What’s in a name…again?

Most parents name their children after celebrities, holy people or merge their names’ first or last syllables to give you unique names (“Rommelyn” from Rommel and Annalyn, etc). When I was young (i.e. 27 yrs ago..sigh) I asked my mother about the meaning of my name and she said it means “wonderful” or did she say “wonder full..?” or anyway, a website that specializes in meanings of names gave me something to think about.

The name “Myra” is of Latin and English origin, and it means “Uncertain, perhaps myrrh, unguent”.

Other info, and I quote, are as follows
“The name was invented in the 17th century by the poet Fulke Greville for use in his love poems.
He perhaps based it on Latin ‘myron’ from the Greek (myrrh, onguent – a sweet smelling oil), creating a feminine form of Myron. It has also been suggested that he simply rearranged the letters of Mary.
He could also, like Shakespeare with the name Miranda, have been thinking of a name which would mean ‘admirable’, based on the Latin.

Other suggestions relate it to Irish Moyra, or make it a borrowing of the name of a seaport in ancient Lycia. It came into general use only in the 1830s, frequently as Mira, occasionally as Mirah.”

So, I know now why I am so confused, hehe. The name to start with is so unsure…..hmmn……

~ by myevillareal on June 17, 2009.