Do you know the meaning/origin of your name?

Question

Do you know the meaning/origin of your name?

Answer 1

yeah, i think mine is like german or russian

Answer 2

In some sources it is defined as "glory and bright."

Kind of pretentious.  Now the curious (or more likely, the terminally bored) have to work backwards to figure out what it is....

Answer 3

Mine's Carol and it means "song"... which I find kind of amusing since I can't carry a tune in a bucket.

Answer 4

my names lola it means free woman in old german or famous in french :| hmmmmmmm lol

Answer 5

Yup my last name is German, and is supposedly "bearer of the cup" or a goblet-maker.

Answer 6

Oscar means Divine Spear in Old English

which is the only meaning am taking since I don't like the other meanings from other origins

Answer 7

My last names (mom's and dad's) are Scottish (Highland Scots) and both of my grandmothers were English and French and one was also German and Dutch.

I am mostly Scottish and Irish. I can trace the families to include these clans: McCallum-Moore, Lamont, & Gordon.

Answer 8

Heather is a flower that originated in Scotland.

Answer 9

The word yoni is the Sanskrit word for "divine passage", "place of birth", "womb" (more as nature as a womb and cradle of all creations) or "sacred temple". The name also has a wider meaning in both profane and spiritual contexts, covering a range of meanings of "place of birth, source, origin, spring, fountain, place of rest, repository, receptacle, seat, abode, home, lair, nest