Meaning of your name?

Odessa-086 · April 9th, 2008

Do you know the roots or the meaning of your actual, real life name (first name)? I found out some pretty neat stuff about mine via Wiki. Apparently Irish used to have a goddess going by my name, a protector of crows and ravens and a goddess of violent death. One of old cults also had a nymph with the same name, a "daughter of the lake". In more recent time, sometimes it's known to mean "Merciful".
How about you, do you know what your name means? Might find out interesting things.

***colonel_bob*** · April 9th, 2008

According to the beaten-down name-book that my parents used to name me, mine just means something amorphous like "happy" or "great" or something. My last name is pretty general as well -- it just means something along the lines of "by the rocky shore."

So yeah. My names are kind of meaningless. And common. But thats ok, you can't actually find me on Google unless you know my full name and a little of my background. And even then its just sports information from my college.

***Speer*** · April 9th, 2008

I've known what mine meant since I was born, It means John or John means mine. The exact translation means 'God's Gift' but I think I'm gonna see what wiki has to say 'bout my name.

***Captain Fist*** · April 9th, 2008

My First name, I know this because I've looked it up, means "The Lord Remembers." or "God has remembered."

Marino is Sicilian, I have no evidence that it means this, but the my limited knowledge of my own language and the fact that my grandparents used to leave near the sea, I would assume it means "Marine" or something closely related in the local dialect.

"The Lord Remembers (the) Marine(s)."

"God has remembered (the) Marine(rs)."