Eilidh

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  • Scottish
Diminutive of EILIONOIR, sometimes taken to be a Gaelic form of HELEN.

EILIONOIR   female   Scottish
Scottish form of ELEANOR.
ELEANOR   female   English
From the Old French form of the Occitan name Aliénor. It was first borne by the influential Eleanor of Aquitaine (12th century), who was the queen of Louis VII, the king of France, and later Henry II, the king of England. She was named Aenor after her mother, and was called by the Occitan phrase alia Aenor "the other AENOR" in order to distinguish her from her mother.

The popularity of the name Eleanor in England during the Middle Ages was due to the fame of Eleanor of Aquitaine, as well as two queens of the following century: Eleanor of Provence, the wife of Henry III, and Eleanor of Castile, the wife of Edward I. More recently, it was borne by first lady Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), the wife of American president Franklin Roosevelt.
AENOR   female   Ancient Germanic (Latinized)
Probably a Latinized form of a Germanic name of unknown meaning. This was the name of the mother of Eleanor of Aquitaine.
HELEN   female   English, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Greek Mythology (Anglicized)
English form of the Greek ‘Ελενη (Helene), probably from Greek ‘ελενη (helene) "torch" or "corposant", or possibly related to σεληνη (selene) "moon". In Greek mythology Helen was the daughter of Zeus and Leda, whose kidnapping by Paris was the cause of the Trojan War. The name was also borne by the 4th-century Saint Helena, mother of the Roman emperor Constantine, who supposedly found the True Cross during a trip to Jerusalem.

The name was originally used among early Christians in honour of the saint, as opposed to the classical character. In England it was commonly spelled Ellen during the Middle Ages, and the spelling Helen was not regularly used until after the Renaissance. A famous bearer was Helen Keller (1880-1968), an American author and lecturer who was both blind and deaf.
FULL FORMS
SCOTTISH: Eilionoir
EQUIVALENTS
BULGARIAN: Eleonora
DANISH: Eleonora, Ella, Ellinor, Nora
DUTCH: Eleonora, Ellen, Noor, Noortje, Nora
ENGLISH: Elea, Eleanor, Eleanora, Eleanore, Elenora, Elinor, Ella, Elle, Ellie, Elly, Elnora, Leanora, Lenora, Lenore, Nell, Nelle, Nora, Norah
FINNISH: Eleonoora, Eleonora, Ella, Elli, Noora
FRENCH: Eléonore
GERMAN: Eleonora, Eleonore, Leonore, Lore, Nora
HUNGARIAN: Eleonóra, Nóra
ITALIAN: Eleonora, Leonora, Lora, Nora
LIMBURGISH: Noor, Noortje
NORWEGIAN: Eleonora, Ella, Ellinor, Nora
OCCITAN: Aliénor
POLISH: Eleonora
PORTUGUESE: Leonor
SPANISH: Leonor
SWEDISH: Eleonor, Eleonora, Ella, Ellinor, Nora
DIMINUTIVES AND SHORT FORMS
ENGLISH: Nellie, Nelly, Nonie, Noreen, Norene
ITALIAN: Lorita, Norina
OTHER FORMS
AFRICAN AMERICAN: Shelena
ANCIENT GERMANIC: Aenor
ANCIENT GREEK: Helena, Helene
ARTHURIAN ROMANCE: Elaine
BULGARIAN: Elena
CROATIAN: Helena, Jela, Jelena, Jelica, Jelka
CZECH: Alena, Helena, Ilona, Lenka
DANISH: Eli, Elin, Ella, Helen, Helena, Helene, Lena, Lene
DUTCH: Heleen, Heleentje, Helena
ENGLISH: Alaina, Alayna, Elaina, Elaine, Ella, Elle, Ellen, Ellie, Elly, Helen, Helena, Hellen, Lainey, Laney, Lena, Nelda, Nell, Nelle, Nellie, Nelly
ESTONIAN: Helena, Jelena, Leena
FINNISH: Eliina, Elina, Ella, Heleena, Helena, Heli, Ilona, Leena
FRENCH: Hélène
GEORGIAN: Elene
GERMAN: Alena, Elena, Helena, Helene, Ilona, Lena, Lene, Leni
GREEK MYTHOLOGY: Helen, Helena, Helene
GREEK: Eleni
HUNGARIAN: Heléna, Ili, Ilike, Ilka, Ilona, Ilonka
ICELANDIC: Helena
IRISH: Léan
ITALIAN: Elena, Ileana
LATVIAN: Elīna, Helēna, Ilona, Jeļena, Jelena
LITHUANIAN: Elena, Ilona, Jelena
MACEDONIAN: Elena
MEDIEVAL SLAVIC: Elena
NORWEGIAN: Eli, Elin, Ella, Helen, Helena, Helene, Lena, Lene
POLISH: Helena, Ilona, Lena
PORTUGUESE: Helena, Lena
ROMANIAN: Elena, Ileana, Ilinca, Lenuța
RUSSIAN: Alyona, Elena, Lena, Yelena
SERBIAN: Jela, Jelena, Jelica, Jelka
SLOVAK: Alena, Elena, Helena, Jela, Lenka
SLOVENE: Alena, Alenka, Helena, Jelena, Jelka
SPANISH: Elena, Ileana
SWEDISH: Elin, Elina, Ella, Helen, Helena, Helene, Lena
UKRAINIAN: Lesya, Olena
WELSH: Elen, Elin