Anna the singer's Personal Name List

Elaborated form of Adela.

Means "bundled up and set to dry" in Yoruba.

Short form of Adoración.

Variant of Aeron.

Combination of Aeron and the Welsh element gwen meaning "white, blessed".

Scottish Gaelic form of Alice.

From an English surname that was from a place name: either Annesley in Nottinghamshire or Ansley in Warwickshire. The place names themselves derive from Old English anne "alone, solitary" or ansetl "hermitage" and leah "woodland, clearing".

In America, this name received a boost of popularity in 2000 when a character bearing it began appearing on the television series The West Wing.

From Japanese 明 (ake) meaning "bright" and 美 (mi) meaning "beautiful". Other kanji combinations are possible.

Means "born on Wednesday" in Akan.

Elaborated form of Laura or a variant of Elora.

Variant of Alyssa.

Derived from Arabic المدينة (al-mudayna) meaning "the citadel", a diminutive form of the word مدينة (madīna) meaning "city". According to legend, it was in a building by this name that a concealed statue of the Virgin Mary was discovered during the Reconquista in Madrid. The Virgin of Almudena, that is Mary, is the patron saint of Madrid.

Spanish form of Amaryllis.

Variant of Amarisa.

Variant of Amora (perhaps based on French amour).

Often from Sino-Vietnamese 英 (anh) meaning "flower, petal, brave, hero". This name is frequently combined with a middle name to create a compound name; the meaning of Anh can change depending on the Sino-Vietnamese characters underlying the compound.

Diminutive of Ann-Kristin, Ann-Katrin and other similar names.

Combination of Anna and Maria.

Latinate diminutive of Anna.

Variant of Annunziata.

Italian diminutive of Antonia.

Spanish, Catalan, Russian and Polish form of Ariadne.

Derived from Welsh arian "silver" and gwen "white, blessed". This was the name of a 5th-century Welsh saint, one of the supposed daughters of Brychan Brycheiniog.

Hebrew variant of Ariella, Polish feminine form of Ariel, Italian feminine form of Ariele as well as a Croatian and Albanian borrowing of the Italian name.

Variant of Arlette in use in Latin America.

From Japanese 旭 (asahi) or 朝日 (asahi) both meaning "morning sun". Other kanji combinations can also form this name.

Modern Greek form of Athena.

Spanish and Portuguese form of Aurea.

From Japanese 彩 (aya) meaning "colour", 綾 (aya) meaning "design" or 絢 (aya) meaning "brilliant fabric design, kimono design" combined with 音 (ne) meaning "sound". Other kanji combinations are possible.

Means "madonna lily" in Spanish.

Feminine form of Benito.

Italian and Spanish feminine form of Bernardino.

French feminine form of Bernardino.

Scandinavian short form of Birgitta.

Feminine form of Bruno.

Spanish and Portuguese form of Camilla.

Short form of Candelaria.

Late Latin name derived from cara meaning "dear, beloved". This was the name of a 4th-century saint and martyr. It is also the name of a constellation in the southern sky, though in this case it means "keel" in Latin, referring to a part of Jason's ship the Argo.

Spanish and Romanian form of Cassandra.

Feminine form of Cassius

A famous bearer of this name is Cassiane Santana Santos Macnhães Guimarães, a Brazilian gospel singer.

Italian and Catalan form of Katherine.

Anglicized form of Caitríona (Irish) or Caitrìona (Scottish Gaelic).

Probably an elaboration of Celestina.

Latinate feminine form of Caelestinus.

From Sino-Vietnamese 枝 (chi) meaning "branch".

Italian form of Clara. Saint Chiara (commonly called Clare in English) was a follower of Saint Francis of Assisi.

From Japanese 千 (chi) meaning "thousand", 智 (chi) meaning "wisdom, intellect" or 散 (chi) meaning "scatter" combined with 佳 (ka) meaning "good, beautiful" or 花 (ka) meaning "flower". Other kanji combinations are also possible.

Spanish and Hungarian form of Cynthia.

Italian form of Cynthia.

French form of Clarice.

Feminine form of Clement.

Variant of Clíodhna.

Form of Criseida used by Shakespeare in his play Troilus and Cressida (1602).

Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan and Romanian form of Christina.

From Sino-Vietnamese 菊 (cúc) meaning "chrysanthemum".

Spanish variant of Diana, reflecting the English pronunciation.

From Sino-Vietnamese 廷 (đình) meaning "courtyard".

Form of Dorothea in several languages.

Diminutive of Dorothy.

