What Is In A Name?

Post by **Jaily Grantter** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 3:01 am

I created the name by combining James and Lily's name for the first name, and for the last name I used Hermione and Harry's last name.

James Lily
Granger Potter

Post by **Katherine Knoll** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 2:39 am

I chose my first name because my little brother is forever calling me it to peeve me off. The last name I sort of came up with off the top of my head. Pretty easy for me:)

Post by **Rhiannon Jones** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 3:48 pm

Well my name came from another website I was surfing and I decided to make my character on there Welsh, my first name is really Rhiannon and Jones sounded more Welsh so I put that on the end instead of my real one. I like my name, it reflects one quarter of my nationality!

Post by **Desdemona Erepto** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 4:14 am

My name means "serpent of the devil"

Post by **Melina Mckeanna** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 8:05 am

Well, I got my name a long way around. Mckeanna is a version of Mckinnon. Funny thing is that the Mckinnons were killed by You Know Who in the hp series. I figured that as a backstory to my HOL char I would change the name a bit and have her family have been hiding from You Know Who with the absent father as the secret keeper. I've always liked double letter names and somehow picked Melina as a whim. I ended up with Melina Mckeanna, though in retrospect I wish I had Kept Mckinnon as the surname.

Edited to remove personal information. -Kim

Post by **Icarus Nazca** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 2:52 pm

Icarus Nazca was created as an extra character in a piece of HP fanfiction I was working on. (Can't be posted here due to rating. Ahem...) Anyway, I ended up really liking him, and I was proud of his name (I got it during Astronomy class, though I'm have to go back and look at my notes to figure out how.) When I first came to HOL, I knew that not taking the chance to bring Icarus to life would be...well, criminal.

It's really fun to play Icarus, because he and I are nothing alike. It's a good study both in acting, and in character development, and he's revealed to me things about his personality that I never would have discovered had he remained aa a fanfiction background character.

Post by **Jinny Barks** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 5:24 pm

hmmm....i have a cool bit of history behind how i got my name:-)! /laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":lol:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />
i have a very short term memory--i'm known for it!
i have a black labrador, who's name is Jinny.
so i choose my first name to be "Jinny"
second name....this was tricky....i thought it would be better if it pertained to Jinny too...so it came about to be barks.

Jinny Barks

see??? jinny=my dog, barks= he does, really! /biggrin.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin.gif" />

adios
Jinny /Gryffindor/ji602

Wed Sep 07, 2005 5:34 pm

Sherry Black wrote:We have a topic for this in the Gryff common room, and it's always a lot of fun and very interesting.Â Especially with all the ickle firsties arriving with such intriguing names!Â I love hearing all the stories on how people chose the name for their HOL persona.Â One of my personal favorites is Airemay Speare.... but she'll have to tell that story.Â /tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":P" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" />

How did I come to be Sherry Black?Â Well, unfortunately my story is not nearly as interesting as Airemay's.Â My real life name is Sherry (I can't imagine people calling me something else- I'd be too confused!), and Sirius Black is one of my favorite characters in the HP series.Â I felt under pressure to choose a name when signing up for HOL, wasn't properly prepared to create a name, so that was the first thing that popped in my mind.Â And after a year of finding my niche here at HOL, I'm not about to change my name now!Â /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

So, where did YOUR HOL name come from??

*makes self comfy in large overstuffed chair*

A few people from a group I used to belong to told me if I were a mythical creature, I would most likely be either a Chimera or Wyvern. Originally, I had narrowed down my choices to one or two names. Since I liked - Chimera Wyvern Whitecastle- the more, I chose it. Given the myths of both the Chimera and the Wyvern, it fits a Slytherin rather nicely.

This response is the long and the short of it.

Warmly,
Chimera

Post by **Kyna Aislinn** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 7:30 pm

I chose this name because i like it /biggrin.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin.gif" />.
Kyna means Wise, and Aislinn means Inspiration.

