Feorsteorra's Personal Name List

Isaiah
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Biblical
Other Scripts: יְשַׁעְיָהוּ(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: ie-ZAY-ə(American English) ie-ZIE-ə(British English)
Personal remark: son of Aaron (twin to Zechariah)
Rating: 70% based on 6 votes
From the Hebrew name יְשַׁעְיָהוּ (Yesha'yahu) meaning "Yahweh is salvation", from the roots יָשַׁע (yasha') meaning "to save" and יָה (yah) referring to the Hebrew God. Isaiah is one of the four major prophets of the Old Testament, supposedly the author of the Book of Isaiah. He was from Jerusalem and probably lived in the 8th century BC, at a time when Assyria threatened the Kingdom of Judah. As an English Christian name, Isaiah was first used after the Protestant Reformation.
Maxwell
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MAKS-wehl
Personal remark: son of Sharon and Maximillion
Rating: 70% based on 7 votes
From a Scottish surname meaning "Mack's stream", from the name Mack, a short form of the Scandinavian name Magnus, combined with Old English wille "well, stream". A famous bearer of the surname was James Maxwell (1831-1879), a Scottish physicist who studied gases and electromagnetism.

As a given name it has increased in popularity starting from the 1980s, likely because it is viewed as a full form of Max [1].

Isobel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Scottish
Personal remark: daughter of Fiona and Bailey (twin to Alistair)
Rating: 65% based on 8 votes
Anglicized form of Iseabail.
Skyler
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: SKIE-lər
Personal remark: son of Agora and Greg
Rating: 65% based on 8 votes
Variant of Schuyler, based on the pronunciation of the surname but respelled as if it was a blend of the English word sky with names such as Tyler. It was rare before 1980, and first gained popularity as a name for boys. It is now more common for girls, though it is more evenly unisex than the mostly feminine variant Skylar.
Moishe
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Yiddish
Other Scripts: משה(Yiddish)
Personal remark: son of Jared (twin to Ayelet)
Rating: 62% based on 5 votes
Yiddish form of Moses.
Alistair
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish
Pronounced: AL-i-stər(English)
Personal remark: son of Fiona and Bailey (twin to Isobel)
Rating: 61% based on 8 votes
Anglicized form of Alasdair.
Aodhàn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish Gaelic
Personal remark: son of Sara and Adrien
Rating: 56% based on 5 votes
Scottish Gaelic form of Aodhán.
Sterling
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: STUR-ling
Personal remark: son of Alexa and Mickey
Rating: 55% based on 6 votes
From a Scots surname that was derived from city of Stirling, which is itself of unknown meaning. The name can also be given in reference to the English word sterling meaning "excellent". In this case, the word derives from sterling silver, which was so named because of the emblem that some Norman coins bore, from Old English meaning "little star".
Bryn
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Welsh, English (Modern)
Pronounced: BRIN(English)
Personal remark: daughter of Sharon and Maximillion (twin to Fox)
Rating: 53% based on 6 votes
Means "hill, mound" in Welsh. In Wales it is almost always a masculine name, though elsewhere in the English-speaking world it can be unisex (see Brynn).
Zechariah
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, English
Other Scripts: זְכַרְיָה(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: zehk-ə-RIE-ə(English)
Personal remark: son of Aaron (twin to Isaiah)
Rating: 53% based on 6 votes
From the Hebrew name זְכַרְיָה (Zekharyah) meaning "Yahweh remembers", from זָכַר (zakhar) meaning "to remember" and יָה (yah) referring to the Hebrew God. This is the name of many characters in the Old Testament, including the prophet Zechariah, the author of the Book of Zechariah. The name also appears in the New Testament belonging to the father of John the Baptist, who was temporarily made dumb because of his disbelief. He is regarded as a saint by Christians. In some versions of the New Testament his name is spelled in the Greek form Zacharias or the English form Zachary. As an English given name, Zechariah has been in occasional use since the Protestant Reformation.
Blaise
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: BLEHZ
Personal remark: son of Kendra and Sherman
Rating: 51% based on 7 votes
From the Roman name Blasius, which was derived from Latin blaesus meaning "lisping". A famous bearer was the French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal (1623-1662).
Eternity
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern, Rare)
Personal remark: daughter of Mission and Ethan
Rating: 51% based on 7 votes
From the English word eternity meaning "existence without end; infinite time", ultimately from Latin aeternitas. Use of the name has been influenced by the brand of perfume called Eternity, which was introduced by Calvin Klein in 1988.
Najm
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: نجم(Arabic)
Pronounced: NAJM
Personal remark: son of Tarek (twin to Akash)
Rating: 50% based on 4 votes
Means "star" in Arabic.
Haylee
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: HAY-lee
Personal remark: daughter of Ashley and Waring (divorced)
Rating: 47% based on 6 votes
Variant of Hayley.
Ayelet
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אַיֶלֶת(Hebrew)
Personal remark: daughter of Jared (twin to Moishe)
Rating: 46% based on 5 votes
Means "doe, female deer, gazelle". It is taken from the Hebrew phrase אַיֶלֶת הַשַׁחַר ('ayelet hashachar), literally "gazelle of dawn", which is a name of the morning star.
Fable
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: FAY-bel
Personal remark: son of Mission and Ethan
Rating: 46% based on 5 votes
Derived from the word for a succinct story, in prose or verse, that features animals, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature which are given human qualities, and that illustrates a moral lesson.
The word "fable" comes from the Latin fabula (a "story"), itself derived from fari ("to speak") with the -ula suffix that signifies "little".
Fox
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: FAHKS
Personal remark: son of Sharon and Maximillion (twin to Bryn)
Rating: 43% based on 8 votes
Either from the English word fox or the surname Fox, which originally given as a nickname. The surname was borne by George Fox (1624-1691), the founder of the Quakers.
Delenn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Popular Culture
Personal remark: daughter of Phil (twin to Bareil)
Rating: 38% based on 5 votes
Sci-Fi TV series, Babylon 5 character, head of the minbari religious cast
Hunter
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: HUN-tər
Personal remark: son of Naomi and Vincent
Rating: 37% based on 6 votes
From an English occupational surname for a hunter, derived from Old English hunta. A famous bearer was the eccentric American journalist Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005).
Akash
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali
Other Scripts: आकाश(Hindi, Marathi) আকাশ(Bengali)
Pronounced: a-KASH(Hindi)
Personal remark: son of Tarek (twin to Najm)
Rating: 33% based on 6 votes
Means "open space, sky" in Sanskrit.
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