Alternate transcription of Hebrew דְּבוֹרָה (see Devora).

Variant of Ernestine.

Italian form of Hedda.

Means "white snow" from the Welsh elements eira "snow" and gwen "white, blessed". This name was created in the early 20th century.

Modern Greek form of Helle 2.

Spanish form of Alodia.

Means "elm tree" in Cornish. This is a recently coined Cornish name.

Variant of Elowen.

Allegedly an elaboration of Lysandra

From Elysium, the name of the realm of the dead in Greek and Roman mythology.

Meaning uncertain, perhaps related to Old Norse almr "elm". In Norse mythology Embla and her husband Ask were the first humans. They were created by three of the gods from two trees.

Spanish form of Emmeline.

Means "empress" in Spanish.

Diminutive of Eva.

Feminine form of Fabianus (see Fabian).

Italian form of Felicitas. It also coincides closely with Italian felicità "happiness".

Spanish feminine form of Philip.

Form of Fionnuala used by Walter Scott for a character in his novel Peveril of the Peak (1823).

Variant of Fenella.

Spanish feminine form of Florentius (see Florence).

Italian and Catalan feminine form of Franciscus (see Francis).

From Japanese 文 (fumi) meaning "writing" or 史 (fumi) meaning "history" combined with 江 (e) meaning "bay, inlet", 恵 (e) meaning "favour, benefit" or 絵 (e) meaning "picture, painting". Other kanji combinations can also form this name.

Italian form of Jasmine.

Spanish form of Gemma.

Italian short form of Giovanni.

Diminutive of Giovanna.

Diminutive of Giovanna.

Italian form of Iustina (see Justina).

Anglicized form of Glenys.

Elaboration of Gracia.

Means "grace" in Italian, making it a cognate of Grace.

Feminine form of Gregorius (see Gregory).

Possibly derived from the Old German elements gris "grey" and hilt "battle". It is not attested as a Germanic name. This was the name of a patient wife in medieval folklore, adapted into tales by Boccaccio (in The Decameron) and Chaucer (in The Canterbury Tales).

Feminine form of Guillermo.

Derived from Welsh gwen meaning "white, blessed" combined with another element of uncertain meaning. It could possibly be Welsh ffreu meaning "stream, flow" [1] or the obscure word ffrewi meaning "pacify, quell, reconcile" [2]. This may be the original form of Winifred. In any case, it is the Welsh name for the saint.

Variant of Gwyneth.

Variant of Harriet.

Feminine form of Hefin.

Diminutive of Henriette, Hendrika and other names containing hen. In Dutch it can also be masculine as a diminutive of Hendrik.

Feminine form of Herminius.

Swedish and Finnish form of Heilwig.

From Yoruba ìfẹ́ meaning "love".

Possibly a Romanian variant of Elena. In Romanian folklore this is the name of a princess kidnapped by monsters and rescued by a heroic knight.

Thai form of Indira.

Latinate form of Isabel. This name was borne by many medieval royals, including queens consort of England, France, Portugal, the Holy Roman Empire and Hungary, as well as the powerful ruling queen Isabella of Castile (properly called Isabel).

In the United States this form was much less common than Isabel until the early 1990s, when it began rapidly rising in popularity. It reached a peak in 2009 and 2010, when it was the most popular name for girls in America, an astounding rise over only 20 years.

A famous bearer is the Italian actress Isabella Rossellini (1952-).

Of uncertain origin and meaning, although theories include a combination of Isabella and Susannah. This name was first recorded in the Boston area in the early 1700s and famously borne by one of Paul Revere's daughters who died in infancy. It was later used by Esther Forbes in her 1943 historical fiction novel Johnny Tremain.

From the name of the island of Islay, which lies off of the west coast of Scotland.

Italian form of Iseult.

Variant of Janet, currently in use in South America and East Africa.

Diminutive of Jeremy (and formerly of James).

Spanish form of Jessica.

Variant of Yesenia.

Variant of Ximena. This form is more popular in Spain itself.

Spanish feminine form of Joachim.

Diminutive of John, sometimes used as a feminine form.

Variant of Joy.

Finnish form of Jonah.

Diminutive of Juana.

Variant of Caitlin.

Czech, Slovak and Polish form of Camilla.

From Japanese 霞 (kasumi) meaning "mist". It can also come from 花 (ka) meaning "flower, blossom" combined with 澄 (sumi) meaning "clear, pure". Other kanji combinations are also possible.

German form of Katherine.

