Names

[ghini]

Someone on a mailing list was asking about names. What's your full name, and what does it mean?

I am Michael David Alberghini

Michael has been the first or second most popular name given to male babies in the U.S. for each year since 1954. My parents aren't very creative. :)

David was my fathers name, and also biblical. Dad was a big old Jesus Krispie.

Alberghini is Italian, obviously. An albergo is an inn. Alberghi is the plural. Adding -ini in Italian is a diminutive. So my last name in Italian basically means "little hotels"

What about you?

Comments

[sarariman-riido.livejournal.com]

Reid : Dad wanted to give me a good "Irish-sounding" name (my family remains confused as to our origins, I think) and ended up giving me an Old-english name for "kid with red hair"

Emerson: The author. Dad had thing for the essay "self reliance" and wanted to instill that on me, I guess.

McCall: Son of Couil (or some such, forget the spelling) who is some semi-mythical celtic king or something. About as Irish as I am a monkey, there is not a drop of catholic blood in my family. Pretty sure we trace back to the Glasgow area and were Orangemen in Ulster for 1-2 generations before becoming dirt farmers in north Georgia... (where we remain).