[ANSTHRLD] Name Question - Adelina

[Kathleen O'Brien]

>I have a client that would like to use the name Adelina 
>and wants to have a Porteguese persona.  I looked through 
>St. Gabriel's and could only find a name close that was 
>Italian (Adalina).

The problem is that <Adelina> is not a Portuguese name.  See:
http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/talan/reaney/reaney.cgi?Adeline

Per that page, the origin of the name is Continental Germanic; a
hypocoristic form of <Adelhaid>.

Mari