Queens of Old

  1. Tora
    • Origin:

      Norse
    • Meaning:

      "thunder"
    • Description:

      Tora is the female version of Tor or Thor, the name of the Norse god of thunder. Actress Jeanne Tripplehorn chose it for her daughter.
  2. Tove
    • Origin:

      Scandinavian
    • Meaning:

      "beautiful"
    • Description:

      Tove is a modern variation of an Old Norse name for which there are no letters on the twenty-first century keyboard. It's related to Thor, and Tove and Tuva are the forms that survive and thrive in modern Scandinavia.
  3. Ulrika
    • Ursula
      • Origin:

        Latin
      • Meaning:

        "little female bear"
      • Description:

        A saint's name with a noteworthy literary background, including uses by Shakespeare in Two Gentlemen of Verona and Much Ado About Nothing, by Ben Johnson, Walter Scott, Longfellow, D. H. Lawrence and Neil Gaiman. In real life, her two most well known representatives are writer Ursula Le Guin and actress Ursula Andress. In literature, there is also Ursula Iguaran, a key, long-lived character in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's major work, One Hundred Years of Solitude.
    • Victoria
      • Origin:

        Latin
      • Meaning:

        "victory"
      • Description:

        Victoria is the Latin word for "victory" and a feminine form of Victor. It is the name of the ancient Roman goddess of victory, the equivalent of the Greek Nike, and also a popular third century saint.
    • Violante
      • Origin:

        Greek and Latin
      • Meaning:

        "purple flower"
      • Description:

        Too close to violent.
    • Yolande
      • Zaida
        • Origin:

          Arabic
        • Meaning:

          "properous"
        • Description:

          Could be some disconnect between spelling and pronunciation.