What does your "name" mean?

I'm starting this thread just out of curiosity, because I know I often wonder what your names mean. Mine is Greek for the woman who reads the coffee grounds, in other words a fortune teller.

Mine is also greek Kafetzou!
But I got two different meanings:
- The Bond...
- The one that must be admired...

Well, I think the two meanings are great, but I like the second one a lot... hehe.

I thought yours was Portuguese, thathavieira - I don't understand.

My name is Thais... That's the meaning of it.
If you're talking about the nickname, I put the usual way people call me with my last name.

Mine, goncin, is just an acronym taken from my middle (Gonçalves) and my last (Cintra) names.

Ah, for those who would wonder: my first name is Fausto .

Your acronym is very interesting Goncin! It should be your name... Maybe you ccould add it to your last name like: Fausto "Goncin" Gonçalves... hehe.
I can't imagine you as Fausto...

Thatha,

I've already thought in adding my nick to my official name, just as you said. But I'm known as goncin just in the Internet; just a few friends of mine know who is goncin . Anyway, both of my surnames are from my deceased father; I should have "Milani" from my mother as my middle name, however it would become my nick very bad, as "milcin" doesn't sound good ...

Hehe, yes, you're right!

Ah - I meant your "handle" (nickname) - but I got the answer for both! Thanks - my real name is Laura.

Here's what I found on Thaïs:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thais

mine hasn't a single meaning!
it's not like tristan's gun
I just use it everwhere on internet!
I know tristan is a name and gun yes ofcourse
trist = sad in swedish or dutch
an = ân, donkey
it has million of reasons!
but I just named myself once on a game and I thought it was a nice name

oh and kafetzou! you are a girl?
always thought you were boy
btw, my name is Nathan

I wasn't very imaginative with mine, I just added a "y" and my year of birth reversed. Then some of my friends already call me "Francky". I especiallly like it when an English girl from Sussex calls me by my "nickname" (if something so close to my real first name can be so called). She goes "Frannnnckyyyyyyy"!!!and I really like it! It is kind of comical. My dad wanted to name me "Franklin" when my mum was still pregnant, I'm glad he didn't!(as my family name already ends with the French (nasal)"in", it would have given four alternate nasals ("an", "in", "an", "in"!) and maybe would I be already dead from it! (Thanks God!)

Haha, francky! I thought your name was Francky!
and hahahahah, you love it when girls say! franckyyyyyyy!!
well, everyone has to like something hé ^^
I like it when girls pronounce my name as 'french'

Wow Alexander's influent prostitute? Nooo!!! hahaha.
And yours Nathan, one and a lot of meanings at the same time? hehe...
And Francky, your birth year was imaginative... I was still wondering what this could be... hehe.

When I was studying French, almost 20 years ago, one of my teachers used to translate every one's names into French as a kind of practice, and by mistake she called "Guilaume" instead of "Guillaume" and then all of my Spanish speaker classmates started to call me "Guilon" with a very striking Spanish accent. I've always used it as my nickname on Internet.

Tantine is my name both on the web and in my close family. It's a bit like "Aunty" in French, its "Little Aunty" more or less.

It's one of my "French" nephews, Steven, who started calling me this way in 2001, when he came to stay with us the summer that his dad, one of my older brothers suicided. He wanted to know what nick to use when he was setting up my mac, he chose "Tantine" and I've used it ever since for the web.

Most of you know my first name, which is Ruth. I believe that Ruth means "friendship", which is more than pleasant to me. I hope I live up to my name in spreading friendship around me.

Bises
Tantine

I'm so glad I started this thread - it's so interesting! I feel like we all know each other, but it's the first time we've shared this information!

So you're Nathan, tristangun - I wondered when somebody mentioned your name last night, and I didn't know who they were talking about! I just figured it was a translator I hadn't met yet.

P.S. I knew that some people thought I was a boy - that's why I put up that new avatar! I thought you were supposed to be able to figure out from the way people write what their gender is - I guess I write like a boy!

Kaketzou, don't ask me why but I've always felt your writing as coming from a woman. I suppose there are things or words women say more usually than men, and vice-versa. I don't know.

hi, im totally new so no one knows me

my real name is Amal Ayyash, its Arabic, and Amal means Hope, Ayyash is derived from the verb to live, so it means someone who lives to the maximum, or a survivor, so that makes me Hope Survivor LOL

my nick is Elmota, i believe there is a spanish version of it, but I got this one back in 1996, its short for Elmotanabbi, a great Arab poet I love, and it means the guy with high self standards, so he raises above the rest ( no equivalent in English)... its funny in Arabic, aaaaall names have a meaning