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What's my exact name?
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What do my names mean?
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Who won the pool?
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Pool? What Pool?
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What were the guesses?
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If I would have been a girl, what would my
name have been?
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Why is this site in English?
My exact name is Neo Roan Raphael
Rigtering
Neo
Neo comes from the Greek word "new" and is also the African word for "Gift".
Even though some US people believe it to be of
American origin.
Probably they only know the name from the science-fiction trilogy "The
Matrix" where the main character Neo is played by Keanu Reeves. The
name Neo in the movie is an anagram of the "One". Although my parents
were aware of this association, it did not play a major role in their
deliberations. As a matter of fact the name is brought up by my older
brother Reimer when he raised this name -
among lots of other suggestions - that my parents did not give a second
thought. However, when they checked out the meaning of the name it
became their first choice for me.
I guess I did...
Please find details
here for the origination of the pool.
The number of entries for me was
again considerable less - but thanks to the ones who entered the competition.
Beneath you can find an overview of the
pool entries. Between brackets you can find the related gender for the
name: g stands for girl and b stands for boy. To protect the privacy of
the entrants only first names are given.
Analysis: xx
names are guessed and xx of them where girl names while x names are boy
names.
Since my parents did explicitly ask to
not reveal my gender before I was born, they had to find a boy's name
and evaluated the girl name they had in mind at the time Reimer and
Enzo were
born. They did change the original girl name slightly and again my parents
do not reveal the alternative name(s) yet....
This site is in English
because we have a lot of Friends abroad: many are from Germany and
Poland. For these friends it will not always be easy to visit us. Some
parts are Dutch and German as well (look e.g. at the
Birthday card) -
Maybe a full Dutch version
will emerge at a later stage.
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