Shaymin's Personal Name List

Derived from airelle, the French name for the plant genus Vaccinium. The French derived the name from Portuguese airella, which in turn was derived from Latin atra "dark, black, gloomy".

Possibly a variant of Ilaria or Valeria.

It could also be given because of the town of Aléria in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica. While many baby name sites and books list this name as being Latin for 'eagle', that is Aquila. The source of this mistaken etymology may be due to the Avalerion, sometimes called an Alerion, a mythological bird compared to an eagle, and seen in medieval heraldry (coats of arms). Aleria, however, is the Latin and Corsican form of the original Ancient Greek name for the town, Alaliē (Ἀλαλίη). This could possibly have been derived from the Ancient Greek lalia (λαλιά) 'talking, talk, chat; form of speech, dialect', from laleō (λαλέω) meaning 'talk, chatter, chirp, make sound'.

French variant of Alexandra.

Feminine form of Allyre.

French cognate of Amber.

Diminutive of Ambre.

French cognate of Amethyst.

Variant of Hanaé.

Variant of Anaëlle.

Feminine form of Anastasius. This was the name of a 4th-century Dalmatian saint who was martyred during the persecutions of the Roman emperor Diocletian. Due to her, the name has been common in Eastern Orthodox Christianity (in various spellings). As an English name it has been in use since the Middle Ages. A famous bearer was the youngest daughter of the last Russian tsar Nicholas II, who was rumoured to have escaped the execution of her family in 1918.

French form of Anatolia.

Derived from French ancolie "columbine (of genus Aquilegia)".

Most likely a contraction of Anna and Leta.

Contraction of Anna and Catrina.

Dutch and Afrikaans variant of Annelien as well as a Danish and Norwegian combination of Anne 1 and Line (and thus a cognate of Annelien) as well as a Danish, Norwegian and archaic French diminutive of Anne 1 found up to the 1700s in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region.

Variant of Annonciate.

French form of Apollonia.

French and medieval Latvian form of Apollonia.

French form of Aregund.

Spanish, Catalan, Russian and Polish form of Ariadne.

Feminine form of Astruc. This name was also used as a Judeo-Spanish translation of Mazal.

French form of Athaliah.

Feminine form of Atschel.

Means "dawn" in Latin. Aurora was the Roman goddess of the morning. It has occasionally been used as a given name since the Renaissance.

From French automne meaning "autumn, fall". This name first appeared in France in the 1990s as a quasi-adoption of English Autumn.

From the Norman French form of the Germanic name Avelina, a diminutive of Avila. The Normans introduced this name to Britain. After the Middle Ages it became rare as an English name, though it persisted in America until the 19th century [1].

French variant of Awen. Saint Avénie was a sister of the 9th-century Achaean saint Benoît of Massérac.

French form of Azalea. See also Azélie; as a French given name, the form Azélie appears to be more common (in French-Canadian, Louisiana Creole French regions).

Azalee, without the diacritic, is also the German form of Azalea.

Bearers: Azalee Wilson Montgomery (1902–1985), the wife of former Louisiana state senator Harold Montgomery (1911—1995), after whom he named his farm "Ranch Azalee".

Possibly a variant of Azalaïs.

Breton form of Cecilia.

Means "azure, sky blue" in Italian.

Cognate of Balsamia.

Romansh variant of Barbara, traditionally found in the Surselva region.

French form of Basiliscus which was also used as a feminine form of this name.

French form of Basilissa.

Yiddish and Judeo-French equivalent of Bella.

Variant of Belaset.

Means "female warrior" in Latin. This is the name of the star that marks the left shoulder of the constellation Orion.

French feminine form of Bernard. Bernadette Soubirous (1844-1879) was a young woman from Lourdes in France who claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary. She was declared a saint in 1933.

French form of Bethlehem, which is the name of the birthplace of Jesus Christ. It appears that the given name Bethléem has always been very rare. I came across it in the Belgian civil registry (when I was doing genealogical research), where Bethléem was the name of an 18th-century French-speaking Belgian woman who was married, had 8 children between 1729-1748 and ultimately died in 1779.

French form of Bathsheba.

French, German and Dutch form of Bibiana.

Variant of Bleuzenn.

Variant of Bluette.

Medieval Cornish name which is said to be derived from Cornish bregh "brave; fine".

French form of Briseis.

Italian form of Candelaria.

Derived from French cannelle "cinnamon (the spice)".

Means "nasturtium" in French. This was the stage name of the French actress and model Capucine (1928-1990).

French form of Carina 1. It can also function as a short form of Catherine, via Swedish Karin.

French form of Carlina.

In the English-speaking world, it has been used since at least the 19th century. It also coincides with a Lowland Scots word meaning "old woman, witch".

Variant of Carmel.

Form of Charmian used in Italian-language translations of Shakespeare's play 'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606).

French and Italian form of Casilda.

Feminine form of Caspian.

Feminine form of Cassien.

French form of Cassiopeia.

Latinized form of Greek Κασσιόπεια (Kassiopeia) or Κασσιέπεια (Kassiepeia), possibly meaning "cassia juice". In Greek myth Cassiopeia was the wife of Cepheus and the mother of Andromeda. She was changed into a constellation and placed in the northern sky after she died.

