Does your given name fit you?

Pink Dahlia · Dec 10, 2007

LordJohnRoxton said:
Come on Fhqwhgads, I say come on Fhqwhgads. Everybody to the limit...

lol lol lol

You're the best.

ClaraB · Dec 10, 2007

Whats in a name?

This is an interesting thread. I find it fascinating how many people have dropped their first names, something that I might be inclined to do in the future.
My name is Randi, I am named after my father....my parents really wanted a boy and couldn't come up with anything for a girl when I was born. Its just Randi, not Miranda or anything and I guess it is:

Of Scandanavian origin, a shortened form of an old name from the elements 'regin', and 'frid', meaning 'counsel' and 'beautiful' respectively.

However, the name makes it on several "bad name lists" all over the web for its secondary meaning.

My middle name is Ellen and I often go by Randi Ellen in order to differentiate myself from my father....people used to use little or big in front of our names but that became problematic when my height neared that of my father and surpassed many who used little to describe me. Ellen is for my great grandmother who I guess was a wonderful woman. Ellen means torch or bright light, doesn't quite fit either.

I guess the combo in its entirety, Randi Ellen, isn't that bad, besides I can't seem to think of myself as anyone else.

TheDutchess · Dec 12, 2007

this does not fit me at all

Brandy

Gender: Feminine

Usage: English

Pronounced: BRAN-dee [key]

Simply means "brandy" from the English word for the alcoholic drink. It is ultimately from Dutch brandewijn "distilled wine".

I don't drink a lick of alcohol lol Ah well, My parents apparently really loved the 80's because for some reason Brandy screams 80's to me.

Baron Kurtz · Dec 12, 2007

Wiki: "Peter is a popular male given name. It comes from the Greek word πέτρα (read petra, in Latin used as petro-), meaning rock, or cliff."

I often feel like I am living on the edge of a precipice/cliff. Which way shall i fall? Who knows. I teeter this way and that. It's a long way down and i'm scared of the fall. This fear is the only thing that keeps me from falling.

i appear to be tenacious. I don't give up without knowing something is truly beyond hope. I'm certainly not a rock . . . Very fragile.

bk

Miss Neecerie · Dec 12, 2007

Baron Kurtz said:
Wiki: "Peter is a popular male given name. It comes from the Greek word πέτρα (read petra, in Latin used as petro-), meaning rock, or cliff."

I often feel like I am living on the edge of a precipice/cliff. Which way shall i fall? Who knows. I teeter this way and that. It's a long way down and i'm scared of the fall. This fear is the only thing that keeps me from falling.

i appear to be tenacious. I don't give up without knowing something is truly beyond hope. I'm certainly not a rock . . . Very fragile.

bk

sorry...your first name is now Baron....lol

live with it

Big Man · Dec 12, 2007

My given name is William. I was named after my dad and my granddad (I'm William, III). My son is Will, IV and my grandson is William, V. I have always felt that there was something special about being named after someone, and don't believe anything other than "William, III" would fit me.

I've had several nicknames over the years, including "Moose" (picked that one up from Army days - something about crashing through the brush), and "Sasquatch" from a time when I worked with the Forest Service (don't ask about that one).

Baron Kurtz · Dec 12, 2007

Big Man said:
"Sasquatch" from a time when I worked with the Forest Service (don't ask about that one).

Do you happen to wear a wristwatch?

bk

Big Man · Dec 12, 2007

Baron Kurtz said:
Do you happen to wear a wristwatch?

bk

??????

I usually carry a pocket watch.

Baron Kurtz · Dec 12, 2007

There was a fake Sasquatch video from the 1970s - to which i was referring - where the dude in a gorilla suit was caught out because he was wearing a Timex . . . you guessed it - outside the gorilla suit. :eusa_doh:

bk

~*Red*~ · Dec 12, 2007

imoldfashioned said:
Also, songs with your name in them; I suffered through several. Fie on you Jefferson Starship and Hall and Oates!

Add one more Sarah to the list... and although I've been serenaded those songs, I refuse to recognize them as they are not spelled in the CORRECT way. for me anyway! ha ha!lol But I do think that Bob Dylan did a song with "Sarah".. spelled with an"H".

As for my name meaning..Princess as we know...and my middle name being Lucia, meaning "Light". I am a Princess of Light.

Funny addition.. my husband, his name in Gaelic means " little king", So we are a Princess of light and a little King. lol With Christmas for a daughter. (but that was planned knowing the due date and all) lol

Big Man · Dec 12, 2007

Baron Kurtz said:
There was a fake Sasquatch video from the 1970s - to which i was referring - where the dude in a gorilla suit was caught out because he was wearing a Timex . . . you guessed it - outside the gorilla suit. :eusa_doh:

bk

Nope, not me ...

The nickname probabally derived from the Sasquatch frenzy of the early 1970's, combined with my being large of stature, having a full beard, and working in the woods. (Alcohol may also have been involved, but that's another story ...)

