Aderyn Azula's Personal Name List

Adara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אַדָרָה(Hebrew)
Rating: 53% based on 22 votes
Means "noble" in Hebrew.
Aderyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh (Rare)
Rating: 58% based on 26 votes
Means "bird" in Welsh. This is a modern Welsh name.
Ailsa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Scottish
Pronounced: AYL-sə(English)
Rating: 41% based on 19 votes
From Ailsa Craig, the name of an island off the west coast of Scotland, which is of uncertain derivation.
Aina 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Catalan
Pronounced: IE-nə
Rating: 47% based on 20 votes
Balearic form of Anna.
Alaia 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque
Rating: 48% based on 22 votes
Means "joyful, happy" from Basque alai.
Alesha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: ə-LEE-shə
Rating: 31% based on 19 votes
Variant of Alicia.
Alesia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Rating: 37% based on 20 votes
Possibly a variant of Alicia.
Alethea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: al-ə-THEE-ə, ə-LEE-thee-ə
Rating: 39% based on 19 votes
Derived from Greek ἀλήθεια (aletheia) meaning "truth". This name was coined in the 16th century.
Alida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch, German, Hungarian
Pronounced: a-LEE-da(Dutch, German) AW-lee-daw(Hungarian)
Rating: 49% based on 20 votes
Diminutive of Adelaide.
Aloisia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Rare)
Pronounced: a-LOI-zya
Rating: 50% based on 23 votes
German feminine form of Aloysius.
Amada
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: a-MA-dha
Rating: 48% based on 19 votes
Feminine form of Amado.
Anneliese
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Dutch
Pronounced: A-nə-lee-zə(German) ah-nə-LEE-sə(Dutch)
Rating: 70% based on 24 votes
Combination of Anne 1 and Liese.
Annunziata
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: an-noon-TSYA-ta
Rating: 50% based on 20 votes
Means "announced" in Italian, referring to the event in the New Testament in which the angel Gabriel tells the Virgin Mary of the imminent birth of Jesus.
Aoide
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἀοιδή(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: ay-EE-dee(English)
Rating: 41% based on 19 votes
Means "song" in Greek. In Greek mythology she was one of the original three muses, the muse of song.
Aura
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Spanish, Finnish
Pronounced: AWR-ə(English) OW-ra(Italian, Spanish) OW-rah(Finnish)
Rating: 53% based on 21 votes
From the word aura (derived from Latin, ultimately from Greek αὔρα meaning "breeze") for a distinctive atmosphere or illumination.
Bibiana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Italian, Late Roman
Pronounced: bee-BYA-na(Spanish, Italian)
Rating: 38% based on 18 votes
Possibly an early variant of Viviana. Alternatively, it may be a feminine derivative of the earlier Roman cognomen Vibianus.
Caitríona
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: kə-TRYEE-nə, KAT-ryee-nə
Rating: 52% based on 21 votes
Irish form of Katherine.
Calla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KAL-ə
Rating: 61% based on 20 votes
From the name of two types of plants, the true calla (species Calla palustris) and the calla lily (species Calla aethiopica), both having white flowers and growing in marshy areas. Use of the name may also be inspired by Greek κάλλος (kallos) meaning "beauty".
Catriona
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish, Scottish
Pronounced: kə-TREE-nə(English)
Rating: 41% based on 18 votes
Anglicized form of Caitríona (Irish) or Caitrìona (Scottish Gaelic).
Charlotte
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch
Pronounced: SHAR-LAWT(French) SHAHR-lət(English) shar-LAW-tə(German) sha-LOT(Swedish) shahr-LAW-tə(Dutch)
Rating: 72% based on 20 votes
French feminine diminutive of Charles. It was introduced to Britain in the 17th century. It was the name of a German-born 18th-century queen consort of Great Britain and Ireland. Another notable bearer was Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855), the eldest of the three Brontë sisters and the author of Jane Eyre and Villette. A famous fictional bearer is the spider in the children's novel Charlotte's Web (1952) by E. B. White.

This name was fairly common in France, England and the United States in the early 20th century. It became quite popular in France and England at the end of the 20th century, just when it was at a low point in the United States. It quickly climbed the American charts and entered the top ten in 2014.