Transferred use of the surname Castille.

Variant of Cateline.

Variant of Cecilia.

Latinate feminine form of the Roman family name Caecilius, which was derived from Latin caecus meaning "blind". Saint Cecilia was a semi-legendary 2nd or 3rd-century martyr who was sentenced to die because she refused to worship the Roman gods. After attempts to suffocate her failed, she was beheaded. She was later regarded as the patron saint of music and musicians.

Due to the popularity of the saint, the name became common in the Christian world during the Middle Ages. The Normans brought it to England, where it was commonly spelled Cecily — the Latinate form Cecilia came into use in the 18th century.

From the name of the flower, which is derived from Greek χελιδών (chelidon) meaning "swallow (bird)".

French feminine form of Caelestinus.

Means "cherry" in French.

From a French surname that was derived from a place name meaning "stony". It was originally given in honour of Saint Jeanne-Françoise de Chantal, the founder of the Visitation Order in the 17th century. It has become associated with French chant "song".

French feminine diminutive of Charles. It was introduced to Britain in the 17th century. It was the name of a German-born 18th-century queen consort of Great Britain and Ireland. Another notable bearer was Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855), the eldest of the three Brontë sisters and the author of Jane Eyre and Villette. A famous fictional bearer is the spider in the children's novel Charlotte's Web (1952) by E. B. White.

This name was fairly common in France, England and the United States in the early 20th century. It became quite popular in France and England at the end of the 20th century, just when it was at a low point in the United States. It quickly climbed the American charts and entered the top ten in 2014.

French form of Chionia.

Old French form of Claremunda, which may have been derived from Latin clarus "clear, bright" and Germanic mund "protector".

Elaboration of Clara.

French feminine form of Clement. This is also the name of a variety of orange (fruit).

Short form of Cléopâtre.

Variant of Clotilde.

French feminine form of Columba.

French form of Concordia (feminine) or Concordius (masculine).

The name of a life-sized mechanical doll created by the mysterious Doctor Coppélius in Léo Delibes' comic ballet Coppélia (1870), based on two macabre stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann. The inventor's name is possibly a Latinized form of Yiddish Koppel. Alternatively this name may be inspired by Greek κοπελιά (kopelia) meaning "young woman", a dialectal variant of κοπέλα (kopela).

Either a French form of Koralia, or a derivative of Latin corallium "coral" (see Coral).

Elaboration of Coralie.

Late Latin name meaning "heart" from Latin cor (genitive cordis). Saint Cordula was one of the 4th-century companions of Saint Ursula.

French form of Corinna. The French-Swiss author Madame de Staël used it for her novel Corinne (1807).

Meaning uncertain, from the name of a character in medieval legend, possibly first recorded by Spanish writer Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo. Perhaps it was derived from an older form of Spanish corazón "heart" (e.g., Old Spanish coraçon; ultimately from Latin cor "heart", with the hypothetic Vulgar Latin root *coratione, *coraceone) or the Greek name Chrysanthe. As a nickname it was used by a mistress of King Henry IV of France: Diane d'Andoins (1554-1620), la Belle Corisande. Some usage may be generated by Jean-Baptiste Lully's opera Amadis (1684; based on Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo), in which it belongs to the lover of the prince Florestan. The name was also used by Benjamin Disraeli for a character in his play Lothair (1870).

From French chosette meaning "little thing". This is the nickname of the illegitimate daughter of Fantine in Victor Hugo's novel Les Misérables (1862). Her real name is Euphrasie, though it is seldom used. In the novel young Cosette is the ward of the cruel Thénardiers until she is retrieved by Jean Valjean.

Italian feminine form of Cosimo.

French feminine and masculine form of Crescentius.

Form of Criseida used by Shakespeare in his play Troilus and Cressida (1602).

Latinized form of Greek Κυανη (Kyane) which was derived from κυανος (kyanos) "cyan, azure-blue" (compare Cyan). In Greek myth she was the Naiad nymph of a spring in the Sicilian town of Syracuse, who dissolved away into the spring from grief after witnessing Hades' abduction of her playmate Persephone.

French feminine form of Cyril.

From the name of the flower, which was named for the Swedish botanist Anders Dahl.

From Lithuanian dalis meaning "portion, share". This was the name of the Lithuanian goddess of weaving, fate and childbirth, often associated with Laima.

Feminine form of Damase.

Archaic local name found in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region.

Feminine form of Damien.

Czech, German, Italian and French form of Danaë.

Feminine form of Darius. Saint Daria was a 3rd-century woman who was martyred with her husband Chrysanthus under the Roman emperor Numerian. It has never been a particularly common English given name. As a Russian name, it is more commonly transcribed Darya.

French form of Darlene.

Feminine form of Deile found in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region up until the 1800s.

Truncated form of Adeline found in the Poitou-Charentes region of France.

Means "of the angels", taken from the French title of the Virgin Mary Notre Dame des Anges, meaning "Our Lady of the Angels". It is most often found in French-speaking African countries.

Means "of the snows" in French, taken from the title of the Virgin Mary Notre Dame des Neiges meaning "Our Lady of the Snows" (see Nieves).

French form of the Italian name Desolina.

