Given name
Fulvia
“a yellow-haired woman”
Fulvia is a variant of Flavia. In Latin use, Flavia carries the interpretation “a yellow-haired woman.”
Original LatinFulvius
Meaning & origin
What it means
Fulvia is a variant of Flavia. In Latin use, Flavia carries the interpretation “a yellow-haired woman.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Latin.
How it developed
In Latin usage, Fulvia is a feminine form of FULVIUS.
Fulvia’s family of names
In Latin usage, Fulvia is a feminine form of FULVIUS. Fulvia has a related form in Flavia. In Italian usage, Fulvia has a conventional equivalent in the Portuguese form Fúlvia.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Fulvia
- Fulvia FrancoItalian actress (1931-1988)
- Fulvia Mammiactress (1927–2006)
- Fulvia BisiItalian painter (1818-1911)
- Fulvia SteveninItalian alpine skierborn 1965
- Fulvia ColomboItalian announcer and television presenter (1926–2005)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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