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View Name: Eulalia


EULALIA
GENDER: Feminine
USAGE: Spanish, Italian, English, Ancient Greek
OTHER SCRIPTS: Ευλαλια (Ancient Greek)
PRONOUNCED: yoo-LAY-lee-ə (English)   [key]
Meaning & History
From a Greek name meaning "to talk well" from ευ "good" and λαλεω (laleo) "to talk". This was the name of an early 4th-century saint and martyr from Merida in Spain. She is a patron saint of Barcelona.
Related Names
VARIANT: Olalla (Spanish)
DIMINUTIVES: Eula, Lalia (English)
OTHER LANGUAGES: Eulàlia (Catalan), Eulalie (French), Eulália (Hungarian), Eulália (Portuguese), Eulália (Slovak)
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