Dulcinea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: dool-thee-NEH-a(European Spanish) dool-see-NEH-a(Latin American Spanish) dul-si-NEE-ə(English)
Rating: 40% based on 18 votes
Derived from Spanish dulce meaning "sweet". This name was (first?) used by Miguel de Cervantes in his novel Don Quixote (1605), where it belongs to the love interest of the main character, though she never actually appears in the story.
Dylan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh, English, Welsh Mythology
Pronounced: DUL-an(Welsh) DIL-ən(English)
Rating: 51% based on 19 votes
From the Welsh prefix dy meaning "to, toward" and llanw meaning "tide, flow". According to the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi [1], Dylan was a son of Arianrhod and the twin brother of Lleu Llaw Gyffes. Immediately after he was baptized he took to the sea, where he could swim as well as a fish. He was slain accidentally by his uncle Gofannon. According to some theories the character might be rooted in an earlier and otherwise unattested Celtic god of the sea.

Famous bearers include the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) and the American musician Bob Dylan (1941-), real name Robert Zimmerman, who took his stage surname from the poet's given name. Due to those two bearers, use of the name has spread outside of Wales in the last half of the 20th century. It received a further boost in popularity in the 1990s due to a character on the television series Beverly Hills 90210.

Eira 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: AY-ra
Rating: 55% based on 21 votes
Means "snow" in Welsh. This is a recently created name.
Elain
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: EH-lien
Rating: 43% based on 18 votes
Means "fawn" in Welsh. This name was created in the 19th century [1].
Elena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Slovak, Czech, Lithuanian, Estonian, Finnish, Russian, Greek, German, English
Other Scripts: Елена(Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian) Έλενα(Greek)
Pronounced: EH-leh-na(Italian, Czech, German) eh-LEH-na(Spanish, German) eh-lyeh-NU(Lithuanian) yi-LYEH-nə(Russian) i-LYEH-nə(Russian) EHL-ə-nə(English) ə-LAY-nə(English)
Rating: 70% based on 23 votes
Form of Helen used in various languages, as well as an alternate transcription of Russian Елена (see Yelena).
Eleni
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Ελένη(Greek)
Pronounced: eh-LEH-nee
Rating: 59% based on 21 votes
Modern Greek form of Helen.
Eleri
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: eh-LEH-ri
Rating: 41% based on 17 votes
From the name of a Welsh river, also called the Leri, of unknown meaning. This was also the name of a 7th-century Welsh saint (masculine).
Elva 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish
Rating: 36% based on 17 votes
Anglicized form of Ailbhe.
Endzela
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Georgian
Other Scripts: ენძელა(Georgian)
Pronounced: EHN-DZEH-LA
Rating: 20% based on 8 votes
Means "snowdrop (flower)" in Georgian (genus Galanthus).
Ilaria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ee-LA-rya
Rating: 47% based on 19 votes
Italian feminine form of Hilarius.
Jaime 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: KHIE-meh(Spanish) ZHIE-mi(European Portuguese) ZHIE-mee(Brazilian Portuguese)
Rating: 45% based on 19 votes
Spanish and Portuguese form of Iacomus (see James).
Juliana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch, German, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Slovak, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: yuy-lee-A-na(Dutch) yoo-lee-A-na(German) joo-lee-AN-ə(English) joo-lee-AHN-ə(English) khoo-LYA-na(Spanish) YOO-lee-a-na(Slovak)
