Names That Mean Ornament
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- Adah
Origin:
HebrewMeaning:
"ornament"Description:
Adah is a biblical name twice over—one was the mother of Jabal and Jubal, the other was a wife of Esau. The latter Adah and Esau’s descendants settled in Edom and became the Edomites. Adah is unrelated to the visually similar name Ada, which is Germanic in origin.
- Alzira
Origin:
ArabicMeaning:
"ornament"Description:
Alzira found its highest degree of popularity in the mid-nineteenth century after Giuseppe Verdi created an opera of the name Alzira, after its romantic heroine. Despite Verdi using the name for a Peruvian princess, Alzira is an arabic name Verdi's opera, despite the name's arabic roots, the name was given to a Peruvian princess. Alzira is also the name of a Spanish city in Valencia.
- Adino
Origin:
HebrewMeaning:
"ornament"Description:
Attractive name from the Old Testament. Adino was one of David's "mighty men," though texts do disagree on his name.
- Tegen
Origin:
CornishMeaning:
"pretty; ornament"Description:
Although Tegen resembles the names Teagan and Tegan, they are etymologically distinct names. Tegen, pronounced TEG-en rather than TEE-gan, is a modern Cornish word name meaning "pretty" or "ornament."
- Angad
Origin:
Indian, Sanskrit, SikhMeaning:
"of my own body, an ornament"Description:
This Punjabi boy's name is used in India.