What Your Name Means?

[Vancleef]

LINUS

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized), Ancient Greek (Latinized), German, Scandinavian

Other Scripts: Λινος (Ancient Greek)

Pronounced: LIE-nəs (English), LEE-nuws (German) [key]
From the Greek name Λινος (Linos) meaning "flax". In Greek legend he was the son of the god Apollo, who accidentally killed him in a contest. Another son of Apollo by this name was the music teacher of Herakles. The name was also borne by the second pope, serving after Saint Peter in the 1st century. In modern times it was the name of a character in Charles Schulz's comic strip 'Peanuts'.



My hair is dark brown, not flaxen...

The son of apollo thing was kind of neat.

Ah well.

 

[smurf_you]

STEPHANIE
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, German
Pronounced: STEF-ə-nee (English), SHTE-fah-nee (German) [key]
Feminine form of STEPHEN

okayyyy


STEPHEN
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Biblical
Pronounced: STEEV-ən (English), STEF-ən (English) [key]
From the Greek name Στεφανος (Stephanos) meaning "crown". Saint Stephen was a deacon who was stoned to death, as told in Acts in the New Testament, and he is regarded as the first Christian martyr. Due to him, the name became common in the Christian world. It was popularized in England by the Normans.

hm, neat

 

[instantbenz]

Before I had looked at this I knew it to mean 'Ruler of the People'. No wonder I had a vanity problem.

ERIC
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French, Swedish
Pronounced: ER-ik (English), er-EEK (French) [key]
From the Old Norse name Eiríkr, derived from the elements ei "ever" and ríkr "ruler". A notable bearer was Eiríkr inn Rauda (Eric the Red in English), a 10th-century navigator and explorer who discovered Greenland. This was also the name of several early kings of Sweden, Denmark and Norway.
This common Norse name was first brought to England by Danish settlers during the Anglo-Saxon period. It was not popular in England in the Middle Ages, but it was revived in the 19th-century, in part due to the children's novel 'Eric, or Little by Little' (1858) by Frederic William Farrar.

 

[Takuanuva]

Krzysztof:
Polish Name Meaning - polish form of christopher christ bearer.
Fun fact: I'm a hardcore Atheist.

 

[Wewt]

Samo
Which originates from the old slavic name ''Sam'' - which means alone.
It doesn't really fit me. Maybe when I was younger, but I'm a lot more extroverted now than how I used to be.

 

[DasDestroyer]

ILIA
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian, Bulgarian, Old Church Slavic
Other Scripts: Илья (Russian), Илия (Bulgarian), Илїа (Church Slavic)
Pronounced: eel-YAH (Russian) [key]
Variant transcription of ILYA or ILIYA

Meaning "My god is He" (Hebrew meaning) or "great or glorious" (Kurdish meaning)(from Wiki)
Neither meaning really fits, as I am an atheist and there is nothing really great or glorious about me.

 

[SageRuffin]

My first name, "Jason", is a spelling variation of the Greek name "Iason", which translates in to "healer". My middle name, "Alexander", is also Greek, it meaning "defender of mankind".

So I'm a healer and defender of mankind. Ironic, considering how much I hate today's society...

 

[Snowy Rainbow]

Meh, my name means "pale/white shoulders" in Irish. It either alludes to the pale skin of royalty who didn't go out and toil in the sun, or blonde hair. That's how I had it explained to me anyway.

My shoulders have freckles on them btw, but are pretty pale despite that so I guess it fits?

You are shoulder freckled royalty ^^

OT: my name means brave and strong apparently. Oh how wrong they are!

 

[AbsoluteVirtue18]

MATTHEW
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Biblical
Pronounced: MATH-yoo (English) [key]
English form of Ματθαιος (Matthaios), which was a Greek form of the Hebrew name מַתִּתְיָהוּ (Mattityahu) meaning "gift of YAHWEH". Saint Matthew, also called Levi, was one of the twelve apostles. He was a tax collector, and supposedly the author of the first Gospel in the New Testament. As an English name, Matthew has been in use since the Middle Ages.

Meh, nothing I didn't know already. Guess it fits, seeing as I'm the only Christian in my immediate family.

 

[teqrevisited]

Jonathan

From the Hebrew name יְהוֹנָתָן (Yehonatan) (contracted to יוֹנָתָן (Yonatan)) meaning "YAHWEH has given". "Gift from God."

My last name means a brave or powerful man, often used as a nickname for a champion jouster.

 

[TiloXofXTanto]

Tilo
Similar to
Tillo
Derived from
Tielo
Derived from
Dietrich
Derived from
Theodoric
Which came from a Germanic word which means:
"Ruler of the people"

I'm the king of Germany.

 

[RaivokasMagma]

My name means "FuriousMagma". I took it from translated Super Castlevania IV manual, that I found from the internet.

 

[df458]

HUGUES:
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
French form of HUGH

HUGH:
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: HYOO
From the Germanic element hug, meaning "heart, mind, spirit". It was common among Frankish and French nobility, being borne by Hugh Capet, a 10th-century king of France who founded the Capetian dynasty. The Normans brought the name to England and it became common there, even more so after the time of the 12th-century bishop Saint Hugh of Lincoln, who was known for his charity. This was also the name of kings of Cyprus and the crusader kingdom of Jerusalem. The name is used in Ireland and Scotland as the Anglicized form of Aodh and Ùisdean.

 

[Otterby]

EERO
A Finnish variant of the Nordic "Erik", originally Eirich (if I remember correctly) meaning "autocrat". While I may attempt to lead with an iron fist in situations where I am made leader, I don't really seek such situations, and I do usually try to find out the opinions of my companions. So, no, it doesn't really fit, regal as it may be.