salamandered's Personal Name List

Adsila
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Cherokee
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
From Cherokee ᎠᏥᎳ (atsila) "fire" or ᎠᏥᎸᏍᎩ (atsilunsgi) "flower, blossom".
Ahamefuna
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Igbo
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Means "may my name not be lost" in Igbo.
Ahanu
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Algonquin
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Means "he laughs" in Algonquin.
Aheng
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Kurdish
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Means "harmony" in Kurdish.
ʻAlohilani
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hawaiian (Rare)
Pronounced: a-lo-hee-LA-nee
Rating: 80% based on 3 votes
Means "heavenly brightness" from Hawaiian alohi "shine" and lani "heaven, sky". In Hawaiian myth this was the name of a heavenly land.
Amanchuu
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Far Eastern Mythology
Other Scripts: -阿摩美久(Japanese Kanji)
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Okinawan reading of Amamikyu, the traditional creator goddess of the Ryukyu Islands. Her name is derived from 阿 (a) meaning "a", 摩 (ma) meaning "to rub, chafe", 美 (mi) meaning "beauty" and 久 (yu) meaning "long time". These characters were probably chosen for their phonetic value in indigenous Okinawan rather than their individual meaning.
Ayasha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Indian (Rare), American (Modern), Cheyenne
Rating: 73% based on 3 votes
Variant of Ayashe.
Berfîn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Kurdish
Other Scripts: بەرفین(Kurdish Sorani)
Pronounced: behr-FEEN
Rating: 10% based on 1 vote
Means "snowdrop (flower)" in Kurdish (genus Galanthus).
Charani
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Romani
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
Means "phoenix" in Romani.
Chaska
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Sioux
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
From Lakota or Dakota čhaské meaning "firstborn son".
Chenda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Khmer
Other Scripts: ចិន្តា(Khmer)
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
From Pali cintā meaning "thought, care", from Sanskrit चिनता (cintā).
Chiazo
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Igbo
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Means "God saves" in Igbo.
Chikap
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ainu
Other Scripts: チカプ(Ainu Katakana)
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Means "bird" in Ainu.
Chura
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Japanese (Rare)
Other Scripts: 美楽, 美心, 宙良, 千由良, etc.(Japanese Kanji) 美ら, 清ら(Kanji/Hiragana) ちゅら(Japanese Hiragana) チュラ(Japanese Katakana)
Pronounced: CHOO-RA
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
From the stem of Okinawan adjective 美/清らさん (churasan) meaning "beautiful, lovely," cognate to Japanese 清ら (kiyora), an archaic term referring to elegant and dazzling beauty, otherwise the stem of 清らか (kiyoraka) meaning "clean, pure, chaste."
For the final element, any kanji that can be read as ra is used, like 楽 meaning "comfort, ease" or 良 meaning "good." When written after 美, any kanji that evokes an image can also be used, e.g. 心, normally read as kokoro meaning "heart, mind." As for the initial element, aside from 美, any single or multiple kanji whose readings can be shifted to chu can be used, such as 宙 meaning "space, air" or 千由, from 千 meaning "thousand" and 由 meaning "reason, cause."

This name is rarely used.

Coyolxāuhqui
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Aztec and Toltec Mythology
Pronounced: ko-yosh-SHAW-kee
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Variant of Coyolxauhqui
Dilyéhé
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Navajo (?), Astronomy
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Means "planting stars" in Navajo. This is the Navajo name of the star cluster known in English as the Pleiades.
Ehecatl
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Aztec and Toltec Mythology, Nahuatl
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Means "wind" in Nahuatl [1]. This was the name of the Aztec wind god.
Eizen
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Japanese (Rare)
Other Scripts: 栄善, 永善, 英善, 栄全, etc.(Japanese Kanji) えいぜん(Japanese Hiragana) エイゼン(Japanese Katakana)
Pronounced: EH-ZEHN
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Combination of an ei kanji, like 栄 meaning "glory, prosperity," 永 meaning "eternity" or 英 meaning "wisdom, brilliance," and a zen kanji, such as 善 meaning "goodness, virtue" or 全 meaning "whole, complete."

This name is very rarely used and most of its usage is concentrated in Okinawa.

