Norah Namenerd's Personal Name List

Verity
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: VEHR-i-tee
Rating: 61% based on 29 votes
From the English word meaning "verity, truth", from Latin verus "true, real". This was one of the virtue names adopted by the Puritans in the 17th century.
Tristram
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (British)
Pronounced: TRIS-trəm
Rating: 46% based on 36 votes
Medieval English form of Tristan.
Rosaline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: RO-zə-leen, RAHZ-ə-lin, RAHZ-ə-lien
Personal remark: rozz-a-line, not rosaleen
Rating: 59% based on 39 votes
Medieval variant of Rosalind. This is the name of characters in Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost (1594) and Romeo and Juliet (1596).
Lucan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: History
Rating: 47% based on 35 votes
From the Roman cognomen Lucanus, which was derived from the name of the city of Luca in Tuscany (modern Lucca). Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, commonly called Lucan, was a 1st-century Roman poet.
Kilian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Spanish, Irish, French
Pronounced: KEE-lee-an(German) KEE-lyan(Spanish)
Personal remark: Cillian won't fly in the USA.
Rating: 54% based on 25 votes
German and Spanish form of Cillian, as well as an Irish and French variant.
Junius
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Pronounced: YOO-nee-oos
Rating: 29% based on 29 votes
Roman family name that was possibly derived from the name of the Roman goddess Juno. It was borne by Lucius Junius Brutus, the founder of the Roman Republic in the 6th century BC. It was also borne by the 1st-century BC Roman politician Marcus Junius Brutus, commonly known as Brutus, who was one of the assassins of Julius Caesar.
Elam
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Hebrew [1]
Other Scripts: עֵילָם(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: EE-ləm(English)
Personal remark: EE-lum
Rating: 30% based on 25 votes
Possibly means either "hidden" or "eternity" in Hebrew. This is the name of several characters in the Old Testament, including a son of Shem who was the ancestor of the Elamite peoples.
Dervla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish
Personal remark: DERV uh la
Rating: 28% based on 27 votes
Anglicized form of Deirbhile or Dearbháil.
Aoibheann
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: EE-vyən
Personal remark: pron. ee VAN
Rating: 38% based on 29 votes
From Old Irish Oébfinn or Aíbinn, derived from oíb meaning "beauty, appearance, form" and finn meaning "white, blessed". This was the name of the mother of Saint Énna of Aran. It was also borne by the daughter of the 10th-century Irish high king Donnchad Donn.
Alice
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, French, Portuguese, Italian, German, Czech, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Dutch
Pronounced: AL-is(English) A-LEES(French) u-LEE-si(European Portuguese) a-LEE-see(Brazilian Portuguese) a-LEE-cheh(Italian) a-LEES(German) A-li-tseh(Czech)
Rating: 65% based on 31 votes
From the Old French name Aalis, a short form of Adelais, itself a short form of the Germanic name Adalheidis (see Adelaide). This name became popular in France and England in the 12th century. It was among the most common names in England until the 16th century, when it began to decline. It was revived in the 19th century.

This name was borne by the heroine of Lewis Carroll's novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass (1871).

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