Message: "Help! No where seems to have a meaning to my name :o("

Help! No where seems to have a meaning to my name :o(

by Erleen (guest)

6/12/2005, 4:21 AM

Just wondering if any clever person knows the meaning of my name. I'm sick of people going to me 'ooh wheres that name from?' and not being able to give an answer!!! I am a female from the UK and have lived here all my life.

Don't know much about the name itself, only that it was passed down through three generations after my great auntie erleen died as a baby. My family background is from england itself, although there are distant links to ireland and scotland.

any info would be MUCH appreciated.

Thanks, Erleen x

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- em13 +1

6/12/2005, 10:16 PM

it definitely sounds irish, maybe could be a version of eileen whcih is associated with the name emily, meaning industrious?

- Chrisell

6/12/2005, 10:31 PM

Emily does not mean "industrious", it means "rival". Click the link for more details.

♦ Chrisell ♦

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - J.R.R. Tolkien.

- Rene +2

6/12/2005, 5:18 AM

Various US baby name websites give a meaning of "noblewoman" for names like Erleen, Erlene, Earline, or Earlina. The idea behind this meaning is obviously that these names should be seen as female forms of the male name Earl.

On the one hand this seems possible to me, on the other hand these baby name websites tend to be very unreliable, and do not give sources for their informations anyway.

I was not able to find other, reliable information about Erleen. With only about 1000 hits when doing a Google search this name is probably very rare, with a corresponding lack of information.
Rene www.AboutNames.ch

- Chrisell +1

6/12/2005, 5:34 AM

It could also be a variation of Arlene (click link).

♦ Chrisell ♦

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - J.R.R. Tolkien.

This message was edited 6/12/2005, 5:34 AM

- Erleen

6/12/2005, 8:07 AM

Thanks for that! Both suggestions have give me a bit more insight into what my name might be! its more than i knew at the beginning of today :0)

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