Gender: FPopularity: this week.Origin of Marilla: Latin, 'shining sea'
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Marilla is a real fitting in-standing out name, delicate and sweet, which began life as a short form of the flower name Amaryllis. Marilla Cuthbert was a character in L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables.
Not heard much since the 1880s, Marilla could make a distinctive alternative to Marissa.