I have no idea. Ask Bonnie (Shayna Brochah) the bunny.

What kind of name is that?

It's actually a Welsh-Hebrew-French name. Probably this explains why it's not that common. Also there's a Renee that sometimes appears in the middle of it.

My mom is, not surprisingly, also a poet. Hence the repetition of sounds in the Lynley Lys part of the name.

Lynley is a welsh name that means either linen or a meadow next to a body of water, depending who you ask. In Mandarin, it means jade plum. (Wo shuo yidyar zhong wen). My mother chose the name because it sounded good with the last name. She made it up, but then it turned out to be a pre-existing name.

My last name, according to family legend, indicates that we are descended from the family of Joan of Arc, whose brother was given the name of the royal crest of France (the fleur de lys)in honor of his sister's service to her country. It means lily. (There are two Polish Jewish last names that sound similar, but are not related to my name as far as I know, these being Lyss (from Lysy Gora or Bald Mountain in Poland) and Liss (fox).

Shimat is my Hebrew name. I legally added it to my first name a few years ago, so that my first name is actually LynleyShimat. I wanted to keep my middle name, Renee, and my palindromic initials (LRL), although sometimes I write my initials as LsRL. Shimat is pretty much the Hebrew version of the French name Simone. It has the same root as the Hebrew word Shema, and comes from a highly allegorical Biblical story where everyone has names like memory, son of rumor.

My Yiddishist friends get to call me Shimmes (which is the Yiddish / Ashkenazi pronunciation of the Hebrew name Shimat. ( tems)