Message: "What does my name mean??"

What does my name mean??

by Meghann (guest)

2/2/2001, 10:51 AM

I've heard so many different things..."it's Irish"..."it's Welsh"..."it's made up"... I just want to know what it REALLY means and where it comes from.

#Meghann

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- kristin (guest)

2/6/2001, 1:27 AM

I think Meghan is the best name ever. It's beautiful and can be shortened to Meg, my favourite name.

- Norah (guest) +3

2/2/2001, 1:25 PM

OK, here's the scoop on Megan. In the Beginning, there was MEGAN. This was a lovely Welsh pet form of Margaret. Then, the Australian writer Colleen Mccullogh wrote "The thorn Birds." I think she was single handedly responsible for suddenly convincing the world that this name was Irish, by spelling it Meghan (?). Now, everyone thinks it is an Irish name, and lots of Irishoid spellings have popped up. But, the fact remains...whether you spell it Meghan, Meaghan, Meagan, Meggyynnn etc., it was still originally a Welsh nickname for Margaret.

A lot of baby name books list Megan as being Anglo-Saxon meaning "mighty" or something like that. Don't believe them. They are all crack heads. I'm not sure where they got this idea from. (Maybe from the Latin prefix "mega?")

- Nanaea +2

2/2/2001, 1:43 PM

I was waiting for either you or Daividh to take this one. I'm still enjoying your description of some of those baby name book editors as being "crack heads". :)

Hey, I just recently discovered the name quiz on your website. I took it, choosing only those names out of the 20 choices that fit "Satanic" by my 6-letter description -- and I scored as "Modern Eccentric"!

Hope you don't mind, but I'm going to lift your lists of "Modern Eccentric", "Modern Unusual", "Classic Eccentric" and "Classic Unusual" names for P.L. to anagram next. :)

-- Nanaea

- Daividh (guest) +1

2/2/2001, 6:21 PM

If I hadn't been in bed all day with stomach flu (effectively cutting out Day 5 of The Great Cheese Danish Ingestion) I might have gotten to this one before Norah. My answer to the three possibilities proposed would've been simply "Yes".

Norah's quite right here, and graciously provided details. I wasn't aware of the "Thorn Birds" connection. When I inform my niece Meghan, she'll probably change her name in sheer horror. (Hehehe)

- Nanaea

2/3/2001, 3:57 AM

Pestering Daividh s'more...

"When I inform my niece Meghan, she'll probably change her name in sheer horror. (Hehehe)"

@@@@ Tell her to change it to "Gemnah". Heeee-hee! :)

-- Nanaea
(Sending positive energy your way to fight that nasty stomach flu.)

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