Submitted NameRevisions Save Gender Feminine Usage Italian, Albanian (Rare), Romanian (Rare), Maltese (Rare) Edit Status Status [show contributorshide contributors] Added 10/7/2009 by bananarama Edited 10/20/2017 by SeaHorse15 Meaning & History Means "ivy" in Italian, from Latin hedera "ivy", perhaps related to the Latin root -hendere "to grasp; to take; to cling onto".