What’s in a Name?

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Do you know the meaning of your name, and why your parents chose it? Do you think it suits you? What about your children’s names?

Quoting the Bard of Avon, what’s in a name?  For the ancients quite a bit, for us modern folks, it seems more than not, not very much.  In ancient times, a person would name their child to express at least two things: first, they wished to declare something of themselves (usually the father in the patriarchal societies of that day) and second, to give the child a name they could live up to.