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- Girl
- Western numerology
- 4
- Indian numerology
- 4
- Characters
- 4
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Elma is a baby name with Indian, English, German, Greek, Muslim context. Parents can review its meaning, origin, numerology, sibling ideas, and similar names before adding it to a shortlist. The recorded meaning is Apple; Friendly; God's protection; Used as a diminutive of many feminine name ending in 'elma' Also a name derived from a compound of the first two letters of....
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