Charlie1977's Personal Name List

Alandra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Mexican), Portuguese (Brazilian)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Albus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Roman
Personal remark: Albus Dumbledore (Harry Potter)
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
Roman cognomen meaning "white, bright" in Latin.
Almanzo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: al-MAN-zo
Personal remark: Almanzo Wilder (Real person, protagonist, The Little House on the Prairie)
Rating: 58% based on 5 votes
Anglicized form of Al-Mansur.
Anakin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Popular Culture
Pronounced: AN-ə-kin(English)
Personal remark: Anakin Skywalker (A main protagonist, Star Wars)
Rating: 39% based on 22 votes
Meaning unknown. This is the name of a character (also known as Darth Vader) in the Star Wars movie saga, created by George Lucas. Lucas may have based it on the surname of his friend and fellow director Ken Annakin.
Andersine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Danish
Personal remark: The Danish first name for Daisy Duck, full name Andersine And. 'And' means 'duck' in Danish, so it is both funny & punny at the same time. Donald Duck is Anders And here.
Rating: 45% based on 4 votes
Danish feminine form of Anders.
Arya 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: AHR-yə(English)
Personal remark: Arya Stark (A main protagonist, ASOFAI/Game of Thrones)
Rating: 54% based on 5 votes
Created by author George R. R. Martin for a popular character in his series A Song of Ice and Fire, published beginning 1996, and the television adaptation Game of Thrones (2011-2019). In the story Arya is the second daughter of Ned Stark, the lord of Winterfell.
Asterix
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Popular Culture
Pronounced: AST-ə-riks(English)
Personal remark: For the comic book character 'Asterix'.
Rating: 20% based on 4 votes
The name of a Gaulish hero (Astérix in the original French) in a comic book series of the same name, debuting 1959. His name is a pun based on French astérisque meaning "asterisk, little star" but appearing to end with the Gaulish element rix meaning "king" (seen for example in the historical figure Vercingetorix). All male Gauls in the series have humorous names ending with -ix.
Astoria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: as-TAWR-ee-ə
Personal remark: for 'So Long, Astoria' (Album/song by band The Ataris)
Rating: 73% based on 4 votes
Feminine form of Astor. This is also the name of several American towns, after the businessman John Jacob Astor.
Atlantis
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἀτλαντίς(Ancient Greek)
Personal remark: (F). For the city of Atlantis, but also the sci-fi TV show 'Stargate: Atlantis'.
Rating: 37% based on 3 votes
Derived from Greek Ἄτλας (see Atlas), a mythological king with the same name as the Titan. According to Greek mythology, Atlantis was an island that sank in the Atlantic Ocean.
Atreyu
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature (Anglicized)
Pronounced: ə-TRAY-yoo
Personal remark: Atreyu (A main protagonist, The NeverEnding Story)
Rating: 25% based on 4 votes
Anglicized variant of Atréju, which was created by German author Michael Ende for the hero of his fantasy novel 'Die unendliche Geschichte' (1979; English: 'The Neverending Story'). The character is a boy warrior whose name is explained as meaning "son of all" in his fictional native language, given to him because he was raised by all of the members of his village after being orphaned as a newborn.

Current usage is influenced by the name of a Californian metal-core band named after the hero in 'The neverending story'.

Avonlea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Personal remark: Where Anne grows up (Anne of the Green Gables)
Rating: 74% based on 5 votes
Created by L. M. Montgomery as the setting for her novel Anne of Green Gables (1908). She may have based the name on the Arthurian island of Avalon, though it also resembles the river name Avon and leah "woodland, clearing".
Bandit
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (American, Rare), Popular Culture (Rare)
Personal remark: Of general use in any Popculture out there
Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
From the English word, ultimately from the late Latin bannire "to proclaim". Used by My Chemical Romance vocalist Gerard Way and Mindless Self Indulgence bassist Lyn-Z for their daughter.

