Given name
Maëlys
“princess”
Maëlys is a feminine given name from Breton. It is used in French.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Maëlys goes back to Breton Maelys, meaning “princess.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In French usage, Maëlys is a feminine form of Maël.
Maëlys’s family of names
In French usage, Maëlys is a feminine form of Maël.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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