Comments on: What’s in a name?

By: Jan

Jan — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 03:56:13 +0000

Haha …

Someone’s gotta do it though!

By: Finnster01

Finnster01 — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 03:50:15 +0000

That’s not bad, a hell of a lot better than “Christensmar”.

Sounds like I am the reserve keeper wearing out the bench on a Belgian team of Ghent’s stature

By: Jan

Jan — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 03:35:09 +0000

I am Jisco!!!!

HAHAHAHAAAA (mad scientist laugh)

By: Jan

Jan — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 03:34:24 +0000

This is fun! I remember this site from the WC. I’ll start checking my name

By: Finnster01

Finnster01 — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 02:58:37 +0000

Excellent thread as always.

Just to add my 2-cents, if you ever wanted to know what your Brazilian soccer name would be if you played for Brazil try this link. It automatically generates your Brazilian name (and a paper shirt you can print out) based on your real first and last name:-)

http://www.minimalsworld.net/BrazilName/brazilian.shtml

Just ran JC and it came up as: Crueca…Not sure if I like that one but Marco Van Basten comes out as “Marcao” which surely has a special ring and flair to it.

Mine came out crap, won’t even bother to post it, not that there were ever any danger of me pulling on a Brasilian jersey. Although I will say I did have my moments in the playground and for my little local team.

By: goose

goose — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:38:11 +0000

@jan; german eh?!! haaha…

By: Jan

Jan — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 02:37:38 +0000

That’s just wonderful my friend Goose!!

I could deduct where I’m from. Through my name I found the root name (German…AAARRGGGHHHH…) and traced it to the area where my family is from. I even checked Google Earth and saw the little village.

HAHA (crazy laugh like Dr Evil)

By: Caleb

Caleb — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:37:25 +0000

Cool link, thanks Goose! I’m going to have to show this to my parents.

By: goose

goose — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:23:31 +0000

btw; thats for people with dutch surnames ony

By: goose

goose — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:23:03 +0000

@10brook; my guess is your original name was ‘ten broek’…’brook’is not a dutch name, “broek” is

never knew people tought Johan was jewish…never heard such a thing

@Caleb; Reinink? dont know what it means but surely your forfathers were from the east of Holland

here a fun link, type in your family name and youll find how many are found in each province

http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/nfd/

grtz