Elke
Though she has long stood on her own, Elke has many longer cross-cultural connections, to the Dutch/German/Scandinavian Adelheid and Alice and the English Adelaide, as a feminine version of Elkanah and as a Yiddish form of Eleanor.
The name became best known in the US via the Berlin-born Elke Sommer,a popular actress and pin-up girl in the 1960s.
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