What does your name mean?

[Whaleboy]

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Enter your first name and it'll tell you what your name means, its origins, and its derivatives.

BEN m English
Pronounced: BEN
This name can either be a short form of BENJAMIN or BENEDICT or else it can mean "son" in Hebrew. A notable bearer was Ben Jonson, a 17th-century English poet and playwright.

BENJAMIN m English, French, German, Hungarian, Biblical
Pronounced: BEN-ja-min (English), ben-zha-MEN (French)
From the Hebrew name Binyamin which means "son of the south" or "son of the right hand" . Benjamin in the Old Testament was the twelfth and youngest son of Jacob and the founder of one of the southern tribes of the Hebrews. This name was also borne by Benjamin Franklin, an American statesman, inventor, scientist and philosopher.

The weird thing is that Benjamin isn't my real name. My dad wanted to call me that, my mum didn't and it says Ben on my birth certificate.

[Pekka]

My name means rock. Steady and strong as a rock. Equipped with huge co... steadiness and ultimate powah. That's me.

[Whaleboy]

And your name is?

[Pekka]

My name is Pekka.

[DRoseDARs]

DAVID m English, Jewish, French, Russian, Czech, Biblical
Pronounced: DAY-vid (English), da-VEED (French)
Possibly derived from Hebrew dod meaning "beloved". David was the second and greatest of the kings of Israel, ruling in the 10th century BC. Several stories about him are told in the Old Testament, including his defeat of Goliath, a giant Philistine. Jesus was supposedly descended from him. Other famous bearers of this name include the 5th-century patron saint of Wales, two kings of Scotland, empiricist philosopher David Hume, and explorer David Livingstone. This is also the name of the hero of Charles Dickens' semiautobiographical novel 'David Copperfield'.

[axi]

Achilles

Named after Achilles, the mythical king of the Myrmidons, son of the mortal Peleus and the sea deity Thetis. Achilles was the greatest warrior of the Achaeans in the Trojan war, due to the fact that his body was immune to wounds in all parts except his left heel. This had come because his mother had dipped him as a baby into the Stygian waters, holding him only by the heel. During the ninth year of the war he was in a dispute with Agamemnon and had retired from battle, but he joined and managed to single handedly change the course of the war, after his friend Patroklos was killed by Hector. He killed Hector, but was fatally wounded by a poisoned arrow, shot by Paris, after he was tipped off by the gods about Achilles's weakness.

Achilles got his name from the fact that he was not raised by his mother but by the wise centaur Cheiron. The etymology of the name signifies "one whose lips have not touched a mother's breast".

My grandfather was born in the approximate area where the mythical kingdom of the Myrmidons was (Fthia).

[Bereta_Eder]

very impressive.

interesting the etymology of the name though, axileas, the one without lips ~ who's lips never touched a mother's breast, girasko aei didaskomenos

[MrFun]

Damn it!!!!!!!!


A year ago, I remember looking up the meaning of my name (Andrew), but now I can't recall and I can't be arsed to go Google it -- that would just desacralize my name anyway.

[Bereta_Eder]

Also interesting is how on earth Petros became Pekka
But I suppose it's not so much more different than Pierre or Peter.

[Drogue]

MrFun: Use the link in the first post

[MrFun]

That's the most incospicious link -- very short, and at the very top -- no wonder I missed it.


alrighty then

[MrFun]

interesting . . . . . .


ANDREW m English, Biblical
Pronounced: AN-droo
From the Greek name Andreas, which derives from aner "man" (genitive andros "of a man"). In the New Testament the apostle Andrew was the brother of the apostle Simon Peter. According to legend he was crucified on an X-shaped cross, and he is the patron saint of Scotland, Russia, and Greece. This was also the name of kings of Hungary.

[axi]

Easy.

Use of the Hindo-european lectic type "Pet-" and the common turanic (finnish is related to turkish, IIRC) ending "-ka" (or "-ko"). I should remind you the turkish origin of many greek surnames with ending in "-akos", "-akis", "-ekos", "-ekis". Also think of "gioulekas", "gkekas", and other similar words.

[axi]

ACHILLES m Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Pronounced: a-KIL-eez
Meaning unknown, perhaps derived from Greek achos "pain" or else from the name of the Achelous River in Greece. This was the name of a warrior in Greek legend, one of the central characters in Homer's 'Iliad'. The bravest of the Greek heroes in the war against the Trojans, he was killed by an arrow to his heel, the only vulnerable part of his body.

And of course the site is pulling meanings out of it's digital arse....

[connorkimbro]

so Pekka is equivelant to the english name Peter. Interesting.

my name is Nathanael and (according to what I've been told, it's origin is Hebrew (biblical hebrew) and it means "Gift of God"