2006-06-16, 14:05 | Link #61 |
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First name is from Hebrew for "Beloved", after a famous king known for his wisdom and versatility. Middle name is the name of a well-known roman general.
My last name is apparently "again" in the language of its origin. It's also the acronym for a university with around 20,000 students, and almost everyone who's seen it without first meeting me expects me to be Chinese -- except for Chinese people, who know that that's not a chinese word. I sort of wish I had my mom's family name, though. It's much cooler ... it means "seeing through the fog" or something to that effect. |
2006-06-18, 05:26 | Link #62 |
I can see time itself!
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My name is Emil. It comes from the Roman family name Aemilius and the latin word aemulus, which means rival. My middle name is Olaf, which means "Ancestor's descendant". My last name is Svensson, which means "Son of Sven", and "Sven" is from Old Norse "Sveinn" or Old Swedish "Svenn", which means "boy".
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2006-08-23, 16:56 | Link #69 |
Zoroastrian
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: United States
Age: 37
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I am Unknown...
My first Name, "Famous Land".
My Last Name... Is no where on the web. I have searched for "Records" of my last name for over 7 years... And I have not found 1 record of the past of my last name no where. No where on America it existed before... It seems my last name might be from Asia or Europe. Some friends say it might be "English/Irish/Polish"... I checked there... No records.... I don't know who my family was.... My real Family ofcourse... Still no meaning... Nor my Real Family's name or the family who adopted me have no records. Legally I am the second to have the last name, My mother was the first... After my adoption, everyone in the family mostly switched my name, I didn't know about this until i was 15. *Got sad, ran away* But things are ok now... |
2006-08-23, 17:30 | Link #70 |
Μ ε r c ü r υ
Join Date: Jun 2004
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I am not sure about the other countries, but in my country - Turkey, if I am not mistaken almost all the traditional names (total minus a few thousands maybe not including the minority Christians or Jews, no idea regarding the origin of their names) have some kind of meaning regardless of their origin (Turkish, Persian, Arabic, Greek, Armenian, other Balkanian and Caucasian countries). Interestingly, even though they have meanings, many of those names (maybe most of them) can only be used as person names, not as a word to represent their original meaning. The remaining meaningless portion belongs to people who have parents that wanna try something strange or wanna adopt a name from another country and change a few syllables to fit the Turkish alphabet (not counted as meaningful because of not preserving the original form).
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2006-08-23, 17:32 | Link #71 | |
Snobby Gentleman
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Monterrey, México
Age: 43
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My name = Andrés, the Spanish form of Andrew which means manly or courageous.
Or for a more technical definition: Quote:
Behind the Name: View Name: Andrew - http://www.behindthename.com/php/view.php?name=andrew |
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2006-08-26, 12:03 | Link #73 | |
Yuri Priestess
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My name is Maria.
So in english it would be Mary. Quote:
I like it^^ |
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2006-08-28, 23:00 | Link #75 |
Moving in circles
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Singapore
Age: 49
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This is my Chinese name: 叶志鸿
In Pinyin, Ye Zhi Hong. In Wade-Giles, Yip Ch'i H'ung (I think. I've never studied this system. It's a terrible pronunciation system anyway, in my opinion ) 叶 is my family name, which literally means "leaf". 志鸿 is my given name. 志 translates approximately into "purpose", "will" or "determination" (it's difficult to translate exactly, as there isn't an equivalent concept in English). 鸿 means "great (as in magnitude)" or "long distance". So my name can mean, "great determination", or "great purpose". I happen to like my name very much . |
2006-09-01, 13:08 | Link #77 |
Golden
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: 9th Temple
Age: 45
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My Name means "famous ruler"..gezz, I’m neither Famous or a ruler..well maybe a ruler of My Room........ and its a very rare and umcomom name in this side of the Planet.
Well I was named after a Famous Nordic Ruler who Founded the Kiev (russia)..He even had his own Dynasty...Cool
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2006-09-03, 13:41 | Link #80 |
Member
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Indianapolis,Indiana
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1st:From the Hebrew name זְכַרְיָה (Zekaryah) which meant "YAHWEH remembers". Zechariah was a minor prophet of the Old Testament, author of the Book of Zechariah. This is also the name of the father of John the Baptist in the New Testament, who was temporarily made dumb because of his disbelief
2nd:English form of the Late Latin Jacomus which was derived from Ιακωβος (Iakobos), the New Testament Greek form of יַעֲקֹב (Ya'aqov) (see JACOB). This is the name of two apostles in the New Testament. The first was Saint James the Greater, the apostle John's brother, who was beheaded by Herod Agrippa in the Book of Acts. The second was James the Lesser, son of Alphaeus. Another James (known as James the Just) is also mentioned in the Bible as being the brother of Jesus. Kings of England and Scotland have borne this name. Other famous bearers include the inventor of the steam engine James Watt, the explorer Captain James Cook, and the novelist and poet James Joyce. I cant find my last name but I do know it's Germanic
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