Acrophonology

WHAT'S IN YOUR NAME?

YOU'D BE SURPRISED!

Recent studies by name societies disclosed that names influence character and do have a definite bearing upon one's life path. letters carry their own energy patterns relating to personality traits and needs. Name analysis using letter qualities is called ACROPHONOLOGY. This analysis of your name is a brief summary of the hidden meanings found within the letters of your own name.

NAME ANALYSIS FOR: Heather ***** *****:

Heather:

You are an 11th hour person, always succeeding just in the nick of time. The lesson of money is prominent in your life. You can be quite inventive and quite curious. You have much enthusiasm with a driving attitude toward achievement in life. Your privacy is important to you. You have a rich inner life. You need to learn the true value of material possessions. You have a natural protection in life. You are always saved - especially from yourself. You need to learn to be expressive. You are a person who cannot tolerate being misunderstood. You enjoy a challenge. You can take thought-directed actions.

*****(middle name):

You want to be productive and feel useful, and enjoy helping solve problems. You like to be busy and not waste time. You have a need to be up front. You have a lack of confidence in your mental abilities and do not like being forced into giving your opinion. You are relatively demonstrative in your affections. You enjoy being stroked verbally and physically. You need to learn to be expressive. You are a person who cannot tolerate being misunderstood.

*****(last name):

Take advantage of all opportunities. You must develop your creativity and talents. You are determined to prove yourself to others. You need to learn the true value of material possessions. You have a natural protection in life. You are always saved - especially from yourself. You need to learn to give and receive love for love's sake. You have a need to be assured of affection. You need to learn faith in place of fear. You need to learn to be expressive. You are a person who cannot tolerate being misunderstood.

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I like how it keeps saying, "you need to learn to be expressive". lol

and "you cannot tolerate being misunderstood". ha

similar stuff i found elsewhere on names:

It may be no mystery why your neighbor keeps calling you 'Elizabeth', even though your mailbox says 'Liz'. But did you ever wonder why your nephew calls you 'Bessie', your office mate calls you 'Bess', your mother calls you Beth, and the other women on the track team just call you 'Buzz'?

The reason is that the letters of the alphabet actually mean something... For example, look at the words that start with 'st'. Whether steadfast or just plain stubborn, they're almost all really stuck in one place (stop, stick, stand, stall, stoic, store, stack, still...), unless of course there's a raring, rearing, roaring 'r' in there who can get your 'st' 'started'. This is really true... I kid you not. There's a whole science called sound symbolism where stuff-shirt professors study what the letters mean. I should know... I'm one of them.

So the 'y' at the end of 'Bessie' is young and energetic, and makes 'Bessie' easier to cuddle up with than just plain 'Bess'. The 's' is strong and supportive, which suggests that your office mate thinks of you that way, and the 'z' is the craziest, zaniest, and fastest letter. If they're calling you 'Buzz' on the track team, you're probably quite a sprinter, no? The 'b' at the beginning usually suggests a strong, outgoing person with a grand sense of humor and also, I'm sorry to say, something of a temper. But the 'th' at the end of 'Beth' channels all that energy through a very narrow opening and tones the name down a whole lot, which I'm sure your mother appreciates. A 'Beth' is an initiator who channels her energy toward a specific goal. And the 'l' in 'Liz' is the passive but very powerful feminine force of water and air.

Do you want know the hidden message in your name? Well, you can learn something about it by checking out this chart. Were you listening in English class when they told you about stressed syllables? Yes? Very good. Well, find the stressed syllable in your name and then analyze it from this chart. (like the stressed syllable in Elizabeth is the LIZ.) The consonants before the vowel are sort of like the stage or background for the personality of your name. The vowels tell you how you tend to go through life, address issues, solve problems, and the final consonants are the punch line, the outcome.

