blackelectric's Personal Name List

Derived from Sanskrit अरुषी (aruśi) meaning "dawn".

Means "giving off light, shining" in Amharic.

Means "born to me with wealth" in Yoruba.

Means "justice" in Turkish, ultimately from Arabic عدل (ʿadala) meaning "to act justly".

Means "justice" in Kyrgyz and Kazakh, ultimately from Arabic عدل (ʿadala) meaning "to act justly".

From Cherokee ᎠᏥᎳ (atsila) "fire" or ᎠᏥᎸᏍᎩ (atsilunsgi) "flower, blossom".

From the name of a town situated on the slopes of Mount Pagoeta in the Basque province of Gipuzkoa, Spain.

Variant of Enara.

From Sanskrit आकाश (ākāśa) meaning "open space, sky".

Means "ether (quintessence)" in Sanskrit and Hindi. Related to the masculine Akash meaning "open sky". Used by Anne Rice in her Vampire Chronicles for the mother of all vampires, a pre-Egyptian queen.

Possibly of Turkic origin meaning "white falcon". This was the name of a medieval Hungarian clan.

Alasia is the name of the star HD 168746. The star is named after an ancient name for Cyprus.

Form of Al-Hasan used in parts of French-influenced West Africa.

Form of Alice used in several languages.

From the given name Ali 1 combined with Persian شیر (shīr) meaning "lion". It was borne by the Timurid poet Ali-Shir Nava'i (1441-1501), who wrote in the Chagatai Turkic language.

Derived from Arabic al-safīnah meaning "the ship". Alsephina, also known as Delta Velorum, is a triple star system that is a part of the constellation Vela.

Means "the flyer" in Arabic. This is the name of a star in the constellation Aquila.

Hungarian form of Ambrosius (see Ambrose).

From the name of a place near the Spanish town of Oñati where there is a sanctuary dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Its name is derived from Basque arantza "thornbush".

Means "shining" or "bright" in Sanskrit.

From Sanskrit अरुष (aruṣa) meaning "reddish, dawn", a word used in the Rigveda to describe the red horses of Agni. According to some traditions this was the name of the wife of the legendary sage Chyavana.

Derived from Sanskrit आशा (āśā) meaning "wish, desire, hope".

Means "dawn" in Lithuanian.

Latvian cognate of Aušra.

Form of Azad in several languages.

Of uncertain origin and meaning. One current theory condsiders this name a diminutive of Beila.

From Japanese 千 (chi) meaning "thousand" and 夏 (natsu) meaning "summer", as well as other kanji combinations.

Meaning uncertain, possibly from Apache go-chizh "his firewood" or go-chįh "his nose". This was the name of a 19th-century chief of the Chiricahua Apache.

Derived from Hungarian csillag meaning "star". This name was created by the Hungarian author András Dugonics for an 1803 novel and later used and popularized by the poet Mihály Vörösmarty.

Created by the Hungarian poet Mihály Vörösmarty for a male character in his epic poem Zalán Futása (1825). It was used by later writers such as Mór Jókai for female characters.

Means "sea" in Azerbaijani.

Means "star" in Khmer, ultimately from Sanskrit तारा (tārā).

Means "desirable" in Esperanto.

Variant of Eadmundus, though it can also be a direct latinization of Edmund.

Means "snow" in Basque, from edur, a variant of elur "snow". It is an equivalent of Nieves, proposed by the writer Sabino Arana in his 1910 list of Basque saints names.

Lithuanian form of Edwin.

Modern Greek form of Helen.

Turkish form of Alif, the name of the first letter of the Arabic alphabet, ا. It also means "slender", from the Turkish phrase elif gibi, literally "shaped like elif".

Basque form of Elizabeth.

Means "swallow (bird)" in Basque.

Basque form of Raymond.

Hungarian form of Elizabeth. This is the native name of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary. It was also borne by the infamous Erzsébet Báthory (1560-1614), a countess and alleged murderer.

Derived from Turkish esmer "dark" and ay "moon".

Derived from Arabic أَسْمَر (ʾasmar) meaning "dark-skinned, brown, brunette".

Possibly a Turkish form of Asra.

Diminutive of Esther. A famous bearer was the American businesswoman Estée Lauder (1908-2004), founder of the cosmetics company that bears her name. Her birth name was Josephine Esther Mentzer. Apparently she added the accent to her name Estee in order to make it appear French.

Diminutive of Eszter.

Means "you are my sister" in Amharic.

Ezana or Ezanas (c.303– c.350 CE/AD) was king of Aksum, now Ethiopia. Ezana was the first monarch of the Kingdom of Aksum to embrace Christianity. Ezana is a Geʽez (an ancient Ethiopian Semitic language) name of unknown meaning.

Female form of Ezan.

Pashto, Urdu and Bengali form of Farzaneh.

From a medieval Norse nickname meaning "from Flanders".

Latinization of Florice.

Basque feminine form of Franciscus (see Francis).

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.

Means "power of the father" in Igbo.

Modern Greek form of Elias.

Means "Illyrian" in Albanian, referring to an ancient people who inhabited the Balkans.

Means "air" in Finnish.

