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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 23.1 | | 3143::PHILBROOK | Chico's Daddy | Fri Jul 25 1986 16:08 | 10 |
| My name is Michael (it means "God like") - very fitting in my case!
I like the name, although most people call me Mike. My mother has
always INSISTED I be called Michael - she says it's my "real" name
and that's what I should be called. My grandmother has always called
me Mike and my mother has always finished it off for her, grandmother
says: "hey Mike", mother says: "chael!"
My wife and my sisters call me Michael - just about everyone else
uses Mike (and other things which we won't get into here....)
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| 23.2 | | 33993::HEFFEL | Tracey Heffelfinger | Mon Jul 28 1986 21:41 | 7 |
| Lee,
Leroy is no wimpy name either. Tell all scoffers that it means
"royal".
tlh
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| 23.3 | God like | 58450::LEWIS | Michael | Tue Oct 21 1986 12:31 | 8 |
| I'm told that Michael originates from the ancient Greek, although
I've found in within other ancient languages. The name supposedly
originates from what is beleived to be one of the most ancient names
for "God": "ael", "eal", "el" or "al" (depending on specific
locale). I would guess that the other portion of the name derives
from the same greek word that gave us 'mimic' and 'mime'.
Michael
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| 23.4 | good name | SHRBIZ::KULP | | Tue Aug 04 1987 14:47 | 11 |
| My son's name is Michael and I really like it too. He is a sturdy
little fellow also. We chose the name because it had not been used
in either of our families and because it was such a nice name.
My only problem with it (and soon to be a problem for him too, I'm
sure) is how popular it is. He looks real confused when we're
out and other people call their kids - like "are they talking to
me?" We too prefer Michael to Mike, but know he will be called
that later on.
Robin
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| 23.5 | Clarification of origin and meaning | MUNLEG::WALTER | Getting organized... | Fri Jan 18 1991 03:42 | 14 |
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Hi, my name is, yes, you guessed it. If I'm not very much mistaken
I seem to recall from some book on names (which I don't own so I
can't verify now) that Michael is a Hebrew word name meaning
"Who is like God?". This seems to be meant as a question not as a
statement equivalent to some kind of "He who is like God".
Regards
Michael W.
PS: There are 3 of us here in our group, including my boss. That's
why I always add a "W."
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| 23.6 | I heard it was for trouble | GLDOA::TREBILCOTT | I can't believe it's only Wednesday | Wed Sep 22 1993 14:05 | 21 |
| I have always loved the name Michael. It's my father's name, my
brother's name, my cousin's name, and my boss' name. I told him when I
first started to work for him if I called him Michael instead of Mike
it was because of my brother.
My mother told me that the name Michael was associated with
trouble-makers. My father and brother certainly lived up to that in
school when they were young, and when I thought about it, all the
Michael's I knew in school, even in high school, were trouble-makers.
I noticed in the base note the author mentioned he felt the name would
have a bearing on the child's personailty.
I didn't have the opportunity to see the Michael's I knew as being
God-like (except maybe in their own heads) but rather trouble-makers.
I do love the name. I write books and Michael is the name of a main
character in one of them (although it's a woman) but I couldn't help
but wonder if it's meaning (Hebrew or Greek or whatever) really has
any bearing on how the child's personality will turn out?
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