Tuesday, February 3, 2009

My name

First of all, I can't believe that I hadn't done this sooner on my free time. First I went to Ancestor search where I found that my first name Ashley is English and it is an increasingly popular name for girls, it is a transferred use of the surname which came from any of numerous places in England named in Old English with the elements æsc ash + leah wood, and apparently it was inspired by the work of a man named Anthony Ashley Cooper who was Earl of Shaftesbury. Then I typed in my last name Zych. Now I knew that it was shortened when my relatives came over to America from Poland because that is what my family told me. But just now I found out that my full last name is Zygmunt, which is actually the Polish version of the German last name Siegmond, confusing?, yes. Then I went to Behind the Name and typed in Ashley and it said from an English surname which was originally derived from a place name meaning "ash tree clearing" in Old English. Until the 1960s it was more commonly given to boys in the United States, but it is now most often used on girls. Last, I know of a handbag designer that has the same name as me. Her and her sister Tracy, design and sell handbags for quite a lot of money and apparently have been seen on the arms of many celebrities.

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