hermeline's Personal Name List

Dāorèn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Chinese
Other Scripts: 刀刃(Chinese)
From Chinese 刀刃 (daoren), meaning Blade. Shortened form is Ren (刃), meaning the same.
Dechen
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Tibetan, Bhutanese
Other Scripts: བདེ་ཆེན(Tibetan)
Pronounced: TEH-CHEHN(Tibetan)
Means "great happiness" in Tibetan.
Fūjin
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Japanese Mythology
Other Scripts: 風神(Japanese Kanji) ふうじん(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: FOO-ZHEEN(Japanese)
From Japanese 風 (fū) meaning "wind" and 神 (jin) meaning "god, spirit". This is the name of the Japanese wind god, who carries the wind in a bag over his shoulders.
Hae-jin
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Korean
Other Scripts: 해진(Korean Hangul)
Haijie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Chinese
Other Scripts: 海洁(Chinese)
Combination of 海 (hǎi) meaning ocean and 洁 (jié) meaning clean, or other characters pronounced similarly. A well-known bearer is China-born Singaporean news anchor Zhang Haijie.
Hoshi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 星, etc.(Japanese Kanji) ほし(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: HO-SHEE
From Japanese 星 (hoshi) meaning "star" or other kanji with the same pronunciation.
Jang-hwa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Other Scripts: 장화(Korean Hangul)
Means "rose flower" from Sino-Korean 薔花. Jang-hwa is the name of one of the heroines in the Korean folktale "The Story of Jang-hwa and Hong-ryeon".
Jochi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Medieval Mongolian
Other Scripts: Зүчи, Жочи(Mongolian Cyrillic) ᠵᠥᠴᠢ(Traditional Mongolian)
From Mongolian зочин (zochin) meaning "guest", indicating uncertainty about a child’s paternity. This was the name of a son of Mongol khagan Genghis Khan.
Joshi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: African
Pronounced: Jo-shee
Means "galloping" in Swahili.
Kirine
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Obscure (Rare)
Megumi
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 恵, 愛, etc.(Japanese Kanji) めぐみ(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: MEH-GOO-MEE
From Japanese 恵 (megumi) meaning "favour, benefit" or 愛 (megumi) meaning "love, affection", as well as other kanji or kanji combinations that have the same reading. It is often written using the hiragana writing system.
Myōrin
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 妙林(Japanese Kanji)
Derived from 妙 (myō) meaning "mysterious, strange", 林 (rin) meaning "woods".
Sashi
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Kannada
Other Scripts: ಶಶಿ(Kannada)
Alternate transcription of Kannada ಶಶಿ (see Shashi).
Seiji
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 誠二, 誠治, 誠司, 清二, 清治, etc.(Japanese Kanji) せいじ(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: SEH-JEE
From Japanese 誠 (sei) meaning "sincerity, truth, fidelity" or 清 (sei) meaning "clear, pure, clean" combined with 二 (ji) meaning "two", 治 (ji) meaning "reign, rule, calm, peace" or 司 (ji) meaning "officer, boss". Other kanji combinations can form this name as well.
Shashi
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Kannada, Telugu
Other Scripts: शशि, शशी(Hindi, Marathi) শশী(Bengali) ಶಶಿ(Kannada) శశి(Telugu)
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).
Shiden
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Japanese (Rare)
Other Scripts: 紫電(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: SHEE-DEN
From 紫 (shi) meaning "purple" and 電 (den) meaning "electricity".

A famous bearer is Shiden Kanzaki (1985-), a novelist.

Shirindari
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Medieval Mongolian
Other Scripts: Шилийндалай(Mongolian Cyrillic) 失怜答里(Chinese)
Etymology uncertain, name borne by a Mongolian khatun who was the consort of Temür Khan. She was later posthumously honored as a Yuan dynasty empress.
Toshirō
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 俊郎, 敏郎, etc.(Japanese Kanji) としろう(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: TO-SHEE-RO
From Japanese 俊 (toshi) meaning "talented, handsome" or 敏 (toshi) meaning "quick, clever, sharp" combined with 郎 (rō) meaning "son". This name can also be formed from other combinations of kanji characters.
Uiko
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Uiko is a character in The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, a novel by the Japanese author Yukio Mishima.
Yilong
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Chinese
Other Scripts: 怡珑(Chinese)
From the Chinese 怡 (yí) meaning "happy, joyful, harmony, joy" and 珑 (lóng) meaning "gem cut like a dragon".
Yoshirō
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 義郎, etc.(Japanese Kanji) よしろう(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: YO-SHEE-RO
From Japanese 義 (yoshi) meaning "righteous" and 郎 (rō) meaning "son". Other kanji combinations are also possible.
Yuzu
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 柚, 柚子, 柚寿, 柚朱, 由子, 由寿, 由珠, 有珠, 優珠, 優寿, 友珠(Japanese Kanji) ゆず(Japanese Hiragana) ユズ(Japanese Katakana)
Pronounced: YUU-ZUU, YUU-DZUU
This name can be used as 柚 or 柚子 with 柚 (jiku, yu, yuu, yuzu) meaning "citron" and 子 (shi, su, tsu, ko, ne) meaning "child, sign of the rat (1st sign of Chinese zodiac)."
This name can also be used as 柚寿, 柚朱, 由子, 由寿, 由珠, 有珠, 優珠, 優寿 or 友珠 with 寿 (shuu, ju, su, kotobuki, kotobo.ku) meaning "congratulations, longevity, one's natural life", 朱 (shu, ake, su) meaning "bloody, cinnabar, red, scarlet, vermillion", 由 (yu, yui, yuu, yoshi, yo.ru) meaning "a reason, wherefore", 珠 (shu, tama, su) meaning "gem, jewel, pearl", 有 (u, yuu, a.ru, yu) meaning "exist, happen, have, occur, possess", 優 (u, yuu, sugu.reru, masa.ru, yasa.shii, yu) meaning "actor, excel, gentleness, superiority, surpass, tenderness" and 友 (yuu, tomo, yu) meaning "friend."

Yuzu (柚 & 柚子), as a word, is the name of a type of citrus fruit.

Zaijian
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Filipino (Rare)
Possibly an invented name from another name, but coincides with the Hanyu Pinyin reading of Mandarin 再見 "goodbye, see you later" or 再建 "to rebuild, to reconstruct". A famous bearer of this name is Filipino actor and dancer Zaijian Godsick Lara Jaranilla (2001-).
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