Given name
Dervla
“one's true desire; a poet's daughter”
Dervla is a variant of Derval. One Irish interpretation is “one's true desire; a poet's daughter.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Dervla is a variant of Derval. One Irish interpretation is “one's true desire; a poet's daughter.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Dervla is a variant of Derval. An origin associated with Derval is Irish.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
Dervla developed from an English adaptation of Gaelic Deirbhile. The earlier name combines der (“daughter”) and file (“poet”).
Dervla’s family of names
Dervla has a related form in Derval. Dervla is an English adaptation of Deirbhile. Dervla has a related form in Dervila.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Dervla
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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