A simple name with an old-fashioned, countrified feel. Thelma can be the girl next door, like Baney Fife's girlfriend Thelma Lou from the Andy Griffith Show, the mousy wife with a secret backbone of steel, like Geena Davis in Thelma and Louise or a straight-talking wisecracker, like '40s character actress Thelma Ritter.
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Telma,
Thellma
Nicknames
Thel
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