If..Else Log

620 Responses to “A brief history of names”

1. Zach Inglis January 15th, 2006 1:11 am

   My full name is: Alasdair Zachary Hamilton Inglis

   Alasdair after another family member, Scottish spelling.
   Zachary, no reason.
   Hamilton is the name of my grandfather and my dad and 3 brothers all have the same third name as me.
   Inglis, now this is Geographical. We are a Scottish family and I presume my ancestors were English and moved into Scotland and thus Inglis(which was Scottish for English I beleive)

2. Phu January 15th, 2006 1:42 am

   That’s interesting; is there any reason why you’ve taken Zach as your personal name instead of Alasdair?

   Incidentally, there’s a town in Scotland called Hamilton (named after the family or vice versa?).

3. lr January 15th, 2006 2:20 am

   Very interesting. So, my surname would be Patronymic: Robyn’s son (though *I’m* a gal) and - yes - lines up with the teeny English line of the family tree, though to look at me, you’d know right away the strong genes were Scottish (the maternal surname aka Proudfoot).

   And the first, a variant of Lorraine, a province - a relative’s nickname which became my name. (Hint: It’s not Laura.) But, that’s cool because it means “victorious”.

   So… this all reminds me that I’m a Scottish-Irish-English-French-German-American (in that order) mutt. :)

4. jmweirick January 15th, 2006 3:26 am

   My full name is James Micah Weirick.

   James-after my grandfather, means “supplanter”
   Micah-after the prophet, mean “who is like God”
   Weirick-Americanized German name coming from the German words for “war” and “power”

   I especially like my middle name.

5. Zach Inglis January 15th, 2006 3:59 am

   Phu,

   Everyone in my family are called by their second names. The idea was if we didn’t like our names we could fall back on our first, although that works the other way around, go figure. I prefer Zach over Alasdair but am not thrilled about either though.

   As for Hamilton, I don’t know,

6. Joe Philipson January 15th, 2006 4:31 am

   I have to say, very, very, interesting article on names. My name is Joseph David Philipson. My father’s name is David Joseph Philipson and my Grandfather’s name is Joseph Philipson (I don’t know his middle name) My Aunt’s and uncles are Jean, Alice, and David. My grandmas name is Amy. My brother’s name is Danny and Jimmy and Andrew.

   The first born’s in the family, like me, get either Joseph David Philipson, or David Joseph Philipson, depending on what their dad has. So my first son’s name will be David Joseph Philipson. Otherwise, everyone elses name in the family will start with either an A, J, or D. Initials are usually all the same in my family. David Philipson, my great great (not sure how many greats) was and American Rabbi who took part in creating Reformed Judiaism. Wierd huh?

7. Inside Joe’s Head » Blog Archive » A brief history of names January 15th, 2006 4:34 am

   […] Found the article ‘A brief history of names’ and thought it was very intersting. Read it, digest it, learn from it. Just kidding. […]

8. Koray January 15th, 2006 5:15 am

   Koray Alexander Ataman.

   Both Koray and Ataman play to the turkish side of my family, my father’s side. Koray meaning Ember Moon, and Ataman being a family name. I know it has it’s root in a rank, commander or some such. But I am not entirely sure. A shame I know.

   Koray, pronounced properly, is “Core - Eye”. But growing up American, it became pronounced the same as “Corey”. I never really protested, because I like Corey better. So it stuck.

   Alexander on the other side, is a family name from my mother’s side. The Scottish side.

   Great article by the way.

9. Dana January 15th, 2006 7:19 am

   Interesting information- thanks for sharing.

10. tolak January 15th, 2006 9:02 am

    Single names are also common in Indonesia.

11. Bystander January 15th, 2006 12:43 pm

    What about African-Americans who had their names changed by the slave owners and are basically left without a trace of their family lineage?

12. Chris January 15th, 2006 12:48 pm

    Ok, that was a ton of info. Now, I have questions. :) Why on earth do Asians (chinese, vietnamese, japanese, all the -eses) go about switching your names hither and thither? It’s completely baffling. If the convention in your ancestral country is to write and present your name a certain way then why not present it that way to the West? I really don’t see the need to go switching things all over the place.

    It’s not that difficult for me to be introduced to a person of Asian descent, hear their name, do the math in my head, and figure out that I shouldn’t call every Chinese person I meet, Lee.

    So, when we call you Phu, we’re actually calling you by your generational name, then? What happens when we meet your siblings? Dinner with the Ly Family must get crazy when a westerner has to ask a Phu to pass the potatoes.

    Next, would you prefer that we just call you Cuong? Or should we just stick with Phu until we meet your siblings? Am I a barbaric westerner when I meet your folks and say “Phu’s pretty hot on the web” and they look at me like I’m trying to accost your sister? It’s all very confusing. Definite head popping material.

    Now, to add to what you mentioned about names. There’s a reason there are so many O’Brians in the world. In Irish family names the O’ means “of”. So, someone named O’Brian is of Brian. Now, there can’t be that many Brians can there? No. Specifically there was one Brian that everyone likes to claim they’re of. Brian Boru the first Ard Righ (could be totally misspelling that) of Ireland. Basically meant High King that united the tribes a long damn time ago. Everyone wants to be of him.

    Now, this post, believe it or not, was much longer but I figured I was taking up too much room so I left the analysis of my own name to my site. Not to whore myself too much but here’s a link to that: What’s in a name?

13. Phu January 15th, 2006 1:28 pm

    Just call me Phu:) What I meant to say (and I should have been clearer) was that a bit of a cockup was made and my generation name instead of my actual personal became used.

    “Dinner with the Ly Family must get crazy when a westerner has to ask a Phu to pass the potatoes.”

    No big deal; everyone just calls me Phu in that instance:)

    “If the convention in your ancestral country is to write and present your name a certain way then why not present it that way to the West? I really don’t see the need to go switching things all over the place.”

    Once again, it’s pragmatism. It’s just easier and more convenient to present a name in a familiar system.

14. Phu January 15th, 2006 1:30 pm

    “What about African-Americans who had their names changed by the slave owners and are basically left without a trace of their family lineage?”

    That’s actually a good point; in fact, I’d also failed to mention information on how family names are inherited.

    Maybe, a part two is in order:)

15. Joe January 15th, 2006 4:21 pm

    Nice…

16. Devlin Palmer January 15th, 2006 6:29 pm

    My name is Devlin William Palmer. (Palmer Devlin William? :P), Devlin means ‘bravery’, and is Irish, I’m not quite sure what William means, but ‘Palmer’s were those who fanned Jesus with palm leaves.

    There’s much more to a name than just what you address someone, and you can tell a lot about someones history from it. I also believe that, for example, if a persons name means ‘wise’, that they .. are wise, and it’s not just a name given to them by their parents, but your name defines your personality, or vice versa. :S

17. Tore Darell January 15th, 2006 11:00 pm

    Very interesting read. I find etymology in general quite interesting.

    First name Tore, derived from the name of the Norse god Thor (or Tor, as we call him). Family name Darell, I have no idea about that. Supposedly, my family’s been traced back to France a long time ago.

18. Rodrigo January 16th, 2006 1:05 am

    In portuguese speaking countries it goes like this: forename, mother’s family name, father’s family name. In Portugal, it’s very common to take two family names from each parent in order to please the grandparents (except if you want to please the greatgrandparents to, and then things get really messy). And when you are a girl and get married you usually get a couple of your husband’s family names as well. For extra fun, almost everybody has two forenames, so you can easily end up with forename1, forename2, momma’s mom surname, momma’s dad surname, daddy’s mom surname, daddy’s dad surname, sweety’s daddy’s mom surname, sweety’s daddy’s dad surname.
    My parents being anti-bourgeois revolutionaries before turning into bourgeois themselves, I just got 3 names and two of them are basically the same: so I got Rodrigues (son of Rodrigo) from my father, Eliseu (that would be Elisha, your old style, fire-throwing, river-parting, dead-people-raising, enemies-mass-blinding miracle worker from the old testament) from my mother and Rodrigo for myself.
    Every Rodrigo in the world is named after Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, el Cid Campeador, a 11th century warlord widely celebrated for his butchering of moors during the Iberian Reconquista. My father claims I was named after the original 8th century Rodrigo, the visigoth king that after piercing his antecessors eyeballs, raping an ally’s daughter and doing everything he possibly could to turn every christian and jew in the peninsula against him, ended up losing it to the above mentioned moors (duh!). Etimologically speaking, Rodrigo has its roots in the germanic for “rich in glory”, even though it seems every important Rodrigo in History was a major asshole.

19. Matt Schinckel January 16th, 2006 1:16 am

    Hey Zach, my middle name is Hamilton too! This is also a family name - my father, uncle and nephew all have this as their middle names. It was also my paternal grandmother’s middle name, and was her father’s first name.

    And, the irony for me is that I went away to boarding school in a town called Hamilton. Where my nephew, whose name is Jack Hamilton Lewis, now lives.

    And, there is a Hamilton in Scotland. There’s also one in Western Victoria (Australia), and North Island (New Zealand). I suspect there’s a couple more around as well.

20. Osman J A Khan January 16th, 2006 10:06 pm

    Thats the most concise blog I’ve read in a while! Also one of the more informative :-)

    My full name is Osman Jahangeer Arif Khan, the “Jahangeer” part being a national sports hero (squash player) and the “Arif” part being my dad’s name. Conversely, my sister has mum’s name in her name.

    Unconventional, perhaps, but makes things more interesting!

    Once again, great post!

    *links to it straight away* :-)

21. Anderson January 16th, 2006 10:40 pm

    My great great grandmother was named Matilda Anderson. Her mom’s maiden name was Boid. She named her kid Anderson Boid Collins. My mom named me Anderson Boyd after him. So basically, I have three last names. I go by Andy, though. I guess my kid would be Andersonson? MacAnderson? Andergrandson?

22. molly January 17th, 2006 1:03 am

    Very interesting, and I’ll add a tidbit: my last name is Maguire, seemingly Irish–and so it is, but it contains the history of Ireland within it. The Ma = Mac, meaning: son of. The -guire is the interesting part: it is derived from: aguirre, or: farmer in Spanish. How did that happen? Long ago, the Vikings sailed down to Spain to capture slaves to work in Ireland’s bogs, and the rest is history & nomeclature. The Spanish slaves are also the source of the “black Irish” look of pale skin, light eyes and black hair (my mother).

23. Tom January 17th, 2006 1:35 am

    My first name and middle names are unremarkable for a person of my descent (Anglo-Saxon-ish) but it’s my last name that interests me - as with many people with Scottish heritage, the name comes not entirely from the family but from the clan - in this case clan Creighton (or Crichton, depending on your spelling).

