scotchtape's Personal Name List

Tolya
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Толя(Russian)
Pronounced: TO-lyə
Diminutive of Anatoliy.
Sullivan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French
Pronounced: SUL-i-vən(English)
From an Irish surname, the Anglicized form of Ó Súileabháin, itself from the given name Súileabhán, which was derived from Irish súil "eye" and dubh "dark, black" combined with a diminutive suffix. This name has achieved a moderate level of popularity in France since the 1970s. In the United States it was rare before the 1990s, after which it began climbing steadily. A famous fictional bearer of the surname was James P. Sullivan from the animated movie Monsters, Inc. (2001).
Caligula
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History
Pronounced: kə-LIG-yuw-lə(English)
Personal remark: 'little boot'
Means "little boot" in Latin. This was a nickname for the 1st-century Roman emperor Gaius Caesar Germanicus given to him in his youth by his father's soldiers.
Anup
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Malayalam
Other Scripts: अनूप(Hindi, Marathi) অনুপ(Bengali) അനൂപ്(Malayalam)
From Sanskrit अनूप (anūpa) meaning "watery, place near the water, lagoon".
Alto
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese, English, Italian, German, Dutch
Pronounced: AHL-to(English, Italian, German, Dutch)
Directly taken from Latin altus meaning "to raise, to make high, to elevate". As a musical term it refers to the contrapuntal part higher than the tenor and its associated vocal range.

Alto of Altomünster was an Irish or Scottish saint who lived in Germany.

Aldebrand
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic [1]
Personal remark: from 'Brant' meaning fire.
Old German name derived from the elements alt meaning "old" and brant meaning "fire, torch, sword". Saint Aldebrand was a 12th-century bishop of Fossombrone in Italy.
Afuru
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Japanese (Rare)
Other Scripts: 感, 洸, etc.(Japanese Kanji) あふる(Japanese Hiragana) アフル(Japanese Katakana)
Pronounced: A-FOO-ROO
From 溢る (afuru), modern afureru, meaning "to flood, overflow, brim over," written as 感, from kan meaning "feeling, emotion, sensation," and 洸, from 洸洸 (kōkō) meaning "surge (of water), valiant, brave."

This name is extremely rare.

Adsila
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Cherokee
Personal remark: Comes from 'Fire'.
From Cherokee ᎠᏥᎳ (atsila) "fire" or ᎠᏥᎸᏍᎩ (atsilunsgi) "flower, blossom".
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