Names

Diminutive of Beyle. This is the name of a daughter of Tevye in late 19th-century Yiddish stories by Sholem Aleichem, on which the musical Fiddler on the Roof was based.

From a Slavic word meaning “white”.

From an English surname that is possibly derived from the name of the French town Beauvais.

Anglicized form of Bébinn.

From a surname that was originally derived from the name of an English city, itself meaning “beaver stream” in Old English. It came into use as a masculine given name in the 19th century, and it became common as an American feminine name after the publication of George Barr McCutcheon’s 1904 novel Beverly of Graustark [1].

Variant of Beverly.

From a Welsh surname that was derived from ap Evan meaning “son of Evan”.

Short form of Beverly.

Means “married” in Hebrew. The name is used in the Old Testament to refer to the land of Israel (Isaiah 62:4). As an English given name, Beulah has been used since the Protestant Reformation.

Turkish form of Batul.