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What does my whole name mean?my name is shirley ann keillor?....?

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  1. This is what www.ancestry.com has to say about the name.

    Shirley

    English: transferred use of the surname, which is a local name from any of the various places (in the West Midlands, Derbyshire, Hampshire, and Surrey) named in Old English from the elements scir county, shire or scir bright + leah wood or clearing. It was given by Charlotte Brontë to the heroine of her novel Shirley (1849). According to the novel, her parents had selected the name in prospect of a male child and used it regardless. Shirley had earlier been used as a male name (Charlotte Brontë refers to it as a “masculine cognomen”), but this literary influence fixed it firmly as a female name. It was strongly reinforced during the 1930s and 1940s by the popularity of the child film star Shirley Temple (b. 1928). Variant: Shirlee (rare).

    Ann

    English: variant spelling of Anne, Ann was the more common of the two spellings in the 19th century, but is now losing ground to the form with final -e.

    Keillor Name Meaning and History

    Scottish: habitational name from a place in Angus called Keilor.

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  2. KEILLOR Surname Name Meaning and History

    Scottish: habitational name from a place in Angus called Keilor.

    SHIRLEY Given Name

    English: transferred use of the surname, which is a local name from any of the various places (in the West Midlands, Derbyshire, Hampshire, and Surrey) named in Old English from the elements scir county, shire or scir bright + leah wood or clearing. It was given by Charlotte Brontë to the heroine of her novel Shirley (1849). According to the novel, her parents had selected the name in prospect of a male child and used it regardless. Shirley had earlier been used as a male name (Charlotte Brontë refers to it as a “masculine cognomen”), but this literary influence fixed it firmly as a female name. It was strongly reinforced during the 1930s and 1940s by the popularity of the child film star Shirley Temple (b. 1928). Variant: Shirlee (rare).

    ANN Given Name

    English: variant spelling of Anne, Ann was the more common of the two spellings in the 19th century, but is now losing ground to the form with final -e.

    (ANNE)

    English, French, and German form (via Old French, Latin, and Greek) of the Hebrew female name Hanna “He (God) has favoured me (i.e. with a child)”. This is the name borne in the Bible by the mother of Samuel (see Hannah), and according to non-biblical tradition also by the mother of the Virgin Mary. It is the widespread folk cult of the latter that has led to the great popularity of the name in various forms throughout Europe. The simplified form Ann was in the 19th century very much more common, but the form with final -e has grown in popularity during the 20th century, partly perhaps due to the enormous popularity of L. M. Montgomery's story Anne of Green Gables (1908), and partly due to Princess Anne (b. 1950). In Ireland Anne has been used as an Anglicized form of Áine. See also Anna. Pet forms: English: Annie. French: Annette, Ninon. Breton: Annick. Low German: Anke, Antje. Dutch: Anneke.

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