Names Categorized "swans" - Behind the Name

Finnguala f Irish Mythology
Older form of Fionnuala.

Finola f Irish
Anglicized form of Fionnuala.

Fionnghal f Scottish Gaelic
Scottish Gaelic form of Fionnuala. It has sometimes been Anglicized as Flora.

Fionnghuala f Irish, Irish Mythology
Variant of Fionnuala.

Fionnuala f Irish, Irish Mythology
Means "white shoulder" from Old Irish finn "white, blessed" and gúala "shoulder". In Irish legend Fionnuala was one of the four children of Lir who were transformed into swans for a period of 900 years.

Fionola f Irish (Rare)
Anglicized form of Fionnuala.

Hong m & f Chinese
From Chinese 虹 (hóng) meaning "rainbow", 弘 (hóng) meaning "enlarge, expand, great" (which is usually only masculine) or 鸿 (hóng) meaning "wild swan, great, vast" (also usually only masculine). Other characters can also form this name.

Leda f Greek Mythology, Italian
Meaning unknown. In Greek myth she was a Spartan queen and the mother of Castor, Pollux, Helen and Clytemnestra by the god Zeus, who came upon her in the form of a swan.

Lir m Irish Mythology
Possibly from the patronymic Manannán mac Lir, in which case Lir is the genitive case of the name Ler. The medieval Irish legend the Children of Lir tells how Lir of the Tuatha Dé Danann had his children transformed into swans by his third wife Aoife. The legendary characters Lir and Ler seem to be distinct.

Odette f French
French diminutive of Oda or Odilia. This is the name of a princess who has been transformed into a swan in the ballet Swan Lake (1877) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Odile f French
French form of Odilia.

Schwanhild f German (Rare)
Variant of Swanhild.

Svana f Icelandic
Short form of Svanhildur.

Svanhild f Norwegian, Norse Mythology
From Old Norse svanr "swan" and hildr "battle", a Scandinavian cognate of Swanhild. In the Norse epic the Völsungasaga she is the daughter of Sigurd and Gudrun.

Svanhildr f Old Norse, Norse Mythology
Old Norse form of Svanhild.

Svanhildur f Icelandic
Icelandic form of Svanhild.

Swanahilda f Germanic
Old German form of Swanhild.

Swanhild f German (Rare)
Derived from the Old German elements swan "swan" and hilt "battle". Swanhild (or Swanachild) was the second wife of the Frankish ruler Charles Martel in the 8th century.

Swanhilda f German (Rare)
Variant of Swanhild.

Swanhilde f German (Rare)
Variant of Swanhild.

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