# What does your name mean?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-name-mean/80018
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [September 6, 2001, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-name-mean/80018 "2001-09-06T13:25:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@kingpengvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingpengvin)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2001, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-name-mean/80018/1 "2001-09-06T13:25:26Z")
I’ve noticed some clever and interesting names out there, please post where you came up with yours.
For example Kingpengvin comes from Black Adder III when the Mad King George III proclaims himself (In a German Accent) King Pengvin.
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### Author:  [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2001, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-name-mean/80018/2 "2001-09-06T13:31:57Z")
Look for mine on [this page](http://math.vanderbilt.edu/~schectex/ccc/choice.html). It does a much better job explaining it than I can, cause I don’t have access to graphics or a symbol font.
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### Author:  [@aegypt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aegypt)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2001, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-name-mean/80018/3 "2001-09-06T13:39:47Z")
“Aegypt” is an old spelling for “Egypt”. I just like they the word looks; I don’t have any real connection with Egypt, and I’m not even that much into things Egyptian.
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2001, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-name-mean/80018/4 "2001-09-06T13:43:16Z")
MangeTout = Mange Tout = Eat all (french)
ManGetOut = Man Get out
My surname is derived from the word Gourmand (glutton)
-nominative determinism if ever I saw it.
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### Author:  [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2001, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-name-mean/80018/5 "2001-09-06T13:46:05Z")
“manhattan” is an Algonquin word meaning “mover of threads.”
Off to IMHO.
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### Author:  [@Damhna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damhna)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2001, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-name-mean/80018/6 "2001-09-06T13:53:27Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Mangetout \*
> \*\*MangeTout = Mange Tout = Eat all (french)
> \*\*
=flat green beans
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### Author:  [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2001, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-name-mean/80018/7 "2001-09-06T14:01:19Z")
**lno** comes from “lo new olf” which comes from “lonewolf” which comes from “lone wolf” which comes from a series of children’s books written by Joe Dever (and Ian Page?) that I loved when I first started bbsing around 10 or 11 years of age.
The transition to “lo new olf” occured when someone asked whether “lonewolf” was supposed to be two words. I said no, that it was three words, and made up a silly story about a mythical Olf. Blah blah blah blah blah, Lo! New Olf!
Which was then nicknamed LNO, and changed to lno because my shift key broke on a previous computer. Now I’m just sticking with it, damnit, until someday when I change it to lo, or maybe just l.
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### Author:  [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2001, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-name-mean/80018/8 "2001-09-06T14:12:05Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Mangetout \*
> \*\*MangeTout = Mange Tout = Eat all (french)
> ManGetOut = Man Get out
>
> My surname is derived from the word Gourmand (glutton)
> -nominative determinism if ever I saw it. \*\*
This is an eye opener. I could have sworn your name was Mange Trout. I was trying to picture what a fish with a skin condition would look like.
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### Author:  [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2001, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-name-mean/80018/9 "2001-09-06T14:26:49Z")
Sharp glance in Quenya.
Might in Old English. Oddly, it means kinswoman in OE, too.
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### Author:  [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2001, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-name-mean/80018/10 "2001-09-06T14:35:22Z")
I had to slay the previous Legomancer in unarmed combat to win the title.
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2001, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-name-mean/80018/11 "2001-09-06T14:38:17Z")
in lieu of reed.
wanna walk on the wild side?
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### Author:  [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2001, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-name-mean/80018/12 "2001-09-06T14:45:42Z")
My user name is a combination of the honorific Ms. plus an alternate spelling of my first name, Robin. I don’t answer well to nicknames, and being mistaken for a man pisses me off.
Robin
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### Author:  [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2001, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-name-mean/80018/13 "2001-09-06T14:46:34Z")
Only those with vast knowledge of Muppets trivia will ever know!!!
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### Author:  [@Phobos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phobos)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2001, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-name-mean/80018/14 "2001-09-06T14:53:12Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by MsRobyn \*
> \*\*and being mistaken for a man pisses me off.
> \*\*
Yeah, because men are vile & beneath contempt. A real insult.
To the OP…
I’m just an obvious amateur astronomer. Phobos was a cool sounding moon name that I have been using as my internet name for many years. (Only later did I realize it comes from the Greek word for “fear”. d’oh!)
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### Author:  [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2001, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-name-mean/80018/15 "2001-09-06T14:53:36Z")
Oh, you mean the world’s greatest eater from the Vincent Price episode? I liked that one. 🙂
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### Author:  [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2001, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-name-mean/80018/16 "2001-09-06T15:02:56Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Phobos \*
> \*\*
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> > [@](#):
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> > \*Originally posted by MsRobyn \*
> > \*\*and being mistaken for a man pisses me off.
> > \*\*
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> Yeah, because men are vile & beneath contempt. A real insult.
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> \*\*
It only pisses me off because I’m not one. The decision to change it to Robyn came from some Boy Scouts mail inviting me to join, and from my early days on IRC when I’d get harrassed from PMs from gays wanting to cyber. I figured it was easier to change the spelling than to develop a new name.
Robin
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### Author:  [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2001, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-name-mean/80018/17 "2001-09-06T15:39:16Z")
Ino, you da man!!!
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2001, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-name-mean/80018/18 "2001-09-06T17:24:47Z")
I look exactly like James Mason, except for being only four foot two.
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### Author:  [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2001, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-name-mean/80018/19 "2001-09-06T18:22:55Z")
I think my SDMB moniker speaks for itself. My name IRL means “conforming to the highest standard”. 🙂
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### Author:  [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2001, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-name-mean/80018/20 "2001-09-06T18:44:34Z")
I haven’t answered this in a while, but I did, in some thread…
anyhoo. I keep a dreamjournal, and the worst dream I ever had was where I had an affair with Brett Favre, and got pregnant and gave birth to his child. I was so wrought with shame. Not for having an illegitimate child, but because it was BRETT FAVRE’S child, and everyone knows, I hate him with all of my being. He is my arch nemesis and I hope he breaks his arm this year.
anyway, In a fit of shame, I stuffed the baby in an empty jar and kept it in my bottom drawer, where it lived happily, but in secret.
And today, I am that jarbaby.
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