TheLizard's Personal Name List

Aanakwad
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Ojibwe
Means "cloud" in Ojibwe.
Ada 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Spanish, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Finnish, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: AY-də(English) A-dha(Spanish) A-da(Polish) AH-dah(Finnish)
Originally a short form of Germanic names such as Adelaide or Adelina that begin with the element adal meaning "noble". Saint Ada was a 7th-century Frankish abbess at Le Mans. This name was also borne by Augusta Ada King (1815-1852), the Countess of Lovelace (known as Ada Lovelace), a daughter of Lord Byron. She was an assistant to Charles Babbage, the inventor of an early mechanical computer.
Alvar
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish, Estonian
From the Old Norse name Alfarr, formed of the elements alfr "elf" and herr "army, warrior".
Amaruq
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Inuit
Other Scripts: ᐊᒪᕈᖅ(Inuktitut)
Means "wolf" in Inuktitut.
Aya
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Cherokee
Pronounced: A-yuh
Aya in the Cherokee language is a term for one's self. Usually used as "I" or "Me". If a family member uses this for someone it would me that they see a bit of themself in that person and it would be meant as a compliment.It is also a type of fern that is known as a symbol of endurance and resourcefulness. The fern is a hardy plant that can grow in difficult places.
Elwyn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHL-win
Variant of Alvin.
Enki
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Sumerian Mythology
Other Scripts: 𒀭𒂗𒆠(Sumerian Cuneiform)
Pronounced: ENG-kee(English)
From Sumerian 𒂗 (en) meaning "lord" and 𒆠 (ki) meaning "earth, ground" (though maybe originally from 𒆳 (kur) meaning "underworld, mountain"). Enki, called Ea by the Akkadians, Assyrians and Babylonians, was the Sumerian god of water and wisdom and the keeper of the Me, the divine laws.
Hulda 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Icelandic, Swedish, Norwegian, Norse Mythology [1]
Derived from Old Norse hulda meaning "hiding, secrecy". This was the name of a sorceress in Norse mythology. As a modern name, it can also derive from archaic Swedish huld meaning "gracious, sweet, lovable" [2].
Isi
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Choctaw
Means "deer" in Choctaw.
Miles
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MIELZ
From the Germanic name Milo, introduced by the Normans to England in the form Miles. The meaning is not known for certain. It is possibly connected to the Slavic name element milŭ meaning "gracious, dear". From an early date it was associated with Latin miles meaning "soldier".

A notable bearer was the American musician Miles Davis (1926-1991). In Scotland this name was historically used to Anglicize Maoilios.

Phoenix
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: FEE-niks
From the name of a beautiful immortal bird that appears in Egyptian and Greek mythology. After living for several centuries in the Arabian Desert, it would be consumed by fire and rise from its own ashes, with this cycle repeating every 500 years. The name of the bird was derived from Greek φοῖνιξ (phoinix) meaning "dark red".
Siavash
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Persian, Persian Mythology
Other Scripts: سیاوش(Persian)
Pronounced: see-yaw-VASH(Persian)
Persian form of Avestan 𐬯𐬌𐬌𐬁𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬭𐬱𐬀𐬥 (Siiāuuarshan) meaning "possessing black stallions". This was the name of a virtuous prince in Iranian mythology. He appears briefly in the Avesta, with a longer account recorded in the 10th-century Persian epic the Shahnameh.
Sievert
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Low German (Rare)
Low German form of Sigiward, the Germanic cognate of Sigurd.
Tiamat
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Semitic Mythology
Other Scripts: 𒀭𒋾𒊩𒆳, 𒀭𒌓𒌈(Akkadian Cuneiform)
Pronounced: TEE-ə-maht(English)
From Akkadian tâmtu meaning "sea". In Babylonian myth Tiamat was the personification of the sea, appearing in the form of a huge dragon. By Apsu she gave birth to the first of the gods. Later, the god Marduk (her great-grandson) defeated her, cut her in half, and used the pieces of her body to make the earth and the sky.
Vidya
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hinduism, Marathi, Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil
Other Scripts: विद्या(Sanskrit, Marathi, Hindi) ವಿದ್ಯಾ(Kannada) విద్యా(Telugu) வித்யா(Tamil)
Means "knowledge, science, learning" in Sanskrit. This is another name of the Hindu goddess Saraswati.
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