What Is In A Name?

Post by **Morag McQueen** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 9:12 am

Well, my story isn't really all that long, but here goes: In Gaelic I'm called Morag and I decided it was more interesting than my real name and McQueen is my mum's maiden name /tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":P" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" /> I really like scottish names, so that's why I chose it...

Post by **Loreli Brown** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 1:22 am

My name is Loreli Brown because I like Gilmore Girls and Loreli is like the coolest ,but I didn't know you actaully spell it Lorelai and so yea my mistake haha...and uhh Brown came because my cousin used Brown and we wanted to show that we are related...hehe!

Post by **Kada Hardun** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 4:59 am

My story is very boring. One day I was bored and on the Internet and saw that the HOL sign-up was open. I joined, but didn't really know I would have to pick a name. So I racked my brain and Kada Hardun was what I came up with. I don't really like my last name that much, but it doesn't really matter.

Post by **Prof. Maya Winters** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 1:28 pm

Finally getting around to looking around this forum properly /tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":P" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" /> I've only been here 4 and a bit months after all!
Well, Maya just happens to be a name I've always liked and its a bit less common than my real first name too.
As for Winters, who knows, I tend to have an unimaginable lack of imagination when it comes to having to make things up on the spot, Winters didn't seem like too bad an idea, so I stuck with it.

Terribly exciting really, huh?! Suppose I could try to find some hidden meaning or something behind my choices but hey, its a Sunday!

Post by **Alyse StClaire** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 1:53 am

I was randomly brainstorming ideas for characters for fanfics/original stories and I came up with this one, it's become one of my favorites so far so... I chose it as my HP roleplaying character.

Post by **Camilla Loren** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 10:40 pm

Camilla is my Latin name. I take the wonderful language, and I got the name Camilla for my Latin name (note: no way similar to my real name). It's from The Aeneid. Camilla is an amazon warrior (a race of humans in which the women are the warriors, and the men stay at home). I love the name, and it seemed good.

I wanted a name different from names I knew. So I chose Loren.... I don't know why. Sounded cool.

Post by **Romania Abalten** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 9:41 pm

Well I was eating romaine salad while i was signing up so the name romainia just sorta clicked. On the last name my sister had just gotten back from bible school and she learned about abel so abal and ten is her age ten and that makes abalten

romania abalten

Wed Dec 07, 2005 10:10 pm

The name Delphinea is from a character in one of my favorite books. Then Marrihugh is my friends last name and it came from another one of my favorite books.

Post by **Haleigh Hallow** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 11:59 pm

My name came from my real first name then my last name was the only school i have only gone to were everyone dosnt hate /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

Post by **Rafe Senneif** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 12:51 am

I am a bit obsessed with actor Ralph Fiennes, so I used his first name (spelled Rafe when pronounced properly) and rearranged the letters in his last name so they'd come out backwards. It sounded cool to me, so I stuck with it /laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":lol:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />

Post by **Ophidius Runespoor** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 8:02 pm

Well, Ophidius is a variation of 'ophidian' which is a serpent. Runespoor is a three headed snake, so I suppose I was destened for Slytherin.

Post by **Jasmin Rey** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 5:38 am

My favourite flower and smell in the world has always been Jasmin so I chose that (you should smell my room!!! /tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":P" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" />) And Rey in Spanish is a king, so I took that...and thats my story,....Lovely*

Post by **Marion Pottern** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 12:40 am

i picked my because i didn't want to go with the last name of potter so i put the first letter of my last name as the last letter of my last name. i don't know if that made any sense to anyone

Post by **Rokes McVain** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 5:53 pm

Rokes I came up with that a bought a year ago. You see my middle name is Rose and my first name starts with a K so RoKse but that kind of looked funny so I switched the se to es making Rokes.
McVain is what my older sister thought because she thinks I am a little vain plus it just sounded good together.

So there is my name Rokes McVain

Post by **Bess Vane** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 6:17 am

Well I wanted to come up with something different which is hard, since everyone has used so many of the names. A while back there was a day called "international Pirates day." I found out that my pirate name is Capt Bess Vane, so it seemed great for a first year Ravenclaw. You can all call me Bess though, argh! /cool.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="B)" border="0" alt="cool.gif" />

Post by **Catriona Watson** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 4:07 pm

Well my name starts with 'C' so I looked out for all names that starts with this letter and I find that 'Catriona' sounds nice and not so common. Now my last name came as a coincident with Emma Watson. I did not think much about it until I have registered, but oh well here I am.

Post by **Matt Albius** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 2:35 am

Well, my actual first name is Matt, and then Albius is kind of like Albus, as in Albus Dumbledore (who of course is the greatest wizard ever!). Not as intresting as some of these other "intriguing" name stories, but that's how I got it.

Post by **Neeli Aracrylor** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 7:13 pm

Everything happened very quickly when I signed up yesterday.
I have a acrylic paint right next to my notebook. I thought the word acrylic looked kind of nice. But I didn't wanted to have the name acrylic... so I changed some letters and finally it became Araclylor.
My first name Neeli just hitted me and I don't even why. It must have been magic /tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":P" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" />

Post by **Regina Askew** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 10:26 pm

Let's see...the name Regina has always been one of my favorites (it means "Queenly"), and Askew means "crooked," which I thought seemed appropriate, for a witch. It also seems to me that J.K. Rowling, when naming her characters, often gives them either an unusual first name with a normal last name, or a normal first name with an exotic last name, and I strived (strove?) to follow this pattern.