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Babynames.com is a very good naming site. I speak as a member of it for four years. It's worth paying for!
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I'm a member too - the meanings/origins are generally unreliable :)
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I am also a member there. The name database is near-useless; The meanings are mostly way off. But the FORUMS - They are friendly, more mature than most, and very active...but not free.
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I think HELMINGER is a personal name derived from the place-name Helming. As far as I can see, there are three places by that name in Germany and they are all located in Bavaria. The place-name again probably goes back to a personal name with the Germanic element "Helm" (helmet), like Helmfried or Helmbrecht. I wouldn't get confused by the double L.
Hope this helps.
Andy ;—)
Hope this helps.
Andy ;—)
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well...
Some of the meanings are wrong and some of them are not. It's better than one of my baby names books though, so I have to give it some credit.
-Seda*
Some of the meanings are wrong and some of them are not. It's better than one of my baby names books though, so I have to give it some credit.
-Seda*
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Lol . . .
. . . that's not saying much, given some of the shockers of name books that I've seen.
"sometimes accurate" doesn't equal "accurate". And the odd points of accuracy don't excuse the massive mis-information that sites like that perpetrate.
Compared to the painstaking accuracy - and acknowledgement of missing knowledge - at BtN, babynames.com is just mush.
But I'm sure you know that! :-D
. . . that's not saying much, given some of the shockers of name books that I've seen.
"sometimes accurate" doesn't equal "accurate". And the odd points of accuracy don't excuse the massive mis-information that sites like that perpetrate.
Compared to the painstaking accuracy - and acknowledgement of missing knowledge - at BtN, babynames.com is just mush.
But I'm sure you know that! :-D
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of course...
*SK*
*SK*
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