Your task is to find as much information about your name as you can! You can research your FIRST, MIDDLE, and/or your LAST name. Be thinking specifically of how your name origin and meaning fits your personality.
**Answer these questions on a separate piece of paper**
Use the websites below to answer the questions that follow:
http://www.babynamer.com
http://www.mandarintools.com/chinesename.html
1. What does your name mean?
2. What is the origin of your name or what is the language of its origin?
3. In what time period was your name popular?
4. List at least two more interesting facts you have found about your name using the web sites from above.
5. Was your name popular when you were born (use the site http://www.babynames.com or http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames )? Is your name a popular one to be used today? Make sure to list the number your name is on the list if it is on either list!
6. What famous or important people, present and past, share your name?
7. Finally, search for a name that you like. Why do you like this name? Do you like the way it sounds? Find the meaning of this name:
8. Did you find that your name meaning fit your personality? How so or why not? Did the other name you searched for match you better? Why or why not?