Adoption of Ilva, the Latin name of the island of Elba. The island's name has been speculated to be of Etruscan origin and as such to be derived from a word meaning "iron".

Means "fern field" in Basque.

Means "trinity" in Basque, derived from hiru meaning "three". It was proposed by Sabino Arana in 1910 as an equivalent of the Spanish name Trinidad.

Means "dew" in Korean.

Turkish form of Ismat.

Hungarian form of Stephen. This was the name of the first king of Hungary. Ruling in the 11th century, he encouraged the spread of Christianity among his subjects and is considered the patron saint of Hungary.

Spanish form of Yvelise, especially used in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.

Means "star" in Basque.

In the Basque country and French-speaking areas, this name is now generally considered a variant of Izar and Izarra. There is, however, another theory which derives Izara from izar, the Pyrenean French cognate of French isard "chamois".
Whichever theory might be true, this name is extremely rare in the French-speaking world with 7 births in France between 1916 and 1990 and 5 births in French-speaking Belgium from 2002 to present.

From the name of a sanctuary dedicated to the Virgin Mary near Tolosa, Gipuzkoa, Spain. It possibly means "broom bush above the valley" in Basque.

From Sino-Korean 志 (ji) meaning "will, purpose, ambition" or 智 (ji) meaning "wisdom, intellect" combined with 秀 (su) meaning "luxuriant, beautiful". Other hanja character combinations are possible.

Hungarian diminutive of Julia.

Finnish and Estonian diminutive of Katherine.

From Japanese 栞 (kan) meaning "bookmark" and 菜 (na) meaning "vegetables, greens". Other kanji combinations can form this name as well.

Means "eternal, abiding" in Indonesian.

Estonian diminutive of Eliisabet.

Means "little mother", from Swedish and Norwegian lille, an inflected form of liten meaning "little", combined with mor meaning "mother". This name was first recorded in Norway and Sweden at the beginning of the 20th century.

From Armenian լուսին (lusin) meaning "moon".

Diminutive of Magdolna.

Hungarian form of Magdalene.

From Sino-Vietnamese 梅 (mai) meaning "plum, apricot" (refers specifically to the species Prunus mume).

Basque form of Magdalene.

Contraction of Maria and names ending in -anthe, such as Anthe and Chrysanthe.

Meaning unknown. In European folklore Melusine was a water fairy who turned into a serpent from the waist down every Saturday. She made her husband, Raymond of Poitou, promise that he would never see her on that day, and when he broke his word she left him forever.

From Japanese 美 (mi) meaning "beautiful", 智 (chi) meaning "wisdom, intellect" and 子 (ko) meaning "child". This name can also be comprised of other combinations of kanji.

Originally a diminutive of Miklós or Mihály. It is now used independently, or as a Hungarian form of Maximilian.

From 敏 (mǐn) meaning "quick, clever, sharp", 民 (mín) meaning "people, citizens", or other Chinese/Sino-Korean characters that are pronounced similarly.

Created by the Finnish writer Mika Waltari for a character in his historical novel The Egyptian (1945). He may have based it on the name Minos, as the character is herself of Cretan origin.

From Chinese 明 (míng) meaning "bright, light, clear" or 铭 (míng) meaning "inscribe, engrave", as well as other characters that are pronounced similarly.

Diminutive of Mihály.

From Japanese 光 (mitsu) meaning "light" and 子 (ko) meaning "child". Other kanji combinations are possible.

From the Basque name of the Spanish city of Nájera, which is Arabic in origin. In the 12th century there was a reported apparition of the Virgin Mary in a nearby cave.

From Aymara nayra meaning "eye" or "early".

Means "lily" in Korean.

Alternate transcription of Hindi/Marathi नवीन, Kannada ನವೀನ್, Telugu నవీన్, Tamil நவீன் or Malayalam നവീൻ (see Navin).

Hungarian form of Ursula.

Turkish, Kurdish, Albanian, Bosnian and Malay form of Uthman. This was the name of the founder of the Ottoman Empire in the 14th century. It was later borne by two more Ottoman sultans.

From Greek περιστέρι (peristeri) meaning "dove, pigeon," from Ancient Greek περῐστέρῐον (peristérion), the diminutive of περιστερᾱ́ (peristerā́).
This name is borne by Peristera "Betty" Baziana (1974-), the wife of the Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras.

Directly taken from Hungarian remény "hope". Theories include that this name was coined as a translation of Nadezhda.

Short form of names beginning with Rom-, like Romualdas and Romanas.

From Japanese 留 (ru) meaning "detain, fasten", 瑠 (ru) meaning "lapis lazuli", or 流 (ru) meaning "current, flow" combined with 美 (mi) meaning "beautiful". Other kanji combinations are possible.

Possibly derived from Persian روز (rūz) meaning "day". This name was borne by a 13th-century ruling queen of Georgia.

Meaning unknown. It was used by the Armenian author Muratsan for the main character in his historical play Ruzan (1882).

From Japanese kanji 幸 (sachi) meaning "happiness; good luck".

From the Old Hungarian name Saroldu, probably of Turkic origin meaning "white weasel, ermine". This was the wife of the 10th-century Hungarian grand prince Géza.

