Is there a website that determines characteristics of your name?

[One-Way]

I'm looking for a website that will help you determine characteristics of any given name. I'm not asking for the origin of the name and where it came from. I'm strictly looking to type in a name, and it tells me anything associated with that name. Some name origin websites do a good job with giving you a background of the name, while others only tell you where it originated from. Here's a good example of what I'm looking for:

Adam
This is the Hebrew word for "man". It could be ultimately derived from Hebrew אדם ('adam) meaning "to be red", referring to the ruddy colour of human skin, or from Assyrian adamu meaning "to make".

I'm not necessarily looking for just English names, Armenian names will do as well.

[Sako]

Re: Is there a website that determines characteristics of your name?

I think a book will help you more then a site although I've visited a few great sites. Can't remember them at the moment. I'll let you know if I do.

[freakyfreaky]

Re: Is there a website that determines characteristics of your name?

you could start with urbandictionary.com. Notice I said "start".

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=adam

Here is a name dictionary. www.behindthename.com

http://www.behindthename.com/name/adam

ADAM
Gender: Masculine

Usage: English, French, German, Dutch, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Russian, Ukrainian, Romanian, xxxish, Arabic, Biblical

Other Scripts: אָדָם (Hebrew), Адам (Russian, Ukrainian), آدم (Arabic)

Pronounced: A-dəm (English), AH-dahm (German, Dutch, Polish), ah-DAHM (Russian) [key]

This is the Hebrew word for "man". It could be ultimately derived from Hebrew אדם ('adam) meaning "to be red", referring to the ruddy colour of human skin, or from Assyrian adamu meaning "to make". According to Genesis in the Old Testament Adam was created from the earth by God (there is a word play on Hebrew אֲדָמָה ('adamah) "earth"). He and Eve were supposedly the first humans, living happily in the Garden of Eden until Adam ate a forbidden fruit given to him by Eve.
As an English Christian name, Adam has been common since the Middle Ages, and it received a boost after the Protestant Reformation. A famous bearer was Scottish economist Adam Smith (1723-1790).

[Icy]

Re: Is there a website that determines characteristics of your name?

The Bible has a list of names and what they are originated
from.

[jgk3]

Re: Is there a website that determines characteristics of your name?

http://babynamesworld.parentsconnect.com/armenian-names-1.html

[hipeter924]

Re: Is there a website that determines characteristics of your name?

One of my middle names (Najar) is harder:

1. Spanish: most probably a habitational name from Najar, Alacant.
2. Spanish: alternatively, it may be an occupational name derived from Arabic najjār ‘carpenter’.

Was there ever an Armenian name called Najarian? Because my mother thinks it was shortened from Najarian to Najar?

[jgk3]

Re: Is there a website that determines characteristics of your name?

well, Armenians definitely would've inherited that name from working as carpenters in Arabic communities, unless najar has some Armenian or Turkish meaning too.

[hipeter924]

Re: Is there a website that determines characteristics of your name?

well, Armenians definitely would've inherited that name from working as carpenters in Arabic communities, unless najar has some Armenian or Turkish meaning too.

No idea, and its not like (as I am living in NZ) I could go to an archive in Turkey and look it up...I bet they have scrubbed the records...or alternatively listed my great grandmother as an "enemy of Turkey".

PS: My internet connection sucks at university so I may have double posted

[Yedtarts]

Re: Is there a website that determines characteristics of your name?

Najar and Najjar is the same, one is turkish and the other is Arabic, means carpenter. There are lots of Armenians with the Najarian family name.

[ara87]

Re: Is there a website that determines characteristics of your name?

i've always assumed Najar is like Nazar in Hebrew, kind of like salam is shalom, but idk.

behind the name is good. however if you're going to use websites in general, use a few to see if their definitions match up, b/c sometimes they will have different meanings listed.

Try going with biblical names or mid to old english names, they usually have well documented meanings