What does your real name mean?

[Lord of the Farce]

My Chinese (original) name is "Peng Jia". "Peng" being the family name, and "Jia" the name of the area where my father was born (and where many family members on his side still live).

As for my name now:

(First name) MICHAEL m English, German, Czech, Biblical
Pronounced: MIE-kul
From the Hebrew name Miyka'el which meant "who is like God?". This was the name of one of the seven archangels in Hebrew tradition and the only one identified as an archangel in the Bible. In the Book of Revelation in the New Testament he is portrayed as the leader of heaven's armies, and thus is considered the patron saint of soldiers.

(Family name) BRAND m English
Pronounced: BRAND
Derived from Old Norse brandr meaning "sword".

Soldier and Sword... LOL.

[CmdrWilkens]

GREGORY m English
Pronounced: GREG-or-ee
Derived from Greek gregoros meaning "watchful, alert". This was the name of several saints including three Fathers of the Church: Saint Gregory Thaumaturgus (3rd century), Saint Gregory of Nyssa, and Saint Gregory of Nazianzus (both 4th century). This was also the name of 16 popes, including Gregory I, who was known as Gregory the Great.

ROBERT m English, French, Scandinavian
Pronounced: RAW-burt
Means "bright fame", derived from the Germanic elements hrod "fame" and beraht "bright". The Normans introduced this name to Britain. It belonged to three kings of Scotland, including Robert the Bruce who restored the independence of Scotland from England in the 14th century. The author Robert Browning and poets Robert Burns and Robert Frost are famous literary bearers of this name. Also, Robert E. Lee was the commander of the Confederate army during the American Civil War.

BURNETT :
English, 1) form of Brown derived from common nickname applied to one brown, or dark red, of hair or complexion, principally the latter. A few Browns refer to the ancestor named BRUN 'brown,' but this was not a common forename in England after the Conquest in 1066.The explanation for several different spellings or even several different nicknames with the same or similar meaning ascribed to one country is that they arose independently in different parts of the nation due to differences in regional dialect; 2) derived from the place name in Somerset - BURNETT 'place cleared by burning' .

[Drewcifer]

ANDREW   m   English, Biblical
Pronounced: AN-droo
From the Greek name Andreas, which derives from aner "man" (genitive andros "of a man"). In the New Testament the apostle Andrew was the brother of the apostle Simon Peter. According to legend he was crucified on an X-shaped cross, and he is the patron saint of Scotland, Russia, and Greece. This was also the name of kings of Hungary.

My last name means fog in one direction, life in the other.

I'm FOGMAN

edit: post 150. wooot!

[Spanky The Dolphin]

Now, if anybody wants to know what our family's variation of the name currently is, it'll have to take someone like Kelly or Zaia to get it out of me.

[Yossarian]

My first name's Gerard and is from an old Germanic word meening Spear Rule