Melany
[məˈleɪni]Meaning
variant of Melanie, from the Greek melania, "blackness"
Background Story
Melany is a variant of Melanie and is recorded as a given name in Czech, Dutch, French, Georgian, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian and Macedonian. Melanie comes from the Greek μελανία (melania), "blackness", from μέλας (melas), meaning "dark". It was borne in its Latin form by two saints, Melania the Elder and her granddaughter Melania the Younger, and was introduced to England by the Normans in its French form. The name became common in English usage only in the 1930s, after the popularity of Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel Gone with the Wind and its 1939 film adaptation, which included a main character named Melanie Hamilton.
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