1. What does your first name mean?<\/b><\/p>\n
“Allyn” is a variant spelling of “Alan,” a Celtic name meaning “harmony.” This was the first name of my great-grandfather.<\/p>\n
2. What does your middle name mean?<\/b><\/p>\n
“Russell” is a French name meaning “red haired.” This was the last name of my great-grandmother.<\/p>\n
3. What does your last name mean?<\/b><\/p>\n
Gibson, one presumes, means “son of Gib.” Whoever Gib was.<\/p>\n
4. So what does your name mean when put together?<\/b><\/p>\n
Harmonious red-haired son of Gib.<\/p>\n
5. What would you have been named if you were the opposite gender?<\/b><\/p>\n
I used to know the answer to this question.<\/p>\n
6. Any other name oddities?<\/b><\/p>\n
Each of the six vowels appears in my name exactly once. I think one could conjure with that.<\/p>\n
7. Do you like your name?<\/b><\/p>\n
Sure. I could have been named “Atworth.”<\/p>\n
8. What do you like best about it?<\/b><\/p>\n
It flows nicely off the tongue.<\/p>\n
9. What do you like least about it?<\/b><\/p>\n
The inability of people to spell or pronounce my first name, combined with a certain gender ambiguity therein.<\/p>\n
10. If you had<\/i> to change your name (witness protection program, whatever), what would you want it to be?<\/b><\/p>\n
No real thoughts here.<\/p>\n
Name etymologies taken from Behind the Name<\/a> and here<\/a>. Thanks to Rebecca Anderson<\/a> for the idea for the post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1. What does your first name mean? “Allyn” is a variant spelling of “Alan,” a Celtic name meaning “harmony.” This was the first name of my great-grandfather. 2. What does your middle name mean? “Russell” is a French name meaning “red haired.” This was the last name of my great-grandmother. 3. What does your lastContinue reading “The Naming Game”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[349],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-name","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}