/2022

Rating: 82% based on 5 votes

From the Greek Μέδουσα (Medousa), which was derived from μέδω (medo) meaning "to protect, to rule over". In Greek myth this was the name of one of the three Gorgons, ugly women who had snakes for hair. She was so hideous that anyone who gazed upon her was turned to stone, so the hero Perseus had to look using the reflection in his shield in order to slay her.

Maacah

Gender: Feminine & Masculine

Usage: Biblical

Other Scripts: מַעֲכָה(Ancient Hebrew)

Rating: 60% based on 5 votes

Derived from Hebrew מָעַך (maʿaḵ) meaning "to press, to crush" [1]. This name is borne by both male and female characters in the Old Testament.

Jaxxon

Gender: Masculine

Usage: English (Modern)

Pronounced: JAK-sən

Personal remark: Possibly the lowest-rated name on this website. XD

Rating: 24% based on 5 votes

Variant of Jackson.

Jaxtyn

Gender: Masculine

Usage: English (Modern)

Pronounced: JAK-stən

Personal remark: So bad, it's good. XD

Rating: 46% based on 7 votes

Variant of Jaxton.

Iachin

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek

Other Scripts: Ἰαχίν(Ancient Greek)

Rating: 54% based on 5 votes

Form of Jachin used in the Greek and Latin Old Testament.

Hsar

Gender: Masculine & Feminine

Usage: Karen

Other Scripts: ဆၣ်(S'gaw Karen)

Pronounced: SA

Personal remark: Looks too much like 'Hussar' on paper. XD

Rating: 44% based on 5 votes

Means "star" in S'gaw Karen.

German

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Russian

Other Scripts: Герман(Russian)

Pronounced: GYEHR-mən

Personal remark: Same with Dutch but a different European language.

Rating: 42% based on 6 votes

Russian form of Germanus (or sometimes of Herman).

Dutch

Gender: Masculine

Usage: English

Pronounced: DUCH

Personal remark: All I can think of is a European language.

Rating: 38% based on 6 votes

From a nickname given to Americans of German descent (though nowadays it refers to a person from the Netherlands). It is related to deutsch, the German word meaning "German".