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... without any meaning known to mankind.

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A couple of weeks ago, I got this name book at a flea market/jumble sale kind of thing.
The information given for some of the names are... urmm, well... let's be polite and call them "interesting". Like in the example of Gladys, the famous Irish name. You know...
Others are perfectly fine. And some I'm just not sure about. Especially when it comes to some of the English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh names listed.

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Usually, when foreign names/variants are listed, they are well-known and/or popular in their home countries. And some of the foreign names sure are.
And then there are names I'm just not sure about.
So, since they are from English-speaking countries, I thought I might ask here:

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Have you ever seen, encountered, heard of the following names? Do you know someone of these names?
And, of course, what do you think of them?

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Oh, all of those names are listed as girls' names, by the way:

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Isleen
Alwyne
Anstice - I've seen this one on lists with mediaeval names, but never as a modern name. Have you?
Aindrea (allegedly Irish)
Arabel
Asley
Austin
Oralie, Oriel
Baubie (allegedly Scottish)
Birdie
Sisile (allegedly Irish)
Canice (allegdly Irish)
Caron
Clary (allegedly American English)
Clarence (this is supposed to be an English variant of Clarice)
Cornela, Cornell
Dianthia
Doanna
Dorice
Ellice (allegedly a feminine form of Elias)
Eimile (Irish)
Aimil (Scottish)
Giorsal (Scottish)
Gritelda (Scottish)
Ead
Jyssica
Kirby
Kyle
Kyna
Maible (allegedly Irish)
Maudlin, Maudin
Mada (Irish)
Monca (Irish)
Ofilia
Oralie
Philippe
Queena
Shawn (allegedly a feminine form of Sean)
Sosanna (Irish)
Siusan (Scottish)
Telca, Telka
Tullia (allegedly Irish)
Velvina
Wyomia

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I'm pretty sure a few of them exist and I just don't know them. So maybe you can help me out?
(Oh, and if you have any questions, I'll be glad to tell you what the book tells me ;-) )

This message was edited 8/25/2011, 3:10 PM