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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 "English-language feminine given names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 263 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Environmentalist Ellen Swallow Richards was the first woman admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an impressive feat in and of itself.What's even more admirable was her work in science, a field in which women faced many obstacles, as well as the time she spent getting her Ph.D. in chemistry from MIT– well, almost.
Matilda, also spelled Mathilda and Mathilde, is the English form of the Germanic female name Mahthildis, which derives from the Old High German "maht" (meaning "might and strength") and "hild" (meaning "battle"). [1] The name was most popular in the United States between 1880 and 1910, when it was among the top 200 names given to girls.
This category is for given names commonly used in the English language See also Category:English given names , for given names from England (natively or by historical modification of Biblical, etc., names)
[citation needed] The name gained a resurgence in the United States in the 1970s and 1980s, when it was ranked among the 200 most popular names for girls. The character Tabitha Stephens , a child witch on the 1960s television situation comedy Bewitched , raised the profile of the name. [ 2 ]
Megan is one of the most popular Welsh-language names for women in Wales and England, and is commonly truncated to Meg. [ 1 ] Megan was one of the most popular feminine names in the English-speaking world in the 1990s, peaking in 1990 in the United States [ 2 ] and 1999 in the United Kingdom. [ 3 ]
In the Albanian version, Linda is a feminine name which means "birth" or "fertility". The masculine form is Lind. [4] In South African terms the name Linda means "wait" and is not gender based; similar names are Lindiwe also meaning "waited for" but often just written as Lindi in short.