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Shell - Origin and Meaning of the name

Meaning of the name Shell
 
 

 



[ 1 syll. (s)hel(l), sh-e-ll ] The girl name Shell is pronounced as SHEHL KEY. Shell is mainly used in English and its language of origin is Hebrew. Shell is a form of the Dutch, English, and German name Michaela. Shell is also a short form of the English, French, and German name Michelle in the English language.

Shell is not commonly used as a baby girl name. It is not in the top 1000 names. In 2007, within the family of girl names directly related to Shell, the English, French, and German Michelle was the most popular.

Baby names that sound like Shell include the English Sal, the German Sile, the Scottish Sìle, the Irish Síle, the Portuguese and Spanish Sol, the English Syl, the English Ceil, the Scandinavian Cille, the English and French Sally, the English Scilla, the English Shayla, the Indian Sheela, the English and Irish Sheila, the English Shelia, the English Shelley, the English Shelly, the Indian Shila, the English and Hebrew Shiloh, the Finnish, Frisian, German, and Scandinavian Silja, the Yiddish Sisel, the English Sisley, the Spanish Soli, the Dutch Ceciel, the English Cecil, the English Cecile, the English Cecille, the English Ceila, the English Ceileh, the English Ceileigh, the English Celesse, the English, Italian, and Spanish Celia, the English Celie, the French Cécile, the French Célia, the French Célie, the Hungarian Cili, the Dutch, Scandinavian, and English Cilla, the Arabic and Turkish Saliha, the English Secelia, the English Selia, the Spanish Suelo, the Polish Sylwia, the English Ceceli, the English Cecelia, the English Cecila, the English, Finnish, German, Italian, Scandinavian, and Spanish Cecilia, the Czech, German, and Scandinavian Cecilie, the English Cecillia, the English Cecily, the Portuguese and Slavic Cecília, the Czech Cecílie, the English Ceclia, the English Ceilia, the English Cesilie, the English Cicelie, the English Cicely, the English Cicilie, the English Ceceilia, the English Cecilea, the Polish Cecylia, and the English Celesia.

KEY: Pronunciation for Shell: SH as in "she (SH.IY)" ; EH as in "Ed (EH.D)" ; L as in "lee (L.IY)"


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