    I find it very interesting to trace the lineage back, as the clan Creighton was (apparently) part of clan Stuart, that of Mary, Queen of Scots. Interesting stuff and an interesting post.

24. Beth January 17th, 2006 11:24 am

    Not a generational name, rather a geographical name….

    My friend’s father is Indian, and apparently in his village in India all of the women have Khor (princess) as a middle name and all of the men have Singh (tiger). Their family has followed this tradition.

25. Bill January 17th, 2006 8:58 pm

    Very informative and interesting. I have had an interest in the what, whys and where of names for as long as I can remember. I think I first became interested because of my name…
    William Owen Funston……very Anglo-Saxon Isle name….

    Reverse Order: (=nickname)

    My 9 yr old Son : William Owen Funston (Will)

    Me : William Owen Funston (Bill)

    MY FATHER : William Owen Funston (Bill JR) [imagine the fun we had when I was a boy living at home and someone would phone for Bill or William Funston, I’d say “This is Bill”, they’d say “no your dad”, I’d say “Oh you want Junior” they :”no your dad” “Oh Junior…” “no your dad”, and so on - we had alot of fun with it)

    Grandpa : William Owen Funston (Billy)

    Great Grandpa : Rolla William Funston (William JR)

    Great Great Grandpa : William Owen Funston (William SR)
    There are more going back, but not this close in order.

    When my wife and I applied for our first home loan, the credit report showed that I had paid off a loan in 1949 for a couch and a washer & dryer loan in 1960…..I WAS BORN IN 1959!!

    The middle name Owen….my grandfather said it originated because “you come from a long line of poor people, the Funston’s were always ‘Owin’ (owing) somebody” :-)

    I guess the generational naming system was over our heads!!

    My 2 cents worth,
    Bill

26. Laura Bora January 17th, 2006 10:22 pm

    My name is Laura Elizabeth Sanger.

    My mother named me Laura because she loved that name, it was a character in a book called “White Birds Flying”…I like that it means “Victorious” - the original meaning was “laurel” but Romans used laurel wreaths to crown their victors, so voila.

    My middle name was a nod to my father’s favorite Aunt, and my mother wanted a biblical name. My siblings all have biblical middle names.

    My father said my last name is a German name that goes way back. We’re also a long line of musicians. My great grandfather was a musician on an ocean cruiser when WW1 broke out and he decided to stay in New York City rather than go back to Germany. It is said my great-grandfather changed the spelling from von Saenger (with umlats over the a!) to just Sanger to appear less Germanic. “Von” is akin to “van” in the Netherlands. Like Mac or O’ or Fitz.

    I loved this article!

27. Mea Culpa » links for 2006-01-18 January 18th, 2006 2:22 am

    […] A brief history of names A small history of names and their meanings and usefulness. (tags: culture history) Tags […]

28. David January 18th, 2006 3:15 pm

    I learned from a Japanese friend that often their names are chosen based on the number of “parts” in the symbol(s). Appartently, they try to avoid unlucky numbers.

29. cory alan January 19th, 2006 4:36 am

    cory–high rock wall/headland–also U shaped valley,typically glacial.Modern english circe a glacial valley headwall. Gaelic Cwm. American natives frequently were renamed 2or3 times after accomplishments ie ‘rides the buffalo calf’ might become ‘crazy horse’. sometimes names were handed down so old’crazy horse’would change to ‘worm’ and his son become ‘crazy horse’. One historian thought because chief Washikee of thebannocks was 40+ in1813 he must of been old when he led braves to battle in 1876… hello..his son duh

30. David January 20th, 2006 2:43 am

    Phu, you are going to love this. My last name is Peralty. That name is really meaningless since my father’s brother’s last name is Perralty, and my father’s sister’s last name is Perraulte. My grandfather’s last name was Perralte.

    The origin of my last name does have some history though. As far as we can tell, my granfather, who died when my dad was young, came to Canada escaping being a slave in the US (he was African American). When he came, he took on what was probably a French last name (we don’t know what his real last name was).

    Unfortunately, he was illiterate, and thus when his children were born, and he was asked their last name, he said it allowed and asked others to spell it, which meant that different people, spelled it different ways for each of his children.

    So really, my last name is completely meaningless, though pretty unique.

31. Hyde January 20th, 2006 6:38 am

    I had my name changed because I disliked it as a whole — and so, I’d not post it here. I changed it to “Edward Hyde”, as in, “The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde”. I could’ve gone with “Henry Jekyll”, but “Jekyll” is supposed to be pronounced “gee-kill” and I didn’t like the sound of that. Honestly, I don’t like the name “Edward”, I usually insist on being referred to as “Hyde”.

    Though, my #1 interest is in word and name etymologies — I spend a lot of time looking up the etymologies and meanings of names and words, so, it’s rather ironic that I didn’t choose a name with some kind of “meaning” that I liked…

    I changed my middle name to “Almasy”, just because “Almasy” is a name that sounds good with pretty much everything. It’s got a natural flow to it.

    I’d include the meanings of the names, but, they’re all rather common, so, they’d be easy to find out.

32. drac January 20th, 2006 2:01 pm

    That was a fascinating read - thanks for tying all the pieces together.

    My mother’s side of the family is big on naming siblings with a pattern.

    A common theme with my cousins, for example, is that siblings are given a forename with the same initial letter. So, I have four cousins whose name begins with a D, and two more with first names starting with N, two more who have S fore names and so on. (Yeah, large family, lots of cousins)

    In my own family though, it’s slightly weirder.
    My three elder sisters are all named after flowers :) In my native language, that means the three forenames all end with -mal (mal -> flower)

    When I was born (so the story goes), my parents were racking their brains for another -mal name for me, so they could preserve the pattern. Then one of my cousins apparently said - hey, he has three sisters, why not call him “three flowers” ?

    So, my first name ends with -mal, as do my sisters - and it translates to “three flowers” :) - thimal

    My middle name is the same as my maternal grandfather’s first name. All the male cousins on my mother’s side have my maternal grandfather’s name as a middle name. We never knew him, though - my grandfather died 50 years ago this year.

33. Joe Philipson January 21st, 2006 2:46 am

    All very interesting…I’m glad I’m subscribed to this post…

34. Anonymous January 23rd, 2006 3:03 am

    [Comment removed at the behest of the author]

35. Soo January 25th, 2006 11:26 am

    Hi That’s one great post! I come from India, where most names are derived from Sanskrit - which is a dead language, though people still study it. Usually for Hindus it’s first name and last name. The last names were derived from the Vedic times - that’s 1500 BC - and no one really remembers what they mean! :)
    Anyway, my parents had many aspirations for me and they chose to call me my first name, which means “good girl”. I tell you, it’s difficult to live up to it! My sister’s name means “dusk” as she was a dark skinned baby. Other names are usually after gods, and the Hindus have a million gods in their celestial universe!

36. Wendell January 26th, 2006 2:17 pm

    Great post. Adding to your Mongolian point — you noted the recent move to re-establish family names there. I lived there for 2 years and I certainly experienced the confusion! Most Mongols still use a sort of patronymic to distinguish one Altantsetseg from another, ie “Dorjiin Batbold” would mean literally Dorj’s Batbold, Dorj being the father.

    Given names in Mongolia are fascinating. Many express desirable qualities like Batbaatar (steel hero) or Bayarmaa (wealth). They also draw on Tibetan names like Dorj due to the shared Yellow Cap Buddhist religious tradition (a Mongolian khan appointed the first Dalai Lama, by the way).

    One fascinating tidbit is that traditionally Mongolians don’t name kids until they are like 18 months old — once they are sure the kid will survive. And they sometimes give names to avoid attracting attention of evil spirits. One name is “Nergui” which means literally “no name”, designed to avoid such attentions. Another is “Terbish”, which means “not this one.”

    Your discussion of Chinese names is interesting, I didn’t know about generational names. Japanese don’t have any middle names, just familyname/givenname. An interesting aside is that most Japanese were not allowed to even have family names till the Meiji era in the 19th century. When forced to come up with family names, many used simple geographical things, which is why names like Tanaka (middle of the field) or Yamashita (under the mountain) are so common.

37. Boro Bob January 26th, 2006 5:08 pm

    In response to Tom Creighton, it might interest you to know that clan Creighton is alive and well. The clan chief is a guy called Dave Creighton (I used to know him at university), and he lives in a castle in Crieff, just west of Perth in Scotland. I was told (though this may be wrong) that under Scottish law, he has the right to demand fealty money from any member of the clan!

38. Anna February 1st, 2006 3:42 pm

    Great post - originally visited your site for Web design inspiration but stayed for this article - very good.

    Just thought I’d drop you a line to mention that in Wales we also have an intermediate between the first and family names: ap, which roughly equates to ’son of’. For example a boy’s name might be Gwilym ap Dafydd, which would translate into English as William Davidson.

    It can also change to ‘ab’ with the frustrating (to the learner) habit of Welsh to mutate almost at random…!

39. Tom February 12th, 2006 7:33 am

    Dammit, quality posts like this are just way too rare. Keep it up!

    As for my name, it’s Tom Maisey. Maisey is a name that came over to England with the Normans in 1066 - in fact I once visited a village in Northen France called Maisey. They gave me a free pint in the pub, sweet.

40. Anonymous February 13th, 2006 2:27 pm

    Hey Zach, my middle name is Hamilton too! This is also a family name - my father, uncle and nephew all have this as their middle names. It was also my paternal grandmother’s middle name, and was her father’s first name.

    And, the irony for me is that I went away to boarding school in a town called Hamilton. Where my nephew, whose name is Jack Hamilton Lewis, now lives.

    And, there is a Hamilton in Scotland. There’s also one in Western Victoria (Australia), and North Island (New Zealand). I suspect there’s a couple more around as well.

41. drew February 14th, 2006 2:21 pm

    I’m a nigerian (which also makes me an african for people who don’t know). I actually have 7 names that i know of. Traditionally, during naming ceremonies, everyone that’s of importance in the family gives the new born a name. Grandparents on both sides, your parents, and any other ‘elder’ in the house.
    As I can’t fit all my names on a birth certificate, I’m known by Andrew Oluwatoyin umotosho.

    Andrew - because my parents are christians

    Oluwa-to-yin - ‘Oluwa’ means God, ‘to’ means worthy, ‘yin’ means praises. All together, God is worth praising/praises. Apparently, I was born inspite of complications, and if that’s not worth praising God about, i don’t know what is.

