[speirsfr]

I'll go first. I hate my name, BTW.

Fraser - "Planter of Strawberries" (Fraise is French for strawberry or something) The amount of shame this has brought upon me from my friends is unimaginable :o Everyone calls me Fraz tho'.

Speirs - No idea what it means, but it has this really annoying 'ei' in it where everyone else wants to write 'ie' because of I before E. It's so bad, my cousin Britney changed the spelling of it

Fraz

[- - e r i k - -]

Erik means warrior. I have no idea why, but I read it on one of those mugs that had the meaning of your name in it...

[cheerios]

Rachael is a bastardization of a biblical name, and supposedly it means little lamb. some days that suits me, and other's its soo far off it's not funny.

[Bluebomber21XX]

cody : A cushion.

patterson : Son of patter =P

[suprz]

my name means "lover of horses"
if you look up the definition you wil find out my real name.....

oh and by the way, i cant stand horses.....

[eep!]

My first name Neil is either irish for champion (so i've been told, anyway) or derived from cornelius which means battle cry or war horn, which is more appropriate as I'm the loudest person I know, when I have to be anyway.

My Family Name Marshall as far as I can remember was something like "takes care of horses" ::shrug::

I'm going to go look it up and find out.

[edit]
http://www.kabalarians.com/male/neil.htm No meanings but mostly right.

Find out what your name means here

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[G Barnett]

Geoffrey -- according to those in the know (my friends, coworkers, family, etc) it means "Full of Sh*t."

Barnett -- again, from the same sources, "Small Barn Where Horses Drop Used Grain."

[finboy]

My real name means "one who stands on tall building with rifle."

[Justin Belisle]

Justin means: "Justin, a 2-syllable boy's name of Latin origin, means: One who is virtuous; just; upright. Justin's ethnic backgrounds include * Irish * Czech . It has religious backgrounds in * Saints .

Belisle is a French name that translates to "Bel = Beautiful
Isle = Island"

[MikeM32]

Michael: Again most likely the typical biblical name/reference. If there's a "further meaning" I'm not aware of it.

McConnell: well I don't know about "meaning" per-se but here's a bit on history of the name McConnell Clan

Mike

[AlbertWu]

my parents named me after einstein, and most chinese families got their last names from a poem, which explains why there's so many of the same last name.

"whenever you wing china, you get the wong number"

[3gg3]

Originally posted by AlbertWu:
<STRONG>"whenever you wing china, you get the wong number </STRONG>

You mean that 'Roo' guy posting here is getting your number by mistake?

[Patrick]

Check out the site http://www.behindthename.com/ . It has a huge listing of names and their history and meanings. They've got a search engine that will look any of it up (meanings or names), if you forget your name or something. Like the guy who said he was a lover of horses is probably named Phillip.

Here's mine:

PATRICK (m) From the Roman name Patricius, which meant "nobleman" (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.

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[juanvaldes]

well, my name wasn't even in the database eep! posted...odd....

John: Bible? Something....
Arthur: probably because of that king guy...I'm mostly english...yeah, I know I'm ashamed of it...
Worthington: again, english name...'family that is worthy'?

okay...the 'behindthename.com' place has
John: disciple of Saint JOHN" (Irish , go figure
Arthur: nadda... I would have expected SOMETHING...oh well...
Worthington: again nadda, but this time I am not so surprised.

so I guess my name means:
disciple of Saint JOHN, nothing, nadda

[cpatubo]

Argh... that site said:

COURTNEY (f,m) From a surname which was derived either from a French place name meaning "domain of CURTIS" or else from a French nickname meaning "short nose".

Hey! I resent that!

[eep!]

Hey, Short nose! could be worse, you could have been called "Cerano de Bergerac"

NEIL (m) From the Gaelic name Niall, which is of disputed origin, possibly "champion" or "cloud" or "passionate". This was the name of a character in Irish legend who passed a test of fire to become king.

MARSHALL (m) From a surname that originally denoted a person who was a marshall. The word marshall originally derives from Germanic marah "horse" and scalc "servant".

woohoo! I was right! "Horse servant"? isn't that illegal?

[MikeM32]

too bad that link seems to only cover first names

Anyway as I said I knew "Michael" is a biblical reference, but here's what the above link got me.....

MICHAEL (m) From the Hebrew name Mikha'el meaning "who is like God?". This was 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 also the name of eight Byzantine emperors and a czar of Russia. Other more modern bearers of this name include Michael Faraday, a chemist and physicist who did important work in magnetism and electricity in the 19th century, and basketball player Michael Jordan.

Mike

[cheerios]

Behind the name says:

RACHAEL (f) Variant of RACHEL

RACHEL (f) "ewe" (Hebrew). She was the favourite wife of Jacob and the mother of Joseph and Benjamin in the Old Testament.

MEREDITH (m,f) Possibly "great lord" or "sea lord" from Welsh Maredudd. A famous bearer of this name as surname was George Meredith, novelist and poet from England.

My last name was changed a couple generations ago, to sound more american, when my family moved to the US from Portugal, so no real relevance.

[johnny_hotrod]

Originally posted by juanvaldes:
<STRONG>well, my name wasn't even in the database eep! posted...odd....

John: Bible? Something....
Arthur: probably because of that king guy...I'm mostly english...yeah, I know I'm ashamed of it...
Worthington: again, english name...'family that is worthy'?

okay...the 'behindthename.com' place has
John: disciple of Saint JOHN" (Irish , go figure
Arthur: nadda... I would have expected SOMETHING...oh well...
Worthington: again nadda, but this time I am not so surprised.

so I guess my name means:
disciple of Saint JOHN, nothing, nadda </STRONG>

Actually, John is Hebrew for "Gift from God". Well at least to the ladies...

[OldManMac]

My first name is Karlheinz.
Karl = German and Scandinavian form of CHARLES. This was the name of seven emperors of Austria. Other famous bearers include Karl Marx, the German philosopher and revolutionary who laid the foundations for communism, and Karl Jaspers, a German existentialist philosopher.
Heinz = Pet form of HEINRICH, which = German form of HENRY. This was the name of several German kings. Henry = "home ruler" from the Germanic name Heimerich, which was composed of the elements heim "home" and ric "power, ruler". This name was introduced into Britain by the Normans. It was borne eight kings of England including the infamous Henry VIII, as well as six kings of France and seven kings of Germany.

I was born in Germany. I didn't know I was royalty!

[cdhostage]

Christopher - bearer of Christ.

More correctly Kristoper = bearer of Christ. This name must have existed as nonsense syllables before Christ, because a very large man like me carried Christ across a river to keep himfrom getting wet. He got named Saint Christopher for that, patron saint of travelers. Go figure.

Duncan - dunno what this means. It's a Scottish highlands name thoug.

Hostage = prisoner. Nuff said.

[tobster]

�orbj�rn Gu�mundsson

�orbj�rn =&gt; Thor and Bear
Basically combines the strengt of two very powerful creatures and says there is no fear in the person that bears the name. Whether that is true or not about me will be left up to others to decide.

Gu�mundsson =&gt; first part means God, but if I remember right it means a victorious male.

Icelanders have their last name built up of their father's name + son/daugter. My father's name is Gu�mundur and therefore I am Gu�mundsson and my sister is Gu�mundssd�ttir/daughter.

[M�lum]

My first name is from the First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians 1.1
My seconf name is the father of Christ
My third name is his wife (very catholic tradition here)

My last name is like a beer.