What Is In A Name?

Post by **Orchid Dust** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 3:34 pm

I got my name from a flower. I like the Orchid and Lysander was a character from Charlie Bone and Dust came from Moon-Dust. I narrowed it down to Dust because Orchid Moondust doesn't sound good to me.

Post by **Jessica Farley** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 4:46 pm

I just thought of a name and typed it in. I'm not very fond of the last name Farley so I don't know why I did that. LOL!!!!

Post by **Amanda Denaro** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 5:52 pm

Amanda's my real first name, and I love money. Denaro's the Italian word for money, so...

Post by **Jenni Wang** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 2:38 am

Jenni Wang's my real name.. haha

Post by **Ashlie Lacross** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 5:02 am

Ashlie is my first name, and Lacross is my fathers mothers last name who I never met because she died when he was 5. We are trying to trace the family without an sucess coz i think she might have changed her last name or something, but I would like to take the name in her memory coz I really like the memory mydad has of her i guess. /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

Post by **Igraine Cirith** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 5:32 am

Igraine is the name of King Arthur's mother and Cirith is on loan to me from someone I adore.

Post by **Arcken Pendragon** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 6:24 am

Pendragon is the name of Uther, the man who has Arthur with Igraine. But it reminds me of someone I am devoted to. And Arcken is a name I made up years and years ago for some Dark Elf on EverQuest. It deserved better, though.

Post by **Abigail Lullaby** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 2:36 pm

My HOL first name comes from a TV series character, Pauley Perrette's in NCIS, Abigail, and I just love the way she looks on the show, and my last name comes from my cat...
Well, her name's Luna, which has nothing to do with a lullaby, but there's a little back story to that : when I was a kid, there was no way I could or would fall asleep, unless I had my cat with me and she's start purring... Made me fall asleep, hence Lullaby!!! /tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":P" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" />

Did that make any sense??

Post by **Marite Clements** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 5:22 am

Hmm... basically I chose Marite because I have a fettish with all names beginning with 'M' (not the people, just the names) Hehe!
And Clements was the last name of the first boy I kissed. Haha, talk about random.

Overall, I think my name is slightly better than the last name I used on forums: Corwyn von Amber. Corwyn is a (male) video game character, and von Amber is just seriously garbled german. I only found out later that amber is actually 'bernstein' in germany.
*Sigh. Ich bin sehr fantasievoll.

Post by **London Madison** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 4:53 pm

The intials for London Madison is the same intials for my real name.
I got the name London from a character at Disney tv show "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody." Brenda Song plays a character named London Tipton and I just like the name. Also that I want to travel to London in the future. Madison was a pretty name that I like. And when i heard it could be a last name I used it.

The truth, if I had a baby girl i would name her: London Madison as her first name.

Post by **Archeobald Sluagh** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 9:57 pm

I have a RPG character called Archibald once. But this isn't a reason I have chosen this name. If you want to know my reasons, you have to go for etymology of this name.

Similar name Archibald means "noble bold" in Teutonic language. It origins in two words - arch (noble, high, supreme - compare archangel or archmage) and bald (bold - like brave, hero, tough). If you change first word by similar (older homonym) - archeo (old, ancient - compare Archeopteryx, archeology) - you get a new name - Archeobald, which means ancient bold (ancient power) or ancient bald (very old man without hair). And this describes me precisely. Understood? /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

My surname has a different origin. Sluagh (pronounced sloo-ah) were a mythical celtic spirits / faeries. They were horrible and dangerous. "Horde of Unforgiving Deaths" they called them. They were shadows in deep forests, terrorizers of naughty children. I have known them first time in RPG Changeling the Dreaming and I love them since that time. Every description of them match my own. So I am Sluagh.

Post by **Anna Marie Giovanni** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 8:11 am

Well I was originally going to go with Mercedes Love Giovanni, which is a name I used before on an RPG. However I wanted something different. Though I still have much love for Mercedes I didn't think she would fit well into a Harry Potter fourm and site.

Then the name Anna came to mind so I typed in Anna. However, that was too short so Marie..a good common middle name came next and I already knew the last name I was going to use.

Anna's parents however, do share the same names as Mercedes did. As for her brother. His first name is Charlie. After the actors who's site I run.

Post by **Quilly Potter** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 8:44 am

I love to write, and since I write my stuff and my letters to friends still using pen and paper (paper... what's THAT?!), I figured that for HOL, I'd turn my pen into a quill instead and call myself Quilly (both because I'm one who owns a quill, and because of Lilly Potter). The last name I picked... ohhhhhhhhh, I don't now, I have NO IDEA where on Earth I could've picked it up from. No clue.

For the record, I do own a real quill.. .which I don't use because I don't want it to wear out /tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":P" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" />

Post by **Madison Halan** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 4:37 pm

I don't know why I chose Madison Halan. It just kind of popped into my head. Madison sounded very pretty and kind of school girl-ish and then Halan sounded a bit more Poe-ish.

Post by **Ron Lupin** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 6:05 pm

Well, how I got my HOL name isn't really a big story. I play some video games, and I had to make up a name for my character. Since I was going to sign up for HOL soon, I chose names that I could use in HOL. I went from Draco Wood to Daniel Grint to Daniel Weasley, etc. etc. I finally came up with the name Ron Lupin because I wanted part of my name to be a name from the trio and I chose Lupin from one of my favorite teachers. So enough about my name. How did you get yours????

*sits in a comfy chair with butterbeer and caouldron cakes*

Post by **Jesse LeFay** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 6:19 pm

*helps herself to a cauldron cake*
Well, this is the name I use on another popular HOS forum which to be honest I got bored of. LeFay is the surname of my ancestress Morgana LeFay who was alive in King Arthus and Merlins time said to be a Dark with and I just like the name Jesse.

Post by **Ghiffari Knight** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 7:56 am

I choose this name because ths is my real name and I want to be a knight for my self and my family, so I choose a knight as my last name ...
So here I am .... Ghiffari Knight

Post by **Corrine Moseley** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 6:26 pm

I picked Corrine because it's such a pretty name. And I had a hard time picking a last name so I just used google to find one, lol. Google solves everything, right?

Post by **Camille Ritter** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 12:14 am

Camille came from a story that I'm currently in the process of finishing. The main character is actually named Caleb. But the main female character is Camille. Also inspired by the wonderful actress Camilla Bell.

Ritter is derived from non other than the gorgeous angelic-voiced lead singer of The All-American Rejects: Tyson Ritter.

Post by **Ryouko Palma** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 6:20 am

My name is so cultural! My first name I picked some time ago, I use it for a lot of stuff, it means 'dragon and tiger' in japanese (at least, I hope it does /tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":P" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" /> ) And my surname is from taken from my mother's surname, which also happens to be a european surname (even though my family is Asian) which comes from the Latin for palm...yep, my surname is a tree.