ThatOneAuthorGirl's Personal Name List

Zuzen
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Basque
Pronounced: soo-SEHN
Means "just, fair" in Basque.
Zoraida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: tho-RIE-dha(European Spanish) so-RIE-dha(Latin American Spanish)
Perhaps means "enchanting" or "dawn" in Arabic. This was the name of a minor 12th-century Spanish saint, a convert from Islam. The name was used by Cervantes for a character in his novel Don Quixote (1606), in which Zoraida is a beautiful Moorish woman of Algiers who converts to Christianity and elopes with a Spanish officer.
Txomin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Basque
Pronounced: CHO-meen
Basque form of Dominic.
Nokomis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: New World Mythology
From Ojibwe nookomis meaning "my grandmother". In Anishinaabe legend this is the name of Nanabozho's grandmother. It was used by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow for the grandmother of Hiawatha in his 1855 poem The Song of Hiawatha [1].
Macario
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: ma-KA-ryo
Spanish form of the Latin name Macarius, derived from the Greek name Μακάριος (Makarios), which was in turn derived from Greek μάκαρ (makar) meaning "blessed, happy". This was the name of several early saints.
Luken
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Basque
Pronounced: LOO-kehn
Basque form of Lucianus.
Ixquic
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Mayan Mythology, New World Mythology
Pronounced: sh-KEEK
Means "blood lady" in Quiché (Mayan), from the feminine prefix ix- combined with qiq "blood". In Mayan mythology she was the mother of the twin gods Hunahpu and Ixbalanqué.
Ixchel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Mayan Mythology, Mayan
Pronounced: eesh-CHEHL(Mayan)
Possibly means "rainbow lady", from Classic Maya ix "lady" and chel "rainbow". Ixchel was a Maya goddess associated with the earth, jaguars, medicine and childbirth. She was often depicted with a snake in her hair and crossbones embroidered on her skirt.
Inanna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Sumerian Mythology
Other Scripts: 𒀭𒈹(Sumerian Cuneiform)
Pronounced: i-NAH-nə(English)
Possibly derived from Sumerian nin-an-a(k) meaning "lady of the heavens", from 𒎏 (nin) meaning "lady" and the genitive form of 𒀭 (an) meaning "heaven, sky". Inanna was the Sumerian goddess of love, fertility and war. She descended into the underworld where the ruler of that place, her sister Ereshkigal, had her killed. The god Enki interceded, and Inanna was allowed to leave the underworld as long as her husband Dumuzi took her place.

Inanna was later conflated with the Semitic (Akkadian, Assyrian and Babylonian) deity Ishtar.

Esti 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque (Rare)
Means "sweet, honey", from Basque ezti.
Enki
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Sumerian Mythology
Other Scripts: 𒀭𒂗𒆠(Sumerian Cuneiform)
Pronounced: ENG-kee(English)
From Sumerian 𒂗 (en) meaning "lord" and 𒆠 (ki) meaning "earth, ground" (though maybe originally from 𒆳 (kur) meaning "underworld, mountain"). Enki, called Ea by the Akkadians, Assyrians and Babylonians, was the Sumerian god of water and wisdom and the keeper of the Me, the divine laws.
Eloxochitl
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Nahuatl, Mexican (Rare)
Means "magnolia" in Nahuatl.
Edahi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Aztec
Pronounced: Eh-dah-hee(Classical Nahuatl)
Means "wind" in Otomi.
Cyra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: History (Ecclesiastical)
Meaning unknown. Saint Cyra was a 5th-century Syrian hermit who was martyred with her companion Marana.
Aintza
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque
Pronounced: IEN-tsa
Means "glory" in Basque.
Ainhoa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque
Pronounced: IE-no-a(Basque) ie-NO-a(Spanish)
From the name of a town in southwestern France where there is a famous image of the Virgin Mary.
Adirane
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque
Coined by Sabino Arana Goiri as a Basque equivalent of Spanish Adriana and French Adrienne.
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