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Does anyone know the origin of this (very) rare French name? Could it possibly be Breton or Basque? TIA
claude, hadeline ("hadley"), honor, isemay, primrose, thomasina
benedict, everard, gratian, seeley, remy, roald, zebedee ("zed")
claude, hadeline ("hadley"), honor, isemay, primrose, thomasina
benedict, everard, gratian, seeley, remy, roald, zebedee ("zed")
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Interesting question. It isn't French, exactly.
Princess Chantal (daughter of Prince Henri, Comte de Paris - one of the pretenders to the French throne) is the origin of it in France; she named her daughter Kildine in 1979. She got it from the title of a book she'd had as a child, written by Queen Marie of Romania: 'Kildine, histoire d’une méchante petite princesse' (Kildine, story of a naughty little princess), published in the 1930s. The book is a fairy-tale, so I imagine that Queen Marie (one of Queen Victoria's grand-daughters, and born in England) made the name up.
It looks like it's also a really rare and possibly defunct Irish surname, so maybe that's where she got it from. But it seems more likely to me that she just invented it for the story.
Princess Chantal (daughter of Prince Henri, Comte de Paris - one of the pretenders to the French throne) is the origin of it in France; she named her daughter Kildine in 1979. She got it from the title of a book she'd had as a child, written by Queen Marie of Romania: 'Kildine, histoire d’une méchante petite princesse' (Kildine, story of a naughty little princess), published in the 1930s. The book is a fairy-tale, so I imagine that Queen Marie (one of Queen Victoria's grand-daughters, and born in England) made the name up.
It looks like it's also a really rare and possibly defunct Irish surname, so maybe that's where she got it from. But it seems more likely to me that she just invented it for the story.
This message was edited 10/12/2011, 7:41 AM
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Thanks so much for the insight! I was wondering where Chantal got this name from - it always seemed unusual for a royal.
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I have seen it come up on some French sites I look at but I cant find much info, I will look for you though or you can google "prenom kildine"
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I've done that already. I'm pretty fluent in French. But I can't find any etymology, only popularity statistics.
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I'm french and if it can help you, Kildine is my second name. My grand father found it and told my parents it was an ancient oyal french name. I'm not sure he was right...
I've found that a russian islan is called Kildine, and that there is a dialect called like that "the same of kildin" (without the e).
So it may be russian?
Regards
A.K.L.
I've found that a russian islan is called Kildine, and that there is a dialect called like that "the same of kildin" (without the e).
So it may be russian?
Regards
A.K.L.
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