[TheDoctor]

NATALIE
Gender: Feminine

Usage: French, English, German

Pronounced: nat-a-LEE (French), NAD-ə-lee (English), NAH-tah-lee (German) [key]

From the Late Latin name Natalia, which meant "Christmas Day" from Latin natale domini. This was the name of the wife of the 4th-century martyr Saint Adrian of Nicomedia. She is venerated as a saint in the Orthodox Church, and the name has traditionally been more common among Eastern Christians than those in the West. It was popularized in America by actress Natalie Wood (1938-1981), who was born to Russian immigrants.

Here is my last name.....

PARKER
Gender: Masculine & Feminine

Usage: English

Pronounced: PAHR-kər [key]

From an English occupational surname which meant "keeper of the park".



This is kinda funny. I was born 6 months early in june not is december.....

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THIS IS ALL THEY WOULD GIVE ME.


TAYLOR

Gender: Masculine & Feminine

Usage: English

Pronounced: TAY-lər [key]
From an English surname which originally denoted someone who was a tailor, from Norman French taillur, ultimately from Latin taliare "to cut". Its modern use as a feminine name may have been influenced by British author Taylor Caldwell (1900-1985).

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JOHN
Gender: Masculine

Usage: English, Biblical

Pronounced: JAHN (English) [key]

English form of Iohannes, the Latin form of the Greek name Ιωαννης (Ioannes), itself derived from the Hebrew name יוֹחָנָן (Yochanan) meaning "YAHWEH is gracious". This name owes its popularity to two New Testament characters, both highly revered saints. The first was John the Baptist, a Jewish ascetic who was considered the forerunner of Jesus Christ. The second was the apostle John, who was also supposedly the author of the fourth Gospel and Revelation.
This name was initially more common among Eastern Christians in the Byzantine Empire, but it flourished in Western Europe after the First Crusade. In England it became extremely popular: during the later Middle Ages it was given to approximately a fifth of all English boys.

The name (in various spellings) has been borne by 21 popes and eight Byzantine emperors, as well as rulers of England, France, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Portugal, Bulgaria, Russia and Hungary. It was also borne by the poet John Milton (1608-1674), philosopher John Locke (1632-1704), American founding father and president John Adams (1735-1826), and poet John Keats (1795-1821). Famous bearers of the 20th century include author John Steinbeck (1902-1968), assassinated American president John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), and musician John Lennon (1940-1980).

hmm quite an intresting site thanks for this one.

[gusecrync]

mine translates as "shield wolf", which is much better'n anything i could have hoped.

[Efksqhyu]

If I may just add these thoughts to this thread:

There is a difference between a person's name acting as a label and a person's true name.

At the heart of all the lost traditions was the teaching of the power of the WORD.
Every society, tradition and religion used the secret arts of sound, music and words to teach, heal and enlighten.

The ancient God names are specific signals that can be used to call upon aspects of the one divine force throughout the Universe. They represent manifestations of the divine within our Universe.

The oldest of these traditions is the Kemetic religion of ancient Egypt.
It has always taught that to know someone's name is to have power over them.

A well known story is one about Aset (Isis) who learns the true name of Amon and thus has power over Him and uses Heka to retrieve her husband Wesir (Osiris) from the Underworld. (allegory for Spiritual Rebirth?)

It is also known that the Universe and everything in it was begun with 'The Divine Utterance' 'The Word' which I see as the Primordial Vibration from which everything was put into motion by.

In Hindu cosmology, the name of a thing is actually a vital key to understanding its inner nature.

To quote from Sufi Hazrat Inyat Khan:
"There is a great secret hidden in name . . . All mystery is hidden in name . . . the meaning of name plays an important part in man's life, and the sound, the vowels, the rhythm, number of the letters which compose it, the mystical numbers, symbol and planet, as well as the root from which it is derived, all disclose their secret."

[DailyRingtone]

Sorry for what, Isis? You pointed me an informative site and i liked it. So did a lot of other people. We do not think you are fishing for information so you can have power over anyone like that OTHER Isis did.


People keep changing thoughout thier lives. I think eveyone should change their name every ten years or so, because we are not the same people we were. That psychotic fourth grader had nothing in common with the pudgy twit that i was in college, who is not me as i am today, either. Certainly we can get new titles ("Lord Magistrate of Colorado" has a nice ring to it) but i look back twenty years and wonder why that idiot got to use my name. At least with on-line handles we can do this easily.

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@isis: Interesting page. Few years ago my Greek teacher already explained to me the meaning of my name. All i could say then and now is: meaning of my name is almost totally opposite to my nature ... that's what u get when parents give a christian name to a black soul.

@EtuMalku: i heard of this many times and i have a question: true name? isn't this true name the reflection of your soul or your true self therefore not the name that u get as a child? how can your mother or father know your true name since the reason for naming u for ex. Deedee is because it was your grandmother's nickname and has absolutely no connection to her name, spirit or anything else? how can this name be a reflection of you, that is, of your true self and how can someone use it against u when it is not Your name? ... i don't really understand that part :S and with all that changing names thing: today i'm suzy, next year i'm Georgina and 2 years later i'm Deedee (no, i DON'T have a thing for this name: Dexter's lab was just on tv and her name is still ringing in my ear)

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No no no, Isis: I wasn't directing anything towards you or your name, I'm sorry if you perceived it that way, certainly not my intention what so ever.

Yes, your parents wouldn't know the true name of your being, your vibration, perhaps only your Higher-Self / Holy Guardian knows your true name?

[derty]

Apologies for reviving an old thread, but this is something I have much interest in. (I'm pseudo-obsessed with names and their meanings.)

THIS IS ALL THEY WOULD GIVE ME.


TAYLOR

Gender: Masculine & Feminine

Usage: English

Pronounced: TAY-lər [key]
From an English surname which originally denoted someone who was a tailor, from Norman French taillur, ultimately from Latin taliare "to cut". Its modern use as a feminine name may have been influenced by British author Taylor Caldwell (1900-1985).

Heh, my name is Taylor as well. Not from any British author, though; it was my great-grandfather's surname.

My full name means (though I've taken slight liberties in the arrangement of words), "Clothes-maker and defender of the beloved one." If one really wanted it to make sense, I guess it could be condensed to "Armor of the beloved one," but I'm disinclined to that one.

[Chito]

LOL here is mine... by the way, great idea for a thread Isis


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.