Vowels
'short a' - balanced and flat
'long a' - elastic and spread out wide
'short e' - not a boat-rocker, works hard and connects things together
'long e' - a long distance runner, stamina in the face of hardship
'short i' - moves up-up-up, light and a bit tense
'long i' - roomy, oriented toward mind and art
'short o' - the most fundamental sound, the source and beginning of all things
'long o' - well-rounded, whole, and earthy
'short u' - plenty of room in 'u', thoughtful and relaxed
'long u' - goes with the flow, fast moving and rounded

Consonants
'b' - Kaboom! 'b' is a sudden, powerful beginning, high spirits and hot tempers.
'c' - if pronounced like in 'Cecilia', see 's'. If pronounced like in 'Cathy', see 'k'.
'ch' - I think I can. I think I can... 'ch' is a hero, the achiever of difficult tasks
'd' - a door midstream, the letter who decides whether a project should be shut down, or opened up wide and allowed to happen.
'f' - a fountain or foundation. The 'f' is funny, fanciful, spontaneous. It's the freest floater of the letters.
'g' - if pronounced like in 'Gillian', see 'j', if pronounced like 'Gail', it is the giver and receiver of gifts. 'g's the most generous and also (watch out) the most greedy of the letters. It's very good-hearted, but it can get pretty grumpy on the off-days. And 'g' has a mysterious hidden source of wealth and wisdom. It's like mother earth where the garden grows.
'h' - the home where things belong. 'h' is a kind of force that looks over your

my question is...I don't know longs and shorts...like, my first name is Heather, which has that E sound to it, but is it a long E sound or a short E sound? lol. I must have skipped class the day they taught that sort of thing 🙂

Five Fun Facts about Names

by Robert Needlman, M.D., F.A.A.P.
reviewed by Laura Jana, M.D., F.A.A.P.

Names are everywhere. Not only does virtually every one of the 6 billion people on earth have a name, but so do most mountains, rivers, towns, streets, hurricanes, ships, racehorses, and so on. How do you make sense of this babel of names? Onomastics, that's how. Hidden within this odd-sounding word is a Greek root, onoma, which means (you guessed it) "name." Onomastics is the study of names and naming.

You probably didn't know that you were interested in onomastics, but read on and see if you don't think some of this is just fascinating:


Every child has an official right to have a name. Article 24-3 of the U.N. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights says so. Why was this declaration necessary? The U.N. recognized that children born into war zones, extreme poverty, and refugee camps may not have their births registered, making them especially vulnerable to all kinds of abuse.


The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that 88,000 different last names account for more than 90 percent of the 280 million people in the U.S. By contrast, China--with its population of more than 1 billion--has only 150 to 400 basic surnames. Clear proof of the diversity of America's melting-pot society.


When it comes to variety in names, girls rule. Again, according to the Census Bureau, approximately 90 percent of the U.S. population is covered by 4,275 different girls' names, but only 1,219 different boys' names. Why so many fewer names for boys than for girls? It may be that boys' names are more tradition-bound, because boys are more likely to be named after a relative. Another possibility: Although this is changing, our society still clings to the assumption that boys will eventually have to get "serious" jobs (and so need serious-sounding names), while girls won't, leaving more leeway for creativity, if not frivolity.


Anemonyms (a truly lovely word) are the names of winds and storms. Once a name has been associated with a violent hurricane, that name is retired. There will never be another Hurricane Hugo, for instance. The Weather Service also tries to pick names that are easy to pronounce and culturally sensitive.


Toponyms are place names. Early U.S. names mirrored places in the old country (New England, for example), honored English royalty (Virginia, after Queen Elizabeth, known as the Virgin Queen), or celebrated the Pilgrims' survival (Providence). America itself, however, was named after Italian navigator and explorer Amerigo Vespucci in the early 16th century.
Many U.S. place names harken back to ancient Greece and Rome (Ithaca, Athens, Troy) or borrow Native American names (Chicago, Miami, Winnipesaukee). Minneapolis does both things at once--from minnehaha, which means "laughing waters" in Sioux, and metropolis, which is Greek for city. You can look up just about any place name you want at the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names.

The American Name Society (ANS) is the main U.S. professional society for onomastics. In addition to information about ANS publications and meetings, the website lists recent onomastic research. Among the more intriguing: "Impressions Created by Given Names," "Trends in Women's Marital Names," and "Why the French Change Their Names."

Names and Personality

by Robert Needlman, M.D., F.A.A.P.
reviewed by Laura Jana, M.D., F.A.A.P.

What is the connection between your name and your personality? Apart from the claims of numerology, is there evidence that one's name makes a difference?

According to one school of thought, names are nothing more than arbitrary symbols. But the opposite belief, that names express essential truths, runs deep. What answers does science have to offer?

First impressions count

People tend to make judgments based on first impressions, and names often affect such impressions. In one recent Democratic primary race, for instance, the two candidates with all-American names, Hart and Fairchild, beat two other candidates with ethnic names, Sangmeister and Pucinski. Their victory was quite unexpected because the winners actually were pushing a highly unpopular political agenda, while the two losers had been enthusiastically endorsed by the Democratic Party--e party to which most of the voters belonged! In fact, the Journal of Applied Social Psychology points out that names only seem to hold sway in elections when little or nothing else is known about the candidates.

