#behindthename

[cyazurai]

I was randomizing a name for my male lead in my story, and BehindTheName gave me this pornstar gem.

Oh my GOD.

I can't breathe.

[spiffy07]

TTS/RTA Name Meanings

In case you wanted to know. :)

Adira = Feminine form of 'Adir', meaning strong/mighty in Hebrew

Alexis (Edmund's wife) = From Greek 'alexo', meaning to defend/help

Arianna = Italian form of Ariadne, meaning most holy

Cassandra = Greek, means to excel over men

Catalina = Corsican form of Katharine, possibly associated with Greek 'aikia' meaning to torture or 'katharos' meaning pure

Edmund = From Old English 'ead' and 'mund', meaning rich protection

Eugene = From Greek 'Eugenios', meaning well/nobly born

Frederick = From Old German 'fridu' and 'rih', meaning peaceful ruler

Hector = Latinized form of Greek 'hektor', meaning holding fast

Hugo = Old German form of 'Hugh', meaning mind/thought/spirit

Kiera = Anglicized form of Ciara, meaning black

Lance = Yeah, this one just means lance, as in a spear

Nuru = Means light in Swahili

Quirin = German form of 'Quirinus', from the Sabine word 'quiris', meaning spear

Rapunzel = This is the name of an edible plant (from the cabbage or lettuce family, I think?) there isn't really a special meaning. They had to stick to the fairy tale, I guess

Trevor = From Welsh 'tref' and 'maur', meaning big village

Ulla = Feminine form of 'Ullo', meaning joy

Varian = Anglicized form of 'Varianus', meaning versatile

Xavier = From the Basque place name 'Etxeberria', meaning the new house (yeah... that one's just confusing)

Yong = From Chinese 勇 brave or 永 perpetual, eternal

(Bonus!) Der Sonne = German, literally meaning daughter of the sun

Think all of these fit?

Let me know if I missed anyone important!

[rainbowprisimatic]

When trying to figure out the name for a character and needing to know its orgin/definition/etamology:

Behindthename.com...

Save me, behindthename.com.....

[tamisdava2]

My favorite past time is discovering and having a good chuckle about the non-traditional names that soviet parents would name their children.

You know, a lot of them are good, they look and sound pretty, but sometimes I have a good laugh when I discover from what they were derived.

@themousefromfantasyland @ariel-seagull-wings I think I know what I'll make fun of occasionally in the Mokem Series.

[maniacwatchestheworld]

Okay biggest plot twist of the day: 'Ingo' is an actual, real name that people out there apparently have. I literally thought that they took the words 'in' and 'go' and smashed them together in an attempt to make something that sounded vaguely like a name. But no! Turns out that it's German! (Apparently derived from Inge/Ing, the name of an obscure old Germanic fertility god.)

Meanwhile the website that I usually use for this kind of stuff (behindthename.com) doesn't register 'Elesa' as a name. While it seems that there actually are a fair number of people out there who are in fact named 'Elesa', the fact that this website has 'Ingo' listed as a name, but not 'Elesa' astounds me just a little! That implies that somehow, 'Ingo' as a name is more popular and culturally relevant than 'Elesa'! And A minute ago, I didn't think that 'Ingo' was actually a real name!

[frankencanon]

it's six in the morning and i haven't slept and i just realized that santa claus and saint nicholas are literally the same name. like it's not alternate names for the same dude it's literally the same name

Saint Nicholas = Sint Nicolaas = Sinter Klaas

= Santa Claus

[hideinmyshadow]

Today I learned that Behindthename has a ‘generate a life story’ option with its name generator that means I don’t have to think about things like birthdays, heights, age or even life spans for background characters on top of learning the meaning of their names.

[shielddrake]

Behindthename.com says Dion is a short form of Dionysios.

And considering Augustus and Donatella named their second son Razputin...

Dion’s full name is Dionysios Aquato, and no one can convince me otherwise.