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				| 1. | 07 Jan 2007 Sun 10:49 pm |  
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	i'm just curious as to what peoples names actually mean???
 i will start you off.....
 
 my name is nathan, its hebrew and it means gift from god.
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				| 2. | 07 Jan 2007 Sun 10:57 pm |  
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	natalie - is french and means christmas day		 |  |  
	
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				| 3. | 07 Jan 2007 Sun 11:18 pm |  
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	Natasha (it's Russian)
Latin meaning - Born on Christmas day
 
 This name is very personal to me too
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				| 4. | 07 Jan 2007 Sun 11:28 pm |  
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	From Ελισαβετ (Elisabet), the Greek form of the Hebrew name אֱלִישֶׁבַע ('Elisheva') meaning "my God is an oath" or perhaps "my God is abundance". 		 |  |  
	
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				| 5. | 07 Jan 2007 Sun 11:52 pm |  
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	Rachel(english)/Raquel(spanish) from Hebrew meaning female lamb... Rachel from the new testament was Jacob's favorite wife and the mother of Joseph and Benjamin.		 |  |  
	
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				| 6. | 08 Jan 2007 Mon 01:08 am |  
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	Gerardine, female version of Gerard.  Named after St Gerard, Catholic Patron Saint of Motherhood and Childbirth.
 It has personal meaning to my parents.
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				| 7. | 08 Jan 2007 Mon 09:36 pm |  
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	robin..one a winter bird and two the female version of robert meaning fame and fortune..
my parents chose it for lifelong torture purposes
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				| 8. | 09 Jan 2007 Tue 08:00 am |  
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	Trudy - from the Germanic (not German!) name Geertruida, which means 'female warrior with a spear'. 		 |  |  
	
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				| 9. | 09 Jan 2007 Tue 08:34 am |  
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	Toni, female version of Anthony.  Meaning worthy of praise.		 |  |  
	
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				| 10. | 09 Jan 2007 Tue 09:39 am |  
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	Marta (Spanish)/Martha (English) - Judæo-Aramaic מַרְתָּא Martâ, it means "The Lady"
 --- All the old fat houskeepers of old movies used to have this name
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