Acronyms' Punny Relatives! Organized Nearness! Your Memory Secure/Smiles!
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| AARON | Always Aims Rifle On Needlepoint |
Rico Leffanta |
| ABEL | Adam's Boy, Eve's Lad |
Angela Brett Religion |
| AIDAN | An Individual, Dandy Adult, Newlywed |
Jan Morgan |
| ALAN | A Leader, Able Navigator |
Jan Morgan |
| ALEX | Able Lad Engages Xylophone |
Jan Morgan |
| ALEXANDER | Able Lad Engages Xrays At New Domain, Enters Rear |
Jan Morgan -- Alexander has a new job in the xray area at the rear entrance of the building |
| ANARU | A Naughty And Rambunctious Underling |
Steve Keate, acronymising his son. |
| ANDREW | A Nice Dude Really Educated Well |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| ANTHONY | Affluent, Nostalgic Travelling Hippy - Old, Not Youthful. |
Mary Carr, describing her brother (with a little help from Angela Brett.) |
| BARRY | Best At Reading Rhyming Yarns |
Jan Morgan |
| BLAINE | Bad Liver Affected Infant's Name, Evidently |
Angela Brett (the name Blaine comes from bla, a Gaelic word meaning "Yellow." I wonder how many babies were named Blaine because they were jaundiced.) |
| BRADLEY | Boy, Really Active, Does Love Experiencing Youth |
Jan Morgan |
| BRIAN | Brings Reasonable Income Advantage, Naturally |
Jan Morgan |
| BRUNO | Brown - Rather Uninspiring Name Origin |
Angela Brett |
| BRYAN | Begins Reading Yarns At Noon |
Jan Morgan |
| BUBBA | Big Ugly Bible-Beatin' Ass |
a stereotypical description of anyone named Bubba in Georgia or Arkansas. |
| BYRON | Because You're Really Obviously Nice |
Jan Morgan |
| CALVIN | Can Achieve Little, Vision Is Nil |
Jan Morgan |
| CAMERON | Caring Adult Manages Educating Rambunctous Observant Novices |
Jan Morgan |
| CARLOS | Catch Australian's Real Life On Screen |
Angela Brett (Carlo was one of the housemates on the third series of Australian Big Brother.) Names:Famous people |
| CHRIS | Chap Has Requested Individual 'Spansion |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Education:University of Nottingham School of Community Health Sciences IT Subgroup |
| DAMIEN | Devil's A Monstrous Infant - Evil & Nasty |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in the movie 'The Omen' Art & Literature:Fictional Characters |
| DAVE | Did Astronaut View Eternity |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (The main human character in 2001 was called Dave) Art & Literature:Fictional Characters |
| DAVEN | Discovered Apronyms Via Entering Name |
Angela Brett, after somebody posted on the Apronyms forums, 'It's Daven here I was searching google for your name and found this' Communication:Acronyms Forums |
| DAVID | Did A Valiant 'Impossible' Deed |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Religion |
| DEAN | Does Educating At Night |
Rico Leffanta Education:Occupations |
| DOMINIC | Dirty Old Man Is Needing Intense Cleaning |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| DONNY | Delightful Orator Nicely Negotiates Yield |
Jan Morgan - gives forth his melodic voice to song |
| DYLAN | Died Young, Lump Attacked Neurons |
Angela Brett, referring to Steve's son. |
| EDWIN | 'E Dwells Wealthily -- 'Is Name |
Jeff Anonymous (meaning of 'Edwin' = prosperous friend, according to babynames.com) |
| ERIK | Enchanting Rich Individual's Karma |
Jan Morgan |
| EUGENE | Exemplary Unique Gentleman, Encourages Negotiations Energetically |
Jan Morgan |
| FAISAL | Fellow Arabians, Intelligent, Smart And Loyal |
Faisal Yaqoob |
| FELIX | Free Enterprising Lad Is Xenophobic |
Jan Morgan |
| FRANCES | Friendship Reaches A New Class, Enter Safely |
Jan Morgan |
| FRANCESCO | Freedom Rings, All Necessary Concerns Eventually Satisfied, Carefully Obtained |
Jan Morgan |
| FREDERICK | Fractured Relationship Endures Destruction, Eventually Rebounds In Careful Kindness |
Jan Morgan |
| GARRETT | Gaelic - Attention Riveted Regarding Everything That's There |
Angela Brett (the name Garrett comes from Gaelic and means 'To Watch') |
| GARY | Guy's Always Reinterrogating You |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| GERALD | Gets Enchanted, Reading A Little Drama |
Jan Morgan |
| GIUSEPPE | Goes In Usual Steps, Eventually Pacing People's Enjoyment |
Jan Morgan |
| HAMISH | Home's A Mountaintop In Scottish Highlands |
Tony McCoy OTartan |
| HAROLD | Has Admiration, Reflecting Opportunities Lost, Dutiful |
Jan Morgan - someone I know who reflected on his opportunities |
| HORACE | Holding On Romantically Antagonises Consorts Everytime |
Rico Leffanta |
| JASON | Just A Stupid Old Nutter |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| JAY | Jokes At You |
Jan Morgan |
| JEREMY | Jewish Equivalent Really Exhausts Mouth -- Yirmeyahu |
Angela Brett (Jeremy comes from a Hebrew name Yirmeyahu.) |
| JIM | James (In Miniature) |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| JIMMY | Jiving Individual Manages Music Yearly |
Jan Morgan |
| JONAS | Just Offers Natural Annoyance Seriously |
Jan Morgan |