German, Swedish and Estonian short form of Katherine.

From Japanese 加 (ka) meaning "add, increase" or 佳 (ka) meaning "good, auspicious, beautiful" combined with 代 (yo) meaning "generation, era" or 余 (yo) meaning "surplus" and finishing with 子 (ko) meaning "child". This name can also be formed from other combinations of kanji characters.

From Japanese 和 (kazu) meaning "harmony, peace" or 一 (kazu) meaning "one" combined with 美 (mi) meaning "beautiful". Other combinations of kanji can form this name as well.

Variant of Kaylee.

Variant of Kelsey, with the spelling influenced by Chelsea.

From Sino-Vietnamese 金 (kim) meaning "gold, metal".

Elaboration of Kimberly using the popular name suffix lyn.

Diminutive of Kimberly or Kim 1.

Short form of Kristian, Kristoffer and other names beginning with Kris.

From the English noble title Lady, derived from Old English hlæfdige, originally meaning "bread kneader". This name grew in popularity in Latin America after the marriage of Diana Spencer, known as Lady Di, to Prince Charles in 1981 and her death in 1997.

Elaboration of Lake using the popular name suffix lyn.

Variant of Lakelyn.

Diminutive of Lance, Landon and other names beginning with Lan.

Combination of the popular prefix la with the name Sandra, possibly inspired by Cassandra.

Possibly means "beautiful" in Thai.

Meaning unknown. In Greek myth she was a Spartan queen and the mother of Castor, Pollux, Helen and Clytemnestra by the god Zeus, who came upon her in the form of a swan.

Feminine form of Leonardo.

Variant of Leslie.

Basque form of Libya, suggested by the Basque writer Sabino Arana in 1910.

Polish, Italian, Spanish and Georgian form of Lydia.

Short form of Carolien and other names ending in lien.

Scottish Gaelic of Lillian [1].

Spanish and Italian form of Lily, as well as an alternate transcription of Russian Лилия or Ukrainian Лілія (see Liliya).

Derived from Akkadian lilitu meaning "of the night". This was the name of a demon in ancient Assyrian myths. In Jewish tradition she was Adam's first wife, sent out of Eden and replaced by Eve because she would not submit to him. The offspring of Adam (or Samael) and Lilith were the evil spirits of the world.

Strictly feminine form of Lior.

Swedish variant of Liselotte.

Means "rain" in Spanish.

Diminutive of Charlotte or Liselotte.

Feminine form of Lucianus.

Polish, Portuguese and Romanian feminine form of Louis.

Means "light" in Spanish. It is taken from the title of the Virgin Mary, Nuestra Señora de la Luz, meaning "Our Lady of Light".

From the name of a barrio (district) in Seville, which got its name from a temple that may have been named for a person named Macarius (see Macario). The Virgin of Macarena, that is Mary, is widely venerated in Seville.

Feminine form of Macario.

Italian form of Magdalene.

Combination of Mair and Welsh gwen meaning "white, blessed".

Feminine form of Manish.

Feminine form of Marcellinus.

French feminine form of Marcellinus.

Means "Mary the helper" in Spanish, a devotional title of the Virgin Mary.

Combination of Maria and Chiara.

Combination of María and Dolores.

Spanish diminutive of Mariana.

Combination of María and Celia or Cecilia. It is especially popular in the Philippines.

Dutch diminutive of Maria.

East Prussian German form of Marike.

Hispanic variant of Myra.

Derived from Latin melior meaning "better".

Variant of Melusine. This was the name of Petronilla Melusina von der Schulenburg (1693-1778), an illegitimate daughter of George I of Great Britain.

From the Welsh name Maredudd or Meredydd, from Old Welsh forms such as Margetud, possibly from mawredd "greatness, magnificence" combined with iudd "lord". The Welsh forms of this name were well used through the Middle Ages. Since the mid-1920s it has been used more often for girls than for boys in English-speaking countries, though it is still a masculine name in Wales. A famous bearer of this name as surname was the English novelist and poet George Meredith (1828-1909).

Albanian form of Mary, referring to the Virgin Mary.

From the English word, which is directly from Latin meridianus meaning "of midday, of noon, southerly, to the south". It was used by Alice Walker for the heroine of her novel 'Meridian' (1976).

From an English surname, originally from a place name, which meant "boundary gate" in Old English.

Diminutive of Melinda.

From Sino-Vietnamese 明 (minh) meaning "bright". This was an adopted name of the communist revolutionary Hồ Chí Minh (1890-1969).

