Haidee

Gender Feminine
Usage Literature
Pronounced Pron. HAY-dee(English)  [key·IPA]

Meaning & History

Perhaps intended to derive from Greek αἰδοῖος (aidoios) meaning "modest, reverent". This name was created by Lord Byron for a character (written as Haidée) in his 1819 poem Don Juan [1].

Related Names

Other Languages & CulturesHaydée(French) Haydée(Spanish)

People think this name is

youthful   informal   wholesome   strange  

Categories

cricketers, fictional characters, invented, literature, producers, uncertain etymology, virtues, writers

Sources & References

  1. Page at https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Don_Juan_(Byron)/Canto_the_Second.
Entry updated November 20, 2020