The name of the character in the Australian Cartoon "Bluey".
Bandit is a secondary character and the mate/husband of Chilli, Bluey and Bingo’s father, Uncle Stripe’s older brother and Socks and Muffin‘s uncle.
Bastian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German
Pronounced: BAS-tee-an
Personal remark: Bastian Balthasar Bux (the main protagonist, The Neverending Story)
Rating: 37% based on 3 votes
Short form of Sebastian.
Blade
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Popular Culture
Personal remark: Of general use in any Popculture out there
Rating: 30% based on 3 votes
Transferred use of the surname Blade or from the Old English blæd ‘leaf of a plant,' of Germanic origin; related to Dutch blad and German Blatt.

Blade is the 'hero' name of Marvel comics half-vampire, vampire-hunter, protagonist Eric Brooks. He was portrayed by actor Wesley Snipes in the 'Blade' film trilogy and Kirk "Sticky Fingaz" Jones in the television adaptation.

Bowie
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Modern), Dutch (Modern)
Pronounced: BO-ee(English)
Personal remark: Singer David Bowie
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
From a Scottish surname, derived from Gaelic buidhe meaning "yellow". It has been used as a given name in honour of the British musician David Bowie (1947-2016), born David Robert Jones, who took his stage name from the American pioneer James Bowie (1796-1836).
Brienne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (Modern, Rare), Popular Culture, Literature
Personal remark: Brienne of Tarth (A main protagonist, ASOFAI/Game of Thrones)
Rating: 75% based on 4 votes
Variant of Brianne. This is the name of a character in George R. R. Martin's 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series, as well as the TV show based on the books 'Game of Thrones'. Martin did not originate this form, though, for it was in use in the United States well before the first book in the series was published in 1996.
Caprica
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (Modern, Rare), Popular Culture
Pronounced: KAP-ri-kə(American)
Personal remark: Caprica. (Main colony/planet, Battlestar Galactica [2003-2009])
Rating: 73% based on 4 votes
This name may be derived from Capricornus (see Capricorn). This is the name of a planet from the Battlestar Galactica franchise.
Cassian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Roman (Anglicized)
Pronounced: KASH-ən(English) KAS-ee-ən(English)
Personal remark: Cassian Andor (The main protagonist, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story)
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
From the Roman family name Cassianus, which was derived from Cassius. This was the name of several saints, including a 3rd-century martyr from Tangier who is the patron saint of stenographers and a 5th-century mystic who founded a monastery in Marseille.
Chesney
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: CHEZ-nee
Personal remark: Singer Chesney Hawkes
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
From the traditionally English and French topographic surname for someone who lived by or in an oak wood, from the Old French chesnai "oak grove", from chesne 'oak tree'.
Cirkeline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Danish (Modern, Rare)
Personal remark: Danish female comic book character. She's so tiny she sleeps in an empty matchbox and her best friend are two mice.
Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
Usage probably inspired by the Danish comic book character with same name, created by Hanne Hastrup in 1957.
Coruscant
Usage: Popular Culture
Pronounced: KAWR-ə-sahnt
Personal remark: (M.) Home world of Han Solo (Star Wars)
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Coruscant is a fictional planet in the 'Star Wars' universe. The planet is an ecumenopolis -- the surface is almost entirely covered by one city. The name is derived from Latin coruscant "vibrating, glittering, sparkling". In-universe, however, the name is derived from a type of gemstone called corusca gem. The planet first appeared in the 1991 novel 'Heir to the Empire' by Timothy Zahn and first seen on screen in the 1997 special edition of 'Return of the Jedi' (originally released in 1983). The planet has appeared in numerous Star Wars-related media since then.
Donnatella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, English (Rare)
Personal remark: Donnatella Moss (A main protagonist, The West Wing)
Rating: 65% based on 4 votes
Variant of Donatella.

This is the full first name of the character, Donnatella "Donna" Moss, on the hit TV show The West Wing, with an Italian mother and an Irish father. She's portrayed by Janel Moloney.