Post by **Niniel Sanders** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 8:49 pm

Well, Niniel is a name made by Tolkien. He said it means 'maiden of tears', but that is only one interpretation.
'Nin' is the plural of 'nen' which means 'water'. When you put -iel at the end of a name you make the name feminine. 'Iell' also means 'Maiden' So I choose to interpret the name as meaning 'maiden of water'. This is because I love both water and blue which represents both water and the sky (and Ravenclaw of course: WooT) . Niniel is also the name I usually use online, so I'm used to use it, and it comes naturally to me.
Sanders is my grand-father's surname, which I don't share (long story).

PS: in case anyone who reads this speaks elvish: Yes, I know I took liberties with spelling, especially the accents.

Post by **Juste Lupin** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 11:22 pm

I became infatuated with the name Juste after playing CastleVania: Harmony of Dissonance. They always have the most interesting names like Soma Cruz. Anyway, I picked Lupin because my friend (Tains Kendris) was over my house and he helped me with my last name.

Anassa Dikaios · Post by **Anassa Dikaios** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 7:02 pm

Anassa is ancient greek for queen
Dikaios is ancient greek or righteous

Post by **Padme Undomiel** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 8:34 pm

PadmÃ© came from PadmÃ© Naberrie Amidala Skywalker in Star Wars. I fell in love with her name the first time I heard it, and I'm a Star Wars fan..

UndÃ³miel came from Arwen UndÃ³miel in Lord of the Rings. I thought it sounded cool with PadmÃ© and I love the Elven-languages.

Besides it's a pretty good way to meet people who, like the same stuff, since they pick up on the names really fast.

It's a bit unoriginal, so when I picked I was actually a bit afraid it would already be taken, but I was lucky /biggrin.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin.gif" />

Post by **Risalyn Doyle** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 11:14 pm

first name - Risalyn
Risa = [Latin] laughter
Lyn = [American] beautiful

so, combine the two:
Risa + Lyn = Risalyn - beautiful laughter

last name - Doyle
Doyle = [Celtic/Gaelic] Dark Foreigner

Yuppers. I heart my name. ^^

Post by **Sophia Manasa** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 4:06 am

I chose Sophia for wisdom (because I hope that I'm working on wisdom, not because I think I'm wise, then I should've just went ahead and picked BigHead) and Manasa because I had read that she was an Indian goddess who protects people from snake bites (later to learn that she is in fact a snake goddess). But I'm sure you know what a wise man said about choices.

Post by **Romulus Kohler** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 10:35 pm

I chose Romulus because Lupin (who is one of my favorite characters) got his name from Remus and Romulus who supposedly founded Rome. They were raised by wolves and I just thought that Romulus sounded quite cool. Kohler is from Angels & Demons, a great book by Dan Brown. The character Kohler is one of my favorite characters in the book as well. That, and it worked well with Romulus.

Post by **Eli Farmer** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 3:47 am

I got my first name:Eli from my RL middle name, Elizabeth.
But I thought Eli was cooler.
Farmer is the last name of a guy I like.
Not too much thought was put into it. /blink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":blink:" border="0" alt="blink.gif" />

Post by **Emilor MacKinnon** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 11:24 pm

How did I get my name?
Well, Emilor is a name made up of letters from my real first and middle names, and MacKinnon is a name in my family that I like. Also, there are McKinnons in the Harry Potter books. My family used McKinnon in the States, but now that I've moved to Canada I decided to put the "a" back in. They do that here. /rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":rolleyes:" border="0" alt="rolleyes.gif" />

Post by **Pavel Lagrange** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 6:55 pm

I chose Pavel because I was watching Juventus play football the other day and one of my favourite players is called Pavel, I got Lagrange because I was finishing my maths homework before I found this site and I was using a method created by a guy called Lagrange and it just stuck in my mind.

Post by **Layla Nyoka** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 11:56 pm

Layla is from an Arabic word, meaning "dark beauty" and Nyoka has African origins, meaning snake. I felt it would be a fitting name for a Slytherin /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /> !