What's your real life name?

[kikie]

My name is Chris. It's taken from the Latin Is Chrisnam Imbibo Beerum, which means "He who drinks beer".

Oh, I thought you were named after me.

 

[Serge.D]

serge
Gender:Masculine.
Usage:French.
Pronounced:Serzh.
French form of Sergius.

 

[Solid Lifters]

My name is Chris. It's taken from the Latin Is Chrisnam Imbibo Beerum, which means "He who drinks beer".

I'm named after the Greek god of wine. No surprise to my parents when I was an alcoholic at age five, often stealing my dad's beer. (No joke.)

 

[kikie]

I'm named after the Greek god of wine. No surprise to my parents when I was an alcoholic at age five, often stealing my dad's beer. (No joke.)

did you go to AA meetings?

 

[Solid Lifters]

did you go to AA meetings?

Not until I was 30-31.

 

[kikie]

Oops, sorry.

 

[Solid Lifters]

Oops, sorry.

No need to be. I haven't been drunk since then. AA sucked eggs, though, and I quit after three meetings.

OK, back on topic.

 

[kikie]

Chris means:

http://www.behindthename.com/name/chris

so

http://www.behindthename.com/name/christopher

and

http://www.behindthename.com/name/christian

I once read somewhere that *Chris* also means: protector of drivers.


Look TM, we're holy.

 

[Pupik]

Aquarius Sweetwater Muhammad-Jones!

Tell Quinella that Josh wants his money back.

 

[YSSMAN]

Brad
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: Brad-lee

Related: Bradley, Bradford

Meaning: "Broad Clearing," or "Broad Ford"

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My Grandmother is part Welsh/English, may be one of the reasons why I've got the name, and what she always calls be Bradford...

 

[Loon]

Kory

Gender: Masculine

Usage: English

Pronounced: KOR-ee
From a surname which was possibly either derived from the Old Norse given name Kori (of unknown meaning), or else meant "ravine" in Gaelic.

Is there a site like that for last names?

 

[Sting]

Worryingly I went on ancestry.com and typed in my Surname.... although you need to pay and register to get all the details it will show you names in the results.... I've found my father and my names on their, both results including our middle name or initials.

 

[YSSMAN]

Is there a site like that for last names?

I'm not sure, but we had a fellow Dutch family (well, everyone seems to be Dutch in West Michigan) tell us that ours (originally VanYsseldyke, now simply Ysseldyke) means "keeper of the dyke." Apparently the "Yssel" part came from some kind of river, or a dyke on that river, that my family originated from.

Any Dutch folks able to recognize the place?

 

[Alex.]

Forgot the Yssledyke

 

[Greycap]

RENÉ
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French, German, Slovak, Czech, Italian
Pronounced: re-NAY (French)[key]
French form of RENATUS (late Latin for "born again"). A famous bearer was the French mathematician and rationalist philosopher René Descartes.

That's the original, and then my own version as it's modified for the Finnish... yes, I really am Finnish, believe it or not.

RENE
Pronounced: RE-ne ("ne" like the beginning of "never")

 

[Driving Park]

Mine is Brennan Johns.

And I always name my euphoniums Gertrude. Right now I'm on Gertrude IV.

:-)

 

[ddldave]

DAVE

Gender: Masculine

Usage: English

Pronounced: DAYV [key]

 

[Barracuda]

Matthew A. Prescott

I always just use Matt though. I think it looks cool having both my first and last name end with two t's

 

[Turbo Lag]

Leon

Gender: Masculine
Usage:English, German, Polish, Slovene
Pronounced: lee-AHN (English), LE-awn (German, Polish)

Form of LEO. A famous bearer was Leon Trotsky, a Russian Communist revolutionary. This is also the name of a region in Spain, though the etymology is unrelated.
Related to: Leo (literally)
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Leo

Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, German, Late Roman
Pronounced: LEE-o (English), LE-o (German)
Late Latin name meaning "lion", ultimately from Greek λεων (leon). This was the name of 13 popes and several Byzantine emperors. Another famous bearer was Leo Tolstoy, a Russia novelist whose works include 'War and Peace' and 'Anna Karenina'. Leo is also the name of a constellation and the fifth sign of the zodiac.
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My name is pronounced "lee-awn". I was named after my dad, Leo. So my name really means Lion. So now people cant call me wallaby or kangaroo Both our names are German, i never knew that myself. I thought it was Spanish, because i have the SEAT León named after me But that has the accent

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_beer lol

 

[Loon]

What are last names called? First name is surname right? Then what is your last name called?

 

[Danny]

Surname is last name.

Forename is first name.

 

[Loon]

Oh, thanks Danny.

Kory in Irish means "from the hollow".

 

[Appie]

ABDESLAM was not found in this database. Names that sound similar to ABDESLAM:
APUTSIAQ m Native American

 

[Dave A]

I'm Bob.

 

[CDailey]

Liar. You are Trevor.

 

[Serge.D]

I'm not sure, but we had a fellow Dutch family (well, everyone seems to be Dutch in West Michigan) tell us that ours (originally VanYsseldyke, now simply Ysseldyke) means "keeper of the dyke." Apparently the "Yssel" part came from some kind of river, or a dyke on that river, that my family originated from.

Any Dutch folks able to recognize the place?

The line in dark blue that is the ijssel.

 

[HACKr]

It used to be Jessica. Yes, I too was surprised when I found out.

 

[hemisport15]

JOSHUA
Gender: Masculine

Usage: English, Biblical

Pronounced: JAH-shu-wa, JAW-shwa

From the Hebrew name יְהוֹשֻׁעַ (Yehoshu'a) which meant "YAHWEH is salvation". Joshua was one of the twelve spies sent into Canaan by Moses in the Old Testament. After Moses died Joshua succeeded him as leader of the Israelites. The name Jesus is derived from this name.
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Everyone just calls me Josh or Jersh<--Long story. only a few people call me by my last name. and in my spanish class at school we get to choose a spanish name to be called by and i chose Jesús.

 

[ceiling_fan]

DAVID
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Jewish, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Czech, Slovene, German, Scandinavian, Biblical
Other Scripts: &#1491;&#1464;&#1493;&#1460;&#1491; (Hebrew), &#1044;&#1072;&#1074;&#1080;&#1076; (Russian)
Pronounced: DAY-vid (English), dah-VEED (Hebrew), da-VEED (French), dah-VEET (Russian), DAH-fit (German)
Possibly derived from Hebrew &#1491;&#1493;&#1491; (dvd) 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.
Famous bearers of this name include the 5th-century patron saint of Wales, two kings of Scotland, empiricist philosopher David Hume, emperor of the underworld David Wagner, and explorer David Livingstone. This is also the name of the hero of Charles Dickens' semiautobiographical novel 'David Copperfield'.

 

[Loon]

and in my spanish class at school we get to choose a spanish name to be called by and i chose Jesús.

HEY-Zeus, com-ere! Its funny when people with that name tell it to someone, and then that person writes it like how it sounds.