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Carolijn. Carolina (name) Caroline (given name) Catharina. Charlotte (given name) Claudia (given name) Cobie. Cor (given name) Cornelia (given name)
A common term for the personification of death across Latin America is "la Parca" from one of the three Roman Parcae, a figure similar to the Anglophone Grim Reaper, though usually depicted as female and without a scythe. Mictlantecutli in the Codex Borgia. In Aztec mythology, Mictecacihuatl is the " Queen of Mictlan " (the Aztec underworld ...
Baas – The Boss. Bakker – Baker. Beek, van – From the brook. Beekhof – garden brook. Beenhouwer – Butcher. Berg, van der – From the cliff, mountain. Berkenbosch – birch wood, a grove of birch trees. Bijl, van der – "from the axe" – i.e. descended from woodcutters (lumberjacks) Boer, de – the Farmer.
Derived from the Greek word meaning angel, Angela made the list of top ten most popular names for girls in the U.S. from 1965 to 1979. Favorite variations include the French Angelique, as well as ...
Azrael (/ ˈ æ z r i. ə l,-r eɪ-/; Hebrew: עֲזַרְאֵל, romanized: ʿǍzarʾēl, 'God has helped'; [2] Arabic: عزرائيل, romanized: ʿAzrāʾīl or ʿIzrāʾīl) is the canonical angel of death in Islam, [3] and appears in the apocryphal text Apocalypse of Peter.
ursa. Meaning. "little bear ". Other names. Variant form (s) Uschi, Usch, Urs. A person dressed up as the villainous sea witch Ursula from The Little Mermaid at Disney's D23 Expo in 2015. Ursula is a feminine given name in several languages. The name is derived from a diminutive of the Latin ursa, which means "bear".
List of valkyrie names. "Walkyrien" (1905) by Emil Doepler. In Norse mythology, a valkyrie (from Old Norse valkyrja "chooser of the fallen") is one of a host of female figures who decide who will die in battle. Selecting among half of those who die in battle (the other half go to the goddess Freyja 's afterlife field Fólkvangr), the valkyries ...
Eyck names: The popular Dutch names, Eyck and Van Eyck, mean "oak" and "of the oak", respectively. Oak trees were venerated in Druidic religion and mythology. [11] Many other place names in Netherlands have ancient mythological meanings, some named after Pre-Christian deities or reflecting other myths of the ancient people: [19]