Probably a Yiddish short form of Dvorah influenced by Slavic dobro, "good".
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Variant of Dova

Polish feminine form of Dobromil.

Diminutive of Donata.

Rare diminutive of Donate.

French form of Drusiana.

Feminine form of Druzjan.

Means "ivy" in Italian, from Latin hedera "ivy", perhaps related to the Latin root -hendere "to grasp; to take; to cling onto".

French form of Hedwig.

French feminine form of Aegidius (see Giles). It belonged to the second wife of Élie, duc Decazes, a 19th-century French statesman.

Italian form of Electra.

French form of Eligia.

French form of Eloah

'Éloa, ou La sœur des anges' ('Éloa, or the Sister of the Angels'), published in 1824, is French poet, playwright, and novelist Alfred de Vigny's epic tripartite philosophic poem of Eloa, an innocent angel who falls in love with a stranger at odds with God. It is made clear that the stranger is Lucifer. He falls in love with the girl, but his own twisted notions of love prohibit him from returning the girl's affection in a proper way. In the end, the girl is unable to help Lucifer and he drags her to hell with him. Even as she is falling, she does not know who he is until he tells her his name.

Derived from French émeraude "emerald".

Polish Yiddish name related to Yentl, found in Polish documents from the early 1800s.

Gallicized form of Enora.

English form of Éponine.

From an Old French name meaning "star", ultimately derived from Latin stella. It was rare in the English-speaking world in the Middle Ages, but it was revived in the 19th century, perhaps due to the character Estella Havisham in Charles Dickens' novel Great Expectations (1860).

Polish, Slovak, Romanian and Lithuanian form of Esther.

Derived from French étoile "star" (ultimately via Old French estoile, esteile, from Latin stēlla).

French form of Eudocia.

Feminine form of Eudon.

French form of Eudoxia.

French form of Eugenia. This was the name of the wife of Napoleon III.

French form of Eulalia.

French form of Eunomia.

French form of Euphrasia.

Variant of Urielle.

French form of Eusebia.

French feminine form of Eustache and Czech feminine form of Eustach.

French form of Eustacia.

Contraction of Éva and names ending in -ëlle, such as Maëlle and Gaëlle.

French feminine form of Fabianus (see Fabian).

French elaboration of Fanny, which is used as a diminutive of both Stéphanie and Françoise in French.

From the Spanish Estefania, brought to Eastern Europe by the Jews expelled from Spain during the Spanish Inquisition.

Old German form of Pharaildis.

Derived from French fauve. As a noun, fauve means "tawny-coloured animal" and, by extension, " big cat (such as a lion or lynx); beast, wild animal (especially fierce, aggressive, or predatory)". As an adjective, fauve means "tawny" and, by extension, "savage, fierce (having the ferocity of a wild animal); dangerous, wild". The name first appeared in the 1980s and was brought to public attention by Fauve Hautot (born 3 March 1986), a French dancer and choreographer.

Diminutive of Fiamma. This is the name of a character appearing in several works by the 14th-century Italian author Boccaccio. She was probably based on the Neapolitan noblewoman Maria d'Aquino.

Gallicized form of Fiammetta. La reine Fiammette (1903) is an opera in four acts by composer Xavier Leroux.

Of unknown origin and meaning.

French form of Flaminia.

Feminine form of Flavius.

French feminine form of Flavius.

French feminine form of Flavian.

From the name of the common heraldic charge in the shape of a lily, particularly associated with the French monarchy. It is derived from French fleur de lis meaning "lily flower".

French form of Florentina.

Italian form of Florentiana.

French form of Floridus (for men) and Florida (for women), but the name is most often encountered on women.

This name is strictly feminine in Italy, where it is a variant form of Florida.

A notable bearer of this name is Floride Calhoun (1792-1866), an American politician's wife who had a leading role in a scandal called the Petticoat affair (1829–1831).

French form of Fusciana, itself the feminine form of Fuscianus.

Probably from Lithuanian gaubti meaning "to cover". In Lithuanian mythology this was the name of the goddess of fire and the home.

French form of Galatea.

From the French name for a variety of flowering plant (genus Rubia; called madder in English), which is used to make red dye. This name was borne by the central character in the French film Les Enfants du Paradis (1945).

From the name of the tropical flower, which was named for the Scottish naturalist Alexander Garden (1730-1791).

Most likely derived from Latin Gemella. Compare the English name Gemelle.

This is found in the Jewish catacombs in Rome as the name of a Roman Jewish woman.

French form of Gerswintha. Another theory, however, suggests that Gersende might also be derived from the Germanic name Garsind, and thus ultimately from the Germanic elements ger "spear" and sind "journey".

Italian form of Guinevere. This is also the Italian name for the city of Geneva, Switzerland. It is also sometimes associated with the Italian word ginepro meaning "juniper".

Feminine form of Gintaras.

French variant of Giselle.

French equivalent of Graciela and Graziella.

Derived from German grün meaning "green".

Feminine form of Gwenaël.

Polish diminutive of Hanna 1.

Diminutive of Halszka.

French form of Honorina, a feminine form of the Roman name Honorinus, a derivative of Honorius. Saint Honorina was a 4th-century martyr from the Normandy region in France.

