RowenaRavenclaw's Personal Name List

Valentin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French, Romanian, German, Czech, Russian, Bulgarian, Slovene, Croatian, Swedish, Danish, Finnish
Other Scripts: Валентин(Russian, Bulgarian)
Pronounced: VA-LAHN-TEHN(French) va-lehn-TEEN(Romanian) VA-lehn-teen(German) VA-lehn-kyin(Czech) və-lyin-TYEEN(Russian)
Rating: 65% based on 11 votes
Form of Valentinus (see Valentine 1) in several languages.
Sergei
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian, Bulgarian
Other Scripts: Сергей(Russian, Bulgarian)
Pronounced: syir-GYAY(Russian)
Rating: 61% based on 11 votes
Alternate transcription of Russian/Bulgarian Сергей (see Sergey).
Serge
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: SEHRZH
Rating: 48% based on 10 votes
French form of Sergius.
Rodrigo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Galician
Pronounced: ro-DHREE-gho(Spanish) roo-DREE-goo(European Portuguese) ho-DREE-goo(Brazilian Portuguese) ro-DREE-go(Italian)
Rating: 58% based on 10 votes
Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Galician form of Roderick, via the Latinized Gothic form Rudericus. A notable bearer was Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, also known as El Cid, an 11th-century Spanish military commander.
Pyotr
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Пётр(Russian)
Pronounced: PYUYTR
Rating: 40% based on 9 votes
Russian form of Peter. A famous bearer was the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893).
Pietro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: PYEH-tro
Rating: 59% based on 12 votes
Italian form of Peter. Pietro was the given name of the Renaissance painter known as Perugino.
Pierre
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French, Swedish
Pronounced: PYEHR(French)
Rating: 61% based on 11 votes
French form of Peter. This name has been consistently popular in France since the 13th century, but fell out of the top 100 names in 2017. It was borne by the philosopher and theologian Pierre Abélard (1079-1142), the scholar Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749-1827), the impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), and Pierre Curie (1859-1906), a physicist who discovered radioactivity with his wife Marie.
Pedro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: PEH-dhro(Spanish) PEH-droo(Portuguese)
Rating: 52% based on 10 votes
Spanish and Portuguese form of Peter. This was the name of the only two emperors of Brazil, reigning between 1822 and 1889.
Pablo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: PA-blo
Rating: 68% based on 10 votes
Spanish form of Paulus (see Paul). Spanish painter and sculptor Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) were famous bearers of this name.
Maurizio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: mow-REET-tsyo
Rating: 55% based on 11 votes
Italian form of Mauritius (see Maurice).
Jean-Baptiste
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: ZHAHN-BA-TEEST
Rating: 53% based on 11 votes
Combination of Jean 1 and Baptiste, referring to Saint John the Baptist.
Irina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Romanian, Georgian, Finnish, Estonian
Other Scripts: Ирина(Russian, Bulgarian, Macedonian) ირინა(Georgian)
Pronounced: i-RYEE-nə(Russian) EE-ree-nah(Finnish)
Rating: 66% based on 8 votes
Form of Irene in several languages.
Imhotep
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Egyptian
Pronounced: im-HO-tehp(English)
Rating: 39% based on 8 votes
From Egyptian jj-m-ḥtp meaning "he comes in peace" [1]. This was the name of a 27th-century BC architect, priest, physician and chief minister to the pharaoh Djoser. Imhotep apparently designed the step pyramid at Saqqara, near Memphis.
Giulietta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: joo-LYEHT-ta
Rating: 53% based on 9 votes
Diminutive of Giulia.
Giuditta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: joo-DEET-ta
Rating: 36% based on 9 votes
Italian form of Judith.
Giambattista
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: jam-bat-TEE-sta
Rating: 37% based on 11 votes
Combination of Gianni and Battista, given in honour of Saint John the Baptist.
Giacomo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: JA-ko-mo
Rating: 59% based on 11 votes
Italian form of Iacomus (see James). Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) was an Italian composer of operas.
Françoise
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: FRAHN-SWAZ
Rating: 60% based on 10 votes
Feminine form of François.
François
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: FRAHN-SWA
Rating: 64% based on 11 votes
French form of Franciscus (see Francis). François Villon (1431-1463) was a French lyric poet. This was also the name of two kings of France.
Fabrizio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: fa-BREET-tsyo
Rating: 50% based on 12 votes
Italian form of Fabricius (see Fabrice).
Ezio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: EHT-tsyo
Rating: 55% based on 13 votes
Italian form of Aetius.
Bruno
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Croatian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Latvian, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: BROO-no(German, Italian, Spanish, Czech) BROO-noo(European Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese) BRUY-NO(French) BROO-naw(Polish, Slovak)
Rating: 57% based on 14 votes
Derived from the Old German element brunna meaning "armour, protection" (Proto-Germanic *brunjǭ) or brun meaning "brown" (Proto-Germanic *brūnaz). Saint Bruno of Cologne was a German monk of the 11th century who founded the Carthusian Order. The surname has belonged to Giordano Bruno, a philosopher burned at the stake by the Inquisition. A modern bearer is the American singer Bruno Mars (1985-), born Peter Gene Hernandez.
Bartolomeo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: bar-to-lo-MEH-o
Rating: 43% based on 12 votes
Italian form of Bartholomew.
Bartholomäus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German (Rare)
Pronounced: bar-to-lo-MEH-uws
Rating: 34% based on 11 votes
German form of Bartholomew.
Avdotya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Авдотья(Russian)
Rating: 31% based on 9 votes
Russian form of Eudocia.
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