What does your first name mean?

And where did it come from?

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Jonathan - From the Hebrew name Yehonatan (contracted to Yonatan) meaning "YAHWEH has given". In the Old Testament Jonathan was the eldest son of Saul and a friend of David. He was killed in battle with the Philistines. A famous bearer of this name was Jonathan Swift, the satirist who wrote 'Gulliver's Travels' and other works.

 

Clinton - From a surname which was originally from a place name meaning "settlement on the summit" in Old English.

Heh, that's pretty boring.

 

Kristopher but it showed it as christopher Means "bearing Christ", derived from Late Greek Christos combined with pherein "to bear, to carry". Christopher was the legendary saint who carried the young Jesus across a river. He is the patron saint of travellers. Another famous bearer was Christopher Columbus, the explorer who reached the West Indies in the 15th century.

 

Lisa, an adaptation of Elizabeth, from the Hebrew name Elisheba, meaning 'consecrated to God'.

 

Elizabeth - From Elisabet, the Greek form of the Hebrew name Elisheba meaning "my God is an oath" or perhaps "my God is abundance".

The funny thing is that none of that was even remotely a consideration...my mom named me after her obstetrician's wife, and my older sisters all agreed it was a good name. Nowhere in family legend is there information on whether or not my dad got a say.

 

<sigh> mine means my mother wanted to be a hippy..
My name is Charity, I figure I got lucky though, I have a brother named levi and a sister named Stormy too..lol

In part this name means "charity" from the English word. It is also derived in part from the Late Latin name Caritas which meant "generous love", ultimately from Latin carus "dear, beloved".

 

Although that website says: Anglicized form of the Gaelic name Dubhghlas, which meant "dark river" or "blood river" from Gaelic dubh "dark" and glais "water, river", I always understood its origin to mean "from the dark waters"-- close enough, I guess.

My mom just liked it because it wasn't Mark, Brad, Steve or Phil-- very popular names when I was born. http://www.dougs.org

 

My first name is Joseph, and I was told it meant "gift from God" but according to the website:

From the Latin Josephus, which was from the Greek Iosephos, which was from the Hebrew name Yoseph meaning "he will add". In the Old Testament Joseph was the eleventh son of Jacob. Because he was the favourite of his father, his older brothers sent him to Egypt and told their father that he had died. In Egypt, Joseph became an advisor to the pharaoh, and was eventually reconciled with his brothers when they came to Egypt during a famine. This is the name of two characters in the New Testament: Joseph the husband of Mary and Joseph of Arimathea. Also, rulers of the Holy Roman Empire have had this name.

 

Nathaniel means Gift from God......my youngest son's name

 

And apparently Jonathan means gift of god, so many names do.

 

I'm American, honey. Our names don't mean shit.