What's Yours?

I was browsing around one of my friend's blog, and I found this interesting posting about "behind the names". So I decided to search for mine.

Here's mine...
What's yours........ ?

VERENA

Gender: Feminine
Usage: German
Pronounced:
ve-RE-nah [key]

Possibly related to Latin verus "true". Saint Verena was a 3rd-century Egyptian-born nurse who went with the Theban Legion to Switzerland. After the legion was massacred she settled near Zurich.

MAYA (1)

Gender: Feminine
Usage: Indian, Hindu Mythology
Other Scripts: माया
(Sanskrit)

Means "illusion" in Sanskrit. In Buddhist tradition this is the name of the mother of Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha). This is also another name of the Hindu goddess Durga.

MAYA (2)

Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced:
MAY-ə, MIE-ə [key]

Variant of MAIA (1). This name can also be given in reference to the Maya peoples, a Native American culture who built a great civilization in southern Mexico and Latin America.

MAYA (3)

Gender: Feminine
Usage: Jewish
Other Scripts: מַיָּה
(Hebrew)

Derived from Hebrew מַיִם (mayim) "water".

ANNE (1)

Gender: Feminine

Usage: French, English, Scandinavian, Finnish, German, Dutch, Basque

Pronounced: AN (English, French), AH-nə (German), AHN-nə (Dutch)

French form of ANNA. In the 13th-century it was imported to England, where it was also commonly spelled Ann. The name was borne by a 17th-century English queen and also by the second wife of Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn (the mother of Queen Elizabeth I), who was eventually beheaded in the Tower of London. This is also the name of the heroine in 'Anne of Green Gables' (1908) by Canadian author L. M. Montgomery.

ANNE (2)

Gender: Masculine & Feminine

Usage: Frisian

Pronounced: AHN-nə

Short form of names beginning with the Germanic element arn "eagle".