Do you know what YOUR name means?
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STEPHEN
Origin: Greek
Meaning: Crowned OneSurname - Crowley
Origin: South West Ireland
(in Irish - An Cruadhlaoch, which is "Hardy Warrior") -
I haven't a clue. It could be Gaelic, it could be Germanic via Breton "Precious"; it could even be from the ancient Sarmatian tribe the Alani that spread out from Iran around the Black Sea area. No one knows for sure.
My last name, though Scottish, probably has its origins (via the Normans) in the French word for strawberry (fraise). It forms part of one of the clan crests.
It comes from one of William's barons who was famous for his strawberry daiquiris....and it's pronounced FRAY ZER, not FRAY SHURE. However you want to pronounce Frazier (almost unknown in the UK) over the other side of the pond is up to you.
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ROSS
Origin: Scotland
Pronounced: Rosssss
Meaning: I don't know if I should tell you this or not... Traditionally "Ross" as a given name was given to baby boys who were unusually well endowed if you get my drift. So in other words it means "hung like a horse". The clan Ross were descendants of a well-hung leader.MACINTOSH
Origin: Scotland
Pronounced: Mac-In-Tosh
Meaning: Clan name. Descendants of Tosh. Tosh, our glorious ancestor, was a reggae singer from Jamaica. He worked with Bob Marley.
Clan Motto: "Touch not a cat bot a glove" -- meaning is 'wear gloves when you handle cats'. -
@Bossy Rossy... (
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ROSS
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish, English
Pronounced: RAWS
From a Scottish and English surname which meant "promontory" in Gaelic, originally belonging to someone who lived on a headland. A famous bearer of the surname was Sir James Clark Ross (1800-1862), an Antarctic explorer.@unknownuser said:
Macintosh
Noun
Singular: macintosh
Plural: macintoshes(UK) A raincoat.
Well wha'd ya know... @unknownuser said:
ALAN
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Scottish, Breton
Pronounced: AL-ən (English)The meaning of this name is not known for certain, though it possibly means either "little rock" or "handsome" in Breton. Alternatively, it may derive from the tribal name of the Alans, an Iranian people who migrated into Europe in the 4th and 5th centuries. This was the name of several dukes of Brittany, and it was introduced to England by Breton settlers after the Norman conquest. Famous modern bearers include Alan Shepard (1923-1998), the first American in space and the fifth man to walk on the moon, and Alan Turing (1912-1954), a British mathematician and computer scientist.
@unknownuser said:
FRASER
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish, English (Rare)
Pronounced: FRAY-zər, FRAY-zhər [key]From a Scottish surname which is of unknown meaning. A famous bearer of the surname was Simon Fraser (1776-1862), a Canadian explorer.
It's all in your name...
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I have a Chinese name, too, though I haven't thought about it in years. (My wife is Chinese-American.) I'm afraid I don't have the character written anywhere, or actually know how to draw it...I think it might even be a non-Mandarin dialect.
I'll have to ask my father-in-law to write it for me again.
It is pronounced similar to the English name "Lou" and means destruction.
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Phillip is Ancient Greek and means "lover of horses".
So I shorten it to Phil.Prince means prince.
Meadows is english and means "lives in the meadow".
So I'm a prince who loves horses so much he lives with them
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@phil meadows said:
Phillip is Ancient Greek and means "lover of horses".
So I shorten it to Phil.So does that mean you love ponies?
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Damn! everyone has some cool meaning, mine is a dull boring friggin ROCK.
Pete the rock ... jeez!
Here I am blocking traffic.
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lol. Not just any rock, though, if I remember correctly from, er, God class.
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PICHUNEKE
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanglish, Klingon, Esperanto, Quenya, Orc
Pronounced: Dïefurgonthênsièlfënmatchbrongoûnderfragtèn
Meaning: Polite, Nobel Prize awarded, good person, handsome, strong, intelligent. The name is used by prophets when they want to call someone that is going to rule the world under a golden age of wisdom and peace.
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@pichuneke said:
PICHUNEKE
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanglish, Klingon, Esperanto, Quenya, Orc
Pronounced: Dïefurgonthênsièlfënmatchbrongoûnderfragtèn
Meaning: Polite, Nobel Prize awarded, good person, handsome, strong, intelligent. The name is used by prophets when they want to call someone that is going to rule the world under a golden age of wisdom and peace. SoH 'oH vaj teblu'ta' vo' SoH 'ach SoH chenmoHta' jIH [smile]
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@unknownuser said:
SoH 'oH vaj teblu'ta' vo' SoH 'ach SoH chenmoHta' jIH
@unknownuser said:
you am so full forth you but you made I
I am sorry, but I only studied klingon for two years at the galactic academy and I don't fully understand your sentence
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yup, I used that one, it seems like their database and translator needs more work.
That was supposed to say "you are so full of yourself, but you made me smile".
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David . . Heberew. .. Beloved of God
Hunter . . .Um . ..no idea. Any thoughts?It's ironic. Im a pacifist. don't like the guns.
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@solo said:
Damn! everyone has some cool meaning, mine is a dull boring friggin ROCK.
Pete the rock ... jeez!
Here I am blocking traffic.
Pete .. . That is the Coolest. The Bible calls Peter**--THE ROCK
**or his Greek Name . ..Cephas. that's coolPierre
Pedro
Pietro
Pere
ПётрGood Name. . .Beats the heck outta Dwayne. . .(apologies to any Dwayne's out there)
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"Peter, you are the rock on which I shall build my church..."
A quote from Christ (read the Bible) that was a pretty good pun, but it has lost all of its humour in the English translation !
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One could get into a whole religious debate about Christ said in Matthew 16:13-16, but suffice it to say. . .Pete. . .It's a good Name.
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Yes, Pete. You could have been called Cuthbert. It might mean couth and bright, but that's pretty poor compensation...or Everard "hard (strong) as a wild boar"...big deal.
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My first name is pretty self-explanatory, but my surname (Barkess) is Dutch or Norse I believe. The spelling has changed a lot over the centuries: Barcus, Barkas, Barkass are all evident somewhere on the family tree, but it is definitely distinct from "Barker", a well-known English name which is derived from either Middle English (tanner of leather), Old French (shepherd), High German (man who lived on a mountain) or modern English (man who sells fork handles).
It's fairly common in a small area in the north of England, Tyne and Wear, but almost unheard of elsewhere- I think there's less than 10 individuals with the name Barkess in my homeland Scotland and I'm pretty sure I'm the only one in Sweden. Having said that, I was told that it meant the skipper of a canal barge in Dutch and "barkass" means a longboat in modern Swedish so it's possible it was originally a Nordic name. Either way, I believe the name first appears in the North of England only about 400 years ago so there's no vikings on my father's side, but my mother's family was from the North of Scotland in Aberdeenshire where many vikings "settled" so you never know, maybe Sweden is my homeland after all.
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