Undine (first name)
Undine is a female given name.
Origin and meaning
The name means water spirit or mermaid . Undine is a mythological figure who, as a female water spirit, belongs to the semi-divine elementals. The name goes back to the Latin word unda for water wave . Name day is February 3rd.
In the German-speaking world, the name was best known through the story Undine (1811) by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué and the opera Undine (1816) by ETA Hoffmann .
variants
- French : Ondine
- Undene
- Undina
Well-known namesake
- Undine Brixner (* 1958), German actress
- Undine Bremer (* 1961), German athlete
- Undine Gruenter (1952–2002), German writer
- Undine Kurth (* 1951), German politician (Alliance 90 / The Greens)
- Undine Materni (* 1963), German writer and poet
- Undīne Vītola (* 1989), Latvian skeleton skier
Individual evidence
- ↑ Beate Varnhorn: Bertelsmann, The large lexicon of first names . Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3577076944