Behind the Name: stephen_ded's Personal Name List

Basher

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Arabic, Urdu, Filipino, Maranao

Other Scripts: بشير(Arabic) بشیر(Urdu)

Pronounced: ba-SHEER(Arabic)

Rating: 30% based on 1 vote

Arabic and Urdu alternate transcription of Bashir as well as the Maranao form.

Blómey

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Icelandic (Rare)

Rating: 80% based on 1 vote

Combination of the Old Norse name elements blóm "bloom, blossom, flower" and ey "island; flat land along a coast" (which is also often related to the Old Norse name element auja "(gift of) luck; fortune").

Choden

Gender: Feminine & Masculine

Usage: Tibetan, Bhutanese

Other Scripts: ཆོས་ལྡན(Tibetan)

Pronounced: CHUU-TEHN(Tibetan)

From Tibetan ཆོས་ལྡན (chos-ldan) meaning "devout, righteous, pious".

Cuntardus

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Germanic (Latinized)

Rating: 20% based on 1 vote

Latinized form of Gunthard.

Cuntasse

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Medieval Jewish, Medieval English

Rating: 60% based on 2 votes

Possibly a variant of Countess.

Felicio

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Galician

Rating: 40% based on 1 vote

Galician form of Felicius.

Figgin

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Medieval English

Rating: 100% based on 1 vote

Diminutive of Fulke.

Fukan

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Bontoc

Pronounced: foo-kan

Rating: 100% based on 1 vote

Meaning unknown. The name was used in Bontoc Mythology, the former name of Kayapon, a Bontoc girl who married Lumawig, the supreme deity.

Gayla

Gender: Feminine

Usage: English

Pronounced: GAY-lə

Rating: 50% based on 2 votes

Elaborated form of Gail.

Hitlerine

Gender: Feminine

Usage: German (Archaic)

Rating: 100% based on 1 vote

A name coined before the onset of the third Reich using Adolf Hitler's surname as a first name. The name was already banned on 3 Juli 1933 because it was unwanted by the Reichskanzler (i.e., Hitler himself) and extant namesakes were required to change their names.

Idalie

Gender: Feminine

Usage: French (Rare), French (Belgian, Rare), Flemish (Rare), Dutch (Rare), Swedish (Rare)

Rating: 70% based on 3 votes

French form and Swedish variant of Idalia.

Jailey

Gender: Feminine

Usage: English (American, Modern, Rare)

Pronounced: JAY-lee(American English)

Rating: 20% based on 1 vote

Variant of Jaylee.

Jiffany

Gender: Feminine

Usage: English (Rare)

Pronounced: JIF-AN-EE

Variant of "Tiffany".

Lynnix

Gender: Feminine

Usage: English (Modern, Rare)

Rating: 60% based on 2 votes

Variant of Lennox.

Minnijean

Gender: Feminine

Usage: American (South, Rare), African American (Rare)

Rating: 100% based on 1 vote

Combination of Minnie and Jean 2. This is borne by Minnijean Brown-Trickey (1941-), who was one of the Little Rock Nine, a group of nine African-American teenagers who integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957 after the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional three years earlier. Minnijean's mother was named Imogene.

Noey

Gender: Masculine & Feminine

Usage: Various (Rare)

Rating: 0% based on 1 vote

Possibly derived as a diminutive of Noah 1 or Noe.

Slaney

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Irish (Modern, Rare), English (Modern, Rare)

Anglicized form of Sláine.