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Re: New Grandaughter Name "Jordis"
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Can't find the origin for this name. Is it real or a fantasy for a name?
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In Norway, Jordis is a variant form of Hjørdis:http://www.nordicnames.de/flick_h/Hjordis.html/ Satuhttp://www.nordicnames.de/
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My guess would be that Ms. Unga's parents were using the Norwegian name rather than simply creating it. Her father is from Tonga but her mother is from Minnesota, where she could easily have run across Norwegian names such as Jordis.
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There seems to be at least one other Jordis around, an American musician named Jordis Unga. This may be where your grandchild's parents found the name.I suspect that it's an altered form of Jordan, perhaps designed to make a feminine name out of the masculine Jordan. It also reminds me of Jadis, which is the name of the White Witch in C.S. Lewis' "Narnia" books. Jordis may be an alteration of Jordan which is meant to sound like Jadis, an alteration of Jade.
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Maybe also influenced by Janis?
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