WA given name is the part of a personal name that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group who have a common surname. The term given name refers to a name bestowed at or close to the time of birth, usually by the parents of the newborn. A Christian name is the first name which is given at baptism, in Christian custom.
WOnomancy is divination based on a subject's name. Onomancy was popular in Europe during the Late Middle Ages but is said to have originated with the Pythagoreans. Several methods of analyzing a name are possible, some of which are based on arithmancy or gematria.
WA'Shawn Robinson is an American football defensive end for the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Alabama and was drafted by the Detroit Lions in the second round of the 2016 NFL Draft.
WAadu is an Estonian male given name.
WAarne as a surname may refer to:Antti Aarne (1867–1925), Finnish folklorist Els Aarne (1917–1995), Estonian composer Johan Victor Aarne, Finnish metalsmith
WAaron is a hellenized Hebrew masculine given name. The 'h' phoneme in the original Hebrew pronunciation "Aharon" (אהרן) is dropped in the Greek, Ααρών, from which the English form, Aaron, is derived.
WAbbas means "Lion" in Arabic The name traces back to Al-‘Abbas ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib and Abbas ibn Ali, a son of Ali ibn Abi Talib, who participated in the battle of Karbala alongside his master and Imam of the time Husayn ibn Ali. Abbas ibn Ali is revered by Shia Muslims, some of whom are named Abbas in remembrance and tribute to him. There is an Arabian tribe of the same name, the Banu Abbas.
WAbbondio Sangiorgio was an Italian sculptor of the neoclassical period.
WAbdullah is the primary transliteration of the Arabic given name, Arabic: عبد الله, built from the Arabic words ʿAbd and Allah. The first letter a in Allah in its native pronunciation is unstressed, and is elided following another vowel; in the case of Abdu-llah this is the -u of the Classical Arabic nominative case. It is one of many Arabic theophoric names, meaning servant of God. God's Follower is also a meaning of this name.
WAbdelrahman or Abd al-Rahman or Abdul Rahman or Abdurrahman or Abdrrahman is a male Arabic Muslim given name, and in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words Abd, al- and Rahman. The name means "servant of the most gracious", ar-Rahman being one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which give rise to the Muslim theophoric names.
WAberu Kebede Shewaye is an Ethiopian long distance runner who specializes in road running competitions. Her half marathon best of 1:07:39 is one of the fastest ever by an Ethiopian woman. She gained a bronze at the 2009 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships with the performance and has won at the Berlin Marathon, Stramilano Half Marathon and the Rotterdam Marathon. She has a marathon best of 2:20:30 hours.
WMark Abhisit Vejjajiva is a British Thai politician who was the prime minister of Thailand from 2008 to 2011. He is a former university lecturer at Chulachomklao Royal Military Academy and Thammasat University, and was the leader of the Democrat Party from 2005 until he resigned following the party's weak performance in the 2019 election. As leader of the second largest party in the House of Representatives, he was also leader of the opposition – a position he held from December 2008 until his party's en masse resignation from the House on 8 December 2013. That same month, he was formally charged with murder resulting from a crackdown on demonstrators in 2010 that killed 90 people.
WAbigail is a female given name. The name comes from the Hebrew name אֲבִיגַיִל / אֲבִיגָיִל Avigail, meaning "my father's joy". It is also a surname.
WThis is a list of people named after Abraham, the Biblical patriarch ; the father of the Abrahamic Religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam:
WAbu Bakr was a sahabi, one of the companions of Muhammad and the first Caliph of Islam. He was also Muhammad's father-in-law through Aisha. His real name was Abdullah or Abul-Kaaba and Abu Bakr was his kunya.
WAćim is a Serbian masculine given name, a variant of Akim, adopted from Biblical (Hebrew) name Joachim meaning "God erects". It is attested in Serbian society since the Middle Ages. The patronymic surname Aćimović is derived from the name. It may refer to:Aćim Doljanac, Serbian Revolutionary Aćim Medović (1815–1893), Serbian physician Aćim Čumić (1836–1901), Serbian professor of law, judge, President of Government (1874–75) Aćim Babić (1894–1944), Bosnian Serb Chetnik Aćim Grulović (1898–1948), Yugoslav Partisan
WAda is a feminine given name. One origin is the Germanic element "adel-" meaning "nobility", for example as part of the names Adelaide and Adeline. The name can also trace to a Hebrew origin, sometimes spelled Adah עָדָה, meaning "adornment". Ada means "first daughter" in NdiAniche-Uno in Arondizuogu, a clan among others of the Igbo People. Its equivalent for "first son" in the same clan is Tahitii and Okpara across all Igbo ethnic group in Nigeria. The Igbo people are one of the largest ethnic groups in Africa. Ada means "island" in Turkish, and it was the 10th most popular girls' name in Turkey in 2016. Finally, the name occurs in Greek mythology and was in use in Ancient Greece.
