Addycakes's Personal Name List

Sapphire
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: SAF-ie-ər
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
From the name of the gemstone, typically blue, which is the traditional birthstone of September. It is derived from Greek σάπφειρος (sappheiros), ultimately from the Hebrew word סַפִּיר (sappir).
Scarlet
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: SKAHR-lit
Rating: 0% based on 1 vote
Either a variant of Scarlett or else from the English word for the red colour (both of the same origin, a type of cloth).
Silas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Greek, Danish, German, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Other Scripts: Σίλας(Greek)
Pronounced: SIE-ləs(English)
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
The name of a companion of Saint Paul in the New Testament. It is probably a short form of Silvanus, a name that Paul calls him by in the epistles. It is possible that Silvanus and Silas were Latin and Greek forms of the Hebrew name Saul (via Aramaic).

As an English name it was not used until after the Protestant Reformation. It was utilized by George Eliot for the title character in her novel Silas Marner (1861).

Sixtus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Late Roman
Personal remark: 215th name saved into this collection.
Rating: 100% based on 1 vote
Probably the Latin form of the Greek name Ξύστος (Xystos) meaning "scraped, polished". This name was borne by five popes. The first pope by this name was the sixth to serve after Saint Peter, so there is a possibility that this name is in fact derived from Latin sextus "sixth".
Snæfríðr
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Old Norse
Personal remark: I pronounce this name like "SNAA-frither".
Derived from the Old Norse elements snær meaning "snow" and fríðr meaning "beautiful, fair". According to medieval tradition, this was the name of a wife of the Norwegian king Harald Fairhair.
Sorne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque (Rare)
Means "conception" in Basque. It was coined by Sabino Arana in 1910 as an equivalent of the Spanish name Concepción.
Ssanyu
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ganda
Means "joy" in Luganda.
Summer
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SUM-ər
Rating: 95% based on 2 votes
From the name of the season, ultimately from Old English sumor. It has been in use as a given name since the 1970s.
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