    Omotosho - My surname, ‘Omo’ means a child, ‘to’ means worthy, ‘osho’ means treasure. All together, A child is worth treasuring or a child is as worthy as any treasure

    The favorite part of my many names though is something called ‘oriki’. My oriki name is Akande. This is hard to explain. But this is sort of my endearing name. Oriki roughly translated means ‘to psyche someone up, to build someone up, to incite someone’. I like oriki for this reason…whenever I see my grandmother, i greet her, and she greets me, but she doesn’t stop at the ‘hello my son, how are you doing’, she starts with my oriki and goes on and on for about a minute, about my ancestors, and my lineage. Something like ‘Akande, omo ekun, omo ile ofele….’ This means something like ‘Akande, the son of a lion, the son that hails from the house of ofele…’. I wish I knew the rest, but it goes on and on. Whenever I hear this I feel like I’m a heavyweight boxer that’s making an entrance into the ring, and the announcer is going through the list of people that I’ve defeated. It’s awesome!, and it never gets old, needless to say, my head swells, metaphorically speaking ;-p

42. Moaki Critchlow-Castro February 15th, 2006 1:11 am

    Names are a fascinating subject as they are one of the first factual items that people can relate to you… it has often struck me how people relate to me because of my name…it seems to incite intrigue and questioning.

    My first name was made up for me by my father as both of my parents wanted me to have a unique and unusual name..this was one of the greatest gifts I have ever been given..for myself as an individual and in life.

    The basis was Native American Indian names as the cherokee called the Hopi tribe the ‘Moki’(the Protectors of Peace) this was co-joined with ‘chi’ from the east with the association of its ‘life force’ meaning and is pronounced Mo’uh’key (the literary spelling and phonetic pronounciation are different which confuses some - especially in english as’a'is a hard sound.)

    Critchlow comes from anglo-scot decent and Castro from my Andalucian Grandfather. Jemma is my middle name - the simple reasoning here that my mothers initials were AJC and my father DJC so I became MJCC!

    My first name I am very proud of, and whilst I have found internet references to Moaki in Australasia, I have yet to meet another Moaki. I can say for certain that I am the only Moaki Critchlow-Castro alive in this world today, so out of the 6bn people that live on this planet I do feel truly unique.

    This has been an interesting topic to think about, and Thank you Phu as this site has reminded me about something so simple, yet so defining in my life.

43. João Craveiro February 16th, 2006 1:51 am

    Shame on me, I’ve been delaying an extensive reading of this post for one month now! It sure was worth it — I was quite surprised with that issue with the Mongolian abolition of surnames.

    As for me, my full name is: João Pedro Gonçalves Crespo Craveiro. In detail:
    - João is my father’s first name; fatefully, my sister is called Joana (the feminin for João — in Portugal, this João–Joana combination with siblings is incredibly common)
    - Pedro is my uncle’s (mother’s brother) second name
    (this would alternatively have been the other way around, making me António Manuel instead of João Pedro ;) )
    - Gonçalves Crespo is one surname only, and is from my mother’s side; used to have a circumflex on the ‘e’ (Crêspo), and comes from a well-known poet
    - Craveiro, from my father’s side; there’s already have been a President to my country with this surname. :)

44. Moshu February 21st, 2006 2:26 am

    Hungarians also have their names in the opposite order: family name - given name. E.g. while everybody in Canada expects to hear my name as Istvan Horvath, the original is Horváth István.
    And an insteresting addition to the etymology of family names: in Hungarian there is quite a huge group of ethnicity/people names, like Orosz (Russian), Tóth (Slovak), Rácz (Serbian), Németh (German), Olasz (Italian), Lengyel (Polish), Cseh (Czech), Oláh (Romanian), Görög (Greek), Török (Turkish) and, of course, my name Horváth (Croatian).
    I guess it’s due to the constant mixing with the neighbouring ethnic groups since the time we arrived from Central Asia - cca. 800-900 AD :)

    And a side note for “Hyde” above: Almasy (alt. Almásy, Almási, Almássy) is a Hungarian family name: geographical, since “almás” = place with apple(trees) and -i is the suffix for adjective (like Toronto => Toronto-nian).

45. greer molseley March 2nd, 2006 3:30 am

    my name is greer moseley what does greer mean?

46. Oliver Lake March 24th, 2006 1:46 pm

    I have a question that is disturbing me.

    When people marry, the bride normally inherit’s her husbands surname. This often leads to her maiden name becoming extinct, assuming that she has no brothers to carry on the name.

    Assuming that we are constantly losing names, is it not the case that we will eventually end up with the same surname.

47. YGG April 1st, 2006 1:17 pm

    my name is Yves Georges (with an ’s’ in French) Marie Granger.
    ‘Yves’ is from brittany, it’s the Yew tree (sacred tree found in the graveyards, carries the decesed souls to heaven); Georges you explained; ‘Marie’ is for the ‘Holy Virgin’ I come from a very catholic family; ‘Granger’ is a function : ‘grange’ means ‘barn’ so ‘granger’ is the one who takes care of the barn…(supposed to close it _before_ the horse etc.) right.
    Some Grangers must have crossed over in 1066 with William the Bastard (later to become ‘the Conqueror’) because it’s a very common name in English speaking countries.

48. YGG April 1st, 2006 5:33 pm

    To : David (#30) — the name ‘Perrault’ is derived from ‘Pierre’ (=Peter) it’s a diminutive similar to ‘Pierrot’ litterally ‘little peter’.
    Phu, thanks for a great post & a great blog!

49. Dino April 17th, 2006 8:48 am

    Nice article with an interesting theme.
    My name is Dino Fahrudin Avdibegović, coming from Bosnia. Fahrudin is a name originating from Arab, meaning something like “stately”, “proud” and “lord-like”. The funny thing is that my family name reveales the “noble history” of my family, since “Avdibegović” means “son of Avdibeg”, where “beg” (or bey in English) means something like duke or chieftain. My family had large land properties in northern and central Bosnia under the Ottoman Empire. I got my name from my grandfather, the last official “beg”.

50. rimmi May 11th, 2006 11:18 am

    The basis was Native American Indian names as the cherokee called the Hopi tribe the ‘Moki’(the Protectors of Peace) this was co-joined with ‘chi’ from the east with the association of its ‘life force’ meaning and is pronounced Mo’uh’key (the literary spelling and phonetic pronounciation are different which confuses some - especially in english as’a’is a hard sound.)

51. lyn_fairless@hot mail.co.uk May 13th, 2006 9:46 pm

    can any one tell me where the surname Lazzarie comes from?

52. dudboi May 21st, 2006 2:43 am

    Chris wrote ” Why on earth do Asians (chinese, vietnamese, japanese, all the -eses) go about switching your names hither and thither? It’s completely baffling. If the convention in your ancestral country is to write and present your name a certain way then why not present it that way to the West? I really don’t see the need to go switching things all over the place.”

    See, now if we were to do that, then, based on Western interpretation, our names will get all mixed up. My name is Joel Kang Yi Han, so if I were to present that in a western society, I’ll end up having the first name of Kang, middle name of Yi, and surname of Han. But my surname is Kang, and I have two given names, Yi Han, and Joel (of which I prefer using the latter), neither of which are middle names. (This happens when you come from a family which is bilingual) I’d rather be called Mr Kang than Mr Han, because that would mean I’m from a different clan altogther. I mean, would you rather people call you Mr Chris?

    Thankfully for me, I have an English-type given name, so I use that, for some of my friends, it’s a lot easier to rearrange it such that people call your first name correctly, and not one half of your given Chinese name, which sometimes can come out pretty weird.

53. Dan June 3rd, 2006 1:25 am

    Greer is Celtic/Gaelic and means: watchful, guardian

54. YGG June 4th, 2006 5:13 pm

    To: Lyn_fairless
    ‘Lazzarie’ should come from the Hebrew name ‘Lazarus’ (From ‘Eleazarus’ = ‘God helped me’)

55. kathleen ann beckesh July 22nd, 2006 6:58 pm

    my mother was cherokee,Im half and was wondering what my indian name was,where i can find my reservation,she was from tenn.My granfather was 100%

56. Syed CAPUA July 31st, 2006 10:13 pm

    Dear Mr Ly Phu Cuong,

    This is Syed CAPUA. I have read your article “A Brief History of Names” with great deal of interest. Worth mentioning, the article was of great help to me at a time when I was looking for something like this.

    Currently I am doing a research to find out when and how human being first started naming themselves. I mean, by the record, when we first find human being with some names?

    Given the above, I would be grateful you referring me to online resources where I may find the answer to my aforementioned question. Also, I would be very happy to learn from you, if you have any answers yourself to my question.

    Best regards
    Capua
    capuas@yahoo.com

57. Moshu July 31st, 2006 11:16 pm

    It’s a question almost impossible to answer…
    http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/namehist.html

58. Elmina August 3rd, 2006 10:36 pm

    ive always wanted to know what my bosnian name means i hope i finaly find out

59. Moshu August 4th, 2006 3:22 am

    Elmina, I have to dissapoint you: there is nothing “Bosnian” in your name. It is of Teutonic origin and it means intimidating fame.

60. lisa August 16th, 2006 9:32 pm

    Phu, thanks for the great writeup on names. I’ve always wondered how the Asian names were supposed to be ordered.

    My name only has slight history. Lisa because my mom liked it, Lynne because my dad liked it (spelling because my grandpa instructed it. Thank god, or I’d have ended up with a man’s name) and Hightower as the family name.

    But, for the commenter who wondered what happened to the maiden names of families who have only girls, I think a lot of families do what we’ve done. My grandma had no brothers, and her family is first generation from Denmark. The last name is Jenson, which is there version of “Smith,” as it’s extreamly common. In fact, both my great grandparents had the same last name before they were married.

    Anyway. My brother’s middle name is Jenson to carry it on. He, my sister and I will give any male children we have the middle name Jenson to carry it forward. And really, I feel bad–sorta–for any future son I may have. He’ll be named Bradshaw Jensen Stidham, to carry forward all the names that have been lost to marriage. Bradshaw for the fiance, as it’s his middlename, Jenson for my family, and Stidham for the family name.

    Good thing we plan on calling him Brad.

61. princess August 19th, 2006 7:01 pm

    sorry

62. Anonymous August 26th, 2006 1:34 pm

    no i dont like this

63. Beau August 28th, 2006 8:04 am

    Hey Phu,
    Great Blog, I was just wondering if you or any of your visitors could direct me to a site that explains the use of suffixes like Sr. Jr. and Ordinals like 1st 2nd 3rd. etc Thanks, Beau

64. najma September 7th, 2006 6:00 pm

    i can not fand the five rolay family name

65. Tiara September 8th, 2006 9:50 pm

    I have heard of a website that contains indian reservation logs. If you have enough indian in your blood, then your name will be found on one of these lists. If your name is on a list, you are suppose to get money. Does n e one know the name of this site?

66. Ken Malone October 1st, 2006 11:02 am

    I am researching my family history.I have an ancestor (mid 19c),a female with the forename :-
    Reab or Rahab.
    Any idea of derivation,please?

