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Meaning & Origins
First used by the novelist Marie Corelli for the heroine of her novel Thelma (1887). She was supposed to be Norwegian, but it is not a traditional Scandinavian name. Greek thelēma (neuter) means ‘wish’ or ‘(act of) will’, and the name could perhaps be interpreted as a contracted form of this.
| 455th in the U.S. for 2011 |
English, Scottish, and French: nickname for a brave or foolhardy man, from Old French, Middle English hardi ‘bold’, ‘courageous’ (of Germanic origin; compare Hard 1).
| 365th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Thelm, Thelmo, Thelen, Thelene, Thelon, Thelam, Thelina, Thelan, Thelema, Thelna
Harding, Hardin, Harden, Hardwick, Hardesty, Harder, Hardman, Hardison, Hardee, Hardaway
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