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Walker is an occupational male given name, deriving from the English term for "cloth washer". [1] It has recently increased in use for boys in the United States due to the influence of the American CW Network television series Walker , a reboot of the 1993-2001 television series Walker, Texas Ranger . [ 2 ]
Walker is an English and Scottish surname.. With over 150,000 bearers in England in 2014, Walker was the 14th most common surname in that country. [1] As of the 2000 U.S. Census, 501,307 people had the surname Walker, making it the 28th most common surname in America. [2]
Recorded as both Tucker and Tooker, the derivation of the English occupational surname comes from the Old English, pre-7th century verb tucian, meaning "to torment".It would have been for a fuller, also known as a "walker", one who softened freshly woven cloth by beating and tramping on it in water.
The name Marianthi comes from the names Maria which is the name of the Virgin Mary and means Strong, Fertile and from the name Anthi which comes from the Ancient Greek word Anthos which means Flower. In the Church it is heard as two separate names but also as a whole between them.
The study of ancient Greek personal names is a branch of onomastics, the study of names, [1] and more specifically of anthroponomastics, the study of names of persons.There are hundreds of thousands and even millions of individuals whose Greek name are on record; they are thus an important resource for any general study of naming, as well as for the study of ancient Greece itself.
Some words in English have been reanalyzed as a base plus suffix, leading to suffixes based on Greek words, but which are not suffixes in Greek (cf. libfix). Their meaning relates to the full word they were shortened from, not the Greek meaning: -athon or -a-thon (from the portmanteau word walkathon, from walk + (mar)athon).
Walter is a German and English [1] masculine given name of Germanic origin, composed of the elements walt-(Proto-Germanic *wald-) "power", "ruler", and hari (Proto-Germanic *χarja) "army". [2] The name was first popularized by the epic German hero Walther von Aquitaine, and later from the name of the writer Walther von der Vogelweide.
The name first appeared on the SSA's list of the 1,000 most popular boys' names in 1994, at number 850. [3] It became dramatically more popular among ethnic minorities [ 4 ] in the U.S. thereafter with the naming of Jaden Smith (a variant of Jayden; derived from his mother's name, Jada ), [ 5 ] the son of two famous actors, in 1998: [ 5 ] use ...