67. amerette October 7th, 2006 5:43 am

    i would like to nsee what my name means and were it came from

68. Jeremiah Garcia October 17th, 2006 2:04 pm

    hey

69. Jeremiah Garcia October 17th, 2006 2:04 pm

    whats the backround to this name

70. Bradley Marvin Weatherhp;tz October 17th, 2006 5:31 pm

    what does this mean?

71. Curty October 29th, 2006 7:46 am

    Amazing article. I was actually very intreagued!

    My name is Curtis David Anderson.
    Curtis from “courteous.”
    David was my father’s name.
    I’m not sure about HOW we got Anderson (I would imagine because we came from some Andrew guy a long, long time ago) but the one S in the name indicates that my family Americanized when they immigrated from Europe.

    To add to your article, I have heard of quite a few instances in America, at least, in which families will give the father’s first name as the son’s middle name, while the first name will be totally random. Also, many girls I know share their middle names with their mothers, indicating some sort of commonality there as well.

72. sofie October 31st, 2006 11:55 am

    Hey,

    I really want to know the meaning of the second name: McCartney.
    I’m searching for it since a long time but I can’t find it.
    Please,can you help me?
    Can you send a mail please if you know it.
    And if you don’t, will you also send it then?

    Really thanks for helping me!!!!

    GReetz Sofie

73. eline October 31st, 2006 12:00 pm

    Hi,

    I’m searching for the name, Cassidy.
    Are you able to give me the meaning please?
    Please send a mail and let me know the meaning.

    I thank you to help me!!!

    Big kisses
    Eline

74. Gorg December 9th, 2006 8:57 pm

    Hi That’s one great post! I come from Polen, where most names are derived from Sanskrit - which is a dead language, though people still study it. Usually for Hindus it’s first name and last name. The last names were derived from the Vedic times - that’s 1500 BC - and no one really remembers what they mean! :)

75. Liz Carolina Scaburi January 22nd, 2007 10:09 pm

    Hi…
    I love my name! I think Liz comes from the flower. And my last name is Italian, but I don´t know what it means.

    ;)

76. Patrick Michael Nazim January 31st, 2007 1:08 am

    Hi I have question… My father was once on a trip and he met a man with the same exact last name as he did. The only thing was he was from Afghanistan and my father is from Poland. So here is my question how could two people whose ancestors lived so far apart have the same last name? Could we be related? Also it would be very nice if you could tell me the meaning of my name.

    Thank you

    Patrick Michael Nazim

    PS I’m Polish will my heritage make my name mean something different then?

77. McShane March 11th, 2007 5:19 pm

    What does this name mean, and where does it derive from?

78. Luceo March 17th, 2007 9:58 pm

    Thanks for a very clearly-written and absorbing article. If only everything on the internet was so informative! :)
    My name has given me moments of hilarity and/or grief my whole life, largely thanks to bureacracy. Family members have always called me by my double-barreled given name, but any paperwork demands I split it into ‘first’ and ‘middle’ names.
    To make matters worse, my mother’s maiden name happened to match my father’s surname. I realize this means somewhere back in misty time they have a common ancestor, but her ancestors had lived on the East coast for generations — at least as long as his ancestors had lived in central Canada.
    Still, years of bureacrats have assumed I’m either a) an idiot or b) inbred, just because what I print in the ‘Mother’s Maiden Name’ field is identical what I have to put the ‘Surname’ field. Great…

79. Nitisha April 5th, 2007 9:09 pm

    Hi..

    This is regarding a 2006 January post by someone named Soo. I am sorry to say your knowledge of your own culture sucks… Sanskrit as a language is very much alive and well… There is an entire area in South India that speaks Sanskrit as a first language… Also most Indian languages, especially south indian languages derive many words from the Sanskrit vocabulary… Not only that Sanskrit has German as one of her sister languages.. The grammar of the two languages is so similar that if you have learnt one, understanding the others is literally child’s play..

    Names in India are usually dependent on various factors: last names such as Sing/Kaur are religious dictates, names like “Patil” are derived from the job held by ancestors..Usually careers were family tradition… so a carpenter’s son was a carpenter and they ended up getting the last name “Sutar” meaning “Carpenter” or a goldsmith/jeweller may have the last name “Sonar”…In colonial times, servants usually ended up taking the names of their colonial masters when they converted to Christiantity, that is why the abundance of Johns, Josephs and D’Souza’s among Christians… so on and so forth..

    The tradition of taking a middle name was generally established in the British-era, when the British were boggled by so many common first and last names that they mended the system to include father’s of Husband’s first name as a middle name…

    First names are usually religious (gods names, places, specific traits etc.)…

    For Soo, with her lost Indian heritage, you need to know girl that Hindus have a ton of celestial creatures as gods and goddesses because Hinduism is a culture, not a religion…People worshipped nature and every aspect of it and therefore each element was considered holy…Because what today is considered a religion was actually a way of life, Hindus have been able to adapt and sustain through the ages…

    A lil history for ya…

80. anna April 15th, 2007 2:47 pm

    i just want to ask if someone can tell me the meaning of my name, its annalyn, i’ve search the net for it but it doesn’t have anything.. it has to broken into anna and lyn .. help me please.. tnx

81. helly avard April 21st, 2007 2:25 pm

    My forename is Helander. I have discovered this to be a Swedish surname. I would like to know what it means and if anyone else has this name for the first name. I have thoroughly enjoyed this sight and all the comments about names,thanks Phu

82. Sveta Celine Pais May 24th, 2007 2:12 am

    My name is Sveta Celine Pais. Currently residing in Austin, Texas, I am an Indian Catholic. Indian Catholics have family names that are Spanish / Portuguese sounding as when our ancestors converted to Catholicism, they usually took on the name of the priest who baptized them. My first name “Sveta” is derived from Sanskrit and means ‘pure’. My middle name is my grandmother’s first name, she is also my godmother.

    ANNALYN - I suggest you visit www.behindthename.com

83. second life 4 eva June 13th, 2007 10:26 am

    my last name is “partoki”, which seems to relate to the old-slavic word “patoča”: a dark brew - something like beer. so my antecedants must have been bohemian brewers or someting linke that… :)

84. junilyn August 20th, 2007 12:50 pm

    interesting info. thanks for sharing. my name is from JUN (my father) plus NIDA and just add lyn to make sound female.

85. Herb Craft August 27th, 2007 10:10 pm

    I have always been intrigued by the possibility that, one day, everyone be be named Lee.(or something)
    My reasoning is that in our culture, the female looses her family name upon marriage.
    If there is no male issue, that family name dies.
    But other than the few odd name-changers, no new names are regularly created.
    So, if names are only perpetuated or die, then there are going to be fewer and fewer different family names as time goes on.
    Your thots?

86. Janet September 9th, 2007 9:31 pm

    Looking for a name that means chosen one. Would appreciate any help you can give. Thank you.

87. Faris September 14th, 2007 2:23 pm

    Interesting piece. I have three piece of name, but no family name. My culture (that is javanese) don’t have family name. It confuses a lot of other culture, and make things rather complicated when writing forms, especially international ones. Maybe I would invent one or take my wife’s family name if I gt married.

88. Faris September 14th, 2007 2:23 pm

    Interesting piece. I have three pieces of names, but no family name. My culture (that is javanese) don’t have family name. It confuses a lot of other culture, and make things rather complicated when writing forms, especially international ones. Maybe I would invent one or take my wife’s family name if I gt married.

89. Mercedes September 17th, 2007 5:57 pm

    Hi!
    I am a student at a University in Costa Rica, Central America. I have been assinged with a presentation about “names”, and I was wondering if you could give me the history or meaning of 10 different latin-spanish names. Is that possible? If so, please let me know at my email address and I will send you the list! Thank you! merimamechux@hotmail.com

90. April September 29th, 2007 2:07 am

    Hi! I love names. Pho, I liked your article and all the interesting comments.

    It’s sweet to see how attached people are to their heritage and how comforting it is. (I’ll put in a plug for The Journey of Man” which gives a facinating look at our collective heritage as our ancestors wandered across the globe.)

    I’m April Allison Foiles
    The “April” because I was born in April on a sunny day. (It was going to be another name if it was a stormy day.)
    “Allison” is a family name going back several generations. My only female cousin has the same middle name.
    “Foiles” is Irish and Spanish and that’s pretty much all I’ve been able to find out. I never understood how it was both Irish and Spanish until I read the comment above, so thank you for the insight Molly!

    That must mean I have a little Spanish blood as I also have the black Irish look and have (surprisingly to me) had people in my new town think I am hispanic. I’ve also had someone think I was part Chinese which I think comes from my native American ancestor.)

    To Moaki who has a unique name: Foiles is a pretty uncommon name (I’ve never met a Foiles I wasn’t related to)and “April Foiles” is fairly uncommon because most parents aren’t such jokesters, so I thought I was the only one! until I recently found another one online. Drat! :)

91. darren lewis gregory October 4th, 2007 9:01 pm

    info on all names aaron jasmine

92. darren lewis gregory October 4th, 2007 9:05 pm

    info on all names aaron jasmine and Darren Lews Gregory

93. web tasarım October 15th, 2007 8:48 am

    All very interesting…I’m glad I’m subscribed to this post…

94. Meteko October 18th, 2007 8:44 am

    We chinese chose our names base on our zodiac, we love to associate our names to auspicous wording like luck, properity, gold etc.

95. Adrienne October 20th, 2007 9:04 pm

    Hello, Im searching for the true meaning and history of my name. I wounder if you may help me? Thanks for you time.
    Best regards, Adrienne

96. Rpge Freeman December 3rd, 2007 7:51 pm

    I think the history of names is fascinating. I really think that children that share the same name have more in common then how they are called. The parents had to choose the name and i would bet a lot that similar parents (ideas, valors..) would pick the same kind of names. It has a deep impact on a child behavior and how the name can mean a lot.

97. oyun December 18th, 2007 3:27 pm

    like you

98. Web Tasarım January 4th, 2008 10:36 am

    Would appreciate any help you can give. Thank you.

99. andy January 11th, 2008 2:05 pm

    can you tell me history and where it comes from the name is moffitt.

100. kız oyunları January 13th, 2008 10:05 am

     Like you

101. bedava oyunlar January 16th, 2008 3:19 am

     Thanks you

102. varmısın yokmusun January 16th, 2008 3:22 am

     Thanks you great

103. cooldown January 18th, 2008 1:03 pm

     Like you

104. Betsy January 19th, 2008 3:11 am

     My name is Elizabeth Jessie Molyneaux, but most people (except for family) call me Betsy. Elizabeth can be a bit long at times, and Betsy sounds more Scottish than Liz. I like to show off my Scottish roots!

     Jessie is a family name; at least one woman in every generation of my maternal grandmother’s family is named Jessie. It’s *very* Scottish.

