A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories.
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If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.
Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.
Most of the names in my books have secondary meaning. Sometimes they foreshadow; sometimes they tell you about the character's origin or back story.
You could have names like Hatred; you could have names that mean something like Suffering or Poverty. So names are not just names: names have real meaning, and they tend to tell the world about the circumstances of your parents at the time that you were born.
The name 'Amazon' was not originally Greek; linguists believe it derived from the ancient Iranian word for 'warrior.'
Sometimes a nickname is used instead of the real name. But a nickname may offend either the one named or the parents who gave the name.
I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat.
To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.
In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all.
Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.