Huguette is a feminine French given name. Notable people with the name include:
Melanie is a feminine given name derived from the Greek μελανία (melania), "blackness" and that from μέλας (melas), meaning "dark". Borne in its Latin form by two saints, Melania the Elder and her granddaughter Melania the Younger, the name was introduced to England by the Normans in its French form Melanie. However, the name only became common in English usage in the 1930s because of the popularity of Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel Gone with the Wind and its 1939 film adaptation, as one of the novel's main characters was named Melanie Hamilton. The name's popularity increased until the 1970s, since remaining constant. Melanie was the 80th most popular name for girls born in the United States in 1957 and, as Mélanie, it was the 86th most popular name for girls born in France in 2004.
Cherie is an English female given name. It comes from the French chérie, meaning darling.
Michel may refer to:
Carole is a feminine given name and occasionally a surname.
Khoury, also transliterated as Khouri, is a Levantine surname that is found among Christians in the Middle East. The term Khoury means "priest" in Levantine Arabic. It derives from the Latin word curia, or may come from the French curé meaning parish Priest, from Medieval Latin curatus "one responsible for the care ," from Latin curatus, past participle of curare "to take care of".
Chantal is a feminine given name of French origin. The name Chantal can be traced back to the Old Occitan word cantal, meaning "stone". It came into popular use as a given name in honor of the Catholic saint, Jeanne de Chantal. It may also be spelled Chantel, Chantalle, Chantelle, Shantal, Shantel, Shantelle, or Shontelle usually in the USA.
Daniele is an Italian male given name, the cognate of the English name Daniel.
Bussières is a surname. Notable people with the name include:
Annabella, Anabella, or Anabela is a feminine given name. Notable people with the name include:
Nicole is a feminine given name and a surname.
Bellemare is a Norman surname, that means "somebody from Bellemare", name of several hamlets in Normandy. It is also one of the most common family names in Mauricie, Quebec. It is a compound of French belle "nice, pretty" and mare "mere, lake, pond", Norman word of Old Norse origin marr "sea", finally borrowed from Norman by French around 1600 as "pond, puddle".
Émilie is a French female given name. It is the feminine form of the male name Émile.
Alison is a unisex given name, primarily a feminine name in English-speaking countries. It was originally a medieval French nickname for Alis, an old form of Alice derived with the suffix -on or -son sometimes used in the former French nicknames. The Middle English form was Alisoun.
Dionne is both a modern feminine given name and a French Canadian surname. Antoine Dionne (1641-1721) of Quebec is the earliest known Dionne in North America, and currently all people with the surname Dionne are believed to be descendants of his.
Hugues is a masculine given name most often found in francophone countries, a variant of the originally Germanic name "Hugo" or " Hugh". The final s marks the nominative case in Old French, but is not retained by modern pronunciation. The old oblique case Hugon disappeared.
Karine is a feminine French given name. Notable people with the name include:
Arlette is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
Line is a female given name, most common in the Nordic countries Denmark and Norway. It may be a short form of names which end in -line, like Caroline. The Swedish form is Lina. In Norway its Name day is 20 January.
Gaulin is a French surname which is most prevalent among French Canadians and which may have been derived via Gaudelin from the Medieval Germanic feminine name Godelind/Godelinde/Gotlind/Gotlinde .
Notable people with this name include:
Duflos is a French surname. Notable people with this surname include: