If you can or wish, provide your given first name. Give us its meaning and origin. I'll go first:
Amanda: Latin (Worthy of Love) :blush:
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If you can or wish, provide your given first name. Give us its meaning and origin. I'll go first:
Amanda: Latin (Worthy of Love) :blush:
The name I plan on taking: Sciezka. "polish: the path that leads to a way"
my real name: Jessica, based on the Hebrew, Yiskah "to see" a form of the name Sarah, meaning psychic or beautiful or some other blabberdash. of the charity (second part of my name) pretty self-explanatory.
Trevor: Welsh
It comes from the name of an actual place, and means "great settlement" or "big village".
Means you are,at heart, a big city boy Trevor! :)
Speak for yourself, D.C. dweller! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by dramasnot6
Yours apparently is Sanskrit...
My name is the Sweedish spelling of an Austrian name, so there's a bit of debate about it's meaning! However, the one I usually go with is: Birgitta: place of strength or stonghold.
The meaning of the name Anna is gracious, merciful
The origin of the name Anna is Hebrew, originally a form of HANNAH.
In Finnish "Anna" is an imperative form of verb "to give"
Anna (minulle)! Give (me)!
Jon1JT: (Verb) 1. To chase clouds far-flung. 2. Scuffle.
My real name apparently means "pure", and origins from Scandinavia... I'll stick with K♥z ;)
Mine (Noha) means 'those who have wisdom'...not sure how well that fits me though :p
Muhsin and it means 'Doer of good'. Originated from Arabic language.
My name means ""Godsend""
Sunniva - Gift of the Sun
My name is short of Anastasias.It means a russian princess aswell as the rebirth of spring.I have not looked in the new baby books but i am conent with the original meaning,since Ananstasia was origanally going to be my real name til my family had a fit.
my name is Sarah; it means princess. :)
My name is a late medievel form of 'Gawain', meaning 'White Hawk'.
My name is a derivative of Daniel, it means "God is my Judge" in hebrew.
Leah: Hebrew (Weary). :D Combined with my middle name, I am a "weary Christian."
My name is Frank. It was originally the name of a germanic spear, then of a germanic tribe. It means free man. The name goes back to my great great grandfather, a Magyar immigrant.
My name means aprox. "the dear one" (in Serbian). I'm a great disapointment, unfortunately. :flare:
Interesting thread... :thumbs_up
OK, here we go: Claes is a Swedish version of Nicolaus (of Greek origin), which I find pretty amusing when you connect the fact that I was born on Christmas Day, with the fact that the Greek Saint Nicholaus over the years have turned into the Anglo-Saxon Santa Claus: Father Christmas. :lol:
As it happens, my daughters name (Nicole) also originates from Nicolaus :D
/Claes
My given first name's latin too and means "star".Quote:
Originally Posted by _JadeRain_
@Claes: Saint Nikolaus (Nicholas) is still celebrated on the 6th of December over here. We don't have a Father Christmas so far.
Elizabeth- "Separated for God" - love my name, it's Hebrew too, was the name of John the Baptist's mother but became very popular with Queen Elizabeth
my middle name means "grace, favour" in French and Hebrew
My last means Roman
so basically I am a Graced Roman who is separated to God. (^:
Joseph, but i go by Joey
origin is Hebrew
meaning is god will increase
My name stands for Politeness in own language..and in Bhudhism it is also the name of a book
Hmmm, I started to browse intoo the old threads, this one is very interesting. my first name means two things in my mother tongue: "lilly of the valley" and " tears". Somehow antagonic...
I'm pretty sure lily of the valley is symbolic of death. That's what I've always heard anyway. So, if that's true, I guess the two meanings fit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lacra
Edit: OH! My name is a funny one. I get all sorts of weird and wonderful stuff.
Google Result One:
The girl's name Carly \c(a)-rly, car-ly\, also used as boy's name Carly, is a variant of Carla (Latin), Carlie, Carol (English), Caroline (French, Latin, Italian) and Charlotte (French), and the meaning of Carly is "little and womanly".
Google Result Two:
Origin: German
Meaning: Free man
Origin: English
Meaning: Pet form of Carlene
Google Result Three:
The Meaning of the name Carly
The meaning of the name Carly is as follows: Female ruler
The Origin of the name Carly
The origin of the name Carly is believed to be: Teutonic
No wonder why I'm such a confused person!
Maximiliano (or Maximilian, in English) comes from Latin Maximilianus (I didn't come up with a fanciful user name :p), and it means "the greatest".
Oh no, I'm not that big. I'm just a regular sized dude :rolleyes:
Bienvenu means Welcome
Robin... I'm thinking "bird." It probably doesn't get any deeper than that.
One of my English teachers in high school was supposed to be named Nicholas, but when he was born on Christmas eve, his mother decided she didn't want his name connected to the holiday. The name she picked? Christian.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClaesGefvenberg
My name, Katrina, is the Finnish/Greek/Swedish/No one seems to know form of Katherine, thus officially meaning pure, but permanently connected to that little weather occurrence a few years back.
I didn't know this ... In my culture lilly of the valley is the symbol of the spring ( one of them ). Sounds nice any way because we are born to die, after all, hehehheh.Quote:
Originally Posted by IJustMadeThatUp
Well, I'm a David, and that means 'beloved' in Hebrew. It's also as common as muck, but I prefer that... can't be doing with batty names...
My name is Frances, apparently that is supposed to mean free woman in some sort of something. Suppose that's alright.
My name is Hariol Acharya. Haribol means speaking god's name.
My name means sweetness.
Madhu - Honey
Madhur - sweet
Madhuri - sweetness
I hate my name and I hate its meaning, so I won't share.
I do have a literary name, it means pure. It sounds about right...it's all pure fiction. :p
But some wanted to know...Quote:
Originally Posted by Haunted
And who might they be? I'm in the Federal Witness Protection program ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by BienvenuJDC
Aww... how bad can it be?Quote:
Originally Posted by Haunted
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Originally Posted by BienvenuJDC
I would be one because I'm curious... and I'm no hitman... though you have the right to remain unconfident :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Haunted