The Name Game

[tzikeh]

The other meme:

What does your first name mean?

Variously, "The Grace of God", "God beholds," or "woman of wealth."

What does your middle name mean?

I have no middle name.

What does your last name mean?

"Promontory", "woody meadowland", or "of the headland".

So what does your name mean when put together?

"Only God Knows Why Florida Exists", "The Lord Enjoys Watching The Giants and Bruce Springsteen", or "Hey You Peasant -- Get The Hell Off My Property."

What would you have been named if you were the opposite gender?

Philip or Ian.

Any other name oddities?

The last name is a mutation of a mutation of a mutation of a name that was chosen at Ellis Island which bears no resemblance to the original last name. My lj name is the transliteration of the modern Hebrew of the Biblical "Iscah", which over the years has become Zikkah, ot Tzikeh, or whatever transliteration you prefer. The first actual use of the "Jessica" form is Shakespeare's, who most likely created it from Iscah/Zikkah. So I like to trace my name back to him, rather than to the Bible.

When I was born in 1969, Jessica wasn't even in the top 100 girls' names. It is currently in the top ten. As usual, I set the trends. ::buffs nails::

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[cereta.livejournal.com]

You know, I spent years being reading in name books (I collected them for a while) that Rebecca was one of the top ten girl's names for like, forever, and yet I almost never ran into another. Still almost never run into another, except for a fellow actress in the Scottish Play.