Names That Mean Darling

As frozen in the pre-Beatles era as short white gloves.

Dimpled Our Gang comedy name.

A modern(ish) invented name, only in widespread use since the 20th century. It is a combination of the English word darling and the popular midcentury suffix -lene. It was recently used on a character in the BBC comedy-crime drama, Death in Paradise.

The kind of French name that seemed daring -- and darling -- in the sixties.

Sweet Kazakh name also spelled Aqerke.

There is a Hindi name for boys Aroon, for the mythic charioteer of the dawn, but for girls the name Aroon relates to the Irish word for darling. Aroon is the name of the heroine of Molly Keane's classic novel of the Anglo-Irish gentry, Good Behaviour.