yeohye's Personal Name List

Aali
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: عالي(Arabic)
Pronounced: ‘A-lee
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Means "high, lofty, sublime" in Arabic, from the root علا (ʿalā) meaning "to be high".
Aamina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic, Somali
Other Scripts: آمنة(Arabic)
Pronounced: A-mee-na(Arabic)
Rating: 15% based on 2 votes
Alternate transcription of Arabic آمنة (see Amina 1), as well as the Somali form.
Adi 1
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: עֲדִי(Hebrew)
Pronounced: ah-DEE
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
Means "jewel, ornament" in Hebrew.
Aida
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic, Bosnian, Albanian, Literature
Other Scripts: عائدة(Arabic)
Pronounced: ‘A-ee-da(Arabic) ah-EE-də(English)
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Variant of Ayda. This name was used in Verdi's opera Aida (1871), where it belongs to an Ethiopian princess held captive in Egypt.
Aisha
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic, Urdu, Hausa, Swahili, Kazakh, African American
Other Scripts: عائشة(Arabic) عائشہ(Urdu) Айша(Kazakh)
Pronounced: ‘A-ee-sha(Arabic) ie-EE-shə(English)
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Means "living, alive" in Arabic. This was the name of Muhammad's third wife, the daughter of Abu Bakr. Some time after Muhammad's death she went to war against Ali, the fourth caliph, but was defeated. Her name is used more by Sunni Muslims and less by Shias.

This name began to be used in America in the 1970s, possibly inspired by Princess Aisha of Jordan (1968-), the daughter of King Hussein and his British-born wife. It received a boost in popularity after Stevie Wonder used it for his first daughter in 1975.

Al-Amir
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic (Rare)
Other Scripts: الآمر(Arabic)
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Means "the commander, the prince" in Arabic. This was the name of a 10th-century Fatimid imam.
Aliya 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic, Kazakh, Tatar, Urdu
Other Scripts: عليّة(Arabic) Әлия(Kazakh) Алия(Tatar) عالیہ(Urdu)
Pronounced: ‘a-LEE-ya(Arabic)
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Feminine form of Ali 1. This can also be another way of transcribing the related name عالية (see Aaliyah).
Amani
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: أماني(Arabic)
Pronounced: a-MA-nee
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Means "wishes" in Arabic, related to the root منا (manā) meaning "to tempt, to put to the test".
Areli
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Hebrew [1]
Other Scripts: אַרְאֵלִי(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: ə-REE-lie(English)
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Possibly means "lion of God, hero" in Hebrew. This is the name of a son of Gad in the Old Testament.
Ari 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אֲרִי(Hebrew)
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
Means "lion" in Hebrew.
Aria 2
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Persian
Other Scripts: آریا(Persian)
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Alternate transcription of Persian آریا (see Arya 1).
Ariel
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew, English, French, Spanish, Polish, Biblical, Biblical Greek
Other Scripts: אֲרִיאֵל(Hebrew) Ἀριήλ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: a-ree-EHL(Hebrew) EHR-ee-əl(English) AR-ee-əl(English) A-RYEHL(French) a-RYEHL(Spanish) A-ryehl(Polish)
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Means "lion of God" in Hebrew, from אֲרִי (ʾari) meaning "lion" and אֵל (ʾel) meaning "God". In the Old Testament it is used as another name for the city of Jerusalem. Shakespeare utilized it for a spirit in his play The Tempest (1611) and Alexander Pope utilized it for a sylph in his poem The Rape of the Lock (1712), and one of the moons of Uranus bears this name in his honour. As an English name, it became more common for females in the 1980s, especially after it was used for the title character in the Disney film The Little Mermaid (1989).
Asher
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew, English, Biblical, Biblical Hebrew [1]
Other Scripts: אָשֵׁר(Hebrew)
Pronounced: ASH-ər(English)
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Means "happy, blessed" in Hebrew, derived from אָשַׁר (ʾashar) meaning "to be happy, to be blessed". Asher in the Old Testament is a son of Jacob by Leah's handmaid Zilpah, and the ancestor of one of the twelve tribes of Israel. The meaning of his name is explained in Genesis 30:13.
Ava 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Persian
Other Scripts: آوا(Persian)
Pronounced: aw-VAW
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Means "voice, sound" in Persian.
Avia
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אֲבִיָה(Hebrew)
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Modern Hebrew form of Abijah.
Aviva
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אֲבִיבָה(Hebrew)
Pronounced: ah-VEE-vah
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Feminine variant of Aviv.
Ayelet
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אַיֶלֶת(Hebrew)
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Means "doe, female deer, gazelle". It is taken from the Hebrew phrase אַיֶלֶת הַשַׁחַר (ʾayeleṯ hashaḥar), literally "gazelle of dawn", which is a name of the morning star.
Aylin
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Turkish, Azerbaijani, Kazakh
Other Scripts: Айлин(Kazakh)
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Means "of the moon" in Turkish and Azerbaijani, from Turkic ay "moon".
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