Draco
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Δράκων(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: DRAY-ko(English)
Personal remark: Draco Malfoy (Harry Potter)
Rating: 56% based on 18 votes
From the Greek name Δράκων (Drakon), which meant "dragon, serpent". This was the name of a 7th-century BC Athenian legislator. This is also the name of a constellation in the northern sky.
Elliott
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHL-ee-ət
Personal remark: Elliott (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial)
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
From an English surname that was derived from a diminutive of the medieval name Elias.
Errol
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHR-əl
Personal remark: Errol the owl (Harry Potter)
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
From a Scottish surname that was originally derived from village by this name in Perthshire. It was popularized as a given name by the Australian actor Errol Flynn (1909-1959).
Galen
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: GAY-lən
Personal remark: Galen Tyrol (Battlestar Galactica [2003-2009]) & Galen Erso (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story)
Rating: 43% based on 3 votes
Modern form of the Greek name Γαληνός (Galenos), which meant "calm" from Greek γαλήνη (galene). It was borne by a 2nd-century BC Greco-Roman physician who contributed to anatomy and medicine. In modern times the name is occasionally given in his honour.
Gates
Usage: English
Pronounced: GAYTS
Personal remark: (F.) For actress Gates McFadden [Cheryl Gates McFadden] of "Star Trek: TNG" fame.
Rating: 63% based on 3 votes
Originally denoted a person who lived near the town gates.
Gendry
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature, Popular Culture
Pronounced: JEN-dree
Personal remark: Gendry Waters/Baratheon (ASOFAI/Game of Thrones)
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
Gendry is the name of a character, an unacknowledged royal bastard, from the Song of Ice and Fire books by GRR Martin and the TV show Game of Thrones based upon the former.
Being a recent invention for a fictious world resembling Medieval Europe, no actual or alleged etymology is known.
Hermione
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἑρμιόνη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: HEHR-MEE-O-NEH(Classical Greek) hər-MIE-ə-nee(English)
Personal remark: Hermione Granger (Harry Potter)
Rating: 65% based on 4 votes
Derived from the name of the Greek messenger god Hermes. In Greek myth Hermione was the daughter of Menelaus and Helen. This is also the name of the wife of Leontes in Shakespeare's play The Winter's Tale (1610). It is now closely associated with the character Hermione Granger from the Harry Potter series of books, first released in 1997.
Hobie
Gender: Masculine
Usage: American (Modern, Rare), Popular Culture
Pronounced: ho-be(American)
Personal remark: Hobie Buchannon (Baywatch)
Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
Diminutive of Hobart.
Jaime 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: KHIE-meh(Spanish) ZHIE-mi(European Portuguese) ZHIEM(European Portuguese) ZHIE-mee(Brazilian Portuguese)
Personal remark: Jaime Lannister (ASOFAI/Game of Thrones)
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
Spanish and Portuguese form of Iacomus (see James).
Jubilee
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern), Popular Culture
Pronounced: joo-bə-LEE(English) JOO-bə-lee(English)
Personal remark: Jubilee (X-Men)
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
From the English word jubilee meaning "season of rejoicing", which is derived from Hebrew יוֹבֵל (yovel) "ram, ram's horn; a jubilee year: a year of rest, prescribed by the Jewish Bible to occur each fiftieth year, after seven cycles of seven years; a period of celebration or rejoicing" (via Late Latin iubilaeus and Greek ἰώβηλος (iobelos)). In Latin, the form of the word was altered by association with the unrelated Latin verb iubilare "to shout with joy".

It may also refer to African-American folk songs known as Jubilees.

In popular culture, Jubilee is the 'mutant' name (a contraction of Jubilation Lee) of one of the protagonists of Marvel's X-Men line of comics.

Jyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Popular Culture
Pronounced: jin
Personal remark: Jyn Erso (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story)
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Jyn Erso is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise, portrayed by English actress Felicity Jones in the 2016 film Rogue One.
Kaywinnet
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Popular Culture
Personal remark: Kaywinnit Lee "Kaylee" Frye (Firefly)
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Kaywinnet Lee "Kaylee" Frye is a character on the 2002 tv show Firefly.
Kermit
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KUR-mit
Personal remark: Kermit the Frog (The Muppets)
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
From a rare (Americanized) Manx surname, a variant of the Irish surname Mac Diarmada, itself derived from the given name Diarmaid. This was the name of a son of Theodore Roosevelt born in 1889. He was named after a relative of his mother, Robert Kermit. The name is now associated with Kermit the Frog, a Muppet created by puppeteer Jim Henson in 1955.
Kestra
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Popular Culture
Pronounced: KEHS-trə(English)
Personal remark: Kestra Troi-Riker (Star Trek: The Next Generation/Picard)
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Kianna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Personal remark: Kianna (Stargate SG-1)
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
Variant of Kiana 1.
Leeloo
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Popular Culture
Pronounced: lee-LOO
Personal remark: Leeloo (The Fifth Element)
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Short form of Leeloominaï, which is revealed to mean "precious stones" in the (fictional) Divine Language. Leeloominaï, called Leeloo, is the heroine of the 1997 sci-fi movie "The Fifth Element". The name became popular in France after the release of the movie, usually spelled as Lilou and sometimes as Lylou or Leelou.
Leia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical Greek, Portuguese, Popular Culture
Other Scripts: Λεία(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: LAY-ə(English)
Personal remark: Leia Organa (Star Wars)
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
Form of Leah used in the Greek Old Testament, as well as a Portuguese form. This is the name of a princess in the Star Wars movies by George Lucas, who probably based it on Leah.
Lyanna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Personal remark: Lyanna Stark and Lyanna Mormont (ASOFAI/Game of Thrones)
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
Created by author George R. R. Martin for a character in his series A Song of Ice and Fire, published beginning 1996, and the television adaptation Game of Thrones (2011-2019). In the story Lyanna was the sister of Ned Stark. Her abduction and subsequent death was the cause of the civil war that toppled the Targaryens.
Merida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Popular Culture
Personal remark: Merida (Brave)
Rating: 80% based on 4 votes
The name of the main character in the Disney/Pixar movie Brave (2012) about a medieval Scottish princess. The meaning of her name is unexplained, though it could be based on the Spanish city of Mérida, derived from Latin Emerita Augusta meaning "veterans of Augustus", so named because it was founded by the emperor Augustus as a colony for his veterans.
Morticia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Popular Culture
Pronounced: mawr-TISH-ə(English)
Personal remark: Morticia Addams (The Addams Family)
Rating: 65% based on 4 votes
From the American English word mortician meaning "undertaker, funeral director", ultimately derived from Latin mortis meaning "death". This name was created for the mother on the Addams Family television series (1964-1966). She was based on an unnamed recurring character in cartoons by Charles Addams, starting 1938.
Nausicaa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ναυσικάα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: naw-SIK-ee-ə(English)
Personal remark: Nausicaa (Planet, Star Trek)
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Latinized form of Greek Ναυσικάα (Nausikaa) meaning "burner of ships". In Homer's epic the Odyssey this is the name of a daughter of Alcinous who helps Odysseus on his journey home.
Nikita 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Indian, Marathi, Hindi
Other Scripts: निकिता(Marathi, Hindi)
Personal remark: Nikita (Elton John song)
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Derived from Sanskrit निकेत (niketa) meaning "house, habitation".
Nymphadora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: nimf-ə-DAWR-ə
Personal remark: Nymphadora Tonks (Harry Potter)
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Variant of Nymphodora used by J. K. Rowling in her 'Harry Potter' series of books, where it belongs to a minor character, a Metamorphmagus who despises her name.
Olenna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Personal remark: Olenna Tyrell (ASOFAI/Game of Thrones)
Rating: 80% based on 4 votes
Used in G.R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire.
Olenna Tyrell, born Olenna Redwyne, is the mother of Mace Tyrell, lord of Highgarden, and the grand-mother of Margaery, Loras, Garlan and Willas Tyrell.

