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This name might be due for a return to popularity as it is exceedingly rare in use today. Since it was used most prior to the 40's, its current users are rapidly expiring. It is a very strong female name that may also mean "enduring" or "persevering". If you use this name, your girl will have the only name like it in her class. Since the old ladies who use this name are by this time clearly survivors, the name may give a young person some gravitas. If as some suggest, names shape those that bear them, it may well give strength of character. It is not a "pet name" but a name for an academic, a jurist, a doctor, a serious person. "Pretty" names may not be the best thing for women of the future.