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From Sino-Korean 英 (yeong) meaning “flower, petal, brave, hero” and 子 (ja) meaning “child”. Other hanja character combinations can form this name as well. Feminine names ending with the character 子 (a fashionable name suffix in Japan, read as -ko in Japanese) were popular in Korea during the period of Japanese rule (1910-1945). After liberation this name and others like it declined in popularity.

Form of Orpah used in the Greek and Latin Old Testament.

German form of Lambert.

From an Irish surname, an Anglicized form of Ó Caolaidhe meaning “descendant of Caoladhe”. The given name Caoladhe is derived from the Gaelic word caol “slender”.

From a surname meaning “pointed mountain” in French. In Shakespeare’s tragedy Romeo and Juliet (1596) this is the surname of Romeo and his family.