Martin most likely based her name on Olena.

Phryne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: History, Literature
Other Scripts: Φρύνη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: FRIE-nee
Personal remark: Phryne Fisher (Miss. Fisher's Murder Mysteries)
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Ancient Greek nickname meaning "toad", literally "the brown animal". Phryne was a 4th-century BC hetaira or courtesan, famed for her beauty, whose stage name - like those of many hetairai - was based on a physical feature; she was called that either because of a dark complexion (*phrynos being cognate with brown) or because of a "snub nose" (phrynē "a kind of toad"). This stage name was borne by other hetairai also.

It is also the name of the detective in Australian author Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher mystery series, beginning in 1989.

Podrick
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Popular Culture
Pronounced: Pod-rik
Personal remark: Podrick Payne (ASOFAI/Game of Thrones)
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Podrick Payne, frequently called Pod, is the squire of Tyrion Lannister (from the "Song of Ice and Fire" series of books by George R. R. Martin).
Revanna
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Kannada
Pronounced: REY-VA-NNA
Personal remark: Revanna (Planet, Stargate SG-1)
Rating: 75% based on 4 votes
REVANNA IS A ONE OF THE NAME OF GOD SHIVA
Riddick
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare), Popular Culture
Pronounced: RID-ik
Personal remark: Riddick (Riddick movie series)
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Transferred use of the surname Riddick. A famous fictional bearer of the surname was the (anti)hero Richard B. Riddick from the 'Chronicles of Riddick' movies.
Robson
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Portuguese (Brazilian)
Pronounced: RAHB-sən(English) HOB-son(Brazilian Portuguese)
Personal remark: British TV host/actor Robson Green
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Transferred use of the surname Robson. Known bearers of this name are English actor Robson Green (b. 1964) and Brazilian football player Robson "Robinho" de Souza (b. 1984).
Rogue
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Personal remark: Rogue (X-Men)
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
From Breton rog (“haughty”) or Middle French rogue (“arrogant, haughty”), from Old Northern French rogre, Old Norse hrokr (“excess, exuberance”).
Salazar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: SAL-ə-zahr(English)
Personal remark: Salazar Slytherin (Harry Potter)
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
Transferred use of the surname Salazar. It was used by J. K. Rowling in her 'Harry Potter' series of books, where it belongs to Salazar Slytherin, the eponymous founder of Hogwarts' Slytherin house.
Selwyn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: SEHL-win
Personal remark: Selwyn Tarth (ASOFAI/Game of Thrones)
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
From a surname that was originally derived from an Old English given name, which was formed of the elements sele "manor" and wine "friend".
Sigourney
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: si-GAWR-nee
Personal remark: For Sigourney Weaver, long time favorite actor.
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
From an English surname that was derived from the French town of Sigournais, called Segurniacum in medieval Latin, itself of unknown meaning. The American actress Sigourney Weaver (1949-), real name Susan, adopted this name in 1963 after the minor character Sigourney Howard in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby (1925).
Starbuck
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American, Rare), Literature, Popular Culture
Personal remark: Kara Thrace, callsign "Starbuck" (Battlestar Galactica [2003-2009]) / Galen's nickname for his daugher, Jyn Erso (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story).
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Transferred use of the surname Starbuck.

Other sources say that a starbuck was someone who gathered willow-twigs and reed along the riverside for the weaving of baskets. Mostly, these people lived along those riversides as well. As such, it could very well be that these people were referred to as people from the (great) river, which would have been stor bokki during the time where the Vikings came to England. Over the years, language sound shifts probably resulted in them being called starbecks and finally starbucks.