Elotl
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Nahuatl
Pronounced: eh-LO-tl
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Means "green ear of corn, young maize" in Nahuatl.
Enoli
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Cherokee
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Means "black fox" in Cherokee.
Gozei
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 呉勢(Japanese Kanji) ごぜい(Japanese Hiragana) ゴゼイ(Japanese Katakana)
Pronounced: GO-ZE:, GO-DZE:
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Japanese form of the Okinawan warabi-naa or personal name (childhood name in its literal sense) Gujī (呉勢/グジー), which is comprised of 呉 (go, kure, ku.reru / gu) meaning "do something for, give" and 勢 (sei, zei, ikio.ri, hazumi / ji-) meaning "energy, power, force, vigour."

This name was common before the early 20th century among commoner women, though it's also used for women of samurai (with an addition of either a prefix or a suffix) and aristocratic women (with additions of both a prefix and a suffix).

Halia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hawaiian
Pronounced: ha-LEE-ah
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Directly taken from Hawaiian hali'a meaning "memory of a loved one, cherished or loving memory". It made the top 100 in Hawaii for the first time in 2020, the year of the Covid19 pandemic.
Hanalei
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Hawaiian
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
Means "crescent bay" from Hawaiian hana "bay" and lei. It is sometimes used as the Hawaiian form of Henry.
Harukor
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ainu
Other Scripts: ハルコル(Ainu Katakana)
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Means "one who has food" in Ainu.
Haunani
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hawaiian
Pronounced: how-NA-nee
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Means "beautiful snow" from Hawaiian hau "snow" and nani "beauty, glory".
Hestiyar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Kurdish
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
Derived from Kurdish hestyar meaning "sentimental".
Hōkūlani
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hawaiian
Pronounced: ho-koo-LA-nee
Rating: 83% based on 3 votes
Means "heavenly star" from Hawaiian hōkū "star" and lani "heaven, sky, royal, majesty".
Hozshona
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Navajo (Rare, ?)
Pronounced: ho zhon a
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Possibly derived from Navajo hózhǫ́ "it is beautiful".
Huitaca
Gender: Feminine
Usage: New World Mythology
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Etymology unknown. This was the name of the Muisca goddess of arts, dance and music, witchcraft, sexual liberation and the Moon who was turned into a white owl.
Iara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Tupi
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Means "lady of the water" in Tupi, from y "water" and îara "lady, mistress". In Brazilian folklore this is the name of a beautiful river nymph who would lure men into the water. She may have been based upon earlier Tupi legends.
Ijinashi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Korean (Rare, ?)
Other Scripts: 이진아시(Korean Hangul)
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Originated from the Gaya Confederacy
Ilayali
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Mexican, Rare)
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Venezuelan-born singer Ilayali Bolívar competed on the eighth season of the reality television series La Voz México (2019).
Imekanu
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ainu
Other Scripts: イメカヌ(Ainu Katakana)
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Ainu female name, borne most notably by a mythologist and poet (Japanese name: Kannari Matsu (金成 マツ)) credited with preserving numerous Ainu epics (Yukar).
Inola
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Cherokee
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Derived from Cherokee ᎢᏃᎵ (inoli) meaning "black fox".
Inriki
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Quechua
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Quechua form of Henry.
Iriqtaq
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greenlandic, Yupik, Inupiat
Pronounced: ee-reek-tak(Greenlandic)
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Means "concealed object".
Ixchel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Mayan Mythology, Mayan
Pronounced: eesh-CHEHL(Mayan)
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
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.
Jaci 2
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Tupi
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
From Tupi îasy meaning "moon".
Jacira
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Tupi
Pronounced: zha-SEE-ru(Brazilian Portuguese)
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Means "honey moon" in Tupi, from îasy "moon" and yra "honey".
Jahana
Usage: Okinawan
Other Scripts: 謝花(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: JA-HA-NA(Japanese)
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Possibly from Japanese 謝 (ja) meaning "apologise, thanks" and 花 (hana) meaning "flower".
Kamado
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese (Rare)
Other Scripts: かまど(Japanese Hiragana) カマド(Japanese Katakana)
Pronounced: KAH-MAH-DO
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
This name doesn't have a meaning since it is written phonetically and it is used most in Okinawa.

As a word, it (竃/竈) refers to a hearth or a kitchen furnace.

This name was used most commonly from the Meiji period (1868-1912) to the first half of the 20th century, albeit occasionally, but nowadays, it is very rarely given to girls, if given at all.

