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#1 Tyler

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Posted 22 December 2009 - 02:02 AM

What are your favorite meanings for names? I'm not entirely hung-up on name meanings (after all, mine means "a worker in roof tiles"), but I think meanings are nice!
If you had to sum up your preference in a statement or two, what would it be?

Here's mine:
I Like Names that Mean...Light
Alina: Polish, "Bright and Beautiful"
Annelise: Scandinavian, "Graceful Light"
Ariel: Hebrew, "Altar, Light"
Ella: Greek, "Light"
Evelyn: Irish, "Light"
Jocelyn: Latin, "Light-hearted"
Lainey: American, "Bright Light"
Leanne: English (variation of Helen), "Light"
Lucy: Latin, "Light"
Helena: Greek, "Light"
Nora: Hebrew, "Light"
Meira: Hebrew, "Sharing one's light"
Oralee: Hebrew, "My Light"
Toula: Greek, "Light of God"

Lucas: Latin, "Bringer of Light"
Luca: Italian, "Bringer of Light"


(Try not to hate me too much if I got my meanings/origins all messed up...I'm not a pro, I just googled it! I would imagine many of them are based upon variations of names and just weren't noted as such.)

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Posted 22 December 2009 - 05:33 AM

I love these:

Annelise: Scandinavian, "Graceful Light"
Ariel: Hebrew, "Altar, Light"
Ella: Greek, "Light"
Evelyn: Irish, "Light"*
Lucy: Latin, "Light"*
Helena: Greek, "Light"*
Nora: Hebrew, "Light"*

Lucas: Latin, "Bringer of Light"
Luca: Italian, "Bringer of Light"

some of them are on my list of all time favourites.


To answer your question, I don't think I have a "category" as far as meaning go; but I too am a fan of names that are reach in meaning, and I generally like a lot of virtue names (that is not done on purpose, but I noticed I do)

Grace (my favorite!)
Temperance
Honor
Constance
Joy
Mercy
Hosanna

:)

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Posted 22 December 2009 - 05:31 PM

Lucian means little light in latin its my favorite =]

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Posted 25 December 2009 - 10:37 PM

I like names that mean....Wise (or are loosely associated with it)

Wisdom
Sage
Sofia
Sonya
Whitman "Whit" (like wit)
Wiley

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Posted 29 December 2009 - 02:25 PM

i like names that mean....Love

Amor
Amora
Aphrodite
Demetrius
Femi
Iris
Valentine
Venus





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