Probably from a Germanic name derived from the element idal, an extended form of id possibly meaning "work, labour" [1]. Unrelated, this was also an epithet of the Greek goddess Aphrodite, given because the city of Idalion on Cyprus was a center of her cult.

This name was borne by the heroine of the Polish writer Juliusz Słowacki's play Fantazy (1841, published 1866).

French form and Swedish variant of Idalia.

French form of Ilithyia.

Ancient Basque name that was first found on inscriptions in Aquitaine dating back to the 1st to 3rd centuries.
Its origin and meaning are uncertain; there is, however, a theory that it might be derived from the Basque adjective ilun (illun in Old Basque, ilunn in Aquitain), meaning "darkness; dark; sombre; gloomy; mysterious; obscure".

The name of the daughter of King Cymbeline in the play Cymbeline (1609) by William Shakespeare. He based her on a legendary character named Innogen, but it was printed incorrectly and never emended. Innogen is probably derived from Gaelic inghean meaning "maiden". As a given name it is chiefly British and Australian.

From the name of the American state, which means "land of the Indians". This is the name of the hero in the Indiana Jones series of movies, starring Harrison Ford.

Cognate of Isabea.

Variant of Isoline influenced by Isabelle.

French form of Isaura.

Popularly claimed to be derived from the Italian word isola "island", this name might actually rather be a variant of Isolda.

Isola Wilde was the younger sister of author and playwright Oscar Wilde. Isola died aged eight of meningitis, and her brother dedicated the poem Requiescat to her memory.

German form of Iseult, appearing in the 13th-century German poem Tristan by Gottfried von Strassburg. In 1865 the German composer Richard Wagner debuted his popular opera Tristan und Isolde and also used the name for his first daughter.

French form of Isolina. This name was used in André Messager's opera Isoline (1888), where it belongs to a princess.

Italian form of Iseult.

Cognate of Ivania.

A famous bearer is Izïa Higelin (b.1990), a French rock singer, guitarist and actress. Her patents claimed to be inspired by Mzia but changed the spelling because it was too complex.

Variant of Isola.

Georgian, Russian, Hungarian and Polish form of Iseult.

French cognate of Hyacinth 2.

French and Dutch feminine form of Joel.

Feminine form of Judicaël.

French form of Julitta.

Feminine form of Junius. This is the name of an early Christian mentioned in Paul's epistle to the Romans in the New Testament (there is some debate about whether the name belongs to a woman Junia or a man Junias).

Meaning unknown. Juturna was the Roman goddess of fountains and springs. According to Virgil she was the sister of Turnus.

French form of Juturna.

Medieval Russian form of Capitolina.

From the Mohawk pronunciation of Katherine. This was the name adopted by the 17th-century Mohawk saint Tekakwitha upon her baptism.

French and Portuguese form of Kelia.

Polish form of Keziah.

French variant of Kezia.

French form of Keziah.

Truncated form of Nikoleta as well as a borrowing of French Colette.

An old Polish name composed of the elements krasna (beauty) and uroda (charm).

from the Mordvin word ljama meaning "peace; concord".

Catalan diminutive of Eulalia.

Medieval Finnish variant of Scholastica. It fell out of use after the 1800s.

Latin form of Leto.

Transferred use of the surname Laviolette.

Meaning unknown. In Greek myth she was a Spartan queen and the mother of Castor, Pollux, Helen and Clytemnestra by the god Zeus, who came upon her in the form of a swan.

Derived from Czech libý meaning "pleasant, nice", from the Slavic element ľuby meaning "love". According to Czech legend Libuše was the founder of Prague.

Vernacular diminutive of Angelika.

This name was recorded in the Jewish community in medieval England. It was famously borne by Licoricia of Winchester who was one of the most prominent female bankers and one of the most notable English Jewish women of her time.
Licoricia is derived from the English word licorice (via Old French licoresse) and ultimately from Greek glukurrhiza ( γλυκύρριζα): glukus (γλυκύς) "sweet" and rhiza (ῥίζα) "root".
Both the (folk) etymological meaning of "sweet" and the associative meaning of the licorice itself fit well into the Jewish naming conventions of the time: names whose meanings denote desirable traits were common (especially for girls, compare Doltza, Beila, etc.) as were names denoting valuable things (compare Diamante, etc.).

Truncated form of Juliette.

Romanian and Spanish form of Ligeia.

From the English word for the shrub with purple or white flowers (genus Syringa). It is derived via Arabic from Persian.

Form of Lillian found in Scotland from about the 16th century [1].

Derived from Gascon lilòia "daisy".

Gallicized form of Gascon Liloia.

Either a diminutive of French names containing the sound lee or a combination of Lili and Louise.

Breton cognate of Lilwen.

Short form of Caroline and other names ending in line.

Variant of Lisabeau.

Combination of Lise and Charlotte.

Diminutive of Élisabeth.

Feminine form of the Roman family name Livianus, which was itself derived from the family name Livius.

French form of Lobelia.

Archaic French form of Leocadia (compare Norman Lliocadie). Spanish child saint Leocadia, the subject of an ancient and popular cultus in Toledo, was known in French as Léocadie or Locaie.

French form of Loelia.

Spanish diminutive of Dolores. A famous bearer was Lola Montez (1821-1861; birth name Eliza Gilbert), an Irish-born dancer, actress and courtesan.

