Narelle

Growing up in The Netherlands and Curaçao (Dutch Caribbean) my name always seemed to look like a French name. Growing up only me and a boy had this name. So we were very proud of this name. Just at age 32 I found out that my name is an Aborignal name. So being Caribbean I feel very connected. I've been told it means "woman of the sea" after an Aborignal queen.

My grandmother adopted the name from "Queen Narelle" of the Moruya tribe of aborigines on the south coast of New South Wales as her stage name in 1898. I have read that its aboriginal meaning is "woman from the sea". Given the coastal nature of the Moruya tribe that seems plausible. -Brian Narelle

Narelle is an Australian name from a West Australian Koori (Aboriginal) tribe around modern Perth. It means Lake.

Firstly, "Koori" is a tribal name from New South Wales and Victoria. The Aboriginal people of the Perth region are the Nyoongar.

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Secondly, I have never seen any reference to Narelle as a Western Australian name. There is a town named Naraling which was named for a nearby spring (not lake), but the meaning of the spring's name is unknown. Watering places in the Nyoongar region tend to have been indicated by the syllable "up" at the end of the place name.

Aboriginal origin, means red lily.