My name, Elliott, means "Jehovah is God" or "my God is Yahweh". Something along those lines.

Which is awesome because I'm an atheist.

MILES

Gender: Masculine

Usage: English

Pronounced: MIE-ulz [key]
The meaning of this name is not known for certain. It is possibly from Latin miles "soldier" or else from a pet form of MICHAEL. This name was introduced to Britain by the Normans.

HA! I am a mystery!

JASON

Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Greek Mythology (Latinized), Biblical

From the Greek name Ιασων (Iason), which was derived from Greek ιασθαι (iasthai) "to heal". Jason was the leader of the Argonauts in Greek legend. He went in search of the Golden Fleece in order to win back his kingdom from his uncle Pelias. During his journeys he married the sorceress Medea, who helped him gain the fleece and kill his uncle, but who later turned against him when he fell in love with another woman. This name is also used in Acts in the New Testament to translate the Hebrew name Joshua.

Having one of the most common names around I think I'm lucky to even have a backstory about my name. Though I am sure my parents named me after that whole greek story about Jason.

I didn't write it, man. Some idiot on the internet did, for shame.

I sure hope his name wasn't Danielle, then!

Yeah ok, whatever that means; so who wants to have my babies now?

KAROLINE
{care-oh-LINE}
Gender: Feminine form of Carolus, Latin form of Charles
Usage: German, Danish, Norwegian
When spelled the French way (Caroline) it implies "Small and petite."
Which is why I take the Norwegian version that means "Strong and Womanly." Because I'm not French and I like Norwegian better, even though I think I have more German heritage. Either way, it gets spelled with a 'K.'

James means "suplanter= one who uses anothers name"
and Lawrence which means Victorer and successer"

Too bad I'm not really a generous person. Well, then again, I do most of the work during group projects, so... perhaps I am. I'm a giver of good grades to the undeserving.

Grace:

The girl's name Grace is pronounced grayce. It is of Latin origin, and its meaning is "favor; blessing." A virtue name referring to God's grace. Greek mythology: the Three Graces were goddesses of nature: Aglaia (brillance), Thalia (flowering), and Euphrosyne (joy). Actress and princess Grace Kelly; singer Grace Jones; choreographer Graciela Daniele.

Christophe was the guy who carried the young-Jesus christ over a river... It's then the saint of the travellers...

Ross
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish, English
Pronounced: RAWS
From a surname which meant "promontory" in Gaelic, originally belonging to someone who lived on a headland.

Headland: A high ridge of land or rock jutting out into a body of water.

Yung Yung. No idea what it means, but an online dictionary says rong (yung is a dialect version of pronunciation) means lotus :S .

Sophia, greek for wisdom. It was in a book where my parents randomly picked baby names. Also I've had several teachers tell me over the years asking me if I knew it meant wisdom as though it was a big deal that they even knew :p

HAVEN

Pretty self explanatory. The only thing behindthename.com has to add that I probably would not have otherwise remembered is that it's of English origin. I'll go with what the site has to say about my middle name (also my username) too.
That I pretty much knew already as well. It's assuring to me to know that's what it means, too.

Okay.

Well, I do have a dad...

Justin.

Derived from Latin, it supposedly means "true, just, or righteous" and comes from the name Justus. Check that out, I didn't even know that.

Real Name: Victoria
Real meanings:
Gender: Feminine

Usage: English, Spanish, Romanian, Ancient Roman

Pronounced: vik-TOR-ee-a [key]

Feminine form of VICTORIUS. This name was borne by a long-reigning queen of England. A Canadian city bears this name in her honour, as well as an Australian state and several other geographic areas. In Roman Mythology it Means "victory" in Latin. Victoria was the Roman goddess of victory.


Personal meaning: I was the only baby that didn't miscarage, so my mom named me Victoria because of that (using the mean's victory meaning). But unfortunatly I'm doomed to have everyone call me Vicki because of my name...I mean I like my name but I just got to say, why does everyone think Victoria automadicly shortens to Vicki for gosh sakes :annoyed:....

Nickname: Tori
Shortened form of Victoria
Name I usualy go by (NOT VICKI, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!)
I just thought I toss that up there. One time we went to eat out at a Japanese restraunt. The manager was there greating everybody. He asked my name and I said Tori. And he just said "Ah....that's a good name. Do you know it means Bird?" The name (Other then being Bird in Japanese and being a short form of Victoria) doesn't have any other meaning.

