I get forwarded all kinds of emails from friends asking me to take this survey or fill out this questionaire or go to this website to fill in my information - some of it is tedious, but some can be suprisingly fun.
I stumbled across this link when I was filling in my birthday info for a friend -
Find out how popular your first name has been over the past 100 years, just Click Here and enter your first name.
So I clicked and here is what I found out about the fantastic first name JASON...
It means healer - i think from the ancient Greek. Maybe my parents wanted a doctor in the family... Sorry Mom & Dad - didn't happen. :)
Jason was the 3rd most popular name for boys in the 1970s and the 8th most popular in the 1980s. No real suprise here - i knew many Jasons growing up. I was born in 1969, so I guess my parents got in early. I used to be the only Jason in all of Shimane, but this year two new ALTs named Jason came, so now it's just like being back in high school - Jason who? which one? haha
So i typed in my old girlfriend's name - Heather - because she used to always joke that Jason & Heather was the name of the uber-white Californian couple and she is probably right - Heather was the 8th most popular girl's name in the 1970s and the 10th most popular in the 1980s. Curious about Heather - doesn't even rank on the list pre-1940s - like it's a modern name.
I seemed to know more Jennifers and Micheles growing up - and they both rank a bit higher - altho you get diff results if you type Michele and if you type Michelle.
Anyway - how does your name rank? I assume this is mostly an American-generated list, so my apologies if your name is not widely known in America.
-Jason
The Healer
3 comments:
Hi Jason, almighty healer...
I somehow found your website while browsing, and entered my name, which is Taisha.
no real surprise, nothing came up at all.lol
I know it means number nine in Hebrew, yes i have hippy jewish father...lol
I would be very curious to know what it means there, in Taisha.
because of namke alone, it has become one of my destination dreams, up there with Amsterdam!
peace~ Taisha Levy
The first Gemma I met was in Japan (Shimane Gemma), but I hear it's a very popular name in the UK.
Ms. Levy -
Glad you stumbled across my site - if you click and go to my online Flickr photo album you can see pics of the IzumoTaisha shrine - it's a truly magnificent place.
Taisha is a great name, BTW. I have a friend here who decided that she would name her daughter "Taisha" if she had one - I'll have to tell her she won't be the first one. :)
In Japanese, "taisha" usually means "Grand Shrine." But it can also mean regeneration, renewal and amnesty. "jinja" also means "shrine" in Japanese, so when we say IzumoTaisha jinja - what we are basically saying is "The Great Shrine at Izumo shrine" - a bit redundant, but there you go.
And yeah - Amsterdam is way cool - go there for sure!
-Jason
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