Entry № 3294 · Scottish origin

Fenella Fenella — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ feh-NEL-uh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Scottish
Meaning
"White-shouldered (Fenella Fielding + Sir Walter Scott)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Irish)

A name that means "white-shouldered (fenella fielding + sir walter scott)".

Fenella is the Scottish form of Finola — from the Irish Fionnuala ("white-shouldered" — fionn meaning fair + guala meaning shoulder).

White-shouldered (Fenella Fielding + Sir Walter Scott) — a Scottish name.

The name in its native script.

Fenella
Transliteration
Fenella
Pronunciation
/ fəˈnɛl.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Fenella stands.

Fenella does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Fenellas before her.

Real people
Fenella Fielding
English comic actress.
1927 – 2018
Fenella Woolgar
English actress.
born 1969
In fiction
Fenella
Scott's Peveril of the Peak.
1823

Names connected to Fenella.

The number behind Fenella.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Fenella reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.