What's your real life name?

[TopHat]

Thought I'd post this:

MATTHEW

Gender: Masculine

Usage: English, Biblical

Pronounced: MATH-yoo
English form of Ματθαιος (Matthaios), which was a Greek form of the Hebrew name מַתִּתְיָהוּ (Mattityahu) which meant "gift of YAHWEH". Saint Matthew, also called Levi, was one of the twelve apostles, a tax collector. He was supposedly the author of the first Gospel in the New Testament.

 

[Solid Lifters]

I'm Bob.

My dog's name is Bob. Too bad yours is Trevor, or you both could have had the same name. How special.

 

[Muzaffar]

Hey, where do you all get those infos about your name? I don't seem to get it....
Well I don't really know what my name means, but I do know what my father told me. Muzaffar means a name of a great warrior during the early Islamic period (well i'm not so good as history am I?) and Musa, which means Moses in English is well, you can read it here. Cool eh?

 

[Loon]

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.

Hey, where do you all get those infos about your name? I don't seem to get it....
Well I don't really know what my name means, but I do know what my father told me. Muzaffar means a name of a great warrior during the early Islamic period (well i'm not so good as history am I?) and Musa, which means Moses in English is well, you can read it here. Cool eh?

Click any one of those links in Kikie's post. Then at the middle to the top of the page all the way on the right there's a box for you to type in your name.

 

[Muzaffar]

Click any one of those links in Kikie's post. Then at the middle to the top of the page all the way on the right there's a box for you to type in your name.

Thanks I tired to do a search, but the say "MUZAFFAR was not found in this database."

 

[YSSMAN]

The line in dark blue that is the ijssel.

Thats feakin' awesome! Thanks so much!

I honestly had no idea where it was, and I don't think anyone in family really did either. I mean, we've all got stories about my Father's side (the Ysseldykes), but very rarely do they come with significant evidence. My Grandfather keeps going on and on about how we're somehow related to a Duke in the Netherlands, but I don't recall them using that system for ages... Then again, I may be wrong...

 

[Loon]

Thanks I tired to do a search, but the say "MUZAFFAR was not found in this database."

I think its more for 'English' names. Someone else searched their name and got a name not really close to it which didn't help them very much.

 

[ceiling_fan]

DAVID
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Jewish, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Czech, Slovene, German, Scandinavian, Biblical
Other Scripts: דָוִד (Hebrew), Давид (Russian)
Pronounced: DAY-vid (English), dah-VEED (Hebrew), da-VEED (French), dah-VEET (Russian), DAH-fit (German)
Possibly derived from Hebrew דוד (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'.

Just thought I would point that out.

 

[kikie]

I think its more for 'English' names.

This is a better link: More than 'English' names

 

[Muzaffar]

This is a better link: More than 'English' names

Thanks kikie 👍

Well they don't have the exact meanings, but I think it will do

MUSTAFA
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: مصطفى (Arabic)
Means "the chosen one" in Arabic, an epithet of Muhammad. This was the name of four Ottoman sultans. Another famous bearer was Mustafa Kamal, also known as Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey.

MUSA
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic, Turkish
Other Scripts: موسى (Arabic)
Arabic and Turkish form of MOSES

I feel much happier now

 

[Skid Mark 33]

I called my self Skid Mark 33 to confuse people. You would think, "well, it's obvious that his name is Mark". Nope, it's not. My real name is Craig, which sounds nothing like Mark. Confused, I hope you are!

Edit: I'll stop going on about it now!

 

[Jay.]

Jason Clarke - A 'Literate Healer', although I prefer Jay.

JASON

Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Greek Mythology (Latinized), Biblical
Origin/meaning: From the Greek name Ιασων, meaning 'Healer'
It was borne in Greek mythology by the great Thessalian hero who led the Argonauts.
Jason also appears in Acts in the New Testament.

CLARKE

Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Origin/Meaning: Cleric, clerk, or scholar - one who can read and write. Also from the Gaelic
"Mac a' Chlerich/Cleireach". The term clerk eventually (clark/clarke) came to designate any literate man.


Some of the names here have really unusual and fascinating meanings and origins. 👍



Edit: When I was younger, I knew a skid mark to be only one thing.
A brown streak in the back of my kid brothers underwear.

 

[Skid Mark 33]

Edit: When I was younger, I knew a skid mark to be only one thing.
A brown streak in the back of my kid brothers underwear.

LOL!

 

[Turbo Lag]

Jason Clarke - A 'Literate Healer', although I prefer Jay.

JASON

Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Greek Mythology (Latinized), Biblical
Origin/meaning: From the Greek name Ιασων, meaning 'Healer'
It was borne in Greek mythology by the great Thessalian hero who led the Argonauts.
Jason also appears in Acts in the New Testament.

CLARKE

Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Origin/Meaning: Cleric, clerk, or scholar - one who can read and write. Also from the Gaelic
"Mac a' Chlerich/Cleireach". The term clerk eventually (clark/clarke) came to designate any literate man.


Some of the names here have really unusual and fascinating meanings and origins. 👍



Edit: When I was younger, I knew a skid mark to be only one thing.
A brown streak in the back of my kid brothers underwear.

No wonder lol. I actually thought your name was Jay.

