I wanted to post the following already for a long time, but didn't get round to it. So, then now.
In Peru you can always meet people with interesting, very unperuvian names. For example once I was driven by a peruvian called "Ivan" or you can meet Pamelas or Shirleys.
But once in a while there are really crazy names too. The people who have these names I don't know, but my teacher Karen told me about it in class - kind of shocked about the 'simplicity' of some peruvians.
According to her there is a peruvian girl which is called Madeinusa. The parents must have read "Made in USA" somewhere on something and thought that this might be a nice name for a girl.
The same with the name of some other girl: Usnavy.
You surely already know where the name comes from. The father read that on a ship and said to himself that this will be the name of his daughter. Im not so sure, if the grown up woman is so happy to be called after the "US Navy".
So, you always should be careful how to nae your children. It could be that you're not doing them a favor...
I myself found out something interesting about my name recently:
I knew for a long time what Wolfgang means. The name is set together from ancient german "wolf" and "waffengang" (walk of weapons) and means to walk into battle like a wolf (what honestly not is really one of my obvious attitudes) ;-).
But I was amazed that my second name Rudolf (oooook, now you know it, my second name is Rudolf ;-)) also is related to wolf and also from ancient german. It means "the glorious wolf".
I really think that is remarkable, because this way my name can get a spiritual meaning (at least I think). I know that I am in a spiritual battle. Until my life is done, I have to fight with me, my sin and Satan. And that is not a fight like playing chess. It's a tough fight, and it's necessary to go into this battle like a wolf.
And now my second name is "the glorious wolf". That means the battle is not unsure, there is no doubt what the result of the battle will be, because I belong to Jesus, to the winner. And when the fight is concluded, I will turn into the "glorious wolf", will be in the glorious presence of god. Isn't that cool?!
I always thought thast my second name is kind of uncool, because he sounds so old. But now I'm really proud of it.
:-)
Thanks Mom and Dad!
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Rudolf, huh!?
I must admit I kinda like 'madeinamerica' :)
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