Diminutive of Charlotte.

Italian and Spanish feminine form of Laurentius (see Laurence 1).

Short form of Charlotte or Liselotte.

From the name of the lotus flower (species Nelumbo nucifera) or the mythological lotus tree. They are ultimately derived from Greek λωτός (lotos). In Greek and Roman mythology the lotus tree was said to produce a fruit causing sleepiness and forgetfulness.

Possibly a form of Lioba. This was the name of a French saint whose cult is limited to the region of Poitou.

Diminutive of Louise.

French form of Louisiana.

Possibly a variant of Luna.

Variant of Loubette.

French form of Lucentia, which is the feminine form of Lucentius. This name was borne by an obscure medieval French saint, whose feast day is on June 17th.

Variant form of both Lucelle and Lucille, which was probably inspired by either traditional feminine names that end in -ielle (such as Danielle and Gabrielle) or by the French word ciel meaning "sky, heaven".

French form of Luciola. It should be noted that luciole is also the French word for "firefly".

A known bearer of this name is the French singer Luciole (b. 1986).

Known from letters a letter in the Greek Language. The name could be Greek in origin, or possibly a hellenized form of an Egyptian name or word. The submittee claims she saw this name in the book "Egypt in Late Antiquity" by Roger S. Bagnall, on page 196.

(Also a Latin word meaning "profits; advantages; riches." (nominative plural of lucrum). From which is derived the English word "lucrative.")

Meaning unknown, though possibly related to the Slavic element mirŭ meaning "peace, world". In Czech legend this is the name of a bard.

Means "the moon" in Latin (as well as Italian, Spanish and other Romance languages). Luna was the Roman goddess of the moon, frequently depicted driving a white chariot through the sky.

Derived from French lune "moon", making it a cognate of Luna.

Diminutive of Lunia.

Diminutive of names beginning with Lu-, such as Lucyna, Luna, Łucja or Ludmiła.

French form of Lutetia.

Variant of Allyriane.

Romansh form of Magdalena, traditionally found in Val Müstair.

From the Latvian name for a type of flowering plant, known as cleavers or bedstraw in English.

Feminine form of Maël.

Feminine form of Maël, possibly influenced by the spelling of Mailys.

Means "welcome" in Tahitian. It gained popularity in France during the 1980s.

From the English word magnolia for the flower, which was named for the French botanist Pierre Magnol.

Gallicized form of Maika.

Variant of Maini.

Derived from Latin maxilla meaning "jaw". The initial Latin word underwent several changes (illa was removed leaving just max, the vowel a became ai, and finally, the x became ssa).

Feminine form of Maksymilian.

Polish, Spanish and Portuguese feminine form of Marcellinus.

French, Armenian and Georgian form of Marina.

Combination of Marie and Soleil, possibly created as a French equivalent of Spanish Marisol.

Probably originally a Polish diminutive of Maria or Małgorzata.

Transferred use of the surname Matisse. The surname was most famously borne by the French artist Henri Matisse (1869-1954), who is likely the reason behind the popularity of Matisse as a given name in the 21st century.

Matisse as a given name is strictly masculine in France. It is unisex in other countries, but often not equally so for the two genders: for example, it is predominantly feminine in the USA and predominantly masculine in Belgium and the Netherlands.

French feminine form of Maximilian.

Of debated origin and meaning. Theories include a Gallicized form of Maialen (compare Maïalène).

Usage of this still relatively new French given name first started with Mazarine Pingeot (b. 1974), the illegitimate daughter of former French president François Mitterrand (1916-1996) and his mistress Anne Pingeot (b. 1943), whose existence was only brought to light in 1994 or 1995. Her parents' love of books is said to have inspired them to name their daughter after the Bibliothèque Mazarine, the oldest public library in France. The library itself was named after the 17th-century cardinal Jules Raymond Mazarin, who had been born in Italy as Giulio Raimondo Mazzarino. He came from a family that was originally from Sicily and had taken their surname from their ancestral town, Mazzarino.

The town's name is said to have been derived from Mazzara, which either originates from Arabic mazari or mazar meaning "shrine", or is a corruption of Mactorium, the name of a town that had existed in the area in ancient times. That town had been founded by ancient Greek colonists, who had called it Μακτώριον (Maktorion). It is uncertain what the town's name meant in Greek, but it is possibly related to the Greek noun μακτήριον (makterion) meaning "food". Also compare Μαιμακτηριών (Maimakterion), which is the name of one of the lunar months of the Hellenic calendar used in ancient Attica. Alternatively, an etymological relation with the Greek adjective μακτός (maktos) meaning "kneaded" is also possible. This word is ultimately derived from the Greek verb μάσσω (masso) meaning "to knead, to press into a mould".

With that said, the given name Mazarine is quite rare in France today. It was virtually unknown in the country, until the existence of Mitterrand's illegitimate daughter was revealed in 1994 or 1995. The name gained quite a bit of exposure after that, which made it possible for prospective parents to take a liking to the name and bestow it upon their daughters. This clearly shows in the available statistics for the name Mazarine: it suddenly appeared on the radar in the mid-1990s and has remained on it ever since, whereas in previous decades, the name was not used on a noteworthy scale at all (as was to be expected, since this name was more or less "invented" as a given name).

