So Baconfish and I are bored and I had him list out a bunch of Scottish names, after learning how to pronounce "Saoirse Ronan", an actress in the upcoming film Twilight, which I found trying to look for steampunk styled movies.

So in this thread, discuss the origins of your name, and/or names you really like. Like if, god forbid, any of you that will have children, what would you name them?

I can't really classify my taste as "unique" or "common", but for girls I come to really like Annika/Anni/Anna, Sini, Elizabeth, Emma, and Sarah, Sabina, Elanna, Lorna, Eilidh, and Yvonnel. Most of which are going to be in that damn novel I'm writing. It's a nice mix of Finnish, Scottish, and English, however I don't know what Yvonnel or Sabina comes from.

I'm named after an arch-angel in some major religions or some sort, my first name being Gabriel.

My name is pretty scottish

Especially the 90 part.

Scottish derived from irish, scottish and scottish.

Go me.

'Jamie' = very scottish name.

I hate it.

my last name too is scottish: Buchanan

heh this past summer i worked for a guy with a really irish name: Patrick Murphy

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Germanic, English, Scottish

kyle: we are of the same clan, although my surname is different.

we have the best clan symbol.

Darren a given name of uncertain etymological origins. The most popular theory is that it originated from a Gaelic surname meaning "great". Another is that it is an English version of the name Darryl, which originated from the French surname D'Airelle meaning "of Airelle."

Roger is primarily a common first name of English, French, and Catalan usage, ("Rogier", "Rutger" in Dutch) from the Germanic elements hrod (fame) and ger (spear) meaning "famous with the spear". The Latin form of the name is Rogerius, as used by a few medieval figures.

Williams is a patronymic form of the name William that originated in medieval England and later came to be extremely popular in Wales. The meaning is derived from son or descendant of Guillemin, the French form of William. Derived from an Old French given name with Germanic elements; will = desire, will; and helm = helmet, protection. It is the second most common surname in Wales and the third most common surname in the whole of the United Kingdom, the third most common in the United States of America and Australia and the fifth most common in New Zealand.

Funny, each of my names is firmly rooted in my heritage. Better than that, my name means I'm great with my "spear." I'm starting to believe in the meanings of names.

Also, oddly enough, when people hear my name and know nothing about me they almost automatically assume that I am black. Damned negroes are stealing everything these days. First the presidency, and now my wonderfully white name

http://www.isthisyour.name

An interesting related link

Williammay refer to:
William (name), a masculine given name.
or will + helm = Protection

WoodSomeone who lived in or worked in the woods
Another possibility is that the name derived from the Old English "wod" or "wad", meaning "crazed" or "crazy," and was used to describe someone considered mad or violent, or a warrior or savage in battle

Hell yes. I'm crazy. I always knew it, and this confirms it.

Roger, according to your link, I am very well envoweled

Get out of my state.

I don't even know why I'm here. This state sucks.
I might move out to the west coast again. I wasn't too found of it when I was there, but I had also forgot how much more Maine sucked.

Less talk, more move.

Apathy sucks.

Greek first name, Hebrew middle name, Scottish surname.

How on earth could Twilight be considered even remotely steampunk? I hope it was mislabeled, or else I'll kill myself on opening night.

Is Michael MacFarlane even your real name?

I went to rottentomatoes.com trying to find some good scifi/fantasy movies, and Twilight was spammed all throughout the website. I then remembered "Hey, the book wasn't that bad" so I did some Wikipedia searching.

No, his real name is Michael Mclongname.