What does your name mean?

[Akira]

Originally Posted by Chez Daja

Akira's name is pretty damn spot-on for his personality. Go! Find a wife and impregnate her!

You damn right! I drink alcohol, my balls are filled with fluid, and I'm quite the fertile little bugger. And I'm godly...almost forgot that one. I guess that can only mean I rule...

[Mike]

Mike rhymes with bike. And Michael rhymes with Motorcycle.

[Neo Necron]

I happen to own a drinks coaster on which is printed my name and it's meaning:

Fosters - Always cold

Oh wait... wrong coaster...

Joseph - From the Hebrew for 'he shall add' ('He' refers to God, I believe). A quiet, reserved and caring man with strong principles. He is always fair and expects the same as others.

Pretty much describes me perfectly.

As for my other names, I have refered to the internet for finding meaning:

Paul - Humble
Again, that's true. But for me to admit to being humble isn't so humble, so I'm digging a hole here.

Townsend - Pretty much what it says. My ancestor lived on the edge of a town. Maybe then he was outcast and nobody liked him.
And I do (sort of) live at the edge of a town, so I guess I am pretty much what my name describes.

[Chez Daja]

Originally Posted by Neo Necron

Townsend - Pretty much what it says. My ancestor lived on the edge of a town. Maybe then he was outcast and nobody liked him.
And I do (sort of) live at the edge of a town, so I guess I am pretty much what my name describes.

I love that name. I think I will force you into marriage and then divorce you moments after, insisting that I keep your name. That's allowed in this country these days, right?

My surname is Scottish, apparently... It means... *insert Scottish meaning* Haaaa.

I should probably find the meaning.

*goes to look*


...It's British, too. Originated in Britain and it means something else in Scotland. Damn you, England!

[Neo Necron]

Originally Posted by Chez Daja

I love that name. I think I will force you into marriage and then divorce you moments after, insisting that I keep your name.

Okay. But I'm taking all our money and the cat.

I believe my surname is also Scottish. I know I have scottish ancestry.
Also, Ecks had or has my surname, and I think I remember him saying he also had scottish family.

[Wolf]

Originally Posted by Chez Daja

Anyway, Woflmeister, yep. I took some of my stuff off that site, but not all of it... Also, is your mother named Claudia by any chance?

Nope, sorry, my mother's name is Patricia, not Claudia. So here's my mother's I guess. Except it was under Patrick and not Patricia.

"From the Roman name Patricius, which meant "nobleman" in Latin. A 5th-century saint, the patron saint of Ireland, adopted this name (his birth name was Sucat). During his youth he was captured by Irish raiders and enslaved, but after six years of servitude he escaped to his home in Britain. Eventually he became a bishop and went back to Ireland as a missionary, where he succeeded in Christianizing the entire country."

[Daddy]

My name means "Father". It is also the name of a MSI song.

I didn't put much thought into it.

but my real name =is short for "John"...but Jack and John have 4 letters, so I don't see how it's 'short' for John.

[Storm]

Well, my name, Zoe, is Greek meaning "life".

The website thingy says:

ZOE
Gender: Feminine

Usage: English, Greek, Ancient Greek

Other Scripts: Ζωη (Ancient Greek)

Pronounced: ZO-ee [key]

Means "life" in Greek. This was the name of two early saints, one martyred under emperor Hadrian, the other martyred under Diocletian. The name was also borne by a ruling Byzantine empress.

My middle name...

DIANA
Gender: Feminine

Usage: English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Lithuanian, Roman Mythology

Other Scripts: Диана (Russian)

Pronounced: die-AN-a (English) [key]

Probably derived from an old Indo-European root meaning "heavenly, divine", related to dyeus (see ZEUS). Diana was a Roman goddess of the moon, hunting, forests, and childbirth, often identified with the Greek goddess Artemis. Diana Spencer, the Princess of Wales, was a famous bearer of this name.

I understand the "forests" bit. I love forest. I'd never hunt though...

and the last name, Patterson, is another Scottish (and sometimes Irish) surname which means "Son of Pat". 0____o

[Yuki-onna]

I don't use my given name, really. It's kind of creepy when people call me by it. I'm usually refered to as a dutch nickname from some old tv show, or as LoD ('Ehlohdee').

