What does your name mean?
 

Hi, just a random question from bored person here. What's the meaning of your real name?
My real name is Calvin Michel, derived from "Calvus" and "Michael", literally mean "the Bald who loves God." (not in my entire life my head gonna be bald) but I dont know the meaning of my chinese surname "Sie/Xi".

I swear this was not planned, but my real name - "Elka" - means "form of 'Alice.'"

"Alice" means "Noble, of good cheer."

My real name is Vu Chan. I think it means discipline. It's also supposed to be the name of a martial art school somewhere in Vietnam.

Colin eiher means dove or bear depending on what source you go by. Hadn't realised the middle named Michael had doomed me to a life of baldness curses!

As long as you guys don't try to pull off the comb-back or the comb-over, baldness won't be such a bad thing.

Eh I figure screw it if it's gonna go it's gonna go no use fighting a battle you can't win.

My post is gone.. weird...

Btw, how are you guys getting the meanings of your names?

Just dig about online there are website pretty much entirely devoted to the root meaning of names and how they came about. Wierd shit like that Colin is somehow derived from Nicholas.

My real name is Joshua. It's suppose to mean "God is my saviour" or something along those lines.
Another cool fact is that in Greek it also means Jesus.

DENIS

Gender: Masculine

Usage: French, Russian, English, German

Other Scripts: Денис (Russian)

Pronounced: de-NEE (French), DEN-is (English) [key]
Medieval form of DIONYSIUS. Saint Denis was a 3rd-century missionary to Gaul who was beheaded in Paris. He is the patron saint of France. Another notable bearer was the French philosopher Denis Diderot.

Okay, see, now I'm named after a guy that got his head cut off. Outstanding.

omg, and he's french :(

http://www.behindthename.com/

that's a pretty good site for first name meanings. this is what it says about my name:


LAURA

Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Finnish, Hungarian, Polish
Pronounced: LOR-a, LAWR-a, LOW-rah (Spanish, Italian)

Feminine form of the Late Latin name Laurus, which meant "laurel". In ancient Rome the leaves of laurel trees were used to create victors' garlands. Saint Laura was a 9th-century Spanish martyr, a nun who was thrown into a vat of molten lead by the Moors. Another famous bearer was Laura Secord, a Canadian heroine during the War of 1812.

Not Michael, "Calvin" does. Calvus means "Bald" in latin. :juggler:

ANDREW

Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Biblical
Pronounced: AN-droo

From the Greek name Ανδρεας (Andreas), which derives from ανηρ (aner) "man" (genitive ανδρος (andros) "of a man"). In the New Testament the apostle Andrew was the brother of the apostle Simon Peter. According to legend he was crucified on an X-shaped cross, and he is the patron saint of Scotland, Russia, and Greece. This was also the name of kings of Hungary.

The meaning of my name is so wrong it isn't even funny. Although I do enjoy the random X-shaped cross crucifing.

My name is Lee, I think it means meadow or clearing in Old English, an open space in the middle of the woods. It's also defined as a place that is sheltered from the wind, or the side of a boat away from where the wind is blowing. In Chinese it means plum tree or healer, alternatively.

Hah, and you think you have it bad. My first name is Julius. According to the link provided by Ava for name defs, my name originates from various Greek origins and meanings. Supposedly to mean "Downy-bearded." Whatever that is. Derivitation of the name supposedly comes from Jupiter (Planet resembling Zeus) or the fabled and famous Roman emperor who could have conqured the entire world, Julius Caesar. Unfortunately, Caesar had been stabbed to death in the Senate. BEAT THAT MR. "Oh I GOT MY HEAD CHOPPED OFF!" Though both incidents were done in public.

My Korean name is Ho-Gene. Or Kwak Ho Gene. Ho-Gene basically means "Powerful." So, yeah, my parents and grandparents are powerhungry people who decided to name me these names hoping I would hold true to the meanings. (I'm sorry Mom, Dad, Grandparents, but it ends with my generation!). Look at my GFF user name. The romanilized form of it from Korean either looks like "Moujogwe" or "Mojougwe." I'm not sure which one is correct, but it basically means "Invincible."

INGE

Gender: Masculine & Feminine

Usage: German, Scandinavian, Dutch
Short form of German and Scandinavian names beginning with the element ing, which refers to the Norse god ING.

it is a male name with Scottish origin. It is derived from the Latin name Patricius, which means 'nobleman'.

