Malvina

Malvina
Gender	Female
Origin
Language(s)	Gaelic
Derivation	mala mhinn
Meaning	"smooth brow"

Malvina is a feminine given name derived from the Gaelic mala mhinn, meaning "smooth brow". It was created by the 18th century Scottish poet James Macpherson. The name became popular in Scandinavia on account of Napoleon, an admirer of Macpherson's Ossianic poetry, who was the godfather of several children of Jean Baptiste Jules Bernadotte, an officer of his who ruled Norway and Sweden in the early 19th century.^[1] Other names popularised by Macpherson became popular in Scandinavia on account of Napoleon.

The Argentinian name for the Falkland Islands, Las Malvinas, is not etymologically related to Malvina, but is instead derived from the name of St Malo, a seaport in Brittany.^[1]

People

Malvina Bolus (1906–1997), Canadian historian, art collector, editor of the Hudson's Bay Company magazine "The Beaver"
Malvina Garrigues (Schnorr von Carolsfeld) (1825–1904), Danish-German operatic soprano
Malvina Hoffman (1887–1966), American sculptor
Malvina Longfellow (1889–1962), American stage and silent movie actress
Malvina Major (born 1943), New Zealand singer
Malvina Pastorino (1916-1994), Argentine film actress
Malvina Reynolds (1900–1978), American folk/blues singer-songwriter and political activist

Fictional characters

Malvina, the girl with blue hair – a doll-heroine from Tolstoy's 1936 book The Golden Key, or the Adventures of Buratino

References

1 2 Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006), A dictionary of first names, Oxford Paperback Reference (2nd ed.), Oxford University Press, pp. 180, 406, ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1 .

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[Hanks180-1] 1 2 Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006), A dictionary of first names, Oxford Paperback Reference (2nd ed.), Oxford University Press, pp. 180, 406, ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1 .