what does my name mean?

Answer 1

GENERAL ADVICE

Be careful where you look for the meanings of names. Baby name books and web sites are very inconsistent. They collect their info from many sources, some quite accurate, some, and its hard for someone without language training to sort out which is which. Also, they often give you nothing more than a definition, without any breakdown of the pieces or explanation of the history of the words.

ONE name site I highly recommend is behindthename.com - the main source I site below.
Also good = aboutnames.ch (though with fewer listings, and sometimes slow), and
"Edgar's Name Pages" - http://www.geocities.com/edgarbook/names/names1.html

(If you want a book, I'd recommend *A Dictionary of First Names* edited by Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges -found in many public libraries. And if you're REALLY into all this, the aboutnames site provides links to an excellent names-software program called "Gwendolyn"... just got it for my birthday and have really enjoyed it)

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ALICIA

Alicia is a Latinized form of "Alice"
Alice itself is short for Old French "Adelais", which in turn is short for the Germanic name "Adalheidis" or "Adelheit" = adal- "noble" + heidis -"sort, type" **

Note that this German name also comes into English in its fuller form as "Adelaide".

Other forms of this name in English, besides obvious ones like "Alyssa" are "Ethel", "Adelle". Another shortened form (based on the LAST part) is "Heidi".

http://www.behindthename.com/php/view.php?name=alice
http://www.behindthename.com/php/view.php?name=adelaide
compare
http://www.geocities.com/edgarbook/names/al/adelaide.html

other names based on the same original
http://www.aboutnames.ch/HWA.htm#gnAdelheid

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** This way of constructing names from two parts (called "dithematic") is very common in Old Germanic names, whether Anglo-Saxon, Frankish, German or Scandinavian. The two pieces may be combined in all sorts of ways. Thus, for example, there are a number of other names with the "Adal"--root in them, such as Adalbert/Ethelbert -which became "Albert", and Adalwulf ('noble wolf'), which became "Adulf", then "Adolf".

If you're interested in common examples of these 'themes' and how they work, here are a couple of lists to check out:
http://www.gaminggeeks.org/Resources/KateMonk/England-Saxon/Dithematic.htm
http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/guntram/franks.htm

Answer 2

Alicia comes from Alice.

It comes from a germanic adjective and means "of noble race"

Answer 3

It comes from Chinese meaning whoflungdung

Answer 4

yes, of a noble kind

Answer 5

Alice In Wonder Land . xl


... why dont you google ur name ? :l

Answer 6

truth

Answer 7

"truth" or "noble"

Answer 8

why don't you google it

Answer 9

idk.