Claystarfire's Personal Name List

Annie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, French, Dutch
Pronounced: AN-ee(English) A-NEE(French)
Rating: 73% based on 9 votes
Diminutive of Anne 1.
Cordell
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: kawr-DEHL
Rating: 67% based on 7 votes
From an English surname meaning "maker of cord" or "seller of cord" in Middle English.
Daisy
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DAY-zee
Rating: 69% based on 10 votes
Simply from the English word for the white flower, ultimately derived from Old English dægeseage meaning "day eye". It was first used as a given name in the 19th century, at the same time many other plant and flower names were coined.

This name was fairly popular at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th. The American author F. Scott Fitzgerald used it for the character of Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby (1925). The Walt Disney cartoon character Daisy Duck was created in 1940 as the girlfriend of Donald Duck. It was at a low in popularity in the United States in the 1970s when it got a small boost from a character on the television series The Dukes of Hazzard in 1979.

Lament
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Puritan)
Personal remark: Goes by Lam
Rating: 46% based on 7 votes
Meaning, "a passionate expression of grief or sorrow." Referring to being sorry for sin. Name given to 'bastard' children.
Leroy
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LEE-roi
Rating: 43% based on 7 votes
From the French nickname le roi meaning "the king". It has been common as an English given name since the 19th century. Since 1920 in the United States it has been mainly used by African Americans [1].
Luka
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Macedonian, Russian, Georgian, Old Church Slavic
Other Scripts: Лука(Serbian, Macedonian, Russian) ლუკა(Georgian) Лꙋка(Church Slavic)
Pronounced: LOO-ka(Croatian) LOO-KAH(Georgian)
Rating: 40% based on 7 votes
Form of Lucas (see Luke) in several languages.
Sheila
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish, English
Pronounced: SHEE-lə(English)
Rating: 49% based on 8 votes
Anglicized form of Síle.
Taina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: TIE-nah
Rating: 49% based on 7 votes
Finnish short form of Tatiana.
Terry 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: TEHR-ee
Rating: 41% based on 7 votes
From an English surname that was derived from the medieval name Thierry, a Norman French form of Theodoric.
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