     And Molyneaux comes, ironically, from the Irish part of my heritage. (We had French ancestors a very, very long time ago, but that is mostly wiped from family memory.)

     So that’s my name!

105. baidu January 22nd, 2008 8:48 am

     interesting info. thanks for sharing.
     i like it!

106. Usb flashdrive January 23rd, 2008 10:05 pm

     It’s very good article. Great site with very good look and perfect information.

107. automotive repair manual February 4th, 2008 3:29 pm

     Both Koray and Ataman play to the turkish side of my family, my father’s side. Koray meaning Ember Moon, and Ataman being a family name. I know it has it’s root in a rank, commander or some such. But I am not entirely sure. A shame I know.

     Koray, pronounced properly, is “Core - Eye”. But growing up American, it became pronounced the same as “Corey”. I never really protested, because I like Corey better. So it stuck.

     Alexander on the other side, is a family name from my mother’s side. The Scottish side.

     Great article by the way.

108. aydın kız öğrenci yurtları February 7th, 2008 3:15 pm

     thankss

109. Aşk şiirleri February 7th, 2008 7:11 pm

     Thank You for another very interesting article. So please try to keep up the great work all the time.

110. Atlanta Real Estate February 10th, 2008 4:07 am

     Very good post here. I found you while doing research about my family history. Nice blog with good information you have here.

111. radyo dinle February 16th, 2008 10:14 am

     We chinese chose our names base on our zodiac, we love to associate our names to auspicous wording like luck, properity, gold etc.

112. Forum February 17th, 2008 12:27 am

     thanks

113. sinema izle February 17th, 2008 2:09 am

     thank you.

114. bedava program February 18th, 2008 10:26 am

     Thanks.. good

115. Web Tasarım February 21st, 2008 11:38 am

     thanks your usefull article

116. web tasarım February 22nd, 2008 2:50 pm

     thank you.

117. google reklam February 22nd, 2008 2:52 pm

     thanks.

118. lazer epilasyon February 22nd, 2008 2:57 pm

     thank you

119. vitamin eksikliği February 22nd, 2008 3:02 pm

     thank you.

120. http://www.exdizayn.com February 25th, 2008 2:53 pm

     thanks

121. lil do March 18th, 2008 9:15 pm

     pls give me areason why u took zach as ur name instead of alasdair
     Incidently there is a town in scotland called hamillton was it named after your family zach!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!…

122. Missing DLL June 20th, 2008 11:10 pm

     My name is Liz and it comes from the flower :)

123. Free Fonts June 20th, 2008 11:15 pm

     I just downloaded the software and as you said, its pretty impressive. I think, it made into my top 10 list…

124. minikperi June 21st, 2008 12:33 am

     I have heard of a website that contains indian reservation logs. If you have enough indian in your blood, then your name will be found on one of these lists. If your name is on a list, you are suppose to get money. Does n e one know the name of this site?

125. google reklam June 21st, 2008 9:59 am

     thanks

126. google adwords reklam June 21st, 2008 10:04 am

     thanks

127. Oyun June 22nd, 2008 9:29 am

     very thanks for you

128. Okey June 22nd, 2008 9:32 am

     harika

129. sohbet June 22nd, 2008 7:02 pm

     thank you

130. Web Designer Hamburg June 26th, 2008 5:53 pm

     Nice article. Well done. Thanks.

131. araç kiralama June 30th, 2008 7:11 am

     I second that. pr10n, I would like to receive the list as well at info [at] whatstyle [dot] net.
     Thanks!

132. rent a car June 30th, 2008 7:12 am

     Thanks

133. cam filmi July 2nd, 2008 9:38 am

     thanks for article

134. Aşk şiirleri July 7th, 2008 9:38 pm

     Seocu Ferhat

135. Anonymous July 8th, 2008 1:24 pm

     In the American South it was a tradition to name the first son after his father and the second son after his mother’s father. For example, if the father’s name was Harold Alan Hatfield and the mother’s father’s name was Thomas Joseph McCoy, the first son would be Harold Alan Hatfield, Jr., and the second son would be Thomas McCoy Hatfield. Sorry about the unlikelihood of the example ;)

136. Sexe July 9th, 2008 5:20 pm

     Sexe is good in the navy ..

137. sohbet July 16th, 2008 11:35 pm

     thanks very good

138. oyun July 20th, 2008 3:18 am

     Thanks so much.

139. turkiye konut July 21st, 2008 8:16 am

     Türkiye Konut Emlak ve Konut Kredileri Mortgage Bilinçlendirme ve Tatil Portalı

140. Picture Frames July 22nd, 2008 7:25 am

     interesting read, especaily “What about African-Americans who had their names changed by the slave owners and are basically left without a trace of their family lineage?” good ponit.

141. hikaye July 26th, 2008 2:29 pm

     thanks

142. Webdesign July 26th, 2008 8:50 pm

     What does this name mean, and where does it derive from?

143. Webdesign Köln July 26th, 2008 8:51 pm

     thanks a lot!!

144. muhabbet July 29th, 2008 6:44 am

     thanks very god :)

145. 中古ビデオ July 31st, 2008 9:48 am

     Very nice article! Thanks for this!

146. Çet August 1st, 2008 11:26 am

     thanks

147. sohbet odaları August 2nd, 2008 1:10 am

     thanks

148. sohbet August 3rd, 2008 12:33 pm

     thankssssss

149. sohbet August 3rd, 2008 12:33 pm

     thanks

150. oyun August 4th, 2008 11:05 pm

     Yes its so true. Thanks

151. toner August 4th, 2008 11:10 pm

     Thanks a lot.

152. acikogretim August 7th, 2008 5:23 pm

     Very nice article! Thanks for this!

153. evden eve nakliyat August 8th, 2008 12:03 pm

     thank you

154. dizi izle August 9th, 2008 8:05 pm

     #

     In portuguese speaking countries it goes like this: forename, mother’s family name, father’s family name. In Portugal, it’s very common to take two family names from each parent in order to please the grandparents (except if you want to please the greatgrandparents to, and then things get really messy). And when you are a girl and get married you usually get a couple of your husband’s family names as well. For extra fun, almost everybody has two forenames, so you can easily end up with forename1, forename2, momma’s mom surname, momma’s dad surname, daddy’s mom surname, daddy’s dad surname, sweety’s daddy’s mom surname, sweety’s daddy’s dad surname.
     My parents being anti-bourgeois revolutionaries before turning into bourgeois themselves, I just got 3 names and two of them are basically the same: so I got Rodrigues (son of Rodrigo) from my father, Eliseu (that would be Elisha, your old style, fire-throwing, river-parting, dead-people-raising, enemies-mass-blinding miracle worker from the old testament) from my mother and Rodrigo for myself.
     Every Rodrigo in the world is named after Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, el Cid Campeador, a 11th century warlord widely celebrated for his butchering of moors during the Iberian Reconquista. My father claims I was named after the original 8th century Rodrigo, the visigoth king that after piercing his antecessors eyeballs, raping an ally’s daughter and doing everything he possibly could to turn every christian and jew in the peninsula against him, ended up losing it to the above mentioned moors (duh!). Etimologically speaking, Rodrigo has its roots in the germanic for “rich in glory”, even though it seems every important Rodrigo in History was a major asshole.

155. muhabbet August 10th, 2008 9:48 pm

     thanksss

156. SOHBET August 11th, 2008 7:11 pm

     very goood..

157. MUHABBET August 11th, 2008 7:12 pm

     mm tesekkurler.

158. muhabbet August 11th, 2008 7:14 pm

     live istanbul thank you ..

159. sohbet August 11th, 2008 7:16 pm

     supers..Very nice article!

160. Muhabbet August 11th, 2008 8:00 pm

     Thanks

161. Voyance August 12th, 2008 3:05 pm

     Very interesting !

162. oyunlar August 12th, 2008 4:06 pm

     thanks alot

163. oyun August 12th, 2008 4:07 pm

     herşey cok güzel olacak

164. Muhabbet August 12th, 2008 6:18 pm

     Thanks.

165. Voyance August 13th, 2008 8:44 am

     Very nice blog

166. ask siirleri August 13th, 2008 7:48 pm

     www.hicran.net

167. oyun August 14th, 2008 11:12 am

     Greetings!!I will bookmark for my son this site.

168. oyun August 14th, 2008 11:13 am

     I work for a newspaper and thisis what i need. thanks.

169. oyun August 14th, 2008 11:14 am

     thanks…

170. カッパドキア ツアー August 18th, 2008 11:24 am

     1日 カッパドキアツアー　(イスタンブール泊)
     飛行機にてカイセリーカッパドキアへ移動
     世界遺産のギョレメ野外博物館、
     ウチヒサール、
     ゼルベの谷を見学します。
     飛行機にてイスタンブールへ
     上記プログラム料金に含まれるもの 専用車（エアーコンディション付き）、英語ガイド（ライセンス所有）、 各施設入場料、昼食代。

171. Disney wallpapers August 18th, 2008 11:24 am

     10x

172. Disney movies August 18th, 2008 11:26 am

     great

173. Disney pictures August 18th, 2008 11:27 am

     cong man

174. woman pictures August 18th, 2008 11:29 am

     cong manexcellent

175. football caricatures August 18th, 2008 11:31 am

     cong manexcellentfootball

176. Voyance August 20th, 2008 1:29 pm

     Excellent blog !

177. sohbet odaları August 21st, 2008 8:11 am

     thanks you..

178. sohbet odaları August 21st, 2008 8:13 am

     http://www.turksevdasi.com
     http://www.chatarkadas.net

179. chat August 21st, 2008 8:18 am

     thanks you very good..

180. dyned August 21st, 2008 4:57 pm

     Perfect blog, I have added to my bookmarks. Thanks and regards.

181. hikaye August 21st, 2008 6:22 pm

     thanks a lot

182. mırc August 24th, 2008 9:28 am

     thanx for nice share

183. chat August 24th, 2008 9:29 am

     thanx for nice share

184. dizi izle August 24th, 2008 1:45 pm

     Not a generational name, rather a geographical name….

     My friend’s father is Indian, and apparently in his village in India all of the women have Khor (princess) as a middle name and all of the men have Singh (tiger). Their family has followed this tradition.

185. Voyance par telephone August 25th, 2008 3:17 pm

     Very good work !

186. sohbet August 28th, 2008 12:47 am

     Sohbet, Sohbet odalari, Sohbet odasi, Sohbet odaları, Sohbet odası, Sesli Sohbet

187. gebelik August 28th, 2008 8:05 am

     Thanks, very nice.

188. Chat sohbet August 28th, 2008 2:14 pm

     Tesekkurler saol

189. Batur Koyu August 28th, 2008 2:16 pm

     Thanks

190. örgü August 29th, 2008 7:12 am

     Thanks, very cool.

