∞. What's in a name?
Yannis Lam
/y æ - n ih s · l a m/ - (Greek / Chinese / English)
- what my parents decided to name me in English
- my legal name in America
- Yannis (Γιάννης) - Greek name meaning "God is gracious" or "with God's grace"; commonly translated to "John"
- Lam (林) - Common British Hong Kong romanization of Chinese surname meaning "forest"
林恩力
/lam4 jan1 lik6/ - (Chinese)
- what my parents decided to name me in Chinese
- what Chinese people call me
- 林 - Common Chinese surname meaning "forest"; romanized to "Lam" or "Lin"
- 恩 - Chinese character meaning "grace"; common Chinese name for girls with the English name of "Grace"
- 力 - Chinese character meaning "force" or "strength"
Aarde · Yamz
/ardə jæm/ - (Dutch / English)
- what my friend Allison and I decided was a good username that no one had claimed in 2014
- what people on the internet call me
- Aarde - Dutch word meaning "earth"
- Yamz - An abbreviation of my English name "Yannis"; what my friends called me in high school