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Japanese or Chinese
"tenderness, gentleness; gold"
Similarity to the English name Jean could be a plus in a Japanese-American or Chinese-American family.
English from French
"kindness, gentleness"
A melodic virtue name, derived from the French lénité . It means kindness, as in granting lenience. Lenity is a profoundly rare name with no recorded usage in the U.S.