191. sohbet August 29th, 2008 8:48 pm

     thanks you

192. best acne treatment August 29th, 2008 9:50 pm

     Interesting, thanks.

193. sensiclear August 29th, 2008 9:52 pm

     thanks.

194. saç ekimi August 30th, 2008 8:27 pm

     thankyou very great

195. sohbet August 30th, 2008 8:29 pm

     Interesting, but good thanks.

196. teleskopik dikme August 30th, 2008 9:32 pm

     Good.. Perfect blog
     I have added to my bookmarks.
     Thanks and regards.

197. Firma rehberi August 30th, 2008 9:37 pm

     Good.. Thanks, very cool.
     regards.

198. kaucuk zemin August 30th, 2008 9:40 pm

     THANKS very good.
     regards

199. oyun indir August 31st, 2008 7:26 pm

     Thanks, very cool.

200. Sinema September 1st, 2008 2:55 pm

     grat

201. Otel September 3rd, 2008 2:59 am

     harika bir olay thanks

202. San Francisco Lawyer September 3rd, 2008 2:20 pm

     Very interesting article about names. i never knew that how the are used changed so much. Entymology of names really says a lot about our culture and history. In many respects names are a window into our culture.

203. Bay Area Lawyer September 3rd, 2008 2:23 pm

     Never would have thought that so much information could be derived about a culture simply by looking at their names. Entemology, although not the most interesting subject to me, is very inteeresting. Great job on the article. It was very interesting and enlightening.

204. evden eve nakliyat September 6th, 2008 11:44 am

     Thank you very much for this information.

205. chat September 6th, 2008 1:09 pm

     Thanks a lot very good Yes Thats is a good idea

206. Sinema September 6th, 2008 7:22 pm

     great 10x

207. sohbet odaları September 7th, 2008 9:56 pm

     thank you very much.

208. sohbet September 7th, 2008 9:59 pm

     thanks you blog.

209. sex shop September 8th, 2008 5:39 pm

     thanks fine

210. güzel sözler September 9th, 2008 8:40 pm

     thankss youuu goood web sites.

211. sohbet odaları September 9th, 2008 8:42 pm

     thankss youuu goood web sites.

212. aşk sözleri September 9th, 2008 8:44 pm

     thankss youuu goood web sites.

213. cam balkon sistemleri September 9th, 2008 8:46 pm

     thankss youuu goood web sites.

214. cam balkon September 9th, 2008 8:49 pm

     thankss youuu goood web sites.

215. film izle September 10th, 2008 11:51 am

     good information thank you

216. şarkı sözleri September 10th, 2008 11:53 am

     thank you for this text

217. erotik shop September 10th, 2008 4:51 pm

     thanks fine lol

218. sohbet September 10th, 2008 11:38 pm

     Very interesting article about names. i never knew that how the are used changed so much. Entymology of names really says a lot about our culture and history. In many respects names are a window into our culture.

219. Eleman September 12th, 2008 12:15 am

     thanks you!!

220. dizi izle September 12th, 2008 4:38 pm

     My full name is James Micah Weirick.

     James-after my grandfather, means “supplanter”
     Micah-after the prophet, mean “who is like God”
     Weirick-Americanized German name coming from the German words for “war” and “power”

     I especially like my middle name.

221. Cet September 13th, 2008 12:44 pm

     Thanks

222. Lida September 13th, 2008 3:16 pm

     thanks

223. teknoloji haberleri September 14th, 2008 12:47 am

     thanks you

224. Wellnessurlaub September 14th, 2008 9:12 am

     thnaks for writing
     Greetings Wellnessurlaub

225. Özkan Tonay September 14th, 2008 2:58 pm

     Karel

226. SENAO September 15th, 2008 9:02 pm

     Senao Yetkili Servis

227. Senao September 15th, 2008 9:06 pm

     Senao Servis

228. Karel September 15th, 2008 9:09 pm

     Karel

229. Aktiftel September 15th, 2008 9:11 pm

     Aktiftel

230. dizi izle September 16th, 2008 8:07 pm

     thanks good blog

231. Wellness Bayerischer Wald September 17th, 2008 3:44 am

     great resource thanks.
     Greets Wellness Bayerischer Wald

232. Sohbet September 17th, 2008 1:33 pm

     thanks you admin

233. Sohbet September 18th, 2008 4:58 pm

     you very nice site thanks..

234. Herbalife September 19th, 2008 12:34 pm

     My name is Jenny Legrand… Maybe some of my ancesters was very big :)

235. Colostrum September 19th, 2008 12:37 pm

     A quite same study was done at the university of the faroe islands: www.setur.fo
     It handles on the same topic in faroese and english, very interesting for social and historical linguistics fans!

236. Suchmaschinenoptimierung September 19th, 2008 12:44 pm

     My name is : Julian Förster (like the forster)

237. mirc September 19th, 2008 1:27 pm

     thanks.

238. chat September 19th, 2008 1:53 pm

     thx.

239. halı yıkama September 19th, 2008 2:23 pm

     thanks

240. halı yıkama September 19th, 2008 2:26 pm

     thank you

241. emlak September 19th, 2008 8:21 pm

     thank you

242. mirc September 20th, 2008 7:24 am

     thank you

243. sohbet September 20th, 2008 10:11 am

     thans

244. porno September 20th, 2008 9:03 pm

     tahank yporr

245. porno September 20th, 2008 9:04 pm

     tahank yporr very googd

246. Internet Marketing September 21st, 2008 12:11 pm

     In Iceland it´s usual to become as Lastname the Firstname of the father. So it´s impossible to guess what the ancestors did.

247. Sivil Forum September 21st, 2008 7:04 pm

     Thanks about the text.

     http://www.sivilforum.com

     http://www.baltay.com.tr

248. dizi izle September 26th, 2008 9:52 pm

     thanks

249. Befreiphone Reloaded September 27th, 2008 9:16 pm

     Thanks a lot Befreiphone Reloaded Befreiphone Reloaded

250. porno izle October 1st, 2008 9:41 am

     thansk

251. Promosyon October 1st, 2008 3:15 pm

     Promosyon, tekstil, sapka, bere, t-shirt, forma, atki, mont, yelek, isci elbisesi Polar

252. Promosyon October 1st, 2008 3:17 pm

     
     

253. Altın October 5th, 2008 1:44 am

     thanks about the text…

254. laptop battery October 7th, 2008 6:38 am

     thanks a lot

255. Dancer1! October 8th, 2008 5:22 pm

     Hey I go to Sandridge Junior High and one of our assignments is to find stuff out about our name. I have looked every where on line and in books for the mesning of my name and cant find anything. so if you hae any websites or books you think mite help me I would love to know. My name isn’t even that weird McKenna, it’s pretty common. I’m not saing to tell me what it means i just want a good book or website to find it. Help!!! Please :)

256. Sex Sohbet October 9th, 2008 5:23 pm

     Free..

257. Muhabbet October 9th, 2008 5:24 pm

     Veery God…

258. Oyunlar October 10th, 2008 1:05 pm

     thanks you

259. web tasarım October 12th, 2008 1:40 pm

     Thanks for helpful information you catch up us with your instructional

     explenation.

     What people do is more important that what they say…

     Best regards

260. evden eve nakliyat October 12th, 2008 1:42 pm

     Thanks for useful informations.

     Best regards

261. Oyun * October 12th, 2008 10:23 pm

     very thanks for you!! Oyuncular…

262. lida October 13th, 2008 1:43 pm

     thank you

263. lida October 13th, 2008 1:44 pm

     thanks a lot

264. tus October 13th, 2008 1:46 pm

     thank you very much

265. oto kiralama October 13th, 2008 1:58 pm

     nice

266. oto kiralama October 13th, 2008 2:07 pm

     nice history

267. seo October 13th, 2008 2:09 pm

     cory–high rock wall/headland–also U shaped valley,typically glacial.Modern english circe a glacial valley headwall. Gaelic Cwm. American natives frequently were renamed 2or3 times after accomplishments ie ‘rides the buffalo calf’ might become ‘crazy horse’. sometimes names were handed down so old’crazy horse’would change to ‘worm’ and his son become ‘crazy horse’. One historian thought because chief Washikee of thebannocks was 40+ in1813 he must of been old when he led braves to battle in 1876… hello..his son duh

268. konya balık avi October 14th, 2008 9:48 am

     thanks

269. ppt to dvd converter October 16th, 2008 3:01 am

     right… well done@!

270. sexshop October 16th, 2008 1:52 pm

     Thanks you!

271. sex shop October 17th, 2008 10:39 am

     Thanks.

272. Partnersuche October 17th, 2008 4:26 pm

     Cool

273. LR Kosmetik October 17th, 2008 5:46 pm

     I also love my name. Nice blog. Thank you

274. geciktirici October 18th, 2008 2:20 pm

     Thanks you!

275. adapazarı October 21st, 2008 6:13 pm

     adapazarı sakarya thank you web admin

276. oyun hileleri October 21st, 2008 6:15 pm

     oyun hileleri thank you !

277. Samir Jajjawi October 21st, 2008 9:15 pm

     Thanks for providing this info :-)

278. cinsel urunler October 22nd, 2008 1:19 pm

     Thanks you !.

279. cam filmi October 22nd, 2008 3:06 pm

     cool
     thanks for sharing it

280. cam filmi nedir October 22nd, 2008 3:08 pm

     name is a must
     thanks

281. oyun October 23rd, 2008 2:06 am

     It’s very good article. Great site with very good look

282. 中古DVD October 23rd, 2008 2:33 am

     Very nice article! Thanks for this!

283. アダルトDVD October 23rd, 2008 3:06 am

     good job. thanks for all

284. Play Games October 23rd, 2008 10:24 pm

     Great site. Thanks for the post.

285. sohbet October 24th, 2008 11:09 am

     thanks you. very nice.

286. chat October 24th, 2008 2:27 pm

     thank you

287. sohbet October 24th, 2008 6:15 pm

     thanks a lot admin

288. sohbet October 26th, 2008 12:10 pm

     its good i will use it thanks a lot.

289. SEO Beratung October 26th, 2008 2:07 pm

     Great article…

290. porno izle October 27th, 2008 3:51 am

     thanks..

291. evden eve nakliyat October 27th, 2008 10:48 am

     thanks very good…

292. evden eve nakliyat October 27th, 2008 10:50 am

     thanks a lot..

