elbowin's Personal Name List

Means "little wolf", from a diminutive of the Gothic element wulfs. This was the name of a 4th-century Gothic bishop and missionary. He translated the New Testament into Gothic.

Derived from the Old German element wolf meaning "wolf" combined with hart meaning "hard, firm, brave, hardy".

Compound of Wolf and Dietrich. Wolfdietrich is the title hero of a 13th-century Middle High German epic poem. By some traditions he is the grandfather of the more famous hero Dietrich von Bern.

Variant of Waltraud.

Derived from the Old German element folk "people" combined with mari "famous".

Derived from the Old German elements folk "people" and hart "hard, brave".

Lithuanian masculine form of Virginia.

Alternate transcription of Russian Виктория or Ukrainian Вікторія (see Viktoriya).

Diminutive of Ulrich or Ulrike.

Soviet-era name derived from the usual Azerbaijani spelling of the surname of the German communist party leader Ernst Thälmann (1886-1944; see Thälmann).

German form of Snow White.

Short form of Ryan and other names beginning with Ry.

Short form of Rimantas.

From the name Nisa combined with Arabic نور (nur) meaning "light".

Strictly feminine form of Nasim.

From Arabic نفيس (nafis) meaning "precious, valuable".

Spanish short form of Maximiliano (masculine) or German short form of Maximiliane (feminine) or Maximilian (masculine).

Feminine form of Mahbub.

From the Punic name 𐤌𐤂𐤍 (Magon) possibly meaning "shield" [1]. This name was borne by three kings of Carthage, and also by a brother of Hannibal Barca.

Form of Lohengrin used by the 13th-century German poet Wolfram von Eschenbach.

From the earlier form Loherangrin, derived from Lothringen, the German name for the region of Lorraine. It appears in Arthurian legend, initially in the 13th-century German poem Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach, belonging to a son of the knight Parzival. The tales were adapted by Richard Wagner for his opera Lohengrin (1850).

Russian form of Laurus (see Laura).

From the English noble title Lady, derived from Old English hlæfdige, originally meaning "bread kneader". This name grew in popularity in Latin America after the marriage of Diana Spencer, known as Lady Di, to Prince Charles in 1981 and her death in 1997.

Swiss German short form of Georg.

Diminutive of Jakob, Jörg or Joachim.

Serbian form of Euphemia. This name was adopted by a 14th-century Serbian poet (born Jelena Mrnjavčević).

From an Old German byname derived from hraban meaning "raven".

Derived from Phoenician 𐤇𐤍 (ḥan) meaning "grace, favour". This was a fairly common Punic name.

Dutch feminine form of Gisbert.

Diminutive of Gheorghe.

Probably means "the giving one", from Old Norse gefa "to give". Gefjon or Gefion was a Norse goddess associated with ploughing and fertility.

Variant of Gefjon.

Russian form of Thekla.

Derived from the Old German elements agil "edge, blade" and mari "famous". Egilmar (or Elimar) was the name of two counts of Oldenburg in the 12th century.

Serbian form of Dositheos.

From German Dorn "thorn" and Rose "rose" combined with the diminutive suffix -chen. This is the name of Sleeping Beauty in the Brothers Grimm telling of the fairy tale.

Variant of Dietlinde.

Old German form of Baldric.