Coined baby names

Invented by Sir for his pastoral poem '''' (c 1593)

Coined name of an imaginary Celtic priestess in Bellini's opera Norma (1831)

as a pseudonym for a lady friend named (or Van Homrigh), an Irish woman of Dutch descent, by taking the - preposition van from her surname and adding -essa (perhaps influenced by the first syllable of Esther)

Coined in the eighteenth century from names such as Melanie and

possibly from kylie

From, base from various Romance sources such as,, suffix Latinate form of (English linden, lithe)

First used by the poet Fulke Greville, possibly as an anagram of Mary

20th-century English coinage from cara or cara

Invented by the poet when he began research on his epic poem Evangeline about Acadian lovers deported from French-Canada

Taken from fantasy fiction; explained, for example, as a Sanskrit word for "eternal"

20th-century coinage from Jane, possibly influenced by Renée

American 18th/19th century coinage, a fanciful spelling of Louanna, from Lou + Anna

Possibly a coinage based on Mary, or transferred from the - place name Mérida

A twentieth-century invention, possibly from a rare - surname of obscure meaning, possibly from Dara or Daragh, meaning "oak"

Recent coinage from the prefix neo-