293. Sohbet October 27th, 2008 2:20 pm

     ok12tay

294. web tasarım October 29th, 2008 2:18 am

     web tasarım

295. cozumilaclama October 30th, 2008 2:04 pm

     ilaclama ve ilaclama hizmetleri

296. dizi izle October 30th, 2008 7:47 pm

     thanks man good works

297. Çelik Konstrüksiyon October 30th, 2008 7:49 pm

     thanks man

298. cozumilaclama October 31st, 2008 12:13 pm

     My name is Liz and it comes from the flower :)

299. ilaclama Hizmetleri October 31st, 2008 12:41 pm

     thanks

300. böcek ilaclama October 31st, 2008 12:50 pm

     ilaçlama Hizmetleri

301. kreditrechner November 1st, 2008 8:56 am

     In response to Tom Creighton, it might interest you to know that clan Creighton is alive and well. The clan chief is a guy called Dave Creighton (I used to know him at university), and he lives in a castle in Crieff, just west of Perth in Scotland. I was told (though this may be wrong) that under Scottish law, he has the right to demand fealty money from any member of the clan!

302. Skischule November 2nd, 2008 6:04 am

     if els, what else ? thanks
     Best Regards Skischule

303. kanarya November 4th, 2008 8:50 am

     thanx man ;)

304. Oyunlar November 4th, 2008 7:21 pm

     Thanks very niceq

305. Graffiti November 4th, 2008 9:27 pm

     turkey Graffiti Art

306. Oda oyunları November 6th, 2008 9:29 am

     Thanks very good.

307. italian property for sale November 6th, 2008 1:16 pm

     Great work keep it up .

308. Online Games November 7th, 2008 12:19 pm

     very nice post thank you so much

309. Download November 7th, 2008 12:22 pm

     thank you so much

310. chat November 7th, 2008 12:33 pm

     Chat

     thank you so much

311. sohbet November 8th, 2008 10:01 am

     Thanks.. Admin

312. sohbet November 8th, 2008 10:02 am

     Thanks a lot..

313. Toplist November 8th, 2008 10:35 am

     Everyone in my family are called by their second names. The idea was if we didn’t like our names we could fall back on our first, although that works the other way around, go figure. I prefer Zach over Alasdair but am not thrilled about either though.

     As for Hamilton, I don’t know

314. dizi izle November 8th, 2008 1:15 pm

     thank you admin

315. Araba Resimleri November 8th, 2008 7:14 pm

     Thank u for this best post and sharing.

316. alez November 9th, 2008 9:56 am

     Thank for good article. alez mutlu tekstil

317. hazir beton November 9th, 2008 9:59 am

     thanks for article. hazir beton iskele kalip dunyasi

318. fake designer handbags November 9th, 2008 4:25 pm

     hi there & thanks

319. hikaye November 10th, 2008 1:10 pm

     thanKs admin

320. Lammfell November 10th, 2008 1:37 pm

     I have always had any problems with my name, because the people couldn´t write it as it has to be written.

321. water damage miami November 11th, 2008 4:38 am

     I know that my name is from the irish (last name) but not sure about the rest, great articles anyway, thanks for the great read.

322. Water Damage Restoration November 11th, 2008 12:42 pm

     Parents really should consider the repercussions of the given name for their child. My given name is Terressa. All of my life I had to re pronounce it almost every time I introduced my self and always, always had to clarify the spelling. They even misspelled it on my birth certificate and my parents never had it corrected. It caused me so much aggravation as an adult. I finally threw out the spelling my parents invented when I was 43 and went with Teresa, which is easier for people to understand and spell.

323. newkon November 11th, 2008 8:44 pm

     thanks very good

324. hdtv antenna November 12th, 2008 12:12 am

     etymology…that is very interesting…me being a Smith
     very interesting read here..Thanks!

325. iddaa November 13th, 2008 7:52 pm

     thanks

326. plastik November 14th, 2008 12:25 pm

     Leah is definitely the one who should win. Science Fiction Conventions? What?! She deserves a win, indeed!

327. Pink Glitter November 14th, 2008 10:44 pm

     NAMES, i have plenty of them. My mom call me one name and my dad call me by other name, my sister call me another name, primary school friends call me other name, secondary school friend another name and so on..

     So, NAME is just a way how ppl know who you are.

328. vps November 16th, 2008 2:39 am

     thanks very good…

329. Estetik November 16th, 2008 2:02 pm

     Thanks for posting about the Domain Mirror plug-in. I was looking for something like this over the weekend, but couldn’t think of the proper search terms to use :-).

330. Zanza November 16th, 2008 6:18 pm

     Everyone in my family are called by their second names. The idea was if we didn’t like our names we could fall back on our first, although that works the other way around, go figure. I prefer Zach over Alasdair but am not thrilled about either though.

     As for Hamilton, I don’t know

331. Oyunlar November 17th, 2008 3:27 pm

     great post and thread thanks

332. Free Games November 17th, 2008 3:29 pm

     every one is afread of from brief thank you

333. Oyun November 17th, 2008 3:31 pm

     nice blog thank you

334. Blogcu November 17th, 2008 3:33 pm

     good article thanks

335. Diyet Kalori Listesi ile Zayiflama,Diyet Kalori Listeleri Programi,Diyet Yemek Tarifleri,Lazer Epilasyon November 19th, 2008 4:55 pm

     Diyet Yemek Tarifleri Listeleri

     ifelse..love nixe

336. Webmaster Forum November 19th, 2008 7:20 pm

     For chinese names, the first name would be the family name eg. Tan , Wong , Lee and Lim. These are all the most common surname most chinese have. Then followed by a given name, for the given name most will choose base on auspicious meaning eg. Tan Lai Hock. Tan being the family name and “Lai Hock” meaning “come fortune”.

337. Zara clothing November 20th, 2008 10:19 am

     Great read, i’ll study my name now :)

338. Auto classifieds November 20th, 2008 10:22 am

     I shoul apply those patterns with Russian names and see what comes out :)Thanks for sharing,

339. lingerie November 20th, 2008 12:53 pm

     I like the stuff about chinese names, and the auspicious meaning. I know someone called headcock what the heck is the origin of that.

340. Suchmaschinenoptimierung November 21st, 2008 11:27 am

     10x great!

341. arkadas November 21st, 2008 2:42 pm

     thanks very.

342. amerikan kapı November 22nd, 2008 2:31 am

     thanks.. good

343. oyun oyna November 22nd, 2008 12:17 pm

     I shoul apply those patterns with Russian names and see what comes out :)Thanks for sharing,

344. film izle November 22nd, 2008 12:19 pm

     I like the stuff about chinese names, and the auspicious meaning. I know someone called headcock what the heck is the origin of that.

345. Chat November 22nd, 2008 1:01 pm

     thanks.

346. Under microscope November 23rd, 2008 1:21 am

     “First names in Mongolia” Comunist regimes before 2004 erased people’s family tree! Thank God they returned them, if they kept that for 100 years, the country would have no personalitis!!

347. Estetik November 23rd, 2008 3:05 am

     For those of you thinking that if they implement this it will eliminate some of the waiting and lines…

348. Çet November 24th, 2008 1:32 pm

     Free Chat.

349. Matratze November 24th, 2008 1:35 pm

     Interesting information about the history of names. Thanks for publishing it. ;)

350. wex November 25th, 2008 1:52 pm

     Thanks.

351. böcek ilaçlama November 25th, 2008 4:10 pm

     very Good thanks

352. water damage repair November 26th, 2008 12:23 am

     I am not sure of where my name comes from. Maybe i should look it up?

353. güzel Sözler November 26th, 2008 1:33 am

     veryy Good site Thanks You.

354. islami sohbet November 26th, 2008 1:35 am

     Veryy Good Site Thank…You..

355. motosiklet November 26th, 2008 1:36 am

     Interesting information about the history of names. Thanks for publishing it Good site.

356. lida November 26th, 2008 1:38 am

     “First names in Mongolia” Comunist regimes before 2004 erased people’s family tree! Thank God they returned them, if they kept that for 100 years, the country would have no personalitis Thanks You

357. sohbet November 26th, 2008 1:38 am

     Veryy Good SohbetSitesi.

358. arkadaş November 26th, 2008 1:40 am

     Veryy Good Site ArkadaşSitesi.

359. Dornbracht Armaturen November 26th, 2008 2:45 pm

     Wrthful infos about the history of names. Great article!

360. sohbet odaları November 26th, 2008 9:17 pm

     Thanks you

361. film izle November 28th, 2008 8:12 pm

     thanks a lots of..

362. Play Super Mario November 28th, 2008 9:27 pm

     Thanks, nice article

363. web tasarım November 30th, 2008 12:38 am

     Thanks, nice article

364. sohbet November 30th, 2008 12:47 am

     thanks site

365. sohbet November 30th, 2008 12:49 am

     tsk

366. DMOZ Zilla November 30th, 2008 6:09 pm

     Love your site. Thanks!

367. Free Flash Games November 30th, 2008 6:47 pm

     Nicknames are often used to distinguish between two or more people with the same given name. Names that are currently in fashion tend to be varied the most. Nicknames are informal forms of names,

368. Blog Search November 30th, 2008 6:52 pm

     In many Westernized Chinese locations, many Chinese also take on an unofficial English given name in addition to their official Chinese given name. This is also true for East Asian students at colleges in countries like the United States, Canada, and Australia, and people who wish to do business internationally

369. Rezepte für Diabetiker December 2nd, 2008 10:44 am

     Does anyone know, where the name “Krueger” came from?

370. Suchmaschinenoptimierung December 3rd, 2008 1:14 pm

     I didn’t ever think about the history of my name… But your site makes me quite curious… :-)

     Okay, let’s check, if someone knows the history of my name Graefen… I’ve got no idea, where this name came from…

     Thanks for your help! ;-)

371. SEO Beratung Agentur December 3rd, 2008 9:56 pm

     I have a friend, who is an Indian. All names of the Apache have his own signment. The names are signs of sun and moon. A Indian is proud of his name and he know the relationship of the name and his birth.

372. battery December 4th, 2008 3:02 am

     This is also true for East Asian students at colleges in countries like the United States, Canada, and Australia, and people who wish to do business internationally.

373. Suchmaschinenoptimierung December 4th, 2008 8:07 pm

     My mother’s girlname meant something like honey bush. I like it, when names have a meaning…

374. Partnersuche December 4th, 2008 8:09 pm

     My name “Kaczmarek” doesn’t have any meaning. Or has anybody an idea?

375. Magdiel from Street Fairings December 5th, 2008 12:07 am

     My name is hebrew and means a selected by god. At least is what I know. lol.

376. kale kasa December 5th, 2008 7:07 am

     thanks.. good

377. Forex December 5th, 2008 8:09 pm

     This is amazing… I never spend a thought on the fact, that names can have a history.

     Okay, now I can imagine, that a name like Miller or Smith came from the professions the people worked in…

     Very interesting article. It makes me think about it and it’s really funny, when thinking about names like Brad PITT or so… :O)

     Keep on writing! I’m curious to read more about that…

     Forex from Germany

378. chat December 6th, 2008 12:13 am

     thanks very.