Names that could have been:

Austin (If I were a boy)
Screw all the other meanings, my dad just wanted to name me after his freaking favorite car! (He liked Austin Heleies) Heck...I still think my dad wanted to name me that after I came out a girl.....

Zoe
Because my mom thought it was cool.....And they liked baby blues.....

DEVIN
Gender: Masculine & Feminine

Usage: English, Irish

Pronounced: DEV-in [key]

From an Anglicized Irish surname derived from either of the Irish surnames Ó Damháin (which means "descendent of Damhán") or Ó Dubháin (which means "descendent of Dubhán"). The given name Damhán means "fawn"; the given name Dubhán means "little black one".


I am black, but I'm certainly not little. Of course, I don't think it means black in respect to race.

ROBERT
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French, Scandinavian, Czech, Polish, Russian, Slovene, Romanian
Other Scripts: Роберт (Russian)

Pronounced: RAH-burt (English), ro-BER (French)
Means "bright fame", derived from the Germanic elements hrod "fame" and beraht "bright". The Normans introduced this name to Britain. It belonged to three kings of Scotland, including Robert the Bruce who restored the independence of Scotland from England in the 14th century. The author Robert Browning and poets Robert Burns and Robert Frost are famous literary bearers of this name. Also, Robert E. Lee was the commander of the Confederate army during the American Civil War.

Interesting. My mother's name is Victoria as well, and she naturally shortens it to "Vicki." Her only bone of contention with the shortened form is that most people try to spell it with an 'e' on the end.

I never think about Tori being a shortened version of Victoria. It reminds me of how Topher Grace shortens his name to the '-topher' instead of 'chris-.'

For my nickname, Karli means "Covered in Snow" in Polish. I used to think this was a bit ironic, since when I was younger I had a problem with dandruff :annoyed:...

Juan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish (that I know of at least)
pronunciation: for english talkers I guess it would be something like Hu-an for you.

I am not completely sure about this... I heard once it comes from an hebrew word "Yohanam" wich means "God is Compassionate" it is also used to translate names like "John" or "Joan" into spanish when they take the liberty to do that.

TRAVIS

Gender: Masculine

Usage: English

Pronounced: TRA-vis [key]
Derived from Old French traverse meaning "to cross". From a surname which originally denoted someone who collected tolls from people crossing a bridge.

Yeah, I have an uninteresting backstory. Though I like to say that my parents named me after Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver.

I get the misspelled name treatment aswell. People spell my name 'Tory' no matter how many times I say it's spelled with an 'i' people spell it with a 'y' each time....Tory is only second to Vicki on the annoyance scale. I don't know why they annoy me so much...they just have ever since Pre-school....I mean I have nothing against the names themselves, but I just don't like to be called them for some reason. My mom used to joke about how in the Animaniacs Dot said "Call me Dotty and you die..." She always said "Yep, that sounds like you alright." of corse reffering to the Vicki/Tori thing.

H(W)uang Shih-Yueh

I like how Chinese can find and match words together and create names for specific meaning. And if they get creative enough, you can come up with very unique names. I have never met another person with the same name as mine, for example.

Chinese names are usually put together in three different words. Your family name and two words that that would make up a specific meaning. They usually put family name first, and then follow by the two words that are making up the meaning.

I am not familiar with some of the phonetic rules when it comes to name though, however, at least in the last couple of generations, Fun Shui and certain type of Taoist fortune telling play a big part of the naming scheme of my family.

My name is the family name follow by a generational pattern and then my unique name. Basically, each generation there is usually one word picked out to put in the middle of the name, and the last word would derive its meaning from that word depending on the parents. For example, my father’s generation uses the word “Song” as the second word for their name, meaning “Oak”. My grandfather’s generation uses “Ling” in old Chinese meaning “a Hill”. In my generation, the word is “Shih”, meaning, the world, worldly, or big, depending on the word that come after. (Also, my generation is the first to have both male and female using the same second word, although there is only one female in the paternal lineage that follows this pattern. My sister’s name is an exception.

Huang, meaning Yellow, as in Yellow River is the family name.

Shih, meaning worldly, is a generational pattern of my name.

Yueh, old Chinese meaning a hill, mountains.

So in somewhat of a Native American fashion, my name is “The Great Yellow Mountain”.

Most people seem to have hard time pronounce my name correctly, even Chinese. More often then not, they’d prnounce my name as “shi-yueh”, meaning the “evening moon”. >.>

Edit: Oh yeah, not all Chinese named by generational pattern, just my family does it.