Message: "Spartan?" - Behind the Name

[Opinions] Spartan?

by cait

2/6/2005, 10:33 AM

I met a 20-something guy named Spartan last night. He was very Jewish (not Hasidic or anything, just he looked stereotypically Jewish and wore a yarmulke). He didn't fit my impressions of the name at all, which range from associations with Spartacus and gladiators, to the word spartan meaning frugal and austere.

I don't like it at all as a name, and anyway I think the guy I met should have been named Joel :-) It would fit him better.

~ Cait

"Blue tinted individuals who go about armed to the teeth and quoting twelfth-century poetry are not easy to comprehend." ~ Lloyd Alexander

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- Lissa Hannah (Lissa)

2/6/2005, 12:06 PM

I don't care for the name. But, it makes a good name for a massive sized dog, I think.

-Lissa Hannah-
As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead. - Allan Bloom

- edk

2/6/2005, 11:02 AM

I don't like it either.

Shane & Elizabeth
11/20/04

We are future parents to:

Benjamin Luke, Alexander

Sara Anneliese, Rachel Sophia

- Miss Claire

2/6/2005, 10:47 AM

This name is very, very weird on a Jewish guy, expecially a religious one. I looked on several Jewish sites and didn't find anything close to Spartan...
It reminds of Shprintza, but I doubt there is a connection... Some non Jewish names like Alexander, Caesar or Julius have been added to the normal "pool" of usable names (to honour Alexander the Great and Caius Julius Caesar's kindness to Jews), but Spartan... I don't see...

Claire

- Array (WeloveyouJesseLacey)

2/6/2005, 10:37 AM

I don't like the name. You might as well name a kid Texan or Philadelphian.

Sounds like a cool guy, though. Too bad he shares his name with an uncountable number of high school football teams.

Array

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