History of Christian names

ISRAELITE NAMES 27 § 1. Moses and Aaron 27 2. Elisheba, &c. 32 3. Joshua, &c. 36 4. Names from Chaanach 39 5. David 46 6. Salem 47 7. Later Israelite Names 48 8. Angelic Names 52

NAMES FROM GREEK MYTHOLOGY 61 § 1. 61 2. Names from Zeus 61 3. Hera 63 4. Athene 64 5. Apollo and Artemis 64 6. Hele 66 7. Demeter 69 8. Dionysos 70 9. Hermes 71 10. Heroic Name...

HISTORICAL GREEK NAMES CONSISTING OF EPITHETS 82 § 1. Agathos 82 2. Alexander, &c. 83 3. Aner, Andros 85 4. Eu 86 5. Hieros 89 6. Pan 90 7. Polys 92 8. Phile, &c. 93 9. Names co...

CHRISTIAN GREEK NAMES 99 § 1. 99 2. Names from Theos 99 3. Names from Christos 104 4. Sophia 106 5. Petros 107 6. Names of Immortality 109 7. Royal Names 111 8. Irene 112 9. Gre...

NOMINA 140 § 1. Attius 140 2. Æmilius 140 3. Antonius 141 4. Cæcilius 143 5. Cœlius 145 6. Claudius 145 7. Cornelius, &c. 146 8. Julius 148 9. Lælius, &c. 151 10. Valerius 152

COGNOMINA 155 § 1. 155 2. Augustus 157 3. Blasius 158 4. Cæsar, &c. 159 5. Constantius 161 6. Crispus, &c. 162 7. Galerius, &c. 163 8. Paullus and Magnus 165 9. Rufus, &c. 167

NAMES FROM ROMAN DEITIES 169 § 1. 169 2. Florentius 171 3. Laurentius 172 4. Sancus 175 5. Old Italian Deities 176 6. Quirinus 177 7. Sibylla 178 8. Saturn, &c. 179

MODERN NAMES FROM THE LATIN 181 § 1. From Amo 181 2. ” Beo 182 3. ” Clarus 185 4. ” Columba 186 5. ” Durans 187 6. Names of Thankfulness 188 7. Crescens, &c. 189 8. Military Nam...

GAELIC NAMES 240 § 1. Scottish Colonists 240 2. The Feen 242 3. Finn 243 4. Cu, Cun, Gal 245 5. Diarmaid and Graine 249 6. Cormac 250 7. Cath 251 8. Fiachra 252 9. Names of Comp...

NAMES OF CYMRIC ROMANCE 264 § 1. The Round Table 264 2. Arthur 266 3. Gwenever 268 4. Gwalchmai, Sir Gawain, and Sir Owen 272 5. Trystan and Ysolt 274 6. Hoel and Ryence 276 7....

NAMES FROM TEUTON MYTHOLOGY 285 § 1. Guth 285 2. The Aasir 289 3. Odin, or Grîmr 292 4. Frey 294 5. Thor 300 6. Baldur and Hodur 303 7. Tyr 305 8. Heimdall 308 9. Will 311 10. H...

NAMES FROM OBJECTS CONNECTED WITH MYTHOLOGY 334 § 1. Day 334 2. The Wolf 335 3. Eber, the Boar 337 4. The Bear 338 5. The Horse 340 6. The Eagle 342 7. The Raven 344 8. The Swan...

HEROIC NAMES OF THE NIBELUNG 355 § 1. The Nibelung 355 2. Sigurd 356 3. Brynhild 359 4. Gunther 362 5. Hagen 364 6. Ghiseler 365 7. Ghernot 367 8. Folker 370 9. Dankwart 371 10....

THE KARLING ROMANCES 383 § 1. The Paladins 383 2. Charles 384 3. Roland, &c. 387 4. Renaud 394 5. Richard 399 6. Astolfo 400 7. Ogier le Danois 402 8. Louis 403

DESCRIPTIVE NAMES 408 § 1. Nobility 408 2. Command 413 3. Brightness 414 4. War 416 5. Protection 419 6. Power 421 7. Affection 426 8. Appearance 427 9. Locality 429 10. Life 433

NAMES FROM THE SLAVONIC 435 § 1. Slavonic Races 435 2. Slavonian Mythology 438 3. Warlike Names 440 4. Names of Might 441 5. Names of Virtue 443 6. Names of Affection 444 7. Nam...

