Female first name (English, German): Lorelei, Old High (Geographic name as first name); lure = the ambush in wait; lei = the rocks, shale rock, originally the name of a slate rock, which rises just before St.Goarshausen from the Rhine; the poet Clemens Brentano created in 1801 fantasy figure "Lore Lay", a sitting on the rocks the water woman who lures with singing sailors to their death, the meaning of the name is not entirely clear, perhaps 'ambush' + 'rock'