Old and traditional name from the Engadine valley in Switzerland of unknown meaning.

French cognate of Melody.

Memorantia f. Latin memorantia 'remembering'.

Polish feminine form of Michael.

Feminine diminutive of Michele 1.

Diminutive of Mathie, Méraïyeu and Mêrrienne.

Contraction and diminutive of Anna - Maria, traditionally found in the Lower Engadine region.

Derived from Latin mirabilis meaning "wonderful". This name was coined during the Middle Ages, though it eventually died out. It was briefly revived in the 19th century.

French form of Nadezhda.

Diminutive of Napoléone. In other words, you could say that this name is the feminine form of Napolin.

Vernacular truncated form of Anastasie (compare Nastasia) found in the Poitou-Charentes region of France, this name also made its way to Louisiana.
In the literary world, Nastasie occurs in La Mérine à Nastasie (1903) by Athanase Jean (dit Yan Saint-Acère).

French and Portuguese form of Natasha.

Feminine form of Nathaniel, using the suffix -elle.

Means "nativity" in French. It is mostly used in French-speaking countries in Africa and apparently predominantly so in Cote d'Ivoire.

Means "beautiful" in Hebrew.

Diminutive of Neige.

French coinage based on Néphélé as well as a Gallicized form of Nefeli.

A very rare name, it appears on the Polish calendar, seems to be a pre-Christian name, derived from niebo (heaven; sky) or niebieskie (blue).

From Japanese 乃 (no), a possessive particle, and 愛 (a) meaning "love, affection". This name can also be constructed from other kanji or kanji combinations.

Cognate of Noelia.

Feminine form of Noël.

Feminine diminutive of Noé recorded in the 1600s. In some cases, however, it may also have been a feminine form of Noët.

Derived from Latin novus meaning "new". It was first used as a name in the 19th century.

Means "spit, nail, rod, pointed pillar, horizontal line". From the Greek obelos (ὀβελός) with the French diminutive ending of -ine, -ie, or -ia.

Derived from French océan meaning "ocean".

French diminutive of Oda or Odilia. This is the name of a princess who has been transformed into a swan in the ballet Swan Lake (1877) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Feminine form of Ofir.

Feminine form of Omer 1.

French form of Undine.

Derived from Breton onn "ash; (and by extension) strong" and gwenn "white". This is an older form of Onenn, the name of a 6th- and 7th-century Breton saint.

From the English word opal for the iridescent gemstone, the birthstone of October. The word ultimately derives from Sanskrit उपल (upala) meaning "jewel".

French and Italian form of Opal.

Elaborated form of Opal. This is also an English and French word meaning "resembling an opal".

Derived from Greek ὠφέλεια (opheleia) meaning "help, advantage". This was a rare ancient Greek name, which was either rediscovered or recreated by the poet Jacopo Sannazaro for a character in his poem Arcadia (1480). It was borrowed by Shakespeare for his play Hamlet (1600), in which it belongs to the daughter of Polonius and the potential love interest of Hamlet. She eventually goes insane and drowns herself after Hamlet kills her father. In spite of this negative association, the name has been in use since the 19th century.

Variant form of Oranna, also the standard French form of the same name.

A contemporary namesake is the French film director Oranne Mounition.

French form of Orbiana.

Possibly derived from Latin aurum "gold" or from its derivatives, Spanish oro or French or. In medieval legend Oriana was the daughter of a king of England who married the knight Amadis.

French form of Oriana.

Diminutive of Oria.

Variant of Orlanda.

Feminine form of Orsino.

Local form of Ursine found in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region up until the 1600s.

Italian form of Hosanna. This was the name of a 15th-century Italian saint and mystic, as well as a 16th-century Montenegrin saint.

French form of Osanna.

German form of Odilia.

Diminutive of Ottilie. A famous bearer was the British socialite Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873-1938).

Polish form of Odilia.

A feminine version of Ovid.

Polish form of Osanna.

This name was invented in the late 16th century by the poet Philip Sidney for use in his romance Arcadia (1593). He possibly intended it to mean "all sweetness" from Greek πᾶν (pan) meaning "all" and μέλι (meli) meaning "honey". It was later employed by author Samuel Richardson for the heroine in his novel Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded (1740), after which time it became used as a given name. It did not become popular until the 20th century.

French form of Pandora.

Derived from Latin perditus meaning "lost". Shakespeare created this name for the daughter of Hermione and Leontes in his play The Winter's Tale (1610). Abandoned as an infant by her father the king, she grows up to be a shepherdess and falls in love with with Florizel.

French form of Periboea.

French and Yiddish cognate of Pearl. It is also used as a Yiddish vernacular form of Margalit.

A form of Pétronille (cf. Peronel, Perenelle). The virgin martyr Saint Petronilla is also known as Péroline in French.

Derived from Latin perpetuus meaning "continuous". This was the name of a 3rd-century saint martyred with another woman named Felicity.

French form of Persephone.

Meaning unknown, probably of Pre-Greek origin, but perhaps related to Greek πέρθω (pertho) meaning "to destroy" and φόνος (phonos) meaning "murder". In Greek myth she was the daughter of Demeter and Zeus. She was abducted to the underworld by Hades, but was eventually allowed to return to the surface for part of the year. The result of her comings and goings is the changing of the seasons. With her mother she was worshipped in the Eleusinian Mysteries, which were secret rites practiced at the city of Eleusis near Athens.

