Thread: What does your name means?

let all know what your name means & whay it is named so? что вы эовут жначитъ?

Although I insist on not acting like one, my name DOMINGO means 'dirty old man'...he he he

So you want to know member's real name?

Ivana:

In Hebrew, the name Ivana means - Gift from God..

очен хорощо. Wow ,"Ivana means Gift from god "

Originally Posted by Ina

So you want to know member's real name?

Ivana:

I have the same name - but the Northern European version, Johanna.

It's a woman who went to the grave of Jesus, after he was resurrected. The Bible says that she was married to "a rich man". No such luck for me! Nothing else is known about her.

Originally Posted by kybarry

"I'm American, honey, our names don't mean shit"

Sure they do - American names are usually fun and interesting.
Apart from the extremely weird habit of giving women surname as their Christian names. I.e. "Taylor".


I am fascinated by the meaning of Asian names --- from Asian friends I have heard all the beautiful meanings of these names. Some would really be quite a challenge to live up to.

прияатно!!.

Originally Posted by Hanna

I have the same name - but the Northern European version, Johanna.

Really? I though Johanna is BCS Jovana, Italian Giovanna.
Johan (God is gracious, like in Ivana!!!!) = John (English)= Jovan (Serbian/Croatian/Macedonian), it's not Ivan.

I read somewhere that Ian is Ivan. Iana is here Jana (in English Jane).

I hope it's not confusing.... (:

Ina, your name, Ina, means mother in Tagalog..Iba na in tagalog means "now it is different'..Well, now I know that Ivana is Hebrew and that it means Gift from God..nice name..I hope you don't mind me adding somethings 'allegedly thought' to be nonsense..Just widening your knowledge or vocabulary..

Dmitry comes from Greek Demetrius. It means "devoted to Demetra". Demetra is Greek Mother-Earth Goddess. So literally I am the paladin of Demetra

хорощо. вы иэ грекей?. we call it( Mother Earth Goddess) as "Vasundhara"- Green Earth

"I'm American, honey, our names don't mean shit"

By the way my name is a name of god itself. меня эовут доттотрая, и зто эовут иэ бог. sorry for my bad russian

Dmitry - Russian name. Many of Russian names come from Greek. Orthodox Church used Greek language like Catholic Church used Latin.

I am an American, too, and I am not ashamed to give my meaning.

Carol (French) "song".

BTW, I wonder what Boukreev means. (you can see my other posts---I posted about pronunciation.)

My mother's middle name was Carol. She named me after that.

Carol

Originally Posted by CarolUSA44

I am an American, too, and I am not ashamed to give my meaning.

Carol (French) "song".

BTW, I wonder what Boukreev means. (you can see my other posts---I posted about pronunciation.)

My mother's middle name was Carol. She named me after that.

Carol

прияатна. "Song"
я лумат это традисия всуду в мтр к назвоние как это. i think it's a tradition everywhere in world to name a child after their root parents.

Originally Posted by sawat.datta

Я думаю, что это традиция всюду в мире называть детей в честь предков.

Originally Posted by CoffeeCup

спосиба. I need this kind of help from you in future also.

Спасибо.

Originally Posted by sawat.datta

я лумат это традисия всуду в мтр к назвоние как это. i think it's a tradition everywhere in world to name a child after their root parents.

"Root" parent? Hmmm. Do you mean their father and mother or grandparents? I know that in some cultures you do NOT name the child after anyone who is currently living, so if you mean the child's mother and father... that would not be a tradition everywhere.

But then you get some Catholic families who all name the girls in the family Mary [something], like Mary Ellen, Mary Elizabeth, Mary Margaret, Mary Catherine... they are "called" by their middle name though.

I'm trying to remember... I believe it is Koreans who name the generation all the same name. I worked with a guy years ago who told me this. He and all of his siblings and cousins (male and female) all had the same name.

Originally Posted by rockzmom

"Root" parent? Hmmm. Do you mean their father and mother or grandparents? I know that in some cultures you do NOT name the child after anyone who is currently living, so if you mean the child's mother and father... that would not be a tradition everywhere.

In Russian this works both ways for grandparents and for parents. If a family has a tradition to name a boy after a grandfather then taking into account Russians' using patronymic the boy's and his grandfather's names would coincide totally as well as the names of the father and the grand-grandfather. On the other hand if a family like it is possible to name a boy after his father and we can take for example our newly elected old president "Владимир Владимирович".

Originally Posted by rockzmom

But then you get some Catholic families who all name the girls in the family Mary [something], like Mary Ellen, Mary Elizabeth, Mary Margaret, Mary Catherine... they are "called" by their middle name though.

I'm trying to remember... I believe it is Koreans who name the generation all the same name. I worked with a guy years ago who told me this. He and all of his siblings and cousins (male and female) all had the same name.

According to what I read about Koreans these two cases are close to one another. A Korean name consist of three parts. First is the family name and the two other parts are the first name. The last part of the first name is shared among the siblings as a tradition.