Your Name Origin

Tell us your name and its country/region of origin. If you know its meaning, mention that too!

 

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  1. My mother has Persian and Armenian from her dads side. My father was pure English and had a bit of Irish in him. I’m 80% English, 5% Scottish, 5% Irish, 5% Armenian, and 5% Persian.

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  2. My first name halima is Turkish and Arabic which means gentle and um not either one of those races which is odd and my middle name Simone is french and I’m not sure on what it means ….and my last name būæwer or bauman is Jewish and northern German which means neighbor or something

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  3. My name Isaac is Hebrew for “He laughs.” It is biblical. My last name Kassis means “Minister” in Arabic.

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  4. I’m really mixed but I have an italian middle name and I’m not italian. My first name is Irish but idk what it means and idk what my last name is. Briana teasley

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  5. Barbara comes from the Greek word barbaros (barbarian). It means foriegn. It is more commonly used in Germany, Chile, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia.

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    • My surname Goodman comes from the Anglo-Saxon spelling Guethmund. Gueth means battle and Mund means protection. The Olde English of Goodman comes from God meaning good and Man meaning head of. There are several spellings of Goodman with the oldest deriving from Germany, which is spelled Guttmann.

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  6. I’m Mexican . My last name is Lozano . I’m not sure what the country of origin is but I think it means luxurious

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  7. My first name is aleah and my last name is stewart

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  8. my name is nia it means Lustrous,Goal,Radiance,Brightness,and Purpose in Gaelic,Welsh and Swahili

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  9. My last name is Leverett. Does anyone have an idea what’s the origin?

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  10. First Name: Pamela
    Middle Name: Melody

    Both my first and middle names are Greek. Put them together and they mean ‘Honey Song’.
    I don’t have a trace of Greek blood in me, by the way. My mom just loved Greek names.

    Just for the record, I’m not sharing my last name for privacy reasons.

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  11. where do think batise come from i dont know if it spanish french or italian what do you think

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  12. my great grand mom last name was batise

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  13. Viramontes Is My Last Name. I’ve Never In My Life Have Meet A Person With That Last Name. Some Online Sources Say That It’s From Spain. My Parents Are Mexican. Would That Mean Im The Mix Of Both…
    Vira – idk what means, Montes- mountains = viramontes

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  14. Hey, well first I would appreciate if some of you could help with my families distant orgins(race, ethnicity, etc.) Well am Mexican american. But my parents were born in Mexico. My mom’s maiden surname was Tirado. My dad’s surname is Cavazos. My mom is from Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico. My dad is from Monterrey, Mexico. My grandparents(mom’s side) surnames were Tirado and Lizarraga. My other grandparents(dad’s sidd) surnames invluded Garcia, Torres, and Gumaro. So with that can anybody help with our families original orgons as I see Mexico seems to be diverse.

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  15. shayla means fairy palace, its origin is gaelic and i do have some europian ansestors further up my family tree :)

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  16. it’s Jew 100%

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  17. Does anyone know the origin of last name merida?

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  18. Tuana means raindrop & it’s of Turkish Origin.

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  19. My last name is Cathers. It’s of Scottish origin, although my ancestors came from Ireland :/. My ancestry is really confusing! lol

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  20. My lastname is Kovacs, originally Kovàcs, and I got it from my Hungarian granpa, and my lastname is the second most common in Hungary, in english it means Smith. I also have Estonian, Ukrainian, Chinese, Armenian and Catalan/Mexican in me, and I speak Spanish at home with my mom, even if my Mexican is only 1/4… But Im an American, and I love being what I am…. Be proud of your ancestry and of being an American!!!!

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    • Ah and my Hungarian ancestry and lastname and because I speak some Hungarian, this fact created some problems with the father of my girlfriend, because his parents were Slovaks, and he said that he hates Hungarians because we hungarians stole slovak lands in 1940, and so we had a big discussion because I said that slovaks stole to Hungarians…. well now Im steel with that girl, but I always try to not see his father…. crazy things…

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  21. my last name is oranday what does it mean

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  22. My moms maiden name is Suero. She told me it was an only last name , only her family had it ? Help?

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  23. My moms last name was Golc. Im from Slovenia. Does anyone knows from where this last name comes?

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  24. So my first name is Aleah and my last name is Stewart my dad has light brown hair and he is pale well my mom has mixed hair colors but her natural hair color is blonde and she is also pale. I have slanted eye’s and I have olive skin color.

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  25. Im a quarter American and Brazilian my last name is Stewart

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  26. my last name is Winn. where does that come from.

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    • Could Winn be a descendent of the Welsh surname WYN (Gwyn = White/fair, but you drop the G in both middle names and surnames). Winn could be the Anglicised version of any variation – Wynn/Wynne/Winne.

      My username is actually my middle name which in turn were the two middle names of my maternal grandfather ‘Owen Glyn Wyn Jones’.

      Wyn is a VERY popular middle name (my father and his sister, paternal grandfather and his brother, my own brother and sister and maternal cousin all have the middle name WYN, like I said – VERY popular)

      It is also a popular as a the suffix part of name ie boys names Elwyn and Carwyn, although it changes to WEN for female names such as Bronwen and Olwen.

      I hope this is not too much useless information

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  27. My name is Rafael Rodriguez neri. From what I know neri is an italian surname.. Rodriguez too Iborn in think. Both my parents were born in mexico. My mother is light complected with a tint of red in her hair. My dad is dark complected, which is wat I inherited from him.

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  28. I am black but my last name is English

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    • probly because your ancestors were slaves and inherited their owners name lol, im some black too but my family’s name changed by marriage to a slave owner’s name. im 14 so u should probly look it up i learned this in school lol

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    • I am brown and my name is East Indian. It means the great one. Veshal

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  29. desulme is my last name what does it mean.?

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  30. My name is somewhat boring. My name meaning is worthy of love.

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  31. An’Twan orgin french boys name meaning praise worthy priceless

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  32. The surname Millen(the enlish type not scottish) is most likely occupational in origin. It is metonymic, meaning that it refers to an object related to the proffesion. Millen comes from the french word “moulin”, meaning “a mill”. The first bearer of the name probably worked in a mill, but it is also possible that the name was taken on by some who lived near a mill.

    http://gbnames.publicprofiler.org/Map.aspx?name=MILLEN&year=1881&altyear=1998&country=GB&type=name

    http://www.britishsurnames.co.uk/surnames/MILLEN/1881census

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  33. Austin means reverence. My parents did give me a Japanese name also. 石丸 Ishimaru (round stone) 康貴 Yasutaka (precious peace)

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