shesleepsintrees's Personal Name List

Woodhaven
Usage: English
Lynn
Usage: English
Pronounced: LIN
From the name of a town in Norfolk (King's Lynn), derived from Welsh llyn meaning "lake".
Le Fay
Usage: Irish Mythology
Meaning 'the fairy'
Jolyn
Usage: Flemish
Possibly a pet form or patronymic of the given name Joli.
Havens
Usage: Dutch
From Haven, a harbor.
Fey
Usage: German, English, French, Danish
English: variant of Fay.
Southern French: topographic name for someone who lived by a beech tree or beech wood.
German: nickname for a vagrant, from Middle High German vehe ‘enmity’, ‘strife’ or from a popular medieval pet form of the female personal name Sophie, honored as a martyr and saint.
Danish: unexplained.
Espíritu
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: ehs-PEE-ree-too
From a short form of Spanish del Espíritu Santo meaning "of the Holy Spirit, of the Holy Ghost" (Latin Spiritus Sanctus), which was the second part of religious compound names formed from the bearer's given name and del Espíritu Santo. Supposedly, such compound names were traditionally given to children born on Easter.
Deiana
Usage: Italian
From Sardinian de "of, from" and jana "fairy, spirit of the woods, sorceress" (from Latin Diana).
Brooks
Usage: English
Pronounced: BRUWKS
Variant of Brook.
Brookhaven
Usage: English
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