| ROMILLY |
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Gender: Feminine Usage: French, English Frequency: rare Pronounced: ROM-ih-lee or Romi-YEE Contributed by Meredith on 4/27/2007 |
| A place-name in France that came to Britain first as a surname then was used as a male first name, but is now predominantly female. Ultimately derived from “Rome” (possibly “person from Rome”). Jacqueline deRomilly is a great French classical historian and intellectual. (behindthename) |