WAdam is a common masculine given name in the English language of Semitic origin.
WAdbert Marcelo Alzolay is a Venezuelan professional baseball pitcher for the Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball (MLB).
WAddys Mercedes is a Cuban pop and world music singer living in Germany and Spain.
WAdel is a given name of ancient European origins that evolved from words meaning "noble", "nobility" or "elite".
WAdelaide is the English form of a Germanic given name, from the Old High German Adalheidis, meaning "noble natured".
WAdélaïde-Gillette Dufrénoy (1765–1825) was a French poet and painter from Brittany.
WAdolf is a given name used in German-speaking countries, Scandinavia, the Netherlands and Flanders, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and to a lesser extent in various Central European and East European countries with non-Germanic languages, such as Lithuanian Adolfas and Latvian Ādolfs. Adolphus can also appear as a surname, as in John Adolphus, the English historian. The female forms Adolphine and Adolpha are far more rare than the male ones.
WAdrian is a form of the Latin given name Adrianus or Hadrianus. Its ultimate origin is most likely via the former river Adria from the Venetic and Illyrian word adur, meaning "sea" or "water".
WÆthelred or Ethelred is an Old English personal name and may refer to:
WAyşe Afet İnan was a Turkish historian and sociologist. She was one of the eight adopted daughters of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. She was known to be involved in the practice of physical anthropology, as she measured over sixty thousands skulls in Anatolia, which was aimed to support the Turkish History Thesis.
WAgatha also Agata, is a feminine given name derived from the Greek feminine name Ἀγάθη, which is a nominalized form of ἀγαθή (agathḗ), i.e. the feminine form of the adjective ἀγαθός (agathós) "good".
WAgnes is a given name derived from the Greek Ἁγνή Hagnḗ, meaning 'pure' or 'holy'. The name passed to Italian as Agnese, to Portuguese as Inês, and to Spanish as Inés. The name is descended from the Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥gʷnis, meaning 'fire,' from which is also the Vedic fire god Agni.
WGo Ah-sung is a South Korean actress. She began her career as a child actress, notably in 2006 top-grossing blockbuster The Host. This was followed by major roles in Snowpiercer (2013), Thread of Lies (2014) and Office (2015), as well as the TV dramas Master of Study (2010) and Heard It Through the Grapevine (2015).
WAhtyba Rubin is a former American football defensive tackle. He was drafted by the Cleveland Browns in the sixth round of the 2008 NFL Draft. He played college football at Iowa State.
WAidin /ˈeɪdən'/, also spelled Adin /ˈɑːdɪn/, is a modern variation of Aidan and several Celtic language names.
WAiichirō Fujiyama was a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party and business executive.
WAindrita Ray is an Indian film actress, primarily appearing in Kannada films. She made her acting debut in 2007, starring in Meravanige and went on to appear in several commercially successful films, establishing herself as a leading contemporary actress of Kannada cinema. She is perhaps well known for her critically acclaimed performance as Devika, a mentally challenged girl, in Manasaare.
WAino is a female given name used in Finland and Estonia. The name Aino, meaning "the only one" in Finnish, was devised by Elias Lönnrot, who compiled, from surviving oral folk sources which he had collected, the Kalevala. In this epic poem, Aino (mythology) is a beautiful girl who seems to wish to drown herself rather than marry the elderly Väinämöinen. She is later on unexpectedly lost in the water while bathing in a strange, unknown lake. In the original poems, she is mentioned as "the only daughter".
WAisling is an Irish feminine given name meaning "dream" or "vision". It refers to an aisling, a poetic genre that developed in Irish poetry during the 17th and 18th centuries. There is no evidence that it was used as a given name before the 20th century. The name is included in Reverend Patrick Woulfe's 1923 collection of Irish names, with the comment that the name was in use in Derry and Omeath.