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I never understand this "not actually a name" argument. If your name is Jax, then Jax is actually a name. And the fact is that there are people whose name is Jax. It was ranked #223 in 2013. Javier was #222; Myles was #224.[/quote]

It's not even in the SSA database prior to 2005.

Sons of Anarchy debuted in 2008. It's a nickname of a fictional character, and has grown in popularity since then. But it's not actually a name. It doesn't mean anything except "nickname for a fictional character on the television show Sons of Anarchy."[/quote]

So your definition of a name is "something that means something"? Do you consider Apple a name? How about Comfort or Delight -- are those names? How about John -- what does that mean?[/quote]

Well, Apple definitely means something -- it's a fruit. Comfort and Delight have definitions as well, although, no, I don't consider them "names."

[b]John is Biblical. It means Grace or Mercy of the Lord.[/b]

Jax isn't anything. Except maybe a misspelling of the toy you pick up when you bounce a little rubber ball.[/quote]

You looked that up on the Internet. Plus actually "John", the name in English, doesn't mean that.

And if Comfort and Delight mean something but still aren't names (even though I know people whose names are Comfort and Delight), then please explain to me, what makes something a name?[/quote]

John means what it does; the language variation on it doesn't matter. I didn't have to look it up to know it's a Biblical name or to know it's meaning. Some of us actually have a religious education. He was an apostle, for Heaven's sake.

What makes a name? Well, for starters, it has to mean something, be descriptive. Traditionally names derived from occupations or villages or tribal affiliation. More recently, they've derived from something with meaning, or desirable attributes, so "Comfort" and "Delight," while cringeworthy, are still descriptive and closer to "names" than Jax, which literally means nothing and describes nothing. It might as well be Rdbttw.[/quote]

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