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Re: Kayla, Kaylee, Kaylin and spelling variations thereof
"Also from somewhere I have many of the Kaylin variations as Arabic meaning "Beloved". Has anyone seen that?"I think that would probably mean that they're assuming that Kaylin is a variation of Kalila, an Arabic name that means "beloved". Personally, I don't think that's very likely, though. I'd guess that Kaylin is just an elaboration of Kay--rather like Kayleen, the name of one of my sister's friends.I haven't heard this idea that Kayla means "crown of laurels". I don't suppose you have more information about where you got this?I think that your book would be interesting. It'd be like a "Beyond Jennifer and Jason" that doesn't suck like a Hoover! ;)Array
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Where I got the infoWell in "Puffy, Xena, Quentin, and Uma" by Joal Ryan, she says that Kayla is Yiddish, meaning "laurel crown" or it's a variation of Katherine. In Bruce Lansky's "35,000+ Baby Names", he says that Kaila is Hebrew meaning "laurel; crown" and Kaela is Hebrew, Arabic meaning "beloved sweetheart" (and yes he does call it a short form of Kalila or Kelila). For Kayla he says it's Arabic or Hebrew "laurel; crown".And that's just Kayla and 2 name books! I also got some of my stuff off all kinds of websites. I'm having a ball going through my database and changing things to what I find here, but I am gonna ask about some of it just to see what you all have seen/heard.Let's see Lansky has:
Kaelyn as an American combo of Kae + Lynn;
Kalyn, Kaylin as american alternate form of Kaylyn
Kayleen, Kaylene is Hebrew, beloved, sweetheart or alternate form of Kayla
Kaylyn is American combo of Kay + Lynn Kailee, Kailey as American familiar forms of Kaila
Kaley as an american alternatate form of Caley, Kaylee
Kaylee is american form of Kayla
Kayleigh is american alternate form of KayleeAll other spellings are listed under these or not at all -- and I didn't even check the C page! LOLRyan only has Kayla, Kayli, and Kaylyn listed as separate names; the others just variants under them. Kayli says English, variation of Kayla "laurel crown" and Kaylyn says English, combination of Kay and Lynn.So which spelling of which name would be closest to the original?
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There probably isn't an original spelling, unfortunately! Names like Kaylyn etc get invented and reinvented by people all the time. Kayley is the original Gaelic name, so that's about as original as you'll get - the others are all composites (Kayley & Lyn = Kaylyn) or elaborations (Kayley to Kayla or Kayleigh, etc). :-)
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Kalila is a variation of Khalilah, which actually means "friend", not "beloved" :-)
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Which are quite near the same thing in my mind, heh. Silly me. Sorry about that. I'm stupid sometimes. :)Anyway, Kalila is often mislabeled as meaning "beloved" (they do so in the New Age Baby Name Book, which is known for being quite inaccurate), and the idea that Kaylin is Arabic and means beloved could easily stem from that.Array
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I agree! "Friend" and "beloved" are definitely close, and a negligible leap considering what they do in some of those name books!I can definitely see the Kalila-Kaylin connection, although I'd think of it as them using Khalilah as an excuse to give Kaylin the "beloved" meaning!:-D
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Oh, I definitely agree about it being an excuse. It simply doesn't make any sense as a 'variation'. I don't see how you'd get Kaylin out of Kalila/Khalilah (I can't handle all those extra H's! I come from a strictly non-H family!). Kaylin is most likely simply Kaylee with Lynn tacked on (rather like Kimberlin and Amberlyn, thus) or is Kay + Lynn.Array
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Eek, I've never seen Kimberlin! That's stretching the 'lyn' thing TOO far IMO!I agree, it's either Kay + Lyn or Kaylee which has been "lynified" lol
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I've seen Kimberlin, alas. It pains me a lot. Really ugly. I love the name Lynn, but I hate seeing it tacked onto other names. Especially when it's Amylynn. That hurts, my friend. It really hurts.Back vaguely on topic, now that we've decided what Kaylin probably has come from, it could have any of these meanings:Slender lake
Each of the two lake(s?)
Torture lake
My consecration of your name lakeI think I like "torture lake" best. But then, we could get really picky about what the "lin" in it means, and then we'd have lots more to choose from.Array
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"Slender lake
Each of the two lake(s?)
Torture lake
My consecration of your name lake"LOL excellent :-D
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LolI love the name Lynn, and its variants - you might have seen my Linneth / Lynneth polls & posts a while back? :-)Anyways . . . I think 'slender lake' would come closest, as the bit of "Kayley" that meant 'slender' was the "Kayl" bit, and it seems the most likely of the meanings.. . . there's other meanings for Lynn? Oh, no! :-D
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I don't check out the polls, unfortunately, heh. Linneth is interesting, though--where'd you find it? I've never seen it before."Slender lake" would probably be right, but it just sounds...weird. The meaning makes no sense, heh. Array
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Lol, no, the meaning doesn't make sense at all - unless it was a very slim lake, hehe. Maybe a lake on a brook which is only just wide enough to be called a lake rather than just part of the brook . . . now I'm just thinking about that *way* too much!I'm not sure whether I found Linneth or just made it up. I used it in a fantasy story when I was in my teens, and I rediscovered it recently and thought "hey, that's actually not bad". It's basically a variation of Lynette, so it has the same meaning of "little lake".
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I think that we've effectively over-analyzed this entire Kaylin issue, lol.Well, Linneth is very pretty. I thought it looked like a weird combination of Lynn and Kenneth originally--which would make it "handsome lake" or "lake born of fire". ;) I think "little lake" is a pretty meaning, though. I love water.Array
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:-D Oh well, we now know with near certainty what to say the *next* time someone asks about Kaylin!I'm glad you like Linneth - I'd ask you what you think of Jean Elise and Linneth as names for sisters, but we're on the wrong board! :-DLol - a mix of Lynn and Kenneth, now that would be strange!
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