Variant of Sarolt, also used as a Hungarian form of Charlotte.

Means "love" in Uzbek.

From Sanskrit शरद् (śarad) meaning "autumn".

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).

From Chinese 时 (shí) meaning "time, era, season", 实 (shí) meaning "real, honest", 史 (shǐ) meaning "history" or 石 (shí) meaning "stone". Other characters can form this name as well.

Means "lovely" in Armenian.

Italian form of Sirius.

The name of a bright star in the constellation Canis Major, derived via Latin from Greek σείριος (seirios) meaning "burning".

Means "gold" in Khmer, ultimately from Sanskrit सुवर्ण (suvarṇa).

Short form of Stanislova.

Derived from Parthian surena meaning "warrior" or sura meaning "strong".

Means "summer" in Finnish.

From Japanese 鈴 (suzu) meaning "bell" or other kanji having the same pronunciation.

From Japanese 雀 (suzume) meaning "sparrow", as well as other kanji or kanji combinations that are pronounced the same way.

Combination of a tae hanja, like 泰 meaning "big, large, great; easy, calm," 兌 meaning "change, switch; happiness" or 太 meaning "big, large; heavy," and a jin hanja, such as 鎭 meaning "quellable," 珍 meaning "treasure," 振 meaning "shake," 進 meaning "advance, progress" or 辰, referring to the Dragon as the fifth of twelve earthly branches in the Chinese zodiac.

Form of Tamar with the nominative suffix, used in Georgian when the name is written stand-alone.

Created by the Hungarian author Mór Jókai for a character in his novel The Golden Man (1873). The name is apparently based on the Greek word εὐθυμία (euthymia) meaning "good spirits, cheerfulness".

From Japanese 富 (tomi) meaning "wealth" combined with 夫 (o) meaning "man, husband". Other combinations of kanji characters can also form this name.

Derived from the Georgian adjective ციალა (tsiala) meaning "shimmering".

Finnish form of Thomas.

Lithuanian form of Valentinus (see Valentine 1).

Means "gold" in Armenian.

Possibly means "having no one in front of him in the canoe" in Nuu-chah-nulth. This was the name of a chief of the Clayoquot in the late 18th century, at the time of European contact.

Basque diminutive of Xavier.

From Chinese 夏 (xià) meaning "summer, great, grand", 霞 (xiá) meaning "rosy clouds", or other characters that are pronounced similarly.

From Chinese 欣 (xīn) meaning "happy, joyous, delighted" or 心 (xīn) meaning "heart, mind, soul" combined with 怡 (yí) meaning "joy, harmony". This name can also be formed from other character combinations.

From Chinese 雅 (yǎ) meaning "elegant, graceful, refined" combined with 玲 (líng) meaning "tinkling of jade". This name can be formed of other character combinations as well.

Alternate transcription of Greek Γιάννα (see Gianna).

Spanish form of Yemọja, used in various Afro-American syncretic religions in the Caribbean and South America. In Cuba she is identified with Our Lady of Regla, an aspect of the Virgin Mary.

From Sino-Korean 藝 "art; talent, ability" and 潾 "clear water".

Alternate transcription of Greek Γιάννα (see Gianna).

Means "star" in Turkish.

Derived from the Chinese 怡 (yí) meaning "happy, joyful" or "harmony, pleasure, be glad", 懿 (yì) meaning "virtuous, admirable, esteemed", 宜 (yí) meaning "suitable, right, proper", 依 (yī) meaning "rely on, be set on, obey a wish" or 艺 (yì) meaning "art, talent, ability" and 欣 (xīn) meaning "happy, joyous, delighted", 昕 (xīn) meaning "dawn, early morning", 心 (xīn) meaning "heart, mind, soul" or 馨 (xīn) meaning "fragrant, aromatic, distant fragrance".

Feminine form of Ylli.

Canarian Spanish name of recent origin, derived from the Guanche word yruene meaning "demon, evil spirit". This word was first recorded incorrectly as yurena by the French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent in 1803.

From Japanese 柚 (yuzu) meaning "grapefruit, pomelo, citrus fruit" and 希 (ki) meaning "hope". Other combinations of kanji can form this name as well.

From Persian زرین (zarīn) meaning "golden". According to the 5th-century BC Greek historian Ctesias, this was the name of a Scythian queen.

Means "fate, destiny" in Mongolian.

Meaning unknown, possibly of Romani origin. This name was (first?) used by Aleksandr Pushkin in his poem The Gypsies (1827).

Means "star" in Kazakh.

Alternate transcription of Kyrgyz Жылдыз (see Jyldyz).

Derived from Mongolian зол (zol) meaning "fortune, luck, blessing" and заяа (zayaa) meaning "future, fate, destiny".

Hungarian form of Jeannette.

Diminutive of Zsuzsanna.

Possibly a Hungarian form of Željka.

Diminutive of Erzsébet or Zsófia.

Old variant of Zoltán.

From Turkish zümrüt meaning "emerald", derived via Arabic from Greek σμάραγδος (smaragdos).

Means "emerald" in Azerbaijani, of Persian origin.