Behind the Name: Tosca_10's Personal Name List

Allegra

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Italian, English (Rare)

Pronounced: al-LEH-gra(Italian) ə-LEHG-rə(English)

Rating: 47% based on 7 votes

Means "cheerful, lively" in Italian. It was borne by a short-lived illegitimate daughter of Lord Byron (1817-1822).

Aloisia

Gender: Feminine

Usage: German (Rare)

Pronounced: a-LOI-zya

Rating: 53% based on 7 votes

German feminine form of Aloysius.

Edith

Gender: Feminine

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

Pronounced: EE-dith(English) EH-dit(German, Swedish)

Rating: 56% based on 8 votes

From the Old English name Eadgyð, derived from the elements ead "wealth, fortune" and guð "battle". It was popular among Anglo-Saxon royalty, being borne for example by Saint Eadgyeth;, the daughter of King Edgar the Peaceful. It was also borne by the Anglo-Saxon wife of the Holy Roman Emperor Otto I. The name remained common after the Norman Conquest. It became rare after the 15th century, but was revived in the 19th century.

Isolde

Gender: Feminine

Usage: German, Arthurian Cycle

Pronounced: ee-ZAWL-də(German) i-SOL-də(English) i-ZOL-də(English) i-SOLD(English) i-ZOLD(English) EE-ZAWLD(French)

Rating: 43% based on 7 votes

German form of Iseult, appearing in the 13th-century German poem Tristan by Gottfried von Strassburg. In 1865 the German composer Richard Wagner debuted his popular opera Tristan und Isolde and also used the name for his first daughter.

Jael

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Biblical, Biblical Portuguese

Other Scripts: יָעֵל(Ancient Hebrew)

Pronounced: JAY-əl(English) JAYL(English)

Rating: 32% based on 6 votes

From the Hebrew name יָעֵל (Yaʿel) meaning "ibex, mountain goat". This name appears in the Old Testament belonging to the wife of Heber the Kenite. After Sisera, the captain of the Canaanite army, was defeated in battle by Deborah and Barak he took refuge in Heber's tent. When he fell asleep Jael killed him by hammering a tent peg into his head.

Katerina

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Macedonian, Albanian, Russian, Bulgarian, Greek, Late Roman

Other Scripts: Катерина(Macedonian, Russian, Bulgarian) Κατερίνα(Greek)

Pronounced: kə-tyi-RYEE-nə(Russian)

Rating: 49% based on 7 votes

Macedonian and Albanian form of Katherine, a Russian short form of Yekaterina, a Bulgarian short form of Ekaterina, and a Greek variant of Aikaterine.

Kezia

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Biblical

Other Scripts: קְצִיעָה(Ancient Hebrew)

Pronounced: kə-ZIE-ə(English)

Rating: 42% based on 6 votes

Variant of Keziah.

Salomé

Gender: Feminine

Usage: French, Spanish, Portuguese

Pronounced: SA-LAW-MEH(French) sa-lo-MEH(Spanish) sə-loo-MEH(Portuguese)

Rating: 28% based on 6 votes

French, Spanish and Portuguese form of Salome.