What Does Your Name Mean?

[Rhondazvous]

Have you ever researched what your name means? Can you see a connection between the name on your birth certificate and your personality as an adult? Does your name come from a culture with which you share some ancestral heritage or did your parent choose it because it sounded good?

Rhonda is Celtic-Welsh for powerful river or good lance

My middle name Denise is derived from the Greek god Dionysus

I think considering the way I’ve dealt with the challenges of my life, powerful river could be worked in there. And my creative personality could very well be informed by the god of wine and drama.

To my knowledge, I have no Celtic-Welsh heritage.

[account_inactive]

My name is Lauren. I don't know what it means, feel free to look it up.

[Iroscato]

Rorie. It's Irish, quite an obscure version of the name, and means Red King. Befitting given my status as Undisputed Dominar of the Omniverse.

[Faith No More]

Well, my name unfortunately means "Bearer of Christ," so no, I don't see any connection to my personality. In fact, I don't think I could have been given a name that was more opposite of who I am.

[Brian37]

My name means .......... A sequence of letters that when you say it, I respond. 

All kidding aside, some people like getting into the meaning of names, I never did. I was adopted, and one thing my dad kept repeating to me was "You are a....(Last name here)" and that never meant anything to me. It is important when others pronounce your name first or last, or if you have a nickname you prefer, because that is simply a act of politeness.

What matters to me is how someone treats me, not what sequence of letters identify them. Not their titles or nationalities or religions.

I am fine with expecting someone to pronounce your name the way you request them to. And sure, the history of it may mean something to you personally, but in the grand scope of the history of the universe, we all take the same ride and that ride always ends the same way.

[TheRealJoeFish]

My understanding is that "Joseph" refers to fertility.

I'll start pumpin' 'em out eventually...

[FatAndFaithless]

Using biblical terms and old German, my name means "Beloved gift from God who robs people on the highway." My last name is an old German term for 'highwayman.'

[Longhorn]

I hate my name ._.

[Aoi Magi]

I am pretty sure my parents used some sort of random name generator, though I haven't got them to confess to it yet!

But my real name apparently means "one illuminated by their own light"

[robvalue]

I haven't looked up what Robert means, if it means anything.