Behind the Name: Lavender.Daydream's Personal Name List

Abril

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Spanish, Catalan

Pronounced: a-BREEL(Spanish) ə-BREEL(Catalan)

Spanish and Catalan form of April.

Areli

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Biblical, Biblical Hebrew [1]

Other Scripts: אַרְאֵלִי(Ancient Hebrew)

Pronounced: ə-REE-lie(English)

Possibly means "lion of God, hero" in Hebrew. This is the name of a son of Gad in the Old Testament.

Arethusa

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)

Other Scripts: Ἀρέθουσα(Ancient Greek)

From Greek Ἀρέθουσα (Arethousa) meaning "quick water", which is possibly derived from ἄρδω (ardo) meaning "water" and θοός (thoos) meaning "quick, nimble". This was the name of a nymph in Greek mythology who was transformed into a fountain.

Brando

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Germanic [1]

Germanic name derived from the element brant meaning "fire, torch, sword".

Chester

Gender: Masculine

Usage: English

Pronounced: CHEHS-tər(American English) CHEHS-tə(British English)

From an English surname that originally belonged to a person who came from Chester, an old Roman settlement in Britain. The name of the settlement came from Latin castrum "camp, fortress".

Gerard

Gender: Masculine

Usage: English, Dutch, Catalan, Polish

Pronounced: ji-RAHRD(American English) JEHR-əd(British English) GHEH-rahrt(Dutch) zhə-RART(Catalan) GEH-rart(Polish)

Derived from the Old German element ger meaning "spear" combined with hart meaning "hard, firm, brave, hardy". This name was borne by saints from Belgium, Germany, Hungary and Italy. The Normans introduced it to Britain. It was initially much more common there than the similar name Gerald [1], with which it was often confused, but it is now less common.

Magnhild

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Norwegian

Derived from Old Norse magn "power, strength" and hildr "battle". This was the name of an 1877 novel by the Norwegian author Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson.

Suijin

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Japanese Mythology

Other Scripts: 水神(Japanese Kanji) すいじん(Japanese Hiragana)

Pronounced: SOO-EE-ZHEEN(Japanese)

From Japanese 水 (sui) meaning "water" and 神 (jin) meaning "god, spirit". This is the name of the god (or gods) of water, lakes and pools in Japanese mythology.

Wigbrand

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Germanic [1]

Derived from the Old German elements wig "war" and brant "fire, torch, sword".