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This is a set of lists of English personal and place names having spellings that are counterintuitive to their pronunciation because the spelling does not accord with conventional pronunciation associations. Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages.
Lassana is a given name or surname that is an alternative transliteration of Al-Hassan, and may refer to: Lassana Bathily (born 1990), hero of the Porte de Vincennes hostage crisis Lassana Camará (born 1991), Bissau-Guinean footballer
The name's use in Irish probably derives from the phrase a leanbh, which was used to call a child. [citation needed] In Hawaiian it means 'calm as still waters' or 'afloat'. Lana is a shortened name for Milana. [2] In the English-speaking world, the name was popularized by actress Lana Turner and singer Lana Del Rey.
Lena is a female given name, usually meaning "light", "bright" and "shining". Lena is popular in Arabic, Farsi, Hindi, Russian, Swedish, French, Finnish, and was the most popular name for girls born in Poland in 2013. [1]
The name has been among the top 1,000 names for newborn girls in the United States since 2009 and among the top 200 since 2018. It has been among the top 100 names for newborn girls in Canada since 2017. [2] The name is also in use for boys, though it has never ranked among the 1,000 most popular names given to boys in the United States. [3]
Marlene has been a well-used name throughout the Western world. In the United States, it was among the top 100 names for newborn girls between 1931 and 1942, was among the top 200 names between 1943 and 1959, and among the top 1,000 names between 1960 and 2012. It was a top 1,000 name for girls in France between 1933 and 2002.
As used by Edmund Spenser in The Faerie Queene, the name is derived from the Latin unus, meaning one. [1] The Filipino word "una" meaning "first" (e.g., in Tagalog and Cebuano) is also derived from this Latin root. This is also the meaning implied for the given name of Star Trek character Una Chin-Riley, commonly called Number One.
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 ...