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First Names: Alphabetically; By Origin

Surnames: Alphabetically; By Origin

The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names

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First name content excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names © 2005 by Marcia Layton Turner. Buy this book online or call 1-800-253-6476.

Last name content copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks.

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Nobel Prize Winners: Elfriede Jelinek

Elfriede

Name origin: German

Name meaning: Peaceful ruler

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Jelinek

Name origin: Czech (Jelínek) and Jewish (from Bohemia and Moravia)

Name meaning: from a diminutive of Jelen. As a Jewish name it is mainly a translation of the Yiddish personal name Hirsh (see Hirsch).

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