Derived from French pervenche "periwinkle".

Variant of Pazanne. The name of an obscure French saint whose life and work are somewhat of a mystery. Nonetheless, she left her name in several place names throughout France.

From the Greek Φαίδρα (Phaidra), derived from φαιδρός (phaidros) meaning "bright". Phaedra was the daughter of Minos and the wife of Theseus in Greek mythology. Aphrodite caused her to fall in love with her stepson Hippolytos, and after she was rejected by him she killed herself.

Derived from Greek φαεινός (phaeinos) meaning "shining". According to some Greek myths this was the name of one of the three Graces or Χάριτες (Charites).

Probably related to Phaenna, or perhaps from Greek φανης (phanes) meaning "appearing". A notable bearer was Saint Phaine of Ancyra, a 3rd-century Christian martyr. She was one of seven holy virgins, including Saint Tecusa, who were drowned in a lake under the emperor Diocletian.

From Greek Φιλουμένη (Philoumene) meaning "to be loved", an inflection of φιλέω (phileo) meaning "to love". This was the name of an obscure early saint and martyr. The name came to public attention in 1802 after a tomb seemingly marked with the name Filumena was found in Rome, supposedly belonging to another martyr named Philomena. This may have in fact been a representation of the Greek word φιλουμένη, not a name.

French form of Philomena.

This is either a medieval Polish vernacular form of Bella, being derived from piekna "beautiful", or a medieval Polish contraction of Petronela. This name is now obsolete in Poland.

Polish form of Pilar.

From Esperanto pipro meaning "pepper".

French masculine and feminine form of Placidus (see Placido).

Feminine variant of Paullus.

French form of Poma.

Variant form of Pomelline. This name is best known for being one of the middle names of Charlotte Casiraghi (b. 1986), who is the daughter of Princess Caroline of Hanover (formerly of Monaco). She was given this middle name in honour of her ancestor Pomellina Fregoso (c. 1387-1468), a Genovese noblewoman who was the wife of Jean I of Monaco (c. 1382-1454). Her name had been gallicized to Pomelline in Monaco, as it was (and still is) predominantly a French-speaking country.

From Latin pomus "fruit tree". This was the name of the Roman goddess of fruit trees.

French masculine and feminine form of Pompeius (see Pompey). This was the name of a female Breton saint, also known as Aspasie, Pompaïa or, in Breton, Coupaïa/Koupaïa.

French form of Poppaea.

From the word for the red flower, derived from Old English popæg.

Diminutive of Josephine. It can also be inspired by the English word posy for a bunch of flowers.

Derived from French primerose "primrose".

French form of Psamathe.

French form of Quiteria.

Dutch and French form of Radegund.

Italian feminine form of Raphael.

From the English word for the arc of multicoloured light that can appear in a misty sky.

French feminine form of Raphael.

Diminutive of Rayna 1 or Raisa 1.

Means "rule" in Latin. This was the name of a 3rd-century Swiss martyr, the patron saint of Zurich.

Variant of Rivanon.

Russian and Polish form of Roxana.

French feminine form of Romanus (see Roman).

French feminine form of Romanus (see Roman).

French feminine form of Romeo.

Italian feminine form of Romulus.

I found it on a Dutch baby name site claiming it is a Dutch Medieval name, possibly from the Late Latin meaning fiery rose.

Means "dew" in French, presumably a French equivalent of Rocío.

Diminutive of Rose. This is the name of a type of flowering shrub (species Hibiscus sabdariffa) native to Africa but now grown in many places, used to make hibiscus tea.

Contraction of Rose and Eleonore via the short form Lore 1.

French diminutive of Rose.

Latin form of Ῥωξάνη (Rhoxane), the Greek form of an Old Persian or Bactrian name, from Old Iranian *rauxšnā meaning "bright, shining" [1]. This was the name of Alexander the Great's first wife, a daughter of the Bactrian nobleman Oxyartes. In the modern era it came into use during the 17th century. In the English-speaking world it was popularized by Daniel Defoe, who used it in his novel Roxana (1724).

From a Turkish nickname meaning "Ruthenian". This referred to the region of Ruthenia, covering Belarus, Ukraine and western Russia. Roxelana (1504-1558), also called Hürrem, was a slave and then concubine of Süleyman the Magnificent, sultan of the Ottoman Empire. She eventually became his wife and produced his heir, Selim II.

French form of Roxelana.

Alternate transcription of Bulgarian Румяна (see Rumyana).

From the English word that refers either to a spice, the crocus flower from which it is harvested, or the yellow-orange colour of the spice. It is derived via Old French from Arabic زعفران (zaʿfarān), itself probably from Persian meaning "gold leaves".

Diminutive of Sari 1.

French form of Sancta.

Derived from the Slavic name elements sam "alone; oneself" and boji "battle; to fight".

Feminine form of Samuel.

Judeo-Anglo-Norman feminine form of Samuel and Faroese form of Samuline.

