I have created a quiz for you to take.
This is the link: Name Meanings
Desecription: Do you know what your name means?
Quiz Stats

Eek!
I peeked and would have to guess on every single one!!!

25%

[spoiler]No fair putting multiple choice buttons on question #3 when there was only one right answer! I actually knew that one, but guessed on a second choice because I figured there had to be more than one.[/spoiler]

25%. I did, at least, know my own name.

:laugh: Me too, Melanie. You saved me.

Well, that was awful.

I only got one right and that is because my name is a derivative of it.

[spoiler] I almost answered the first one with my own name even though I knew it wasn't right, because I thought you might have read some incorrect source material. Long ago, when reading Greco-Roman mythology, I read that Demeter took on another name during the winter months while mourning her daughter - Melanos. I only read it that one time, and have never been able to confirm it since. But when I saw the Artemis question, I thought perhaps you had read something I hadn't come across yet. [/spoiler]

emeleel Wrote:[spoiler] I almost answered the first one with my own name even though I knew it wasn't right, because I thought you might have read some incorrect source material. Long ago, when reading Greco-Roman mythology, I read that Demeter took on another name during the winter months while mourning her daughter - Melanos. I only read it that one time, and have never been able to confirm it since. But when I saw the Artemis question, I thought perhaps you had read something I hadn't come across yet. [/spoiler]

Me too! Again.

You really have read that?! I'm not imagining it?!

Yep.

I mean yep, you are correct. Not yep, you're imagining it. :laugh:

Yippee!

I am easily relieved.

Oops... I need to not have two windows open.

Sorry... I actually edited it because it was too easy the first way I wrote it. EVERYONE would have had a 100. So I edited.

Melanie, I'd never seen that! There are a lot of names with debated meanings, though... Beanie's middle name is Miriam, which usually means "from the well" but I found a couple of places that listed it as "wished for child" which is how she ended up with it.

Well, the *meaning* of my name isn't debated as far as I know, just the origin of why it means that. Every name meaning thing I've ever seen has the same meaning for my name, except for maybe those little name meaning cards you can find in places like bookstores and Bible bookstores - I forget what they usually have down for it on the Bible bookstore ones, but it's usually different because they want the names to reflect goodness and Biblical qualities, etc. I guess.

Ah! That could be! If you look in a Christian bookstore for my name, it will say it means "Light" or "The Lord is my Light" Apparently they only try to wrangle it one step up.

Now that was fun, even though I did poorly! Although,
[spoiler]I seem to remember my name means waterfall, not lake, which would explain my constant need to go to the bathroom. :laugh: [/spoiler]

Wow, I didn't know any of those.

I got my name.

I cheated so I can't take the quiz, but if I had, I would have only gotten one right and I wasn't even sure about that one.

68%.

[SPOILER]Pippa and your darn trick questions - I only got 50% on that first question! [/SPOILER]

:laugh:

Oh, and one more thing:

[spoiler]Does this mean that both Delia and I are space cadets?[/spoiler]

hadassahchana Wrote:Oh, and one more thing:

[spoiler]Does this mean that both Delia and I are space cadets?[/spoiler]

[SPOILER]I think it means that we have cute butts.[/SPOILER]

[spoiler]Actually, I had NO idea what Delia's name meant, but then remembered the Delos bit when I was doing Cynthia so double-checked.

Are all the Cindy/Cyndys really Cynthias?[/spoiler]

Pip - that wasn't the one I got right! I had never heard that one.

68% At least I knew my own name and my husband's.

Delia...

[spoiler]You didn't know the meaning of your own name?[/spoiler]

[SPOILER]I knew that one origin was Greek meaning a shephardess from the island of Delos, but not the moon stuff.[/SPOILER]

and for what it is worth [SPOILER]I was given my Hebrew name first. The English name came from my Hebrew name, which is pronounced Da-LEE-ya and means: gentle, tendril or slender branch. [/SPOILER]

I was meant to be thin!

I'm huge into name meanings. HUGE. Every one of the kids had the meanings of their names searched unto death when I picked them. You should have heard the deacon who baptized Bug when I explained that even though it is no longer required, yes, his oddish name IS a saint's name, and then I related to him how it was the family name of St. Aidan of the Ferns.

The only one who carries no family name is Buster, just because I LOVED his name and it fits him perfectly. G wanted Tristan for his name, but I couldn't bear naming a child "sorrowful" and it would have never fit his personality.