Thursday, April 15, 2010

Can anyone tell me the meaning of the name Rinoa?

I want to call my child this, because I love the name, but I wondered what it actually meant?!

Can anyone tell me the meaning of the name Rinoa?
I found this on a search.....Rinoa is the name of a character from a video game, Final Fantasy VIII. The game was originally Japanese. Though there isn't 100% confirmation, experts on video games seem to believe that the Japanese creator of the game actually named the character with the French name "Lenore" in mind. The closest he could get to "Lenore" in Japanese was to use characters that are pronounced as "Rinoa". When the game was brought to the United States, the manufacturer used the sound of the characters in Japanese for the English name of the character rather than reverting to the original Lenore.
Reply:I believe it is a derivative of Lenore created for the final fantasy game (which is still an ok name, wendy was a derivative of Gwenevere for Peter Pan) Lenore comes from Eleanore, which means "the other Aenor" (Aenor being an old french name)
Reply:Here's the only thing I could find:


http://www.kabalarians.com/female/rinoa....

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