Names That Mean Resolute

One time joke name, à la Lily Tomlin's bossy telephone operator, Ernestine is ready for a possible reevaluation, like cousins Josephine and Clementine.

Ernestine

Sometimes heard in Scotland, where its heyday was in the times of Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott, this feminization of William was notably borne by Williamina Fleming, an astronomer who is famous for discovering the Horsehead Nebula, and for devising a system of classifying stars based on the amount of hydrogen they emit. 
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This form last ranked in Scotland back in the 1950s, while elsewhere, the Germanic Wilhelmina or short form Willa are preferred. 


