Where does the name "Djuna" come from and what is its meaning?

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"Djuna" appears to be an invented name. The biography *Djuna: The Life and Work of Djuna Barnes* by Phillip Herring, includes an except from a letter written by Djuna Barnes in February of 1967, in which she answers the name origin question of someone who had named her own daughter after the author: "It is a name made up by my father… there was no other Djuna, only me. Then my niece got it, and now your daughter. How nice! If the name means anything, it means 'the light of the moon,' because my eldest brother, when an infant, called the moon 'nuna'. My father, at that time, reading the novel *The Wandering Jew* by Eugene Sue (?), liking the Prince therein, called 'Djalma' (Indian) (I think) put the Dj on to the 'una', and there you are, and blessings on her." http://www.behindthename.com/bb_gen/arcview.php?id=24196 Aug 13 06, 6:19 PM

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