Rating: 65% based on 23 votes
Feminine form of Iulianus (see Julian). This was the name of a 4th-century saint and martyr from Nicomedia, and also of the Blessed Juliana of Norwich, also called Julian, a 14th-century mystic and author. The name was also borne by a 20th-century queen of the Netherlands. In England, this form has been in use since the 18th century, alongside the older form Gillian.
Julianna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hungarian, Polish, English
Pronounced: YOO-lee-awn-naw(Hungarian) yoo-LYAN-na(Polish) joo-lee-AN-ə(English) joo-lee-AHN-ə(English)
Rating: 63% based on 23 votes
Feminine form of Iulianus (see Julian). It can also be considered a combination of Julia and Anna.
Julitta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: History (Ecclesiastical)
Rating: 47% based on 19 votes
Diminutive of Julia. This was the name of a 4th-century saint who was martyred in Tarsus with her young son Quiricus.
Junia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: YOO-nee-a(Latin)
Rating: 55% based on 20 votes
Feminine form of Junius. This is the name of an early Christian mentioned in Paul's epistle to the Romans in the New Testament (there is some debate about whether the name belongs to a woman Junia or a man Junias).
Kaito
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 海斗, 海翔, etc.(Japanese Kanji) かいと(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: KA-EE-TO
Rating: 49% based on 17 votes
From Japanese (kai) meaning "sea, ocean" combined with (to), which refers to a Chinese constellation, or (to) meaning "soar, fly". Other kanji combinations are also possible.
Kate
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Croatian
Pronounced: KAYT(English)
Rating: 59% based on 19 votes
Short form of Katherine, often used independently. It is short for Katherina in Shakespeare's play The Taming of the Shrew (1593). It has been used in England since the Middle Ages. A famous bearer is the British actress Kate Winslet (1975-).
Kateri
Gender: Feminine
Usage: History
Rating: 44% based on 19 votes
From the Mohawk pronunciation of Katherine. This was the name adopted by the 17th-century Mohawk saint Tekakwitha upon her baptism.
Kora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German (Rare)
Pronounced: KO-ra
Rating: 33% based on 17 votes
German variant of Cora.
Kyra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KEER-ə, KIE-rə
Rating: 49% based on 18 votes
Variant of Kira 2, sometimes considered a feminine form of Cyrus.
Laelia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Pronounced: LIE-lee-a
Rating: 47% based on 19 votes
Feminine form of Laelius, a Roman family name of unknown meaning. This is also the name of a type of flower, an orchid found in Mexico and Central America.
Laleh
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Persian
Other Scripts: لاله(Persian)
Pronounced: law-LEH
Rating: 37% based on 18 votes
Means "tulip" in Persian.
Leah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Hebrew, Biblical
Other Scripts: לֵאָה(Hebrew)
Pronounced: LEE-ə(English)
Rating: 53% based on 19 votes
From the Hebrew name לֵאָה (Leʾa), which was probably derived from the Hebrew word לָאָה (laʾa) meaning "weary, grieved" [1]. Alternatively it might be related to Akkadian littu meaning "cow". In the Old Testament Leah is the first wife of Jacob and the mother of seven of his children. Jacob's other wife was Leah's younger sister Rachel, whom he preferred. Leah later offered Jacob her handmaid Zilpah in order for him to conceive more children.

