اسم إيلين ليس في الكتاب المقدس — ومعناه غير محسوم

Eileen is not in the Bible, and we should be careful about what it does mean, because the popular answers are not well founded. It is not Hebrew. It probably does not mean “light,” and the “wished for” gloss belongs to a different name. Eileen is the anglicised form of the Irish Eibhlín, which is the Irish form of Aveline — the same root that gave us Evelyn. Beyond that, honesty requires us to stop. What does the name Eileen…