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The surname Story (and its variant spelling Storey) is English, but Old Norse in origin. [1] The name originates from the Old Norse personal epithet “Stóri”, a derivative of “Storr” which means “large” or “big”. It has been established that the root of the name is “Storr”.
Eliza Fisher, a main character debuting in the second and final season of Siren in which she is a blonde mermaid; Eliza Fletcher, a character in the Phineas and Ferb episode My Fair Goalie who was inspired by Eliza Doolittle; Eliza Makepeace, one of the main characters in The Forgotten Garden, from Australian author Kate Morton
Pickwick is one of Dickens' most beloved characters and his story propelled Dickens to literary stardom. Pinch, Tom is Seth Pecksniff's assistant in Martin Chuzzlewit. Pip (Philip Pirrip) is the protagonist of Great Expectations. Raised in humble circumstances by his abusive sister and her kind-hearted husband Joe, Pip is exposed to the high ...
Angelica is a princess of Cathay in Orlando innamorato (1483–1495) and Orlando Furioso (1516–1532); Angelica Jones, real name of Marvel's hero Firestar; Angelica Pickles (active since 1991) is a cartoon character from the American animated series Rugrats, and the show's spin-off Rugrats: All Grown Up
It was among the most popular names for newborn girls in Germany from the 1920s to the 1950s. [2] Ulla, Ursel, and Uschi are German short forms of the name. Ursula is a villain in the 1989 Disney animated film The Little Mermaid and its 2023 live-action remake The Little Mermaid. [3] [4] Other forms of the name include: Orsolya in Hungarian
The overall accepted origin for the female name Brenda is the Old Nordic male name Brandr meaning both torch and sword: evidently the male name Brandr took root in areas of the British Isles under Nordic dominance and through being heard as '"Brenda" was eventually adopted as a female name. [1]
In 1947, Wanda was cited as the second most popular name, after Mary, for Polish girls, and the most popular from Polish secular history. [2] The name was made familiar in the English-speaking world by the 1883 novel Wanda, written by Ouida, the story line of which is based on the last years of the Hechingen branch of the Swabian House of ...
The name is a reference to Nuestra Señora de los Dolores (or La Virgen María de los Dolores), one of the many titles of Mary, Mother of Jesus, typically translated to Our Lady of Sorrows in English.
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