Thursday, October 22, 2009

My Name

The etymology of my name is German and Scandinavian which makes sense because I'm from Finland, a country in Scandinavia. For my name is Joonatan, which you can see that the spelling is different from the English version, Johnathan. The name, Johnathan, probably started when two names, John and Nathan, were combined. From England it then probably expanded to the other countries in Europe and then eventually to Finland. The name Joonatan doesn't really mean anything but I'm cool with it. No one can't really make any fun of it. I don't know why my parents chose me that name, I believe it was because my 1 year older cousin was named as Joni, and so Joonatan is kind of similar. Although my full name is Samu Joonatan Makinen, Joonatan is my first name and Samu my second name. That's why people sometimes mix up my name and call me Samu which I hate. You see I don't like the name Samu. My parents chose that to my second name because there's a disney character named like that and they thought I look like him.
I've had few different nick names my friends used. In Finland most of the people called me Jonsku but that's a typical nick name. Like for example, in UK And USA you would probably call me as Joohny or John or Joon because that's a typical nick name. I have an artist name for myself since I like rock music and am planning for playing in a rock band. Just like most of the other rockers I know, have an artist name, my artist name would be RockJoon Lee.

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