What's in a name?

[smile86]

1. My mum wanted a girl and was going to call me after her grandmother. When i turned out to be a boy, she used her grandfathers name instead. I don't have middle name, and i think my name sounds best without one since my surname is quite long.

2. Apparently Richard's are brave

3. I like my name just fine, it's quite a common name but there are loads of nicknames for it so it's ok. most people call me richie, but i don't mind being called richard either...just not dick!

4. I go by my fist name surprisingly enough, although recently a lot of my mates have started calling me Mac, from my surname.

 

[nsguy2]

1. Not named after anyone.

2. Nobleman.

3. Indifferent. I didn't choose and to me it's just a name.

4. Second name

 

[PreTTy PeTe]

i like the greek way

everyone has the same name

this is my cousin george, and this is my cousin george and this is my cousin george etc

but then you can remember everyones name

 

[Swellegant]

1. I was named after my father. My father was named after his biological father. Nobody knows who named him.

2. Robert=Red Beard or Bright Beard (Teutonic); Eugene=Well-born (Greek).

3. I do not like either of my names and never have. Neither has any panache, as far as I'm concerned.

4. My first name is by far the lesser of two evils... though I do wish I could find some easy non-bitchy way to get people to stop trying to call me "Bob." That drives me absolutely bugfucky.

 

[PreTTy PeTe]

^hey BOB

hows it hanging

 

[G-Lexington]

1. I'm named after a very distant relative, although I'm fairly convinced my parents chose it because it went well with my (older) brother's name.

2. It means "strong and manly". Funny.

3. I was never crazy about my first name, and I especially never liked my middle name. I'm not sure why, since I have no problem with either name on OTHER people - just not on me.

4. Neither.

Lex

 

[Críostóir]

2. First name (Christopher [Chris]) means "bearing Christ."

People always do this: they translate only the second part of 'Christophoros'. But 'Christos' means 'the anointed [one]'. For those of us who know that many people were anointed before Jesus of Nazareth was even born, or even prophesied to be born, this translation seems incomplete!

'Christopher' (or, in Irish, Críostóir) means "bearer of the anointed." And 'anointed' literally means "oiled"...

So oil up and ride me!

 

[Críostóir]

1. I'm not named after anyone in particular. My parents just liked the name. They were unaware that there was a famous Elizabethan of my first and last name. (Now everyone can figure out my whole name, but probably won't bother, and besides I don't care.)

2. "Bearer of the Anointed, Son of the Devotee of the Great Cat." Yes, it really does. Irish (in this case Anglo-Irish) names are funny.

3. I've come to like my first name, since I figured out the material in my previous post. I DON'T like having it shortened, and before that I thought that 'Christopher' was a pretty embarrassing name for a Wiccan Priest, but I've gotten over myself since then! My middle name is so empty and pointless that I don't use it and am thinking of deleting it legally, except that it's really not worth the trouble.

4. I go by my first name, and by many others depending on who's talking to me. No one ever calls me by my middle name, and few know what it is. [Hint: even when I tell them what it is, they still don't think they know.]

 

[luckotheirish]

People always do this: they translate only the second part of 'Christophoros'. But 'Christos' means 'the anointed [one]'. For those of us who know that many people were anointed before Jesus of Nazareth was even born, or even prophesied to be born, this translation seems incomplete!

'Christopher' (or, in Irish, Críostóir) means "bearer of the anointed." And 'anointed' literally means "oiled"...

Thanks for the extra info!!

I had only read what was in the link from the original post

Means "bearing Christ", derived from Late Greek Χριστος (Christos) combined with φερω (phero) "to bear, to carry". Christopher was the legendary saint who carried the young Jesus across a river. He is the patron saint of travellers. Another famous bearer was Christopher Columbus, the explorer who reached the West Indies in the 15th century.

So oil up and ride me!

Ride? Mmmmmm. Only if you anoint me with the oil.

My place or yours??

 

[Críostóir]

Ride? Mmmmmm. Only if you anoint me with the oil.

My place or yours??

We'll do the Egyptian ritual called "The Anointing of the Bodily Openings." Then an even more ancient ritual!

 

[angedelune]

1. Gabriel - not named after anyone, I was born with it. :-{
2. Gabriel = "strong man of God"
3. I love my name, i don't really like my middle name
4. Go by Gabriel - Destroyer of Worlds, Savior of Puppies, God of towels

 

[Críostóir]

4. Go by Gabriel - Destroyer of Worlds, Savior of Puppies, God of towels

And of course there's that song from Anything Goes.