Helen Troy · Dec 13, 2007

Hey, funny thread! Alas, since I am Norwegian, it's difficult to explain the things people think and feel when they hear my name. I can't even spell it right, since it has one of the strange non-american letters in it.

To give it a shot: My name is Ingebjoerg, (or Ingebj-insert strange looking "o" with a / across-rg). It is a traditonal, rural name, and I can almost hear the hardingfiddles playing folk tunes and see the humble farms in the mountains when I hear my name. Not very fitting. Also, my name is put together of two old norse words: The first is the name of a god, "Ing", (a fertility god), and the word for "castle/house." So, to try an interpretation, my name means "The house of Ing" or maybe "The house of fertility" or something like that. Really nothing you can relate to.

There is only a very popular old song with my name in it, about a certain Ingebjoerg who has tried everything before, even kissing (and more) the groom in the big wedding she is guest to. It has a very annoying refrain that goes something like:"...everybody but Ingebjoerg, 'cause she had kissed him before!." I am very tired of that song.

Please bear over with me going on about things that you probably can't relate to, or are interested in. I just can't help it, I'm a chatterbox in real life and it seems that I take that with me on the net.

diverguy · Dec 13, 2007

Vigilant

They say "Greg" means vigilant...

Wake me when it's over!

$ally · Dec 13, 2007

Pink Dahlia said:
That's why I like Sallypants. It's original.

That it is dear! Actually my name is Saili, but it's pronounced Sally.

hepkitten · Dec 13, 2007

I always thought my given name was boring. Christine = follower of Christ. Middle name Marie = after the Madonna. Can you tell I was born into a devout Catholic household? As far as fitting now...no, not so much.

If anyone's interested in their name's popularity over the past 100+ years, or if you're just generally a geek (like me) this site is tops: Baby Name Wizard's Name Voyager. Ostensibly I use it to find appropriate character names (I write historical fiction), but I've lost lots of time just playing around, seeing how names have fared over the past century-plus. Take Bella. Disappeared in the '30s, is now making a huge comeback! (Yeah, I wasn't kidding about the geek thing.)

Dr Doran · Dec 13, 2007

~*Red*~ said:
Add one more Sarah to the list... and although I've been serenaded those songs, I refuse to recognize them as they are not spelled in the CORRECT way. for me anyway! ha ha!lol But I do think that Bob Dylan did a song with "Sarah".. spelled with an"H".

As for my name meaning..Princess as we know...and my middle name being Lucia, meaning "Light". I am a Princess of Light.

Funny addition.. my husband, his name in Gaelic means " little king", So we are a Princess of light and a little King. lol With Christmas for a daughter. (but that was planned knowing the due date and all) lol

Sarah is a fine name. The first two things that jumpt to mind are somewhat negative, however:

1.) Augustine gives a hideously inaccurate etymology of Sara and Sarai in City of God , which I was forced to read this semester in a graduate seminar. He clearly had not the faintest knowledge of Hebrew. This is in one of the sections in which he reinterprets the Abraham/Sara/Hagar menage-a-trois, surely central for the rescuing of sexuality for Christendom from its demograhically unsustainable previous programme.

2.) There is also that horrid song by Jefferson Starship: "SARAH, SA-A-RA-A-AH, STORMS ARE BREWIN IN YOUR EYES. SARAH, SA-A-RA-A-AH, NOOO TIME IS A GOOOD TIME FOR GOODBYES."

But despite all that, I think it's a fine name.

patrick1987 · Dec 18, 2007

Patrick = nobleman, yes it suits me.

Feraud · Dec 18, 2007

Baron Kurtz said:
There was a fake Sasquatch video from the 1970s - to which i was referring - where the dude in a gorilla suit was caught out because he was wearing a Timex . . . you guessed it - outside the gorilla suit. :eusa_doh:

bk

This is the funniest thing I have read in a long while.
I love it! lol

As for me..

MICHAEL
Gender: Masculine

Usage: English, German, Czech, Biblical

Pronounced: MIE-kul (English), MI-khah-el (German) [key]

From the Hebrew name מִיכָאֵל (Mikha'el) which meant "who is like God?". This is the name of one of the seven archangels in Hebrew tradition and the only one identified as an archangel in the Bible. In the Book of Revelation in the New Testament he is portrayed as the leader of heaven's armies, and thus is considered the patron saint of soldiers.
This was the name of nine Byzantine emperors and a czar of Russia. Other more modern bearers of this name include the 19th-century chemist/physicist Michael Faraday and basketball player Michael Jordan.

BegintheBeguine · Dec 19, 2007

fftopic: Q: "Have they found Bigfoot?" A: "Not Yeti."
Hey, just because he's Sasquatch doesn't mean he doesn't need to know the correct time. As he doesn't have a pocket he has to wear a wristwatch.

pgoat · Dec 21, 2007

Mine means 'lover of horses' but as I was thrown from a horse at a young age, I gather they don't necessarily love me back!

I've stuck with bicycles ever since!

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