In literature, Starbuck was the name of the chief mate in Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick (1851). Also, in popular culture, Starbuck was the callsign of a character in the TV series Battlestar Galactica. The character was male in the original series from 1978, but female in the re-imagined series from 2004.

A notable bearer of this name in real life is Gabriel Starbuck Brown (b. 1989), one of the people featured in the American reality television series Alaskan Bush People (2014).

Tanita
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Thai
Personal remark: Singer Tanita Tikaram
Rating: 63% based on 3 votes
Tatooine
Usage: Popular Culture
Personal remark: (M.) Planet where Luke Skywalker grew up (Star Wars)
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
This is a fictional desert planet, the home of Luke Skywalker, in the Star Wars movie series, starting 1977. The planet is not actually named in the first movie. Star Wars creator George Lucas adapted it from the name of the city of Tataouine in Tunisia, where some scenes of the movie were being filmed.
Teryl
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: TER-əl
Personal remark: Actress Teryl Rothery (Janet Frasier, a main recurring character, Stargate SG-1)
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Variant of Terrell.
Teyla
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern, Rare), Popular Culture
Pronounced: Tay-Lə(English)
Personal remark: Teyla Emmagan (A main character, Stargate: Atlantis)
Rating: 70% based on 3 votes
Variant of Tayla. This was the name of one of the main characters in 'Stargate Atlantis'.
Trillian
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Used in Douglas Adams's 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.' In the story, Trillian is an elided form of her full name, Tricia McMillan.
Tyrion
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Popular Culture
Variant of Tyrian.
Vada
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Popular Culture
Pronounced: VAY-də(English) VAH-də(English) VA-də(English)
Personal remark: Vada Sultenfuss (Main protagonist, My Girl 1 & 2)
Rating: 73% based on 3 votes
Meaning unknown. Possibly a variant of Veda or Valda or short form of Nevada.
It was used for the heroine of the American film My Girl (1991).
Valhalla
Usage: Norse Mythology
Personal remark: (F.) Valhalla, "hall of the slain", Norse Mythology.
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
From Old Norse Valhǫll meaning "hall of the battle-dead", from valr meaning "those slain in battle" and hǫll meaning "hall, manor". In Norse mythology this is the name of Odin's enormous hall where half of all warriors go after they die.
Wednesday
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Popular Culture
Pronounced: WENZ-day(English)
Personal remark: Wednesday Addams (The Addams Family)
Rating: 45% based on 2 votes
From the name of the day of the week, which was derived from Old English wodnesdæg meaning "Woden's day". On the Addams Family television series (1964-1966) this was the name of the teenaged daughter, based on an earlier unnamed character in Charles Addams' cartoons. Her name was inspired by the popular nursery rhyme line Wednesday's child is full of woe.
Westeros
Usage: Popular Culture, Literature
Personal remark: (M.) Continent, aside from Essos. (ASOFAI/Game of Thrones)
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Westeros is a fictional continent in the Game of Thrones-universe created by George R. R. Martin. The other continents are Essos, Sothoryos, and Ulthos.
Zeppelin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Popular Culture, English
Pronounced: ZEHP-lin(English)
Personal remark: For the airship named after its inventor. Also the band, Led Zeppelin.
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
Transferred use of the surname Zeppelin; from the surname of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838-1917), a German aeronautical pioneer, designer and manufacturer of airships. The feminine variant Zeppelina was 'given to one or two English girls during the First World War when Zeppelins arrived over England. The airships took their name from Count von Zeppelin, whose family name according to German scholars was of Slavic origin, but of unknown meaning' (Dunkling & Gosling, 1986).

Modern usage of the name may also be inspired by the English rock band Led Zeppelin (formed 1968).

Ziggy
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Popular Culture, English (Rare)
Pronounced: ZIG-ee
Personal remark: For one of David Bowie's alter ego's called "Ziggy Stardust".
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Short form of Zigfried or Zachary.
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