So I was doing some research on last names, and some of this stuff I never even knew because I was looking at Russian name meaning sites and the English ones definitely had more information:
"From a personal name, Greek Pantaleon, from pas ‘all’ (genitive pantos) + leon ‘lion’. In the altered form Panteleemon (from pan ‘all’ (genitive pantos) + eleemon ‘merciful’), it was the name borne by a saint said to have been martyred under Diocletian Nicomedia. He is the patron of physicians, having apparently been one himself. He was honored in the Eastern Church as early as the 5th century, but his cult did not reach the Western Church until the 11th century, when he was adopted as the patron saint of Venice. In the 14th century the Italian name Pantaleone came to be used for a character in the Harlequinade, a foolish old Venetian, and in some later cases the surname may have arisen as a nickname for someone who played the part of this character. It was from his prototypical costume that the term pantaloon came to be used to denote a type of loose-fitting breeches, whence the modern English word pants."
Yeah I always figured it had something to do with pants. Here's more.
This website is kind of weird, but you can enter your last name and it'll give you all kinds of odd information about it. Apparently my last name is arithmetically compatible with the word "Christian", as well as the following words: "indifferent, authentic, magnificent, quirky, talkative, ultimate, doubtful".
My first name, apparently, ranks in the census lists just above the name "Greg" and is arithmetically compatible with my favorite girls' name, Rebecca.
Another last-name compatability web-site told me that the perfect car for my last name is a Jeep. Go figure. Another site told me that the best words that describe me are "humble" and "quiet". Maybe the first. Definitely not quiet.
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