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Help[Facts] Re: Some of you need to accept not every name has a “meaning”
in reply to a message by clevelandkentevans
That is true, but many modern names have no etymological origin, and instead were made up based on melodic sound that the parents liked. It makes me shudder when I hear someone say something like, “I named my child Breadson. It means ‘gift from God.’” and there is no etymological evidence for that.
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I dislike made up "meanings" as much as the next namenerd, but putting together common elements do create a meaning for a name. Yes, Bread with the element -son would technically mean "son of bread." Jaylen is the combination of the names Jay + Lynn and thus would take on the meaning of whatever name Jay was derived from (Jason or James for instance) and the element -lynn (meaning lake). So for instance, "to heal" and "lake." I don't think that now means you can come up with some flowery meaning from those elements such as "his name means healing lake." That just doesn't make sense.
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OK; and the fact that you have that reaction is a fact. But on these boards, since it is your opinion about what other people do, it belongs on the Opinions board. And it is still imappropriate to accuse the members of this site in general of sloppy and unscholarly thinking.
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It’s not an opinion. You know what is an opinion? You deciding what is “inappropriate.”
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