The Names Since a while I'm been interested in the history of Israel and what amaze me is the fact how they have chosen their names, this is by the meaning and not how nice it sound or only because a famous person has that name, e.g. Jacob means 'leg-puller' and that is because the manner he was born and God change his name to Israel which means 'persevere with God'. So knowing this I say we should have the possibility of choose our names or have more realistic names, because I can not deal with the meaning of my names, the meaning of my first name could be 'lion of God or Hero' and I'm not a hero and my second name means 'crowned' and I'm too far to be crowned for anything.