One fictional bearer of this name is Kamado Ueshita (上下 かまど), one of the characters in the manga and anime, Future Diary or Mirai Nikki (未来日記) in Japanese.

Karwasisa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Quechua
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Means "yellow flower" in Quechua, from Quechua karwa, "yellow" and sisa, "flower".
Keasik
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Cree
Pronounced: Kee sik
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
From Cree ka wâsekwahk "sky blue".
Keme
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Algonquin
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Means "secret" in Algonquin, derived from the Algonquin kiim.
Keone
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hawaiian
Pronounced: keh-O-neh
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Means "the homeland" from Hawaiian ke, a definite article, and one "sand, homeland".
Kobinah
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Akan
Pronounced: kow-bih-nah
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
handsome/precious boy born on tuesday
Kyunnyay
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Yakut
Rating: 90% based on 1 vote
Means "solar" in Yakut.
Léan
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Irish form of Helen.
Leikanglei
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Manipuri
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
Means "desert flower" in Meitei.
Leilani
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Hawaiian
Pronounced: lay-LA-nee
Rating: 93% based on 3 votes
Means "heavenly flowers" or "royal child" from Hawaiian lei "flowers, lei, child" and lani "heaven, sky, royal, majesty".
Ligaya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Tagalog
Pronounced: lee-GA-ya
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Means "happiness" in Tagalog.
Lilakai
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Navajo
Rating: 83% based on 3 votes
Meaning uncertain, perhaps derived from Navajo łį́į́ʼ "horse" and łigaii "white". It was borne by Lilakai "Lily" Neil (1900-1961), the first woman to be elected to the Navajo Tribal Council (served 1946-1951).
Malia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hawaiian, English (Modern)
Pronounced: ma-LEE-a(Hawaiian) mə-LEE-ə(English)
Rating: 80% based on 3 votes
Hawaiian form of Maria. This name experienced a spike in popularity in 2009, due to the eldest daughter (born 1998) of the new American president Barack Obama.
Mayahuel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Aztec and Toltec Mythology, Spanish (Mexican, Rare), American (Hispanic, Rare)
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Possibly means "that which surrounds the maguey plant" in Nahuatl, from ‘metl meaning "maguey (species Agave americana)" and yahualli "round". In Aztec religion this was the name of a goddess who personified the maguey plant.
Meztli
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Aztec and Toltec Mythology, Nahuatl
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Variant of Metztli.
Namid
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ojibwe, Cheyenne
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Derived from the Ojibwe and Cheyenne words niimii meaning "she dances" and anang meaning "star".
Nanabah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Navajo
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Means "returning warrior" in Navajo, derived from nááná "again" and baa' "warrior, heroine, raid, battle".
Nascha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Navajo
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Derived from the Navajo word néʼéshjaaʼ meaning "owl".
Naserian
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Eastern African
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Means “the lucky one" in Samburu, a variant of Maasai language.
Niyol
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Navajo
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Means "wind" in Navajo.
Noah 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, German, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch (Modern), French (Modern), Biblical
Other Scripts: נֹחַ, נוֹחַ(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: NO-ə(English) NO-a(German)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
From the Hebrew name נֹחַ (Noaḥ) meaning "rest, repose", derived from the root נוּחַ (nuaḥ). According to the Old Testament, Noah was the builder of the Ark that allowed him, his family, and animals of each species to survive the Great Flood. After the flood he received the sign of the rainbow as a covenant from God. He was the father of Shem, Ham and Japheth.

As an English Christian name, Noah has been used since the Protestant Reformation, being common among the Puritans. In the United States it was not overly popular in the 19th and 20th centuries, but it began slowly growing in the 1970s. Starting 1994 it increased rapidly — this was when actor Noah Wyle (1971-) began starring on the television series ER. A further boost in 2004 from the main character in the movie The Notebook helped it eventually become the most popular name for boys in America between 2013 and 2016. At the same time it has also been heavily used in other English-speaking countries, as well as Germany, the Netherlands, Scandinavia and France.

A famous bearer was the American lexicographer Noah Webster (1758-1843).

