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Smilla

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Gender Feminine
Usage Danish, Swedish, Literature

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Invented by the Danish author Peter Høeg for the heroine of his novel Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow (1992). In the book the name is explained as a short form of Smillaaraq, a blend of Danish smil "smile" and the Greenlandic name Miillaaraq.

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Last ranked #100 in 2005 Sweden

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ends in -illa, happiness, invented, literature
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Entry added December 7, 2022

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