L, the 12th letter in the alphabet. Spells a lot of noodles and lovingly love.
o, number 15. Screeched in pleasure or dramatic points in movies.
D, last but not least, the number 4. Usually accompanied by 'umbass' and 'ork' though those are usually disdained nowadays as old fashioned.

[Lady Cid]

My name,

Spoiler: Candice ;-)

, means glittering/glowing/sparkling white, or pure glowing white or something. White and shiny, basically. Apparently it's also derived from the name of a line of queens in Ethiopia...
My surname is of Danish origin, but I'm only about a quarter Danish.

[Nin`]

My name? hmmm. Well I have so many names these days, but my two favorite among them are Fox and Lucifer.

Why Fox?

Well girls have one reason for naming me this and guys have another. Enuf said me thinkz.


Why Lucifer? Hmm slightly more complex.

Lucifer has no significance to us in the sense of "that which is to be worshipped (or shunned)." I (or anybody else) do not subscribe to the superstitions of the Judeo-Christians or Hindus, thus "Lucifer" has no equivalence for us to "Satan" or "Shaitan" - a name which I would regard equally unemotionally, but which would not offer the same richly rewarding associations that "Lucifer" does - from a number of perspectives.

In the early days of Unix computing, many of those involved named computers Lucifer, Asmodeus, Astoroth, etc. because they hosted "daemons" which performed tasks for us - and geeks being geeks (though not in those days l33t haX0rs), I appreciated the pun. It is also possible that some of the enjoyment was derived from the fact that we knew that it pissed off some classes of believers - and that their annoyance, anger, horror or upset pointed to their inability to consider the world rationally. I know that I have been "guilty" of this. Thus there may have been an element of happenstance which lead to the adoption of this name. I don't know. I was not there. But it seems likely. I have certainly named computers so myself. More than once. But this only describes one possible scenario. I have thought of many others which I find offer me excellent reasons to appreciate the choice of name.

On the face of it, Lucifer means simply, the "Bearer of Light." Which sounds good to me, Light having been equated with "truth" since time immemorial. Please note and comprehend the lower-case "t" - correct English usage - and recognition that this "truth" which we pursue is relative, mutable and falsifiable. After all, "truths" are central to effective reasoning.

However, due to historic myth, the "Lucifer" domain name also serves to establish a certain "stay off the grass" kind of a quality to the more fundamentalist inclined - who tend to stay away from here because of it. As fundamentalist argument has no place on this list, this is generally regarded as a no uncertain good.

Yet this would be to diminish the value to me of the Lucifer name. For a second level of meaning can be ascribed to it and enjoyed. This is the tendency for myths to change, and how delightfully apposite it is, that Judeo-Christianity worships the "gods who dwell in darkness" and turn away from "the light bearer." Lucifer tends to remind us of this, and how the forces of the Judeo-Christian religion have always opposed rationality and reason, and how very many martyrs to reason have been created by religion over the years. It also reminds me that light banishes darkness, just as knowledge banishes fear and reason banishes superstition.

A third level comes into play, when we recognize that Prometheus, the gifter of fire to man can be identified in and as Lucifer. Prometheus, bearer of the greatest gift to man, and tortured by the gods ever since. Prometheus may be mythical, but he represents the advance of man, and reminds us of the heroism and aspirations of our bronze age ancestors who started mankind on the path to the technology we enjoy today.

There is another important purpose which the "Lucifer" name serves. This is the fact that the associations above serve as a recursive reminder to us that all myths may have multiple levels of meaning, all of which may be simultaneously valid, indeed, all of which may be necessary in order to achieve understanding. By projection, this applies to memetics as much as to myth for memetics may in and of itself be mythical, yet it still encompasses and enfolds myth within its area of study.

Hope that sheds some light on the subject.


Lucifer

[Chez Daja]

As much as I appreciate those posts, I was pretty much talking about finding the meanings of your real first name and type them in here... That's what you get for not reading the first post of a thread, heh.....

[Cheesevixen]

My name in real life is Staci. I was named after my mothers first love. This was a long time ago when the name Staci was given more often to men than women. It was also more uncommon in the north of the US than the south.

Since my name was from the shorter version in Stacie I will use that meaning.

Basically given to a female it is a Greek word meaning Resurrection. Resurrection as in a living thing dying an then coming back.Now that I think about it.......It fits very well. XD

[Anachlirium]

*feels left out* My name's Froggie. I tried searching it in a names database, but not suprisingly; 'name not found'.. I guess it's made up.