| The girl name Undine [ 2 syll. un-di-ne, und-ine ] is pronounced AHNDIYN KEY. Undine is of Latin origin and it is used mainly in German. Undine's meaning is 'of the waves'. Derived from the element unda with the meaning 'wave'. The name was coined by Paracelsus (1493-1541) as water elementals in works of alchemy. In folklore, they are known as fairy-like creatures who obtain a soul when they marry a human man, as re-told in the popular Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué novella Undine (1811). Undine is not popular as a baby name for girls. It is not listed within the top 1000 names. Baby names that sound like Undine include Amandine (English and French), Andrina (English and Italian), Antonie (Czech and German), Antonia (Dutch, English, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Scandinavian, and Spanish), Antónia (Portuguese and Slavic), Antonina (English, German, Italian, Polish, and Russian), and Antonína (Czech). KEY: English pronunciation for Undine: AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)" ; D as in "dee (D.IY)" ; IY as in "eat (IY.T)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)"
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