From the Greek name Σαπφείρη (Sappheire), which was from Greek σάπφειρος (sappheiros) meaning "sapphire" or "lapis lazuli" (ultimately derived from the Hebrew word סַפִּיר (sappir)). Sapphira is a character in Acts in the New Testament who is killed by God for lying.

French form of Sarai.

Diminutive of Sara.

Diminutive of Sara.

From an English surname that denoted a person who sold or made clothes made of scarlet (a kind of cloth, possibly derived from Persian سقرلاط (saqrelāṭ)). Margaret Mitchell used it for the main character, Scarlett O'Hara, in her novel Gone with the Wind (1936). Her name is explained as having come from her grandmother. Despite the fact that the book was adapted into a popular movie in 1939, the name was not common until the 21st century. It started rising around 2003, about the time that the career of American actress Scarlett Johansson (1984-) started taking off.

Derived from German schön meaning "beautiful". This name was borne by Schönche Jeannette Rothschild (1771-1859), the oldest child of Mayer Rothschild, founder of the Rothschild banking family. See also Shayna.

Derived from Yiddish shein "beautiful". The name coincides with German Schöne "beautiful woman" (compare Beila and Shayna).

Diminutive of Schöne.

Diminutive of Schöne.

Norman form of Sibyl.

Italian and Polish form of Zipporah.

Derived from Finnish seijas meaning "tranquil, serene".

French form of Zipporah.

Jeanne-Louise-Armande-Élisabeth-Sophie-Septimanie de Vignerot du Plessis (1740-1773), daughter of the 3rd Duke of Richelieu, was a salonnière of the French Ancien Régime. She was married to the Count of Egmont and also known as Septimanie d'Egmont.

French form of Seraphia.

French form of Seraphina.

Allegedly from Breton seu "beautiful". She was a Breton saint of the 6th century, a sister of the renowned Saint Tugdual (one of the seven founder saints of Brittany). A commune in Brittany is named for her.

Elaboration of Sibylle.

From the English word meaning "orange-red". It is ultimately from the name of the city of Siena in Italy, because of the colour of the clay there.

French form of Silenus. While as a mythologcial name, Silène is masculine, it is used as an exclusively feminine given name today.

Diminutive of Simona.

French feminine form of Sixtus.

Derived from Breton sklaer "clear, bright", this name is used as an equivalent of Claire.

Feminine form of Sohan.

French form of the Late Latin name Sollemnia, which was derived from Latin sollemnis "religious". This was the name of a French shepherdess who became a saint after she was killed by her master.

Variant of Solange.

Variant of Sufyan.

French form of Sophonias. It was originally strictly a masculine name, but it has been used on females since the late 1980s, which is probably due to the name's strong resemblance to Sophie.

Derived from Jèrriais soucique "marigold". This is a newly coined coined name, intended as a Jèrriais equivalent of Marigold.

Diminutive of Elizabeta.

From Yiddish shtern, "star". It is sometimes used as a Yiddish form of Esther.

From a personification of the country of Sweden, in use since the 17th century. It is a derivative of Svear, the Swedish name for the North Germanic tribe the Swedes. The Swedish name of the country of Sweden is Sverige, a newer form of Svear rike meaning "the realm of the Svear".

Possibly from the name of the Germanic tribe of the Suebi (svevo in Italian).

Variant of Swanhild.

Meaning uncertain, possibly a transferred use of the English surname Swann. It was popularized in France by the 1984 film Swann In Love (known as Un amour de Swann in French), itself based on Marcel Proust's novel In Search of Lost Time (1913).

Perhaps a variant of Svatava.

Polish form of Sibyllina, perhaps only used in reference to the beatified Italian nun and mystic Sibyllina Biscossi (1287-1367). See also Sybilla.

Variant of Symphorienne, which is the standard French form of Symphoriana.

French form of Symphoriana.

French form of Symphorosa.

Diminutive of Nutala, the Romansh form of Natalia.

French form of Tatiana.

Used by French politician Cécile Duflot for her daughter born in 2008.

Allegedly derived from Vietnamese Thùy, Thủy or Thy and Lan 1. This name was apparently first used in 2001 by French child model Thylane Léna-Rose Blondeau.

Diminutive of names ending in tine such as Justine and Clementine.

Feminine form of Tiziano.

Elaborated from the Italian word topazio meaning "topaz".

A notable bearer was Italian painter Topazia Alliata (1913-2015).

From the region of Tuscany, Italy. Compare Tosca.
Saint Toscana (known as Toscane in French) was a 14th-century nun from Verona in northern Italy.

Latinized form of Toussainte. In other words, you could also say that this name is the feminine form of Tossanus.

Swedish variant of Tove.

Romansh diminutive of Christina as well as the feminine form of Vincent.

Origin uncertain, possibly a variant of Tova 2, a feminine form of Tue or a short form of Perpetua. Alternatively it may be derived from Latin tua "yours" or Danish tue "small hill" (from Old Norse þúfa "mound, knoll", which coincides with the name Þúfa). In Sweden its earliest document use is 1835.

Feminine form of Tullius (see Tullio).

Swedish and Norwegian variant of Tove.

Feminine form of Valentinus (see Valentine 1). A famous bearer is the Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova (1937-), who in 1963 became the first woman to visit space.

French feminine form of Valentinus (see Valentine 1).