Behind the Name: yeohye's Personal Name List

Aida

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Arabic, Bosnian, Albanian, Literature

Other Scripts: عائدة(Arabic)

Pronounced: ‘A-ee-da(Arabic) ah-EE-də(English)

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Variant of Ayda. This name was used in Verdi's opera Aida (1871), where it belongs to an Ethiopian princess held captive in Egypt.

Alma 1

Gender: Feminine

Usage: English, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Albanian, Slovene, Croatian

Pronounced: AL-mə(English) AL-ma(Spanish) AHL-ma(Dutch)

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This name became popular after the Battle of Alma (1854), which took place near the River Alma in Crimea and ended in a victory for Britain and France. However, the name was in rare use before the battle; it was probably inspired by Latin almus "nourishing". It also coincides with the Spanish word meaning "the soul".

Amalia

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Spanish, Italian, Romanian, Greek, Finnish, Swedish, Dutch, German, Germanic (Latinized) [1]

Other Scripts: Αμαλία(Greek)

Pronounced: a-MA-lya(Spanish, Italian, German) a-MA-lee-a(Dutch)

Rating: 75% based on 2 votes

Short form of Germanic names beginning with the element amal. This element means "unceasing, vigorous, brave", or it can refer to the Gothic dynasty of the Amali (derived from the same root).

This was another name for the 7th-century saint Amalberga of Maubeuge.

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: 50% based on 2 votes

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).

Aurora

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, English, Romanian, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Roman Mythology

Pronounced: ow-RAW-ra(Italian) ow-RO-ra(Spanish, Latin) ə-RAWR-ə(English) OW-ro-rah(Finnish)

Rating: 55% based on 2 votes

Means "dawn" in Latin. Aurora was the Roman goddess of the morning. It has occasionally been used as a given name since the Renaissance.