Aladar

Meaning: (With Germanic roots, including Aldemar and Adalmar, from elements meaning Old and Famous, or Noble and Famous. If it's the latter, that connects Aladar to a huge family of names. Servant of Allah, Paragon of Faith, and Aladár is a variant form of the Arabic and English name Aladdin. It is also a common Roma (gypsy) name.)

Origin: (Germanic, Hungarian, Arabic)

Pronunciation: (aa-L-ahDAAR, AL-uh-dar)

Gender: Male, Possibly Uni-Sex

There was a movie I liked some years back about these talking dinosaurs and one of the dinosaurs was named Aladar and just the other day my parents were watching the movie and I heard the name again and decided to add it to my list. I like the meanings a lot on this name as well as they are very regal and strong and the whole look of the name does give it a dignified look. I didn’t know it was a common Roma (gypsy) name but I can see that now as there are a few names I’ve like and used over the years that are common gypsy names but I didn’t know for a while.

With this name I can see a very handsome dark haired dark eyed character with a shady past but that has risen to a dignified position but is threatened by his past mistakes. For some reason I see this fitting into the 19^th or early 20^th Centuries better than the present era.

Jano

Meaning: (Yahweh is Gracious; Yahweh is Merciful, Well Born, Noble, a form of the name John.)

Origin: (Hungarian, Czech, Hebrew, Old Greek)

Pronunciation: (YAANow, YAH-no, jay-no)

Gender: Uni-Sex

My list is backed up for a while so I am finally getting to these names. Back during NaNoWriMo 2015 I had posted about it and a fellow blogger Apolla 13 commented about her experience with it and then told me a bit about the story she chose to write about. So for all of my posts for March I will be doing some of the names of her characters for the story she wrote for NaNoWriMo 2015 as I really like many of these names and have yet to add them so I am adding them now.

The meanings are lovely and beautiful. When I see this name I do want to pronounced it more jay-no but that is because I see it through an English speakers eyes. It is a decent name but I am not in love with it because the spelling for some reason doesn’t appeal to me as it seems like someone was trying to spell another name and just stopped short of the end. However the meanings do appeal to me and I wouldn’t be put off if I saw this name in a novel.

Jensi

Meaning: (High Born, Well Born, Noble, Variant of Eugene.)

Origin: (Old Greek, Hungarian)

Pronunciation (JEN-see, JHEHNSIY)

Gender: Uni-Sex

I was watching an episode of The Millionaire Matchmaker and one of the ladies they had there for the millionaire was named Jensi. I like it more as a male name but it could be cute as a female name too. I have thought of having this be the name of one of my future characters and have Amita *see on list of posts* be his (Jensi’s) secret guardian. I love the meanings as I love all noble meaning names. It has a unique quality and is likable in my opinion.

Ambrus

Meaning: (Undying, Immortal, Hungarian form of Ambrosius (AMBROSE: From the Late Latin name Ambrosius, which was derived from the Greek name Αμβροσιος (Ambrosios) meaning "immortal". Saint Ambrose was a 4th-century theologian and bishop of Milan, who is considered a Doctor of the Church. Due to the saint, the name came into general use in Christian Europe, though it was never particularly common in England.) This name recorded as Ambrose and Ambrus, derives from the ancient Greek personal name Ambrosios meaning "divine" or "immortal". Its popularity as a medieval christian name was largely due to the fame of Saint Ambrose (circa 340-394), Bishop of Milan and one of the great fathers of the Latin Church. His pupil was St. Augustine, the name is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, and again in the 1168 "Pipe Rolls of Norfolk". The surname first appears in the latter half of the 13th Century, (see below). In 1567, Johane Ambrose, daughter of William Ambrose was christened in St. James's Church, Clerkenwell. Isac Ambrose (1604-1663) educated at Oxford in 1624 was appointed one of the King's four preachers in Lancashire in 1631 and worked for the establishment of Presbyterianism. In 1729 Joseph Mottram and Ambrosia Ambrose were married in St. George's Hanover Square, London. John Ambrose (died 1771) was a captain in the navy who served in the Channel and Mediterranean between, 1734 - 1744 and rose to the rank of rear admiral. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of William Ambroys, which was dated 1273, in the "Hundred Rolls of Bedfordshire", during the reign of King Edward 1, known as "The Hammer of the Scots", 1272 - 1302. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.  http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Ambrus )

Origin: (Hungarian, Latin, Greek)

Pronunciation: (AA-MBRahS)

Gender: Female

I was looking through some of my old year books the other day and I remember this girl I knew that was a year older than me. We had a class together and I remembered she had an interesting name. I looked it up in the year book, it was Ambrus. The meanings are beautiful and it has a wonderful history. Ambrus is a nice alternative for the similar spelled Amber (Amber and Ambrus have different meanings and are not alike except that they look similar). Of course as well you can use this as a feminine version of Ambrose which is the basis for Ambrus. I have used Ambrose before in a novel but I have not as of yet used Ambrus. It’s a rare name but I think I like that.

Firenze

Meaning: (Flower, Blossom, Is Italian and or Hungarian word for what English- Speaking people call the city Florence in Italy.)
Origin: (Hungarian, Italian)

Pronunciation: (fur-enz)

Gender: Uni-Sex

I heard and read this name the other day. It is unique looking with an interesting pronunciation. The meaning is descent and I like this name more and more each day though I don't think I would use this in any of my novels I write.

Mariska

Meaning: (Bitter, Sea of Bitterness, Star of the Sea, Diminutive of the name Mary, very rare female name.)

Origin: (Hungarian)

Pronunciation: (mah-RISK-ə, MAW-reesh-kaw, muh-RISH-kuh)

Gender: Female

I have liked this name since I first heard it as the name of the actress Mariska Hargitay from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. I think it is pretty rare name and is a better take on just plain Mary (not that Mary isn't a nice name). I think this is such a beautiful name and I do hope to see and hear it more.

Alexander (Greek), Alessandro (Italian), Alejandro (Spanish)

Meaning: (Man's Defender, Defending Men, Defender of Men, Latinized form of the Greek name Αλεξανδρος (Alexandros), which meant "defending men" from Greek αλεξω (alexo) "to defend, help" and ανηρ (aner) "man" (genitive ανδρος). In Greek mythology this was another name of the hero Paris, and it also belongs to several characters in the New Testament. However, the most famous bearer was Alexander the Great, King of Macedonia. In the 4th century BC he built a huge empire out of Greece, Egypt, Persia, and parts of India. Due to his fame, and later medieval tales involving him, use of his name spread throughout Europe.
The name has been used by kings of Scotland, Poland and Yugoslavia, emperors of Russia, and eight popes. Other notable bearers include English poet Alexander Pope (1688-1744), American statesman Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804), Scottish-Canadian explorer Sir Alexander MacKenzie (1764-1820), Russian poet Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837), and Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), the Scottish-Canadian-American inventor of the telephone.)

Origin: Greek, English, German, Dutch, Scandinavian, Hungarian, Biblical

Pronunciation: al-əg-ZAN-dər (English), ah-lek-SAHN-der (German), ah-lək-SAHN-dər (Dutch)

Gender: Male

This is a very common and sometimes overused name. It does have a strong meaning and from the persons bearing this name it is usually given to larger than life characters. Alessandro the Italian version I have been using on an on going novel and Alexander I used as the child of one of my Main Character in another novel. And everyone now knows of the Spanish version Alejandro from both the Lady Gaga song where she says it quite a lot and also from the Planters commercial and the Almond named Alejandro.