Hebrew, the sacred language, and the medium of all our earliest knowledge of the world and of man, furnishes almost all of the first names known to us, which are in general, ver...

The oldest of all proper names comes from a word signifying red, and refers to the red earth (adama) out of which the first man was taken, reminding us that dust we are, and unt...

At the time of the Exodus, the Israelites had become a nation, and their names, though still formed from a living language, were becoming more hereditary and conventional than t...

Scanty as are the Christian names derived from the Persian race, they are very curious and interesting, partly on account of the changes that they have undergone, and still more...

Passing from Persian to Greek names, we feel at once that we are nearer home, and that we claim a nearer kindred in thoughts and habits, if not in blood, with the sons of Javan,...

Greek appellations may be divided into various classes; the first, those of the gods and early heroes are derived from languages inexplicable even by the classical Greeks. These...

Much of the spirit of the nation is to be traced in the animals whence their names are derived. The Jew, whose temper, except when thoroughly roused, was peaceful and gentle, ha...

After passing from the fascinating but confused tales and songs that group around the ship Argo, the doomed family of Œdipus, and the siege of Troy, the Greeks are well-nigh los...

The names that we place in this class are such as arose under the Christian dispensation. Some, indeed, are older, and many more may be so, and may have been in use among slaves...

Hitherto we have had to deal with names at once explained by the language of those who originally bore them. With a very few exceptions, chiefly in the case of traditional deiti...

For the sake of convenient classification, it may be best to begin the Latin names with the original prænomina and their derivatives, few in number as they are, and their origin...

The Latin nomina were those that came by inheritance, and denoted the position of the gens in the state, its antiquity, and sometimes its origin. Their derivation is often, howe...

Sometimes they were adjectives, such as Asper (the rough), Cæcus (the blind), Brutus (the stupid). Sometimes they were suggested by the appearance, such as Naso (the nose), or S...

A short chapter must be given to the modern names that, in spite of the canon prohibiting the giving of names of heathen gods in baptism, are either those of Latin divinities, o...

There still remain a class of names derived from the Latin, being chiefly Latin words formed into names. Some of them answer to the class that we have called Christian Greek, be...

The great festivals of religion have supplied names which are here classed together for convenience of arrangement, though they are of all languages. Most, indeed, are taken fro...

We now pass to a class of names whose associations belong almost entirely to the modern world, yet whose history is far more obscure than that of those on which we have previous...

Welsh myths we say advisedly, for whether these were really Druidical myths or not, they have become so much disguised by Welsh bards, down to Christian times, that there is no...

The strange and wild beliefs that prevailed regarding the original settlement of ancient Ireland, have left strong traces on the names still borne by the population, both there...

It is a very remarkable fact, that the grand cycle of our national romance and poetry, has been made to centre round the hero of a people whom we have subdued, and were holding...

Nothing shows the identity of the entire Teutonic race more than the resemblance of the names in each of the branches. Many are found in each of the stems—Gothic, Scandinavian,...

It is hard to class this first class of names under those of mythology, for they bear in them our own honoured word for the Deity; and though some arose when the race were worsh...

The rich imagination of the North could not fail to preserve the Eastern myths of natural appearances and animals with their myths, and these ideas are as usual reflected in the...

As the Greeks believed in the exploits of semi-divine heroes, a sort of borderers between Olympus and the human race, so the Teutonic race had its grand universal legends of bei...

Another remarkable cycle of romantic fable connected itself with a prince, not lost in the dim light of heroic legend, but described by a contemporary chronicler, and revealed i...

The names connected with any great cycle of interest have been nearly exhausted, and only those remain that seem to have been chosen more for sense than connection, though after...

The last class of names that have had any influence upon European nomenclature are those borne by the Slavonic race dwelling to the eastward of the Teutons, and scarcely coming...