Top 10 Character Names With Secret Meanings
Hello! Welcome back to Most Amazing Top 10! I am Rebecca Felgate and today we are talking
about the Top 10 Character Names With Secret Meanings….
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names with secret meanings…
10 - Frodo Baggins, the Lord of The Rings Frodo! What a lad! J R R Tolkien reportedly
look to old English to find inspiration for his character names. It seems Frodo comes
from the word Frod which means wise by age…which is a pretty accurate summary of Frodo as a
hobbit! Good old Frodo. Ah, talking about him makes me want to watch Lord of the Rings
over again!
9 - Cypher The Matrix… Oh, I mean never trust someone with the name
Cypher? Why? Because it is derived from Lucifer, the big bad devil and king of all evil. While
The Matrix’s character, Cypher, was way too cowardly to be the devil incarnate, we
should have known from his devious name that he was always going to betray Morpheus, Neo
and the gang. I feel like he should have been called Jude though, as he is way more of a
Judas.
A lot of people know this one already but it was so clever that at the time I had no
idea, spoiler alert for all people just getting into Doctor Who, maybe skip by this one! Coming
in to number 8 we have River Song. We meet a character in Doctor Who called River
Song. River is a time lord and has a bit of a flirtation with The Doctor. The Doctors
Companion, Amelia Pond, had a daughter, who she calls Melody Pond. Melody was abducted
as a baby, and because of the possibility of time travel, we later find out that River
Song is Melody Pond! Melody is song and pond is river! According to the female time lord,
this is because of the language translation between English and the language of the people
who raised her. This was a clever way of foreshadowing the characters true identity, all with some
subtle secret meaning.
7 - Wendy from Peter Pan Wendy stems back to the word Wanderer, meaning
traveller, or adventurer. Wendy Darling of Peter Pan went on a very very big adventure
to Neverland, which makes a lot of sense. It seems she was always destined to fly with
Peter.
6 - Kantiss Everdeen - There is more than meets the eye, or ears,
with the Hunger Games Heroine’s name! So, Katniss is a plant in the Sagittaria family.
We know that this plant grows in district 12, Katnisses home district, but what we didn’t
think about was the double meaning in her name. Sagittaria in Latin means archer, this
is why the symbol for the star sign Sagittarius is an arrow. We know from the movie that Katniss
is a keen archer, using a cross bow as her weapon of choice. The plant is also sometimes
referred to as the Arrow Plant. Also the 12 of district 12 could also refer to the 12th
month of the year, December, which is the month of Sagittarius.
We have Darth Vader at number 5 Soooo…any Dutch fans out there? I have one
Dutch friend, called Jordi, you may know him as Kwebblekop, shout out if your watching…anyway….I
am guessing he and the rest of the Dutch people weren’t too surprised by this big reveal
either. It turns out in Dutch, Darth Vader means dark father. OMG…Dark father is a…..dark
father? Who knew. Father in German is Vater, too…so…they might have had a little clue.
Double Whammy of Star Wars, we have BB8 at number 4
Funnily enough, BB8 was called BB8 because of the way the droid looks, which must mean
that JJ Abrahams saw him before he named him. In an interview, he said that “It was sort
of how he looked to me, with the 8, obviously, and then the 2 B’s...” CUTE.
3 - Remus Lupin Any fellow Harry Potter fans out there? For
those that follow my personal Youtube channel will know that geeking out over Harry Potter
is my jam! JK Rowling Left so many clues and foreshadowed so much that went unnoticed by
us. You may be shocked to hear that the clue to Remus Lupin’s fate has always been in
his name. Lupin is from the Latin, Lupinus, which means wolfish. His first name Remus,
stems back to the Roman tale of Romulus and Remus, two brothers raised by wolves. Remus
is the brother who was murdered, which was also Remus Lupin’s fate.
Lupin’s mate Sirius also had a secret meaning to his name, so let’s talk about the lean
mean dark arts fighting machine, Sirius Black at number 2
Sirius is a star in Canis Major, a constellation often called the greater dog. The Sirius star
is the skies brightest star, and is often called the Dog Star. Sirius, as we know, was
an Anmagus who was able to turn into a dog. A black shaggy dog. Sirius Black…dog black…black
dog. It was his destiny! My own reading to, is that, by naming him after the brightest
star in the sky, a star that we can all see and its light watches over us, JK Rowling
was saying that death could not extinguish Harry’s godfather’s greatness, the light
he brought to his life would shine on for the rest of his days.
Yo….what! ….. Bran Stark has a secret double meaning that tells us that his character
was always destined to be the three eyed raven! Listen up at number1
So, for all of you fellow Game of Thrones lovers, you may be intrigued to know that
Bran is a traditional Irish name, deriving from the Galic, Bram, which means RAVEN. HE
WAS ALWAYS THE THREE EYED RAVEN! We should have known, he has told us enough times. ALSO,
the Stark family name means bare or honest….which is something we know our mate the late Eddard
was…and his son slash not son, Jon Snow, who also is a very honest man.
So…there we are….the reasons and secrets behind names EXPOSED. Are there any other
secret meanings to Character names I should know about? Let me know in the comments section
below.
I googled my name and apparently it means to bind and ensnare…which is pretty creepy.
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