Brief Life History of Mele
When Mele was born in 1932, in Kolofo'ou, Tongatapu, Tonga, her father, Solomone Fine, was 33 and her mother, 'Ala ki Hihifo Namoa Vaha'i, was 29. She died on 30 September 1942, at the age of 10.
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Probably a contracted form of Meriel , but also associated with the small class of girls' names derived from birds, since it is identical in form with Old French merle ‘blackbird’ (Latin merula). The name came to public notice in the 1930s with the actress Merle Oberon ( 1911–79 , born Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson ).
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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