So it's Thursday, and that means Thursday 13! Yippee! I love choosing names for my characters and thought... OH! That'd be a cool T13 so I bebopped over to one of my fave websites called: Behind the Name and let it RANDOMLY choose 13 names (and their meanings) for my T13 this week.

1. CSABA
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hungarian
Pronounced: CHAW-baw
Possibly means either "shepherd" or "gift" in Hungarian. According to legend this was the name of the son of Attila the Hun.

2. AURORA
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Finnish, Roman Mythology
Pronounced: ow-RO-rah (Spanish), aw-ROR-a (English)
Means "dawn" in Latin. Aurora was the Roman goddess of the morning.

uh.. 3's definitely one that I probably won't use, but still... verrra interesting! Notice there's no pronunciation on it...eek!
3. ÆÐELÞRYÐ
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Anglo-Saxon
Derived from the Old English elements æðel "noble" and þryð "strength".

(no pronunciation on #4 either... hmmm yeah... let's name her something that sounds remarkably like the Ebola virus)
4. IBOLYA
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hungarian
Means "violet" in Hungarian.

5. SEVGI
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Turkish
Means "love" in Turkish.


(OMG #6 actually shows me the ancient Greek form of the name. Yeah, let's go with that version...can you see that happening??)
6. ATLAS
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ατλας (Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: AT-las (English)
Means "not enduring" from the Greek negative prefix α combined with τλαω (tlao) "to endure". In Greek mythology he was a Titan punished by Zeus by being forced to support the heavens on his shoulders.

7. ABDUL
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic
First part of compound Arabic names beginning with عبد ال ('Abd al) meaning "servant of the" (such as عبد العزيز ('Abd al-'Aziz) "servant of the powerful").

8. TADHG
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish, Scottish
Pronounced: TIEG
Means "poet" in Irish. This was the name of an 11th-century king of Connacht.

9. OLIVER
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, German
Pronounced: AHL-i-vur (English), AW-lee-ver (German)
Norman French form of a Germanic name, possibly the name Alfihar meaning "elf army". The spelling was altered by association with Latin oliva "olive tree". In the medieval French epic 'La Chanson de Roland' Oliver is a friend of the hero Roland. This is also the name of the title character in Charles Dickens' 'Oliver Twist', which is about a poor orphan living on the streets of London. Another famous bearer was Oliver Cromwell, a British military commander of the 17th century who ruled the country after the civil war.

10. ISABEL
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese, French, English, German
Pronounced: ee-sah-BEL (Spanish), ee-za-BEL (French), IZ-a-bel (English), ee-zah-BEL (German)
Most likely a medieval Spanish form of ELIZABETH, although some theories state that Isabel actually derives from an old Semitic name meaning "daughter of BA'AL". Queens of Castile and Portugal and a queen of England have borne this name.

11. TERRA
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: TER-a
Recently created name meaning "land, earth" in Latin.

12. GIDEON
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, English, Jewish
Other Scripts: גִדְעוֹן (Hebrew)
Pronounced: GID-ee-un (English)
Means "feller" or "hewer" in Hebrew. Gideon was a hero of the Old Testament who led the Israelites against the Midianites.

13. LILIANA
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, English, Romanian, Polish
Pronounced: lil-ee-AN-a (English), lee-LYAH-nah (Polish)
Derived from Latin lilium meaning "lily".