379. Seitensprung December 6th, 2008 2:11 am

     Your article and the comments are really interesting. Great facts and infos about the history and meaning of names. I’m gonna bookmark your site!

380. Jenny December 6th, 2008 4:11 pm

     There are many useful informations in this great articlel really enjoy reading the whole blog that you write. Thanks!

381. Atlanta Houses December 8th, 2008 1:19 pm

     thanks for your effort

382. Sohbet December 8th, 2008 10:46 pm

     My name is hebrew and means a selected by god. At least is what I know.

383. Schülerverzeichnis December 9th, 2008 2:11 pm

     Very interesting article about the history of names. Good work!

384. Sohbet December 9th, 2008 4:47 pm

     Sohbet

385. Sohbet December 9th, 2008 4:47 pm

     Chat

386. Internetagentur München December 9th, 2008 8:18 pm

     Now I know more about names. Thanks a lot for the outstanding article!

387. porno December 10th, 2008 6:06 pm

     thanks

388. chat December 10th, 2008 10:02 pm

     thanks Admin

389. Klassenkameraden December 11th, 2008 2:42 pm

     Really a nice article. I never thougt aout the history of my name… Thank for this inspirating info…

390. Pflanzkübel December 11th, 2008 3:10 pm

     What’s with a name like “Mikosch” - do you know, where it came from?

     I found your article about the history of names, cause I’d like to know, where my name came from.

     Would be glad to hear every tip or guess… ;-)

391. Online Marketing Agentur December 11th, 2008 6:47 pm

     Your artcle is quite interesting… I’m also curious in knowing more about my familyname. It’s “Keppler”. Does anyone know, what meaning my name has?

392. Adidas December 11th, 2008 9:55 pm

     Well it would be also interesting to know, where the name “Dassler” came from. I don’t have any idea and would be glad to know more about this name.

     I’m thankful for any help…

393. Babymode December 11th, 2008 10:05 pm

     My name is easy to guess, where it came from: “Miller”. :-)

394. Fettabsaugung December 11th, 2008 10:59 pm

     Really a nice and very informative article about the history of names. I bookmarked it for sharing it with my friends.

     Thanks for publishing these good infos… ;-)

395. Mobile SEO December 12th, 2008 2:54 am

     Hi, my name is Mike “Spieler”. The name Spieler comes from Germany and means “Player”. Does it mean, that I’m the grand²-son of a Player? Or has it another meaning?

396. Sex Sohbet December 12th, 2008 6:12 pm

     thanks

397. http://www.hostingbizden.com December 14th, 2008 11:39 am

     thanks for this post

398. http://www.bybugu.com December 14th, 2008 11:41 am

     thanks my friend.I addedd your url to my favorite links thanks again

399. cinsel sohbet December 15th, 2008 12:52 am

     thanksss

400. araba oyunları December 15th, 2008 8:24 pm

     araba oyunları

401. futbol oyunları December 15th, 2008 8:25 pm

     en güzel futbol oyunları

402. motor yarışı December 15th, 2008 8:27 pm

     motorcikle

403. pasta oyunları December 15th, 2008 8:29 pm

     en güzel yemek oyunları

404. Nona December 16th, 2008 10:06 am

     This is definitely one of the most concise, easy to follow blogs on the topic that I have found to date.

     My surname is Ruf. I’ve looked in a lot of different databases, but I can’t find the meaning of it anywhere. I’ve also looked for it under Ruff and Woodruff, thinking that it might be a shortened form another name. Could you possibly point me in the right direction for finding the meaning? I know the meaning of my first and middle names and I would like to see how the three tie together, if possible.

     Thanks,
     Nona

405. Werbeartikel December 17th, 2008 11:00 am

     This is an excellent article about the history of names. It makes the people think about their familynames…

406. Kaltschaummatratzen December 17th, 2008 1:45 pm

     What a nice idea thinking about the history of names… Great article!

407. todoslot December 17th, 2008 9:55 pm

     Well done. The post is great… What i am looking for…
     good job! coche slot

408. güzel sözler December 18th, 2008 9:08 am

     ohh thanks admin

409. saç ekimi December 18th, 2008 9:10 am

     thanks

410. SEO December 18th, 2008 12:55 pm

     Nice article… I bookmarked it to share it with friends.

411. Wasserfilter December 18th, 2008 8:19 pm

     Does anyone know something about the name Kasperowsky? I didn’t find any description of the meaning and history of this name yet…

412. Damenmode December 18th, 2008 10:02 pm

     I think the name is from russia. I would try it on a russian site for names…

413. laptop battery December 19th, 2008 1:40 am

     I didn’t find any description of the meaning and history of this name yet…

414. seo December 19th, 2008 1:34 pm

     Hit paylaşmak için www.hitsihirbazi.com güzel bir site deneyin arkadaşlar.. tahanks

415. Flug December 19th, 2008 3:10 pm

     Thx for posting. Exactly what i was looking for!

416. oyunlar December 19th, 2008 11:10 pm

     thanks you all

417. kale kasa December 20th, 2008 7:44 am

     thanks you all…

418. söve December 20th, 2008 2:55 pm

     thanks..

419. savaş oyunları December 20th, 2008 11:21 pm

     thanks you all

420. savaş oyunları December 20th, 2008 11:24 pm

     ı have followed your writing for a long time.really you have given very successful information.
     In spite of my english trouale,I am trying to read and understand your writing.
     And ı am following frequently.I hope that you will be with us together with much more scharings.
     I hope that your success will go on.

421. Maç Oyunları December 20th, 2008 11:24 pm

     thanks..

422. Yeni Oyunlar December 20th, 2008 11:27 pm

     thanks you all…

423. mobilya December 21st, 2008 5:04 pm

     thanks you:))
     mobilya

424. mobilya December 21st, 2008 5:04 pm

     thanks you:))

425. seoline December 23rd, 2008 1:44 pm

     it was very interesting and informative. thank you

426. bariyer December 23rd, 2008 6:55 pm

     thanks..

427. Medyum Rabia December 24th, 2008 5:50 pm

     Havas - Vefk ilmi, Büyü, Dua, Muska, Cin ve daha fazlası ile dertlerinize derman olmaya geldik…

428. Pixelim Media December 24th, 2008 11:24 pm

     Thank you for this nice article.

     http://www.pixelim.com

429. dantel modelleri December 28th, 2008 7:00 pm

     thanks for post

430. dofus kamas December 31st, 2008 9:00 am

     For any of you out there who haven’t yet picked up Magical Starsign, what are you waiting for? I’ll admit that I’m still a bit miffed over the US not getting the first Magical Vacation game on the Gameboy Advance, maple story mesosbut I guess I can forgive and forget since we did at least get the sequel in Magical Starsign. On the other hand, playing Magical Starsign and seeing how fantastic it is just makes me now want Magical Vacation even more. dofus kamasSo there, now I’m mad again. Seriously, if you’re looking for an outstanding old-school RPG experience with one of the coolest art styles ever seen in an RPG, check out Magical Starsign. It’s everything a great RPG should be. The only gripe I have is that the experience ended too quickly. So now I either want Magical Vacation for the Gameboy Advance, or another sequel. One or the other! NOW!

431. Sex Chat December 31st, 2008 10:06 pm

     thanks

432. document drying January 1st, 2009 10:06 am

     I know my name’s definition is supplanter, but have failed to find out what it means or the origin.

433. water damage restoration January 1st, 2009 10:08 am

     Happy new year. thanks for the great post.

434. sohbet odaları January 1st, 2009 1:26 pm

     thanks you..
     http://www.turksevdasi.com
     http://www.chatarkadas.net

435. Lena Hamburg January 2nd, 2009 2:16 pm

     This site is food for thought.
     Thank you!

436. msn January 3rd, 2009 4:57 pm

     http://www.siirpaylas.net msn

437. ask siirleri January 3rd, 2009 5:09 pm

     http://www.siirpaylas.net ask siirleri

438. chat odaları January 3rd, 2009 11:29 pm

     I sometimes dream of, at an estate sale, coming across a big box labeled “AOL BACKUP TAPES 1998″. But I know I’ll never see that one HyperCard stack again, let alone that neat Wolfenstein 3d level

439. water damage chicago January 4th, 2009 4:52 am

     My first name consists of two separate words, and to this day, businesses and other companies who have my name in their marketing database will mistaken the 2nd word to my first name as my middle name, and my middle name as part of my last name. Ugh… it doesn’t help that I’m married either. Way to confuse them even more! Lol…

     Thanks for a thorough and detailed article!

440. motorkuryem January 4th, 2009 3:07 pm

     kurye, kuryeler, hızlı kurye, yaya kurye, acıl kurye, kadikoy kurye, istanbul kurye, motor kurye, arac kurye

441. reklam ajans web tasarımı matbaa January 4th, 2009 4:08 pm

     thanks

442. karot beton delme beton kesme January 4th, 2009 4:10 pm

     hello thanks

443. sohbet January 6th, 2009 3:24 am

     thx

444. Foto Galeri January 6th, 2009 3:26 am

     बहुत बहुत धन्यवाद

445. Sex January 7th, 2009 8:15 pm

     thanks a lot

446. cicimol January 8th, 2009 9:12 am

     cicimol , arkadaş , arkadaş arama , arkadaş partner , bayan arkadaş , partner , cicim ol

447. 3d oyun January 10th, 2009 3:00 pm

     thanks for post

448. Firma Parkı January 11th, 2009 5:38 pm

     Firma Parkı

449. todoslot January 11th, 2009 8:55 pm

     The post is great…
     coche slot

450. oyun oyna January 12th, 2009 10:22 am

     thankss

451. sohbet January 13th, 2009 7:43 pm

     Thanks a lot

452. Busby SEO Test tips January 15th, 2009 1:31 pm

     In one of our tribe, giving names is accordance to what the parents looking at while the baby birth

453. Netlog January 15th, 2009 6:07 pm

     thankss

454. Sophie Mitarbeiter January 16th, 2009 1:33 pm

     A really good idea and a great work about the history of names.
     Thank you!

455. Medyum Sinem January 17th, 2009 11:55 am

     Havas ilmi vefk ilmi,
     Medyum Medyumlar Sinem Hoca
     thanks…

     My global web site:
     ——————-//
     www.medyumsinem.com
     http://www.medyumsinem.com
     http://medyumsinem.com

456. hosting January 17th, 2009 3:35 pm

     thank you very much

457. aşk şiirleri January 18th, 2009 1:42 pm

     thank you

458. sohbet January 20th, 2009 4:36 pm

     i like that thanks..

459. alışveriş January 20th, 2009 8:00 pm

     it not enough. Let’s wrap this up with my name