salamandered's Personal Name List

Short form of names containing the Germanic name element agjō or agil "edge (of a sword)", such as Ekkehard or Aai.

Vernacular form of Albert.

Medieval French variant of Alice, also sometimes used as a masculine name. This is the name of the hero (a young Gaulish man) of a French comic book series, which debuted in 1948.

Silesian German feminine form of Aloys and Alois (compare Aloysia).

Vernacular form of Amélie and Amalia.

Meaning uncertain, possibly a derivative of Anne 1 or Agnès. It was used in Jean-Henri Guy's opera Anacréon chez Polycrate (1798), where it is borne by the daughter (otherwise unnamed in history) of the 6th-century BC tyrant Polycrates of Samos. Guy could have adapted it from a classical name such as Anaitis or Athénaïs.

A famous bearer was the Cuban-French writer Anaïs Nin (1903-1977), known for her diaries.

Contraction of Anna and Katharina.

French form of Arnold.

Late Latin name derived from cara meaning "dear, beloved". This was the name of a 4th-century saint and martyr. It is also the name of a constellation in the southern sky, though in this case it means "keel" in Latin, referring to a part of Jason's ship the Argo.

English form of the Polish name Kazimierz, derived from the Slavic element kaziti "to destroy" combined with mirŭ "peace, world". Four kings of Poland have borne this name, including Casimir III the Great, who greatly strengthened the Polish state in the 14th century. It was also borne Saint Casimir, a 15th-century Polish prince and a patron saint of Poland and Lithuania. The name was imported into Western Europe via Germany, where it was borne by some royalty.

French feminine and masculine form of Caelestis.

French feminine form of Caelinus. This name can also function as a short form of Marceline.

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.

Luxembourgish form of Christian.

Means "sky" in French. It is not used as a given name in France itself.

French form of Delphina.

Originally a short form of Ekkehard and other names beginning with the Old High German element ekka, Old Saxon eggia meaning "edge, blade". This name was borne by Eike of Repgow, who compiled the law book the Sachsenspiegel in the 13th century.

From the Roman family name Aemilius, which was derived from Latin aemulus meaning "rival".

From the Germanic roots ermun ("great, whole") and swind ("strong").

Feminine form of Eugenius (see Eugene). It was borne by a semi-legendary 3rd-century saint who escaped persecution by disguising herself as a man. The name was occasionally found in England during the Middle Ages, but it was not regularly used until the 19th century.

Old German form of Gilbert.

Diminutive of Gréit (compare Gretel).

Spanish and French form of Haidee, from Lord Byron's Don Juan (1819). It was later used by Alexander Dumas for a character in The Count of Monte Cristo (1844).

Variant of Ismérie.

Luxembourgish form of Jean 1 as well as a Limburgian variant of Sjang (same etymology).

Variant of Josie.

Combination of Lise and Charlotte.

Short form of names beginning with Lou- and Lu-, such as Louis and Lucien.

Variant of Lorenz reflecting the French pronunciation of Laurent.

French form of Lucianus.

From the Old German name Leutgar, which was derived from the elements liut "people" and ger "spear". Saint Ludger was an 8th-century Frisian Benedictine bishop who founded a monastery at Munster.

Portuguese and German form of Lucia.

Occitan form of Magdalene.

Derived from Arabic mâysan meaning "sparkling star".

French feminine form of Marcellinus.

Combination of Marie and Hélène.

French form of Michael. Michel de Nostredame (1503-1566), also known as Nostradamus, was a French astrologer who made predictions about future world events. Another famous bearer is the retired French soccer player Michel Platini (1955-). This is also the German diminutive form of Michael.

French diminutive of Michel, as -ou is a French masculine diminutive suffix. This diminutive has been in use since medieval times, as is evidenced by the fact that Michou is also a patronymic surname in France.

Historically, the name was strictly masculine in France, but since at least the 20th century, it has also been used on women occasionally (as a diminutive of Michelle and Micheline). Its use as a feminine name is most often seen outside of the francophone world, such as in Flanders (Belgium) and the Netherlands.

Known bearers of this name include the French cabaret artist Michou (b. 1931; born as Michel Catty), the Réunion singer Michou (b. 1960; born as Marie-Christiane Ducap) and the Belgian World War II resistance fighter Micheline "Michou" Dumon (1921-2017).

Luxembourgish form of Magdalena.

French form of Miriam.

Variant of Nanni.

Limburgish variant of Nikkela and Luxembourgish vernacular form of the French name Nicolas.

French, Spanish, Portuguese and Hungarian form of Noah 1.

Luxembourgish form of Peter.

Dutch, Swedish and Hungarian form of Petronilla.

French form of Peter. This name has been consistently popular in France since the 13th century, but fell out of the top 100 names in 2017. It was borne by the philosopher and theologian Pierre Abélard (1079-1142), the scholar Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749-1827), the impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), and Pierre Curie (1859-1906), a physicist who discovered radioactivity with his wife Marie.

Alternate transcription of Hebrew פִּינְחָס (see Pinchas).

Low German pet form of names containing the name element regin like Reinhard

In German fables, Reineke is the name of the fox.

Variant of Raisel.

Originally a short form of names beginning with the Old German element hraban meaning "raven".

Portuguese and Galician form of Victor.

Luxembourgish form of William.

German form of Václav.