FRANÇOIS

Gender: Masculine

Usage: French

Pronounced: frawn-SWAW [key]
French form of Franciscus (see FRANCIS). François Villon was a French lyric poet of the 15th century. This was also the name of two kings of France.


The pronounciation is so wrong. That's the english pronounciation which really pisses me off.

my name is Rex... it means King

Matthew: English form of the Greek Matthaios, derived from the Hebrew Mattityahu, meaning gift of Yahweh, ie gift of God.

Michael: I looked this up and got "Who is like God?" (don't get the question mark). Coming from Michael, who is the only angel recognized as an archangel in the Bible, presumably the most powerful divine force beside the trinity.

But I'm named after my uncles.

My last name is Morris, which is Irish/English and I believe means "dark or swarthy".
I am neither dark, nor swarthy. I'm blond and rather fair-skinned. But that's m'name.

BRENTON

Gender: Masculine

Usage: English

Pronounced: BREN-tun [key]
From a surname which was derived from an English place name which meant "Bryni's town". Bryni was Old English name meaning "fire".

Welcome to FIRE TOWN, BITCHES.

Tiffany means Medieval form of THEOPHANIA. This name was traditionally given to girls born on the Epiphany (January 6), the festival commemorating the visit of the Magi to the infant Jesus. According to that behind the names website. oO;

Alexander

Definition: Helper of mankind, defender of men.

DANIELLE:

Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, English
Pronounced: dan-YEL
Origin: Hebrew
Religious meaning: "God is my Judge" (giggle)

Has a cheerful appearance; she is serious about her feelings; she bubbles with joy and makes life happy; stays calm in stressful situations; a women of strong character and charisma; she holds her head high with pride; she has social skills and sauvy to go far; has high prestige; and itelligent mind.

Sounds accurate to me. ^_^

Trevor: Prudent and Wise.

HAH!

(some literature has said that it means "great house," but this is not the interpretation that my parents understood, and I think the sources of said interpretation are sketchy at best)

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.

Jesse (without the "i" for Christ's sake!) apperently means nothing.

The only famous Jesse is a country western hero who got shot, and some filler from the old testement. Lame

Straight from Behindthename.com

Katherine: From the Greek name Αικατερινη (Aikaterine). The etymology is debated: it could derive from the earlier Greek name ‘Εκατερινη (Hekaterine), which came from ‘εκατερος (Hekateros) "each of the two"; it could derive from the name of the goddess HECATE; it could be related to Greek αικια (aikia) "torture"; or it could be from a Coptic name meaning "my consecration of your name". The Romans associated it with Greek καθαρος (katharos) "pure" and changed their spelling from Katerina to Katharina to reflect this.

I love etymology. :D

My names Scott, that comes from a surname that means Scotsman. Aparently the original use of scot means tattoo (lucky me!)

I'm pretty sure there are some more out there, you just have to look around. Jesse Owens comes to mind.

My name is Amy.
Derived from Old French aimée meaning "beloved".

Luke

Gender: Masculine

Usage: English, Biblical

From the Greek name Λουκας (Loukas) which meant "from Lucania". Lucania was a region in Italy. Saint Luke, the author of the third Gospel and Acts in the New Testament, was a doctor who travelled in the company of Saint Paul.

There you go.

Attached, Warrior/Man, and Handsome are what my names mean... They don't have my last name listed though it doesn't really suprise me as it is a rare name.

Jessica. Means "wealthy" and "God's gift", of which I'm neither.

My name, Jorge, means George. I already knew that. But what I didn't know was this.

I had to use George because Jorge had nothing other than, "it means George"

From the Greek name Γεωργιος (Georgios) which was derived from the Greek word γεωργος (georgos) meaning "farmer, earthworker", itself derived from the elements γη (ge) "earth" and εργον (ergon) "work". Saint George was a legendary dragon slayer who was supposedly martyred in Palestine. He is the patron saint of England, Portugal and Catalonia. This name has been borne by six kings of England, two kings of Greece, and the first president of the United States, George Washington. Other famous bearers include authors George Eliot and George Orwell (both pen names; real names Mary Anne Evans and Eric Arthur Blair respectively), composer George Frideric Handel, and Pacific explorer George Vancouver.

