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Pages in category "French feminine given names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 254 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
French given names are the names used in France and other French speaking parts of the world but also in many English speaking countries. For more information, see List of French given names and meanings and French name .
Pages in category "French-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,729 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Gaulish language, and presumably its many dialects and closely allied sister languages, left a few hundred words in French and many more in nearby Romance languages, i.e. Franco-Provençal (Eastern France and Western Switzerland), Occitan (Southern France), Catalan, Romansch, Gallo-Italic (Northern Italy), and many of the regional languages of northern France and Belgium collectively known ...
à la short for (ellipsis of) à la manière de; in the manner of/in the style of [1]à la carte lit. "on the card, i.e. menu"; In restaurants it refers to ordering individual dishes "à la carte" rather than a fixed-price meal "menu".
If the last name ends in [a], then removing the [j] would give the name of the patriarch or the place, as in, Grudaj - j = Gruda (place in MM). Otherwise, removing the whole ending [aj] yields the name of founder or place of origin, as in Lekaj - aj = Lek(ë). Since the names are found most commonly in Malsi e Madhe (North) and Labëri (South ...
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Mia is a feminine given name. Long in use as a diminutive of names such as Maria , [ 1 ] Mia is recorded as a given name in the United States in the 1960s, and it rose to popularity in the 1990s to 2010s, from rank 316 in 1994 to rank 30 in 2004 and further to rank 6 in 2013–2015. [ 2 ]