Lunabelle

English

Etymology

Compound of Luna (“a female given name from Latin”) +‎ Belle (“female given name”); perhaps by analogy with names like Annabelle, Clarabelle etc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈluːnəbɛl/

Proper noun

Lunabelle (plural Lunabelles)

1. (rare) A female given name.
   • 1947, Preliminary Report of the Temporary Commission on the Need for a State University‎^[1], Williams Press, page 9:

     David S. Berkowitz and Lunabelle W. Curtis gave major assistance in connection with the study of the trends in the decentralization of educational facilities.

   • 1995, Murray Friedman, What Went Wrong?: The Creation & Collapse of the Black-Jewish Alliance, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 89:

     In his foreword to a graduate paper by Lunabelle Wedlock, "The Reaction of Negro Publications and Organizations to German Anti-Semitism," Bunche wrote that as was well known, there was all too much mutual dislike and mistrust between the two communities.