So, I'm a farmer?

Unfortunately my name actually is Isha.

Pronounsed: Ei-sh-a

I'm not sure where it came from, I attempted to look it up but my search turned up nothing. Lets just say for lack of a better term my mom was a flower child, a product of the 60's...I think that should explain enough -_-

To my knowledge there are well under 100 people with my last name... A place huh? My boss has a last name like that.

In Islam, Yesus is pronounced "Isa". Maybe that's what your name derived from?

My, that was very interesting to read! What does your friends and family call you? Since I guess they don't go around and say "Huang Shih-Yueh" all the time :)

My first name is Jesse, from the Hebrew word meaning "gift" according to behindthename.com. As for Chinese names, many times you'll have very similiar sounding names but because Chinese has so many letters that sound the same yet each carries a different meaning. My chinese name is Chen Si-Ran. Si comes from Si Van, meaning gentle, well mannered in the letters they are spelled with. Ran comes from Zi Ran, meaning natural. As for the Chen part I'm not quite sure what it really means, all I know that its my family's surname. So I guess my name would come out to be something like Naturally good mannered.

PHIL

Gender: Masculine

Usage: English

Pronounced: FIL [key]
Short form of various names beginning with phil, often a Greek element meaning "friend, dear, beloved".

Ok, so...

Depends on who you ask. "Ah-Yueh" is what my friend in Taiwan call me. My family call me Shih-Yueh (without the family name). Interestinglly, some of my friends at college actually call me Magi. Although that's mainly because I use it as my alias in the arcade machines. >.> Some of my friends in Taiwan call "shi-yeh" or "chu-chay". Those are kinda weird psundonoun version of my name. I wouldn't even venturing into defining them.

english first name: Anita
meaning little graceful one, also nickname for Ann, Anna etc in spanish and apparently Finnish according to the Behind the Name website.

chinese name: xue min, liu
xue - most commonly means snow
min - intelligence or quickness, you get the idea
liu - family surname which i looked up and is said to mean kill or destroy >.>

for people who know cantonese: syut mun, lau

strangely, only me and my sister on my mum's side of the family don't have the generational naming applied to us, so people usually assume her name is also xue xxx. i suspect it's because of my dad since his family don't have the generational naming thing.

It may be, but I'm not of Islamic decent. Then again mom was never the logical type of person.

1st name - David - Beloved
Middle name - Albert - Bright Royalty

Beloved AND Royalty? The fun never stops!

Turtle. Doesn't get much simpler than that. God I love nicknames. ;)

user name...reflective. Some people around me said I had a "reflective" personality, something everyone can relate to.

Katherine = Pure, Virginal. Or torture, my consecration of your name, depending on the Greeks.

My name is Justin which I think means, well, just and upright.

But we all know "Ashley" really means "Awesome One" >D

Seriously. Nah, I have a lame first name, my hebrew name is a bit better.
Ashera which means happy/or blessed depending on who you ask.

Jason

Jolly
Awesome
Super
Onion
Nemesis

My name is an actual word in the Dictionary. It means:

"Rudely brief or abrupt, as in speech or manner" or "Using few words; terse"

See if you can guess it from this.

well...
that was very informative...so
which is kinda weird because my first name(not the one i go by) is
So...im a little rock from the crag?...right...oh, but i do like my last name
It means Son of a Knight, so...i am a little rock from the crag, that is a son of a knight eh?..and no, i dont care, if you want, look me up, there is some guy in canada with the exact same name, Jr and all!
if you wana know more, http://home.centurytel.net/ctn19580/...OFSURNAME.html thats about my last name
oh yeha and FAMILY CREST!http://www.irishsurnames.com/coatsofarms/k/mcknight.gif

I think read that Kyle means Handsome and From the Church

First name means "Sunflower" or "Open"

Middle name means "The Great One"

Last name means "Torrent", "Trespasser", or "Traveler" (since it's named after a river that probably flooded rapidly).

"Opening the great torrent"
"Sunflower,the great trespasser"

It's very odd indeed.

So, like Bodomi posted, "Michael" is "he who is like God" in Hebrew definition. And then my alter ego, Nas is God's son in gangsta definition. Niggas.

Christopher =

Patron saint of travel... woot!