Undine as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Undine

What is the meaning of the name Undine ?

The baby name Undine is a Female name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced /ˈʌn.diːn/ (UN-deen); sometimes /ˈʌn.daɪn/ (UN-dine); German: /ˈʊn.diːn(ə)/.

Undine is in Origin.

Undine is a literary and mythic given name from Neo-Latin Undina, built on Latin unda "wave." The term was coined by the 16th-century physician Paracelsus for water elementals, so the name’s core meaning is "water spirit" or "of the waves," often felt as "little wave." Forms and spellings include French Ondine, Italian and Spanish Ondina, German Undine, Slavic Undina, and Latvian Undīne; short forms like Dina or Dine sometimes appear.

The name entered wider use after Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué’s novella Undine (1811) and spread through Romantic-era music and theater, notably Lortzing’s opera Undine (1845), Tchaikovsky’s lost opera Undina (1869), Ravel’s piano piece Ondine in Gaspard de la nuit (1908), Debussy’s Préludes II "Ondine," and Giraudoux’s play Ondine (1939). Usage remains rare in English-speaking countries but is established in parts of Central and Eastern Europe, carrying luminous, aquatic, and enchanted associations.