Definition Essay On My Name

According to the dictionary the meaning of the word name is ; a word or phrase that refers to or that can refer to a specific person (webster dictionary). A name is actually more than that. On December 13, 2000 I was born and given the name Sheena Ailanie Williams. My mom told me that while she was sitting in her bedroom, a movie came on the television screen.Sheena, The Jungle Queen was the name of the movie my mother named me after. For years people would ask me my name and responded with, “ Like the jungle queen!” sooner or later I started to think of myself as queen of the jungle. It made me feel important and special. People

I was given the name Chase Andrew Miner. My mom had liked the name Chase and Chance, but she finally decided on Chase. While that decision wasn’t too hard for her to make, (at least she said it wasn’t) my last name, Miner, was an even easier decision. My mom was married to my dad and she took his last name, so the obvious last name would be Miner. My mom told me she had a really difficult time figuring out a middle name for me. She couldn’t find a name that fit in well. One day my aunt, Lori, called my mom and asked about the name Andrew. My mom had thought about it and she decided that that name fit. So from that day I was Chase Andrew Miner. The joke my mom says now is if she knew she’d have to chase me so much, she would have named me Slow. But word got around of what

This journal speaks on how names are seen as some form of “talent” as it is bestowed upon us on birth. This also has religious implications as some feel as their name is a gift talent given from god. Everyone's name within “their eyes were watching god mean something. An example of this would be Tea Cake. “John Callahan says that Tea Cake "revivifies" names” . The names also have a slightly overshadowed sense of racism, as in a way most of the names given to black people have a sort of dumbed down approach to them. Going back to the complete disregard of the “Afro-American” culture by the

Early on I worked from the premise that people don’t exercise enough imagination when naming their children and merely employ the same names over and over again. Every child in the country carries the name David or Robert or Ann or Mary. Well, that isn’t true and there’s an abundance of unusual, exotic, strong, wonderful names currently being worn with pride.

William Richard Florio means helm,protector,powerful and a leader. Both my middle name and my first name are German, but they are named after two great English kings.My first name come from nobody that was named that in my family, but my parents named me William because they new that it was a powerful name. My middle name which would be Richard is named after my Grandpa on my mom's side of the family, and that's why Richard is my middle name. I also have a nickname in which my friends and family call me Will. There is really no reason why my nickname is Will, but most likely because it's shorter. I really like my name for many different reasons because,t it sounds really nice.William sounds very powerful

My parents, for one, help express the cultural part of my life. My father is predominantly white, whilst my mother is predominantly Cuban. Therefore, our names and food that is given to us are influenced by that. Starting off with names, my oldest brother is named underneath my father in which is a tradition in our family for the first child that is male to have that name. My other brother is given an ordinary Hispanic name just because my mother wanted it to be that way. But, another tradition in our family starts with me being the only girl in our family who is named underneath other family members. My first name Maria is my grandmother’s mother’s name, my middle name Elena is my grandmother’s name, and lastly, my last name Gary comes from my dad’s last name. Hence the name, Maria Elena

On March 26th, 2004, I was named Ana Reed Margolis. When my parents named me there was no exact meaning to my name, they just liked it. I was named in homage to my great-grandmothers Anne and Annessa, but they changed the name so I would be my own person. It also translates well into most language. This was a factor as if I wanted to travel, my name wouldn’t be an issue.

“Mother used to say that… Christopher was a nice name because it was a story about being kind and helpful, but I do not want my name to mean a story about being kind and helpful. I want my name to mean me.” (Haddon, 16)

I was born as Cortavious Cornele Ivy on March 11, 1999. When I was assigned this history research paper, I found it fun to be able to learn more about who my ancestors were, and where they come from. There isn’t much that I know about it, but what I do know is that my first name Cortavious is bible related. Then my last name Ivy was of the Old English Origin. However there were things that I still found a mystery about my last and middle name. I started to think where did my name come from? What was the purpose of the name? What was the meaning of my name? By using the internet, a book, and a personal interview, I discovered interesting and astonishing facts about my first, middle, and last name.

As a kid my mother would tell me how “she ask God to give her a name that would describe me as person”. One day she was at work and she saw the name Elijah and she hear a voice but no one was there say “Elijah”. Then she begin to let me know how she mixed up the paper and she God if this is you have my hand point out the name is Elijah and it happen. So that’s how I got the name Elijah which means “God is Lord, the strong Lord” (from Google). The Country that I was born in was The United States of America. My father James C. Leonard was born in the South Bronx and my mother Wanda Ostrander was born in New Jersey. The language that I speak is English. The Places where I have traveled was Canada and Down South. I went to a public school in

My middle name is Faye, which means loyalty or belief. My middle name is named after my paternal grandmother who has this middle name too! I also have two cousins named after my grandma! I am happy with this name because it goes well with my first name and it came from a close relative. When I am older, and have kids, I plan on passing this name onto my first girl. I hope they will continue passing it on! I love the middle name Faye and what the meaning is.

The name Onorina isn't any ramdom name. I got that name Onorina from my grandmother. People back then said it means Faith or strenth because my grandma used to have so much faith in herslef and in other people. Today the name Onorina means “honor, respect, praise, tribute, offering to a deity, honored, esteemed, respected”. and it's always means 'a baby girls name' as itlaians say it. First when i hear the name Onorina i think of someone who knows whats right and whats wrong but sometimes makes the worng decison bad people lead her to bad places. I love my name and the real meaning of my name really hits me because at some points i can be Onorina and other points i just think i'm someone else.

My names Gabriel Hudson, I hated my name it for some reason, when I was innocent and blind to societies imperfections, I wanted a “cool name” that was popular among my peers. When I was younger I never knew the importance that a name could possess. I never really thought about having to fight for anything or having to struggle to have a life that is so weighed down by the gravity that money has in our society. Money has always been relevant and at the forefront in my family. My parents are extremely diligent and would be part of the category of misfits, I have stated previously. My parents knew how the world is and tried their best to prepare me for that. Being named after an archangel in the Bible, not because they think i’m an angel to have as a child, but because he’s strong and fights for what’s right and good in people. I am now coming to this realization as I become a young adult and seeing that life is not fair and people like me who does not have as much wealth and resources to be set for greatness. People like me have

My first name, Ricardo, Is a fairly common first name for males of Hispanic descent. Ricardo is a Portuguese/Spanish word meaning “Powerful/Great Leader”. There are over 150,000 people in the US with the first name Ricardo; statistically it is the 420th most popular first name. My name has been passed down through the generations in my family, starting with my

    Names are a terrible way to understand someone’s identity because names are regularly replicated. In my sixth grade class, there were three Mollys. We all had different backgrounds, different religious affiliations, and different personalities. If our names displayed who we are, wouldn’t our identities all be the same? Instead of staring at names and trying to understand their meaning, one should focus on a person’s personality, for personality depicts our identity. In fact, I have learned from experience to not infer one’s identity based on their name. For instance, in middle school, I was mutual friends with a girl named Kassidy. One Tuesday afternoon, my friend, Katy told me that Kassidy was going to sit with us at lunch that day. I shrugged my shoulders and replied with a casual “okay”. Before Kassidy walked in, I had a whole image of her in my mind: blonde hair, cute pastel colored clothes, and religious, all stereotypes that I thought a person with an innocent name like Kassidy