| JONATHAN | Just One Name, Around Two Hundred Alternative Notations |
Angela Brett (there are several spellings of Jonathan, and seemingly hundreds of other names from the same root as John) |
| JOSEPH | Job Of Someone Explaining Pharoah's Hallucinations |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| JULIAN | Just Uses Lessons In Adventures Naturally |
Jan Morgan |
| JUSTIN | Jolly Unusual Son, Teaches In North |
Jan Morgan |
| KENNETH | Keen Extrovert Needs Nice Erudite Thinking Hedonist |
Mary Carr, on a Kenneth she knows. |
| LARRY | Lazy And Rather Rebellious Youth |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| LEWIS | Loves Extra Warmth, Involves Sun |
Jan Morgan |
| MARSHALL | Most Active Resident, Saves His Adventures, Large List |
Jan Morgan |
| MARTIN | Make A Rival Town Into Necropolis! |
Angela Brett (Martin means 'warlike') |
| MATHIAS | Mostly A True Happy Individual, Active Scout |
Jan Morgan -- Someone I know Sports & Recreation:Scouts |
| MICHAEL | Maybe I'm Christ (Heavens Above!) Extreme Likeness |
Angela Brett (Michael means 'Like God') |
| MIGUEL | Most Individuals Get Used Encyclopedias, Learning |
Jan Morgan |
| MIKE | Man Installs Klutzy Electronics |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Electronics |
| MILES | Merciful Individual - Likely Etymon's Slavonic. |
Angela Brett |
| MITCHELL | Man Is Truly Confusing Has Extremist Lfestyle, Lamentable |
Jan Morgan -- someone I USED to know |
| MOAB | Man Of Authorised Bible |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Religion |
| NATHAN | Negotiates All Talents, Having A Need |
Jan Morgan - Someone I Know |
| NENNIES | Nascent Entities Now Navigating Inside Entire Space |
Eminence Grise, explaining: I'm a French Canadian and nennies is the plural of nenni which is the first name "Denis (day-nee)" in French of a good friend. There was a park in front of his house and his mother often yelled "Denis" for supper but due to distance and a lot of trees in between, we always heard "NENNI!". It stayed through the years and a bunch of friends (40 years of friendship) called themselves the Nennies and there's no nennying about it! Nennies are curious about everything and enjoy life as it comes. Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words |
| NICHOLAS | Needs Impressive Character, Having Own Lessons As School |
Jan Morgan |
| NOAH | Negotiated Original "Animal House" |
Roger Williams Religion Science:Biology:Animals |
| PAUL | Probably An Undersized Lad |
Angela Brett, because according to http://www.surebaby.com/page67.html, the name Paul means 'small'. |
| PHIL | 'Philip' Has Identifier Limited |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| RANDALL | Relishes Aviation Navigation, Dynamic Achiever Loves Life |
Jan Morgan -- someone I know |
| REGINALD | Responsible Educator Gets In Nice Adventure, Learns Diversity |
Jan Morgan |
| REMINGTON | Realist Emits Manifestations In Narrative, Graphic Truth On Notions |
Jan Morgan -- someone I know -- he really says it like he sees it. |
| RICO | Real Intense Coital Orgasm |
Rico Leffanta Names:Acronymists |
| RUSSELL | Ranks Usually Safe, Success Earns Lovely Life |
Jan Morgan |
| RUSTY | Ruthless User, Severs Ties, Yob |
Jan Morgan - a person I know |
| SCOTT | Secure Competent One Teaching Truth |
Jan Morgan -- middle name of someone I know |
| SEAN | Soy Enamorado A Novio |
Robert Anonymous. Written in Spanish. Translation: I'm enamored by (my) boyfriend. (Its hard to express what i wanted to express with SEAN in English. The expansion is almost grammatically correct, there should be a posessive adjective before Novio.) |
| SHANE | Strange Hero Attempts New Existence |
TMcCO'G referring to a classic Western, called "Shane" Entertainment:Movies |
| SHAUN | Somebody Has An Unremarkable Name |
Angela Brett |
| STEPHEN | Stride That Egglaying Poultry Has? Evidently Not! |
Angela Brett, thinking of Step-hen |
| STEVEN | Stupid Teen, Excessively Vicious-Even Nauseating |
Nevica the MAN |
| THOMAS | Totally Honest Observant Man, Ambitious Soul |
Jan Morgan -- someone I know |
| TOM | Twin, Often Male |
Angela Brett (Thomas means 'twin') |
| VINNY | Violence Is Not Nice, Y'know |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to soccer's 'hard man' Vinny Jones, who has turned to acting in films and plays 'hard' roles Names:Famous people:Actors & Actresses |
| VIRL | Valiant Individual Reaches Learning |
Jan Morgan - someone I know |
| WENDELL | When Everyone Needs Direction, Enters Lifes Lessons |
Jan Morgan |
| WESLEY | Was Evangelists' Surname; Ladies Eponymised Young |
Angela Brett (according to http://babynamer.com, This was the surname of brothers John and Charles Wesley, 18th-century founders of Methodism, a Protestant Christian denomination. It was first used as a given name in their honor during their lifetimes.) Religion |
| WILLIAM | Was Insecure, Living Lies In Actual Memories |
Jan Morgan - someone I knew |
| WILLIS | Was Involved, Learning Lifes Inspired Salvation |
Jan Morgan - someone I know |