What does Joanne mean?
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What is in a name?
Have you ever wondered what your name means? I was born into this world on a rainy day in May of 1972. My mother would tell me later that I am the name sake of my beloved grandmother Catherine and her middle name was “Joanne”.
She spelled it with a capital A, instead of lower case. I think over the years, when I would hear some other beautiful and exotic names like for instance.; the name Jewel, Victoria, Faith or Anna.
I would wish my name was different and it would not sound so plain. Then one day, while I was working as a customer service rep at a local store. A customer said that he loved my name. He told me in the bible it means.
God is gracious., I am a gift from the Lord. Its origin is Hebrew.
I think this was the first time I felt good about my birth name. I was having a tough day and this information really cheered me up. I felt so special and so loved by God. That I was his gift. I like to think I am a gift from the Lord.
I know my mom always made sure to make me feel like her gift from God. As I get older, I have prayed and asked God to always help me to be a gift to others. And to show me the way where I can see the many gifts I have in my heart and share it. I prayed that I would honor him by being cheerful, kind and try to forgive when it is called for.
What a great feeling it is to know that you are a gift from God. We all are. I find it to be quite interesting that most names are of Hebrew or Aramaic in origin. I think it makes me stop for a minute and contemplate how the origin of *us* first began. We are the ancestors of the Hebrew people. We are sons and daughters of Abraham.
Our names that we have here, I am sure will change to a special one that only God has chosen for us. This will be our new name for our Spiritual selves. I hope and pray to always be the gift that God has intended for me to be.
A list of Names and Origin
Abel – means *breath* Hebrew
Abraham- *father of many* Hebrew
ARIEL- *lion of God* in Hebrew
Candace- *from the hereditary title of the queens of Ethiopia*, mentioned in the book of Acts in New Testament
David: Beloved / The adored one
Elnathan- *God has given*
Elisabeth: Consecrated to God
Emmanuel- *God is with us*
Gabriel *strong man of God*
Joshua- *YAHWEH is salvation*
Jesus-greek translation of Aramaic short form of *Yeshu’a* this is Jesus real name
Andrew- * a strong man* which is a greek form and we have apostle Andrew in the bible
Aurora *dawn* a roman goddess
Matthew *gift of YAHWEH*
Thomas *twin*
Hazael-*God sees*
If you don't see your name here. I apologize. I hope you will take a minute and check out the information from the resources I have left for you!
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It is interesting to find out that your name has such meaningful origins. Good research.
Hi Jo, So nice to know that you are too busy, that's very good indeed. I can be your Assistant my friend if you consider me suitable...!! lol :-)
Take care.
My Very Best Wishes to you - Always.
Kamalesh
Kamalesh050,
thank you for your comment. Yes, I am doing well. I am a little tired and plenty busy. I think I need an assistant! take care & blessings for you!
It's very nicely written and interesting. I like it.
Voted Up.
Trust things are well with you.
Take care, God Bless.
Kamalesh
WilliamG12,
I happen to think William is a great name! Take care..and blessings! :)
Thank you for this terrific hub. I like my name and I can't imagine any other name.
@ Dave, you are so kind. thank you for your comment. Blessings! :)
@ MJFenn, your welcome. I thought it would be kind of neat to share the information. Have a great day & blessings! :)
Some interesting name and word studies there from Hebrew.
Thank-you.
"A Rose by any other name would still smell as sweet."
I was raised catholic. At 13, I was confirmed, not that it matters or means much to me or to anyone else, But, I was given the chance to take another name so I took the name "Gabriel" after the angel who appeared to Mary at the time of her conception.
Even though I am no Arch-Angel like my name sake. I am a spirit created in the image of God. I serve as Gabriel serves.
Alexander Mark,
Thank you so much my dearest reader.It is about 6 am here and what a sweet and wonderful read first thing this beautiful morning! I thank you. I must admit, it feels good to be back with my writer family. I love your writings as well. You have a wonderful and Blessed day!
And..thank you for the blessing of your friendship! :)
Beautiful hub as always Joanne. As for me, I am not fond of my real first name which I am not ready to reveal publicly on Hubpages, but I love my middle name which is what I use here and the second name is a variation of my first :-)
But I have to say, when I see someone's name like a Hubpages writer I love (like you), it makes me happy no matter how "ordinary" the name might sound. So if you had a name like Bob or Sam, it would sound beautiful because of what you made it. When I see your name in the notifications list, the rare times I get to that email these days, I get excited and come over to see what new jewel you have crafted.
Thanks again, Al.
Jo_Goldsmith11 Hub Author 4 weeks ago
Hello Peg! :) Thank you for your sweet comment. I enjoy researching. I know to be a good writer sometimes we have to do a little every now and then. This had a special meaning for me to take the time to do it. Take care. :)