🔥Iolanthe
yo-lan-thuh
Greek
"violet flower"Iolanthe Origin and Meaning
The name Iolanthe is a girl's name of French, Greek origin meaning "violet flower".
Iolanthe is known primarily through the1882 Gilbert & Sullivan operetta of that name, in which the title character is a fairy. Iolanthe is a softer version of Yolanda, and is the kind of multi-syllabic classical name once considered too weighty for a modern baby girl, but now within the realm of possibility--this one as a dramatic twist on Violet
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Iolanthe in Pop Culture
- "Iolanthe; orThe Peer and the Peri," comic opera by Gilbert & Sullivan
- Iolanthecharacter in play "King René’s Daughter" by Henrik Hertz, based on Yolande, Duchess of Lorraine
- Iolanthecoven name Sydney Sage chooses in Richelle Mead's "Bloodlines" series
- Iolanthe Peverellcharacter in J.K. Rowling's "The Potter Family"