All of these are great fun. The anglo-saxon name meanings are often plain, or at least so foreign sounding to our ears now that it’s easier to hear them as mea

All of these are great fun. The anglo-saxon name meanings are often plain, or at least so foreign sounding to our ears now that it’s easier to hear them as meaningful: Beowulf is “bee-hunter”, probably; etc. Hebrew names are the interesting case where they’re so normal in western culture as “oh, a given name” that we often seem completely blind to their meanings. Adam, for example, probably means something like “humanity”, the collective noun. Israel is roughly “wrestles with god”. And Jesus Christ, as famously memed on tumblr, is modernizable as “oily josh”. (and in that form of his name, has already been translated through the greek first anyway!)