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My first name is either of Goidelic, Anglo-Saxon or North-Germanic origin.
The Irish Gaelic meaning translates to one that loves deers. This was brought over by the Vikings to Ireland.
The Old English meaning is the spear of God. Brought over by the Anglo-Saxons, this name is fairly popular in the Iberian peninsula as well as the Nordic countires.
I "officially" picked the Anglo-Saxon etymology since my family is English and it just sounds cooler.
My second given name is of Frank extraction, but Anglicised, it means "great battle/war"
My first family name is Spanish and means "Mariner" or "of the sea", it's of Asturian & Galician origin.
My last family name is double barrelled, both of my ancestral paternal lines. It gets complicated, one is of Occitan/Old French origin carried over by English ancestors that married into the Spanish side of my family, it was Anglicised then further Hispanicised, it's an homage to a cold wind that flows from the Northwest of Europe into the Mediterranan.
The other is of Anglo-Saxon origin, a cognate of an Old High German name for a Germanic mythological being.
I only use the very first and very last names in a day to day basis.
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