Reardon 1 Taylor Reardon Mrs.

Raymond English 1103 1 October 2013 Origin of Names A personal name is something that belongs to a person. My personal name belongs to me and as gi!en to me by my mother and father. They chose to name me Emily Taylor Reardon. A gi!en name is a name that is ass"med by a person at or after birth. #s"ally yo"r gi!en name is yo"r first name b"t my parents decided to "se my middle name as my first name. There isn$t any special reasoning behind their decision% they &"st preferred to call me by Taylor b"t li'ed the ay Emily Taylor flo ed. Therefore my gi!en name and hat ( go by is Taylor. A family name% also 'no n as last name% is a name that is passed from one generation to the ne)t. (n many c"lt"res a oman adopts her h"sband$s family name hen they are married. *ontin"ing to "se myself as an e)ample% my family name is Reardon. Names almost al ays ha!e an etymological meaning% implying that they ere originally ords. +or instance% Taylor comes from an English s"rname hich originally denoted someone ho as a tailor% from Norman +rench taille"r% "ltimately from ,atin taliare -to c"t-. Names primary p"rpose is to disting"ish o"rsel!es from one another. All c"lt"res "se names b"t their naming c"stoms !ary. (n spanish spea'ing co"ntries people ha!e t o s"rnames. The first s"rname is the father$s s"rname and is "s"ally "sed hen addressing somebody. One s"rname is "sed hen spea'ing to a person and t o s"rnames are "sed hen riting to a person. Also% first names are appropriate hen tal'ing among friends and yo"ng people. *hinese names are constr"cted m"ch differently.

Reardon 2 A *hinese name starts ith the family name and is follo ed by the first name. (t is "ncommon for i!es to ta'e the family name of their h"sbands% instead they ill 'eep their maiden name. .o e!er/ their children ill ta'e their father$s s"rname name. 0ometimes *hinese people or'ing ith 1estern companies ill adopt an english name to try to accommodate ith their estern clients and co2 or'ers. R"ssian names are also different in a ay beca"se they recei!e their middle name from their father$s first name. (n addition% R"ssian omen ill ta'e their h"sband$s s"rname b"t they add an 3a4 to the end of it. 1hen researching my name ( fo"nd that Emily comes from Aemili"s% a ,atin name meaning eager and Taylor comes from taillier% a Norman +rench name meaning to c"t. There are many "n"s"al names aro"nd the orld b"t one that ( ha!e al ays 5"estioned the meaning of is Micheal 6ac'son$s sons name. 7lan'et is the nic'name for Michael 6ac'son$s second son% 8rince Michael 6ac'son ((. (t as e)plained by Micheal 6ac'son% in his o n ords -(t$s an e)pression ( "se ith my family and my employees. ( say% $9o" sho"ld blan'et me or yo" sho"ld blan'et her$% meaning li'e a blan'et is a blessing. (t$s a ay of sho ing lo!e and caring.-