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Smilla - Meaning of the name

[ syll. smil-la, sm-i-lla ] The girl name Smilla is pronounced as SMAYLLah †. Smilla's origin and use are both in the Scandinavian language. The first name was recently popularized by the Peter Høeg children's novel Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow (1992).

Smilla is not frequently used as a baby girl name. It is not ranked within the top 1000.

Baby names that sound like Smilla include the name Samale, the Hebrew Schmuela, the English Shanel, the English Shanell, the English Shanelle, the name Shannel, the English Shannelle, the English Shaunelle, the English Shawnel, the Indian Sonal, the Hebrew Sonel, the English Chanel, the English Cindl, the name Samala, the English Samella, the Slavic Sanela, the name Sumalee, the name Sumali, and the Italian Samuela.



† approx English pronunciation for Smilla: S as in "sea (S.IY)" ; M as in "me (M.IY)" ; AY as in "hide (HH.AY.D)" ; L as in "lee (L.IY)" ; L as in "lee (L.IY)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)"


 
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