From Sanskrit मीर (mīra) meaning "sea, ocean". This was the name of a 16th-century Indian princess who devoted her life to the god Krishna.

Catalan form of Mirèio (see Mireille).

From the Occitan name Mirèio, which was first used by the poet Frédéric Mistral for the main character in his poem Mirèio (1859). He probably derived it from the Occitan word mirar meaning "to admire". It is spelled Mirèlha in classical Occitan orthography. A notable bearer is the French singer Mireille Mathieu (1946-).

Italian form of Mireille.

Variant of Mireia.

Spanish, Italian and Croatian cognate of Myrtle.

From Japanese 美 (mi) meaning "beautiful", 夜 (ya) meaning "night" and 子 (ko) meaning "child". This name can be formed from other combinations of kanji as well.

Scottish Gaelic form of Muirgel.

Means "born during the weeding season", from Luhya liliaka meaning "weeding".

From Japanese 直 (nao) meaning "straight, direct" and 美 (mi) meaning "beautiful" (usually feminine) or 己 (mi) meaning "self" (usually masculine). Other kanji combinations can also form this name.

Spanish and Portuguese form of Naiara.

Feminine form of Neil.

Feminine form of Nerio.

Medieval Welsh diminutive of Agnes.

Spanish and Czech form of Nicole.

Derived from Latin novellus meaning "new, young, novel", a diminutive of novus "new". This name was borne by the 14th-century Italian scholar Novella d'Andrea, who taught law at the University of Bologna.

Spanish form of Núria.

Feminine form of Octavius. Octavia was the wife of Mark Antony and the sister of the Roman emperor Augustus. In 19th-century England it was sometimes given to the eighth-born child.

Anciant Roman feminine form of Octavianus and Romanian and Provençal feminine form of Octavian.

Form of Olympias in several languages.

The name of a princess of Norway in the medieval Spanish tale of the knight Amadis of Gaul. It is perhaps related to Greek ὀλύνθη (olynthe) meaning "wild fig tree" (similar to Olindo). Olinda is also the name of a Brazilian city.

Variant of Olufunmilayo.

Variant of Olwen.

Possibly derived from Latin aurum "gold" or from its derivatives, Spanish oro or French or. In medieval legend Oriana was the daughter of a king of England who married the knight Amadis.

Feminine form of Ovidius (see Ovid).

Strictly feminine variant of Patrocinio.

French feminine form of Paulinus (see Paulino).

Italian and Spanish cognate of Pearl.

Italian feminine form of Peter.

Feminine diminutive of Pietro.

Portuguese and Spanish form of Priscilla.

From Spanish pura meaning "pure", also used as a diminutive of Purificación.

Dutch feminine form of Quirinus.

Means "kings" in Spanish. It is taken from the title of the Virgin Mary, La Virgen de los Reyes, meaning "The Virgin of the Kings". According to legend, the Virgin Mary appeared to King Ferdinand III of Castile and told him his armies would defeat those of the Moors in Seville.

Welsh form of Rowena, appearing in medieval Welsh poems and stories as a personification of the English people.

From Japanese 莉 (ri) meaning "white jasmine" or 里 (ri) meaning "village" combined with 奈 (na), a phonetic character, or 菜 (na) meaning "vegetables, greens". Other kanji combinations are possible.

From Japanese 莉 (ri) meaning "white jasmine" or 里 (ri) meaning "village" combined with 央 (o) meaning "center", 緒 (o) meaning "thread" or 桜 (o) meaning "cherry blossom". Other kanji combinations are also possible.

Combination of Rosa 1 and the common name suffix bel, inspired by Latin bella "beautiful". This name was created in the 18th century.

Derived from the Old German elements hros meaning "horse" and lind meaning "soft, flexible, tender". The Normans introduced this name to England, though it was not common. During the Middle Ages its spelling was influenced by the Latin phrase rosa linda "beautiful rose". The name was popularized by Edmund Spencer, who used it in his poetry, and by William Shakespeare, who used it for the heroine in his comedy As You Like It (1599).

Means "golden rose", derived from Latin rosa "rose" and aurea "golden". This name was (first?) used by Pedro Calderón de la Barca for a character in his play Life Is a Dream (1635).

Feminine form of Rosendo.

Italian form of Roxana.

Latin form of Ῥωξάνη (Rhoxane), the Greek form of an Old Persian or Bactrian name, from Old Iranian *rauxšnā meaning "bright, shining" [1]. This was the name of Alexander the Great's first wife, a daughter of the Bactrian nobleman Oxyartes. In the modern era it came into use during the 17th century. In the English-speaking world it was popularized by Daniel Defoe, who used it in his novel Roxana (1724).

