hermeline's Personal Name List

Used for a fairy in Thomas Keightley's The Fairy Mythology, released in 1870. Ainsel was a fairy who came down the chimney to play with a little boy.

Means "beautiful flower" (compare Blanchefleur). This was the name of a fairy in the Middle High German romance 'Parzival' (Wolfram von Eschenbach's adaptation of 'Perceval, the Story of the Grail', a poem by Chrétien de Troyes). Beaflurs was the mother of Liahturteltart, a page to Queen Ampflise of France in the time of Uther.

Variant of Delsie.

Form of Dowsabel

A English name that originated from the french surname Duval in 1725 in England, the Dovels are historically farmers and are mostly found in the USA.

Variant of Edingale.

English form of Ælfwig.

A character from the novel The Journey to the Forest of Temptation by George Harpen.

Modern Irish Gaelic form of Fergal.

Altered form of French Fernel.

Variant of Fritser, which probably came into being through metathesis.

Derived from the Old German elements ger meaning "spear" and bald meaning "bold, brave". This was the name of a 7th-century Frankish saint, a bishop of Bayeux (also called Gerbold).

Combination of Gloria and the popular suffix -bel.

Elaboration of Gloria.

Catalan feminine form of Welf. Used in the 15th century novel Curial e Güelfa.

Swedish diminutive of Hans.

Derived from the Old German elements heil "healthy, whole" and fridu "peace".

Dutch diminutive and feminine form of Hendrik.

From Shannon Hale's novel The Goose Girl, a retelling of the Grimms' fairytale.
The princess Anidori Kiladra Talianna Isilee's lady-in-waiting leads a mutiny during the princess's journey to be married in a foreign land. The lady-in-waiting poses as the princess, and 'Ani' becomes a goose girl for the king. Ani eventually uses her own special, nearly magical powers to find her way to her true destiny.

In the case of the submitter it is a contraction of Myrna and Isabel.

Diminutive of Louise. Also compare Wheezy, Weezy, Ouiser.

Irish diminutive of Pilib, the Irish form of Philip. As an English name, it can also be a diminutive of names beginning with Phil-, such as Philip, Phyllis and Philomena.

Two notable male bearers of the name:
-Philly Byrne: Member of a thrash metal band based in Northern Ireland.

-Philly Larkin is an Irish sportsperson. He plays hurling with his local club James Stephens and was a member of the Kilkenny senior inter-county team from 1996 until 2003.

Suzel is the name of a main character in 'L'amico Fritz', an opera by Pietro Mascagni, premiered in 1891 from a libretto by P. Suardon (Nicola Daspuro, with additions by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti) based on the French novel 'L'ami Fritz' by Émile Erckmann and Pierre-Alexandre Chatrian.