Charlene

A Dictionary of First Names | 2006 | 257 words | Copyright

Charlene ♀ Chiefly Australian and North American: 20th-century coinage, from Charles + the feminine name suffix -ene. It may have been influenced by the older but much rarer French name Charline, a feminine diminutive of Charles.

Variant: Sharlene.

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