Hausa and Kazakh form of Safiyya. It is also an alternate transcription of the Arabic name.

Short form of Alessandra. It was introduced to the English-speaking world (where it is usually used independently of Alexandra) by author George Meredith, who used it for the heroine in his novel Emilia in England (1864) and the reissued version Sandra Belloni (1887). A famous bearer is the American actress Sandra Bullock (1964-).

Name introduced in the early 2010s.

Means "the moon" in Thai (a poetic word).

An invented name, a combination of the popular phonetic prefix sha and the name Rhonda.

Variant of Shona.

Feminine form of Silvester.

Feminine form of Silvinus.

Feminine form of Simon 1.

Variant of Stormy.

Variant of Stormy.

Variant of Stormy.

From the English word meaning "stormy, wild, turbulent", ultimately from Old English stormig.

Means "fragrance, pleasant smell" in Thai, ultimately of Pali origin.

Possibly means "good word" in Thai.

Spanish diminutive of Susana.

From a personification of the country of Sweden, in use since the 17th century. It is a derivative of Svear, the Swedish name for the North Germanic tribe the Swedes. The Swedish name of the country of Sweden is Sverige, a newer form of Svear rike meaning "the realm of the Svear".

Diminutive of Tabitha.

Derived from the Welsh elements teg "beautiful, pretty" and gwen "white, blessed". This name was created in the 19th century [1].

From the English word meaning "moderation" or "restraint". This was one of the virtue names adopted by the Puritans in the 17th century. It experienced a modest revival in the United States during the run of the television series Bones (2005-2017), in which the main character bears this name.

Spanish short form of Teresa.

Basque and Scandinavian form of Theresa.

Either a feminine variant of Terry 1 or a diminutive of Theresa.

Either a feminine variant of Terry 1 or a diminutive of Theresa.

Diminutive of Terence or Theresa. A famous bearer was Terry Fox (1958-1981), a young man with an artificial leg who attempted to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research. He died of the disease before crossing the country.

Short form of Theresa. This is the name of the main character in Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891).

Contracted form of Theresa.

Thessaly is a traditional geographic and modern administrative region of Greece, comprising most of the ancient region of the same name. This name is borne by Thessaly Lerner, American stage, film and voice actress.

From Sino-Vietnamese 氏 (thị) meaning "clan, family, maiden name". This is a very common middle name for Vietnamese girls.

From Sino-Vietnamese 垂 (thùy) meaning "let down, suspend, hang".

Means "to twinkle, to sparkle" in Swedish.

Variant of Tracy.

Feminine variant of Tracy.

From an English surname that was taken from a Norman French place name meaning "domain belonging to Thracius". Charles Dickens used it for a male character in his novel The Pickwick Papers (1837). It was later popularized as a feminine name by the main character Tracy Lord in the movie The Philadelphia Story (1940). This name is also sometimes used as a diminutive of Theresa.

Possibly from Irish treise meaning "strength" or treas meaning "battle". It is also used as an Irish form of Theresa.

From Sino-Vietnamese 貞 (trinh) meaning "virtuous, chaste, loyal".

Feminine form of Tullius (see Tullio).

From Sino-Vietnamese 雪 (tuyết) meaning "snow".

Swedish feminine form of Ulrich. This was the name of two queens of Sweden.

Feminine form of Urban.

From Sino-Vietnamese 雲 (vân) meaning "cloud".

From the Latin name of the Italian region of Veneto and the city of Venice (see the place name Venetia). This name was borne by the celebrated English beauty Venetia Stanley (1600-1633), though in her case the name may have been a Latinized form of the Welsh name Gwynedd [1]. Benjamin Disraeli used it for the heroine of his novel Venetia (1837).

French feminine form of Vincent.

From Sino-Vietnamese 榮 (vinh) meaning "glory".

From the Latin name Vivianus, which was derived from Latin vivus "alive". Saint Vivian was a French bishop who provided protection during the Visigoth invasion of the 5th century. It has been occasionally used as an English (masculine) name since the Middle Ages. In modern times it is also used as a feminine name, in which case it is either an Anglicized form of Bébinn or a variant of Vivien 2.

Feminine form of Vivianus (see Vivian). Saint Viviana (also known as Bibiana) was a Roman saint and martyr of the 4th century.

Spanish variant of Jennifer.

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.

Variant of Zulema.