Often taken for a name in its own right; Woulfe says it is really Helena, carried through Provence and into Ireland by the Anglo-Normans.
Meanings follow Ó Corráin & Maguire's Irish Names and Woulfe;
pronunciations give the commonest Irish-English form.
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