Previous Names of the Day

Head   English
From Middle English hed meaning "head", from Old English heafod. It may have referred to a person who had a peculiar head, who lived near the head of a river or valley, or who served as the village headman.

Khachaturyan   Armenian
Means "son of Khachatur" in Armenian. A famous bearer was the Armenian composer Aram Khachaturyan or Khachaturian (1903-1978).

Green   English
Descriptive name for someone who often wore the colour green or someone who lived near the village green.

Scherer   German
Occupational name for a cutter of cloth or a sheep-shearer, from Old High German skeran "to cut".

Miyamoto   Japanese
From Japanese 宮 (miya) meaning "temple, shrine, palace" and 本 (moto) meaning "base, root, origin". A notable bearer is video game pioneer Shigeru Miyamoto (1952-).

Young   English
Derived from Old English geong meaning "young". This was a descriptive name to distinguish father from son.

Pesti   Hungarian
Originally it indicated someone from Pest, one of the towns that were joined to make Budapest.