Names like Velma

Spanish

Variant of Dolores, meaning sorrows, from the Marian title Maria de los Dolores.

English

From an English surname and place name meaning settlement with a mill.

English (from Germanic)

Diminutive of Roberta or Barbara, with Roberta meaning bright fame.

Latin

From the Roman family name Caecilius, derived from caecus meaning blind.

English (from Greek)

Diminutive of Margaret, from Greek margarites meaning pearl.

Welsh

Variant of Lloyd, from Welsh llwyd, meaning gray or gray-haired.

Greek

Short form of Dorothea or Theodora, meaning gift.

Norman French

From a Norman place name and surname meaning place of alder trees.

French

French form of Margaret meaning pearl, and also the French word for the daisy flower.

German

From the Germanic elements heri and man, meaning army man.

English (from Germanic)

English feminine form of Harry, from Henry, meaning home ruler.

English

From a surname derived from the city of Leicester, meaning Roman fort of the Ligore people.