Names From My Favorite Musicals

  1. Fantine
    • Origin:

      Latin
    • Meaning:

      "infant"
    • Description:

      Fantine is a rarely heard French name except as a character in the Victor Hugo novel Les Misérables.
  2. Tracy
    • Origin:

      French
    • Meaning:

      "of Thracia"
    • Description:

      In the Top 25 in the unisex seventies, these days Tracy would more likely be Gracie.
  3. Jan
    • Origin:

      Feminine variation of John, Hebrew
    • Meaning:

      "God is gracious"
    • Description:

      Jan, not short for Janet or Janice but standing on its own, ranked in the Top 200 throughout the 1950s but dropped off the Top 1000 in the 1980s and now is a truly extinct name, given to fewer than five baby girls in the US each year.
  4. Maybelle
    • Origin:

      Variation of Mabel; combination of May and Belle; "loveable"
    • Meaning:

      "loveable"
    • Description:

      This spelling variation of Mabel clears up the pronunciation — "may-belle", as opposed to "may-bull". Maybelle is packed with Southern charm, and like sister name Mabel is on the rise, but still on a much smaller scale.
  5. Marty
    • Origin:

      Short form of Martha or Martina, Aramaic or Latin
    • Meaning:

      "lady or warlike"
    • Description:

      Marty and Martie are old-fashioned gender-neutral nickname names, boyish nicknames not heard much since the middle of the last century. That could change, though, with the rise of vintage boyish nicknames for girls. They have a certain charm and may come back into style along with mother names such as Martha.
  6. Javert
    • Elphaba
      • Fiyero
        • Nessarose

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