 

[Skid Mark 33]

No wonder lol. I actually thought your name was Jay.

I like your new avatar. Where did you get it from?

 

[Jay.]

No wonder lol.

Meaning???


My Avvy?
Made it myself yesterday.

 

[Danny]

w00t, I found my last name too

GRAHAM

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Scottish, English

Pronounced: GRAY-um, GRAM [key]
From a Scottish surname which was originally derived from an English place name which probably meant "gravelly homestead" in Old English. The surname was first taken to Scotland in the 12th century. A famous bearer is Alexander Graham Bell, the Scottish-Canadian-American inventor who devised the telephone.

 

[kikie]

Part of my last name:



So does this mean that I'm part Scottish or English?

My mother's mother last name was french.

 

[Robin]

ROBIN

Gender: Masculine & Feminine

Usage: English

Pronounced: RAH-bin
Pet form of ROBERT. Robin Hood was a legendary hero and archer of medieval England who stole from the rich to give to the poor. This name can also be given in reference to the red-breasted bird.

Yes it can be a girls name!

It is in NO way a pet form a robert..... I hate the name robert!

Robin

 

[Loon]

I called my self Skid Mark 33 to confuse people. You would think, "well, it's obvious that his name is Mark". Nope, it's not. My real name is Craig, which sounds nothing like Mark. Confused, I hope you are!

Edit: I'll stop going on about it now!

Yeah I didn't think that at all...

 

[Dave A]

On a serious note, my real first name is Joe, my middle name is David, I've used my middle name with certain people since school.

 

[Serge.D]

Thats feakin' awesome! Thanks so much!

I honestly had no idea where it was, and I don't think anyone in family really did either. I mean, we've all got stories about my Father's side (the Ysseldykes), but very rarely do they come with significant evidence. My Grandfather keeps going on and on about how we're somehow related to a Duke in the Netherlands, but I don't recall them using that system for ages... Then again, I may be wrong...

My pleasure YSSMAN.
Is there a Jacob Van ysseldyk in your family who had a bulldog called winston.
I found this on Google.

 

[TopHat]

Cool. They have my last name too.

KELLER

Gender: Masculine

Usage: German, English, Scandnavian

Pronounced: KEH-ler (English)

Other Forms: Kelar (German)

Contributed by anonymous on 9/19/2006
Derived from the surname, of which at first meant keller; which was High German for cellar. The was refered to a person living or working in a cellar. As a surname, it belonged to the author Helen Keller.

 

[Dave A]

My surname means son of the old wise warrior, or the son of Alder. I preffer the warrior one.

 

[YSSMAN]

My pleasure YSSMAN.
Is there a Jacob Van ysseldyk in your family who had a bulldog called winston.

I'm not sure. Unfortunately our family "broke in two" when half kept the VanYsseldyke name and the other half went straight into the Ysseldyke mode. The story is that my great-great-grandfather who came to the Grand Rapids area bought some property and after moving in decided to place the name on the mailbox. Unfortunately, VanYsseldyke wouldn't fit, and so the story goes that he had our names changed to better accommodate it.

...It was the 1930s, who knows what they were thinking back then...

Anyway, there are Ysseldykes and VanYsseldykes all over the Mid-West and some outliers in other parts of the country. I found out that I've got a fairly long-distance cousin living in North Carolina not too long ago, not to mention other family members living in Hawaii now.

Its not a "common" name, but there are quite a few of us. A lot of teachers/professors ask me if I'm related to James Ysseldyke, apparently some big child psychologist, but I always tell them that I don't know.

 

[The Night Fox]

My real first name is Thomas

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Mine's Jason. Supposedly means "hero" or "healer", but I haven't done anything heroic and I sure haven't healed anything.

 

[Serge.D]

I'm not sure. Unfortunately our family "broke in two" when half kept the VanYsseldyke name and the other half went straight into the Ysseldyke mode. The story is that my great-great-grandfather who came to the Grand Rapids area bought some property and after moving in decided to place the name on the mailbox. Unfortunately, VanYsseldyke wouldn't fit, and so the story goes that he had our names changed to better accommodate it.

...It was the 1930s, who knows what they were thinking back then...

Anyway, there are Ysseldykes and VanYsseldykes all over the Mid-West and some outliers in other parts of the country. I found out that I've got a fairly long-distance cousin living in North Carolina not too long ago, not to mention other family members living in Hawaii now.

Its not a "common" name, but there are quite a few of us. A lot of teachers/professors ask me if I'm related to James Ysseldyke, apparently some big child psychologist, but I always tell them that I don't know.

I found this on Google.
Holland America Line.
The Noordam Passenger List.
Saturday February 18th 1911.
From Rotterdam to New York via Boulogne-Sur-Mer.
There are a few Van Ysseldyke on that list.Mr. Adriaan Van Ysseldyke and Mrs.Adriaan Van Yssedyke and other Van Ysseldykes.
Google Van Ysseldyke and you will find it.
Hope this will help you.

 

[YSSMAN]

Hrm, very interesting. Thanks for the help! I assume the "extra" 'e' is for the American pronunciation?

 

[ceiling_fan]

Hrm, very interesting. Thanks for the help! I assume the "extra" 'e' is for the American pronunciation?

dyk's are worse than dyke's...