What is the meaning of your real name?
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My name is Brian. I don't know what that means.
Brian is a male given name of Irish and Breton origin,[1] as well as a surname of Occitan origin.[2] It is common in the English-speaking world. It is possible that the name is derived from an Old Celtic word meaning "high" or "noble".[1] For example the element bre means "hill"; which could be transferred to mean "eminence" or "exalted one".
No, I'm Brian!!
No but kidding aside my name is Gordon which supposedly means "From the marshes" or "Great Hill"......make of that what you will.
William
(male) Probably the most successful of all the Old French names of Germanic origin that were introduced to England by the Normans. It is derived from Germanic wil ‘will, desire’ + helm ‘helmet, protection’. The fact that it was borne by the Conqueror himself does not seem to have inhibited its favour with the ‘conquered’ population: in the first century after the Conquest it was the commonest male name of all, and not only among the Normans. In the later Middle Ages it was overtaken by John*, but continued to run second to that name until the 20th century, when the picture became more fragmented
(* middle name)
(male) Probably the most successful of all the Old French names of Germanic origin that were introduced to England by the Normans. It is derived from Germanic wil ‘will, desire’ + helm ‘helmet, protection’. The fact that it was borne by the Conqueror himself does not seem to have inhibited its favour with the ‘conquered’ population: in the first century after the Conquest it was the commonest male name of all, and not only among the Normans. In the later Middle Ages it was overtaken by John*, but continued to run second to that name until the 20th century, when the picture became more fragmented
(* middle name)
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