What Is In A Name?

Post by **Erin Jean** » Tue Feb 02, 2010 11:29 pm

My HOL name is my real first name (Erin) and my paternal grandmother's first name. Nothing too exciting, I'm afraid! I'm really enjoying this topic - I love reading about everyone's name.

Post by **Prof. Tom Foster** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 2:33 am

I chose Tom from Tom Riddle and I chose foster because it kind of sounds like potter in a way. So I put them together, Tom Foster.

Thu Feb 04, 2010 8:01 pm

I put plenty of thought into my HOL-name.
Maravillas means "Admiration", and my surname Arrington means "Eagle."
I'm a Ravenclaw tried & true, I'm sure of it!

Post by **Karen Circa** » Sun Feb 07, 2010 1:02 am

I came up with HOL name because Karen is very similar to my RL name (gets confused quite a bit) and Circa, because I use that word a lot. My RL sister liked the last name so much she used it for her name on HOL too. I am looking forward to getting more involved in HOL

Post by **Vasilisa Knight** » Sat Feb 13, 2010 10:12 am

My name is from Vampire Academy, the girl's name in the story was Vasilisa and her nickname was Lissa. Since my real name is Lissa I thought I would use the name. Knight was just a random word that popped into my mind

Post by **Evelyn Wilson** » Sat Feb 13, 2010 3:16 pm

My First name is my 1-year-old daughter's first name, and my last name is my boyfriend's last name. Kinda common, don't you think?

Post by **Madison Grant** » Sun Feb 28, 2010 4:57 am

Madison is my real middle name, my first is boring. And Grant was the name of my first dog.

Post by **Katherine Black** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 12:35 pm

Well since you asked...

The origin of my real name (Kayla) is Katherine so that's how I got my first name. It's pretty simple for that. The reason for my last name, Black, is because I like Sirius Black very much. but there is also another reason. I chose the name Black because if my name was Malfoy, it would kind of mean that I was related to Draco directly. So I wanted to be from a powerful pure-blood family that would be right up there with the Malfoys so that Draco and I could talk to each other without the issue of blood. It has nothing to do with me not liking half-bloods or muggleborns. I just like Draco too much.

Love to All,

Katherine Black

Website · Post by **Elise Dantes** » Sat May 15, 2010 1:17 pm

Elise is not my real name, but a name I have always loved. It's actually my grandmother's name, and I decided she wouldn't mind my using it.

Post by **Tuesday Ciel** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 9:39 pm

Well Tuesday is because well I don't know I just like the name and always thought it would be fun being named after a day.
Ciel I got from Kuroshitsuji, which is a manga/anime that I'm obsessed with at the moment; one of the main characters' first name is Ciel.

Post by **Trevor Williams** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 2:39 am

There really is no special reason for picking my name. I just liked the name Trevor and it seemed to fit better the last name choices I had.

I do like reading everyone else's name and why they picked them. Very interesting!

Post by **Charley Felton** » Fri Jul 30, 2010 5:57 pm

Well, Charley is one of my favorite names. And yes, I'm a girl... I love the name Charley for a girl and I always have. It's not short for Charlotte or anything. I actually have loved the named since Charlie Bit My Finger LOL and the way Charley sound while said in a British accent is amazing!

Felton is after Tom Felton. Being the true Draco admirer and the fact that I love Tom Felton's music, I picked Felton

I actually almost used Somerhalder

IKR? After Ian Somerhalder, my favorite guy from LOST, aka Boone. But I choose Felton in the end, because who can resist him? He's gorgeoussssss!

Post by **Lou Trix** » Sun Aug 01, 2010 4:39 pm

Well I never really realised we could have nicknames, so I just put my real name. Though if I had to choose now, I would put Lou Trix, since Lou (Louise) is the name that I use for myself in my dream, and Trix is the end of the name Bellatrix, which is one of my favorite characters in the books.

Post by **Lauren Dalton** » Sun Aug 01, 2010 7:21 pm

My name was quite easy to come up with. Lauren has always been one of my favorite names, I think it's pretty. Dalton is the name of the high school I graduated from.

Post by **Hayley Harrison** » Sun Aug 01, 2010 10:45 pm

Hi, the story behind my choosing is actually really simple. I love my first name, so I wanted to use it, and, following in the grand tradition of using alliteration to create character names in the Harry Potter series, I chose the surname of my favorite Beatle, George Harrison.

Post by **Kimberly Marguerite** » Mon Aug 02, 2010 1:22 am

Kimberly is my real name, usually shortened to Kim, but I put my full name because it sounds better and more prestegious I suppose, haha.
I got Marguerite from.. well, out of thin air. I wanted an M last name, and I was tossing around M names in my name, and came upon Margaret. I didn't want that, since it would sound like a middle name instead of a last name, so I just 'frenched' it up a bit and made it Marguerite!

Post by **Madeline Bronte** » Thu Aug 05, 2010 12:37 pm

My name was easy enough to think up. Madeline was my favourite movie was I was little and Bronte is just pretty cool

Post by **Geneva Masen** » Thu Aug 05, 2010 2:10 pm

Geneva is a name I've only come across once in "the real world", and hardly ever anyplace else-that's a big part of why I like it. When I think of a name, I think of someone who has that name, and their characteristics are linked with it. If I like a person with a certain name, I automatically like that name too, and vice-versa. Geneva had no associations, good or bad, as a character name for me, so I could attach a fresh personality to it. Geneva sounds similar to my first name in "the real world" (and no, I'm not telling you what it is), so I feel like it fits. Geneva is also a city in Switzerland, and that makes me think of chocolate, elegant watches, and peace-all very pleasant things. Lake Geneva was where a group of writers gathered, and had a contest to see who could write the best horror story (Mary Shelley "won", I suppose, since hers is the most famous today-Frankenstein). That's special to me, since I love writing and reading. So, Geneva is my first name for many little reasons.

Choosing my last name was a little more difficult and a lot more arbitrary. I was very tempted to have "Lupin" as my last name, because I fancy Remus Lupin. However, I thought using character names wasn't allowed on the site. Besides, I suppose I have to use something more original. So I flipped through random books, trying to find a name, and I found Masen. It was Edward Cullen's "human" last name in Twilight (ironic, as I despise Edward Cullen). Yet Masen wasn't too bad-an unusual spelling of a very common name (which works since I'm really a pretty ordinary person, but like to pretend I'm not), and starts with the same letter as my "real world" last name.

I came up with the name a while ago, before I'd even heard of HOL, and the more I think about it and use it as my alter ego, the more I like it.

Post by **Lorelai Lovett** » Fri Aug 06, 2010 1:34 pm

Well, Lorelai - is my real name (I thought I would forget anything else

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And I wanted to have a double 'L' name so I was tossing around L names then remembered Sweeney Todd and was like Lovett! SO yeah it's my tribute to one of my favourite musicals.

Post by **Mandy Meyer** » Mon Aug 09, 2010 10:06 pm

Well, I wanted to use my real name. Since I a student here at HOL, I wanted to make it like real-life. Only except, magic exists and I'm a witch. But we all know that it all doesn't. So I wanted to pretend it was my real-life. So I picked my real-name. My real name however is Amanda, but I like to be called Mandy, so I picked Mandy for my first name. Meyer is my last name so I picked that for my last name and that's my history of my HOL name.