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Gaenor (female)

Variants:Gaynor (F) Guinevere (F)
Derivative of:Gwenhwyfar (F)
Can be spelt:Gaynor (F)
   
Source(s): The Oxford Names Companion, OUP
Notes:

Welsh spelling variant of the English forename Gaynor, a medieval variant of Guinevere, itself from the Old French form of the Welsh Gwenhwyfar "holy" + "soft".

Gaenor has some similarity to the Welsh word for "maiden".
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