LogFAQs > #904531584

It's sort of similar to how personal names work. We're so used to hearing specific names AS names, we've completely divorced them from the original meanings (especially if those meanings are derived from languages other than English). We can think it's funny when people in Asia or Native Americans have names like "Fall Breeze" or "Sitting Bull", but we don't think about the fact that those are translated versions of their names (and, for instance, in his own language Sitting Bull's name was actually Tatanka Iyotake).

Meanwhile, some of the most popular Western baby names so far in 2018 include Wisdom (Sophia), Lion (Leo), Strong (Charlie), Rival (Amelia), and Wolf Soldier (Oliver).

People name their kids after stuff in the Bible or characters from other stories or shows they saw on TV or just because they know someone else with the name, but without realizing that Nathaniel means "God has given" or that Ethan means "steadfast" or Alexander means "Defender of Men".

Even the sort of assholes who want to name their kid "Sephiroth" don't realize that's a reference to Hebrew occultism, and means "emanations".

It also doesn't help that a lot of the so-called "baby name meaning" sites on the Web that claim to tell you the secret symbolism behind names mostly make shit up, muddying the waters.


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