Although this name was used by Jews in the Middle Ages, it was not typical as an English Christian name until after the Protestant Reformation, being common among the Puritans.

Leela
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam
Other Scripts: लीला(Hindi) లీలా(Telugu) ಲೀಲಾ(Kannada) லீலா(Tamil) ലീലാ(Malayalam)
Rating: 34% based on 17 votes
Alternate transcription of Lila 1.
Leilani
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Hawaiian
Pronounced: lay-LA-nee
Rating: 50% based on 20 votes
Means "heavenly flowers" or "royal child" from Hawaiian lei "flowers, lei, child" and lani "heaven, sky, royal, majesty".
Lesia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Rating: 33% based on 17 votes
Short form of Alesia.
Liana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, English, Georgian
Other Scripts: ლიანა(Georgian)
Pronounced: LYA-na(Italian)
Rating: 47% based on 18 votes
Short form of Juliana, Liliana and other names that end in liana. This is also the word for a type of vine that grows in jungles.
Lillian
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LIL-ee-ən
Rating: 62% based on 21 votes
Probably originally a diminutive of Elizabeth. It may also be considered an elaborated form of Lily, from the Latin word for "lily" lilium. This name has been used in England since the 16th century.
Lily
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LIL-ee
Rating: 72% based on 24 votes
From the name of the flower, a symbol of purity. The word is ultimately derived from Latin lilium. This is the name of the main character, Lily Bart, in the novel The House of Mirth (1905) by Edith Wharton. A famous bearer is the American actress Lily Tomlin (1939-).
Maeva
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Tahitian, French
Pronounced: MA-EH-VA(French)
Rating: 55% based on 23 votes
Means "welcome" in Tahitian. It gained popularity in France during the 1980s.
Maialen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque
Pronounced: MIE-a-lehn, mie-A-lehn
Rating: 48% based on 19 votes
Basque form of Magdalene.
Maja 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian, Slovene, German, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian
Other Scripts: Маја(Serbian, Macedonian)
Pronounced: MA-ya(German, Polish)
Rating: 52% based on 18 votes
Diminutive of Maria.
Marika
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Czech, Slovak, Polish, Hungarian, Greek, Finnish, Estonian, Swedish, Georgian, Italian, German
Other Scripts: Μαρίκα(Greek) მარიკა(Georgian)
Pronounced: MA-ri-ka(Czech) ma-REE-ka(Polish, Swedish, German) MAW-ree-kaw(Hungarian) MAH-ree-kah(Finnish)
Rating: 41% based on 18 votes
Diminutive of Maria and other names beginning with Mari.
Marin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Romanian, Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian, French
Other Scripts: Марин(Serbian, Bulgarian)
Pronounced: ma-REEN(Romanian) MA-REHN(French)
Rating: 41% based on 17 votes
Romanian, Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian and French form of Marinus.
Maytal
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: מֵיטַל(Hebrew)
Rating: 33% based on 17 votes
Alternate transcription of Hebrew מֵיטַל (see Meital).
Midori
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: , etc.(Japanese Kanji) みどり(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: MEE-DO-REE
Rating: 40% based on 18 votes
From Japanese (midori) meaning "green", as well as other kanji or kanji combinations that have the same pronunciation.
Mireia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Catalan, Spanish
Pronounced: mee-REH-yə(Catalan) mee-REH-ya(Spanish)
Rating: 49% based on 18 votes
Catalan form of Mirèio (see Mireille).
Mirjam
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Dutch, German, Finnish, Estonian, Slovene
Pronounced: MIR-yahm(Dutch) MIR-yam(German) MEER-yahm(Finnish)
Rating: 41% based on 8 votes
Form of Miriam in several languages.
Naiara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque
Pronounced: nie-A-ra
Rating: 48% based on 19 votes
From the Basque name of the Spanish city of Nájera, which is Arabic in origin. In the 12th century there was a reported apparition of the Virgin Mary in a nearby cave.
Paquita
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: pa-KEE-ta
Rating: 27% based on 17 votes
Diminutive of Francisca.
Phaedra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Φαίδρα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: FEED-rə(English) FEHD-rə(English)
Rating: 49% based on 20 votes
From the Greek Φαίδρα (Phaidra), derived from φαιδρός (phaidros) meaning "bright". Phaedra was the daughter of Minos and the wife of Theseus in Greek mythology. Aphrodite caused her to fall in love with her stepson Hippolytos, and after she was rejected by him she killed herself.
Sera
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: SEHR-ə
Rating: 44% based on 20 votes
Either a variant of Sarah or a short form of Seraphina.
Sheena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Scottish, English
Pronounced: SHEE-nə(English)
Rating: 27% based on 18 votes
Anglicized form of Sìne. This name was popularized outside of Scotland in the 1980s by the singer Sheena Easton (1959-).
Shirin
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Persian
Other Scripts: شیرین(Persian)
Pronounced: shee-REEN
Rating: 34% based on 17 votes
Means "sweet" in Persian. This was the name of a character in Persian and Turkish legend.
Siana
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Rating: 42% based on 19 votes
Diminutive of Siân.
Xochiquetzal
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Aztec and Toltec Mythology, Nahuatl
Pronounced: sho-chee-KEHT-sash(Nahuatl)
Rating: 32% based on 18 votes
Derived from Nahuatl xōchitl "flower" and quetzalli "quetzal feather, precious thing" [1]. This was the name of the Aztec goddess of love, flowers and the earth, the twin sister of Xochipilli.
Zara 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature, English
Pronounced: ZAHR-ə(English)
Rating: 55% based on 18 votes
Used by William Congreve for a character in his tragedy The Mourning Bride (1697), where it belongs to a captive North African queen. Congreve may have based it on the Arabic name Zahra 1. In 1736 the English writer Aaron Hill used it to translate Zaïre for his popular adaptation of Voltaire's French play Zaïre (1732).

In England the name was popularized when Princess Anne gave it to her daughter in 1981. Use of the name may also be influenced by the trendy Spanish clothing retailer Zara.

Ziva
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: זִיוָה(Hebrew)
Rating: 51% based on 20 votes
Feminine form of Ziv.
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