Emmelina's Personal Name List

Morven
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Scottish
Pronounced: MAWR-vehn
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
From the name of a region in western Scotland, also called Morvern or in Gaelic A' Mhorbhairne, meaning "the big gap". This is the location of Fingal's kingdom in James Macpherson's 18th-century poems.
Mavis
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MAY-vis
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
From the name of the type of bird, also called the song thrush, derived from Old French mauvis, of uncertain origin. It was first used as a given name by the British author Marie Corelli, who used it for a character in her novel The Sorrows of Satan (1895).
Maven
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English, Irish (Anglicized)
Rating: 0% based on 2 votes
Anglicized form of Meidhbhín.
Margot
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: MAR-GO
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
French short form of Margaret.
Margaux
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: MAR-GO
Rating: 10% based on 2 votes
Variant of Margot influenced by the name of the wine-producing French town. It was borne by Margaux Hemingway (1954-1996), granddaughter of author Ernest Hemingway, who had it changed from Margot.
Magnolia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: mag-NO-lee-ə
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
From the English word magnolia for the flower, which was named for the French botanist Pierre Magnol.
Mabel
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MAY-bəl
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Medieval feminine form of Amabilis. This spelling and Amabel were common during the Middle Ages, though they became rare after the 15th century. It was revived in the 19th century after the publication of C. M. Yonge's 1854 novel The Heir of Redclyffe [1], which featured a character named Mabel (as well as one named Amabel).
Imelda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: ee-MEHL-da
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Italian and Spanish form of Irmhild. The Blessed Imelda Lambertini was a young 14th-century nun from Bologna.
Hilda
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Spanish, Hungarian, Anglo-Saxon (Latinized), Germanic [1]
Pronounced: HIL-də(English) HIL-da(German, Dutch) EEL-da(Spanish) HEEL-daw(Hungarian)
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Originally a short form of names containing the Old Frankish element hildi, Old High German hilt, Old English hild meaning "battle" (Proto-Germanic *hildiz). The short form was used for both Old English and continental Germanic names. Saint Hilda (or Hild) of Whitby was a 7th-century English saint and abbess. The name became rare in England during the later Middle Ages, but was revived in the 19th century.
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