Notah
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Navajo
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Possibly means "almost there" in Navajo.
Ochieng
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Luo
Rating: 15% based on 2 votes
Means "born when the sun shines", derived from Luo chieng meaning "sun".
Ohiyesa
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Sioux
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Means "winner" in Dakota or Lakota, from ohíya "winning" and the suffix s'a "commonly, frequently".
Quetzalcoatl
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Aztec and Toltec Mythology
Pronounced: keh-tsash-KO-ach(Nahuatl) keht-səl-ko-AHT-əl(English)
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Means "feathered snake" in Nahuatl, derived from quetzalli "quetzal feather, precious thing" and cōātl "snake" [1]. In Aztec and other Mesoamerican mythology he was the god of the sky, wind, and knowledge, also associated with the morning star. According to one legend he created the humans of this age using the bones of humans from the previous age and adding his own blood.
Sacnicte
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Mayan (Hispanicized)
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Means "white plumeria flower", from Yucatec Maya sak "white" and nikte' "plumeria flower".
Sequoyah
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Cherokee
Other Scripts: ᏍᏏᏉᏯ, ᏎᏉᏯ(Cherokee)
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Probably derived from Cherokee ᏏᏆ (siqua) meaning "hog". This was the name of the Cherokee man (also known as George Guess) who devised the Cherokee writing system in the 19th century.
Shashi
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Kannada, Telugu
Other Scripts: शशि, शशी(Hindi, Marathi) শশী(Bengali) ಶಶಿ(Kannada) శశి(Telugu)
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Traditional name for the moon, it literally means "having a hare" in Sanskrit. This is a transcription of both the masculine form शशि and the feminine form शशी (spelled with a long final vowel).
Shinda
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ainu, Far Eastern Mythology, Japanese Mythology
Other Scripts: シンダ(Ainu Katakana, Japanese Katakana)
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Ainu god (Kamuy) of fertility.
Tamya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Quechua
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Means "rain" in Quechua.
Tida
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Japanese (Modern, Rare)
Other Scripts: 太陽(Japanese Kanji) てぃだ(Japanese Hiragana) ティダ(Japanese Katakana)
Pronounced: TYEE-DA
Rating: 87% based on 3 votes
From 太陽 (tida), the word for "sun" in many Ryukyuan languages, cognate to Japanese 天道 (tendō), referring to the sun or the god of heaven and the earth.
Tochihuitl
Usage: Aztec, Nahuatl
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Means ‘Rabbit Feather Down’ - ‘down’ as in soft feathers. It’s a combination of tochitl meaning "rabbit" and ihuitl meaning "feather" particularly small ones.
Tochtli
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Nahuatl, Mexican
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Means "rabbit" in Nahuatl, related to the Nahuatl verb totoca "run fast". This is the eighth day-sign of the tonalpohualli.
Tokala
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Sioux
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Means "kit fox" in Lakota or Dakota. This name was used by American author Franklin Welles Calkins for a female character in his novel The Wooing of Tokala (1907). It is borne by American actor Tokala Black Elk (1984-).
Tola 1
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Khmer
Other Scripts: តុលា(Khmer)
Pronounced: to-LA
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Means "October" in Khmer, ultimately from Sanskrit तुल (tula), referring to the constellation Libra.
Tonalli
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Nahuatl
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Means "day, warmth of the sun" in Nahuatl [1].
Washakie
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Shoshone
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
Watseka
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Algonquin
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Means "pretty girl" in Potawatomi, from the Potawatomi winsakeekyahgo "pretty girl".
Wayra
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Quechua
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Means "wind, air" in Quechua.
Wi-sapa
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Sioux
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Means "black sun", from Lakota wee "sun" and sah'-pah "black".
Xiuhxochitl
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Nahuatl
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Means "turquoise flower" in Nahuatl, from xihuitl "turquoise" and xōchitl "flower".
Yatziri
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Mexican)
Pronounced: gyat-SEH-ree(Mexican Spanish)
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Invented name inspired by similar names like Yaretzi and Yaritza.
Yazhi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Navajo
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Means "little" in Navajo.
Yuka
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Inuit
Pronounced: Yoo - kah(Inuktitut)
Rating: 70% based on 1 vote
Means "bright star" in Inuit.
Zitkala
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Sioux
Rating: 83% based on 3 votes
From Lakota zitkála meaning "bird".
Zolin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Nahuatl
Pronounced: zoe-lin
Rating: 60% based on 4 votes
Means "quail" in Nahuatl.
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