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