 

[luckotheirish]

We'll do the Egyptian ritual called "The Anointing of the Bodily Openings."

Likes the sound of that. Can we use flavored oil???

Then an even more ancient ritual!

Yeah!! I like learning about history.

 

[LarsVenice]

1. I was named after my father and was therefore a "Junior". However, since I hated both names, I changed them when I was 23. I didn't like my father either, and so I resented being named after him. Also, he expected me to grow up in his image, which obvious did not happen.

2. My chosen name, Lars, is the Scandinavian version of "Laurence", which means "from Laurentum". Laurentum was a city south of Rome known for its laurel trees.
My middle name means "ruler of the people".

3. Do you like your name (first, middle)? I like my chosen ones - not the ones given at birth.

4. Do you go by your first or middle name? First. It's a rare name outside of Germany/Scandinavia, and so it's easy for people to remember and not confusing at restaurants when waiting for a table.

 

[tx_doc]

1. Are you named (first, middle) after anyone in particular - relative, family friend, celebrity? First name after a Biblical character (as most of all of my siblings and I are), middle name after my father's uncle.

2. What does your name mean, if anything? http://www.behindthename.com/
Beloved, fortunate

3. Do you like your name (first, middle)? Like my first, hated my middle as a kid (indifferent now)

4. Do you go by your first or middle name? go by my first.

 

[Marbas]

1. Are you named (first, middle) after anyone in particular - relative, family friend, celebrity? Both of my middle names are my grandfathers' names.

2. What does your name mean, if anything? 'Meaning unknown'.

3. Do you like your name (first, middle)? I don't particularly like any of them.

4. Do you go by your first or middle name? I've used all of them at various points in my life, although for most of my twenties and thirties I used a totally made-up name.

 

[The_Reaper]

1. Are you named (first, middle) after anyone in particular - relative, family friend, celebrity?

2. What does your name mean, if anything? http://www.behindthename.com/

3. Do you like your name (first, middle)?

4. Do you go by your first or middle name?

1.) My first name is unique to the family, whilst my middle name is my father's birth name. He goes by a slang term of it as his first name, but I have it as my middle.

2.) First Name: Scott: From a surname which meant "Scotsman" in Old English. The original meaning of the word Scot is debated, but it may mean "tattoo", so given because Scotsmen often had tattoos.

Middle Name: Gerald: From a Germanic name meaning "rule of the spear", from the element ger "spear" combined with wald "rule". This name was brought to Britain by the Normans

3.) My first name is ok, my middle name I hardly use, and my last name is ridiculously long (11 letters...Which makes my entire name 22 letters long.)

4.) First name of course...I never understood the pattern of using your middle name first...Perhaps one day I'll just go by my initials.

 

[luckotheirish]

1.)
3.) My first name is ok, my middle name I hardly use, and my last name is ridiculously long (11 letters...Which makes my entire name 22 letters long.)

I know what you mean about the long name^. My complete first, middle, and last names total 25 letters (11 in my first). On forms where you're required to fill in your full name in "block-limited" spaces, there's never enough room and my first name always ends up truncated.

So I get junk mail addressed to "Christop" or "Christophe" all the time. Telemarketers will call and ask to speak to "Christop" or "Christophe" and I will politely and truthfully reply that "There's no one here by that name."

 

[Críostóir]

I know what you mean about the long name^. My complete first, middle, and last names total 25 letters (11 in my first). On forms where you're required to fill in your full name in "block-limited" spaces, there's never enough room and my first name always ends up truncated.

So I get junk mail addressed to "Christop" or "Christophe" all the time. Telemarketers will call and ask to speak to "Christop" or "Christophe" and I will politely and truthfully reply that "There's no one here by that name."

Not surprisingly, I've had identical experiences (though I now keep a "spam phone" that they all call, never suspecting that nothing's hooked up to it).

When I was a kid, first name fields were often SIX letters. That caused some embarrassment on the first day of school, as you can imagine! That's when I started going by 'Xopher' (X as in Xmas) part of the time. My parents and some friends still call me that sometimes (I pronounce it ZOE-fur, but some say ECKS-a-fur).

 

[Marbas]

^
Mine's bigger than yours.

My full name is 27 letters long.