Meaning of Names

Our site Meaning of Names will provide you with information about the source and meaning of your or your baby name and help you identify your surname. We’ll also explain where surnames and middle names came from as well as where they come from all together. More so, we’ll help choose an unusual and unique name for a child, be it a boy or a girl.

What do we tend to inquire about right after finding out a newborn baby's gender? Usually we ask, "What did you name him/her?" Why is a baby name meaning so important to us? It’s because we understand the important role meaning of name plays in a person's life. But what role is that?

First of all, meanings of names are the answers to questions such as "Who am I?" and "What am I like?"

Try asking a three year old boy "Who are you?" and the most likely replies to follow would be "I’m a boy" or "I’m Tom". The importance of name meanings is truly enormous; after all, it helps shape a person’s life. Perhaps not as much so as gender but name meanings allow children to psychologically be aware of themselves as individuals – an important aspect of their development.

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Our ancestors were sure that the fate of any person, city or even country depends on its name meanings. The same idea carries on into modern day name changing customs that follow in the footsteps of our ancestors and imply a change in fate. Such is the meaning behind a woman taking the husband’s name after marriage. The same goes for writers and actors working under aliases changes upon receiving church callings or joining secret societies.