Behind the Name: LadySherLoki's Personal Name List

Axel

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, German, French, English

Pronounced: A-ksehl(Swedish) A-ksəl(German) A-KSEHL(French) AK-səl(English)

Medieval Danish form of Absalom.

Embla

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Norse Mythology, Icelandic, Swedish, Norwegian

Pronounced: EHM-blah(Icelandic, Swedish, Norwegian)

Meaning uncertain, perhaps related to Old Norse almr "elm". In Norse mythology Embla and her husband Ask were the first humans. They were created by three of the gods from two trees.

Mikhail

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Russian, Belarusian, Bulgarian

Other Scripts: Михаил(Russian, Bulgarian) Міхаіл(Belarusian)

Pronounced: myi-khu-EEL(Russian)

Russian and Belarusian form of Michael, and an alternate transcription of Bulgarian Михаил (see Mihail). This was the name of two Russian tsars. Other notable bearers include the Russian poet Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841), the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev (1931-2022), and the Latvian-Russian-American dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov (1948-).