blackelectric's Personal Name List

Means "giving off light, shining" in Amharic.

Means "born to me with wealth" in Yoruba.

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

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

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

Variant of Enara.

Means "open space, sky" in Sanskrit.

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.

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

From the given name Ali 1 combined with Persian شیر (sher) 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.

Derived from Sanskrit अमल (amala) meaning "clean, pure".

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".

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

Form of Azad in several languages.

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.

Means "desirable" in Esperanto.

Latinized form 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.

Means "swallow (bird)" in Basque.

Basque form of Raymond.

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.

Means "you are my sister" in Amharic.

Pashto, Urdu and Bengali form of Farzaneh.

From a medieval Norse nickname meaning "from Flanders".

Latinization of Florice.

Means "wind" in Basque.

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 "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.

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.

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.

Finnish form of Christina, or a short form of Kirsikka. It also means "frost" in Finnish.

Means "eternal, abiding" in Indonesian.

From Armenian լուսին (lusin) meaning "moon".

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.

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

Diminutive of Mihály.

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.

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

Hungarian form of Ursula.

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.

Possibly derived from Persian روز (ruz) 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 a Sanskrit word referring to a type of thrush (species Turdus salica) or myna bird (species Gracula religiosa).

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.

From Sanskrit शरद् (sharad) 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.

Derived from Sanskrit शिव (shiva) meaning "benign, kind, auspicious". Shiva is the Hindu god of destruction and restoration, the husband of the mother goddess Parvati. His aspect is usually terrifying, but it can also be gentle.

Means "lovely" in Armenian.

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 (suvarna).

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.

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

Variant of Tristram, used in Eilhart von Oberg's 'Tristrant und Isalde'.

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

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 (zarin) 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.

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.