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 Chinese names: “brilliant gold”, “marching dragon”, “powerful waves”

english names: “bob” 
 From the Germanic name Hrodebert meaning "bright fame" 
 TIL 
 Neat benefit of using hanzi everywhere, you can add colorful meaning to your name on top of just the sound of it. 
 I love Bruce Willis in Pulp Fiction when tells the lady his name is Butch. She asks what does Butch mean. He goes “I’m American our names don’t mean anything” 
 Russian names: "ruler of the world" "become glory" "favor of the people" "of life, vital" 
 Mind writing them out for us?  
 Vladimir: From the Old Slavic name *Voldiměrŭ, derived from the elements volděti meaning "to rule" and měrŭ meaning "great, famous". The second element has also been associated with mirŭ meaning "peace, world".

Stanislav: Derived from the Slavic element stati "stand, become" (inflected forms in stan-) combined with slava "glory"

Ludmila: "favour of the people" from the Slavic elements ľudŭ "people" and milŭ "gracious, dear"

Vitalik:  form of the Late Latin name Vitalis, which was derived from Latin vitalis meaning "of life, vital" 
 become glory would be a badass name 
 😂 
 Chinese English names: wind, apple, job, money  
 What common English names you think have no meaning generally have ancient meanings.  My name has a deeper meaning. My kids have deeper meanings and were picked for that reason.  No I'm not doxxing myself with a reveal. BUT this is why there's a whole industry of name's meaning books and websites. 
 Certainly you must know that your name of Will (I assume short for William) come from Germanic Willhelm meaning "strong willed warrior" or "protector". 
 Was just saying the characters in the names themselves convey meaning 
 中文:明星才子、昂首飞龙、展翅大鹏。 
 Short for Bobert. 
 Bob stands for Botle of beer. This means something important. 
 I name everything Bob. It makes me think of Robert Paulson 🥺 
 😂 
 yours is still the best 😂 
 My neighbour is “Canary Lord”