"What I Did Last Sunday"

You don't have to be running for office to wonder how your name might affect others' perceptions of you. In one widely quoted study in the Journal of Educational Psychology, experienced elementary school teachers were asked to grade a set of paragraphs written by 10th graders entitled "What I Did Last Sunday." Eight different paragraphs were used, all about average in quality. Attached to these essays were eight different names: Four--Karen, Lisa, David, and Michael--were rated as desirable by students and teachers; the other four--Bertha, Adelle, Hubert, and Elmer--were rated as undesirable. The names were attached to the papers at random so that, for example, one paper that was labeled as written by Adelle one time was attributed to Karen or Lisa at other times.

Bottom line? You've probably guessed it by now: Although the teachers were given identical papers, with only the names being different, they gave significantly higher grades to the papers "written" by the students with the desirable names.

Interestingly, when the same experiment was repeated with college students as the graders, the name effect did not occur. Whereas the teachers had built up stereotyped expectations about children's names, the college students--who had no teaching experience--did not have these expectations and so their grading was not biased.

Expectations of achievement

In another study published in the same journal, sixth-graders' self-concept--how effective, attractive, and valued they felt--was related to the desirability of their first names. Moreover, children with desirable first names scored higher on a standardized test of academic achievement. One possible interpretation is that teachers expect children with more popular names to do better and so, over time, those positive expectations translate into actual higher levels of achievement.

In considering these studies, it's important not to assume that teachers apply stereotypes any more than anyone else. Teachers merely are easier to study because researchers can look at the grades they handed out. The same forces are probably at work in the average workplace as well as in the classroom.

A link to emotional disturbance?

This is an intriguing question. One particularly suggestive study, done in 1954, looked at 1,682 case histories of children treated in a mental health clinic in New Jersey. Boys with unusual first names (names that occurred only once or twice among the group of children) were more likely to have moderate or severe emotional disturbance, compared with boys with more common names. (The same effect was not found among the girls in the clinic, however.)

First Name: You have a need to communicate and express yourself. You are inclined to over intellectualize, and hate to be misquoted. You have a diplomatic flair to your nature. Equality and fairness are important to you. You are relatively demonstrative in your affections. You enjoy being stroked verbally and physically. You are compassionate, highly imaginative and creative. You have much enthusiasm with a driving attitude toward achievement in life. You are a constructive thinker. You have a need for monetary security. You need to learn to be expressive. You are a person who cannot tolerate being misunderstood. Your privacy is important to you. You have a rich inner life. You work hard to achieve material success through your own efforts.

Middle Name: You have much enthusiasm with a driving attitude toward achievement in life. You can handle details well. You have a methodical mind. You must learn to give 'wise' service and not be a martyr. You need to learn to be expressive. You are a person who cannot tolerate being misunderstood.

Last Name: You can be quite inventive and quite curious. You must learn to give 'wise' service and not be a martyr. You are a hard worker when you make up your mind to do a job. You must learn the lessons of self-worth; learn to love yourself before you can love others. You have a need to be up front. You must learn to give 'wise' service and not be a martyr. You have a discriminating nature coupled with perseverance and family pride.

Interesting for me- my last and middle names have some of the same points.

Pheonix: the EA sound in Heather is stressed but short.

e in bed is short whereas e in beat is long.

A ha, thank you Gwen 🙂

And now it's time for a moment of narcissism (lol), I found this poem about my name (which is a flower), wahoo! If you all can find such nifty things about your names, post them here.

The Heather

Amidst the finest of His creation,
Amidst the white roses of the field;
Amidst the daisy and the lilacs,
Lies a fair lavender tree.
And while the seasons may come and go,
And the sun is replaced by the icy snow;
This evergreen heath retains its constant beauty
As it grows.
I was once told the story
Of a maiden with such beauty,
That she drove Venus to envy --
The goddess of love and beauty.
Fearing for her life,
The fair maiden fled the countryside;
And the gods that watched from above,
Heard her cries for refuge.
Later then, and shortly after,
She was transformed into a beautiful flower;
And became the most captivating of perfumed censor.

-N. McPherson

Beautiful poem... now you're making me jealous. I'll have to find one about my name too.