meowzie's Personal Name List

Amancia

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Spanish (Rare), Galician (Rare), Jamaican Patois

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Spanish, Galician, and Jamaican Patois feminine form of Amantius.

Celestine

Gender: Feminine & Masculine

Usage: English

Pronounced: SEHL-ə-steen

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English form of Caelestinus. It is more commonly used as a feminine name, from the French feminine form Célestine.

Lazarus

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Biblical, Biblical Latin, English (African)

Other Scripts: Λάζαρος(Ancient Greek)

Pronounced: LAZ-ə-rəs(English)

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Latinized form of Λάζαρος (Lazaros), a Greek form of Eleazar used in the New Testament. Lazarus was a man from Bethany, the brother of Mary and Martha, who was restored to life by Jesus.

At present this name is most commonly used in English-speaking Africa.

Rasmus

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Estonian

Pronounced: RAHS-moos(Danish, Norwegian, Finnish) RAS-smuys(Swedish)

Scandinavian, Finnish and Estonian form of Erasmus.

Temple

Gender: Masculine & Feminine

Usage: English (Rare)

Pronounced: TEHM-pəl

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From an English surname that originally belonged to a person who was associated with the Knights Templar, a medieval religious military order.

Zelophehad

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Biblical

Other Scripts: צְלָפְחָד(Ancient Hebrew)

Pronounced: zi-LAHF-i-had(American English) zi-LAWF-i-had(British English)

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Possibly means either "first born" or "shadow from terror" in Hebrew. In the Old Testament, Zelophehad is a man who dies while the Israelites are wandering in the wilderness, leaving five daughters as heirs.