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Pages in category "English-language feminine given names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 266 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
This category is for feminine given names from England (natively, or by historical modification of Biblical, etc., names). See also Category:English-language feminine given names , for all those commonly used in the modern English language , regardless of origin.
Pages in category "Feminine given names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 4,865 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Gwen is a Welsh feminine given name meaning "white, holy". It can also be a shortened form of Gwenhwyfar or other names beginning with the same element, such as: Gwenhael, Gwenael, Gwenvael, Gwenaelle; Gwenda (explained as a compound of gwen "white, pure, blessed, holy" + da "good, well") Gwendolen, Gwendoline, Gwendolyn
The name originated as a short form of Antonia with influence from the Spanish form Toña. It can be found throughout the English-speaking world but is most common in the United States. The popularity of the name has been influenced by its conflation with the unrelated name Tanya, which originated as a diminutive form of Tatiana. [1]
English names are personal names used in, or originating in, England. In England, as elsewhere in the English-speaking world , a complete name usually consists of one or more given names , commonly referred to as first names, and a (most commonly patrilineal , rarely matrilineal ) family name or surname , also referred to as a last name.
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It was the name of the Polynesian heroine in the 1932 film Bird of Paradise, which was based on a 1912 play. [8] Luana is also a character in the 1982 Italian film Daughter of the Jungle. Some sources say the name means "happiness" or having a good time in Hawaiian. [9] It might also be a feminine version of the Albanian name Luàn, meaning ...